Han Zhan didn't expect that just an ordinary banquet would have such a huge profit. Some thoughts hidden in his heart inevitably became alive.

In the next few days, every day, wealthy businessmen sent their promised donations to the county government. Taking advantage of Huahu's time to receive the wealthy businessmen's money in the treasury, Han Zhan asked someone to invite Zhao Yun to the main hall to discuss more important things with him.

After he asked Zhao Yun to sit down, Han Zhan said straight to the point: "Zilong, the money for repairing the city wall has been raised, and construction can be started soon. However, it is not enough to have the city wall but no soldiers. Therefore, after careful consideration, I plan to recruit a group of new recruits."

After hearing what Han Zhan said, Zhao Yun agreed very much, "What the envoy said is that there are less than a thousand soldiers involved in the country. If it is a bandit or a Yellow Turban attack, he can only barely protect himself. If he recruits new recruits and practices day and night, when the bandits attack in the future, he will definitely be able to beat them up."

"Zilong, I plan to hand over the recruitment of troops to you," Han Zhan asked tentatively: "Can you please?"

As soon as Han Zhan finished speaking, Zhao Yun stood up and volunteered: "Envoy, Yun immediately took people to the streets to post recruitment notices. I believe that at most half a month, he can recruit three thousand new soldiers for the envoy."

"Zilong stay, I have something to say." Seeing that Zhao Yun was about to walk outside with his legs raised, Han Zhan quickly called him: "Repairing the city wall requires thousands of civilians. If recruiting new recruits from it, it will inevitably affect the repair of the city wall. So I plan to let you go to another place to recruit soldiers."

"Recruiting soldiers elsewhere?" Zhao Yun repeated Han Zhan's words and asked with a frown: "I wonder where the envoy plans to send Yun to recruit soldiers?"

"Go back to your hometown, Changshan is Zhending." Han Zhan replied with a smile: "I plan to ask you to bring thirty cavalry and a thousand gold to return to your hometown, and recruit a group of new recruits there. I wonder what Zilong wants?"

Zhao Yun did not immediately respond to Han Zhan's arrangement, but fell into deep thought. Seeing that Zhao Yun did not speak, Han Zhan became nervous. He asked Zhao Yun to recruit soldiers in Zhending, not on a whim, but because in real history, Liu Bei, who had not yet left Yuan Shao, had secretly sent Zhao Yun to Zhending to recruit hundreds of people as his private soldiers. His current approach was just to do the same.

After thinking for a long time, Zhao Yun finally breathed a sigh of relief. He looked at Han Zhan and asked, "Eunuch, there are only forty cavalry in the city. If Yun takes away thirty more, then there will be not enough people to protect the Eunuch's safety."

"Zilong, don't worry." Han Zhan was in a good mood when he saw that Zhao Yun was willing to accept his task. He smiled and said, "As long as Rob is by my side, there should be no danger."

As the two were talking, Han Zhan suddenly saw Hua Hu holding a wooden box, hunched over, and staggering towards the main hall. He stared at the box in his hand, thinking that he didn't know what was inside. He looked quite heavy, it wouldn't be gold.

Hua Hu put the small wooden box on the table in front of Han Zhan, raised his hand to wipe away the sweat from his forehead, and said in a daze: "Eunuch, this is a hundred gold sent by Hu Cha."

Han Zhan did not rush to open the wooden box, but looked at Hua Hu and asked in confusion: "Who is Hu Cha?"

After hearing Han Zhan’s question, Hua Hu suddenly remembered the new envoy, who was not familiar with the wealthy businessmen in the city at all. He quickly reminded him carefully: “Have you forgotten that the rich businessmen who took the lead in donating 300 gold that day.”

"So it's him." Han Zhan stared at the box in front of him and continued to ask: "Didn't he say he donate three hundred gold? Why is there only one hundred gold here?"

"Hu Cha's three hundred gold has been deposited into the treasury." Hua Hu replied with a smile: "He here is another filial piety to the envoy."

"Respect me?" Although Han Zhan is in urgent need of money now, he will not accept such unexpected wealth before asking clearly. Therefore, he looked at Hua Hu and asked, "Chief Hua, is there any purpose for him to do this?"

Hua Hu seemed to have guessed that Han Zhan would ask this question, and he quickly grinned and replied: "The envoy doesn't know that Hu Cha and the bandits and the Yellow Turbans have different grudges. Not only did his goods be robbed repeatedly, but he himself had meat tickets tied up by the bandits and blackmailed two hundred gold coins. Therefore, when he heard that the envoy wanted to build the city wall to prevent the bandits, he immediately donated generously."

After figuring out the origin of the wooden box on the table, Han Zhan finally opened the lid with confidence. But after he saw the golden things inside, he couldn't help but widen his eyes in surprise. He finally understood why Hua Hu seemed so difficult when he came in with the box in his arms. It turned out that there were a box of golden cakes in it.

Han Zhan once saw this kind of golden cake unearthed from the tomb of Haihunhou on TV. It is shaped like a round cake, with a slightly raised surface, and an irregular hollow caused by dripping casting. The back is concave and ice cracks on the plain surface. However, this kind of golden cake is generally not used for circulation, but is only used for storage, rewards, gifts, tributes, and atonement.

He picked up one of the golden cakes and weighed them in his hand. He felt that they weighed about half a pound. He counted the golden cakes in the box, and there were no more or less, which means that the box of golden cakes weighed fifty pounds. He put the golden cakes back into the box, covered the lid, and pushed it towards Zhao Yun: "Zilong, when you leave, take this box of golden cakes away."

"Not allowed!" "Not allowed!"

As soon as Han Zhan finished speaking, Zhao Yun and Hua Hu spoke in unison to stop him.

Zhao Yun bowed and said to Han Zhan: "Empress, this is a wealthy businessman's financial filial piety to you, and Yun dare not accept it!"

"What's there to be afraid of?" Han Zhan pushed the wooden box toward Zhao Yun a little more, and said with a stern face: "These golden cakes are kept here. You can't eat them when you are hungry, and you can't drink them as water when you are thirsty. Don't talk nonsense, take them away quickly, take them with you, and sooner or later you can use them."

When Hua Hu saw Zhao Yun holding up the wooden box on the table, he couldn't help but ask Han Zhan curiously: "Eunuch, I wonder where you plan to send the county magistrate to do business?"

"I plan to ask Zilong to go to other places to recruit soldiers, this is for him." In order to prevent the leak of news, Han Zhan did not reveal to Hua Hu where he was going to send Zhao Yun to recruit soldiers. "By the way, you will take Zilong to the treasury later and let him withdraw another thousand gold."

Hua Hu quickly replied respectfully: "I will receive the order."
Chapter completed!