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Chapter 492 Han Zhan tells a story (1)

The next morning, Yang Qi brought more than 40 servants and three carriages carrying family and luggage to the east gate of Yedu. According to his idea, 39 officials who went out to serve would bring their families with them, and the servants would at least 50,600 carriages and nearly 1,000 people. Even if he encountered robbers with clipping paths along the way, he would probably retreat.

Unexpectedly, after leaving the east gate, he was shocked when he saw the situation outside the city. There were not dozens of carriages and nearly a thousand servants he imagined, only a sparse dozen carriages and less than two hundred servants from various mansions.

He saw Penglai Ling, who was riding a sad face, standing on the official road not far from the city gate, dazed. He quickly rode his horse over and bowed to the other party, and asked in surprise: "Penglai Ling is about to set off, why are there only so many people coming?"

"Yang Shizhong, everyone who can come is here." Penglai Ling replied coldly, "Many colleagues returned home and said they were going to be sent to the county magistrate of Donglai County, Qingzhou, and the servants at home dispersed one after another. After dawn, there were only such people left."

Yang Qi was shocked by Penglai Ling's words. He thought that his group of people would use various means to deal with Han Zhan in order to prevent Han Zhan from being dictatorial and controlling the government, so as not to appear again. Now that he has been demoted, countless people from the capital should come to see him off. Why have they even fled a lot of their colleagues' servants?

Seeing Yang Qi looking stunned on the horse, Penglai Ling bowed to him and said coldly: "Yang Shizhong, my road is far away, so I will say goodbye first." After that, he turned his horse's head and led the two servants and a carriage waiting next to him to head west along the official road.

"What's going on?" Yang Qi did not notice the departure of Penglai Ling. He was still shocked. He thought that the people of the capital would bid farewell to him and his group of people on the side of the road, and he could take the opportunity to say a few words to everyone. As a result, everything that happened in front of him was far beyond his imagination.

"Master!" Seeing Penglai Ling leave with his family and servants, an Yang Qi's servant urged him to come forward and asked Yang Qi who was in a daze: "Are we going to stay here or go on the road?"

The words of the servant woke Yang Qi up from his dementia state. He turned his head to look at the other person, and he was stunned for a while before sighing and said helplessly: "It's getting late, let's go."

The officials waiting outside the city couldn't help but feel a little resentful when they saw Yang Qi bringing his family and servants on the road without saying a word, but they also understood in their hearts that even if they were dissatisfied with Yang Qi, they could not have internal conflicts at this time. Isn't this a joke for Anyang Hou in the city?

When Huang County Magistrate thought of this, he couldn't help but look up at the top of the city and saw many shaking figures behind the battlements. Although they were just soldiers on duty at the top of the city, he felt guilty and felt that Han Zhan must have sent someone to monitor him. He was shocked and shivered. He hurriedly urged the butler who was waiting for respectfully: "Go quickly, go quickly, go on the road immediately, don't stop here again."

In this way, a group of demoted officials followed Yang Qi with their families and servants and moved towards Qingzhou in shame. Their mood at this moment was very different from when they attended the banquet last night. Many people were thinking in their hearts that maybe they would not have the chance to return to the capital for the rest of their lives.

Although Han Zhan was not very concerned whether the demoted officials left Beijing or the three brothers Liu, Guan and Zhang went out to wander, Ju Su, his subordinates did not dare to neglect them and sent a large number of spies to monitor these people who threatened Han Zhan. The large number of servants around the officials fled, which was because he sent people to instigate them. He thought that many people would not respond. However, many of these servants had experienced the Dong Zhuo era and knew what it was like to be wiped out at all times. Therefore, when he heard the persuasion of the people sent by Ju Su, he fled one after another.

After listening to the information reported by the spies, Ju Su felt that he should report the matter to Han Zhan as soon as possible to see if the other party had any new instructions. He sorted out some information that Han Zhan should be interested in, so he hurried to the provincial governor's office.

Since Han Zhan returned to the mansion, he was entangled by his sister Han Yan and insisted that he talk about his experiences in Qingzhou. Although Cai Yan and others heard Xiahou Yun talk about some things about Qingzhou, they still felt that they were not satisfied with it, and they all agreed with Han Yan and asked Han Zhan to tell him about Qingzhou.

Han Zhan was so entangled that he had to bite the bullet and said, "I am too tired recently and need to take a good rest for two days. When the rest is done, I will tell you a few stories you have never heard of before." In this way, Han Yan, Cai Yan and others were sent away.

After everyone left, Han Zhan was considering what stories to tell them. After thinking for a while, Han Zhan immediately found that he had no stories to tell. Mulan joined the army on behalf of her father and was quite popular in later generations; but in this dynasty, even if a woman was a general, there seemed to be nothing impossible, so there was no way to talk about her father and joining the army on behalf of her father.

The story of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai is also very famous, but now there is no imperial examination. To be an official, one must rely on filial piety and honest. Even if a woman disguises herself as a man and goes to study, no matter how well she reads, she will have no possibility of becoming an official.

Han Zhan knew a lot of stories, but every time he thought of a story, he immediately denied it as long as he compared the current era. He picked up his pen and ink and wrote the stories he knew one by one, but soon painted them off one by one, indicating that these stories cannot be told.

After repeated smearing, he unexpectedly found that there were still two stories left, one was Journey to the West and the other was the Legend of the White Snake. Buddhism was introduced by the Han Dynasty, and it was barely reasonable to arrange for someone to go to India to obtain scriptures. It would be enough to change the dynasties among them from the Tang Dynasty to the Han Dynasty.

As for the Legend of White Snake, the historical background was set in the Song Dynasty. After telling it to Han Yan and others, as long as the background is downplayed and not writing about Xu Xian and Bai Snake's son being the top scorer, it is still a pretty good story.

Pay attention to making sure that he took a piece of white paper again and wrote two revised outlines on it, and prepared to tell stories to Han Yan and the others according to the content on this outline.

As soon as he wrote a few lines, he saw Chen Dao hurriedly walking in from outside. Han Zhan quickly stopped the pen in his hand, looked up at the other party and asked, "Shu Zhi, what's the matter?"

"Report to the lord!" Chen Dao bowed and replied, "Judan Ju has something to ask for a meeting."
Chapter completed!
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