Three Kingdoms: Madam, I am a decent person

Chapter 323 The whereabouts of Huang Han's mother
After the meeting in the county government office ended, Zhang Sui held a banquet directly in the county government office.

The banquet will be held at noon on the third day.

As for the servants to serve at the banquet, Zhang Sui used servants from the Zhen family and Zhang Chunhua's clansmen.

The reason why the banquet was not held at the Zhen family's house was mainly because Zhang Sui also wanted to express his attitude to the people of the Zhen family.

Although he and his wife were already together, he had no intention of usurping her position.

The Zhen family will always be the Zhen family, not Zhang Sui’s Zhang family.

When Zhang Sui returned home in the evening, he also told his wife about his plan.

He did intend to support the Zhen family.

But, Madam is not from the Zhen family after all.

Moreover, the lady is now pregnant.

Zhang Sui wanted to prepare a banquet for his wife, invite the children and relatives of the Zhen family to sit together, and hold a ceremony to celebrate his wife's remarriage.

Then let the lady slowly hand over power to the children of the Zhen family.

After the lady withdrew from the Zhen family, she could either help him manage the huge Zhongshan County or stay at home and be a good wife and mother.

In the past, the lady did not dare to hand over power because the Zhen family was surrounded by enemies.

Given the current situation in Wuji County, with Zhang Sui in charge, it would be enough even if there was only one Second Young Master Zhen Yan.

Not to mention the second lady Zhen Mi is also there.

At least in the short term, there is no sign that the second lady Zhen Mi will get married.

Then, she will definitely assist the second son Zhen Yan in managing the Zhen family.

The lady had no doubts and agreed to everything.

She has been a widow and has long been exhausted physically and mentally.

In addition to preparing a remarriage ceremony for his wife, Zhang Sui also planned to hold ceremonies for other women one by one.

Now that he has married Yuan Mi, he naturally cannot hold a wedding for other women.

However, he still wanted to give his women a title so that others would know that these women were his wives.

As for arranging servants from the Zhen family and Zhang Chunhua's clansmen to serve at the banquet, the reason was simple: Zhang Sui was planning to formally bring Zhang Chunhua's parents to the public to build up momentum for them.

Zhang Chunhua gave up following Sima Yi and the Sima family, the top aristocratic family in Hanoi, and followed himself.

You have to express yourself in some way.

Zhang Sui prepared to expand Wuji County.

As the seat of Zhongshan County, Wuji County must not be worse than other counties in Zhongshan County.

The city must naturally be large.

In order to prevent the Zhen family from becoming the only dominant family and getting carried away, there must be some families to check and balance them.

Zhang Chunhua’s family is just one of them.

Zhang Sui also planned to let Zhao Yun attract his family and some powerful people from Changshan County to Wuji County.

To develop Zhongshan County, we must have various aristocratic families and powerful people.

At least for now, Zhang Sui doesn't think there is any benefit in going against the aristocratic families.

Ninety-nine percent of the common people cannot even write their names and are just tools. Going against the aristocratic families and supporting the common people at this time is just waiting for death.

Being illiterate and without management experience, Zhang Sui thought that the same fate as Zhang Jue of the Yellow Turbans would be waiting for him.

Not to mention, he married Yuan Mi, who was herself a member of an aristocratic family.

His women, whether it was his wife, Cai Wenji, or Zhang Chunhua, were all children of prominent families.

In the current situation, it is most important to expand oneself with the help of powerful families, but to firmly grasp the military power.

Zhang Chunhua's father Zhang Wang was very satisfied with Zhang Sui's arrangement.

At the banquet at noon on the third day, Zhang Wang brought Zhang Chunhua, his wife and the third son Zhen Yao to the county government office to attend.

At the banquet, Zhang Sui formally introduced his two women: his wife and Zhang Chunhua.

Although many people already knew that the lady and Zhang Sui were having an affair.

But now that it was officially said by Zhang Sui, many people were still shocked.

The lady had an even more complicated expression.

Somewhat nervous.

Somewhat moved, Zhang Sui asked the officials of Zhongshan County to perform their duties conscientiously at the banquet.

At the banquet, the Zhen family and the Zhang family each donated a thousand rolls of silk to support Zhang Sui's work.

The Zhen family also gave two hundred pieces of music to Zhang Sui.

The Zhang family gave the hundred pieces of music to Zhang Sui.

Zhang Sui praised the Zhen and Zhang families for their actions in person.

After the banquet, Zhang Sui brought all the officials to the military camp in the east of the city and let all the officials visit the training of Xu Rong's 1,000 cavalry and Zhao Yun's 8,000 Black Mountain Army.

In particular, Xu Rong's 1,000 cavalrymen performed thrusts and thousand-mile raids.

The officials of Zhongshan County were in deathly silence.

As the deputy commander of Zhongshan County, Qian Zhao explained the rich combat history of the 1,000 cavalrymen: encirclement and suppression of the Huns, encirclement and suppression of various aristocratic families in Wuji County, and assault on the armies of Li Jue and Guo Si.

Every victory record was like a heavy blow to the heads of the officials.

These officials had no doubt that once they came into conflict with Zhang Sui, they would be attacked by these cavalrymen from thousands of miles away!
Zhang Sui took these officials to visit the military camp before seeing them off.

After seeing off the officials, a day later, Zhang Sui ordered Qian Zhao and Xu Rong to lead a thousand cavalrymen and the seal of Zhang Sui's acting commander of Zhongshan County to travel around the fourteen counties of Zhongshan County. They reduced the city defense forces in each county and temporarily brought the reduced soldiers to Wuji County.

Zhao Yun led 8,000 Black Mountain troops to station them in a few cities to guard against attacks by the Hu people from Dai and Yanmen counties.

During this period, many young generals were promoted to serve as junior officers.

Zhen Hao, Zhang Sheng and Huang Han all rose from minor generals to county lieutenants, responsible for guarding the safety of a county.

Among them, Huang Han’s mother finally found out the result.

After Huang Han joined the army, his old mother returned to his hometown with his clan members.

However, there was almost no one in my hometown, and there was a severe drought and plague.

His old mother died alone in the almost collapsed old house three months after returning to his hometown.

No one went to visit.

In fact, most of Huang Han’s clansmen had died and they could hardly protect themselves.

It was not until the Zhen family found out her whereabouts that a skeleton was found.

However, Huang Han's clansmen were certain that it was the remains of Huang Han's old mother.

The servants of the Zhen family collected the old mother's bones and buried them in Huang Han's hometown.

After Huang Han learned the news, he did not go back to pay his respects, but insisted on staying at his work post.

Zhang Sui sent people to repair the grave of Huang Han's mother, and brought back a handful of yellow soil from the grave for Huang Han as a reminder of her past.

As for Fang Agou, who was previously beheaded by Zhang Sui for molesting a palace maid at Hangu Pass, he was quite lucky.

The maid who slept with Fang Agou actually became pregnant.

Zhang Sui gave the maid fifty rolls of silk and asked her to stay in Zhen's house to recuperate and give birth to the child.

As for whether the maid would choose to remarry, Zhang Sui did not force it.

Zhang Sui had already decided that no matter whether the child was born a son or a daughter, he would adopt him as his own.

No matter what, Fang Agou was the first person he had serious dealings with after he came here.

In early February, all the aristocratic families sent convoys to escort supplies to Wuji County as donations to support Zhang Sui's actions in Zhongshan County.

Zhang Sui also set up a general staff.

The current members of the General Staff include his wife, Zhang Chunhua's father Zhang Wang, Li Ru, and the heads of the top aristocratic families in Zhongshan County.

The purpose of the General Staff is twofold:
First, he wanted to discuss with Zhang Sui whether a decision that would be more conducive to the development of Zhongshan County was feasible.

Second, supervise Zhang Sui and prevent him from becoming too proud of himself.

Zhang Sui thought that he was just an ordinary office worker before he traveled through time.

Now that I have traveled through time, although I have learned a little bit here and there, there are definitely still some shortcomings.

Therefore, "learn the advanced technology from the foreigners in order to defeat them."

It seems faster to let these "indigenous" talents at the end of the Han Dynasty supervise and assist in one's growth.

Zhang Sui also summarized what he had done every month and had someone send it urgently to Ju Shou in Yecheng and Tian Feng who was stationed in Yijing again.

Firstly, let them guide him on whether there are any major problems in the decisions he makes, and also let them understand Zhang Sui's abilities.

Secondly, let the messenger take the opportunity to inquire about the information of Yecheng and Yijing on the front line.

(End of this chapter)