Chapter 110 The time will always come

In the busyness of Xiao Tianjian and his men, more than a month has passed in a blink of an eye. In this more than a month, the spring ploughing work in the area controlled by Xing Tianjun has also come to an end. In the mountainous area of the south of the county, the fields that have been abandoned in large numbers due to bandits have basically been restored. After ploughing, a batch of wasteland has even been reclaimed. Although the number is not large, once it is successfully harvested, the local people can basically solve the problem of having enough food in the second half of the year, which is an extremely rare thing in troubled times.

As long as Xing Tianjun survives until the summer harvest, he will begin to harvest, instead of constantly filling in food and feeding these people, the burden will be completely reduced.

In more than a month, several sentry soldiers of Xing Tianjun took turns to attack, constantly penetrating into several surrounding states and counties to carry out grain activities, and grabbed a considerable amount of food and various materials, so that the grain problem on Xing Tianjun's side was basically solved. At least the current grain storage has been supported until the summer harvest. What's the problem?

It is precisely because Xing Tianjun continuously grabs grain from the outside, transports it back to Lianhua Zongzhai, and passes the grain to the people below by providing food for relief, so that the local people do not have a large number of people starvation in the spring season, let alone a large number of people fleeing from the wilderness.

However, the immediate problem is that the continuous expansion of the scale of their food-moving operations has caused great panic among the landlords and old money in many surrounding states and counties. Because around them, Zhuangzi is constantly broken by several poles of unknown origin, and the number of landlords and old money who died in the hands of these thieves is also sharp. Climbing, this situation is obviously much more serious than a few months ago.

Officials in various places also continue to receive news from local governments, and with the constant complaint of the victims, this matter has been paid attention to by the government.

After entering March, the government finally made up its mind to eradicate these groups of thieves who were harming the four parties. In addition to the strengthening of the garrison of the states and governments, they also organized villagers in various places to unite to resist the attacks of the bandits, which caused some difficulties for the Xing Tianjun's action of going out to fight for food.

Rich people in various places are afraid that they will become the next target to be attacked, so they do not hesitate to take out their money, arm their own Zhuangding Xiangyong, and repair Zhuangqiangzhaibao, and strengthen their own protection. They also send Xiangyong Zhuangding out of the official government to set up cards at various entrances. Step by step, build a relatively tight defense network.

In this way, the Xingtian Army's food-taking operation encountered a lot of obstacles, forcing them to act separately and gradually transform into a large-scale operation. Although with the combat effectiveness of the Xing Tianjun, they encountered basically the same village brave team and could easily take them down, it was also easy to expose their whereabouts in doing so. This made the government gradually focus on the Xing Tianjun in the Yangcheng area.

On this day, when Xiao Tianjian was watching the drills of a sentry general Li Shuanzhu in the school yard, he ran into a soldier from the village gate and handed Xiao Tianjian a letter.

After Xiao Tianjian asked the believers clearly, he opened the envelope, pulled out the letter paper and looked at it, so he immediately frowned.

It turned out that this letter was sent by Fan Xi to Lianhuazhai. Fan Xi told Xiao Tianjian in his letter that because of their frequent outings for grain recently, it has attracted the attention of the surrounding authorities, and according to their description of their bitter master, it has been determined that it has been a disaster for their place in recent months. A big reason for these road poles is that Xing Tianjun has done it. Now the surrounding state governments have written to Wu Jing, the governor of Shanxi, asking Wu Jing to instruct the government of Zezhou to send troops to Yangcheng to destroy the Xing Tianjun.

After Wu Jing, the governor of Shanxi, learned about it, he had clearly asked Zezhou to pay attention to this matter. Zezhou Zhizhou was also under pressure and had to agree to organize soldiers and horses to enter Yangcheng to deal with Xing Tianjun. He asked Xiao Tianjian to act carefully. During this period, it was not convenient for the Fan family to trade with Xing Tianjun again. For this reason, Xiao Tianjian would like to forgive him.

Xiao Tianjian immediately became nervous with the letter and immediately sent people to Yangcheng County to find Feng Xi, who stayed in Yangcheng County as a detailed work, to verify the matter.

As a result, the people sent out had not left yet. Feng Xi ran back first. After hurriedly entering the village, he found Xiao Tianjian and said to Xiao Tianjian, "General, it's not a big deal! Zezhou is going to send troops to deal with us! General, please get ready as soon as possible! If it really doesn't work, we'd better go into the mountains to avoid the limelight!"

Xiao Tianjian suddenly believed Fan Xi's news, and even Feng Xi said so. It seemed that there should be no fake in this matter, so he sighed and thought that what should come would come. Since he came, he had to deal with it immediately! He immediately sent Pegasus to recall several important departments working outside to Lianhuazhai to discuss the matter.

The generals who got the news did not dare to neglect. They quickly returned to the Lianhua Village and gathered in the Juyi Hall, waiting for Xiao Tianjian's instructions.

Xiao Tianjian briefly asked Feng Xi to talk about this incident and the reaction of the government, and then asked Feng Gouzi, "Feng Gouzi, you have been responsible for sending people to keep an eye on the government in Zezhou during this period. Is there any movement there?"

After Xiao Tianjian's adjustment of personnel after the Spring Festival, Feng Gouzi no longer led his sentry team after the Spring Festival, but turned to be responsible for intelligence matters. Li Lingfeng was responsible for this matter in advance. After the Spring Festival, Feng Gouzi gradually took over these things from Li Lingfeng.

At the beginning, Feng Gouzi was still a little reluctant. He felt that it was more comfortable to lead the troops. He was not willing to leave the sentry he brought out to take over this kind of thing. Later, after Xiao Tianjian did some ideological work with Feng Gouzi in private, Feng Gouzi agreed.

Feng Gouzi actually also knows his own temper. His own martial arts skills are not good, and he has a trace of ruffianity. Among the few sentry generals, he is the weakest. In the past year, he has made the least meritorious service, and his combat effectiveness is relatively weaker, and he is not very suitable for leading soldiers. The reason why he can stay in the position of sentinel for a long time is that he was the first to follow Xiao Tianjian's subordinates and was also the first to be promoted by Xiao Tianjian. His qualifications here, like Zhao Er Lv, belong to the elder-level figure. Second, because he has been loyal to Xiao Tianjian for more than a year and won the trust of Xiao Tianjian. Third, He is more cautious, not afraid of war, and never makes any big mistakes, so he is firmly in the position of sentry general. However, their team will get bigger and bigger in the future. Obviously, it is not suitable for him to be a sentry general of the army, but his personality is more suitable for this kind of intelligence gathering. Xiao Tianjian asked him to resign and do it. It is also a wise move.

Now that Xiao Tianjian has seen through him, it is not good for him to continue to stay in the position of the sentry general of the military team. It's good to do it carefully. It's relatively freer and seems to be more exciting, which also shows Xiao Tianjian's trust in him.

Think about it, if he is not worthy of Xiao Tianjian's trust, Xiao Tianjian will not be responsible for such an important matter, because he is not stupid. He knows that collecting intelligence is more important for Xing Tianjun than taking troops out to fight for food or fighting. In fact, it also shows that he is in Xiao Tianjian's mind. The position is still very important, and his status in the Xingtian Army will not be reduced by half because he left the army.

After thinking about this matter, after the Spring Festival, Feng Gouzi resigned as a sentry general and officially took office, replacing Li Lingfeng to collect intelligence.

Xiao Tianjian really didn't see the wrong person. Feng Gouzi was born in the market. He really knows what to do to collect intelligence than Li Lingfeng. After he took over, Feng Xi was also included in his subordinates to be dispatched by him. Although Feng Xi is a guy who sees the wind, he is so controlled by Feng Gouzi. He became the grandson monkey in the hands of the Buddha and couldn't jump.

After Feng Gouzi took over the matter, he readjusted the scope of work of his subordinates. Once again, dozens of detailed works were recruited and sent them to the surrounding places, so that they could wander between the market and collect all kinds of information for him.

And he did not live up to Xiao Tianjian's trust in him. At the beginning of his tenure, he quickly made a great contribution. When he just took over the collection of intelligence from Li Lingfeng, it was also Xing Tianjun because of Luo Li. Just after the battle of Jiang County, most of his and his main energy was put into the customs. In the reaction of the surrounding government, dozens of detailed works sent by him immediately rushed to Jiang County, Wenxi, Xiezhou, Pingyang Prefecture and other places. By the order of Feng Gouzi, they spread a lot of rumors among the market, saying that Jiang County was responsible for who did it, and released a lot of smoke bombs, which made it easy to find out the matter on Xing Tianjun. In the eyes of the government, it began to become confused. As a result, it was originally a basin of clear water, which was disturbed by him and his men. After that incident, Shanxi could not quickly find Xing Tianjun's head to make a retaliatory blow to Xing Tianjun. Later, because of Fengyang's incident, Xing Tianjun's disaster in Jiang County was also That's it.

Then Feng Gouzi began to shift the focus of his work. First, he collected the situation of rich landlords on behalf of the grain teams in the surrounding area, selected some of the fat and worst-known and immoral old people among them, and explored the terrain routes in advance for the grain teams to choose from. At the same time, when the grain teams attacked these large farms, Provide support for the grain team. Second, they lurked in the local area, and also inquired about some information from the local government, monitored the surrounding state and county governments and the situation of officials and soldiers. As soon as there was any abnormality, they immediately reported it to Feng Gouzi.