Chapter 182 The Storm Calm

When Xiao Tianjian returned to his residence, Fan Yutong sat beside him and asked him with a smile, "Are you really not going to accept the bid?"

Xiao Tianjian's face darkened and said, "I hate the person who goes back on his word the most in my life. How can I be such a person by myself? I'm afraid this has disappointed your father! At worst, he won't do business with me in the future! But it's impossible for me to join the government!"

Fan Yutong did not change his face because of Xiao Tianjian's displeaguity. He continued to laugh and said, "I appreciate you for this! How can a man see profit and forget righteousness! As for my father's place, I will write to him, but you also have to prepare for a rainy day. If you treat the officials who come to recruit this time, the government will not give up! I'm afraid that as long as you pull out your hand, you will attack! You have to prepare early!"

Xiao Tianjian was not angry when he saw that Fan Yutong was not angry about it, so he calmed down and said to Fan Yutong, "Thank you for your hard work! As for what will happen to the court, I have already thought about it. No matter how I treat the officials, the court will not sit idly by and ignore me! As long as I don't accept Zhao'an, they will send heavy troops here sooner or later, and they don't care what I do!

Now after the summer harvest, our grain is quite sufficient, and the government is not free to mobilize the army to come here to suppress us. Taking this opportunity, I will step up the training of troops. As long as they dare to come, I will definitely beat them to pieces! Ha ha! It's just that you don't get too tired of what you have at hand. If you should let the people below do it, you just let the people below do it. Only in this way can you train the talents below! Otherwise, you can't carry it alone!"

Fan Yutong nodded and agreed, but when she returned to her room, she still sighed slightly. In this matter, Fan Yaoshan hoped that Xiao Tianjian would accept Zhao'an. So, as long as Xiao Tianjian became an official person, he held heavy soldiers in his hand and was stationed in Shanxi, then It will be of great benefit to their Fan family in the future. Now that Xiao Tianjian decisively refuses the recruitment of the court, her father Fan Yaoshan will definitely be unhappy. In this way, once she falls out with Xiao Tianjian, it will not be good for Xing Tianjun or their Fan family.

Sitting behind the table, Fan Yutong frowned and thought about it for a while. Fan Yutong asked the two close-fitting little maids to take the pen, ink, paper and inkstone, rolled up his sleeves, and began to write a letter on the desk. After writing, he sealed the envelope, asked the little maid to invite the iron head, handed the letter to the iron head, and said to the iron head, "The iron guard will The letter was forwarded to Fan Xi and sent it back to Taiyuan as soon as possible to my father!"

Now the iron head is respected as the iron guard, and almost no one mentions his original surname. For this name, the iron head is happy to accept it and feels very glorious.

For the relationship between Fan Yutong and Xiao Tianjian, he knew the relationship between them better than anyone else, so after receiving this letter, he immediately arranged someone to secretly transfer it to Feng Gouzi, through Feng Gouzi to Fan Xi, and then to Taiyuan Mansion to give it to Fan Yaoshan.

As for Xiao Tianjian cutting off the ears of the surrendering officials and expelling them from his jurisdiction, it immediately caused an uproar again in Taiyuan Mansion, and the news spread quickly. Immediately, many officials immediately found Wu Xiong and asked Wu Xiong to mobilize the army to Yangcheng to encircle and suppress the Xing Tianjun, vowing to completely kill the Xing Tianjun. It can only be wiped out. After all, this kind of ear-cutting is the biggest insult to the government and the court. If you don't solve Xing Tianjun's words, it will not be enough to deter other bandits.

However, these indignant officials and scholars did not know Wu Jing's suffering. Although Wu Jing was also extremely angry about this, why did he really have no elite soldiers on hand now? Although he wanted to completely erase this damn Xing Tianjun through World War I. Kill, but the two defeats in suppressing Yangcheng have made him understand the horrors of this group of criminal soldiers.

Although the strength of this group of thieves is not too much, compared with Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng and other thieves who often tens of thousands or even more than 100,000, their troops are nothing. However, from the soldiers who escaped from defeat, he learned that this group of Xingtian army is basically very good at fighting elite soldiers, which is by no means. The rabble, whether in terms of equipment or morale, is no worse than the officers and soldiers, and in the application of firearms, they even overwhelm the regular officers and soldiers in an all-round way. What's more, these thieves are not afraid to death. The military discipline is extremely strict. Looking at all kinds of officers and soldiers in Shanxi now, Wu Yu really can't find a soldier and horse. It can deal with this Xing Tianjun.

If you really want to transfer troops and suppress it again, you don't make full preparations. This time, Wu Yu will not do it easily, and this time because of the failure to enter and suppress, for Wu Yu, it is equivalent to turning around in front of the ghost gate. Those damn officials in the court played when they heard the news, and almost let him lose his post. If If he doesn't accept the lesson, he Wu Yu will have been in the officialdom for so long.

After thinking about it, Wu Jing couldn't think of a good way to deal with the Xing Tianjun. He could only suppress the opinions of these people who asked him to send troops to suppress it. He did not dare to act rashly again. If he had to suppress it, then he could only wait for Hong Chengchou to pull out his hand and mobilized heavy troops to encircle and suppress the Xing Tianjun. If Hong Cheng If there is no time on the other side, then he can only put up with it for a while and see what's going on.

So Wu Gong ordered the state capitals and counties around Yangcheng to keep an eye on the movement of Xing Tianjun for the time being, and try to limit Xing Tianjun to the Yangcheng area. Don't expand too much. As for the appeasement, wait a moment.

And the news naturally reached Fan Yaoshan's ears. Originally, Fan Yaoshan really hoped that Xiao Tianjian could take advantage of this great opportunity to surrender to the government. In this way, the court should at least give Xiao Tianjian an official and appease Xiao Tianjian. Then with Xiao Tianjian's strength, he could at least be a guerrilla or other officer.

In this way, Xiao Tianjian became an official, and his men also have elite soldiers. If you look at Shanxi, who doesn't want to give Xiao Tianjian some face, and then he can also disclose his relationship with Xing Tianjun. He openly takes Xing Tianjun as his backer. In the future, who dares to be disrespectful to his Fan family!

So he wrote to Xiao Tianjian to persuade Xiao Tianjian to accept the recruitment of the imperial court, but he didn't think that Xiao Tianjian did not eat the imperial court's way at all. He not only did not accept the appeasement, but also gave the government a disgrace, cut off the ears of the officials who went there, humiliated them, and rushed back to Taiyuan.

Fan Yaoshan was very disappointed for this. Even if he was furious, he felt that Xiao Tianjian, a young descendant, really didn't know the depth of heaven and earth. Although there was a gradual chaos in the Ming Dynasty, after all, the starved camel was bigger than the horse. He really wanted to fight against the whole Ming Dynasty with his own strength of the Xing Tianjun. It's simply a move to hit the stone and the arm as a car.

Therefore, Fan Yaoshan feels that Xiao Tianjian will definitely attract a big report from the court after this time. Then with the strength of Xing Tianjun, I'm afraid that he can't stop the court's thunder this time, so he was born with the idea of severing diplomatic relations with Xing Tianjun.

Anyway, through Fan Xi, he has also known that Xiao Tianjian, the head of Xing Tianjun, is very good to his daughter. Even if he breaks off his contact with Xing Tianjun, Xiao Tianjian will not be angry with his daughter Fan Yutong, so it is better to earn some money in Xing Tianjun than to return to Xing Tianjun's death. Then implicated him.

While thinking about what kind of relationship should be maintained with Xing Tianjun in Fan Yaoshan, he received a letter from Fan Yutong. After opening the letter, Fan Yaoshan read what Fan Yutong wrote in the letter from beginning to end, so he put away the letter and told his servants to go to the Yangcheng boundary in person. Let's go.

On Xiao Tianjian's side, after the Zhao'an incident, the military heart has once again stabilized, and no one has thought about the matter of Zhao'an. Anyway, now Xiao Tianjian has completely broken with the government. They either choose to leave or can only stay here to work honestly.

If they leave, no one knows where their future is, but if they stay, they can really enjoy the life given to them by Xing Tianjun.

Especially those who were the most lively scholars at the beginning, now after this thought, they are also honest and begin to do things under Fu Deming's hands.

However, Fu Deming showed abnormal firmness in the Zhao'an incident this time. Not only did he not show any wavering, but when the incident appeared, he was the first to find Xiao Tianjian in person, told Xiao Tianjian to make a decision and solve this problem, and suggested that Xiao Tianjian should stop this wind. Head, so as not to expand the situation, so that Xiao Tianjian trusted Deming a lot more.

After the end of the Zhao'an incident, Xiao Tianjian simply handed over all the civil affairs at hand to Fu Deming. Unless he communicated with him in some key directions and obtained his consent, the rest of the matters related to the appointment and dismissal of his people were also handed over to Fu Deming.

Although Yangcheng is surrounded by mountains on all sides, the economy here in the early years was very developed because of this real estate, so there are many rich households and many scholars.

It's just that over the years, the local banditry in Yangcheng has suffered a great blow to the local iron industry. In addition, in the three years of Chongzhen, it suffered a hundred-year-old drought, and Chongzhen suffered a large number of civil troops in the four years, which led to the decline of this place, so that many local scholarly families also completely declined. There are so many bankrupt middle-class people, and many scholars have fallen to the level of begging for a living.

But after Xing Tianjun controlled the whole boundary of Yangcheng, these scholars had to put down their last face and go to Xing Tianjun to make a living. Many of them were recruited by Fu Deming to help Fu Deming deal with civil affairs, which greatly relieved the pressure on Fu Deming.

Although the Zhao'an incident shook some people, under Xiao Tianjian's thunderous treatment, this thought of wanting to recruit peace was quickly stifled. For this reason, he also found out a group of people who secretly connected with the government and the details sent by the government to the control area of the Xingtian Army, and Xiao Tianjian was not polite. In a few days, he killed dozens of There were so many people that greatly shocked the emergence of this trend of thought. Through that gathering and training, it cut off everyone's back road on the spot, so that the people under his command cut off this thought, and could only continue to do it honestly.

And after the war in June, Xiao Tianjian also took out nearly 10,000 taels of silver to reward the meritorious people, which also won a lot of the people, including those rural soldiers who supported the main battle, also each with their own rewards. The families who died in the battle also received a very generous pension, even the list of the dead in the township soldiers. I was able to enter the Yinglie Temple of Lianhua Village and get incense worship.

In this way, after the major reorganization, the Xing Tianjun also basically settled down, and all the soldiers were gathered in the Lianhuazhai camp for a two-month training. In addition to the reorganization, it once again emphasized the consciousness of the soldiers to fight collectively.