Fang Tianlu secretly scolded Xu Jin in his heart, but he said with a smile on his face: "What Lord Tongju said is very true, but the grain belongs to the soldiers of the Thousand Households of the Lead Mountain, and the lower officials cannot make their own claims, if the Thousand Households of the Lead Mountain agree, the lower officials will naturally have no opinion." ”

Fang Tianlu slyly kicked the ball to the lead mountain Qianhusuo, and at the same time, he also had the meaning of shirking responsibility and diverting hatred. The subtext is: Listen to the Yiyang Thousand Households, it's not that the official intends to make things difficult, the grain is from the Thousand Households of the Leadshan Mountains, and if you want to, ask them to go, but it's not the official's business.

Xiong Bai is an honest man, so he can see Fang Tianlu's calculations, although he is very sympathetic to the sergeant of Yiyang Qianhu, but if the food is given to the other party, maybe his brothers will starve in the future. Now is the spring ploughing season, fighting a war will definitely not be able to plant the field, maybe this year will be no harvest, so what to do in the next days?

Because of this, Xiong Bai's face was embarrassed, and he didn't know how to respond for a while. Fang Tianlu was secretly proud in his heart, look, it's not that the official is mean, and the people Xiong Qianhu don't agree!

Xu Jin frowned imperceptibly, after getting along for the past few days, he naturally knew that Xiong Bai was an unassertive person, and he was usually the deputy Qianhu Luo Hong's idea, so he said directly: "Xiong Qianhu, a part of your grain will be evenly distributed to Yiyang Qianhu first." Yu Qianhu, you also help some of them, and then the official will find a way to make up for you. ”

Yu Linsheng said briskly: "No problem, the subordinates will ask the brothers to send ten stone meters to the brothers of the Yiyang Thousand Households Office for emergency." ”

Wang Duo said gratefully: "My subordinates thank you for your subordinates!" ”

After speaking, he hugged Yu Linsheng again: "Thank you, Xiao Yu!" ”

Since Xu Jin promised to make up for it, Xiong Bai naturally didn't want to refuse anymore, and also promised to give Yiyang thousands of households ten stones of grain. Twenty stones of grain is 2,400 catties, which is enough for the soldiers of Yiyang Thousand Households to eat for half a month, so the food problem has been temporarily solved.

The food problem is solved, and the next step is to be held accountable, otherwise in the future, the soldiers under his command will use dry fights to violently express their demands, so wouldn't it be chaotic?

As the saying goes: rewarding the good without punishing the evil is chaos; Punish the evil and not reward the good, and there is chaos. Only with clear rewards and punishments can we be disciplined, otherwise the team will be in chaos and there will be no way to bring it.

The matter was not complicated, Xu Jin just interrogated the three parties and quickly figured out what happened, and made a decision to punish on the spot.

Xu Jin said lightly: "Lu Baihu, although you are making trouble here for a reason, but the country has national laws and family rules, you gathered a crowd to make trouble and beat the county lord." This official fined you twenty military sticks and apologized to the owner of the party in person, but are you not convinced? ”

Lu Tong said loudly: "The subordinates are convinced, as long as the brothers have food to eat, the general judge will be convinced even if he picks off the heads of his subordinates!" ”

Xu Jin nodded and said, "Well, all those who participated in the fight were punished with ten military sticks, and the same is true for the Qianhu Sho in the Lead Mountain." Luo Hong, you hit people first, with 20 sticks and sticks, are you not convinced? ”

Luo Hong dared not to say that he was unconvinced, and hurriedly expressed his convincing.

At that moment, dozens of big-headed soldiers were all pushed to the ground and executed on the spot. The one in charge of the torture was the sergeant of Shangrao Qianhu, and it was obvious that his subordinates were merciful, after all, they were comrades, so the big soldiers could still stand up after being beaten.

Next, the yamen official who was in charge of guarding the warehouse was also fined ten military sticks by Xu Jin in the name of "inaction", and it is also Chinese characteristics to play fifty boards each, whether you are right or wrong, this is the so-called way of balance.

This little official was also unlucky, those sergeants would not show mercy to his men, and the ten army sticks were really hit on the buttocks, and the skin and flesh were rotten in an instant, and he almost fainted to death in pain.

Xu Jin's eyes finally fell on Fang Tianlu, who was sweating on his forehead, for fear that Xu Jin would also give him a ten-army stick.

However, Xu Jin is obviously not interested in beating him, I am afraid that what will come out of this fat ass ten army sticks is not blood, but fat oil.

Xu Jin said indifferently: "Fang Tianlu, as the lord of this county, not only did you not want to settle the dispute, but you also added oil and vinegar, which almost caused serious consequences. You are not fit for this position for the time being. ”

Fang Tianlu was stunned for a moment before he came back to his senses, wouldn't this be equivalent to removing his position?

Fang Tianlu was about to argue a few words, but Xu Jin had already turned around and left with the generals, not even leaving him a chance to speak.

Fang Tianlu's face turned red and white, and he clenched his fists angrily, the fierce light in the eyes of the pig killer was revealed, Xu Jin Xiao'er, he deceived people too much! It's too much of a deception!

Or say: "How can you repay grievances with virtue?" ”

Zi said: "How can you repay virtue? Repay grievances with straightforwardness and repay virtue with virtue. ”

These two sentences translate to the following meaning: Someone said, "How about repaying evil with good deeds?" ”

Confucius asked rhetorically, "Then what should be used to repay good deeds?" Evil deeds should be rewarded with appropriate punishment, and good deeds should be rewarded with good deeds. ”

This is the origin of the gentleman's direct revenge.

Xu Jin asked himself if he was a gentleman, he had a relationship with the Fang family, but Fang Tianlu was still playing tricks in front of him just now, trying to shirk responsibility, and at the same time provoking the contradiction between the Yiyang Thousand Households and the Lead Mountain Thousand Households.

Xu Jin is naturally not welcome, anyway, this kind of corpse vegetarian meal, it is useless to keep the guy with a serious bureaucratic style, so he simply came to repay the grievances directly, and "fired the squid" of Fang Tianlu, so as not to get in the way.

As a general judgment to control the soldiers and horses of the counties, the status is almost equal to that of the prefect, not to mention that it is wartime now, and he has the right to act cheaply, so Xu Jin has every right to remove a person from the position of the eighth master.

Xu Jin didn't care how angry Fang Tianlu was, he was hungry at the moment, and after dealing with this matter, he hurried home and picked up a few mouthfuls of food, and immediately rushed to the conference hall non-stop to discuss with the generals.

At about three o'clock in the afternoon, except for Luo Hong and Lu Tong, who had just been beaten with military sticks, the rest of the generals of more than 100 households had arrived.

First of all, Yu Linsheng, as the commander, reported the casualty data. After seven days of fighting with the rebels, the defenders lost more than 600 casualties, more than 1,000 wounded, and less than 3,000 defenders in combat effectiveness.

After listening to Yu Linsheng's casualty statistics report, all the generals present were silent, plus today the city gate was almost opened by the rebels' general's cannon, and Wu Linguang, the county magistrate, was also crushed to death, so the morale of the defenders was hit very hard, God knows if the rebels will get another general's cannon tomorrow?

Wang Duo said in a deep voice: "Lord Tongju, my subordinates feel that we should no longer shrink in defense, we must take the initiative to attack in order to solve the current dilemma." ”

Xiong Bai hurriedly objected: "Wang Qianhu, the strategy we set at the beginning was: to avoid its edge and defend the city. Consume the opponent and stand by to break the enemy. ”

Wang Duo retorted: "Soldiers are impermanent, and water is impermanent. How can the way of using soldiers remain the same? What's more, after seven days of bloody fighting, the rebels also suffered heavy losses, and it is estimated that less than 5,000 people can still fight. If we take the initiative now, we will definitely get miraculous results, which is also completely in line with the strategy of standby to break the enemy! ”

Yu Linsheng's eyes looked at Xu Jin, he actually agreed to take the initiative.

Xu Jin shook his head with a smile and said, "The time to attack has not yet come, let's discuss how to defend." ”

The time Xu Jin has to wait for is that Wang Shouren will raise troops, as long as this news comes, Wu Sanba will definitely mess up his position, and then take the initiative to attack, which is nine times out of ten.

Although Ci is not in charge of the army, this does not mean that it is not the same thing to take the lives of his soldiers, three thousand against five thousand, this kind of obvious loss, Xu Jin will not do it, unless he is completely sure that he can win.