In Fenzhou, Shanxi, after Zhang Yingchang and Yan Siyin returned to the army, they rushed back to Fenyang, hoarded troops in the city, and only asked the local government for grain and grass every day.

It is said that there is a shortage of food and grass, and the three armies cannot kill the enemy with their lives, and it will even lead to a mutiny among the soldiers.

Zhizhou Lin Faqing went to Xiaoyi not long ago to preside over the defense, and Yan Siyin found Fei Jiajun of Fenyang Zhixian County.

Fei Jiayan was originally Pingyao Zhi County, because of the local officials in Pingyao for the clean and honest, light and thin, clean up the unjust prison, in Pingyao is very popular with the people, when the rogue is around, he also presided over the compilation of the township brave, sword patrol, pillow Ge waited, is a rare Confucian general able minister.

Seeing that he had fortified properly and saved Pingyao from the raids of the rogues, the gentry of Fenyang County asked the government for orders and transferred Fei Jiayu to Renzhi County, Pingyang.

Of course Fei Jiajun didn't want to go, Fenyang County is the seat of Fenzhou's state governance, and being a magistrate under the Zhizhou Yamen is equivalent to a puppet raising the line, and he can't use his hands and feet at all.

However, he was eventually transferred to Fenyang.

On the day of his departure, many people in Pingyao sent him all the way to the border between Fenyang and Pingyao.

Half a year after he took office, he had just sorted out the government affairs accumulated by his predecessor, and he was busy collecting taxes, so Yan Siyin came to him.

As early as the beginning of the year, when Xu Dingchen garrisoned the Fenzhou area, the grain warehouse in Fenyang County had already been emptied, and half a month ago, Fenzhou followed Xu Dingchen's order and raised a batch of military rations and sent it to Zhang Yingchang and Yan Siyin, who were still in the Jiexiu area at that time, which was enough for a month.

Now that the summer harvest has just passed, some summer taxes have been collected, but because of the rampant bandits and the spread of the plague to the Fenzhou area, there are still many taxes that have not been confiscated.

What's more, Fenzhou still owes the imperial court a lot of taxes, these summer taxes are not even enough for this year's taxes, and the holes in previous years can't be filled.

What's more, Zhang Yingchang and Yan Siyin are not short of grain at all, and half of the grain and grass half a month ago are still left, and these two people must have seized a lot of bandits, at least silver taels are indispensable, and there is grain to sell in the grain stores of several gentry in Fenyang City.

But Yan Siyin didn't care whether there was food in Fenyang at all, and only stretched out his hand to ask for food with a sideways face.

In desperation, Fei Jiajun had to say that he would try his best to help him raise food and grass

He couldn't move the Xia Fu that had just been harvested, so he could only mobilize the gentry in the city and ask these big families who couldn't feed the dogs with food to donate money and food.

On the same day, Fei Jiajun sent people to invite the merchants and gentry in the city, except for the Wen family, who moved to Lou Fu some time ago, and several other enlightened gentry who did not come, the rest of the squires were invited.

Fei Jiajun explained his intentions and wanted them to donate money and food to help the imperial army eliminate the thieves.

The squires present applauded one after another, and all of them expressed their willingness to contribute money and grain.

Fei Jiajun was overjoyed, the national disaster was at the head, and there was really no shortage of enlightened people.

The next day, when the squires sent money and food, Fei Jia's face turned white.

Ten taels, twenty taels, eight stones, fifteen stones......

There were more than 10 squires in the city, scholars with official status, or merchants with merchant names and villages, and the one who donated the most money had 80 taels of silver, and the least one donated only two stone beans.

He received two hundred and forty taels of silver and one hundred and sixty stones of grain.

Zhang Yingchang and Yan Siyin had 3,000 soldiers, 1,000 horses, 1,200 stone of grain a month, 600 catties of beans, and countless forage, and Yan Siyin asked him for this number.

But the money and food he received was less than 20% of what the other party wanted.

Fei Jiajun knew that he was going to offend Yan Siyin, the eunuch of the prison army, this time.

Sure enough, three days later, Yan Siyin came to ask for food, and after learning that he had only made up 20%, he immediately turned his face, and said cruelly that if he couldn't raise enough grain and grass within three days, he would definitely be restless, and this magistrate would not want to be again.

After that day, Yan Siyin came every day, and each time he brought hundreds of soldiers, surrounded the county yamen tightly, and pointed his nose and insulted Fei Jiayan.

Fei Jiayan was so angry that he couldn't eat a grain of rice, couldn't sleep at night, and wrote a suicide note on the third day angrily accusing the court of being incompetent and eunuchs, and then committed suicide by throwing himself into a well.

Yan Siyin brought hundreds of soldiers to the county government to ask for food, and when he heard the news of Fei Jiayan's suicide, he didn't believe it, until he saw the corpse with his own eyes, and then he scolded and left.

went back to talk to Zhang Yingchang, and the two decided to start suppressing the bandits on the second day.

It happened that Jiexiu came to report urgently, saying that the thieves had gathered in the Mianshan area, twenty miles south of Jiexiu, and it was likely that they would join forces to attack Jiexiu.

Yan Siyin and Zhang Yingchang immediately reorganized their troops, and they forced Fei Jiajun to death, so they had to go out to fight the thieves and earn some merits.

In the early morning of the next day, when the army was about to start, several knights suddenly came from outside the city, saying that it was under the command of Qin Chuan, a guerrilla general in Shanxi, and now Qin Chuan had led 1,500 soldiers and horses to the area of Jiebei Mountain, and came to Fenyang to ask for grain and grass.

Yan Siyin and Zhang Yingchang were overjoyed, Jiebei Mountain was only less than twenty miles away from Jiexiu, and it was in the northeast of Mianshan.

Although Qin Chuan's gang is not easy to get along with, it is under the control of the two of them, and it can be used to fight the thieves and make meritorious contributions. 2018

Immediately, Yan Siyin ordered Qin Chuan's messenger to lie dormant in the area of Jiebei Mountain, and wait for their army to approach Jiexiu, and then kill from the east, flanking the thieves on both sides.

As for the grain and grass...... There was no one, Yan Siyin only said that after exterminating the thieves in the Mianshan area, there would naturally be grain and grass.

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"Big boss, let's go back to Huoshan again, when you were seriously injured, the brothers escaped from Jiebei Mountain, and the last to enter Luliang Mountain."

On Jiebei Mountain, Qin Chuan quietly overlooked the vast Jinzhong Basin under the mountain, and Luo Daniu said with emotion on the side.

Huoshan is Taiyue Mountain, and Jiuji Mountain is in the southwest of Huoshan Mountain, near Huoshui Hongdong.

At the beginning, Qin Chuan took thirty-eight old bandits from Jiujishan to kill Li Biaofeng and Tongtianzhu, and then went north along Huoshan Mountain, crossing the Jinzhong Basin and entering Luliang Mountain.

"The big boss, the head of the Tongtian Pillar has been brought, when will we go back to Jiuji Mountain?" Luo Da Niu suddenly asked again.

Qin Chuan patted him on the shoulder and said, "In a few days, now there are tens of thousands of rogues in the area from Mianshan to Jiuji Mountain, and there must be a lot of rogues in our old village. ”

"Okay."

"In a few years, after we occupy this treasure land, we will go up to Jiuji Mountain to rebuild the old village, and repair the tombs of those brothers who died in battle, and set up a big monument.

"Okay."

Luo Daniu became more and more excited.

"By the way, is there any news about Li Biaofeng and Bashan Tiger recently?"

"Yes, Li Biaofeng's guy followed Gao Yingxiang in the south of Taihang Mountain, and was chased like a dog by the Ming army, and there was not much news about Bashan Hu, I only heard that there was a thief named Shentong in the Shenmu area of Shaanxi, and there was a captain named Bashan Tiger under his command, which should be that guy."

"Well, let's go south to find Li Biaofeng in a few days, we can ignore Gao Yingxiang, Li Hongji, and Zhang Bingzhong, but we must keep an eye on Li Biaofeng, and we can't let that guy escape this time."

"When I catch that dog, I will take him to Jiuji Mountain and chop him alive in front of the graves of my brothers."

A killing intent appeared in Luo Daniu's eyes.

Qin Chuan nodded, and then refocused his gaze on the Jinzhong Basin in front of him.

Located between the Luliang Mountains and the Taihang Mountains, from Taiyuan in the north to Jiexiu in Fenzhou in the south, this basin is the richest place in the whole of Shanxi, with more than 5 million acres of arable land.

Most of those cultivated lands belonged to the Jin Dynasty and more than a dozen county kings under the Jin Dynasty, as well as many gentry families in Taiyuan Mansion and Fenzhou.

If this land is acquired, it can feed more than a million people.

It's not a good place to take.

But in front of him, there is a small place to take it.

Zhangyuan Village, also known as Fan Yongdou's hometown, is twenty-five miles north of Jiebei Mountain.

Lao Huang and Bobcat went to inquire, and the clansmen of the Fan family basically ran to Zhangjiakou for refuge, most of the money and food were transported away, and only a few clansmen and dozens of guards were left in the Fan family's mansion.

Some time ago, during the summer harvest, the people of the Fan family came back, came back with four or five hundred family guards, and temporarily recruited a large number of hungry people nearby to harvest summer grain.

Most of the collected grain was transported to Taiyuan, and a small part was transported to Jiexiu City for temporary storage, and only dozens of nursing homes were still left in the Fan family's mansion.

In addition to the Fan family, there is another big family surnamed Zhou in Zhangyuan Village, and the same as the Fan family, after the Zhou family's summer grain is harvested, part of it is transported to Pingyao City, part of it is transported to Jiexiu City, and some of it is transported to Fenyang City, and the people of the Zhou family are basically in Jiexiu City.

There are only about 300 people in these two nursing homes and the villagers they have trained.

Although a village fort was also built in Zhangyuan Village, the defense of 300 people was a piece of cake for Qin Chuan.

Previously, he didn't kill Fan Sanpao, he only extorted some food, but later Fan Yongdou's guy actually led Jiannu into Lou to kill him, and almost killed him.

Xuanfu military towns are lined up, and border troops are gathered, he can't send people to Zhangjiakou Fort to kill Fan Yongdou, but he can burn down that guy's hometown.

"My lord, the soldiers have finished their camp."

Ren Liang rode his horse from afar, and shouted loudly when he reached the mountainside.

"Open Zhangyuan Village."

"Yes."