When Xiao Tianjian returned to his residence, Fan Yutong sat beside him, smiled at him and asked, "Are you really not going to accept Zhao'an?" ”

Xiao Tianjian's face sank and said: "I, Xiao, hate the most rebellious person in my life, how can I be such a person?" I'm afraid this incident has disappointed your father! It's a big deal that he won't do business with me in the future! But if you want me to surrender to the government, that's impossible! ”

Fan Yutong did not change his face because of Xiao Tianjian's dislike, and continued to smile: "I just appreciate you!" How can a dignified husband see profit and forget righteousness! As for my father, I will write to him, but you also have to take precautions, this time you treat the officials who come to recruit you like this, the government will not give up! I'm afraid that as long as I pull out my hand, I will raise troops to attack! You have to prepare early! ”

Xiao Tianjian saw that Fan Yutong was not angry about this, so he softened his face and said to Fan Yutong: "Then it's hard for you!" As for what the court will do, I have already thought about it, no matter how I treat the officials who come, 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 yet able to mobilize a large army to attack us here, take this opportunity, I will step up the training of troops, as long as they dare to come, I will definitely beat them to the ground! Hehe! It's just the things you have at hand, you don't have to be too tired, you should let go of the people below to do it, you just let go of the people below to do it, only in this way can you train the people below! Otherwise, you won't be able to carry it alone! ”

Fan Yutong nodded and agreed, but when she returned to her house, she still sighed slightly, in this matter, Fan Yaoshan very much hopes that Xiao Tianjian will accept Zhao'an, so as long as Xiao Tianjian becomes an official person, with heavy troops in his hands and stationed in Shanxi, then it will be of great benefit to their Fan family in the future, and now Xiao Tianjian decisively rejected the court's Zhao'an, her father Fan Yaoshan will definitely be unhappy, so once he falls out with Xiao Tianjian because of this, It is not a good thing for either the Xingtian Army or their Fan family.

Sitting behind the table, Fan Yutong frowned and thought for a while, Fan Yutong ordered the two little maids to take pen, ink, paper and inkstone, rolled up their sleeves, and began to write a letter on the desk. ”

Now Iron Head is respected as the Iron Guard, and even his real surname is almost never mentioned anymore, for this title, Iron Head is happy to accept it, and feels very glorious.

Regarding the relationship between Fan Yutong and Xiao Tianjian, he knew better than anyone the affection between the two, so after receiving the letter, he immediately arranged for someone to secretly transfer it to Feng Gouzi, and then to Fan Xi through Feng Gouzi, and then to Taiyuan Mansion to Fan Yaoshan.

For Xiao Tianjian to cut off the ears of the surrendered officials and expel them from their jurisdiction, it immediately set off an uproar again in Taiyuan Mansion, and the news spread rapidly, and immediately many officials immediately found Wu Fu and asked Wu Fu to mobilize a large army to Yangcheng to encircle and suppress the Xingtian Army, vowing to completely exterminate the Xingtian Army, after all, this kind of ear cutting is the biggest insult to the government and the imperial court, and if the Xingtian Army is not resolved, it will not be enough to deter other bandits.

But these indignant officials and soldiers don't know Wu Fu's suffering, although Wu Fu is also extremely angry about this, but he really has no elite soldiers at hand to call on now, although he has the intention to completely wipe out this group of damned Xingtian Army through a battle, but the two defeats in the attack on Yangcheng have made him understand the terrible things about this group of Xingtian Army.

Although the strength of this group of thieves is not too much, compared to Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng and other thieves who are often tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands, their strength is nothing, but from the soldiers who fled back, he learned that this group of Xingtian Army is basically a very good at fighting elite soldiers, not a rabble, whether it is equipment or morale, it is no worse than the official army, and in the application of firearms, they even completely overwhelm the regular official army, and these thieves are not afraid of death when they fight. Military discipline is extremely strict, looking at the various officers and troops in Shanxi, Wu Fu really can't find a single soldier and horse who can deal with this Xingtian army.

If you really want to transfer troops and suppress it again, if you don't make full preparations, this time Wu Fu will not do it easily, and this time because of the failure of the attack, for Wu Fu, it is equivalent to turning around in front of the Ghost Gate, and those damned officials in the court heard the wind and almost let him lose his official position, if he doesn't accept the lesson, he Wu Fu will be in the officialdom for so long.

Thinking about it, Wu Fu couldn't think of a very good way to deal with the Xingtian Army, so he could only suppress the opinions of these people who asked him to send troops to suppress it, and he didn't dare to act rashly, if he had to suppress it, then he could only wait for Hong Chengchou's side to withdraw his hand and mobilize heavy troops to encircle and suppress the Xingtian Army, if Hong Chengchou's side was not available, then he could only temporarily endure it and see the situation.

So Wu Fu ordered those state capitals and counties around Yangcheng to keep an eye on the movements of the Xingtian Army for the time being, and try to limit the Xingtian Army to the Yangcheng area, not to expand too much, as for the matter of suppression, wait a while.

And the news naturally reached Fan Yaoshan's ears, originally Fan Yaoshan very much hoped that Xiao Tianjian could take advantage of this great opportunity to surrender to the government, so that the imperial court would at least give Xiao Tianjian an official and appease Xiao Tianjian, so with Xiao Tianjian's strength, he could at least be a guerrilla officer.

In this way, Xiao Tianjian has become an official, and he also has elite heavy soldiers under him, looking at Shanxi, who doesn't want to give Xiao Tianjian some face, and he can also disclose his relationship with Xingtianjun at that time, and take Xingtianjun as a backer, and start trading in the future, who would dare to be disrespectful to his Fan family!

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

For this reason, Fan Yaoshan was greatly disappointed, when he was furious, he felt that Xiao Tianjian, a young descendant, really did not know the height of the sky, although now the Ming Dynasty has appeared to be in chaos, but after all, the starving camel is bigger than the horse, and he really wants to use his own strength to fight against the entire Ming Dynasty, which is simply a move to hit a stone with an egg and a mantis arm as a car.

Therefore, Fan Yaoshan felt that after Xiao Tianjian this time, he would definitely attract a big report from the imperial court, so with the strength of the Xingtian Army, I am afraid that he would not be able to stop the imperial court from thundering this time, so he was born from the idea of breaking off diplomatic relations with the Xingtian Army.

Anyway, now that he has also passed through Fan Xi, he knows that Xiao Tianjian, the head of the Xingtian Army, is very good to his daughter, even if he cuts off contact with the Xingtian Army, Xiao Tianjian will not be angry with his daughter Fan Yutong, so it is a big deal to make some money in the Xingtian Army, and it is better to go back and implicate him after the Xingtian Army is destroyed.

When Fan Yaoshan was undecided, thinking about what relationship he should maintain with Xingtianjun next, he received a letter from Fan Yutong, after Fan Yaoshan opened the letter, he read what Fan Yutong wrote in the letter from beginning to end, so he put away the letter and told his subordinates that he should go to the Yangcheng boundary in person.

And Xiao Tianjian's side, after the Zhao'an incident, the army's heart has stabilized again, and no one is thinking about Zhao'an anymore, anyway, now that Xiao Tianjian has completely broken with the government, they either choose to leave, or they can only stay here honestly to do things.

If they leave, no one knows what their future holds, but if they stay, they can really enjoy the life that the Xingtian Army has given them.

Especially those who were the most active readers at first, now after giving up this thought, they have all been honest and began to do things under Fu Deming's hands in a down-to-earth manner.

And Fu Deming showed unusual firmness in the Zhao'an incident this time, not only did not show the slightest wavering, but when this matter showed signs, he was the first to find Xiao Tianjian in person, telling Xiao Tianjian to make a decision to solve this problem, and suggested that Xiao Tianjian should hate to stop this kind of limelight, so as not to expand the situation, so that Xiao Tianjian also 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 to deal with, 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 subordinates were also handed over to Fu Deming.

Although Yangcheng is surrounded by mountains, the economy here was very developed in the early years because of this real estate, so there are many local wealthy families and quite a lot of scholars.

It's just that over the years, the local bandits in Yangcheng have become increasingly serious, which has caused the local iron industry to suffer a great blow, coupled with the fact that Chongzhen has suffered a great drought that has not been seen in a hundred years here, and Chongzhen has encountered a large number of people crossing the border in four years, which has made this place decay, so that many local scholarly families have also completely decayed, and there are many bankrupt middle classes, and many scholars have been reduced to the extent of begging for a living.

But after the Xingtianjun took control of the entire Yangcheng territory, these scholars had no choice but to let go of the last trace of face and go to the Xingtianjun to make a living with a shy face, and many of them were recruited by Fu Deming to help Fu Deming deal with civil affairs, which greatly relieved the pressure on Fu Deming's side.

Although the Zhao'an incident shook some people, but under Xiao Tianjian's thunderous disposal, this trend of thought that wanted to recruit was quickly stifled, and for this reason, a group of people who secretly communicated with the government and the government sent into the area controlled by the Xingtian Army were also found, and Xiao Tianjian was not polite, in a few days, dozens of people were killed, which greatly deterred the generation of this trend of thought, and also through that assembly and training, cut off everyone's back road on the spot, so that the personnel under his command broke this idea, and could only continue to do it honestly.

Moreover, after the battle in June, Xiao Tianjian also took out nearly 10,000 taels of silver to reward the meritorious people, and also won the hearts of the people, including the township soldiers who supported the main battle, they also had their own rewards, and the families of the dead also received very generous pensions, and even the list of the fallen in the township soldiers was able to enter the Lotus Village Martyrs' Shrine and get incense offerings.

In this way, after the reorganization, the Xingtian Army was basically stabilized, and all the soldiers were assembled in the Lotus Village camp for a two-month training.