Wu Fu did not dare to hide the news of the defeat of the Xingtian Army on the Shanxi side, so he immediately wrote a report to the capital and took the initiative to ask the court for guilt.

When the news reached the capital, it immediately caused an uproar among the officials of the DPRK and China, and immediately there were officials who played Chongzhen, impeaching Wu Fu's incompetence, and even such a thief could not be exterminated, asking Chongzhen to remove Wu Fu from his post as governor of Shanxi, and remove him from his post for investigation.

However, there are also some officials who have a good relationship with Wu Fu on the face, and write to protect Wu Fu, saying that now Shanxi's military strength is limited, and Wu Fu has no elite soldiers available, and he is willing to do so, so he does not need to investigate Wu Fu's dereliction of duty too much, after all, Wu Fu is still doing quite well, at least he confined this gang of thieves to the small Yangcheng County area, and did not cause it to cause greater disasters, compared to the officials in Henan, Shaanxi, Huguang, and Lianghuai, he can do this is also commendable. After all, the damage of the thieves to various places seems to be much more serious, and Wu Fu was able to control this group of torture heavenly troops within a certain range without heavy troops, not only was he not guilty, but he was meritorious.

A simple thing turned out to be explained by the officials in the court into two versions, a group of officials supported Wu Fu, and a group of officials fell into the ground, attacking each other, which made Chongzhen a little embarrassed.

At the beginning of the year, Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and other generations actually invaded the hometown of his old Zhu family in Fengyang and dug his family's ancestral grave.

So at present, he looks at these exile troops and attaches more importance to them than to the Jiannu outside the Guan, which is why he does not hesitate to promote people like Hong Chengchou and mobilize heavy troops from several provinces to suppress these exile troops.

However, Shanxi's little-known Xingtian army, compared with other wandering people's army, is a little insignificant, after all, they are only entrenched in a county, and they are entrenched in the southernmost part of Shanxi, compared to those wandering around the wandering army, the harm is much slighter after all, as long as you turn back and exterminate a large group of exile armies like Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng, when the time comes, mobilize heavy troops and then encircle and suppress them, it must be easy to wipe out.

As for Wu Fu's two failures in sending troops to suppress it, Chongzhen is not very angry in this matter, after all, although Wu Fu did not exterminate it, but at least he did not let it sit big in Shanxi, and it caused more trouble by wandering around, Wu Fu did a remarkable job at this point, at least compared to those officials in Henan and Shaanxi, he still did a good job at this point, if he deposed a governor like Wu Fu just because he lost one or two counties, then looking at the provinces of the Ming Dynasty today, how many governors can continue to do it? So Chongzhen still has his own ideas about how to deal with Wu Fu.

And Chongzhen was originally a very stubborn and self-serving person, he has always believed that he is a Ming Jun, and he can't be controlled by these officials at all, what to do and what not to do He knows very well, for Wu Fu's two defeats, at the beginning, he was still a little angry, but after thinking about it carefully, he felt that Wu Fu was forgivable, after all, there are almost no available elite soldiers in Shanxi, and the strong generals were all transferred by Hong Chengchou to Henan, Shaanxi and other places to suppress them, and this Xingtian army is more fierce, So it is understandable that it is not good to suppress the appeasement, and at the moment how to deal with Wu Fu is not the most important thing now, the important thing is how to deal with the thief army entrenched in Yangcheng, so Chongzhen asked the ministers in the court, and the result was that someone gave Chongzhen an idea, rather than letting this Xingtian army entrench in Yangcheng like this, it is better to recruit it, after all, this thief army has shown good combat effectiveness, if it can be recruited, it is so that the court can get a strong force out of thin air.

While Chongzhen was thinking about this matter, the news of Cao Wenzhao's defeat and death came from Shaanxi, and this time it was even more shocking, and everyone's attention immediately shifted to the death of Cao Wenzhao.

So Emperor Chongzhen was shocked when he heard this, and he no longer had time to think about how to deal with Wu Fu, so he just asked Zhongshu Province to draw up a holy decree and reprimanded Wu Fu, but did not remove Wu Fu from his position as governor, and ordered Wu Fu to find a way to appease this Xingtian army, it is best to let them serve the court and do things for the court, so that they can not be blamed for what they have done before, if not, then it is necessary to restrict the Xingtian army from wandering around and become a rogue, so this matter has been revealed.

After Wu Fu received the holy decree, he finally breathed a long sigh of relief, so he immediately began to arrange for Xiao Tianjian to be appeased in accordance with the holy will.

Like this kind of thing, the government can't keep it secret, and soon the streets and alleys all know the news, and Fan Yaoshan, who is secretly doing business with Xingtianjun, of course, quickly learned the news, and didn't dare to slack off and hurriedly sent someone to send a letter to Xiao Tianjian to inform Xiao Tianjian of the news.

After meeting with Fan Xi, after learning more about the situation of the Liu family's caravan, he did not hesitate to do anything, and immediately sent two hundred elite soldiers headed by Shi Ran and supplemented by Wang Chengping, and immediately sneaked out of the area controlled by the Xingtian Army to the west, and intercepted the caravan of the Liu family on the official road leading to Jiangzhou in Wenxi County in one fell swoop, and killed dozens of guards of the caravan on the spot, and the rest were all dispersed, and the caravan was robbed clean. The salt, iron, grain, cloth and other items pulled in the caravan were all snatched by them, and they quickly escorted these goods back to Yangcheng that night, and Xiao Tianjian also arranged a sentry led by Li Xuanzhu on the road in advance to meet them, and within a few days, these dozens of carts full of goods were pulled back to the boundary of Yangcheng and became Xiao Tianjian's trophies.

As a result, the Liu family, who was against the Fan family, suffered a lot of blows because of this incident, and almost collapsed because of this, and could no longer oppose Fan Yaoshan in a short period of time, for which Fan Yaoshan was very grateful to Xiao Tianjian, and sent Fan Xi to send Xiao Tianjian a batch of sulfur as a thank you, which made Xiao Tianjian fall cheap and greatly comfortable.

And after the matter was over, Xiao Tianjian temporarily rested and transferred all the sentries and horses under him back to the Lotus Village camp, because after this counterattack on the official army's invasion and suppression, in addition to the beginning of the summer harvest, Xiao Tianjian also found a lot of problems exposed by the Xingtian Army, and he had to solve these problems.

The three sentinels who were originally assigned to the three places to garrison, as well as Yan Chongxi's sentry in Yuanqu County, were all transferred back to Lotus Village by Xiao Tianjian for training, and on the issue of garrisoning, Xiao Tianjian adopted Fu Deming's suggestions to him, and simply ordered the sentinels to hand them over to the security chiefs in various places.

In addition to handling some civil affairs, the chief of the security department is also responsible for local security work in peacetime.

Each village basically has a security chief, temporarily serving as the village chief, a village roughly has dozens or about 100 township soldiers, these township soldiers are relatively scattered, it is not easy to play a big role in wartime, can only defend the village, so Xiao Tianjian in several key areas, adopted Fu Deming's suggestion, and ordered the joint protection of ten villages, that is, the township soldiers of a village will be combined together to act, and send two relatively intelligent low-level officers in the army, In normal times, they can inspect the villages, supervise and guide the drills of the township troops in each village, and if an enemy situation appears, they will be responsible for dispatching the joint operations of the township troops in the ten villages.

In peacetime, the township soldiers can work at home and farm, and the farmers will follow the chief for training, which is equivalent to handing over the responsibility of guarding the place to these township soldiers, and in doing so, first, it has played a role in hiding soldiers from the people and greatly reducing the burden of the Xingtian army; The biggest advantage is that after Xiao Tianjian is so adjusted, he can withdraw all the main soldiers into his own hands and re-clench them into fists, and once they encounter a large-scale enemy army, they can attack collectively, and they will no longer be overstretched for the mobilization of troops.

And the chief security system has now been implemented in the jurisdiction of the Xingtian Army for a period of time, basically gained more experience, and at the beginning of a village were sent to the chief and deputy security chiefs, these people are already familiar with some of the work of the security chief, and now some new territory has been laid, so Xiao Tianjian ordered the original security chiefs to be transferred out of a part, plus some newly retired soldiers, arranged for them to lead the old with the new, sent to the newly laid territory to do things, these have quite experienced security chiefs, First, they can assist in the land reform of dividing the land into separate fields, and second, they can maintain law and order on the new territory, and they can also form a new township army.

(It's time for a small explosion today!) One more chapter in the afternoon! Never break your word, brothers, smash a few red tickets! Hehe! ）