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After returning to the fort, it took him half a day to persuade the people in the fort to open the gate of the village before dark, and sent their crossbows and a few Nine-headed Birds, Three-Eyed Guns and other things to the outside of the fort, and only some swords, guns and bows and arrows were left in the fort as their basic defensive weapons. （..)

Xiao Tianjian personally ordered his subordinates and generals, and collectively lined up outside Doujia Fort to greet each other, and personally received their weapons outside the fort, and in front of the Zhang family, ordered the Xingtian Army to pull out the camp and withdraw the troops.

Although Zhao Erdonkey and some of his subordinates were not very satisfied with Xiao Tianjian's way of dealing with it, after all, they attacked Zhangjiabao and lost a lot of brothers, and felt that it was too cheap for the Zhang family of Doujiabao to let them go like this, but they saw that Xiao Tianjian had made up his mind, and they did not dare to raise objections, and honestly followed Xiao Tianjian out of Doujiabao.

Looking at the back of the Xingtian Army's appearance and leaving Doujiabao, Zhang Yuanwai stood at the door and suddenly his legs were weak, and he almost sat on the ground, but fortunately, his son quickly hugged him, so he didn't let him hang on the ground.

"Daddy! Do you say that this surnamed Xiao can really be trustworthy? One of his sons asked him, holding him in his arms.

Zhang Yuanwai looked at the back of Xingtianjun who was gradually moving away and said: "I will be in charge of the village meeting this time, looking at his face, he is definitely not a treacherous and untrustworthy person!" Someone you can trust! And these days, we have all seen that this Xingtian Army is by no means a rabble, and he can train these homeless people into such elite soldiers with a prosperous army, it can be seen that this person is by no means an ordinary person, maybe this person can really achieve something great!

What's more, I did this time, but also forced to be helpless, if we fight hard, how can we be their opponents, once the face is torn, he will transfer more soldiers and horses, when the time comes, our Zhang family up and down these hundreds of people, I am afraid that they will be killed by a chicken and dog! So the only expedient solution for now is to listen to their orders! We'll see how they do it later!

But I warn you, since I have agreed to his terms, I must do it, and I can see that this man surnamed Xiao is a decisive man, and as long as we don't provoke him, he should not be against us! Have you all remembered? ……”

These clansmen who followed Zhang Yuanwai hurriedly nodded and agreed, because although they resisted very tenaciously in the past two days, but in the face of these Xingtian Army members outside the fort, they were still a little frightened, knowing that if this continued, sooner or later their Doujiabao would be broken by them, so now that the matter can be solved like this, they can say that they have all picked up a life, and no one wants to provoke this terrible Xingtian Army again.

Xiao Tianjian rode his horse slowly with the army and marched forward, while explaining to Tietou, Zhao Erdonkey and others: "Although we say that we rob the rich and help the poor, we must also act in some proportions!" For some rich people, when we have to, we have to treat them separately! This time we attacked Doujiabao, because we did not understand the situation of Doujiabao in advance, their Zhang family has no notoriety in the local area, and its village is also full of their Zhang family, if we attack blatantly, although we may not be able to beat his Doujiabao, but I am afraid that it will also suffer heavy losses, even if we beat Doujiabao, it will be worth the loss for us!

Since the Zhang family's family business is really done by themselves, then we can't do things absolutely without it, and they have a lot of good reputations, once we do things without it, we will lose people's hearts and put us in the same category as ordinary thieves, so I will only do good things for us in the future, and there will be no harm! Otherwise, we'll make too many enemies!

Therefore, it seems to me that we should also treat these rich people differently, and we must not kill all those who have no great evil, but as long as they are willing to obey our discipline and give us food when it is time to give it, why can't we keep them? If we have to exterminate them, even if we divide their fields immediately, with our current practice, within two years, the Zhang family's more than 1,000 acres of land, I'm afraid we won't be able to harvest a single grain! If we do this now, we can collect 30% of the grain from Doujiabao during the summer harvest, so why don't we do it?

Therefore, our target is only for those rich people who are not benevolent, and the first step is to pick such people first, so as to win the hearts and minds of the people, and also obtain military funds! At the same time, we don't want all the rich people to see us as enemies, that's why I'm going to do it this time!

Before we act in the future, I am afraid that we must pay attention to it, for those who have no great evil in the local area, and the rich people with a good reputation, we can no longer take such a method! If you don't kill them all, it's better not to kill them quickly! ”

Xiao Tianjian didn't think about doing any land reform in an all-round way like the later generations, after all, the times are different from the times, although the practices of the Kingdom of Heaven in later generations can be used for reference, but they can't all be moved over, some things still need to be flexible in this era, otherwise it is not a good thing to make too many enemies, the landlord class in this era, it is impossible to completely eliminate it, after all, the existence of this class also has their relatively positive role, or his old saying, the rice must be eaten one bite at a time, everything must be taken slowly!

And the matter of Doujiabao soon spread in the local area, some of the small and medium-sized rich families who usually rely on self-cultivation and do not do much evil are somewhat relieved, when they heard that the Xingtian Army soldiers pointed to them, these people did not wait for the Xingtian Army or their own tenants to do it, so they hurriedly posted to the Xingtian Army, indicating that they were willing to obey the control of the Xingtian Army, and promised to pay food to the Xingtian Army on time in the future, only begging the Xingtian Army not to kill them all.

For such ordinary rich households, Xiao Tianjian is not difficult for them, but sets a rule, that is, as long as they agree to serve the Xingtian Army, it is not enough to just pay food, they must select the young sons and nephews of the family to join the Xingtian Army, and do things for the Xingtian Army.

For Xiao Tianjian's request, these ordinary rich people thought about it again and again, although they understood that this was a conspiracy played by the Xingtianjun, so that they could not get rid of the relationship with the Xingtianjun from now on, and at the same time, it was equivalent to sending hostages to the Xingtianjun as a pledge, which would be equivalent to tying them to the chariot of the Xingtianjun in the future, and they had the intention not to agree, but thinking that their family business was within the control of the Xingtianjun, if they didn't agree, they would have to get out immediately, and the business would belong to the Xingtianjun, so even if they were unwilling, He didn't want to leave his huge family business and run away, so he finally had to agree to the request of the Xingtian Army, select his sons and nephews from the clan, and send them to the Xingtian Army as soldiers.

And several of Xiao Tianjian's subordinates were a little unimpressed with this matter, in their opinion, the descendants of these rich families were definitely not as good as the soldiers they had recruited from the homeless people before, with such people, it was better not to use them, and after Xiao Tianjian explained his plan to them in private, these guys each showed a thief smile, so they collectively approved Xiao Tianjian's arrangement.

In this way, in less than 20 days, the Xingtian army attacked Zhuang and Bazhai on both sides of the Qin River, and successively pulled out more than 30 villages and forts on both sides of the Qin River, and the rest of the small villages and small villages fell to the wind, and soon controlled the entire Qin River and both sides of the Qin River in the hands of the Xingtian Army, thus making the Xingtian Army establish a defense line based on the Qin River to the east, and isolated the county seat of Yangcheng.

And the matter along the Qin River has just ended, Xiao Tianjian once again waved his army north, launched an attack on the northern area of Yangcheng County, this operation can also be said to be a retaliatory action, through the exploration of Feng Gouzi's subordinates, Xiao Tianjian completed the sweep on both sides of the Qin River, then turned the target to those who had been active in the operation of the official army to suppress the Heavenly Army, this gang of people at the beginning of the first heard that the official army was going to enter the criminal army, many people donated money and food, Seven or eight hundred township warriors were organized for Yangcheng County, intending to help the officials and soldiers in the war, but the result was that these old rich people were very unexpected, and the official army did not even enter the boundary of Yangcheng County, so they were defeated by the Xingtian Army in one fell swoop, and the seven or eight hundred township warriors they finally organized were suddenly attacked by the Xingtian Army in Taipingzhuang, and they were beaten to the desert and fled, and the food and money they made up did not fall into the hands of the officials and soldiers at all, but they were all cheaply given to the Xingtian Army.

And their action can be regarded as giving Xiao Tianjian a pretext to clean them up, and after cleaning up the banks of the Qin River, he immediately led his troops to the north of Yangcheng County, without giving these old rich people a chance to explain, and directly killed them.

This spring in Yangcheng County in the eighth year of Chongzhen, for these large local families, it is more sad than any year, Yangcheng County's original peace, in the official army of this attack was completely broken, miscalculated the flow of these old wealthy, when they learned the news of the failure of the official army, they knew that the catastrophe was coming, two or three of them still have property in other places, after learning that the Xingtian army sent troops to attack their Zhuangzi, they immediately wrapped up their property, abandoned Zhuangzi overnight and escaped from the Yangcheng boundary, And the remaining old wealth, unable to give up the land left to them by their ancestors, hurriedly recruited Zhuang Ding to resist the Xingtian Army.

But in the face of the attack of the Xingtian Army, which is basically armed to the teeth, these Zhuangzi, who are fighting separately, are simply unable to resist the onslaught of the Xingtian Army, coupled with the propaganda of the Xingtian Army in advance, many poor households in the north of Yangcheng are not willing to sell their lives to these old wealthy, and the government in Yangcheng County is too busy to take care of itself, where can they have the ability to care about the life and death of these old wealth outside the county! Therefore, after the Xingtian Army launched the attack operation, the forts were quickly conquered under the front of the Xingtian Army, and these old wealthies who were reluctant to flee were killed and killed, and their Zhuangzi land was also taken into Xiao Tianjian's pocket.

The operation for more than a month basically ended at the end of April, that is, in just over a month, the entire Yangcheng County basically fell under the control of the Xingtian Army, and even its influence area extended to Qinshui County for a short distance, and only a lonely county seat remained in the hands of the government, so far the area south of Qinshui County, east of Jiangxian County, and about 100 miles west of the Qinhe River all fell under the control of the Xingtian Army.