Fu Deming chewed a piece of cake in his mouth, and after swallowing it, he shook his head and said, "The general doesn't have to worry about the body of the lowly position, the lowly position is fine!" It's just that I'm too busy during this time, so sometimes I can't catch up with dinner! Thank you General for your hospitality today, I finally had a great meal! Hehe!

What the humble position said just now is the truth, after the first battle at the beginning of the year, now the people in Jindi all over the country know about our affairs, so every day there are a large number of displaced people who want to enter our jurisdiction, the first few days we can still accept it, but in recent days, the influx of displaced people is more and more, we can no longer accept it!

If this continues, I am afraid that there will be a situation of starvation in our territory again! At present, food is the most critical thing, if we can't solve the food, then we can't wait for next month, I'm afraid the grass in our jurisdiction will be eaten up! ”

Xiao Tianjian smiled bitterly and said: "How can I not know about this matter, for this reason, I have already ordered that the grain stored in several caves in the mountains will be transferred out, and I am ready to hand it over to you to help these displaced people!"

In addition, I have also ordered a part of the rations of the generals in the army to be reduced, so as to squeeze out some food for the relief of the victims, but this bit of food will not solve the big problem, but it is just a drop in the bucket! I'm having a headache these days! Originally, I wanted to lead my troops to the area of Jiezhou to fetch grain, but He Renlong is now outside the city of Jiezhou, even if he goes to Jiezhou, I am afraid that it will only provoke trouble, but it may not be able to sweep back much grain!

I'm thinking about this now, even if you force me again, I won't be able to get you more food right now! It's a bit of a headache! ”

After hearing this, Fu Deming also sighed slightly, nodded and said: "The humble position also knows the general's difficulties, and now there are mouths everywhere that open their mouths to eat, and it is not easy for the general to let these hundreds of thousands of people live, but God doesn't help!" It will take at least three months for the grain in this land to be harvested to survive this famine! It seems that we are indeed trying to limit the influx of outcasts into our territory! ”

Xiao Tianjian stood up and sighed: "In just over a year, although we have occupied most of the territory of the three counties, the number of displaced people pouring into our territory is indeed too much, although these victims are indeed pitiful, but after all, our ability is still limited at the moment, it is time to control the number of displaced people!" Otherwise, these outcasts alone may eat us up! ”

Fu Deming nodded and said: "What the general said is very true, the lowly post will be arranged, and from now on, we will no longer accept displaced people into our jurisdiction!" ”

"That's all there is to it! It's not that I'm ruthless, it's that our current strength is limited, and we really can't save more people! However, for those teenage children among the displaced people, it is better to take them back, the juvenile camp can arrange as many as possible, no matter how difficult it is, for these orphans, we can't let it go, in time these children are the backbone of our Xingtian Army, so I can take in more such children, or do my best to collect more! It's better than watching them starve to death! Xiao Tianjian sighed and nodded, agreeing with Fu Deming's opinion.

But speaking of which, the food problem has not been completely solved, so Fu Deming asked Xiao Tianjian: "Then I wonder if Taiyuan can help us raise some food?" Even if it's a little less! ”

Xiao Tianjian shook his head and said: "Feng Gouzi has already contacted over there, and now there is a great hunger everywhere in Shanxi, and the price of grain in Taiyuan is also soaring, and they can't raise too much food at the moment, so they can't help us at the moment!" What's more, we have consumed a lot during this time, and after the reward, the silver we have saved is almost bottoming out, and I am afraid that we will not be able to take out too much silver if we want to buy food! So spending money on food won't work right now! We're going to have to figure out something more! ”

When the two of them were frowning about the food, Tietou shouted outside: "General, Feng Gouzi is here, and he is waiting outside!" ”

Xiao Tianjian looked at Fu Deming and said with a smile: "It seems that you and Feng Gouzi are really fateful!" As soon as you came, Feng Gouzi also came, let's see what news Feng Gouzi brought back to us this time! ”

After a while, Feng Gouzi hurriedly walked in from outside, and after giving Xiao Tianjian a salute, he laughed when he saw Fu Deming, and said to Fu Deming: "Mr. Fu must have come to the general to ask for food!" ”

Fu Deming nodded and smiled bitterly: "In addition to this matter, what else does Fu have to bother our general?" ”

Feng Gouzi nodded and said with a wry smile: "It seems that being famous is not a good thing, a large number of homeless people are pouring in to our territory every day, this alone is enough for us to be busy!" Mr. Fu seems to be tired enough!

However, I came to the general this time, but it brought good news to the general, if it can be done, then the food problem can be solved! ”

"Oh? What's the good news? Where can I get food? Xiao Tianjian and Fu Deming both immediately widened their eyes and asked Feng Gouzi.

"That's the case......" Feng Gouzi told Xiao Tianjian the news he had just received.

After listening to Feng Gouzi's news of him, Xiao Tianjian did not delay a little effort, and after arranging the affairs of his subordinates, he took dozens of guards such as Tietou and Feng Gouzi all the way over the mountain and rushed to the ancient town of Yuanqu County that day.

Yan Chongxi was ordered to guard Yuanqu County after the year, and He Renlong fought fiercely in Yuanqu County for more than a month, and finally withstood the strong attack of He Renlong's department, and kept Lishan Town not lost, and after He Renlong withdrew his troops, he quickly once again controlled the entire territory of Yuanqu County into the hands of the Xingtian Army, and even the magistrate of Yuanqu County fled from Yuanqu County with his family. As a result, Xiao Tianjian had no intention of storming Yuanqu County, but he got a city in vain.

However, this time, Xiao Tianjian did not demolish Yuanqu County like the last time he demolished Yangcheng County, but ordered Yan Chongxi to send a sentinel general to take over Yuanqu County, and ordered Fu Deming to set up a team in charge of civil affairs in Yuanqu County to manage the affairs around Yuanqu County.

So now the Xingtian Army has initially appeared in the civil and military two classes of people are responsible for a piece, the reason why he wants to arrange it this way is because he thinks that the soldiers should be pure, don't interfere too much in civil affairs, and most of these generals are big and rough, there is no problem in fighting and killing, but when dealing with civil affairs, they are rough and rude, and sometimes good things will be done by them Bad things, so that after Xiao Tianjian arrived in Shanxi with his troops, he gradually began to deliberately military affairs. Civil affairs were separated, and the generals specialized in the main army, and Fu Deming pulled up a group of people to undertake civil affairs, which made many things progress more quickly.

Nowadays, compared with last year, the civil affairs officers of the Xingtian Army have been greatly improved, when they first arrived here, the local scholars were very resistant to them, and they also looked down on them as a rebel, although the Xingtian Army had the intention to seek talents, but the vast majority of them would rather stay away than do things with the Xingtian Army.

But the court is not fake, but it also depends on what kind of people are raised, there are many scholars in the world at the moment, but many scholars may not be able to get a show in this life, in this era the test show is the most basic threshold, compared to the selection rate of the university entrance examination in later generations is much lower, if you can't pass this threshold, then even if you read to death, you are still a white body, and you can't enjoy the preferential treatment of readers at all, and everything is in vain, so when you enter this era, Many scholars without merit can no longer even make ends meet, so eating has become a big problem.

Some scholars look down on characters like the rebel army, but in the face of ideals, the problem of the stomach is more important, the so-called wind bones in the face of hunger, has long been nothing, always have to eat first to live before they can say ideal things, and some local scholars after more than a year, the development of the Xingtian Army in the Yangcheng area, and gradually see the difference between the Xingtian Army and ordinary thieves, and at the same time found that the government seems to have no way to take the Xingtian Army, so some people put down their worth, Taking advantage of the opportunity that the Xingtianjun also needs talents like them, he threw himself into Xiao Tianjian's subordinates and began to do things for the Xingtianjun, as for whether it is a thief or not, now they can't take care of it, and the treatment of the Xingtianjun for these people is also quite good, at least there is no problem in supporting them.

In this way, there are quite a lot of scholars in Yangcheng and the surrounding areas, even if only a small number of people are selected, they can also meet Xiao Tianjian's talent demand for civil affairs, and these people also took the money Xiao Tianjian gave them, and honestly worked under him, and shared a lot of work for Fu Deming.

Now, although the control time of the Xingtian Army in Yuanqu County has not been long, but under the condition that Xiao Tianjian arranged the military and the people to grasp both hands, the local situation has been completely stabilized, and the people have got the fields they want, and after the rout and rogue in the jurisdiction have been basically cleared, they are all grateful to the Xingtian Army, and they have stayed on their own land and worked hard.

Therefore, when Xiao Tianjian re-entered Yuanqu County this time, the scene he saw along the way had undergone major changes compared to when he led his troops to attack Yuanqu County last year.

Along the banks of the Yun River, last year was still a barren place, after only more than two months, it was basically reclaimed by the local people, planted crops, it can be seen that as long as the people are given some conditions, the people can burst out of the productivity of the great thing, and there are many vertical and horizontal ditches in the fields, along the banks of the Yun River, there are several large water wheels from time to time, constantly with the flow of the river, slowly rotating, Although the drought situation in other parts of Shanxi is very serious, within the jurisdiction of the Xingtian Army, there is basically no situation where the crops and seedlings are dried up in the compacted land, but people can feel a thriving scene.

Although he is still facing many difficulties at present, as long as he can successfully persevere this year and collect the grain, then he can basically solve the problem of feeding many ordinary people in his jurisdiction, and at the same time, he will basically solve the problem of his soldiers' rations.