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In the busy work of Xiao Tianjian and his subordinates, more than a month has passed in a blink of an eye, and in this more than a month, the spring ploughing work in the area controlled by the Xingtian Army has also come to an end. This is an extremely rare thing in troubled times. （）

As long as the Xingtian Army lasts until the summer harvest, it will begin to harvest, instead of constantly filling in food to feed these ordinary people, and the burden will be completely reduced.

In the past month or so, several sentinels of the Xingtian Army have taken turns to attack, and they have continuously penetrated into several surrounding prefectures and counties to carry out grain gathering activities, and have snatched back a considerable amount of grain and various materials, so that the food problem on the side of the Xingtian Army has basically been solved, at least there is no problem with the current grain storage to support the summer harvest.

It is precisely because the Xingtian Army has so continuously grabbed grain from outside, transported it back to the Lotus Village, and lost the grain to the people below through work-for-relief, that it is rare for the local people not to starve to death in large numbers during the spring famine season, let alone go out to flee the famine.

However, the problem that followed was that due to the continuous expansion of the scale of their out-of-town grain collection operations, it caused great panic among the landlords and old fortunes in many surrounding states and counties, because around them, Zhuangzi was constantly broken by several poles of unknown origin, and the number of landlords and old fortunes who died in the hands of these thieves also rose sharply, and the situation was obviously much more serious than a few months ago.

The local government also continued to receive news from the locality, coupled with the continuous complaints of the victims, and the matter was still noticed by the government.

In addition to the state capitals strengthening their garrisons, they also organized village warriors in various localities to unite to resist the attacks of the rogues, which caused some difficulties for the Xingtian army's operation to go out to collect food.

The wealthy people in various places were afraid that they would become the next target of attack, so they did not hesitate to take out money, armed their own Zhuang Ding Xiangyong, and repaired the Zhuang wall fort to strengthen their own protection.

Although with the combat effectiveness of the Xingtian Army, encountering the same Xiangyong team as them, they could easily take them down, but it was also easy to expose their whereabouts, so that the government gradually focused its attention on the Xingtian Army in the Yangcheng area.

On this day, when Xiao Tianjian was watching the drills of Li Xuanzhu's sentry generals in the school field, he ran into a soldier from the gate of the village and handed Xiao Tianjian a letter.

After Xiao Tianjian asked the letter clearly, he opened the envelope, took out the letter paper and looked at it, so his brows immediately furrowed.

It turned out that this letter was sent by Fan Xi to Lotus Village, and Fan Xi informed Xiao Tianjian in the letter that because they had frequently gone out to fetch food recently, it had attracted the attention of the surrounding officials, and according to the description of their bitter master, it had been determined that these road poles in their places had been plagued in recent months, and a large part of the reason was the Xingtian Army.

After Shanxi Governor Wu Fu learned about it, he had clearly asked Zezhou to pay attention to this matter, and Zezhou Governor was also under pressure and had to agree to organize soldiers and horses to enter Yangcheng to deal with the Xingtian Army, and asked Xiao Tianjian to be careful, during this time, it was inconvenient for the Fan family to trade with the Xingtian Army, so please forgive Xiao Tianjian.

Xiao Tianjian immediately became nervous when he took the letter, and immediately sent someone to Yangcheng County to find Feng Xi, who stayed in Yangcheng County to act as a detailer, to verify the matter.

As a result, the people sent out hadn't left yet, Feng Xi ran back first, and hurriedly entered the village to find Xiao Tianjian, and said to Xiao Tianjian: "General, something is wrong!" Zezhou is going to send troops to deal with us! Prepare quickly! If it really doesn't work, let's just go into the mountains to avoid the limelight! ”

Xiao Tianjian immediately believed Fan Xi's news, and even Feng Xi said so, it seems that this matter should not be fake, so he sighed, his heart should come and come, since he came, then he had to deal with it immediately! He immediately sent someone Pegasus to recall several important generals who were working outside to Lotus Village to discuss the matter.

The generals who got the news did not dare to slack off, and they all quickly returned to the Lotus General Village, gathered in the Juyi Hall, and listened to Xiao Tianjian's orders.

Xiao Tianjian briefly asked Feng Xi to talk about this incident and the reaction of the government, and then asked Feng Gouzi: "Feng Gouzi, during this time, you have been responsible for sending people to keep an eye on the situation of the government in Zezhou, is there any movement over there?" ”

After Xiao Tianjian's adjustment of personnel after the year, Feng Gouzi no longer commanded his sentry team after the year, but turned to take charge of intelligence matters, Li Lingfeng was responsible for this matter in the early stage, and Feng Gouzi gradually took over these things from Li Lingfeng after the year.

At the beginning, Feng Gouzi was still a little reluctant, thinking that it was more enjoyable to lead the troops, and he was reluctant to leave the sentry he brought out to take over this kind of thing, and later it was Xiao Tianjian who privately asked Feng Gouzi to do some ideological work, and Feng Gouzi agreed.

Feng Gouzi actually knows his own temper, his own martial arts are not good, and with a hint of ruffianism, the army fights among several sentinels, counting him is the weakest, this year, he has made the least meritorious contributions to this sentry, and his combat effectiveness is relatively weak, and he himself is not very suitable for leading soldiers, the reason why he can be in the position of sentry commander for a long time is because he is the first to follow Xiao Tianjian's subordinates, and he was also the first to be promoted by Xiao Tianjian. The second is that he has been loyal to Xiao Tianjian for more than a year and has won Xiao Tianjian's trust, and the third is that he is more cautious, not afraid of war, and never makes any big mistakes, so he is firmly in the position of sentry general, but in the future, their team is getting bigger and bigger, and he is obviously a little inappropriate to be a sentry general in the war corps, but his character is more suitable for this kind of intelligence gathering, Xiao Tianjian asked him to step down to do this is also a wise move.

Now that Xiao Tianjian has seen through him, it is no good for him to continue to rely on the position of the sentry general of the combat team, and it is not bad to think about it carefully, it is relatively freer, and it seems to be more exciting, and it also shows Xiao Tianjian's trust in him.

Think about it, if he is not worthy of Xiao Tianjian's trust, Xiao Tianjian will not hand over such an important matter to him to be responsible, because he is not stupid, he knows that collecting intelligence is more important for the Xingtian Army than taking the troops out to get food or going into battle to fight, which actually shows that his position in Xiao Tianjian's mind is still very important, and his status in the Xingtian Army will not drop by half a point because he resigns from the war team.

After figuring out this matter, Feng Gouzi resigned from his post as a sentry general and officially took office, replacing Li Lingfeng to take over the matter of collecting intelligence.

Xiao Tianjian really didn't see the wrong person, Feng Gouzi was born in the market, and he did know how to collect intelligence better than Li Lingfeng, after he took over, Feng Xi was also included in his subordinates and assigned to him, and Feng Xi didn't look at it as a guy who saw the wind and steered the rudder, but was so controlled by Feng Gouzi that he became a monkey in the hands of the Buddha, and he couldn't jump up.

After Feng Gouzi took over this matter, he readjusted the scope of work of his subordinates, once again collected and recruited dozens of fine works, and sent them to various surrounding places, so that they could wander among the markets to collect all kinds of information for him.

And he did not live up to Xiao Tianjian's trust in him, and he quickly made a great contribution at the beginning of his tenure, when he just took over the matter of collecting intelligence from Li Lingfeng, it was also because of Luo Li's matter, just after the Battle of Jiangxian County, he and his subordinates focused most of their energy on paying attention to the reactions of the surrounding governments, and dozens of fine works he sent immediately rushed to Jiangxian, Wenxi, Jiezhou, Pingyang Mansion and other places, and were ordered by Feng Gouzi to spread a lot of rumors in the market. said who did the incident in Jiangxian County, and released a lot of smoke screens, which made it easy to find out about the head of Xingtianjun, and it became confusing in the eyes of the government, and the result was originally a basin of clear water, which was confused by him and his subordinates, and also made that after that incident, Shanxi did not quickly find the head of Xingtianjun to retaliate against Xingtianjun, and later because of the Fengyang incident, the disaster that Xingtianjun broke into in Jiangxian County was gone.

Feng Gouzi then began to shift the focus of his work, first, to collect the information of the rich landlords' families in various places for the grain team in the surrounding areas, select some of them who are fatter and have the worst reputation and lack of morality, explore the terrain route in advance, for the grain team to choose, and at the same time provide support for the grain team when the grain team attacks these big Zhuangzi. The second is that they are lurking in the local area, and they also inquire about some information about the local government, monitor the situation of the surrounding state and county governments, as well as the officials and soldiers, and report to Feng Gouzi as soon as there is anything wrong.