Zu Ti was about to tell Jin Ziyan what to do, when a sergeant came in and said, "General, there are many people outside who ask to see you. ”

"The people? What do they see me doing? ”

"General, they're here to work for the army."

"Lao Jun? Get out there and have a look. Zu Ti said to Jin Ziyan again: "Let's talk about our affairs in the evening, let's go out to see the villagers first." ”

After Zu Ti and Jin Ziyan came out of the tent, the people had already gathered around, they helped the old and the young, holding grain bags, dry food, eggs, vegetables, and some people holding chickens, Zu Ti said: "Folks, I am Zu Ti, what are you ......?" ”

An old man with a silver beard stepped forward and said: "It turns out that you are General Zu, it is like this, we are the people nearby, since Shile invaded the south, we have been repeatedly looted, the Zhao army is brutal and impermanent, killing our people, robbing our property and food, our residents here are more than ten and a half, after Shile killed and robbed, the landlord here built a dock fort, I thought it could protect our people, but who would have thought that in order not to be destroyed by Shile, they secretly colluded with Zhao Jun, and usually made a fortune to the people, collected our taxes, and robbed our grain, Then pay tribute to Shi Le, Shi Le colluded with their dock master to seal the official, Zhang Ping Fan Ya is two of them, and one is Chen Liutai guard Chen Chuan, just bitter our people, Zhao people ravaged us, and we have to be subjected to the exploitation of the dock lord again, we have long been unable to live, we look forward to the court every day to send troops to recover Yuzhou, and then the Northern Expedition, drive the Zhao people away, so that the people in the north live a stable life, we look forward to it day and night, night and night, and finally you are looking forward to it, today you defeated Zhang Ping in this battle, and made a good start to the Northern Expedition, the people also saw hope, so we spontaneously sent some food to the army, and asked General Zu to accept it. ”

Zu Ti looked at the people dressed in tatters, as well as the hungry children with yellow faces, Zu Ti couldn't help but feel sad for a while, and ordered someone to take two steamed buns and give them to the child, and then he said emotionally: "Thank you for the kindness of the villagers!" Thank you for supporting the Northern Expedition! Please rest assured, my ancestor was ordered to go on the Northern Expedition, which is to defeat these heroes, drive away Shile, and return Yuzhou to tranquility and tranquility to the north! However, we must not accept everyone's things, think about your situation, the family may not have enough to eat, and you have to come to the labor army, how can my ancestor accept it, if you really want to work the army, when my ancestor succeeds in the Northern Expedition, when he triumphs, he will pass by you Luzhou, and we will accept it when you come to the labor army again!. ”

The people shouted: "General Zu, you must accept it, this is a little bit of our heart......"

"I must take it."

Seeing that he couldn't refuse, Zu Ti had to order the soldiers to accept it, and then ordered them to compensate according to the price, but the people did not accept the money, so the soldiers had to force it and argue for a while before they left.

Zu Ti stopped the old man who had just spoken and asked, "Old man, have all the dock masters in Yuzhou returned to Shile?" ”

"There are only four dock masters in the entire Yuzhou who are not controlled by Shi Le, they are Zhao Gu, Shangguan Si, Li Ju and Guo Mo, they don't know Shi Le, and they protect the people of the Great Jin Dynasty, so they will naturally be attacked by Shi Le."

"Then are they willing to submit to the Great Jin?"

"It should be willing, they proclaimed themselves generals and regarded themselves as the Jin army, but it is a pity that although they are all strong in martial arts, they have never been united, because none of them are subordinate to the other, and they fight each other for territory so much that they sometimes kill each other."

After hearing this, Zu Ti knew in his heart that he wanted to defeat Zhang Ping, occupy Qiaocheng, and then accept the four dock masters for his own use, and continue the Northern Expedition.

Zu Ti sent the old man away, and returned to the tent with Jin Ziyan to explain to him the actions of the night.

"Big brother, what do you want to do?"

"Ziyan, I want you to go to the dock fort at night and show up in Fan Ya's room, so that everyone else knows that someone has come."

"So what?"

"I want you to go three nights in a row, and then on the fourth night, I'm going to be fooled by Zhang Ping."

"I know that big brother must have a reason to do this, okay, I'll go at night."

"By the way, there is another trivial matter, you have to steal Fan Ya's writing back."

"Are you useful?"

"Of course it works, you just do it, four days later, I will want Fan Ya to flee back to Qiaocheng, Zhang Ping's independence is difficult to support, it will be broken by us, and then we and his people will take Qiaocheng, and the situation in the Northern Expedition will improve!"

"Okay, I'll listen to my eldest brother."

At night, Jin Ziyan wore a black dress, masked, and sneaked into the dock fort, she didn't know Fan Ya's room, so she had to look around, she saw a room door open, Fan Ya walked out, and said to Ping backwards: "No need to send it, just these two steps." ”

"Okay, that's it, let's get through this difficult time together, and when the ancestors return to Jiangdong, the whole Yuzhou will be our world."

"Of course, okay, I'm leaving." ，

Jin Ziyan followed Fan Ya behind, saw him enter a room, knew that it was his room, and thought, I will steal his words first, so he used a stone directly from the window lattice into the room, sure enough, Fan Ya ran out of the door, Jin Ziyan flashed inside, saw that there were more than a dozen pages on the case, which were full of words, so he put it in his arms, and came to the door, at this time two people came, they saw a man in black, they shouted, Jin Ziyan ignored them and sneaked out of the dock fort.

Fan Ya went out to check the situation just now, and when she came back, she heard that someone had come to his room, so she immediately ran into the room, and saw that the words just written on the case were missing, and it turned out that he was making accounts and wanted to hand them over to Zhang Ping.

The next day, Zhang Ping came to ask him for accounts, Fan Ya said that he was stolen last night, and he couldn't remember some of the accounts, Zhang Ping immediately said unhappily: "Fan Taishou, I was short of money, so I said to me directly, why beat around the bush, without accounts, I don't know what you did?" ”

"You doubt me?"

"Fan Ya, I know, you want to share a little more money, but now Yuzhou has been scraped by us, and there is not much left after the taxes we collected are handed over to Shile, you handle a lot of silver taels, you should know, why bother!"

"Lord Thorn Shi, I'm ...... There is no ......"

"Okay, if you don't have an account, you have to do it, and as for the number, you can write it casually!"

"Your Excellency."

"Don't call me Lord Shi, to be honest, we are not dignified court officials, just the official positions assigned to us by Shi Le, in the future, the Great Jin Dynasty will recover Yuzhou, we are bandits, we are grasshoppers on a rope, you can do it yourself!"

Zhang Ping brushed his sleeves away, and Fan Ya complained bitterly.

For three days in a row, Jin Ziyan would stay in front of Fan Ya's room for a while every night, and when people saw it, they left quickly.

On the evening of the fourth day, Jin Ziyan came to Fan Ya's door again, and this time someone came, but this time it was Zhang Ping who came in person, and he saw Jin Ziyan, Jin Ziyan deliberately shouted inside under the window: "General Fan, don't lose the good time!" Shape up or ship out! After speaking, he left in a hurry, Zhang Ping ordered someone to chase after him, Jin Ziyan deliberately slowed down, so that the pursuers watched him enter the Jin army camp.

Zhang Ping came to the door and was about to open the door, when he suddenly saw a letter on the ground, which read, "Zu Yuzhou personally opened"!