Xuanfu Town, after the first war, withered and dilapidated, Li Fengxiang, who was in charge of Xuanda military affairs, had already arrived, and only waited for the Three Guards Army to rest in Changping, Li Xin led his division to set off and could not return. On this day, Li Xin took Lu Jiu and rode out of Xuanfu Town and went straight to the border wall of the north land.

But halfway through, Li Xin suddenly changed his mind and quietly returned to Xuanfu Town with people. Lu Jiu has been following Li Xin for a long time, and he has long guessed the purpose of his trip, but he has always been silent and has never spoken. And this time, when he saw the thirteenth brother repeating left and right, he couldn't help but ask: "The thirteenth brother went and returned, but he wanted to see that ......."

Speaking of this, the two tacitly agreed, and Li Xin nodded.

"I'm going to meet this person! It's better to not make up your mind for a while, so it's better not to see you first! ”

"Brother Thirteen has never been so indecisive, he will see it when he sees it, so what's so difficult?"

In Lu Jiu's opinion, a very simple matter was artificially complicated by his own thirteen brothers, and he didn't think so. The sound of horses' hooves was fast, and more than a dozen horses raised the loess in the south of the official road, Li Xin suddenly stopped, "I suspect that he has rebelled!" ”

"Mutiny?"

He was as calm as Lu Jiudubu, and his face was full of disbelief.

"How is that possible? The mage and you and my brother have known each other since they were in Gaoyang, and they are willing to go deep into the tiger's den at risk, so there is no reason to ......."

Lu Jiu's analysis is not unreasonable, but this time the Mongols entered the army, as a pivotal figure in the Tatar army, there were many cover-ups and inaccuracies in the feedback of intelligence, such as the section on Wu Sangui, which was covered up a lot.

Li Xin said his worries, but Lu Jiu was relieved: "The thirteenth brother is getting bigger and bigger, but his courage is getting smaller and smaller, and on the battlefield, there will inevitably be inaccuracies in the information." Take 10,000 steps back, even if he has bad intentions, how can our brothers be easy to match? ”

On the way back to Xuanfu Town, an idea also took shape in Li Xin's mind, it was time for the Three Guards Army to form an intelligence force, and he wanted to hand over the person in charge of intelligence to Lu Jiu. Now, he is in charge of the military affairs of a province, and Lu Jiu is the only old brother who has been following him since the era of horse thieves, so he doesn't want him to continue to fight in the battle array, swords and guns have no eyes, and those who are as brave as Cao Wenzhao also died in the thieves and chaos!

Compared to the battlefield, intelligence is something that people of the time are relatively neglected. On the contrary, the merchants were more concerned about the collection of information, and often gained or lost a lot of money as a result of the news of the first order. In the same way, isn't it the same with the battle array?

On April 24, the army returned to Shanxi from the south of Xuanfu, and on this day passed the Pingxing Pass, on the way from Fanzhi to Daizhou, but saw that the farmland was abandoned, and the villages that could be seen every ten miles were already depopulated. The thieves invaded the territory, and Daizhou was the hardest hit on the front line of Fanzhi, almost scraping the ground, robbing the population and everything that could be snatched.

"Zeguo Jiangshan entered the war map, what is the plan of the people, Leqiao Su...... Under the nest, the people will have a comfortable nest, which is also a luxury. ”

Tian Fuzhen couldn't help but sigh when he saw the tragic scene, Li Xin's language and literature were not good, but he could also guess that he was lamenting the people's lack of life. After Tian Fuzhen was captured and rescued, he felt that he no longer had a face to live, and wanted to commit suicide and martyrdom several times, but was stopped by Li Xinji.

Li Xin's hard persuasion was ineffective, until recently, he suddenly had the intention of opening up, seemed to have figured out the middle joint, and began to actively participate in the handling of military affairs. This made Li Xin feel very gratified, there are too few talents in his entrainment, this Tian Fuzhen is definitely one of them, this person is a Jinshi who was born on the right path of the imperial examination, and has a very pragmatic character, although he was convicted of the powerful in the court, but it is also based on this that he has an encounter with the Three Guards and his Li Xin. Otherwise, at this moment, I am afraid that I am still struggling in the six departments of Nanjing.

"After the thieves invaded the border, a large number of people were displaced, seeing that the spring ploughing has passed, but the fields are still abandoned, I am afraid that Shanxi will have a grain shortage this year!"

Speaking of food, this is probably the most urgent problem that Shanxi will face next. How do you know that Tian Fuzhen shook his head and seemed to glance at Li Xin in surprise.

"Not really, most of the fields in Shanxi are wheat and millet in two seasons, and wheat has been cultivated in the fields as early as the autumn of last year. It's a pity that the wheat yield is low, the yield per mu is only 100 catties, and the white flour is only enough to eat for two months after the wheat harvest. ”

When Li Xin heard that most of the wheat had been planted in the field, he couldn't help but be overjoyed, not to mention how long he could eat, as long as he could relieve his urgent needs, it would always be good.

"If you grow wheat and the yield is low, why not grow rice?"

The yield of rice is higher than that of wheat, which Li Xin has known for a long time, but as soon as the words came out, he seemed to feel Tian Fuzhen's deep contempt again.

I only heard Tian Fuzhen smile again: "The general is an expert in warfare, but he is an outsider in farming." Shanxi is located in the north, and many mountainous areas, difficult to irrigate, although the imperial court vigorously supports, but only in Zhili, Henan, Shandong provinces have been effective, but the irrigation canal, the investment is too large, in the year income is not much help! ”

After speaking layman's words a few times, Li Xin couldn't help but feel embarrassed. It seems that the Ming Dynasty paid for the imperial court to vigorously build the irrigation system in the north, but in the past few years, the thieves have been rampant, and I am afraid that they will be abandoned.

However, he seemed to be able to sense from Tian Fuzhen's words that this person did not approve of the initiative promoted by the imperial court to carry out irrigation and plant rice in the north.

Tian Fuzhen found that this general of Zhengxi should not know anything about farming, which was a rare thing in the Ming Dynasty, which was based on agriculture, so he said a few more words on agricultural affairs in Shanxi.

"In this part of Shanxi, although we can't grow rice, but the yield per mu of summer wheat and autumn millet is as much as 300 catties of grain harvested, which is more than 100 catties less than the two seasons of rice and wheat in the south of the Yangtze River, and it is not a problem to be able to deal with several disaster years in a good way."

Li Xin is silent, Tian Fuzhen has been known as a craftsman since he worked with him, but it is the first time that he has expressed his opinion on agricultural affairs.

"Please tell me more!"

Who expected Tian Fuzhen to wave his hand and smiled: "If you are not in your position, you will not seek politics, and it will be in vain!" ”

Li Xin was stunned, indeed, this is the case, with the authority of his Shanxi Town General Army, it is impossible to supervise civil affairs in Shanxi, let alone the pacification of the Shaanxi Metropolitan Division. But he still wanted to hear Tian Fuzhen's method.

"Lord Rutian is the political envoy of Shanxi, how to deal with the approaching food shortage?"

Tian Fuzhen stretched out four fingers as if he had already made a bamboo in his chest.

"Without it, only four words, unified collection, unified distribution!"

Li Xin gasped, he really wanted to re-evaluate this product, if he didn't know his details, he would have thought that this person had also crossed over.

Tian Fuzhen concisely explained that the so-called unified collection, the wild card and Li Xin's understanding is roughly the same, the grain is collected by the official bureau, and then distributed by the official bureau, so that the uneven distribution of grain due to land ownership can be eliminated to the greatest extent, and the population who starve to death due to lack of food can also be reduced to the greatest extent.

The pros and cons of this method are self-evident in Li's confidence, and it is true that difficult times can solve big problems, but it is by no means a long-term solution. Tian Fuzhen also seemed to notice Li Xin's disapproving expression, and laughed at himself: "The words of a family can't be counted!" ”

The army marched slowly all the way, only after passing Xinzhou, Li Xin wrote a crooked secret letter in his own handwriting, the whole text was written in the vernacular, there was no beauty at all, but there were a lot of verbose words, but there was only one theme.

Taiyuan needs a prefect, and hopes that the emperor will consider Tian Fuzhen, and attach a resume of Tian Fuzhen.

If the content of this secret letter is seen by Tian Fuzhen, he will definitely try his best to stop it, because this is a military minister interfering in politics, which is really an arrogance, and it is a big taboo for the imperial court.

However, after this secret letter was placed on the imperial case of Zhu Youzhen, the son of the Great Tomorrow, Zhu Youzhen not only did not get angry, but immediately ordered the cabinet, Tian Fuzhen made several meritorious contributions, and promoted him to the prefect of Taiyuan for a term of one year.

This holy decree made the ministers unable to guess the emperor's thoughts, the Taiyuan prefect is fat, since he was promoted to Tian Fuzhen to make up for this vacancy, it is a deliberate promotion, but why is the term of office limited to one year?

In the end, it was the opinion of Zhang Sizhi, the secretary of the Cabinet University Clerk's Department, that everyone agreed, and it was summed up in eight words, "You can't use it, you have to use it." ”

Everyone seemed to understand, that is to say, the emperor actually didn't want this person to make up for the lack of the Taiyuan prefect, but he needed him to sit in this position, so he thought of such a way to get the best of both worlds, so that you can sit in this position to do things, but there is a limited time, such as a shackle around the neck, and this appointment can naturally be canceled according to the decree after a year.

For a while, everyone thought that they had figured out the emperor's thoughts, and this was the first time that the old guys in the cabinet did not interfere with the appointment of local magistrates in Li Xin's place because of Li Xin. Even if this Tian Fuzhen is biased towards Li Xin, what if you don't have to get out of the way a year later?

Moreover, in order to please Zhang Sizhi and emphasize the duration of this term, the officials of the Ministry of Officials deliberately sent the holy decree to Taiyuan together with the official document. At the same time, an exception was made to allow Tian Fuzhen to take up his post on the spot after receiving the official documents and holy decrees.

In fact, this is also an ambush for them to fight on their own initiative, once the rules of the official are not in harmony with the system, even if he wants to rely on it in the future, these omissions and flaws in the procedures will be revealed, and it may be a fatal blow.

The Three Guards finally triumphed and arrived in Taiyuan, where the local gentry held a grand welcoming ceremony, while Zhu Huiyu, the princess of Xinle, took an inconspicuous sedan chair and quietly entered Taiyuan City and returned to Taiyuan Fuzhong.

At this time, the messenger who came all the way from the Jingshi also arrived.