County office.

Ding Zhenyuan stood in front of a picture of the splendid rivers and mountains, standing with his hands in his hands.

After a while, he asked without looking back:

"How's it going?"

An old man in Tsing Yi was already standing at the door at some point, bending down and saluting, and said:

"Back to the Lord, Xue Zhili swept through the three counties and is coming to Beichen County. Our human scouts heard that there were 800 bandits, more than 2,000 displaced people, and 20,000 after the three counties were broken. ”

"Xue Zhili is from General Feng Ping, and he wants to unify Wenchang Mansion, and the next stop is ours."

The three armies did not move, and the spy went first.

In half a year, Ding Zhenyuan initially built an intelligence network across neighboring provinces.

At present, the main focus is on the surrounding areas of Beichen County, monitoring inside and outside, and collecting intelligence.

With the carriage and horse dealers and merchants as the main cover, it was slowly laid.

At present, it is still relatively fragile, except for Beichen County, which can only inquire about some public news and rumors.

The advantage is that the message is delivered quickly and comprehensively, and you can roughly understand the overall situation, so as not to be a blind or deaf person with lagging messages.

In order for this spy organization to take shape quickly, fifty or sixty thousand taels have been smashed in front and back, and only then can it be set up, and it is still far from really playing a role.

"Xue Zhili, have you found out the details of this person?"

"The Lord, along with Xue Zhili's subordinates, as well as their background experiences, have all been compiled into a book."

"Well, you should step back first."

The old man in Tsing Yi bowed and retreated.

Ding Zhenyuan held a thin booklet and flipped through it page by page.

Xue Zhili, born in a maritime merchant family, was rampant in the countryside when he was a teenager, often befriended heroes, and was with Ren Xia.

Later, after killing someone, he fled overseas by boat, and secretly returned a few years ago, hearing that he and his cronies had joined a group called Nestorianism.

Nestorianism is based on the dualism of light and darkness, believing in the god of the two serpents of creation, and believes that the world was born in the struggle between the two serpents of creation.

It is a sect of mysterious origin, which is said to have originated outside the territory and is an outright cult.

"Xue Zhili used the Jingjiao doctrine to fool the people, organized and trained 800 elite soldiers, and broke the land of the three counties, and the power is not small!"

These are no ordinary rioters and bandits.

There are arsenals and granaries in the county, which are carefully sealed in wartime for emergencies.

Now that the city is broken, it is naturally all owned by Xue Zhili.

If you get the granary, you can recruit troops and buy horses, and if you have food in hand these years, you can easily pull up a team, after all, there are too many people who can't eat.

With the armor and equipment in the arsenal, the land of the three counties can be armed with two or three thousand people, to say the least.

"When attacking Changchun County, Xue Zhili used fraud to attack him unprepared, and then he entered the city, at this time it was only three or four hundred rabble, but he was just chopping wood as soldiers."

"After conquering this county, in just ten days, there were 3,000 people, all of whom had weapons."

"After the fire and the bandits in Nanyang County, slaughtered the big households in the county, it has become the climate at this time, and it is invited to buy people's hearts with the name of free grain in Juntian, and the reputation spreads out, and it has become the climate."

"After that, it swept through the three counties, selected the brave fighters, and made up eight hundred elites, all with armor, everyone moved forward, and the momentum was almost unstoppable."

"So far, with this little strength in the city, he is no match for him at all."

Ding Zhenyuan's face was as calm as water, and he just calmly judged the situation between himself and the enemy.

"Xue Zhili has the support of the Jingjiao Sect, and he is good at demagoguery, and there is no shortage of people who are not afraid of death when fighting, and his morale is strong."

"Right now, when he has broken through the three counties, it is the time when the momentum is like a rainbow, and the strength of the army is several times that of mine, and the field battle out of the city will definitely be defeated."

"I can only defend the city and not get out of ·········"

"Alas·········"

Sighing faintly, he paced through the hall, thinking slowly.

Xue Zhili is not easy to deal with, just from the past deeds, it can be seen that this person is difficult.

If it weren't for this, the previous three counties would not have fallen easily.

"The storm is coming·········

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On the eaves, black tiles, and the dripping rainwater merged into a stream, flowing down the tiles.

"The storm has come to ···········"

Ruochen was in the inn, watching the rain in the courtyard.

The large inns in the city often have a series of small courtyards behind them, which provide accommodation for guests.

This is one of the small courtyards, and the monthly rent is full of two taels.

He obeyed the order of his master and came here, and it has been ten days.

Suddenly, there was a slight heat in his arms.

He hurried back to his inner room and took out a small silver mirror.

With a wipe of his hand, the mirror showed the scene of Mr. Mingdao's big sleeves facing the wind, and from the background, it was roughly on a mountainside.

Wisps of clouds and mist filled the mountain road, setting off Mr. Mingdao's more and more dust.

It's a pity that as soon as he opened his mouth, he broke the atmosphere.

"Good apprentice, have you seen the Lord and sent a gift?"

Ruochen replied respectfully:

"I haven't seen that Ding Xianzun yet."

"In the past ten days, I have traveled around the streets and alleys, teahouses, theaters, casinos, and green buildings, and I learned that this Ding County official has a very good reputation and is known as the blue sky among the people."

The figure in the mirror shone slightly.

"It is not surprising that those who can achieve great things have their own merits."

"It's just a habitual invitation to buy people's hearts."

"It's just a habitual power trick, and I haven't seen the way of the king."

Between the words, there is a sense of disdain.

"If you blindly indulge in power and don't control the chaos road, you are the master of mediocrity, not the master of the Ming."

"Mixed with hundreds of schools, supplemented by kings, movement and yin and yang, there are hills and valleys in the chest, this kind of people, even if they do not have the destiny of heaven and earth, just by relying on the hope of the people, they can also achieve things, and they can also turn into dragons, and the true master is also."

"Ruochen, you remember, for the life of a teacher, the last thing you believe in is fate and art!"

"What destiny, what leyline, what feng shui, all are false, all fake, the pursuit of these is like fishing for the moon in the water, but it is just a fantasy."

"I Qionghua's legacy, I don't believe in the mandate of heaven, I don't believe in luck, I only practice the four characters of people's determination to win the sky, and take this as the foundation of my life··········· You, remember! ”

In the eyes of outsiders, Ming Dao, who is proficient in feng shui and fortune telling, actually said such a thing, which is unbelievable.

"Remember!"

Ruochen wrote down the words "man will win the day", although he may not really understand it at this time.

"Well, Chen'er, you go on, what's the situation now?"

"Yes!"

"Recently, there has been a bandit in this area, known as General Jianping, who has swept through the three counties and is coming this way."

"The apprentice contacted a few big families who had a relationship with incense, and learned that this person was fine-grained, and he was suspected of being involved in foreign ways."

"Outside? But Nestorianism? ”

The man in the mirror was silent.

Ruochen just waited.