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The situation in northern Xinjiang is complicated.

Before Xiao Yan came, there were no civil servants in any city in the northern border, including Anbei City, and the highest officials were the garrisons of each city.

He is in charge of both military and political affairs.

When busy, he fights wars; when free, he deals with trivial matters in the city.

Originally, the garrisons of each city were appointed by the imperial court, and they would return to Beijing to report on their work every three years and rotate every five years.

After Xiao Yan took control of the Northern Army, the people sent by the court either failed to adapt to the climate or died in battle. Especially after the court completely ignored the Northern Frontier, it never sent anyone again.

Today, the garrisons of each city are the best of the Northern Army, who have fought with real swords and guns on the battlefield.

They are also Xiao Yan’s confidants.

They all thought that they had strict military discipline and that the soldiers under their command were united, but what did Feiyu say?

"Seven people in the army?" Xiao Yan frowned.

Hearing this, the others looked at each other in confusion.

The garrison commander of Dingbei City was always impatient. He immediately threw down the exquisite teacup in his hand and stood up.

"Feiyu boy, you caught six of what?"

If they are all caught, then they must not be good things.

Feiyu glanced at his master, and seeing that he didn't stop him, he told him their plan from early this morning:

"A few days ago, the Hu garrison sent a message saying that some Hu people had bypassed the snowy plains and were suspected of entering Anbei City. We searched for a long time before we finally captured a group of them."

"After interrogation, we learned that the enemy had bypassed the snowfields with far more people than just these few. They learned in advance that new grain had arrived in the northern border, and sent several people to infiltrate Anbei City, intending to destroy the new grain and continue to starve the northern army..."

Feiyu did not say that the other party’s second plan was to steal food.

As expected, the Dingbei City garrison commander started cursing: "Damn it! These bearded men are fucking worthless!"

The other few with bad tempers couldn't help themselves.

"Which city is this bastard from? Tell me your name, and I'll skin him alive!"

"I'll break his bones and feed him to the dogs! Son of a bitch!"

Feiyu quickly stood aside holding his sword to avoid being sprayed by the saliva of several people.

Xiao Yan raised his eyelids and gave him a cold look. Fei Yu then smiled awkwardly and said:

"Everyone, I haven't finished yet..."

The few people who had already activated the berserk mode instantly fell silent and looked at Feiyu in unison:

Then you keep talking!

Fei Yu: "...Ahem, a city-wide search will inevitably affect the people, so the master thought of releasing the new grain during New Year's Eve to see if those rats in the dark will jump out."

"As expected, those rats couldn't hold back. Three of them were attending the dinner tonight. They were about to run away with the potatoes before it was over, but they were caught by our people."

"A few others waited until the banquet was over, then took the potatoes out and had servants deliver them somewhere. They were also caught by our people."

"As for those in the army..." Feiyu paused here.

"There was only one person who came to the mansion tonight. The rest were those who hid the new grain in the army tonight. After interrogation, those who wanted to take it back to their families were released. The remaining six..."

The remaining six are a foregone conclusion.

"Two from Hubei City, one from Luobei City, two from Dingbei City, and one from Xiabei City."

Of the twelve cities, spies were found in four.

These are the four cities that were cursed the most harshly just now.

Under Zhou Lingling's expectant gaze, the redness on the faces of the four tall and strong men instantly disappeared and turned bluish-white.

Real face-changing?

I saw four people walking over with their heads down, and then knelt down with a "bang".

"General! Your subordinates...please punish us!"

"General, you punish us!"

"Punish us!"

So Zhou Lingling understood that the defenders of the cities that had just been named were the ones who cursed the most.

The military advisor, Mr. Zhuang and others remained silent.

This strategy was proposed by the military advisor, and they were also aware of it.

Although this move cannot completely remove the nails buried in the northern border, it also has a miraculous effect.

New grain is extremely attractive to all parties.

But no one expected that the first to be hit would be the most important cities in the northern border.

Xiao Yan didn't say anything, his eyes fell on the empty teacup.

The room was filled with silence.

The atmosphere gradually became stagnant.

Zhou Lingling, who was just about to take out a handful of nuts from her small bag to refresh herself, didn't dare to take her hand out.

"pat"

A pine nut fell from the gap between the half-extruded thumb, making a slight sound.

The four people kneeling on the ground watched a round little pine nut roll in front of their knees and couldn't help staring at it.

Xiao Yan's gaze also moved.

He said, "Get up."

But the four of them buried their heads even lower.

"General..."

"Get up!" Xiao Yan spoke again, his voice still flat.

But the four people on the ground suddenly stood up straight.

Zhou Lingling's little hand trembled: "..." Another fat pine nut fell out.

Just now, that fat pine nut was crushed by a bearded man...

This is the snack her mother fried for her this afternoon. It is pure natural and pollution-free. One less will be one less!

She is heartbroken!

Zhou Lingling's gaze was still on Fat Songzi who had "died tragically" when Xiao Yan's voice rang out.

"Traitors will be publicly executed in three days."

"The four of you will each receive twenty military sticks. Execute in public."

"what?"

The four big men with beards covering half of their faces were all stunned, while the ones behind them with their hands in their pockets laughed out loud without any hesitation.

Several people blushed.

"General, are you going to carry out the execution in public? Otherwise, we'll get beaten now!"

"Yes, General, go now and give us fifty military sticks!"

"If it really doesn't work, one hundred will do..." As long as I don't get punished in public.

Zhou Lingling thought that these people probably didn’t know there was a term called social death.

That's the feeling.

But according to Xiao Yan, no matter how they bargained, they could only increase the twenty military sticks they were punished with in public to fifty military sticks.

……

Big Year.

The second snow that had been falling since New Year's Eve finally stopped.

The snow in the yard was already three feet thick. When Zhou Lingling stepped down, her knees were submerged.

Children who grew up in the south finally have the freedom to play in the snow.

Their whole family was in the northern border, and apart from the general's mansion, they had no other place to stay.

Chen didn't allow Zhou Lingling to sleep in, so these days she could only drag her second brother who was resting at home and her eldest brother who was concentrating on studying to make snowmen and have snowball fights.

Tang Hu is good at playing with mud and making snowmen.

In Zhou Lingling's small yard, there are snowmen of various sizes and shapes, half of which are made by his little hands.

Look, they are now building an ice fortress.

After finally building a square frame, Zhou Lingling was so tired that she sat down on the ground.

"Huzi, are your hands cold?"

Hu Zi held a snowball that was bigger than his head, wearing the wolfskin gloves given by Zhou Lingling, and shook his head with a smile.

"Miss, it's not cold at all. I'm sweating."

The Zhou family and Doctor Lao Bai and his apprentice made a wolfskin coat with the wolfskin they bought, and the rest were given to the Tang family.

Look, that old man was not afraid of the cold. On the first day of the New Year, he insisted on going to the snowfield to look for some medicine. He took his apprentice and the people given by Xiao Yan with him and ran away.

Zhou Lingling patted Hu Zi's little head and said, "You're not cold! Then let's continue and finish today!"

Hu Zi nodded vigorously.