After listening to Chen Shijie's words, Zhao Xing couldn't help but admire him.

Guiniang and he had no reputation and no status, they were just good friends; it was not his turn to take care of the public security of Nanyang County, and the duty of the Secretary of Agriculture was only to encourage and promote agriculture.

He could have left and been promoted back to the army to serve as his army sergeant.

But he was willing to take risks and play tricks to attract the Xuantian Sect to attack him.

Serving Guiniang and the people is a sign of friendship and responsibility, and killing thieves and enemies is a sign of courage and self-confidence!

Lao Chen is a real man!

After thinking about it, Zhao Xing knew what he should say. Lao Chen said so much to him, which was a sign of heart-to-heart communication.

"Actually, my coming this time is also due to the Xuantian Sect."

"Oh?" Chen Shijie raised his eyebrows, "You mean..."

"Yes, since I got the evil-preventing almanac, there have been three major disasters and several minor disasters, all during the joint search between the county and the East Lake Army after Xiaoshu." Zhao Xing said slowly.

"Then why didn't you tell me earlier?"

"The reason is the same as yours." Zhao Xing said, "I am just a small official. I have taken precautions by issuing Thousand Miles Pass tokens and evil calendars. How can I still send a small Juyuan third-level official?

Can a top-notch strong man protect me?"

The Almanac for Preventing Evils is not a panacea. It displays very little information. It can only tell you at what time and in which direction you may have problems when doing it. Note that it is possible, not certain.

Just like what ordinary people use, it is recommended to start business, build houses, and avoid logging, travel, and funerals today. What is the appropriate method and to what extent? What is the prohibited method, and who will be involved? There are too many possibilities.

"I won't report it. The reason is very simple."

"First, if I report it, it will be of no use. How should the higher-ups deploy it? It is impossible for me to spend a lot of time just because I am a small official."

"The second is that the higher-ups have taken it seriously and want to know more information, so they asked me to cooperate as bait. This is certainly beneficial to the government, but it is very dangerous for me."

Zhao Xing spoke very calmly and straightforwardly.

He is afraid of being sacrificed.

Who can guarantee that the people above are all good? I don’t mean that.

But what if someone is greedy for credit and advances rashly?

To take a step back, everyone has done nothing wrong in their respective positions, and they are all selfless and positive people.

Doing this is inherently dangerous.

Based on Zhao Xing's understanding of the Xuantian Sect, he felt that he should not say anything at that time to avoid getting into trouble. He just had to be more vigilant and avoid it.

The Xuantian Sect is not a small bandit or a bandit, it is an evil sect that has been passed down for thousands of years.

"Then why are you talking now?" Chen Shijie asked with interest, "Are you infected by my courage?"

"No." Zhao Xing said mercilessly, "After I opened the mountain, I gained so much. I got forty-two pieces of spiritual beauty by myself. If the Xuantian Sect is not blind, they will definitely move my arrest sequence forward."

Zhao Xing's reasons were the same as Chen Shijie's. He also guessed that his weight on the Xuantian Sect's list had become more important.

In addition, he also has family and friends whom he values, including Zhao Ruide, Zhao Zheng, and even Mrs. Cai, Ziyu Qiandong, and he does not want to be involved in them.

"Hitting them hard and destroying their dens in Gucheng is also the result I want." Zhao Xingdao, "The Xuantian Sect is powerful, but it is better for such a big fish to lurk than a small one."

Fish and shrimp are more difficult.”

"If you destroy a den, it will probably not reappear within ten to twenty years."

Chen Shijie nodded slightly: "You said you have little weight in the government. What would you do if you were me?"

Zhao Xing said slowly: "That depends on how much weight you have."

Chen Shijie thought for a while and said: "You consider me as a seventh-rank official. Since you even know Bixia Yuanjun's Shui Shu was originally on Zixiao Island, you should know the power of a seventh-rank official."

Zhao Xing pushed four, five, and six: "Don't think too highly of me. I just like to read miscellaneous books, old editions of county annals, county newspapers, and ancient ancestral rumors. These are not difficult to buy."

Chen Shijie said: "Just chat casually. Now we are chatting privately. There is no need to taboo anything. Only you and I know what is wrong or right."

Zhao Xing thought about it for a moment, then nodded and said: "Okay, if you insist on asking me to say it, I'll just chat for a while, but I want to see the latest Di newspaper first, as well as the general strength of each army and division in Nanyang County.

.In addition, as long as it is information related to the Xuantian Sect, let me see it."

"After reading this, let's have a sandbox exercise. Do you have a sandbox from Nanyang County here?"

Chen Shijie raised his eyebrows. He just wanted to have a casual chat, but he didn't expect Zhao Xing to actually come.

Seeing Zhao Xing's appearance, he also became interested: "Yes, yes, I am a soldier and a farmer, you come with me."

He led Zhao Xing through the school grounds and to the back hall.

Chen Shijie was indeed a murderer. He actually transformed the back hall into a small marching hall.

In the center is a diagrammatic sand table, which is a fourth-level treasure that can simulate many kinds of terrain and landforms and is scaled down.

Just place the map on the sandbox base and it will be restored.

There are even clouds floating on the sand table, and even the weather is recorded!

"Still a fourth-level high-grade one? Hmm? This map...is the six Pingman counties in the upper reaches of the Canglan River? No, where is the city of Xi'er County? Why is it such a scorched earth?!"

Chen Shijie said in surprise: "You have good eyesight, you can actually recognize it at a glance... Now I really believe that you have seen a lot of things."

"As for Xi'er County City, it has disappeared in my deduction, but of course it is still there in reality."

Chen Shijie waved his hand, and the scorched earth on the sand table immediately recovered.

"Can you use the sand table?"

"Not very good at it." Zhao Xing said against his will. He didn't dare to reveal too much. You read a lot and you know it's one thing, but it's too strange how Dumenqing, the most important weapon in the army, can be used.

"It's written in the military strategy, you can read it yourself." Chen Shijie pointed to the pile of messy documents, "I almost forgot, Guiniang is still waiting for me in the side hall... You read it first, I'll come back as soon as I go."

After saying that, Chen Shijie turned into a gust of wind and left.

Zhao Xing looked at the marching hall to himself.

In addition to the illustrated sand table, there are also many straw figures in the hall, but the straw figures are very small and miniature, almost the size of a palm.

In addition, there are formation drums, emergency march orders, and various military flags.

These things all exude a faint shimmer and are of high quality.

"How many high-ranking officials did Lao Chen have before? Isn't he really a seventh-rank official?" Zhao Xing walked to the table and started to read the documents.

The content is very complex and has everything.

"Detailed Explanation of Euphorbia Warrior Training", "Fire Battle Formation of the Five Elements Camp", "Hundred Explanations of the Equipment Camp's Mechanisms", "Sinong's Military Strategy", "Exotic Beasts - White Bones and Golden Toes", "Hundred Battles - Geographical Advantages", "

Seventh Level Grain and Grass"...

The top and bottom of Lao Chen's big table are full of books.

As a qualified Army Sinong, Lao Chen's reading volume and spells he is good at are several times that of Wen Sinong.

"Old Chen is okay." Zhao Xing commented in his heart.

He didn't look for other information, but looked for information related to Xuantian Sect.

"In the winter of the 241st year of Chengkang, the Xuantian sect's demons caused trouble in Daoyuanzhou. The demon bandit 'Wanhua Zhenjun' used evil methods to corrupt and control a military school stationed in Qinglong Prefecture, commanding a total of forty-seven people.

, intending to cause massacres in the city and bring trouble to the fourteen counties, and was killed by Wu Hou 'Zhou Jue' fifteen days later..."

"In the spring of the 249th year of Chengkang, Xuantian sect demons went to Wanchuan Mountain in Dayuan Prefecture and robbed two Longshoulou ships transporting cave materials, trying to distribute them to the people of the seven counties of Dayuan Prefecture to spread the belief in evil gods...

…Three days later, the demon bandit Master Fazhen and the two evil gods were destroyed by the Night God Guards commander An Dinghe and True Lord Dayuan.”

"In the summer of the 257th year of Chengkang, demons from the Xuantian Sect attacked Minghu Taoist Temple, causing 420 casualties..."

"The 261st year of Chengkang..."

…

Chengkang is the reign name before Jingxin.

It is now the fifteenth year of Jingxin, not too far away.

Chen Shijie was searching for information on Xuantian Sect's activities in the past hundred years.

"They were exterminated every time, and the demon bandits were killed quickly, but they just jumped out to cause trouble from time to time." Zhao Xing looked at the information.

The Xuantian Sect is troubled here, and the people they send out to cause trouble are all strong men who are about to reach their end.

He was about to die, so nothing mattered, and he was crazy about doing things.

Even if you are killed, it won't hurt.

In most cases, the Xuantian Sect does not want to seize land or treasures. As long as it can disgust Dazhou and spread its existence, it will achieve its goal.

This is the purpose of leaving the seeds of fear in the hearts of the people and making them aware of the existence of the Xuantian Sect.

Belief is not necessary, fear is also the nourishment of evil gods.

"Starting from Jing New Year, we changed our strategy and robbed people everywhere. This is a new round of planning." Zhao Xing compared the intelligence with the memories of his previous life.

At the same time, I was also thinking about how to grasp this degree while reminding Chen Shijie.

Don't let yourself appear unusual.

Chen Shijie went away for more than an hour before returning.

When he returned to the back hall, he seemed to be in a low mood. It was obvious that Gui Niang was the one he really cared about.

Zhao Xing had no intention of finding out about Chen Shijie's personal affairs, because he felt that love was really troublesome. Even a tough man like Lao Chen was influenced by women, so he would be better off just focusing on his kidneys and not his heart in the future.

"How do you see it?" Chen Shijie asked.

"It's okay." Zhao Xing put down the paperwork in his hand.

"Then let's get started."

Zhao Xing came to the illustrated sand table and replaced the map of Nanyang County on it.

"Buzz~"

The sand table trembled slightly, and the sand table, which was about ten meters long and four meters wide, began to change.

New mountains and rivers were born on it, and after a while, even the weather in various places was created.

Zhao Xing found the location of Gu County on the sand table, and then injected vitality into it.

Gu County suddenly enlarged and occupied the entire sand table.

"Suppose I am a member of the Xuantian Sect and am hiding anywhere in Gu County except Gucheng. Now if I want to capture you, a ninth-grade farmer in Gucheng, the first thing I have to consider is the timing."

Zhao Xing's opening remarks made Chen Shijie slightly stunned, because he said that Zhao Xing should think from his position, but he did not expect that the other party would directly think from the Xuantian Sect's perspective.

"What kind of timing?" Chen Shijie asked.

"Yang month, Yang day, Yang time is the best," Zhao Xing said.

Chen Shijie frowned: "To avoid the monitoring of the temple?"

"Well." Zhao Xing pointed at the direction of the temple in Gucheng, "The first month, March, May, July, September, and November are the yang months. I checked the information.

Whenever the Xuantian Sect takes action to mobilize the ghost clones, it must be in these months."

"And it's still the sun, the moon and the sun."

"During these special times, the monitoring ability of the temple's Yinshen will be weakened."

"Although the power of the ghosts hidden by the Xuantian Sect will also weaken, with the same decline, it is advantageous to act during this time period."

Chen Shi nodded, this is indeed the truth.

While everyone has an advantage, it means nothing to the Xuantian Sect, because their ghosts cannot defeat those in the Great Zhou Temple anyway.

But if everyone has a disadvantage, for Xuantian Sect, it is an advantage, because the supervision of the Yin God in the temple will be weakened.

You can get some unnoticed free time.

Of course, it will eventually be discovered, and if you can't defeat it, you still can't defeat it. It's just that the time between "action and discovery" is greatly extended.

And this period of time is the time for Xuantian Sect to take action.

Zhao Xing said, "If I plan to arrest you, I will definitely wait until November."

"Why, isn't there a few days left in September?"

"It's too late." Zhao Xing shook his head and said, "I want to take you away, not kill you."

"The remaining few days are not enough for me to take you out of the Great Zhou Realm."

"Nanyang County is one hundred and eighty thousand miles away from the boundary line of the Great Zhou Dynasty. The Xuantian Sect is not my subject of the Great Zhou Dynasty. If you want to take people out, you have to keep a low profile and cannot use magic power, so it will take a certain amount of time."

"Indeed." Chen Shi nodded, "If I want to make a game, it should be in November, preferably at the beginning of the month. You go on."

"The time has been determined, but it depends on the specific situation." Zhao Xing pointed at the map and said, "If you stay in the county all the time, with the strong protection of the temple, I will have no chance. Xuantian Sect cannot

Take you away from the city."

It was impossible to storm a temple in a county town, at least not in the Zhou Dynasty during this period.

"Then how can I give you a chance to catch me?" Chen Shijie asked.

"You will definitely have at least two opportunities to leave the city in November." Zhao Xing said, "One is the beginning of winter, and the other is light snow."

"For the Beginning of Winter assessment, as the chief agricultural officer, you must be present. Although Xiaoxue's solar terms are not assessed, you will also go to the villages and towns to check whether the solar terms in various places in Gu County are normal."

"That's right." Chen Shi nodded, "It's light snow, which is very likely to cause a snow disaster. I have to make sure it's normal. It's very reasonable to dispatch at these two times."

"After considering the timing, I still have to consider the manpower issue." Zhao Xing said, "Gucheng is a superior county, and its various departments of the county government, the Si Kouwei, the Wu Banfang, the Inspection Department, and the East Lake Army stationed next to East Lake must all be taken into consideration.

.”

"You are of the ninth grade. If I want to arrest you, I have to prepare seven or eight grades."

Chen Shijie shook his head and said: "Did you make a mistake? I asked you to treat me as a seventh-grade person. The Xuantian Sect doesn't know my strength."

Zhao Xingping said calmly: "Even if I don't know, I still have to prepare so much. And it's not difficult to find out that you are a military commander."

"It would be nice to be able to capture you quietly."

"If an accident occurs, a few people here will stay behind to distract attention."

"After catching you, I will quickly use the disguise, soul sealing and elemental locking to turn you and me into ordinary people."

"Next, we will rely on ordinary believers to support us and rely on chariots, horses, and boats to get out of the Great Zhou Dynasty."

Zhao Xing reduced the map of Gucheng and enlarged it to cover the entire Nanyang County.

He tapped his finger on the map: "There are many waterways in Nanyang County. As long as you can board a boat on the Canglan River and go down the river, you can reach the border towns thousands of miles away in less than a day, and then climb over the mountains.

If you can use magic, then the sky is high and the birds can fly."

Chen Shijie smiled and asked: "That's ideal. First tell me where you think the best place to set up an ambush would be in Gucheng."

Zhao Xing enlarged the map of Gucheng again, and then tapped on several places: "Gucheng is a Shang County and a major grain-producing county in Nanyang County, and the grain-producing areas of Gucheng are concentrated in Shanggu Town and Laoliangcang Town.

, Bashuiwan, Sambochong, Pingtang Town and other places."

"If you want to see it, you must go to these places, right?"

Chen Shijie looked at it and nodded and admitted: "Yes, ensuring people's harvest is the top priority of farmers. Since these eight places are important grain-producing towns, I may go, no, I will definitely go!"

Zhao Xingdao: "Here we have to choose one of the eight, because it is possible to launch the action anywhere, and the location is also very different."

Chen Shijie smiled and nodded: "Yes, your analysis is very reasonable."

Looking at him like this, Zhao Xing knew that Chen Shijie had thought of all these things, even more comprehensively.

But for the sake of Lao Chen's safety, he still said a few more words: "The people Xuantian Sect uses for operations have always not considered life or death, nor do they care about cost-effectiveness, because the dead soldiers they send out for operations are all about to reach the end of their lifespan.

of."

"So I said that preparing seven or eight grades is still a small number. It may even be more."

Chen Shijie tilted his head and asked: "You didn't mention the officials of other departments in the whole process. You only counted the strength to capture me. If we really want to take action, there will definitely be fewer people assigned to deal with me, and Xuantian Sect will not be able to

There are so many manpower.”

Zhao Xing saw Chen Shijie's appearance and knew that he had made an empiricist error.

Because in the previous plunder by the Xuantian Sect, not only farmers were arrested, but other professions were also arrested, including petty officials and petty officials.

However, Zhao Xing deduced from the results and knew that the Xuantian Sect's main goal was the profession of agricultural workers, because they took the agricultural workers back to brainwash and train them, and then caused natural disasters in the Great Zhou Dynasty.

"Assuming that I am the leader of the Xuantian Sect, I think it is enough to just capture you." Zhao Xing said in a seemingly arrogant tone, "Master Chen, you are a farmer from the Army. You are of high reputation, even a sixth-grade official."

I’ve come here to prop up the scene for you. Isn’t one arrest for you equivalent to arresting ten or hundreds of officials and minor officials from other professions?”

"Wouldn't it cause a greater sensation?"

"Or maybe Si Nong is their main target, and the rest are just incidental and dispensable?"

Chen Shijie's face became solemn, and the previous analysis was as expected.

But now Zhao Xing's seemingly unintentional words reminded him that if this was really possible, would he have underestimated the Xuantian Sect?
Chapter completed!