Tianba's younger brother said, "Brother, Caoyun Yamen looks quite pompous, but the biggest official in the Yamen, that ...... By the way, it's called a transfer envoy, but it's only from the fifth grade. ”

Yang Huairen nodded, this is indeed the case, the eunuchs in the palace also have official positions and ranks, but compared to the formal civil and military officials, there is a strange phenomenon.

These eunuchs have high official positions and real power, but their rank is not high, even if they are the big eunuchs in the palace, the highest is only the rank of the fifth grade.

However, these eunuchs were sent to serve in the local government, whether in the army or in the power department, and the positions they held were very high, and even most of them were the top leaders, but their rank did not exceed the fifth rank.

This is just the opposite of the situation in the army, like the generals of the forbidden army, who may have four or five high ranks, but their official positions are not high, and their power is limited everywhere, and most of them are held hostage by eunuchs and civil officials.

Officially, the rank still determines the status of an official, such as the rank of the fifth rank of the county order of Jingxian County, which is much higher than the status of the prefect of the sixth rank in some places.

When Brother Tianba said this, Yang Huairen seemed to understand what he wanted to say, Brother Tianba himself was named as a general from Wupin, although he didn't have any real power, but the rank was there.

Yang Huairen said, "What do you mean, do you want a few of our brothers to go and slander Zhao Xianqiu?" ”

Tianba's younger brother smiled evilly, "Zhao Xianqiu is very powerful in the Jiangnan generation, but the magistrates are afraid of him, and the officials from the capital are not afraid of him."

Our brothers have rank and name in the forbidden army and the palace, and it is not bad to take it out to bluff Zhao Xianqiu, and I am not afraid that he will not bleed, but it is a big deal that a few of us go to Caoyun Yamen every day to annoy him, I don't believe how dare he do! ”

Xiao Qi understood, and immediately smiled, "Go to so many people to blackmail money from him at once, Zhao Xianqiu always has to take it from his secret vault, when the time comes, let's stare at him, maybe there will be a chance to find this secret?" ”

Tianba's younger brother smiled, "Fishing, if he Zhao Xianqiu doesn't bite the bait, let's put all the hooks in the fish pond, if he bites the bait, it will be easy to do......"

Yang Huairen thought about it, this method actually has advantages and disadvantages, but at the moment, if there is no other good way, the idea of Brother Tianba can be tried.

Thinking about it, the brothers should all gather in Yangzhou in the past two days, if so many people don't give Zhao Xianqiu some trouble, it will be in vain.

On the other hand, Huang Million and Bai Yinhai's side should also keep a close eye on it, and it is not good to directly arrest people to force them, but those who participated in the fight for wealth that day must be monitored and strive to get some clues from their mouths.

……

A few days later, Caoyun Yamen.

Zhao Xianqiu has been very low-key recently, even to the point that he basically does not go out of the Caoyun Yamen, and the two guards and forbidden troops continue to come to Yangzhou to camp outside the city, which really brings him a lot of pressure.

The forbidden army borrowed food in Yangzhou, and the yamen of Yangzhou Mansion could not afford it, and this kind of thing was generally solved by the Caoyun yamen with sufficient grain.

came to the generals of the forbidden army, Zhao Xianqiu did not dare to slack off, in terms of official rank, he was not higher than those generals of the forbidden army.

What's more, these people are Yang Huairen's subordinates, and they are from the capital, and many of them have the background of the nobles and nobles in the capital, Zhao Xianqiu is ready to entertain them.

It's just that the people he sent to give gifts to these forbidden army generals came back and said that none of the forbidden army generals received gifts, so they drove them out with people and things.

Zhao Xianqiu also had some doubts, and said that he had an impression of what kind of virtue the forbidden army was, and the tiger did not change the reason of being a vegetarian, but he didn't understand what was going on for a while, and he had been closed in the Caoyun Yamen for a few days, for fear of causing some trouble and coming back.

Although Yang Huairen went to Suzhou, he heard that Yang Huairen was sick, probably because he was not adapted, and he had been stationed in Suzhou for many days, and Zhao Xianqiu also sent several groups of people to send doctors and medicines.

It's a pity that the people sent back said that the servants and personal soldiers around the prince had received medicinal materials and gifts, but unfortunately no one saw the prince himself, which made Zhao Xianqiu even more worried.

Because of these trivial troubles, someone suddenly came to report outside the door, saying that a general of the forbidden army had visited.

Zhao Xianqiu retracted his thoughts and hurriedly invited someone in.

The person who came was a tall and dark-skinned military man, who looked to be twenty-six or seventeen years old, but he was dressed in a way that surprised Zhao Xianqiu, this was a general costume of the fifth grade, that is, a general in the First Guard Forbidden Army and something like that.

Zhao Xianqiu invited someone to come in, and ordered someone to prepare tea and snacks to entertain him carefully.

Brother Hei Niu originally had a simple and honest temperament, but it doesn't mean that he doesn't have a fierce side, if people who don't know him see him for the first time, they always think of the fierce gods.

I saw him roughly hug his fist with Zhao Xianqiu, say his name and position, and then sit down loudly, his face kept cocking, as if he didn't like anything and was not satisfied with anything.

Zhao Xianqiu didn't know what was going on, so he said some polite words, nothing more than praising how powerful the forbidden army was, how many bandits and bandits had been exterminated in Jiangnan on this trip, and how hard it was.

Brother Hei Niu didn't talk to him politely, and directly shouted in a rough voice, "Father-in-law Zhao, don't talk nonsense!" I'm a rough man, and I don't like you to say nice clever things to make people feel good.

Since you also know that we are working hard to suppress bandits, then I won't go around the bend with you, we are indeed very hard soldiers, since now my subordinates are stationed outside Yangzhou City, you don't express it? Well? ”

Zhao Xianqiu likes General Li's straightforward personality, since he explained his intention straight to the point, Zhao Xianqiu naturally understands what is going on.

He smiled and said, "What the general said is that the soldiers of the forbidden army have worked hard to suppress bandits, and they should have been rewarded......"

Brother Black Bull rudely interrupted him, "Reward? You say a good thing, but why do you bring us food, but you have never seen a single pork fan?

That's how you're here to treat us? Are you all vegetarians when we are all vegetarians?! ”

Brother Hei Niu had such an attitude, Zhao Xianqiu was unhappy, but looking at the appearance of this general of the forbidden army, he should be dissatisfied with the fact that he only sent food to the forbidden army.

In fact, according to the rules, the forbidden army came to Yangzhou to borrow food, and Zhao Xianqiu only needed to be responsible for their food and grass, meat and eggs, etc., which were not within the scope of borrowing food.

What's more, he also heard that since the forbidden army arrived in Yangzhou, the local people and wealthy businessmen in Yangzhou have sent thousands of pigs in the name of rewarding the soldiers of the forbidden army to suppress bandits.

Regardless of truth or falsehood, at least in the past few days, the forbidden army is said to have no shortage of meat to eat.

But the black-faced general still talked about this matter, and came to Caoyun Yamen specifically to talk about his face, and the meaning of it was self-evident......