The officials knelt for a while, and when they saw that Yang Huairen really didn't come back, they looked at each other and slowly withdrew from the courtyard.

Brother Tianba watched them leave with joy in his eyes, and said unconvinced, "Brother, did you really let them go like that?" ”

Yang Huairen smiled helplessly, "What if you don't let it go?" Those great Confucians have taught the scholars to be stupid, and this is not something we can change, let him go. ”

It's true that the affairs of the scholars can't be managed, but Yang Huairen can still rectify Caoyun and the Xiang Army.

Now that the Grand Canal is relatively peaceful, the bandits and bandits have either been exterminated or have fled to the west and south, and the few bandits who have sporadic do not dare to openly come out to rob merchant ships.

At this time, it is just the right time to take a good look at the Cao army, and the godsons and grandsons of Zhao Xianqiu in the army in the past naturally can't stay any of them.

Brother Hei Niu led a forbidden army, took the roster provided by Fengshenwei to arrest people, and after catching more than a hundred black sheep, he suddenly found that the entire Cao army had no generals.

It can be seen how thorough Zhao Xianqiu's infiltration and control of the Cao army is.

The Cao army is under the control of the Ministry of War, and Yang Huairen is not easy to make decisions without authorization, so he sent the arrested people to the Yangzhou Yamen to let Zhu Runqing be interrogated one by one, and he was not afraid that he would not find the crimes of these people.

Send those records to Zhu Runqing, he naturally knows how to deal with it, but it takes too long to find relevant people and physical evidence, but that is not something that Yang Huairen can manage.

Afraid that Zhu Runqing would not have the means to make these people confess, Yang Huairen sent Hu Tiedan and more than a dozen forbidden army soldiers to help, and there were bursts of miserable screams in the Yangzhou Mansion prison every night.

Then the next day, when Zhu Runqing interrogated the prisoner again, he suddenly felt a lot more relaxed, and the prisoner was brought to the court, all of them covered their crotches, and said loudly that I recognized my recruitment, and even just wanted to convict him quickly, and he was not afraid of being killed, but he never sent them back to the prison again.

Hu Tiedan's finger flicking skills are getting better and better, and now he can give him a bean, and he can pop out more than thirty steps away.

Zhu Runqing is actually very good at being a person, and he doesn't ask why this phenomenon occurs, since his errand is easy, he is happy to pretend not to see it.

After all, the Cao Army has always been a special army that has been valued by the imperial court, although it cannot be compared with the forbidden army in terms of combat power, it is still much stronger than the ordinary box army.

There were no generals in the barracks, so Brother Hei Niu arranged for the captain in the forbidden army to be temporarily replaced, and after a month, the court sent new generals from Xinfa, and they would be withdrawn.

Since then, the Cao army has started the same life and training as the forbidden army, and the soldiers are miserable, but after so many things have happened, no one dares to complain.

Every day, the Yangzhou Yamen sentenced several generals of the former Cao army to death, and they could only be executed after they were reported to the imperial court and the officials were convicted.

Faced with the two choices of death and suffering, the soldiers of the Cao Army naturally chose the latter, although they were trained like dead dogs by the forbidden army every day, they did not dare to complain.

But it's not without benefits, for example, the food they eat is much better than before, it can be said that they eat whatever the forbidden army eats, and what surprises them even more is that the generals and soldiers in the forbidden army are all stirring horses and spoons in a big pot.

This kind of thing has never been seen before, the so-called leading soldier is a legend in the Cao army, at least the former generals and Yu Hou, it is impossible to sit and eat with them.

At the end of the month, the Cao army was also full of a smell of worry, and the soldiers were not afraid of anything else, but they were afraid that they would not be able to get their monthly salaries.

But it turned out that they not only received their salaries, but also received the full amount.

According to the system, the military salary of ordinary soldiers in the Cao Army is 1,500 yuan, but they actually receive at most two-thirds, which is more than 900 yuan.

But this time, for the first time in their lives, the group of 1,500 dollars, the barracks immediately exploded.

It's not about bombing the camp, it's about rejoicing. Cao Jun was also raised by his father, and he also had wives and children, and he used to do some bad things with the original generals, which was to earn more gray income and fill the big hole where military salaries were deducted.

But now that he has received the full military salary, who would be willing to do things that hurt God and reason behind his back? After all, people's hearts are made of flesh, and they are also afraid of being punished by God one day.

After the training, the soldiers of the Cao army became more serious, although they were tired, but they took more money, and it was clean money, they spent money without psychological burden, and they ate better than before, so they were naturally willing to be managed by the forbidden army.

Even they began to hope that the Cao army would also be assigned to the forbidden army for direct management, in case the generals sent by the imperial court were the same as those before them, they still had to return to their previous living conditions.

Yang Huairen doesn't care about this, and now he has trained this group of Cao troops well, which is also for the country and the people, and for the safety and smoothness of the Grand Canal.

As for the new generals in the future, they will withhold their salaries, and I believe that the officers and men of the Cao army will have their own ways to rectify them, as long as they think of cutting off their way of life, they are not afraid that they will not make trouble.

Yang Huairen's methods are not clever, but it is very clear who Cao Jun will listen to in the future.

The Cao army is easy to rectify, but it is a little difficult on the side of the Xiang army, the Xiang army itself is not an army that can fight, compared to the forbidden army and the Cao army, their weapons are 108,000 miles behind.

Isn't it ridiculous that there are no 1,000 complete swords and guns in the 2,000-strong army? But this is the status quo of the Great Song Xiang Army.

This is not surprising, but anyone who has some ability has already found a way to enter the forbidden army or find another way to make a living, who will stay in a place like the Xiang Army?

The composition of the personnel in the Xiang army has long been doomed to all this, the military households of the Great Song Dynasty have shrunk, and it is impossible to expect the military households to replenish the soldiers, and all kinds of corruption are very common when recruiting soldiers, and rich people can hide from it by spending some money, so the local commander of the Xiang army can only send the criminals on weekdays to the Xiang army to fill the number.

As soon as you stand in the Xiang Army, you can understand that at least five of the ten people have tattoos on their faces, so the Xiang Army also has a very ugly name in the mouths of the people, called thieves with troops.

On the other hand, the replenishment of personnel comes from displaced people, the Yangtze River and the Yellow River flood every few years, plus other disasters such as earthquakes and droughts, almost every year will produce a group of displaced people.

When people who have lost their homes flee the famine, they like to run to rich places, and they always feel that it is easier to beg for food in rich places.

Therefore, the Jiangnan generation will have displaced people come every year, and the local government cannot manage it, and the general way to deal with it is to give porridge for ten days and eight days, and then drive the displaced people back to their hometowns.