The night was empty, and Qin Xiao's heart had complicated feelings.

The white shopkeeper said that Tang Rong's words were not credible, but Qin Xiao did not think that the words of the white shopkeeper were credible.

The words and deeds of these people are false and real, and they are full of deceit.

"What kind of person does the shopkeeper think if there is really Mr. Big?" Qin Xiao groaned slightly, and finally asked.

"Whether Mr. Big is a person or not, it's hard to say now." The white shopkeeper smiled faintly: "Just like the Purple Clothes Prison, you can say that it is an organization, but you can also say that the Purple Clothes Prison is a person." ”

"Is the Purple Prisoner alone?"

The white shopkeeper glanced at Qin Xiao before saying, "It seems that you don't know much about the Purple Clothes Prison." After a pause, he said, "Do you know who the saint trusts the most?" ”

Qin Xiao rarely knew about the affairs of the court, and in the Governor's Mansion, few people dared to comment on the court.

But he knew that the white shopkeeper's words were probably to the point.

Qin Xiao thought to himself that I had never even seen a saint, how could I know who he trusted.

"Whether it is a civil servant or a military general, they all have their own families and their own interests." The white shopkeeper said calmly: "The so-called Wenchen military generals, although there are also national soldiers like General Hei Yu who serve the country and the people, but there are never many such people, and they are more thinking about increasing officials and becoming knights to seek greater benefits for their families." In the eyes of these people, the emperor let them be promoted and rich, that is, a good emperor, if it hurts their interests, then it is not a good emperor, they evaluate the quality of the emperor, it is never whether the emperor can work hard, but whether he can bring them benefits. ”

"The palace is the home of the eunuchs, and the saints naturally trust them very much." The white shopkeeper said: "So after the saint ascended the throne, he reused the eunuchs, the purple-clothed eunuch and the northern courtyard, which are the two sharp blades of the saint." ”

Qin Xiao immediately thought of Gonggong Pei in the North Courtyard, who had just arrived in Fenggan Mansion today, and said, "Someone from the North Courtyard is here, it seems that the surname is Pei!" ”

"Compared with those civil servants and military generals, those eunuchs in the palace are more trusted by the emperor." The white shopkeeper said: "No matter how powerful the eunuchs are, they are crippled after all, even the common people don't look down on them in their bones." In their hearts, only the palace is their home, and the saints are their parents, protecting the saints, just like if they protect their homes, compared to those civil and military ministers, they are of the same heart as the saints. ”

Qin Xiao knew that the white shopkeeper suddenly mentioned the eunuchs in the palace, it was by no means a whim, no matter what this kind of person said, he had a purpose, so he listened carefully, and he was really interested in the affairs of the court, he rarely knew about the affairs of the court before, but now that the white shopkeeper mentioned it, he didn't mind knowing about it.

"Naturally, you don't know about the South Courtyard." The white shopkeeper said with a smile: "Since Emperor Wuzong, there has been a southern courtyard. Southern Xinjiang was conquered in the hands of Emperor Wuzong and became the territory of the Tang Dynasty, and it was also during the time of Emperor Wuzong that the Tang Dynasty conquered the Bohai State and finally made the Bohai State bow down. Emperor Wuzong likes military affairs, although the prime minister of the military department, but Emperor Wuzong likes to be anxious about some favored generals to discuss military affairs, so he set up the South Courtyard, once there is a war, the Ministry of War is responsible for the deployment of soldiers and horses, and all military decision-making orders are issued from the South Courtyard, in other words, the Ministry of War is responsible for sending troops to fight, and the South Courtyard is responsible for deciding how to fight the battle. ”

"In other words, without the decision-making order of the Southern Yuan, the military department cannot easily mobilize the soldiers and horses, and all the soldiers and horses can only be determined by how the Southern Yuan decides to transfer." Qin Xiao instantly comprehended: "And although the Southern Courtyard can decide how to fight, but."

"That's Pei Yan among the four chamberlains in the North Courtyard." The white shopkeeper said: "In addition to the envoy of the North Courtyard, there are the four great chamberlains. ”

"What the hell is the North Courtyard?"

Qin Xiao thought to himself that Emperor Wuzong's hand was actually to weaken the power of the military department, so that the southern courtyard and the military department could check and balance each other.

"The empire has always only had the Southern Courtyard, and after knowing that the current saint ascended the throne, the Northern Courtyard was established." The white shopkeeper said: "In fact, long before today, there were already responsibilities similar to those of the North Courtyard, but they were not as powerful as the North Courtyard today. All the soldiers and horses of the empire have set up a supervising army, and the duty of the supervising army is mainly to report the war in detail to the imperial court. Fu Xu said: "All the generals are naturally worried that the prison army will say bad things about themselves in the report, and they are all extremely respectful to the prison army, although the prison army has no right to ask how to march and fight, but because they have the power to report the battle situation, many prison troops interfere in military affairs, and the leading generals do not dare to object. ”

But they couldn't mobilize a single soldier. ”

The white shopkeeper said with a smile: "To the point." ”

"Now that the North Courtyard is set up, all the soldiers and horses in the world are from the North Courtyard." The white shopkeeper said: "The North Courtyard is actually the Military Supervision Academy. He smiled faintly and said, "However, the prison army of the North Courtyard is much more powerful than those prison guards at the beginning. ”

Qin Xiao asked, "Can they already blatantly intervene in military affairs?" ”

Qin Xiao thought to himself, it seems that Pei Yan of the North Courtyard came to Xiling this time to supervise the army.

Although General Black Feather was famous all over the world, the imperial court still sent a prison army to his side.

The white shopkeeper said with a smile: "An empire, the most important thing is two things, one is the money, food and equipment in the hand, and the other is the soldiers and horses. Therefore, the power in the hands of the North Courtyard is not small, the operation of the world's money and grain is in the hands of the eunuchs in the North Courtyard, this time Pei Yan came to Xiling, General Hei Yu recruited troops to prepare for war, and he could not ask the court for money and food, Pei Yan must submit the list of materials required to the North Courtyard in accordance with the needs of General Hei Yu, so as to transfer money and grain from the household department. ”

Qin Xiao suddenly understood at this time why General Hei Yu would go to the post house to see Pei Yan in person after he knew that Pei Yan had arrived.

"Not really." The white shopkeeper said: "After all, the eunuch is a eunuch, if he really blatantly intervenes in military affairs, the Southern Courtyard will not condone it." After a pause, he continued: "The supervising army naturally still has the right to report the military situation to the imperial court, and the money and food in the army also need to be interrogated by the North Courtyard. In the past, money and grain in the army were directly raised and transferred by the household department, but now the household department is only qualified to raise money, grain and equipment, and the power to allocate money, grain and equipment is in the hands of the North Courtyard. As you just said, without the order of the North Courtyard, the household department cannot mobilize money, grain and equipment, and the money and equipment can only be transferred by the North Courtyard. Similarly, the North Courtyard can mobilize money and grain, but the North Courtyard itself cannot get these money and grain, and all the money, grain and equipment are controlled by the household department. ”

"The household department is a real warehouse." Qin Xiao understood.

"Then the envoy of the North Courtyard is also a eunuch in the palace?" Qin Xiao asked.

The white shopkeeper shook his head and said, "No." Now the envoy of the North Courtyard is the princess of Musk Yue, the pearl of today's saints. ”

Pei Yan is the secretary of the North Courtyard, and his status may be far from catching up with the general, but he has the power to transfer money and grain, and it is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice, and if the general wants to recruit soldiers, he must have silver and food, and all this, the general can only get from Pei Yan.

The general went to see Pei Yan in person, of course, not on the face of the eunuch, but on the money and food that Xiling urgently needed.

How much was embezzled every day, and after checking afterwards, the number of workers recruited by the chief eunuch was not much different from the number calculated by Princess Musk Yue. ”

Qin Xiao was surprised: "Isn't Princess Musk Moon extremely intelligent?" ”

Qin Xiao was surprised: "The court envoy is a princess? ”

"Not bad." The white shopkeeper said: "According to rumors, this princess has been good at calculation since she was a child, and you can understand that she is scheming, or you can say that she is good at arithmetic." There is a story that has been circulating, saying that when she was a few years old, she found that the chief eunuch in the palace had embezzled a large amount of silver taels, and calculated each

"The Purple Prison has the right to supervise the officials of the world." The white shopkeeper said: "For officials below the third rank, the purple clothes supervisor doesn't even have to ask the emperor for instructions, they can cut it first and then play it." ”

Qin Xiao has been living in Xiling, and knows very little about the Ziyi Prison, in fact, because Xiling is controlled in the hands of the Xiling family, the power of the imperial court will not appear in Xiling blatantly, the Duhu Mansion is useless, and the Duwei Mansion has always been used as the eyes and ears of Xiling.

"If you weren't very smart, how could you rule the North Courtyard?" The white shopkeeper smiled and said: "Compared to the North Courtyard, the most terrifying knife in the hand of the present is the Purple Prisoner." Speaking of this, the white shopkeeper's eyebrows showed a cold color: "The North Courtyard controls money and food, and even it can interfere in many military affairs, and its power is already very great, but compared to the North Courtyard, the Purple Clothes Prison is even more creepy, especially the big and small officials of the imperial court, when it comes to the Purple Clothes Prison, it is a change of color." ”

"Officials are afraid of the Purple Prisoner?"

"The shopkeeper knows that they are in Xiling?"

"Let me ask you, what is the biggest money bank today?"

As for the purple-clothed prisoner, he almost did not appear in Xiling.

"Are you in Xiling, have you rarely heard of the Purple Clothes Supervisor?" The white shopkeeper actually seemed to see through Qin Xiao's thoughts, and said: "I haven't heard of it, it doesn't mean that they don't exist, in fact, in Wutuo, there is also their strength, but the power over there is relatively weak." ”

"I heard that behind Bao Feng Long is the royal family, and Bao Feng Long is the royal bank."

The white shopkeeper said with a smile: "This is only half right, Bao Fenglong does have the royal family as a backer behind it, but it is not a royal bank, it is an emperor's bank." To put it more clearly, Bao Fenglong is actually the emperor's inner treasury, and about seventy percent of the emperor's needs are taken from Bao Fenglong, and the one who controls Bao Fenglong for the emperor is the Ziyi Prison. ”

Qin Xiao didn't think about it, and immediately said, "That's naturally Bao Fenglong." ”

"Not bad." The white shopkeeper said with a smile: "Bao Fenglong Hui Tong the world, in the territory of the Tang Dynasty, in the land of Xiling, and even in Wutuo, there are Bao Fenglong's money villages, and the money houses controlled by Bao Fenglong are not hundreds?" When people mention Bao Fenglong, they are familiar with the owner of Bao Fenglong's Yangzhou Cai's, riding school, do you think a Yangzhou Cai's can achieve the point of connecting the world? ”

Qin Xiao's body was shocked: "Shopkeeper, you mean that Bao Fenglong is controlled by the Purple Clothes Supervisor?" ”

"Baofeng is rich and rivals the country, how can the emperor allow such a force to exist, if it is not owned by the emperor, Yangzhou Cai's family would have been beheaded a long time ago." The white shopkeeper said calmly: "Without the support of the emperor, Bao Fenglong would naturally not be what it is today, let alone connect the world." Bao Fenglong is not only the place where the Purple Clothes Prison helps the emperor collect money, but also the eyeliner of the Purple Clothes Prison distributed all over the world, and this is only part of the power of the Purple Clothes Prison, you say, the Purple Clothes Prison is not terrible? ”

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ps: This book has nearly a million words, and in the past two days, I have carefully sorted out all the clues in the front, which is to avoid conflicts with the later plots, and there is no problem overall. This book is a new work that I have written for ten years, and I must leave a masterpiece worth reading many times, so I dare not have the slightest negligence, I believe that as the story progresses, this book will get better and better, and thank you again for your love and continue to work hard!