Bi Ziyan, the head of the household department, was hurriedly summoned to the cabinet office, but at this time, Xiao Mu could no longer say anything to reprimand him. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

After crossing over to the Ming Dynasty, Xiao Mu felt that he had a more direct and profound understanding of many idioms and old sayings that he knew before, for example, this time, Xiao Mu's understanding of the meaning of the phrase "it is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice" is far beyond the past - if the current Ming Dynasty is compared to a big family, then Xiao Mu is undoubtedly the head of this big family, and the head of the household is the daughter-in-law of the family, but the family's annual income is decreasing little by little, and it needs to spend money everywhere, In the end, there was no rice to cook, and even this daughter-in-law's own children were so hungry that they had no milk to eat, causing such a consequence, Xiao Mu, the eldest parent, obviously had no reason to blame this daughter-in-law, or rather, if such a good daughter-in-law was divorced and replaced with another one, I am afraid that it would not be as good as this daughter-in-law, and it was even very likely that no one else would be willing to marry into this family.

"The minister Bi Ziyan knocked to see the emperor, my emperor ......" Bi Ziyan came to the cabinet room, and when he saw the emperor here, he looked solemn, so he naturally quickly knelt on the ground and saluted.

"In front of this errand of the household department, it is really difficult for Bi Aiqing." Of course, Xiao Mu didn't let Bi Ziyan finish the full set of gifts. Originally, he thought that this Bi Ziyan was either greedy for the silver of the treasury, or he was an incompetent person, so that the soldiers on the border between Daming and Houjin had cut off their military salaries for several months, and planned to call him to reprimand him fiercely, and then dismiss him for questioning, but when Yang Jingchen finally told the truth, and Xiao Mu knew that Bi Ziyan's own brother was among the victims of this mutiny, he knew that his original two conjectures were all wrong, so Xiao Mu could only appease Bi Ziyan. Then there was nothing else to say.

"Back to the emperor, the minister is incompetent, he has the emperor's trust, he can't share the worries of the monarch's father, he can't solve the problems for the people, the minister is really incapable of the emperor's favor, and he asks the emperor to punish the crime." Bi Ziyan knelt on the ground and didn't get up, and said with red eyes.

At this time, Xiao Mu was afraid that Bi Ziyan would say something like "the minister's ability is mediocre, and the emperor invites another high-level talent", the facts have proved that Bi Ziyan is definitely the best candidate for the Ming Dynasty Household Department Shangshu now, outside of him, there is no second person who can reach his ability, even if there is a person who has his eight things, it is estimated that it is difficult to find.

Fortunately, Bi Ziyan didn't like to quit his official job as much as he did when he came to Zongdao before, which finally made Xiao Mu breathe a sigh of relief.

"According to Yuan Chonghuan's report, the mutiny of the 13th battalion of Ningyuan has been quelled by him." Xiao Mu continued, "But your younger brother Bi Zisu thinks that he has no way to govern the army, and he refuses to eat for many days, and I have already issued an order to pardon him for his innocence, but he is ......"

Xiao Mu really couldn't say it anymore, because he also knew that judging from the traffic situation of the Ming Dynasty, it was not just a matter of getting from the capital to Ningyuan, even if it was a fast horse that traveled thousands of miles a day, it would take a whole day, not to mention that this kind of fast horse only existed in legends, so when the news of his pardon Bi Zisu's innocence was delivered to Ning Yuan, he couldn't be sure what Bi Zisu's situation would be, or that Xiao Mu couldn't guarantee that his pardon news could save Bi Zisu's life, after all, Bi Zisu had been on hunger strike for many days.

Xiao Mu knew very well in his heart that the most fundamental reason for this mutiny was naturally not Bi Zisu's "lack of management of the army". It is the arrears of the imperial court, from this point of view, Bi Zisu and his brother Bi Ziyan are the same, they are all typical examples of "it is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice", although Xiao Mu used the words "pardon his innocence", but he knows very well in his heart that Bi Zisu is innocent at all, and he does not need to be so "magnanimous" to "pardon".

Bi Ziyan naturally couldn't say anything to the emperor, but instead asked for the blame on behalf of his younger brother, saying something about his younger brother's "lack of governance of the army" and "the emperor's strictness", but Xiao Mu could also clearly see that Bi Ziyan's words were completely to save his face as the emperor. In fact, before Bi Ziyan was summoned, Xiao Mu learned that Bi Zisu had been dismissed nine times in a row, asking the court to allocate silver to pay the soldiers, but although Bi Ziyan was his own brother, he had no silver to distribute, which finally triggered this mutiny. Therefore, in this matter, Bi Ziyan did not need to ask Xiao Mu for his younger brother at all.

"The wealth of the captured merchants confiscated in Zhangjiakou the day before yesterday, in addition to the one that was agreed to be used for disaster relief in Zhejiang, there are still more than 1 million taels left, and I have decided to allocate 600,000 taels to be transported to Liaodong as military salaries and distributed to local soldiers." Xiao Mu finally made a difficult decision, of course, the difficulty of this decision is not that Xiao Mu is unwilling to take money out of his inner treasury, but he also deeply feels a sense of powerlessness, after all, the silver in his inner treasury was also obtained by Fan Yongdou and Wang Dengku, who were not copied from their merchants before, in fact, it is a hammer deal, judging from the current situation of Daming, it will not take long to spend it soon, and at that time, Xiao Mu really doesn't know what to do if there is a similar incident again.

At the same time, Xiao Mu thought of the Chongzhen Emperor in history, at least from what he knew, the Chongzhen Emperor in history should not have gotten the family wealth of Fan Yongdou and Wang Dengku - after all, it was impossible for the Chongzhen Emperor in history to run out of the palace and come into contact with Liang Yanyang and Du Laoliu.

Thinking of this, Xiao Mu was full of respect for the Chongzhen Emperor in history - it was obvious that after making a windfall, the situation he was facing now was already quite bad, and he was anxious, and the original Chongzhen Emperor was undoubtedly more lacking in silver than himself, Xiao Mu really couldn't imagine how the original Chongzhen Emperor insisted on dealing with such a big mess, and he worked hard for sixteen or seven years.

In any case, the emperor once again allocated money from his inner treasury to make up for the deficit of the treasury, which was undoubtedly good news for all the ministers present, and Xiao Mu's move was naturally equivalent to a kind of "high wind and bright festival" performance, at least it could win him a reputation of "wide and thrifty" - after all, so many emperors in history liked to spend money on building palaces for themselves, choosing beautiful women, etc., Xiao Mu not only did not have these situations, but also paid out of his own pocket, which is obviously in stark contrast to those unscrupulous monarchs.