Xiao Mu tried to think about it according to Lin Yi's "temporary plan", and sure enough, he felt a little better, and analyzed along this line of thought, "You're right, the more chaotic it is, the more people like to take advantage of the chaos to do things that they dare not do on weekdays, and Yuan Chonghuan can't kill all the soldiers who participated in the mutiny, and the ones he killed must be those thorn heads, or he took advantage of the chaos to do things that anger and resentment during the mutiny." Pen~Fun~Pavilion www.biquge.info Yuan Chonghuan can only truly stabilize the morale of the army by beheading such people. ”

In fact, Xiao Mu and Lin Yi both knew very well in their hearts that the situation that Xiao Mu had just analyzed was likely to exist, but this did not mean that everyone who was killed by Yuan Chonghuan in this mutiny deserved it, but simply had a lot of prestige among the soldiers, and the people who led his brothers to recover their military salaries and were finally killed by Yuan Chonghuan must exist.

But Xiao Mu didn't want to think much about it, because even if he was the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, there was no way to do it in this matter, Yuan Chonghuan was able to quell this mutiny so quickly, obviously because of his merits, and which people should really be killed, and which people were actually a little wronged, Xiao Mu obviously didn't know much about the specific situation.

"Anyway, now that this mutiny is over, instead of thinking about those illusory things, you might as well worry about the younger brother of the Tobe Shangshu, can he hold on until your will to pardon his innocence comes?" Lin Yi asked with a different subject.

"That's a question that makes me feel bad. This Bi Zisu is also in a dilemma, he is not a person inside and outside, the general who launched the mutiny only knows that he is the biggest official, and he will ask for military salary, but where does Bi Zisu have the money? Ning Yuan's army is the army of the imperial court, and it is not the armed family of his own family, only when the imperial court allocates silver to him, can he have the money to pay the soldiers. He has asked the court for money nine times in a row, but there has been no money in the imperial treasury, and even his own brother, Hubu Shangshu Bi Zisu, has no choice but to watch the tragedy happen. ”

The more Xiao Mu spoke, the more uncomfortable he became, and the mood that had just calmed down a little because of Lin Ye's "temporary plan" was suppressed again, "And during this time, what am I, the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, doing?" In reality, he went to Daxing like an escape, and then after being found by Queen Zhang, he was also the shopkeeper every day, and he almost ignored the affairs of the entire Ming Dynasty. If I could be like Emperor Chongzhen in history, I knew all the state affairs in my chest, or at least I had a number in my heart, then I could have discovered that Ning Yuan did not have the problem of paying silver, and I could have allocated them silver taels in time, this mutiny would not have happened, and Bi Zisu would not have any danger. ”

"Where are there so many ifs? Freezing three feet is not a day's cold, judging from the current situation of Daming, even if you do everything yourself, it may not be much better than now, maybe it will be worse. Lin Yi replied, "For example, if you hadn't escaped from the palace and gone to Daxing, how could you have met Liang Yanyang and Du Laoliu, and how could you have thwarted the secret transaction between the merchants of Zhangjiakou and Huang Taiji, and how could you get the more than two million taels of confiscated silver?" ”

Lin Yi continued to analyze, "If you are really involved in handling government affairs, you know everything well, and you know in advance that Ning Yuan has not paid military salaries for several months, and then you have allocated money to them in a timely manner, then you will also know a lot of other places where there is a shortage of silver, you must know that Daming needs money everywhere now, far more than Ning Yuan." If that's the case, you may have allocated a lot of silver, and the money that you didn't get back from Zhangjiakou might be all spent, and there would be no silver to help you in this flood in Zhejiang. ”

In fact, Lin Ye's reason is very simple, that is, the current financial situation of the Ming Dynasty has deteriorated very much, and there are far more places to spend money than to come to money, and the holes everywhere cannot be filled at all. Xiao Mu naturally understood what she meant, and the little bit of thinking about participating in the daily affairs of the country that he had just aroused was instantly extinguished, and he even helped Lin Yi to add, "Moreover, it is very likely that I can't tell the priorities of things, those places that are not very anxious to use money have allocated money, and those places that are in a hurry and must spend money immediately have no money to spend." ”

In the end, Xiao Mu came to a conclusion, "It seems that the daily government affairs of the Ming Dynasty should continue to be handed over to the cabinet to deal with." ”

"The cabinet is not perfect, and there will be times when their judgment is wrong." This time, it was Lin Yi's turn to comfort Xiao Mu, "Let's take the matter of Ning Yuan's mutiny this time, it is obvious that Ning Yuan's soldiers' salaries are undoubtedly the kind of problem that must be solved immediately, but they regarded it as a situation that could be delayed and delayed, and finally caused a mutiny." ”

Of course, Lin Yi was just reassuring Xiao Mu, and Xiao Mu also knew very well that if all these government affairs were handed over to him to take the lead in handling, the final result would definitely be far more than this mistake of the cabinet.

Xiao Mugang wanted to humble himself, but heard Lin Yi continue, "You just talked about the places where you have to spend money right away but there is no money to spend, and I thought of an extremely important question. ”

"What's the problem?" Xiao Mu saw that Lin Ye's expression was serious, and he used a word of "extremely important" to describe it, and he also knew that what Lin Ye was going to say must be a big deal.

Lin Yi continued, "Now you can't passively solve a problem, you have to do everything you can to expand your money bag, whether it is the treasury or the inner treasury, how much money is not too much, because it won't be long before you have a lot of money to spend, and if you don't have money by then, the consequences will definitely be quite serious." ”

"What do you mean by a lot of places that need to be spent?" Xiao Mu asked.

Lin Yi continued to say eagerly, "Have you forgotten how the Ming Dynasty perished in history? Think about this year and the years to come, in another month, this year's crops will be completely lost, there will be a large number of people who have no food to eat, and if the same situation continues for a few more years, the number of people without food will double, if the imperial court has not had enough silver to help, these people who can't eat will rise up and rebel sooner or later! ”

Xiao Mu stayed in place as if he had been struck by lightning, and finally spoke after a long time, "Yes, it turns out that it can only be regarded as a warm-up now, and the really difficult days are still waiting for you!" Silver, silver, I, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, need a lot of silver! ”