"Wow, you punished Hou Shilu for a year, and he is going to drink the northwest wind this year. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info "Listening to Xiao Mu's handling method, Lin Yi immediately covered his mouth and said with a smile, "It feels good to be a boss, and you can deduct the wages of your employees ...... casually."

"You're kidding me." Xiao Mu was not deceived by Lin Ye's naïve performance, "That Hou Shilu is the chief soldier of the Xuanfu, how can he really rely on the imperial court's Yulu to eat, there must be a place to earn extra money, you don't have to worry about him." Or, if he really only relied on the court's Yulu to eat, then he should have gone to the northwest wind a long time ago. ”

"Okay, since your boss already knows that his employees are making extra money outside, don't you take care of it?" Lin Yi asked with a grin.

"What can I do? I'm also devastated, okay? Xiao Mu said with a desperate look, "A few days ago, when you were not in good health, I asked someone to ask about it, and I found that the officials of the Ming Dynasty were very few, and the cabinet chief assistant like Lai Zongdao could almost be said to be a very human minister, but if he really wanted to take the test to support the whole family, then I am afraid that he would have to drink gruel every day and every meal." ”

Lin Yi asked with a look of disbelief, "Not really, right?" He is the first assistant of the cabinet, equivalent to the existence of the prime minister, how can Yu Lu not even support his family? Could it be that all his family members are rice buckets? And I think his improvement is pretty good, he doesn't look like he can only drink gruel and eat wild vegetables every day. ”

"Well, that's a long story. If the family of the Ming officials is only like me in 2007, a family of three or four, then their income is definitely enough to support the family. Xiao Mu said, and then changed his words, "But ......"

"But they can't have only three or four people in a family, the old and the young, plus the servants and maids, I'm afraid there will be dozens or hundreds of people......" Before Xiao Mu could continue, Lin Yi understood what he meant, and continued for him, "So their Yulu can't support such a large family at all." ”

"That's right, that's why they want to make extra money, if they don't earn extra money, their families will have to fight with the northwest wind, like Hou Shilu, a general soldier who shows off his wealth, not only to support his family, but also his personal guards, it will cost countless money, and the court's Yulu is just a pocket money for him." Xiao Mu said helplessly.

"It seems that this problem is already quite serious, and you, the emperor, really have a long way to go to solve it." Lin Yi said as he pinched a handful of sweat for Xiao Mu.

However, Xiao Mu shook his hand directly, and said very unambitiously, "I'm afraid I can't solve this problem, the original history of Emperor Chongzhen can't solve the problem, I, an impostor, how can I have the ability to solve it?" ”

"Not really, right? You are the emperor, if even you can't solve it, then who else can? Lin Yi was also very surprised to see Xiao Mu so unconfident-after all, the man in front of him was still boasting about something just now, "God forcibly made him sick in order to prevent him from exerting his full strength", but before he was too old, Xiao Mu seemed to be a different person, and suddenly became inferior.

"How can I fix it? Give more money to the officials? Now the imperial court is short of money everywhere, come to Zongdao to tell me, the most thing that Bi Ziyan, the head of the household department, told him the most all day long is that the court has no money, if I didn't hand over all the big and small affairs to the cabinet to deal with, I would be the one who listens to Bi Ziyan crying poor every day. The more Xiao Mu spoke, the more he spoke, as if he began to cry with Lin Ye, "Fortunately, this time Hou Shilu and they took the pleading, saying that they had accepted bribes from Wang Dengku and offsetting their merits." Otherwise, just for their merits this time, the court will have to reward them heavily, and they don't know where to find the silver for this heavy reward. ”

Before Lin Yi could speak, Xiao Mu continued, "It is impossible to give the officials more money, so is it possible for them to lay off the servants and maids to reduce the family's expenses?" Of course not. ”

"Why?" Although Lin Yi knew in his heart that it was impossible, he still couldn't help but ask.

"There is a saying that 'upward and downward effects', my emperor's family has so many people, and all the eunuchs and palace maids in this palace are added together, how can there be tens of thousands of people, and it is not surprising that the officials have learned the same. If I want them to reduce the number of domestic servants and maids, I must first cut off the eunuchs and palace maids in the palace to block their leisurely mouths, but so many eunuchs, how can they live after they are eliminated? Or even if I really ruthlessly eliminated the eunuchs and maids in the palace, would they definitely reduce the number of servants and maids? ”

"I can't believe that you have been thinking about a lot of things in the past few days when I have heat stroke." Lin Yi commented, feeling that this was not quite Xiao Mu's style.

"Huang Taiji has put his hand in my pocket, I have to ask, right?" Xiao Mu replied, "Don't say it, the person who came up with this idea for Huang Taiji is really one." Talents', with the property of millions of Han people they robbed and killed in Liaodong, went to Zhangjiakou to buy the grain and iron tools produced by the Ming Dynasty, and then used these materials to equip their army, they could intensify their efforts to rob the finances of the people of the Ming Dynasty, and the robbed finances could continue to go to Zhangjiakou to buy materials from Wang Dengku and them, which was a snowballing growth of strength for the Houjin, and for the Ming side, this is undoubtedly a vicious circle. ”

"In addition to the Houjin Emperor Taiji, the only ones who will benefit in the end are Wang Dengku and their merchants." Lin Yi added.

Xiao Mu said affirmatively, "Yes, this is the most hateful part, so these merchants are really profiteers of the Ming Dynasty, nobles of Houjin, and the goods produced by the Ming Dynasty were sold to Houjin by them, and they must be able to make a lot of profits from it." In my opinion, if you have to do this business with Houjin, it is better to do it personally by the imperial court of the Ming Dynasty, the treasury is empty, and the imperial court must be brave everywhere, so that at least that part of the profits originally taken by those merchants can be obtained by the Ming court! ”

"Isn't this a 'drink to quench your thirst'?" Lin Yi naturally heard the drawbacks of this approach, "Even if the imperial court is really short of money, it can't do this, although it gets this part of the profit from selling goods, it still makes Houjin stronger, and after Houjin is strong, it will definitely make the Ming side pay a greater price." ”