"It's really a big problem. www.biquge.info"After Lin Yi's reminder, Xiao Mu also realized the importance of this issue, "I allocated so much silver from the inner treasury for disaster relief, if each of the officials who handled it on the road took a little, in the end, I am afraid that there will not be much left." ”

"And I doubt that the budget of more than 1.5 million taels given by the cabinet is really accurate." Lin Yi continued to say "alarmistly", "I think it is very likely that this figure of more than 1.5 million taels is a figure that includes the 'loss' along the way, and if the officials along the way can be prevented from being greedy for ink, it is very likely that so much silver will not be used." ”

"Probably not, right? Lai Zongdao and Bi Ziyan are still loyal to the country, I don't think they can really do such a thing" Xiao Mu didn't agree with Lin Yi's suspicion.

Lin Yi had no choice but to explain, "I just doubt it, because after all, in history, this kind of officials have been greedy for disaster relief funds repeatedly, and it is very likely that in this time and space of the Ming Dynasty, there is already a very 'mature' set of rules for how this kind of disaster relief silver should be greedy for ink, and they may not be so clear about this unspoken rule, or they have regarded this unspoken rule as a normal phenomenon, so they have put forward such an estimate of more than 1.5 million taels." ”

"Well......" Xiao Mu touched his chin and thought for a long time, "The most important point is that we are outsiders who have crossed over, and once we have crossed over, we are the emperor and queen who almost don't need to spend money, and we don't have any experience about spending money at all, and we don't have a clear understanding of how much a tael of silver was worth and how much purchasing power was in the Ming Dynasty. ”

"It is precisely because of this that you can do the thing of spending ten taels of silver to buy stinky tofu to eat." Lin Ye also agreed with Xiao Mu's statement, and instantly gave a very appropriate example.

"Didn't you also spend two taels of silver to buy an ordinary feather duster?" Xiao Mu retorted weakly, after all, compared with spending ten taels of silver to buy stinky tofu and spending two taels of silver to buy a feather duster, the former is undoubtedly more unreliable.

Since this refutation was very weak, Xiao Mu didn't expect to be able to succeed in rebuttal, so he continued, "All in all, although I now think that your guess is very likely to be right, this is also speculation after all, and we don't have conclusive evidence, if the budget given by the cabinet and the household department is correct, and because of my suspicions, there is a gap in the disaster relief, the consequences are also incalculable." ”

"So, you're going to choose to believe this estimate?" Lin Yi asked in conclusion.

"Well, in the final analysis, this is actually a dilemma, if there is really no problem with this budget, and I doubt it, then I, the emperor, will be like those in the singing, the generals in front are loyal, but they become suspicious of them, so they cut off their arms and abandon their martial arts." Xiao Mu said with some embarrassment, and then retorted to himself, "But if I just believe it completely, I feel a little uneasy." Now that I think about it, the mediocre emperors I just mentioned are also likely to be the evaluation of future generations, and they may have been similar to my current situation at that time. ”

"Fortunately, this is just a disaster relief, not a real war, otherwise, I guess you may really do the foolish thing of suspecting your own general and sending fighter planes to the enemy." Lin Yi said, "Since you are not sure whether there is any water in the budget of more than 1.5 million taels, why don't you divide the silver that is going to be used for disaster relief this time in half?" If half of the silver is transported to the disaster relief in the past, if it is enough, it means that the previous budget has water, and the last half does not need to be transported again, and the saved money can be used elsewhere. ”

"That's a great idea!" Xiao Mu's eyes also lit up, but they quickly darkened, "It's just that if the officials along the way really have a greed for ink, it is impossible for them to make the half of the silver that was transported over first enough, and in the end, they will definitely need to transport the other half over, so that they can be greedy for ink happily." ”

"So, it's also a palliative approach." Lin Yi also rarely overturned his own suggestion, and then continued, "In fact, in the final analysis, the problem is to find out whether there will be a large-scale greed for ink during the disaster relief, or as long as this kind of greed for ink is eliminated, all the problems will be solved, and the answer will naturally be known whether the half of the silver that has been transported first is enough." ”

"But how easy is it to put an end to the phenomenon of ink greed that has been common throughout the ages?" Xiao Mu was still very depressed, "Then have you thought of any good solutions?" ”

"How can I possibly find a way to solve this problem that has existed for thousands of years?" Lin Yi also gave a disappointing answer neatly, "If the solution is really so easy to think of, there will be no story of Bao Qingtian Chenzhou releasing grain." ”

"In this way, this is still an unsolvable problem." Xiao Mu couldn't hide the disappointment on his face, "The way I can think of now is to send a figure like Bao Qingtian to Zhejiang to supervise the local disaster relief and the cost of silver taels for me."

"But in this era, where is there a character like Bao Qingtian? In the entire Ming Dynasty, there is only one person who can be compared with Bao Qingtian, Hai Rui, but unfortunately he was an official in the Jiajing period, and now he is no longer alive. Lin Yi poured another basin of cold water on Xiao Mu.

"But even if there is no person like Bao Qingtian, but the supervision still has to supervise, in short, there is no harm in sending a few imperial historians of the Metropolitan Procuratorate to Zhejiang to supervise it, and the setting of the Metropolitan Procuratorate is not used to supervise hundreds of officials?" Xiao Mu replied.

"This can be regarded as a way to have no choice, you can send a few more batches of imperial histories separately, let them each go to Zhejiang to supervise, and then report the results they see to you separately, so that you can compare the last few reports with each other." Lin Yi put forward another suggestion for improvement, "But even so, the final effect may be minimal, after all, the imperial history of the Imperial Court and those officials who want to be greedy for ink are also from the imperial examination, and it is very likely that they will have a ......relationship with each other, the same year, etc."