"Once the prisoners are formed, all they have to do is to throw them into the prison." Zhu Wudao: "The Nine Battalions are their prisons. ”

"No, it's not enough to just rush back to the barracks, the barracks are not prisons after all, because we don't have the ability to suppress the nine battalions, and we can't be the pacification department for these prisoners." Shen Mo said lightly: "So we also need another group of prisoners to join us to help us draw the ground as a prison and complete the persecution of the other party, only in this way can we force the mutinous officers and soldiers to make a choice - as long as they choose, betrayal is inevitable." ”

"The other group you are talking about must be the Nanjing garrison officers." Combined with what he had done silently in the past two days, Zhu Wudao: "They are also facing the same dilemma? ”

"Yes." Silently tasted the tea, found that it was slightly cold, so he poured it casually, and enjoyed the scenery of the tea soup in the cup again, and said slowly: "Before entering the city, I analyzed the situation of these officers and found that they were facing this dilemma, which led to all the later designs. ”

"Their predicament ......" Zhu Wu didn't care about the cold tea, and drank dryly: "All indications show that although Xu Pengju and the officers of Nanjing City were not the masterminds behind this mutiny, their passive response after the incident, and even fanning the flames, undoubtedly contributed to the deterioration of the situation, making an ordinary chaos evolve into a vicious mutiny." ”

"Why are they fueling the fire?" Shen Mo found that Zhu Wu's intelligence far exceeded that of any of the Jinyi Guards, or even the vast majority of scholars, so he deliberately guided him to complete a reasoning.

"There are three reasons: first, the military pay cannot be reduced, because that is also the source of their wealth; Second, to divert the resentment of the soldiers, in fact, they eat indiscriminately, wantonly withhold, and when the soldiers are unable to continue, they still profligate extravagance, which is also one of the inducements for the soldiers' mutiny; Third, they hold a grudge against the long-standing oppression of civil officials, and they think that the household department just does not take out the money when they have it, and they want to take a bad breath and force the household department to take the money. ”

"At the beginning, they overestimated the strength of Nanjing's household department, thinking that the household department just had money and did not take it out, if so, the reason is all on their side, as long as the trouble is not big, the court can only appease." Zhu Wu continued: "But the development of the situation was beyond their expectations, there was no silver in the Hubu treasury, and it was difficult to raise it for a while. At this time, the mood of the mutinous officers and soldiers became intense, the situation got out of control, rushed into the yamen of the ministry, tied more than ten officials below Huang Shilang to the city, forced them to pay salaries, shouted and scolded and beat indiscriminately, and as a result, Huang Maoguan was killed. ”

"At this time, the fool also knew that the situation was serious, and these short-sighted guys finally realized that they were actually playing with fire, and began to want to end this mutiny, but there was nothing they could do." Zhu Wu continued: "The mutiny is fiercer than the tiger, once it starts, no one can control it if you don't release all your grievances." As a result, things have become so big that now not only the civilian officials who caused the mutiny will be unlucky, but also the generals who led the troops will not be able to escape. Saying that, he looked at Shen Mo and said, "It was precisely because he understood their situation that the adults made a decision and selected these garrison officers as a breakthrough." ”

Shen Mo nodded and smiled, and said, "And there is another point, although I can't do anything about the chaotic soldiers of the Nine Battalions, these garrison officers have to obey the authority of the Southeast Economic Strategy; So as soon as I appeared, the trial began immediately, and they had to make a decision right away. Saying that, he looked at Zhu Wudao: "What kind of choice do they face at this time?" ”

"Choice?" Zhu Wu pondered: "Because Lord Jingluo has arrived, and the silver has also landed, as long as the Lord makes enough concessions, even if the garrison officers remain silent, this rebellion will be quelled, but it will drag on for a longer time, the impact will be worse, and there will be endless troubles in the future." After a pause: "When the autumn is settled, their silence is inaction, and you can justifiably punish them for dereliction of duty and indulgence, which they do not want to see." ”

"And if they betray the rebels and cooperate with the rebellion, even if the final result is very bad, they have a performance that can be exonerated or at least commuted; And now the money is ready, and there is a pledge of non-disarmament...... This must have been the idea of these garrison officers, but the second had little to do with them, and they did not care whether they agreed or not, that is, that at this moment the rebellion ceased, all their demands would be satisfied, and it would be the best result they could get. ”

"There is another condition to add," Shen Mo smiled and said, "That is, everything is premised on me being safe and sound, so I will be mad in the middle, saying that whoever makes me finish my career, I will let whoever finishes the whole family play, etc., just to make them believe that if they want to get the best result, they must betray their subordinates." ”

"And you don't have to sell all your subordinates, you only need some people to be scapegoats." Zhu Wu also laughed and said, "So after throwing this prisoner into the prison, he will definitely unite with one of them and betray the remaining one together; At this time, whichever has the right to speak will become the target of the garrison's conspiracy. So there is only one result. The officers will inevitably unite with the first evil and betray and coerce together! ”

"Exactly!" Shen Mo clapped his hands and smiled: "We'll wait and see!" ”

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~'The surrender of the prisoners' may not appear at any time, and the urgent task of silence is to communicate well with the rescued officials in Nanjing, because they are a decisive force in the Ming political arena, and whoever despises them will inevitably pay a heavy price."

It is true that since Grandpa Cheng usurped the throne of his nephew and moved the imperial city to Běijīng, this Nanjing city has become the capital of Liudu, but some yamen in Běijīng City have everything here, except for the cabinet that was born later. Although the yamen of Běijīng are in charge of practical affairs, and in Nanjing, except for the military department Shangshu who is in charge of Nanjing's military affairs, and the governor's right servant of the household department who stores grain...... That is, the official positions held by the martyred Huang Maoguan, as well as such important positions as the household department in charge of the Houhu Yellow Book, are mostly in vain, and the officials have nothing to do, most of them have lost power in the political struggle, and have been arranged to be a 'bird raising scholar' or 'Maki flower imperial history'. In the eyes of the common people, it is the life of the gods, but for the people in the officialdom, power is their pursuit, except for the gray hair that urges people to be promoted, or the disease is full of physical and mental decline, which one is willing to live this kind of early retirement life?

And the same official position, although Nanjing's power can not be compared with Běijīng's, but the grade is the same, for middle and lower-level officials, as long as you have a way, can drill the camp, wait until Běijīng's side is vacant, and then someone to help talk, you can immediately transfer to the same level, promote to Beijing, change shotguns, and shake up again. For those high-ranking officials, Nanjing was just a safe haven after their temporary defeat, after all, losing power was by no means the same as defeat...... If you fail, you will go home directly to farm, you want to come to Nanjing to drink tea, and no one in the officialdom can endure, as long as the opponent loses power, these Nanjing's 'Bird Raising Shangshu', 'Flower Imperial History', can re-ascend to the court, become the important ministers of the bull's ear.

Nanjing's Shangshu is also a Shangshu, maybe when he will become his superior, how dare Shen Mo hold up in front of these old guys? So the next morning, he got up and washed, and after breakfast, he was ready to visit the old men...... The order is all arranged, according to the old and young, so that no one will have an opinion.

But to his surprise, the sedan chair had not yet left the Zhan Garden, and it was blocked at the door by six sedan chairs, and it turned out to be the Nanjing garrison eunuch and the five Shangshu lords who came together. Shen Mo hurriedly got off the sedan chair and greeted him on the side of the road, and the six sedan chairs also fell, five white-bearded old men in civilian clothes, and a beardless eunuch who was also wearing civilian clothes, got off the sedan chair with the support of the sedan chair driver.

"Xia Guan is about to go to visit your ministers and Gonggong He," Shen bowed silently and said, "I don't want to let you adults take the lead, Xia Guan is really rude." ”

The six of them all laughed and said, Lord Jinglu had too much courtesy, and Qiu Rong, the secretary of the Nanjing Rite Department, said with a smile: "Lord Shen has worked tirelessly for a few of us old guys, and we have come from afar, we are already very unhappy in our hearts, how can we sit at home?" He said with a smile: "A few old guys got up early in the morning, just to come to the door to thank them first." ”

Silent even said that he was frightened, and the two sides exchanged a few words, and those who had never met before had to be introduced. It turned out that the five adults were He Wei, the secretary of the Nanjing Military Department, the former Nanjing Hubu Shangshu, the current Hubu Shangshu Ma Kun, the Nanjing Rite Ministry Shangshu Qiu Rong, the Nanjing Officials Shangshu Guo Yangzhi, and the Ministry of Industry Shangshu Zhu Heng.

Silence invited six distinguished guests into the room for tea. When they entered, they fought over who walked in the middle, and several Shangshu said that they would let Shen Mo go in the middle, and Shen Mo was willing to agree, insisting on walking on the very edge; When he arrived in Jingmiao Hall, he quarreled over the seat, and everyone still wanted him to sit on the head, but he silently insisted on refusing, and was willing to accompany the last seat, and retreated for a long time like playing Tai Chi before finally sitting down.

These red tapes are very boring and useless in many cases, but at this moment, they are essential and very important, because putting on this low posture of the lower officials and juniors shows that Shen Mo does not coerce the prestige of the southeast economy strategy, and regards himself as the savior of everyone, which will undoubtedly make these high-ranking officials who have just experienced major setbacks feel very gratified, and thus have a great impression of him. No matter where you are, good relationships are the first and foremost condition for success, as they allow you to do more with less.

Sure enough, the old men felt very good about this 'very well-behaved' little adult, and the meeting began in a harmonious and friendly atmosphere.

First of all, the bosses once again expressed their warm thanks to Shen Mo for arriving in time to resolve the rebellion. At the same time, Shen Mo also expressed his sincere condolences to the boss and expressed his cordial concern to their subordinates.

Then there is a review of the incident, Zhang Wei introduced to Shen Mo on behalf of Nanjing officials, in fact, their understanding of the details is not as good as silence, but Shen Mo still listened to Zhang Zongrong's introduction very attentively, and just right to express anger, nervousness, and happiness, to show that he empathizes. Especially when it came to Huang Shilang, who was beaten to death, everyone cried, especially Zhang Wei and Ma Kun, the two old men, who were in tears, crying silently, really sad for the hearers, crying for the listeners, and silently followed with a few tears, but except for the dead eunuch He Shou, everyone cried more than him. It's not that the young man doesn't have strength, it's just that he doesn't know Huang Shilang, and if he plays to his heart's content, it will be too much. This must be mastered.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ wept the dead, it's time to talk about the living, as soon as those mutinous pawns were mentioned, the bosses gritted their teeth with hatred, this is not to pretend, the bosses have been decent all their lives, how can they suffer such humiliation? Ma Kun said hatefully: "These soldiers are just a group of wolves who can't be fed, and they don't want to think about it, they haven't fought for more than two years, why have they been idle for more than 700 days, and they have been full for so long, and they have nothing to do, and the court still raised them for a few years in vain?" The 150,000 army will cost more than one million taels of silver every year. But Běijīng has already stopped the compilation, and eighty percent of the money will be raised by Nanjing itself. Let's take the year and say, the summer and autumn taxes were thrown to the imperial court, and a total of 700,000 taels were collected into the warehouse, plus various salt and iron patents, and miscellaneous items could reach 800,000 taels. However, the amount of silver that needs to be paid has reached 900,000 taels, and 200,000 taels of money have to be borrowed! ”

"And this has to be done by the government at no cost, and all the officials are tied around their necks, is this possible?" Ma Kun said emotionally: "How can you take the same money when you are fighting and when you are idle? Even a three-year-old knows that it's time to cut his salary! And it's not that it won't be issued, it's just a little reduced, so that the government can maintain basic expenses, just this little request, I repeatedly mentioned it, whispered and begged, but those who were soldiers were not moved at all, no one was missing, not two days late! Saying that, he sighed heavily and said: "The cause of this incident is because the household department has no money, even if it is a loan, it will have to wait until the second half of the year to get it, and it can only be sent a few days later, and those guys will make trouble because ......of this" Speaking of this, Ma Kun said sadly: "We are going to cut our own meat to them to eat, but they directly want our lives!" If it weren't for me visiting Cai Butang who was sick this time, it would be the old man who was tied to the bell and drum and killed......" Ma Kun hid his face and cried, unable to say any more.

"Even if you have a dog, you won't do this to your owner!" Everyone was indignant: "Ma Butang is too right, it's a group of wolves that can't be fed!" ”

Shen Mo nodded with him, and echoed a few words, even if he had different opinions, he couldn't contradict him at this time.

After everyone had scolded enough, and after scolding, Gonggong He screamed: "Lord Shen, you must go to the court, show the ins and outs, and severely punish those beasts!" ”

"Yes, Lord Shen, you can lead the play." Everyone chimed in: "Let's go to Ben together!" ”

Shen Mo smiled secretly in his heart: 'Seven twists and eight crutches', finally exposed the fox's tail, so courteously praising me, just to make me unable to refuse this request, right? He pondered for a moment and said: "The book must be on it, but běijīng should already know about it, we missed the best time to go to the book, if this time is on the book, it is just a simple description of what happened, there will definitely be no good fruit to eat." He added: "In our book, in addition to the narrative, there must be some more in-depth things, such as where the root cause is, the impact on the future, and how to avoid such incidents in the future...... In addition, we have already taken countermeasures, and we dare not take matters into our own hands. Said with a modest smile and said: "The boy is open-mouthed, please advise your adults." ”

Everyone was slightly surprised, they couldn't imagine that this silent was so young, but he was so sophisticated, and said in his heart that it seemed that he was really 'a vain man under the fame', so they put away the idea of using him as a shield, and analyzed it honestly. Shen Mo personally spread out the manuscript paper and picked up the pen to make a note...... He is a new official, and he doesn't care about Nanjing as usual, so of course there is no need to intervene at this time, and it is not appropriate to say more.

Everyone, you and I analyzed seven or eight articles one by one, and then sorted them out, and jīng became five reasons:

First, finance. Nanjing relied on its own strength to raise these soldiers, and the pressure was too great, and problems were bound to occur.

Second, the former governor. Because of the collapse of the Yan Party, there have been great personnel changes in the southeast in the past two years, and Hu Zongxian has also been impacted, becoming retracted, and even more unwilling to rectify defense affairs, laying the groundwork for today's chaos.

Third, Huang Maoguan, the right attendant of the household department in Nanjing, was an official who was diligent, honest, and very serious in his work, and was a rare cadre, but during the period when he was in charge of military salaries, because of financial constraints, it was difficult to continue, he was too anxious, impatient, and his methods were not very appropriate, which intensified the contradiction to a certain extent...... Fourth, military discipline: After two years of not fighting, and neglecting training, military discipline is lax, military discipline is extremely chaotic, and the place is unbearable, even if it is not chaotic this time, it will be chaotic next time.

Fifth, military attachés: The livelihood of junior officers and soldiers is already very difficult, and if middle and senior officers can share weal and woe with them, everyone can support each other to tide over the difficulties and avoid mutiny. However, the fact is that the officers deducted their salaries, ate the empty amounts, and did not restrain their corruption, which made the situation worse.

The above contradictions, due to many causes and one effect, induced this mutiny. This is the Nanjing civil official's determination of this incident——

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