It can't be killed by Lin Sima, after this sentence was said, the officials also listened to it as a joke.

But one of them suddenly said: "Then who do you think can kill Ma Yu?" Who has the guts to kill Ma Yu? ”

"Yes, who is the person who killed Ma Yu? Except for Lin Sima. ”

"Counsel the Great Staff?"

All the officials looked at the second hall, and the scarlet-robed official frowned and said, "What is so long-winded, it was Lin Sima, not Lin Sima who killed it, is there any difference?" ”

After saying that, the scarlet robe officer retreated into the second hall, Ma Yu died, but the important matter has not been discussed yet, how can he be in the mood to share it with them.

With a bang, the door of the second hall closed suddenly.

But the other party left this sentence with a lot of information, but it undoubtedly confirmed that Ma Yu's death was related to Lin Yanchao.

The officers and soldiers silently covered Ma Yu's head with a white cloth, and then lifted the stretcher, and the officials looked at Ma Yu, who had just come to Henan, majestic and powerful, and died like this, and then the blood was carried out all the way.

"Well killed!"

"Yes, who else is there besides Lin Sima?"

"I still can't believe it."

"But you also saw Ma Yu's corpse."

"The reason why the envoy in the palace is unscrupulous is because Wang Fa can't kill him. But if you are not afraid of the king's law, what does it matter if you kill it? It's just a big deal! ”

"That's right, Lin Sanyuan is not afraid of death, are you still afraid of Wang Fa?"

The officials gossiped and roughly summarized the outline of the matter.

"Quick, tell the rest of your colleagues about this immediately!"

"It's not good."

"What's wrong, just now Dai Da Ginseng didn't make us silent, in other words, we can make a noise."

"We can contact the officials and gentry in Henan and jointly send a letter to the Son of Heaven, begging for forgiveness of Lin Sima's innocence!"

"Lin Sima can kill a eunuch for our people, so why can't our people go to the book to plead with the Son of Heaven?"

"Every day is clear, and good people must not be wronged."

"Even if the Son of Heaven is angry, we must take into account public opinion."

"Well said, Shuyun, the sky sees itself as the people, and the sky listens to the people, the so-called providence is the will of the people, and the Son of Heaven is the holy monarch, and he will definitely take the will of the people first."

"Let's get the word out!"

As he spoke, the officials had already made a decision, and many people had no intention of waiting any longer, so they spread the news.

Everyone walked with the wind, and there was a color of perseverance on all faces.

A few days later, the provinces were boiling!

And at the moment the officials have another idea.

As Lin Yanchao said in the court, what he meant was not to kill a Ma Yu, but to make King Lu a vassal. Otherwise, if you kill a Ma Yu, there will be another Ma Yu.

For King Lu's domain, the Henan officials agreed to ask King Lu to change the vassal palace to the originally built Huguang Hengzhou Mansion.

You must know that the mansion of Huguang Hengzhou Mansion was built by Zhang Juzheng when he was in the country, and the cost of the Ministry of Industry was one million taels of silver after completion.

At that time, Hengzhou Mansion was rich, and the Son of Heaven also intended to take care of King Lu.

Later, King Lu said that Hengzhou Mansion was too far away from Beijing and could not be close to Tianyan, so he changed to Henan to become a vassal. And the mansion that was built at the beginning, which amounted to a million taels, was said not to be wanted. Therefore, the unanimous opinion of the Henan officials in the hall is that you King Lu will go back to Huguang for me.

The other thing is the case of the domain.

King Lu asked for 15,000 hectares, and then begged for the property of the king of the king's domain, which amounted to tens of thousands of hectares.

Henan officials unanimously wrote a book, saying that at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the prince was only a thousand years old.

After the prince Feng, although the sons of heaven in the past dynasties were more partial and gave more, they were all in the category of thousands of acres.

But King Lu actually gave tens of thousands of hectares, which simply increased by an order of magnitude. Therefore, Henan officials said that they could only give Tian Qianqing, not more.

The acres of land in small counties are about two or three thousand hectares, the large counties are seven or eight thousand hectares, the small mansions are one or two thousand hectares, and the large mansions are only thirty or forty thousand hectares.

In this domain, the domain is only one or two, and there are three, which is the Luyin of Henan.

In the eleventh year of Wanli, Henan Luyin reached 268,400 taels, and Henan's annual tax was about 1.5 million taels.

That is to say, nearly one-fifth of the tax revenue of Henan Province is raised by the children of the clan. In the future, King Lu will have to add a sum of money.

But even so, one-fifth of the tax revenue of a province is still unable to support these vassal kings, because the rice is too meager, these clans gather people to make trouble, before Yang Yikui took office, the clan of the Zhou Wangfu just besieged the Henan governor's yamen, and the dignified governor was blocked in the gate and did not dare to come out.

Therefore, Henan officials asked the Son of Heaven for an edict to set the Henan clan's Luyin as a permanent amount, and no additional distribution was allowed.

How do you understand this?

It's just that there is so much money, you vassal kings take it and divide it yourself, a few years, and a few decades later, no matter how much more your descendants of the Zhu family have, we will only take so much money. Otherwise, the imperial court tax will be such a big piece, but the descendants of the clan have been increasing, and you will not eat the whole of Henan in the future.

Where did the court raise you?

These letters are unanimously agreed upon by the officials, and these things are not mentioned by no one, in the seventh year of Wanli, Zhang Juzheng is the court of Shang, saying that the country's finances are limited, but the clan has endless teeth, and the world's taxes are not enough. Not to mention the funds of the imperial court, which are used by the nine sides.

The imperial court has abolished the clan's silver and rice several times, and now the prince is only the Lu rice of the county king.

For example, in the 43rd year of Jiajing, the imperial court decided to reduce the county king, the general into 70%, the lieutenant into 60%, the county lord, and the county and county lord by 80%, and the prince also reduced the salary, the less than 500 stones, and the more 2,000 stones.

But I didn't expect that in less than 20 years, the Lu silver that had just been reduced was not enough. Why? Because the population of the clan has skyrocketed!

In the seventh year of Wanli, there were as many as 15,000 people in the clan.

The Ming Dynasty clan gave silver, in fact, it was not as good as the Qing Dynasty clan, but at this time, the Ming Dynasty had been in the country for a long time, and there were too many clans, and the poor in the clan died of poverty, and even became beggars, while the rich were rich and flowing. The financial revenue and population of the Ming Dynasty were not as good as those of the Qing Dynasty, so the harm of the clan was far greater than that of the Qing Dynasty.

In terms of finance, the civil officials of the Ming Dynasty, Zhang Juzheng, Gao Gong, etc., as well as many officials, did not want to fight black gauze hats, and successively took the clan Lu rice, and the Son of Heaven Neiku said things, so as to attack the imperial power. However, the emperor felt that he was waiting for the scholars, the gentry were exempt from taxes, the officials and businessmen colluded, and the buttocks were not clean, and he still had the face to say that my relatives and my private money.

The abolition of the clan's silver has been discussed by the ministers many times, and now the officials of Henan Province have proposed it again. Of course, controversy is not without controversy, waves of discussion came out of the second hall, and the opinions of officials were not so unanimous.

"The steps seem to be a little bigger, and these three things are on the list, I am afraid that King Zhou and the clan in Henan will oppose it."

"Eh, it's just a fixed amount, no more distribution, and it's not that you don't give them money, in fact, I won't say it today, and I will say it in the future, our Henan province can't afford to give money for a long time."

"I think it's too difficult, so it's better to ask the Son of Heaven to cut the clan again like in the Jiajing year."

"It's useless to cut, even if you cut it by half this year, this time it won't take ten years, and you have to cut it again, it's better to do it once and for all."

"This matter has not been mentioned by the court in the past, and it is just a good opportunity to mention it together. Then contact the provincial officials in Beijing and write together, and it will definitely be successful. ”

Gu Ming was already sitting silently in the hall, listening to the buzzing beside him, and the officials on the side had already signed the draft proposal.

His expression was peaceful, and he had never said a word since Ma Yu's death.

Some officials ridiculed: "Gu Futai, don't you support it?" Are you on the side of Grandpa Ma? ”

Gu Ming said with a sad face: "This adult has a little misunderstanding of my Gu, Gu just exposed the fact that Fu Zhifu and Lin Tongzhi were corrupt, which is the duty, but King Yu Lu has always opposed the matter of Henan. ”

"Ma Yu, this thief is brutal and cruel to the people, everyone can't wait to get it, this person is dead, Gu can only applaud, how can he be in the same stream with him. There is only one sentence for Gu Mou, kill well! ”

During the conversation, Gu Ming was already impassioned, and he was speechless to say the official who had just ridiculed. There are such brazen people in the world, and all the officials can't help but scold them in their hearts.

Gu Ming is already a person who is very knowledgeable about current affairs and is a handsome person, and without saying a word at the moment, he simply signed his name on the draft discussion, and said after putting pen to paper: "In the matter of righteousness, Gu Mou does not dare to be the queen!" ”

After Gu Ming had already saluted, he walked away.

The next day, he announced that he was the political envoy of the prison department.

Because there was no prison in the governor's yamen, after Lin Yanchao killed Ma Yu, he was transferred to the political envoy and the prison department.

And after Ma Yu's death, his horses were also imprisoned in the prison department.

Now several guards of the prison department are standing aside with their hands down, while Lin Yanchao is sitting in front of a few cases, writing a letter with a pen.

In the nearby cell, screams came and went.

The sound was very miserable, and it was simply sad to cry.

The prison guard on the side saw Lin Yanchao's pen stop slightly, and immediately shouted angrily outside: "What's wrong? Won't it be quieter? I'm gagged, hit again! ”

"Yes."

Suddenly the prison was quiet.

The jailer smiled and said, "Master Sima, who is the Wenqu star in the sky, is really wronged to live with this cadre." ”

Lin Yanchao asked, "These people are all Ma Yu's minions?" ”

"Yes, it's these brutes who have done so many hurtful things. Nor were the brethren polite to them. If it weren't for Master Sima, how many sins would these people have done. After asking for the confession, let's hand it to the desk of the Son of Heaven and let the Holy Lord know how many bad things that Ma Yu has done in our Henan! ”

The guards nodded.

Lin Yanchao was noncommittal as to whether he could continue to write his own recitals.

At that moment, the Prison Keeper walked in the door. Although the chief secretary of the political department and the secretary of the prison department only have nine products, he is also a flow official.

He walked into the house, looked around left and right with the shelf, and then said to Lin Yanchao: "The Gu Mansion of Kaifeng Mansion is ready to interrogate Lin Sima, please come with the lower officials!" ”