It can't be killed by Sima Lin. After saying this, the officials also listened to it as a joke.

But one person suddenly said, "Then do you think, who can kill Ma Yu? Who has the courage to kill Ma Yu?"

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

"Ask a great speaker?"

All the officials looked at the second hall, and the official with a frown frowned and said, "Why are there so many nagging? It was Lin Sima, not Lin Sima killed. Is there any difference?"

After saying that, the official of the breeze robe retreated into the second hall. Ma Yu was dead, but the matter had not been discussed yet, so he was in the mood to share it with them.

With a loud bang, the door of the two halls suddenly closed.

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

The officers and soldiers silently covered the white cloth on Ma Yu's head and then raised the stretcher. The officials looked at Ma Yu, who had just come to Henan, who was so majestic and powerful, and lost his life, and then they carried it all the way out.

"Well killed!"

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

"I still can't believe it."

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

"The reason why the envoy in the palace was rampant was because the king's law could not kill him. But if he was not afraid of the king's law, what's the harm in killing him? It's too late to pay for his life!"

"Well said, Lin Sanyuan is not afraid of death, are he still afraid of the king's law?"

The officials roughly summarized the outline of the matter.

"Hurry, tell other colleagues about this matter immediately!"

"This is not good."

"What's wrong with that? We didn't let us not speak out just now. In other words, we can speak out."

"We can contact the officials and gentry in Henan, and jointly write a letter to the emperor, begging for the pardon of Sima Lin and not guilty!"

"Sima Lin can kill a predestined eunuch for our people, so why can't we people write to the emperor to plead with the emperor?"

"The sun is bright, so you must not let good people be wronged."

"Even if the emperor is angry, he must take into account the public's opinion."

"Well, the book says, the heaven sees itself and the people see it, and the heaven hears itself and the people hear it. The so-called will of heaven is the will of the people. The emperor is the holy king, and the public will be the first priority."

"Let's go, let's spread this matter!"

While speaking, the officials had already made a decision, and many people had no intention of waiting and spread the news.

Everyone walks with the wind, and they are determined to be determined on their faces.

A few days later, the governments were in full swing!

But at this moment, the officials had another idea.

As Lin Yanchao said in the hall just now, his intention was not to kill a Ma Yu, but to King Lu's vassal. Otherwise, if he killed a Ma Yu, he would have another Ma Yu.

Regarding King Lu's vassal, Henan officials agreed to ask King Lu's vassal palace to change it to the original residence of Hengzhou Prefecture in Huguang.

You should know that the vassal residence of Hengzhou Prefecture in Huguang was built by Zeng Shengwu, the Minister of Works, when Zhang Juzheng was in power, and the construction cost was as high as one million taels of silver after completion.

At that time, Hengzhou Prefecture was rich, and the emperor also intended to take care of King Lu.

But later, King Lu said that Hengzhou Prefecture was too far away from the capital and could not be close to Tianyan, so he changed his vassal in Henan. The vassal residence built at the beginning was a million taels, which meant that he would not have to. So the unanimous agreement of Henan officials in the hall was that you, King Lu, would go back to Huguang for me.

Another thing is the Fonda incident.

King Lu wanted 15,000 hectares, and then he sought to seize the property of King Jing, which was worth tens of thousands of hectares.

Henan officials unanimously wrote a letter saying that in the early Ming Dynasty, the prince's annual salary was only a thousand hectares.

Later, he was named a prince. Although the emperors of all dynasties were mostly private and gave him more, they were all in the scope of thousands of acres.

But King Lu actually gave tens of thousands of hectares, which was an order of magnitude. Therefore, Henan officials said that they could only give thousands of hectares of fields, and there was no more.

There are about two or three thousand hectares of land in small counties, seven or eight thousand hectares of land in large counties, one or two thousand hectares of land in small prefectures, and only 30,000 to 40,000 hectares of land in large prefectures. The fields of Lu Wang vassals are equal to the fields of a large prefecture.

This vassal residence has only one or two vassal fields, and there are three more, namely the Luyin from Henan.

In the 11th year of Wanli, Henan's wealth silver reached 268,400 taels, while Henan's annual tax silver discount was about 1.5 million taels.

In other words, nearly one-fifth of the tax revenue in Henan Province raised the royal family. In the future, King Lu had to add some money to the vassal.

But even so, one-fifth of the tax revenue of a person still cannot support these vassal kings. Because the salary of the judiciary was too small, these royal families gathered to cause trouble. Before Yang Yikui took office, the royal family of the Zhou royal family had just besieged the Henan Governor's Office and blocked the dignified governor in the gate and did not dare to leave.

Therefore, Henan officials asked the emperor for an order, setting the Henan royal family's fortune as permanent quota, and no additional quota was allowed.

How do you understand this?

There is only so much money, and you vassal kings will take it to share it yourself. In a few years, decades, your Zhu family will only get so much money. Otherwise, the taxes of the court will be so large, but the descendants of the royal family will continue to increase. You will not have to eat up the entire Henan in the future.

Where can the imperial court raise you?

These letters were unanimously agreed by officials, and no one mentioned these matters. In the seventh year of Wanli, Zhang Juzheng submitted a memorial to the court, saying that the country's finances were limited, but the royal family was extremely fed, and it was not enough to give it to the world's taxes. What's more, the court's funds and the use of the nine borders.

The imperial court several times abolished the royal family's salary and rice, but now the prince only takes the prince's salary and rice.

For example, in the 43rd year of Jiajing, the imperial court decided to pay the prince, the general, the general, the lieutenant, the county lord, the county lord, the county lord, the county lord, the township lord, and the prince also reduced the salary, the smallest was 500 stones, and the most was 2,000 stones. I calculated it at that time and thought it was OK, which was considered to reduce a lot of burdens for the court.

But unexpectedly, in less than twenty years, the Luyin that had just been reduced was not enough. Why? Because the population of the royal family soared!

In the seventh year of Wanli, there were as many as 15,000 royal family members who had a jade plate on their list.

The royal family gave silver to the Ming Dynasty, which was actually not as good as the royal family of the Qing Dynasty. However, the Ming Dynasty had been established for a long time, and there were too many royal families. The poor in the royal family died of poverty, and even became beggars, while the rich were rich. The Ming Dynasty's fiscal revenue and population were not as good as the Qing Dynasty, so the harm of the royal family was far greater than that of the Qing Dynasty.

In terms of finance, the Ming Dynasty civil officials Zhang Juzheng, Gao Gong and others, as well as countless officials, were wearing black hats and repeatedly citing the royal family's fortunes and the emperor's inner treasury to attack the imperial power. However, the emperor felt that the literati and gentry were exempted from taxes, colluded with officials and businessmen, and their butts were not clean, and they even had the face to talk about my relatives and my private money.

The civil officials have discussed the abolition of the vassals' salaries for countless times. Now the officials in Henan Province have raised it again. Of course, there are no controversies. The waves of discussions came from the second hall, and the officials' opinions were not so unified.

"The steps seem to be a little bigger. I am afraid that the King of Zhou and the royal family in Henan will oppose these three matters."

"Hey, I just decided to pay for the permanent payment and no additional payment. It's not that I won't give them money. In fact, if I don't say it today, I will say it in the future. Our Henan Province can no longer afford the money."

"I think it's too difficult. It's better to ask the emperor to cut the salary of the royal family like in the Jiajing period."

"The cut is useless. Even if you cut half this year, you will have to cut it again without ten years. It is better to do it once and for all."

"The officials in the court have mentioned this matter in the past, but they took this opportunity to mention it together. Then contact the provincial government officials in Beijing and write a letter together, and you will definitely succeed."

Gu Ming was sitting in the hall in silence, listening to the buzzing sound beside him, and the officials on the side had signed the signatures on the draft agreement.

His expression was calm. He never said a word since Ma Yu died just now.

Some officials sarcastically said, "Gu Futai, don't you support me? Are you standing on Eunuch Ma's side just now?"

Gu Ming said with a deep face: "This adult misunderstood me, Gu. Gu only revealed the fact that Prime Minister Fu and Lin Tongzhi embezzled. This is his duty, but King Yu Lu has always opposed the matter of vassal of Henan."

"Ma Yu is a thief, cruel and abused the people, and everyone wants to be punished. If this person dies, Gu can only applaud and applaud. How can he be with him? Gu only has one sentence to kill him well!"

During the conversation, Gu Ming was already passionate and said nothing to the officials he had just ridiculed. There were such shameless people in the world, and all the officials couldn't help but curse in their hearts.

Gu Ming is already a very good at knowing the times and being a hero. Without saying a word, he also signed his name in the draft discussion and said, "In the matter of Yu Yi, Gu does not dare to be a queen!"

After Gu Ming had already bowed, he left with his longevity.

The next day, Cheng Cheng announced the position of the Ministry of Political Envoys and Prison.

Because the Governor's Office did not have a prison, Lin Yanchao was transferred to the Prison Office of the General Administration and the General Office.

After Ma Yu's death, his machoes were also imprisoned in the prison.

Now several prison soldiers in the prison guards stood aside with their hands hanging down, while Lin Yanchao was sitting in front of a few cases, holding a pen and writing a memorial.

And in the adjacent cell, screams came one after another.

One sound after another is very miserable, and it makes people cry.

The prison guard on the side saw Lin Yanchao's pen stop slightly, and immediately shouted angrily to the outside: "What's wrong? Don't you make a little less noise? I'll block my mouth and hit me again!"

"yes."

Suddenly, the prison became quiet.

The prison guard smiled and said, "Master Sima, Wenquxing in the sky, is really wronged to live with this man."

Lin Yanchao asked, "Are these people Ma Yu's minions?"

"Yes, these beasts have done so many things that are harmful to the heavens. The brothers are not polite to them. If it weren't for Master Sima, how many evils these people would have to commit. After asking for the confession, we will hand them to the emperor's desk to let the emperor know how many bad things Ma Yu has done in our Henan!"

The prison soldiers nodded one after another.

Lin Yanchao refused to comment on whether he could continue to write his memorial.

At this moment, the prison and the prison came into the door. Although the chief rank of the imperial guards only belong to the ninth rank, he was also a non-rank official.

He walked into the house, looked around with a shelf, and then said to Lin Yanchao: "Gu Futai of Kaifeng Prefecture is preparing to interrogate Lin Sima, please go with the officials!"
Chapter completed!