Zhu Houzhao crossed his hands and hugged his chest, surrounded by his courtiers.

"Where are the four people from the Han Wangfu now?"

Zhao Shen said, "Your Majesty, the minister has already sent someone to search for him." ”

"Are the people from Tobe there?"

Han Wen bowed his head and stepped forward, "The old minister is here." ”

Zhu Houzhao tilted his head, "After listening to this story, I understand." The creditors of the Han Wangfu clan are the imperial court, and I owe them this money. So their gambling money should come from the household, right? ”

"Your Majesty forgives you for the sin, this matter ...... The old minister didn't know about this. ”

"Why don't you know? Can you know the money that goes out of the household? ”

Han Wen's heart tightened, "Lieutenant Fengguo is only two hundred stone a year, this amount is small, minister, I really don't know." ”

"I don't know what kind of treasury you are in charge of!" Zhu Houzhao suddenly got angry.

So from the elder of the pavilion to the Shangshu, and then to the waiters who rushed over to make trouble, they all knelt down.

"The Zonglu of the clan is determined by the ancestors, and I should allocate it to them," Zhu Houzhao raised his eyebrows, pointed to Han Wen and said, "So if you really go out of the household department, it doesn't matter, it is natural to repay debts, two hundred stones, and four people are only eight hundred stones, which can't scare people." But there is a shortage of money and grain in the treasury, you don't know this book, this is your fault, after this matter, I want to check the accounts of the household department, I don't know, you don't know, so Ming money and grain are in whose hands, how many outsiders or how many principals? ”

"Let's talk about Li Mengyang's matter, you are all kneeling here today to ask for his life, in the end, this is not a difficult thing, whoever committed the crime, find out the evidence, I will do him today! Da Ming is the biggest, and you civil and military nods, what are you afraid of? ”

"Your Majesty Shengming!"

The shout was loud.

"Isn't that holy, if your wish has been granted? Zhao Shangshu. ”

"The minister is here."

"What is the crime of the clan entering Beijing without the will of the clan and beating the officials of the imperial court?"

"No will, no entry into the court, this is the holy decree of the ancestors, if it is disobeyed, it is a disobedience to the holy will; Beating an official of the imperial court is contempt of the imperial court, and the punishment for both crimes shall be combined, and the crime shall be beheaded. ”

"So, you want me to arrest these four people and behead them, and this matter is over, isn't that the case?"

"Your Majesty!" Mao Cheng, the right deputy capital of the imperial history, asked, "Since Chenghua and Hongzhi, the royal palaces and clans have repeatedly told each other about poverty, especially in a barren place like Gansu, where local financial resources cannot cope, so that the clan is poor, hungry and cold, and there is no way to complain, and then the clan leaves the fiefdom without permission and goes to Beijing to play everywhere, but the two emperors of Xianmiao and Xiaomiao have not had such a will to kill them at every turn.

In the thirteenth year of Hongzhi, Xiaomiao issued a decree to reiterate that the affairs of the feudal government should be carried out in addition to the prince or the confidential and important feelings, and the big and small things must be revealed to the prince first. At that time, His Majesty was still the crown prince, and he also saw it with his own eyes.

Now, the old system is in the past, why has the situation changed suddenly after only a few years? ”

Zhu Houzhao knew that if he wanted to kill the clan with this matter, some old Confucians would definitely not agree.

Confucianism has always been to be benevolent and righteous, killing people of the same clan, even if it is a folk thing that rarely happens, and the ancient emperors generally did not do it, except for rebellion, of course, and this kind of angry emperor, the old Confucianism does not like it.

In that case, he was not in a hurry, and went back to the dragon chair and sat down.

On the other side, Wang Bing, the elder of the pavilion, came out to speak, "Mao Vice Xian's words are wrong, this incident is because the officials of the four grades of the imperial court were beaten on the street, among the Beijing teachers, everyone knows it, and after a while, the whole country will know, if the court does not come to uphold justice, then where is the justice?" The crimes committed by these clans in the Han Wangfu are not a crime due to poverty? Besides, if you get money and food here, and go to the gambling house over there, if you are poor, you can blame the court and Your Majesty?! ”

"That's it!"

"What Wang Ge said is reasonable!"

……

Zhu Houzhao pretended not to know, "Han Shangshu." ”

"The old minister is here." Han Wen stepped forward.

"Didn't they all say that Ming Zhongxing? Why do you still owe so many sect members? You calculate, can the imperial court find a way to make up for all the Zonglu owed, and how much grain will this get? ”

This is a requirement that has never been mentioned before.

Han Wen will not be idle to calculate how many Zhenguo generals and Fengguo lieutenants there are in the country, which ones are given to Zonglu and which ones are not given to Zonglu, what about thousands of people, who will worry about this?

Besides, he's so old, he just wants to take care of it, and his energy can't keep up.

So he could only make a rough outline, "Your Majesty, the annual payment of the treasury to Zonglu is about two or three million stones. ”

Zhu Houzhao was dissatisfied, "You are really a rich man, a touch of the upper lip and the lower lip is the entry and exit of a million stones, how can the person in charge of the money be so careless?" Your two squires are also here, go down and calculate carefully, not to say that one stone is not bad, but it should be relatively accurate. ”

Han Wen was a little uncomfortable after two criticisms in a row, and retreated with some nervousness, while behind him, two more officials followed.

Zhu Houzhao asked again: "But who knows how many members of the clan in the world there are?" ”

Jin Gui, the attendant in the chamberlain, replied after he saluted, "Your Majesty, the specific number of people in the Zongren Mansion can be checked in the jade plate, and you can know it when you read it." However, the minister also knows about the number. ”

"How much?"

"About 2,800 people."

The crowd exclaimed, how many are there?

Anyway, the emperor was not in a hurry, so he let the courtiers talk to each other.

After a while, You Ji whispered and said, "Your Majesty, Li Mengyang is here."

The emperor nodded, but did not shake his head, and You Zhi understood.

"Silence!"

The great eunuch shouted, and everyone stood with their heads bowed in front of the emperor.

"Xuan, Li Mengyang is here!"

Zhu Houzhao also sat down, Li Mengyang is not Yan Song, he has to pay attention to the emperor's demeanor.

The head of the person who came was still wrapped in a white cloth, but the blood stains were gone, and only a small patch of skin on the right side of the face was still blue and purple, and under the white cloth was a face full of righteousness and no flattery.

"Minister, transcription of Huang Tong's political envoy Li Mengyang, knock on the saint!"

"From. Li Mengyang, you entered the palace today because of the fact that the Han Wangfu clan beat you, right? ”

"Enlighten the Holy Lord!" Li Mengyang raised his arms flat, looked straight ahead, and said in a loud voice, "The minister is not here for this. ”

"Then why are you here?"

"When a courtier sees a king, he is here for the country! The minister is for the sake of the Ming Dynasty and sees His Majesty! ”

The corners of Zhu Houzhao's mouth were hooked, and these people who had read books liked this kind of tone.

Li Mengyang said loudly: "Your Majesty, have you ever heard of the origami among the Jingshi recently? ”

"What origami says?"

"It's just that a piece of paper can't be folded seven times. Why? It is a rapid doubling of the number, far beyond human expectations. Dare to ask Your Majesty, during the Hongwu period, there were vassal kings in the world? ”

"In the last years of Hongwu, there were fifty-eight vassal kings."

"What about today?"

"All the ministers know, more than 2,800 people."

Li Mengyang immediately said: "Thirty years will double, thirty years later, the Ming Dynasty will have 5,600 clans, another thirty years will be 12,000 people, and another thirty years will be 24,000 people, it can be seen that after a hundred years, the Ming Dynasty will be full of clans, and at that time, there must be more vassal kings who enter Beijing because of poverty!" The world's money and grain are taxed, and it is difficult to support the clan, even if it can still be supported after a hundred years, what about two hundred years later? What about 300 years? Or, can I have three hundred years of Daming?! ”

This kind of thing can be said in private, and it is a bit shocking to say it in front of the emperor.

"Presumptuous!" Zhu Houzhao could only scold him directly, "This is Fengtian Palace!" ”

Poof!

Li Mengyang knelt down directly, and his face did not retreat, "The ministers are guilty of the clan, the clan takes revenge on the ministers, the ministers have no regrets, the other is fearless, the ministers are loyal to the country, and the righteousness is also, what is there to fear of death?!" Therefore, today's minister's death is small, but the Ming Dynasty's eternal affairs are big! Zonglu's predicament, the hands and feet of the court, if you don't go, you can't move for a day! All of them are related to the foundation of the ancestors and the people of the world. Your Majesty, Please! ”

At this point, he touched his head to the ground and shouted with all his might, "See! ”

There were even echoes in the Fengtian Temple.

His statement like this is that Yang Yiqing and Wang Wei are also vivid.

This is a loyal minister!!