Kong Kexi was a hale and hearty man. He was seven generations older than Kong Hongxu, the contemporary king of literature and propaganda.
The people he brought were all the elders of the Kong family.
Most of them were old people of Xi generation, six generations older than Kong Hongxu.
Kong Kexu and six others entered the palace.
After entering the Qianqing Palace, the obeisances are very serious and follow the etiquette. The etiquette is long and complicated.
Zhu Qiyu waved his hand impatiently: "You have something to say!"
"Your Majesty, the etiquette must not be discarded!" Kong Kexiu, who was over eighty years old, followed the rules.
Zhu Qiyu had a gloomy face and allowed him to continue saluting.
I'm like you, walking around every day when I'm free?
I have the time, why don't I deal with the memorial? What are you talking about here?
"It is true that etiquette cannot be abolished, but can you stop listening to my words?" Zhu Qiyu's tone became colder.
Kong Kexu trembled all over, and then he remembered the purpose of entering Beijing.
"It's a sin to be born late!" Kong Kexu stopped saluting.
"Tell me something!" Zhu Qiyu was impatient.
Mentioning the forced eviction of the Kong family, tears flowed from Kong Kexu's eyes: "Your Majesty, my family is suffering!"
Then I cried and cried non-stop.
Zhu Qiyu hated dealing with such people.
But he still endured it and said: "I know that I have to wait for you in Gaizhou. After Liaoning is pacified, Siping City will be rebuilt. I won't be wronged for long."
"Your Majesty!"
"My Kong family doesn't care about any problems in life."
"The sage once said: It is not enough to be a scholar if you are a scholar."
"But Liaodong is a place where barbarians live. The people have vulgar customs and do not know how to study."
"Especially Gaizhou garrison Jiao Sheng, who has no saint in his heart and treats me, the son of the Kong clan, extremely harshly."
"I, the lintel of a saint, will not argue with him."
Kong Kexu confused right and wrong: "But the late student still has to go to Beijing to complain. The main reason is that Jiao Sheng, Jiao Qian, and Shi Xian used the name of my Kong family to smuggle iron with the tribes of Mobei!"
Zhu Qiyu's pupils narrowed.
Sitting peacefully, Hu Hui figured out that the handle in the emperor's hands was smuggling!
"Smuggling?" Zhu Qiyu was surprised.
That's right.
Cao Yi was able to be knighted not because of his military exploits, but because of the small book he sent to the emperor.
Regarding the inside story of the Kong family's smuggling, Cao Yi suspected that Li Xian was behind the smuggling.
Zhu Qiyu also thought that Li Xian was supporting the Kong family.
"Please read it, Your Majesty!" Kong Kexi handed over a memorial.
Zhu Qiyu took a look.
But it was completely opposite to what Cao Yi presented.
Kong Kexu said that under the banner of the Kong family, Jiao Sheng and others smuggled ironware with Mobei and smuggled a batch of iron pots from Shandong.
He suspected that the Haraqin tribe led troops to attack Liaodong because of the uneven distribution of the spoils with Jiao Sheng.
Cao Yi said, however, that Bolai personally confessed that it was the Kong family who led the Haraqin tribe to attack Liaodong. When it came to Kong Kexu's mouth, it turned into an uneven distribution of the spoils.
The Kong family is capable of diverting misfortune to the east.
"How did you know?" Zhu Qiyu handed the memorial to Feng Xiao, and Feng Xiao presented it to Hu Xi.
"Return to Your Majesty."
Kong Kexi smiled bitterly and said: "Wansheng is really not satisfied with being placed in Gaizhou, so he writes to His Majesty every day to complain."
"But we will never dare to say anything about what His Majesty asks the Kong family to do."
He didn't even believe this himself.
Seeing how he spread rumors about the emperor's harsh treatment of the Confucius family on his way to Beijing, we knew that the purpose of his trip was to return to Shandong.
Kong Kexi said: "At this time, Tatars came to Gaizhou to contact the Kong family."
"As you know, King Wenxuan is too young to govern. The Kong family consists of several elders who form a council of elders to make decisions together."
"The Tatar envoy was taken away by Jiao Sheng as soon as he arrived at Kongfu Mansion."
"Wan Sheng began to have doubts at that time."
"After a lot of back and forth, after repeated investigations, I finally found out this shocking secret when the city was banned!"
Kong Kexu knelt on the ground respectfully: "So, Wan Sheng went to Beijing in defiance of the decree because he wanted to expose the true faces of Jiao Sheng, Jiao Qian, and Shi Xian!"
He speaks righteously and sternly.
But on his way to Beijing, he spread rumors that the emperor treated the Kong family harshly.
It is also said that the Kong family was forced to resettle in Gaizhou, and more than a dozen people died due to the acclimatization. Some were stoned to death by local people, and many were bullied to death by soldiers.
Today, there are tens of thousands of people in the Kong family, but they are crowded into the narrow Gaizhou. Each person lives in only one house and only has four dishes for a meal. They are not even as good as servants and maids.
In response to such a poor living environment, Gaizhou Satellite TV even instigated people to smash holes in their families with rocks. Bloodshed often occurred.
The central government ignored this, and so on.
Anyway, the situation of the Kong family is very miserable. If the ancestors opened their eyes, they would shed tears.
Otherwise, how could it arouse the excitement among the people in Shilin?
"Is this also the case with the imperial court?" Zhu Qiyu asked again.
"Back to Your Majesty, I have no official position in my late life and cannot meet the emperor. I can only let the scholars ferment. I go to the General Affairs Department to file a petition and ask for Your Majesty's favor!" Kong Kexiang always thought of the emperor.
You can't face me, but you can give me memorials every day. Isn't it ridiculous?
The purpose of filing a complaint is to use the words of scholars all over the world to force me to put the blame for collaborating with foreign enemies on the head of General Jiao Sheng.
Shi Xian died fighting for his country!
You don't even care about a dead person!
Zhu Qiyu winked at Feng Xiao and asked Feng Xiao to show Cao Yishang's secret memorial to Hu Hui.
Hu Xi called him a good guy.
Zhu Qiyu gritted his teeth: "I will investigate this matter myself. I heard that you are in Gaizhou and are having a lot of trouble with the local people?"
"Your Majesty, those ignorant and vulgar people actually stoned us!" Kong Kexu became furious when he mentioned this.
Zhu Qiyu raised his eyelids: "Is there nothing wrong with your family?"
"My family is a saint, and we are dedicated to educating all people. Naturally, we will not be like these inferior people." Kong Keyu had a strong sense of superiority.
Zhu Qiyu's eyes darkened: "But I heard that your family has occupied people's houses."
"It caused the death of that family's newborn baby."
"That's why I came to your family to argue, but was beaten to death by your servants."
"Is this happening?"
The place where Jiao Sheng settled the Kong family was half of Gaizhou.
But the Kong family couldn't live in this poor county town, and they disliked the dilapidated and cramped houses of the common people. Only one person could live in one house. How crowded?
So we simply drove out the entire Gaizhou people.
During the eviction process, there was a family. The woman had just given birth to a child, and the child could not see the wind. The family was forcibly thrown out of the house, and the baby died.
The woman's family went to the Kong family to argue, but the whole family was beaten to death.
"Your Majesty, this is definitely a rumor!" Kong Kexu refused to admit it until his death.
Zhu Qiyu suppressed his anger: "Jiao Sheng reported that some dandy boys in your family disturbed the kind-hearted daughters of ordinary people, causing two to commit suicide by throwing themselves into a well and four to be tortured to death. Is this possible?"
"Your Majesty, my family is the home of a saint. This matter is definitely a slander!"
Kong Kexu said quickly: "It must be Jiao Sheng who knew that Wan Sheng had noticed his secret and deliberately framed my family!"
Coming around again.
Zhu Qiyu has endured it no longer.
The Kong family only lived in Gaizhou for less than a month, and more than a dozen lives were lost. This is how they regard human life as nothing.
"Smuggling a thousand pots."
Zhu Qiyu pondered and asked: "Kong Kexu, have you ever figured out where a thousand iron pots come from?"
"Your Majesty, I come from Shandong."
"Half a year ago, Jiao Qian took a boat trip to Shandong on business."
"So Wansheng inferred that it was purchased at that time." Kong Kexu had already answered.
"Then do you know how much iron is needed for a thousand iron pots?" Zhu Qiyu asked again.
Kong Kexu really knew.
A two-foot iron pot requires twelve pounds of pig iron to make!
One thousand mouths is equivalent to twelve thousand kilograms of iron!
This is where a loophole appears.
General Jiao Sheng, where can you purchase so much iron?
Nowadays, the best-selling ones on the market are Guangguo, Lu Guo, Huaiguo, Wuxi Guo, etc.
Because these places all produce iron.
Does Shandong produce iron?
Kong Kexu curled his lips and realized something!
How did the emperor know that it was a thousand iron pots?
Wasn't the Haraqin tribe completely wiped out?
His head was built into a Jingguan. He saw it with his own eyes when he left the capital!
But the emperor not only knew what the Kong family had committed in Gaizhou, but also knew the number of iron pots. He also knew that the iron pots came from Shandong?
Shandong is being plowed, and the power of the Kong family is declining. Will news be revealed?
Kong Kexu secretly thought something was wrong and immediately tried to find a way to make amends.
"Your Majesty, this is just a late suspicion." Kong Kexu immediately took a step back.
"Doubtful? How can you resist and disobey the order just by being suspicious?" Zhu Qiyu didn't care whether he gave in or not.
Now that Liaodong has been pacified and the foreign troubles are gone, it’s time for me to clean up some rats.
This mouse in particular is so hated!
Originally, he felt quite embarrassed for taking so many things from the Kong family, so he wanted to be more liberal and just kill a few people.
But the Kong family is really shameless!
Are you treating me like a weakling? Then I will let you cut off your hands!
"Please forgive me, Your Majesty!"
Kong Kezhen did not explain.
The more you say it, the more wrong you become.
Prone on the ground to plead guilty.
Zhu Qiyu sneered twice and looked at Hu Hui: "Old Master, what do you think?"
"The laws of the Ming Dynasty strictly stipulate that smuggling ten pounds of iron is the death penalty!"
Hu Xi knelt on the ground: "Old minister, please your Majesty to investigate closely!"
Kong Kexu's expression changed.
Hu Xin was the Dinghai Divine Needle of the Ming Dynasty, and the emperor relied heavily on him. How could such an important minister be the emperor's lackey?
Open your eyes and look, my surname is Kong!
"Wan Sheng also thinks it's time to get to the bottom of it!" Kong Kexu agreed.
"Check, of course we have to check."
Zhu Qiyu was confident, so he changed the subject and asked him: "Are the Kong family still satisfied with Liaoning?"
Of course not satisfied.
But Kong Kexu couldn't say it, he had said it to death before.
He originally thought that he would use the smuggling case to claim credit, and then took the opportunity to bring it up and the Kong family returned to Shandong.
As a result, he thought that he was perfect, but he didn't know that he was full of loopholes. With this intelligence, it's no wonder that the Kong family has declined to such a degree.
"Why don't you speak?"
Zhu Qiyu looked at the rest of the Kong family: "Kong Xiyuan, tell me."
Kong Xiyuan was a generation younger than Kong Kexi, and he was also the ancestor of the Kong family.
"Reply to Your Majesty, I dare not say anything."
"Say!" Zhu Qiyu didn't want to talk in circles.
Kong Xiyuan said: "Reporting to Your Majesty, the Kong family wants to return to their ancestral land to take care of their ancestral temple. Please allow Your Majesty to grant it!"
This is the purpose of the Kong family risking their lives to go to Beijing.
Otherwise, on the way to Beijing, how could he spread rumors that the emperor treated the Kong family harshly?
It was precisely because of spreading rumors and waiting for Shilin to ferment that the six Kong Kexu's entry into Beijing was slowed down. This gave Zhu Qiyu a chance to move around.
"Why?" Zhu Qiyu asked knowingly.
"Your Majesty, the roots of the Kong family are in Qufu. If we leave Qufu, my Kong family will be like a rootless duck. How can we establish ourselves?"
Kong Xiyuan cried: "People say fallen leaves return to their roots, but we don't want to be ghosts in a foreign land."
"Then Wang Jue doesn't want it anymore?" Zhu Qiyu asked.
"I beg your Majesty to take back the prince's title. As a descendant of the Kong family, being able to be granted the title of duke is already my ancestor's legacy. We dare not waste our ancestor's legacy!"
Kong Xiyuan took the risk.
He is a side branch, and choosing him to say these words is to treat him as an outcast.
Once the emperor becomes angry, he alone will die.
If he succeeds, he will be a hero of the family.
"If you say you don't want it, then you don't want it. Then where will I put my face?"
Zhu Qiyu leaned on the desk with his elbows and asked: "Shandong and Liaoning have spent a lot of time and effort for several months. Now that you just say you want to go home, will everyone's efforts be in vain?"
"I have already issued a decree to make you a king and a lord. Now you say you don't want it, so you don't want it?"
"Are you slapping me in the face?"
"Yes or no!"
Zhu Qiyu suddenly roared.
The six members of the Kong family were lying on the ground.
"Those literati poked my spine and scolded me for being mean to the Kong family!"
Zhu Qiyu walked over slowly and asked: "Do you think I have ever been mean to your family?"
"No, no!" Kong Xiyuan quickly shook his head.
"Then when you enter the capital, what kind of imperial edict will you file?" Zhu Qiyu was furious.
"Wan Sheng and others are reporting criminals..." Kong Kexu said immediately.
Snapped!
Zhu Qiyu slapped him on the face: "Thank you for speaking out!"
Kong Kexu was stunned.
He never expected that the emperor would take action against him.
He doesn't even know that his backer Li Xian has not been beaten by the emperor, so you guys are nothing.
"Who is the guilty party?"
"have a look!"
Zhu Qiyu threw the memorial on the ground: "Open your eyes wide and take a look. This is Bilai's personal confession!"
"Still want to fool me?"
"Do I believe in you or the Liaodong Army?"
Kong Kexu opened the memorial, and his head exploded with a bang.
Signed Cao Yi.
The person who made the confession was Bolai. His handwriting was clear and there were Bolai's bloody fingerprints.
"Slander, Your Majesty, this is slander!"
Kong Kexi quickly knelt on the ground and said tremblingly: "Your Majesty, Jiao Sheng, Jiao Qian, and Shi Shi are all generals under Cao Yi!"
"Also, there are Jiao Li and Shi Ju in the capital, and they are Cao Yi's trusted generals!"
"It's only natural that Cao Yi covers up their crimes!"
"I refuse to accept my late birth. This is a slander!"
Kong Kexu had been on guard against this move for a long time.
This memorial cannot defeat him.
"Ten thousand kilograms of iron, do you think I can find out the source?"
"It's shipped from Shandong to Liaoning again. Is there no loopholes?"
Zhu Qiyu asked coldly: "I didn't check, just to give your Kong family face."
"Kong Kexu, don't be so shameless!"
"Late life is worthy of heaven and earth, and the Kong family is worthy of the common people!" Kong Kexu insisted.
Kong Kexu insisted that the emperor could not find out.
At least I can't find out today.
This is his confidence.
Otherwise, there is no way to eat human blood steamed buns.
However, they forgot that the secret message arrived in the capital much faster than they entered the capital.
“I won’t cry until I see the coffin!”
"I wanted to give you face, but you are shameless!"
Zhu Qiyu found a memorial from the case and held it up: "Kong Kexi, today I will cut you into pieces!"
Snapped!
The memorial hit Kong Kexu in the face.
This is Lin Cong's memorial.
After Zhu Qiyu received the report from Liaodong, he ordered Lin Cong to investigate the source of these iron tools.
Lin Cong personally cleaned up the Kong family and had already developed a deadly feud with the Kong family.
Naturally, he wanted to bring down the Kong family, and he was extremely concerned about the Kong family's affairs. He quickly found the source of this batch of pig iron, and even the blacksmith shop was sealed. The evidence was conclusive.
"This this……"
Kong Kexi opened his mouth, no, the emperor had set up a trap from the beginning, waiting for the Kong family to get in!
Cao Yi's report was sent to Beijing along with the victory.
After Zhu Qiyu received it, he sent someone to investigate quietly. He just happened to receive a report from Gaizhou, claiming that Kong Kexu and others came to Beijing to complain.
Therefore, Zhu Qiyu opened a big net and waited for the Kong family to get in.
"Come here! Drag him out and quarter him into pieces!"
Zhu Qiyu's eyes were fierce: "Go to Xihua Gate to dismember the corpse!"
"ah?"
Kong Kexu was so frightened that he kept kowtowing: "Your Majesty, spare your life, Your Majesty, please spare your life!"
"Don't I want to let you go?"
"You came to Beijing privately, and I did not blame you for disobeying the imperial edict and committing the death penalty!"
"You falsely accused General Jiao Sheng, but I kept backing down, pretending to be stupid, and pretending to be ignorant."
"My forbearance is seen as a soft persimmon in your eyes. If I retreat and you advance, what do you think of me?"
"Publish the decree again. Kong Kexi deceives the emperor and ignores the superiors. He secretly and colludes with foreign enemies. Everyone in the family will be executed!"
Zhu Qiyu looked at Kong Kexu fiercely: "Are you satisfied this time?"
"Your Majesty, don't want it, don't want it..."
Kong Kexu was completely frightened: "Old master, old master, help me to intercede, intercede!"
Hu Xi turned her head away.
To secretly collaborate with foreign enemies and lead Tatar troops to attack Liaodong is a crime of treason.
Do you know that everyone in Liaodong has died?
If the court wants to rebuild Liaodong, it will take twenty years!
Liaodong Army, how many soldiers died? The establishment has been defeated! It will also cost money to rebuild!
How much money did the center spend on this battle!
Just because of your selfishness, you put Ming Dynasty into a situation of fire and water!
Don't you deserve to die?
"More than these!"
"Shi Shi died fighting for his country!"
"He is the hero of Ming Dynasty!"
"How can I allow you to wait and slander my hero?"
Zhu Qiyu shouted sharply: "He Kong Kexu was quartered by five horses, all because of my mercy beyond the law!"
The entire Qianqing Palace was trembling.
After a while.
Zhu Qiyu said quietly: "It is decreed that Shi Geng has made great contributions to the country. We should cast a statue of Shi Geng in Gaizhou and build a temple to receive incense for Shi Geng forever!"
"All the soldiers who died in the battle in Gaizhou went to the temple to receive incense!"
"Daning City and all cities in Liaoning will follow this example and build temples for our Ming soldiers to receive incense!"
He wants to make a hero for the country!
Let the people of Ming Dynasty strive to be the heroes of Ming Dynasty, so that Ming Dynasty can have hope!
"Old minister, for the soldiers and civilians who suffered in Liaodong, I would like to thank Your Majesty for your kindness!" Hu Chong kowtowed.
Zhu Qiyu looked at Kong Xiyuan and others: "Do you know why I am very tolerant to you?"
"Because I feel guilty towards you."
"I temporarily placed you in Gaizhou, causing you to be surrounded by enemy troops, so I feel guilty."
"But you!"
"Ignorant of good and evil."
"Time and time again, they used my guilt to force the center to ask for credit from me."
"He even came to the central government to file a complaint against him for disobeying the imperial edict."
"I think you should go to heaven and complain before the Emperor of Heaven, complain to me!"
"Tell me to move your family out of Shandong!"
"Tell the Emperor of Heaven that I am guilty!"
Zhu Qiyu was furious.
Kong Xiyuan and others were so frightened that they fell to the ground and did not dare to make a sound.
Kong Kexuan is the oldest person in the Kong family.
The emperor killed him without batting an eye.
Does the emperor really care about being poked in the spine by literati?
Does he care?
The remaining five members of the Kong family were trembling.
"I ask you, how have I ever regretted you?"
"Just file a complaint against the imperial court. Why do you have to make it known to all the scholars in the world?"
"Causing Sergeant Kyoto to boil!"
"In just one night, people are everywhere criticizing me!"
"There are countless poems that curse me!"
"Why?"
Zhu Qiyu's eyes were cold: "Kong Xiyuan, tell me, where did I go wrong?"
"It's a crime to be born late, it's a crime to be born late!" Kong Xiyuan was frightened.
"You are indeed guilty!"
"Smuggling iron weapons, communicating with internal and external enemies, attacking our Ming Dynasty territory, and killing our Ming Dynasty people!"
"The crime cannot be punished!"
"go!"
"Drag him out and quarter him into pieces!"
"Kill all of his lineage!"
Zhu Qiyu roared.
"Your Majesty, this has nothing to do with me!" Kong Xiyuan went crazy.
Why? This is the decision of the Confucius Home for the Elderly. I am not from the Home for the Elderly. I am a selected soldier!
etc!
He found the emperor looking at him with a half-smile.
The emperor waited until the Kong family complained!
Why did Kong Kexu keep pleading guilty but dare not say that it had nothing to do with him, and would rather die than save the Kong family.
Because the emperor didn't want to kill anyone at all.
Instead, we should constantly weaken the authority of the saints, pour dirty water on the Confucius family, and break the hearts of scholars all over the world.
If Kong Xiyuan says he is not guilty, he must confess the guilty person.
Emperor, this is the confession you are waiting for!
"Tell me! Who did it?" Zhu Qiyu asked.
Kong Xiyuan swallowed: "Your Majesty..."
"I don't listen to nonsense. If you say another word of nonsense, I will cut you into pieces! Kill everyone in your lineage!"
Zhu Qiyu's eyes were sharp: "Including your married daughter and granddaughter, all of them will be killed!"
Kong Xiyuan looked horrified, but several other people kept giving him winks to tell him not to say anything.
"It was decided by the Presbytery, the Presbytery!" Kong Xiyuan didn't want to die.
The whole family has gone to Liaodong, why bother to contend with the emperor?
Wouldn’t it be nice to be a prince honestly?
"Feng Xiao, let him sign and pledge it!"
Zhu Qiyu looked at the other four people again.
The four people's legs were weak and they immediately kowtowed: "Please forgive me, Your Majesty, we are willing to take the lead!"
soon.
A confession is formed.
The list of the elders of the Kong family was listed.
The story of how the Kong family communicated with foreign enemies and how they gave Bolai an iron pot as a greeting gift was all written down.
Zhu Qiyu handed it to Hu Xi.
Hu Xi's whole face was full of pain.
The emperor used him as a shield.
"Treason, the nine tribes should be punished!" Hu Hui knelt on the ground.
Zhu Qiyu took the list and handed it to Feng Xiao: "Let Li Xian do it. Kill them all. Their heads will be pickled and sent to all parts of the country. One will be hung on every city gate!"
"Let the world know again!"
"At all the city gates, under the heads of the people, post the confessions so that the people of the world can see what the Kong family is going to do!"
Kong Xiyuan trembled all over.
The emperor wanted to use the Kong family as a raft to frighten the world.
At this time, Qin Cheng came in from the outside: "Your Majesty, those literati are blocking me and don't allow slaves to kill people!"
"waste!"
Zhu Qiyu's eyes were sharp: "Call the imperial guards, Feng Xiao, to wear armor for me!"
"Password, curfew in Beijing!"
"Song Wei and Chen Shao entered the palace to escort him!"
"I think these people are going to rebel!"
Hu Xi suddenly opened his eyes: "Your Majesty, you can't!"
The emperor wants to expand the incident.
He did not tell the truth that the Confucius family was connected to foreign enemies, but also beat the world's intellectuals to shut up and stop saying what they shouldn't say.
Zhu Qiyu looked at him with sharp eyes.
"Your Majesty, these people probably don't know why. Please give me some time..."
"I think they are disrespectful!"
Zhu Qiyu shouted sharply: "Go, take my imperial edict and declare it to others!"
"Instruct the Bell and Drum Division to ring the bell. If someone rebels, enter the palace to serve the king!"
Zhu Qiyu turned around and entered the inner palace.
These Jiangnan literati had no respect for the emperor at all.
Today, I will let you know whose day it belongs to!
When the palace bell rings.
The whole capital was in a state of turmoil.
The Fifth Army Governor's Mansion immediately took action, and the palace gate was the first to be closed.
The Jiumen Admiral's Mansion closed the city gates, placed a curfew in the capital, and placed important places such as the Mobei Prince's Mansion and the king's residences under surveillance.
The horse-raising army and the bodyguard army entered the palace.
After Li Jin succeeded as the Admiral of the Nine Gates, Chen Shao succeeded him as the Commander-in-Chief of the Horse Army.
After Song Jie resigned as the commander-in-chief of the bodyguard army, he was succeeded by Song Wei.
Zhu Qiyu was wearing armor and sitting on the chariot with his sword in hand.
The guards entered the palace first, and the horse army surrounded Xihua Gate.
When the Xihua Gate opens.
The guards poured out and the royal chariot appeared in the doorway.
Outside Xihua Gate, there was a scene of solemn killing.
All the literati were pressed to the ground by the soldiers.
These literati were all confused. They only prevented the eunuch from brutally killing Kong Kexu, but how could they be suppressed by the army?
"I want to see who is going to rebel!" Zhu Qiyu's cold voice came out.
The literati were even more confused, looking left and right, who was rebelling?
"Your Majesty, help me!" A bold scholar shouted to the emperor for help.
"Is Kong Kexu dead?"
Zhu Qiyu pretended not to hear and asked Qin Cheng.
"Go back to your Majesty, you're still alive!" Qin Cheng replied cautiously.
"waste!"
Zhu Qiyu cursed: "Immediately cut the body into pieces. Where is Chen Shao? You do it!"
"I obey the order!" Chen Shao knelt on the ground to receive the order.
Chen Shao was an honorable minister, and he and the civil servants belonged to two different factions. He was also the emperor's loyal dog, so he didn't have so many scruples.
Qin Cheng was scolded, but he felt proud, as if he had been praised.
Think about it, if he had killed Kong Kexu, would there still be this big drama?
Thousands of literati were suppressed to the ground.
I saw with my own eyes that Kong Kexu, the senior member of the Kong family, had his limbs tied to a horse.
Kong Kexu was full of filthy words. He first begged for mercy and then cursed, scolding all eighteen generations of the Zhu family.
Click!
The scene was extremely bloody.
What confused the literati the most was that the senior member of the Kong family had no respect for the imperial power and dared to scold the emperor's ancestors!
Do they still bear the stigma of rebellion for such people?
does it worth?
Just for a moment, everyone regretted it.
"Kong Kexu, I will kill him!"
"Who is dissatisfied?"
"stand out!"
Zhu Qiyu's sharp voice came out.
After waiting for a long time, no one came forward.
Nonsense, everyone is being suppressed, who can stand up?
"Didn't you gather a crowd to rebel for Kong Kexu? Why are you so scared now that things are about to happen?"
Feng Xiao saw the emperor yelling for a long time, but no one responded.
Immediately mention Song Wei and Chen Shao, and pick a few leaders to bring them over, so as not to embarrass the emperor.
"Your Majesty, this is unfair!"
The leading literati was named Luo Ziang, who was known as the most talented poet in Jiangzuo.
"I beg your majesty to forgive me. We are just not allowed to have any thoughts of rebellion after we castrate and slander the saint, your majesty!"
Luo Ziang believed that he was very righteous and did something very satisfying.
"Where is this? Do you know?"
Zhu Qiyu asked and answered: "This is Xihua Gate, the palace!"
"You are disobeying my imperial edict outside the palace and gathering people to cause chaos. What else is it if you are not rebelling?"
"Are you kidding me?"
"killed!"
puff!
Before Luo Ziang could finish his words, his head was chopped off.
These Jiangnan literati still regarded the emperor as a soft persimmon in the past. They could write acid poems and scold him whenever they wanted, and they could do whatever they wanted.
But it can be cut down with one knife.
Cut everyone's dreams into pieces.
"you say!"
Zhu Qiyu pointed to another one: "What are you doing when you gather outside Xihua Gate?"
The scholar was stunned.
With a pop, a big head fell to the ground.
Zhu Qiyu pointed at another one.
This time it scared people.
"Your Majesty summoned us here!" the scholar said immediately.
"What do you call yourself? Me? In front of me, do you dare to call yourself me?" Zhu Qiyu's eyes were fierce.
puff!
Another head fell.
"What should you call yourself?" Zhu Qiyu shouted.
"Late born, you should call yourself late born!" Of the four people brought here, only one was left.
"You are worthy of being born late?"
As soon as Zhu Qiyu finished speaking, another head fell.
I brought four of them, and they were all dead.
Feng Xiao winked at Chen Shao and brought over four more literati.
These four people were so scared that they peed their pants.
They never thought that they would be so unlucky to be chosen by the emperor.
"A bunch of useless trash, kill them!"
Zhu Qiyu kills people without blinking an eye.
Kong Xiyuan and the other five people were trembling.
For the first time, they saw that this was the real emperor, who regarded human life as nothing.
He can kill whomever he wants.
This is the real emperor!
The five of them were in endless fear at this moment. They were able to survive until now. It was truly an act of mercy from the emperor.
Four more literati were dragged over.
These four literati were like mud and had no strength left in them.
Just looking at the blood on the ground can scare someone to death.
"Who stopped the eunuch from killing Kong Kexu just now?" Zhu Qiyu glanced at the scholar who was pinned to the ground.
"Stand up and kill!"
"If you don't stand up for yourself, kill everyone!"
Zhu Qiyu said in a sharp tone: "You even dare to disobey my imperial edict?"
"Find them out and kill the nine tribes!"
As soon as this statement came out, all the literati were afraid.
Only then did I understand the difference between the emperor and the great emperor.
In the past, they could scold the emperors as much as they wanted, because there were people above them supporting them. The emperor had no imperial power, so he could only smile bitterly to himself and be like a wild boy stuck in a haystack.
The current emperor has imperial power in his hands. Who in the world cannot be killed?
Zhu Qiyu sat in the doorway, looking at the trembling literati outside.
When the swords and axes were applied, the literati woke up and began to bite randomly.
Scholars rebelled, but it took three years to succeed.
That's them.
Soon, those people who spoke for Kong Kexu were found out.
"Write it down and kill the nine tribes!" Zhu Qiyu didn't bother to torture them, so he just beheaded them without interrogation.
The literati outside Xihua Gate were all frightened to death.
However, the knife never fell.
"Do you think you should die?" Zhu Qiyu asked.
"You'll have to wait until you're born late!" the literati cried directly.
"Why?" Zhu Qiyu asked.
If you say we deserve to die, then we deserve to die. How can there be so many reasons?
We don’t know either.
"You should be damned if you are late and waiting to gather a crowd to cause trouble!" Some literati were smart and knew how to guess the emperor's thoughts.
"For this Kong Kexu, don't you even have an emperor in your heart?" Zhu Qiyu asked.
No one dared to speak.
puff!
Of the four people in front who were caught, one had his head chopped off.
There are three people left.
"Your Majesty, yes, yes..." He mumbled, and his head was chopped off.
Feng Xiao understood the emperor's thoughts.
As long as the emperor is dissatisfied, there will be people with heads on the ground.
No need for a wink from the emperor.
"Your Majesty, what we are reading is the book of sages. Kong Kexi is a descendant of Confucius. Naturally, he, who was born later, must speak out for them!"
When the scholar saw the two heads on the ground, he trembled and told the truth.
"Studying and respecting saints is a matter of course."
"But do you know who asked you to study?"
"In other words, who provided the environment for you to study?"
Zhu Qiyu asked.
Of course my parents?
puff!
With another stab, a scholar's head fell to the ground.
"I provided it!"
"Without me and without Ming Dynasty, you would still be trembling under Meng Yuan's iron hoof!"
"Without Taizu to re-create China, you are reading nonsense!"
"Is there a book to read?"
"Did Yuan Ren let you study?"
"Use your stupid brains!"
"Even the rights of your wives and concubines do not belong to you! I don't know whose son you gave birth to!"
"You're still studying, maybe in your dreams!"
"snort!"
"It was Taizu who created China again and restored the Han people's clothes!"
"It's me who allows you to study, take part in the imperial examinations, and serve as officials!"
"Everything you have is given to you by Ming Dynasty!"
"Without Ming and me, you are nothing!"
Zhu Qiyu breathed a sigh of relief: "But you are so ungrateful!"
"You can't get along with me everywhere!"
"After learning a lot of knowledge, it's fine if you don't serve the court."
"Writing a few acid poems at home and mocking me every day, I couldn't bear it."
"But you dare to interfere in government affairs?"
"I'm tired of living!"
"Hmph, do you know why I wanted to kill Kong Kexu?"
Zhu Qiyu gritted his teeth and said, "I'll tell you!"
"Because the Kong family colluded with foreign enemies, the Haraqin tribe attacked Shenyang because they took away a thousand iron pots from the Kong family!"
"The source of this battle is the Kong family!"
"Do you know that hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians in Liaodong were killed or injured in this battle?"
"It will take twenty years to rebuild Liaodong!"
"In order to raise military funds, I haven't eaten meat for a month!"
"You know nothing!"
"Idiots! You idiots!"
"Speaking for traitors!"
Zhu Qiyu was furious: "You deserve to die!"
The literati were all confused.
The Kong family is treason?
is it possible?
But if you think about it carefully, it's really possible.
The Kong family has a criminal record.
Just ask the people in Shandong, who are the bandits who rob people every year?
During the Great Yuan Dynasty, who was the head and the rat?
"For people like this!"
"It's really funny that you gathered a crowd at Xihua Gate to cause chaos."
"If I and Kong Kexi fall into the water at the same time, I don't need to ask. I know that you will definitely save the descendants of the Kong family!"
"You won't save me!"
"The kings, kings, and ministers don't know, but the descendants of Saint Kong know it very well!"
“You’re so fucking stupid reading books about saints and sages!”
"Kill them all!"
Zhu Qiyu was too lazy to talk nonsense.
Don't just kill them!
Jiangnan literati, leave no one behind!
There are many scholars in the Ming Dynasty. No matter what happens, kill them all. Even if we go back a hundred years, we cannot let these bastards ruin the Ming Dynasty!
Kong Xiyuan fainted from fright.
The emperor can kill even the literati in the world, but the Kong family is nothing!
As long as the Kong family disobeys, the emperor will immediately raise the butcher's knife.
In the past, the emperor was constrained everywhere, and that was because of the unrest on the border. But now it is different. The Tatars are gone, the Oara have disappeared, and the power of the Ming Dynasty is visible to the naked eye.
The prosperity of imperial power can blind one's eyes.
"Your Majesty, please calm down!"
Hu Xi hurriedly came out and prostrated on the ground: "These people are nothing more than lax in their control and are doing whatever they want."
"Please give them another chance, Your Majesty, and let them turn over a new leaf!"
"Please your majesty, please temporarily suspend the anger of thunder and forgive these children!"
Zhu Qiyu looked at Hu Hui with a sullen face: "The old lady saved them, but forgot how they insulted you!"
"Old minister, I don't care!"
"The country, the country, and the country need people to contribute!"
"The veteran is willing to work hard and bear the infamy!"
"It's just that I'm already very old. How many years can I serve His Majesty?"
"But these scholars are the mainstay of the future court and can serve His Majesty!"
Hu Hui and the emperor sang in harmony.
"Hmph, I still expect these people to serve?"
Zhu Qiyu sneered: "They are all a bunch of young men who think they are great after reading a few bad books!"
"As everyone knows, my mind is full of shit!"
"I endure it again and again, but they ignore the law!"
"What's the use of keeping people like this?"
"I have shown mercy beyond the law and have not punished the nine clans!"
Zhu Qiyu just didn't let go.
Hu Hu kept admonishing.
But the literati were all frightened. The emperor killed people with a snap of his fingers, which was really frightening.
He didn't realize at all that it was impossible for the emperor to kill all so many people.
They are literati, literate, and useful people.
"Then if they gathered a crowd to rebel, can their crimes be forgiven?" Zhu Qiyu shouted sharply.
"Please forgive me, Your Majesty!"
Hu Xi put his official hat on the ground: "I am willing to use everything to ensure that these people can be used by the court and your majesty!"
"In less than ten years, there will be a thousand, several thousand Hu Hui, serving His Majesty!"
"Your Majesty, please have mercy!"
Hu Hui knocked his head on the ground.
Many literati secretly wiped away tears.
I don’t know if it’s because I’m moved or because I’m surviving the disaster.
Zhu Qiyu exhaled a deep breath: "Since the old master, I will guarantee you."
"I'm just going to show my respect for you once."
"It is hereby announced that everyone here today is only allowed to be officials, not officials!"
"You are not allowed to recite poems or paint, and you are not allowed to participate in any gathering activities. Once discovered, the clan will be executed."
"His family was demoted to low status and moved into Wandu Division."
"Those who resist the decree will be killed by all nine tribes!"
"Another decree is sent to the Confucius family to divide seventy houses to fill the capitals of Hanzhou, Yuerhai, and Jilin. Do not disobey!"
"Send the order again and order Jiangnan to recruit literati to Beijing again! There must be no mistakes!"
Zhu Qiyu slowly sat back in the chariot: "Each person was whipped thirty times, leaving scars so that they can remember today."
"Remember, your lives are given by me!"
"Today I can allow you to live, but tomorrow I can take the lives of all nine of your tribes!"
"Execution!"
Zhu Qiyu watched the beating.
However, compared with death, they felt extremely happy.
It just hurts.
The pain will pass in a few days, but if you really die, it will be over.
Life is more important than anything else.
"Hit them hard so they can remember them for a long time!"
"You read a few crappy books and call yourself a bullshit scholar!"
"I think you are just exalting yourself!"
"Do I read more books, or do you read more books?"
"I don't even dare to call myself a scholar, you guys are nothing!"
"It's just that there are a few filthy rich people in the family who are being coaxed by the girls in the brothel to act like literati!"
"Do you have Li Du's poems?"
"Do you have Su Xin's words?"
"After so many years, I can't even hear a single poem that is pleasant to my ears. Are you still a literati? Are you ashamed?"
"If you want to write poems and lyrics, you can. If you write poems that will be famous throughout the ages, I won't stop you!"
"If you can't write anything, what poems can you write?"
"What a waste of paper!"
"Do you deserve paper?"
"I see, they all have money to burn!"
"Publish a decree to order each family to donate one thousand taels of silver into their internal funds. Those who cannot donate will pay with their lives!"
Zhu Qiyu became angry when he looked at these losers.
Snapped! Snapped! Snapped!
The sound of whips came and went.
But there was no scream because the mouth was blocked.
If they dare to scream out despite the emperor's words, aren't they looking for death?
"snort!"
"After reading the book, you can write poems and paintings. Why not play for Chaotang?"
"Why not participate in the imperial examinations?"
"Hey you all have an anti -intention!"
"Don't play for me, but scold me every day in Gou Nawashe, I see you all in your heart!"
"If it wasn't for the old lady Fu to help you talk, now you have reported it to Lord Yan!"
"I will remember it in the future!"
"Your dog life is given to you!"
"Take good effect for me, don't make you not happy."
"When it is saved, I will take your dog's life!"
Zhu Qiyu scolded addiction: "When you go to the place, don't hold the literati's shelf."
"Put yourself into the dirt, you are not more noble than others, because you are all cheap!"
"Hum, to complete my bad job in honesty, and may restore the status, otherwise, be a cheap household for a lifetime!"
"After going back, write every word I said in silence!"
"Before eating, read it three times, and then eat!"
These literati can't kill all.
Three new capitals need to be people. They just kick these people and let them control the place. They do not feel distressed when they die.
Sometimes, death is liberation.
Living is pain.
Zhu Qiyu's eyes stubbornly: "The decree is presented, and Lin Cong will care for Henan."
"My slave obeys the order!" Feng Xiao knelt on the ground.
Hu Yan watched the emperor sitting on the imperial emperor, sighed.
Can't restrain it.
Now that the emperor wants to do, what he does, no one can restrain it.
Originally, Yu Qian was with him, and the double sword co -contains the emperor.
But Yu Qian, the credit is too big, it can only become Wu Xun from Bao, and automatically becomes the basic disk of the emperor. What else can he be?
The most wonderful thing of the emperor is to kill the family with Li Xian.
Li Xian stained the blood of the Kong family, how to be the first Wenchen?
If the emperor doesn't take the shot, he is terrible.
One ring buckle and one ring, which makes people overwhelmed.
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