The entire area around Qufu City has turned into a large construction site from unknown time on.
The moat that originally surrounded the city has now been widened to more than five feet, and is still being widened. The appearance of the city wall within the trench has also changed drastically. The originally straight brick wall has now turned into a large-angle slope when viewed from the outside of part of the completed city wall - the city wall and the ground no longer present a right angle, but form a An oblique angle of seventy or eighty degrees. The top of the city wall has also been widened, and all the originally weak crenellations have been removed and replaced by a thick and strong stone parapet, with an oblique angle of 70 or 80 degrees on the outward side. There is a large gap every ten steps in this breastwork for placing artillery.
Huge scaffolding has now been erected at the four corners and five gates of the roughly square Qufu City. Thousands of craftsmen are working day and night on the surface of nine triangular rammed earth gun platforms. Solid blue brick.
These green bricks were fired nearby Qufu City. Brick kilns one after another spewed thick smoke day and night. The fired green bricks were immediately transported by horse-drawn carriages to the construction site for the construction of Qufu City.
The teams that went to pull wood from the nearby mountains and forests also shouted trumpets and shouted at the horses to come and go one team after another. The carriages were hauling fine building materials. The mountains and forests around Qufu are part of Konglin Feng Shui, and logging was prohibited in the past. Now, Duke Yansheng personally issued the order and let go of the felling - in order to protect Confucius's tomb, what else cannot be sacrificed?
Those who work on the construction site of Qufu City are all people who have been attached to Yanshenggong Mansion for generations, and have long regarded Confucius as their ancestor. So they all work for free and for free!
These people in Qufu who do not need wages have been busy since September of the 17th year of Chongzhen. Now it is almost November, and the "Qufu Bastion" has finally taken on a little shape.
That's right, Qufu City is being transformed into a bastion!
This small and sturdy city is very suitable for bastion transformation. Because the city is not large, the cost of transformation is also controllable. Moreover, the five city gates of Qufu all have semicircular barbicans, and "gun towers" can be built on the basis of the barbicans. The shape of Qufu City is also relatively simple, that is, square and square, with four corners. By adding protruding gun towers and adding the gun towers built on the basis of the five urns, there will be nine gun towers that can support each other and form cross firepower.
The person who designed and presided over the Qufu reconstruction project for Shi Kefa and Kong Yinzhi was Han Lin, the director of the Ministry of Industry - the author of "Shouyu Complete Book". After Liangyu was sent to Yangzhou, he was hired by Zhu Cixiang, who knew people well and was good at appointing people, and became a foreign minister of the Ministry of Industry. He didn't even work in the Ministry of Works, so he was directly sent to Qufu to build the city wall.
When he arrived at Qufu, Shi Kefa and Kong Yinzhi had already made preparations for building an additional city, just in time for him, the author of "Shouyu Complete Book", to take over. After working hard for almost two months, he finally achieved some results. .
If Dorgon can give him a few more months, Qufu will become an impregnable fortress by next spring at the latest...
According to Han Lin himself, once Qufu is repaired according to Western methods, it will be a strong city that is easy to defend but difficult to attack and is not afraid of civil strife. Even if the Tatars had red barbarian cannons, they would not be able to break the castle.
Therefore, Yanshenggong Kong Yinzhi can safely and boldly stay in Qufu to protect Confucius and the famous religion...
But Duke Yansheng, who was forced to stand up and fight against the invaders, never expected that Prince Fujun of the Ming Dynasty had already prepared a heavier task for him!
"What? Stand up, stand up, go north, attack Yanyun in the north!"
In the lobby of Kong Mansion in Qufu, Kong Yinzhi, who had just knelt down to receive the order, felt dizzy and couldn't even speak.
The person who conveyed the decree was Wu Ruzheng, the general envoy of the general administration. After hearing Kong Yinzhi's question, he just smiled and said: "My lord, this is an opportunity for your Kong family! If the Northern Expedition succeeds, you can go further... ...Be crowned king!”
"But, but I don't want to be crowned king!" Kong Yinzhi was so frightened that he couldn't get up, so he had to wink at Shi Kefa beside him.
Shi Kefa had no choice but to help the weak-legged Duke Yansheng up, and then asked Wu Ruzheng to sit down. He and Kong Yinzhi also sat firmly.
"Master Marquis, now is indeed an opportunity for the Northern Expedition, but Duke Yansheng..." Shi Kefa frowned, and he could have been cursing Zhu Cixiang for being stupid, but even as he scolded, he felt something was wrong.
How could Zhu Cixiang be in a coma? This guy is a living Cao Cao! Will Cao Cao be in a coma? Anyone who thinks so must have been tricked to death by Cao Zhaoxiong.
But he was not stupid, so why didn't he let himself, the governor of the seven provinces, lead the Northern Expedition, but let Yan Shenggong Kong Yinzhi step forward?
Is Kong Yinzhi a man who can fight? Let him go to conquer the Tatars... isn't this a way to die?
"Master Qiansui knows that Duke Yan will not fight," Wu Ruzheng smiled and took over the topic, "But Duke Yan's popularity in Shandong is unmatched! Moreover, Duke Yan has appeared in "Begging Hu Lu Xi" before. ”, calling on all the scholars in the world to come forward, how can we not take the lead now? It’s just a pretense to let everyone in the world know that Yanshenggong’s mansion and the Tatars are incompatible, and there is no need for Yanshenggong to go to the front line to kill the enemy.”
Oh... not bad! Just as Kong Yinzhi took a breath, he immediately thought something was wrong.
I, Duke Yan Sheng, clearly wanted to surrender to the Tatars, but he was forced to write "An Exhortation to the Barbarians", slandering the Tatars for trying to bring down the ancestors of the Confucius family, and now he still wants to step forward to "lead" the Northern Expedition.
It's okay if the Northern Expedition is victorious, but what if it doesn't? What if the Tatars invade Shandong? You can't even settle the accounts with Yan Shenggong and his family!
I don’t know if the city of Qufu can be defended. If it cannot be defended, will the Tatars massacre the city?
Slaughtering Qufu...
Kong Yinzhi couldn’t even imagine this scene! Could it be that the Confucius family in Qufu, which had flourished for nearly two thousand years, was about to perish in his own hands?
He hurriedly looked at Shi Kefa for help - Supervisor Shi, Shi Gebu, Shi Daru, help!
Shi Kefa nodded and said to Wu Ruzheng: "In that case, let Yan Shenggong name him and write a message to scold all the eighteen generations of Tartar ancestors... There is no need to leave Qufu City. .”
When Kong Yinzhi heard this, he was so angry that he vomited blood - and even the eighteen generations of Tatar ancestors scolded him. If the Tatars won, the Kong family would not be destroyed! You Shi Kefa...you are a bastard! You are so sorry to Confucius and Mencius! You are not a true Confucian, you must be a thief of law. No wonder you are called "Kefa".
Wu Ruzheng was smiling from ear to ear. What he wanted, no, what the prince wanted was this effect!
The Yan Shenggong clan had to be forced to a dead end, and only then could they resist desperately. If we fail to defeat them and our entire clan is massacred by the Tatars, what else will the scholars in the southeast think about? What kind of preferential treatment can you expect? No matter how awesome you are, can you compare with the descendants of Confucius?
...
"Ms. Qian Suiye means that our family won't fight for the King of Peking... If Wu Sangui fights back, this prince must be named Wu! But a Haizhou feudal lord will give it to you. . So in this Northern Expedition, don’t join in the fun, just ask Li Chengdong to take a few thousand people with him. "
In the back house of Xuzhou's garrison commander, Mrs. Xing, oh, she should be Princess Yuntai of the Ming Dynasty, is currently analyzing the situation for Xuzhou's garrison commander, Zuo Dudu, Prince Consort, and Qushanbo Gaojie.
The situation was of course very good, so good that Gao Jie did not have to personally lead his troops on the expedition, and his master Li Chengdong could just take a few thousand people there - this was of course what Prince Zhu meant.
Gao Jie and Huang Degong, the two great masters, don't move. Gao Jie will show up with Li Chengdong, and Huang Degong's subordinate will show up with Sun Degong. Just think about it.
Gao Jie stroked his beard and frowned. What kind of arrangement is this? Can we still hold on to the Northern Expedition? Those are Tatars! Even if you try your best, you may not be able to win. If you have to hold back... then you will definitely lose! Even with Wu Sangui’s trump card, we shouldn’t take it lightly!
What on earth is Master Chitose planning?
