The entire city of Qufu is still surrounded by one, no, many huge construction sites.
The bastion reconstruction of Qufu City has been completed a long time ago. It has been transformed from a traditional Chinese city into a large bastion with nine protruding triangular gun platforms and sloping outer walls!
On the outer side of the cannon platform and the city wall, there are also layers of sandbags stacked up to prevent cannons!
On the nine gun platforms, there are also artillery forts built with sandbags. Each of the artillery forts is also equipped with four 1,000-pound general cannons - this is a large-scale artillery produced in the Ming Dynasty, made of pig iron. It is cast, three feet by four feet long, and weighs several hundred kilograms to over a thousand kilograms. The gun body is reinforced with iron bars. A thousand kilogram general cannon can produce six to seven kilograms of lead, and the range is about one mile.
The 36 1,000-pound general cannons placed on the nine gun platforms in Qufu City were not built by Shi Kefa and Kong Yinzhi themselves, but Kong Yinzhi spent a huge sum of money to purchase them through Shen Tingyang.
In addition to these 36 1,000-pound cannons, Yan Shenggong also obtained as many as 300 offensive cannons through various channels, which are light vehicle-mounted artillery that is not very powerful, but is light and flexible.
In addition, Kong Yinzhi did not hesitate to spend a lot of money to buy a lot of high-quality gunpowder from Shen Tingyang - Yanshenggong really went all out this time, spending his money like water, and buying his own firearms and weapons for free... .. ..As long as the stuff is good, it’s not expensive at all!
There is no way, we have to survive!
Kong Yinzhi knew that he had offended the Qing Dynasty. First he slandered others and wanted to go to Qufu to fight, and then he stepped forward for the Northern Expedition. Although he did not leave Qufu, his flag had already reached Beizhili, which was considered to be jumping into the Yellow River. Can't even wash it off.
Moreover, he also knew about the death of Hong Chengchou and what little the Qing Dynasty had done in Beijing and Beizhili, so he didn't have many illusions.
In addition, Zhu Cixi was ruthless enough and refused to allow him to take the Confucius family south to avoid disaster - weren't they all filial sons and grandsons of Confucius? How could you give up Kong Lin and go south to avoid death? This is very unfilial!
Moreover, the Kong family already had a Southern sect, which they came to in the late Northern Song Dynasty and settled in Quzhou, Zhejiang. Therefore, the Northern Sect of the Kong family could die generously...
This is really a dead end! The Tatars have been offended so much that they dare not surrender. And the way to survive going south was blocked by the Southern Sect... What other options did Kong Yinzhi and the disciples of the Northern Sect of the Kong family have to survive?
We can only fight to save our lives!
In the past, Kong Yinzhi's favorite money was no longer important... As long as he could survive, it was worth losing everything! Just by his surname and the family's 2,600 large hectares of sacrificial land (one hectare equals three hundred acres, a total of 780,000 acres), the prosperity and wealth of his children and grandchildren are guaranteed - this sacrificial land is not here The unidentified fields were all given to the Confucius family by the emperors of the Ming Dynasty. The largest share (2,000 hectares) was given by Zhu Yuanzhang!
Therefore, since Zhu Cihong came to power, he has not touched the Confucius family's sacrificial field - although he has great power, he cannot do whatever he wants! How could he, the crown prince of Donglin, do such things as annihilating the Kong family and confiscating the sacrificial fields? That can only be done by the Tatar Faqiubele (Hauge) and the gold-touching prince (Duduo)... Look, isn't the Tatar army heading towards Qufu?
In order to save his life, family business and ancestral graves, Kong Yinzhi had no choice but to take the entire Kong family and risk it all.
And it’s not just the unworthy descendants of Saint Confucius who have to survive. The poor and lower-middle peasants in Qufu who have followed the Confucius family for more than two hundred years also have to survive! There are also countless refugees who came from the northwest of Yanzhou Prefecture and Dongchang Prefecture to take shelter from the "cool breeze" under the big tree of the Kong family, and they all need to survive. There are so many people that even the small city of Qufu can’t accommodate them!
Therefore, after the "bastion transformation" of Qufu City was completed, nine "fortress" projects were immediately launched.
These nine forts were designed according to the requirements of Shi Kefa and Kong Yinzhi before Han Lin was transferred to Nanjing to serve as the director of the Practical School. The nine forts were built around the main city of Qufu, and each one faced a prominent point. The distance between the gun platform and the gun platform is about 200 steps, which is within the fire coverage of the general's artillery.
These nine forts are not bastions, but circular fortresses made of sandbags, soil and logs. There is a trench outside the fort, and inside there are shacks where refugees live. There are always tens of thousands of people in each round fort.
Construction on the outer wall of the round castle is still going on - that is a life-saving wall! Of course, it is reinforced and reinforced. How can it be completely completed?
When the news that the Qing soldiers occupied Ziyang, the capital of Yanzhou, reached Qufu, it happened to be dusk. The strong workers who had piled sandbags all day were wolfing down sorghum pancakes rolled with green onions, clustered around them. There were also some people dressed as scholars who took this opportunity to mobilize: "Folks, we have another job to do later. We will pile up a thousand mud bags and insert 300 pointed wooden stakes into the trench... ..”
These scholars were all soldiers who had joined the Qufu regiment training army - they were not formal official positions. They were privately appointed by Shi Kefa, the governor of the seven provinces, and assigned them to refugees or scholars who were still useful in Qufu.
Most of these scholars have achieved great fame, and some of them are even masters of government affairs! Now they are all deceived by Zhu Cixiang, the insidious and cunning Prince of Ming Dynasty!
How could it be that Zhu Cixiang deceived him into a desperate situation?
Of course it's him! Didn't Sun Zhixian and Jin Zhijun bring back several large boxes of "Quest for Hulu" last time? Tens of thousands of scholars have signed it, including the juren and scholars from Shandong, and it was Kong Yinzhi, Gao Hongtu, and Zuo Maodi who took the lead in initiating it!
At that time, anyone who did not sign was suspected of being a traitor! If you are suspected of being a traitor, can you still be a scholar? Without the juren and scholars, can the land in the family be saved?
So few people dared not sign their names when it was their turn, and Sun Zhixian and Jin Zhijun "copied" their names and places of origin and brought them back to Beijing...
What's worse is that Dorgon has now appointed Sun Zhixian as governor of Shandong - this is arresting people with a blacklist! Who dares to stay at home? When the time comes, people will arrest them according to the list, and if they catch one accurately, his grandma will have to kill them all!
In order to survive, everyone had to leave their homes and flee. As a result, he escaped to Qufu and was stopped by Shi Kefa and Kong Yinzhi's regiment... It is said that scholars must defend Confucius to the death! If you don't keep Confucius alive, you will have to lose all your honors and fame, and you will never be able to take the imperial examination again!
Why? The guy's surname is not Kong... But Shi Kefa and Kong Yinzhi were unreasonable at all and forcibly retained the people without telling them. They also organized the people they forcibly retained into nine major militia groups based on their place of origin and armed them all. Then they were stuffed into nine forts outside the main city of Qufu.
"There are nine fortresses outside and the fortified city of Qufu inside. There are tens of thousands of regiments and 5,000 governors guarding the city day and night. Even if there are millions of Tatars, it will be difficult to break the city. Duke Yansheng can relax. Live in peace as usual..."
The person who was confirming with Kong Yinzhi in the Yanshenggong Mansion in Qufu City was Shi Kefa. He came immediately after learning that the Qing army occupied Ziyang, the first county of Yanzhou.
He had been with Kong Yinzhi for almost a year, and he knew very well how afraid of death this Duke Yansheng was - if he had been tougher and had Zhu Cixiang killed or beheaded, how could Prince Zhu have killed Qufu? Is the Kong family forced to this point? The most Zhu Cihong can do is kill Kong Yinzhi quietly... There is nothing he can do about the entire Kong family in Qufu!
However, Kong Yinzhi was greedy for life and feared death to the extreme, and was threatened with death by Zhu Cixiang, which pushed the entire Kong family to a dead end step by step.
Now that the Tatar army is coming, can Kong Yinzhi not be afraid? It would be fine if he died of fright, and he could be buried with great splendor in the name of "dying from overwork for the country." His death would be considered as heavy as a mountain.
What if the Tatars are so frightened that they run away? What to do about people’s morale? How do scholars all over the world view the sacred cause of protecting Confucius and defending Mingjiao?
So when Shi Kefa came over, he brought a lot of soldiers, and also brought him the high-quality crane crown red that Zhu Cixiang gave him... If he couldn't persuade Kong Yinzhi, he could only ask him to taste it. The crane's top is red.
