"Zhongcheng, this is a little bit of our Kong family's wishes. Please accept it. Whether the Kong family can escape this disaster depends entirely on you! Please accept your respects as a student!"
In the large tent of Pan Taili, the governor of Shandong, Kong Yinzhi placed a 200,000 tael vote on the desk in front of Pan Taili, then bowed his hands and said something aggrieved.
Seeing this, Pan Taili quickly winked and asked his servant to collect the tickets. He stood up and came over to support Kong Yinzhi who was about to kneel down and kowtow: "Master, please don't do this! Preserving the blood of the saint is my unshirkable responsibility. How can I accept it?" The reason for kneeling?"
After saying that, Pan Taili added: "However, your father was a little too reckless this time. He actually took advantage of the situation like this. Isn't it intentional to give the imperial court an excuse to punish him?"
Kong Yinzhi hurriedly argued: "Zhongcheng Rongzhi, my uncle has always had noble moral character, and everyone in the world knows it. How can he slander your father? This is all because Dongchang instigated the rebellious slaves to make false accusations. If I, Confucius, plead guilty to this, then I will How can the Confucian family law exist? Wouldn’t it mean that the rebel slaves would be framed and Dongchang would instigate the slaves to rebel against the master in the Confucian mansion? Zhongcheng is also an official and gentry, can he really let Dongchang do such nonsense?!"
"Dongchang did indeed do something wrong in this matter."
Pan Taili replied.
"So, I, the Kong family, had to do this, but I didn't expect that the court would not give up and actually wanted to punish my Kong family for treason. They also said that we are not descendants of saints. This is really a huge injustice!"
Kong Yinzhi spoke.
Pan Taili couldn't help but take a closer look at the case: "It's really too much!"
Seeing this, Kong Yinzhi bowed his hands again: "So please make the decision, Zhongcheng!"
"Waiting for Zhang Tongchang to come in later, I will personally tell him his interests!"
Pan Taili nodded and replied.
But at this time, Pan Taili's personal soldiers came in and replied: "Back to Zhongcheng, Zhang Tongchang, the commander-in-chief of the Guards Battalion, refused to come to see you. He said that he was here to exterminate the rebels under the emperor's order, not here." Accept your orders!"
"How presumptuous! I am the governor of Shandong, and he is just a military minister. What right does he have to refuse to obey my orders!"
Pan Taili stood up angrily.
But then, Pan Taili also realized that he seemed to have lost his temper. Zhang Tongchang outside was no better than other generals. He was a close minister of the emperor. If he couldn't make him obey his orders with the dignity of the governor, he really couldn't do anything to him. After all, if he was If Zhang Tongchang is killed, he will probably be charged with treason.
Therefore, Pan Taili could only pretend to be generous and wave his sleeves: "That's all, I will go see him in person!"
Soon, Pan Taili came out in a sedan to see Zhang Tongchang.
As soon as Pan Taili got off the sedan, he shouted towards the camp of the 3000 Guards Infantry Headquarters: "Who is Commander Zhang Tongchang? I came to see him in person, shouldn't he also come out to see me?! "
Not long after, Zhang Tongchang came out with a group of Yulin Guard officers from the 3000 Guards Infantry Headquarters.
Zhang Tongchang greeted Pan Taili first, but did not kneel down. He only raised his hands and said, "I have met Zhongcheng!"
"Why don't you kneel?"
Pan Taili asked.
"The Emperor has a decree. The Yulin Guards will only kneel to the Emperor, parents and ancestors, but not to the princes, nobles and superior officials!"
Zhang Tongchang replied.
Pan Taili snorted coldly: "What a Yu Linwei, you are really different. Zhang Tongchang, you can be regarded as a scholar-bureaucrat and a scholar of the Ming Dynasty. How can you do this to disgrace the most holy teacher now?"
"The Yulin Guards only know that you have a king, but they don't know who the Holy Master is. Could it be that Zhong Cheng came today to resist the emperor's order in the name of the Holy Master?!"
Zhang Tongchang asked.
"How presumptuous! I am asking you, not asking you to ask me!"
Pan Taili was furious. He had to admit that after His Majesty the Emperor allowed these educated scholars to join the Yulin Guards as military attaches, they were much more difficult to deal with than other military attaches, just like the Zhang Tongchang in front of him who was so eloquent.
"The 3,000th Infantry Headquarters of the Guards Battalion is about to end its rest and carry out the emperor's orders. Therefore, what is the purpose of Pan Zhongcheng coming to see us? Please make it clear as soon as possible. Otherwise, don't blame us for being ruthless!"
Zhang Tongchang asked coldly.
"My officer, my officer, I just want to ask, do you, Zhang Tongchang, really want to go his own way and make your Zhang family extinct from the scholarly world and the world, without fear of being scolded as a traitor and a traitor by the world in the future?! Are you really going to do it? Are you so disrespectful of the friendship between scholars?"
Pan Taili shouted and asked loudly.
"Haven't I, the Zhang family, been scolded by you? Back then, before the imperial edict copying my Zhang family came down, you despicable people couldn't wait to lock up everyone in my Zhang family! You didn't give them food, which made me Zhang At that time, more than ten members of my family were starved to death by you ruthless and unjust Shilin villains! My Zhang family will always remember this grudge! Now you want Zhang to talk about the friendship between scholars. Did you talk about the friendship between scholars back then? Our ancestors only served the country and the people of the world, and cleared the land that was illegally appropriated by my father-in-law and others, but you are eager to eat them alive and call them traitors to the country! You even forced your great-uncle and others to commit suicide! Where was your scholarly friendship back then! Ah! !answer me!"
As Zhang Tongchang spoke, his veins popped out and he asked about Pan Taili, and he shouted with heavy breathing: "Now are you going to tell the general about the friendship between scholars? It's too late! My eldest father has been made an earl, and my Zhang family has now They are nobles of the Ming Dynasty, not nobles. We only know loyalty to the emperor, but we don’t know the friendship between scholars!"
After entering the Ming Dynasty Lecture Hall, Zhu Youxiao asked Xu Guangqi to talk about the tragedy of Zhang Juzheng's family being persecuted by Qiu Li, the minister of the Ministry of Justice, and other civil servants. As Zhang Juzheng's successor, Zhang Tongchang naturally started to talk about these cases every time he studied them. He was so angry that he was furious. In addition, he was already at a vigorous age. Therefore, Zhang Tongchang had long been extremely hostile to civil servants, and now he was naturally rude to Pan Taili.
"You, you, the tragedy that happened in your house back then was just the fault of an individual person. Why should you blame the entire Shilin! Besides, this is not just the fault of our ancestors who only cared about the country and not their own lives!"
Pan Taili spoke with considerable confidence.
Zhang Tongchang only snorted: "Is it wrong to only care about the country without caring about personal honor and disgrace? If I had not entered the martial arts hall and learned the principles of the world, I might have believed what you said, but now I, Zhang Tongchang, believe you. Those who make excuses are not worthy of the descendants of the Zhang family! Again, my Zhang family is now a distinguished member of the imperial court, and is no longer a noble family in the world. Besides, my Zhang family is from a military family, and I should be loyal to the country, not to you. Scholar-bureaucrats make profits!”
"The rest time is over! Send the order to beat the drums, and the army will immediately carry out the emperor's orders! If there is any obstacle, no matter who it is, they will be killed!"
Zhang Tongchang said something.
"Wait!"
Pan Taili yelled when he saw this, and then suddenly knelt down to Zhang Tongchang: "On behalf of the scholar-officials of the past, I apologize to the ancestors who died in your mansion! Can General Zhang be more generous and let the descendants of the saints go?!"
"Obstruct the emperor's order! Kill without mercy!"
Zhang Tongchang, whose blood was boiling, now only regarded Pan Taili as the official who caused the death of his Zhang family, so he had already snatched a turtledove blunderbuss from his subordinates, lit a match, and shot Pan Taili.
Pan Taili's eyes widened when he saw this, he was very shocked and hurriedly wanted to get up and leave.
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