It turned out that before Zhang Maoxiu came with the Jinyi Guards, Liang Kezhen, one of the 100 Jinyi Guards stationed in Qufu, had received the secret order in advance, so he brought hundreds of Jinyi Guards to the Confucius Temple, and directly drove away the Confucius servants guarding the gates of the Confucius Temple. , and took control of the Confucius Temple.
Xu Maopu, another member of the Jinyiwei family, also led hundreds of Jinyiwei captains to surround all the gates of his Confucius mansion after receiving the secret order.
It's just that the people from Yan Shenggong's Mansion didn't know about it because they came out to meet the "bandits".
But at this time, after Kong Shangxian learned about this, he panicked on the spot:
"No! The Emperor has obviously wanted to punish us for a long time! By doing this now, we will undoubtedly give him another reason to punish us!"
"Brother, don't be too alarmed. It's just a reduction of rank, maybe just a salary. No matter what, they can't stop respecting me as Confucianism."
Kong Shangtan said at this time.
Snapped!
Kong Shangxian slapped Kong Shangtan directly: "You are not the one who was deprived of your title, so of course you won't feel bad! I think you are eager to let this ancestral title fall to you!"
"Brother, calm down!"
Kong Shangtan couldn't help but hold back the burning pain on his face and hurriedly knelt down.
Kong Shangxian did not say anything to Kong Shangtan. He only returned to Kong's mansion and took the initiative to ask Xu Maopu: "May I ask Xu Baihu, why are you surrounding my mansion?"
"Of course, we have been ordered to surround the Duke's mansion, and the Holy Edict clearly states that the Duke's family and his family are not allowed to act rashly, and anyone who disobeys the order will not be punished!"
As he spoke, Xu Maopu took out the decree in his hand and handed it to Kong Shangxian: "If you don't believe it, Duke Yan, you can see it for yourself."
Kong Shangxian read the imperial edict, and then stood aside dumbfounded, feeling at a loss for a moment.
Da da!
Zhang Maoxiu came over on horseback at this time.
Seeing this, Xu Maopu bowed his hands to Zhang Maoxiu and said, "Tishuai!"
Zhang Maoxiu nodded and asked, "What can be found in the house?"
"Going back to Tishuai, we found a large number of prohibited firearms and IOUs for illegal profit making."
Xu Maopu replied at this time.
thump!
Kong Shangxian knelt down directly towards Zhang Maoxiu and said to Zhang Maoxiu:
"Please show me your handsome face. Although I am the head of the family, I don't know anything about this!"
"However, even so, I am willing to bear the responsibility of negligence. However, Your Majesty, please ask Tishuai for the sake of the saint to cover up. We will be grateful in the future!"
"Just for the sake of the saint, I have to strictly clean up the door for the saint."
Zhang Maoxiu said with a smile and walked into the Kong Mansion.
However, Kong Shangxian himself could not go in again, and was later arrested by the Jinyi Guards and locked in a side hall of the Confucius Temple.
…
Zhu Yijun soon learned from Zhang Jingxiu about the ban on the Confucius Mansion and Confucius Temple.
"What are you talking about? The people in the Kong Mansion mistook my Jinyi Guards for bandits, knelt down to greet the bandits, and wrote a surrender form to the bandits?"
Zhu Yijun was surprised and asked Zhang Jingxiu.
Zhang Jingxiu handed over the surrender form and said: "Back to Your Majesty, my brother has sent the surrender form in a hurry. Your Majesty and all the ministers have seen the handwriting of Yan Shenggong's official residence, and they must be able to recognize it."
Zhu Yijun hurriedly took the watch and looked at it. After reading it, he only smiled faintly: "This is an old skill."
After Zhu Yijun finished speaking, he gave the surrender form to Wang Xijue and other ministers: "You should also take a look."
Wang Xijue raised his hand and said yes, and took the surrender form first.
"It's really shameful that a descendant of a sage still behaves like this!"
Wang Xijue couldn't help but say this first, showing his anger.
After seeing it, Shen Li also said: "The key point is that if ordinary scholars and people behave like this, it would be understandable, but his Yanshenggong Mansion is different! Not to mention that they are descendants of saints, the key point is that they have been the descendants of saints in all dynasties. Being treated favorably and supported by all the people, only to enjoy the privileges of descendants of saints and not knowing the obligation to pass on the virtues of saints!"
"Shen Qing is absolutely right."
"The Confucius Mansion has allowed all the people to support and received preferential treatment from the court for nothing. It can be considered as a loss of sage's face."
Zhu Yijun started talking.
Wang Lin, the Minister of Civil Affairs, followed up and said: "What your Majesty said is that the more the court wants to respect the sages of ancient times, the more it must preserve the dignity of the sages at this time, punish their heirs severely, and set a warning to others!"
With that said, Wang Lin bowed his hands to Zhu Yijun and said, "Your Majesty, please protect the dignity of the saints!"
Wang Xijue also said: "Your Majesty, please protect the dignity of the saints!"
"Your Majesty, please protect the dignity of the saints!"
Li Chengliang also followed up and said: "As your Majesty said, this kind of thing is already an old skill among the descendants of sages like Confucius. If we don't protect the dignity of the sages and don't let them know the consequences of betraying the country and treason, I'm afraid that the descendants of saints will really become descendants of traitors in the future!"
Zhu Yijun nodded, and at this time asked Tian Yi, the admiral of Dongchang: "What is the attitude of the ordinary people in Qufu towards the Confucius Mansion now?"
Although many of the ruling class of this era do not value the power of the people, Zhu Yijun knows that he cannot underestimate the power of the people.
Therefore, he was still worried that the ordinary people in Qufu would be instigated by the Confucian government to resist the imperial court's punishment of the Confucian government.
Because of this, Zhu Yijun asked Dongchang about the attitude of ordinary people in Qufu at this time.
"Back to your lord, the ordinary people in Qufu now hate the Kong Mansion even more."
Tian Yi replied at this time, and then said: "Originally, my people from Dongchang were already in Qufu, analyzing these ordinary people who were exploited by the Confucian government, and made them deeply aware of the influence of the direct descendants of the Confucian government. How hard they squeezed them made them very dissatisfied with the Confucius Mansion, especially after some complaints. Now they dared to ask the Confucius Mansion to reduce rent and interest, but the Confucius Mansion directly sent servants to beat them to death. , even if there are still cowards among them who imagine that the direct descendants of the Confucius Mansion will show sympathy to them after they ask for it, they have given up their illusions about them, and now they all wish that the imperial court would completely clean up the Confucius Mansion!"
Zhu Yijun nodded after hearing this: "Very good, then send the order to Qufu immediately to protect the dignity of the saints!"
"According to the order!"
Zhu Yijun arrived in Qufu soon.
Arrive in Qufu.
Zhu Yijun went to the Confucius Temple.
As soon as Zhu Yijun arrived at the Confucius Temple, he first saw the tablet sealed by the Yuan Dynasty in front of the statue of Confucius.
"Sure enough, the Kong family still misses Meng Yuan."
Afterwards, Zhu Yijun's face darkened and he said: "Xuan Kong Shangxian is here!"
"yes!"
Not long after, Yanshenggong Kong Shangxian was escorted here.
Zhu Yijun asked Kong Shangxian directly: "How dare you, your family, still have your heart set on Meng Yuan! Is it because the fourth-class people are not enough?"
"Your Majesty, forgive me!"
Kong Shangxian hurriedly kowtowed and said, "I have always been ill and have no time to take care of the household affairs. All the household affairs are handled by my second brother Shang Tan, so I don't know why this tablet suddenly became the tablet of Yuan." .”
"I assume you don't know about it, but if your government behaves like this, shouldn't you express your opinion that you are extremely intolerant of this kind of behavior?"
Zhu Yijun asked.
Kong Shangxian said: "Your Majesty said that it should be so. I will never allow such shameless behavior to happen in my Kong family!"
"This kind of shameless behavior is not allowed, but what about this kind of behavior?"
As Zhu Yijun spoke, he took out the surrender watch and handed it to Kong Shangxian.
After Kong Shangxian looked at it, he was stunned for a moment, and then he knelt down in front of Zhu Yijun and said:
"Your Majesty, please forgive me. I misunderstood other people's rumors and thought that there would be bandits coming to my hometown. However, I thought that bandits are very rough people and do not respect the orthodoxy of our Chinese culture. If they are even slightly dissatisfied, they might just kill saints wantonly. Descendants, in order to preserve the bloodline of the saint, I had no choice but to make mistakes and did something that was unworthy of the imperial court!"
Kong Shangxian burst into tears as he spoke.
Zhu Yijun said: "It would be fine if other people did such a thing, but your Kong family relies on loyalty and righteousness. It is also because your ancestor Kong Shengxian first advocated loyalty and righteousness that you have such privileges today and can be supported by all the people." ! But in order to preserve the blood of the so-called saint, you gave up your family’s reputation in the world! How can you let the court treat you favorably and let all the people in the world support you? "
"What Your Majesty said is that I am ashamed of my ancestors, I am ashamed of my court, and I am ashamed of all the people."
Kong Shangxian replied very respectfully at this time.
After hearing this, Zhu Yijun only asked: "Since you know that you are wrong, and now the truth has been revealed, why are you still living with a shy face? Don't you know that you should hang yourself from the rafter immediately to save a little face for your saintly family? Do you want the world to think that Confucianism is not enough? It’s just empty talk about character, it can only teach people to be loyal, but it can’t make everyone really have a loyal heart?!”
Kong Shangxian was stunned for a moment, and then asked Zhu Yijun with his lips pursed and about to cry: "What does your Majesty mean?"
"If you can't do that, write a confession yourself and write your sins on it."
Zhu Yijun ordered at this time.
Kong Shangxian hesitated for a while, and then he agreed and obeyed the order.
After Kong Shangxian wrote his confession, Zhu Yijun ordered: "Come here and send Duke Yan on his way. Since he can't do it himself, let the court come to help him, help him save honor for Kong Sheng, and hang him in the temple." In the middle hall, let Confucius see it under the spring."
"yes!"
Kong Shangxian was shocked: "Your Majesty! Didn't I already write a letter of repentance?!"
"I didn't say I won't kill you if you write it. What I mean is that if you can't do it yourself, just write down your regrets, and then the court will help you do it."
Zhu Yijun replied.
"His Majesty!"
"His Majesty!"
…
At this time, Kong Shangxian had been dragged down by Jin Yiwei and was tied up with Bai Ling.
Zhang Jingxiu, the left commander of the Jinyi Guards, shouted: "Hang on!"
Immediately, Kong Shangxian was hung up on the beam. He kicked his legs a few times, and soon he stopped moving and his hands hung down.
"Send the other adult men from the Confucius family here!"
Zhu Yijun gave another order at this time.
So, not long after, Kong Shangtan, Kong Shangli and others were brought to the imperial court.
After Kong Shangtan, Kong Shangli and others saw Kong Shangxian hanging in the hall, they immediately knelt down to Zhu Yijun. (End of chapter)
