Forbidden City, Qianqing Palace, South Study.
Emperor Kangxi, who had returned to Beijing, was holding a rosewood stick about eight feet in length with exquisite wood grain carvings on both ends and looking at it carefully.
This stick is the so-called Confucian Dharma-protecting dragon-headed stick!
After looking at it for a while, Kangxi turned his attention to the twelve Black Iron Holy Orders placed on an imperial desk covered with yellow cloth.
The so-called black iron is actually meteorite iron, some of which were collected in Emperor Kangxi's Internal Affairs Office. When Burni came to Beijing to rob, he took away all the gold, silver, treasures, silks and satins in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, but he did not touch the black meteorite or the huanghuali stored there.
So Emperor Kangxi asked Nalan Mingzhu to choose huanghuali and meteorite iron from the Ministry of Internal Affairs to make the dragon head stick and Shenggong order.
After reading Dragon Head Stick and Shenggong's Order, Kangxi started to read Nalan Pearl again... This guy did not wear court clothes today, but wore a black satin stand-up collared gown with a thick tie around his waist. A black cotton belt with a large folding fan inserted into the belt.
Mingzhu's head is bald, except for a braid with a money rat tail, and she doesn't know where the flower feathers on her head have gone.
Kang Mazi frowned and said, "Mingzhu, are you dressed like the five Confucian masters?"
It turns out that Mingzhu is the chief among the five Confucian leaders appointed by Kangxi!
During this period, under the supervision of Kang Mazi, the establishment of Confucianism was progressing very quickly... This was all the "uniform" of Confucianism!
Of course, the Confucian uniform cannot be worn in the style of Confucius. How can we do the Qing Dynasty's shaving and changing clothes? Although Emperor Kangxi still does not think that shaving one's hair and changing clothes can strengthen the rule of the Qing Dynasty, he knows that at this time, the Qing Dynasty cannot give in on such a major issue as shaving one's hair and changing clothes.
Because once they give in on this issue, the people and gentry under the Qing rule will feel that the Qing Dynasty is weak, and they will fall faster and more completely against the Qing Dynasty.
Therefore, in this wave of Kangxi's New Deal, there were two major policies to win over the powerful gentry, the "tax farming system" and "imperial power not going to the countryside." However, Kangxi did not make the slightest concession in the two aspects of "shaving his hair and changing clothes" and "literary prison".
Moreover, Emperor Kangxi is still trying his best to maintain the privileges of the old and new Eight Banners!
Although he is no longer able to pay the banner salaries to the Eight Banners disciples, the rations are still issued, and each Eight Banners disciples will receive two plots of land around Beijing and Shengjing, each with an area of at least one hundred acres.
These Eight Banners allotments can be cultivated by oneself or rented out, and they are all tax-free. In addition, any Han people who are willing to go outside the customs to farm for the Eight Banners disciples are exempted from paying a small sum of money, and all previous debts are exempted. And no matter how much debt they owe within the customs, their creditors are not allowed to go out of the customs to ask for it.
It can be said that Emperor Kangxi worked very hard in safeguarding the interests of the Eight Banners. It is precisely because of this effort that the Eight Banners disciples are still willing to support him, the Qing emperor who has fought repeatedly in the north.
Hearing Emperor Kangxi's question, Mingzhu quickly knelt down and said: "When I return to the emperor, I will put on a black melon-skin hat, which will be the dress of a Confucian disciple.
In addition, the Confucian disciples will be divided into two branches: civil and military. The literary is responsible for teaching, and the martial is responsible for defending. The symbol of Wenru is a big folding fan, while the symbol of Wuru is a jujube stick. "
Kangxi nodded and asked: "How to stir up trouble in Jiangnan?"
"If I return to the emperor, I plan to divide the chaos in Jiangnan into two parts... One is to stop the exam before the Nanjing Competition next spring; the other is to launch the gentry in Tongcheng, Changzhou and Shaoxing to resist the spring tax. And then stir up trouble.”
"Who is going to the south?" Kangxi asked again.
"Zhou Peigong and Li Guangdi would sneak into Nanjing to instigate a boycott of exams, Zhang Ying went to Tongcheng to incite tax resistance and uprising, Gao Shiqi went to Shaoxing to launch tax resistance and uprising, and Zhao Shenqiao went to Changzhou to launch an uprising."
Li Guangdi, Zhang Ying, Gao Shiqi, and Zhao Shenqiao were all young talents whom Emperor Kangxi trusted very much. This time he was tricked by Zhou Peigong!
Kangxi then asked: "What about the question book for requesting additional assignments?"
In fact, this is the most important thing!
Emperor Kangxi is now anxiously waiting for money!
Provoking Confucian internal strife and using Kong Yuqi's influence to incite the southern gentry to rebel was just to cause trouble for Zhu Heji. He is not so naive as to think that Zhu Heji will not be able to handle the rebellion of these corrupt scholars... When it comes to rebellion, Zhu Heji is ranked second. Who else in the world dares to be ranked first?
That is the ancestor of the rebel world!
Therefore, what Kangxi really hoped for was to re-support the new army that was about to collapse.
By summarizing the experience and lessons of the previous stage of the war, Kangxi felt that his new army must be equipped with a large number of flintlock muskets, high-quality gunpowder mines, and fast-moving artillery. He also needed to train a group of people who could snipe from a distance. The marksmen who killed Ming army grenadiers... Of course, powerful and flexible cavalry are still indispensable.
This series of military reforms are all funded by money!
And money had to be scraped from the Han people, and Kangxi didn't want to be blamed for extortionate expropriations, so he had to push the Kong family out of Qufu to offend the world.
"It's already been drawn up," Mingzhu said. "When Kong Yuqi comes to see you later, he will personally hand it to the Long Live Lord."
"Okay!" Emperor Kangxi nodded repeatedly, "Then let Kong Yuqi come to see you!"
...
Kong Yuqi, who is only eighteen years old this year, is already waiting to be summoned outside the door of the South Study Room.
To be honest, he really wants to die now!
Because he knew that Qufu Confucianism, which had been passed down for more than sixty generations, would be destroyed in his hands.
He knew that the reason why the Confucian clan in Qufu could be prosperous for so many generations, apart from the golden signboard of Confucius, was because they were useless and were not a threat to anyone. They kowtowed to everyone who came. This was how they kept their family and their wealth for a long time. .
It is no exaggeration to say that the greatest use of the Qufu Kong family is that it is useless!
But now Emperor Kangxi wants to use the Confucian family in Qufu, and use it extensively, to compete with Zhu Heji, the self-proclaimed Confucian saint in Nanjing. We should use the reputation and wealth of the Confucian family to organize Confucianism, and make Confucianism almost like a gangster in the world...
This is to push the Kong family in Qufu into a pit of fire and towards a dead end!
If things continue like this, the Qufu Kong family will not only offend Zhu Heji to death, but also become the banner of a bunch of black Confucianism, making them almost as good as the third prince Zhu... How can there be a way to survive here?
But the problem is, this kind of nonsense is what Emperor Kangxi meant!
What made Kong Yuqi even more depressed was that Emperor Kangxi also put the Confucian family's more than 200,000 acres of sacrificial and academic fields under the name of Confucianism with a stroke of his pen... Yansheng Gongfu and Confucianism had another conflict It's not the same thing, how could it be like this? Does this mean that Qufu and Konglin will be managed by Confucianism in the future?
In addition, Kangxi actually asked Kong Yuqi to send additional "Confucian donations" to the people of Shandong, Henan, Shanxi, and Zhili in the name of defending Confucian orthodoxy...
After co-writing, the Qufu Kong family took the blame for the Qing Dynasty?
Just when Kong Yuqi was about to collapse with sadness, Huang Zhisheng, who had brought him to Beijing, suddenly whispered in his ear: "Holy Duke, Dengzhou..."
Fortunately, there is still Dengzhou!
Hope suddenly arose in Kong Yuqi's heart... Fortunately, there was still Dengzhou to go to!
At worst, he could remain anonymous and become a rich man in Dengzhou.
Thinking of this, Kong Yuqi's spirit suddenly returned to him, so he took the question book, picked up his robe, and quickly walked into the south study room. He bowed three times and kowtowed to Kangxi: "Slave Yan Shenggong Kong Yuqi , Your Majesty’s greetings!”
Kangxi's voice immediately sounded: "Kong Yuqi, from today on, your title will be one less character. Don't be called Yan Shenggong, just Shenggong!"
"I accept the decree! I thank you..." Kong Yuqi kowtowed and said to himself: "Holy Duke? Why does it sound like the leader of the White Lotus Sect? Who thought of it?"
