What Su Yonglin said was a bit too impactful for Kong Lai, so Kong Lai knelt on the ground and looked at Su Yonglin blankly, unable to say a word.
"Is there something wrong with what I said?"
Su Yonglin spread his hands and asked: "Isn't what I said wrong? Does what I say make you feel confused? Isn't what I said something that everyone dares to think but dare not ask? Thousands of years of changes, laugh In the end, it’s not the people who are in charge, it’s you.”
"Your Majesty, minister..."
"The glorious and splendid cultural packaging of China has been transformed into Confucian culture, and it has become something of your Confucius family. Master Kong may have never thought of being a teacher for the world. There are too many outstanding teachers of his generation. Yes, they all compete for jobs.
If you are not careful, you will be deprived of your disciples and become a laughing stock. Master Kong himself also encountered such a predicament, but he probably never thought that after his death, future generations would let him do it, and they would let him do everything. The teacher of scholars all over the world. "
Su Yonglin pointed at Kong La with a look of disdain.
"Therefore, scholars all over the world claim to be disciples of Confucius and disciples of saints, and they regard the source of all culture as Confucianism. However, Chinese culture is brilliant and has a long history. There are countless people who have contributed to it. How dare descendants of China dare to have the surname Kong?"
Kong Lai finally heard some clues.
Kong Lai finally understood what Su Yonglin said.
Is the emperor going to... want to destroy the Kong family?
Is this the end of the glory and glory that the Kong family has inherited to this day?
In just a short moment, Kong Lao thought of a lot of things, and he also had a lot of confusion and confusion, but Su Yonglin obviously had no intention of giving him more room to think.
"The Kong family has been blessed by the country for many generations, but has not made any merits to match it. He has never served or been loyal. He simply enjoys support, pampers himself, and eats expensive rice."
Su Yonglin pointed at Kong Li and said angrily: "I didn't keep the festival for the Han when I was in the Han Dynasty, I didn't keep the festival for the Wei when I was in Wei, and I didn't keep the festival for the Jin when I entered the Jin Dynasty. In your eyes, the country is not important. What is important is that the Kong family will always exist, but you What is the need for the Kong family to survive forever?
Just because you are descendants of Confucius? Just because of this? Maybe other emperors will agree so, but I definitely won't agree. You don't have the qualifications. "
Kong Lao's heart was beating wildly, his breathing was rapid, his face turned red, and he kowtowed repeatedly.
"Your Majesty! Your Majesty! I have no disloyal intentions with the Kong family, nor do I have any disloyal intentions! The Kong family will never betray Your Majesty! Never!"
Obviously, Kong La still didn't understand what Su Yonglin meant by attacking them.
In other words, he didn't want to understand why Su Yonglin had to attack him.
But now, none of this matters. Su Yonglin has no intention of giving Kong a chance to change his ways.
As the symbolic result of this great purge operation, capturing the Kong family and ending the Kong family's so-called glory was of great significance to the Ming Empire.
In this period when the power of Confucianism in North China is at its weakest, it is of great significance to catch them all and eliminate them completely.
After all, Su Yonglin no longer intends to compromise.
So Su Yonglin stood up, walked down the steps, stood in front of Kong La, slowly squatted down, and spoke softly.
"You have been needed in all dynasties for the sake of orthodoxy, but in my opinion, you are the group of people who are not needed. I don't need Kong to demonstrate my orthodoxy. I have no intention of clinging to orthodoxy and not letting go. Feel like I must be immortal.
Kong Qing, the zeal of a gentleman, has been beheaded for five generations. This has been the case since ancient times, but the Kong family is an anomaly. I really don’t want there to be any nobles who have lived for thousands of years under my rule. That will make me look like I am. It’s very useless and will make future generations complain about me. "
Kong Lai was already frozen on the spot like a stone statue, motionless.
Two quarters of an hour later, Su Yonglin ordered the army to garrison the Confucius Mansion, take custody of all the main personnel of the Confucius Mansion, and control their freedom.
Then, Su Yonglin appointed Shen Donghai, a young official from the Ministry of Justice and a member of the Renaissance who followed him to interrogate corrupt officials, as the magistrate of Qufu, taking full charge of Qufu's administration.
Subsequently, the entire judicial team began to conduct a comprehensive review of Kong's properties, including real estate and cash flow, and conduct a comprehensive review and statistics of Kong's business branches to completely liquidate Kong.
There is no need to find out too much, just one or two violations of law and discipline are enough to put an end to the glory of the Kong family.
At the same time, judicial teams were stationed in various state capitals in southern Shandong on a large scale to initiate interrogations and liquidations of officials, clerks, landlords, wealthy businessmen and other people involved in the Yellow River Project case.
The army stationed in various places along with the judicial team, and carried out devastating blows to the families who tried to resist with force and fled to the Southern Song Dynasty. It was not a problem to kill all the families.
Time entered the end of May, when Su Yonglin was counting the profits of the first wave of political purges in Qufu, Shandong civil servants in Zhongdu finally learned about what was happening in Shandong through various channels.
When Su Yonglin was operating in Shandong, he ordered the 11th Operation Group of the Skynet Army in charge of the Shandong area and the 13th Operation Group of the Skynet Army in charge of the Yanyun area to intercept intelligence messages sent from Shandong to Zhongdu, and try to delay the normal operation of Zhongdu as much as possible. Officials' reaction to the incident.
Operation Group 11 and Operation Group 13 carried out Su Yonglin's orders seriously and blocked the information route from Shandong to Zhongdu. They successfully prevented the news of Shandong's purge from reaching Zhongdu and delayed it for nearly a month.
During this period, only a few people allowed by Su Yonglin, such as Lin Jingchun, Xin Qiji and others, could accurately get the news.
However, after the matter was settled and everything that needed to be resolved was resolved, there was nothing to hide. Su Yonglin let go of the spread of the news and even took the initiative to send people to spread the news of the Shandong purge in Zhongdu. All caused a wave.
The sudden purge in Shandong shocked many officials in Zhongdu, especially the Shandong officials.
Because as far as they knew, Su Yonglin had been inspecting the Yellow River Project in Henan during this period. He was very concerned about the Yellow River Project and had not taken any other actions.
Why did you suddenly go to Shandong to carry out a big purge?
That's my home!
Nothing will happen, right?
The concerned Shandong civil servants of the Gu family immediately sent messages of condolences to their family, and searched for well-informed people in the court to inquire about the news.
However, because the news spread by Su Yonglin's people was different from true to false, they couldn't figure out what happened in Shandong for a while.
It was not until Zhao Zuoliang, the minister of the Shangshu Province who was mainly responsible for presiding over government affairs in the DPRK after Su Yonglin left, came forward to give an explanation that the "truth came out".
"When His Majesty was inspecting the Yellow River construction site in Henan Province, he received a secret report that someone was corrupt and perverting the law on the Yellow River construction site, embezzling public funds for river management, stealing expensive river construction materials and selling them outside, in order to earn high amounts of stolen money. Your Majesty, please Angry, he decided to launch an investigation.
In April, His Majesty punished a group of officials in Henan Province who were corrupt and perverted the law. He thought that the matter would end there, but failed to pass the trial. His Majesty also learned that there were also people in Shandong who were corrupt and perverted the law. His Majesty was very angry and decided to go to Shandong to investigate. , this investigation lasted only one month, and four or five corruption cases were discovered. "
Having said this, Zhao Zuoliang put down the investigation report in his hand and looked up at the pale-faced Shandong officials.
"Should you say it or not, you are still brave, you know? The amount of stolen money involved in the case investigated by His Majesty has exceeded 800 million. In anger, His Majesty has already investigated and severely punished the officials and officials involved. Do you know the specific information? We will find out when His Majesty comes back."
Zhao Zuoliang put away the report and prepared to see the guests off and let them leave the official office of Shangshu Province.
