"The Kong family of Qufu is a descendant of the sage Kong. What the army will do next may make you infamy for thousands of years by those scholars." Qin Rong looked at Chen Xunping with sympathy.
Unlike the middle and lower-level officers below, as the chief of staff, he had already learned about Liu Heng's treatment of Kong.
Don’t be targeted or tolerant, just seek truth from facts.
These twelve words can already predict the fate of the Kong family in the Kong family.
If the Kong family really practiced the way of a saint, there would naturally not be much danger, but he had seen so many rural gentry families and knew that there was not much difference between the Kong family and other rural gentry families.
The only difference is that it is larger and commits more dark things.
Such gentry families are a stubborn problem for the Tiger-Character Banner's new policy. The Tiger-Character Banner, which is based on the common people at the bottom, cannot allow the existence of gentry families that ride on the heads of the common people.
This is related to the future foundation of Tiger Flag, and it will never change because of a Kong family.
Chen Xunping smiled at him and said, "It's not that I will be infamy for eternity, but that you and I may become infamy for eternity."
"It's different. You're the one taking the lead, and I'm just a follower. The responsibility doesn't fall much on my head." Qin Ruoyong said happily.
Hearing this, Chen Xunping joked: "If I am stink for thousands of years, you, a person who helps the tyranny of evil, will be stink for thousands of years at least."
"Ha ha."
Qin Rong put his hands on his hands and laughed.
Both of them knew that if they touched the Kong family, they would not be able to escape the infamy no matter what.
No matter how many crimes Kong has committed, under the fabrication of scholars, the two people who will show the butcher's knife to Kong will definitely become villains with numerous crimes under the pen.
"When will we send troops to Qufu?" Qin Rong's face became serious.
Chen Xunping said: "There is no rush. Let Duke Yan Shenggong in Qufu be happy for a few more days. After Ziyang City is stabilized, it will not be too late to send troops."
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"In the past two days, people will inevitably bring you heavy gifts." Qin Rongruo said pointedly.
Chen Xunping smiled and said: "I will accept as much as they come. I won't refuse anyone who comes, and I also want to see how much money they can spend."
Although neither of them mentioned their names, both of them knew who they were talking about.
The tiger-shaped banner army arrived under Qufu's nose, and both of them knew that Qufu's Yan Shenggong could not remain indifferent and must express something.
The Kong family can be passed down for thousands of years, and it must not be aloof. It is inevitable that they will use some methods to win over and please.
Ziyang City was not the first city captured by the Tiger Banner Army. The soldiers of the First Military Division fought all the way from Datong and experienced the baptism of many battlefields such as Shanxi and Henan. They had no idea how to deal with the newly captured city. The city has already had its own set of things.
That is the important code for troubled times.
In just two days, Ziyang City became peaceful. A group of opportunists and rogue tigers took advantage of the tiger flag to enter the city and wanted to gain benefits. All their heads were hung on the city walls as a warning to others.
A head with nothing severed is more of a warning.
With the stability on the streets, people began to leave their homes and appear on the streets.
For ordinary people, being able to hide at home for two days without going out is already the limit. If they continue to hide, everyone, old and young, will starve to death at home.
Only when you go out to work can you have food to eat, so that your family will not starve to death.
After Ziyang City was occupied by the Tiger-Character Banner, the people in the city who went out for the first time saw the Tiger-Character Banner soldiers patrolling the streets. They all hid and walked away, turning to other roads far away.
Even if there were no other alleys or roads to walk on, they would still face the pavements or walls on both sides of the street, not daring to look directly at the soldiers with the Tiger Flag.
As for why he didn't hide in the shop, it was entirely because the shops were all closed and the doors were boarded up outside.
Compared to the ordinary people in the city who were afraid of the soldiers carrying the tiger-character flag, the merchants and gentry in the city were even more afraid of the tiger-character flag.
Almost all the big families in the city have heard of the "evil deeds" done by Tiger Character Banner in Henan.
The reason why these big families in Ziyang City are willing to spend money repeatedly to support the government in defending the city is not only because they are manipulated by the government, but also because the Tiger Character Banner is not friendly to big gentry families like them.
However, as there were more and more people on the streets, the big families in the city did not see their homes being harassed by the soldiers of the Tiger Flag. They also walked out of their homes and began to open their shops and start business.
In just three days, Ziyang City has almost returned to normal. It is only slightly worse than before Ziyang City was closed. However, as long as it continues, within half a month, it will be back to its pre-war state and even more prosperous. .
Because there is less oppression, transactions are fairer for the people and ordinary merchants.
The only bad thing is that you need to pay business tax.
However, this only targets some wealthy families in the city. After all, such wealthy families have never paid any commercial taxes in the past, and no government official dares to bully the shops of these wealthy families.
Therefore, for wealthy families, a shop at home is equivalent to an additional expense.
And those ordinary merchants are not opposed to the commercial tax. Although the commercial tax was lower in the past, the losses incurred by the lahu on the street and the officials in the yamen, including food and drinks, were far more than the commercial tax.
As a group of local officials from Henan came to Ziyang City and took over the government affairs of Ziyang, Chen Xunping once again assembled his army and prepared to attack the next combat target.
A cavalry force of thousands of people rushed to Qufu one step ahead of the army.
Qufu is very close to Ziyang City, and the cavalry appeared outside Qufu city that day.
However, this cavalry was not in a hurry to do anything against Qufu. They just cruised around Qufu to stop those wealthy people from the Kong family who wanted to escape from Qufu.
And that Duke Yan was immediately blocked in Qufu City.
Although only one cavalry came and the tiger-character banner army had not arrived yet, it still frightened the Kong family members headed by Yan Shenggong.
A discussion about the future fate of the Kong family was held in the ancestral hall.
As Kong Yinjing, he was originally not qualified to participate in such an important meeting of the Kong family.
However, he had contacted Hu Ziqi several times and had gone to Datong to meet Liu Heng in person, so he was given special permission to participate in the highest-level discussions of the Kong family.
Duke Yan Sheng, together with a group of elders from the Kong clan, first paid homage to their ancestors, especially the Saint Kong in the center. Then they sat down and started discussing matters.
Duke Yan Sheng was sitting in the middle. He was the first to speak: "Every clan elder must be aware of the situation outside. The tiger thief sent a cavalry to Qufu. The specific purpose is hard to say, but the people sent to contact him are hard to say. They were all driven back, and it is certain that the other party came with bad intentions.”
