"Your Majesty, I, the Kongfu, sit upright and are not afraid of a thorough investigation!"
"If you're not afraid of a thorough investigation, why did you stop it? Wouldn't it be good to give your Kong family justice?"
"Your Majesty, if a thorough investigation shows that there is no problem with the Kong family, then where is the face of the Kong family?
In the future, wouldn’t anyone be able to slander Confucius and his family? So how should I, the Confucius Mansion, deal with it? "
"Humph, if there is no problem, I will personally go to the Confucius Temple to apologize to Confucius. If anyone brings this matter up in the future, I will just kill them. How about that?"
Kong Shangda opened his mouth, but he didn't dare to say anything he wanted to say.
The emperor has already spoken about this. If he dares to stop him again, he will probably be cut down directly.
Chongzhen sneered in his heart, no problem? apologize? Go ahead and dream!
Now that we have taken action, we have to find out a few problems, and it is decided that the Beizong will be removed!
"Li Ruolian, you arrange for a Jin Yiwei commander to be your colleague, and Zhang Tingdeng, you arrange for a left deputy censor to go to Qufu to investigate the bloodline of the Northern Sect of the Confucius Mansion."
"Officials from the General Affairs Department, Hanlin Academy, Wenyuan Pavilion, and Imperial College are responsible for reviewing the books in various libraries and pavilions in Beijing for verification!"
"Marquis Zhongzhen, you are responsible for presiding over all investigations!"
"The matter of Beizong's bloodline is settled like this!"
"I obey the order!"
The big guys from the ministry all saluted in response to being called upon.
"Then let's talk about Kong Xingxie!"
Chongzhen stepped off the platform: "Kong Xingxie colluded with Zhu Chunchen, the Duke of Chengguo, and ordered the edict to destroy the morale of the soldiers with the intention of helping the slaves to siege the city of Beijing.
Although the edict of Sin Ji was not fulfilled, the establishment of slaves broke the barrier, resulting in the tragic death of more than 100,000 soldiers of our Ming Dynasty.
If you don't kill this kind of crime, it won't make the people angry. If you don't kill it, you won't regret the tens of thousands of soldiers who died! "
"Come here, take Kong Xingxie to prison. While waiting for the reward ceremony, he will be executed in Lingchi to commemorate the souls of tens of thousands of soldiers in heaven!"
After receiving the order, the two royal guards lifted Kong Xingxie up like a chicken, waking Kong Xingxie up from his trance.
After he woke up, Kong Xingxie was twisting like crazy and still roaring loudly: "No, no, it's not like this!"
"This is your trap. If according to the battle report in the Ming Dynasty Daily, 65,000 Jiannu people were killed in this battle, and only 101,000 people were killed by the Ming army.
According to the casualty ratio in the Battle of Saarhu and the Battle of Ningyuan, this is very wrong. Huang Taiji is not a fool..."
The twisting Kong Xingxie quickly repeated Kong Shangda's analysis of them yesterday.
"With the strength of the Ming army, it is impossible to do all this!"
"This is a conspiracy!"
"This is a conspiracy by the imperial court against my Kong family!"
"Regardless of the life and death of hundreds of thousands of soldiers, just to suppress my Kong family, you, you..."
"shut up!"
"Snapped!"
Kong Xingxie was so angry that he lost his mind. Before he could say the words "foolish king" and "tyrant", Kong Shangda shouted angrily,
He took a step forward and slapped Kong Xingxie awake.
"Kong Xingxie, at this stage, is still trying to find out the strength of our army, and is also trying to sow discord between the court and the soldiers. It is indeed a wolfish ambition!"
"Come here, take him down, and he will be punished!"
After Kong Xingxie dragged him away, Chongzhen stared at Kong Shangda: "Kong Shangda, you have made repeated rudeness and provoked Long Wei in the Huangji Palace due to your status. Do you really think that I dare not punish you?"
"Come here, drag Kong Shangda to the Meridian Gate and beat him with thirty army sticks as a warning to others!"
Kong Shangda was dragged out of the Huangji Palace. With his age and thirty military sticks, he narrowly escaped death.
Even if he did not die, if he openly defied the court and provoked Long Wei, the crime of disrespect would be enough for him. After returning, he would not be able to control Wenshang Confucian Temple again.
The hall was extremely quiet, no one dared to speak. After a while, Chongzhen said calmly: "My dear friends, please tell me, how should we deal with Qufu County?"
"Your Majesty, I thought that the Qufu County Magistrate would be dismissed from his post and investigated, and his weapons would be sent to Beijing!"
"Your Majesty, I believe that the imperial court should abolish the secular service system of Qufu County magistrate and replace it with a floating official system.
The Ministry of Personnel will select suitable candidates and take up their posts in a three-year cycle, and the Ministry of Personnel will conduct assessments every year. "
"No, Your Majesty, since the beginning of Emperor Yizong of the Tang Dynasty, the eldest grandson of Confucius has been appointed as the magistrate of Qufu County.
After that, edicts were issued in the first year of Xiangfu, the fifth year of Tianxi, the second year of Baoyuan, the third year of Huangyou, and the first year of Zhiping in Song Dazhong, emphasizing that the magistrate of Qufu was elected by the descendants of the Kong family.
Even during the reign of Taizu, the hereditary system was only changed to a secular system. From the beginning of the Tang Dynasty to the present, the magistrate of Qufu has been held by disciples of the Confucius family for 800 years.
If it is abolished now, I am worried..."
"What are you worried about? Worried about the rebellion of the Kong family, or worried about the dissatisfaction of the world's scholars?"
Although Chongzhen's voice was calm, all the officials could hear the dissatisfaction in the emperor's tone.
"The Kong family is a holy place in the hearts of scholars all over the world. The word "Holy Palace" written by the treacherous minister Yan Song is hanging on the door. What do they mean?
To teach the world's scholars to show off their power, or to engage in intrigue and corruption?
They don’t feel ashamed, I feel ashamed for them! "
"What Li Ruolian said is right. Can one of our own lose a lawsuit? If we continue to let the Kong family serve as county magistrates, then Qufu will really become a state within a state.
If I respect the Confucius family, then I will be sorry for the tens of thousands of people in Qufu!
Since the emperors of the past dynasties can issue edicts and grant titles, then I can abolish this edict! "
After Chongzhen finished speaking, he said in a cold voice: "My eldest companion, send an order to Zhou Yuji and ask him to personally take people to remove the plaque of the Holy Mansion on the Confucius Mansion and smash it!
By the way, I will send the Qufu County Magistrate's weapons to Beijing City for a joint review by the three departments!
In addition, the parties involved in the nine murder cases in the past eight years were beheaded in front of the Confucius Mansion! Anyone who dares to stop him will be treated as guilty and will be killed!
After retiring from the court, the cabinet immediately drafted an edict to abolish the secular position of Qufu County Magistrate. Zhou Yuji took it to Qufu and copied and posted it in prefectures and counties along the way! "
"A decree was sent to Cao Huachun to go to Yanzhou in person to investigate the prefect of Yanzhou, the Chief Secretary of Shandong, the governor of Shandong, and the surrounding garrison of Qufu to see if there were any transactions involving power and wealth with the Kong family.
Once verified, they will be escorted to Beijing City immediately!
The Inspectorate and Jinyiwei are fully cooperating! "
"I remember that Lu Xiangsheng led the Tianxiong Army to sit in Guide Mansion to suppress the White Lotus Sect. I sent him an order to send 3,000 Tianxiong Army to Yanzhou. Anyone who resists will be killed!"
"The Ministry of Civil Affairs selects a county magistrate and submits it to Dongnuan Pavilion!"
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"Retreat!"
After Chongzhen issued a series of orders, he did not give the ministers a chance to react, and directly got off the platform and left the Huangji Palace.
In the Huangji Hall, the ministers looked at each other in disbelief, and finally focused on Yuan Keli, Sun Chengzong and other cabinet ministers.
"Pass the message from His Majesty!"
Just as the ministers were about to speak, Wang Chengen came back and said, "Let the officials from the Hanlin Academy, Imperial College, and other institutions who came to the court today each write an article about what happened in the court today.
Be objective and fair, no need to add words, Shen Zheng will always present it to Dongnuan Pavilion, thank you for this! "
