Chapter 671 The Kong Family’s Choice Asking for a Monthly Ticket
Chapter 671 The Kong family’s decision (please vote for me)
Not long after, the team of messengers rushed all the way to Li Dingguo and presented the scarlet red news of victory to Li Dingguo.
Li Dingguo started reading the results report.
Looking at the lines of text on the victory report, his face showed obvious joy.
"Hahaha!"
Li Dingguo couldn't help but laugh out loud, his face full of joy.
"Wu Sangui was defeated miserably. After this battle, the entire Southern Kingdom belongs to our Ming Dynasty!"
When the others heard this, they couldn't help laughing.
After a while, the smiles on everyone's faces faded, and Li Dingguo finally spoke.
"Send the order, prepare the entire army for war, and let me quickly capture the entire Yunnan. We are ready to cooperate with the imperial army and march into Sichuan and Shu at any time!"
"..."
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As time goes by, the war situation in the world is also changing little by little.
After the decisive battle in Huguang decided the winner, the battles in Yunnan and Guizhou provinces also came to a conclusion one after another.
The state capitals in Hunan sent letters of surrender to Nanjing, expressing their attitude of submission to the Ming Dynasty with great humility.
After the great victory on the Huaihe River, He Wenxiu led his troops back to Wuchang.
On the one hand, troops were sent to Hunan to take over the territory; on the other hand, troops were sent up the river to attack Sichuan and Shu.
As various good news continued to come, everyone realized that the entire south was about to be completely recovered by the Ming Dynasty.
Ming Dynasty will also be revitalized again!
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Qufu, Kong’s Ancestral Hall!
The contemporary Yanshenggong Kong Yuqi was sitting in the middle hall, holding a letter in his hand.
Looking at the dazzling four characters "Shixiu Submission Form" on this piece of paper, I felt like my head was buzzing.
This was nothing but the response Zhu Hongyu gave him to the Kong family.
It’s almost a naked statement!
It seems to be saying, I don't care about your Kong family's surrender!
Kong Yuqi took a deep breath, the expression on his face was full of pain and confusion.
"This... this, this, what should I do?"
"What should I do?"
An old man from the Kong family had a very clear expression of fear on his face.
As the war situation in the south gradually became clearer, the Ming Dynasty controlled the south of the Yangtze River, and the Qing Dynasty took the initiative to withdraw from the border.
Now, the restoration of the Ming Dynasty has become a fact recognized by the world.
With the rich experience of the Confucius family in cultivating surrender, they can naturally realize this.
Now that they are aware of this, the Kong family will definitely take corresponding actions in order to preserve their own prosperity and wealth.
For example, taking the initiative to lower the meter to Daming was the solution that the Kong family came up with after discussion.
It's just a pity that in the face of the Kong family's overtures, the Ming Dynasty did not buy it.
The Emperor of Heaven even sent the Confucian family the four characters "Shixiu Surrender" as a form of humiliation. His attitude was quite clear.
"How dare that kid Zhu Hongyu, how dare he!"
"I, the Kong family, are descendants of saints and orthodox Confucianists. By doing this, aren't they afraid of extirpating themselves from the world?!"
"..."
The elders of the Kong family continued to question, and their voices were fierce.
However, the underlying uneasiness and fear hidden behind their fierce voices cannot be faked.
Kong Yuqi's face turned frighteningly dark as he listened to the noise in the lobby.
Someone noticed Kong Yuqi's dark complexion and gradually stopped talking.
The lobby gradually became quiet, and no one made any more noise.
Seeing this scene, Kong Yuqi just sneered and said.
"Noise, keep arguing!"
"Why aren't you noisy anymore?"
"Why can you change the attitude of the Ming Dynasty toward my Kong family just by having a quarrel here?"
"..."
When everyone heard this, they all fell silent instantly.
Kong Yuqi looked around and then spoke.
"The most important thing for my Kong family now is to survive and resolve this disaster!"
"If not, no matter how much we argue here, it will be meaningless."
An elder from the Kong family stood up and said.
"How about my Kong family leaving the customs with the Qing Dynasty?"
Now the idea of the elder of the Kong family is almost to never turn back a good horse. Since all the Kong family stabbed the Ming Dynasty in the back, they defected to the Qing Dynasty.
Instead of turning around and joining the Ming Dynasty, it is better to follow the Qing Dynasty all the way to the dark side!
Anyway, judging from the current situation, Daming is not ready to accept them anymore.
As a result, as soon as the clan elder's words came out, he received countless objections.
"Absolutely not!"
“This is absolutely impossible!”
"We, the Kong family, are descendants of saints. How can we abandon the tomb of our sages and go to the barbaric land outside the pass? Doesn't that mean we are abandoning our ancestors and ignoring them?"
"..."
Everyone in the Confucius family spoke out righteously and sternly in opposition.
However, the most real reason is not because Confucius's tomb is in Qufu, but because the family property of the elders of the Confucius family is in Qufu.
Once they left Qufu, the Kong family's property would be reduced by more than half, or even more.
Even if the Kong family can take away all the gold and silver, can they also move away all the property and houses?
Furthermore, this is the reason why the Confucius family has been able to stand firm for thousands of years.
Apart from the influence of his status as a descendant of Confucius and Saints on the world, the more important reason is that the Confucius family has been rooted in Shandong for thousands of years and has long been deeply rooted.
To a certain extent, it is not an exaggeration to say that half of Shandong belongs to the Confucius family and the remaining half belongs to the imperial court!
At the very least, the big gentry families in the state capitals near Qufu, as well as local officials, all looked up to the Confucius family.
Such a Kong family has strength, fame, and kneels promptly enough. Generally speaking, the rulers will not care about them.
However, by the same token, once the Kong family left Qufu and Shandong, it would be nothing.
As long as they leave Shandong, the only thing left for the Kong family is fame!
And fame is the most vain thing.
Because this thing all depends on one mouth, if you say no, it will be gone!
As far as the Kong family is concerned, once they leave Shandong and go to the outside world, the Kong family will no longer be the original Kong family.
Everyone fell into silence.
When everyone was speechless, an elder from the Kong family stood up and expressed his opinion.
"My Kong family is the descendant of a saint and has a great influence on Shilin. As long as my Kong family can persuade all the princes in the Ming Dynasty to intercede for my Kong family."
"I, the Kong family, will make some appropriate statements and donate a sum of money to the imperial court. Then I will let Yuqi go to jail and reflect on his mistakes, and ask the imperial court to decide who will replace Yanshenggong."
"Thinking about it, this matter should be over!"
"The Emperor of Heaven is young and vigorous. Young people should take advantage of the soft rather than the hard. If we, the Kong family, want to achieve our goals, we will definitely fail if we try hard!"
"Take it softly, maybe it will have better results!"
Everyone in the lobby expressed their agreement one after another, and looked at Kong Yuqi one after another, as if expecting his statement.
When Kong Yuqi heard this, the expression on his face kept changing.
The elder of the Kong family asked him to reflect on his mistakes in front of him. How could he look good?
However, after thinking for a while, he discovered that what the clan elder said might really be the only choice before the Kong family.