Chapter 461 The murderous intention towards the Kong family!
There is nothing new under the sun, and there is nothing private under the inspection of Jin Yiwei.
This scene that happened at the Kong family in Qufu was quickly reported back by Jinyiwei's spies.
When Zhu Gaojie saw the news, he was almost angry with the Kong family.
"Stupid as a pig!"
He sneered and said to Yang Rong beside him:
"Come and see, the Kong family simply doesn't take me seriously at all. Haha, I really think I can survive for thousands of years relying on Kong Laoer's reputation!"
He and Yang Rong were the only ones in the study, so Zhu Gaojie didn't use my address. Yang Rong also had a speechless expression after taking the secret book and reading it.
He really wanted to pat his head and find out what the Kong family was thinking. Could it be that all their poems and books were really read into the dog's belly?
The imperial court respects you, the Confucian family, and has always given generous rewards. However, this is entirely because of the reputation of the Confucian sage. It is because Confucianism is now a prominent school in the world, so it is polite to you, the Confucian family.
But His Majesty, his Majesty, has had strong opinions on Confucianism since he was King Qi. Later, he even directly established a liberal arts academy to recruit and teach students from poor families. All the courses he learned were more practical, and for those
The so-called Confucian classics and the knowledge of sages have not even glanced at it.
Zhu Gaojie's clear and direct attitude made Yang Rong and other ministers of the East Palace family very clear that his Majesty would never give any favors or preferential treatment to the Qufu Kong family, such as Zhu Yuanzhang and Yongle during the Hongwu period.
It is almost impossible for Zhu Di to give generous rewards to the Confucius family during his reign!
Moreover, your Kong family is now involved in an assassination case. If you and others had not considered the situation in the capital at that time and urged your Majesty not to arrest anyone, the housekeeper you sent out would have been arrested by the Jin Yiwei and had his head looked at...
Why are you still so ignorant of current affairs now?
As the chief minister of the cabinet, Yang Rong was also a scholar. He could only sigh helplessly in his heart, and then said to Zhu Gaojie:
"Your Majesty, the Confucian family in Qufu has a great business and luxuriant branches. The contemporary Yanshenggong is young and has not had much knowledge and experience. I hope that for the sake of being the descendant of the saint, His Highness can give you some advice...
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From a fundamental point of view, although Yang Rong was loyal to Zhu Gaojie and was an out-and-out confidant, he did not want Zhu Gaojie to get angry because of this matter, and even end up raising a butcher's knife against the Kong family. In that case,
The situation is really about to get out of hand.
After all, the Confucian family is a real living brand of Confucianism, far beyond the influence of the hundreds of Confucian scholars. If His Majesty takes action against the Confucian family, the whole world's public opinion will suddenly be in an uproar. Then His Majesty will be among the scholars.
His reputation will plummet and he will become a tyrant recorded in history books in the future!
Therefore, Yang Rong could only bite the bullet and continue to persuade with earnest words:
"Your Majesty, now that you have just ascended the throne, it is time to straighten out the government affairs. There are many things waiting for you to deal with."
"Mobei side also urgently needs to set follow-up policies and strategies to consolidate the results of this victory..."
"You have dealt with a large number of court officials since you came here, and you have also shocked these aristocratic families in the North. You might as well let them and the Kong family go first, and we will talk about it later..."
When Zhu Gaojie heard Yang Rong talk about Mobei, he was slightly startled. He had been busy with succession and dealing with relevant people these days, but he almost forgot about this important matter.
Although there are still many troops guarding the Mobei grassland, the subsequent officials and decrees must be followed as soon as possible, otherwise these guys on the grassland are afraid of power but not virtue, and they are rabbits.
Nest after nest, it won't take long for them to reappear again.
"You have reminded me that we will have a good discussion about Mobei tomorrow morning."
Zhu Gaojie pondered and said:
"As for the Kong family..."
He suddenly remembered the relevant history that later generations had seen, and asked Yang Rong:
"Isn't the Kong family now divided into two sects, the north and the south? I remember that in the Yuan Dynasty, they wanted to unify the north and south of the Kong family. Why did the south side refuse?"
Yang Rong was a scholar, so he had some understanding of this:
"Back to Your Majesty, Kublai Khan of the Yuan Dynasty planned to unify the northern and southern sects of the Confucius family in order to win over people's hearts, demonstrate the orthodoxy of the Central Plains, and consolidate his position in the Yuan Dynasty."
"However, Kong Zhu, the head of the Southern Sect of the Kong family at that time, in order to avoid internal strife in the Kong family and at the same time, his family had established a foundation in Quzhou, gave up the idea of going back, and instead gave up the title of Duke Yansheng to the then Northern Sect.
The head of the family, Kong Zhi."
"I don't want to say more about the reason for this, but it's not entirely fair."
"During the Southern Song Dynasty, the conflict between the north and the south of the Kong family was fierce. The Southern Sect was afraid that it would not be able to defeat those entrenched members of the Northern Sect after returning. In addition, Kong Zhu of the Southern Sect was not optimistic about the longevity of the Yuan Dynasty."
"Therefore, he gave Duke Yan Shenggong to Beizong. It was a blessing and a curse, but it also made me and other future generations feel a little emotional..."
Zhu Gaojiu then thought, hey, isn't this just a standard opportunist?
He was not as powerful as the Beizong and did not dare to go back. He also felt that a foreign dynasty like the Yuan Dynasty would not last long and was unwilling to bear the infamy. As a result, he directly handed over the title of Yan Shenggong to others and became a big landowner behind closed doors in the local area. I guess that
Kong Zhu from Nanzong felt quite happy...
"The Northern Sect of the Kong family is not a man of integrity. Who among the Han people in the North didn't hook up with foreigners? In the end, the Mongols took advantage, huh."
Zhu Gaojie looked down upon Kong Laoer's family, and he was even more dissatisfied with the Kong family who were constantly seeking death and even thought about killing themselves.
"The honor of a gentleman has been cut down in five generations. The Kong family has reaped dividends for thousands of years. It's time to step down and stop wasting the imperial court's wealth and food all day long."
Zhu Gaojie said to Yang Rong:
"Besides, after the Kong family experienced the incident of Confucius Mo, they can no longer be regarded as descendants of saints with orderly inheritance. Who knows what kind of quality they are..."
Yang Rong smiled helplessly again.
Kong Mo's chaos in Kong was a bad debt in the late Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. To put it simply, Kong Mo, a descendant of a domestic servant who was not named Kong, took advantage of the chaos of the war to kill a large family member of the direct lineage of the Kong family at that time.
Only a nine-month-old boy escaped from the human race. From then on, Kong Mo took his place and became a descendant of the saint...
There are a lot of confusing things here, such as whether the only living boy is real?
The Kong family has always kept this secret, but Yang Rong, as an important official of the imperial court, certainly knew about it.
In his opinion, His Majesty's words were clearly murderous towards the Kong family!