The two hundred and seventieth chapters are all soldiers
In the Ming Dynasty, the Confucius Mansion was a local emperor in Qufu County, Shandong and nearby areas. Confucius was respected and enshrined by all dynasties and generations. No dynasty was willing to quarrel with the world's scholars for offending the Confucius Mansion.
The son is the enemy.
Therefore, even if there is a change of dynasty, the impact on the Confucius Mansion will be quite small. And having been domineering in Qufu for a long time, the entire Confucius Mansion has now accumulated huge wealth. In particular, it owns a huge amount of land, which has become the entire Confucius Mansion.
In the Ming Dynasty, he was one of the top landowners.
In addition, in order to give preferential treatment to the Confucius family, the Ming Dynasty formed a system in which Duke Sheng Yan also served as the magistrate of Qufu County, and officials at all levels in the county government were also served by people from the Confucius family. In fact, it would not work without preferential treatment! Who dares to do this in Qufu County?
Should the county magistrate be responsible for managing the Confucius Mansion? It is better to let the Confucius Mansion have its own affairs.
Moreover, because the Confucius Mansion owned a large amount of land in Qufu County and several nearby counties, there were tens of thousands of households with slaves and tenant farmers in the Confucius Mansion, and the number of young men and women that the Confucius Mansion could draw at any time was at least tens of thousands.
It should be said that the strength of the Kong family is not something that ordinary thieves can compete with. Even if an army of thousands of people wants to conquer Qufu County, they may lose a few teeth.
So with the Kongfu having such strong strength, there should be no problem with Qufu County's self-protection. But this is not possible. Now we have to look at the performance of Qufu County's county magistrate, Sheng Yangong.
Confucius, no matter what the purpose of future generations is to praise or discredit him, he can definitely be called the word "great". And his descendants at the beginning were basically well-read poetry and books, and learned a lot.
But starting from Kong Rong during the Three Kingdoms period, the descendants of Confucius have become worse with each generation. They are content to enjoy a luxurious life, relying on the glory of their ancestors, and living a life of intoxication and dreams.
The same is true for this generation of Sheng Yangong. In the eyes of outsiders, Sheng Yangong still pretends to be highly respected, but behind the scenes, he has done anything to bully men and dominate women.
Yes, but I just can’t do anything serious.
You can imagine, how could such a wealthy Sheng Yangong have the courage to fight to the death against the rebels?
When the chaos in Shandong occurred, Sheng Yangong was also panicked. He wanted to escape from the dangerous place quickly to save his precious life.
Fortunately, several knowledgeable Qing guests from the Sheng Yangong family advised him. They and Sheng Yangong analyzed that it is also dangerous to flee blindly in this chaotic situation. Besides, Sheng Yangong can escape, but Kong
How could so many members of the entire family escape? Are such a huge foundation of the Kong family ignored? Even if you want to escape, you should understand the situation clearly before escaping.
Therefore, Duke Shengyan sent his servants to inquire about outside news, and the focus of the inquiry was Ningyang County, where Wu Shiwen was the magistrate.
Ningyang County is located to the northwest of Qufu County. If the rebels invade, they will first attack Ningyang County and then take their turn to Qufu County.
However, Wu Shiwen's escape caused great chaos in Ningyang County. And this chaotic situation happened to be discovered by the slaves sent by Sheng Yangong.
Therefore, Sheng Yangong immediately judged that the rebel army had arrived in Ningyang County and was about to reach his own Qufu County. With nothing to say, Sheng Yangong immediately started packing packages and preparing to slip. But at this moment
, another piece of news came from the house slave who was observing the situation in Ningyang County.
A Ming army marched into Ningyang County, quelled the chaos in Ningyang County, and hung on the crenellations of the city walls around Ningyang County the heads of the rebels who were killed by this Ming army.
Then there was no need to hesitate. Duke Shengyan immediately sent a messenger to Ningyang County and ordered the Ming army to rush to Qufu County immediately to protect the great Confucius Mansion and the noble Lord Shengyan. This is what happened to Wu Shigong
thing.
However, Duke Sheng Yan, who grew up in a comfortable environment, had no insight after all. He himself also knew that even if Kong Youde's rebel army wanted to attack Qufu County, they would have to conquer Ningyang County first. But Duke Sheng Yan still had to order this.
When the Ming army defending Ningyang County came to Qufu County, he had to put them by his side to feel at ease. He didn't know the meaning of lips dying and teeth cold.
Besides, this was in the Ming Dynasty. Unlike modern people who are basically literate, the proportion of illiterates among the people at that time was quite high, and those illiterate people believed and listened to the insights of literate readers. So for
The Confucius Mansion, the totem of scholars all over the world, is like a god in the hearts of ordinary people.
In addition, the Confucius Mansion has long been prestigious in the nearby area, so no bandits or refugees would dare to die near the behemoth Kong Mansion in Qufu County.
And as an aside, even if Kong Youde's rebel army reaches here, Kong Youde may not have the guts to attack Qufu County and harass Kong's mansion. It's not that this rebel army is incapable, but it's because Kong Youde definitely doesn't want to become a public enemy of the world. That's it.
It can be seen that the influence of Confucius in the Ming Dynasty is unimaginable for us in modern times.
But the messenger who delivered the letter could not control so much. In order to make Wu Shigong make up his mind to send troops, he painted a tragic picture of Qufu County to Wu Shigong and Wu Shiwen: Qufu County has been besieged by tens of thousands of troops! What a crisis!
There are so many rioters and rioters outside the city!...
Of course Wu Shigong would not completely believe the messenger's nonsense. However, he had too few cavalry and mainly wanted to scout the north of Ningyang County. Therefore, there was relatively little reconnaissance in the direction of Qufu County. Therefore, as for the situation in Qufu County
, Wu Shigong can only estimate by himself.
Wu Shigong thought that Sheng Yangong was making a fuss out of a molehill. Also because Kong Youde's rebel army wanted to attack Ningyang County first and then Qufu County, Wu Shigong believed that those who besieged Qufu County were at most refugees and rioters. The number of people was not large.
There are so many. At most, they were similar to the refugee bandits around Ningyang County at that time. There were only five or six thousand people who could stand up to the sky.
So what does Wu Shigong have to be afraid of? It’s not that Wu Shigong underestimated the enemy. In his first battle, Wu Shigong dared to use 200 cavalry to charge tens of thousands of rebels, and the result was zero casualties. Now with these five or six thousand rebels, he has seven
Couldn't Bai Duoqi clean them up easily?
But regardless of being cautious or thoughtful, Wu Shigong is still very timid about any military action. This character is the same as Shumo. It's just that one is hiding in the heart and the other is showing it in the outside. The master and the servant are both
This point is consistent.
Therefore, although Wu Shigong rushed to rescue Qufu County, he still arranged a large number of spies in front and on both sides of the army. However, to Wu Shigong's expectation, there was nothing wrong with him along the way. He did not encounter any rioters at all.
What's even more exaggerated is that when Wu Shigong arrived at Qufu County, although the gate of Qufu County was closed, there were no mobs surrounding the city at all. On this empty land, there were only a few scattered people digging in the soil.
Apart from the refugees, there were no people at all. Let alone five or six thousand people. Not even five or six thousand grasses could be found on this snowy land.
After seeing this situation, Wu Shigong was so angry that he didn't even have the energy to scold his mother. It seemed that this Sheng Yangong was no longer making a fuss, but that everything was under attack.
But no matter how angry he was now, when they arrived in Qufu County, the army still had to go into the city to rest, and he and his fifth brother Wu Shiwen still wanted to pay a visit to Duke Sheng Yan. So Wu Shigong sent someone to call the door.
But seeing the army outside the city, the city gate of Qufu County refused to open. Fortunately, there were still people on the city wall who knew the messenger and Wu Shiwen, the magistrate of Ningyang County. After reporting to Duke Shengyan, they finally
Wu Shigong's army was put into Qufu County. This finally prevented Wu Shigong from drinking the northwest wind outside the city.