Wang Yuan and Zhu Zaiyu sat opposite each other, while Queen Mother Gu sat in the middle and listened.
On the stone table, there are not only fruit plates, melon seeds and rice wine, but also a memorial and attachments sent back by Jin Lei (detailed memorials are usually attached with unveiling notes).
After reading the investigation contents in the attachment, Zhu Zaiyi couldn't help but wonder: "Teacher, why are there so many filthy people among the descendants of Confucius?"
Wang Yuan did not answer immediately, but asked: "Your Majesty, why did all the dynasties perish?"
This is Wang Yuan's education method. He never lectures Zhu Zaiyi, but guides Zhu Zaiyi to think for himself.
Zhu Zaijun said: "Even the sons and grandsons of dragons will inevitably be fatuous and incompetent. After several foolish kings appear in succession, and the administration of officials continues to be corrupted, the people will naturally rise up."
Wang Yuan said: "Countries have been destroyed in past dynasties for several reasons, and foreign invasion is not the main problem. First, as your Majesty said, it is inevitable that there will be a few foolish emperors, because the emperor is not selected by examination, and the eldest son can inherit the throne; second,
Second, the longer a dynasty lasts, the more serious the aristocratic families will annex the land. The small people will have no place to stand, and they will risk their lives to rebel when encountering natural disasters. The third is the problem of official administration. The system established at the beginning of the country was completely destroyed by the end of the dynasty.
No matter what, any legal system can be exploited."
Zhu Zaiyi asked: "What does this have to do with the Kong family in Qufu?"
Wang Yuan said: "Since the Tang Dynasty, the Confucius family has been like a small imperial court in Qufu. The imperial court has three provinces and six departments, the Confucius family has three halls and six halls, and the magistrate of Qufu is just an expatriate official of the Confucius family. Therefore, the rise and fall of the Confucius family is also related to
It can be compared with the rise and fall of dynasties."
Zhu Zaiyi said: "Sir, please speak clearly."
Wang Yuan smiled and said: "The Confucius family has the power of life and death in Qufu, so the land naturally accumulates more and more, and the people are mostly their slaves and tenants. The government of the imperial court will gradually deteriorate. How can the government of the Confucius family in Qufu be clear? Long Zilong
Sun Du may be fatuous, so how can Duke Yan Sheng be wise all the time? However, the dynasty will fall, but the Confucius family will not. The people of Qufu rose up and had their own court to quell the chaos. When foreign enemies came to kill, the Confucius family only had to bow their heads and surrender.
You can always be domineering and blessed. Your Majesty, a dynasty will become corrupt after hundreds of years. The Kong family is a small court that has lasted for thousands of years, how corrupt should it be?"
"That's it!" Zhu Zaiyu suddenly understood.
Wang Yuan also said: "If the court is corrupted and there are wise ministers who reform and survive, it is equivalent to curing the disease. If the ministers' medical skills are not good and the people rebel and change the dynasty, it is equivalent to giving strong medicine and the new court will become clear. But Confucius
Our small court does not need to take medicine. An old man who has been ill for a thousand years has rotten inside and out, and his internal organs are rotten."
Zhu Zaiyi clapped his hands and praised: "Sir, he always discusses matters so clearly and thoroughly. How should we treat this patient of the Kong family?"
Wang Yuan said: "Change the magistrate of Qufu County to a floating official, and take back the Kong family's right to arrest and judge clan members and servants."
Zhu Zaiyi said: "It happened that the magistrate of Qufu County was guilty, so he took the opportunity to send a wandering official there."
Wang Yuan shook his head: "Don't worry, you can continue to let the Kong clan be the county magistrate."
The clan leader of the Kong clan has just been changed, and now the magistrate of Qufu County has been changed. Everything is done according to the rules and no one is given a chance to question.
Even the new magistrate of Qufu was appointed by Kong Wenli, who acted for Duke Yan Shenggong!
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Qufu, Dali Temple temporary yamen for handling cases.
A disciple of the Kong family rushed in, held up a complaint and knelt down, saying: "I have been wronged!"
Jin Lei asked: "What are the grievances? Please file an appeal."
While handing the complaint to the officials of Dali Temple, the man said: "In the seventh year of Zhengde, the remnants of Liu Liu and Liu Qi swept across Qufu. After the rebel troops passed through, the master took the opportunity to occupy the land. My family has more than 40 acres of good farmland near the river.
They were all occupied by Kong Hongrui (the new county magistrate) and his younger brother. My mother went to argue the case, but was beaten and humiliated by his slaves. She died of her injuries the next day after returning home."
Jin Lei flipped through the complaint and asked: "What happened twenty years ago, why are you reporting it to the official now?"
The man said: "Whenever the Kong clan has a case, they always go to Yanshenggong's mansion first, and Yanshenggong sends people to handle it. Kong Hongrui is powerful in the clan, but my family only has orphans and widowed mothers. My father and eldest brother were both killed by Liu
Liu, Liu and Qi's rebel army killed them, how can we win against them?"
The Kong family in Qufu produced a large number of descendants, and many of the children of the Kong family were no different from ordinary people.
This case is very obvious. The rebel army killed the man's father and eldest brother, leaving only orphans and widowers in the family. It happened that those dozens of acres were all good fields near the river, and they were next to Kong Hongrui's property, so Kong Hongrui bullied him.
The orphans and widowers took over these dozens of acres and merged them with their own fields.
As Wang Yuan said, the Kong family was rotten from the inside out, and Duke Yansheng couldn't make the final decision in many cases.
There was a case in the Qing Dynasty where Duke Yan Sheng got into trouble with the magistrate of Qufu, and the Kong family quarreled with the Kong family. The Duke Yan was actually very upright. After he became an heir, he wanted to punish the evil magistrate of Qufu, but the fight to the court was to no avail.
, but was colluded by the clan members to throw dirty water on him.
This young and upright Duke Yansheng died before he was thirty, and his death was mysterious.
In that position, even if you don't do evil, you can't stop your clan members from doing evil, otherwise Yan Shenggong will not be able to survive!
Kong Wenshao, the Duke of Yansheng who was deposed by Wang Yuan, actually didn't do much evil. He just liked drinking and playing with women. However, the tribesmen around him were like jackals, tigers and leopards.
Jin Lei asked: "You are suing the new magistrate of Qufu, is there any evidence?"
"Yes." The man took out a few land deeds. "This is the land deed. I have kept it hidden below. My mother was beaten to death, and more than ten people saw it with my own eyes. Kong Hongrui not only occupied my family's land, but also took advantage of the rebel soldiers passing by.
There are thousands of acres of farmland nearby! Whether it is the property of the Kong family or ordinary people, as long as it depends on his family's land, he has forcibly occupied it!"
Jin Lei accepted the field deed and said to Wu Liande: "Commander Wu, you have worked hard."
Wu Liande immediately dispatched Jin Yiwei to take this person to investigate the case. In just a few days, the investigation was clear. There were all the witnesses and physical evidence, and the new magistrate Kong Hongrui had a hard time explaining. One of the most serious charges was that of indulging in slaves.
Commit murder and kill six people!
Less than twenty days after taking office, the county magistrate was impeached by Jin Lei, the minister of Dali Temple, and was escorted to the capital for review by the Ministry of Punishment.
Two magistrates had been changed, and the court asked Kong Wenli to continue appointing magistrates.
The third county magistrate, Kong Hongzhen, worked for about twenty days and was sent to the Ministry of Criminal Justice for review again by Jin Lei.
Jin Lei came to the Confucius Mansion and said to Kong Wenli: "Dr. Kong, what a coincidence. Another complaint has been reported to the county and has been sent to the Ministry of Criminal Justice for trial. Dr. Kong please spare no effort and appoint another county magistrate."
Kong Wenli looked very ugly, and said with a dark face: "It's difficult to find a suitable person for a while, so let me choose slowly."
Jin Lei said angrily: "How can there be no vacancy for parents in one county? The people of Qufu are waiting eagerly for it!"
It looked like three county magistrates had been dismissed and all were sent to the Ministry of Criminal Justice for review. How could Kong Wenli's confidants dare to take over?
In desperation, Kong Wenli could only appoint a young member of the clan at random, an ordinary member of the Kong family who had no right to do evil before.
Now Jin Lei has no choice. After Jin Lei leaves, Kong Wenli can change the county magistrate. Anyway, the parents of Qufu must be in the hands of the Kong family.
Facing the young county magistrate in his twenties, Jin Lei asked him to recite "The Analects of Confucius", but the man hesitated and could only recite the first few sentences.
Jin Lei immediately impeached Shu, not only requesting the removal of the county magistrate, but also impeaching Kong Wenli for not knowing enough about people, and actually appointed a person who could not even read "The Analects" as the county magistrate.
As a result, the fourth county magistrate was dismissed, Kong Wenli was deprived of the power to act as Duke Yansheng, and one of his clan uncles acted as Duke Yansheng.
The first thing that the newly appointed acting Duke Yansheng did was to be asked by Jin Lei to recommend candidates for Qufu County Magistrate.
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The old man had a splitting headache, so he could only find young tribesmen who had not done any evil and asked them to recite the Four Books and the Five Classics. There was no need to memorize the Five Classics, as long as they could recite the "Four Books", Jin Lei could not jump out of the loophole anyway.
But for a while, the flourishing Kong family in Qufu could not find anyone who could memorize the Four Books!
"Submit it, Wang Er is determined to punish our Kong family."
"How can we surrender? Are we going to admit that we burned down the Confucius Temple?"
"Jin Lei is holding on to the magistrate of Qufu, probably because he wants to change the magistrate of Qufu to a exiled official."
"We cannot lose the power of county magistrate, otherwise the Kong family will be doomed!"
"What else should I do?"
"..."
Half a month later, Jin Wei impeached the new acting Duke Yansheng, saying that this person was incompetent and could not even select a candidate for the county magistrate. He requested the court to change him again!
Therefore, the agent Yan Shenggong was changed again.
In less than half a year, Yanshenggong was deprived of his title. Two of his deputies were replaced by Yanshenggong, and the magistrate of Qufu was replaced by four.
And it was not that the imperial court made things difficult, every time it was legal and well-founded. The civil and military officials of the entire court saw this, and even the most pedantic people did not dare to stand up and speak for the Kong family, because the Qufu Kong family itself had become a
joke.
Coupled with the fact that Confucius burned down the Confucius Temple after hearing the rites, deceived his teachers and destroyed his ancestors, and offended too many scholars, the Confucius family in Qufu has lost all humanity.
This kind of method is more terrifying than directly exiling the whole family. If you exile the entire Confucius family, maybe countless scholars will jump out, ignore the crime of burning the Confucius Temple, and forcibly clear their name and help the Confucius family speak out.
Nowadays, a soft knife cuts flesh, not killing people, only killing hearts.
The knife never cut down, but always hung in the air, making Kong family in Qufu feel that there would never be peace.
The two brothers Kong Wenshao and Kong Wenli were sitting in the clean room, both of them in a depressed state of mind.
The deposed Duke Yansheng and the deposed acting Duke Yansheng are brothers in distress.
Kong Wenshao still kept nagging like that: "I just said, you can't mess with Wang Er, you can't mess with Wang Er. Your arm can't twist your thigh. I am the biological father of the emperor, so there is no way to cure you?"
Kong Wenli cried sadly: "I never knew that this person could be so insidious and completely unreasonable. If this continues, I won't even be able to keep my doctorate in the Five Classics."
Kong Wenshao said: "I don't care anyway. I have been deprived of my title. I just want to live the rest of my life in peace and let my son successfully succeed Duke Yan. You should go and plead guilty to Wang Er and ask him to let the Kong family go."
One horse, otherwise this will go on forever!"
"I can't apologize!" Kong Wenli was about to cry but had no tears.
Kong Wenshao said: "Return the magistrate of Qufu to the imperial court."
Kong Wenli said: "You can't hand it over, otherwise the Kong family will be under the control of the county magistrate from now on!"
Kong Wenshao said: "The strong dragon will not suppress the local snake. If the official from outside comes to Qufu to be a county magistrate, don't he have to listen to the Kong family honestly?"
Kong Wenli was silent.
A few days later, the third acting Duke Yansheng, Shangshu, asked the court to send a floating official to serve as the magistrate of Qufu County.