After setting off from Jinan, the emperor crossed Mount Tai along the Shahe River Valley and arrived at Tai'an. There he offered sacrifices to Mount Tai, met with scholars and people, and asked the judges to accept complaints from the people. He quickly decided on some cases and won the praise of countless people, and then went along the Dawen River
Then go down, then turn to the dangerous tributary of Si River, and reach Qufu in the south.
In Qufu, the emperor first went to pay homage to the Shaohao Mausoleum and then to the Confucius Temple.
In the Confucius Mansion in Qufu, the emperor summoned the Confucian enshrined officials and Doctors of the Five Classics, as well as the heads of various sects, etc., and then made a request to Kong Yanzhi, the 64th generation of Yanshenggong and the current enshrined officer, that the Confucian Mansion in Qufu should be vacated.
It was planned together with the Confucius Temple and Confucius Temple and became a Confucian holy place, which was managed by officials sent by the imperial court.
The emperor respected Confucius very much.
So I plan to plan and protect this Confucian holy land carefully.
Kong Yanzhi sat there sickly and frightened. He never expected that the inheritance of dozens of generations of the Kong family would be broken when it came to him.
Although I regret now that I should not have persuaded Li Zicheng and Dorgon to join, I don't regret taking the medicine. Moreover, the Confucian family's practice is such that the emperors of the past dynasties have no reason to blame.
But this person insists on being so harsh. After all, the Kong family and Prince Lu's Mansion in Yanzhou have been neighbors for more than two hundred years and in-laws for more than ten generations.
But when the emperor said he would fall out, he would fall out.
No mercy at all.
Previously, Duke Yansheng was cut off and only gave him the hereditary position of a seventh-grade sacrificial official and a doctor of the Five Classics. Later, he wanted to take over all the land of the Confucius, leaving him only 1,200 acres, with 20 acres per ding, and the rest.
To be taken away.
This blow made Kong Yanzhi unable to fall ill.
I was shocked and frightened, and felt ashamed of my ancestors.
But who could have known that when the emperor comes now, he will take away all the Confucius mansion.
The Confucius Temple has a long history. In the second year after Confucius' death, it was rebuilt by Lu Aigong on the basis of Confucius' former residence. It has been continuously expanded and renovated through various dynasties, especially during the Tang and Song Dynasties, and its scale has become larger and larger.
During the reign of Emperor Zhenzong of the Song Dynasty, 360 palaces and verandas were built at one time. During the Hongzhi period of the Ming Dynasty, they were rebuilt, which lasted five years and cost 150,000 taels of silver.
Now it is a huge building complex covering an area of more than 600 acres.
The Confucius Mansion, the original Yanshenggong Mansion, was also the residence of the eldest grandson of Confucius, covering an area of 240 acres. The front office and back house were equally large in scale.
In addition, there is Konglin, which is the cemetery dedicated to the Kong family. The forest wall is fourteen miles in circumference and contains more than 20,000 ancient trees. During the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, there were 18 hectares of land. By this time, it had expanded to more than 3,000 hectares.
acres, with more than 100,000 trees in the forest.
Sankong is a huge urban garden.
Now that the emperor came to the Confucius Temple to worship Confucius, the Confucius family was still excited, thinking that the emperor was going to change his mind, but who knew that he wanted to take away all three of them.
The emperor's reason was that Confucius was a sage. All the dynasties respected Confucius and built buildings on land. They all respected the sage teacher instead of the Confucius family. Besides, the performance of the Confucius family in recent years has not been good.
The emperor directly called Ma Jixiang, the commander of the Jinyi Guards, and brought two large boxes to Kong Yanzhi. They were full of investigation files, which were all about the Kong family's crimes of occupying fields and oppressing the people over the years, and even contained many filth in the Kong family's inner palace.
Dirty things.
There are many problems.
If the emperor really wants to pursue the case seriously, not only will the Kong family be discredited, but the consequences will be serious.
Now the emperor is quite polite to the Kong family.
It was proposed that the three Kongs would be under the jurisdiction of officials sent by the imperial court, and the Kong family members in the Kong family would also move away. Of course, the direct descendants of the Kong family could still be buried in Konglin in the future.
For those Kong clan members who committed crimes, the emperor was willing to be lenient and not pursue them in depth, but he would arrange for them to immigrate to Taiwan, Liaodong, Guangxi, Yunnan, Gansu, Sichuan, Hainan and other places. The emperor said that this was for them
It is an opportunity to reform and spread the knowledge of Confucius and Saints.
They are immigrants, not exiles, nor are they under reorganization.
The one and twenty acres of land originally granted to them will be taken back by the court. In the border areas, each family will be given one hundred acres of wasteland for them to cultivate. They will also be exempted from land ownership for five years, and the land will be reduced by half in the next five years.
The restriction on them is that they are not allowed to move away from the border area for three generations.
The emperor said this was a small punishment.
Kong Yanzhi almost died in shock.
The emperor also proposed to give them a hundred gardens of land on the south bank of the Yi River to Kong Yanzhi, and let the Kong family build a new Confucius house here. It would no longer be called Confucius Mansion, but Kong Zhai, because the current Kong Yanzhi was only a seventh-rank casual official and had no official residence.
The power is called the government. The new Confucius House will be given drawings by the imperial court, and they can just build according to the drawings, so that they will not violate the rules.
Those two large boxes of files involve nearly half of the Kong clan in Qufu, who will be relocated this time. Of course, if they are not involved but voluntarily immigrate to the border areas, the imperial court will also support them and give them additional rewards, such as relocation
Later, he was rewarded with a plowing cow and so on.
The illegal activities involved in these two boxes, such as the occupation of fields, houses, mines, workshops, and loan sharking, must be corrected.
The emperor will send Jin Yiwei and Dongchang to station in Qufu to handle the matter specially.
Kong Yanzhi apologized in panic, hoping that the emperor would treat the Kong family leniently for the sake of being a saint.
"It has been two thousand years. All dynasties have been lenient to the Kong family, but you saints have been very sorry for your ancestors. My current treatment is still very lenient. I hope you will take care of yourself."
"Leniency will not last forever, this is the last time."
"Although the fields and houses have been taken away, I have not touched the accumulated wealth of your Kong family over the generations. You can still live a good life with these.
Read more the sages’ books left by your ancestors, and treat yourself as a country sage even if you are in the countryside.”
The emperor left Qufu that same day, leaving only Jinyiwei and Dongchang stationed there, quickly taking over Sankong. Even the magistrate of Qufu, the emperor specially appointed Du Shiming, Du Yinxi's son, as the county magistrate. Shiming's original name was Sun Ji, Du Yin
When Xi raised his army in Changsha, he specially changed the name of his son Shiming and his nephew Zhengming to show his loyalty to the Ming Dynasty. Du Shiming had been with Zhu Yihai for several years and was an upright and capable young man. He participated in the first year of Shaotian
He was a Jinshi in the imperial examination, and now he is also a fifth-grade Beijing official. The emperor asked him to come to Qufu to serve as a county magistrate, which shows that he attaches great importance to Qufu.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! The emperor drove along Surabaya to his hometown in Yanzhou.
After Wang Zhiren destroyed the city and massacred the Tartars, the imperial court sent officials and officials to recover with all their strength. Now they have regained some of their strength. Zhu Yihai also came back after four years.
He led his troops in the Northern Expedition and reached the city walls, but this time he was finally able to enter the city.
In Yanzhou City, the main street has been almost restored, and the shops are open for business, but it is not very lively. Yanzhou was originally not as good as Xuzhou, Jining, Linqing and Liaocheng. It was deviated from the canal and was not prosperous enough. After two massacres, the city became even more depressed.
Due to the diversion of the Yellow River and the blockage of the canal, Yanzhou became increasingly depressed.
Zhu Yihai went to Prince Lu's Mansion. This palace city was very dilapidated. The Tatars had turned it into a full city and demolished it in a mess.
According to his memory, he led his troops to the back of a palace and asked people to dig it.
Soon they dug out an underground secret room, which contained many gold and silver treasures, and even some books and imperial edicts from Prince Lu's Mansion. Zhu Yihai led people to dig seven secret rooms in a row, digging out millions of silver ingots, and some other treasures.
There were many copper coins, gold, jewelry and other items worth two to three million.
These were all buried by his brother Zhu Yipai, the King of Lu, who was reluctant to reward the soldiers who defended the city. In the end, he committed suicide after the city was destroyed, and the treasures were buried here for many years.
Zhu Yihai did not touch these when he fled south.
After several years, he dug them out one by one.
"This Prince Lu's Mansion will be simply renovated and used as my palace. It doesn't cost much and can be restored to its original appearance."
Zhu Yihai has many related memories in his mind about this palace.
"Do you still remember this place?"
Zhu Yihai asked the brothers King Qin and King Han who were accompanying him.
"Remember." However, both brothers still remembered their home here, especially the yard where Zhu Yihai lived. They remembered it deeply.
Prince Lu's Mansion is quite large, and it is a royal city. The royal palaces in various places are actually of the same style, but the rich and poor in different places are different, and the final construction is slightly different.
Ruan Dacheng suggested that the Yanzhou Prefecture be upgraded to a higher level, such as Huguang Zhongxiang when Emperor Jiajing was in the vassal state, which was later called Chengtian Prefecture and the Xingdu Remaining Department was established.
"This is the land of His Majesty Longxing. It can be called Longxing Mansion."
"It may also be called Shenglong Mansion, the place where dragons rise."
After Zhu Yuanzhang became emperor, he made his hometown Fengyang the central capital.
However, Zhu Yihai was not too interested in this. Although Yanzhou was one of the nine states in ancient times, it had already fallen by the wayside by this time. Whether it was transportation or economy, it was no longer so important.
"The name Yanzhou is quite good. There is no need to change it. In terms of economy and transportation, Yanzhou has long been inferior to Jining or Xuzhou next to it."
Not only was Zhu Yihai not promoted to Yanzhou, he eventually split Yanzhou up.
The land east of the old Yellow River course, west of the canal, and south of the new Yellow River course will be newly established as Caozhou Prefecture. Fei County, Yizhou, etc. in the southeast will be separated to set up Yizhou Prefecture, and Dongping Prefecture in the north will be allocated to Xinzhou Prefecture.
Tai'an Prefecture was established, and Shouzhang, Yanggu, Chaocheng, Fan County, etc. north of Xinhe Road were assigned to Dongchang Prefecture.
The southwest is bounded by Weishan Lake and the canal, and the west is bounded by Guixin, Shandong's Xuzhou Prefecture.
Only Xia Town in Hudong, which originally belonged to Xuzhou, was assigned to Yanzhou.
Yanzhou Prefecture shrunk by half.
"Your Majesty, great victory!"
Zhu Yihai took the two princes to search for memories in the courtyard where they used to live. Shen Ruru, Minister of the Ministry of War, came to report the victory, his face full of joy.
"A great victory. Yingzhou has been captured. Tens of thousands of prisoners have been killed and more than ten thousand prisoners. Our army's casualties are only a few hundred."
Hearing that tens of thousands of prisoners were taken, Zhu Yihai was a little surprised. The coach Zheng Zunqian was quite radical in his actions, and he was able to keep tens of thousands of prisoners this time.
"Remember Governor Zheng for his great contribution!"
"Governor Zheng has led the victorious army to Nanyang, and now Governor Chen is handling the aftermath in Yingzhou."
"Nanyang," Zhu Yihai read a few words, "is there any relevant information? Has Wu Sangui sent troops?"
"I haven't received any military information from Guanzhong, but even if Wu Sangui leaves Shaanxi, Your Majesty doesn't have to worry."
"It's better to be more cautious. Quickly send an order to Zheng Zunqian, asking him to be cautious and not to underestimate the enemy. It doesn't matter even if Wu Sangui rushes to Nanyang to help. We must be stable and beware of their dangerous situation."
Nowadays, the equipment of the Ming army's imperial camp is indeed getting better and better, and their morale is also high, but there is no absolute in fighting. Even when Li Zicheng and others were just insignificant bandits, they still severely damaged the elite officers and soldiers of the imperial court.
There are many things that capsize in the gutter.
The more anxious you are, the more likely it is that something will happen.
"Let him rest in Zhumadian first, and don't rush into the Nanyang Basin. I am leading the troops to Luoyang. When the time comes, I will lead the troops south to guard Lushan in Ruzhou. Our two groups of soldiers and horses will form a pincer offensive. We can advance and attack.
If you retreat, you can defend."
If the Qing court still refuses to fight, then Zhu Yihai can naturally sweep them all the way.
But if the Qing government was planning to go all out and even mobilize Wu Sangui to come out of the border to help, then Zhu Yihai would not be in a hurry to go to Nanyang.
The two armies were close together, and with Li Chixin, Zhu Shengli, Jin Shenghuan and other ministries in the south to contain them, Zhu Yihai was completely invincible. Although Wu Sangui was strong, his troops were short of food and weapons. If he dared to abandon the strong city to fight in the field, Zhu Yihai would not be able to defeat him.
I wish I could.
This is no longer the beginning of the war a few years ago.
