Daming: Brother, there is no future for monks, let's rebel

Chapter 142 Dealing with the Confucian Mansion, Zhu Han Cleans Up the Confucian Traitors

After agreeing with his elder brother Zhu Yuanzhang to inspect Shandong, the Ming court immediately gave Liu Bowen the title of Prince and Shaofu, and then gave him the right to be the governor of Shandong and the Zuodu censor of the Jiadu Procuratorate, and sent him to Shandong. put out.

Liu Bowen served as the governor of Shandong. In everyone's eyes, it was the great importance and trust of Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang of the Ming Dynasty for Liu Bowen.

Liu Bowen had always hoped to show his talents in governing for the people in the local area. Naturally, he was very happy to be the governor of Shandong this time. He immediately went to Shandong with his cronies and entourage. No one doubted the deep intention of Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang.

Subsequently, the Ming court made another round of official transfers, changing Qi Xiang, who was originally the commander-in-chief of the Shandong Command Army, to the acting commander of the Shandong Metropolitan Division.

Soon after, Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang of the Ming Dynasty specially promulgated an imperial decree, selecting a group of talented and prestigious celebrities from the generation of celebrities in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and asked them to go to various state capitals in Shandong to serve as censors. There are dozens of celebrities in total.

All of a sudden, the entire Jiangnan scholar community was greatly encouraged, and they all felt that the Ming court was focusing on favoring the famous scholars from Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

After a group of celebrities from Jiangsu and Zhejiang came to Shandong to serve as patrol censors, they all wanted to show their strengths, and conducted a centralized review of the old cases in various state capitals, and actually found out many unjust, false and wrong cases. .

Regardless of the case from which dynasty or generation, the censors tried their best to verify it one by one, and finally reported it to the court for trial.

The conscientiousness of these patrol censors immediately gained a high reputation in the hearts of the Ming court, the Shandong people.

Those noble gentry and landowners who used the Mongol power to do evil in the countryside suddenly panicked one by one, fearing that the patrol censors would find out about themselves.

At this time, there was another news that His Royal Highness King Ying of Ming Dynasty was about to visit Shandong.

All of a sudden, the whole Shandong, no matter the official circles or the folks, was shocked again.

Obviously, the King of England will definitely make a big move when he comes to Shandong for inspection!

Many people think that the first fire in the official circles of the Ming Dynasty will be burned in Shandong.

. . . . . . .

Shandong, Haizhou.

A fleet with beautiful white sails is slowly sailing into the pier of Haizhou from the sea.

This fleet has more than 20 large and small ships, nearly half of which are the latest warships with artillery and large horizontal sails.

"I haven't been back for more than a year, and I'm finally going home again this time." The concubine Liu Sanniang of the King of England stood on the deck of the ship, breathing the fishy sea breeze and said with a smile.

"You are going to be a mother now, so don't be so dishonest, why don't you just stay in the cabin obediently?" Zhu Han came up from behind and said.

Although he was only sixteen or seventeen years old, according to this era, the fact that Zhu Han was about to become a father did not arouse any surprised comments from others.

On the contrary, the entire Ming Dynasty, from Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang and Empress Ma Xiuying, to the servants of the King's Palace, were all overjoyed at the news that the King's side concubine was pregnant.

This time when Zhu Han was inspecting Shandong, he happened to bring Liu Sanniang along with him, so he could take a look around and go back to his natal home to relieve his homesickness.

However, Liu Sanniang's natal family belongs to Dengzhou Prefecture, and the place where Zhu Han's fleet is about to dock is Haizhou Prefecture, there is a distance of hundreds of miles between the two.

Therefore, if Liu Sanniang wants to return to her natal home, she will have to wait for a while.

Zhu Han's fleet just docked and landed at Haizhou Wharf. Hundreds of officials from Shandong Haizhou Prefecture, who had been waiting for a long time on the wharf, all knelt down and shouted at the King of England. The guard of honor shouted.

"His Royal Highness, thousand years old, thousand years old, thousand years old."

His Royal Highness King Ying came to Haizhou, Shandong.

Officials of all sizes in Haizhou, Shandong will naturally welcome them respectfully.

Whether it's basic necessities, food, housing, transportation, or guards of honor for travel, the preparations for the entire Haizhou seem no less than the scene of welcoming the arrival of the Ming emperor.

Zhu Han and his party first settled down in Haizhou City.

Zhu Han's first stop was in Haizhou. Haizhou was originally the territory of the Shandong rebels. After a series of previous campaigns to divide the land, the number of local tyrants and evil gentry is quite small, and it can be used as a place for Zhu Han's Shandong army. Inspection base camp.

"Your Highness, this is the latest case investigated here in Haizhou. All unjust, false and wrongly decided cases, no matter how many years ago, as long as someone calls for injustice, the lower officials have already investigated them one by one." The obedient Ming officials said respectfully in front of Zhu Han.

This person is none other than Song Lian, a famous scholar from Jiangsu and Zhejiang in history.

Song Lian is a fellow villager of Liu Bowen.

He has a very high reputation in Zhejiang, but he is a newcomer in the officialdom. However, Song Lian was promoted by the Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang of the Ming Dynasty to the seventh-rank inspector censor just after entering the officialdom. The speed of this promotion is almost equivalent to that of a high school champion. treatment.

Therefore, Song Lian's loyalty to Daming is unquestionable.

Song Lian was appointed as the censor of Haizhou, Shandong Province, and he planned to do something.

After taking office, Song Lian inspected old cases in Haizhou, rehabilitated a large number of unjust cases, and dealt with a large number of local tyrants and bullies.

When Zhu Han arrived in Haizhou this time, Song Lian immediately presented some backlog cases to Zhu Han.

"Yes, Mr. Song did a very good job this time. He is worthy of being a celebrity in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. He punished these bad guys with a thunderous force." Zhu Han still admires Song Lian very much. As a celebrity in Zhejiang with the same reputation as Liu Bowen, his The Jinxiu article is also very good. If he hadn't become an official late, he would definitely have been promoted to a higher official position in the Ming Dynasty like Liu Bowen.

Song Lian's appointment as the censor of Shandong Haizhou this time can be described as full of achievements.

Zhu Han read the remaining batch of case files again, but immediately discovered a problem.

"Mr. Song, these people were charged with serious crimes. Why were they sentenced to such a light exile, but their land was not confiscated?"

Zhu Han pointed to the case in front of him.

Song Lian took it and looked at it carefully, and then said helplessly.

"Your Highness, these criminals are not ordinary Shengdou people, they are all descendants of the Confucius family saints in Qufu!" Song Lian said cautiously.

"Yanshenggong, what Yanshenggong! I haven't had any Yanshenggong since Ming Dynasty." Zhu Han immediately became a little unhappy.

In fact, this case is nothing more than ordinary people suing a few bullies for stealing land in Haizhou, Shandong, and using the name of Yan Shenggong to embezzle the wasteland that originally belonged to these ordinary people.

Even these bullies, they are not serious members of the Yanshenggong family, but a few offshoots of the Kong family, borrowing the name of Yanshenggong to do things that are plundered.

But these few unknown soldiers, just because they belonged to the Kong family in Qufu, were able to commit the case here in Haizhou, but they were only sentenced to exile. As for the land they embezzled, no one advocated returning them To the original common people.

"Your Highness, these lands are now the sage's school fields in Haizhou. If these lands are confiscated, many scholars will definitely condemn them." Song Lian said from the side.

In fact, Song Lian also can't understand Yan Shenggong Kong's rampant behavior in Shandong, but this matter concerns many local scholars in Haizhou. Report upwards to the imperial court of Ming Dynasty.

The Kong family in Qufu embezzled the land of ordinary people with many concealed means.

Especially for how to dispose of the seized land, the Kong family showed their cunning.

"Then tell me, how do these school fields in Haizhou relate to the scholars in Haizhou?" Zhu Han asked.

"I would like to report to Your Highness that after the Kong family in Qufu embezzled these lands, they put them in the name of the sage's school fields. After these sage's school fields are harvested every year, they will distribute a sum of money and rice to the local scholars in Haizhou according to a certain degree of fame and status. Every scholar will be able to receive benefits, so many local scholars in Haizhou are concerned about the favor of the Kong family in Qufu, so if they want to seize these embezzled farmlands, they will immediately provoke unanimous condemnation from Haizhou scholars. "Song Lian said slowly beside him.

After Song Lian's explanation, Zhu Han understood that this was a way for the Kong clan in Qufu to buy people's hearts after they had plundered in Shandong.

After embezzling the land of the common people, these bullies in the name of the Kong family in Qufu only need to spend [-] to [-]% of the profits they have harvested to bribe local scholars, and then rely on the advocacy of these scholars to own the land in the local area. gained a high reputation.

Of course, these benefits are only limited to scholars, as for those ordinary people, no one cares at all.

"Hehe... These villains of the Kong family are used to doing evil, and now it's the next day, and they still want to play with this king. I came to Shandong this time to deal with them. I don't want to deal with them. Write my surname upside down!" Zhu Han was indeed a little angry when he said this.

Anyway, he came to Shandong this time to inspect, and one of the important tasks was to promote the new Confucianism in Shandong.

Today's Ming Dynasty needs a new type of talent who is proficient in the new Confucianism, not a corrupt Confucian like the Kong family in Qufu who, in addition to studying to gain fame, only embezzles the land of ordinary people.

"You take these files and follow me to Qufu immediately." Zhu Han said to Song Lian.

"I obey Your Highness." Song Lian felt a faint sense of joy in his heart!

Finally, there is someone who can punish these Kong family members who are doing evil.

Zhu Han only stayed in Haizhou for two days, and then he left the concubine Liu Sanniang and others in Haizhou, and then he took Song Lian and other officials to go west along the official road to Qufu.

The group led by Zhu Han finally arrived in Qufu City after three days.

The local officials in Qufu gave another welcome.

But Zhu Han wasn't in the mood to talk nonsense with them.

Immediately send someone to ask for all the files about the Kong family, including the household registration and property atlas.

Not only that, Zhu Han also ordered people to post notices inside and outside Qufu City.

As long as someone sued Kong for embezzling land property, beating people's lives, forcing men into prostitution, or robbing women, they would all go directly to the Yamen to appeal to the King of England.

All officials, big or small, are not allowed to stop any case about the Kong family, otherwise they will all beheaded and ransacked.

All of a sudden, the gates of the yamen in Qufu City were crowded with ordinary people who came to appeal.

These ordinary people have sued all the big and small leaders of the Kong family in Qufu.

Almost every Kong family has more or less cases in their hands, and even many of the victims who came to sue these bullies of the Kong family are themselves surnamed Kong.

Zhu Han ordered Song Lian and a group of censors to step up the handling of these old cases.

In less than a month, more than 100 members of the Kong family in Qufu were convicted and imprisoned. Among them, more than a dozen of the most vicious people were imprisoned by Zhu Han in the name of King Zuo Prime Minister. He ordered the death penalty to serve as an example to others.

"The father and son Kong Kejian, Kong Xixue, both surrendered to the Mongols, and they are my Chinese traitors. They ruined the great reputation left by the sage Kong. Nowadays, there are so many unfilial descendants inside and outside the Kong family. This king must replace them Confucius, please clean up the door."

Faced with a large pile of case files, Zhu Han immediately issued the most severe order, depriving the Qufu Kong family of the privilege of tens of thousands of acres of school land in Qufu and other counties in Shandong, and confiscating all the land to the local governments.

In addition to the imperial court rewards of the past dynasties, these so-called school fields were obtained by the Confucian family by taking advantage of their own power and status.

Inside Qufu City.

While walking back and forth in the lobby, Zhu Han gave instructions to Song Lian and other officials below.

"The king's order is that all the Confucian family members in Shandong must report to the government for their land, and then let the government review it. If there is any element of robbery, it will be sent to the Ministry of Punishment and the Ministry of Rites of Yingtian Mansion for a meeting. Check."

"By the way, there is one more thing, please remember that starting today, the Yanshenggong Mansion in Qufu will be owned by the imperial court, and all the Confucian family living in it must move out within three days. As for the residence, it is in their hands. They should have a lot of money, so let them rent a house or buy a house, but they are not allowed to live in Yanshenggong Mansion any more.”

Kong Kejian, the Holy Duke of Yan who was conferred by the Mongols, took his son Kong Xixue and his family of dozens of people, and they had already retreated to Dadu with the Mongolian general Wang Baobao.

Now that Duke Yansheng Kong Kejian became a traitor and ran away, naturally there is no reason to keep his Duke Yansheng mansion for the Kong family to live in.

"Your Highness, after the Yanshenggong Mansion is owned by the imperial court, what will it be used for?" Song Lian, the royal censor, asked.

Yanshenggong Mansion is a very large mansion.

There are garden rockeries, pavilions, pavilions and so on.

However, such a big stall also needs to face a big problem, that is, if there is no one to maintain it, the mansion will be dilapidated and overgrown with weeds in a short time, even causing many people to covet and steal.

After all, as the mansion of the descendants of Confucius, the materials used in it are all high-quality and rare materials. Even if a piece of agarwood wood door and window is stolen, for ordinary people, it can be sold for a lot of food.

Therefore, it is necessary to arrange a purpose for this mansion and send someone to take better care of the mansion.

Zhu Han had already thought about this problem.

"Yansheng Gong's mansion is a great place. It would be too wasteful for the unfilial sons and grandchildren of the Kong family to live in it, so this king has already made up his mind to turn this mansion into a museum of Confucius. "Zhu Han said with a smile.

"Museum, what is a museum?"

Song Lian and a large number of inspecting censors and local officials in Qufu were at a loss.

None of them had heard of the museum, and all cast curious glances at the King of England, Zhu Han.

"Confucius is a saint. There are not [-] handed down classics written by him, but [-]! So many handed down classics are scattered all over the country. This king plans to send people to collect the sage theories left by Confucius and reprint them all. , so many sage theories naturally need a place to bloom, so this is the meaning of natural history, to hold the works of these sage theories."

When Zhu Han said this, he already had a spectrum in his mind. He wanted to imitate the practice of the Renaissance in the West, and find a big celebrity from ancient times to cling to a lot of newly invented science and culture, so as to improve it. Influence and popularity, and then facilitate the dissemination of these emerging academics.

This is Zhu Han's deep purpose.

The most suitable celebrity for China is none other than Confucius.

Shandong here belongs to the newly expanded land of the Ming Dynasty, unlike Jiangnan where the news is more well-informed.

Many local officials do not know that in the eyes of scholars in Jiangnan, Confucius has already become an all-powerful and all-knowing ancient sage. Whether it is a collection of classics and history or new Confucianism, Confucius is an indisputable inventor and creator.

"Such a powerful Confucius deserves a museum."

Regarding the establishment of the Confucius Museum in Qufu, Zhu Han became more energetic as he talked.

three days later.

Just after driving the unfilial sons and grandchildren of the Kong family out of the mansion, Zhu Han immediately brought a group of officials to the mansion of the Kong family.

"Your Highness, the Kong family's mansion is really big, even more grand than Yingtian's mansion."

Chen Baodao, the commander of the accompanying guards of the Royal Palace, said in surprise.

"After all, it has been operated for hundreds of years, and so many people's fat and anointing have been collected. If this mansion is not built better, how can it be worthy of these filial sons and grandsons of the Confucian family who are so painstakingly greedy and occupying it!" Zhu Han said with a smile.

Because there were Ming officials and soldiers stationed here, when the unfilial descendants of the Kong family moved out of the mansion, they did not dare to destroy or take away valuables, but only took some money and clothing with them.

Many valuable antiques and other objects are still placed in the mansion.

Zhu Han was still somewhat dissatisfied with these precious items in front of him.

"It's a pity that the old boy Kong Kejian ran away. I heard that he took away a lot of gold and silver antiques. Those left in the mansion were leftovers from his selection. The batch he took away is less than How good it is to know!" Zhu Han said regretfully looking at the furnishings in the Confucian mansion.

"Your Highness is right. The traitor Kong Kejian ransacked the house before leaving. Now the house contains less than one-tenth of what it was before." An accompanying official from Qufu said.

"The identity of Kong Kejian's descendants is doubtful. The real descendants of saints should be Nankong who lives in the south."

"That's right, that's right, I've also heard that Kong Kejian's identity seems to be a Mongolian bastard."

"The descendant of the saint is in Nankong!"

……

The accompanying officials suddenly started talking.

Zhu Han was not very interested in the topic they were discussing.

Now what the Ming Dynasty cares about is the new Confucianism, not who are the descendants of some Confucian saints?

(End of this chapter)