my days with tyrants

Chapter 45
"Yan Shenggong, next time I'm short of money, I'll come to you again!"

Yang Feng sat high on an ox cart, waving goodbye to Yan Shenggong who was smiling forcefully behind him.

"Grandma, the ambassador is good to go, but in the future, he will not be useful. Just come to Kong, you and I are like brothers!"

The latter had to show generosity without tears.

And behind Yang Feng's bullock cart, there are all kinds of vehicles that can't be seen at a glance, bullock carts, horse carts and even handcarts, all of which are full of grain. Donate to His Majesty the emperor to comfort the nearby guards.

Yanzhou guards.

Ren Chengwei.

Jining Zuowei.

All military households in the nearest Yanzhou and Jining Sanwei have one soldier and two stone rice.

In fact, it is a family of two stones, but not all rice, in fact, most of them are millet and even some wheat.

As for Yang Feng's ox cart, of course it can't be grain, they are all wooden boxes, as for what's inside the box, it's inconvenient to disclose this, anyway, the cart can't be moved by horses, so oxen must be used, The wood-wrapped angle iron wheels were deeply crushed into two obvious ruts.

"That's right, what's the most important thing between brothers?"

Yang Feng shouted.

"Loyalty!"

Yan Shenggong cried out in a crying voice.

"Yes, loyalty, sharing blessings, hahahaha..."

Yang Feng smiled triumphantly.

Then the people in Qufu silently watched their performance. I have to say that this scene shocked them greatly, and the long motorcade started to move forward in the eyes of everyone.

"Ambassador Yang, I have thanked you on behalf of the guards of Yanzhou, but I am still curious, how did you and Duke Yansheng become good brothers?"

Hu Bingzhong said with a smile.

Of course he is in a good mood now. Not only has the matter been successfully resolved, but he also brought back more than 3 shi of grain to the military households in Yanzhou Sanwei. Obtaining two stones of grain is definitely worth celebrating, and he will also be respected by the military households.As for how much Yang Feng extorted from the Kong family, it has nothing to do with him. He can play it later. How to deal with it is Zhu Yuanzhang's business, but His Majesty the Emperor will definitely not care...

Yang Feng did not miss him again. Is there any need to take care of things that everyone has a share in?

But he still wanted to test out what Yang Feng's secret was. As a smart person, he had already seen from the process of Yang Feng blackmailing Kong Na that the latter had ghosts in his heart.

This is obviously a problem!
"I'm also very curious. It is said that your emperor took Quzhou very early and treated the Kong family in Quzhou well. Why didn't you choose the Kong family in Quzhou, but kept this Duke Yansheng? It's the real card, even if it's a direct heir, it's obvious that Kong Duanyou's family is more qualified."

Yang Feng said.

As for what he wants from Kong Na, it has basically been calculated.

The latter doesn't need to admit anything, this kind of flattering attitude towards him is already tantamount to admitting.

As for the Confucian family’s sacrificial fields that he wanted to find out, this was indeed forged by the Confucian family later on. At present, the Confucian family has more than 900 hectares in the Yuan Dynasty. Zhu Yuanzhang did not give extra rewards, but only recognized their sacrificial fields in the Yuan Dynasty.Later, the so-called two thousand hectares of land should be rewarded by those emperors later, plus they annexed themselves, and then forged the statement of Zhu Yuanzhang's reward to avoid taxation. Send them a copy of the Kong family.

Even if the court officials knew, they pretended not to know because of the appearance of the Kong family. Besides, the magistrate of Qufu County originally belonged to the Kong family.

Impossible to report.

As for the emperor...

As for the emperors in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, how many of them could know all the things their ancestors did.

"Is the holy will something we can guess?"

Hu Bingzhong said with a smile.

"Could it be that the Confucius family in Quzhou didn't give him enough face back then?"

Yang Feng said.

Zhu Yuanzhang had taken Quzhou before he was called King Wu.

He also ordered Wang Kai, the local official appointed by him, to rebuild the family temple for the Confucius family in Quzhou. Obviously, he was going to set up this memorial tablet, but in the end there was no more. Even the doctor of the Five Classics of the Confucius family in Quzhou was still in the Hongzhi period. It was just sealed.

From this point of view, apart from the fact that the Confucius family in Quzhou didn't like him back then, there really isn't much to explain.

It is also possible that the Confucius family in Quzhou looked down on him at the time. First, he was still a Song official at that time. Even if they wanted to restore Yan Shenggong, they would look for Han Liner, the emperor of the Song Dynasty. Second, there were many rogues like him at the time , even in comparison, Zhang Shicheng is more reliable.What's more, there is no need to bet early in troubled times. Anyway, it is impossible for him to kill the Quzhou Kong family, so there is no need to rush to flatter him. The Quzhou Kong family is still very arrogant, otherwise they would not bother to follow suit. The Mongols took the Yan Shenggong in their hands.

In this way, it will be difficult for Zhu Yuanzhang to have a good impression of them.

"Ambassador, what does Yan Shenggong do?"

Hu Bingzhong said with a smile.

"Of course it's to win over Confucian scholars like you, and you can sing praises with just a memorial tablet. What a bargain."

"Jiangnan is already in His Majesty's pocket, and Jiangnan Confucian scholars need to be recruited?"

"Ah, I understand. Confucian scholars in the south of the Yangtze River are no longer worth wooing, but Confucian scholars in the north are still very valuable to him. Taking Beikong as Yan Shenggong is equivalent to telling the Confucian scholars in the north that he attaches great importance to the Confucian scholars in the north. Don't worry. He will put more emphasis on the south than the north, so the gentry in the north, especially in Shandong, can welcome Master Wang.

understood! "

"Uh, the officer didn't say anything, it's all guessed by you, the ambassador."

"Naughty!"

Yang Feng said with a smile.

This is a reasonable explanation.

It can be seen from the north and south list that Zhu Yuanzhang really wants the north and the south to be equal.

This is indeed a reasonable disposition of the king of a country, and he originally ruled the north from the south. The northern gentry have not been ruled by Han monarchs for hundreds of years. In their view, Zhu Yuanzhang represents the southerners. Yan Shenggong will make the northern gentry resist him even more. After all, he still subdues the northern gentry.Then establishing Beikong as Yan Shenggong can show the northern gentry that they will not value the south and despise the north, and then the northern gentry will not resist him.

At this moment, a cavalry galloped in front, and then stopped next to them...

"Reporting to the long history, Commander Xu, please return quickly."

he saluted.

"What happened?"

Hu Bingzhong said.

"The imperial edict to enshrine the grandson of the emperor has arrived."

said the cavalry.

Yang Feng and Hu Bingzhong looked at each other...

"Hurry up, this is a big deal!"

Yang Feng said.

Immediately afterwards, he jumped off the bullock cart and ran towards Yanzhou City.

Later, Hu Bingzhong arranged for the transportation, and urged the horse to catch up. Soon he passed Yang Feng, but as a civil servant, he was obviously not suitable for galloping on horseback, and he was not riding a good BMW horse, so he just maintained his normal speed. Riding on foot, the two actually maintained a similar speed.Hu Bingzhong just watched Yang Feng run all the way, and finally the two arrived in Yanzhou in a little over half an hour, after all, it was only a little over ten kilometers, and then Yang Feng appeared with him in the government office of the Yanzhou guards apparently without much trouble.

A group of officials from Yanzhou have gathered, including the commanders of the Yanzhou guards and Renchengwei, the commanders, the commanders, and the commanders are called commanders.

In addition, there are You Changshi of the palace and several other subordinate officials.

On the table between them was the imperial edict to announce to the world in an expedited manner, Yang Feng simply walked over to pick it up...

"So, now your third grandson is registered as the grandson of the emperor?"

Amidst the reprimands of those officials, he looked at the edict and took a deep breath and said.

The original history was rewritten again, and this time Zhu Yuanzhang chose Zhu Yunxi.

This choice is quite normal, after all, he already knows that Zhu Yunqi is useless, whether he loses to a feudal lord with the power of the whole world, or has the possibility of killing his uncle, it is enough for Zhu Yuanzhang to abandon him, but it is not right to choose Zhu Di. If it conforms to the rules he set, then Zhu Yunxi can only be chosen.

"Your Majesty is holy, the heirs cannot be abandoned."

Hu Bingzhong said obviously very pleased.

According to Confucian standard etiquette, Zhu Yunqi's succession order is indeed lower than Zhu Yunxie's, because his mother is a concubine Fuzheng, and according to Confucian etiquette, even if it is a concubine Fuzheng, the son born to the dead wife is younger, and the order of succession is higher. The son of Fuzheng in the concubine.

Yuandi is higher than successor, regardless of age.

Other officials also expressed their agreement. The civil officials were satisfied with Zhu Yuanzhang's compliance with Confucian etiquette, and the generals were satisfied with Chang Yuchun.

"However, how will Sapphire arrange it?"

Yang Feng suddenly said with a blank face.

"Uh, I still have something to do, so I'm leaving now!"

You Changshi, who was still reading the edict together, ran away in fright.

Hu Bingzhong looked at him sadly, and then hurriedly prepared to slip away together, but he was a step too late, and was grabbed by Yang Feng.

"Hu Changshi, you haven't answered me yet?"

Yang Feng said dissatisfied.

"Ambassador Yang, I don't understand what you're talking about at all. I really have important things to do, so I won't accompany you. This is Commander Xu's office, not the officials."

Hu Bingzhong struggled and said at the same time.

In other words, he was really anxious, and his face started to sweat.

Then Yang Feng's gaze immediately turned to Commander Xu. The latter hadn't reacted immediately, but he was not a fool after all who could be a commander, and he quickly understood why these civil servants wanted to run away.

"I'm going to welcome the grain transportation team, but I'm here to host Xu Changshi."

He also slipped away as fast as he could.

Then the remaining civil servants and generals all slipped away with various excuses, only Yang Feng and Hu Bingzhong who was caught by him were left in the whole hall, Yang Feng looked at Hu Bingzhong very purely, and blinked his eyes full of curiosity, And Hu Bingzhong looked at him wanting to cry without tears, but then he showed a determined face. The next moment they closed their eyes, they just fell straight towards the stone floor...

"Do you think that after I ask this sentence, you can still run?"

Looking at Hu Changshi who was reluctantly pretending to be in a coma, Yang Feng said with an evil smile on his face.

(End of this chapter)