The Resurrection of the South Seas of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 671 The Kong Family's Choice
Not long after, the team of messengers ran all the way to Li Dingguo, and presented the vermilion victory report to Li Dingguo.

Li Dingguo flipped through the result report.

Looking at the lines of text on the good news, his face showed obvious joy.

"Hahaha!"

Li Dingguo couldn't help laughing out loud, his face full of joy.

"Wu Sangui was defeated. After this battle, the entire Southern Kingdom will belong to me!"

The rest of the people couldn't help laughing when they heard this.

After a while, the smiles on everyone's faces faded, and then Li Dingguo spoke.

"Pass down the order, the whole army is ready for war, and I will quickly take down the whole of Yunnan, and be ready to cooperate with the imperial army at any time, and troops will enter Sichuan and Sichuan!"

"..."

……

With the passage of time, the war situation in the world is also changing a little bit.

Before and after the decisive battle in Huguang, the battles in Yunnan and Guizhou provinces were also decided.

Those state capitals in Hunan sent surrender forms to Nanjing, expressing their attitude of wanting to serve Daming in a very respectful manner.

After the big victory on the Huaihe River, He Wenxiu led his troops back to Wuchang.

On the one hand, they sent troops to Hunan to take over the area, and on the other hand, they sent troops up the river to attack Sichuan and Shu.

As various good news continued to come in, everyone realized that the entire south was about to be completely recovered by Daming.

Daming will also be revitalized again!

……

Qufu, Confucian Ancestral Hall!
Kong Yuqi, the contemporary Yan Shenggong, was sitting in the nave, holding a letter in his hand.

Looking at the glaring four big characters of "Shixiu surrender table" on this letter paper, I feel my head buzzing.

This is nothing else, it is Zhu Hongyu's response to the Kong family.

It's almost a naked statement!
It seems to be saying, I don't care about your Concubine family's surrender!
Kong Yuqi took a deep breath, the expression on his face was full of pain and entanglement.

"This... this, this, what should I do?"

"How can this be good?"

A very obvious expression of fear and fear appeared on the face of an old Kong family member.

As the war situation in the south gradually became clear, the Ming Dynasty controlled the south of the Yangtze River, and the Qing Dynasty voluntarily withdrew from outside the pass.

Now, the restoration of Ming Dynasty has become a fact recognized by the whole world.

With the rich experience of the Confucian family in repairing the list, it is natural to be aware of this.

Now that they are aware of this, the Kong family will definitely take corresponding actions in order to preserve their prosperity and wealth.

For example, taking the initiative to hand over the form to Daming was the solution that the Kong family came up with after deliberation.

It's just a pity that Daming didn't buy it when faced with the Kong family's overtures.

The Son of Heaven also sent the four characters of Shixiu's surrender to the Kong family as a humiliation, and his attitude was quite clear.

"How dare that kid Zhu Hongyu, how dare he!"

"My Confucian family is a descendant of a sage and is an orthodox Confucianist. Isn't he afraid of cutting himself off from the world if he does this?!"

"..."

The clan elders of the Kong family kept raising doubts, their voices were all stern.

However, the faint uneasiness and fear hidden behind their stern voices and expressions cannot be faked.

Kong Yuqi's complexion was frighteningly dark when he heard the noise in the lobby.

Someone saw Kong Yuqi's dark complexion, and gradually fell silent.

The lobby gradually became quiet, and no one made a sound.

Seeing this scene, Kong Yuqi just said with a sneer.

"Arguing, keep arguing!"

"Why are you not noisy?"

"Why can you change Daming's attitude towards my Kong family by arguing here?"

"..."

When everyone heard the words, they all fell silent in an instant.

Kong Yuqi looked around for a week, then spoke.

"For my Kong family, the most important thing now is to survive and resolve this catastrophe!"

"If not, no matter how much we quarrel here, it will be meaningless."

An elder from the Confucian family stood up and said.

"How about my Kong family leaving customs with the Qing Dynasty?"

Now the old man of the Kong family is thinking that a good horse will not turn back. Since his Kong family has backstabbed Daming, he voted for Qing.

Instead of turning around and voting for Da Ming again, it is better to follow Da Qing all the way to Hei!
Anyway, depending on the situation now, Daming is not prepared to accept them anymore.

As a result, as soon as the clan elder's words came out, Dang even received countless objections.

"Absolutely not!"

"This is absolutely impossible!"

"My Kong family is a descendant of a sage. How can I leave the mausoleum of the most sage ancestor and go to the wild land outside the pass? Doesn't that mean abandoning my ancestors?"

"..."

All members of the Confucian family objected righteously and sternly.

However, the most real reason is not because Confucius' grave is in Qufu, but because the property of the elders of the Confucius family is in Qufu.

Once they left Qufu, the property of the Kong family would shrink by half, or even more.

Even if the Kong family can take away all the gold, silver and money, can they also take away all the land and houses?
Furthermore, the reason why the Kong family has been able to stand for thousands of years is not to fall.

Apart from the influence of his identity as a descendant of Confucius on the world, the more important reason is that the Confucius family has been rooted in Shandong for thousands of years and has long been deeply rooted.

Even to a certain extent, it is not an exaggeration to say that half of Shandong belongs to the Confucius family, and the remaining half belongs to the imperial court!

At the very least, the big gentry and even the local officials in those state capitals near Qufu followed the lead of the Confucian family.

Such a Confucian family has strength, reputation, and kneels in a timely manner. Generally speaking, rulers don't care about them.

However, for the same reason, once the Kong family left Qufu and Shandong, they would be nothing.

As long as they leave Shandong, the only thing left for the Kong family is fame!

And fame is the most vain thing.

Because it all depends on one mouth, if you say no, it will be gone!
For the Kong family, once they left Shandong and went outside the customs, the Kong family would no longer be the original Kong family.

Everyone fell into a silence.

When everyone was speechless, an elder from the Kong family stood up and expressed his opinion.

"My Confucian family is a descendant of a sage, and has great influence on Shilin. As long as my Confucian family can persuade all the princes in the Ming Dynasty to intercede for my Confucian family."

"I, the Confucius family, will make a proper statement and donate a sum of money to the imperial court, and then let Yuqi think about his mistakes, and ask the imperial court to decide who to replace Duke Yansheng."

"If you think about it, it should be over!"

"Da Mingzi is young and energetic. Young people prefer to be soft and not hard. If my Kong family wants to achieve their goals, it will definitely not work if they are hard!"

"Take it easy, maybe there will be better results!"

Everyone in the hall expressed their agreement one after another, and looked at Kong Yuqi one after another, as if expecting his statement.

When Kong Yuqi heard this, the expression on his face kept changing.

The elder of the Kong family asked him to think about his mistakes in front of him, how could he look good?

However, after thinking about it for a while, he discovered that what the clan elder said might really be the only choice before the Kong family.

In the end, Kong Yuqi nodded and said.

"Just do it like this!"

(End of this chapter)