Daming heir

The 28th year of Hongwu in Ming Dynasty.

There was Sicha Kong's rebellion against his ministers, and all nine clans were punished, and they were handed over to the Jinyiwei and sent to the capital.

The army and horses going south disappeared silently under the washing of a rain. Only the trenches and wooden walls that began to accumulate water outside the Confucian mansion were still silently telling the story of what happened here in the past month or so. What.

The Kong family, who had just hung up the Banfu Su, was soaked in water mist.

Under the continuous curtain of rain, the main gate of the Confucian Mansion opened wide.

Jinyiwei officers and soldiers wore coir raincoats, extending from the inside of the mansion to the outside of the mansion.

In front of the Confucian Mansion, large carts were soaked by rain, waiting here for a long time.

Accompanied by the sound of shackles dragging the ground behind the gate of the Confucian Mansion, the former honorable Yansheng Gong Kong Na, and the brothers of the big house of the Confucian Mansion, nearly a hundred people in total, were all put in shackles, and the officers and soldiers escorted them out of the mansion.

The cage cart, which had been waiting for a long time, opened its doors to accommodate a family member named Kong.

The officers and soldiers were very careful. Seeing that it was raining today, they pressed some straw on the top and inside of the cage, and put some thatch around it, as a place to shelter from the rain.

Kong Na, who had been stripped of his court clothes, was only wearing a single jacket. He was obviously only in his 30s, but he seemed to be over [-], with a vicissitudes on his face.

He and Kong Gongjian were escorted into the same cart by the officers and soldiers.

"The Kong family is finished..."

Kong Na clasped the railing on the cart with both hands, and looked at the clansmen behind being stuffed into the cage one by one.Throughout the whole mansion, all Confucian family members were put in shackles and escorted out of the mansion where they had lived for many years.

It was probably because there were too many people in the Kong family, but too few cages were rushed out, and every car was full of people.

Under the sound of wind and rain, there are the crying and wailing of the Kong family.

It's just that no one paid attention, except the Kong family themselves.

"The members of the Kong family will be escorted to the canal. There are people from Xuzhou Wei over there, so they will be safe. When the Kong family is escorted on board, people from Jinyiwei will guard them and go all the way south to Beijing."

Outside the Confucian mansion, in front of the empty frontier camp, Zhu Gaochi watched the carriage where Kong Na and his son were imprisoned moving, and spoke in a low voice.

His eyes turned aside. In the rain not far away, there were dozens of officials from various departments of the Yanzhou Prefecture, wearing official robes, kneeling in the rain, with mud flowing under their knees.

Zhu Yunxi said with a calm face: "The memorial must be sent to the sky as soon as possible, first to see the reaction of the court. Tell Liang Guogong, Xipinghou and the others to walk more slowly on the way back to Beijing."

Zhu Gaochi looked sideways: "Is it to guard against opposition from local scholars?"

"Yingtian has some news. They are dissatisfied with Zhang Zhiyuan's embarrassment to the Kong family. They take the opportunity to play the military law."

Zhu Yunxi's gaze gradually gathered, piercing the rain curtain in front of him.

Zhu Gaochi shook his shoulders, bowed his head and said: "Henan Road is probably their excuse. If the Kong family's criminal evidence hadn't been found out this time, I'm afraid we will go back to Beijing and the matter will not be easy to deal with."

Zhu Yunxi sneered and said, "You're right, they used the Henan Road as an excuse, and hope the imperial court will take it as a warning."

After finishing speaking, Zhu Yunxi fell silent.

He didn't answer Xiaopang's next question.

He already knew what the Kong family did, but he couldn't explain it clearly.He Tianmai and others only need to order and arrange.

Zhu Gaochi moved his mouth and didn't ask what he wanted to know, so he became a little bored and looked up at the officials of Yanzhou Mansion beside him: "The Confucius family is in Yanzhou Mansion, and they are all inseparable. conviction?"

Zhu Yunxi moved his eyes and looked over: "Some people always forget whose official they are and who they are working for. The world should learn from this and wake up as soon as possible."

After finishing speaking, Zhu Yunxi boarded the carriage under the service of Yu Tian who had found an umbrella again.

Zhu Gaochi held an umbrella by himself, his eyes rolling.

The officials of Yanzhou Mansion are also finished, not only themselves.

In order to make all the officials in the world recognize who is the official, the three or even nine clans of officials in Yanzhou are afraid that they will be implicated.

Only heavy codes can shock people's hearts.

"Get off."

"Go back to Beijing!"

The voice of the head of the Taisun Mansion resounded in the wind and rain.

Zhu Gaochi put away his thoughts, and before the carriage started, he immediately walked up and got involved in the carriage with a cloud of moisture.

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Da da da.

In Yingtian, Qianbu Corridor of the imperial city, a Jinyiwei Baihu led two chief banner officers under his command, and went from outside the palace to the palace.

The sound of footsteps was very clear between the palace walls.

The drops of water brought up by each step splashed and splashed to the distance, and finally spread out and merged into the ground water.

The pattering rain fell from the clouds in the sky, dripped on the glazed tiles, followed the rain gutter to the edge, and dripped in strings from the towering palace wall.

And outside the imperial city, since Yumen took charge of the government, the Ming Dynasty seemed to be peaceful forever.

The officials lost their impatience in the past, and went step by step every day, and it seemed that the country's affairs were going well.

It was clear that it was time to go to the Yamen, but there were quite a few officials in the Dongcheng area. They themselves or their servants held umbrellas and shuttled directly through the streets and alleys.

After passing the Dazhong Bridge, let the Taipingli area pass, because it is close to the Dongshuiguan Wharf in the city, and there are many herbal tea shops.

It's rare to see it on weekdays, but it's a bit dazzling to be able to kiss such a place where people's strength gathers. It made those tea stall owners dare not even make a sound, just lowered their heads, and walked away when they heard the sound of adding tea He went to add water to the teapot, but he was afraid that his rough tea would make the yamen dislike him.

It's just that Yamen's current thoughts are obviously not on how springy the tea is.

"I just got the news that all the most holy masters have been questioned by His Royal Highness, and they are sending a reply to the sky."

An official in green robes holding an umbrella by himself entered the corridor on the second floor of a tea house in Taipingli overlooking Dongshuiguan Wharf in the east.

He patted the rainwater on his robe, sat down, and explained in a soft voice.

"The news has arrived a long time ago. Before the gate of the city fell last night, there was news that they entered the city. Counting the days, they will arrive in Beijing in about two days."

The person who arrived early at the banquet looked up at the person who came, and replied lightly.

"I heard... Your Highness has obtained a lot of criminal evidence, all of which are solid, and there is no room for change."

The green-robed official who had just arrived looked sideways at his colleague from the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

The man from the Metropolitan Procuratorate frowned: "What is the evidence of the crime, we have to wait for the people from Jin Yiwei to send it back to the capital, and the court will know it clearly."

"It's just that the news I got last night seems to have something to do with the outside of the Great Wall. If so, there is no need to distinguish it from the court. Not to mention what your majesty thinks, even those noble generals will not allow such a thing to happen."

At the tea table, everyone was silent.

No matter what the Confucian family did, they could still make peace with each other by relying on a few thousand years of thin face.

But now that it is conclusively confirmed that there is a connection with the remnants of the former Yuan Dynasty outside the Great Wall, it is naturally impossible for the civil servants to dare to say anything.

At that time, as long as someone said a word, the meritorious generals in the court could take off their official robes, revealing the scars they had accumulated over the years.

Pulling everyone who opened their mouths, they asked viciously how those scars came from.

They even took the initiative to point out that the scars were left in the war to drive away the Yuan people, restore the Central Plains, defend the frontier fortress, and plow the grassland.

Today, the founding of the Ming Dynasty is only 28 years old. In the central and local areas, countless generals who followed the emperor to found the Ming Dynasty are still alive, even in their prime.

The Kong family's connection to the outside of the Great Wall is ignoring the life and death of these people in these years.

If the government cannot deal with it fairly, then the meritorious generals will be able to overturn the roof of the three halls of Yingtian City.

The emperor can't even say a word.

"It's just that no matter what the Confucian family is like, if it is used to judge guilt, what will the people of the world say? What will happen to this family of saints in the future? How should we treat ourselves as people who have been educated by saints?"

Finally, someone asked the aspirations of everyone present.

The Confucian family represents the face of Confucianism in the Central Plains, a family of saints with a thousand years of history, and the well-deserved number one civil servant and leader of scholars in the Central Plains.

The Kong family fell.

What will happen to Confucianism, and what will happen to Neo Confucianism.

Those who are officials in the court, as well as the children, disciples, and countless old people in the family, how should they behave in the future.

"If you want to commit a crime, why don't you have excuses?"

Someone tentatively mentioned something, and looked at everyone present.

"The cultural context of the world cannot be broken, and the scholar community cannot be chaotic. If it is the crime of the nine clans, then we must not stand by and watch. It is inconsistent with the reason and the teaching of the sages."

"However, Your Majesty takes me as an official, sits in the court, guards the place, comforts the country, and we must not disobey the Confucian government."

"This is difficult."

There was a long sigh from the table.

"But if you talk about it this way, the last time His Majesty was in charge of the government, we used the Henan Province rebellion and Zhang Zhiyuan's long-term inability to quell the Shandong Province rebellion, and advised His Majesty to punish and introduce military laws. Is it our fault?"

This was said by a doctor of the Ministry of War. Last time, the imperial gate in front of the Fengtian Hall was in charge of politics, and he also participated in the impeachment and admonishment.

At this time, an official of the Imperial Academy said: "The last incident ended without a problem because of His Royal Highness King Qin, but His Majesty may still be unresolved, and he may be somewhat dissatisfied with us."

"The Confucian Mansion cannot be destroyed!"

Suddenly, someone patted the table and stood up, looking at everyone present.

One after another looked up and looked at this person.

"Your Highness is going to destroy Confucius! Regardless of whether the Confucian family is guilty or not, His Highness will definitely do this! Have you ever thought about this?"

Cough!

There was a light cough on the table, and someone turned to look at the waiter in the teahouse who was clearly far away.

"Go on, I will discuss the matter here."

The servant didn't dare to stay for long, even if he couldn't hear the yamen over there, he didn't dare to stop, so he went downstairs.

At this time, the man also came to his senses, and cupped his hands: "It was the official who made the move."

"Let's just say, this is the time to brainstorm and benefit together."

"Who made the learning of the mind? Everyone knows this. It was Xie Jin from the Imperial Academy, who made it by himself. How many people are attached to the learning of the mind in the court today? Not to mention the place, it is I'm afraid Ying Tian has achieved one or two of them."

"As for the relationship between Xie Jin and His Royal Highness, there is no need to say too much. If it is said that His Highness did not use this to push the heart to learn on the stage, I absolutely do not believe it. It is a stubborn stone lying in front of the road."

"Your Highness is trying to suppress the morale of Neo-Confucianism with the help of extinguishing holes, and forcefully promote the study of the mind. What should I do then? What should I do if I wait for the children and old friends of my family?"

"To compete with those who learn from the heart? How to fight?"

It was raining lightly outside the building, and there were very few pedestrians on the street.

Inside the building, the atmosphere and topics were so solemn that it was suffocating.

The person who brought up such a sensitive topic sighed softly: "Everyone, at this time, I have to understand what the most urgent task is!"

"Speak quickly."

"Teach me to wait."

The man said with a serious expression: "Right now, whether the Kong family lives or dies is none of our business. The foundation of our family's maintenance is the real matter of life and death."

"Yesterday, Your Highness was able to share the income of the people into the mu, and the tax office was restructured. Today, Your Highness can destroy the hole and push the heart to learn. Tomorrow, Your Highness will be able to abandon us!"

A sense of crisis swept over in an instant.

Everyone is at risk.

It seems that the next moment, they will become the garbage on the court, be swept into the dust of history, and rot and wither without being cared about.

"What should I do now?"

"What is the immediate expediency?"

"..."

The sense of crisis came suddenly, causing everyone to panic, and everyone asked themselves where the way out was.

But before the person who mentioned it opened his mouth, someone else responded: "Now it's for self-protection, no matter what means should be used."

"Your Majesty must understand that there is no reason for the imperial court to go its own way. No matter how incompetent we are, the government and society must always go through our hands."

Confidence was boosted a bit.

Someone said: "Since this is the case, let's make a move as soon as possible. I won't wait for the Kong family to enter the capital. It will be difficult for me to move around when the time comes. If I do something at this time, I can also apologize for my crimes at that time. I didn't notice in advance. .”

"Then let's get in touch, and everyone will go to the office of the headquarters and ask for sick leave, or please restrain yourself."

Everyone at the scene will understand people at that time, and as soon as this remark is made, they will know what to do.

Everyone bowed their hands in response.

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Inside the Imperial City, outside Wenyuan Pavilion.

The Jinyiwei Baihu who entered the palace and the two chief banner officers under his command finally arrived outside the door with their bodies covered in moisture.

In order to prevent the moisture from getting on Xueshi Xie, who can be said to be the man in the grandson Qian's residence, Baihu and the chief banner officer stopped outside the door for a while, shaking off the raindrops on their bodies, and squeezed the rain from the corners of their clothes.

When Tong Chuan came out again, the Baihu officer and the chief banner officer stepped into the Wenyuan Pavilion.

Xie Jin is currently dealing with today's state affairs memorial.

The memorials distributed to the emperor and the crown prince have already been assigned, but he still has more things to do.

There has been no major event in the court recently.

The newly-appointed governor of the general administration envoy is also a young man, and also a Jinshi who studies politics with his heart. He has just entered the official position and took over the errand of the senior Bai Yuxiu.

Because I have nothing to do, I will accompany you in the cabinet and learn something from my husband.

When Jin Yiwei came in, the young student quietly stepped back two steps, bowed and said: "Sir, it's Jin Yiwei."

Xie Jin raised his head from the copybook, squinted his eyes slightly, and looked at the shadow walking over.

"Jin Yiwei? What happened?"

"Bachelor Qi, it's the Taisun who sent back the news that His Highness will be able to cross the river tonight and return."

Xie Jin, who was holding a pen in his hand, couldn't help shaking his wrist.

A bean-sized ink bead landed on a memorial.

Xie Jin sighed lightly: "Why did something go wrong..."

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