Nanming Yiming

Chapter 204
In front of the Confucian Temple in Nanjing, countless scholars gathered in front of the Confucian Temple. Today, Kong Yuzhou of "Nan Kong" was invited by the King of Guangling County to come to Nanjing to worship the Confucian Temple.

When the Ming army conquered Nanjing earlier, there was also a fierce battle in the vicinity of the Confucius Temple, and some buildings were burned down. Now the Governor’s Office has renovated the Confucius Temple, and the great sage from the South Confucius personally presided over the worship activities. signal.

One is that now that Jiangnan has been settled, it is only a matter of time before the Ming Dynasty reunifies the world. The imperial court is likely to reopen the imperial examination, which is great news for the majority of scholars.

Second, the Kong family in Quzhou originally migrated to the south with Duke Yansheng. They followed Emperor Gaozong of the Song Dynasty to the south in the early Southern Song Dynasty, and belonged to the authentic lineage.In history, "Southern Kong" was canonized as Yanshenggong by the Southern Song Dynasty, while "Northern Kong" was canonized as Yanshenggong by Jin and Mongolia. At one time, the two dukes stood side by side for more than 200 years.

In fact, the Quzhou Confucian family is far more qualified to represent the inheritance of Confucius than the Qufu Confucian family in terms of blood relationship and moral character.It was only during the Yuan Shizu period that Kong Zhu took the initiative to give up the title in order to avoid disputes, and Nan Kong lost the title of "Yansheng Gong", which caused Nan Kong to gradually decline.

But the reputation of Beikong is too bad. Now Kong Yinzhi, the third surname of Yansheng Gong, is dead. Although the Qing court let his son Kong Xingxie inherit the title of Yansheng Gong, the Ming side does not approve of it. The Guangling County King’s move may It is to support Nan Kong's superiority.

For a while, the news that "Nankong is about to attack Jueyan Shenggong" spread throughout Nanjing and Yangzhou.

The news quickly reached the ears of Kong Yinyue who was going south.

At the beginning, the Kong family did not hesitate to flatter Li Zicheng and the Qing court in order to protect themselves, and abandoned Daming without hesitation. Now Qian Mo has reached the Huaihe River and may enter Shandong at any time.

How can the Confucian family in Qufu feel at ease?Fortunately, the instigator of the incident, Kong Yinzhi, has already gone west.

Now this mess still needs to be cleaned up.Originally, he was also planning to represent the Kong family to express his opinion to the King of Guangling County, and he brought 50 taels of silver to show his sincerity.Yan Shenggong, who supported the Qing Dynasty before, has passed away. The new generation of Yan Shenggong absolutely supports Ming Dynasty, and the Confucian family in Qufu will definitely cooperate with Guangling County King to seize Shandong.

But in the current situation, it seems that Qian Mo is planning to support Nan Kong as the leader.

Not long after, he confirmed the news through various channels, and Qian Mo was going to make an official announcement, asking Yongli to confer the title of Duke Yan on Kong Yuzhou of Nankong.Although the Kong family is different from the general political family, they still understand the situation in the world very well, otherwise, the Kong family would not directly submit a surrender table every time there is any disturbance.

Since you bet on the wrong treasure, you will naturally have to pay the corresponding price.Soon Kong Yinyue found Liu Yichen, and finally the Kong family offered 100 million taels of silver and land deeds for 20 mu of fertile land in Huai'an, Xuzhou, and Yanzhou.Only then did Qian Mo get the promise that he would not push Nan Kong to take over the position, and would fully support Bei Kong in the future.

At the same time, Kong Yinyue also brought an amazing news.

The first one is that the Qing army bought a batch of artillery and firecrackers from the Dutch. The exact number is unknown, but it is said that the price is expensive, and it is said that the cost of silver taels is as much as one million taels.

For this reason, Hong Chengchou also beat the Kong family once, and got 20 taels of silver from the Kong family.

At present, this batch of firearms has been transported to Jinan Prefecture. As for how the Qing army will distribute them, it is unknown.

The second is that Wu Sangui is ready to move near Tongguan. Hong Chengchou has mobilized 2 people from Shandong to Luoyang to resist Wu Sangui.

Qian Mo was not surprised by the action of the Dutchman, these foreign devils were originally out for profit.Previously, my navy was blocking the Yangtze River, and the blockade of the northern coast was indeed not strong, which allowed them to take advantage of a loophole.

However, Wu Sangui's actions made him very puzzled. Before that, Wu Sangui lost at least 2 horses in Jiameng Pass, and many of them were the elite of his Guanning Army.Now that his control over the Gansu-Shaanxi area is not firm, he should recuperate and stabilize his heart at this time. Why did he choose to go east out of Tongguan?

Originally, Qian Mo had planned to start the Northern Expedition after a large number of new equipment had been replaced. After all, the current chaotic situation was more conducive to his making money, and he was not in a hurry to take down the "mess" in the North so quickly.

But now that Wu Sangui is making such a mess, the situation in the Central Plains may change. It seems that we need to make early preparations.

Soon the 4 Baipao Battalion moved into Huai'an and Fengyang on the south bank of the Huaihe River, ready to cross the Huai River north at any time; at the same time, the 4 Shenji Battalion also moved from Hefei and Anqing to Huoqiu and Lu'an near the Dabie Mountains. On the front line, go to Henan and Hubei battlefields at any time.

Wu Sangui did not leave Tongguan immediately after receiving the news from Qu Shixu. On the one hand, after all, he had suffered heavy losses in Jiameng Pass and needed time to reorganize his armaments.

On the other hand, although the Ming and Qing fought fiercely in Wuchang, the main force of Boluo's 3 Manchu Eight Banners was not in Wuchang, and could quickly retreat to Henan.He still had some scruples, so he just sent a small group of troops to test it out.

When he learned that 2 Qing troops were stationed in Luoyang, he began to back down. Obviously, the Qing army had already taken precautions against him.If Luoyang is attacked by force, he will suffer heavy losses.

When Wu Sangui hesitated, Huang Sanpang came to the door.Now Huang Sanpang is well-known in Sichuan, Shaanxi and Huguang, and he is a famous arms dealer.

Huang Sanpang didn't hide his identity at all. He was selling Lumi guns on behalf of Guangling County King.The Guan Ning army did not suffer from the Lumi blunderbuss in the previous battle at Jiamengguan. Since Qian Mo dared to sell such sharp weapons, Wu Sangui had no reason not to buy them.

So he gritted his teeth and spent 50 taels of silver to buy 3000 Lumi guns from Huang Sanpang.

His Guanning iron cavalry was already powerful in battle, but now with the blessing of this Lumi gun, why would he not be able to take down Luoyang.

Soon Hu Guozhu led 2 Guanning out of Tongguan and went straight to Shanzhou.The range advantage of the Lumi blunderbuss quickly overwhelmed the Qing army in the city, and there were not many defenders in Shanzhou. Only half an hour later, the Guan Ning army conquered Shanzhou.

At this time, Wu Sangui swept away the haze of the previous defeat, and wanted to take advantage of the high morale now to take Luoyang in one go.

However, Xia Guoxiang was still quite sober at this time. He said: "My lord, don't be impulsive. According to the information provided by the captives, Hong Chengchou has now led reinforcements to Luoyang, and there are no less than 3 Qing troops in Luoyang City. And the Qing army has already equipped I bought some imitated Lumi guns, although the performance is not as good as that sold to us by Qian Mo, the gap is not too big."

"Boluo's Eight Banners of Manchuria are in Xinyang. It is only a few days' journey to reinforce Luoyang. Attacking Luoyang by force is definitely not a good strategy."

Just as Qian Mo was about to sit and watch the decisive battle between Wu Sangui and Hong Chengchou in Luoyang, there was no news for a long time.

At this time, Wu Sangui crossed the Yellow River directly from Shanzhou and entered Shanxi. A few days later, with the help of the Guanning Army, the Shanxi Rebel Army captured Linfen, the capital city of Pingyang.

Then Guan Ningjun went all the way north and arrived at the foot of Taiyuan City.At this time, there was only Taiyuan, an isolated city in Shanxi, which had not been conquered by the Ming army, and Jiang Xiang and others had been besieging it too far for several months.

Originally, the Qing army could barely support it by relying on the powerful range of its Lumi guns. Now the arrival of the Guan Ning army has made the Qing army's advantage of fire guns gone. The Guan Ning army directly shot at the city outside the range of the Qing army.

Soon the Qing army in Taiyuan City was beaten by the Guan Ning army and dared not show their faces. Jiang Xiang's Datong army had been helpless against Taiyuan, and they had been holding back their anger for a long time. Now that Taiyuan City lost the advantage of firecrackers, they It can be regarded as a chance.

The Datong army shouted slogans, set up ladders and began to attack the city.The Ming army's momentum was like a rainbow, and they quickly attacked the city wall of Taiyuan; on the contrary, the Qing army in Taiyuan was besieged for several months, and they were already exhausted.

There is not much suspense in the next battle, and the battle will be over after an hour!
On June 1649, the third year of Yongli (6), the Ming army conquered Taiyuan, Shanxi governor Zhu Shichang committed suicide, and the 18 defenders either died or surrendered.

After Taiyuan fell, the whole of Shanxi fell.

A few days later, Wu Sangui, Jiang Xiang, Teng Jisi, Tuxie Tuhan Gonpo, and Chechen Khan Shuolei, leaders of the Sunite Department, formed a coalition of 15 troops in Datong to attack Xuanfu!
This sudden change caught Dorgon by surprise. Although he immediately increased his troops to Xuanfu, Azig only had 1 Manchurian Zhengbai flags in his hands at this time.

In order to prevent Wu Sangui and others from bypassing Xuanfu, he led Obai and led 5000 Zhenghuang Banners to defend Juyongguan.This Juyongguan is the last barrier of the capital. If the Ming army breaks through here, the capital will not be able to defend it.

Although Beijing's city walls were extremely tall, Dorgon didn't have many troops in his hands at this time, and there were only the last 5 white flags in the city.Although there are still tens of thousands of green battalion soldiers, the Han people are unreliable at this time, he can only trust the Eight Banners of Manchuria.

Although he refused to let Shunzhi withdraw to Shengjing in the name of inspection, he was not sure whether the capital could hold him at this time.

Today's capital is in disarray, and the only solution for the present is to give up all the territory south of the Yellow River and withdraw troops to Hebei, and it is possible to hold the capital.

At this time, the 3 horses that Boluo left in Hubei are very important. If the capital can be withdrawn, the Qing Dynasty will still have the power to fight.Otherwise, even if they could retreat outside the pass, they might not have enough troops to stop the Ming army from continuing to go north.

After Qian Mo received the news that Wu Sangui went north to Shanxi, he knew that he wanted to take the route of Li Zicheng's attacking the capital from Shanxi.So he immediately sent Hong Fugui across the Huaihe River, and directly surrounded the people of Mandahai in Xuzhou.

Then he ordered Huang Yu to attack Huangzhou and Xinyang, and completely surrounded the Qing army in Wuchang.

Liu Yichen said from the side: "The situation is developing too fast, and we are not ready to take over the north."

However, Qian Mo said with confidence: "It seems that the Qing army is going to completely abandon the south of the Yellow River. You can find a way to contact Hong Chengchou. This king can meet him. As long as he sacrifices Henan and Shandong provinces, I will spare his life." .”

Soon after, Hong Chengchou came to Longxing Temple outside Fengyang City.

元至正4年（1344年）明太祖朱元璋曾在这里出家，整整300年后崇祯皇帝自缢煤山。不过原来的皇觉寺在至正12年就已经毁于战火，现在的龙兴寺是洪武16年重新建造的。

Hong Chengchou is a smart person, and Qian Mo chose to meet him here, perhaps there is another deep meaning behind it.

At the beginning, Qian Mo was just a prisoner, but now in less than 2 years, the Qing Dynasty is already showing signs of subjugation.And their status between master and apprentice has undergone earth-shaking changes.

Now the King of Guangling County is already the biggest real power faction in Daming, but he has to hold his breath, which is really embarrassing.

Although Qian Mo once offered a reward of 10 taels of silver for Hong Chengchou's head after learning that Hong Chengchou was trying to assassinate himself, but now that the Ming and Qing Dynasties have long since changed, Hong Chengchou's reward has also been revoked by him.

After the meeting, Qian Mo still said politely: "Long time no see, my mentor is still as handsome as ever!"

Hong Chengchou said respectfully: "The king of Guangling County is like this, it really breaks the old man!"

Qian Mo waved his hand and said, "Being a teacher for one day and being a father for life, a teacher is worthy of the word 'teacher'. You and I don't need to be polite, I'll cut to the chase. As long as the teacher does two more things for me, This king can not only keep you rich, but also let you continue to lead the army and show off your grand plans."

Hong Chengchou knew that the two things Qian Mo said might not be that simple, but at this time he had no choice but to let him slaughter him.So he said: "Despite the orders of the King of Guangling County, I will do my best!"

Qian Mo said with a smile: "Boluo is really cunning, Huang Yu went straight to Xinyang and only surrounded him with 1 people, and now his [-] yellow flags have already entered Henan, you don't have to stop him, just put him back to the capital. "

Hong Chengchou originally thought that Qian Mo would make excessive demands, such as annihilating 2 people in Boluo and setting up a nomination certificate, but he did not expect that it would be as simple as sending him back to the capital.

Hong Chengchou immediately understood Qian Mo's intentions. It seemed that he was not ready for a showdown with Yongli, so he didn't want to eliminate Daqing so quickly, and let Boluo go back to prevent Wu Sangui and others from taking advantage of him.

But this kid Qian Mo has always been as cunning as a ghost, how could he let him go so easily?

Qian Mo gave Hong Chengchou some things, which were the land deed from Kong Yinyue from Beikong and the letter of loyalty from Kong Xingxie, Yansheng Gong.Take these title deeds, Mr. Hong, governor of Henan and Shandong provinces, must investigate such serious acts of collusion with the enemy under his rule!
Qian Mo actually wants to take the Qufu Confucian family into a knife, is this going to offend scholars all over the world?
Hong Chengchou asked, "I don't know how the King of Guangling wants to deal with Yan Shenggong's family?"

Qian Mo snorted coldly, and said: "The Confucian family in Qufu, who has lowered their appearance in this world, is simply humiliating the sages. How can there be any need for them to exist? Conspiracy is a serious crime for punishing the nine clans. Master Hong wants to clear up traitors!"

Qian Mo said a few words lightly, but Hong Chengchou was very frightened. If the Confucius family in Qufu wanted to punish the Nine Clans, they would probably involve tens of thousands of people.

If I get this killer, I am afraid that I will be scolded by scholars all over the world, even worse than Jiangqing?

Qian Mo said: "God has a good life. All the close clans of Heyan Shenggong's family, male, female, old or young, will be killed. No one will be kept. The others will be imprisoned for more than 3 generations and will be sent to Tamla Kingdom. In the future, the mentor will open up overseas. It still takes a lot of labor, and these people use it."

When Qian Mo said the four words of opening up overseas, Hong Chengchou finally felt relieved. If he slaughtered the Confucian family in Qufu, I am afraid that Huaxia would no longer have a foothold.

Soon the "Yanshenggong Tongming case" broke out in Shandong. Hong Chengchou punished the Qufu Confucian family for nine clans, including Yansheng Gong Kong Xingxie and his mother clan, on the grounds that the Qufu Confucian family was enlightened. More than 30 people were implicated.

These Kong's children, who are usually high and high, rely on the identity of Yan Shenggong to run rampant in the village, fish and meat the common people, doing evil and evil, it can be said that they do all kinds of evil.

Although some scholars complained about them, most of the people still applauded Hong Chengchou's actions.

Hong Chengchou also knows that the Yanshenggong family is powerful. Although he dispatched 2 green battalions and people from the intelligence department are behind the scenes to help, it is still very difficult to wipe them all out.

So he offered a reward. Anyone who exposes or arrests members of Yanshenggong's family can go to the government to receive the reward. Dou grain, and reward 20 taels of silver for capturing direct descendants of the Kong family.

In this way, in a short period of time, the children of the Kong family in Shandong were basically captured by a net, and even some people who managed to escape to Huai'an in Hanoi were also turned away to Shandong to receive rewards.

Hong Chengchou deliberately chose Sishui County, the birthplace of Confucius, to execute a large number of Kong's children. In just ten days, a large number of heads fell to the ground. An executioner actually replaced more than a dozen beheading knives in one day.

Corpses in Sishui County piled up like a mountain, and the Sishui River was also stained red with blood!

Not only that, even the bones of Kong Yinzhi, the late Yansheng Gong, were dug up and flogged the corpse again, and then the bones were crushed and ashes were scattered.The Confucian Temple in Qufu, the Confucian Lin and the statue of Confucius, and everything related to the Confucian family were all burned and smashed.

When the Qing army destroyed the Confucian Temple and the Confucian Forest, many scholars who did not have the surname of Confucius came to stop it.However, Qian Mo has already said that these people have not been loyal to Daming for 17 years in Chongzhen, but they have come here to pretend to be righteous?Kill without mercy!

Anyone who prevents burrowing will be punished as an accomplice.Under Hong Chengchou's bloody butcher knife, those people soon dispersed like birds and beasts.

Liu Yichen said: "In the case of killing Kong, 371258 people were arrested, and 27121 people were actually beheaded. Hong Chengchou confiscated the property of the Kong family, including gold, silver and jewelry worth more than 970 million taels of silver, more than 128 million mu of fertile land, 280 million shi of grain, and other shops. There are countless workshops."

Hong Chengchou had led a fleet to capture Ryukyu a few days ago and drove away the Shimadzu family of Satsuma.Today, 5 of these Kong clan members are doing hard labor on Tamna Island, and the rest are sent to Ryukyu.

Qian Mo said: "Hong Chengchou has done a good job. Most people really don't have his courage and means. The intelligence department has also worked hard. The relevant personnel will directly reward, but we must pay attention to confidentiality."

"This amount of wealth is really too huge. Three million taels of silver should be allocated to the treasury of the Governor's Mansion, and the rest of the silver taels will go to the king's internal funds. As for the land and other related properties, let the Chief Secretary deal with it."

This appalling "Yanshenggong Tongming case" involved far more people than the four major cases in the early Ming Dynasty. The family of Yanshenggong in Qufu, which had existed for thousands of years, was actually directly exterminated by Hong Chengchou.

There are even more rumors that Hong Chengchou took the countless wealth of the Kong family into exile overseas!
The influence of this incident was far greater than Wu Sangui's approach to the capital, and Hong Chengchou was criticized by scholars all over the world, even more than when he turned his back on the Ming Dynasty and threw himself into the Qing Dynasty.

Under the ardent expectation of the people all over the world, Hong Fugui finally led the Baipao Battalion to conquer Xuzhou, killed Prince Li Mandahai, and wiped out the Qing army in Xuzhou.

Then the Baipao Battalion was finally able to move into Shandong, and at the same time significant progress was made in other battlefields. On July 7, Shenjiying captured Jiangling, and Qing Huaishun King Geng Zhongming and his son were captured and killed. Five days later, the Ming army went north to conquer Xiangyang, and then entered Henan.

During this period, Wu Sangui also wanted to take the opportunity to pick peaches, and sent Hu Guozhu to lead 2 troops to attack Luoyang. As a result, he was blocked by the Qing army under the city of Luoyang, causing heavy casualties.

The Qing army, equipped with the latest Dutch artillery and flintlock guns, was significantly stronger than the Guan Ning army under Hu Guozhu in terms of firepower.Then the Qing army began to counterattack and directly captured Shanzhou, scaring Hu Guozhu to retreat to Tongguan.

What made Wu Sangui even more angry was that the powerful Qing army in front of him did not resist Qian Mo's Shenji Battalion. The Shenji Battalion went all the way north, and the Qing army surrendered directly. The army recovered Runing Mansion, Nanyang Mansion, Guide Mansion, Kaifeng Mansion and Henan Mansion.

The important towns of Guide, Kaifeng, and Luoyang were handed over to Qian Mo almost intact.

At the same time, the Ming army in Shandong was also progressing smoothly. Dengzhou, Laizhou, Yanzhou, Qingzhou and Jinan were all recovered by the Baipao camp.

However, after the Ming army in Shandong recovered Jinan, they did not cross the Daqing River, and the Ming army in Henan did not cross the Yellow River.Qian Mo and the Qing court tacitly confront each other along the Yellow River and the Daqing River.

After conquering Qufu, Qian Mo even refused to pay for the reconstruction on the grounds that the Confucius Temple was severely damaged, and only transported some of the wreckage to Quzhou.And directly sell these lands to other gentry people at a price slightly lower than the market.

As for the fertile land originally occupied by the Kong family, the Governor's Mansion even rented it out to the common people at a low price, and even sold some of it to the common people.In this way, the gentry and people around Qufu ate the "cake" of the Kong family together, and of course most of it was swallowed by Qian Mo.

Then Qian Mo played, considering that the Northern Confucian clan had basically been exterminated and the original Confucian Temple had been razed to the ground, there was really no need for the imperial court to spend money and energy to rebuild it.

After all, the Kong family in Quzhou is still there, and the bloodline of the Nanzong is far more pure than that of the Beizong, and its morality is much stronger than that of Kong Yinzhi, the three-surnamed Yansheng Gong.

Yongli didn't even finish building his Nanjing Imperial Palace, so where would he have the money to build a temple for "Northern Kong"?
On August 3, the third year of Yongli, Yongli decreed to formally canonize Kong Yuzhou as the new generation of Yan Shenggong, and denounced Kong Yinzhi's previous traitorous behavior, and refused to recognize the canonization of Kong Xingxie Yansheng by the Qing court.

Hundreds of years later, "North Kong" was once again canonized by the imperial court as Duke Yansheng, which was recognized by the imperial court; and with the virtual demise of "North Kong", this "North-South Conflict" that lasted for hundreds of years struggle", and finally came to an end.

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