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Chapter 321 Why did Your Majesty rebel?

Zhu Yijun has been calculating the accounts of the Confucius family. After reading it, he can understand why the direct descendants of the Confucius family want to go to sea to find money, because they are poor.

The Confucius family who confiscated 370 million taels of silver and [-] hectares of land went to sea because they were poor. Such a reason is very contradictory, but this is reality. Contradictions are common. The Confucius family, which has such an industry, actually Go overseas for money.

The Kong Mansion has a lot of revenue and a lot of expenses. In recent years, it has begun to make ends meet.

The Confucius Mansion in Yanzhou is not counted as collateral, but including servants and servants, there are a total of 520 seven people.

The monthly payment is nearly ten thousand taels of silver.

The monthly income of Kong Shangxian's mother, Kong Shangxian himself, Kong Shangxian's two brothers, and his sister-in-law is 20 taels of silver; and then there are various daughter-in-laws. The monthly income of the daughters-in-law in these families is 4 taels of silver; and such as Kong Yinsong, Kong Yinsong, and Kong Shangxian Young masters and girls like Yin Lin, whose monthly income is 2 taels, and about seven of them are girls and young masters who have defected to wealthy families from other places. They live here for a long time. As long as they live in the Confucius Mansion, a month is enough. 2 taels of silver.

A wealthy family like Kong Shangxian is the only one in Shandong. On weekdays, there is no one of the same class to talk to. Therefore, other wealthy families will go to other places to visit, and this visit will last for several years. , this kind of boarding-style visit is very common in wealthy families.

As for the boys and girls of the young generation, in addition to the 2 taels of silver a month, the boys have 8 taels of silver every month to eat snacks in school, buy paper and pens, go to temple fairs, and interact with classmates, while the girls have 2 taels of silver every month. [-] taels of silver to buy rouge, gouache and other items.

When it comes to the generation of grandchildren, because of the separation of generations, they have five taels of silver a month.

Young men and girls all have their own maids. Normally, there will be two aunts, one first-class maid, four second-class maids, and eight third-class maids. According to the previous rules of the Confucius Mansion, aunts and first-class maids , young masters and girls cannot use it, but this rule has been broken long ago. This class of maids are usually the maids in law of the young masters and the dowry maids of the girls. They are considerate people.

Aunts are not concubines or concubines, they are old ladies who serve people. They are paid 2 taels a month, first-class maids are paid 1 tael a month, second-class maids are paid five taels of silver, and third-class maids are paid three taels of silver.

There is also the 'family', which are the servants that a luxurious household took in in order to circumvent the Ming Dynasty's prohibition on slavery. These family members are the basic unit for the luxurious household to maintain its operation. For example, this accounting office has three rooms and a bank. , a purchaser, and a counting house, the three gentlemen earn four taels of silver a month, and there are also some servants at different levels.

The capital army of the Ming Dynasty was working outside for only 18 taels of silver a year. Even if the emperor continued to reward them, the most they could get was 20 taels of silver a year, which was only one tael or six a month, which was about the same as a first-class maid in the Confucius family.

Everything costs money for food and clothing. The Confucius Mansion doesn't even host any major weddings or funerals a year, and it still requires 10,000+ taels of silver a year to maintain.

The Confucius Mansion has 50 hectares of land, and the annual physical and monetary land rent can make an income every year. After the real discount, it exceeds [-] silver, but the Confucius Mansion still cannot make ends meet.

All these masters and men are not oil-saving lamps. Each family has its own calculations. When the comprador makes a purchase, he quotes a slightly higher price. The accountant makes the calculation tacitly. The bank supervisor takes the money when he sees the note. The money goes out. The windows of this house are broken today, and the tiles of that house are broken tomorrow. It can be said that the eight immortals cross the sea and show their magical powers.

Mr. Accountant will never dare to file a complaint. If he files a complaint, all the masters are family members. The most he can do is scold him. If the servants file a complaint against their master, they will be beaten to death and buried in random graves. If they do not file a complaint, everyone will make a fortune together. , isn’t it beautiful?

Therefore, the masters of the Confucius Mansion did not spend a lot of money that month. There was a deficit between the Confucius Mansion's income and expenditure.

The Confucius family as a whole is losing money, but the various masters are extremely fat.

Kong Shangxian, as the head of the Kong family, had no choice. He didn't even have a son or daughter. Whose family would he touch, and who wouldn't do it to his face?If there is no way to reduce expenditures, we can only increase revenue. There are two ways to find money. Merger is one way, and going out to find money is also another way.

The account books of the Kong family were particularly chaotic when it came to Kong Shangxian. The biggest deficit came from corruption in the government.

Ling Yunyi has been doing accounting for the Kong Mansion this month and discovered several other huge expenditures of the Kong Mansion, which are all big holes.

The first is to raise thieves. There are many thieves in Shandong. The largest thieves’ villages are all raised by the Kong Mansion. This item costs more than ten thousand taels a month. As the merger intensifies, there are more and more thieves. , the expenditure is getting bigger and bigger; the second one is the reward money that is very important to save face. During the New Year and the festival, we have to hold on to the reward. Various arts are performed in the house, and the servants in each house and courtyard have to receive the reward money. For this expenditure, another one hundred thousand yuan is needed a year. The third one is borrowing money. The Confucius Mansion borrows money from abroad.

The Confucius Mansion kept 72 running dogs in Shandong. Each of these running dogs liked to come to the Confucius Mansion to pay homage. If they poured out their bitter experiences, they could always get some money. And this money was from the first year of Wanli to the sixth year of Wanli. , there are more than [-] silver.

What makes Ling Yunyi particularly angry is that the account books of the Confucius Mansion are not kept in six volumes per account. Escorted to Beijing.

In the first year of Wanli, the palace's account books were as shabby as those of the Confucius Mansion. It took several years for the palace's expenditure to drop from more than 100 million silver a year to more than [-] silver a year. At this point, who allowed the emperor to be stingy and everyone knew about it?
For comparison, when Zhang Juzheng was still in Jingtang, the entire Quanchu Guild Hall only spent more than a thousand taels a year.

Most of the courtiers agreed that the emperor's stinginess was learned from Zhang Juzheng. Zhang Juzheng himself was also very frugal. Even the decoration accounts of the Quanchu Guild Hall were inspected by Zhang Juzheng in person.

When we arrived at Yicheng Bo's Mansion, there were more people and more expenditures. It was only one thousand, five hundred taels of silver a year.

One year's expenditure of the Kong Mansion was enough for Zhang Juzheng's Quan Chu Guild Hall to operate stably for 410 six years.

Qi Jiguang led the Ming Dynasty's capital army back to the court, and the defense affairs were handed over to the Ming Dynasty's guards. The guards of Miyun Town and Jizhen began to guard the border to the north, the Daning Guard moved to Huining Guard, and the Yingchang Prefecture also In Huining Guard's assisting defense area, all defenses were handed over in an orderly manner.

Both Tuman Khan and Anda Khan breathed a sigh of relief. The invincible Qi Jiguang finally left the grassland. The murderous star was finally gone!

The attributes of the Ming Dynasty's frontier army determined that the frontier army did not have the ability to conquer. Qi Jiguang's triumphant victory represented the end of the Ming Dynasty's attack.

But what about next time?

Qi Jiguang's Beijing army passed Gubeikou very smoothly. The terrain at Gubeikou was extremely dangerous. Qi Jiguang stood on the pass at Gubeikou. From a purely military perspective, it was really difficult to break through this pass. But I'm sorry. It was in the 29th year of Jiajing that he invaded the capital of the Ming Dynasty from this unbreakable pass. In the third year of Wanli, Dong Fox killed Miyun general Tang Kekuan here.

The strength of mountains and rivers lies in virtue rather than danger.

This was originally a very correct statement. The Ming Dynasty did not pay the army and was in arrears for a long time. Even if it did not give money or food, it could still hold the pass. However, the forced arrears of pay reached the point where the soldiers could not make a living. At this time, if the country loses its great trust, people will become suspicious, and no matter how dangerous the pass is, it cannot be defended.

But just such a sentence has become a footnote to the cultivation of Wende and the people from far away. If you don't give the soldiers food and pay, you will treat the people from far away. If you have a good relationship with the people from far away, they will not attack.

This weird logic of preferring foreigners to domestic slaves did exist in ancient times, and it was a popular opinion that must be correct.

Practice has proved that the solid virtue of mountains and rivers is martial virtue, not literary virtue.

"Mr. Chen, once, His Majesty talked to me about the death of Yue Fei." Qi Jiguang stood at Gubeikou, letting the hot summer sun bake, looking at the winding mountain road with a smile, everything was full of vitality at the moment. , all things compete.

Qi Jiguang supported the pass on the wall, looked outside the pass, and continued: "Yue Shaobao went on his fourth Northern Expedition. He went all the way north and defeated the Jin Kingdom and abandoned his helmet and armor. Wanyan Zongbi of the Jin Kingdom escaped across the Yellow River and returned to the Song Dynasty. The power of the country, and then received twelve urgent edicts with golden letters, ordering Yue Shaobao to make ten years of achievements in one day. The teacher returned to the court and marched to the Yangtze River, looking up to the sky and lamenting that all the counties he gained would be destroyed! , it is difficult to revive! The world of heaven and earth will never be restored again!"

Qi Jiguang actually had this kind of worry. When he attacked Daningwei last time, he was afraid that it would be the last time he went out to fight. He planned to take a military risk and attack Huiningwei. He was still being impeached by the officials.

But this time, Ban Shi was in a very good mood and had no such worries at all, because Ming's plan to regroup had already begun to be implemented, and Ming still wanted to attack.

Qi Jiguang was actually very satisfied after completing his second Northern Expedition. Even if the Ming Dynasty stopped the Northern Expedition for various reasons and the recovery of Hetao became a reality, he could rest in peace.

For 11 years, Qi Jiguang had a very thorough understanding of the situation in Liaodong. Once the Northern Lu and Dong Yi merged, it would become a serious problem for the Ming Dynasty. Now that a mountain road in the Xianbei Mountains is blocked in the middle, there would be no chance for the Lu and Yi to merge.

Your Majesty is a very stingy person and will never spit out what he eats. As long as Your Majesty is still in his prime, the mountain roads of the Da Xianbei Mountains will be indestructible.

"At that time, there was the sycophant Qin Hui in the court, and now there is the sycophant Wang Chonggu." Tan Lun also said with a slight worry, Wang Chonggu was definitely not a wise minister, let alone a good minister, and even met the definition of a treacherous minister.

This triumph made Tan Lun worried.

Qi Jiguang shook his head and said: "We can only take one step at a time. Now after all, Duke Jiangling, Ding You, is not in the court."

"Commander Qi, His Majesty's edict has arrived." Chen Dacheng reminded Qi Jiguang that it was time to face the ups and downs of the court.

As soon as he entered the pass, the fierceness in Qi Shuai's body disappeared without a trace and he became humble.

Zhu Yijun's imperial edict required Qi Jiguang to lead the troops of the Beijing camp and station them in Miyun Town. After Qi Shuai returned to Beijing, the army would reorganize and return to the Peking Camp.

Tan Lun was one step ahead of Qi Jiguang and had returned to Beijing, and the emperor rewarded the expeditionary army with an additional reward of two taels of silver per person. This was an additional reward in addition to the merit reward. The army returned in triumph and rewarded more rewards.

After Yue Fei was forcibly recalled from the Fourth Northern Expedition, he returned to Lin'an. He no longer made impassioned speeches and repeatedly petitioned to become an official, be relieved of military duties, and return to his fields. Yue Fei did not lose his temper. He had already understood that there was no way for him to return to the world. Again, completely disappointed.

Compared with the Song Dynasty's fear of warriors, the Ming Dynasty was much better. After Qi Jiguang led his troops into the Pass, he stationed himself at Miyun Guard. The reason given by the court was also high-sounding. His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty kept his promise and decided to station at Miyun Guard just after the army entered the Pass. All promised rewards will be paid without default.

It is true that the men in Jingtang were worried about the drama of wearing yellow robes when the army returned to court, but they still found a reason. It was enough for everyone to look good.

Now the gentlemen in Jingtang still have some excuses. In the past, when Wang Ji killed generals, he always said that he had received a secret edict.

The emperor's edict was very different from the court's attitude, but not the same. The emperor's edict was that Qi Shuai would not return to Beijing until the rewards were distributed, but the court hoped that Qi Jiguang would return to Beijing immediately.

The emperor's intention is very clear. If you don't pay the reward in full, then you will be armed to ask for the reward!
The reward for the merit is that the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty fought hard on the battlefield with their heads high, and they must not be greedy!
Qi Jiguang chose to follow the emperor's edict and stayed at Miyun Guard for another three days. After all the rewards were distributed and confirmed, he wrote a memorial and prepared to return to Beijing.

"Qi Shuai! You!" Chen Dacheng looked at Qi Jiguang in horror and said blankly: "You want to become an official? Lord Ma is more than ten years older than Qi Shuai. Isn't he still leading troops to fight? Qi Shuai can't say so. I'm watching the injuries and illnesses. Tuman Khan's arrows can't penetrate the iron armor." Qi Jiguang sealed the memorial and said with a smile: "Those with great power will be destroyed, those with high achievements will be destroyed. I will continue to lead the troops. Put your Majesty in trouble."

"That's absolutely not the case!" Ma Fang happened to have something to do with Qi Jiguang. He heard Qi Jiguang and Chen Dacheng talking outside the tent, so he walked in directly and said with great confidence: "Your Majesty will not be in trouble."

Ma Fang envied Qi Jiguang very much. Qi Jiguang could not feel the pressure from Zhang Juzheng and the emperor, so when thinking about problems, he always used some old templates. Ma Fang had been beaten, so he knew the fear all too well.

"I'm just afraid that the officials will make a lot of noise." Qi Jiguang was still a little worried.

Ma Fang thinks not. The current officials in the capital have long understood the emperor's taboos. Military affairs are the emperor's opposite and must not be touched.

Ma Fang actually knew what Qi Jiguang was worried about. He said with a smile: "As for Wang Cifu, he wouldn't dare to give him a hundred tiger galls."

Ma Fang's estimation was correct. The Yanguan of the Ming Dynasty was already very clear about His Majesty the Emperor's temper. This military matter was an area that could not be touched, at least while Qi Jiguang was still there.

As for Wang Chonggu, he is indeed a villain, but isn't what a villain is best at judging the situation?Zhang Juzheng is alive and Qi Jiguang is alive. If you jump at this time, isn't that forcing the emperor to use the emperor's escape and the nine tribes separation technique?

Qi Jiguang set off, went to Jingtang, and went to the North Camp of Beitucheng. He received the first imperial edict, which was to move Qi Jiguang to An'an. This was officially announced and had been determined before; he received it at Deshengmen. The emperor's second imperial edict was a condolence edict from the emperor, saying that the long journey was extremely hard, but fighting for the country was honorable and glorious.

When Qi Jiguang arrived at the Meridian Gate, he was a little confused when he saw the crowds of people in front of the Meridian Gate. Soon, he received the third imperial edict. The emperor asked Qi Jiguang to enter the palace from Xihua Gate, climb to the Meridian Gate, and watch the execution together.

What kind of punishment do you think?

The emperor wanted to kill someone today, and the execution platform had been set up, so Qi Jiguang was sent to watch the execution.

Qi Jiguang walked to the city gate building with a confused look on his face, only to find out who the emperor wanted to kill. The wealthy households in Shandong, led by the Kong family, 72 lackeys, and their minions, as well as a group of Japanese pirates, would be sent to the liberation. Go to the courtyard.

"Qi Shuai!" Zhu Yijun saw Qi Jiguang walking up step by step, and stood up suddenly, with a look of surprise on his face.

"I pay homage to your Majesty, long live your Majesty, long live your Majesty." Qi Jiguang hurriedly saluted, but he did not kneel down and was supported by the emperor. He wanted to kneel down and the emperor tried to support him. Qi Jiguang found that the emperor's strength was a little stronger, and he punched Afraid of being young, His Majesty is already the top player in the youth group, while Qi Jiguang is already gray on the temples.

Zhu Yijun smiled and said, "No need to be polite."

"Observe the ceremony, observe the ceremony." Zhu Yijun led Qi Jiguang to the best position in the city gate building to watch the execution, and told Qi Jiguang the evil done by the Confucius family and the reasons why the Confucius family must be punished.

Ma Fang is right. The officials are determined not to cause trouble for His Majesty. Wang Chonggu does not feel that his nine clans are tired of living. The Shuntian Mansion of the Ming Dynasty is now the absolutely loyal Shuntian Mansion!
"Kong Yinsong, who is going to work as a military advisor for the Shimazu family, I plan to send him and the Japanese pirates to the Jiefuan Institute. Recently, the Jiefuan Institute is researching a new drug, which requires a lot of people." Zhu Yijun explained to Qi Jiguang The fate of the prisoners captured by Chen Lin.

"What new medicine?" Qi Jiguang asked curiously.

"Chinese mustard stew to treat inflammation." Zhu Yijun explained with great interest the latest invention of the Jiegu Institute, mustard stew, which is penicillin.

"Li Shizhen traveled to Tianning Temple in Changzhou and saw many huge jars in Tianning Temple. The jars contained mustard greens. These mustard greens were exposed to the sun and dew at night, causing the mustard greens to become moldy and grow green mold. Three or four inches long, it is called penicillium. After it is buried in the ground, it can be used after three to five years, when even the mold has turned into water."

Mustard stew, later known as penicillin, is a broad-spectrum antibiotic. Tianning Temple’s mustard stew can be traced back to the Tang Dynasty.

Qi Jiguang said with confusion: "It's moldy. It will take another three to five years. Then there will be nothing left?"

Zhu Yijun said with great certainty: "It's true. The great medical officials thought so too. Naturally, I had to study this thing more. I took penicillium from Tianning Temple and found that mustard greens are not necessary. The paste of rice, flour, taro, potatoes and sweet potatoes is also This kind of penicillium can grow and take shape in about a week.”

"The other side burns charcoal, which is to put the charcoal into the iron pot until there is no smoke at all, and then grind the charcoal into powder for later use."

"Strain it through 27 layers of cotton cloth, add rapeseed oil and stir. After letting it stand, scoop out the oil and half of the water in the upper layer. Use carbon powder to absorb the remaining water, then wash it with water, and then filter it with a cotton funnel. If you repeat this, you will get Chen Brine.”

The whole process is to shorten the preparation process of mustard stew. This step by step took great medical officials several years to complete.

"It's so complicated to make this medicine. Can people use it?" Qi Jiguang asked with doubts. There were ten generals and nine doctors. On this battlefield, it is very common for swords and swords to be blind and to get injured and sick. Chen Lianshui is easy to understand, but is this thing really useful?
Zhu Yijun said with deep feeling: "If there is a shortage of people in the Jiecu Hospital recently, is it because of the old brine? These Japanese pirates come in groups of five. They don't have rashes on their skin, so they just cut some wounds on their bodies to inflame the wounds. , Chen brine is used internally and externally. How many medicines are used for various wounds require a degree of bypass. In this way, you will know how much to use. "

The experiments conducted by the chief medical officer of Jieguyuan were very rigorous. They first used them on rabbits, then on mice, then on monkeys, and finally on Japanese people. But even though they were so rigorous, the materials in Jieguyuan were not enough. .

Dosage issues require long-term practice.

Jieguyuan has a strong sense of humanistic care. If you die while testing the medicine, you will be cut into thousands of cross-sections and put into resin. This will last for thousands of years.

Zhang Siwei died, but he did not survive. After the inflammation, he developed a high fever. The inflammation subsided, but the person was still dead. Zhang Siwei burned himself to send out his last light, which illuminated the path for the advancement of Ming medicine.

How did Zhang Siwei die? Chen Shigong from the Jiecu Hospital gave the answer because there was a bit of yellow mold in the Chen brine that Zhang Siwei used internally and externally. After a lot of practice, it was found that the brine of yellow mold was more toxic than the Zhoushan venomous snake. It is ten times stronger, and only one-tenth of the dose of yellow mold brine is needed to kill mice of the same weight.

Zhang Siwei still died of poison. He did not die of arsenic, but of yellow mold bittern. Penicillium bittern is a good medicine that saves people, but yellow mold bittern is a poison that seals the throat when it sees blood. How can good medicine and poison do this? The similarity really touched the great medical officers of Jieyuan Hospital deeply.

Zhu Yijun and Qi Jiguang explained the specific uses of penicillium brine. The most difficult thing about this product is mass production.

The original penicillin and penicillin are very powerful. The most important thing is that this thing can be recycled and reused through urine. Of course, how to draw such a conclusion is naturally attributed to the various problems of the Jiefuan Institute. All kinds of strange practices.

The beheadings began.

The court officials looked at the Kong family on the execution platform with concern. His Majesty, the emperor, finally took action. In fact, before setting up the execution platform, the court officials had some illusions that the Ming Emperor could care about his face, even if it was not good. It would be good to forgive him a little, to give him some dignity, and to order him to commit suicide.

But the Ming Emperor did not choose dignity, but chose to behead him in public.

Kong Shangxian had become unkempt. As time went by, Kong Shangxian did not wait for the emperor to throw a taboo and did not dare to take action against him. He did not wait for the Confucian scholars from all over the world to plead for his family. Instead, what he waited for was to be decapitated. Emperor Ming generously followed the instructions of the Second Emperor. For two taels of silver, they were given a meal to kill people, leaving them to be starved to death on the road.

After Wang Chonggu, Shangshu of the Ministry of Punishment, read out the crimes of one of the criminals, he asked the emperor to order his execution. A cry of "take it away" was heard in front of the Meridian Gate. A total of more than [-] people inside and outside the Confucius Mansion died under the bone pry knife. The guillotine chopped off his head, and he could no longer die.

By coincidence, Kong Shangxian's head was taken away by a wild dog. In his last consciousness, Kong Shangxian couldn't understand why the emperor wanted to kill him. He was a descendant of Confucius.

Zhu Yijun looked at the people watching the execution in the audience. There was still no one in front of the criminals who were to be escorted to the execution center, as if there was something dirty there. He said slightly absent-mindedly: "Qi Shuai, sir, the country The existence of the dynasty is due to the distinction between public and private affairs and is caused by contradictions.”

"Your Majesty, I don't understand this." Qi Jiguang has a very in-depth study of the theory of contradictions. After all, contradictions are weapons. Although Qi Jiguang understands many principles, what His Majesty and Zhang Juzheng discussed is beyond the scope of Qi Jiguang's understanding.

Zhu Yijun still explained the meaning of this sentence to Qi Jiguang.

The difference between public and private is that under the Ming Dynasty, the largest public, there are all kinds of privates at all levels. Compared with the public of the Guochao, each group is private, and among each group, there must be all kinds of private When the contradiction intensifies to the point where each small group cannot adjust itself, in order to prevent each other from perishing together, a force above each group is needed to adjust the contradiction. This is the reason why the dynasty exists.

The theory of contradiction is a set of knowledge that can explain the legal system of the country, the existence of the country, and the significance of the country.

There are bound to be contradictions between various groups in society, and if the contradictions intensify to the point of being irreconcilable, they need a force that is superior to each group to adjust. What is superior to other groups is the power of the state, and finding ways to adjust these contradictions is The obligations of the country.

According to the theory of contradictions, the Ming court failed to fulfill its obligations for a long time and failed to regulate the conflicts between various classes, which would eventually lead to a change of dynasty.

The cheap Confucians are always discussing who should be blamed. Huang Yuezhong, a famous scholar from the south of the Yangtze River, wanted to put all the blame on the emperor, propagating his theory that the emperor and his ministers were different in name but identical in reality, while Zhang Juzheng was constantly completing the contradictory theory. Content.

No need to say more about who is trying to save the nation.

The reason why Zhu Yijun wanted to tell Qi Jiguang was actually understood by Qi Jiguang.

The emperors of the Ming Dynasty, except for Emperor Xiaozong, all disliked the Confucius Mansion, but they could not move. However, the reason why the current emperor dared to deal ruthlessly with the Confucius Mansion in Qufu was that the emperor no longer needed the Confucius Mansion as one of the supporters of imperial power.

The brand name of Confucianism is no longer useful.

The theory of contradictions has become particularly useful. The theory of contradictions can even explain the legal system of the dynasty, the reason why the dynasty exists and the significance of the dynasty. As time goes by, the Confucian theory has gradually become unable to be used as a political Tools continue to adjust the contradiction.

Kong Shangxian didn't understand, how could the Ming Emperor dare to deal with their Kong family?This question is probably, why did His Majesty rebel?

Confucius has lost its irreplaceability, and this is the answer.

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