Shandong, Qufu County.

As a veritable country within a country in the Ming Dynasty, Qufu has always been a holy place in the minds of Confucian scholars in the world, saying that it is a holy place, but it is not as busy as imagined, and people come and go one after another.

Qufu is very deserted, even excessively deserted.

Local officials will not come here without nothing, and the Beijing officials of the imperial court will never blindly rush here, it is like a city forgotten by the world, except for the people here who cultivate the land every day to grow vegetables and worship the luxurious palace-like Yansheng Mansion in the city, there are almost no large-scale activities here.

When the center's encouragement of commerce and trade and the resumption of business registration arrived in Qufu, they were thrown into the corner by Kong Xifan, turning a blind eye, and Shinong Industry and Commerce encouraged business on the territory of Confucius Sage? Crazy!

Qufu pretended to be blind, where did the political envoy of Shandong dare to ask, Shandong didn't ask, and the imperial court naturally didn't know. After all, Qufu does not have a Jinyi Guard, let alone a military guard.

"Da-da-da-da."

The sound of horses' hooves sounded, and this Confucian holy land ushered in a group of uninvited guests: Zhu Rong, the angry King of Qi.

The family guarding the door was also the head iron, and more than a dozen people stopped Zhu Rong in a daze.

"His Royal Highness the King of Qi, this is Qufu, and it is forbidden to enter the city with horses."

"Fuck you!"

Zhu Yu was obviously in a state of anger, and when he saw that several untouchables dared to stop him, he immediately pulled out his portable sword, killing three people in a row with one sword, frightening this group of family members to flee in all directions.

"Who the would dare to stop me from riding a horse? Lao Tzu wants to step on the Confucian Temple today! ”

As soon as the arrogance of galloping on the battlefield in the north for many years was taken out, Zhu Rongke didn't care about the three-seven-twenty-one, whipped the horse and crossed the city gate, and went straight to the Confucian Mansion with the guards behind him.

"Dismount!"

There was a loud shout, but when he saw a little meteor passing by, Zhu Yu turned his head in shock, but saw that an arrow was like thunder, directly piercing into the neck of his beloved horse.

The war horse screamed and neighed, and as soon as its four legs were weak, it fell to the ground, and even Zhu Yu was overturned to the ground.

What a fast arrow.

Zhu Rong broke out in a cold sweat, if this arrow came to him, he was afraid that it would be himself who was shot through his neck now!

"Bastard, you are so daring!"

Got up from the ground with a disgraced face, Zhu Yan saw at a glance a young man standing at the door of a wine shop not far away with a bow, shouted angrily, and wanted to draw his sword and step forward, but saw dozens of soldiers with curved bows suddenly standing around, and the arrows were cold and piercing.

"In this Qufu City, except for the Holy Father and the county honor, no one is allowed to ride horses."

The young man carried the wine jug and drank a little drunk: "I have shocked the peaceful sleep of the ancestors of the past generations, no matter who you are, you will die!" ”

"What's your name?"

Zhu Yan patted the dust on his body and looked at the young man in front of him: "Such a good martial art, it's a pity to be a lackey, follow Lonely, Lonely, you will be a general." ”

"Fu Yu, little man."

The young man raised his neck and took two sips, but he didn't bother to look at Zhu Yan again.

"I want to see Kong Xifan."

Fu Yu stretched out his hand and pointed to the county seat: "The county is in the county office, go ahead, but the soldiers behind you can't go." ”

Zhu Rong turned his head and glanced at it, and in the past moment, there were unconsciously gathered four or five hundred armed men in the prime of life.

In Qufu County, the Kong family really has a private army.

"Humph!"

Zhu Yu snorted angrily and threw the matching sword at Na Fu Yu, but the latter leaned back, grabbed the hilt of the sword, and stuck it on the ground.

"When His Royal Highness King Qi returns, the sword should be returned."

Zhu Yu's pupils constricted slightly, and just after Fu Yu's hand, Zhu Yu knew in his heart that the three of them were probably not the opponents of this young man.

Where did the wickedness come from?

With horror and doubt, Zhu Rong explained a few words to his own soldiers, and walked honestly in the direction of the county office.

The dignified prince of the Ming Dynasty was humiliated in Qufu, if he had known that this was the case, Zhu Yu would not have said anything that he would come.

What is he doing here?

Of course, it's for the sake of banditry.

The son of a bitch, the Kong family, raised bandits in Shandong!

robbing roads, looting, and occasionally making cameos in a wave of robbers of a few wealthy businessmen near the sea, this Kong family really did everything.

Don't raise bandits, don't rob houses, don't loot and burn, where did the Yansheng Mansion get the financial resources to build it to cover an area of 300 acres!

Since the sixth year of Hongwu grass construction, Hongwu ten years began to expand vigorously, so many years of expansion, Shengsheng built a family into a palace! Carved beams and painted buildings, splendid, if in addition to the expansion of the Confucian Temple, Confucius Forest, the entire three-hole land, occupies an area even more than the Nanjing Palace several times larger!

Where does the money come from?

Every year, the Confucian family holds a huge festival, where does this money come from?

This group of things holding the books of the sages and the skins of the sages is a group of complete wolves! It's still the one that eats meat and doesn't spit out bones.

The emperor ordered the suppression of bandits, Yang Wen repeatedly hit a wall in the land of Qilu, this duty was thrown on Zhu Rong's head, at that time Zhu Rong was full of reluctance, he knew that this was a thankless thing, but he did not dare to refuse, fortunately, it didn't take long for Zhu Yunwen to go to Yunnan in person, and said that he could breathe a sigh of relief and discuss it with the Kong family, but he didn't expect the old Kong family to be unwilling to give him Zhu Rong this face.

Should it be noisy or noisy, should it be robbed or robbed.

The dignified Shandong, the hometown of the sage, turned out to be the most vicious province in the Ming Dynasty, which is really a big joke in the world.

Now it's good, the emperor drove back to Beijing, and Zhu Di wrote a letter to Zhu Rong in the name of his clan relatives, warning Zhu Rong to solve the case as soon as possible, and if he didn't work, he would return to Beijing to confess his guilt and settle down, but Zhu Rong's eyelids began to jump violently.

If I return to Beijing now, I'm afraid it's not just a feudal domain.

The emperor is now domineering the world, and he will go back and pretend to be foolish at this juncture, what if the emperor cuts himself down in a fit of anger?

Everyone is afraid of death, and Zhu Rong is also afraid.

How many years have his good days passed? Just sent his head to the ghost head knife, Zhu Rong was naturally 10,000 unwilling, so he gritted his teeth and ran to this Qufu, he wanted to find Kong Xifan and ask the latter to give him a secret!

"This is a mess, can you stop making trouble!"

In the county government, Zhu Yu hated to shoot a few cases, and glared at Kong Xifan through gritted teeth.

"The fourth brother sent a letter to Gu, asking Gu to go to Nanjing to resign and accept the crime! Are you still going to wait for the emperor to give the death edict to Lone? ”

"Hasn't the emperor always taken good care of your clansmen?"

Kong Xifan drank the tea slowly, completely unimpressed by Zhu Rong's anxiety: "What's the panic, when the festival is over at the end of the year, I'll let people stop." ”

Who is standing behind the bandit nest in Shandong, Sheng Ren, the political envoy, and Zhu Rong, the king of Qi, also knows, when it reaches a certain level, everyone is clear in their hearts, so Kong Xifan has no intention of being false and wronged in front of Zhu Rong, and responds to it in a dignified manner, which shows how fearless he is.

"At the end of the year?"

Zhu Yan clenched his fists until he turned white, paced back and forth in the hall, and after a last pause, he turned around and stretched out his finger hatefully to Kong Xifan: "I'm afraid, I can't reach the end of the year, and the emperor will take my head, Kong Xifan, I warn you, within a month, if you don't settle this matter for me, I will personally lead the troops to Qufu and slaughter you all over the Confucian Mansion!" ”

Zhu Rong was ruthless, and took out the cruel words of fighting with the Kong family, trying to scare Kong Xifan.

"Just rely on your three thousand Qi Wang Wei to slaughter my Kong family?"

The corners of Kong Xifan's mouth hung a trace of disdain: "Why don't you go and lead the troops to try it now, and see if you can get in?" ”

These words were like a basin of cold water on his head, and Zhu Yu was speechless.

Where is it really so easy.

Who has figured out how many private troops the Confucian family has in this Qufu County?

If you can't get into Qufu, then it's really a big deal!

At that time, what should the emperor do if he takes his Zhu Lang's head alone, and he can't calm the resentment of the world's scholars? That's a full house of slashes!

"I've arranged it."

Seeing Zhu Rong's changing face, Kong Xifan still gave a dose of reassurance.

"In a few days, I will give you 3,000 heads, and you can take them to Nanjing to receive a reward, and say that the bandits have been calmed."

Send me, three thousand heads?

Zhu Yan's eyes suddenly turned cold.

"Is it possible, you want to kill Liang?"

The heart of this Kong family is too vicious, in order to protect this group of bandits, they even said that they would cut off 3,000 heads! Where does it come from, and who else can there be but the people?

Zhu Yu trembled in shock, and a cold breath rushed from the soles of his feet to the heavenly spirit.

"How is that possible?"

Kong Xifan smiled: "After I am also a saint, how can I do anything to harm the people?" Did the imperial court capture a group of laborers from Liaodong last year, there are tens of thousands, and some of them are in our Shandong, and the tributaries of the canal that have just opened need to be repaired? The whole of this political envoy is my people, and some of them will be hidden after that time, and they will be killed. ”

Workers to fight for their lives?

Zhu Yu felt better in his heart at this time, although he was usually not a good thing, and he did not do much to bully the people, but slaughtering three thousand in one go, it was inevitable that there were still some obstacles in his heart, and he had to overcome them before he could do it.

"But the number of laborers, the imperial court has a detailed number of notes, right, how to explain it?"

"Where will this embankment be repaired in a while and a half?"

Kong Xifan's expression was indifferent and he grinned.

"When spring falls next year, there will be heavy rain pouring down on the sea in Shandong, and when the spring tide rises, the embankment will burst, and it will be said that this group of laborers was dragged into the sea and drowned!"

Burst!

Zhu Yan gasped: "You're crazy!" Once the embankment bursts, the water will flood the country for thousands of miles, and how many people will suffer! ”

"Just dig a little bit, at most you can't get a few acres."

Kong Xifan's tone seemed to be saying a trivial matter: "This year, there were floods in Suzhou and Hangzhou, didn't it also flood a few counties, and there were no deaths, it was nothing more than the imperial court's disaster relief, and it didn't cost you and me, what do you feel sorry for?" ”

Zhu Yan sat back on the chair and pointed to Kong Xifan with trembling hands: "The holiday matter is exposed, and you and I will not escape the punishment of swords and axes." ”

The floods in Suzhou and Hangzhou led to the displacement of tens of thousands of people, and the imperial court did not know how much money and grain it spent on disaster relief, but this was a natural disaster and there was no way.

And this Kong Xifan, for his own selfish interests, wants to concoct a man-made disaster!

Zhu Yan only regrets now, he was really blind at the beginning, and he would go so close to the Kong family, and benefit from the Kong family, it is completely seeking skin with the tiger!

It's too late to regret!