After reading it, Zuo Maodi sighed, then raised his head to look at Zhang Mingwei and asked, "Guogong said that he wanted to uproot the Kong family, wouldn't it really mean to exterminate the nine clans?" ”

Among these Confucian crimes, the most serious is of course the murder of officials.

Killing officials and rebelling is, of course, not as serious as rebellion.

Among all the crimes, rebellion is the most serious, and it is necessary to exterminate the nine tribes. Killing officials, in fact, still depends on the severity of the plot, and generally does not affect the nine clans.

But the Confucian family, in addition to killing officials, also instigated the so-called popular uprising, which is defined as rebellion and rebellion, trying to usurp the Ming Dynasty, it is not impossible.

But as far as these are concerned, in fact, it will not destroy the Nine Clans.

In ancient times, it was very rare to achieve the sin of destroying the nine tribes.

The reason why Zuo Maodi asked this question was mainly because of the previous statement of Xingguo Gong.

He understood that the attitude of Xingguo Gong was the most important thing.

Zhang Mingwei listened, but shook his head and smiled: "I know this!" ”

"......" Zuo Maodi was a little speechless when he heard it, would you not know?

How to deal with the Kong family, the weight of everyone in the court is not as heavy as the weight of your words alone, don't you know?

Just pretend!

However, although he thought so in his heart, he still didn't dare to show it on the surface, and just asked earnestly: "What does the Duke of the Kingdom think?" ”

Zhang Mingwei listened, first looked at Zhu Yujiao looking at the urgent report, and then said flatly: "Everything is handled according to the "Da Ming Law"! ”

Speaking of this, he pointed to the urgent report, then looked at Zuo Maodi and said, "I believe that many people will not believe that the Kong family did these things. They will feel that there must be a situation in which eunuchs slander the Confucian family. In this case, I would suggest that the emperor conduct a three-division trial of the Kong family's crimes, and Jinyiwei and Dongchang will observe it again. In this way, right and wrong, justice is at ease in people's hearts, and no one should say anything more, right? ”

It is true that the officials of the three divisions are all civilian officials, but Jinyiwei and Dongchang officials will be present to supervise.

And this case was executed by Dongchang. At least on the Dongchang side, if the civil officials in the triage of the three divisions will be biased towards the Confucian family, they will definitely not ignore it.

Therefore, Dongchang's side will stare at the Kong family's case, and Zhang Mingwei doesn't have to worry about it anymore and waste his time.

If it is really because of this matter of the Confucian family, the civil officials will unite and make trouble with Dongchang, it will not be too late for him to come forward.

However, according to the confessions and evidence he has seen Wang Erbiao, to be honest, the possibility of the Kong family being wronged basically does not exist. Even if there were, it would be those petty fights, and it wouldn't be the biggest crimes. After all, in such a big matter, Wang Erbiao can't fake, and he can guarantee that he won't be seen.

Zhang Mingwei's meaning is very clear, that is, to bring these things of the Kong family to the public court to discuss, let everyone in the world discuss it, and come to see what the Kong family is!

In addition, he will also ask Chen Yuanyuan to print a special edition of "Ming Pao" to report on the interrogation of the Kong family. Then register the comments of some people of all kinds on the Confucian case.

In this way, we can make the greatest use of public opinion and expose the Kong family to everyone's field of vision to the greatest extent.

It should be better to operate the Kong family in Qufu like this than to use a knife and a gun directly against the Kong family!

At this time, Zuo Mao first heard Xingguogong's reply, and couldn't help but be deeply impressed, acting in accordance with the "Daming Law", and letting the three law divisions interrogate, which is the most fair disposition.

"The prince holds a lot of power but does not abuse it, such a high style and bright festival is rare in the world, and the lower officials admire it!" Zuo Maodi said sincerely to Zhang Mingwei.

Zhu Yujiao on the side listened, then looked at Zhang Mingwei and laughed, showing two small dimples on her face, which were very sweet.

Zhang Mingwei listened, but he didn't say anything like "should", just smiled faintly.

On this day, it was the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, and the snow had been falling.

As the old saying goes, Ruixue is a good year, maybe there will be more happy events in next year's Daming!

sent Zuo Maodi away, and also sent someone to send Wang Erbiao's recital, Zhang Mingwei and Zhu Yujiao got together for a while, and then inspected the army and celebrated the New Year with the cavalry soldiers!

Also in the snowstorm, a large number of people were escorted on the road. Most of the people walked in the wind and snow, and only a few enjoyed the treatment of prisoner cars. The two leaders are Kong Yinzhi and Kong Atmosphere.

This year, naturally, is the saddest year for them!

Chongzhen's sixteenth year has passed like this.

During this year, Zhang Mingwei led the troops to fight in the south and the north, except for a few places, which basically allowed the Ming Dynasty to return to peace. And Sichuan completely implemented the reform of the land and returned to the stream, and also escorted Zuo Liangyu and Hou Sui to the Beijing Division, and cut them with a thousand knives.

It has something to do with Zhang Mingwei, but it is not directly related, and the cavalry army organized by the thieves swept through the grassland, wiped out the Tumut department, and recovered the Hetao.

The Daming Denglai Naval Division, which is mainly composed of the Zheng family's fleet, burned the Jianyu Naval Division in Tieshan and wiped out the whole army, which is also a great victory!

There is a little bad news, that is, Shandong suddenly made a comeback, but it was basically calmed down at the end of the year, and the Qufu Kong family was eliminated.

All of this was triggered by Zhang Mingwei's crossing.

History has changed dramatically!

Similarly, in this year, there are also places that Zhang Mingwei has not yet influenced, and they are still developing according to the original history.

For example, Newton, one of the most famous scientists in history, was born in Ulthorp, Lincolnshire, England.

In addition, in the middle of the year, the Russian clerical officer Vasily Boyarkov, on the orders of his superior, Yakutsk Military and Political Governor Golovin, led an armed team of 132 people from Yakutsk to carry out aggression in the Heilongjiang region.

They will spend three years in the area, abducting some local leaders as hostages, extorting money, and even eating the flesh of local residents.

The claws of Tsarist Russia have extended to the Far East, and have reached the Nuer Gandusi of the Ming Dynasty.

It was also in May of that year that King Louis XIII of France, who had enabled Richelieu and Mazarin, led France into the Thirty Years' War and established France's European hegemony, died of pneumonia caused by falling into the water on horseback.

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In January of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, although the weather was cold, even if the heavy snow had stopped, it was still difficult to travel, but the news about the Kong family still spread quickly.

From Yanzhou as the center, it spreads to the surrounding state capitals.

Not to mention the neighboring Henan and Nanjing, even in the province, Dongchang Mansion, Jinan Mansion, Qingzhou Mansion and even Laizhou Mansion and Dengzhou Mansion all learned the news at a very fast speed.

The main reason why it spread so quickly is because Haoqiang from all over the country are paying attention to the situation in Yanzhou Mansion and sending special personnel to deliver the news.

Second, it is also related to Wang Erbiao's fanfare attack on Qufu. Afterwards, he escorted the Kong family to the north under any cover.

This is the Qufu Kong family, such a big thing, the "ears" of the powerful everywhere are naturally desperate to deliver the news.

All of a sudden, all the places where they heard the news were shocked.

Even the Kong family of the thousand-year-old family, the Kong family who is the most unlikely to be implicated, was arrested by the whole clan in this incident, so who can be stronger than the Kong family in Qufu in other places?

The imperial army is in Ludi, which is really an iron fist, without a little ambiguity.

In addition to being shocked, in this Shandong territory, no matter what the origin, whether it is a family of eunuchs or a local health office, there is still the slightest possibility of thinking about going against the imperial court!

It didn't even take for the New Deal officials under Zuo Maodi to go to the local area, and they consciously began to cooperate. What kind of grain fields are taxed, and the hidden population is spontaneously started to clean up.

It can be said that when Zuo Maodi's subordinates passed the New Year and began to supervise the new policy again, it became extremely smooth, so that the cavalry detachments that were supposed to accompany and protect began to be bored.

For this situation, Zhang Mingwei is of course happy to see it.

When everything went well, he issued a military order, collected all the cavalry troops scattered in various places, and rested in the capital of Shandong, no longer interfering in local affairs.

By the middle of February of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, the new policies on the Shandong side had basically begun to advance in an orderly manner. Zuo Maodi was busy, and he couldn't stay in Jinan Mansion and began to go to various state capitals.

The Shandong Rebellion, which broke out at the end of last year, was in fact basically subsided before the Chinese New Year last year. Now I've been in it for more than a month, and I haven't heard of any chaos anywhere.

Seeing this, Zhang Mingwei asked Li Guo and Gao Yigong, a total of 6,000 cavalry, to set off for Laizhou Mansion, and then take a boat to Dongjiang Town when the weather is suitable.

And Zhang Mingwei himself, with the remaining cavalry in his early 20,000s, began to return to Beijing.

With nearly 30,000 cavalry troops, and in winter, the pressure on logistics and supplies is very great. If you stay in Shandong for a long time, the turmoil here has just subsided, and you can't afford it for too long.

It is also due to logistical constraints, the cavalry sent to the Dongjiang River is only 6,000 cavalry, which is already the limit of what the logistics can bear at present.

The positive impact of the new policy in Shandong will not be reflected in a year or two.

In addition, Zhang Mingwei went north at this time, which was also related to the will of Emperor Chongzhen.

The most important prisoners of the Kong family were sent to Jingshi, and the rest of the Kong family were all imprisoned in Jinan Mansion.

On the Jingshi side, the triage of the three law divisions has begun. Emperor Chongzhen's meaning was that if Zhang Mingwei had already done the affairs of Shandong, he would go back to Beijing to watch.

Because Emperor Chongzhen has actually been persuaded by Zhang Mingwei that Confucianism can have it, but the Confucian family must be defeated.

In order to prevent possible accidents, Emperor Chongzhen asked Zhang Mingwei to watch it in person, so as to ensure that there would be no trouble in this interrogation of the Kong family.

In this way, Zhang Mingwei returned to Beijing.