Chapter 584: Immeasurable Merit
Hearing this, Kong Yinzhi breathed a long sigh of relief in his heart, secretly saying that Emperor Tianwu would not dare to touch the Kong family after all!
Also, in all dynasties, which emperor had a convulsion and dared to take the Kong family?
It was the change of Jingkang in the Song Dynasty, the Jin people went south, and the Jin State canonized the Northern Sect of the Confucian Family as the Holy Duke of Yan, and the Southern Song Dynasty Imperial Court also canonized the Southern Sect of the Confucian Family as the Holy Duke of Yan.
What happened to treason? What's wrong with defecting to the enemy? Works on both sides!
Thinking of this, Kong Yinzhi's body immediately stood up straight and became more confident.
Kong Lin is only three or four miles away from the Yansheng Mansion, and on the way to Kong Lin, Zhu Cihong, who is driving in Luan, has been thinking about how to deal with the Kong family specifically.
Regarding Kong Yinzhi's shameless behavior that has no bottom line at all, his anger is actually mostly disguised.
Zhu Cihong's later generations have seen the genetic testing of the descendants of the major families announced by Fudan University, and the ancestral source above shows the specific time of the common ancestor of the descendants of the Confucian family in Qufu, which is in the Northern Qi and Mengyuan periods, which means that the Northern Sect is no longer the descendants of Confucius.
In fact, regardless of whether it is true or not, and regardless of whether the Confucian family is divided into the Northern Sect or the Southern Sect, Zhu Cihong does not plan to let the title of Yan Shenggong pass on, since he is preparing for the reform of the imperial examination, let's be more thorough.
Beside Luan, Li Tingbiao suddenly asked, "Your Majesty, do you want to punish the Confucian Mansion?" â
The surrounding ministers were immediately stunned, and Fang Yizhi dissuaded: "Your Majesty must not kill the Confucian Mansion, the Central Plains has not been pacified, for thousands of years, the Confucian family is a holy place in the eyes of scholars, if you destroy his clan, I am afraid that people's hearts will be unstable!" â
In the middle of the dragon, Zhu Cihong did not speak.
After a moment of silence, Li Tingbiao said again: "Your Majesty, the Kong family's fields and warehouses were looted by thieves, and the tragedy of this Confucian Mansion can also be done by thieves......
Li Tingbiao's words shocked Fang Yizhi and others, and Zhu Cihong was also surprised, Li Tingbiao wanted to forcibly detain the pot that destroyed the hole on Li Zicheng!
I have to say that this is a good way, but Zhu Cihong doesn't plan to use it, after all, he is now the emperor, and he has to do things above board.
And what is done must not be blindly happy, the most important thing is to achieve the goal!
One of the purposes of disposing of the Confucian family was to remove the Emperor Yan Shenggong, crack down on Confucianism, promote natural science, and promote the reform of the imperial examination.
The second is to raid the house, collect the fields, and hold the silver.
As long as these two goals are achieved, if you can not cause a commotion, you will not provoke, after all, the world is undecided, and there are still Jiannu outside the customs to toss, so you can't increase the incident.
If the Kong family is secretly killed, Yan Shenggong will have to find someone to inherit it, and the strategic goal will not be achieved.
The best way to deal with it now is to separate Confucius from Confucius, affirm Confucius, and deny Confucius.
The status of the 2,000-year-old Holy Master in the minds of scholars is not a joke.
Killing people can solve some problems, but blindly killing can't solve everything, pacifying the world needs people to govern, and people who read are not all pedantic.
There are many people in the Ming Dynasty who can accept scientific reading, but they just want to erase Confucius's status in the hearts of all scholars at once, which is tantamount to a fool's dream and self-defeating.
Moreover, Zhu Cihong has no unusual views on the Confucianism propagated by Confucius, after all, Confucianism emphasizes great unification, monarchs, ministers, fathers and sons, and has had a profound impact on China, East Asia, and even the world.
Existing Confucianism (different from Confucius' thought), such as Cheng Zhu Lixue, as the orthodoxy of the feudal dynasty, regarded class as the foundation of human society, advocated feudal morality, emphasized self-restraint through the individual, and ignored the role of law in social life, which needed to be changed.
Many people in later generations attributed all the roots of China's backwardness to cultural traditions, advocating the complete abandonment of China's traditional culture and ****, Zhu Cihong is absolutely unacceptable, and he also denied the view that "everything is fine in Chinese traditional culture".
The most important thing is to make the country strong, the people rich, and the spiritual world rich through thought, and everything else is.
Kong Lin, also known as the Holy Forest, is not far from the north of Yansheng Gongfu, is the family cemetery of Confucius and his descendants, and the Confucian Mansion and Confucian Temple are collectively referred to as the "Three Holes".
There are about 100,000 tombs in Konglin, the tomb of Confucius is very easy to find, it is located in the middle of Konglin, the sealed soil is in the shape of an axe, since the Han Dynasty, the imperial courts of all dynasties will send people to repair.
The Han Dynasty set up the ancestral altar to build the god gate, the Song Dynasty carved the stone instrument, the Yuan Dynasty set up a stele, made the Zhou Yuan, built the heavy gate, the Ming Dynasty rebuilt the tomb door of the palace, added the Zhushui Bridge Workshop and the ancient Changchun Fang, cleaned up the beautiful and bright.
Since then, the "sacrifice to Kong" activity has not only caused a sensation in the country, but later emperors have followed suit, and it has become more and more formal, except for the Mengyuan Emperor who does not understand etiquette, the emperor DìDū of the previous dynasties will kneel and worship Confucius.
Because he was passing by on the way out, Zhu Cihong's ceremony to worship Confucius was very simple, and he stood in front of Confucius's tombstone for a quarter of an hour.
The surrounding ministers were puzzled, and the people of the Confucian family didn't understand, what was this Tianwu Emperor who was ruthless to scholars going to do?
How dare he be disrespectful to Kong Sheng? How dare he challenge the religion of the past 2,000 years?
Taken by the power of Emperor Tianwu, no one dared to ask, and the Kong family did not dare to come forward to ask, what are you going to do? All honestly stood in the back.
After another quarter of an hour, finally, Zhu Cihong faced the tombstone of Kong Sheng, and slowly spoke: "I pay the most attention to the rules, and I also pay the most attention to the rules in governing the country. â
"Today, I will deal with it in accordance with the laws of the country, take the title of the Confucian family, Kong Yinzhi and other members of the Confucian family, exile Yungui, practice indoctrination, and prohibit entering the court as an official within three generations!"
After speaking, Zhu Cihong faced the tomb of Confucius and paid a big salute seriously.
The surrounding ministers were all shocked, but no one came out to stop them, everyone knew that with the temper of Emperor Tianwu, making such a decision was already very face-saving for the ancestor Kong Sheng, after all, the law of the country is greater than the sky!
Fang Yizhi sighed, patted Kong Yinzhi's shoulder and said, "Supporting frontier education and influencing those toasts with the way of sages, the Confucian family's merits are immeasurable!" â
Kong Yinzhi was stunned, pushed Fang Yizhi away, and immediately knelt down and kowtowed: "Your Majesty, you can't be like this!" â
He shouted: "My Confucian family has had a hereditary title canonization since the time of Gaozu of the Han Dynasty, and for thousands of years, my Confucian family has gone through more than ten dynasties, and the title has changed repeatedly but has never been broken!" The court of the Great Song Dynasty even named my Confucian family as the Holy Duke of Yan, and it has been inherited for 600 years. â
Fang Yizhi shouted: "You are a descendant of a saint, and you are favored by the country, it stands to reason that you Kong Yinzhi should have hanged yourself when the thieves entered Qufu, and you were martyred, Your Majesty is merciful and forgives you, and you are not grateful to Dade, thank Longen?" â
Kong Yinzhi still shouted: "Your Majesty, where do you put the world's scholars in addition to the Holy Prince?" â
Zhu Cihong stared at the tombstone of Confucius, didn't even look at him, and said lightly: "Give death!" â
Kong Yinzhi was dumbfounded, he couldn't have imagined that he would be killed all of a sudden?
Li Tingbiao took matters into his own hands, put the rope into Kong Yinzhi's neck, hung the other end of the rope on a hundred-year-old locust tree, and pulled it down vigorously.
Kong Yinzhi hung up, kicked his legs wildly, floated in the air for a while, and finally quieted down, and honestly hanged himself next to Kong Sheng's tombstone.
Zhu Cihong glanced at Kong Yinzhi and said lightly: "Don't give face." â
With that, he walked away.
Next, without Zhu Cihong saying more, Li Tingbiao has already taken Jinyiwei to start raiding the house.
The Kong family has stood for two thousand years, it is a super family, and its wealth is needless to say, Li Zicheng did not dare to copy the mansion of the Holy Prince, and he cheapened Zhu Cihong in vain.
The Yansheng Mansion was built by Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, and Zhu Cihong unceremoniously took it back and changed it to a university.
In the afternoon of the same day, Fang Yizhi, a scholar of the Hanlin Academy, presented an edict: "Your Majesty, the criminal charges of the Holy Father of Yan have been drafted, please take a look at them!" â
Zhu Cihong glanced at it, nodded with satisfaction, and said, "Good writing, tell the world!" â
Fang Yizhi is the head of the four sons of Jinling, and he is a Shu Jishi, with outstanding literary talents, and the edict he drafted can be described as earth-shattering, crying ghosts and gods, for those who read, the effect is needless to say.
Because of the glory of the ancestor Confucius, Yansheng Gong has become a special duke in Chinese history that has endured for a long time, has risen from generation to generation, and has a prominent status.
In the first year of Tianwu, the title of Yansheng Gong, which had lasted for 600 years, was abolished, and the people of the Qufu Confucius family entered the mountain to support the teaching, and their merits were immeasurable.