The entire Qufu City is still a, no, many huge construction sites.

The transformation of Qufu City from a traditional Chinese-style fortress to a large fortress with nine protruding triangular platforms and sloping exterior walls has long been completed!

On the outside of the platform and the city wall, there are also layers of sandbags for anti-artillery protection!

On the nine platforms, there are also forts built with sandbags, and four 1,000-pound general cannons are also placed in each fort - this is a kind of large-scale artillery produced by the Ming Dynasty, cast with pig iron, three feet and four feet long, weighing hundreds of catties to thousands of catties, the cannon body is reinforced with iron bars, and the thousand-pound general cannon can produce six to seven catties of lead, and the firing range is about one mile.

The 36 1,000-pound general cannons placed on the nine platforms in Qufu City were not supervised by Shi Kefa and Kong Yinzhi themselves, but Kong Yinzhi spent a huge amount of money to purchase them through Shen Tingyang.

In addition to these 36 1,000-pound guns, Yan Shenggong also obtained as many as 300 attack guns through various channels, which is a kind of light vehicle-mounted artillery, which is not very powerful, but it is light and flexible.

In addition, Kong Yinzhi spared no expense and bought a lot of high-quality gunpowder from Shen Tingyang - Yan Shenggong really let it go this time, spending money like flowing water, and bought back their firearms and weapons as if they didn't need money...... As long as the stuff is good, it's not too expensive at all!

There's no way, you have to live!

Kong Yinzhi knew that he had offended the Qing Dynasty, first slandered people to go to Qufu to fight, and then went on the Northern Expedition - although he did not leave Qufu, but his banner had been to Beizhili, and he couldn't wash it even if he jumped into the Yellow River.

And he also knew about Hong Chengchou's death, and knew that the Qing Dynasty did that little thing in Beijing and Beizhili, so he didn't have many illusions.

In addition, Zhu Cihong is also ruthless enough, that is, he will not let him take the Confucian family to the south to avoid disaster - aren't they all Confucius's filial sons and grandsons? How could you give up Kong Lin and go south to avoid death? This is very unfilial!

Moreover, the Kong clan has long had a Southern Sect, which ran over in the late Northern Song Dynasty and settled in Quzhou, Zhejiang. Therefore, the Northern Sect of the Kong Clan can die generously......

There's really no way to live! The Tartars have already offended their families, and they don't dare to take refuge. And the way to the south blocked Nanzong again...... What other way do Kong Yinzhi and the children of the Kong Clan's Northern Sect live?

I can only desperately save my life!

Kong Yinzhi's favorite silver in the past is no longer important...... As long as you can survive, it's worth going bankrupt! With his word (surname) and the family's 2,600 acres of sacrificial fields (one large hectare is 300 acres, a total of 780,000 acres), the glory and wealth of the children and grandchildren are guaranteed - this sacrificial field is not a field of unknown origin, it was given to the Confucian family by the Son of Heaven in the Ming Dynasty, and the largest share (2000 hectares) was given by Zhu Yuanzhang!

So since Zhu Cihong came to power, he hasn't touched the sacrificial field of the Kong family - although he is in power, he can't do whatever he wants! That kind of thing of exterminating the Confucian family and confiscating the sacrificial fields, how can he do it as a prince of Donglin? It can only be done by the Tartars' Hair Chubel (Hauge) and the King of Touch Gold (Duoduo...... You see, isn't the army of the Tartars coming to Qufu?

In order to save his life, family business and ancestral grave, Kong Yinzhi could only take the Kong family out together.

And it is not only these unscrupulous descendants of the Confucian saints who want to save their lives, but the poor middle peasants who have followed the Confucian family for more than 200 years here in Qufu must also live! There are also countless refugees from the northwest of Yanzhou Mansion and Dongchang Mansion who came to avoid the "fresh breeze" under the big tree of the Kong family, and they all need to live. There are so many people, and the small Qufu City can't be stuffed!

Therefore, after the completion of the "fortress transformation" of Qufu City, there will be nine "branch forts" projects immediately.

These nine forts were designed according to the requirements of Shi Kefa and Kong Yinzhi before Han Lin was transferred to Nanjing to serve as the director of the Shixue Hall, and the nine forts were built around the main city of Qufu, each of which was facing a prominent platform, and the distance between the platform was about 200 steps, within the fire coverage of the general's artillery.

The nine forts were not bastions, but circular forts made of sandbags, mud and logs. The fort is surrounded by a ring of trenches on the outside, and on the inside is a shack for refugees. In each round fort, there are always tens of thousands of people.

The construction of the outer wall of the round fortress continues—it's a life-saving wall! Of course, it is reinforcement and reinforcement, where is the time to complete it?

When the news of the Qing army's occupation of Ziyang, the capital city of Yanzhou, reached Qufu, it was dusk, and the strong workers who had piled up sandbags for a day were gobbling up sorghum cakes and green onions, clustered one by one. There are also some people dressed as scholars who take advantage of this opportunity to mobilize: "Folks, there will be a job later, pile up a thousand mud bags, and then insert 300 pointed wooden stakes into the trench......"

These scholars were all members of the Qufu regiment training army - not an official position, but a private assignment by Shi Kefa, the governor of the seven provinces, to scholars who could still be used among the refugees or in Qufu.

Most of these scholars are famous, and some of them are still masters! Now they have all deceived Zhu Cihong, the insidious and cunning prince of the Ming Dynasty, into a dead end!

How did Zhu Cihong deceive him into a dead end?

Of course it's him! Didn't Sun Zhiqi and Jin Zhijun bring back several large boxes of "Asking for Hu Lu" last time? Tens of thousands of readers have signed their names, including those who are here in Shandong, and those who are proposed by Kong Yinzhi, Gao Hongtu, and Zuo Maodi!

At that time, whoever didn't sign his name would be suspected of being a traitor! If you are suspected of being a traitor, can you still be a showman? Without lifting people and showing talents, can the land in the family still be kept?

So few people dared not sign their turns, and Sun Zhiqi and Jin Zhijun "copied" their names and hometowns and brought them back to Beijing......

What's worse is that Dolgon has now appointed Sun Zhiqi as the governor of Shandong - this is to arrest people with a blacklist! Who would dare to stay at home? When the time comes, people will catch according to the list, and if they catch one accurately, their grandmother's will be all over the house!

In order to survive, everyone had to flee from their hometowns. As a result, he fled to Qufu and was stopped by Shi Kefa and Kong Yinzhi's group training...... Say that a scholar must defend Confucius to the death! If you don't leave Confucius, you will have to get rid of all your fame, and you will never be able to take the imperial examination again!

Why? The big guy doesn't have the surname Kong...... However, Shi Kefa and Kong Yinzhi were not reasonable at all, forcibly kept people without saying anything, and also organized the people who were forcibly left behind by them into nine militia groups according to their origins, all of them were armed, and then stuffed into nine branch forts outside the main city of Qufu.

"There are nine forts outside, Qufu Jiancheng inside, and tens of thousands of regimental exercises and five thousand governors of the official are guarded day and night, and even if there are millions of Tartars, it is difficult to break the city. Yan Sheng Gong can relax and live in peace as usual......"

It was Shi Kefa who was packing tickets with Kong Yinzhi in the Yansheng Mansion in Qufu City, and he rushed to the city immediately after learning the news that the Qing army had occupied Ziyang, the capital county of Yanzhou.

He has been with Kong Yinzhi for almost a year, and he knows too well how afraid this Yan Shenggong is of death - if he was a little tougher that day, and gave Zhu Cihong a kill to listen to the respect, where would Prince Zhu force the Qufu Kong family to this position? At most, Zhu Cihong quietly killed Kong Yinzhi...... For the entire Qufu Kong family, there is nothing to do!

However, Kong Yinzhi was greedy for life and afraid of death to the extreme, and was threatened by Zhu Cihong with death, and pushed the entire Kong family to a dead end step by step.

Now that the army of Tartars has come to the door, can Kong Yinzhi not be afraid? If he is scared to death, he can be buried in the name of "dying of overwork for state affairs", and his death is as heavy as Mount Tai.

If the Tartars are so scared that they run away, how will this end? What about people's morale? What will the world's scholars think of Bao Konglin, the sacred cause of Wei Mingjiao?

So when Shi Kefa came over, he brought a lot of personal soldiers, and he also brought the high-grade crane top red that Zhu Cihong gave him...... If you can't persuade Kong Yinzhi, then you can only ask him to taste Heding Hong.