The whole Qufu city is close to the left, and I don't know when it became a big construction site.

The moat that originally surrounded the city has now been widened to more than five zhang, and it continues to be widened. The appearance of the wall inside the trench has also changed greatly, and the original straight brick wall has now become a large angle of bevel when viewed from the outside of part of the completed wall—the wall and the ground no longer show a right angle, but form an oblique angle of seventy or eighty degrees. The top of the wall has also been widened, and the original modest battlements have been removed and replaced by a thick, solid stone breastwall, with an outward angle of seventy or eighty degrees. Every ten paces there was a large gap in the breastwork for the artillery.

At the four corners and five gates of Qufu City, which is roughly square, huge scaffolding has now been erected, and thousands of craftsmen are working day and night to pile up solid green bricks on the surface of the nine triangular rammed earth platforms.

These bricks were burned near the city of Qufu, one after another brick kilns kept spitting smoke, and the green bricks were immediately transported by horse-drawn carriages to the construction site of the city of Qufu.

The teams that went to the nearby mountains and forests to pull timber also shouted trumpets and shouted at the horses coming and going one after another. The carriages were laulled with fine building timber. The mountains and forests around Qufu are all part of the feng shui of Konglin, and logging was prohibited in the past. Now it is Yan Shenggong himself who has given the order and let go of the felling - what else can not be sacrificed in order to protect the tomb of Confucius?

The people who worked on the construction site of Qufu City were also the people who had been attached to the Yan Sheng Gong Mansion for many generations, and they had long regarded Confucius as their ancestor. So it's all for nothing, and you don't need to be paid!

These Qufu people who don't want to be paid have been busy since September of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, and now it looks like it's November, and finally let the "Qufu Fortress" have a little appearance.

That's right, Qufu City is being transformed into a fortress!

This small but sturdy city is very suitable for the transformation of the fortress, because the city is not large, so the cost of renovation is also manageable. Moreover, the five city gates of Qufu all carry semicircular urn cities, and the "gun platform" can be added on the basis of the urn city, and the shape of Qufu city is also relatively simple, that is, it is square, and the prominent gun platform is also added on the four corners, plus the gun platform built on the basis of the five urns, you can form nine guns that can support each other and form a crossfire platform.

And for Shi Kefa and Kong Yinzhi, it was Han Lin, the director of the Ministry of Industry, who designed and presided over the Qufu reconstruction project, which was the author of "Shou Yuan Quanshu", who played the front station for Gu Junen, and was sent to Yangzhou by Zuo Liangyu, and was hired by Zhu Cihong, who knew people and was good at work, and became a member of the Ministry of Works. I didn't work in the Ministry of Works, and was directly sent to Qufu to repair the city wall.

When he arrived in Qufu, Shi Kefa and Kong Yinzhi had already done the preparations for the construction of the city, just in time for him, the author of "The Complete Book of Shouyuan", to take over, and he had been busy for almost two months, and now he finally had some achievements.

If Dolgon could give him a few more months, by next spring at the latest, Qufu would be an impregnable fortress......

According to Han Lin's own words, once Qufu is repaired according to the Western Law, it will be a fortified city that is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and is not afraid of civil strife. Even if the Tartars had Hongyi cannons, it would not be possible to storm the castle.

Therefore, Kong Yinzhi, the sage of Yan, can rest assured and boldly guard Qufu, defend Confucius, and defend the famous religion......

However, Yan Shenggong, who was forced to stand up and resist, never thought that the prince of the Ming Dynasty Fujun had prepared a heavier task for him!

"What? Stand up, stand up, north, northern expedition Yanyun! ”

In the lobby of the Confucius Mansion in Qufu, Kong Yinzhi, who had just knelt to receive the order, only felt dizzy for a while, and he couldn't even speak.

It was the general political envoy who obeyed Hou Wu Ruzheng himself, and after listening to Kong Yinzhi's question, he just smiled and said: "Grandpa, this is your Kong family's opportunity!" If the Northern Expedition is successful, you will be able to go further...... O king! ”

"But, Keben, Ben Jue doesn't want to be crowned king!" Kong Yinzhi was so frightened that he couldn't get up, so he had to look at Shi Kefa beside him.

Shi Kefa had no choice but to help the weak-legged Yan Shenggong up, and then invited Wu Ruzheng to sit down, and he and Kong Yinzhi also sat down.

"Master Hou, now is indeed the opportunity for the Northern Expedition, but Yan Shenggong ......" Shi Kefa frowned, and he was already scolding Zhu Cihong for being unconscious, but he felt that it was wrong when he scolded and scolded.

How could Zhu Cihong be unconscious? This kid is a living Cao Cao! Will Cao Cao be unconscious? Whoever thinks so must have been deceived to death by Cao Traitor.

But he is not stupid, why didn't he let himself, the governor of the seven provinces, lead the northern expedition, but let Kong Yinzhi, the holy prince of Yan, come forward?

Kong Yinzhi is a person who can fight? Let him go on a crusade against the Tartars...... Isn't this sending to death?

"Chitose Lord knows that Yan Shenggong can't fight," Wu Ruzheng took over the topic with a smile, "But Yan Shenggong's popularity in Shandong is unmatched!" Moreover, Yan Shenggong had also appeared in "Asking for Hu Lu" before, calling on all the people in the world to come forward, how can he not take the lead now? It's just pretending, so that everyone in the world knows that the Yan Sheng Gong Mansion and the Tartar are incompatible, and there is no need for Yan Sheng Gong to go to the front line to kill the enemy in person. ”

Oh...... OK! Kong Yinzhi just breathed a sigh, and immediately thought that something was wrong.

He, the Shenggong of Yan, obviously wanted to vote for the Tartars, but he was forced to write "Asking for Hu Luxuan", slandering the Tartars for wanting to fall into the fight of the ancestors of the Confucian family, and now he has to stand up to "lead" the Northern Expedition.

It's good that the Northern Expedition is victorious, but what if it doesn't win? What if the Tartars enter Shandong? You can't settle accounts with Yan Shenggong's family!

I don't know if the city of Qufu can be defended, in case it can't be defended, the Tartars can't slaughter the city?

Tu Qufu ......

Kong Yinzhi didn't dare to think about this picture! Could it be that the Qufu Confucian family, which has flourished for nearly two thousand years, is about to die in their own hands?

He hurriedly threw a look of help to Shi Kefa - Inspector Shi, Shi Gebu, Shi Daru, help!

Shi Kefa nodded, and said to Wu Ruzheng: "Since this is the case, then let Yan Shenggong put up his name, and then write a text, and scold the eighteen generations of the ancestors of the Tartars...... Qufu City doesn't have to go out. ”

When Kong Yinzhi heard this, he was about to vomit blood - the eighteen generations of the ancestors of the Tartars were scolded all over again, in case the Tartars were victorious, the Kong family would not be destroyed! You're a Shi Kefa...... You're a bastard! You're sorry for Confucius and Mencius! You are not a true Confucian, you must be a thief, no wonder you are called "Kefa".

Wu Ruzheng couldn't stop smiling, what he wanted, no, this is what the prince wanted!

You have to force the Yan Shenggong clan to a dead end, and you can resist desperately when you are on a dead end. If you can't beat it and are slaughtered by the Tartars, what do the scholars in the southeast still think? What more preferential treatment can you expect? No matter how awesome you are, can you compare with the descendants of Confucius?

......

"Xianggong, what does Chitose Lord mean is that this King of Beiping, our family should not fight...... There is a counterattack from Wu Sangui, this prince must be surnamed Wu! But a Haizhou vassal will always give it to you. So this Northern Expedition, don't go to join in the fun, just ask Li Chengdong to take a few thousand people on a trip. ”

In the back house of Xuzhou's town guard general soldier, Xing Niangzi, oh, it should be the princess of Daming Yuntai, who is now analyzing the situation for Xuzhou town guard chief soldier, Zuo Du Governor, Captain of the Horse, and Bo Gaojie of Qishan.

Of course, the situation is very good, so good that Gao Jie doesn't have to personally lead his troops to the expedition, and his big man Li Chengdong can just take a few thousand people to go - this is of course what Prince Zhu meant.

Gao Jie and Huang Degong, the two gods, don't move, Gao Jie has a Li Chengdong here, and Huang Degong's subordinates have a Sun Degong, just mean it.

Gao Jie touched his beard and frowned, what kind of arrangement is this? Can you still keep your hands on the Northern Expedition? That's a tartar! You may not be able to win if you go all out, so you have to keep your hands...... Then you will definitely lose! Even if there is Wu Sangui's trump card, there should be no one to take lightly!

What the hell is Chitose in mind?