Chapter 276: Loyalty, filial piety, and righteousness are all lacking
"Kill ......"
"Kill......"
In this night, none of the people and gentry in Qingzhou City slept well.
The sound of fierce fighting and gunfire frightened them, and many of them were afraid that the kind of arson iron bullets would be sent into the city, and they were really frightened.
But fortunately, most of the battles were carried out outside the city, and there seemed to be no major movement inside the city.
In addition to the fire of the treasury and the tribute courtyard!
If so, when the sky was bright, a large number of Zheng soldiers entered the city and completely took over the entire Qingzhou City, and the people in the city were relieved.
Yes, it's just that the people are at ease, and the gentry are still worried one by one.
Zheng Zhilong did all the things in Denglai and the two mansions, didn't they know everything? Moreover, the Qingzhou gentry teamed up to pit Li Shiyuan, and Li Shiyuan was Zheng Zhilong's subordinate Ma Zai, and there was still a lot of enmity between the two sides, and now Qingzhou was taken by Zheng Zhilong, aren't the gentry and virtuous people all nervous?
But now that Cao Jin's whole family is killed, there seems to be no one who wants to find someone who is qualified to say a word for the Qingzhou gentry in front of Zheng Zhilong.
After entering the city, Zheng Jun first imposed martial law in the whole city, strictly prohibiting everyone from going out to walk, and then set up sentries in the streets and alleys to take full control of the city, and then the ban was lifted. This is the old routine of soldiers entering the city.
At the same time, a large number of surrendered troops were also surrendered at the north, south and west gates, and at the same time, the captured three or four hundred and eight banner soldiers were also imprisoned by Lisuo.
"Give me all these people. I'm going to concoct them later. ”
Although most of the more than 500 people captured by the Eight Banners were Han military flags, who could tell the difference? After the heads were cut off, in the eyes of the people, they all had real money rat tails.
"Guogong, Master Cao, as well as the Fang family and the Feng family, were beheaded by Haoge yesterday."
Zheng Zhilong, who was sitting in the high hall of Qingzhou Mansion, had a trace of embarrassment on his face. There are a lot of people in this Qingzhou Mansion who should be purged, but the Cao family will never be included in the list. In other words, among these famous families in Yidu, the performance of the Cao family is still passing.
"The Cao family refuses to be clear, and there is still a reason for Haoge to destroy the Cao family before leaving. But the Fang family and the Feng family have both been cleared, why were they slaughtered? Didn't you see a bad opportunity and want to change jobs and rebel? Zheng Zhilong was a little puzzled.
"The prince is wise. According to Yao Wenchang's confession, Fang Kezhuang just wants to jump back. He made an appointment with Feng Pu, hooked up with the Cao family, and quietly married a number of middle-level officers in the army. As a result, the plot was not close, and everything was seen by Sun Zhiqi, and Sun Zhiqi turned his head and reported it to Haoge, resulting in the destruction of the three families. The children of the side branches may have escaped with their lives, and the descendants were all killed at full speed. "Men and women, old and young, not one left.
"Sun Zhiqi?"
When Zheng Zhilong heard a very familiar name, he immediately left his previous doubts behind.
If the Cao family dies, it will die, although it is a pity, but Zheng Zhilong will go to the grave to put a few sticks of incense.
But Sun Zhiqi is a 'big celebrity'. This was a notorious stroke in later generations. was appointed by the Manchu Qing Dynasty as the governor of Denglai, and when Zheng Zhilong was engaged in a counterattack, he escaped from Laizhou early, and he was no longer looked at by Zheng Zhilong. But he never thought that he did nothing in Denglai, but left a handiwork in Qingzhou City.
"In this situation, I can still be loyal to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, this Sun Zhiqi ......" Zheng Sen shook his head and sighed, scolding in his heart.
The current situation is very unfavorable to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and in such an overall situation, he is still dedicated to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, Zheng Sen does not think that Sun Zhiqi is a dead-eyed person, or he is really shocked by the Manchu Dynasty's Wang Baqi, but only thinks that he is a person who is consumed by interests, in order to be an official, for the sake of power and wealth. And people who don't even want their own lives.
Sun Zhiqi, who was beaten into the eunuch party and had no chance to turn over under the rule of the Ming Dynasty, wanted to be an official in this life, and only relied on the Manchu Qing Dynasty.
Zheng Zhilong also thought of this, although he sighed for the death of Cao Juan, but Sun Zhiji's choice really surprised him.
Although this Sun Zhiqi is a shameless person who is full of interests, but now that I see, there is still 'a little' merit - Zheng Zhilong admires this grandson's courage.
Just like the princes of the old Zhu family who want money and don't want their lives, this birdman is also a person who wants officials and doesn't want to die.
It takes great courage to make such a choice in the current situation, and Sun Zhiqi is much braver than he thought.
After all, judging from the current situation, the progress of the Ming army from all walks of life can only be described by the word "overwhelming".
No matter what the final effect of the Ming Army's Northern Expedition will be, just for now, the advantage can be all in the Ming Army. "It's cool to cast a tartar now, and the whole family crematorium in the future" is really not nonsense in today's situation!
But this Sun Zhiqi dared to go all the way to the black ......
For Zheng Zhilong's words of 'safety first', I really have to admire.
If he had had such a determination at the beginning, he would have erected a pole and won the world by himself. I won't live under the banner of Daming for several years, and a lot of brain cells have been wasted because of Shilin.
Until now, it will not be worse than the current situation.
Because Zheng Zhilong's foundation is really not ordinarily good, and in the environment, there are few soldiers in the entire south who can fight.
Although he could not pull out a new-style army with good combat effectiveness step by step, he was sure to become the worst one in such a worse environment at the end of the Ming Dynasty.
Even now, it is possible to sit on half of the country, and it is impossible to say.
However, although these two paths are different, they both have advantages and disadvantages, Zheng Zhilong is an afterthought, and he can't think of which is higher or lower.
Even he can clearly realize that a large part of the reason for his current thoughts comes from the sense of urgency in his heart......
Otherwise, with his character of "safety first", he would never admire the 'head iron'.
The Zheng army captured Qingzhou, defeated the prince of Su, Haoge, and killed 20,000 Qing troops, which was a great victory. Together with Zheng Zhilong's slashing and killing of the captured Eight Banners soldiers outside Qingzhou City, together with the news that the corpses left on the battlefield had built a Jingguan, it was immediately publicized by the Black Ice Platform.
It's just half a month's work, and the north and south of the country have heard about it. Jinling City even received the good news from Zheng Zhilong, killing the enemy and surrendering 20,000 people, and there were more than 1,000 people in the Eight Banners True Tartar, which was a big victory that the other Ming armies could not obtain at all.
Moreover, Zheng Zhilong took Qingzhou, and the Ming army had recovered most of Dongchang Mansion, leaving only Jinan Mansion to the territory of the Qilu Qing army. The area of Jinan Mansion is not small, but no matter how big it is, it is just a mansion, a mansion that Zheng Jun has already killed.
This Qilu is very likely to become the first province of the Ming Dynasty to recover the whole territory, isn't this a clear proof of the Northern Expedition, isn't it the credit of the imperial court?
However, when the news was reported to Jinling, the good news that should have caused a sensation in the dynasty was like an ordinary pebble falling into the river, and after a few circles of undetectable ripples, there was no longer any fluctuation.
At this time, in Jinling City, the topic of Kong Yinzhi spread everywhere.
Zheng Zhilong not only threw a big bomb on Shilin, but also caused a big problem for the Jinling Imperial Court. What should I do with this Kong Yinzhi?
Is it to kill or to imprison, or to release?
Kill, Emperor Chongzhen is quite willing, but the courtiers have different opinions. From the Song Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty, I haven't heard of Yan Shenggong being killed. Ferocious as the golden soldier Meng Yuan, they all obediently picked up the Yan Shenggong, how could the Ming Dynasty wave a butcher's knife against it?
As for the prisoners, there is a lot less controversy. Because neither is it to kill, nor is it to release. Now no one dares to completely whitewash Kong Yinzhi, and he can't wash it away. Therefore, you can't put it.
In this way, it seems that 'captivity' is the most appropriate.
But the imprison policy can reduce the controversy in the court a lot, but it can't calm the heated discussion among the people of the world.
Confucianism, the inner summer and the outer Yidi, the prince of heaven and earth, is very pedantic in the eyes of later generations, but it cannot be violated for the ancients. If Confucius is lowered after that, will the Confucian set be over?
Is loyalty, filial piety, and righteousness all false and nonsense?
From the Northern Song Dynasty to Chongzhen, and even in the thousands of years before the Northern Song Dynasty, the Qufu Kong clan was favored by all dynasties, whether it was the Han people or the Hu people.
Han and Wei said Baocheng, Baozun, Zongsheng, in the Jin and Song dynasties, after Wei said Chongsheng, Northern Qi said Gongsheng, after Zhou, Sui and Zou State, in the early Tang Dynasty said Baosheng, Kaiyuan, Confucius was the king of Wenxuan, and then for Wenxuangong. When he arrived in the Northern Song Dynasty, he was Yan Shenggong.
In the past dynasties, most of the Confucian family members were deeply favored by the country, but these people were full of benevolence and righteousness and were loyal to the monarch and the country. This is the case in the Song Dynasty, the same is true for Mengyuan, and the current Ming Dynasty is still like this.
Seeing that the wind made the rudder, they turned their backs on their lords and turned to their new masters, and they ran the fastest.
Such a shameless villain, how can he be a saint?
Therefore, in today's southern country, a great chaos that has affected the people, the scholars and the court has begun.
Zheng Zhilong knew this, and it was good for him to be so chaotic. The more chaotic the court and the people are, the better, because the more chaotic it is, the greater the impact.
Just like Li Zhen at the beginning, as soon as he opened the altar to give a lecture, no matter which temple, or the deep mountains and old forests, monks, woodcutters, farmers, and even women bravely pushed open the shy boudoir, and almost all the empty alleys of the city came to listen to his lectures. It seems to be an academic star who swept Confucianism, Buddhism, and the people.
It had a strong impact on traditional thinking, and he was regarded as a "heresy" and "heresy" by the local conservative forces, and they besieged him and wanted to expel him from the country. But people may be able to get rid of it, but influence has already been planted.
The main reason is that the stain on Kong Yinzhi's body is indelible. No one can deny that Kong Yinzhi first recited the Ming and descended to the Qing, and the back was submissive, is such a shameless behavior worthy of being connected with Kong Sheng?
Since the Song Dynasty, with the establishment and development of science, the "Three Guidelines" have gradually become prominent and sacred, and "loyalty, filial piety, and righteousness" as a synonym for the "Three Guidelines" have also become popular social terms, and have become universal values recognized by all people in the whole society. By the time of the Ming Dynasty, people in society had surpassed the Five Constants in their recognition of 'loyalty, filial piety, and righteousness'. When people talk about morality, they often summarize it as 'loyalty, filial piety, and righteousness'.
In today's society, the four words 'loyalty, filial piety, festival and righteousness' are completely well-known, and women and children know it.
Loyal ministers, filial sons, righteous husbands, and festival women, which completely match 'the king is the minister, the father is the son, and the husband is the woman'. Cheng Zhu Lixue, which has been developed for hundreds of years, has sacredized and absolutized it, and has become an eternal and unchanging 'Heavenly Principle' shared by ancient and modern times and by all people!
This concept has been known and respected by the world, and has become not only the highest moral code of conduct, but also an iron chain that imprisons people's thoughts, restricts people's hearts, and binds people's lives.
Now Kong Yinzhi and they are unjustifiably violating this 'heavenly principle', so can they not be spurned by others?
If the imperial court spares Kong Yinzhi, isn't it a slap in the face, isn't it loudly preaching the word 'betrayal' to the government and the opposition?
"There is a study, high clogs, long sleeves and wide belts, the crown of the Gangchang, the clothes of humanity, one or two of the paper and ink, three or four of the lips and kisses, and the self-proclaimed true Zhongni. met Liu Harmonic from time to time. Liu Harmonic, a smart man, saw it and said: "I don't know my brother Zhongni." The person rose up and said: "'Heaven does not give birth to Zhongni, and eternity is like a long night'." Who is the son, who dares to call Zhongni and brother? Liu Huo said: "It's strange that the saints above the Emperor Xi burn paper candles all day long!" The man was silent. Ran An knows what he said!
Li Sheng heard it and said: Si Yan is also simple and appropriate, and there is more than enough appointment, which can break the network of suspicion and make it clear. His words are so, and his people can know them. Although the cover is out of a momentary joke, it will not be easy for a hundred years.
"What a Li Zhen, it's a pity that he died fifty years early!" (Praise Liu Harmonic, popular)