The old man squinted his eyes and took a sip of his wine glass: "The Dog Emperor's collection of taxes from the gentry will inevitably lead to the gentry being detached, so let's take advantage of the opportunity." Most of our White Lotus Sect members are low-level people, and with the support of the gentry this time, they will definitely be able to overthrow the puppet dynasty in one fell swoop. ”

"When the time comes, the name of the White Lotus Sect Master will definitely be echoed."

The woman glanced at the old man and said with a smile: "I am Tang Sai'er's reincarnation. ”

The old man nodded, and said with a smile: "I have already asked people to spread the news, when Tang Sai'er held the banner of righteousness in Shandong, the puppet dynasty was shaken, but in the end it was a failure, we will definitely succeed this time." ”

The father and daughter have been plotting for a long time, and they can be said to be full of confidence, rubbing their hands and preparing to do a big job.

In fact, the White Lotus Sect has been developing in secret, but it has not achieved much over the years, since Longqing ascended the throne to Zhang Juzheng was in power, although there have been many disasters and difficulties in the world these days, the imperial court is still doing things.

The disaster relief and reduction of money and food, the life of the people is actually much better, which makes the development of the White Lotus Sect very unsmooth.

But this time, the Yang Shiyin let the White Lotus Sect see an opportunity, and if the court did so, it would inevitably cause the gentry to be dissatisfied and give the White Lotus Sect a chance to make waves. In the eyes of the White Lotus Sect, most of its members are poor people, and if the gentry join, they will definitely be strengthened.

As a member of the church, the poor people are coercing the gentry, and they will inevitably be able to win the world in one fell swoop and break the foundation of the puppet dynasty.

This is, of course, the result of Zhu Yijun's little wings flapping, in fact, Zhu Yijun didn't take the matter of the White Lotus Sect to heart at all. In the history he was familiar with, the White Lotus Sect had not come out to make waves at all during this time.

It wasn't until the Wenxiang Sect rose in Shandong and Hebei that the White Lotus Sect was considered to be a big trouble.

It's just that Zhu Yijun didn't expect that he was thinking about reform, and the White Lotus Sect was thinking about taking advantage of loopholes to rebel, and this time they completely wanted to make things bigger, and the whole thing began to develop in an unpredictable direction.

Qufu, Confucian family.

Kong Shangxian lay on his side on the bed, the maid pinched his legs, and the steward on the side stood respectfully.

"That eunuch is still not leaving?" Kong Shangxian glanced at the housekeeper and asked casually with an expressionless face. On behalf of the emperor to sacrifice the Confucian saint, there is no way, you need to be entertained according to etiquette, but the Kong family does not need to sell a eunuch face at all.

The Confucian family has been passed down from the Spring and Autumn Period, the Han and Tang Dynasties, and the dynasty has changed so many times, and the Confucian family is still the Confucian family.

No one in this world can touch the Kong family, this is the self-confidence of the Kong family, a eunuch, the Kong family still needs to sell his face?

"He just eats and sleeps all day long, sleeps and eats, wanders around leisurely, and doesn't seem to be in a hurry at all." The butler bowed slightly and spoke.

"Not in a hurry?" Kong Shangxian sneered disdainfully: "He's not in a hurry, someone is in a hurry, is someone coming to visit the house these days?" ”

The housekeeper nodded: "The gentry on the ground in Shandong have all come, and now the imperial court wants to start collecting taxes on the gentry's fields, and they are all in a hurry." But it hasn't made a fuss yet, and most of them are watching our house. ”

Of course, Kong Shangxian knew this, and he couldn't help but curse secretly, a bunch of waste.

But Kong Shangxian's thoughts can only be scolded in his heart, the status of the Kong family today is not held up by these people. If these people didn't hold it up, would the royal family take the Kong family seriously?

There is another reason why these people look at the Kong family, that is, the Kong family has a lot of land!

In the entire Shandong Mansion, no one has more land than the Confucian family, and the imperial court wants to collect taxes from the gentry in Shandong, so the Confucian family is a hurdle that cannot be bypassed. If the Kong family pays the tax, the Shandong gentry will inevitably have to pay it, and if the Kong family does not pay, it is a joke that the official gentry will pay the grain in one piece.

The court knew about it, the officials knew about it, and of course the Confucian family knew about it.

Kong Shangxian looked at the housekeeper and said indifferently: "Tell them, we are not in a hurry, just drag it." ”

Kong Shangxian can see the whole thing, he is not stupid, of course he knows how to choose the best. The current situation is that the whole country looks at Shandong, and Shandong looks at the Confucian family. There is no need for the Kong family to go out to the hard top, just drag it.

What can you do if taxes don't go up? Rush to Kong's house to grab it?

Kong Shangxian doesn't believe that anyone has the courage, and no one in the world has the courage.

Of course, the housekeeper understood what Kong Shangxian meant, and he didn't show any surprised expression on his face, nodded and said, "Yes, master!" After saying this, the housekeeper turned around and walked outside, while Kong Shangxian pulled the maid onto the bed.

Beijing, Forbidden City, Wenhua Palace.

Zhu Yijun looked at the secret letter in his hand over and over again, and sighed helplessly.

As expected, the Kong family was really unwilling to cooperate, and he asked Xu De to go to the Kong family, but they didn't even want to meet him. Originally, I still wanted to give the Kong family a chance, but it seems that it is useless to want to be good in this matter.

Glancing at Zhang Whale, Zhu Yijun opened his mouth and asked, "Has Dr. Kong ever been here?" ”

Zhang Jing hurriedly bowed down and said, "Back to the emperor, Dr. Kong is already waiting outside!" ”

The Dr. Kong in Zhu Yijun's mouth is actually Kong Shangqian, a doctor of the Five Classics of the Hanlin Academy, who is the same generation as Kong Shangxian, the prince of Yansheng. At the same time, he is also the head of this generation of the Confucian family of Nanzong, and is a hereditary doctor of the Five Classics of the Hanlin Academy.

Speaking of the Southern Sect of the Confucian Family, compared to the Northern Sect, it is really a heaven and an underground.

The cause of the incident has to start from the Song Dynasty, in the late Northern Song Dynasty, the Jurchen people went south, and Zhao Gou crossed the river and established the Southern Song Dynasty regime in Lin'an. Kong Duanyou moved south with Gaozong in the second year of Jianyan, and then lived in Quzhou (now Quzhou, Zhejiang Province), which was the southern sect.

Later, the Southern Sect attacked the Holy Fathers of Yan and included Kong Jue, Kong Yi, Kong Wenyuan, Kong Wanchun, Kong Zhu and others.

After the Song court moved south, Liu Yu established a puppet Qi regime, and in the third year of Fuchang, Kong Fan, the son of Kong Duanyou's younger brother Kong Duancao, was appointed as the Holy Duke of Yan, presiding over the worship of Confucius Temple in Qufu. After the puppet Qi regime was overthrown, Jin Xizong succeeded Kong Fan as the Holy Duke of Yan in the third year of Tian's reign.

Later, there were Kong Zheng, Kong Zheng, Kong Yuancuo, etc., who attacked the Holy Father, and it was the Northern Sect.

Later, due to the Mongol army moving south, Kong Yuancuo moved to Bianjing with the Jin regime, and the Confucian Temple in Qufu was presided over by his brother Kong Yuanyong. The Mongols occupied Qufu, and successively took Kong Yuanyong and Kong Zhiquan and his son as the holy princes. In this way, the three dynasties of Song, Jin, and Yuan rose together, and each had a Yan Shenggong.

Although each has a Yan Shenggong, the Yan Shenggong of Yuan and Jin is actually from the same lineage, and the two sects of the Confucian family in the north and south are also brothers.

In the fifth year of Yuan Taizong, the Mongolian cavalry captured Jin Biandu, and Kong Yuancuo, the holy prince of Jinfeng, was obtained by the Yuan regime, and still sealed Kong Yuancuo as the Shenggong of Yan, and changed the seal of Kong's full stop to Qufu Order. At this time, the Northern Sect of the Confucian Family completed the unity and officially became the Northern Sect.

The Yuan Dynasty was unified, and Kublai Khan, the ancestor of the Yuan dynasty, visited the descendants of Confucius in the nineteenth year of the Yuan Dynasty, and summoned Kong Zhu to Beijing, Kong Zhu gave way to Qufu Zongzi, and Kublai Khan greatly appreciated Kong Zhu and said: "It is a true saint." So he ordered Kong Zhu to supervise the sacrificial wine for the son of the country, to undertake the Lang and to promote the affairs of the East Zhejiang School, and to protect the seal of the Lin Temple, so as to avoid the title of Yan Shenggong.

From this time on, the title of the Duke of Yan Sheng completely fell into the Northern Sect of the Confucian Family, and it had nothing to do with the Southern Sect.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the world was in turmoil, and the Jianghuai region fought a boiling anti-Yingtian, and the Mongols, Zhang Shicheng, Chen Youliang, and Zhu Yuanzhang fought in Jianghuai, and when the war was in chaos, the Confucian family Nanzong was even more declining.

In comparison, Beizong was harassed by the war much less, and when Zhu Yuanzhang went on the Northern Expedition, Beizong was not affected too much.

In the seventeenth year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang decreed that the then Confucian Northern Sect was canonized as the Yan Shenggong, and the Confucian Northern Sect once again became the Yan Shenggong of the Ming Dynasty. Regarding this matter, Zhu Yijun also saw a rumor in his previous life, that is, about the DNA of the Confucian family's Northern Sect.

After testing, the Northern Sect of the Confucian family was actually no longer a descendant of Confucius, but was impersonated by a Mongol named Zhang Renyu.

In fact, I don't know whether it's true or not, but the Confucian family's northern clan is certain, as for Kong Zhu's abdication, Zhu Yijun laughed it off, whoever believes in this kind of thing is a fool.

What is the identity of the Confucian Southern Sect? With the Southern Song Dynasty moving south, what about the Northern Sect? All the time in the north.

The Confucian family of this branch is the Confucian family of Yuan, and now that Yuan has unified the world, will the Confucian family of Nanzong be established as the Holy Duke of Yan? What are you kidding, once Kong Zhu doesn't agree, then the entire Southern Sect Confucius family is estimated to be wiped out.

In fact, it is an undeniable fact that the Northern Sect of the Confucian Family has been suppressing the Southern Sect all these years.

During the Jianghuai War, the Northern Sect did not lend a helping hand, and the Ming Dynasty ruled the world, and established the Northern Sect as the Holy Duke of Yan, and did not see the Southern Sect. You must know that Nanzong was canonized by the imperial court, and it was all Hongzhi.

In the eighteenth year of Hongzhi, Shen Jie, the prefect of Quzhou, said: "Quzhou Holy Temple, since Kong Zhu gave up the knighthood, has been well-dressed and etiquette, and has been indecent to the same gangsters. Today, I visited the sixth grandson of Dezhu, and asked him to be an official to serve as the presiding officer. He also said: "In his ancestors, he sacrificed to the field, at the beginning of Hongwu, and then changed to heavy taxes, please still change it to light, for worship expenses." ”

Emperor Kezhi, in the first year of Zhengde, awarded the Doctor of the Five Classics of the Hanlin Academy, the descendants were hereditary, and the tax on his sacrificial fields was reduced.

From this record, it can be seen how miserable the Confucian family Nanzong is, and the description of "obscene with the gangster" is enough to explain. It can be seen that the Southern Sect not only did not get the help of the Northern Sect, but was also suppressed.

Even if there is a performance, it is just a hereditary doctor of the Five Classics of the Hanlin Academy, given some sacrificial fields, and reduced the tax on sacrificial fields.

Originally, Zhu Yijun didn't think about making a big move, and letting Xu De go was to tell Kong Shangxian, don't be scared, the Kong family is not only your family, but also a Nanzong. If you don't agree to pay taxes this time, you'll be abolished.

It's just that Kong Shangxian didn't even see Xu De, and he couldn't threaten if he wanted to.

Zhu Yijun was angry at this time, he was really angry, the boneless Kong family was still so arrogant, he didn't even give the emperor's face, Zhu Yijun wanted to take Kong Shangxian's collar and ask him: With whom!

You must know that Zhu Yijun has no good impression of the Kong family, if you talk about the grass on the wall, whoever comes will hold your stinky feet, including the Jurchen Mengyuan and even the later Qing Dynasty, for the sake of family inheritance, you have to do it, it is the royal family who did not protect you, who are you looking at like this now?

Besides, what kind of family is the Kong family? One advocates loyalty, righteousness, reason, and faith, and loyalty comes first.

You enjoy the worship of the people of the world, enjoy the royal courtesy, and are above the people of the whole world, what about your loyalty?

In order to please Kublai Khan, the Confucian government sent the great Confucian Zhang Dehui and Yuan Haowen to meet Kublai Khan and kneel down to ask him to be the "great master of Confucianism". The dignified Chinese "sacred learning" actually invited a chieftain whose hands were stained with the blood of tens of millions of Han people to be the great master, and the Confucian Mansion truly realized the highest level of "repaying grievances with virtue".

The most advanced and conforming to the general trend of the Confucian Mansion is none other than the Confucian Mansion Yan Shenggong Kong Yinzhi at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Zhu family treated him really without saying, this prince is not a descendant, but not only was he named the Holy Prince, but also successively added the prince Taibao and the prince Taifu, which can be described as "Jun Grace is like a mountain".

But as soon as Li Zicheng entered Shandong, when he was still far away from Qufu, the Confucian Mansion issued Zhu Xi, and asked people to worship the dragon throne of Emperor Yongchang of Dashun State, and offered horses and silver, and knelt down to accept the letter.

How do you know that this time the change of master is a little anxious, a few days later, the Dashun army ran away, came to the Qingyi army, the three surnamed Yan Shenggong knew the mistake and changed it, that is, on the "first entry of the text", to the Qing court to show loyalty, praise the Qing emperor "mountains and rivers and the sun and the moon shine, the country is the same and forever".

It means that "the ministers are erected in Confucianism, the chapter is slightly end, the inheritance of the special grace of the lies, the prosperity of the new dynasty today, the Chonglong of learning, and the fear of the future."

Then, in response to the shaving order issued by the Qing government, the three surnamed Kong Yinzhi held a grand shaving ceremony, "respectfully setting up incense and reading the holy message", and ordered the clansmen to shave their hair. At the same time, the Qing army was slaughtering hundreds of people in Jiangyin, Jiading and other places who resisted shaving their hair and changing clothes.

Later, in order to avoid the Qing Emperor's ridicule, the third surnamed Kong Yinzhi changed his name to Kong Yanzhi, once again showing his loyalty to the Qing court.

These Zhu Yijun can not be cared about, after all, the Ming Dynasty is dead, the royal family has not done a good job, and it is understandable that you have failed to protect you. Of course, contempt is still to be despised.

Later generations scolded Wu Sangui for being a family slave, and the Yansheng Mansion was actually similar.

Although he scolded in his heart, Zhu Yijun still knew the overall situation, this time the tax reform was very critical, if the Kong family knew the current affairs and followed him to implement the tax reform, then he could let the Kong family go.

But now it seems that people don't take themselves seriously at all, and they don't even see the people sent by the emperor, so they release the pigeons confidently, this time Zhu Yijun let them know that his brother is very angry, and the consequences are very serious!

Kong Shangqian walked in from outside the palace, his expression was very serious.

Compared with Kong Shangxian, Kong Shangqian is younger, only in his twenties this year, if it weren't for his father's early death, he wouldn't have been able to take the position of Doctor of the Five Classics of the Hanlin Academy. But he is not stupid, back then, the Southern and Northern Sects of the Confucian Family competed for the position of Yan Shenggong, that was not a family saying, the Southern Sect of the Confucian Family was all passed on by word of mouth.

Now the imperial court wants the officials and gentry to pay for the grain, and the emperor has sent a large number of people to Shandong, everyone is waiting to see the results of Shandong, and the atmosphere in the capital has been a lot more solemn these days. Kong Shangqian is not blind or deaf, so he naturally heard about it.

At this time, the emperor summoned himself, Kong Shangqian couldn't be nervous, his mood was very complicated, some excitement and faint anticipation, and more fear and fear.