- Confucius

The Confucian Mansion, also known as the Yansheng Mansion, is located on the east side of the Confucian Temple, and from the outside, the Yansheng Mansion does not have much luxury, and can even be said to be a little simple.

Kong Duanyou walked into the house, the housekeeper was waiting at the door, and when he saw Kong Duanyou coming in through the side door, he hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Grandpa, the boss asked me to wait for you here, so you can go quickly." ”

Seeing that his uncle was in such a hurry, Kong Duanyou knew that it was not a good thing, and his pace sped up a little, and he was walking, when he heard a burst of laughter, two young men walked out, Kong Duancao stepped forward and shouted, "Where are you two going?" ”

When the two saw Kong Duancao, they said in unison, "Father! Uncle! ”

These two people are both in their twenties, they are both upper-class people, wearing Confucian clothes, with fluttering sleeves, which makes Kong Duanyou nod secretly, and feel uncomfortable.

Both of them are Kong Duancao's sons, one is called Kong Fan, and the other is called Kong Jue, the second son and the youngest son respectively, and Kong Duancao's eldest son died young, in fact, these two are Kong Duancao's only two sons. But Kong Duanyou still has no children for some reason, but it is not uncommon for the ancients to have children when they are old, so they can only continue to work hard.

"There's a cultural meeting to be held, and we're going to check it out." Kong Jue said, "My father and uncle are in a hurry, is there something wrong?" ”

Kong Duancao shook his head and said, "It's not your turn to care, come back early, don't get drunk, remember your identity!" ”

"No!"

Kong Duancao looked at the backs of the two and smiled, and then continued to walk in with Kong Duanyou.

The Confucian Mansion is not just a house for the Confucian family to live in, since the beginning of the Han Dynasty, the Confucian family has been sealed with food, with the food, naturally also needs someone to manage, so the Confucian family has established different departments in accordance with the official government system, at this time, it is divided into six departments, including Zhiyin, Zhangshu, classics, Si Le, Guan Gou and Baihu Hall, faintly opposite to the six departments of the imperial court, so the front part of the Confucian Mansion is actually an office area, and the back is the real residence.

In the lobby, an old man sat on the left side of the top, his eyebrows full of anxiety, and a literati sitting below, also slightly thoughtful.

Kong Duanyou and Kong Duancao walked in and said to the old man first, "Uncle!" ”

"I've seen my grandfather, the second master."

"Let's all sit down..."The old man looked up and said, "I told you to come back in a hurry today, but something big happened a few days ago, He Gong, you can talk about it." ”

He Gong nodded and said, "Grandpa, do you remember Tianxiang Academy?" ”

Kong Duanyou snorted and said, "Is that the place where the way of the merchant craftsman is taught?" I heard that it is very popular, by the way, it seems that Jiang De, who has built this academy in recent years, but this person? ”

He Gong nodded and said, "This is this person, this person doesn't know where he learned a strange trick and a tricky skill, and the business is very large, this academy was established by himself to find a bookkeeper for his own business, saying that it is an academy, but he has never taught the learning of saints." ”

As he spoke, He Gong took out a few books and handed them to Kong Duanyou and said, "This is the textbook used by their academy, which is full of the way of speech and benefit, as well as crooked and evil arts, and it is said that he is still in the capital and talks about gods and ghosts with the official family." ”

"Humph! This man deserves to be punished by a gentleman! Kong Duanyou flipped through it for a while, and found that there was no trace of Confucianism in the whole book, and shouted angrily.

"That's right, big brother, I think so too, so I asked some people to warn them, who would have thought that something would happen." Kong Duancao immediately clapped his hands and said, Kong Duancao's words made Kong Duanyou alert, he stared at Kong Duancao and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

Kong Duancao rubbed his hands and said, "Actually, it's not a big deal, I wrote to a few old scholars to tell me about Tianxiang Academy, and those old scholars took their students and friends to find trouble with Tianxiang Academy, little brother, I also want to put Tianxiang Academy on the right path, who knows that there are unforeseen circumstances in the sky, just two days ago, the Liangshan thieves suddenly went down the mountain, and when they arrived at Tianxiang Academy, they plundered all the literati who attacked Tianxiang Academy..."

"What?" Kong Duanyou was stunned for a moment, he couldn't believe his ears.

"You said that the Liangshan thieves called you to besiege all the literati of Tianxiang Academy were plundered? What about that Tianxiang Academy? ”

Kong Duancao patted his thigh and said, "It's strange here, those thieves shouted outside for a while, and then they said that there were too many people arrested, and then left, big brother, you said that this Liangshan thief and Tianxiang Academy will not have anything to do with it, right?" ”

Kong Duanyou squinted his eyes and said, "If I remember correctly, Jiang De behind Tianxiang Academy is Cai Jing's godniece, and the glass on our window is made by him, as well as Qionglou, IKEA Oil Mill, etc., which are also his industry, second brother, you are honest, how much more I don't know about this matter?" ”

Kong Duancao he ”

Kong Duanyou snorted, he didn't believe that Kong Chuan was for what kind of Taoism in his mouth, he didn't have to think about it, Kong Chuan's purpose was not for any Taoism, but for the glass, Qionglou and other things in Jiang De's hands, I have to say, my uncle can't do anything else, but he has a hand in running a family, you see, now in the entire Xianyuan, except for a few people who have meritorious reputation, whose field is not surnamed Kong?

"Uncle, that Jiang De is a favored person of the official family, and he has something to do with the Taishi, if I do this, I'm afraid of setting myself on fire..."Kong Duanyou shook his head and said.

"Burn? Who dares! Kong Chuan glared and said, "Cao Cao dared to kill our Kong family, but what was the result?" was taken over the world by the Sima family! And our Confucian family is still standing here, whoever wants to move our Confucian family is to move Confucianism, to move the world's descendants, is to dig their own grave! ”

"Hey! But now that things are like this, I'm afraid many people are waiting for us to act... That's it, if you don't do it, you won't stop it! Second brother, is there anyone you know on Liangshan? Kong Duanyou asked.

"There is a person, named Xiao Rang, this person is very good at calligraphy, in the past, he took the opportunity to beg me to let him come to our house to read a day's characters, and now he is in Liangshan, and it is said that he was also plundered." Kong Duan really has a way.

Kong Duanyou nodded and said, "Okay, first ask Liang Shan how much money he wants, let those people prepare money to redeem people, I think Liang Shan must have colluded with Tianxiang Academy, and I can also find some evidence this time."

In addition, I will write to several adults in the court, Tianxiang Academy to teach non-saints, and deserve to be punished by a gentleman! ”

The Punishment of the Gentleman, from "You Sitting", is about Confucius explaining why he is punishing Shaozhengmao, and Confucius said: "Ju! My language is the reason for this. People have five evils and theft is not the same: one is to reach the heart and be dangerous, and the other is to be strong and strong; Third, it is said that the words are false and argued; Fourth, it is said that it is ugly and broad; Fifth, it is said that it is not good. If there is one of these five, it will not be exempt from the punishment of a gentleman, and it will have both. The former residence is enough to gather a group of disciples, the speech is enough to decorate the evil camp, and it is strong enough to be independent. ”

In fact, there are doubts about whether Confucius killed Shao Zhengmao, most scholars or out of defense of Confucius, or think that there are many doubts about this matter, or think that this article is actually an allegory, do not think that Confucius said and did such a thing, but many Confucian scholars in later generations have learned the essence of this article to their bones.

- Liang Shan

"Wow, it's really the Kong family!" Jiang De kept bending his fingers and tapping on the table while laughing, Xiao Rang on the other side lowered his head, and he didn't know how to answer.

Gongsun Sheng, as a Taoist person, has always had no good impression of the Kong family, he said, "The owner of the village, the Kong family in Xianyuan through this time, the people of Xianyuan lost their land and land, those who obeyed as tenants are okay, those who do not want to be tenants can only flee, we have a lot of brothers in Xianyuan on the mountain." ”

This is on the eye medicine, everyone knows that Jiang De likes to fight local tyrants and inferior gentry the most, this is to lure Jiang De to attack the Kong family.

"The owner of the village must not be moved!" Xu Guanzhong hurriedly said, he was really worried that Jiang De would order troops, and the Kong family came to Jiang De this time, and it was almost an endless situation.

"The Kong family is the hope of the world, if we move lightly, I am afraid that it will not be tolerated by the world!"

"It's not tolerated by those literati and Confucian scholars!" Jiang De said angrily, "If I go and smash the Confucian Temple, those Confucian scholars don't hate me to death, even if they don't dare to say it in person, they will hide in the bed, and keep cursing me with a pen, leaving it for future generations to curse for thousands of years!" ”

One of the signs of a civilization is that it has its own history, and all Chinese dynasties will revise history books, but in addition to the official, folk literati also like to write wild history anecdotes, and the black history of many celebrities is passed on to future generations in this way.

"Tianxiang Academy must not be lost, this is not only our foundation, but also the momentum of this battle, step by step, step by step, I think the Kong family is not only trying to smash my Tianxiang Academy, I am afraid that they want to rob my glass factory, my Qionglou!" Jiang De also understands that the so-called dispute over Taoism is more of a conflict of interests, those ordinary literati are blushing when they see that the students from Tianxiang Academy have become small officials and become bookkeepers, and they all have a good income, while the Kong family sees a lot of wealth in Jiang De's hands.

Don't think that all the literati in the Song Dynasty lived very well, and a generation of famous ministers Fan Zhongyan could only drink porridge when he rushed to take the exam, and if Confucian literati wanted to make money, there was no other way than to be an official and teach, what? You say that you want to be a bookkeeper or a clerk, how can you make sense! It's really insulting! The disciples of the dignified saints should naturally be in the court and reconcile yin and yang, how can they go to work for the merchants? Can't even be a petty official, do you want a saint disciple to talk to those people? Or do you want to go to the countryside to collect grain and calculate the payment?

Literati generally have two diseases, one is called the master of the eye, the other is called the literati is light, to put it bluntly, one is that he doesn't want to do anything except be an official, and the other is called except for the boss of the sky, the second of Kong, and the third of Lao Tzu, all those who are stronger than me have taken the crooked path!

But this is not the case when Tianxiang Academy comes out, from the beginning of admission, Jiang De will say to everyone not to think about being an official, Tianxiang Academy recruits children of poor people or children of businessmen and craftsmen, and he didn't think about anything about Tian Shelang and Tianzitang at dusk, then again, a quasi-civil servant who was still preparing for the exam in the study yesterday will let him govern a county or a prefecture today.... Anyway, when Jiang De thought about it, he felt that this was the nightmare of the people, and it was a little better than the nightmare of the rich man who used money to smash out the president of a country.

"The owner of the village, the key to this matter lies in two places, one is the court, and the other is the Confucian family." Xu Guanzhong said, "The matter of my Liangshan soldiers and horses going down the mountain to plunder the literati will definitely be stabbed to the court, and the imperial court's conquest of Liangshan is also a foregone conclusion, but how Tianxiang Academy will deal with it depends on the meaning of the official family and the Taishi." ”

Jiang De nodded and said, "I'll go down the mountain to Kaifeng immediately, Mr. Xu will go with me, Master Chaozhai, those literati must be optimistic, and wait for my news to make a decision!" ”

Chao Gai also knew that this was not a trivial matter, and it was the biggest trouble to provoke the above people in the Song Dynasty, so he arched his hand and said, "Please rest assured, the owner of the village will definitely not run away!" ”

- Kaifeng Caifu

Cai Jing looked at Jiang De in front of him, kept blowing gently with tea, and said after a while, "You came quickly, do you know how many letters have arrived in the capital in the past few days?" ”

Jiang De nodded and said, "The kid naturally knows that some people will attack me tomorrow morning." ”

"The tree is a big wind..."Cai Jing shook his head and said, "Glass is a profiteering thing, although you have handed it over to the official family, but there are still many people who are greedy, and your Tianxiang Academy, just teach some bookkeepers, there are still people who are officials, what is this to do?" Do you think the local squires would do that? ”

Jiang De clenched his fists, this time he was indeed too underestimating the enemy, he thought that those squires would not do anything big, but he forgot that at this time, those squires were the real rulers.

"The thieves of Liangshan are also coincidental." Cai Jing looked at Jiang De, as if he wanted to see Jiang De through.

Jiang De also looked at him, looked at each other and said, "It's a coincidence, otherwise the academy will have to bleed, Taishi, those who are officials are also the academy to find a job for them, there is absolutely no other idea, besides, some small officials who are not in the stream, is this not tolerated?" ”

Of course, it can't be tolerated, the reason why the squire is transcendent is that the grassroots officials are all their people, but now they have become students from Tianxiang, and the squire's power support has disappeared, so it's strange if he doesn't hate death.

"And those people are all at the behest of the official!" Jiang De lost his card, and if Cai Jing wants to continue to change the law, he needs the people below to listen to him and do things, and Tianxiang Academy is naturally an ally with Cai Jingyou, so he will naturally obey Cai Jing's instructions.

Cai Jing's heart was moved, he nodded and said, "That's it, for my daughter's sake, I will help you this time, you explain everything clearly, there must be no omission!" ”

For Mrs. Cai's sake? I'm spitting up everything you just moved in! Jiang De secretly sarcastically said to Cai Jing in his heart, and then told Cai Jing everything he could say.

The sky gradually brightened, and the pilgrimage began.