Yanzhou, Lu County.

There are also two names here, one is called Xianyuan and the other is called Qufu.

The former is that Song Zhenzong was born in Shouqiu with Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor, and issued an edict to change Qufu to Xianyuan County, migrate the county governance to Shouqiu, and build Jingling Palace to worship the Yellow Emperor, and the specific Xianyuan County officials were filled by the descendants of Confucius.

If today's innovation is made, the word 'Xianyuan' is naturally not advisable. And the Confucian family, who has been in the Xianyuan County for a hundred years, can no longer grasp the old authority.

The latter was the name that Yang Sui should have been, first renamed "Wenyang" in the fourth year of the emperor, and then renamed "yield" in the sixteenth year of the emperor. The reason for this is no longer known. Emperor Hengzhu Lu didn't like this name.

Qufu, listen to this pronunciation, does it look like "yield"?

Therefore, this place has been renamed Lu County. And the current county magistrate of Xia Lu County is naturally not the Kong family. Hugh said that if the latter has a clan official or not, even if someone is an official, he will never stay in Lu County. Only one official recusal system determines that the county magistrate of Luxian County cannot be the Kong family.

Today's Kong family has long lost its original prosperity. The imperial dynasty was reformed, and although the Confucian family was not completely knocked to the ground, it was also deprived of almost all rights. Ninety percent of the family's land and wealth were taken away by the new dynasty, and what embarrassed the Kong family even more was that their dignity was trampled on.

More than a thousand years of glory and wealth, the Confucian family, which has been glorious for too long, was kicked to the ground by Emperor Lu. Although in the eyes of Emperor Lu, it is already good that he did not step the Kong family into the mud with one foot.

But in the hearts of the Confucian family, who were deprived of their rights and wealth, they had been trampled into the mud by Emperor Lu.

At the beginning, they controlled Xianyuan County for generations, in the Han and Wei dynasties, they said Baocheng, Baozun, Zongsheng, in the Jin and Song Dynasties, in the Later Wei Dynasty, in the Later Wei Dynasty, in the Northern Qi Dynasty, they were called Gongsheng, in the Later Zhou, Sui and Zou Kingdom, in the early Tang Dynasty, in the Kaiyuan, Confucius was the king of Wenxuan, and then he was the Duke of Wenxuan. When he arrived in Song Renzong, he was designated as the Holy Duke of Yan. This title is simply a compliment, and the gold content is extremely high.

"Yan" implies that the saints continue to expand and reproduce endlessly, representing the supreme realm of the feudal emperor's respect for Confucius and worshipping the saints. Even the Jurchens, Mengyuan, and Manchu Qing who entered the Central Plains in the official history have all taken this as a name and have not changed.

The Kong family holds the real power of Xianyuan in their hands, and they have the title of Yan Shenggong on their heads, and they are all soft and hard. The fault is not that he is afraid that he will be too embarrassed to eat, which will cause praise and criticism from outsiders, and the entire fields and acres of Xianyuan County have been gathered in the hands of the Kong family. Who called the Zhao family can't help but annex the land. Here, their Confucian family is the master of everything, and they are the most authentic soil emperors.

Although this result also cut off the development of the Kong family in a certain sense. But there must be a gain and a loss, and the Kong family should understand this truth when they are held high by those in power. And it's not up to them to decide what to do, those in power have already set the line, and they have to go on.

However, a hundred years have changed everything. The Kong family at this moment is no longer the Kong family of the year.

Just like that Zhu Ming!

Among Zhu Yuanzhang's sons, he can produce the nine kings of Yisai, go out to patrol the border, Tuntian Anmin, and martial arts, all of them are above the level. Among them, there is a Yongle Emperor who has been famous for thousands of years. But in later generations, many of the descendants of the old Zhu family have become pigs. Isn't this the case with today's Kong family?

Without the preferential treatment of the imperial court, wealth and hereditary rights, the huge Kong family could still hold together for warmth at first, but in less than two years, this huge family fell apart and scattered.

Helplessly, money is the most lethal factor. Secondly, Emperor Lu did not allow a large family like the Kong family to exist as usual.

This is not the difficulty faced by the Confucian family, but the common problem faced by all local clans in the whole country.

In the collision between local clan power and imperial power, it is definitely the former who suffers.

Perhaps many later generations thought that clan power was deeply rooted in China, and that even the imperial power would sometimes be inferior. After all, for the Chinese of later generations, even the imperial power does not go to the countryside, and so on, I have heard too much.

And how do they know that the existence of clan power stems from its own legitimacy? As the controlling body of ancient rural society, the clan organization has always regarded its own legitimacy as an important issue from the beginning of its formation.

And its legitimacy stems from the recognition of state power.

However, once the clan power loses its legitimacy basis, that is, it is separated from the state power, it will face a crisis of legitimacy and be dealt a heavy blow by the state power. Just like the current Lu Qi Dynasty, but also like the Qin and Han dynasties. During the Qin and Han dynasties, state power and clan power gradually separated, and clan power was restricted in many aspects.

Because Qin had a Legalist, and Han followed the Qin system, there were also grassroots officials such as pavilion chiefs and township elders. When the state power entered the countryside, this in itself was already a great constraint on the power of the clan.

Emperor Lu made people make a detailed analysis of the local clan clan power, and his own vision beyond the times, and he still saw the local clan clan power very thoroughly.

In traditional Chinese society, the basic economy of the countryside was the individual small peasant economy, and the imperial court used clan power to organize and control the scattered individual peasants, which was more effective than relying solely on the control power of the local government. To put it bluntly, the power of the government directly affects one family, which is too laborious and time-consuming, and it may not be thankless. But the clans above the self-employed are large in size, and it is easy to arrest them, which is a great convenience for the local government.

In Lu Qian's view, the greater reason for the rapid expansion of clan power in the later period is the weakening of the control of villages below the county level. For example, in the current era, the Central Plains has experienced the wars of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the division of feudal towns in the Middle and Late Tang Dynasty, and the endless conquest of five dynasties and ten kingdoms. War balances the power of the government, and naturally the retreat of government power leaves a large enough power gap for the development of clan power.

Because, without the official law, and there are still the constraints of traditional morality, there is the existence of clans, which maintains the foundation of the entire society.

For the government and government, which were busy with war, the individual family naturally could not be compared with the clan, which had more advantages in promoting the development of the traditional agricultural economy and adapting to the complex and changing social and political environment. And a very direct manifestation of the latter is the allocation of money, food and labor.

After entering the Zhao and Song dynasties, township officials like Baozheng were no longer in the official system of the imperial court, and the government left a huge space in the countryside, the clan power developed rapidly, and the clan system was becoming more and more perfect.

Emperor Lu even suspected that Wang Anshi's potential intention in implementing the armor protection system was to suppress the development of clan power in the countryside. At the same time, he also doubted that the skyrocketing power of local clans in China during the Ming and Qing dynasties was potentially related to the promotion of science in China.

After all, that science is the first morality, and it has a natural blessing for clan power.

Now Lu Qi has township officials, and the structure at the township level has government affairs, taxation, and police affairs, and controls the township soldiers as the basic force, which not only has a huge restraining force on the rural heroes, but also has a greater suppression of the clan power.

A huge clan like the Kong family, without the protection of rights, it is hard to imagine that they can always gather together. Because there are too many people in this clan. After all, they have been passed down for more than a thousand years, and it is difficult for the entire Kong clan to imagine how many people there will be. Even in the past time, there are also side branches that are too far away from the bloodline have been scattered, but only Kong Duanyou and Kong Duanchao brothers have not come out of the five suits, and there are already hundreds of people.

Why do you say Kong Duanyou and Kong Duanchao? This is because one of these two brothers was the Yan Sheng Gong of Zhao Song, on the eve of Yanzhou being captured by the Liangshan army, he only took the wooden statues of Confucius and his wife as the wooden master to worship his ancestors, and he fled to Tokyo in a hurry with his eldest nephew Kong Jue, and he himself had no queen. Now people are still in Chengdu.

And what about Kong Duanchao? That is Kong Jue's father, and this guy is still the enshrined official of the Dacheng Hall canonized by Emperor Lu.

- This is not Emperor Lu's special treatment of Confucius, just in Zou County, next door to Lu County, a descendant of the Meng family also became an enshrined official. It's just that Mencius's Meng Temple is far less magnificent than the Confucian Temple Kong Lin.

You must know that Confucius is very beautiful, and Mencius is very lonely. This is a sentence that has been circulating in Yanzhou for a long time.

Although Kong Duanchao, the enshrined official, has the rank of the seventh grade, he has no name and power, and he has a bird? To put it bluntly, this official title is not enough even to protect the family.

And so it is. In just two years, the huge Kong family is about to disappear. It's just because the world is big, and the food is the biggest.

No matter how bad that person's ethics have become, you can't deny that the average cultural level of this family is still above the average. But the same problem is that the level of hardship and hard work of this family is far below the national average.

What's more, Yanzhou was the first batch of areas to be included in the control of the Liangshan Army, and the Kong family was emotionally disgusted and rejected by the new dynasty, so they chose 'non-violence and non-cooperation' for the first time, so they integrated into the new dynasty later. But when the huge pressure of life and survival hit, the Kong family, who could not resist, could only choose to succumb one after another.

In fact, the collapse of the Kong family began at that moment. It was a pattern that gradually collapsed from far to near, and the lower the family status and the farther the blood relationship, the sooner they chose to integrate into the new dynasty. Because Kong Duan can't take care of them anymore.

In the case of being destined to abandon some people, the people who are naturally connected by the farther bloodline will be cut off by the main line of the Confucian family first.

Unless it is those who ate and waited for death in the past, have no skills, and have no intention of working hard. Just like in the Dream of Red Mansions, the Jia family has a total of 20 rooms, 8 rooms headed by the second mansion of Rongning live in the capital, and 12 rooms live in Jinling, where they originate. The people of the Bafang Jia clan in the capital are not just eating and waiting for death. The same is true of the Kong family. When the forest is big, there are all kinds of birds.

And these Kong clansmen who are 'loyal' to the lineage are not the burden on Kong Duanchao's back. The property of the Kong family's descendants has already been looted, and it is to return some of the remaining to Kong Duanchao, which is only three melons and two dates. Kong Duanchao now feels more and more burdened.

Of course, more importantly, he is more and more hopeless about "overthrowing Lu Qi and reorganizing the world". Since this is the case, then the Kong family can only choose to obey. They don't have the fierceness to fight to the death.

Otherwise, the Kong clan would have been wiped out by foreign races a long time ago, how could it be that in the 21st century, it can still give birth to 4 million Kong clan people around the world. That's much larger than the entire population of some small countries.

"So far, we can only obey." Kong Duanchao's eyes swept over the people present and smiled.

That's how Emperor Lu planned for the Kong family, can they still resist? Look at what kind of situation has the Confucian family become today? The Kong family can only obey now, and can only pray that Emperor Lu's heart is not yet dark.

will not cross the river and tear down the bridge, unload the mill and kill the donkey.