Yang Qing stood in the morning light, and looked back at Qufu City behind him with a sigh......

He gave the people of Qufu a choice.

These people are willing to continue to be slaves to the Kong family, so go in and save Kong Yinzhi's family, it is estimated that the Yan Sheng Church will praise their loyalty, but it is impossible to expect Yan Sheng Gong to reduce the rent in the future, after all, Yan Sheng Gong's house has just been looted and has to make up for the loss from them. If they don't want to, then go over and light the fire, send the Yan Shenggong family on the road, and then divide up all the remaining wealth of the Kong family, even including the hundreds of thousands of acres of fertile land in their family.

Li Zicheng will definitely not establish a holy prince again.

Theoretically, he doesn't have this qualification, and at present, only Chongzhen is qualified to re-establish one, but Chongzhen will not set up a Yan Shenggong on Li Zicheng's territory.

Quzhou is not without backup.

The descendants of the northern branch are extinct, but the southern branch has none.

And theoretically, the southern branch is also more orthodox than the northern branch, when the Song Dynasty crossed to the south, but at that time, the Confucian family's Zhengpai Yan Shenggong, who remained in the north was only the descendants of his brothers, and even the Mongols thought about letting the southern branch return to Qufu, but it was rejected. So now that there is no one to inherit the Northern Branch, the position of this Yan Shenggong is nothing more than the Quzhou Confucian family, and the Quzhou Confucian family will not run back to Qufu, and Chongzhen will not let them come back, at least not before Chongzhen completes Zhongxing and recaptures Beijing.

Therefore, if the people of Qufu choose to light the dry wood under the buttocks of Yan Shenggong and let his family complete the sublimation with the raging fire, then they will not need to carry this parasite family anymore, at least during Li Zicheng's reign.

If they choose to save people......

Then since they are willing to kneel, they should continue to kneel.

"General, why don't we go to Yanzhou directly?"

Gao Dejie asked cautiously.

At this time, they continued to cross Kong Lin to the north and went straight to the Si River, and at this time Chongzhen should have set off from Yanzhou, if they went directly to the east faster, they would basically be able to catch up with Chongzhen's team by noon, although all of them carried a large amount of gold and silver on their horses, but the weight of these dozens of catties did not affect their speed, and they could return to Jining before evening to join the army left behind.

And with their current route is to detour in a big circle, they will definitely not be able to return to the canal this evening.

"Aren't you afraid of high school and black eating black?"

Yang Qing said.

"Well, it's the subordinates who are not thoughtful."

Gao Dejie said immediately.

Indeed, when they go to Yanzhou at the moment, it is completely a sheep into the tiger's mouth, in the face of tens of thousands of taels of silver, Gao Yigong will talk about friendship, in the face of more than 100,000 taels, Gao Yigong may be afraid of Yang Qing's combat effectiveness, but they are carrying more than one million.

If you don't play black and eat black, you will be a fool.

At this time, thick smoke rose from the direction of the Confucian Temple in Qufu City......

"Let's go!"

Yang Qing said with satisfaction.

Then he turned around and urged his horse to head north to the Si River.

The next morning, he caught up with the rearguard of the southbound fleet at the canal wharf in Nanwang, and then traveled south along the canal to Jining in the evening to meet Chongzhen, who was waiting for him.

Jining Canal dragon boat.

"Your Majesty, the slave maid has just received the report, the hungry people in Qufu grabbed grain and set fire to the Yanshenggong Mansion, and the Yanshenggong family unfortunately died."

Wang Chengen said.

Next to him, Yang Qing stood solemnly with seven knives on his back.

"How could this happen?"

Chongzhen said expressionlessly.

"Back to Your Majesty, Yanzhou Mansion has been plagued by drought and locusts since the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, and all prefectures and counties are hungry, and the same is true of Qufu. After His Majesty left, in order to save food, Yan Shenggong once again reduced the rice grain in the porridge shed, and restored the previous rice soup to hang his life, while the hungry people were used to eating porridge a few days ago, and suddenly it became a rice soup that could not satisfy their stomachs, and they made noise and made trouble in dissatisfaction. More and the city traitors for the internal response, open the city gate at night to lead the Nishan thief Yang Feng into the city, Qufu County made Kong Zhenkan die in battle, the group of thieves and hungry people broke into the Yansheng Mansion and wantonly killed, Yan Shenggong led his children to resist the war for the bandits.

That Yang Feng was brutal by nature, so his henchmen closed the door of Yan Shenggong into the Dacheng Hall and set it on fire.

Yan Shenggong's family all died in the fire. ”

Wang Chengen said.

"Didn't you even have a single descendant left?"

Chongzhen said.

"No, but those female dependents were all rescued by Gao Yigong who arrived later."

Wang Chengen said.

"I don't want to be separated for only two days, but it is already separated by heaven and man, and the voice is still there, pass the decree to Gao Yigong to investigate this matter thoroughly, and be sure to capture that Yang Feng and correct the law, these bandits are too bold to even dare to kill the Holy Father of Yan. However, he is too stingy with money, those hungry people can eat as much porridge as they want, if they can really give money, why not, this matter can be told to the gentry everywhere to learn from, as for the Yan Sheng Gong let the Ministry of Rites posthumously give it according to the regulations. ”

Chongzhen said with emotion.

Well, that's how he turned the death of Yan Shenggong into a self-inflicted blame.

Behind him, Yang Feng, the Nishan drama thief, continued to stand solemnly.

"Then who will inherit this Holy Father?"

Wang Chengen glanced at Yang Qing and asked.

"Since the northern branch is no heir, then the Confucian family in Quzhou will choose someone to succeed him, and he will never be able to make Yan Shenggong extinct."

Chongzhen said.

Well, this matter is solved in this way, the spirit of Yan Sheng Gong in the sky can rest in peace, although his whole family was killed by Yang Feng, a thief from Nishan, but fortunately, the saint rose and fell, and he chose someone from the Confucian family in Quzhou to make the decision to succeed him, and then inherited his title of Duke Yan Sheng. As for when the new Yan Shenggong will come to Qufu, it will have to be talked about later, and the Dacheng Hall must be repaired first, not to mention that it is so dangerous here, there is also a thief Yang Feng in Nani Mountain, and it is not suitable for the Xinyan Shenggong to come over, just stay in Nanjing first.

Nanjing is not without Confucian temples, and it is not all the same where to worship!

What if the new Yan Shenggong comes over and is killed by Yang Feng, the thief of Nani Mountain?

Originally, the family of our Great Qing Yan Shenggong in history turned into the dust of history......

Of course, his gold and silver will not turn to dust!

A total of 100,000 taels of gold, 1.2 million taels of silver, and jewelry worth 100,000 taels of silver, all of which fell into Chongzhen's pocket.

Anyway, these are the whole five ships!

These ships are all guards in brocade clothes who participated in the operation, except for Yang Qing and Wang Chengen, no one else is allowed to go up, and it is said that it is some forbidden items of the royal family, as for how these forbidden items were suddenly transferred here from the palace in Beijing City, there is no need to care about this, anyway, Chongzhen, who is going down the river, will be to his own territory in ten days at most.

And Yang Qinghe and the personnel involved in the operation were rewarded with 100,000 taels of silver.

Then Yang Qing gave half to Cao Youyi, Wang Chengen and Han Zanzhou.

At the same time, Chongzhen got up at night to pee, and saw that Yang Tongzhi was still patrolling the deck in the cold wind of the night, dutifully defending his own safety, so he remembered for a while the scene where he fought in the Haihe River to defend himself, and then finally included him in the ranks of the courtiers.

Earl.

Loyal and brave uncle.

The third-class uncle, not hereditary, no fief, and a thousand stones.

But it's also amazing.

After all, in addition to the time period of the founding of the country and the Jingnan, the two great feudal heroes, there are very few people who can get knighthoods at other times, even Wu Sangui and these people were Chongzhen in the face of the danger of Li Zicheng's soldiers coming to the city, in order to pull a few more life-saving straws, they hurriedly sealed it, otherwise these people would not expect such a good thing in their lives. Even so, they have to be those who really have heavy troops and strength enough to affect the situation, and those who lack strength like Cao Youyi have no share, and even the youngest Wu Sangui is already in his thirties, and he has been sitting alone in Ningyuan for many years like a warlord, Yang Qing is only in his twenties, and in just a few months, he has risen to the rank of super-grade member with a brocade guard......

This holy grace is eye-catching.

Obviously, Chongzhen is also very satisfied with Yang Qing's clean and neat work.

Of course, the most important thing is that Yang Qing made him rich overnight, from the original poor egg to a millionaire, after getting the wealth of the Kong family, plus the inner treasury brought by Han Zanzhou before, Wang Chengen was in charge of the inner treasury with nearly three million taels, although this is still not much for an emperor, but at least Chongzhen has a little financial autonomy, and he doesn't need to completely look at the faces of the ministers in Nanjing.

After experiencing the catastrophe in Beijing, Chongzhen at this time regarded silver as extremely important.

The humiliation of borrowing money from his ministers like a beggar in Beijing was always haunting his heart, and he is now a little greedy.

Therefore it is the pillars who can bring him silver.

And that's not all.

Yang Qing also solved the hidden danger of Yan Shenggong and Li Zicheng colluding with him.

Of course, Chongzhen understands what kind of goods the Kong family is.

Their thousand-year-old inheritance is almost all exchanged for soft knees, as long as kneeling can solve the problem, the Kong family will never choose other means, and judging from Kong Yinzhi's performance during this time, this Yan Shenggong is obviously ready to put on the cloak of destiny for Li Zicheng when needed, just like his ancestors who knelt to the Jurchens and kneeling Mongols.

If that's the case, Chongzhen will be a little embarrassed.

Although the Kong family has no discipline and can even be said to be shameless, the problem is that their flag is very important.

This banner must not fall into the hands of Li Zicheng, but at this time, Chongzhen can't tie him up and go south, originally he went to Kong's house as a guest to hold Kong Yinzhi, but the effect is not ideal, and Yang Qing's hand to cut the grass and eradicate the root is completely eliminated. Now that the Confucian family of the Northern Sect is extinct, Chongzhen naturally let the Confucian family of the Southern Sect take over the banner of Yan Shenggong, the way is not important, it is okay to change the title, the important thing is that the Confucian family of the Southern Sect is in Quzhou, under the control of the Ming Dynasty, they cannot kneel Li Zicheng, they do not have this condition at all, so that the Ming Emperor can always master the card of the Confucian family.

I have to say that Yang Qing is too good at doing things!

(One chapter each for today and one tomorrow, there's something going on at home.) ）