Chapter 404: Southern Sect and Northern Sect

Yan Ding, those salt dogs were really sent by Wang Zheng?

Isn't Wang Zheng the chief soldier of Shandong, even if he has the title of a loyal martyr, how can he command the moving salt Ding, so to speak, now it is completely Wang Zheng who has the final say in Shandong.

Thinking of this, cold sweat broke out on Kong Yinzhi's forehead, and his back felt wet, this feeling of pinching his wealth and life in the hands of another person was really uncomfortable.

However, Kong Yinzhi also knew the duty of the Confucian Mansion, and after Wang Zheng proposed the so-called deal, it didn't take long for him to nod and agree, but in fact, he had to bow his head under the eaves.

According to this agreement, Kong Yinzhi secretly handed over these three prisoners to Wang Zheng, and he no longer asked about other matters, and all the Shandong army took care of them.

Speaking of which, the facilitation of this agreement fully exposed how cowardly Kong Yinzhi is, and Wang Zheng has already found out that there are still two branches of Kong bloodline in this world.

In addition to the Kong clan in Qufu, there is another Kong family in Quzhou, which is called "Southern Sect".

After the difficulty of Jingkang, Song Gaozong Zhao Gou held the first ceremony of worshipping the heavens after the unification in Yangzhou Palace, and the then Yan Shenggong Kong Duanyou and his cousin Kong Chuan were enshrined in the edict.

After Kong Duanyou returned to Qufu, it coincided with the large-scale invasion of the Jin soldiers, so he took the heirloom "Confucius and the wife of the official Kaimu statue" (it is rumored to be carved by Zigong himself), "Tang Wu Daozi painted Confucius sword map" and "the holy Wenxuan Wang Temple worship Zhu Yin", etc., and some of the clansmen moved south, and later lived in Quzhou, Zhejiang, known as Nanzong in history.

In fact, if you really talk about it, although this Kong Yinzhi's Northern Sect is also the grandson of Confucius, in the final analysis, it is just a "fake" Yan Shenggong sealed by the Jin people to stabilize the Central Plains.

At present, the Kong clan of Nanzong is headed by Kong Zhenyun, who was an official in the imperial court not long ago, and once served as a scholar of the Ministry of Rites, a scholar of Wenyuan Pavilion, and an auxiliary government in the cabinet.

However, in the tenth year of Chongzhen, due to the conflict between Kong Zhenyun and Guo Jingchang on the issue of official selection, they were impeached by him, and in the end, the two of them did not turn well, Guo Jingchang won the throne, and Kong Zhenyun was directly dismissed.

At present, Kong Zhenyun has lived in Jiande Mountain for five years without worry, and compared with Kong Yinzhi's practice of betraying his ancestor Shiqing, he has much backbone.

Historically, after the fall of the Ming Dynasty, Kong Zhenyun was crying and hunger strike, and it is said that he was still crying bitterly at the last moment before he died, which was regarded as crying to death.

On the night after Wang Zheng calmly left, the captured Confucius students were put in a sack and thrown back, and it was not until this time that Kong Yinzhi flickered and remembered.

In fact, to put it mildly, what Wang Zheng gave himself was just a blank check, and if you think about it carefully, what he said was also a temporary response, and he didn't necessarily have the courage to do it.

According to this agreement, the salt of the Security Division will not appear around the Confucian Mansion, and the scope of the Confucian Mansion's activities can be regarded as expanding to the entire Qufu City, but it is still impossible to leave the city half a step.

Moreover, Wang Zheng naturally left a back hand, and people in the Confucian Mansion would secretly follow them from the spy department, and every move would be reported to the military case in Licheng.

In addition, Wang Zheng said that he would also respect the Confucian Mansion of the Northern Sect, but everyone knew that no matter what the Confucian Mansion or Wang Zheng meant, from this incident onwards, there would be no intersection between the two parties on weekdays.

As for those who are respected or not, there is no need to worry too much, now in this world, who is not under the banner of respecting the Holy Father of Yan on the bright side, Wang Zheng is naturally not stupid, even if he does not respect in his heart, he will not say it.

Kong Yinzhi may have been frightened by Wang Zheng at that time, saying that the acres and tenant farmers to which Confucius belonged were all the people of the Ming Dynasty, and all the ghosts and gods sent them had to be handed over to the Shandong army for management.

At that time, this sentence seemed to be a joke between the two sides, but after Wang Zheng went back, he took it seriously, and directly sent someone to take over the hundreds of acres of fields and farmers belonging to the Confucian Mansion, and someone came to swear that this was also what Confucius Shenggong meant.

The water that spilled out of the words was spilled, especially for a holy prince like Kong Yinzhi, who was eye-catching in the world, and he could only swallow it in his stomach if he broke his teeth.

It stands to reason that Kong Yinzhi, the prince of Yansheng, who has been in Qufu for generations, is a first-class member and the head of the civil officials of the class, no matter how he says it, he is more responsible than this little loyal uncle.

But Wang Zheng went to the Confucian Mansion, and the seemingly fair conditions negotiated between the two sides were actually equivalent to kneeling down and surrendering to Wang Zheng, which was not beneficial to the Confucian Mansion at all.

After Wang Zheng returned that day, he instructed Dong Youyin and the four to keep it strictly secret, although the news was not revealed, but the Kong clan in Qufu could no longer raise their heads in front of the Shandong army.

They all know that the reason why Wang Zheng held this news and didn't spread it was to blackmail the Confucian Mansion, and the Kong clan people cared about face, if it was spread out, it would damage the majesty of the Holy Duke of Yan himself in Shilin, not to mention, and it would also hit the reputation of the Kong clan.

If ordinary people are like the gentry of the major wealthy families who belonged to the Shandong Army in the last inventory, to this point, Wang Zheng may give them a sweet date to reassure them, but the other party is the Confucian Mansion that gathers the world's corporal Lin Dacheng, and they can only completely suppress them and dare not raise their heads.

Thousands of years of inheritance, the Kong family, as an incomparable force, took advantage of the famine year, but also annexed a large area of land around Qufu, absorbing a large number of homeless farmers as tenant farmers, in fact, in Shandong in addition to Lu Wangfu and Wang Zheng.

The Shandong army didn't attack them at first, but this time Wang Zheng came to the door in person, and even bluffed and deceived the so-called Yansheng Gong Kong Yinzhi to scare the group, and said in person that he could let the Shandong army be transferred.

This is equivalent to opening the Pandora cartridge, and the Shandong soldiers are taking advantage of this reason to encroach on the land of Confucius around Qufu step by step.

After years of accumulation, the property of the Confucian Mansion on the periphery of Qufu has reached a very huge point, and one of the two largest landlords in Shandong was like a fat pig and sheep at this time, after all, it was swallowed up by Wang Zheng little by little.

In this time of chaos in the world, any agreement is nonsense, just an excuse to do it.

You have a big fist, even if it is just to scare the other party, they will believe it without doubt, on the contrary, if it is Liu Zeqing who comes this time, even if he drives the soldiers and horses outside the Confucian Mansion and swears that he will attack, people will not catch a cold, and it is very likely that they will shout for the sacrifice of their lives for the country and join you, this is the same reason.

The two completely opposite results are not whether the people in the Confucian Mansion are tough or not, in the final analysis, it all depends on the strength of the comers.

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During the Spring Festival, some soldiers and generals of the Shandong Army went home in batches to conduct the Spring Festival, and in March, they returned to the barracks in various places one after another to be on duty.

Unlike other places, several officers of the regular barracks around Qufu received an urgent military order as soon as they returned, saying that they would immediately transfer their headquarters to Qufu City to assist the local barracks and security personnel in redividing the acres and peasant households.

Under the leadership of Kong Yinzhi, the then Yansheng Gong, Qufu Confucius Mansion has become a lamb to be slaughtered by the king's soft underbelly, and he can't run or resist.

Batches of Shandong soldiers will come to Qufu and brazenly seize the property that originally belonged to the Confucian Mansion, and write the names of Zhongliebo and Zuodu Governor Wang Zheng in the booklets, and then distribute those tenant farmers to households in batches.

In the Qufu area, just like the Jinan Mansion where Wang Zheng had just been appointed as the chief soldier of Shandong, the work of dividing fields and land and registering them was a lot of noise.