Chapter 215: The Great Purge
Zhu Youxiao was born in a petty bourgeois family in his previous life, with a solid family background and a high level of education, so he was not very angry about social problems, and his three views were in line with the mainstream, even when the doctor-patient relationship became more and more tense, he could maintain basic professionalism and ethics, and he was essentially an intellectual. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
Therefore, he did not want to exterminate these forces that represent the resistance to development and reform and are also the leaders of Ming culture, from the heart, Zhu Youxiao is very willing to coexist peacefully with them, and therefore, he has tried his best to reach a compromise with these vested interests through peaceful means from the beginning.
But when he became the emperor now, he found that his thoughts were a little naïve, sometimes the butcher's knife was his only choice, law and tolerance were leaving him, from the Donglin Party to the Jin Shang and then to the current Yansheng Mansion, Zhu Youxiao didn't know how many people he would kill in the future, how many people he would have to purge.
In the face of absolute military strength, it was only a matter of time for the Kong family to be eradicated, but people always naively thought that such a situation would not happen, so Kong Yinzhi chose confrontation, thus forcing Zhu Youxiao to choose a bloody purge.
After the Yansheng Mansion was destroyed, the water in the entire Qufu City was always red.
The former lush and majestic Confucian Mansion suddenly became desolate and barren, and those spirited Confucian Mansion slaves no longer appeared in the streets and alleys.
Of course, the people of Qu0 Fucheng will never see the respected Kong Yan Holy Father in their eyes again.
However, no one questioned the Praetorian Guards guarding outside the Confucian Mansion because of this, and the students in the county town were also ordered to be confined to the school.
Ordinary people, including the tenant farmers of the Confucian family, did not have any sympathy for the Confucian family, although the butcher's knife of His Majesty the Emperor today killed many people in front of them, but for them, it has nothing to do with them, and it is difficult for people to speculate on the contradictions and struggles within the ruling class, and even many times they do not care, at most they speculate after dinner.
Because that in itself has nothing to do with them.
Kong Wenshi came to Zhu Youxiao, and he already knew about the Kong family's ambush.
But at this time, Kong Wenshi did not have the slightest pity and pity in his heart, on the contrary, he unconsciously rose a wave of happiness in his heart.
A pleasure that has been suppressed by himself for decades, because of the constraints of the clan and the religion, the oppression of the children of the concubine by Yan Shenggong for many years has been relieved at this moment, and from now on, he will no longer have to carry a clan mountain, and for what family he has to bear the responsibility for crimes that he did not commit.
However, he doesn't seem to have time to enjoy a free life.
Kong Wenshi felt a sense of gratitude to His Majesty the Emperor, who was still lying on the spring bench in front of him, leaning on the red and green beside him, like a wealthy and noble son, and saluted Zhu Youxiao very reverently: "The sinner Kong Wenshi has seen Your Majesty. ”
"Do you know why I agreed to see you?"
Zhu Youxiao looked at the torn placket in front of him, and asked Kong Wenshi, who had aged for ten years in a trance.
Kong Wenshi replied: "The sinners are stupid, please make it clear to Your Majesty." ”
"Just because you have perjured for Kong Yinzhi, I can't spare you for the crime of bullying the king, but I heard Wang Chengen say that you want to testify in court again to expose Kong Yinzhi's crimes, so I summoned you, although Kong Yinzhi's conspiracy has been exposed, but his case of mutilating a young girl has not yet been concluded, and you are still needed as a witness, this is one of them; In addition, I want you to publish an article exposing Kong Yinzhi's crimes in the name of the descendants of the saints, and spread it all over the world; If you disobey one of these two things, your wife and children will end up like you, and if you do it to my satisfaction, I can spare you Ling Chi and give you a whole corpse to die, and your wife and children will also be supported by a special person. ”
As soon as Zhu Youxiao said this, Kong Wenshi's eyes couldn't help but flash with tears, and he knelt down excitedly: "Thank you, Your Majesty, please rest assured, Your Majesty knows what to do." ”
"Get up", frankly speaking, Zhu Youxiao doesn't hate this stubborn Kong Wenshi now, and even admires that he was able to put aside his personal grudge against Kong Yinzhi and give false testimony for him, which shows that Kong Wenshi is a person with a heart, and if such a person is used well, he can also become an important minister.
But it's a pity that Kong Wenshi does have the crime of bullying the king, Zhu Youxiao must kill him, and he is also a descendant of the Confucian Sect of the Northern Sect, although he has been removed from Kong Yinzhi, but Zhu Youxiao still does not like to let a Confucian of the Northern Sect exist, as long as it still exists, the people of Shan0dong will still be towards them.
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The task of capturing the other Confucian sects of the Northern Sect and the Confucian magistrates was entrusted to the governor of Shandong Yuan Keli and his governor Biaoying.
Although Yuan Keli's patrol standard battalion is not as effective as the Praetorian Guard, in the end, it is also from the border army that has fought with the Tartars in the Denglai area, so it is still possible to clean up a few officials in the inland and deter the guard army, but in the end there are not many people, so Zhu Youxiao transferred two Praetorian Guards, Zhu Youxiao is not sure whether the Kong Department has installed his own people among the military attachés in Shandong 0, but judging from Qin Botong's killing of Zhang Dongen, Zhu Youxiao is very glad that he let the Praetorian Guards dispatch.
Otherwise, maybe he, the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, would really be planted in the hands of Kong Yinzhi, and Kong Yinzhi might really be able to survive.
The Praetorian Guard got the will to control the yamen of the major government and the Confucian gentry, but did not arrest and judge, after all, the Praetorian Guard was mainly responsible for external military operations, and the internal bullet pressure was only an auxiliary function, and it was better for the governor Yuan Keli to come to this kind of political prestige.
After all, what Yuan Keli has to do next is to implement the integrated payment of grain by the officials and gentry, and Zhu Youxiao wants to let the entire gentry in Shandong know how powerful the governor Yuan Keli is.
The officers and soldiers of the Governor's Battalion rushed into the house of Zuobu political envoy Gu Tingzhuo in unison.
Shan 0 Dongcheng announced that the political envoy Si Ben was in Ji 0 Nanfu, but Gu Tingzhuo, the political envoy of Zuo Bu, also brought a cadre of his own political envoy to Yan 0 Prefecture on the grounds that His Majesty was in Qu 0 Fu, and his temporary residence was in Luo Maojin's prefect's yamen.
Gu Tingzhuo and Luo Maojin were originally sitting in the pavilion drinking tea and playing chess, and Kong Yinzhi, the Holy Prince, was able to escape Yuan Keli's interrogation, and in the end, it was Kong Wenshi who carried the black cauldron and made them breathe a sigh of relief, after all, once Kong Yinzhi was convicted of the crime and raided the house, the two of them could not escape the involvement.
But the two didn't dare to meet Zhu Youxiao again, so they hid in Yanzhou Mansion and gave Zhu Youxiao a confession and didn't dare to come to Qu 0 Fucheng again.
However, the two never expected that when the two thought that the wind and waves were about to calm down, and His Majesty would go down to the south of the Yangtze River today, suddenly a large group of Praetorian Guards broke into Yan0zhou City, and the defenders of Yan0zhou City did not dare to resist and directly opened the city and let the Praetorian Guards come in, and the Praetorian Guards surrounded the prefect's yamen as soon as they came.
By now, when the officers and soldiers of the Governor Biao Battalion came, Gu Tingzhuo and Luo Maojin had been hungry for two days and two nights.
"At the behest of His Majesty, Zuo Bu's political envoy Gu Tingzhuo and prefect Luo Maojin colluded with Kong Yinzhi to plot rebellion, and they were immediately dismissed from their posts and arrested by the governor pending trial!"