After Li Mingrui said, Zhu Youxiao nodded and asked Li Mingrui: "There are countless descendants of the saints, since you are an official of the Ministry of Rites, you should know who is the real successor of the Yan Shenggong, since you are here, you can go to check the genealogy of the Confucian family, just say that it is me, especially the Southern Sect that refuses to seek for other races, now that China has been restored for more than two hundred years, they cannot but fight, and the world is suppressed by the Northern Sect." Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info"

Li Mingrui understood that Zhu Youxiao meant to completely deny Kong Yinzhi's family from the Kong family tree, and this kind of research work naturally would not be difficult for him, and he believed that Nanzong would also support him to do such a big thing.

"Your Majesty, Weichen still has a matter before he can be revealed, the next official accidentally asked about Kong Zhiqi's family background one day, and accidentally learned that he was originally from Quzhou, and he is also a saint, he should belong to the Nanzong lineage, and he is now rooted in Qufu, according to the minister's view, you might as well ask and start with him, Kong Zhiqi has no queen, who is the Yan Shenggong in the future, it is still up to Your Majesty to decide."

Zhu Youxiao glanced at Li Mingrui in surprise, and secretly thought that this Li Mingrui's name deserved to have the word "Rui", and he could always think of himself in front of him and solve his own problems.

"Well, this matter is up to you, I will let Wei Zhongxian and the Hanlin Academy cooperate with you", Zhu Youxiao said and turned to leave.

"Weichen Command", Li Mingrui said that he immediately wrote a secret letter to his servant to take to Quzhou that night, from the personal relationship, he and the Southern Sect Confucius had a closer relationship, and even several of them were in the same year when they went to school together, and they had also seen the suppression of the Southern Sect by the Northern Sect and the domineering of the Northern Sect, so he is now also very active in doing this great thing that can be brilliant in Confucianism.

Li Mingrui's letter from Li Ge Lao soon reached the hands of the patriarch of the Kong clan of the Southern Sect, and the patriarch of the Kong clan, Kong Zhenyun, the hereditary doctor of the Five Classics of the Hanlin Academy, immediately opened the ancestral hall and summoned the respected people of his clan to discuss the matter of the secret books of the current university scholars and asking them to immediately send the family tree to him.

Kong Zhenyun is not stupid, and he learned from the newspaper in recent days that His Majesty wants to implement the integration of officials and gentry in Shandong to pay grain, and he also smelled the meaning of Li Gelao's move, and Li Mingrui called him a descendant of Confucius's eldest grandson in the letter, and the meaning is even clearer, that is, the imperial court intends to elevate the position of their southern sect.

Kong Zhenyun immediately personally took the family tree from the ancestral hall and sent his eldest grandson Kong Shangqian to immediately go north to give Li Ge Lao a view, and at the same time there were several old scholars with academic authority in the family faction inheritance, and of course, there was also a letter to Zhu Youxiao from Kong Zhenyun, saying that after the saint, he was indifferent to fame and fortune, only for the sake of loyalty to the monarch and the benefit of the people of the world, regardless of his own gains and losses.

Nanzong has lost Yanshenggong for hundreds of years, so for them, what they care more about is not whether they pay food or not, but about their reputation, the orthodox name that has lost many years, not to mention paying grain, as long as they can get their reputation, let them donate their land, anyway, they are now mainly engaged in business.

Kong Zhiqi carefully saluted Li Mingrui: "The grass people have seen Li Ge Lao. ”

"The old man doesn't have to be so polite, as far as the official knows, you are also a saint?" , Li Mingrui helped Kong Zhiqi up, and ordered someone to make him a bowl of tea.

Kong Zhiqi, who was still immersed in the pain of losing his daughter, didn't understand what Li Mingrui meant by asking like this, and thought that Li Mingrui was going to punish him, and after blaming him for blaspheming the saint, he hurriedly knelt down again: "After the grass people lost their words that day and didn't dare to pretend to be a saint, please forgive the master!" ”

"Hurry up, this official doesn't mean this, now Your Majesty is benevolent, respectful of Confucianism and heavy teaching, since you are a saint, this official has already played the saint, the saint intends to give you a background, you can't help but appreciate it, you now tell me in detail, your family lineage, it is naturally better to have a family tree", Li Mingrui said and patted the volume of the Kong family tree that he brought from the Hanlin Academy in front of his case.

"Yes, it's more dilapidated than that, it was handed down from the grass people's family, and I have been with me since I came here with my father to join as a tenant, but it has nothing to do with Yan Shenggong, and the grass people don't dare to desecrate the holy vein", Kong Zhiqi pointed to the genealogy in Li Mingrui's hand and said.

Li Mingrui understands that the reason why Kong Zhiqi doesn't even dare to say it is because the patriarchal law is very strict now, and there is a difference between the concubines, and he Kong Zhiqi does not dare to challenge the authority of the patriarchy, not to mention that in reality, he is still a tenant farmer who depends on Kong Yan's Holy Mansion to survive, so he does not dare to challenge Kong Yinzhi, who dominates his own existence.

In Kong Zhiqi's eyes, Kong Yan Shenggong is a very good person, helping the people, and giving them some kindness during the New Year's holidays, but the same Kong Yan Shenggong is also a very dignified person, if the Kong family tenants who are dedicated to his family dare to make a mistake in religious etiquette, especially the inheritance of saints, they will have to open an ancestral hall, and even the family will be beaten to death.

"You don't have to worry, in the family, although there is a descendant, the order of the eldest and youngest, but they are all in the same lineage, although there is a hierarchy of etiquette, but the bloodline should be treated equally, now since the two Song Dynasty, the north and the south are divided, Han and Hu are miscellaneous, your Kong clan is also falling apart, scattered everywhere, when the Taizu received the heart of the northern Shilin, and the northern sect was named the Holy Prince, but who is orthodox, in the end it is undecided, now His Majesty is wise, want to book the descendants of the saints from the new, you have a family tree, when you can present it for the court to see, if it is really the descendants of the saints, Your Majesty gave you a background, I don't know. ”

What Li Mingrui said also made Kong Zhiqi a little moved, although he did not dare to desecrate the Holy Duke of Kong Yan, he did not dare to resist the life of this pavilion elder and the emperor's will.

Kong Zhiqi told Li Mingrui where he hid his family tree.

After Li Mingrui hurriedly ordered someone to get it, he watched it for a long time, and after closing it, he summoned Kong Zhiqi again, this time he simply helped Kong Zhiqi to sit under himself:

"If it is really a saint, but your genealogy is not complete, there are still many things that need to be verified, a few days later, the people of the Kong clan of the Southern Sect will come, they have complete information, and at the same time, His Majesty has been examined by the will of the Hanlin official, and when the time comes, I will rebuild the family tree for you to corroborate."

Kong Zhiqi, an ordinary tenant farmer, also didn't understand what the Southern and Northern Sects were, and as soon as he saw what this old man said about the Hanlin Academy, he felt even more that this was a high platform that he couldn't get on, since it must be a good thing for people to rebuild the family tree for themselves, so he was busy thanking him, and he didn't care about these rich and poor people who had become a lonely old man, and now he was just waiting for the day when his daughter was wronged and Zhaoxue, and he didn't care too much about other things.

Li Mingrui presented Kong Zhiqi's genealogy to Zhu Youxiao: "Your Majesty, this is Kong Zhiqi's genealogy, it just happens to only record the fifth generation, the farthest is only Hongwuchu, so it is easy to operate, when the time comes, when Nanzong arrives, the faction will be connected, and Kong Zhiqi will become the eldest grandson, Nanzong has coveted the throne of Yan Shenggong for a long time, let Kong Zhiqi become Yan Shenggong, and His Majesty promised to select one person from Nanzong to succeed Kong Zhiqi in the future, and Nanzong will not agree." ”

Zhu Youxiao nodded after hearing this: "You have done a good job in this matter, isn't he Kong Yinzhi just relying on his own descendants of saints and daring to ignore my will, I will let him see who is the master of this world, there are so many Kong families in the world, I don't believe that I can't find an obedient one." (To be continued.) )