Yanzhou Mansion, this is almost like the private kingdom of Confucius, before Zhao Yan did not control the administrative power of Yanzhou, Confucius, the overlord here.

Everyone in the world can be regarded as the protégé of the Confucian Mansion, so all officials who come to Yanzhou to take office do not care about the Confucian Mansion, and they are even more partial to the Confucian Mansion.

The Confucian government itself was a tax-free class, and with the government's continuous cooperation with their nearly two hundred years of expansion, a huge group had been formed.

There are no less than 10,000 children of the Confucian family, and a strict system has been formed inside and outside.

The core members, the marginal members, each have their own industries, and they are also of different sizes, but most of the industries are in the hands of the core members of the Confucian Mansion, and those who are on the fringes of the Confucian family, some of them are even poor.

The Confucian Mansion is involved in commerce and agriculture, and of course they have the most land, and the land in the hands of the core personnel is more than 5 million mu.

There has been little development in business in recent years.

Because Zhao Yan didn't bird their Confucian Mansion, there was no purchase channel for selling glass mirrors, and other aspects were even more frustrated, and the business was robbed by Shandong businessmen.

In the past, it was fine when local officials favored them, but after Zhao Yan took control of the administrative power of Yanzhou Mansion, the Confucian Mansion faced a different form.

Without the collusion between the government and the Confucian government, even many of the profit points in Yanzhou have been lost, and now there are still some hotels and pawnshops, restaurants and other industries that are still profitable.

Now the Confucian Mansion can only rely on the land.

Due to the increase in labor costs and the fact that a large number of laborers have gone to Denglai, the Confucian government does not have enough tenants, so it now plans to turn all the 5 million acres of arable land in its hands into farms.

Playing the farm model on this highly economical farmland...... Isn't this looking for a draw? Zhao Yan definitely wants to smoke them, because Xisanfu is his important cotton-producing area.

He played with agriculture and a fart cotton.

Resolutely confiscated.

Up and down the Confucian Mansion, I have also felt some weird atmosphere recently.

It can be seen from the "Daming Daily" that the Zheng Mansion in Shandong is focusing on their heads, but the Confucian Mansion is fearless.

They are the big family that has been inherited for thousands of years after the Confucian saints, who is he afraid of?

The Confucian Mansion believes that there is no eternal dynasty, but there is an eternal Confucian Mansion. No matter who takes over the world, the first one will come to win them over.

This is already a habit of the formation of successive dynasties.

Confucius is naturally fearless.

But he was still very angry with Zhao Yan, and the head of the Kong family scolded Zhao Yan every day for martial arts or something.

Now Shandong is engaged in education on a large scale, and there is no need for Confucianism.

Confucius still had a sense of crisis, but he was helpless against Zhao Yan. At the same time, there was also some luck in his heart, thinking that Zhao Yan would not succeed in the end.

…… The looming of the Confucian Mansion soon began, and through the intelligence collection of the Ministry of Intelligence, some stains on the commercial operations of the Confucian Mansion were soon unearthed.

At the same time, Confucius also killed two slaves last year. But these stains were not enough to bring down the Confucian government.

At the end of March, there was a jaw-dropping incident in the Confucian Mansion, and a servant of the Confucian Mansion revealed to the reporter of the "Daming Daily" that the head of the Confucian Mansion was actually engaged in picking up ashes.

As soon as it was published, it became explosive news.

was published together, and the incident of Confucius beating two domestic slaves to death, the Ming Dynasty clearly stipulated that private individuals were not allowed to be tortured.

At the same time, there are all kinds of ugly inside stories of collusion between officials and businessmen.

The stain of the Confucian Mansion and the scandal of the surname broke out together, and immediately stirred up a thousand waves with one stone, and all the soldiers in the world were dumbfounded.

However, the newspaper also listed various personal and physical evidence.

The evidence of the collusion and death of domestic slaves by officials and businessmen is extremely conclusive, but in terms of the scandal of the surname, there is no evidence, just a revelation from the next person.

But such a thing, even if Confucius has a mouth, it is difficult to distinguish.

Let's say I didn't pick up the ashes! There is no wind and no waves. Let's talk about picking up ashes! It is not ruled out that the possible surname of framing.

However, when such a powerful news was published in a newspaper like "Daming Yuebao", which was almost distributed in the whole Ming Dynasty, most of the people who did not have much skepticism about the real surname of the news believed that the head of the Confucian family had the behavior of picking up ashes.

What a scandal! If the common people behave like this, they will be immersed in the pig cage.

Then the "Daming Daily" reported on the extravagance of money in the life of the Confucian Mansion, and the fact that during the Shandong disaster during the Wanli period more than 20 years ago, the Confucian Mansion did not give a grain of rice.

Qilu is known as the state of ritual music, but in the catastrophe more than 20 years ago, there was a phenomenon of cannibalism on the street, and Confucius has existed for thousands of years, which is not only the binding of ritual and music, why is there such an ugly phenomenon?

The "Daming Daily" discussed this issue.

Why did the Confucian Mansion, which existed for thousands of years, not change the atmosphere of Shandong? Is the existence of Confucius really beneficial to the people of the world?

Confucius, which was pushed to the forefront of the storm by the "Daming Daily", is already a chicken and dog jumping at this moment.

The head of the Confucian family was furious, and the letters were constantly sent out, explaining everywhere the problems disclosed in the "Daming Daily". However, the Confucian government was powerless to prevent the "Daming Yuebao" from continuing its attack.

After all, the Confucian Mansion has no power and no soldiers, and Zhao Yan has soldiers and is not controlled by anyone, who will stop him?

Although the Confucian Mansion continues to send letters, can this efficiency be compared to the "Daming Newspaper"? "Daming Yuebao" spread the newspaper to the whole country, that is almost known to the world, many people saw the news in the "Daming Yuebao", the impression of Confucius became very interesting!

Dust!

It's so funny.

This topic is so hot that Confucius's behavior of picking up ashes soon became a hot topic of discussion after dinner.

However, the Confucian government was not without influence, and soon the "Daming Yuebao" received many letters criticizing the newspaper, and scholars from all over the country had them.

According to the usual, the contents of these letters were to be published in the Daming Daily, but this time, the person in charge of the newspaper hurriedly asked Zhao Yan how to deal with it.

"We can deal with it as we want, and if we don't send it out, our reputation will soon be bad." Zhao Yan didn't care about these comments criticizing the newspapers and periodicals, anyway, the "Daming Daily" didn't say that there must be such a thing, but someone from the Confucian Mansion revealed the news to reporters.

Moreover, sending out these comments also makes it appear that the "Daming Daily" is above board, and as long as some rebuttals are added below these comments, most readers can choose to believe the "Daming Daily".

It's okay not to believe it, more vicious tricks are still to come.

While he was jumping up and down in the Confucian Mansion to clarify the matter, Zhao Yan directly led his troops to Yanzhou and surrounded the Confucian Mansion.

The people in the Confucian Mansion were frightened.

This time, Zhao Yan personally went out, surrounded the Confucian Mansion, and immediately ordered the house to be raided.

Copy it out first!

The Confucian Mansion has existed for thousands of years, and the process of development is about five or six hundred years.

If you don't copy the Confucian Mansion, Zhao Yan's heart is itching.

With Zhao Yan's order, hundreds of soldiers poured into the Confucian Mansion and entered the procedure of raiding the house, and in less than twenty minutes, all the people inside the Confucian Mansion were already under control.

Then you can start to confiscate the property in the Confucian Mansion.

The people of the Confucian Mansion were all frightened and stupid, how could the Shandong Army suddenly rush into the Confucian Mansion? Before they could react, a large group of soldiers loaded them into the prison van.

"General, the treasury has been found." As soon as the raid began, soldiers came to report.

"Okay, let's take a look." Zhao Yan was shocked and rushed to check it out in person.

It was a cellar, after Zhao Yan walked down the cellar, he found that the cellar was very large, at least more than 200 square meters, and it really took a lot of effort to make such a large cellar.

When I walked down, I immediately felt a chill.

"General, this is their ice cellar, and the lower floor is where the silver is placed."

"Grass, make so many famous halls." Zhao Yan criticized in his heart, and then led the soldiers down the lower floor of the ice cellar.

The next floor is obviously much smaller, but just walking in, I saw a lot of red lacquered wooden boxes.

Zhao Yan asked the wooden box to be opened, and after the wooden box was opened, it was full of white silver. The wooden boxes were constantly opened by the soldiers, and each box revealed silver.

When the lowest chest was opened, what was revealed was gold, at least a dozen chests of gold.

"At least six hundred taels of silver, and at least five hundred thousand taels of gold." The professionals in Zhao Yan's belt made a rough estimate and reported to Zhao Yan.

"Yes, move them all back." Zhao Yan said with a smile.

"General, the title deed has been found." At this time, someone came to report that the person behind was carrying a small box of five miles, and opened the small box, and inside was a contract.

Each small box contains a different deed, some are specially equipped with land deeds, some are specially equipped with house deeds, some are specially equipped with shop deeds, and some are specially equipped with usury receipts...... There are hundreds of them.

With these land deeds, the property of Confucius will also be wiped out.

Zhao Yan immediately ordered someone to take these things outside and continue to raid the house!

The raid lasted for most of the day, and all the valuable gold and silver treasures inside and outside the Confucian Mansion were all stolen by Zhao Yan, leaving only one Confucian Mansion there.

Then Zhao Yan took the soldiers and horses back to Zhaojiabao, and at the same time asked people to arrest the core members of the Kong family, and left a platoon of soldiers to guard the Confucian Mansion.

In this era, information transmission was not developed, and after Zhao Yan copied the Confucian Mansion, no one knew about it for a while.

Zhao Yan, who returned to Zhaojiabao, immediately asked the "Daming Daily" to publish the news that 'Confucius collaborated with the enemy and treason, and exchanged markets with Jianyu'.

This trick is absolutely perfect.

A big hat that traded with the Manchu Qing Dynasty was buttoned down, and the Confucian Mansion could be described as indistinguishable. After all, Zhao Yan conquered Liaodong, confiscated many documents left by the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and fabricated one casually, and others could not say that it was fake.

At the same time, Zhao Yan also found a peripheral member of the Confucian Mansion - Kong Wenbin, Kong Wenbin is a member of the Confucian family who is closer to the core, but outside the core, and was kicked out of the Confucian Mansion because of bad habits such as gambling.

Since then, Kong Wenbin has a bitter hatred for Kong Fu, and he lost a mess in the casino, so as soon as the intelligence department found him, he immediately agreed to cooperate.

The Daming newspaper planned for three days and sent out the new issue layout.

...... "On the eighth day of the first month of March, General Jianwei suddenly led his troops to the Confucian Mansion and arrested all the core personnel of the Kong family present. According to the Ministry of Police, the Confucian Mansion is suspected of transporting Shandong war materials to Liaodong at sea in the seventh, eighth and ninth years of Chongzhen, and trading them in Jianyu, and the amount involved is as high as 3 million taels......

"According to the details learned by the reporter, Chongzhen's seven-year transaction was presided over by the core personnel of the Confucian Mansion 'Kong Wenbin', and after Kong Wenbin heard about the task handed over by the Confucian Mansion, he rejected the matter with great righteousness and awe, and as a result, he annoyed the Confucian Mansion and Kong Wenbin was expelled from the Confucian family. According to Kong Wenbin, the ship of Confucius set off on May 6 of the seventh year of Chongzhen, and was loaded with gunpowder, pig iron, weapons and other materials, and even plate armor used by the Shandong army......"

"The reason why the Shandong army found that Confucius collaborated with the enemy and treason was that when fighting in Liaodong, it was found that Jianyu was wearing the plate armor equipped by the Shandong army, which was not unique to the Shandong army, but the plate armor of the Westerners was slightly different from the appearance and color used by the Shandong army, and there was no possibility of admitting mistakes. At the same time, it was also discovered that the number of plate armor possessed by the Jianyu was very large, and there were thousands of pairs. The Shandong Army had previously sold a certain amount of plate armor to Shandong merchants because they had helped Shandong merchants train their merchant guards, but how did this fall into the hands of Jianyu? ”

Unable to understand it, the Shandong army launched an investigation in Shandong immediately after the launch of the attack on Liao in the ninth year. Some clues were quickly obtained, but the evidence was not conclusive. In the winter of the tenth year, the Shandong Army launched the 'Winter Offensive', and recovered the entire territory of Liaodong in 18 days. After conquering Shenyang, a file was seized, which clearly recorded the number of transactions between Confucius and Jianyu and the amount of transactions......"

At the same time, Kong Wenbin, who was expelled from the Confucian Mansion, could not tolerate the actions of the Confucian Mansion and reported the case to the Shandong Police Department. According to the Ministry of Police, there are still 36 core members of the Confucian Government who are still at large, and they are not expected to be posted nationwide. ”

"The Confucian Mansion is morally corrupt, and heaven does not tolerate it, and he is ashamed to be a saint. However, after the Confucian saint, he should open the net. The inheritance of Confucius must not be interrupted, and hereby, the general wants to ask the cabinet to appoint 'Kong Wenbin' as the head of the Confucian family, the seventy-second generation of the heir of Confucius, and inherit all the innocent property of the Confucian Mansion......"

"The sage of the other ancient times is not Confucius, and Lao Tzu Li Er can also be called a saint, so General Jianwei wants to ask the cabinet to crown the sixty-eighth generation of Lao Tzu's successor 'Li Yuan' as the queen of Li Sage......"

Whether Li Shengren has a son or not, this is not very clear.

However, the Tang Dynasty had a seal, and the Li family still exists, but the clan members are very scattered, looking for it from the genealogy, and the most qualified to inherit it is this 'Li Yuan'.

As soon as this issue of "Daming Yuebao" came out, the whole Shandong was boiling, and almost everyone was accusing Confucius of his ugly behavior.

People in other provinces were in an uproar when they saw the "Daming Daily", but the "Daming Daily" said that there were all human and material evidence, and there were many more people who believed in this matter than those who did not.

And most importantly, Zhao Yan did not shake the position of the Confucian Mansion.

Regarding the matter of raiding the house, Zhao Yan made people keep silent in the newspaper, and people's attention was not focused on it, and Li Wenbin inherited all the innocent property of the Confucian family, Zhao Yan only gave Li Wenbin the big mansion of the Confucian Mansion, and gave him 5,000 taels of living expenses, so it was dismissed, and all other properties were confiscated.

Even if people suspect Zhao Yan of fraud, there is no way to investigate, Zhao Yan can fabricate countless evidence casually, plus Zhao Yan controls the entire channel of public opinion, Daming Bao is very strong in guiding public opinion.

During the whole incident, people's eyes shifted to the issue of Confucius's collaboration with the enemy and treason, and how Shandong dealt with Confucius's personnel, and did not realize that Zhao Yan's real purpose was to raid his home.

Many scholars in the world have a supportive attitude towards this matter. Because Shandong Zhengaxe did not cancel the existence of the 'Confucian Mansion' because of this matter, but only set up another heir.

The only one who connects the family is Chongzhen.

He heard Zhao Yan say in Shandong that he wanted to copy the Jin merchants, but before the Jin merchants copied it, they first copied the Confucian Mansion. Chongzhen was not very clear about Confucius's treason, and even after reading the "Daming Daily", he still believed it a little.

After all, Zhao Yan's reputation is so good that Chongzhen can't help but believe in Zhao Yan's personality, but he has no insight into Zhao Yan's deep nature.

And Zhao Yan, in the midst of an uproar in the world, hid in Zhaojiabao to count the silver.

After counting, the seized silver amounted to 6.3 million taels, 450,000 taels of gold, and a total of 10.8 million taels in cash.

At the same time, there are also 5 million acres of land controlled by the core personnel of the Confucian Mansion, all of which are concentrated in the three eastern prefectures, and almost the entire Yanzhou is the land of the Confucian Mansion.

Five million acres of land, and it is the land of the three western prefectures. At present, the price of cultivated land in Xisanfu is 10 taels per mu of high-grade cultivated land, 8 taels for medium-grade cultivated land, and 5~2 taels for inferior ones.

In Shandong, where the economy is developing rapidly, the land price of the three western provinces has soared rapidly because of cotton planting.

These 5 million acres of land are worth more than 30 million taels, and it is okay to sell them to those merchants for 20 million taels.

Other pawnshops, inns, and restaurants, which are Confucian properties, can sell for about three or four million taels.

Copying a Confucian Mansion is enough for this year's military spending.

Zhao Yan was really surprised by the assets of the Confucian Mansion, if there was a wealth ranking, Zheng Zhilong should be ranked first, and the Confucian Mansion would be ranked second.

Of course, the reason why the assets of the Confucian Mansion are so valuable is also related to Zhao Yan, because Zhao Yan has made the land of the three mansions in Shandong and the West continue to increase in price.

Some vassal kings even had more land than Confucius's, and they even crossed several provinces, but their land was still very worthless.

However, the cash of the Confucian Mansion is relatively large, which is due to the Shandong people's business philosophy - to keep the original property, that is, to keep the original property, and then use part of the property to expand, but it will definitely not be too much capital industrialization, hoarding gold and silver is a very common phenomenon.

The Confucian Mansion is solved, and the next one is King Lu.

To deal with King Lu, the means can be gentle, after all, King Lu's behavior is not bad, unlike the Confucian Mansion that uses most of the cultivated land for farming, so Zhao Yan really can't bear it.

Of course, cotton can also be grown in the three eastern prefectures, and it can be grown in many places, but the question is where does the grain come from? Zhao Yan did not count on the commercial grain in the south, after all, the water conservancy in the southeast was too deserted, and it was very unsafe to buy grain, and there was no surplus grain to deal with some emergencies.

Take down King Lu, and then cancel Shandong's privileged and tax-free class, and the whole of Shandong will be completely digested by Zhao Yan......

(To be continued)