Zhu Youzhen walked into the Confucian Mansion.

At this time, the Confucian Mansion was already in chaos.

In the past, the Kong family was only old and weak, women and children, and they were still confined in the house, trembling and looking at the civil officials outside who were like robbers.

And on their heads are Confucian men who are hung up one by one.

When Zhu Youzhen entered the main hall of the Confucian Mansion, he happened to see three members of the Kong family with big bellies and poop being hung on the beams of the house.

"Your Majesty, this is Kong Yinzhi's uncle and second brother, as well as the fifth brother who has just tried to raise people in Zhongxiang."

Li Mingrui, who was half-rolled up his sleeves, walked over with a pen in one hand and an account book in the other.

Then, Li Mingrui said: "These people are finally martyred, and they are not in vain to receive the grace of the country." ”

Zhu Youzhen just smiled.

He didn't know how to evaluate this group of crazy civil officials, and forcibly made the Confucian family do something they were unwilling to do.

At this moment, he saw Shi Kefa carrying out boxes of silver with several civil officials.

And Chen Chunde, the left deputy capital, smashed the wall everywhere with a hammer, saying that the gentry had always hidden the silver in the wall.

His Chen family is a tea merchant for generations, and the Confucian family's money can't hide it from him.

The left waiter of the household department was collecting the statistics of the income from the house, and said vigorously that it was not enough: "The booklet of the household department records that he owns more than 100,000 hectares of land in the Confucian Mansion, and it is impossible to just have such a little silver!" ”

As soon as the civil officials heard this, they continued to frantically search the Confucian Mansion.

Zhu Youzhen could see it.

This group of civil officials was completely insane, they not only wanted the Confucian family to be martyred to achieve the desired result in their hearts, but also asked Confucius to hand over all the family property.

It seems that this will satisfy them that this is what a family of selfless saints should be.

The civilian clique of the Ming Dynasty has always been a formidable force.

This is a product of the imperial examination system and the suppression of literature and martial arts.

The social elite, from the lowest to the top, are concentrated in this group.

Since orthodoxy, the Ming Dynasty has prospered and died because of them.

Zhu Youzhen knew that what he needed as an emperor was to harness this terrible force.

Neither can be led by the nose by this group of people, nor can there be too much estrangement from this group of people, and they will not get along with each other.

Because in doing so, both the former and the latter will bring disaster to Daming.

For example, in the first few years of the former's rule, he trusted the Donglin Party and aggravated the people's hardship.

The latter, like the Wanli Emperor period, led to the decadence of the government.

And now this group of civil officials happened to be used by Zhu Youzhen to deal with the Kong family.

Civil officials represent the interests of the gentry class, and letting them dispose of the Confucian family is tantamount to a struggle within the gentry class.

Zhu Youzhen, the emperor, will naturally not offend the gentry of the whole world.

As for the crazy civil officials, they don't worry about the consequences at all.

At least so far, the control of public opinion in the whole world is in their hands, and they can explain it however they want.

Even if it is forcibly said that the Confucian Sect of the Northern Sect is full of martyrdom and donates all the family assets for national use, it is estimated that some people will choose to believe it.

Zhu Youzhen naturally will not deal with this group of civil officials who have been used by himself.

After all, he himself is a beneficiary of this.

From the high-ranking officials of the ministry to the imperial historians and the Hanlin officials who have never been stained with copper, they did not care about their image at all.

Boxes of silver were carried out by them and registered.

As for antique jade, as the two Jinshi of the five cars of the rich and rich, they can be valued at a glance.

Shi Kefa hadn't closed his eyes for three days and three nights.

When Shen Jiayun was tired, he fell asleep on top of a pile of silver, and continued to register after waking up.

Without the help of Jinyiwei and others, the civil officials who had been busy for several days dug up more than six million taels of cash in the Confucian Mansion!

At this point, the Confucian Sect of the Northern Sect was destroyed by the civil officials, and all his family property was confiscated!

More than six million taels, this figure is already equivalent to about three times the annual income of the current Ming treasury.

Zhu Youzhen had to admit that this Confucian Mansion was undoubtedly a big moth that dragged down the Ming Dynasty, and it was also a big moth that had existed for hundreds of years.

Perhaps in the entire Shandong territory, the property of the rich Kong family is already worth a royal mansion.

However, getting more than 6 million taels at once, for Zhu Youzhen, undoubtedly made his southward preparation funds a lot more sufficient.

Coupled with the remaining more than one million taels, he now has about eight million taels of silver.

This number is already enough to build a strong army and support a big war.

The gentry and chaebols in Jiangnan wanted to use economic domination to make it more difficult for him.

You must know that just three months ago, he, Zhu Youzhen, was worried about a mere 1 million taels of silver, and had to ask the minister for help.

Now he has more than 8 million taels of silver alone.

Zhu Youzhen's waist is naturally a lot stiffer, Da Ming has always hidden wealth from the people, he can improve the financial situation by cleaning up a local tyrant casually.

Seriously.

Zhu Youzhen has now begun to think about whether he doesn't need to be polite to the gentry in Jiangnan after he arrives in Jiangnan.

You must know that the merchants in Jiangnan are even richer in the world, and there are also world-famous Hui merchants.

Even if you can get rid of the big pirate Zheng Zhilong, I'm afraid that you will get more wealth.

On the day of departure from Yanzhou.

Zhu Youzhen once again summoned the ministers.

"There is no male in the Confucian Mansion left, and you Aiqing are really ruthless, let's talk about it, how to explain this matter to the people of the world, will Jiannu use this as an excuse to reproach us and others, saying that we don't respect Confucius and Mencius."

The reason why Zhu Youzhen said this is to see how the ministers who have passed these impulses will deal with the aftermath.

"Your Majesty, the tragedy of the Confucian Mansion was caused by the thief Tian Jianxiu who raided Yanzhou, we were just passing by!"

Huaiyang Governor Li Mingrui's words made Zhu Youzhen dumbfounded.

Zhu Youzhen hurriedly asked the other ministers: "You all think so?" ”

"Yes, the ministers think so!" The ministers replied in unison.

Zhu Youzhen admired the cunning of his group of civil officials very much, he didn't expect this group of people to dump this pot of destroying the hole to Li Zicheng.

"It's okay, Li Zicheng has already carried the pot that robbed Chen Yuanyuan for me, and now it is nothing to carry the pot of destroying the hole gate for you, anyway, one pot is the back, and the two pots are also back, he Li Zicheng was born to be a man who carries the pot, and thieves have no human rights, which is a thing that has existed since ancient times."

Zhu Youzhen slandered a few words, and then ordered: "Li Mingrui, let you write an essay to tell the world, I am deeply sympathetic to the tragedy of Confucius falling into the disaster of the Rogues, but I am also deeply ashamed of the speculation of Confucius's surrender to Li Zicheng and preparing to surrender Jiannu. ”

"Your Majesty, Weichen has already written it in advance, please take a look at it!"

Li Mingrui handed it over as he spoke.

Zhu Youzhen took a look, and indeed achieved the goal of throwing the pot of the Confucian family's destruction to Li Zicheng and letting the ugly behavior of the Confucian sect of the Northern Sect spread all over the world.

"Tell the world."