Zhang Zhiyuan sat and looked at the Confucian Mansion and murmured softly.

The words were sent to Kong Gongjian's ears.

"Ben will not understand the text, do not know the sages, only the knife in his hand, and look at the Confucian Mansion with peace of mind."

After Tang Coco's artistic processing, it fell into the ears of Kong Gongjian, the young but intelligent leader of the next generation of the Confucian Mansion, which was extremely harsh.

These words turned upside down, and they all seemed to be making promises to the Confucian Mansion, hoping that the Confucian family would not have to worry about what harm the traitors who were about to come in Zhang Zhiyuan's mouth could cause to the Confucian Mansion.

However, outside the Confucian Mansion, the Confucian family members who had turned from looking at the fields to watching the army were indignant and annoyed in their eyes.

It's not a promise.

This is a warning!

It comes from the inspiration of a small commander of the priest to the house of the Holy Prophet who has been passed down for thousands of years.

Kong Gongjian's eyes changed a little, and he silently looked at the heralds who rushed to the Confucian Mansion from the front of the army, even if he had been cultivating for twenty years, his heart was also set off with layers of anger.

A thousand-year-old family, how could he have suffered such humiliation.

It was when the Central Plains Shenzhou was sinking, and the Kong family was also the only one with the longest inheritance in this land.

As strong as a big man, he died.

Sheng is like the Tang Dynasty, dead.

Yingge Da Song is dead.

In the past, they all died in the vicissitudes of life, but the door is always open.

More than 20 years of benevolence and Confucianism shook at this moment. Kong Gongjian tried hard to suppress the anger in his heart, wanting to make his demeanor as the inheritor of the Confucian Mansion not lose his sense of proportion in front of this handful of Erqiu Ba.

"Please tell the general, the Confucian Mansion is grateful, and when the father of the family enters Beijing to meet the saint, he will praise the general's benevolence and righteousness."

The Ming Dynasty has no prime minister, but the Ming Dynasty still has Yan Shenggong.

When he entered the court, he was the first among the civil ministers, and he was actually the first in Confucianism in the world.

Naturally, the officers and soldiers did not understand what this young man from Confucius meant. A few heralds who stayed outside the Nine Sides all the year round and charged against the remnants of the former Yuan even measured Kong Gongjian unscrupulously with their eyes, and their eyes gradually became more contemptuous.

It seems that such unarmed scholars, who only know how to hold the scroll and pill on the knee of the beauty, they kill them like slaughtering chickens.

"Your house will reply, and I will bring it later."

The heralds left a word, and they didn't know if it was the horse's problem or whether it was deliberate. The officers and men who had never dismounted turned their horses' heads, and the hind hooves of the horses stepped on the gravel and dust on the ground, and they gently whipped with the whips.

In front of the eyes of Kong Gongjian and the other disciples of Confucius, they were covered by a cloud of flying sand and stones.

His younger brother was already furious, looked at the officers and soldiers in the distance, waved his robe and reprimanded angrily: "Soldiers, dare to be so arrogant and domineering in the Confucian Mansion!" Who supports the courage! ”

The anger swirled in the hearts of the people, and it could not be calmed down for a long time.

Then something that made the children of the Confucian Mansion led by Kong Gongjian even more angry has happened.

I saw that these officers and soldiers who had just arrived, after dismounting one after another, actually took out shovels and pickaxes. Someone began to take the courtyard wall of the Confucian Mansion as a starting point and measure the distance of a full five miles, although the distance was only in hand-held tools, and fell to the ground fiercely.

Peng.

The ground outside the Confucian Mansion was a little hard, and the tools in the hands of the officers and soldiers fell to the ground, making a muffled sound.

When it came to the ears of Kong Gongjian and others, it was extremely harsh.

"What the hell are they going to do!"

"Do you think that this will be able to dig down the wall of my Confucian Mansion?"

Several Confucian disciples chattered endlessly in Kong Gongjian's ear and scolded the rudeness and arrogance of the officials and soldiers.

However, the officers and soldiers did not care about the anger of these people.

Military orders have been issued from the Central Army, and the general asked them to dig ravines five miles outside the Confucian Mansion, cut down trees to build watchtowers, watchtowers, and even deer trap horse pits.

The military affairs were heavy, and no one cared about what the Confucian Mansion that was protected there would think.

When the officers and soldiers put down their swords and picked up hoes, shovels, and nail rakes, the entire outside of the Confucian Mansion became a huge construction site.

Several cavalrymen, rushing out from the Chinese army camp that was also under construction ten miles away, holding small horn flags with heralds in their hands, shouted at the officers and soldiers who were digging outside the entire Confucian Mansion.

"The general has an order, dig deep ravines, cut down trees, and today Confucius offers wine and meat to the army to reward the soldiers for their hard work."

The cavalrymen with the small horn banner in their hands kept shouting five miles away from the Confucian Mansion, and their voices echoed over and over again in the wilderness.

Originally, looking at the children of the Kong family digging a ditch at the door of their house, their hearts were already burning with anger, and when they heard such military orders at this moment, they almost rushed to the front, so as to reason with these officers and soldiers, when did the Kong family say that they would offer wine and meat to them.

"Brother, they are throwing my Kong family's face on the ground and trampling it at will!"

Kong Gongjian's younger brother was red, his eyes were spewing fire, he looked at Kong Gongjian, and complained loudly.

Seeing that Kong Gongjian didn't speak, his younger brother looked at the brothers in the clan around him.

"Brother Jian, my Kong family must not sit idly by and ignore this matter, I don't know if what we lost today is our face, or the face of the Kong family, or the face of our ancestors!"

"Brother, I only have one sentence, if I can't get out of the Kong family today, any person in the future can point to my Kong family and spurn it! My family has been in the family for a thousand years, how can I sit back and watch this happen. ”

"Gongjian, the so-called rough words are not rough, and they may be a little perverse, but the reason is the same. I, the Confucian family, can't be humiliated like this. ”

After a few young people opened their mouths to express their attitudes, the children of the Kong family, who were far older than Kong Gongjian, also opened their mouths.

Kong Gongjian's face was very ugly, although he was the next successor of the Kong family, he couldn't help but listen to the opinions of the clan.

However, looking at the army in front of him, Kong Gongjian's reason told him.

Zhang Zhiyuan, who went south from Beiping City, has been waiting for himself to make a mistake, waiting for himself to make a wrong decision, and he wants to use this to buckle the entire Kong family, and then let the Kong family really fall into a crisis.

"All my brothers have heard and seen it, and the army has looked around my house, thinking that the traitors will not dare to come near again, but they will give some wine and meat to reward the army, and what is it to my family."

Kong Gongjian, whose reason prevailed, hid his palms under his sleeve robe, and looked at the brothers in the clan calmly.

Kong Gongjian chose to back down and give in.

The children of the Confucian family, who have always been honorable, are not happy with the boss, but the sons and daughters of the long house have said so, and they have nothing to do.

In the end, all the children of the Confucian family present had their good mood of watching the growth of the tenants' crops today, and all that was left was the resentment of the soldiers and horses who surrounded the entire Confucian family.

Kong Gongjian looked at the waving robes of these brothers in the clan and left, shaking his head helplessly.

The face of the Kong family cannot be lost, but the life of the Kong family is the most precious in this world.

"Go to the army and go to the army, and return to General Zhang's words, the Kong family will send the wine, meat, grain and grass needed by the army to the camp on time today. Whatever the army needs, the Kong family will bear it with all their might. ”

Kong Gongjian sighed, and also sent someone to Zhang Zhiyuan's Chinese army camp to talk.

The servants of the Kong family, who were waiting for Kong Gongjian, immediately surrendered their orders, carried their robes and went to the front of the camp, and had already made plans to go over to the Chinese army camp where they would stay for a long time.

……

and even the evening.

It was dusk, and the people, who had escaped the sun, went out to the fields to observe the fields that had already begun to be dried by water, and that the harvest would probably take place in a few days.

The people looked at the army they had heard about during the day, and their faces did not fluctuate much, but they just glanced at the continuous Confucian mansion that was surrounded and protected by the army.

Next to the camp of the Chinese army, on a watchtower tower that was built in an emergency, under the open roof on all sides, Tang Keke was dressed in military uniform, accompanied Zhang Zhiyuan, who was also in the stomach, and left his own soldiers to go up to the watchtower alone, looking out of the camp.

After working hard in broad daylight, with the joint efforts of more than 10,000 officers and soldiers, a circle of ravines surrounded the five miles outside the Confucian Mansion to hide the calves of the officers and soldiers.

Outside the side gate of the Confucian Mansion, there were already carriages full of grain, grass, wine and meat, waiting for the last goods to be loaded onto the car.

When everything was moved out of the treasury in the Confucian Mansion, the carriage in front of the head was already driven by the servants of the Confucian Mansion and drove towards the Chinese army camp.

Tang Keke glanced sideways at Zhang Zhiyuan and said in a low voice: "The Kong family chose to back down, this opportunity is missed." ”

With a mutter, Tang Keke glanced at Zhang Zhiyuan with some resentment in his eyes.

In the military camps of the Ming Dynasty, there are several perennial ink pen record account books, there are records of military merits of the examination book, there are also grain and grass materials of the income and expenditure account book. There is also one of the thickest marching and military management books that must be recorded every day.

And now, in that book of marching and governing the army, a record has already been added that he is very unwilling to see.

The lines of text recorded clearly explain that the reason why more than 10,000 soldiers and horses from the Sima military camp in Beiping went south to Qufu and guarded the Confucian Mansion was all proposed by themselves, and the main general allowed it.

That's the Kong family!

Tang Keke's eyes were a little wandering, and he looked at the long queue of carriages dragged out in front of the Kong family's mansion.

Zhang Zhiyuan sneered: "Now that our army is here, can't we find a new fighter?" ”

"Fighters?" Tang Keke raised his eyebrows, and suddenly his shoulders shook: "Are you really going to bulldoze the Kong family?" ”

Zhang Zhiyuan withdrew his gaze from outside the camp, turned to look at Tang Keke, and smiled slightly: "If they give Ben this chance." ”

His tone was unusually calm.

However, Tang Coco was convinced.

When he raised his eyes again to look at the Confucian family's mansion, which had been lit with candles, Tang Keke sincerely hoped that this family, which had been inherited for thousands of years, could really know what the current situation was and could truly accept it.

Isn't it good to be a good person?

Zhang Zhiyuan wandered his gaze, looking at the wilderness, the dim place where the sunset could not shine.

"Over there, it's your people."

Tang Keke followed Zhang Zhiyuan's gaze, and in the place where the dusk and sunset could not shine, there were several riders holding the reins waiting in the shadows.

He nodded and looked back at Zhang Zhiyuan.

Zhang Zhiyuan said softly: "I won't care about your affairs." It's like what kind of origin you came from, Ben never asked. It's just that right now, if we want to solve the problem of Shandong Road, you and I have to work together. If there is any trespassing, Ben will write to His Highness afterwards to ask for guilt. ”

Tang Keke's eyes flickered, and he shook his head and said, "That's not it." It's just people who can't see the light......"

Saying this, Tang Keke's eyes couldn't help but darken.

How could I see the light of my identity?

Now it's just that he has changed his face incognito in the army, so he has the opportunity to continue to live in the sun.

After thinking about it, Tang Keke took out a polished and shiny brass whistle from his arms, held it under his lips, and breathed softly.

The whistle made a long, long sound that spread far away.

Less and.

The few horsemen who were hiding in the shadow of dusk began to urge the war horses under their seats, and slowly came towards the Chinese army camp.

By the time the number of horsemen reached the wall of the Chinese army camp that had begun to bury wooden stakes and fill them with earth and stones, Tang Keke had already walked down the watchtower and went to the front of several horses.

And Zhang Zhiyuan, who was standing on the watchtower, saw the appearance of these people clearly for the first time.

Everyone was as expressionless as if their faces had been broken, and there was no sparkle in their eyes. Several of them were wearing black leggings, with unadorned goose knives around their waists, a leather bag with a short firecracker at their waists, and a strong crossbow hanging from their waists.

The boots with white soles stepped on the stirrups, and his eyes swept over and over again.

When Tang Keke arrived in front of these people, he didn't talk.

Tang Keke took a booklet from the leader who had been helped by a leather cloth.

When the handover was completed, the leader raised his head calmly and profoundly, and looked at Zhang Zhiyuan on the lookout tower, his eyes were still not wavering, and he did not mean to greet the general who commanded the army.

As if it had come, it went away quietly and unnoticed, until it disappeared into the shadows of dusk.

Peal pedal, pedal, pedal.

Zhang Zhiyuan, who was standing on the watchtower, listened to the sound of climbing the stairs from behind.

He said softly: "Ben General saw their true faces today, and the battalion sergeants must have seen them, will it be okay?" ”

Tang Keke, who was holding the booklet in his arms, returned to the watchtower, shook his head and said, "We won't see them again." ”

"Oh?"

Zhang Zhiyuan's eyes showed curiosity.

Tang Keke explained casually: "They are all hard-working people, and after hard work, it is time to enjoy happiness." ”

Zhang Zhiyuan sighed again, and then changed his words: "Is it His Highness's words?" ”

Tang Keke only opened the booklet carefully wrapped in leather cloth at this time, opened the cover and read it line by line, but the expression on his face gradually became more and more exciting.

After reading the entire content, Tang Keke couldn't help but let out a long sigh.

He looked at the Kong family's delivery convoy, which had approached the front of the camp, and couldn't help but show a trace of disgust on his face: "I'm not going to eat tonight." ”

Zhang Zhiyuan didn't know what was recorded in that book at the moment.

I can only ask: "What are you writing about?" ”

Tang Keke picked and chose in his mind for a long time before he spoke: "In the past, I thought wrongly, I thought that the house of the Holy Ancestor could still have some kindness and kindness. But I don't want to, it's the same.

Outside the Confucian Mansion, within 30 miles, all Confucian tenants collected 30% of the rent. ”

"Huh?" Zhang Zhiyuan was a little puzzled, frowned and said: "If Ben General has not remembered wrong, the rent of thirty percent is the whole world, and there are not many homes." ”

Tang Keke nodded and said, "Yes, that's not the case." Ordinary rents are about 50%. In the Confucian family, thirty miles away from the land, within sixty miles, eight became tenants of the Confucian family, and the land rent was fifty percent.

Sixty miles away, Qufu, Yanzhou City, Wenshang, Jining, Jinxiang, Yutai, Juye, Jiaxiang, Tengxian, Zou County, Fei County, Surabaya, or five or six percent, or three or four percent, are all Confucian tenants, and the land rent is seventy percent. ”

Carefully selected and the least important parts are said.

After finishing speaking, Tang Keke's whole person seemed to be deflated, and his shoulders sagged.

Rao is Zhang Zhiyuan, who has killed countless people and broken countless formations outside the nine-sided plug, and he couldn't help but open his mouth.

Neither of them spoke again for a long time.

Until outside the camp, the convoy of the Kong family docked with the firehead battalion in the army and began to hand over grain, grass, wine and meat, when bursts of cheers came from the camp.

Zhang Zhiyuan sighed at this time: "It's really a half-house family." ”

No matter how hard the Kong family works, the entire Yanzhou Mansion can become theirs!

How long has it been since the world was peaceful?

How long has it been since Daming was founded?

Hongwu is only twenty-eight years now, and a family with one surname can monopolize half of the land.

What its true nature is, you can see.

Tang Keke felt that the sage articles he had read and the sage thoughts he had studied were all collapsing and collapsing.

If it were a different family, he might not feel this way.

But this is the house of the Holy Master.

Faith in the past is crumbling.

Tang Keke shook his head with a sad face and said, "In the past, I thought that if there were many greedy people in the world, there were still good people. Now it seems that if it is really as black as a crow in the world, how can it be good, it is all a traitor! ”

As he spoke, Tang Keke handed the booklet in his hand to Zhang Zhiyuan's eyes.

Zhang Zhiyuan was a little puzzled, and looked at Tang Keke with puzzled eyes.

"Ben will be able to see that, too?"

Tang Keke pursed his lips and shrugged: "Now, there's nothing that can't be seen." ”

Zhang Zhiyuan hesitated, and from Tang Keke's face, he found that something seemed to be wrong, and it might be far more serious than what he knew now.

He slowly stretched out his hand and took the booklet handed by Tang Keke into his hand.

Then, Zhang Zhiyuan frowned and opened the booklet.

Looking upstairs, the atmosphere was extremely cold in an instant.

When the last word was taken into Zhang Zhiyuan's eyes, his face was already bruised, and he closed the booklet with both hands, and then pinched the booklet angrily, smashing his hands on the railing in front of him.

However, no matter how angry Zhang Zhiyuan is, he can't get out at the moment.

After half a ring, Zhang Zhiyuan spoke: "I won't eat today." ”

After finishing speaking, he added: "Tomorrow, I will ask the camp to go to Qufu County to purchase rice and grain." ”

Tang Keke nodded, but as long as a normal person saw those recorded things, it was impossible for them to accept those things under the camp gate.

He raised his eyes to look at the Confucian Mansion that was already brightly lit.

"Aren't we a little restrained?"

Zhang Zhiyuan snorted coldly: "Dig too slowly!" ”

"Then use gunpowder."

"Ben will agree, and I will do it again."

"I received this military merit!"

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