The Confucian family in Qufu is the Yan Shenggong canonized by the Mongols, and it is reasonable to do things for the Mongols.

However, the Mongols have long been beaten away, and the Yan Shenggong of the Ming Dynasty was personally canonized by Emperor Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang.

At the beginning, Kong Zhu, the Duke of Yansheng, was reluctant to do anything for the Mongols, and he was still able to take the initiative to resign from the title of Duke of Yansheng, but why, when the Mongols retreated to Mobei, the Confucian family in Qufu secretly hooked up with them.

This is not normal!

Moreover, it can be seen from the letters that it seems that the Mongols held some secret of Yan Shenggong, so that he did not dare to refuse, but could only shirk.

What's the secret?

Belin saw the other party's doubts, so she said: "Regarding the reason, Jinyiwei is still investigating, Kong Yanjin's old boy is also a difficult master, and he even explained that he peeked at the widow taking a bath, but he didn't explain the problem of these letters!"

Kong Mingbo asked, "What...... Explain?"

Belin said, "Oh, you don't know yet, just that Kong Yanjin from Qufu has long been arrested by Jinyi Wei and is being tried in Zhao Prison."

Kong Mingbo: ......

That Kong Yanjin of Qufu, you said it so easily, is he the current Yan Shenggong!

was arrested by Jinyiwei?

Do you want to be put in Zhao Prison for trial?

What's the situation......

Belin said, "Actually, the emperor ordered me to come to Quzhou, and I also want you to help me figure out what mysteries are in these letters, and what secrets do the Mongols have in their hands to see the Holy Father?"

Kong Mingbo nodded and said, "Do your best!"

"In that case, I will not bother."

Belin saluted the wooden statue of Confucius and his wife, then turned to leave.

Kong Mingbo hurriedly said, "My lord has come from afar, I have dinner, let's stay for one night and then leave!"

"I'm not going to eat!"

Belin returned to the courtyard, mounted her horse, and said, "The emperor said, give you three days to think about it, I will stay in the inn in the county seat, you think about it, come to me, and after three days, I will leave."

After saying that, he turned the horse's head and left with the people.

Kong Mingbo was still standing in the wind and messy, feeling a little confused.

"Father, what's wrong with you?"

"It's okay, it's okay, being a father is ...... It's a little messy......

"What the hell is going on? Does Qufu want us to hand over the icon again?"

"No, you...... Forget it, you go find out the genealogy first."

"Which day does my father want?"

Kong Mingbo thought for a while and said, "The Song Dynasty's, the branch side lineage, and the clansmen's diaries and miscellaneous records have all been found!"

"Yes!"

Kong Mingbo didn't have much hope for returning to Qufu to succeed Yan Shenggong, because people in Qufu already had Yan Shenggong, even if he committed something and was arrested by Jinyiwei, there were tens of thousands of people in Qufu's Kong family, and there was no heir to find him.

To say that those letters were all written by the former Yan Shenggong, and they didn't promise anything, so they couldn't be regarded as collaborating with the enemy and betraying the country.

However, the most strange thing is what kind of secret is hidden behind these letters?

Kong Mingbo came to the study and looked at the genealogy one by one.

Jingkang Change, Jin soldiers went south, Emperor Gaozong Zhao Jianjian established the Southern Song Dynasty, then Yan Sheng Gong Kong Duanyou was determined to follow the Southern Song Dynasty court to defend half of the rivers and mountains, so he took Confucius and the wife of the official Kaimu statue in Quzhou, Zhejiang to establish the Confucian family temple, which was for the Southern Sect of Kong.

When Kong Duanyou crossed to the south, he decided to let his younger brother Kong Duancao take care of the Confucian Temple, and the Jin Dynasty also emphasized the legitimacy of entering the Central Plains, so Kong Duanyou's younger brother Kong Duancao was named Yan Shenggong, and let him preside over the sacrifice of the Confucian Temple in Qufu, Shandong, for the Northern Sect of the Kong family.

Kong Duanyou and Kong Duancao are the forty-seventh generation descendants of Confucius, and there are detailed records in the family tree, so there should be no mistakes.

After the rise of Mongolia and the occupation of Qufu, the Yan Shenggong of the Jin Dynasty was passed to Kong Yuancuo, and he also fled to Kaifeng with the Jin Dynasty, and the Mongols themselves sealed a Yan Shenggong Kong Yuanyong.

Kong Yuancuo and Kong Yuanyong are two, in

It is also detailed in the genealogy.

After the fall of the Jin Dynasty, Kong Yuancuo was captured by the Mongols, and he and Kong Yuanyong competed for the position of Yan Shenggong, which led to the internal struggle for power and profit within Northern Kong, and the Mongols were so annoyed that they simply abolished the title of Yan Gongsheng.

However, this move undoubtedly poked the hornet's nest.

The scholars in the world saw that the Yan Shenggong had been abolished, and this was worth it?

So they gathered people to make trouble and demanded that the imperial court restore the title of Duke Yansheng.

At this time, Kublai Khan found that there was a Yan Shenggong in Quzhou, that is, Kong Mingbo's ancestor Kong Zhu, at this time the Southern Song Dynasty had perished, but Kong Zhu refused the canonization of the imperial court on the grounds that he had been in the south for several generations and wanted to guard the ancestral tomb, and the Mongols re-canonized a Yan Shenggong Kong Zhiquan.

Kong Zhiquan is the son of Kong Yuanyong, the nephew of Kong Yuancuo, and it is reasonable to inherit the title of Duke of Yansheng.

Kong Mingbo has read this account several times, and he can almost recite it, but he is still concentrating on searching for information.

Suddenly, Kong Mingbo was stunned.

In a record compiled by the Kong family, a passage was found: "In the fourth year of Song Shaoxi, Kong Yuan gave birth to a son, Kong Zhiquan, who died early at the age of six."

He even suspected that he had read it wrong, so he hurriedly took a closer look, and sure enough, it was recorded that Kong Zhiquan died at the age of six.

Since he died at the age of six, who will succeed him?

Kong Mingbo searched around like crazy, recorded all the genealogies and various descendants of the Kong family, and looked through them one by one, looking for clues.

…………

Three days later, Belin was ready to go.

That's how he behaves, he said that he would wait for you for three days, and if you don't come, I won't be able to go to you.

However, just as he came to the door of the inn and was about to go downstairs, he saw a person kneeling at the door, it was Kong Mingbo.

Beside him, there was a tight wrap of two bags.

"Mr. Kong, how are you ......?"

Belin hurried forward and helped him up.

Kong Mingbo's eyes were red, and he said, "My lord, please take me into Beijing, I have something important and need to meet the emperor immediately!"

Belin smiled dumbly and asked, "Think it through?"

Kong Mingbo nodded heavily and said, "I have thought it through very clearly, the title of Yan Shenggong must not fall into the hands of foreign clans!"

Now, it's Belin's turn to be confused, what's the situation?

Kong Mingbo immediately said: "The Yan Sheng Gong canonized by the Mongols at the beginning was not a descendant of the Kong family, but a ...... A Mongol!"

"What did you say?"

Belin was shocked, Qufu's Yan Shenggong was a Mongol?

How can it be......

However, it seems that this explains what the letters are about.

Kong Mingbo told the truth about the information he found in recent days, back then, Kong Zhu categorically refused to be canonized, and the Mongols let a Mongolian change his name to Kong Zhiquan in order to fool the world, and inherited the title of Yansheng***.

Under the protection of the imperial court, the Holy Duke of Qufuyan has multiplied in this way, and has continued to spread its branches and leaves, and today, there are tens of thousands of people.

After Emperor Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang established the Ming Dynasty, he did not know the secret behind it, and continued to canonize him as the Holy Duke of Yan until today.