Kong Shangyi said it categorically, it sounded like he was maintaining the face of the "Yan Sheng Gong" title, but in fact, he was making calculations in his stomach for himself.

Although he is the master of the long house of the lineage, he is not like Kong Shangxian, who is currently in Beijing, and it is not the turn of the "Yan Shenggong".

This duke knew in his heart that as long as Kong Shangxian took a breath, Kong Yinzhi would immediately become Kong Shangxian's heir and wear the hat of Yan Shenggong.

Because of this, Kong Shangyi wanted to take advantage of Kong Yinzhi's time when he listened to him the most, and pressed back the courtiers and clansmen who came from the Zhu family to ask for money.

Otherwise, once they really want to spit out some acres and acres of households, Kong Yinzhi must have their uncles from the side branches of the Kong family to cut their flesh and blood first.

But after Kong Shangyi finished speaking, he suddenly softened his tone, looked at a man from the same sect who was slightly older than himself in the seat, and said, "Bo Xuan, your Erlang, isn't it the honor guest of the lord of Lu Domain?" Speaking of which, it is General Zhenguo's brother-in-law, can you ask Jia Ding to go to Yanzhou quickly and ask Linglang to come back, go to General Zhenguo for a walk, and see if there is any room for turnaround? ”

The person who was called "Bo Xuan" is also a Shang generation, named Kong Shangxi, and has many sons under his knees. In his early years, he sent the most handsome second son to marry Lu Fan.

At this moment, Kong Shangxi's face froze, and he said: "Dog, he, with the general of Zhenguo, yes, there are some festivals, let the dog come back as a lobbyist, I'm afraid it will make it worse." ”

Kong Shangyi glanced at Kong Yinzhi, who was at the top, and pretended to be surprised: "Give them the Zhu family to be a virtuous son-in-law, not to be a royal history or a border general, they are not involved in civil and military affairs, they are just free horses, how did Erlang offend General Zhenguo?" ”

Kong Shangxi, who thought that Kong Shangyi, the old fox, was digging a pit for himself, and truthfully explained to everyone in the clan: "The general of Zhenguo, relying on the weight of King Lu, stares at the silver money of Lu Fan at sky-high prices. Erlang, cough, you know, there is a cousin of his grandfather's family who is a woman's hairpin jewelry business, and Erlang introduced him to several county lords and county lords of the Lu Domain as customers, and he has been safe for many years. Who would have thought that at the beginning of the autumn of last year, Zhu Yi sent him, and suddenly jumped out, saying that the jewelry of the Lu Fan clan was all Xibei goods, and it was the Yibin who colluded with outsiders to defraud Lu Fan of the annual fat powder money. ”

When he said this, he suddenly stopped, because he saw Kong Yinzhi staring at him, which was quite unkind.

The old and young masters of the Confucian Mansion on all sides also woke up a little, and one of them had a hot temper, with a heavy "snort" in his nose, and said bluntly to Kong Shangxi: "So, Lu Fan's father-in-law, your Erlang, did you slander Lu Fan?" ”

The word "false" is very polite, but Kong Shangxi didn't mean to turn his face at all, but found the meaning of Zhiwu more and more: "Hey, there is no first, the same is true for women's jewelry, as long as the county lords and county lords like it, the price of red paint selling coral, it can't be said to be cheating and cheating, right ......"

Before he finished speaking, he only heard a "ding", Kong Yinzhi covered the tea cup heavily, his face was full of frost, and he said word by word: "No wonder that General Zhenguo has found the bad luck of our Confucian Mansion, so vigorous." ”

"Don't worry." Kong Shangyi, who was on the other end, persuaded in a deep voice.

Kong Shangyi, in fact, has long known what kind of "Erlang" is, it is not enough to eat Lu Fan's soft rice, and he uses this and that business way behind his back, and he has no less wool from Lu Fan.

In the past, Kong Shangyi hated that he didn't give birth to a son who looked like Pan An, and he couldn't get the opportunity to send a son-in-law to Lu Fan, but today, he just took the opportunity to be generous to others, solve the trouble in front of Kong Fuyan, and then take a breath by the way.

Kong Shangyiyu said in a peacemaker tone: "The reason that Bo Xuan said is not a big mistake. Then, who is not an immortal, who would have expected that one day, the imperial court would come to our Confucian Mansion to ask for money? Or, in this way, General Zhenguo's firecracker basket, don't stab him first. The two people from Beijing, the eunuch of the eldest son of the emperor, and the female master, looked like they could also lead his old Zhu family by the nose. Let's just bring some hearts and explore. Or, Bo Xuan, your family will pay this honor first? If there is still an expense in the future, how about we take turns? ”

"According to what the third uncle said," Kong Yinzhi was too lazy to talk nonsense, and said directly, "I also noticed that the father-in-law surnamed Cao, and the woman surnamed Zheng, there is a Jinyi guard surnamed Huang in the entourage, and he always listens to them closely." The third uncle's family is out, and tomorrow he will go to find a brocade guard and find a way to hand over the money, one thousand taels per person. Fifth uncle, you prepare two thousand taels of silver tickets for the third uncle's people. ”

"Done, done." Kong Shangxi responded.

He is no longer good at scheming, and now he has found out that his family was dug by Kong Shangyi, but he can't rely on the good deeds done by his own son.

As for Kong Shangyi, I will settle accounts with him when I go back.

On the other hand, Kong Shangyi, who had achieved his goal, also got up and said: "Fortunately, today, Gonggong Cao said that the eldest son of the emperor is tired from traveling, and he must go to the Confucian Temple tomorrow at the middle of the time." We have time to prepare. ”

……

On this night, the old master Confucius, who is most particular about "the king of the Tao and the scholar of the Tao", if there is a spirit in the sky, seeing his descendants, in order to continue to live in the land of the Ming Dynasty without plundering and paying, he is actually scolding and scolding, while thinking about bribery, I don't know if Wenqu Xing will go down to earth, and denounce his own descendants who are not only unproductive, but also shameless.

Wen Quxing did not go down to earth, but in the middle of the morning, the cronies sent out by Kong Shangyi rushed back to the house in a hurry.

Kong Shangyi frowned and asked, "What?" Kong Shangxi refuses to pay? ”

"No, no, the silver ticket of the fifth master, I got it half an hour ago," the cronies wiped the sweat on their heads, and reported quickly, "The little one didn't delay for a moment, and went to the Confucian Mansion where the prince stayed, but when he passed by the Confucian Temple, he saw that the door was full of people, the brocade guards in the capital, and the guards of the Lu Domain, all of them, were watching a madman in a robe howl to the sky." The little one hurriedly looked for someone to ask, and it turned out that the madman was actually the Lile official brought by Lu Fan. ”

Kong Shangyi's eyes widened, and his gaze was a little out of focus for a moment.

But he quickly forced himself to come back to his senses and asked, "Is the emperor's eldest son here?" Is Lu Fan's Zhenguo general here? Is anyone in the Ministry of Rites? ”

"Back to the master, when the little one ran back to report the news, I only saw the ceremonial officer and a group of martial artists."

"You hurry up and assign a few more people, quickly inform Kong Yinzhi's family and a few other houses, and I will go directly to the Confucian Temple now."

"Yes, sir!"

When Kong Shangyi rushed to the Confucian Temple with a new anger and panic in his head, Zhu Yuewen, a music and dance student from Lu Mansion, had already used his good voice like a crane singing Jiugao to refute the illegal remarks of Confucius Mansion's ritual music for several rounds.

is different from Kong Shangyi's slander, Zhu Yuewen's accusation is completely different from the funeral wail.

Zhu Yuewen's body frame is not as burly as the warriors around him, but he wears a crown on the head of the golden cicada, puts on the robe of the sacrificial hole, stands proudly in the sun, holds his head high to the sky, and has a heartbeat, which is really more dignified and righteous than the important ministers of the previous dynasty.

came to see the lively Qufu Shishu one after another, and soon understood.

It turned out that the Yansheng Mansion went to the prefect of Yanzhou every year to ask the court for silver, saying that the ritual instruments and instruments that played Yale in the Confucian Temple were badly damaged, and the crowns and costumes of the music and dance students were also torn.

And today, this ceremonial official, who claims to be the eldest disciple of King Zheng and the music and dance student of King Lu's mansion, pointed to the set of clothes on his body that was also used when sacrificing Confucius, and took his own experience in the ritual music of King Zheng and King Lu in the past 20 years as an example, and angrily rebuked that the frequency of the Confucian Mansion begging for silver taels corresponds to the ritual vessels in the Dacheng Hall and Chongsheng Temple of the Confucian Temple, as well as the crowns worn by the music and dance students, it can be inferred that the Confucian Temple holds at least forty or fifty ceremonial music ceremonies every year, and only then will there be such frequent damage to musical instruments and clothes.

Kong Shangyi stood outside the crowd, hearing it with a white face, and the one who was afraid was the music official of the Lu Palace, and he didn't dare to go up to stop him for a while.

Just as he was in a hurry, he saw a tall scribe emerge from the other side of the crowd, dragging two peasant men in tattered clothes, walking quickly to the center of the field and standing beside Zhu Yuewen.

"Brother Zhu is worthy of being a loyal and good man under King Zheng, his thoughts are meticulous and sharp, and his words are deafening! You must also understand that the Nayan Holy Prince's Mansion is either a violation of the rules and uses the utensils and people that can only be used for rituals and rituals for weekday feasts and pleasures, or it is a deception to the king, fabricating the reason for the damage of musical instruments and dresses, and scooping up the silver of the treasury! ”

A wave of discussion rolled through.

Zhu Yuewen turned to the scribe who cooperated with him, and asked knowingly, "Please ask me about the origin?" ”

"Brother Zhu is polite, his surname is Zhang, his name is Xisheng, he comes from Wenzhou Mansion, the first assistant elder of Emperor Sejong, Zhang Gongxuan, is the ancestor of the younger generation."

As soon as he said this, the ordinary people of Qufu present did not react, but Kong Shangyi gasped.

Zhang Xuan's descendants?

Zhang Xuan is their old rival of the Yansheng Mansion!

Sure enough, this Zhang Xisheng began to replace Zhu Yuewen and talked about the glorious deeds of the ancestors who played the emperor and forbade the erection of Confucius statues across the country.

Kong Shangyi looked around, expecting to see Kong Yinzhi and the people from the Ministry of Rites hurry up to the scene to end this farce that fell from the sky.

Kong Yinzhi and Wang are indeed here.

Beside them, there were two other people, Zhu Yuewen, the general of Lu Fan Zhenguo, and Zheng Haizhu, the female master of the emperor's eldest son.