As the saying goes, people are good at being bullied, and horses are good at being ridden.

Therefore, because the emperor of the Zhu family was too good to Confucius, the Confucian family, who was the most obedient to the powerful, was unwilling to be submissive.

The Kong family really decided not to change the tablet.

It's just a few days later, what Yan Shenggong Kong Shangxian didn't expect was that a student Kong Zhenrui and others came to the Confucian Mansion with a group of people at the bottom of the Kong family, shouting to see him.

Kong Shangxian and Kong Shangtan and other descendants of the Confucian Mansion of the Northern Sect did not see these people, and only sent the housekeeper Kong Gui to deal with this matter.

As soon as Kong Gui came out, he asked Kong Zhenrui and his people arrogantly: "What do you see our master doing?" ”

"We demand that the rent be reduced and that we be allowed to leave the house!"

At this time, Kong Zhenrui said.

Kong Gui smiled: "Such a request, don't say that our master will not agree, even Lao Tzu will not agree!" ”

Then, Kong Gui said: "Also, Kong Xianggong, I didn't say you, you have nothing to do with them, don't forget, you can become Xianggong, and you also have the kindness of our master, not only do you not know gratitude, but bring them to make trouble!" ”

"Why don't you agree, the fields we planted, the bones of the fields were originally ours!"

"You are just relying on the fact that Qufu Zhixian is your people, so you can forcibly levy our rent, and the rent is so high, we will flee if we don't rent, you will say that we are betraying the clan and abandoning our ancestors, disloyal and unfilial, and executing us with patriarchal law!"

"Now we already know that the imperial court has long issued an order not to let you use the patriarchal law to kill people, or abide by the new rites and revise the patriarchal law, you should do what you want, and you should also reduce the rent for us, otherwise, we will not pay the rent!"

"As for the kindness, I only know that I can have the kindness of His Majesty today, the kindness of my ancestors, and it has nothing to do with them!"

"If you don't agree, we will go to Beijing to sue the emperor! I don't know whose face it will be lost when the time comes! ”

Kong Zhenrui said at this time.

"That's right, otherwise we won't pay the rent and go to Beijing to sue the emperor!"

"If it doesn't decrease, we will enter Beijing!"

"The rent must be reduced!"

……

The people of Qufu who came here responded loudly at this time.

Seeing this, Kong Gui didn't dare to move, so he only ordered: "Wait until I go and report to the old man." ”

And after Kong Gui reported to Kong Shangxian, Kong Shangtan and others, Kong Shangxian sank his face and said: "What else do you want to report, how can you reduce the rent, and you must not allow such a situation to occur, and beat all these troubles out and kill them!" Then he reported to his old parents and the fifth master, and asked him to play and say that these people who were killed were rebellious bandits, intending to attack Qufu and harass the land of the saints, and now he has exterminated them. ”

Kong Gui said yes.

Kong Shangtan echoed here: "Brother is right to do this, these treacherous and cunning people have always eaten hard rather than soft, so they should do this, and now they are killing a few, just killing prestige." ”

Kong Shangxian just smiled faintly here: "Although this matter is strange, and these people suddenly made a fuss, but the following crimes are indeed intolerable!" Otherwise, the entire Confucian Mansion and even the entire Qufu will be in chaos. ”

"That's what my brother said."

Kong Shangli also echoed the sentence.

According to the Ming system, Qufu Zhixian was elected by the heads of the Confucian clan of the Northern Sect.

Therefore, Qufu is actually equivalent to the independent kingdom of the Confucian family.

Therefore, Kong Shangxian has no problem killing some people who belong to his own clan, and it is not as good as Kong Hongxu killing people with foreign surnames in history.

In order to facilitate the enslavement of tenants, the Confucian family would often forcibly turn the yeoman farmers in Qufu into their own Confucian family, or recruit displaced people to Qufu to reclaim the famine, they would ask them to change their surnames, and then use the name of the clan to force these people to accept their rule, which was equivalent to annexing the fields of Qufu.

Because of this, many people in Qufu are also surnamed Kong.

Of course, there are also some Confucian family members who are not descendants and belong to distant branches, and they have also been reduced to low-level tenants who have been wantonly exploited by Confucius.

In short, on the surface, it seems that the Confucian Mansion is only absorbing the blood of his own family, and because of this, the foreign surname does not seem to think that the Confucian Mansion is so hateful.

This seems to be the norm in Confucian society, that is, it seems to be very moderate and obedient to the outside, but it is the low-level people who are most oppressed by it.

After Kong Shangxian gave such an order here, Kong Gui brought the people of the Confucian Mansion to beat Kong Zhenrui and the people of the Kong family who were making trouble.

"Ahh

Kong Zhenrui himself was hit by a gang first, and he hung a lottery on his head on the spot.

Then, other civilians were also beaten, and many of them were beaten to the blood.

Kong Gui crossed his waist here and said: "Fight!" Hit me hard! The old man spoke, don't kill him! Kill them as bandits! ”

As a result, the people of the Kong family, who were caught off guard, were beaten by more and more Confucian family members with sticks, and many of them fled because of this, and some were killed on the spot.

After a long time, the fight ended.

At this time, Kong Gui pointed to a group of people who had been beaten to death and said, "Drag them out of the city to feed the wild dogs!" ”

"Yes!"

After saying that, Kong Gui smiled coldly and prepared to go back and report to his master.

But not long after, Kong Shangyuan, a domestic slave sent by Kong Shangyuan of Qufu County, came here, and said to Kong Gui: "Tell the lord quickly, the people in our county government have found that a large number of people on horseback are coming, like bandits, who are coming to attack the county seat, let the lord prepare quickly!" ”

Because the Yansheng Mansion was tyrannical in Qufu, there were indeed many people of the Confucian clan in Qufu who could not bear its oppression, and they would rather violate the patriarchal law and flee to the nearby mountains to become bandits.

"Bandits?"

"What bandit dares to hit the county seat?"

Kong Gui asked Kong Xun with some incredulity.

Kong Xun said: "Who knows, according to the report of the shopkeepers, these bandits all rode very tall horses, each as strong as a tower, unlike ordinary bandits, maybe they colluded with the nearby officials and soldiers, now that they are here, let the eldest master think about it, whether to welcome them in first, give them some money to persuade them to leave, or resist with their families." ”

"Since it's a bandit with many war horses, what else to resist! Naturally, we want to welcome in! ”

"Those who have constant production have perseverance, and those who do not have permanent production have no perseverance, the thieves are real rogues, not the Fengyang Zhu family who has already sat in the country, if you are in a hurry, you may really do something about robbers, welcome them in first, and talk to their leaders."

"This is the way the ancestral religion has come down to deal with it, and it can't be changed!"

Soon after.

Kong Shangxian learned about this from Kong Gui and Kong Xian, and then immediately made up his mind, and said a few more words, so that the masters in his mansion knew the reason for his actions.

In this year, whoever has a horse team is the same as whoever has a tank team in later generations, which often means that the strength of the force is not weak.

Therefore, Kong Shangxian and others will think that this group of bandits is not ordinary because they heard that there are bandits with many war horses.

Kong Shangtan did echo and said: "What my brother said is that I would rather welcome the bandits in now first, and then ask Bingxian and Fu to suppress them, and we can't directly offend the bandits." ”

"That's right! You have to follow the method of your ancestors, it is foolproof, as long as you come to Qufu to worship the saints, regardless of Huayi, we have to welcome! ”

Kong Shangli echoed.

Kong Shangxian also said: "Tell the clerk to be public, hurry up and write a table!" Burn it when the bandits are gone! ”

"Yes!"

And so it goes.

Kong Shangxian and other Confucian masters really did not resist in the next step, opened the county seat, knelt down on the avenue to greet them, and presented the table of surrender.

"The sixty-fourth generation of the saint, Sun Kong Shangxian, and the lords of the mansion greet the king!"

Kong Shangxian also shouted loudly when these horse teams appeared, and buried his head in the air.

Kong Shangtan and the others also buried their heads, and they didn't see what the people who came looked like.

After hearing this, the leader of the horse team was also stunned, and then he got off the horse, took the table from Kong Shangxian's hand, and said: "Brother I have to blame for this, if it weren't for my brother's request that we have to come in plain clothes, and to prevent the situation of startling the snake, I guess Yan Shenggong would not have done such a thing." ”

Zhang Maoxiu said with a smile while looking at the descending table in his hand at this time.

Kong Shangxian felt that something was wrong after hearing Zhang Maoxiu say this, so he looked up sharply, and then saw Zhang Maoxiu take off the wooden card in his arms and show it to Kong Shangxian: "We are Jinyiwei, not the king of the new dynasty." ”

After Zhang Maoxiu said this, Kong Shangxian's eyes rolled on the spot and he fainted.

Kong Shangtan and Kong Shangli were also demented.

At this time, a young Confucian named Kong Shangxi couldn't help but say to Kong Shangtan: "Second uncle, the ancestors' methods turned out to be ineffective!" ”

"Someone! Pick up all the people of the Kong family and leave them to your majesty to dispose of! ”

Zhang Maoxiu shouted at this time.

At this time, Kong Shangtan came back to his senses and shouted: "Wait! ”

Zhang Maoxiu looked at him accordingly: "What do you have to say?" ”

Kong Shang said frankly: "Please ask Your Excellency to help cover up this matter, after all, this matter involves the glory of the saint and the decency of the entire Confucianism." ”

"Do you also know that this matter will make the Confucian sect shameless and the saint shameful?"

"Why do you do it when you know it?"

Zhang Maoxiu asked this Kong Shangtan a few words.

Kong Shangtan was silent for a moment, and then said: "We are not here to save the lives of the whole clan and the entire saint bloodline, is this Tiancha really willing to see a real thief slaughter the saint bloodline, so that the saint has no queen?!" ”

Zhang Maoxiu ignored it and only rode into the city.

Kong Shangli looked at Kong Shangtan at this time and said in a low voice: "This time, our Confucius Mansion seems to have really lost face. ”

"What is this, the court will understand us, and if you don't understand, you have to understand! Could it be that you really want to destroy our race and kill the descendants of the saints?! ”

Kong Shangtan said with a sneer.

Kong Shangli nodded after hearing this: "Yes!" ”

Kong Shangxian also woke up at this time, and stood up and said: "In any case, with that table, it is a little embarrassing after all, I have to confess to Your Majesty!" ”

Kong Shangxian shouted loudly as he spoke: "Prepare the car!" ”

But at this time, Kong Gui walked over quickly and said, "Master, I can't prepare the car, our house is surrounded by Jinyi Guard!" (End of chapter)