It turned out that before Zhang Maoxiu brought Jinyi Wei to come, Liang Kezhen, a hundred Jinyi guards stationed in Qufu, first brought hundreds of Jinyi guards to the Confucian Temple because he received the secret decree in advance, and directly drove away the Confucian family who guarded the gates of the Confucian Temple, and controlled the Confucian Temple.

Xu Maopu, another Jinyi guard Baihu, also received the secret decree, and surrounded the gates of his Confucian Mansion with hundreds of Jinyi guard captains.

It's just that the people of the Yansheng Mansion didn't know about it because they came out to greet the "bandits".

But at this time, after Kong Shangxian learned about this, he also panicked on the spot:

"Not good! The Son of Heaven obviously intended to punish us a long time ago! By doing so now, we have undoubtedly once again offered him a reason to punish us! ”

"Brother, don't panic too much, the left and right are just cutting the knights, maybe it's just a punishment, no matter what, it's impossible for them to stop respecting my Kongmen."

Kong Shangtan said at this time.

Syllable!

Kong Shangxian directly gave Kong Shangtan a slap: "It's not you who cut the Jue, of course you won't feel distressed!" I think you're hoping that this ancestral title will fall to you! ”

"Brother, stop your anger!"

Kong Shangtan couldn't help but hold back the burning pain on his face, and hurriedly knelt down.

Kong Shangxian didn't say anything to Kong Shangtan, only went back to Kong's mansion, and took the initiative to ask Xu Maopu: "Dare to ask Xu Baihu, why do you want to surround my mansion?" ”

"Naturally, it is ordered to surround the public mansion, and the holy decree clearly states that the public mansion must not act recklessly, and those who violate the order will be killed!"

As Xu Maopu spoke, he took out the will in his hand and handed it to Kong Shangxian: "If Yan Shenggong doesn't believe it, you can see for yourself." ”

Kong Shangxian read the holy decree, and then stood to the side dumbfounded, at a loss for a moment.

Dada!

Zhang Maoxiu also rode over at this time.

Seeing this, Xu Maopu first bowed his hand to Zhang Maoxiu and said, "Ti Shuai! ”

Zhang Mao repaired his head and asked, "What can be found in the house?" ”

"Hui Tishuai, a large number of illegal firearms and illegal IOUs were confiscated."

Xu Maopu replied at this time.

Thump!

Kong Shangxian knelt down directly to Zhang Maoxiu here, and said to Zhang Maoxiu:

"Please be handsome and graceful, although I am the head of the Despicable Mansion, I don't know about this!"

"However, even so, I am willing to bear the sin of negligence, but Your Majesty, please look at the face of the saint and cover it up a lot, we will be grateful in the future!"

"It's because I want to look at the saint's face, so I have to strictly clean the door for the saint."

Zhang Maoxiu said with a smile and walked into the Confucian Mansion.

And Kong Shangxian himself couldn't go in again, so he was picked up by Jinyi Wei and locked in a side hall of the Confucian Temple.

……

Zhu Yijun soon learned about the ban on Confucius Mansion and Confucius Temple from Zhang Jingxiu.

"What are you talking about, the people of the Confucian Mansion also mistook my Jinyi Wei for a bandit, and knelt down to greet the bandit, and wrote a table of surrender for the bandit?"

Zhu Yijun also asked Zhang Jingxiu in surprise.

Zhang Jingxiu handed over the table of reduction: "Back to Your Majesty, my brother has sent the table of reduction urgently, Your Majesty and all the elders have seen the handwriting of the Yansheng Mansion, and they must have recognized it." ”

Zhu Yijun hurriedly took the table and looked at it, and only smiled faintly after reading it: "This is an old craft." ”

After Zhu Yijun finished speaking, he gave the table to Wang Xijue and other ministers: "You can also take a look." ”

Wang Xijue said yes, and took the table first.

"The descendants of the sages are still this virtue, which is truly shameful!"

Wang Xijue couldn't help but say this first, and he was very indignant.

Shen Li also followed after reading it: "The point is, if an ordinary scholar behaves like this, it can be understood, but his Yan Shenggong Mansion is different!" Not to mention that they are descendants of saints, the key is that they have been treated favorably and supported by all the peoples in all dynasties, but as a result, they are only willing to enjoy the privileges of the descendants of saints and sages, and do not know the obligation to inherit the virtues of saints! ”

"What Shen Qing said is extremely true."

"This Confucian Mansion is really for nothing, and it is treated favorably by the imperial court in vain, and it can be regarded as losing the face of the sage."

Zhu Yijun followed and said.

The official secretary Wang Xuan followed and said: "What Your Majesty said is that the more the imperial court wants to respect the ancient sages, the more it must save dignity for the sages at this time, severely punish their heirs, and set an example!" ”

As he spoke, Wang Xun bowed his hand to Zhu Yijun and said, "Please Your Majesty to uphold the dignity of the sage!" ”

Wang Xijue also followed: "Please Your Majesty to uphold the dignity of the sage!" ”

"Please Your Majesty to uphold the dignity of the sages!"

Li Chengliang also said, and said: "As Your Majesty said, this kind of thing is already an old craft in the descendants of sages like Confucius, if you don't maintain the dignity of the sages and don't let them know that the traitors will end up betraying the country, I'm afraid that the descendants of the sages will really become the descendants of traitors in the future!" ”

Zhu Yijun nodded, and at this time asked Tian Yi, the governor of Dongchang: "What is the attitude of the ordinary people in Qufu towards the Confucian Mansion now?" ”

Although many of the ruling class in this era do not attach importance to the power of the people, Zhu Yijun knows that he cannot underestimate the power of the people.

Therefore, he was still worried that the ordinary people of Qufu would be instigated by the Confucian Mansion to resist the imperial court's punishment of the Confucian Mansion.

It is precisely because of this that Zhu Yijun asked Dongchang about the attitude of ordinary people in Qufu at this time.

"Back to the emperor, the ordinary people of Qufu now hate the Confucian Mansion even more."

Tian Yi replied at this time, and then said: "Originally, the people of my Dongchang have been in Qufu, and they have analyzed these ordinary people who have been subjected to the Confucian Mansion, so that they have a deep understanding of how ruthless the Confucian Mansion is to oppress them, so that they are already very dissatisfied with the Confucian Mansion, especially after some grievance activities, now they dare to ask the Confucian Mansion to reduce rent and interest, but the Confucian Mansion directly sent the family to kill them. Even among them, there are still cowards who have the illusion that the Confucian Mansion will sympathize with them after they make a request, but they have already abandoned their illusions, and now they all want the imperial court to completely clean up the Confucian Mansion! ”

Zhu Yijun nodded after hearing this: "Very good, then immediately send a decree to Qufu to maintain the dignity of the sage!" ”

"Yes!"

Zhu Yijun arrived in Qufu soon after.

One to Qufu.

Zhu Yijun went to the Temple of Confucius.

As soon as Zhu Yijun arrived at the Confucian Temple, he first saw the tablet sealed by the Yuan Dynasty in front of the statue of Confucius.

"Sure enough, this Confucian Mansion still misses Meng Yuan."

Afterwards, Zhu Yijun sank his face and said, "Xuankong Shangxian is here!" ”

"Yes!"

Not long after, Kong Shangxian, the prince of Yansheng, was escorted here.

Zhu Yijun asked Kong Shangxian directly: "Dare to love your mansion and have always been interested in Meng Yuan!" Is it that fourth-class people are not enough? ”

"Your Majesty forgives your sins!"

Kong Shangxian hurriedly kowtowed and replied, and said: "The minister has always been sick, and he has no time to take care of the housework, and all the affairs are handled by the minister's second brother Shang Tan, so the minister doesn't know why this tablet suddenly became Yuan's tablet." ”

"Even if you don't know, shouldn't you make a statement about your government's behavior and say that you are extremely intolerant of this kind of behavior?"

Zhu Yijun asked.

Kong Shangxian said: "What Your Majesty said is that it should be so, and the minister will never allow this shameless behavior to happen in my Confucian Mansion!" ”

"This kind of shameless behavior is not allowed, so what about this?"

Zhu Yijun took out the descending table as he said and handed it to Kong Shangxian.

After Kong Shangxian saw it, he was stunned for a moment, and then knelt down in front of Zhu Yijun and said:

"Your Majesty, the minister misheard the rumors of others at that time, thinking that there would be bandits coming to the hometown, and thinking of how reckless the bandits are, I don't know how to respect the orthodoxy of Chinese culture, once a little dissatisfied, maybe only wantonly slaughter the descendants of the saint, in order to keep the blood of the saint, the minister had to be humble and wrong, so he did such a thing worthy of the court!"

Kong Shangxian burst into tears as he spoke.

Zhu Yijun said: "It's okay if other people do such things, but your Confucian family eats the bowl of rice of loyalty, and it is also because of your ancestor Kong Sage and Sage who advocated loyalty and righteousness that you have such privileges today, and you can receive offerings from all the people!" But in order to protect the bloodline of the so-called saints, you don't want the façade of your family to stand in the world! How can you let the court treat you well, and how can you let all the people of the world provide for you? ”

"What Your Majesty said is that the ministers are ashamed of their ancestors, the court, and the people."

Kong Shangxian replied very respectfully at this time.

After hearing this, Zhu Yijun only asked: "Since you know that you are ashamed, and now the truth has been revealed, what are you still shy to do, I don't know if you will commit suicide immediately and save a trace of face for your saint's family, do you have to think that Confucianism is just empty talk, and can only teach people to be loyal, but can't make everyone really have a heart of loyalty?!" ”

Kong Shangxian was stunned for a moment, and then asked Zhu Yijun with a pouting and crying: "What does Your Majesty mean?" ”

"If you can't do it, write a confession and write your sins on it."

Zhu Yijun commanded at this time.

Kong Shangxian hesitated for a while, then still said yes and complied.

And after Kong Shangxian wrote the repentance, Zhu Yijun instructed: "Come and send the Holy Father of Yan on the road, since he can't do it himself, let the court help him, help him save dignity for Kong Sheng, hang it in the temple hall, and let Kong Sheng see it under the spring." ”

"Yes!"

Kong Shangxian was shocked: "Your Majesty! Didn't the minister already write about repentance?! ”

"I didn't say that if you write it, I won't kill you, what I mean, if you can't do it yourself, just write repentance, and then the court will help you do it."

Zhu Yijun replied.

"Your Majesty!"

"Your Majesty!"

……

At this time, Kong Shangxian had been dragged down by the brocade guards and was put on white silk.

Zhang Jingxiu, the left governor of Jinyi Wei, shouted at this time: "Hang!" ”

Suddenly, Kong Shangxian was hung on the beam, kicked his legs a few times, and it didn't take long for him to stop, and his hands hung down.

"Then pass on the other adult descendants of the Confucian Mansion!"

Zhu Yijun commanded again at this time.

So, not long after, Kong Shangtan, Kong Shangli and others were brought to the palace.

Kong Shangtan, Kong Shangli and others immediately knelt down to Zhu Yijun after seeing Kong Shangxian hanging in the hall. (End of chapter)