At another big court meeting, an imperial historian suddenly stood up and played: "Your Majesty, please check the acres of the Confucian family's fields, according to the current policy of the imperial court, even the Confucian family should not be an exception, but now the progress of clearing the fields in Shandong is very slow, mainly because of the Confucian family." ”

As soon as these words came out, there was an uproar in the court, and many civil officials were a little caught off guard, this is Kong Sheng's family, how can they come to occupy his family's land so rudely?

Someone immediately stood up and retorted.

At the beginning, His Majesty gave them the sacrificial land that he said that he would not have to pay taxes. ”

But more people are not satisfied with such a statement, now the policy implemented by the imperial court, all the big clans have been damaged, why is your Confucian family special, Confucius himself said, the gentleman's Ze, the fifth generation and beheaded.

"Scholars who are admitted to the Jinshi are not exempt from vulgarity, and the Huangzhuang also has to pay taxes, and the Confucian family is certainly no exception!"

"You...... Insulting Sven! ”

Zhu Yuanzhang sat on the dragon chair and quietly watched the group of civil officials below arguing here, and he already had expectations in his heart for the controversy that would arise after provoking this matter.

No matter how noisy they are at the beginning, the final opinion will gradually converge to the inventory of the Kong family's acres and force them to pay taxes together.

It's still the old saying, since ancient times, there is no widowhood but unevenness, when everyone's interests are harmed, the outlier of the Confucian family is particularly eye-catching, not to mention that the Confucian family has no serious officials in addition to the name of Kong Sheng, who will work hard for them?

This group of people in the court is not those enthusiastic young students, and they will be frightened by the name of Kong Sheng.

Just when everyone's quarrel was raging, the imperial history who stood up at the beginning spoke again.

"The minister has privately investigated the land owned by the Kong family, and His Majesty gave 2,000 hectares of sacrificial land at the beginning, and the Confucian family has received 650 hectares of royal sacrificial land in previous dynasties, and there is even more land that the Confucian family encroaches on every year, which is no less than 5 million mu in total!"

This number shocked all the ministers in the court, no one had integrated such data to them before, and they only knew that the Kong family should have a lot of land.

However, more than 5 million mu, there are still a little too many, and it has caught up with a big county, so much land is in the hands of the Kong family, and a lot of it is still sacrificial fields, and there is no need to pay taxes.

Even if it is other millions of acres of private land, according to the previous tax collection by the imperial court, the taxes they pay are probably pitiful.

Now everyone is in no mood to speak for the Kong family, your family occupies about 1 500% of the land in Shandong Province, and if you don't pay taxes much, the local people will definitely not be able to survive.

It is no wonder that the Shandong Society is one of the places where the White Lotus Sect has revolted the most, and the pressure on the people is too great.

Seeing that someone began to attack the Kong family, Yang Jing, the secretary of the Criminal Department, probably out of the intention of beating the water dog, also stood up and said.

"There are many illegal things in the local area of the Confucian clan in Qufu, killing domestic slaves, forcibly buying and selling, raping people's daughters, giving money to the people, annexing land, and bullying the side branches, together with the children of the Confucian clan of the sect, there are many things that can't stand it, but the people dare not sue, the officials dare not investigate, and the ministers do not dare to say much before."

Zhu Yuanzhang has heard of these situations, but he has never been good at attacking the Kong family, because he doesn't want the civil officials in the court to make trouble.

Now seeing the ugly faces of the civil officials under his command, Zhu Yuanzhang's heart is not to mention how happy.

Thinking of what the head of the Kong family reported by Jinyi Wei, Zhu Yuanzhang was furious, and he must clean them up this time.

is Zhu Yuanzhang's implementation of cold watching, and Li Yuanming, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, also stood up and said.

"The minister heard that Kong Xixue, the head of the Confucian family, did not abide by the etiquette law during the spring and autumn festival every year, drank alcohol, and had a lot of intimacy with women."

The ministers were in an uproar, if the problem that Yang Jing of the Criminal Department said just now was just a trivial matter, the Kong family could hand over some of the clansmen of the branch to solve it.

The knife of the original name of the Ministry of Rites Shangshu Li really stabbed the Confucian family in the waist.

When the contemporary Yan Shenggong Confucius Xixue presided over the Spring and Autumn Festival on behalf of the Son of Heaven, he neglected his duties, which was disloyal, and he also had to worship Confucius in such a big sacrifice, he did not observe the ceremony, and he was also unfilial!

In such a feudal society, the Confucian family, as a descendant of Confucius, actually produced such a disloyal and unfilial person, if you add the perverted acts reported before, it is unkind and unjust.

After this set of tricks, the Kong family will become a stinky shit that no one wants to contaminate.

Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly heard the news that Li Yuanming said, and he was also a little angry, it was never a trivial matter to worship the sky in the Ming Dynasty, but now someone told Zhu Yuanzhang that when the Kong family was worshipping the sky, this performance was that Zhu Yuanzhang tore Kong Xixue's heart alive.

Seeing that the hundreds of officials below are now revealing the good things done by the Kong family one by one, Zhu Yuanzhang squinted and asked.

"Then in the eyes of Zhongqing, how to deal with the Kong family?"

Zuodu Yushi Zhao Mian stood up and said.

"The minister thinks that His Majesty can make Yan Shenggong think about it behind closed doors, and he can be fined, whether he is a descendant of Confucius Sheng, or is it mainly persuasion, as for the children of the Kong family who violate the law, they will all be handed over to the criminal department for punishment."

Yang Jing stood up and said against him: "Just look at Kong Xixue's performance in the Spring and Autumn Festival on behalf of His Majesty, he should directly take the name of the Holy Father of Yan!" Such kingless and fatherless people, if they are not descendants of Confucius, should be killed! ”

Someone stood up and said in the round.

"Alas, Your Majesty, as the Son of Heaven, cannot deprive others of their positions because of this little mistake, which is unforgiving."

The others suddenly scolded in their hearts, when did Your Majesty be lenient, why is the Kong family special, I think you want the Kong family to die.

Zhu Yuanzhang listened to their discussion for so long, and he didn't hear a deal plan that suited his heart, so he asked with some dissatisfaction.

"Anything else?"

The ministers were silent for a while, if it was replaced by other ordinary people, they would have suggested that Zhu Yuanzhang would have raided the family and exterminated the clan, but the descendants of Confucius always have a little particularity.

None of them dared to suggest that Zhu Yuanzhang be ruthless, so that he would leave a bad reputation in the history of the youth, maybe as soon as such a suggestion came out, he would immediately be abused by scholars all over the world.

Who doesn't want to have a good reputation? Especially under Zhu Yuanzhang's hands, there is no need to think about greed for money, and if you find out, you will be killed, but power and reputation always have to be considered.

When Zhu Yuanzhang saw this scene, he became even more angry, and it seemed that he still underestimated the status of the Kong family in the hearts of these people.

Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't come up with any good solutions for a while, and the rough handling method he was best at was also a little out of order in the face of the Kong family.

No matter what this group of scholars thinks, but Confucius is a tablet on the mouth, it's okay when it doesn't move, but once it moves, there must be a lot of flies standing up and screaming, and annoyance can annoy people to death.

Zhu Yuanzhang also didn't want to drive out another batch of officials in the court, there were already a lot of people involved in the previous Jin Wang case, and two major cases were made one after another, and there would be a lack of experienced manpower in the court.