Chapter 246: Hot Potato

In desperation, Kong Xixue had no choice but to nominate a son of the Kong family who had an innocent family background and had not done anything bad.

This person didn't know the twists and turns around the Qufu County Order, and happily took office, and on the second day of his appointment, Liu Yan came to talk to him.

Liu Yan didn't ask anything else, but just chatted with him about the Analects, but this person couldn't answer a word.

No, the Qufu County Order was also taken down, and Liu Yan also impeached Kong Xi for unknown knowledge, and demanded that it be traced back to his son, and the current Yan Shenggong was also removed.

After the turmoil in Qufu reached the imperial court, Zhu Yuanzhang was very happy, he received a letter from He Qiu before, asking him not to appoint the magistrate of Qufu for the time being, and he still had some doubts in his heart.

Now that he sees He Qiu's three axes, the effect is too good, and it is much more clever than his previous method of simply issuing an order to seize the power of the Qufu County Commander appointed by Yan Shenggong, so he is happy to let He Qiu do it.

Seeing He Qiu's impeachment of Kong Xixue and his son this time, Zhu Yuanzhang's reaction was also very fast, and he directly ordered that Kong Xixue and his son's family be deprived of their qualifications for the title and replaced them with another of his clan brothers.

This Yan Shenggong had just taken the throne, and He Qiu came to the door with a smile on his face and asked him to choose a new Qufu magistrate.

The new Yan Shenggong is called a person who wants to cry without tears, he knew that there would not be such a good thing, and he saw that so many people had folded in the position of Qufu County, and now who in the clan dared to be the county commander.

And although He Qiu's requirements are not high, even if he has no criminal record, he can recite the Four Books and Five Classics, but the current Qufu Kong clan really can't find such a young man.

They have been eating and waiting to die for more than a hundred years, and the rule of the Yuan Dynasty was originally extremely lenient, so how could they continue to study hard?

Just when the Kong family was messily discussing the candidates for the new Qufu Zhixian County, He Qiu had already begun to quietly check the black materials that Kong Xi had learned from them.

He Qiu now hated Kong Xixue to death, how could he let him pass the test so easily, just to knock out their qualification to attack the knighthood.

He Qiu didn't plan to let Kong Xixue continue to live, even if he was alive, He Qiu wanted him to live rather than die.

In a stalemate, after half a month, He Qiu impeached this Xinyan Holy Father again, saying that he had no talent, and he couldn't even pick out a candidate for Qufu Zhixian for so long.

In private, he summarized all the black materials about the Kong Xixue brothers found this time and handed them over to Zhu Yuanzhang.

Zhu Yuanzhang saw the materials submitted by He Qiu, and made a ruthless note to the Kong family in his heart, how many years has the Ming Dynasty been founded?

The Kong family has forced more than a dozen families to death in the local area, and Kong Xixue personally led his servants to kill several people.

Without hesitation, Zhu Yuanzhang agreed to He Qiu's impeachment and dismissed Yan Shenggong again, this time to put the Qufu Kong family to death.

However, for more than half a year, the Qufu County Order and Yan Shenggong have changed several times, but there is no fault of the imperial court on the surface, and the reasons for these people to be taken down are very perfect.

Even the ministers of the DPRK and the central government who are good at criminal names can't find faults, and they can only say that price control is a bad thing to do, and retribution is coming.

He Qiu's actions are not limited to these, he collected a large number of cases about the Kong family tried by the Three Law Divisions, sent them to Beiping, and handed them over to those who had been in contact with them before, so that they could imitate Bao Qingtian to handle the case, and a new case-handling novel came.

The outline of the story was still given by He Qiu, and the cases were all ready-made, and as soon as the book was written, it immediately swept the entire country.

Under He Qiu's operation, the reputation of the Qufu Kong family is really stinky.

Not to mention anything else, Kong Xixue ordered the burning of the Confucian Temple and deceived the teacher to destroy the ancestors, which offended the scholars, and no one was willing to stand up and help the Confucian family speak.

Originally, these scholars were the strong backing of the Kong family, but unfortunately, Kong Xixue's operation cut off the connection between them with his own hands.

Kong Xixue already felt extremely frightened, and now he was in Qufu, and from time to time someone looked at him with strange eyes, making him always feel that these people wanted to kill him.

Under such great mental pressure, Kong Xixue almost didn't go crazy, and quarreled with others every day in the clan.

His brothers all felt that what happened to the Confucian family now was caused by him setting fire to the main hall of the Confucian Temple.

Jinyi guards the yamen, He Qiu looked at Liu Yan in front of him and asked.

"How many people are willing to stand up and accuse Confucius of setting fire to the Confucian Temple now?"

Liu Yan arched his hand and said.

"There are already more than a dozen people who are willing to stand up and testify that Kong Xi has learned."

He Qiu and they have handled so many cases about the Kong family during this time, and they have won many of the original Kong Xixue's henchmen, and under the torture of Jinyiwei, few of them are willing to die with Kong Xixue.

After all, Jin Yiwei's attitude is already very clear, that is, to let Kong Xixue die, they are not fools, at least stand up and expose Kong Xixue and fight for a commutation of sentence, why not?

He Qiu pondered for a moment, but still shook his head with some regret.

"These people are not enough, after all, they were exposed after our trial, and they may not be able to stand up in the eyes of outsiders, and these people also lack weight, so there is no way to make a final decision."

He Qiu looked at the relationship chart of the Kong family that he asked Jin Yiwei to sort out, Yan Shenggong and the patriarch?!

Yes, the Kong family not only has Yan Shenggong, but also the patriarch of the Kong family!

Although the relationship between Yan Shenggong and the head of the Kong family is often one and two, two and one, this does not mean that the head of the Kong family is really of the same mind as Yan Shenggong.

What's more, now that Kong Xixue has become a water dog, as long as he gives a certain promise, I believe that Kong Xiyu, the patriarch of the Kong family, will not mind coming forward to expose Kong Xixue.

He Qiu quickly found Kong Xiyu, Kong Xiyu was also a little frightened when he saw He Qiu, these days He Qiu often went to Kong's house to arrest people, and he was a little scared when he saw He Qiu.

He Qiu didn't talk nonsense, and said directly to Kong Xiyu.

"Kong Xixue burned down the ancestral temple, deceived the teacher and betrayed the ancestors, and deliberately attacked the court officials, committing a heinous crime, if he is allowed to live like this, at least I will not let the Kong family go."

Kong Xiyu was silent, he knew that it was He Qiu who Kong Xixue wanted to burn to death, such a big hatred, it would be strange if He Qiu was willing to let Kong Xixue go.

What's more, Kong Xiyu was originally Kong Xixue's brother, and the relationship between the two was not necessarily very close, and they stood relatively close at the beginning, just because Kong Xiyu wanted to be the patriarch of the Kong clan.

Now, since Kong Xixue has no use value, it is not a good thing to throw him out to calm the anger of the imperial court.

Kong Xiyu asked tentatively.

"What do you mean?"

He Qiu said.

"Kong Xixue must die, and now I have found more than a dozen people who are willing to come forward to expose his illegal deeds, but they are all a little lacking in weight, Patriarch Kong can think about it."