Qufu, Yansheng Gongfu.

Under the plaque of "Holy Mansion" written in gold lacquer, the magnificent Confucian Mansion in the past is now gloomy. Since the incident of the face of the saint on the Wanshou Festival, the Confucian family and the Goryeo envoy Zheng Mengzhou wanted to quit the new school was revealed, and everyone knew that the Confucian Mansion would be unlucky in the future. The sky above the Yansheng Mansion, which had been beaten by the emperor, immediately covered the sky with a thick cloud. The former gate is no longer traceable, and now the pommel horse is gradually thinning.

However, on this day, it was rare for a visitor with official status to come to the Yansheng Mansion. Kong Xixue, who was terrified at home, was overjoyed and personally greeted him. The two were polite at the door for a long time, and Kong Xixue led this person to the hall for a banquet.

"Lord Lu is here at this time, which is really emotional." Kong Xixue almost burst into tears, wiping the tears from the corners of his eyes and sighing: "Alas, when I see my confidant in adversity, the sages will not deceive me...... It's hard to remember the old man......"

"Hey, where is the Yan Shenggong?" The visitor was Lu Ben, the imperial court Shandong capital salt transport envoy. He smiled kindly: "The imperial court summoned officials to Beijing to report on their work, and on the way, they passed by the sage's treasure house, and they should hand over the post to pay respects...... I only hope that the Holy Father of Yan will not blame the subordinate officials for being abrupt. ”

"If you don't blame, how can you blame?" Kong Xixue was very enthusiastic. Although Lu Ben humbly said that he was debriefing, Kong Xixue knew that Lu Ben was about to be promoted. In the past, when the clear stream of the DPRK and China was still alive, this person was still very inconspicuous. Now that the clear stream has dispersed, Lu Ben has become one of the few people that Confucius relies on in the court.

In the past, due to the empty seal case, the emperor used the excuse to clean up the old schools in the court, and even deposed a large number of talented people in the court, such as Zhan Tong and Fang Keqin, to the countryside, and even confiscated their homes and sent them to prison. In the past, most of the princes of the court and the central government, who were the humerus of the Ming Dynasty, were swept away overnight. Lu Benben is also a Qingliu lineage, but he is kind and kind, and he does not attack Xinxue with open fire, and because his hometown and the emperor belong to Fengyang, he can barely be regarded as a party in Huaixi, so he can be preserved.

However, Kong Xixue knew that Lu Ben actually supported Cheng Zhu's old learning in his heart. The reason why he is hiding in the middle of the court is just to keep it for a useful body...... Today, there are still many such loyalists in the DPRK and China, after all, science has been practiced for hundreds of years and has its own heritage. These loyal and good people are good to themselves in the court, and they are also in order to find an opportunity to rise up again, destroy new learning, and save the sky......

But now, Kong Xixue already feels that the sky is about to fall.

He grabbed Lu Ben's hand and cried: "Lord Lu doesn't know that the current situation in the court is really full of traitors, and it has reached the autumn of critical survival!" ”

"A few days ago, the prince and the cabinet planned to reform the imperial examination, saying that according to the new academic initiative, all officials and minor officials in the government need to be promoted by the examination. Xiucai can be appointed as a county official, and a person can be appointed as a government official...... Those who have served as officials for three years can take the entrance examination. And the scientific examination should also be divided into categories, the household department needs to test the mu, the criminal department needs to test the criminal law, and the saint has eight shares, each of which is reduced according to the system...... This is really a big rebellion! Are the students who are enumerated in this way still disciples of saints? ”

"This is the revival of a hundred schools of thought! Isn't the mu calculation and criminal law to change the two schools of agriculture and law? The new way of learning is really a disaster for the country and the people! If the students who have passed the examination in this way are in charge of the court, my Daming Society will not be far away. ”

"The knowledge of the ancestors is self-defeating!"

Kong Xixue beat his chest and paused, his face full of grief. It seemed as if he was going to crash to death in the next moment on the statue of the saint enshrined in front of the hall.

But the carved beams and paintings of the Confucian Mansion around, as well as the gilded copper tripod placed in front of the statue of Confucius, and the delicacies of the mountains and seas placed under the tripod, taught Lu Ben to pout slightly.

"Yan Sheng Gong...... Yan Sheng Gong put out his grief for a while. Lu Ben persuaded, and he helped Kong Xixue, who was almost crying, back to the chair, and then sighed heavily. Well, what can we do? The state affairs declined, Song Lian and Liu Bowen switched to Xinxue, and they were sycophants of His Majesty. Your Majesty is so happy that he is reckless...... But after all, Your Majesty is in charge of the world, what can we do as ministers? ”

"Alas. It's nothing more than a temporary hibernation. What can it be? Yan Shenggong listened to the advice of his subordinates, and taught his children behind closed doors to inherit the sacred learning...... When the Holy Monarch is born, you and I will use this old body to assist the Holy Monarch...... Alas. ”

"It's just that I don't know if I should wait until the Year of the Monkey?"

Lu Ben sighed repeatedly.

Kong Xixue's face turned green when he heard it. Hibernating? How to hibernate? Today, His Majesty has always been in good health, and on weekdays, he can plow the field and plough more than ten acres in one breath without panting. The tendon meat that has been trained in the world is simply stronger than a scalper, and Sima Yi is dormant for the time being? The Zhu family has no inherited head wind!

is really in case, the prince Zhu Biao is also a dragon and a tiger. And he is still in his prime, and he can live another fifty or sixty years, to say the least. and the Zhu family, the two fathers and sons, have been holding back for a long time, and he Kong Xixue is never his opponent. It was he who began to maintain his health from today, and he lived for another hundred and eighty years, but now the Confucian Mansion is in danger. If the Kong family falls, even if they are alive, what good will it be? The wealth has disappeared, and he uses his old bones as mud legs to the ground?

"Lord Lu doesn't know. I'm from the Kong family, I'm afraid I won't be able to survive that time! Kong Xixue cried. A few days ago, His Majesty had sent someone to take back the post of Qufu County Commander of my Confucian family, and sent people south to Quzhou, so that Quzhou Nanzong would worship the ancestor Confucius. In the past few days, Jiang Xuan, the new commander of the Jinyi Guard, has taken office as a new official with three fires, and this fire has burned to the head of my Confucian Mansion. ”

"My Kong family's belongings were mostly copied clean by those wolf-like eagles and dogs...... Cultivating and reading heirlooms, my Confucian family has been cultivating and reading heirlooms for generations, and even a few acres of ancestral fields have to be taken away......"

"Don't say it's hibernating...... I'm afraid that in a few days, Jiang Zhen will probably frame a crime to arrest the old man. If the princes of the court and the central government do not rise up at this time, my Confucian family will become a powder. ”

The last sentence of Confucius's doctrine is painful, but it is no longer high-sounding. How did Lu Ben not know? This Yan Shenggong acted like this, just hoping that they, the remaining Qingliu of the court, would continue to criticize Xinxue and change the life of the Confucian Mansion's wealth.

After all, the recital of Confucius Xixue on the Wanshou Festival has completely pushed the Yansheng Mansion to the opposite side of Xinxue. Now that the two parties are endless, Kong Xixue can no longer be like him Lu Ben who does not show his attitude, and only buries his head and behaves. The Yansheng Mansion is now completely bound to Cheng Zhu Lixue.

New learning does not fall, and the Confucian Mansion does not exist.

No matter how high-sounding he is, in fact, he is a holy prince, but he is reluctant to use this glory and wealth for a lifetime.

"Don't worry. The so-called: 'The country will be defeated by the way, and the heavens will first come out of calamity to rebuke it, and they will not know how to introspect themselves, and they will be afraid of strange things, and they will not know how to change, and they will be hurt and defeated.' In this way, we can see the benevolence of the heart of heaven and love the king and want to stop its chaos. ’”

Lu Ben naturally did not respond to the Chengyan Holy Father's desire to launch Qingliu to fight for the Kong family, but still smiled kindly and comforted Kong Xixue. "Xinxue is perverse, and I think it will anger the heavens. If one or two disasters appear in the imperial capital, will His Majesty An Zhi not wake up and give up his new learning to Cheng Zhuye? ”

"In this way, our generation will respond to the heavens and people, play according to the facts, and set things right, and we can get the right results. Alas...... It's just that I really don't know when this warning from heaven will appear! ”

(End of chapter)