In fact, the deeds of the Southern and Northern Confuciuss are not secrets, not only are they recorded on both sides, but they are also clearly remembered in the history books and chronicles. Therefore, Kong Ne can't say anything, so he can only tell the truth:

"Things have to start with Jianyan Nandu, when the Jin soldiers captured Bianliang and captured the two emperors of Hui and Qin, and then King Kang was proclaimed emperor in Yingtian, and changed to Yuan Jianyan, which was later Song Gaozong."

After that, the Jin soldiers continued to invade the south, and Gaozong moved the palace all the way from the Huai River to the Yangtze River and then to Hangzhou, where he sent a message to all the officials in the occupied areas to return south as soon as possible. Our Confucian family is naturally among them. ”

"At that time, Yan Sheng Gong was the forty-eighth grandson of the ancestor Duanyougong, after receiving the will, he discussed with the patriarch Kong Chuangong and decided to use the strength of the whole clan to escort the treasure of the town temple to the south, from being captured by the Jin soldiers, leaving only my ancestor Duan Cao Gong, Duan Binggong and a few other people to guard the ancestral house Lin Temple."

After that, Duanyou Gong and Kong Chuangong led more than 100 clansmen and Yan, Meng, and Zeng clansmen to drive horses, help the old and the young, bid farewell to their homeland, and finally escorted the treasure of the town temple to Lin'an. After the audience, Emperor Gaozong of the Song Dynasty gave the temple to live in Quzhou, which is the origin of Nankong. ”

"At this time, Jin Guo regarded Duanyougong's younger brother, my ancestor Duancao Gong as the true biography of Confucius, and sealed Duancao Gong as Yan Shenggong, Duancao Gong insisted on resigning, and died of illness the following year. After that, the Jin State forcibly sealed the son of Duancao Gong, and my eighth ancestor Kong Fan Gong was the Yan Shenggong. ”

Since then, there have been two sons and two Yan Shenggongs in the world at the same time. This is the origin of the South Hole and the North Hole. Conne sighed and said:

After that, the southern and southern Yan Shenggong had their own inheritance, until the Yuan Dynasty destroyed the Song Dynasty and unified the world, the situation of the separation of the north and the south could not continue. At that time, the sixth generation of the Southern Confucian Yan Shenggong Kong Zhugong, although the late Song Yan Shenggong, was still the head of the recognized major sects in the north and south, and our Northern Sect also actively wrote to the emperor to ask the emperor to recruit the Duke of Kong Zhu to return to Lu for enshrinement. ”

After leaving Qufu, Kong Zhugong went to Dadu to meet Yuan Shizu. When he entered the Hajj, he accepted the national sacrifice wine given by Yuan Shizu, and also promoted the affairs of the Zhejiang Eastern Provincial School, as well as various rich rewards; He also gladly accepted the imperial court's grant of the seal of Lin Miao, but politely declined to return to Lu for worship. ”

"This made him feel very worried, and after more than two months of careful consideration, Kong Zhu decided to use the unique golden mean of his ancestors to stop Yuan Shizu's plot to split the holy descendants of Confucius and maintain the unity and dignity of the holy descendants of the north and the south."

He also deeply felt the great changes in the ancestral court in the past 160 years: the ancestors who stayed in the Que Lilin Temple were ravaged by the war, and they had long been different from the Southern Sect. At the same time, he also learned that the emperor of the Yuan Dynasty let himself, the suzerain of the Southern Sect, enter the Northern Sect because he wanted to use his 'Confucius to control Confucius' and provoke the Confucian descendants to fall into division. ”

During this period, he picked the woodland and carefully carved the seated statues of Confucius and his wife. These two wooden statues are less than two feet high, Confucius has long robes and large sleeves, holding a court wat in his hand, and the long skirt of the wife of the official hangs to the ground, and the image is vivid.

"In the past, although you both sides have stated their own positions, they are generally quite reliable." Zhu Zhen said lightly: "Kong Xilu didn't deny it either, there is something wrong with your Yansheng Gong. People just put forward a point, at the beginning, his ancestor Kong Zhu was a loyal minister and did not want to be the Yan Shenggong of the Yuan Dynasty, and now that the Yuan Dynasty has died, the Ming Dynasty is my Han family, so naturally there is no such obstacle. ”

Later, Lu Aigong set up Confucius's living room as a temple to worship Confucius, and these two wooden statues were enshrined here after they were carved.

It is said that this wooden statue was carved by Zigong. Legend has it that after the death of Confucius, the disciples mourned in front of the grave for three years before saying goodbye with tears. But Zigong still couldn't bear to leave, so he built a thatched hut next to the tomb of Confucius and guarded it for another three years.

"......" Kong Ne's face was blue and white for a while, and he couldn't refute it in a word. Because the wooden statue of Confucius and his wife mentioned by Zhu Zhen is the 'treasure of the town temple' that he just stated.

Zhu Zhen listened patiently, and the two sentences made Kong Ne's question almost vomit blood. "Did this king say that there was a controversy? Aren't you not admitting yourself? ”

After a long speech, Kong Ne raised his head and said confidently: "So the current position of the Holy Duke of Yan in our Northern Confucius was not snatched by himself, nor was he stolen from somewhere!" It was Nankong who took the initiative to let it out back then, and it is still sealed by the saint today! I don't know what the controversy is, and the people of Nankong are still entangled?! ”

He said that he would inherit the ancestral teachings and achieve loyalty, filial piety, benevolence, courtesy, righteousness, wisdom and faith; Therefore, he must return to Quzhou to protect the ancestral temple tomb and serve his elderly mother, so he resolutely resigned from the title of Shenggong. The ministers around Yuan Shizu repeatedly advised him to act according to orders. Kong Zhu Gong was unmoved, and insisted on presenting the bronze seal issued by the former Song royal family to Yuan Shizu. ”

"In the nineteenth year of the Yuan Dynasty, Kong Zhugong should enter the Hajj as the 'Jiangnan Raid Fengyan Holy Prince', left Quzhou and went north, and arrived in Qufu in August. He was in Que for more than two months, worshipping the ancestral temple and ancestral forest, meeting the old and young relatives, and pouring out the homesickness and ancestral nostalgia of the six generations of Yan Shenggong in the south of the Yangtze River. ”

"Yuan Shizu was not annoyed by Kong Zhugong's disobedience and resignation, but praised him: 'Rather disobey the glory than disobey the Tao, the true saint is also!' did not force him to return to Qufu to worship, but he did not appoint another Yan Holy Duke to preside over the Qufu ceremony. ”

Later, before Kong Zhu died, he called his children and grandchildren to the bed and swore that they would never become the Holy Father. It was not until many years after his death that the Yuan Dynasty re-canonized our descendants of Northern Confucius as the Holy Duke of Yan. ”

"Inherited to the end of the Yuan Dynasty, my father Xi Xuegong succeeded him, when Wei Daming was carried by heaven, the north was unified, my father led the people to welcome the king, and was sent to Nanjing by General Xu to meet him, the emperor and his father hit it off at first sight, and praised his father's move to know the destiny of heaven and obey the will of heaven, so he ordered his father to continue to serve as the holy prince of Yan."

"This, this ......" Kong Ne was dumbfounded: "If the prince thinks it's okay, why do you ask it?" ”

Speaking of this, Kong Ne changed his previous vague language, and the description suddenly opened his nose and eyes.

Saying that, he smiled and said: "You can't say that people don't have the qualifications to inherit the Holy Duke of Yan, after all, the wooden statue of Confucius and his wife is still in the Confucian Temple in Quzhou!" ”

Later, this wooden statue became the most authoritative image of Confucius, was regarded as the supreme holy relic of Confucius, and has been kept in the ancestral temple of Qufu by the eldest grandson of Confucius in the past dynasties, until the fall of the Northern Song Dynasty, Yan Shenggong Kong Duanyou carried two statues to the south, this Confucian holy relic, it is located in the Confucian temple in Quzhou.

These two wooden statues are also the biggest heart problem of Beikong, because no matter how many Yan Shenggong there are on their side, as long as these two statues are in Quzhou for one day, Nankong will still be authentic! They were a head short of Nankong.

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