Long before the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, Kong Xixue, the Emperor of Yansheng, believed that the Mongol Great Khan was the legitimate emperor, so in the context of the peasant uprising at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the Confucian family firmly stood on the side of the Yuan Dynasty.

Even in order to protect the Yuan Dynasty, the Kong family also led the clansmen to organize a group training in Shandong, intending to "protect the family and defend the country"!

Such allegiance to the Yuan Dynasty is, of course, for its own interests.

Due to the differentiated treatment system implemented by the Yuan Dynasty, the Confucian family was under the rule of the Mongols, which can be described as a monstrous power.

Yan Shenggong was greatly respected by the Great Khan of the Yuan Dynasty and was a member of the ruling class of the Yuan Dynasty, so he naturally looked down on Zhu Yuanzhang, who was born in poverty.

On the fourth day of the first month of March in the first year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, the father and son of the Kong family were captured by the Northern Expedition of the general Xu Da, and they could no longer serve their father on the grassland.

After being captured, Yan Shenggong saw that the general trend of the Yuan Dynasty had gone, fled to Mobei, and had no hope of coming back, so he came to the capital of the Ming Dynasty, met with Ming Taizu, and voted for the Ming Dynasty.

Because of his special status, he was not punished, and he was still named the Holy Duke of Yan as usual, but the territory has shrunk a lot, and there is only one county in Qufu, which cannot be compared with the previous monstrous power.

Now.

In the Confucian Mansion, all kinds of decorations are extremely luxurious.

Yan Shenggong sat on the high hall, the old god was there, looking at a few great Confucians who came in a hurry, and just smiled slightly: "Everyone, please take a seat!" ”

When several great Confucians came to such holy places and met the descendants of the Confucian saints, they did not dare to make a mistake at all, and they bowed one by one before they sat down.

After sitting down, there was no greeting, and several Confucians hurriedly explained their intentions.

"When today's son despises the knowledge of saints and tries to re-establish the dispute between a hundred schools, this is something we absolutely do not want to see."

"The opening of the academy is small, but it can provoke a dispute between hundreds of schools, but it is absolutely impossible, the Ming Emperor is simply playing with fire and self-immolation!"

"When we are in ruins today, it is the time when we Confucian literati govern the country and the country, but the emperor despises us Confucianism so much, Yan Shenggong, you can't stand up this time."

"Yes, Saint Yan, the foundation of the saint has been shaken, do you want to see such a thing happen?"

"Everyone in the world is one, this force even the Ming Emperor has to retreat, if you stand up and say something, things will definitely take a turn."

"What do you think?"

Listening to the words of a few great Confucians, Yan Shenggong Kong Xixue thought deeply, his face was gloomy, and he said slowly: "You are right, what should be taught in the school is the knowledge of the saints, those things that are sideways, indiscriminate and indiscriminate, it is difficult to enter the hall of elegance, and it is necessary to open a school to teach, this is an insult to us, an insult to the people of the world, and an insult to the saints!" ”

"Even if you don't come, I already have this intention! Now that you are here, I simply express an attitude: I am willing to set an example for the people of the world, and advise the Son of Heaven to let him take back his destiny and give the people of the world a face! ”

Listening to the words of Yan Sheng Gong Kong Xixue, several great Confucians suddenly felt relieved, and hurriedly praised them: "Yan Sheng Gong is very righteous, we are willing to obey Yan Sheng Gong's arrangement!" ”

"Okay." Yan Shenggong Kong Xixue hurriedly said: "Although our Confucian family is still a descendant of a saint, its power has long been much worse than before, and the emperor of the Ming Dynasty has never put me in his eyes, even if I stand up and advise, I am afraid it will not be effective." ”

"Now the only way is to unite the great Confucians of the world, all the literati, and advise the emperor together!"

"The learning of a saint must not be so defiled!"

As Yan Shenggong Kong Xixue stood up and set an example, under his righteous and strict shout, the entire world of scholars united in protest, hoping that the Ming Emperor would take back his fate!

The power that these people have gathered together is something that no one can ignore, even the emperor of the Ninety-Five!

Zhu Yuanzhang punished corruption, and he was able to kill rivers of blood, but it still did not damage the national body.

But these corrupt officials, compared with the whole world's scholars, are still a lot less, and they are not of the same grade at all.

Even Zhu Yuanzhang can't kill all the scholars in the world!

In that case, even if it is Daming, it will have to be overturned!!

Ying Tianfu, in the palace, when Su Che saw this recital, he couldn't help but sneer: "I can't wait to make a move?" ”

The crown prince Zhu Biao on the side naturally knew the news, he couldn't help frowning, and the whole person was restless.

Before this, Zhu Biao didn't expect that the entire world of readers would unite together!

It's a terrible thing!

If it is not handled well, the whole country will be in turmoil.

With the character of the father, it is absolutely impossible to retreat!

But if you don't retreat, what should you do?

It's a tough thing to deal with!

For the first time, these people are united.

Their power is very terrifying.

And the attitude of the officials in the court is also very subtle.

After all, these officials used to be scholars, and their roots are together.

"Biao'er, did you see that?" Su Che sneered and said: "We just want to build some colleges that are useful to the country, and these literati will unite to express their position, what do you want to do?" ”

"Especially this Yan Shenggong, he wants to become an example for the world's scholars, forcing me to take back my life?"

"Who are they fighting against?"

Zhu Biao's face was very ugly and said, "They are fighting against their father!" ”

"Nope." Su Che shook his head and said seriously: "They are fighting against the whole world......

"These so-called literati, whose mouths are full of sage articles, for the country and the people, are actually filthy to the extreme, and they will not allow other learning to rise for their own interests."

"Everything is inferior, only their saints are the highest in learning, and they can only deceive ignorant people with this kind of nonsense."

"We want the world to prosper and the people to live a better life, so whether it is a saint's knowledge or not, as long as it is useful, we have to use it."

"Let the people farm better, grow better crops, produce more spiritual rice, let the private economy circulate better, let the apricot forests fill the world, let the imperial court cultivate more people who are both civil and military, and less take the road of weakening the Song Dynasty."

"What's so bad about that? Let them stand up so blocked? The words that talk about those saints are actually all words that threaten us! ”

Even Zhu Biao realized the essence of these literati at this moment, and he was silent and didn't know what to say.

Su Che smiled coldly: "Let's let them know who is in charge in this world!" ”

As soon as these words came out, Zhu Biao on the side felt a chill in his heart, and hurriedly asked, "Father, what are you going to do?" ”

I only heard Su Che say slowly: "Down with the Confucian family shop and rescue Confucius!" ”

As soon as he said this, thunder suddenly broke out outside the house, dark clouds were thick, and in the blink of an eye, raindrops the size of beans fell.

Zhu Biao's eyes widened in disbelief, and he hurriedly said, "Father, do you plan to destroy the Kong family?" You can't do that...... He is the root of the people of the world, and if they are moved, the consequences will be unimaginable! ”

As early as the period of Gaozu of the Han Dynasty, Liu Bang passed through Ludi from Huainan, deliberately stayed for a short time, worshiped Confucius, and crowned Confucius's ninth grandson - Kong Teng as the "enshrined king".

This is the first time that a descendant of Confucius has been crowned.

Because in the early period of the Western Han Dynasty, Lao Tzu advocated "rule by inaction" and respected "Huang Lao's learning".

Therefore, Confucianism was not regarded as orthodox, and the descendants of the Confucian family at that time did not have much privilege, and "worshipping the king" was not a big official position.

Until the first year of Emperor Yuanguang of the Han Dynasty, Dong Zhongshu, a doctor of Taixue, proposed to "promote the Confucian family and suppress the hundred schools".

That is what later generations said "overthrow a hundred schools of thought and respect Confucianism alone".

This established the orthodox status of Confucianism.

After that, Confucius's status continued to rise, and he was even posthumously crowned king in the Tang Dynasty, and the descendants of Confucius followed suit.

Since then, successive dynasties have sealed the descendants of Confucius to varying degrees.

The descendants of the successive dynasties have been successively named as:

Chongshenghou (Western Han Dynasty).

Zong Shenghou (Cao Wei).

Feng Shenghou (Western Jin Dynasty).

Gong Shenghou (Northern Qi).

Zou Guogong (Northern Zhou).

Shao Shenghou (Sui Dynasty).

Wen Xuangong (Tang Dynasty).

Yan Shenggong (Song, Yuan, Ming, Qing).

Inheriting countless dynasties, the power of Confucius has long been like a pair of invisible hands, covering the whole world.

The descendants of such saints, even if the court wants to move, they can't move!

It's really going to be a big problem!

Don't you see, before you said this, the sky was full of thunder?

Su Che naturally knew Zhu Biao's worries, but he also had his own way to deal with this matter!

I only heard Su Che say slowly: "Directly kill the Kong family, of course not, but you can support another Kong family, since the Kong family of the Northern Sect is not a person, then support the Confucian family of the Southern Sect!" ”

As soon as these words came out, Zhu Biao's eyes suddenly widened - there is still this kind of operation?

Nanzong!

Let the Southern Sect and the Northern Sect fight!

Zhu Biao couldn't help but exclaim: "Father, your means are simply amazing!" ”

This method is so inappropriate, it is simply extremely bad!

Of course, Zhu Biao is not easy to say, and he doesn't dare to say it.

The division between the Southern and Northern Sects within the Kong family began with the political turmoil at the turn of the Northern Song Dynasty and the Southern Song Dynasty.

In the first year of the reign of Emperor Jingkang of the Northern Song Dynasty, the Jin regime established by the northern Jurchen nobles divided his troops to the south and besieged Bianjing, the capital of the Song Dynasty.

The following year, Bianjing fell, the Hui and Qin emperors were taken into captivity, and the Northern Song Dynasty perished.

This is also the shame of Jingkang in history.

Yue Fei once mentioned in "Man Jianghong: Angry Hair Rushes to the Crown": "Jing Kang is ashamed, and it is still snowing." When the courtiers hate, when will they perish. ”

In that year, the two emperors and two queens were humiliated and died, and they didn't even dare to describe it positively in the history books.

On the other hand, the ninth prince of Song Huizong, King Kang Zhao Gou, was located in Yingtianfu in May of the same year, called Song Gaozong, and changed the yuan to "Jianyan".

In the autumn of the second year of Jianyan, Song Gaozong moved the palace to Yangzhou, and held a suburb in November.

In this year, Confucius's forty-eighth grandson, Kong Duanyou, the Holy Duke of Fengyan, and his clansman Kong Chuanfeng accompanied him to participate in the ceremony.

At this time, Jin Bing marched to Shandong, Henan, and Shaanxi in three ways.

In the second year, the Jin soldiers continued to invade the south, occupying all parts of the Huaibei of the Central Plains, and the monarchs and ministers of Song Gaozong crossed the river in a hurry and fled south to Lin'an Mansion in Zhejiang.

And Kong Duanyou and Kong Chuan led the descendants of Confucius, and the wooden statues of Confucius and the wife of the official carved by Feng Zigong accompanied the south.

Since then, the Confucius family has been divided into the Southern Sect and the Northern Sect.

In the north of the Jin Kingdom, there is a Yan Shenggong.

In the south, the Song Dynasty was a Yan Shenggong.

There are two Yan Shenggong in the world.

In the Yuan Dynasty, Kublai Khan, the ancestor of the Yuan dynasty, eliminated the Southern Song Dynasty and unified the world.

So he immediately set out to solve the problem of the Southern and Northern Sects of the Kong Clan.

Kublai Khan believed that the Confucian Mansion of the Southern Sect was orthodox and the great sect.

Therefore, Kublai Khan summoned Kong Duanyou, a descendant of Kong Duanyou, the son of the elder sect of the Kong family, and Kong Zhu, the holy prince of Nanzongyan, to the capital of Beijing and asked him to return to Qufu to worship Confucius.

However, at this time, the pattern of Nankong was revealed.

When Nankong went south, he didn't want to serve the Jin people, and now after the Yuan people rule the world, they also don't want to serve these Mongols.

Even if the price is to lose the title, the family has been sluggish since then, and it will not hesitate!

So.

Kong Zhu said that "the descendants of Qufu have contributed to the ancestors", and stated that his six generations of ancestors have been buried in Quzhou, have built a family temple, have lived in Quzhou for many years, and have an old mother in the hall, and can't bear to leave the ancestral temple tomb and go to Qufu, and at the same time said that he let the Northern Sect Kong family in Qufu!

With such integrity, even Kublai Khan couldn't help but sigh: the descendants of the true saints!

To a certain extent, it was the Northern Confucius who bent his knees and surrendered first to the Jin State and then to the Mongols, and did everything for the sake of glory and wealth.

Later, when the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, Kong Yanzhi, the then Yansheng Gong of the Confucian Mansion, immediately presented the "First Entry Statement", which praised the Manchu monarch with great flattery, and sincerely expressed his loyalty, and took the lead in shaving his hair and changing clothes.

This also made the famous world cultivator descend to the Holy Father.

The world cultivation table has become the traditional art of Beikong.

But all of this is what Beikong did, and it has nothing to do with Nankong.

Southern Confucius even set up rules for future generations, prohibiting future generations from competing for the title of Holy Duke with Northern Confucius, and not allowing the descendants of saints to kill each other for profit.

In the Northern Confucius, the Holy Princes of Yan were enthroned for generations, enjoying endless glory and wealth, and their fame also reached the top......

On the other hand, the Kong clan of Nanzong gradually declined after losing the title.

The family temple was unable to be repaired, the sacrificial field tax was restarted, and the clansmen could not enter the official career, so they could only sink and float in the academy chief, Confucianism and other scholars, and they wanted no wealth, and they had no power.

But even if you are poor, you are so poor that you have backbone!

The atmosphere of Nankong is rare in ancient and modern times!

How shameless is it in the north of Kong?

According to Su Che's knowledge.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China in modern times, as the orthodox Southern Confucius, the ancestral wooden statue of Confucius was exhibited to the outside world.

But when this wooden statue was exhibited in Shandong, it was snatched away by the Confucius family in Qufu, and a replica was made for Nankong!

Quzhou Nankong demanded the return of the heirloom Confucius wooden statue, hoping that the wooden statue could be returned to Quzhou.

The Confucian family in Qufu believes that the wooden statue that has been living abroad for many years since Jingkang should stay in Qufu!

Even in modern times...... Beikong is still on the front line of embarrassment.

In terms of large and small sects, Nankong is a large sect orthodoxy.

In terms of temperament, the Nankong Festival has no loss and is worthy of China.

Academically speaking, the North Confucius pays attention to the importance of the basics and suppresses the end, the agriculture and industry and commerce, and the learning and excellence, while the South Confucius emphasizes that the trade benefits the industry, and the history of the economy is put into practice.

Since Nankong is unwilling to fight with Beikong? Initiate a battle to snatch the title of Duke Yan?

That's good, if you don't fight, you won't fight, and if you don't grab, you won't grab!

Su Che directly issued an order to abolish the title of Yansheng Gong and deprive them of their political rights, and then let Jinyiwei find evidence of Beikong's crime and settle accounts slowly.

At the same time, Su Che canonized the Confucian family of Nanzong as "Wenxuan Gong" and made them the root of the world's scholars, and the reason is also very straightforward.

Nanzong is a large sect, and it is a descendant, and there is a wooden statue of Confucius.

And the Confucian family of the Northern Sect, where does the world repair descend to the table, where is there a little integrity, and where is it worthy of Confucius's orthodoxy?

As soon as this decree came out, everyone in the world was shaken!

(End of chapter)