The sky fell!

The title of the Duke of Yansheng was stripped away, and the roots of the people of the world were trampled, such behavior is tantamount to standing on the opposite side of the people of the whole world.

As soon as this news came out, the whole world and the four seas were boiling, and the whole world was shaken.

All the literati were stunned by this news!

Since the Han Dynasty respected Confucianism, the status of Confucius has been high, unrivaled and unmatched.

This is the hometown of the saint, the people of the Confucian family here, the blood of the saint flows in the veins, even if the barbarians enter China and become the ruler, they still want to seal the Confucian Mansion, and they don't dare to mess around in the saint's homeland, because this represents the whole world of scholars!

It is precisely because of this that Yan Shenggong dared to stand up and call on all the scholars in the world to "advise" the emperor, hoping that the emperor could take back his fate and stop fighting with a hundred schools of thought.

The relationship between Yan Shenggong Kong Xixue and Zhu Yuanzhang is actually quite good.

In the seventh year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang issued a special edict to exempt all land taxes owned by Yansheng Gong.

But Lao Zhu felt that he still couldn't satisfy his care for the Kong family, so he asked the Ministry of Rites to find out all the records of how the Han, Tang, and Song took care of the Kong family, and he wanted to be more honored and favored by the Kong family than the previous dynasties.

This is the loss of having no culture, and I don't know that there is a South Kong.

Lao Zhu has great respect for Yan Shenggong Kong Xixue, and has always called him Kong Cheng.

In order to strengthen the connection and heart-to-heart with Yan Shenggong, he stipulated that Yan Shenggong should come to Nanjing every year to talk to him about the old days.

Yan Shenggong Kong Xixue could feel Zhu Yuanzhang's incomparable respect for him, and he also concluded that he didn't dare to touch himself at all......

What's more, he is just admonishing, even if the admonition fails, it's nothing, that's Zhu Yuanzhang's business, and all the consequences will be borne by him Zhu Yuanzhang!

Even if he is the emperor of the Ninety-Five, he can't confront all the literati in the world, right?

Even the founding monarch, Hongwu the Great, had to give in.

But the Holy Duke Kong Xixue never dreamed that Zhu Yuanzhang would be so disrespectful of martial virtues, directly deprived him of his title, and punished Confucius Mansion openly!

What made Kong Xixue even more frightened was that after Zhu Yuanzhang stripped him of his title, he actually canonized Kong Xilu of Southern Kong as the Duke of Wenxuan!!

Kong Xixue never dreamed that there would be this kind of operation!

This trick caught him off guard!

Duke Wenxuan, inherited from the Tang Dynasty, what this means is very obvious - this is announcing that the people of the world, the Confucian family of the Southern Sect, are the great sects, orthodox, and descendants!

This is really a good move!!

Qufu, Confucius.

Previously, this place was full of culture, and Confucianism was fundamentally majestic and righteous in the sky, forming colorful auspicious clouds, but at this moment these scenes have disappeared, and instead they are black clouds, and the sky is terrifyingly gloomy, and from time to time lightning and thunder roar, as if the ancient beasts are constantly roaring.

In the Confucian Mansion, Kong Xixue, who was deprived of the title of Duke of Yansheng, was full of anger in his eyes.

"Emperor Daming...... How dare you! ”

Kong Xixue roared angrily, his face was distorted and hideous, and he hated it to the extreme: "I have inherited the Confucian Mansion in Qufu for countless years, and for so many years of the Duke of Yansheng, no one dares to touch us, this beggar emperor dares to do this......"

Doesn't he know the consequences of doing so? He has only been sitting firmly for many years, and he dares to be so unscrupulous, isn't he afraid of damage to the country? ”

"Damn! Hateful!!! ”

Kong Xixue vented his anger.

But all this anger is just impotent rage.

As for the previous Confucians, who fooled Confucius Xixue and the people of the world to jointly advise the emperor, after hearing the news, they looked at each other one by one, and no one expected that such a dead end would be easily broken by the emperor.

This is equivalent to them causing Kong Xixue to lose the title of Duke of Yansheng, and since then, most of the Confucian Mansion will decline, and a towering tree will collapse like this......

I can't imagine it!

Nowadays, the sage rules the world with knowledge, and other knowledge is not worth mentioning, which has been an established fact for many years, and how difficult is it to change all this?

If it were someone else, he really couldn't find a solution for a while, but Su Che quickly thought of a solution!

He did not deprive the descendants of the saints, but gave this title to the descendants of the more orthodox saints, provoking a dispute between the Southern and Northern Sects!

The Southern Confucian Family and the Northern Confucian Family, who is orthodox?

Nanzong is a big sect, and the blood flowing in the blood is the blood of the lineage, but because he was deprived of his title, and he was unwilling to squeeze the people to death in the fish and meat township, so he lived a very hard life, and his influence became smaller and smaller, and basically no one was an official.

It is precisely because of this that over time, the scholars in the world have subconsciously ignored that there is a Confucian family in the south, even if they are once a great sect.

As for the Confucian family in the north, they were originally concubines, but since the south was unwilling to serve the Mongol monarch and gave up the title to Northern Kong, since then, the influence of Northern Confucius has become greater and greater, and everyone has gradually recognized that this is the true descendant of the saint.

Nankong has completely declined, the temple is unable to repair, the ancestral house is dilapidated, and the family has a few acres of thin fields, barely surviving, and this life can be described as extremely difficult.

But even with such hardships, these Confucian families still have their own backbone, and they never thought of going to Northern Kong, let alone relying on the reputation of Confucius's descendants to obtain income, they live in a down-to-earth manner, just like ordinary people.

If it weren't for the people who knew the inside story, they wouldn't even know their former glory, let alone know that they were descendants of Confucius, and the young people in the neighborhood would only know that they were down-and-out scholars.

And now, with Su Che's decree, the whole world knows that there is a Confucian Mansion in the south, and they seem to be the orthodox Confucian family?

If Su Che just abolished the North Kong, it would definitely be upside down, and the consequences would be unimaginable, and the backlash of the entire world would even overturn the Ming Dynasty, which Su Che absolutely did not want to see.

But when he canonized the Confucian family in the south, and was still the title of the Tang Dynasty, Wen Xuangong, even claimed that he wanted to trace the roots and establish the great clan lineage as orthodox, so that many literati had nothing to say!

Many literati have never even heard of the Confucian family of the Southern Sect, consulted the classics, asked the old people, and only then did they know the story of the Confucian family of the Southern Sect, and at the same time knew their integrity, and knew that this was the orthodox sect in the past!

In this way, the current emperor traces back to the roots, abolishes the concubine, and establishes a lineage, which is really no problem at all, and it is completely reasonable!

Compared with the orthodox Southern Sect Kong, the deeds of Northern Confucius are not so disciplined and backbone, they first lowered the Jin and became the Yan Sheng Gong of the Jin State, and then served the Mongolian monarch and became the Yan Sheng Gong of the Great Yuan, and after the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, from the south to the north, when they were hopeless to see the monarch of the grassland to rule China again, they were reluctant to submit to the Ming Dynasty.

This is compared to the south hole with the qi......

The gap is simply too big.

Of course.

There are also many literati who are unwilling to accept such a thing, most of these people are involved in Beikong, have deep connections, and have many entanglements of interests, so they are naturally unwilling to see Beikong fall like this, and they are still cheering for them.

However, the general trend is such that no matter how much they shout, it will not help.

Zhejiang, Quzhou.

Kong Xilu, who was working in the fields, had his skin tanned by the sun and was dressed very plainly, like an authentic old farmer, who had just walked home from the field at the moment.

Before he got home, he saw a group of people in the distance, and this group of people and horses with royal support had been waiting here for a long time.

Kong Xilu stepped forward and hurriedly saluted: "The grass people meet the Qincha!" ”

The minister who came to reward him was the famous Song Lian, who was originally exiled to Maozhou because his eldest grandson Song Shen was implicated in the Hu Weiyong case.

Since Su Che crossed over, he fished him back, and it was the first time he was reused at this moment, on behalf of the emperor to reward Nankong.

Power is a man's aphrodisiac, originally when Song Lian's family was exiled to Maozhou, as early as on the way, Song Lian was already ill.

After arriving in Maozhou, there was basically only the last breath left.

If nothing else, he is going to die in Maozhou.

However, when the emperor's holy decree arrived and his luck increased, Song Lian, who was originally paralyzed on the bed and couldn't move, opened his eyes suddenly, and then sat up directly.

It was really a dying illness and sat up in shock!

After receiving Ying Tianfu for a few days and giving him various treasures, Song Lian quickly recovered as before.

At this moment, on behalf of the emperor, he is here on behalf of the emperor, and his weight is heavy enough to show the emperor's sincerity.

Song Lian smiled and said, "I brought His Majesty's will!" Kong Xilu, don't you take the order quickly? ”

"The grass people take the order!" Kong Xilu hurriedly saluted.

Song Lian retracted his smile and said seriously: "Fengtian carries the emperor, and the edict says:

I have heard of Quzhou Kong for a long time, and the sage is a descendant.

The fifty-second grandson of Confucius, the last Yan Shenggong of the Southern Song Dynasty, Kong Zhu.

It is based on "the descendants of Qufu have contributed to the ancestors", and the six generations of ancestors have been buried in Quzhou, built a family temple, lived in Quzhou for many years, and there is an old mother in the hall, can not bear to leave the ancestral temple tomb and go to Qufu, let the lord in Qufu's Beizong Kong.

Every time I hear about this, I sigh again and again, the saint's lineage is rare.

Now that the Ming Dynasty expelled the Tartars, supported the Han Dynasty, and recovered China, how could the saint's descendants be covered with dust?

Therefore, Quzhou Kong is the Duke of Wenxuan, hereditary replacement, and is the great sect of Kong!

Chin this! ”

Kong Xilu, who was still kneeling on the ground, couldn't help frowning, and when Song Lian asked him to accept the order, he was still reluctant to stand up.

"Wen Xuangong, do you still have any scruples?" Song Lian asked.

"The grass people thank God, thank you Your Majesty!

It's just this will...... In any case, it can't be next, my Quzhou Kong family has lived here for generations, and I have long had ancestral training, so I can't compete with the Qufu Kong family for the title. ”

Kong Xilu raised his head with a firm gaze and said seriously.

He had already made up his mind, even if he killed him, he couldn't let the saint's family fight each other and let others see the joke.

After Song Lian heard this, he laughed and asked rhetorically: "Qufu Kong's seal is the Duke of Yan, and you are the Duke of Wenxuan, how can this be called competing for the title?" ”

Kong Xilu was stunned when he heard this.

It seems like...... Kind of makes sense.

Kong Xilu recognized the person in front of him, the famous Song Lian, who was nicknamed Song Longmen.

He said helplessly: "Taishi Gong, Your Majesty will reward us if you reward us, but why should you deprive Qufu Kong of the title of Yansheng Duke?" ”

Obviously, Kong Xilu already knew about Beikong's deprivation of his title, and this matter spread like the wind, and within a few days, the whole country knew about it, and Kong Xilu was naturally no exception.

Song Lian smiled slightly, and said slowly: "Wen Xuangong, this matter is Your Majesty's resolution, don't talk about the dirty things in the past of the Qufu Kong Clan, it doesn't matter if you invest money and yuan, Your Majesty is generous and can bear it, but they instigate the people of the world to coerce Your Majesty and try to make Your Majesty withdraw the decree, what kind of behavior is this?" ”

"It's a big rebellion, it's perverse!"

"Your Majesty just wanted to do something practical, but was stopped like this, is this how it should be?"

Hearing this, Kong Xilu couldn't help but be silent.

Song Lian continued: "Duke Wen Xuan, I know your worries, Nankong Rangjue, not for fame and fortune, as a descendant of a saint, he doesn't want to serve the monarch of the Yuan Dynasty, this kind of integrity, even the ancestor of the Yuan dynasty, Kublai Khan, can't help but praise it." ”

"You are worried that if you inherit the title of Duke Wenxuan, you will have a dispute with Beikong, and when the time comes, the descendants of the saint will fight, which will make people see jokes and ruin the reputation of the saint."

"In that case, why should Your Majesty be strong?" Kong Xilu couldn't help but said with a wry smile.

"No, as the saying goes, there are things to do, the ancestral teachings of the past are important, but the future is equally important!" Song Lian narrowed his eyes, stared at Kong Xilu, and asked seriously: "Wen Xuangong, I will ask you a question now, this question is the question that His Majesty said personally!" ”

Kong Xilu's heart sank, and he hurriedly said, "Please speak!" ”

"Your Majesty asks: If the saint is alive, will he think that his face is more important, or is his inheritance of knowledge more important?" Song Lian stared at Kong Xilu and asked seriously.

As soon as these words came out, Kong Xilu's pupils shrank slightly, and he only felt like he had been struck by lightning, and he stood on the spot.

Song Lian continued to repeat Su Che's words: "The Northern Confucian people relied on the reputation of betraying the saint to become the Yan Shenggong of the Jin and Yuan dynasties, and then they wantonly oppressed the people, colluded with officials in the fish and meat township, and did all kinds of evil, and in the near future, they will inevitably be stinking for 10,000 years, and they will be despised by the people of the world!" ”

"Don't talk about the future, talk about the present."

"Now they are uniting with the world's scholars to threaten the implementation of the New Deal! They are only for their own interests, where do they care about the life and death of the people? ”

"You Nan Confucius is high, generous, tolerant everywhere, and cultivated and read from generation to generation, but you don't think about it carefully, is the inheritance of Confucius more important, or is the reputation more important?"

"There are some things that you can make, but there are some things that you have to fight for!!"

"Now like today's Qingming Festival, the Ming Dynasty has only been founding for more than ten years, how difficult it is to wash away the marks of the Jin and Yuan dynasties, if you don't fight, don't do it, then it's too late in the future!"

"You only think about your Kong's affection and the reputation of the saint, but you don't imagine what the saint will think!"

"If the saint were alive, he would definitely slap you hard and tell you how stupid this act is!!"

"There are some things that can not be argued, but there are some things that must be fought for!"

"If you want the true inheritance of the saints in this world, then you must fight, you must do it, instead of blindly retreating! Blindly forbearance! ”

"If in the future, when you talk about the descendants of the saints, the first thing that comes to mind is the ugly appearance of the Qufu Kong clan, and the dirty and filthy behavior of the Qufu Kong clan, what kind of face do you have to go to see Confucius?"

After saying this, Kong Xilu was ashamed, embarrassed, and knelt on the ground with a pop, already crying, tears like rain!

(End of chapter)