"This is the Yansheng Mansion, who are you, dare to come...... Yes! ”

"Xichang is handling the case, and the idle people are all out of the way!"

On the third day of Hu Lun's arrival in Yanzhou Mansion, when Zhu Gaoxu's edict in Beijing had just been issued, he had already begun to encircle and investigate the Yansheng Mansion.

As the fifty-ninth generation descendant of Confucius, Kong Yanjin, who was still practicing calligraphy in the study, suddenly heard the noise outside the courtyard, frowned, put down the pen, and walked out of the small courtyard, and saw dozens of young men in black uniforms coming and going in the Yansheng Mansion, rummaging through boxes and cabinets.

He tried to stop it, but was directly pushed to the ground by a hundred household officials in the West Factory.

No matter how he thought about it, he couldn't imagine that there were still people in the world who dared to make a move on him.

"Don't you know who I am?"

Overthrowing a Confucian family would reduce the burden on the entire Shandong a lot, and the imperial court would also get a lot of arable land, so that the people could live a more comfortable life.

They repeated and shouted injustice, even Zhu Gaoxu in the hall felt irritable, not to mention the hundreds of civil officials beside them.

The bullet that originally hit the vassal king was jumped out and taken by Confucius.

"Slander?" Hu Lun really wanted to go up and kick this guy: "The horses of the Qingchuan Village Office have all appeared at your nephew's house, you say this is slander?" ”

Zhu Gaoxu questioned Song Li, but Song Li didn't dare to respond.

"Your Majesty, can't you ......?"

"Your Majesty, after all, the Yansheng Mansion is a saint, so you can't be slack!"

"What kind of government affairs are you involved in blindly as a military attaché, there are so many officials from the Six Ministries and Six Divisions of the Metropolitan Procuratorate here, do they still need your reminder?!"

"Kong Sheng is your cousin, right?"

Zhu Gaochi and Zhu Gaosui were stunned by this scene, and they swept away at a glance, and none of these military attaches were lower than the third grade.

In the crowd, Xu Sheng, the Marquis of Changchun, who had just returned to Beijing from the southwest to report on his work, explained to Zhu Gaochi.

Although it was a complaint, as far as he sat still for a long time, he still favored his own people in his heart.

Moreover, in his opinion, the people don't need to be fooled at all, as long as they are given a good life, Zhu Gaoxu does not think that anyone will want to rebel.

Since the imperial examinations in the early Ming Dynasty had to be examined for school riding and archery, when the two sides first started fighting, civil officials could still have the upper hand.

The military attachés' faces were not good-looking, but they still teased the two of them as they passed by.

Hu Lun gritted his teeth and said this, Kong Yanjin's first reaction was to retort: "Impossible, this must be a mistake, my nephew is good, how could he do such a rebellious thing, someone must have slandered him!" ”

Even the rulers of the bourgeoisie want to make the most of them.

"What are you standing for?"

Song Li, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, was embarrassed, but Zhu Gaoxu directly reprimanded: "I don't want to say the same thing a second time, I have already issued an edict on the matter of Confucius, if anyone dares to come to Wuyingdian Square and kneel and say that Confucius's innocence is not guilty, then I will shoot him with a bow and arrow!" ”

Whether it is real power or loose rank, so many Zhengsanpin can be dispatched, and they are all military attaches in their forties, so things will not be small.

"Send someone close to him to tell him how the people of Shandong will live in the future, depending on how well he handles this case."

Before he finished speaking, a royal historian was punched in the face by Xu Sheng.

Hu Lun looked at Kong Yanjin with a cold face, if he didn't allow it, he even wanted to slash Kong Yanjin with a knife.

"Especially you, Xu Sheng!"

Walking to the gate of the Wuying Palace, Zhu Gaoxu saw that hundreds of military attachés were forming an army formation to chase hundreds of civilian officials fighting in the entire square, and the ground was littered with broken wat boards, belts, black gauze hats and broken official robes that had been trampled on.

"Boss, you said that Your Majesty really wants to implicate the entire Confucian Mansion?"

Zhu Gaochi saw that the quarrel between civil and military officials had developed into a fist and foot dispute, and even if he pulled Zhu Gaosui to hide away.

He scolded the crowd, and they all bowed their heads.

Kong Yanjin couldn't say a complete sentence for a long time, but at this time, the wrestlers from the West Factory found what they wanted.

"Your Majesty, the ministers do not support Kong Sheng, and they also think that Kong Sheng should be dealt with according to the law, but the ministers also think that the Confucius Mansion cannot be severely punished."

"Your Majesty, Cheng Huiyuan ...... this matter"

Hu Lun's status can be said to be second only to the royal family, and the place where Hu Lun appears often represents the occurrence of major cases.

Zhu Gaoxu scolded with a cold face, and Xu Sheng immediately said when he heard this:

"Your Highness, they were the ...... who bullied us first"

Putting down the tea, Zhu Gaoxu glanced at Yisha, and when he heard the words, cold sweat couldn't help but ooze from his forehead.

"Without my handwritten letter, no one is allowed to enter or leave the Yansheng Mansion!"

The scene of the two sides fighting each other was very chaotic, and the military attaches of the Bohai faction were generally around 45 to 60 years old, and the number was only a quarter of that of civilian officials.

In the eyes of officials, the performance of Confucianism in this era is definitely not backward, and even has a certain advanced nature.

"Enough!"

"The net whip has sounded three rounds, and your fist can still swing five rounds, why don't you see your strength when you fight?!"

I have to say that there is some truth in what they say.

There aren't many opportunities like this, and the moment is one.

Kong Yanjin still doesn't think it's a big deal to die a Cheng Huiyuan, after all, he is just a small official, and there are hundreds of thousands of small officials like him in the Ming Dynasty.

"You keep saying that you come according to the law, then I ask you, what is the treatment of private killing of officials in the "Da Ming Law" and "Criminal Law"?"

This sentence...... You and Your Majesty say go! ”

Because of this peculiarity, as long as the ruler is still a feudal class, they will definitely be used.

It had been two days since the news arrived in Qufu, and Hu Lun, who had received the edict, did not look good, especially after hearing the words conveyed by the eunuch of Wuyingdian, he couldn't help but be worried.

"You ...... this"

The two sides gradually changed from fighting each other to an organized beating of civilian officials by military attachés, and the Han generals standing at the gate of the palace looked at their noses and noses, and had no intention of making a move at all.

When he saw two wrestlers walk out with a stone carving, he knew he was finished.

After they left, the military attaches also left the Wuyingdian Square with their toes in high spirits.

The officials didn't want the Confucian Mansion to fall, but they didn't want it to be themselves.

"If you can't find evidence, dig three feet into the ground and find evidence for me!"

Sure enough, seeing them coming, the civil officials who were originally crying shut their mouths one after another, while Chen Chang and Xu Sheng knelt down first.

"Minister, ...... abruptly" Xu Sheng bowed in return, but there was no apology at all.

If the wat board is broken, use a belt, and if the belt is broken, use a fist and a tooth.

After they knelt, the rest of the military attachés knelt down one after another, and everyone raised their hands and shouted injustice as agreed.

For a while, Kong Yanjin was sweating profusely, only to feel that the blood was surging up his head, his face was red, and he was very nervous.

It's just that it's not him who is in the position now, but his younger brother, Zhu Gaoxu, who always likes to make things bigger.

"You wrote to my father for me and asked him not to meddle in this matter, I dare to do this, naturally I have my own plans."

Zhu Gaoxu opened his mouth in a loud voice, originally this law was designed by him to punish the vassal king, and even he felt that after this law was promulgated in the Hongxi period, the first person to break the law was either the king of Qi or the king of Min, but the result was actually a person from the Confucian Mansion.

"Your Majesty, the existence of the Confucian Mansion can make it more convenient for the imperial court to govern the world, and overthrowing it will only cause problems in the existing system, and it will completely outweigh the losses."

It wasn't until a small number of people pulled the majority to wake them up that they stopped the unilateral beatings.

"Isn't it a misunderstanding?" Kong Yanjin saw Hu Lun's smile and immediately realized that something was wrong.

It's just that in the face of this unkind gaze, he is like a peacock with the screen open, deliberately standing up straight, for fear that others will not see him.

In this way, many civil officials who pleaded for the Confucian Mansion next to them looked ugly.

The ministers who were still fighting a second ago couldn't care about their embarrassed appearance, and knelt down with a blue nose and swollen face.

"Come on, transfer Jinning Wei to surround the Yansheng Mansion, and surround the rest of the collateral according to the genealogy and account books."

"Whip up!"

After thinking about it, he still turned around and ordered to the three commanders beside him:

Gradually, the civil officials in the square began to shout towards the palace gate and the Han general at the palace gate.

The two of them turned their heads to look, only to see hundreds of military attachés walking into the corridor of Wuyingmen.

"It's... This...... This...... This must be...... Right! It must be a misunderstanding! ”

"I don't know, the old man shouldn't care about this." Zhu Gaochi shook his head.

"The people of the Confucian Mansion can be innocent of killing officials privately, so as the Son of Heaven, do I also have the power to shoot innocent officials at will?"

"If he can take the imperial examination for high school, then my Ming Dynasty will inevitably produce a Qing official."

However, Chen Chang heard what Zhu Gaoxu meant, and immediately got up and said:

"Your Majesty, we're just complaining about Cheng Huiyuan."

"When this nephew moved Cheng Huiyuan, don't you know what his background is?"

Zhu Gaoxu scolded everyone in a deep voice, turned around and walked back to the Wuying Palace.

Therefore, they could only honestly watch Zhu Gaoxu brush his sleeves away, and finally had no choice but to pick up the official robes, wat boards, and black gauze hats on the ground, and left Wuyingdian Square in embarrassment.

"Did I ask you?" Zhu Gaoxu rebuked with a cold face:

In later generations, they were overthrown because they came across the political consciousness of atheists.

When Xu Sheng said this, many civil officials glared at him angrily, but he still said cheekily:

"They saw you come out, so they pretended to be chased and beaten by us, but in fact they were beating us before."

"Enough, did I ask you this?!"

Sitting on the horse in the shade of the corridor, Zhu Gaosui looked at the civil officials who were crying in the distance, and couldn't help but ask Zhu Gaochi beside him.

"Your Majesty......"

"Yan Shenggong, it seems that you still don't know what crime you have committed?"

"Uncle, I found it!"

"Smack!"

As Hu Lun's back disappeared, Kong Yanjin seemed to have been drained of his strength and sat on the ground, as if he had lost his spirit.

"Your Majesty, this matter should only be about the culprit, and it should not affect the entire Confucian Mansion!"

Everyone was so angry that they had a toothache, but there was nothing they could do about Chen Chang.

In this team, Zhu Gaochi also saw Zhaozhou Hou Chen Chang, as well as Li Chi, Li He and other lords of the Bohai family.

Chen Chang said that the head is the Tao, and he does not whitewash anything as a military attaché, but says that Cheng Huiyuan will be a clean official in the future.

The sound of the whip in the air resounded throughout the square, but except for a few people who stopped, the rest were still chasing and fighting, or running for their lives.

"This ...... This is a mistake ......"

"Enough, I have already made up my mind on this matter, you guys pick up the things in the square by yourself and get out of the palace!"

Hu Lun's meaning is obvious, that is, everything related to the Confucian Mansion, no matter what the relationship is, it is best to involve it.

Zhu Gaoxu walked down the third platform of the Wuying Hall and came to the second platform to look at everyone.

"That ......" Before Zhu Gaosui could continue to ask, he heard dense and hurried footsteps behind him.

In this group of people, there are seven people who have been knighted, and even if the rest are not knighted, they are basically third-rank and above.

"This ...... This...... This ......"

What military attaches know, how can they not know about this group of civilian officials?

"According to the law is according to the law, whether it is the clan, the officials, or the people, if anyone dares to kill officials privately under my rule, they will only be dealt with according to the law!"

"The Cheng family has two generations of single transmission, his father died in a bloody battle against Jixiguan, originally he was able to attack the four ranks, but he didn't, but wanted to serve his family and country with the imperial examination."

Thinking of this, Hu Lun didn't dare to imagine what would happen when the group of guys from Jilin Shipyard knew about it.

"According to the "Criminal Law", if someone kills an official privately, regardless of the clan, officials, or the people, the main offender will be Ling Chi, the accomplice will be beheaded, and the relatives will be served in three suits!"

"Rarely contacted? Not necessarily! ”

"They should be almost at Xifengkou by now, and they can come back in three or four days at most."

If Zhu Gaoxu was a qualified feudal ruler, then he would also make good use of the Confucian family, but he was not.

"If there is, is it true that future emperors will be able to kill their courtiers without a reason?"

Zhu Gaoxu scolded, and Xu Sheng could only bow his head helplessly.

At this time, it was Xu Sheng who stretched his neck and said loudly: "According to the "Law of Officials", officials are not allowed to make exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes, but the people are not allowed to resist taxes. ”

Zhu Gaochi could calm down a little, and couldn't help asking, but soon he reacted again, Cheng Huiyuan's background was already known to the temple, and this group of people was probably here to help.

"Yan Shenggong, you and Your Majesty will explain it yourself!" Hu Lun didn't want to have anything to do with this rotten man anymore, and now that he got the most important thing, he could wait for His Majesty's edict.

"In addition, an edict was issued to Hu Lun, if the troops are insufficient, the soldiers and horses of Shandong and Henan can be controlled by him."

"The subordinate officer receives the order!" Hearing this, the three commanders tightened their hearts.

This matter is no longer something that even you find tricky, but something that even Your Majesty finds tricky.

At the same time, Zhu Gaoxu, who returned to sit in the Wuying Palace, let out a bad breath.

After the Confucian family represented the saints, they were not essentially the same as Confucianism, but Confucianism needed them, and they could use Confucianism to help the imperial power.

"Your Majesty, if the entire Confucian Mansion is implicated, then the world's scholars will inevitably be unhappy, I hope Your Majesty will think twice!"

"He has served in Qingchuan Village for two years, and no one around him knows his good name, and he is also actively preparing for the imperial examination."

At the beginning of October, the news of Cheng Huiyuan's killing quickly spread throughout the temple, and the Yansheng Mansion was surrounded by Hu Lun's troops, and the news that the mansions of the Confucian family, collateral and in-laws were besieged also quickly fermented.

Hu Lun ordered with a cold face, Kong Yanjin wanted to come forward to bribe when he saw this, but he was stopped by Lux and could only watch Hu Lun go away.

Hundreds of civil officials were divided and outflanked by hundreds of military attachés, and they were beaten indiscriminately, and the entire Wuyingdian Square seemed to have become a gladiatorial arena.

When he saw Hu Lun, Kong Yanjin couldn't be arrogant anymore.

Just one sentence, Kong Yanjin's mind went blank in an instant, he couldn't imagine that his cousin and nephew would attack such a person, let alone why such a person would run to a village to serve as a clerk.

There was gradually anger between the two parties in the shouting, and in the end, I didn't know who made the first move, in short, the scene suddenly became chaotic.

Zhu Gaoxu opened his mouth to the Han generals at the palace gate, and when he heard this, the two Han generals immediately took off the net whip on their waists and stepped forward to the stage to wave the net whip.

In this regard, Zhu Gaochi's expression was also a little complicated, he was more dependent on Confucianism like Zhu Yunwen, if it was him, even if this kind of thing happened, it would not be possible to implicate the entire Confucian Mansion, at most, it would be to deal with the person named Kong Sheng.

"It's over, let's go farther, don't get involved!"

In the shade of Wuyingmen, there are two guys who came to watch the play, and the people who can watch the play in the palace, except for Zhu Gaochi and Zhu Gaosui, I am afraid there is no one else.

The faces of the ministers were not good-looking, and it was obvious that they all heard the words of the emperor.

After tea and dinner, they jokingly called this incident "the battle of Wuyingdian", and they were quite complacent in their words.

"Your Majesty, Confucius is a son of a saint......"

Zhu Gaoxu stopped, turned around and questioned the ministers, but the ministers couldn't say clearly.

A voice came from Kong Yanjin's study, Kong Yanjin was stunned, and suddenly turned around.

"Is it possible to keep them singing?" Zhu Gaoxu asked rhetorically.

Although their number was only a quarter of that of the civil officials, when they really shouted their voices, their voices were several times larger than the previous civil officials, and their voices echoed throughout the Wuyingdian Square.

Hundreds of officials knelt in the square in front of the Wuying Palace, constantly exculpating the Confucian Mansion.

"His Royal Highness the King of Han, His Royal Highness the King of Zhao......"

Kong Yanjin's words stopped abruptly, he turned his head to look behind him, and then hurriedly got up and said, "Uncle Muyang, you ...... How did you show up here? ”

In the Wuying Palace, Yisha stood at the window and watched this scene, and couldn't help but be speechless: "Your Majesty, if you don't go out again, I'm afraid you will die." ”

"This group of rammed goods ......"

As people who can sing military songs in unison on weekdays, the military attaches at this moment speak in unison and have loud voices.

"If not, does that mean that Confucius is the Son of Heaven, and I am just a pseudo-Son of Heaven?"

"Your Highness, do you really want to wipe out the Confucian Mansion?"

If Zhu Di said this, the ministers would not pay attention to it, but if Zhu Gaoxu said it, the ministers really didn't dare to come, because this Emperor Hongxi really dared to do this.

This Chen Chang is really sharp-toothed!

The Qing officials were killed, and their group of people shielded the Confucian Mansion, didn't they say that they were corrupt officials?

Seeing them leave, Zhu Gaochi immediately sensed that something was wrong.

"Fight, why don't you fight?!"

Kong Yanjin didn't expect his cousin to make such a fuss, so he stepped forward and said: "If Uncle Muyang is willing to clear up this misunderstanding for me, I am willing to take Uncle Muyang as the leader in the future." ”

"What do you think this place is? Vegetable market? ”

For a while, the two parties seemed to be competing with whose voice was louder, and it seemed that whoever had the loudest voice made sense.

Zhu Gaoxu took a sip and moistened his throat before he spoke:

It's just that as the military attachés reacted and began to form a formation, they immediately used the wat board in their hands as a weapon and fired their bows at the left and right of the civilian officials.

"Now, this Qing official has been conspired to kill, and the Cheng family has been extinct, leaving Cheng's mother alone and helpless, Your Majesty ......"

After pondering for a moment, Zhu Gaochi said his opinion.

Sitting on the ground, Kong Yanjin scolded at the Xichang wrestlers who came and went, but before he could react, a voice sounded behind him.

"Even if it's the West Factory, you can't come to my Yansheng Mansion without a driver's license!"

"Your cousin is very capable, he even dares to kill the officials sent by the imperial court......"

Hu Lun laughed angrily: "His father was the guard of the Bohai Palace, and he died in Jixiguan, and his family has been a single transmission for two generations, did you misunderstand?" ”

"Why don't you come soon...... Eh! ”

Xu Sheng came prepared, and the civil officials looked at him even more unkindly.

In this regard, Zhu Gaosui sighed a few times, and then asked, "Do you think my father will agree?" ”

Since he promoted the Industrial Revolution, he was ready to transform from a feudal ruler to a long time ago.

Putting down the pen, Zhu Gaoxu complained and stood up.

In this regard, Zhu Gaoxu can only say that this is unintentionally inserted into the willows.

"I guess it's hanging ......"

Zhu Gaoxu suddenly called Xu Sheng's name, and Xu Sheng shrunk his neck in fright.

He sat down, and he poured him a cup of tea.

The reason why the Confucian family has been able to live very comfortably is precisely because of the advanced nature of Confucianism.

In the face of their words, Zhu Gaoxu in the Wuying Hall turned a deaf ear.

Seeing this, the civil officials immediately became anxious, and the emperor only listened to the words of the military attachés, and did not listen to them at all.

Seeing this, he also responded with a courtesy, and soon sent someone to send the edict to Qufu.

"Your Majesty, Cheng Huiyuan's matter is really unjust for eternity, if the Confucian Mansion is not severely punished, how do the world view the Qing officials and honest officials, how do they look at the imperial court, and how do they look at the Ming Dynasty!!"

When Hu Lun said a word, Kong Yanjin couldn't help but say: "It's indeed my cousin, but we rarely have any contact." ”

As they left one after another, Zhu Gaosui and Zhu Gaochi, who had watched the play for a long time, also left the outer court a few times.

Cheng Huiyuan's father can be said to be older than him Hu Lun in terms of qualifications, but now that the lone seedling of their Cheng family is gone, God knows what will happen to those guys back then.

"Order, Confucian lineage, collateral lineage, in-laws, anyone who can find evidence will be included in this case for me."

As long as Hu Lun is willing to help conceal it, Cheng Huiyuan's death can also become an accident.

"Shouting grievances!"

"It's over...... My Riches...... It's completely finished......"

In other words, if the officials make this start, then according to Zhu Gaoxu's line of thinking, in the future, the emperor will not even need to arrest any officials who oppose the imperial power, and will directly kill them.

Not long after, the Yansheng Mansion was surrounded by troops, and the siege of the Confucian family's descendants, collateral families, and in-laws' mansions was also launched.

"Misunderstanding?" Hu Lun smiled, he really admired Kong Yanjin's face.

You must know that the Confucian Mansion has been entrenched in Shandong, Henan, and Huaibei for many years, and its relationship is intertwined.

More importantly, the result this time is not whether it is correct or not, but whether it is clean enough......

(End of chapter)