Chapter 215 Great Cleaning
Zhu Youxiao was born in a petty-bourgeois family in his previous life, with a wealthy family and a high education level. Therefore, he was not very angry with the young people about social problems. His three views were in line with the mainstream. He could maintain basic professional qualities and ethics even when the relationship between doctor and patient became increasingly tense. He was essentially an intellectual class.
Therefore, he did not want to kill all these forces that represent resistance to reform and are the leaders of the Ming culture. From the bottom of his heart, Zhu Youxiao was very willing to live in peace with them. Therefore, from the beginning, he reached a compromise with these vested interests through peaceful means as much as possible.
But when he became the emperor now, he realized that his ideas were a bit naive. Sometimes the butcher's knife was his only choice. Law and tolerance were leaving him. From the Donglin Party to the Shanxi Merchants to the current Yansheng Gong Mansion, Zhu Youxiao didn't know how many people he would kill in the future and how many people he had to purge.
In the face of absolute military strength, it was only a matter of a moment that the Kong family was eradicated, but people always naively thought that such a situation would not happen, so Kong Yinzhi chose to fight, which forced Zhu Youxiao to choose a bloody purge.
After the Yansheng Gong Mansion was destroyed, the water in the entire Qufu City was always red.
The formerly lush and majestic Confucius Mansion suddenly became desolate and desolate, and the arrogant Confucius Mansion slaves no longer appeared on the streets and alleys.
Of course, the people of Qufucheng would not be able to see the respected Holy Duke Kong Yan in their eyes again.
However, no one questioned the Imperial Guards guarding outside the Confucius Mansion, and the students in the county were also ordered to be banned from the school.
Ordinary people, including the tenants of the Kong family, did not have any sympathy for the Kong family. Although the emperor's butcher knife killed many people in front of them, it had nothing to do with them. It was difficult for people to speculate on the contradictions and struggles within the ruling class, and they were even not concerned about it many times, and at most they were speculated after dinner.
Because this has nothing to do with them.
Kong Wenshi came to Zhu Youxiao, and he already knew about the execution of the Kong family.
But at this time, Kong Wenshi did not have any slight pity or regret in his heart. On the contrary, a sense of pleasure unconsciously arose in his heart.
A sense of pleasure that he had been suppressed by himself for decades, because of the constraints of clans and ethics, he was relieved of the exploitation of Yan Shenggong's children over the years. Moreover, from then on, he no longer had to carry a mountain of clans on his back and for the sake of the family, he had to bear the blame that he had not committed himself.
However, he doesn't seem to have time to enjoy a free life.
Kong Wenshi suddenly felt grateful to the emperor, who was still lying on the spring stool, leaning against the red and green, like a wealthy prince, and bowed to Zhu Youxiao very devoutly: "The sinner Kong Wenshi has seen His Majesty."
"Do you know why I promised to see you?"
Zhu Youxiao asked, looking at the broken collar in front of him, Kong Wenshi, who had been aging for ten years in a trance.
Kong Wenshu replied: "Your Majesty is stupid, please make clear."
"Just because of your perjury for Kong Yinzhi, I will not forgive you for deceiving the king. But after Wang Chengen said that you would testify again in court to expose Kong Yinzhi's crimes, I summoned you. Although Kong Yinzhi's rebellion has been exposed, the case of murdering young girls has not been closed, and you still need evidence. This is one of them. In addition, I want you to expose Kong Yinzhi's crimes in the name of the descendants of the saints to spread throughout the world. If you disobey one of these two things, your wife and children will end up like you. If you do what I do, I can save you from lingchi, and give you a whole body to death, and I will also have a dedicated person to support your wife and children."
After Zhu Youxiao said this, Kong Wenshi couldn't help but burst into tears in his eyes and knelt down excitedly: "Thank you Your Majesty for your kindness, please rest assured, I know what to do."
"Get up." To be honest, Zhu Youxiao doesn't hate this somewhat stubborn Kong Wenshi now, and even appreciates that he was able to let go of his personal grudges against Kong Yinzhi and make false evidence for him. This shows that Kong Wenshi is a person with a broad mind. If such a person is good at using it, he can become an important official in the area.
But unfortunately, Kong Wenshi did have the crime of deceiving the emperor, and Zhu Youxiao had to kill him. Moreover, he was also a descendant of the Confucius Sect of the Northern Sect. Although he had been removed from the list by Kong Yinzhi, Zhu Youxiao still did not like to let the Confucius Sect of the Northern Sect exist. As long as it still exists, the scholars and people from Shandong will still look to them.
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The task of arresting other people from the Northern Sect and the local officials of the Confucius clan were handed over to the Shandong Governor Yuan Keli and his Governor Biaoying.
Although Yuan Keli's governor Biao battalion was not as good as that of the Imperial Guards, he was also from a border army that had fought against the Tartars in the Denglai area. Therefore, he could still deal with several officials and shock the Guards. However, the number of people was not large. Therefore, Zhu Youxiao transferred two Imperial Guards. Zhu Youxiao was not sure whether the Kong system had arranged his own people among the Shandong military officers. However, judging from the fact that Qin Botong killed the inspector Zhang Dongen, Zhu Youxiao was very glad that he had let the Imperial Guards go.
Otherwise, maybe he, the Emperor of Ming Dynasty, would really fall into the hands of Kong Yinzhi, and Kong Yinzhi might really be able to survive.
The Imperial Guards received the order to control major government offices and Confucius' officials and gentry, but they did not arrest or judge. After all, the Imperial Guards were mainly responsible for external military operations, and internal suppression was only an auxiliary function. Moreover, it was better for Governor Yuan Keli to make such political reputation.
After all, what Yuan Keli had to do next was to promote the integration of officials and gentry and gentry. Zhu Youxiao wanted to let the officials and gentry in Shandong know about the power of governor Yuan Keli.
The officers and soldiers of the governor Biao Battalion rushed into the house of the left governor Gu Tingzhuo.
Shandong Dongcheng announced that the Minister of the Government was originally in Ji Nan Prefecture, but the Left Government Gu Tingzhuo also brought a group of close officials from his own Government of the Government of the Government of the Government of the Government of the Government of the People's Republic of China to Yanzhou on the grounds that His Majesty was in the Qufu, and his temporary residence was in the prefect's office in Luo Maojin.
Gu Tingzhuo and Luo Maojin were sitting in the pavilion and playing tea and chess. Yansheng Gong Kong Yinzhi was able to escape Yuan Keli's interrogation, and in the end, Kong Wenshi took the blame and made them feel relieved. After all, once Kong Yinzhi was punished and confiscated, the two of them could not escape.
But the two of them did not dare to meet Zhu Youxiao again, so they hid in Yanzhou Prefecture and gave Zhu Youxiao a memorial to confess his crimes, but they did not dare to come to Qufucheng again.
However, the two of them never expected that when they thought that the situation was about to be calm and that His Majesty would be disappointed to go down the south of the Yangtze River, a large group of imperial guards suddenly broke into Yanzhou City. The defenders of Yanzhou City did not dare to resist and opened the city and let the imperial guards come in. As soon as the imperial guards arrived, they surrounded the prefect's office.
By now, when the officers and soldiers of the Governor Biao Battalion arrived, Gu Tingzhuo and Luo Maojin had been hungry for two days and two nights.
"According to Your Majesty's order, the left governor Gu Tingzhuo and the prefect Luo Maojin colluded with Kong Yinzhi to rebel, and immediately dismissed from his post and the governor was arrested and pending trial!"
Chapter completed!