Now the world is in chaos.

Kou Yan, who is so tall in the temple, racks his brains to search for Luo Yongsheng's traces, while Luo Yongjie, Yan Zhen and others are patiently waiting for Luo Yongsheng's return. What about our protagonists?

Where is now?

Qufu, Shandong!

During this period, the descendants of Confucius's ancestors did not have the familiar Duke of Yansheng, and their genre was called Duke Wenxuan. But one thing has not changed, it is the official position of Qufu County Magistrate.

Kong Yanshi is the current Wenxuan Gong. He also serves as the magistrate of Qufu County and specializes in sacrificing the Confucius Temple. This seems to be a sentence that has often been clearly recorded in historical books in Chinese feudal history for thousands of years.

This Wenxuan Gong had never participated in the imperial examination. Like his ancestors of all generations, this was one of the privileges of the old Confucius family, that was, they did not have to participate in the imperial examination.

Think about it, this is the reason. The imperial examination was conducted in Confucianism. The Confucius family was the "ancestor" of Confucianism. If they took the exam personally, wouldn't that be bullying?

Kong Yanshi's son was given a classmate by the court at the age of nine, and he had a similar value as a Jinshi. He knew that many students in the world might not be able to pass the exam even if they were fifty or sixty years old.

It's March in the spring, and when Luo Yongsheng arrived here, he happened to be in this good time to visit the spring scenery, so he just visited Qufu County for two days.

It is somewhat different from the three-cong tourist area in Qufu that I had visited in my previous life. It does not have the vast and grand Kong Mansion, Confucius Temple, and Confucius Forest. During this period, the Confucius Mansion was just an ordinary Confucius Mansion, with several servants in plain clothes standing at the door.

He is neither arrogant nor arrogant. Occasionally, he will pick up the broom beside the door to clean up the floating and sinking objects scraped in front of the mansion.

This made Luo Yongsheng look at him with admiration. He thought the Kong family was the Kong family he imagined. It turned out that the Kong family was relatively low-key.

Without any followers around, Luo Yongsheng stepped onto the steps and visited the door alone.

"Southern students came to visit me for the last time, and I hope to report it."

Several servants looked at Luo Yongsheng's student outfit, with a harmless warm smile on their faces, and just thought Luo Yongsheng was a candidate who came here to see him. One of them said, "Young Master, wait a moment," and turned around and entered the mansion. Soon after, he came out and bowed.

"My Duke Ming is not here for the time being, please come to the hall and sit down for a while."

"It's been a labor."

When Luo Yongsheng entered the door, he stuffed the silver ingots for this family, but he refused: "Young Master must not do this. If my Ming Gong knows about it, it will be a small matter if you are fired. I am afraid that my Ming Gong will have a grudge against you for this."

Luo Yongsheng couldn't help but feel respectful and sincerely praised: "It's not a shame to be a saint's family. Such family style is really something I admire."

After praise, I never thought about it anymore and sat quietly in the hall and waited quietly.

The main hall of the Kong family is not too big, at least far worse than the magnificent as Luo Yongsheng imagined. There are two rows of simple tables and chairs, and there are several bookshelves on the side, with hundreds of neatly arranged ancient books.

"If the young master can't sit still, he can take it to read it by himself."

Luo Yongsheng was not pretentious, so he walked closer and picked up the "Book of Zhou Li Notes" to read.

These are notes made by Zheng Yuan of the Han Dynasty, and some obscure sentences also made by the heads of the Kong family in the past dynasties. Although they are all ancient Chinese, Luo Yongsheng can barely understand them when he read them.

I thought that I had never read "The Book of Zhou" seriously in my previous life, and I never thought that I would have read the annotations and comments in the Kong family in this life.

Thinking about it, Luo Yongsheng couldn't help but shake his head and smile, abandon those messy ideas, and immerse himself in the book.

At this moment, time passed quickly. When Luo Yongsheng raised his head again, he saw a man in his thirty years old sitting on the main hall, holding a teacup and smiling without saying a word.

This discovery made Luo Yongsheng hurriedly put down the book, and stood up with a little restrained and shy look at him.

"Student Gu Youzhi has met Mr. Gu, who is the current Publicity Commissioner?"

This man smiled and nodded: "Yes, my name is Yanshi, I don't know if it's someone I want to see."

After confirming that the man in front of me was Kong Yanshi, who was the Duke Wenxuan of the dynasty, Luo Yongsheng bowed to the end and bowed again, and was supported by Kong Yanshi: "Young man, don't need so much politeness. I am just a bookmaker who has read books for a few years, not a prince."

Luo Yongsheng insisted on worshipping, saying, "Students worshipping Ming Gong is not a prominent official title of Ming Gong, but a scholar who wrote the "Nine Classics" written in his early years. The students were fortunate to read and were deeply enlightened. Therefore, although the students met Ming Gong for the first time in their lives, they had a kindness with Ming Gong. How could they not worship the teacher after seeing his teacher?"

"Okay, okay, Xiaoyou Gu is really a polite person."

Seeing Luo Yongsheng boasting about his hard work, Kong Yanshi also had a gleam on his face and smiled with his beard. He looked at Luo Yongsheng and felt very pleasing to him.

"Where did Xiaoyou Gu come from?"

"Jiangnan Road, Hongzhou."

A sentence from Hongzhou made Kong Yanshi look stunned and asked, "But is that place where the pseudo-Chu Luo Ni stirred up the wind and waves?"

"well."

Luo Yongsheng sighed heavily, and immediately burst into tears in his eyes: "That is, the students were originally those who were studying hard in Hongzhou, but they were the ones who had obtained fame and honor to serve the court. The hearts of the people, and clinkered thieves rebelled, which killed the students' family.

As the war broke out, the lives of all living beings were in trouble. Hongzhou has turned into scorched earth. The students always think about it and feel in pain!"

At the end of the conversation, the sad past was aroused, and then she burst into tears, crying so heart-wrenchingly. Even Kong Yanshi felt the same way, and his eyes were shining and wet.

"The student came to Shandong here just to ask Ming Gong to save the people in Jiangnan."

He cried, and knelt down with a thud, and paused his head to the ground.

This request made Kong Yanshi stunned and helplessly: "I am just a magistrate of Qufu County, who only serves as the responsibility of worshiping ancestors. What can I do for the people of Jiangnan? If so, I can say it bluntly. I will do my best."

"The ancestors of Confucius and Mencius have written books and left messages that can save the court and the people as the first one to be benevolent, but not wars. Now the Jiangnan region is in chaos and decay, and the swords and weapons are everywhere, and only killing bones everywhere, stained with blood. In this way, the hatred between the people and the court is getting deeper and deeper, how can this be the right way?

The students were humble and said lightly. They thought about the past and future. The only one who could save the people in the world was Ming Gong. They asked Ming Gong to come to the capital to meet the saints and persuade the court to be lenient and be kind and stop the war."

Seeing Kong Yanshi hesitating, Luo Yongsheng cried even more miserably: "Ming Gong~~~!

The court ordered all the six prefectures in Jiangnan to be massacred, which would be 1.7 million people and 1.7 million innocent lives."

This sentence really pierced into Kong Yanshi's heart. He immediately held Luo Yongsheng's arms tightly, looked at the latter's eyes that were crying red and swollen, and Zheng pointed: "Okay, I'll try it for the sake of the people."

"Thank you, Mr. Ming, Mr. Ming."

Kong Yanshi sighed and comforted him for a long time. His eyes swept to the book "The Notes of Zhou Li" that Luo Yongsheng had just read, and then he spoke to change the heavy topic.

"Do you even love reading "The Book of Zhou"?"

The Zhou Li is obscure, and it is more than two thousand years away from the current world. The "Poetry" and "Rites" that were examined by the imperial examinations in the imperial examinations are also improved theories that have been polished and revised in later generations. Few scholars are willing to read the original Zhou Li.

"I made Ming Gong laugh at it, and students can only understand the basics of their knowledge."

Luo Yongsheng wiped his tears and smiled reluctantly: "It's just that the students don't understand why Zhou Gongdan could have implemented the republican government and polite the world and calm the people's hearts. But at this point, Luo Ni used this method to counterattack the court."

This question made Kong Yanshi stunned, and then he heard Luo Yongsheng speak.

"The Zhou Dynasty was founded for 800 years, and no dynasty had a dynasty that surpassed Ji Zhou in all dynasties. Because of the achievements of the Zhou Li, Emperor Wu of Han made great efforts to break the country through military force. Zhaoxuan Zhongxing relied on the Huang-Lao theory to calm the people and restore production, and only then did the Han Dynasty last for four hundred years.

For example, the reason why the people today rebelled was due to the excessive annexation and frequent local tyranny. Since this is the case, why didn’t our Song Dynasty learn from the Zhou and Han dynasties and follow the examples of the ancestors?”

After saying that, he bowed and asked Kong Yanshi: "Mencius once said, 'The people are the most important, the country is the next, the king is the least.' If Duke Ming can advise him to do good deeds in the world, why worry about not being able to pacify the country and live in peace, the national strength will rise day by day, and the barbarians will look forward to the king's transformation. By that day, the mountains, rivers, and the country, and hundreds of millions of living beings will be grateful for the kindness of Duke Ming.

When thousands of families have Buddhas, the incense is constantly ongoing, and Ming Gong will become a saint in the world."

Kong Yanshi was dizzy when he heard this, but he felt very reasonable and immediately invited him.

"My friend is so talented. I should sleep with me tonight and have a long talk all night."

Luo Yongsheng bowed again and nodded with tears.

"I really want to ask for it."
Chapter completed!