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Chapter 346: Duke Yan Sheng's Epiphany

When his subordinates saw Xu Xianchun's appearance, they quickly lowered their heads and said, "Don't worry, sir, I'll go arrest someone right away."

After saying this, his subordinate turned around and took the person away.

Xu Xianchun thought about it, walked forward a few steps, chased after him and said, "I'll go in person."

This matter is too serious. If you find it out, it will be a big case and you will never make any mistakes. If you die, it will become very troublesome.

In such a situation, no mistake can be made. So Xu Xianchun is ready to watch it himself, and he must ensure that there is no mistake.

The group set out in a mighty manner and headed straight to where Yan Shenggong was.

When Xu Xianchun arrived, the people here had already received the news.

Since the last time he entered the palace, Yan Shenggong has actually been under supervision. There are people from the Jinyiwei and guards of the palace around him. Without Zhu Youxiao's order, no one could see Yan Shenggong.

However, news had just arrived in the palace that Xu Xianchun could go in to see Yan Shenggong.

After arriving at the door, the guard saw Xu Xianchun and saw a group of people behind him, he said directly: "Mr. Xu, Your Majesty has the will. You can go in, but you can only go in alone, and the others can only wait outside. Look?"

"Since it is Your Majesty's will, it is naturally necessary for the ministers to abide by it." Xu Xianchun nodded, "But is this imperial edict only aimed at Yan Shenggong, or is it necessary for all the Kong family members to count?"

"Of course it's only for Yan Shenggong." The janitor said quickly.

The people above said that this matter was personally explained, and he was only polite to Yansheng Gong. As for the others in the Kong Mansion, they were not in this polite ranks at all, so he had no scruples.

"That's good." Xu Xianchun nodded and waved behind him with a smile.

A man in his thirties quickly came to Xu Xianchun's side.

This man has a big beard, a strong figure and a fierce face. This man is no one else, but Xu Xianchun's confidant among the Jinyiwei, Cui Yingyuan.

Cui Yingyuan was originally a rogue in Daxing, Beijing, but was later recruited by the Jinyiwei. Because he was capable of doing things, ruthless and familiar with the ground in the capital, he was recruited by Xu Xianchun.

As a confidant, Cui Yingyuan was also brought by Xu Xianchun during this trip.

Cui Yingyuan hurriedly said, "I wonder what sir has to give?"

"You take people to arrest people, and I'll meet Yan Shenggong." Xu Xianchun said slowly, and at the same time tidied up his clothes and instructed: "By the way, don't make too much noise."

"Don't worry, sir, I know how to do it." Cui Yingyuan quickly agreed, and then took the people in and prepared to arrest people.

As for Xu Xianchun, he walked to another yard where Yan Shenggong lived.

For Yansheng Gong Kong Yinzhi, the days have not been easy these days. Since entering the palace, he has been in a state of fear and fear. It can be said that he is very, very scared and very worried.

Kong Yinzhi also wanted to go out and contact people outside, but the people here didn't give him this opportunity at all.

Every day, except for someone delivering food, no one has any communication with him. Although the accommodation environment in the house is good, there are four treasures of the study and many books, but no one is there.

Compared to being in jail, the conditions here are much better, but in fact, they are just in disguise.

Kong Yinzhi never expected that things would develop to this point today.

The Kong family has done anything embarrassing. They have done many things that violate the Ming Dynasty's laws, but nothing has happened.

The Kong family has always been protected by someone. Even if the matter is caused by the emperor, the emperor just turns a blind eye. Everyone wants to give their ancestors a face, and no one dares to risk offending scholars all over the world to do anything to their family, so the Kong family is fearless.

But this time, Kong Yinzhi was really scared, especially after seeing His Majesty today.

His Majesty did not say anything about face, and turned his face in front of him. Not only did he kick himself, but he also said what anyone could do to be Yan Shenggong. This is definitely not just a saying.

So Kong Yinzhi has always lived in fear, and even when he first came back, he didn't dare to eat two meals.

He was worried that he would be poisoned to death by His Majesty. After all, His Majesty said that. Later, he was so hungry that Kong Yinzhi dared to eat and drink.

After receiving the news that Xu Xianchun came, Kong Yinzhi felt a sudden slap in his heart. Is Your Majesty finally going to deal with him?

Watching Xu Xianchun walk in from outside, Kong Yinzhi sat on the chair and forced himself to calm down.

He picked up the tea and took a sip, looked up at Xu Xianchun, and said, "Has Mr. Xu been here with his will?"

"Of course I have followed His Majesty's imperial edict." Xu Xianchun said with a smile.

While talking, Xu Xianchun looked around and then continued, "You know, most people in this place can't get in now. Without His Majesty's will, I can't get in."

"What does Lord Xu want to say to me?" Kong Yinzhi raised his head and looked at Xu Xianchun and said slowly.

"Actually, there is nothing big." Xu Xianchun said, walking to the chair next to him and sat down, saying, "I just want to talk to Yan Shenggong about how your Kong family was preparing to rebel?"

After hearing this, Kong Yinzhi turned to look at Xu Xianchun, snorted coldly and said, "If you want to accuse me of this, why not worry about it!"

"My Confucius family reads the books of sages, and is a descendant of Confucius. He has always known what etiquette, righteousness, integrity and shame are, and what loyalty is the king and patriotism. People like you Jinyiwei harm loyalty and good, frame them up, and are despised by the world!"

After hearing this, Xu Xianchun immediately laughed so hard that he leaned back and forth.

Xu Xianchun's face turned red with a smile, and even choked by saliva. It took him a long time to calm down before he came back. Then he turned to look at Kong Yinzhi and said, "It's not necessarily true?"

"Every time the dynasty in the world changes, your Kong family seems to have not done anything loyal to the emperor. Not to mention it, where are you when the Song Dynasty was destroyed? Isn't your family loyal to the emperor? Isn't it about benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom and trustworthiness? Why didn't you die in your country? How many dead soldiers on Yashan are there? Why are there no Kong family members?"

Xu Xianchun was not polite at all, it can be said that he had exposed his shortcomings in person.

After hearing this, Kong Yinzhi's face turned red. He stared at Xu Xianchun angrily, pointed at him with his fingers, and the corners of his mouth trembled, but he didn't say anything for a long time.

Because Kong Yinzhi really doesn't know what to say, no one dares to expose this in person after so many years.

Even Emperor Taizu did not touch the Kong family and recognized the status of the Kong family. He did not even use the Southern Confucius Family Sect of the Song Dynasty, but instead used their Northern Confucius Family Sect, so no one dared to say anything.

Who would have thought that at this time, would someone dare to bring up this old account?

In fact, the people of the Kong family knew in their hearts that the reason why Emperor Taizu did not deal with the Kong family's Northern Sect was actually very simple, that is, Emperor Taizu admitted that he inherited the Mongol Yuan Dynasty.

After all, Emperor Taizu also served as an official in the Mongolian Yuan, and there were many people in the court who surrendered to the Mongolian Yuan. If we really wanted to argue about this, I'm afraid no one in the world could get rid of it.

So I simply admitted it, and the Northern Sect of the Kong family was nothing more than just setting up a tablet.

This tablet was set up by oneself, so naturally it could not be dismantled. Scholars all over the world naturally pretended not to know. Everyone hid behind this tablet and lived their own lives peacefully.

Especially when Emperor Taizu founded, many people came back from the Mongolian Yuan, and even took the imperial examinations of the Mongolian Yuan and became officials of the Mongolian Yuan.

If you have to talk about loyalty to the emperor and the country, and loyalty to the former Song Dynasty, how can everyone deal with it?

To put it bluntly, you pretend to be stupid, and I pretend to be stupid, and everyone just passed by.

Xu Xianchun didn't care about these things. He had never experienced that era. The Ming Dynasty has been around for more than two hundred years, and there is no need to worry about these things.

Mongol Yuan, who knows where Mongol Yuan is now?

Xu Xianchun looked at Kong Yinzhi and sneered, "So don't mention these things, and don't feel wronged. I am also a person who presents facts and evidence."

"Just as you said just now, the Jinyiwei has no bottom line in doing things, and is the emperor's lackey. I originally thought so, but since I arrived on the ground in Shandong and saw what your Kong family did, I felt that I was extremely noble."

"People like you who read the books of sages and are descendants of Confucius, and they do much more ruthless things than me. They embezzled the food for disaster relief, and saw the people starved to death, forcing them to sell their land and children. Is this what Confucius taught you? Or is this the family tradition of your Confucius family?"

"This is also what your Kong family should do? Are you embarrassed to say to me with a shame now?"

Xu Xianchun's words were not polite at all, and they were even a little vulgar, but what he said was very refreshing. He just squirted at Kong Yinzhi without leaving any room for anything.

Kong Yinzhi looked at Xu Xianchun and said angrily: "You are all slander!"

"I know you won't admit it." Xu Xianchun waved his hand and said, "Even if you find out your family in the end, you will refuse the tricks of the people below."

"You know this kind of thing in your heart, and I understand it in my heart; the people in the court understand it, and Your Majesty understand it."

After Xu Xianchun said this, he looked at Kong Yinzhi with a playful smile on his face and continued, "So when encountering such a thing, it depends on whether anyone is insured."

"If there are people in the court, and the people below admit their guilt, and Your Majesty doesn't care, there will be nothing big. It's just a fine, a confession, and a dismissal. This is not a new thing in the court. Everyone knows this kind of thing. I'm afraid that the Lord Yan Sheng made the same idea, right?"

After saying this, Xu Xianchun looked at Kong Yinzhi with a slanted eye.

"But there is one thing I want to tell you, this time you made the wrong idea." Xu Xianchun said with a smile: "Your family affairs are not that easy to get over this time."

"I guess you must have heard that someone wants to assassinate Your Majesty in Jining, but the one who took action was from the Prince Lu's Mansion. They also reselled the food for disaster relief, just like the business you did. They were afraid of being disposed of by Your Majesty, so they assassinated Your Majesty."

"Two idiots!"

Speaking of this, Xu Xianchun snorted mockingly, his tone was full of disdain, and then continued: "Later, after investigation, the Jinyiwei found that there was someone behind these two people. That was the very popular fragrance smelling sect on the ground in Shandong."

"After visiting the Jinyiwei, it was found that the fragrance smelling sect is actually the White Lotus Sect. The person who founded the fragrance smelling sect was named Wang Sen."

"He secretly organized a large number of believers in Hebei, Shandong, Shanxi, Henan, Shaanxi and Sichuan. He was arrested in the 23rd year of Wanli, sentenced to death, was released from bribery, and then went to the capital to preach. He was arrested again in 42 years and died in prison five years later."

"The person who is in charge of this sect now is Wang Sen's son. They want to use this earthquake to incite the victims to rebel. I believe you don't know about this matter, right?"

Speaking of this, Xu Xianchun laughed first.

"I guess you don't know either." Xu Xianchun said with emotion: "In order to rebel, they have to collect food and make the people have no food to eat, otherwise who will rebel with them?"

"So they began to purchase grain, colluded to embezzle the food for disaster relief, so that the people had no food to eat. On the other hand, they used silver and disaster relief grain to send it to the people to win people's hearts and actively prepare for their rebellion."

"And at the critical point of this matter, you took action. You embezzled the food for disaster relief, you left the people without food, you forced the people to sell land, children, and you forced the people to survive!"

"You gave all the disaster relief food that the court gave to the people. Come on, Yan Shenggong, come and tell me, you said your Kong family doesn't know, does anyone believe it?"

"As long as my mouth turns, it will turn into your Kong family wanting to rebel."

"Okay, you are descendants of Confucius, no one believes this. But can you escape the things you did? As long as your Majesty believes, your family cannot escape." Xu Xianchun said this, stood up and said, "So don't have any fantasies. If you involve such a treason, no one can protect you."

After hearing Xu Xianchun's words, Kong Yinzhi's heart was shocked.

He finally understood what was going on, and finally understood why His Majesty was so angry, why he kicked him, why he told himself, "As long as the descendants of the Kong family can be Yan Sheng Gong", and why he was extremely dissatisfied with his family.

What my family does is to help the evildoer, and to help those people rebel. It is strange that Your Majesty is not angry in this situation! He is still showing off his cleverness in front of His Majesty.

After calming down his mind for a little while, Kong Yinzhi turned to look at Xu Xianchun and said in a calm tone: "Master Xu is here just to tell me these things, right?"

"Is it because Lord Xu is depressed and wants to talk to me?"

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