"What?" Emperor Chongzhen was shocked when he heard the news, "Qufu Kong family rebelled?"

To be honest, he would never have imagined that the Kong family would have the possibility of rebellion!

However, Wang Chengen hurriedly entered and said that Wang Erbiao sent someone back to report that all the Dongchang military soldiers were killed by the Kong family.

However, even after hearing this report, Emperor Chongzhen still didn't believe it. After thinking about it for a moment, he could understand that it was probably because of the excessive means of the Dongchang military officer who investigated the Kong family, which caused public outrage.

However, no matter what, killing an official is equivalent to rebellion, which theoretically is correct!

However, there were actually precedents in the Ming Dynasty for this situation, that is, generally speaking, it would not harm the nine clans, and at most it would be to punish the parties involved.

For example, the Suzhou civil rebellion was said to be the people of Suzhou who were angry that the eunuchs sent by Emperor Wanli were too deeply oppressed, besieged the yamen, killed several officials, and even almost killed the eunuchs. When the local government sent troops, the local officials would rather leave than send troops to suppress them.

The end result of that incident was that only the few who were in trouble were killed, and the others did not have any trouble. Moreover, the few who were killed became righteous men.

Nowadays, it is the Confucius family in Qufu that caused trouble. The impact of such a thing is probably greater than that of the civil rebellion in Suzhou back then. If it is not handled well, it may arouse strong opposition from scholars in the Ming Dynasty.

For this reason, Emperor Chongzhen immediately summoned the cabinet and the six ministries and nine ministers. Of course, Duke Xingguo could not escape, so he went to Wenhua Palace to discuss this matter.

After many senior officials of the Ming Dynasty read the urgent report from the East Factory quickly, Emperor Chongzhen asked seriously: "What should I do with this matter?"

As he spoke, he looked at Zhang Mingwei.

However, before Zhang Mingwei could speak, the Minister of Justice looked at Wang Chengen, the eunuch in charge of the seal and the admiral of the East Factory, and immediately replied: "Your Majesty, this matter is related to the Holy Lord of Qufu, so don't make a big deal!"

"Yes, Your Majesty, it's about the matter of the Lord Yan Sheng of Qufu, so be cautious!" The chief minister of the cabinet immediately made a comment, "Isn't the Zuodu Censor also in Shandong? Now that something big has happened, he must have a commentary, so why not see what he said?"

As an imperial envoy, Zuo Maodi arrived in Shandong half a month ago and began to urge local governments to implement the new policy.

As soon as he finished speaking, hurried footsteps came from outside the hall, and then an eunuch urgently reported at the entrance of the hall: "Zuo Maodi, the governor of Shandong and the left censor of the Left Capital, sent eight hundred miles to speed up!"

It's true that Cao Cao will arrive.

So Zuo Maodi's urgent copy was immediately handed over to the imperial court.

After Emperor Chongzhen hurriedly read it, he immediately gave Zhang Mingwei a look, and said to the ministers who were very concerned about it: "The Zuo Qing's memorial said that the Dongchang military service in Shandong bullied the good and did everything evil, which led to many civil unrest in Shandong. Not only did he kill three Dongchang military service, but he also killed a subordinate who was sent by Zuo Maodi to inspect the new policy. If it were not for the subordinates who were supervising the new policy in other places who fled quickly, they would probably die again. Now, more than 100,000 people have become people, and have surrounded Yanzhou Prefecture, demanding the court to deal with the Dongchang, withdraw the court from the court, and restore the peace of the former land of Lu."

After a pause, he added seriously: "Zuo Qing mobilized local troops to defend Yanzhou City, but the local troops no longer obeyed other orders and said that they could not attack innocent people."

The prefecture where Qufu is located is Yanzhou Prefecture.

In the urgent report, Zuo Maodi also clearly stated that the matter about the Dongchang military service was reported by the officials below, which was the reason for the civil unrest. However, the specific situation was now in chaos in Shandong and he could not verify it.

After Emperor Chongzhen briefly introduced the situation, Zhang Mingwei had already read the memorial sent by Zuo Maodi. Then, he handed the memorial to Du Yinxi, the chief minister of the cabinet behind him, frowned and thought about this matter.

Seeing this, Emperor Chongzhen immediately asked him: "Sir, how should we deal with this matter?"

Wang Chengen's face was always a little unfair. He didn't expect that when he sent Wang Erbiao to investigate the matter, he actually made a huge hole!

He knew very well in his heart that the original purpose of the emperor was to give Yan Shenggong a warning to find out the Kong family's private land as a sacrifice, and at most it was to punish the Qufu County Magistrate. If he really wanted to fight and kill the Kong family in Qufu, it would definitely be unrealistic if Yan Shenggong was destroyed.

Moreover, anyone knows that no matter who rebels, the Confucius family in Qufu cannot rebel, and there has never been such a precedent. Qufu Yan Shenggong has been quite "behaved" throughout the dynasties, so how could he rebel?

Now that things are so big that even triggering civil unrest, it is so difficult to deal with. This hole is really too big!

Wang Chengen was a little worried that this matter would probably affect him.

Thinking of this, he cared about Duke Xingguo’s views very much, because he knew that how to deal with it and Duke Xingguo’s attitude should be the main opinion that the emperor referred to.

In fact, it was not only him who understood this point, but everyone in the hall understood how to deal with this matter in the end. Duke Xingguo's opinion was the most important. Unless Duke Xingguo was not here, Emperor Chongzhen would listen to their opinions.

Therefore, almost everyone in the hall focused their attention on him after hearing Emperor Chongzhen’s question about Duke Xing.

When Zhang Mingwei heard the question, he frowned and said, "Your Majesty, judging from the two memorials, the chaos in Shandong is likely to be a civil unrest that triggered a large-scale boycott of the new policy caused by the Dongchang Fanchao Kong family! The reason for this is that Shandong's new policy is not like other places, where local forces were cleaned up by thieves and then large troops were stationed, so such civil unrest occurred."

He did not say whether the specific behavior of the Dongchang Fan was overdoing it, but instead directly analyzed the entire incident.

Du Yinxi originally wanted to speak, but after hearing what he said, he became silent.

As high-ranking officials of the Ming Dynasty, their perspective on matters was of course different from ordinary people. Judging from the matters in Shandong, he basically felt that the Duke's analysis was reasonable.

Otherwise, if it was just the Dongchang military service that bullied good people and caused public outrage, why did other places where the Dongchang military service were not present have launched civil unrest and even killed officials who supervised the new policy?

However, although these high-ranking officials of the Ming Dynasty, including Du Yinxi, recognized the analysis of Duke Xingguo, this civil unrest involved the Confucius family in Qufu, and even used the Confucius family as the fuse, which was much more difficult than the civil unrest in Suzhou back then.

When they were thinking about this, they heard Duke Xingguo say again: "If the matter in Shandong is not handled well, then the court's new policies in other places will probably encounter obstacles, and even places that were already being implemented may rebound."

The meaning of this statement is very obvious. The Duke’s meaning should be tough and must not affect the new policy of the court.

In fact, Zhang Mingwei meant this. The new policy of the court was mainly to solve the problem of land annexation, and by the way, it was naturally to urge taxes, measure the land, and investigate hidden households hidden in local powerful families.

It can be said that these new policies have all touched the interests of local tyrants. If there is no turmoil and implemented smoothly, that would be a strange thing.

It was only in the past few places where the new policies were implemented, local tyrants were repaired by bandits, and elite troops of the imperial court led by Zhang Mingwei were stationed. Local tyrants were powerless, so there was no chaos.

Emperor Chongzhen obviously also heard Zhang Mingwei's meaning, so he confirmed to him: "What do you mean by sir is to send troops to suppress him?"

"That's right!" Zhang Mingwei nodded immediately after hearing this, "If the court makes concessions this time, other provinces will follow suit and local governments will threaten the court. How to implement new policies in the future? There must be no such signs!"

After a pause, Zhang Mingwei emphasized again: "If there are just signs of peace today, the good situation is hard to come by, and we must not be confused anymore!"

When Emperor Chongzhen heard this, he said without hesitation: "Sir, what he said is reasonable, the Ming Dynasty must not be in chaos anymore! Who dares to launch a civil rebellion and thinks that the law does not blame the public and threatens the court with this, I will never tolerate it!"

After expressing his attitude, he did not ask other people's opinions, but asked directly: "Good friends, who would like to lead troops to Shandong to quell the rebellion?"

When everyone heard this, they turned their attention to Duke Xingguo. The meaning was very clear. They thought Duke Xingguo was the most suitable.

First, the new policy was proposed by Duke Xingguo.

Second, the Duke Xingguo led his troops to fight, and his achievements were obvious to all.

Third, in terms of prestige, Duke Xingguo's prestige is higher than anyone present.

In short, the people here, or in the entire court, are the most suitable Duke Xingguo.

Emperor Chongzhen saw that they were like this, but he actually had the same idea as them. He thought that Duke Xingguo had just returned to Beijing for a few months, and if he wanted to lead troops to fight again, he would be too tired.

And in his eyes, the steam engine is also very important. If possible, he really hopes that Zhang Mingwei will let go of other things and build this steam engine first.

However, now that he saw that his ministers looked at Zhang Mingwei, he didn't think much about it and asked Zhang Mingwei: "Sir, do you have time to go to Ludi?"

Before he asked, Zhang Mingwei had already thought about it and immediately replied: "No problem, the army just happened to be retiring outside the capital, and the troops were all ready-made."

After a pause, he added: "It's just right to take this opportunity to rectify the local garrison and show it to other places. If you want to resolute the new policy of the court by mobilizing civil reform, the court will never tolerate it!"

Everyone knows that this time in Shandong, the Confucius family in Qufu is definitely not absent. This is a difficult problem and it is really difficult for others to deal with.
Chapter completed!