After reading it, Zuo Maodi sighed, then looked up at Zhang Mingwei and asked, "What the Duke of the Kingdom said was to remove the Kong family, but it was not really about to destroy the nine clans, right?"

Among these crimes of the Kong family, of course, the most serious one is killing officials.

Of course, killing officials and rebelling is not as serious as scheming.

Among all crimes, plotting against rebellion is the most serious. To kill officials, it is actually still necessary to depend on the severity of the circumstances, and generally, the nine tribes will not be affected.

However, in addition to killing officials, the Kong family also incites so-called civil rebellion, which is defined as rebellion and rebellion, and attempts to usurp the Ming Dynasty.

But in this regard, the nine clans will not be destroyed.

In ancient times, it was really rare to achieve the crime of extermination of nine clans.

The reason why Zuo Maodi asked this is mainly because of Duke Xingguo’s previous statement.

He understood that Duke Xingguo's attitude was the most important.

After hearing this, Zhang Mingwei shook his head and smiled, "I know this!"

"..." Zuo Maodi was a little speechless when he heard this. Would you not know?

How to deal with the Kong family? The combined weight of everyone in the court is not as heavy as you say the words alone. Don’t you know?

Just pretend!

However, even though he thought so in his heart, he still didn't dare to show it on the surface. He just asked earnestly: "What did the Duke think?"

After hearing this, Zhang Mingwei first read the urgent report after reading Zhu Mai, and then said calmly: "Everything will be handled according to the "Da Ming Law"!"

Speaking of this, he pointed to the urgent report, then looked at Zuo Maodi and said, "I believe that many people would not believe that the Kong family did these things. They would feel that there must be some eunuchs slandering the Kong family. Since this is the case, I would suggest that the emperor hold a three-department trial on the crimes of the Kong family, and the Jinyiwei and the Dongchang listen. In this way, right and wrong, justice and freedom are in the hearts of the people. No one should say anything else, right?"

The officials who were tried by the three departments were all civil servants, which is true, but the Jinyiwei and the Dongchang Fans were all on the spot to supervise.

This case was executed by the Dongchang. At least, if the civil servants in the three departments are inclined to the Kong family, they will never ignore it.

Therefore, the Dongchang will keep an eye on the Kong family's case, and Zhang Mingwei will no longer worry about it, and waste his time.

If the civil servants really want to unite and make trouble with the Dongchang because of this Kong family, it will not be too late for him to come forward again.

However, based on his reading of Wang Erbiao's confessions and evidence, to be honest, the possibility of the Kong family being wronged basically does not exist. Even if there is one, it is still those small-scale crimes that will not be the biggest crimes. After all, Wang Erbiao cannot fake such a big thing, and it can be guaranteed not to be seen.

Zhang Mingwei's meaning is very clear, which is to bring these things from the Kong family to the public to discuss, so that everyone in the world can discuss it and see what the Kong family is!

In addition, he would ask Chen Yuanyuan to print a special edition of the Ming Pao to conduct a special report on the interrogation of the Kong family. He would also register some comments on the Kong family's case by various people.

In this way, we can make the most of public opinion and expose the Kong family to everyone's vision to the greatest extent.

This would be better for the Kong family in Qufu than directly using a knife and a gun at the Kong family!

At this time, Zuo Mao was deeply impressed when he heard Duke Xingguo's reply for the first time. He acted in accordance with the "Da Ming Law" and asked the Three Jurisdictions to hold trial. This was the most fair dealt with.

"The Duke holds great power but does not abuse his power. Such a noble character is rare in the world. I admire him!" Zuo Maodi said sincerely to Zhang Mingwei.

After hearing this, Zhu Moe looked at Zhang Mingwei and smiled, with two dimples on her face, which was very sweet.

After hearing this, Zhang Mingwei didn't say anything like "should be" and just smiled faintly.

It was New Year's Eve and heavy snow was falling.

There is an old saying that auspicious snow indicates a good harvest. Maybe there will be more happy events in the Ming Dynasty next year!

After seeing Zuo Maodi away, he also sent someone to send Wang Erbiao's memorial. Zhang Mingwei and Zhu Mai gathered for a while, then patrolled the army and celebrated the New Year with the cavalry soldiers!

Also in the wind and snow, a large number of people were escorted to the road. Most of them walked in the wind and snow, with only a few enjoying the treatment of prison vans. The two leaders were Kong Yinzhi and Kong Daqi.

This year is naturally the most tragic year for them!

The sixteenth year of Chongzhen passed like this.

During this year, Zhang Mingwei led his troops to fight south and north, except for a few places, basically let the Ming Dynasty return to peace. Sichuan completely implemented the transformation of land and returned to the land, and also escorted Zuo Liangyu and Hou Xu to the capital, and cut them into pieces.

It has something to do with Zhang Mingwei, but it has no direct connection. There is also a cavalry reorganized by bandits who swept across the grassland, destroyed the Tumote tribe, and restored Hetao.

The Ming Denglai Navy, which was mainly composed of the Zheng family fleet, destroyed the Jianlu Navy in Tieshan, which was a great victory!

There is a bad news, that is, the war fire suddenly reappears in Shandong, but it is basically pacified by the end of the year and the Kong family in Qufu was destroyed.

All of this was caused by Zhang Mingwei's time travel.

History has become very different!

Similarly, in this year, there are also places that Zhang Mingwei has not yet influenced, and are still developing according to the original history.

For example, Newton, one of the most famous scientists in history, was born in Ulthorp, Lincolnshire, England.

Also, in the middle of this year, Tsarist Russian clerk Vasily Poyarkov, on the order of his superior Yakutsk military and political chief Golovin, led an armed team of 132 people to set off from Yakutsk and carry out invasion activities to the Heilongjiang area.

They will wander around this area for three years, not only will they kidnap some local leaders as hostages, extort and even eat local residents' meat.

The claws of Tsarist Russia had reached the Far East and reached the Nurgandus of the Ming Dynasty.

It was also in May of this year that the French king Louis XIII, who opened Richelieu and Massalin, led France to join the Thirty Years' War and established France's dominance in Europe, died of pneumonia caused by riding a horse and falling into the water.

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In January of the 17th year of Chongzhen, although the weather was cold and even if the heavy snow was no longer falling, it was still difficult to travel, but news about the Kong family spread quickly.

From Yanzhou Prefecture as the center, it spreads to surrounding prefectures.

Not to mention the adjacent Henan and Nanjing, the province, Dongchang Prefecture, Jinan Prefecture, Qingzhou Prefecture and even Laizhou Prefecture and Dengzhou Prefecture learned the news very quickly.

The main reason why it spreads so quickly is that the powerful people everywhere are paying attention to the situation in Yanzhou Prefecture and sending special people to convey the message.

Second, it was also related to Wang Erbiao's strong attack on Qufu. Afterwards, he escorted the Kong family to the north with any concealment.

This is the Confucius family in Qufu. For such a big thing, the "ears" of the powerful people from all over the country are naturally passing on the news desperately.

For a moment, all the powerful people who heard the news were shocked.

Even the Kong family, which is the most unlikely to be implicated by the Kong family, was arrested by the entire clan during this incident. So who elsewhere can be stronger than the Kong family in Qufu?

The imperial army was in Lu, and it was really a hard hit, without any ambiguity.

In addition to being shocked, in this Shandong territory, no matter what its origin, whether it is a family of officials or local garrisons, there is still a possibility of opposing the court!

Even if the new policy officials under Zuo Maodi were not required to go to the place, they began to cooperate consciously. What are the taxes on grain and land and the hidden population, they spontaneously began to clean up.

It can be said that when Zuo Maodi's subordinates celebrated the New Year and started to supervise the new policy again, it became extremely smooth, so that the cavalry detachment that was originally to be protected by the cavalry began to become bored.

Of course, Zhang Mingwei was happy to see this situation.

When everything went well, he issued a military order, took back all the cavalry scattered everywhere, and rested in the capital of Shandong, and no longer interfered in local affairs.

By mid-February of the 17th year of Chongzhen, the new policies in Shandong had basically begun to be promoted in an orderly manner. Zuo Maodi was busy and could not stay in Jinan Prefecture and began to go to various prefectures.

The Shandong chaos that broke out at the end of last year actually basically subsided before the Chinese New Year last year. Now I have been there for more than a month, and I haven't heard of any chaos in some places.

Seeing this, Zhang Mingwei asked Li Guo and Gao Yigong, a total of 6,000 cavalrymen, to set off for Laizhou Prefecture, and waited there for the right weather, and took a boat to Dongjiang Town.

Zhang Mingwei himself led the remaining cavalry with more than 20,000 cavalry and began to return to the capital.

The nearly 30,000 cavalry is in winter, and the pressure on logistics supply is very high. If you stay in Shandong for a long time, the turmoil here has just subsided and it will not take long.

The same is due to the logistical restrictions. There are only 6,000 cavalry troops sent to Dongjiang, which is the limit that the logistics can bear at present.

The positive impact of Shandong's new policy cannot be reflected in one or two years.

In addition, Zhang Mingwei's journey north at this time was also related to Emperor Chongzhen's will.

The main criminal of the Kong family was taken to the capital, while other members of the Kong family were detained in Jinan Prefecture.

On the capital, the Tribunal Tribunal Tribunal had already begun. Emperor Chongzhen’s meaning was that if Zhang Mingwei had already done the matter in Shandong, he would go back to the capital to watch.

Because Emperor Chongzhen had actually been persuaded by Zhang Mingwei that Confucianism could have it, but the Kong family had to be defeated.

In order to prevent possible accidents, Emperor Chongzhen asked Zhang Mingwei to watch it himself to ensure that no trouble would occur in the interrogation of the Kong family.

That's it, Zhang Mingwei returned to Beijing.

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