Chen Zilong accepted Zhou Xian's suggestion very readily.

The status of the prefect Zhangde is far inferior to that of the prefect Jinan, but because he is on the front line, he has higher autonomy. The most important thing is that the prefect Zhangde can monopolize the power of military and political affairs, which is what Chen Zilong really wants.

On that day, Sun Kewang captured Yangzhou. Chen Zilong dispersed all his family fortune, Xia Yunyi and others crossed the river to the north, occupied the Haimen, and resisted Sun Kewang's army for several months.

He was very similar to Zhang Jiayu, and he saw the importance of military power in this troubled times. Moreover, he did have the intention to lead troops. Zhou Xian promised that he could supervise all the soldiers of Zhangde and Daming Palaces, which was exactly in line with his inner expectations.

But in this way, the prefect of Jinan was empty.

Zhou Xian thought about it and finally gave the position to Song Zuyi, the eldest son-in-law of Yansheng Gong Kong Yinzhi. He was a Jinshi and served as the head of the Ministry of Justice. After the fall of the capital, he was unemployed at home.

Previously, Zhou Xianzhong punished the descendants of the Kong family and attacked Confucian prestige, which achieved certain results. However, the Kong family was too high in Shandong and even the entire world.

He is no longer a family, but a belief and a representative.

Zhou Xian hated corrupt and sour Confucianism, but did not completely reject Confucianism. In particular, Confucius was even more respectful to this master of all ages.

It’s just that people in later generations read books wrongly.

They only remember Confucius' "repaying grievances with virtue", but they don't know the following sentence "How to repay virtue". They only taught people that "the king is the main body of the minister, the country is the main body of the people, the father is the main body of the son, and the husband is the main body of the wife", but they never said the second half, "If the king is not upright, the minister will join other countries; if the country is not upright, the people will attack him; if the father is not kind, the son will go to another country; if the husband is not upright, the wife can remarry."

Confucius' Confucianism was originally two-way, but later, for his own rule, the emperor promoted it as unilateral and unconditional obedience.

What Zhou Xian did was to get Confucianism back on track, rather than to eradicate Confucianism. He had killed more than a dozen people and imprisoned hundreds of evil-doers in the Kong family, and the attack on the Kong family was almost done.

In this case, Yansheng Gong Kong Yinzhi not only did not choose to go south, but instead took the initiative to take out part of the land and contributed it to Zhou Xian to fund the victims.

Zhou Xian despised him, but he had to say that this Yan Shenggong was really a talent who acted according to the opportunity. Liu Zeqing came to obey Liu Zeqing, and the rebel army came to enlist in the rebel army. The Qing army came to enlist in the Qing army. He had no integrity and could be described as shameless. But there was more than one such person in troubled times, but he was Yan Shenggong, who was too famous.

In troubled times, there are usually three types of people.

One is heroes, such as Zhang Huangyan, Chen Zilong, Xia Yunyi, Yan Yingyuan and others. Faced with the chaos, they went against the trend and knew that they could not do it. They supported the building to fall and fell into the tide, but they might not be able to succeed in the end, but they were enough to be a monument for all ages and were permanently respected by the people of the world.

One is a traitor, such as Li Yongfang, Sun Zhixue, Liu Zeqing, and Liu Liangzuo. They have no concept of family and country in their hearts, and they agree that being a mother is a mother. In the face of foreign invasion, they not only do not resist, but also take the initiative to surrender. In the end, they become the enemy's minions and do all the evil things to their comrades, and they will definitely be permanently nailed to the pillar of shame.

Another type is ordinary people, and most people. They are not as great as the first type of people, nor can they be as shameless as the second type of people. They go with the flow, do not seek anything else in troubled times, but only seek to save their lives. They are like straw, floating with the wind, and never can control their future and direction.

As Yan Shenggong, Kong Yinzhi was extremely glorious all his life, but his actions in history were even worse than those of the third type of people.

Zhou Xian felt that he was too embarrassed, so he thought of pulling him off the position of Yan Shenggong and succeeding him by his son. However, this subsequent impact was too great, and Kong Yinzhi was extremely obedient, which made Zhou Xian feel embarrassed to attack him. After all, he didn't want to completely abandon Confucianism.

So he took the donkey to send someone to Qufu to visit Kong Yinzhi, and brought a letter from him. He told him that he hoped to select some available people from the Kong family to serve him.

Of course, Kong Yinzhi couldn't ask for this.

I have to say that the Kong family’s family tradition is pretty good, at least everyone can read.

Although most of them do not have the ability to handle political affairs and are not many of them can be directly officials, it is OK to be an auxiliary official to deal with some miscellaneous matters for the time being.

Moreover, the most inferior of them is enough to be a master in elementary school. Professors to learn to read are the career that Confucius pursued, and it is not a grievance for them.

Song Zuyi is a man of knowledgeable and talented, but he is a timid and pedantic person. However, he is considered a moral gentleman. He is the prefect of Jinan and does not have to worry about his power struggle. He can actually share some political affairs for ten thousand yuan.

And he can also reach a certain degree of reconciliation with the Kong family through him to attract more traditional southern scholars to come and surrender to him.

After all, what is fighting for the world is talent.

Zhou Xian tends to use those who are enterprising, such as Gu Yanwu and Huang Zongxi. But he also needs some more traditional talents to let them govern the country.

Therefore, in this regard, Zhou Xian made some concessions against his own wishes and the Kong family.

Not long after, Li Guo and Li Laiheng led their soldiers to retreat to Dezhou, and Yang Yan replaced Nanpi's defense.

If they want to return to Henan, they must pass through the hinterland of Shandong. The journey is long and troubles are inevitable in the middle.

To this end, Zhou Xian ordered that they could only move along the official road, and asked Tan Shimai to lead more than 6,000 soldiers to escort them all the way, and to keep the prefectures and counties along the way on guard.

Li Guo also had such concerns. He strictly restrained his soldiers along the way and continued to speed up his journey.

It took nearly twenty days on the road and nothing happened. They crossed the Yellow River near Cao County and met with Liu Tiren's troops in Guide, and the matter ended perfectly.

Although Li Guo's troops currently have only about 20,000 people, most of them are elite troops of the Breakthrough Army. Their return is equivalent to injecting a new vitality into the Breakthrough Army.

In fact, not long after, Li Zicheng ordered Gao Yigong and Tian Jianxiu to stay in Henan, and personally led Liu Zongmin and Li Guo and other generals south to Jingzhou to attack the Ming Dynasty.

Li Zi became the leader to make the south smoothly and seek a short peaceful coexistence with Zhou Xian, and wrote a letter to Zhou Xian and Li Yan each.

Although there is no explicit statement in it, it is just saying that it was his mistake that led to the separation from Li Yan, which made him regret it. But this is equivalent to acquiesce to Li Yan that will not belong to him in the future and he can freely choose who to serve.

Hongniang came to Shandong to reunite with Li Yan, and there were hundreds of subordinates who followed her or Li Yan for a long time.
Chapter completed!