Kong Yue, the southern sect of the Kong clan, arrived in Gyeonggi and was warmly received.
Qiqing led hundreds of civil and military officials ten miles out of the city to greet him, including a member of the royal family, King Zhu Jianshen of Yue. Later, Zhu Qiyu held a banquet in the Hall of Qianqing to welcome him.
It gave enough face to the Southern Sect of the Kong family.
Kong Yue knew it well.
The Zhu family royal family spent thousands of gold to buy horse bones.
Your Majesty is so solemn, it depends on whether you are sensible or not.
If you are sensible, Yan Shenggong will be at your fingertips.
If you are ignorant, get out immediately.
After receiving the decree from Gyeonggi, Kong Yue immediately invited the core figures of Kong's southern sect to the ancestral hall. After studying everything that happened in the seventeenth year of Jingtai for a whole day, he came to two conclusions.
The crown prince ascends the throne and cannot be changed.
Ming Dynasty’s external expansion is imperative.
In addition to this, everyone also agrees that the prince is so strong that he is so similar to Taizong that even Yu Qian surrendered. Within a few decades, scholars should no longer dream about the scenery from the first year of Jingtai to the eighth year of Jingtai.
We should open up the situation and look at the world, not just domestic disputes in the court.
The Beizong of the Kong family did not see this situation clearly.
So Kong Hongxu lost Yan Shenggong.
But whether it is the Northern Sect or the Southern Sect, the descendants of the Kong family need this Yanshenggong to maintain the status of Confucianism in the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, Kong Yue went north to Gyeonggi and will fully cooperate with His Royal Highness the Prince of the Ming Dynasty.
Cooperate with the prince, not Zhu Qiyu.
Everyone can see clearly that the current emperor of the Ming Dynasty is Zhu Qiyu, but the one who really controls the Ming Dynasty is the eighteen-year-old prince in the East Palace.
This was also done deliberately by His Majesty.
Actually it's understandable.
Whoever has such an outstanding successor in his family, the head of the family will be like Zhu Qiyu, delegating power with confidence, and then just sit back and wait to make a fortune and reach the pinnacle of life.
Just lie down...who wouldn't do that?
At the reception banquet, Kong Yue was cautious and did not dare to be arrogant at all - what about the descendants of the Kong family? What you are facing is the imperial power. There was a precedent for Taizu to take advantage of Yan Shenggong. Now there is a strong hand from the prince, but Kong Yue does not dare to Look down on Zhu Qiyu.
Seeing that the atmosphere was coming, Kong Yue said: "The common people think that under the rule of Your Majesty and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, our country, the Ming Dynasty, will be peaceful and prosperous, and its national power will be prosperous. They will focus on the vastness of the universe. I, the southern clan of the Kong family, but those who are talented should be Participate in next year’s big event and serve your country.”
This shows loyalty.
The prince had just bloodbathed the court and cleaned up the civil service group.
The Southern Sect of the Confucius family immediately participated in the imperial examinations vigorously and used actions to tell scholars all over the world that His Royal Highness was targeting scholars with disloyal intentions, not all scholars.
Zhu Qiyu was overjoyed. The Southern Sect of the Kong family was still sensible.
No more beating around the bush.
On the spot, he was conferred the title of Kong Yue as a Doctor of the Five Classics of the Hanlin Academy, which was inherited by his descendants.
This is the recognition of the position of the head of the Southern Sect of the Kong family.
Laying the foundation for the canonization of Yan Shenggong.
After all, the southern sect of the Kong family had been silent for hundreds of years. At this time, the northern sect was suddenly deprived of Duke Yansheng, and then a new sect was raised in the southern sect. The intention of drawing a knife to kill others was too obvious.
It should be done step by step.
At the same time, it also gives the Northern Sect of the Kong family an opportunity to quickly send people to participate in next year's big event.
In this case, Beizong can avoid being suppressed too harshly.
Otherwise, in order to maintain the status of Nanzong, the imperial court would have to vigorously suppress the Kong family in Qufu, Shandong, and it would not just be as simple as depriving Kong Hongxu of Yan Shenggong.
A month later, Kong Yue was granted the title of Duke Yansheng.
Hereditary.
In the Northern Sect of the Kong family, Kong Hongxu was imprisoned. Afterwards, another backbone of the Northern Sect of the Kong family, Kong Hongxu's younger brother Kong Hongtai, rushed to the capital and was received by Zhu Qiyu at the Qianqing Hall.
As for what was discussed, there is no way of knowing.
Because Kong Yue had already been canonized as Duke Yansheng, even if Kong Hongtai came to mend the situation, he would not be able to bring Duke Yansheng back to Beizong.
But after Kong Hongtai returned to Shandong, he immediately ordered the Northern Sect of the Kong family to shut up and reflect on itself.
Within five years, you are not allowed to interact with local officials, dignitaries, or scholars.
It means to think about one’s mistakes behind closed doors.
Five years later, all the talented people in the tribe went to Beijing to take the imperial examination and serve as officials.
But you cannot become an official by being recommended.
If you want to be an official and get back Yan Shenggong, you have to rely on your own abilities!
Only then did everyone realize that with Kong Yue taking office as Duke Yansheng, His Majesty and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince were going to suppress the Northern Sect of the Kong family. Kong Hongtai went to Gyeonggi to plead for mercy, in exchange for a reprieve from the Manchu ban.
It was considered a success.
Otherwise, if the Crown Prince and His Majesty's suppression methods are used, the Northern Sect of the Kong family will not only be imprisoned, but also Zhu Qiyu and his son will be in power. The Beizong will not even think about anyone becoming an official, and a number of people will even die. Jinyiwei is the best at this kind of thing.
The kind that justly and openly chopped off the heads of a group of people in the Beizong and left scholars all over the world unable to pick out the thorns.
for example……
Jinyiwei found the emperor's golden sword in your Kongfu Mansion in Qufu, Shandong Province, and said that your Kong family planned to rebel.
What can you do?
It’s not just about being killed obediently.
You must know that the golden sword has not yet appeared.
Of course, this golden sword no longer poses a threat to Zhu Qiyu and his son.
Late summer of the seventeenth year of Jingtai.
In the spring and summer of this year, there was severe drought everywhere in the world, and there were many floods in the south.
So the Mongolian tribes in the north made an agreement. First, the allied forces of the Oara tribes attacked the Hami Guards of the Ming Dynasty from the Chengjiasilan area. Then the Maoli children harassed the Great Wall Guancheng outside Xuanfu on the border, intending to contain the Xuanfu and Datong forces.
At the same time, they focused on stationing troops in the Hetao area, hoping to enter the hinterland of the Central Plains from the Hexi Corridor to rob.
The Jurchen troops were wandering around Liaodong, intending to target Shanhaiguan.
It goes without saying that the Mobei cavalry and the Jurchens will enter the territory of the Ming Dynasty to rob before winter.
The situation is serious.
From Hamiwei in the west, to the Hetao area, to Xuanfu, Datong, and to Liaodong in the east, there are cavalrymen of the northern Yi people watching eagerly, and the beacon smoke at the border is not extinguished day and night.
Daming reacted immediately and flexibly.
First, Governor Hang Yu led five large battalions with 50,000 troops to the Hami area for reinforcements, and then guard Zhao Fu quickly gathered the Xuanfu and Datong troops, ready to attack the Hetao area at any time.
Zhu Yong led eight of the twenty-six cavalry guards to the Hetao area.
At the same time, Lu Zhong, the commander of the Jinyi Guards, was transferred to Shanhaiguan as the chief military officer and led four battalions of the regiment and four guards of the 26th Guards to rush to Shanhaiguan to reinforce the Liaodong Dusi.
The great army of the Ming Dynasty came out.
Faced with the intention of the northern Yi people to move south, Ming Dynasty's reaction was straightforward.
Just show your sword.
If you are having a hard time, come and rob me.
Does this make sense?
Everyone relies on hard-working hands for food. If the harvest in the north is not good, but you want to come to the south to catch the autumn wind, then I, the Ming Dynasty, will be too shameless.
Daming has never been timid!
Want to fight?
Just fight!
Anyway, I won't let you cross Guancheng. As for how you spend this winter, it has nothing to do with me, Daming.
It is better for you to starve to death than for me to starve to death.
The two sides mobilized their troops and punished their generals respectively. In the first few sneak attacks, the Ming Dynasty suffered a heavy loss, but then reacted quickly, leaving the Mobei Cavalry and the Jurchens unable to find a chance for a while, and the two sides formed a confrontation.
But a war is inevitable.
Because of the severe drought in spring and summer, large areas of pasture in the Mobei grassland died, and there was no mutual trade with the Ming Dynasty. If they didn't rob, a lot of people would starve to death. The Oara tribes and Maoli children knew that they were going to die, so they had to invade the south.
And Jurchen...
Came to take advantage of the situation.
However, the Ming Dynasty focused on deploying troops in Liaodong on the Jurchen side. Because the Jurchens were still in Liaodong, bypassing the Liaodong capital, the reinforcements were also in Shanhaiguan, and they did not dare to leave the customs for fear of being transferred away from the mountains.
