Things are far from being as simple as they seem on the surface, it is not unreasonable that no one in the past dynasties has ever dared to touch Confucius, and a domineering figure like Zhu Yuanzhang also knows what Confucius means to the world, so he also crowned Confucius as the Holy Prince, so it has not changed for thousands of years.

The thinking of people in this era is far less flexible than that of later generations, and many people don't think much about the impact of this incident at all, but simply feel that the Yanshenggong Mansion is a place where the world's literary fortunes gather, and whoever touches the Yanshenggong is a bad thing about the world's literary fortunes, as for how much Yanshenggong has contributed to literature, the two sages of Confucius and Mencius and the seventy-two sages of the Kong family have already set an example.

In short, it is just a sentence, if you move the Holy Prince's Mansion, you are against the people of the world, and it is a holy place in the eyes of the people of the world.

However, the people under the Ming Dynasty did not think so, of course, everyone respected the scholars, and they also respected the ancestor of the scholars, Confucius, but they were more concerned about the latter than whether they would be starved to death.

Since the Ming Dynasty regained the territory, they have been able to eat their stomachs, which has made them feel extremely satisfied, as for Yan Shenggong? Can the Holy Father eat enough every day? The people who can take the imperial examination high school are all from the heavens, and the probability of these people is still too low in comparison, since this is the case, it is better to eat a full stomach first.

The ancients have long summarized the rules, only when you have a full stomach, can you have the opportunity to read, right? Such an obvious multiple-choice question is that anyone who is sensible will choose, so although those scholars cry out that Wenyun is about to die, these people should still celebrate the New Year, and they should marry their daughters-in-law and daughters-in-law.

In this way, a situation has been created, because the ministers above the temple have maintained absolute confidence in Cheng Xiaolian, so they only fluctuated for a while, and immediately calmed down, and the people at the bottom of the society were not instigated by those literati because this kind of thing was really not as important as having a full stomach, and the scholar group in the middle of the entire society did not dare to incite it openly, and secretly could not provoke disputes, and they could also secretly lament that the people's hearts were not ancient.

However, there is no such a good situation in other places, according to the news from Fengge, the scholars in the south of the Yangtze River have held more than ten literary meetings alone, and in these more than ten literary meetings, they are all wearing filial piety clothes and hats, loudly complaining that the pseudo-Ming will destroy the country and the clan, and claim that they must inherit the will of the saint to destroy the pseudo-Ming.

Cheng Xiaolian also smiled bitterly when he heard the news, he couldn't imagine that these people's wind direction changed so quickly, and a few days ago they were shouting and shouting for the restoration of the Ming Dynasty, and now they are going to destroy the pseudo-Ming.

Xia Guoxiang naturally did not let go of this opportunity, and wantonly wooed the scholars, and claimed that he would inherit the will of the saint, dominate the world, and let the saint rest in peace under the nine springs.

Gu Yanwu also sighed when he heard the news, although the Confucian Mansion occupied less than a city, it was only the tip of the iceberg that was exposed to the world, and now after the behemoth under the iceberg was revealed, everyone in the world was shocked.

Cheng Xiaolian looked at Chen Chengan in front of him with a smile: "This time we can be regarded as a ruin, if we can't dominate the world, we are destined to be scolded to death by those literati in the history books." ”

"The minister thinks that His Majesty's move is very right, the spirit of Sage Kong is not in the statue, but in the word benevolence and righteousness, if you really want to nail us to the history books, then your majesty can only sacrifice your life to accompany the gentleman."

Yang Youcai, who was next to him, suddenly interjected: "Now do you want to kill all the people of the Confucian Mansion, if they fall into the hands of those people in the Zhou Dynasty, we will be very passive。。。。。。 ”

Cheng Xiaolian glanced at him angrily: "Then do you want to slaughter Master Kong together, if you move his family, he will have to fight with you, besides, killing people at this time just makes our people more weak-hearted." ”

Saying that, he sighed slowly: "I originally thought that this matter was a major event for the benefit of the country and the people, but who knew that those scholars really only recognized the statue, I don't understand, wouldn't changing the place of worship to the academy allow more people to accept the teachings of the saint, if the saint's classics are published everywhere in the world, won't it allow more people to read the saint's books, why can't they understand it?" ”

Gu Yanwu next to him coughed: "The ministers have an idea, they don't understand, they just don't want to understand, if the world is the world of the Confucian saints, they are popular wherever they go, if Your Majesty deposes Confucianism and restores the hundred schools, this world is not the world of those scholars, and now the demolition of the Confucian Mansion shows that His Majesty does not respect the saint very much, so those families can't sit still, and most of the scholars who stand up are the age of weak crowns, and they are the most impulsive. was provoked by someone and couldn't help but stand up to help the world, but he didn't know that he had become a knife in someone's hand. ”

Yang Youcai's eyes glared: "In that case, then I will send someone to cut off the heads of these big families one by one, and I will see if they dare to go against the imperial court!" ”

"Which is such an easy thing, when Emperor Chongzhen was at the beginning, those families and merchants joined forces to get all the silver of the entire Ming Kingdom into their own hands, Emperor Chongzhen is such a stubborn person who has no way, can only resign and beg them to take out the silver to save the Ming, this family is the head snake of the house at the big, and the gentry in the countryside at the smallest, if they are uprooted, the world will be in chaos."

Hearing Cheng Xiaolian's words, Jia Xu, who was standing on the other side, suddenly raised his head: "Your Majesty, the minister has an idea." ”

"Tell me about it."

"The reason why these families are desperately trying to maintain the status of the saints is that there are many scholars in their families, and they want to use these scholars to maintain the current status of their families, and we have moved the status of the saints, which has affected their status, and they naturally want to incite the people to stand up and make trouble, fortunately, after the murder of the thief Li Zicheng, many of the families have been fragmented, and the Manchu court happened to look down on the Han people at the beginning, and they have not yet grown into behemoths, so we have a chance. It is better to take advantage of this to foster a new group of forces. ”

Cheng Xiaolian frowned: "Explain it plainly." ”

"The original family was not recognized in the eyes of the thief Li Zicheng or in the Manchu court, so the development was not smooth, let's gather a group of people who are interested in the court, and then support a group of forces under them, when the time comes, every move of the people will not escape our eyes, no matter who wants to make some waves, those people and we are a community of interests, and they will definitely stabilize their position."

(End of chapter)