When Cheng Xiaolian appeared in front of all the courtiers, all the courtiers in Beijing City breathed a sigh of relief, thanks to his calmness, although His Majesty looked a little sick, but he had no connection with the approaching deadline at all, if he had listened to the rumors, he would not have the courage to stand here now.

"I occasionally felt a cold wind two days ago, this Beijing city is much colder than Chengdu Mansion, I am not very used to the first time I came to the New Year, I don't know if the ministers' homes are still full of coal?"

The ministers below knelt down in unison: "Thank you Your Majesty for your care, the ministers' families are rich, and the charcoal is enough to burn." ”

Cheng Xiaolian nodded: "You all stand up and speak, the Ming Dynasty is not the Manchu Qing Dynasty, you are all ten years old, and you have been an official in the court for many years, don't kneel around if you don't have anything important, and you will kneel down your bones." ”

The courtiers below hurriedly responded: "Thank you, Your Majesty Longen." ”

"I've been unwell these days, and I've caught up with the eventful autumn, but in the future, if the folds are sent up below, the cabinet will first give an approval document to be approved by me, and today the rules of the Ming Dynasty will be set up in the court, but if anyone in the harem dares to touch this red pen, everyone can kill it!"

In fact, Cheng Xiaolian did this mainly to dispel the concerns of those courtiers, for fear that they would think that Daming would go on the original track again, and then he hurriedly formed a gang with the eunuchs, and then Daming would become a miasma again.

Although it is not excluded that there will be good people among the eunuchs, but when they grasp the power, it is difficult to say whether they are good people, Chinese history books have such a problem, like to cover the coffin of people, a person is a bad person, he will only do bad things in his life, even if it is a good deed, it is ulterior motives, especially eunuchs, and there is no good eye since entering the palace.

It takes a process to become bad, it is very difficult for people to do good things for a lifetime, and it is not easy to do bad things for a lifetime, this is that most of them have not read the books of sages, nor have they learned the way of Confucius and Mencius, most of them do not care about the words benevolence and righteousness.

Since Cheng Xiaolian said so, at least in this dynasty, there are no ministers who are willing to deal with eunuchs, after all, many people think that the parents of the body and skin, those eunuchs are not unfilial people, and they all look down on them.

Within a few days, the news of the Great Zhou court came, and I heard that Xia Guoxiang and Hu Guozhu had a gap, Cheng Xiaolian smiled and nodded, these two people in history are constantly gaping, because of their own reasons, Wu Sangui rose to the army a year early, and the two of them almost became a fatal friendship by mistake.

Not the process of filial piety but understand, this fateful friendship is only applicable to the people at the bottom, the higher the position of the person, the more things will be considered, except for the friendship that is fought together on the battlefield, there will basically be no fateful friendship.

So some rumors were spread in the past, and when the Zhou Dynasty was in danger, the two of them could still work together to advance and retreat, and once the Zhou Dynasty got rid of the predicament, they would immediately part ways and start fighting for the interests of their camp.

However, the battle in the court did not delay the offensive outside, and the Zhou Dynasty gathered 30,000 soldiers and horses to rush to Shandong, and made up his mind to take advantage of the chaos in the Ming Dynasty.

Yuan Zonghao, who was far away in Shandong, was not idle, the Shanhe Army had already gone through so many battles, and although it was about to be the New Year, they still went head-on, ready to teach the enemy a hard lesson.

Cheng Xiaolian suddenly remembered something: "How are the people of the Kong family?" ”

Yang Youcai coughed: "Your Majesty moved them all to Henan, they are very popular with the local people, I heard that they are the descendants of the Confucian saints, they are very respectful to them, and the minister still recommends that they stay away from the crowd so as not to cause any trouble." ”

Cheng Xiaolian waved his hand: "You can't send them to the mountain, the name of Sage Kong is really big, if these people know how to advance and retreat, they will stay in Henan, if they don't know how to make a mess, isn't there still Mr. Chen's father-in-law's house to settle in, if I don't look at the face of Second Uncle Kong, I will drive them out of the Ming Dynasty, a group of speculators, useless in the country, they are the root of the decline of the world's fortunes, if it weren't for them as an example, I don't believe that the Yuan Dynasty also occupied the Central Plains, and the Han people's blood was not lost, How did it become like this in the Qing Dynasty? ”

Speaking of this, he asked again: "How is Second Uncle Kong?" ”

"Master Kong is still soft-hearted, and while he is busy with the affairs in Beijing, he privately sent someone to take care of the Kong family, otherwise the minister would not have looked for Mr. Chen alone a few days ago."

Cheng Xiaolian sighed: "It's difficult to have both worlds, if you want to say that for the sake of Second Uncle Kong's face, the people of the Confucian Mansion should indeed be allowed to enjoy the honor of the previous dynasty, but I can't do it, private feelings are private feelings, I can not kill them, but still let them be the saints, if they can't learn the style of the saints, don't use this name to ruin the atmosphere of the Ming Dynasty." ”

Yang Youcai no longer persuaded, to be honest, he also looked down on these people a little, the Ming Dynasty was in turmoil, but all those scholars who had received the favor of the great name had made some efforts, but it was Confucius, there was no one who died for the Ming Dynasty, and the country had been raising soldiers for 200 years, isn't it just waiting for this day, since you are unwilling to sell your life, why bother to support you.

Kong Yuyu is also very difficult these days, since he came back in Shandong, he knew that the Ming court would not treat the Confucian Mansion well, the front first betrayed the Ming Dynasty, and then when the Ming Dynasty was prosperous, he was unwilling to help, just thinking about sending the court with a document, is the court so easy to send?

Besides, he always knew that Cheng Xiaolian was a very thoughtful person, and he would never tolerate someone riding on his head to make a fortune, but he didn't expect Cheng Xiaolian to really dare to uproot the Confucian Mansion, and he naturally couldn't stand up and plead for mercy in that situation at that time, but this did not affect his care for his family, and the blood and family relationship could not be cut off.

It's just that Kong Yuqi refused to see him, and he also refused all the things he sent, he wanted the world to see what the descendants of Sage Kong had been forced to be.

In this cold winter, hungry and cold, some children in the Confucian Mansion were frozen and sick, looking at Kong Yuqi's blue face, no one dared to go over to persuade anything.

Kong Yuqi was destined to be disappointed, those people in Henan Province respected him very much when they heard his identity, and they were willing to take out their own food for the descendants of the saint to eat, but they would never say a bad word about the Ming Dynasty, in their words: "Since the war, last year was the first year when we had a full meal, we don't understand the things in the court, but we know that the emperor of the Ming Dynasty is a good emperor, and you can eat a full stomach by following the emperor of the Ming Dynasty." ”

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