Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 626
This kind of land enclosure movement has been carried out many times by the Confucian family throughout the dynasties, often taking advantage of the chaos to collude with each other and merge the land.

That's why there are more than 3000 hectares of land. The dynasties granted only more than [-] hectares, and they occupied and annexed more than [-] hectares.

Now the Kong family came to ask for land again, and even pointed out a few pieces of land that did not belong to them, insisting that it was bestowed by the Son of Heaven before, and asked the emperor to issue an order to give it to him.

"I have a couplet that I want to give to Kong Yanzhi,
The first couplet: I was sent to Yuanmeng yesterday, and now I am sent to Manchuria. What is the point? Only then can I understand that there is more to celebrate when I am good at persuading people to enter the house.

The second couplet: Confucius said to achieve benevolence, Meng said to obtain righteousness, all forgotten.Just remember that those who know current affairs are heroes.

Horizontal comment: Shixiu lowered the list! "

Huang Zongxi and Ruan Dacheng froze on the spot when they heard this.

Although the descendants of the Kong family did all the bullshit, not only who would surrender whom, but also frequent internal strife, competing for the heir several times, and even attacking that the other party was not the Kong family.

There are also folk legends that in fact, when the Confucian family moved south, after the Yuan Dynasty destroyed the gold, an obedient Yan Shenggong was established. In fact, this person was not the real Confucian family at all. There were even rumors that that person was actually the illegitimate son of Emperor Yuan.

Therefore, the Confucian family has been worshiped by blood for more than a thousand years, but it may not be the true blood.

The Confucian family was named Yan Shenggong, and even the magistrate of Qufu County, which was at the same level as Jingxian County.

The land of their family is also not taxed.

It is no less harmful to the country than Zhu Mingzong's blood-sucking.

Before the Kong family persuaded Li Zicheng and Dorgon to come in, they took the lead in shaving their hair and repairing their watches, which is so fucking disgusting.

Now he still has the face to come to Zhu Yihai to return Duke Yansheng, and wants to seize the opportunity to enclose the land.

Do you really think your blood is noble?

"There should still be some disciples of the Southern Sect who accompanied Emperor Gaozong of the Song Dynasty to the south. Find one of them and give it to the most holy teacher as a sacrificial officer. From the seventh rank, it may be hereditary.

In addition, the Confucian Temple has four pairs of twelve sages, and each chooses one descendant to be awarded a doctor of the Five Classics of the Imperial Academy, from the eighth rank, Xu hereditary. "

"Give [-] mu of land to Feng Li Guan, and [-] mu of land to each of the [-] Five Classics doctors."

Ruan Dacheng was still shocked by the couplet that the emperor gave to the Kong family just now, but now he is not surprised that the emperor has downgraded Kong Jiayan Shenggong to a seventh-rank enshrined official.

An official from the Jiajing Dynasty of the Ming Dynasty said that Confucius' title as king was not right and not in order, so Jiajing removed the title of king and the title of Dacheng Wenxuan, and changed his posthumous posthumous title to the most holy teacher.

In the Song Dynasty, Yan Shenggong was actually an eighth-rank official, but he was highly respected because of his orthodoxy and his status was detached.

In the Ming Dynasty, ten descendants of Confucius inherited Duke Yansheng, and two of the eldest sons died early, and they were given gifts after death.

The contemporary Kong Yanzhi (Yinzhi) was inherited in the year of Tianqi. His uncle's second son died early and he had no grandchildren, so he adopted his younger brother and son to himself.

In the Ming Dynasty, Duke Yansheng belonged to a relatively special duke, with patents but no certificates.

Zhu Yuanzhang bestowed 720 hectares of farmland on the Confucian family (large hectares, [-] acres, and one mu is worth three mu.), the annual income is used for sacrifices, and the rest is the salary of Yan Shenggong.

The head of the civil servants in Yanshenggong class was awarded to Dr. Guanglu, the same as the first-rank officials, and three silver seals.

Not only was Yan Shenggong mansion built for Confucius in Qufu, but also two mansions were given in Beijing for him to live in Beijing.During the Jiajing period, the Confucian Mansion in Qufu was expanded in an all-round way. There were more than 130 rooms in the east and west, and there were countless pavilions in the inner courtyard of the back house.

The eldest son of "Yanshenggong" can use the second-grade clothing color after he is 15 years old. The second son can inherit the hereditary doctor of the Five Classics of the Imperial Academy at the age of 15, and preside over the sacrifice of Zisi (Kongji Zisi, the grandson of Confucius). At the age of 15, Zi inherited the doctorate from Taichang Temple and presided over the rituals of Shengze Academy in Wenshang County.The doctors of his second and third sons were awarded with each generation of "Yan Shenggong".

"Your Majesty, are you granting two thousand acres of land to the Kong family?"

Zhu Yihai shook his head.

"The two thousand acres of land are given to the sacrificial officials of the most holy ancestors for sacrifices, and the rest is for salary."

"Then the land of the original Confucian family?"

Zhu Yihai glanced at Ruan Dacheng, "Although the Taizu granted the Confucius family [-] hectares of land, didn't the Taizu also bestow the lands of the vassals? He also gave the land to the ministers. How did I deal with the lands of the vassals? The land of Duke Wei’s family?”

Although Ruan Dacheng thought of it, he didn't expect the emperor to be so straightforward.

The treatment of the duke becomes an eighth-rank official.

The more than 130 million mu of land still counts as three or three mu, will all be confiscated into the government?
This is the Kong family.

But thinking about the couplet that the emperor gave to Kong's family just now, I also know how much the emperor has resentment towards Kong.

"In the future, the eldest son of the Confucian family will inherit the sacrificial officer, and the second son will inherit the Ph.D. of the Five Classics of the Imperial Academy. There is no other special preferential treatment. The most holy teacher is a saint who I respect, but his descendants have performed poorly after more than two thousand years. , don’t deserve to enjoy it like this.”

"Two thousand mu of land is enough for sacrifice."

More than 130 million mu of land must be fully recovered.

Zhu Yihai even confiscated the estates and titles of the vassal kings of the Ming Dynasty, so would he keep a duke for the Kong family?

Why?
Zhu Yihai was not used to Xu Guogong and other princes and princes who surrendered before, not only seizing the title but also the land.

One emperor and one courtier.

Xu Da and others did contribute to the founding of the country, but enjoying the country's grace for more than 200 years is enough.Future generations are useless, so who is to blame?

For example, Liu Kongzhao, a descendant of Liu Bowen, was promoted to the Duke of Qingtian County because of his meritorious service in Conglong?
Huang Zongxi didn't speak either.

Although this man has not experienced the change of Ming and Qing Dynasties, he has not experienced the turmoil in the world and the sufferings of the people, so he has not had the serious thought of lightening imperial power when he is old as in history. Long, his official career is very smooth. Now he is the governor of a province at a young age. He has won the holy will and is devoted to the local area. He didn't think about saying that the imperial power is too important. Instead, he feels that today's saints are arbitrary and truly Holy Monarch.

In fact, scholars all over the world respect Confucius, but many people have opinions about the descendants of Confucius.

After all, the Kong family actually acted no differently from the general Duke's family, so they could not avoid bullying others, especially since their family was still the hereditary magistrate of Qufu County. On that one-third of an acre of land, their family was the real emperor.

The Confucian family revised the table of surrender for the Tartars, stepped up to persuade the table, and the Tartars also recognized all the privileges of Yan Shenggong in the Ming Dynasty. Kong Yinzhi, the 65th generation Yan Sheng Gong, was still the Yan Sheng Gong, and he was added as the crown prince. He was still among the cabinet ministers when he met. superior.

Last year, the Tartars gave another Yanshenggong Mansion on Taipusi Street in Beijing.

But Zhu Yihai will no longer give them those rewards and privileges.

Daming once gave their family privileges for more than 200 years, but they did not cherish them.

Now that Zhu Yihai is still a descendant of the great ancestor of the Ming Dynasty, and his country name is still Daming, how could he reward this guy who gave both Li Zicheng and the Tatars a promotion?
Why?
"They can continue to live in the houses of the Confucian Mansion in Qufu, but the first gate, second gate, and yi gate must correspond to the official ranks of the seventh grade, and those that exceed the specifications should be demolished.
Except for the Qufu mansion, all other houses, shops, and occupied mountains, forests, lakes, and pastures were all tracked down and taken back. "

There is no need to be polite to this kind of World Cultivator who downgrades the list.

The land of the Confucian family includes temple land, sacrificial land, and private land. The temple land does not pay rent, but labor labor, and the sacrifice land pays rent.The Kong family's fields, even private fields, do not pay taxes.

The rent collected by the Confucian family for offering sacrifices to the fields is divided in half with the tenants. The bucket used by the imperial court to collect grain is a square bucket with a small mouth and a large bottom, and a bucket of wheat weighs 120 catties. 75 catties were scraped off with a wooden plank, leaving only [-] catties in the bucket, and the scraped off was called Doujian Grain, which was distributed to the first class in the village, but only [-] catties of rent were collected.

In addition to collecting land rent, the Confucian family also collected taxes in the fairs in front of temples and academies in Qufu and the fairs held in tenant villages.

The Confucian family also has [-] hectares of school land, equivalent to [-] mu, which is used for the expenses of several major academies.

Sacrifice fields, Xuetian fields, and temple fields are tax-exempt fields stipulated by the imperial court, while private fields are actually subject to taxation, but the Confucian family is treated preferentially, and a large number of private fields only need to pay one-third of the tax, which is light grain land.

In addition, the fields brought by Mrs. Yan Shenggong and others when they married into the Kong family are called Zhifen land, which has accumulated [-] mu over the past dynasties and is basically tax-free.

But even the land that only pays one-third of the light grain, the Kong family has tried their best to not pay or pay less.

As a second-rank official, Yan Shenggong still has a good salary.

It is easy to earn more than ten thousand taels a year, and then engage in lending, business, mining and building workshops, etc., which will be more profitable. Therefore, after more than 200 years of the suzerain of the Zhu family in the Ming Dynasty, many low-level suzerains are not as good as beggars. Even after more than 2000 years, the government's residence is still very prosperous. This is the difference.

During the reign of Tianqi, the Kong family divided the various clans and branches into 57 clans, and the descendants of the Kong family have exceeded [-].

Yanshenggong's family is the largest family, and there are 56 other family members.

Zhu Yihai lost his temper.

Ruan Dacheng was about to retreat, but he stopped them again.

"I'm not finished yet."

"I heard that the Kong family has developed to the present. There are dozens of households and more than [-] males. With such a large population, it would be too harsh to confiscate all the land at once."

"In this way, the more than 130 million mu of land collected by the Kong family can be given priority to the members of each clan of the Kong family. The males of the Kong family who are above [-] and below [-] can get ten acres of land for each."

"If there is still land under the family name, there is no need to divide the excess of ten acres. If it is less than ten acres, it can be supplemented."

The more than 100 million mu of land harvested this time is actually mainly under the name of Yanshenggong Mansion, some private fields under the name of the Kong family, and the powdered land brought by the wife as a dowry are not included.

Zhu Yihai gave the Kong clan members ten acres for one person, which ensured that they could become small farmers, and self-sufficiency was still possible.

If they have a lot of land under their own name, they don't need the emperor's ten mu of land.

The main thing is to take care of those who have low status in the clan and have no property.

The main target is Yan Shenggong.

"The sage is merciful!" Huang Zongxi couldn't help but praise, not only suppressing but also not forgetting the basic guarantee.

Zhu Yihai waved his hand, "Let's do it like this first." It doesn't hurt to take away 130 million mu and divide it up to another 20 million mu.

(End of this chapter)