People in the Ming Dynasty are lawless

Chapter 213 The Kong family is completely destroyed! Li's Korea provoked the majesty of Ming Dynasty!

The next thing is very simple. After half a month of statistics, the financial statistics of the Confucius Mansion were finally completed.

A statistic is really shocking. The Confucius Mansion has accumulated more than a thousand years, and the accumulation of fields alone is not comparable to that of ordinary people.

Based on the search for more than half a month, Chen Han got a list in his hand.

The Kong Mansion has more than 173 hectares of farmland in Shandong alone. One hectare of land is [-] acres, which is [-] square kilometers.

As for how many are left in other provinces, the inventory has not yet been completed.

Anyway, many later generations said that the Kong family’s farmland must have been more than one million acres.

Back to the topic.

How big is 173 square kilometers?

In later generations, the area of ​​a town was about 150 square kilometers, and usually the permanent population of a township was about [-].

In other words, the cultivated land area of ​​more than [-] people in later generations was not as large as that of the Confucius family.

The area of ​​the Second Ring Road in Beijing is 62 square kilometers: the area of ​​the Third Ring Road is 159 square kilometers.

The area of ​​Qufu City in later generations was 815 square kilometers.

In other words, the cultivated land area of ​​the Kongfu family occupies more than one-fifth of Qufu City.

As for the rare treasures in the Confucius Mansion, they are countless.

These are not important to Chen Han. Chen Han understands the saying that money is something external to the body.

When I was a small person, I felt that these gold and silver jewelry were the guarantee of my future life.

But only after he took power in his hands did he understand.

Money is just a matter of words.

So Chen Han didn't take these seriously but waved his hand, sealed them all and transported them back to the capital.

Here, especially the classics left by Confucius, he carefully preserved them.

There is also the most important thing in the Confucius Mansion - the secret files of the Confucius Mansion.

The Confucius family has existed in the world for more than a thousand years, and almost every year they leave a file of what they see and hear.

This is the real treasure.

Chen Han's move surprised Lin Gaizhi, a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy who was following Chen Hanshen.

Chen Han saw the shock in his eyes.

Chen Hanxiao asked: "How come in Lin Hanlin's eyes, I only know how to use force?"

Lin Gaizhi smiled awkwardly.

To be honest, he saw Chen Han ordering the killing of so many scholars.

I was somewhat dissatisfied with Chen Han in my heart.

But he didn't expect Chen Han to face the Kong family's property.

But he has no interest in gold, silver, treasures and beautiful utensils.

But I am so interested in the archives of the Confucian Mansion recording history.

Lin Gaizhi couldn't help but laugh: "Master Hou, what interests me is why you are so interested in the secret files of the Confucius Mansion?"

Chen Han asked back: "What do you think?"

Lin Gaizhi replied: "My subordinates think that having power should be more attractive than money!"

Chen Han turned around and looked at Lin Gaizhi: "Yang Xiu will not end well!"

hiss……

When Lin Gaizhi heard Chen Han speak like this, he suddenly felt a chill running down his spine.

Yang Xiu’s story has always been a negative example for many scholars.

Everyone knows that Yang Xiu died because he liked to guess what Cao Cao was thinking.

Chen Han's words were also a warning to Lin Gaizhi not to make random guesses about his own thoughts.

Lin Gaizhi was sweating profusely, but he never expected that Chen Han would fall out of favor faster than he could turn the book.

The example used to warn him is the death warning.

thump!

Lin Gaizhi knelt on the ground: "I know my mistake!"

"Get up! Your task is to sort out the secret files here, and no one should be missing!"

"Yes!"

Chen Han walked out without talking nonsense to him.

After Chen Han left, Lin Gaizhi felt that his whole body was covered with sweat.

"This young Lord Marquis should not be underestimated!"

……

Chen Han really didn't know what words to use to describe how luxurious the Confucius Mansion was.

Anyway, the scale must be smaller than the palace where the emperor lived.

But the decoration inside is definitely better than the palace.

This may be because Zhu Yuanzhang, the emperor, was relatively concise.

the next few days.

The results of the public trial of the direct descendants in Confucius' mansion were very good.

Kong Ximing's crime is to kill four girls. The evidence is conclusive and he must be executed immediately!

There were seven of the Xi generation who were executed because they were good at killing people.

Eleven old men of the Ke generation were sentenced to death for killing civilians, especially for raping and humiliating ordinary women;

A decisive battle with one hundred and twelve people of Kong Ne's generation!

A total of [-] people from the outer sect of the Kong family had the lives of ordinary people on their hands and were sentenced to execution.

There are a total of [-] people in the direct lineage of the Confucius family, [-] people were executed and [-] people were exiled to the frontier and army.

Only thirty-one of them were clearly innocent of any crime and were demoted to civilian status.

One thousand, three hundred and twenty-five of the Confucian clan were arrested, [-] of them were executed, [-] of them were exiled to the frontier, and the remaining [-] were demoted to civilians.

The magistrate of Qufu helped Zhou commit cruelty and acted as an aid to the tiger, so he was executed.

The prefect of Yanzhou Prefecture was executed for the same crime;

The envoy Zuo was found guilty of harboring the Confucian government and was executed;

A thorough investigation in Shandong revealed that there were no fewer than twenty officials who had long concealed Confucius' crimes. Those who committed serious crimes were killed and those who were not severely punished were exiled.

The entire Shandong officialdom was purged by Chen Han.

No fewer than a hundred officials were sacked.

The entire Shandong Chief Secretary was purged because of the Confucius Mansion.

The people rejoiced and the influence was far-reaching.

……

Qufu.

The students from the engineering college brought over by Chen Han had to screen the people who signed up.

Although Chen Han wants to recruit many students here, he can't just choose them.

Jiang Wei finally confirmed Kong Ximing's guess after seeing Chen Han's actions.

Chen Han came to Shandong Chief Secretary to promote his engineering college by suppressing the Confucius family.

The people he brought recruited a large number of students just to tell the people of the world a very simple truth.

You see, the people in Confucius' hometown all recognize my engineering college.

Are you qualified to say that my engineering school is not good?

Chen Han's move directly caused the Kong family's faces to lose even half of their glory in the future.

Chen Han was recruiting students and surveying the land of Confucius Mansion.

Then I learned how to divide the land among local tycoons.

All the land in the Confucius Mansion was distributed to the local people on the spot.

These lands have been in the hands of the Confucius family for thousands of years.

But today, it actually came into my hands. The people couldn’t even believe it.

So on the day when the land was divided, people poured into the streets and used various means to celebrate this great event.

The whole Qufu was lively for several days.

Even the common people spontaneously built a shrine to commemorate Chen Han.

After doing this, Chen Han returned to the capital with his trophies and students.

Now the capital city has begun to hold the Zhili rural examination.

Chen Han didn't care about these.

On his way back to the capital, he received information about the situation in the capital.

Beijing's current comments on Chen Han's excavation of Yan Shenggong's grave are polarized.

Some said that Chen Han did not respect the deceased.

Some also said that Chen Han did this very well.

Just because of the soft bones of these derivative males.

By then, all readers will be relieved of their worries.

This has ruined the atmosphere of the entire world.

How can people not be angry with such behavior.

Now the Marquis can use this incident to bring down the reputation of the Confucius family, so that scholars all over the world will no longer be superstitious about the Confucius family. This is also a good thing.

Chen Han didn't care about these rumors.

Now that the goal has been achieved, no matter what you say, you will get an advantage and act like a good boy.

However, there was a letter from his wife that interested Chen Han very much.

It turned out to be to celebrate the birthday of His Royal Highness.

King Qin, King Jin, King Yan and others all entered the capital.

Of course, celebrating a birthday is one thing. On the other hand, the old man's intention should be that Chen Han should educate his sons about the Ming Dynasty Chamber of Commerce.

Although I have verbally told the old man that the Daming Chamber of Commerce can solve the problem that as the Ming Dynasty has more and more clans, it will be more difficult for the court to support it.

But after all, I haven’t really sat down to talk about it yet.

So the old man probably wanted to use this opportunity to let Chen Han negotiate with several princes.

Another thing is the news from my father-in-law, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, that Liaodong has received some information, and the Jurchen clan who have been dormant for a long time suddenly made some noise.

It seems that the intention is to take advantage of the gradually cold weather in Liaodong, which is more conducive to the Jurchen tribe's battle, so they are preparing to do something.

My father-in-law’s analysis is that this matter is definitely related to North Korea.

Because North Korea embarrassed the Ming Dynasty's expeditionary force last time over the issue of food exports, the prince directly stopped North Korea's several opportunities to pay tribute.

This makes North Korea's already poor resources even worse.

Therefore, North Korea intends to use the Jurchens to cause trouble, so that Ming Dynasty will know their role in Liaodong, thereby increasing their bargaining chips.

When Chen Han received such news, his admiration for his father-in-law reached a new level.

From this simple information, we can tell that North Korea is causing trouble.

It's really very clever.

And this matter was really as Zhu Biao expected.

To understand this clearly, we have to go back a few months.

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months ago.

Hanyang, the country of North Korea.

When the courtiers reported the trade status of Busan Port and Hepu Port to the Ming Dynasty Expeditionary Force, it caused an uproar in the Joseon court.

Only then did they understand why the Ming Dynasty suddenly started trading with them in such a big way.

It's not that they are interested in their little food.

But because it would be too expensive to transport food directly from the Ming Dynasty to fight against the Japanese slaves, they compromised on purchasing it from North Korea.

At the same time, in order to reduce costs, they even opened up cotton trade with North Korea.

This is a good thing. After all, North Korea also hopes that the court can do business with the people of the Ming Dynasty in exchange for more daily necessities.

The country's excess supplies can also be sold, and the people's lives may be better.

But soon they discovered a bad phenomenon.

That is, the cotton cloth from the Ming Dynasty was of good quality and cheap.

Compared with other people's cotton cloth, it is the garbage among the garbage.

Citizens purchased cotton cloth imported from the Ming Dynasty and abandoned their own cotton cloth.

The Ming Dynasty also increased the dumping of cotton cloth to North Korea, but the only thing in the country that could attract the attention of the Ming Dynasty was food.

It would be okay if we could produce so much food every year.

However, the grain output in North Korea is so small that it cannot withstand large-scale exports.

So Li Chenggui's courtiers came up with the bad idea of ​​raising grain export prices to offset the growing trade deficit.

It even reduces the amount of grain exports to a certain extent to increase its own weight.

But they were soon punished by the Ming Dynasty.

Due to the vicious increase in food prices, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of the Ming Dynasty directly stopped several tribute opportunities from North Korea.

Originally, North Korea could come to the Ming Dynasty to pay tribute more than six times a year.

It is said that it is a tribute, but actually it means bringing local products for tribute trade.

This is a business that North Korea attaches great importance to.

If it stops, the losses will be huge.

As a result, the atmosphere in the court became bad.

Li Chenggui got angry directly in the court: "Damn Zhu Yuanzhang! What do you want to do? Do you really think that our Li family in Korea is so easy to bully? Asshole!"

Liu Chengquan, the third-rank official in the Chao Chao Hall, hurriedly said: "Your Highness, be careful! Slandering your Majesty will bring disaster to the whole country if the sect master knows about it!"

Li Chenggui choked on these words and turned red.

But he didn't dare to get angry randomly.

Because he knows very well that although these people in the court are all North Korean officials, many of them think that they are Chinese, but my family is in North Korea.

If the king of North Korea is not loyal to His Majesty the Emperor, they will secretly report to His Majesty the Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang who is far away in Yingtian Mansion.

This atmosphere is very serious.

As for calling the King of North Korea his Majesty, which often appears in Korean costume dramas, it is all obscene.

If this were the case in the Ming Dynasty, North Korea's ministers would immediately stand up and beat the screenwriter to death upon hearing such a title.

People will definitely shout: We have always been subjects of the Ming Dynasty. How can we be an emperor if our country only has a king? We are Chinese!

Those who encouraged the king of Korea to proclaim himself emperor were always regarded as rebellious officials and traitors by the great scholars of Korea.

Minister Ling Liu Chengquan was a staunch Ming sect.

Li Chenggui didn't know what to say, so he had to disperse the court.

But there was a minister who was a flatterer. After the court was over, he secretly found Li Chenggui and offered him a strategy.

"Your Highness! Now the Jurchens of Liaodong have been spying on Liaodong. They are good at robbing families but they have no supplies. Why don't we support them. When Liaodong is on fire, the lord's court will definitely need us to send troops to quell the rebellion.

At that time, we will fight a good fight and go to the court to ask for merit and then put forward conditions. Is there any reason for the court to disagree? "

Li Chenggui was very moved after hearing this, but he asked again: "If the court does not ask us to send troops, but takes the initiative to attack, what will happen then?"

"Hey! Your Highness, do you think we are more capable in dealing with the Jurchen barbarians in Liaodong?

The army of the Ming Dynasty was brave, but not good at fighting in ice and snow. They could never fight in ice and snow. Isn't this our opportunity? "

Li Chenggui was delighted.

So a war prepared to establish merit under the instigation of Lee's Korea was quietly launched.

Chen Han had a bold idea after getting Prince Zhu Biao's letter.

This idea would not only give Li's North Korea a heads-up, but also allow the Ming Dynasty's military power to sweep across Liaodong...

(End of this chapter)