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When Hao Weizhi returned to the city and brought Qu Xiaofeng's words, Kong Xingde almost thought he had heard wrong.

"What? This general of the Yi Army actually refuses to agree to my request? He also asked me to surrender the city within a quarter of an hour?!"

"Indeed."

"Didn't you tell the general of the Wei army that after the Kong family, I am a saint, and Qufu is a holy place for scholars in the world?"

"I told you." Hao Weizhi said with a wry smile, "The commander-in-chief of the Wei Army was originally hesitant to agree to Dong Weng's conditions, but then he received a secret letter and his attitude immediately changed.

Dong Weng, I think this Yi army is really elite and cannot be stopped by Qufu. How about we just surrender? "

Kong Xingde was confused and unwilling.

Previously, Kong Yinzhi surrendered. Not only could the Kong family continue to inherit the throne of Yan Shenggong and control the post of Qufu County Magistrate, Kong Yinzhi himself was even named Prime Minister.

Now that he thought about the great power of the Wei army and the eight hundred elite Shun troops occupying the Confucius mansion in the city, he felt like he was stuck in his throat, so he did not want to take advantage of the opportunity to seek more wealth, but only wanted to retain the previous power and position of the Confucius family.

He thinks this condition is very low.

I never expected that Wei Jun would not accept it.

Judging from this situation, if the Wei army captures Qufu, we still don’t know what is waiting for the Kong family.

Therefore, when the Wei army approached the city, Kong Xingde, as the temporary supreme leader of the Kong family at this time, did not kneel down to greet them immediately, but hesitated whether to offer the city.

"Dong Weng, the quarter of an hour is almost here, come up with an idea quickly." It seemed that it didn't take long for Hao Weizhi to remind him.

Kong Xingde glanced at the Wei army's formation and said, "The Wei army should have only arrived at 10,000, right? Our Kong family has three thousand servants. In addition, there are more than 3,000 rural soldiers. We can also temporarily recruit strong people from the city. It may not be possible." Can't stop..."

Kong Xingde stopped before he finished speaking.

Because the Tai army moved outside the city, the most eye-catching thing was the artillery carts that were pulled to the front of the formation one after another - there were fifty or sixty of them.

Kong Xingde squinted his eyes and asked in surprise: "Are those all Hongyi cannons?"

Hao Weizhi also squinted his eyes and asked, "It seems so?"

Kong Xingde was used to being domineering in a small place like Qufu, and he didn't pay much attention to external information. He didn't even know that the Yi army had numerous and sophisticated guns and equipment. At this time, he asked with great confusion: "How could the Yi army do this?" Are there so many Hongyi cannons?"

No one answered him.

boom!

The sound of a cannon made Kong Xingde tremble and almost fall to the ground.

He simply lay on the ground, stuck out his butt and shouted, "Come and protect me!"

No matter whether it was Hao Weizhi, the guest of the curtain, or the surrounding servants of the Kong family and soldiers from Qufu, they all wanted to laugh when they saw this.

Because the Yi army only fired one artillery shell, it was a mud shell, and it shattered when it hit the city wall. It was obviously a test fire, and I never thought that Kong Xingde would be frightened into such a coward.

When Kong Xingde saw no movement from left to right, he realized what he was doing and hurriedly got up, his face full of embarrassment.

When he saw that the Yi army was still loading artillery shells, Kong Xingde was completely intimidated and said anxiously: "Go and tell the general of the Yi army that I am willing to surrender the city. Don't fire any more cannons."

After saying that, he took some of his close servants and ran away, obviously not daring to stay on the city wall anymore.

Upon seeing this, Hao Weizhi quickly asked someone to put up the prepared big flag with the character "崋", and then asked someone to open the city gate.

Qu Xiaofeng saw this scene with Damei's homemade telescope and ordered the artillery to hold off on firing. After some communication, Qu Xiaofeng learned about the situation in the city, so he sent troops into the city and took over Qufu's city defense.

After learning that 800 elite Shun troops had occupied the Confucius Mansion, Qu Xiaofeng and Ning Wen immediately paid attention.

The two came to watch in front of Kong's mansion. It was found that although Confucius Mansion is the inner city of Qufu, the city wall is not very tall, only 1.8 feet, and the wall thickness is only three feet, which is far less than the Qufu City Wall.

After reading it, Qu Xiaofeng said: "Our army does not need to use cannons to break through the Confucius Mansion. A dozen grenades or a pack of yellow explosives are enough."

Ning Wen said: "Don't forget the instructions above - let's try to recruit them first."

Qu Xiaofeng nodded, and then arranged for someone to shout a message to recruit and surrender the eight hundred elite soldiers occupying the Confucius Mansion.

The leader of the Eight Hundred Shun Army was the adopted son of Gao Yi Gong, named Gao Jin. He was in his twenties, but he was a figure who first emerged from the camp of the Chuang Army like Zhang Nai. However, he was not as outstanding as Zhang Nai and died young. Therefore, his reputation could not be passed down to future generations.

Although he was the adopted son of Gaoyi Gong, after he learned that Gao Yigong had abandoned Ziyang and the others had withdrawn, he no longer had the idea of ​​stubborn resistance. He immediately led 800 elite soldiers to surrender to Lei, and also offered sacrifices from Kong. The government confiscated and looted a lot of money and food.

Qu Xiaofeng and Ning Wengang learned that Gao Jin was going to donate money and food from the Confucius Mansion, but they didn't care much.

In the past two years, they had fought in the north and south, confiscated the property of many evil gentry and bullies, and even participated in confiscating the properties of the feudal princes. They considered themselves to be quite knowledgeable in the field of money and food.

In their minds, the Kong Mansion was at most on the same level as the Dukes of the Ming Dynasty. It was estimated that they only had a million taels of silver and tens of thousands of dan of grain.

As a result, when the two men and their guards followed Gao Jin into the yard where the money and grain were stored, they checked and quickly opened their mouths in shock.

After coming back to his senses, Ning Wen, who had a lot of experience in counting money and food, immediately estimated: "Isn't there nearly one hundred thousand taels of gold and one to two million taels of silver here?"

As for the food, there were probably more than 30,000 dan, which was not much beyond Ning Wen's expectations.

Gao Jin said: "According to our calculation, there are 98,000 taels of gold and 1,730,000 taels of silver.

And this is only the gold and silver we confiscated from the Confucius Mansion after interrogating Kong Xingxie and others - they also have a lot of gold and silver hidden in Qufu City and in Zhuangzi outside the city.

In addition, although the bones of Kong Xingxie and others are very soft and they can attack as soon as they use the stick, they may not have hidden some secrets in the gold and silver cellars. "

As he spoke, Gao Jin took out a book and handed it over, "This is the account of the Kong family's gold and silver and other money that we obtained during the previous torture. We gave it to the two generals."

Ning Wen took the book and looked at it. Although his memory of the accounts above was a bit messy, he was experienced and read it quickly.

As Gao Jin said, the amount of gold and silver revealed by Kong Xingxie and others during torture alone was as high as more than three million taels!

As for the grain harvesting, although there are only more than 30,000 shi in the Confucius Mansion, there are nearly 100,000 shi in Qufu City!

Therefore, after reading Ning Wen, he couldn't help but sigh: "The Kong family in Qufu is richer than the average Ming vassal king!"

Gao Jin said: "The Kong family has been canonized by the imperial court for generations since the Tang Dynasty, with Qufu as its fiefdom. It has been passed down for more than 800 years. It is normal for the wealth accumulated to exceed that of the Ming dynasty."

Ning Wen looked over slightly surprised and asked, "Have you read the book?"

"I went to private school for a few years."

While the two were talking, Qu Xiaofeng looked around at the other party's gold, silver, treasures, food, etc. in the houses in the courtyard, and sighed: "I finally understand why the higher-ups specially sent an order not to give preferential treatment to the Qufu Kong family. Everything should be done according to the rules.

Even if the Kong family has been entrusted for generations and has been passed down for eight hundred years, it is possible for them to accumulate such wealth, and they must have robbed and oppressed the common people of Qufu. "

Gao Jin had learned a lot about the Kong family through torture these days. Hearing this, he couldn't help but sneered and said: "The Kong family has oppressed not only the common people, but also the Kong clan members.

Moreover, in Qufu, the head of the lineage of the Kong family, Duke Yansheng, and the magistrate of Qufu are heaven, and not even the king's laws can control this place.

The two generals can think about how the direct descendants of the Kong family and those in power act unscrupulously in daily life!

I heard that whenever the Tai army went to a place, they would arrest the evil gentry and bullies in the city, conduct public trials, confiscate their money, and provide relief to the poor people.

The Kong family is not only the largest wealthy family in Qufu, but also the number one evil gentry and bully in Qufu and even Yanzhou. If the Tai army had acted according to the rules, the first people to be put on trial in Qufu would be those in power from the Kong family, right? "(End of chapter)