Dominate the Country

In November, just as Chen Ming was marching south to attack Suzhou and Hangzhou, a decree from Beijing caused renewed turmoil in Shandong, which had been unable to calm down since the war in northern Jiangsu ended and Shandong's military training returned to his hometown.

Emperor Qianlong seized the love of Ding You, the former Henan Xu Guanhe Bingdao Wang Qixu, and was appointed Minister of Shandong Tuanlian.

The whole Shandong Province knows that the Kong family in Qufu is eyeing the position of the league training minister. But first Liu Yong gave him a blow, and now Wang Qixu has taken advantage of him. Is the Qufu Kong family about to explode?

But you don't care whether Wang Qixu can suppress the secret hand extended by the Kong family. You just talk about qualifications. Wang Qixu definitely has it. Even talking about the imperial examination family status, the Fushan Wang family (now Fushan District, Yantai City, Shandong Province) was a famous family in the Ming and Qing dynasties of Shandong Province, and a well-dressed family. His descendants were all educated and well-educated, and they became official officials through the Ming Dynasty. They followed each other in Guanzhou and counties. By the time of the Qing Dynasty, the Wang family was flourishing in culture and was ranked first in the imperial examination.

Wang Qixu's father Wang Jian, Wang Fu's fourth son, and six brothers of the same generation were all officials in the court, either in literature or military affairs, and they were all prominent. In the eleventh year of Emperor Yongzheng's reign in the Qing Dynasty, Wang Jian was promoted to Jinshi. He was promoted to a common scholar in the Hanlin Academy, and was awarded the Imperial Academy editorship. He became the prefect of Hejian Prefecture in Zhili, moved to Liangzhuang Road in Gansu, and was promoted to the chief envoy of Anhui. He was successively transferred to the chief envoy of Zhili, Shanxi, Guangxi and Gansu, and finally became the governor of Hubei, the governor of Huguang, and later the governor of Guangdong. He died of illness the year before last, and many of Wang Qixu's brothers returned home to Dingyou.

Wang Jian himself was a member of the Hanlin Academy, which was very important among scholars. What is even more valuable is that two of his sons were also members of the Hanlin Academy. Emperor Qianlong once praised him and said: "Father and son are members of the Hanlin Academy. They have many officials in one discipline, and they are all capable of doing things. They can be called ministers of the world."

Wang Qixu is the eldest son of Wang Jian. He was a Jinshi in the 16th year of Qianlong's reign. He was promoted to a common scholar in the Hanlin Academy and was appointed editor. He once served as a deputy examiner for Guizhou Provincial Examination. When Ding You was an official, he went to Xu Guanhe, Henan to prepare for the army. Wang Yanxu, Wang Yanxu, was the second son of Wang Jian. In the 25th year of Emperor Qianlong's reign in the Qing Dynasty, he was a Jinshi. He was promoted to a common scholar in the Hanlin Academy. He was appointed as an editor. He served as deputy examiner of the Shaanxi Provincial Examination. When Ding You was an official, he went to the Hanlin Academy to serve as a lecturer.

The Wang family also has Wang Xianxu, Wang Jian's nephew, a Jinshi in the first year of Qianlong's reign in the Qing Dynasty, the head of the Literary Selection Department of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and the current chief envoy of Anhui. There are also Wang Yanxu, Wang Guangxu, Wang Lingxu and many others who are serving as officials.

The Wang family is the real imperial examination family in Shandong. Simply based on their reputation among scholars, even the Liu Yong family in Zhucheng, if not for the fact that his father Liu Tongxun was too high-ranking and had such a good reputation, how could the Liu family be able to suppress the Wang family and become the leader of Shandong? Representative of Shilin?

Now that Liu Yong is dead, Liu Tongxun still stays in Beijing to work for the Qing Dynasty. The Liu family will have no successors in the short term, so Qianlong pushed out the Wang family to compete with the Kong family.

This is another family with great weight and reputation.

Although the Kong family is revered by scholars all over the world for being the descendants of saints and Duke Yan, the people all over the world respect their ancestors, not themselves. Otherwise, how could Liu Yong have suppressed the power of the Kong family in the matter of training bravery in a short period of time. What Liu Yong could do two or three months ago, Wang Qixu cannot do now.

Besides, during these days, the Fuhan Army's crooked moves against Master Kong were one after another. First there was that picture, which made Kong So-hwan vomit blood when he mentioned it. When he and Liu Yong competed for the position of team training minister, this picture was Liu Yong's divine assist, knocking Kong So-hwan to the ground with one blow. At that time, regardless of whether he was really vomiting blood or really hurting his body, he had to be 'extremely sad and destroy his body'!

As a result, a month or two later, the influence of the incident not only failed to subside, but became more and more powerful. It had spread from Shandong Province to the entire Zhili Province, and continued to expand westward and southward. It is foreseeable that this incident will bring heavier blows to the Kong family in the days to come.

Whenever Kong Zhaohuan thinks about this, his heart feels like a knife piercing his heart and he can't sleep at night. Moreover, an article recently appeared in Shandong, closely following the Huayi distinction, praising the old master, but ridiculing and criticizing the descendants of the Confucian family. Kong Zhaohuan could not forget those sharp words after seeing them once, and every time he thought about them, he would get furious.

Now Emperor Qianlong of Beijing has introduced the Wang family to compete with him, and Kong Zhaohuan feels very exhausted mentally and physically.

Although he is only twenty-six or seventeen years old, Kong Zhaohuan's current appearance looks like that of his thirties. He has been exposed to too many hardships in the past few months. He was really sick and fell into bed.

"Master, take your medicine..." A dignified and graceful young woman quietly walked into the inner room carrying a large red lacquered peony-patterned tray. There was an exquisite white jade bowl on the tray, and four small bowls filled with desserts. dish.

"Master, Uncle Six just asked someone to come over and deliver a message, saying that his body and bones are much better..."

Kong Zhaohuan drank the soup in the white jade bowl in one gulp, then quickly picked a piece of honey money from the plate and put it into his mouth. He leaned on the pillow, and his face was distorted by the bitterness of the soup. After hearing the young woman's words, a look appeared on his face. He snorted, "It's only been a few days and he can't lie still?"

"You ask someone to tell him not to get up again until the New Year."

As the elder of the recent branch, the sixth uncle really worked hard when he cried in the temple. He soaked his bare sleeves in pepper water three times and vomited two mouthfuls of deer blood. After that, his eyes were swollen for five days. Can't open it. But that's why he needs to stay in bed longer.

Kong Zhaohuan was lying on the bed, looking at the tent flowers above his head, with thousands of thoughts running through his mind.

Shandong League Training Minister! Shandong League Training Minister!

He wanted this position very much. It was not that Kong Zhaohuan was short-sighted and had to sit in that position, but that position would have military power and he could hold the knife in his hand openly. Only in this way could he have the confidence to preserve the Kong family in the coming chaotic times.

No matter what the nobles in Beijing think, in Kong Zhaohuan's view, the world is going to be in chaos.

The Hunyuan Sect's righteous army in western Shandong is not a great success. At best, they are Zhang Huangyan in the early Qing Dynasty, and the Fu Han Army is Zheng Chenggong before the defeat of Nanjing. And Chen Ming is more successful than Zheng Chenggong!

If the Fu Han Army really took over the world one day, Kong Zhaohuan would not mind changing the emperor above his head. Fu Han Army, Fu Han Army, and restoring the Han Dynasty, Kong Zhaohuan would also be happy to see it. But the problem is that the Fu Han Army has no heart to respect Confucius and Confucianism.

As for the old master's photo-editing incident, anyone with a discerning eye would think that the idea came from the Fu Han Army, not the Hunyuan Sect. Because it does not benefit the latter at all. Hunyuan Sect is a gun in the hands of Chen's father and son. Can Liu Song, Yang Ji and others, with their limited knowledge and foresight, calculate the old master's head? Moreover, after Hunyuan Sect did this, what benefits did it have besides making the world's scholars more angry and making its own situation worse? Those benefits must be seen from the perspective of the world and the long term, and they all belong to the Fu Han Army. Hunyuan Sect's thin arms and legs can't even reach it.

The Fu Han Army has gained momentum after winning the battle in northern Jiangsu. To be honest, Kong Zhaohuan believes that they have a three or four percent chance of taking over the world. And Kong Zhaohuan firmly believes that the world is going to be in chaos.

Shandong is close to Henan and northern Jiangsu. How can you do without holding the knife handle in the chaotic world? Even if the people who have sat on the Central Plains in the past dynasties have respected the Kong family, isn't this Fu Han Army an exception? The Chen family father and son can now use such dirty means to slander the old master. When they sweep the world, who knows whether this father and son will drive the defeated soldiers to plunder the Kong Mansion, or even destroy the entire Kong Mansion, or openly deprive the Kong family of their titles, and use their theory to label the Kong family members as traitors, and eradicate the entire Kong family.

Kong Zhaohuan was afraid.

So he wanted to seize the military power even more. With the military power and the influence of the Kong family, he had the capital to bet. When the Qing Dynasty was doomed, he could take the Shandong Lianyong to join the Fu Han Army. In this way, even if he could not preserve the title of the family inheritance, he could save the lives of thousands of people in the Kong family.

From Kong Zhaohuan's point of view, he was very hardworking and really tried his best for the Kong family. But things can never be viewed from a simple one-sided perspective. In Qianlong's eyes, this matter was completely different from Kong Zhaohuan's.

In Qianlong's view, the Kong family, which had been entrenched in Shandong for more than 2,000 years, was an absolute local tyrant, and its influence among Shandong scholars was even greater. Although there were many clansmen, and there were many poor people in the remote branches, the direct descendants of the Kong family were definitely not short of money and food, and the entire Qufu belonged to the Kong family. If they were given military power, then the Shandong Kong family's Yanshenggong, which was highly praised by the Qing Dynasty, would become a real vassal.

Qianlong certainly did not allow it.

Any behavior that harmed the interests of the Qing Dynasty was what he wanted to curb. As long as he had a little room for the vassal, he would not let it go, just like the lijin policy. Qianlong, who had been forced to sleep well by silver these days, always gritted his teeth and was determined not to allow it to be implemented. With the Qing Dynasty still in power, Kong Zhaohuan's plan would never succeed.

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Fujian, Penghu Islands.

In the lobby of the Penghu Naval Association, Wu Bidada, who had just heard the report from the spy, frowned. The wrinkles on his plump and weathered face became more obvious, his dark cheeks were sunken, and his skin was dry, like a dead tree.

It has been a while since Wu Bidada returned to Fujian. His hair was only gray before, but now it is completely white. But he still can't wipe out the foreign bandits on the sea.

Just like the Guangdong Navy led by Gan Guobao couldn't completely annihilate the Zheng family fleet, the Guangdong Navy always stayed in Nan'ao and Yunxiao Sea, and Wu Bidada couldn't deal with Zhang Qiu's team. Helplessly, he led the fleet into Penghu, one to compress Zhang Qiu's activity space, and the other to cut off the connection between the Taiwan Strait.

The Qing Dynasty now only has one city left on Taiwan Island, but there are still many people willing to inform the Qing Dynasty. The spy who was waved away by the central army reported that it was from Taiwan Island.

The foreign bandits and the Tiandihui rebels belonging to Zhang Qiu are digging sulfur with all their might... Why are they digging sulfur at this time instead of taking down the Taiwan Prefecture? "Tell me, what is the purpose of Zhang Qiu and the rebels in Taiwan digging sulfur at this time?" How could Wu Bi Da, who only had his eyes on the small piece of land in the Taiwan Strait, know that the Fu Han Army had already moved south and launched a fierce attack on Suzhou and Hangzhou. He didn't realize anything at all.