I'm really not the carpenter emperor

Six years ago, in the first year of Tianqi, Kong Yanzhi's cousin Kong Shangxian passed away without heirs, so the position of Lord Yansheng fell to Kong Yinzhi.

Canonized by Zhu Youxiao, the Emperor of Tianqi, Kong Yan was implanted in Jidazong and succeeded as Yan Shenggong.

In later generations, he also had a more famous name, that is, after he led the Confucian government to surrender to the Qing Dynasty, he changed his name to Kong Yanzhi in order to avoid the name taboo of Emperor Yongzheng of the Qing Dynasty.

A person walked in with a look of haste, and after passing the courtyard of the house on the third floor and the third floor outside, he came to the Yiyong Hall of the Confucian Mansion out of breath, and said straight to the point:

"Holy Duke, there is a disaster!"

Kong Yinzhi was at the top of his head, drinking cups to the moon with a group of today's great sages, reciting poems and composing Fu, when he heard this, he frowned and pulled his younger brother Kong Yinkui aside, saying:

"Today is my day of great joy, what disaster can there be?"

"Yan Shenggong still doesn't know?" Kong Yinkui sighed, "Your Majesty canonized the Wei family as four nobles, Wei Ximeng as Marquis of Zhongmao, Wei Zhide as Boss of Linhuai, Wei Xikong as Boss of Kunshan, and Yang Zuochang as Boss of Anqing!"

"Feng Quan, the eunuch, asked His Majesty to re-examine the imperial examination case in the second year of Tianqi. His Majesty was furious in the Qianqing Palace, and ordered that even this year's autumn will be suspended. A thorough investigation is required!"

Chapter 795 The Six Arts of a Gentleman

"Harmful!" Kong Yinzhi heaved a sigh of relief and said with a smile:

"I still think it's a big deal, so I'll check it out. No matter how big the trouble is, it's been six years, how dare they make trouble on the head of Confucius?"

Kong Yinkui said: "I'm not talking about Fanzi, this time it's the failed supervisors of Nanjing Guozijian. I was in the teahouse just now, and I heard many supervisors arguing with our students."

"Looking at this posture, many people have been bewitched by the eunuchs and have listened to their slander. There is also the Beijing News. This is the latest issue. Shenggong has a look."

Kong Yanzhi suddenly felt something was wrong, and when he took the Beijing News, the more he read it, the more he couldn't believe it.

"They... actually said that our Confucian government was related to the big imperial examination case? How could they say that?"

"My Confucian Mansion has always been aloof from the world. I just give lectures with peace of mind. It seems that the Beijing News is full of eunuchs. It can't be trusted, it can't be trusted!"

Kong Yinkui sighed: "The first two years when the Beijing News came out, it didn't cause any disturbances. It wasn't until the imperial examination case two years ago that many scholars began to believe it."

"Most of the Guozijian students in the northern and southern capitals were filled by the big case. Now the Beijing News is a must-read every time it is published, and it is true."

"I'm afraid that if things continue like this, the first believers will be not the common people, but the literati in the world!"

Seeing Kong Yinzhi's changing expression, Kong Yinkui became anxious:

"Sheng Gong, the rumors are still very small. Most of the scholars think that what the Beijing News said is purely false. You may want to meet the first batch of supervisors who came to the Confucian Mansion."

"Correct!"

"exactly!"

Kong Yinzhi has never encountered such a big thing, not to mention that he has only been in charge of Yan Shenggong for six years, and this big case is not a joke.

"You're right. I want to tell them what's good and what's wrong. Don't let them go astray and be deceived by the eunuchs. Our Confucian Mansion is a holy place for literati in the world, and we don't allow fans to defile it."

Kong Yinkui glanced at the famous Shandong troupe who were singing and dancing on the stage, and said:

"Fortunately, the East Factory has no reason to interfere with our Confucian Mansion. Before the supervisors make a big fuss, let's solve it tonight!"

Under the reliance of the current emperor, Dongchang's power is not what it used to be, and it is far more frightening than when Wang Jin and Wang Zhizhi were back then.

But the Confucian mansion has lasted for thousands of years. Even if it is Dongchang, even the Wei family after Zhu Youxiao's power has been increased, if they want to move the Confucian mansion, they have to weigh it.

But they didn't have any worries, after all, this was the emperor's intention, and the emperor hadn't killed the donkey so far.

The last time the Weisuo was restructured, all the civil and military officers and generals who promoted the new army station in Shanxi have now been promoted. The Wei family has nothing to be afraid of, and the job is over.

So Wei Zhongxian has been waiting, waiting for an opportunity.

……

In the middle of the night, a group of uninvited guests came outside the gate of the Confucian mansion. They were the supervisors of the Nanjing Imperial College who had a heated argument with the Confucian scholars in the teahouse not long ago.

On his 34th birthday, Kong Yanzhi had to do something that none of the previous Yan Shenggong had done, and faced the supervisor's attack.

All the people in the Confucian Mansion, as well as the great sages from all over the place who were staying in the Confucian Mansion, were all present, and more and more common people gathered to watch this unprecedented event.

Guozi Jiansheng belongs to a group of people who have received the favor of the court. Kong Yinzhi understands that what they say and do must be towards the court.

At present, the imperial court is re-examining the major imperial examination case in the second year of Tianqi, and the imperial examination has been suspended. The imperial decree clearly states that if the results are not found out, the imperial examination will not be resumed.

This kind of thing quickly caused fierce shouting and beating among scholars all over the world, but the supervisors understood their position.

Jiansheng is the abbreviation of Guozijian Jiansheng. Those who have obtained the qualification to study in Guozijian are Guozijian students, and they are generally directly called Jiansheng.

The reason why Jiansheng is looked down upon by Confucian and Gongsheng students is precisely because of its particularity. To put it bluntly, as long as there are people with money, it is enough.

The Guozijian in the north and the south are the highest institutions of learning in the Ming Dynasty, and can be regarded as Tsinghua University and Peking University run by the imperial court.

Among them, the Yinjian who was imprisoned by his father and ancestor, the Enjian who was admitted by the emperor's special permission, and the donated prison who was imprisoned for donating property.

As a student of the highest public institution, supervisors can directly participate in the rural examination, and the benefits are far beyond what ordinary scholars can compare.

Therefore, Donglin scholars have always looked down on supervisors.

After staying for a while, there was a burst of cheers from the crowd below, and someone shouted: "Look, Duke Yansheng is here!"

"Meet Yan Shenggong!"

"See Duke Yan Sheng!"

A group of great sages from the Confucian Mansion, who were more airy than Zhu Youxiao's southern tour, walked side by side with feather fans and scarves behind their hands, looking at the crowd with scrutiny and arrogance in their eyes.

Seeing the aura of the Confucian people, all the supervisors took a few steps back.

The leader, dressed in a green shirt and with a long sword hanging from his waist, is quite different from many Confucian scholars who are holding folding fans and wearing net scarves.

This man's name is Li Xin, and he was born in Qinglonggang, Qi County, Kaifeng Prefecture, Henan Province. His ancestors were officials and had considerable wealth in the local area.

Originally, Li Xin was not qualified to be a Jinshi, but a major imperial examination case in the fourth year of Tianqi canceled most of the Jinshi's background related to Donglin.

Later, the Ministry of Etiquette stipulated that the remaining places would be filled by the top three rankings, and Li Xin would be the third in the second ones.

Li Xin gave up his editorial position at the Imperial Academy of the Imperial Academy and chose to come to Nanjing Imperial Academy to teach and educate people and become a lecturer.

It is Li Xin who is leading all the prison students now.

"Yan Shenggong is so handsome!" Li Xin made a bow from a distance, as a courtesy, and then said: "Students have seen the scene of the emperor's southern tour, and also seen the dignified and dignified mansion of the ten princes in Beijing."

"But these are nothing compared to Yan Shenggong and the Confucian Mansion!"

Kong Yinzhi looked at the younger generation in front of him, and didn't even bother to answer. After being cold for a while, he snorted and said, "You are Li Xin?"

"It's just that I have met Shenggong." Li Xingui said politely, but there was no disrespect for Yan Shenggong in his words.

Kong Yinzhi looked him up and down, and said:

"I saw you with a long sword hanging from your waist and wearing a green shirt. It doesn't seem that you are here to learn, but it seems that you are here to wield a knife and gun and fight in battle."

Li Xin smiled indifferently, and said: "Yan Shenggong is the heir of the master, don't you know that the six arts of a gentleman also have the art of archery?"

"Shooting, did you tell you to learn those vulgar martial arts, dancing knives and guns?" Kong Yinzhi sneered, and taught in the tone of an elder:

"You student, you don't study with humility, but you have these unrealistic ideas. Did you learn from those eunuchs?"

"Listen to my advice, turn your head and be right, don't listen to what others say, and have your own judgment and opinion."

"The Shenggong has taught you well, but I believe that the six arts of a gentleman are not simply five arrows with a white arrow, but that we are required to strengthen our bodies and serve the court."

Li Xin stood where he was, calm and breezy.

"Does Shenggong know that Kong Sheng is seven feet nine inches tall, riding a horse, swords and guns, and he is good at everything? The students have to ask, can the Shenggong know how to ride a horse and feather arrows?"

When Kong Yinzhi was asked, he sweated profusely on his forehead, and said with a smile: "As Yan Shenggong, a gentleman with six skills, how can I not know, how can I not?"

Chapter 796 The Great Sage of Guanzhong

Li Xin can naturally hear that this is a strong statement.

When the words fell, a great sage of the Confucian Mansion took a step forward and said coldly, "Li Xin, you said you were a Jinshi in the year of Jiazi."

"The newly recruited Jinshi who filled the vacancies after the Donglin case should have real talents and learning. I want to see how much ink and ink you have in your chest, but you are so arrogant that you have come to my Confucian mansion!"

Li Xin smiled slightly, and naturally recognized that the person in front of him was Li Jing, who is known as the three great sages in Guanzhong today, so he bowed and said:

"My junior, Li Xin, Qinglonggang, Qi County, Kaifeng Prefecture, pay my respects to Mr. Erqu."

Li Jing, nicknamed Zhongfu, nicknamed Erqu Jushi, also known as Tushi Sick Man, was born in Erqubao, Erqu Town, his father Li Naicong, a member of the Donglin Party, and was once the county magistrate of Xiangcheng, Henan.

"I don't dare, it's just that I have studied hard since I was a child, and I have achieved a little bit!" Li Jing listened to the whispers of the people around him, and he felt a little arrogant in his heart.

Today's students almost all know the story of a child prodigy who studied diligently and frugally since he was a child, and that is Li Jing.

In the 25th year of Wanli, Li Jing's father Li Naicong died in Xiangcheng, which was almost related to the party struggle between the Zhejiang Party and Donglin during the Wanli Dynasty.

This matter is extremely strange and has become an unsolved case, but no one has investigated and re-examined it in detail.

After Li Naicong died, Li Jing and his widow Peng Shi were left behind. It is said that they were in an extremely difficult situation at that time, with no tiles or an inch of land, and their days were like years.

According to this, the widow Mrs. Peng decided to teach Li Jing to study, but she was unable to pay for it, and was repeatedly rejected by the school teacher.

Later, when Li Jing was nine years old, he had never entered a school, so he had the ability to remember with a photographic memory, and he could memorize it by reciting just a few words when he was reading.

After entering the Confucian Mansion, although Li Jing did not set foot in the imperial examination, he became famous for his photographic memory and his ability to compose poems when he was young, and soon became a well-known child prodigy.

Li Jing believed that Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism was the Zhengshuo of Confucianism, so in the 35th year of Wanli, he burned other literary classics in public and specialized in Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism. For several years, he read a lot of books and handed down countless works.

Up to now, he is now the representative figure of Confucian Cheng Zhu Neo-Confucianism in Guanzhong. Whenever he goes to give lectures, the local gentry Confucianists will rush to listen to the lectures, and they are often surrounded by water.

Of course, these are just stories told by the Confucian Mansion. In Zhu Youxiao's words, this is the character design of Li Jing, a great sage of the Confucian Mansion.

Right now, the group of people standing in front of the Confucian mansion with arrogant faces, what are the three great sages in Guanzhong, what are the five gentlemen of Qilu, and the ten great Confucians of the Confucian family, etc...

These great sages and scholars with various names and nicknames sounded extremely awesome outside, but in Qufu they caught a lot of them, and they were everywhere.

And going back 20 years, these great sages were once child prodigies when they were young, and Li Jing's ability to remember, recite poems and compose poems like Li Jing is just a basic operation.

Each of them is a representative of a Confucian school, with countless works handed down under their names, and there are their students and old friends everywhere in the world.

These evidences, in the eyes of the Dongchang factory workers, are more than shocking.

After thousands of years of continuation, the Confucian Mansion has actually formed an intertwined force. People like Li Jing are backed by people from various levels of official circles, scholars, and gentry.

Every great sage in front of me is like this.

"Mr. Erqu is too modest. How dare the younger generation dare to compete with Mr. Poetry and Song Fu? Isn't it just a classmate and an axe, lifting a stone to shoot yourself in the foot?"

In Li Xin's eyes, for a Confucian figure like Li Jing to embarrass him, it is tantamount to the Confucian government directly using a tactic to overwhelm him.

He naturally felt that he couldn't beat this one of the three great sages in Guanzhong with countless classics handed down from generation to generation, so he had to back down.

When the supervisor saw who it was, they all started talking about it, and many people had the intention of retreating. Many people have read Li Jing's "Important Affairs of Correction". Known as a contemporary classic.

Such a great sage, in any aspect, is better than students like them, right?

Moreover, a representative of a school like Li Jing often represents not only himself, but also the scholars in the world who study Cheng Zhu Neo Confucianism apart from Confucianism.

Each of Li Jing's old friends is a famous sage and scholar in the same place, and they also have their own disciples and old friends. In this way, the crowd can overwhelm him.

Thinking of this, many people feel timid.

Li Jing was not surprised when he saw that the inmates retreated, and soon began to admonish him with a flat face:

"The day before yesterday, it was reported that the imperial court suspended the imperial examinations, and the Wei family had four knights. This is the stupid move of today's emperor!"

"Your generation of supervisors originally entered the Imperial College because of the resources of each family. They have backgrounds that are difficult for poor scholars in the world. They are not humble enough to study and persuade the emperor to rectify the government. Instead, they come here to ask the teacher for punishment. But do you know your mistake?"

The supervisors stood aside, like students being reprimanded by the teacher, each of them had no fighting spirit, closed their eyes in shame, and wished they could find a crack in the ground and sneak in.

One by one, they were shivering, sweat dripping down their foreheads and necks, and some of them were flushed with shame.

When the rest of the Confucian scholars saw him, they all pointed and laughed.

Yan Shenggong Kong Yin Zhikong has the name of Kong Sheng's heir, but has no literary talent. Seeing that Li Jing, who is known as the three great sages in Guanzhong, came out to kill the inmates, he relieved the Kong family, and he secretly let out a sigh of relief.

"These supervisors are used to being favored by the imperial court, and they don't have the mood of the underprivileged people studying hard. It's good for Mr. Erqu to teach them a lesson so that they won't go astray in the future."

Hearing this, Li Jing immediately turned around and saluted Kong Yinzhi with respect.

"The Holy Duke is right, it should be so."

Li Xin silently looked at the relaxed expressions of these great sages, and planned to back down, but secretly clenched his fists.

How can one's own students be taught by others?

Even if he is a representative of Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism, that won't work, because I, Li Xin, don't believe in Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism.

So, he chuckled, and suddenly said, "Li Xin deeply admires what Mr. Erqu said, but he doesn't agree with it."