I'm really not the carpenter emperor

It's just this press that made Wei Ximeng angry.

He turned his head and glared at the elder brother, and said coldly: "The Dongchang handles the case, the imperial power confers a license, take your hand away, or don't blame the uncle for me to chop it off for you!"

"You...!" Eldest brother felt stuck in his throat, unable to say anything more.

He let go of his hand almost subconsciously, because he clearly saw Wei Ximeng's eyes, and he was quite sure that this guy might really do something.

In this kind of year, as long as Emperor Tianqi survived, or Wei Zhongxian lost his favor, Dongchang would stand still, his hand was his own, and there was no reason to be cut off.

"That's right, why do you want this face? Don't be like Yang Lian, Zhao Nanxing and other upright officials, you will suffer for your face!"

A Dongchang stall head sneered as he passed the Confucian scholars, and followed Wei Ximeng into the second gate, ignoring the yelling of the Confucian scholars behind him.

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The upper room in front of the Confucian mansion, which already belongs to the inner house, is the real family of the Confucian mansion, that is, the place where the Confucian family with the closest blood can live.

The front upper room, similar to the Huangji Hall, mainly supports a facade, a dignified wooden frame building with seven purlins and four pillars, front and rear corridors, a front corridor, gray tiles hanging on the top of the mountain, and extremely luxurious interior and exterior decorations.

This is the inner living room of the Confucian Mansion for discussing affairs and receiving close relatives and close family members. It is also the main place for family banquets and wedding and funeral ceremonies.

"What's the matter! There's been a lot of noise outside, it's been going on for a long time, is it over yet?" An old lady in a dark yellow silk robe with gray hair was sitting on the main seat, muttering.

"Did Yan Shenggong come back? The supervisor who made trouble is too presumptuous! So many great sages have gone, can't they stop it?"

"Back to the old grandmother, this group of supervisors came here under the instigation of Wei Yan. Now that Quan Yi is in power and the government is dim, Dongchang has always wanted to make trouble for our Confucian Mansion. I'm afraid it will not be so easy to deal with."

Hearing the old lady's question, Kong Yinkui, the second younger brother of Kong Yinzhi, had no choice but to reply. He lived in Nanhua Hall in the Confucius Mansion, and was the closest branch of the Twelve Mansions.

The Kong family's family law is very strict. To put it bluntly, they are a bunch of sour and rotten Confucianism. Yu Guo has no great integrity, but he cares about the useless family law very much.

In the Ming Dynasty, the shadow of the Kong family was very generous.

After the death of Duke Yansheng, his heirs, except for the one who succeeded Duke Yansheng, all had their own titles. The second son was a hereditary doctor of the Five Classics of the Imperial Academy, and the third son was a hereditary doctor of Taichang Temple.

At most, No. 13 sons were secretly sealed, each with different hereditary positions and special mansions, but unlike ordinary hereditary lords, the Kong family members did not have hereditary salary and land.

Even though they don't have salary and land, it doesn't mean they have nothing to do. The Kong family has so many ways to obtain land that even King Fu can't match.

When Kong Yinkui said these words, he wanted the old lady to retreat and stop asking, but she shrugged when she didn't think about it, and hummed:

"In the Jiajing Dynasty, even before the fall of Yan Song, he would come to my Confucian mansion to ask his grandfather to intercede for him. At that time, Yan Song was sitting on this stool, so it was also called Ge Laostool."

"What is Wei Zhongxian? It's just an old eunuch who suddenly appeared in the palace in recent years. He has been around for more than two hundred years, but there is a fan who dares to step into the gate of my Confucian mansion?"

"Even if Wei Zhongxian came by himself, I am not afraid of him!"

"Send the word to Lord Yan Sheng, it's fine if the prison students can't explain it. If the descendants of the saint talk more with these eunuchs, wouldn't it be worthless."

The Kong family's family law is extremely strict, and Kong Yinkui knew this very well, so he didn't dare to say a word, but nodded repeatedly and said:

"What the old grandmother said is that I will send someone to call the third uncle who lives outside the house and ask him to remind Shenggong."

"Well, that's good." Grandmother Liu of the Confucian Mansion nodded her head, and suddenly heard a commotion outside the usually quiet inner house, paused for a while on the crutch in her hand, and cursed:

"Who dares to make noise in the inner house? Drive me out of the mansion, no, drive out of Qufu, and never let him set foot in Qufu again!"

Chapter 8 and One: The East Factory Really Can’t Let It In

"Xinfeng Zhongmaohou, I have met the great grandmother of the Kong family!" Wei Ximeng ordered the white-clothed fans to stop outside the front room, walked in by himself, and bowed and said with a smile.

While speaking, his eyes quickly swept across the entire room, and he suddenly felt extraordinary after just one glance.

After all, the Confucian Mansion is the Confucian Mansion, with such regulations, it is regarded as the most luxurious place he has ever seen besides the Forbidden City. Compared with the main hall of the general prince's mansion, it is much inferior.

On the north wall is a famous post with the word "Shengfu" in Gaoshu. According to legend, it was inscribed by Yan Song, the chief assistant of the cabinet in the Jiajing Dynasty. There are two thrones in the east and west directions under the north wall. Grandmother Liu's seat.

Surrounded by decoration, it is even more luxurious.

Floor-standing lampshades carved with red sandalwood patterns, jade pearls, and famous kiln porcelain furnishings are the most common and are everywhere. Every single item here is worth a lot of money, and ordinary people have never even seen it.

It is understandable to say that the imperial palace has such furnishings, the prince's mansion and the county prince's mansion are also reasonable, but I have never seen any family with a different surname other than the royal family that is so luxurious.

The Confucian Mansion did it, and it has remained the same throughout the dynasties.

Liu looked at the people who came, and then at the white-clothed fans lined up outside, opened her mouth in surprise, and was about to stand up trembling.

With Kong Yinkui's support, she just stood up tremblingly and said:

"You, how dare you step into the gate of our Kong family? You even entered the inner house. Do you know that there has been no outsider coming uninvited to the inner house of our Kong family for many years?"

Facing the most senior member of the Confucian family, Wei Ximeng looked respectful. He cupped his hands in the direction of the capital and said with a smile:

"Of course I know this, but the emperor's orders must not be disobeyed. The stone lion in front of your Confucian mansion burst open for no reason. As a result, two supervisors of Jinling Guozijian died."

"Grandmother doesn't know about this, does she?"

Although Wei Ximeng said this politely, the meaning revealed in the words was not polite at all, it was all threats.

Mrs. Liu has been in the house all the time, and she really didn't know what happened outside the house not long ago, she was taken aback for a moment, and then snorted coldly:

"You guys have long wanted to use an excuse to come to our Kong family to investigate the case, right?"

As she spoke, seeing that Wei Ximeng didn't reply, she sat down again with Kong Yinkui's support, her voice softened a bit, and she could still hear the contempt for Fanzi in her words:

"Those two stone lions have been squatting outside that door for hundreds of years when Lao Shen was young, and when Lao Shen's grandfather was young, how could they suddenly explode for no reason?"

"It happened so coincidentally that it exploded when the supervisor came?"

There was no surprise on her face, just a look of complete knowing: "I think it's probably the trick of your Dongchang envoy again?"

"If you want to check it, you can check it! If you can't find anything, then don't blame our Kong family for participating in your East Factory at the court meeting!"

Since Wei Ximeng dared to come, he was naturally not afraid of the impeachment of the civil servants, he had the emperor's backing support, and he was not afraid of the participation of the Confucian government. Hearing this, his expression remained normal, and he said with a smile:

"Grandmother doesn't have to be so hostile. Our Dongchang is just following orders, so we have no choice but to bother."

"After all, the Qufu county government dare not intervene in the matter of your Confucian government, and the inspection department does not dare to take care of it. If it is passed to the chief secretary, it may be suppressed, so we have to let Dongchang take care of it."

"Grandmother, you said, is this the truth?"

Mrs. Liu sneered, "I've lived most of my life, and I haven't seen any big storms. Wei, you are just a little baby of your Wei family."

"Even if that bastard Wei Zhongxian came in person, he didn't dare to act presumptuously in front of the old man!"

Wei Ximeng smiled and said nothing, looked around again, and said: "In this case, the villain has offended you, brothers, search for me!"

As soon as the words fell, the fans were about to break into the upper room and search.

Kong Yinkui did not show up, and Liu Shi was not in a hurry, but some juniors of the Kong family pointed around and clashed with the fan who came in to search, pushing and shoving each other.

Upon seeing this, Mrs. Liu shouted:

"Have you all forgotten the family law!"

The juniors of the Kong family were very arrogant just now, they immediately retreated after hearing the words, and bowed in panic: "Grandmother, forgive me, I dare not violate the family law."

Wei Ximeng smiled and said, "I've heard that the family law of the Kong family in Qufu is strict, the most stringent in the world, and now I see that it is so. I wonder if I can see your family law of the Kong family?"

Naturally, Mrs. Liu could hear the suspicion of belittling the Northern Sect and exalting the Southern Sect in his words, but she didn't dwell too much on this sharp issue, and just replied coldly:

"What's the problem? Why don't you worry about investigating the case with your innocence, please ask the family law!"

As the words fell, Kong Yinkui invited the family law up with his hands as if holding an imperial decree, and carefully handed it over to Wei Ximeng.

Wei Ximeng took the book, lowered his head to look at it and said, ""Kong's Family Rituals" has been admired for a long time, and now I can see it again. This trip is really worthwhile!"

After saying that, he flipped through the pages in front of everyone in the Kong family.

During this period of time, the fanzi also turned back one after another, and the first group whispered:

"Master Hou, brothers have searched all over, but have not found anything suspicious in the upper house, do you want to go to other places in the inner house to look again?"

"No need, so as not to startle the snake." Wei Ximeng finished in a low voice, turned to the next page of Kong's family rituals, his face darkened, and asked:

"Dare to ask Grandmother, is there really no violation in the legal records of your Kong family?"

Liu was taken aback, and said: "This is the genealogy of our Kong family since ancient times. It has always been like this in all dynasties. Is there any violation?"

Wei Ximeng closed the family tree and said with a smile:

"Grandmother's words are true, but Grandmother forgot one thing. Right now is the Great Tomorrow Qi Dynasty, not the previous dynasties! Every dynasty has its own rules!"

"Your book "Kong's Family Rituals", I just flipped through a few pages, and found that there are many similarities with my "Da Ming Hui Dian"."

"Is it our Great Ming Huidian that copied your Kong's family tree, or did you secretly change your Kong's family tree and copied the Ming Dynasty's Huidian?"

"You stray dog, how dare you spout blood and talk nonsense in Kong's inner house!" After a moment of silence, Liu suddenly broke out, pointed at him with his crutches, and reprimanded:

"Come on, blast him out!"

"It's only now, it's too late!" Wei Ximeng said with a sneer, putting one hand on the handle of the knife, like all the people behind him, he shouted:

"Where did Great Grandma's innocent appearance go?"

"Since your Confucius family said that there is no problem with the book "Kong's Family Rituals", why don't we let Dongchang take it back and compare it with "Da Ming Hui Dian" in detail."

"If there is really no problem, I, Wei Ximeng, will come to the Confucian Mansion to plead guilty!" At this point, he couldn't pretend any longer, and with a sinister smile on his face, he said:

"If there are many similarities, then in Dongchang, can we think that the Northern Sect of the Confucian family, the leader of Confucian scholars in the world, is a bully who stole the achievements of his predecessors?"

"If this is the case, I'm afraid that the case of the stone lion this time was also done by the Erkong clan!"

Mrs. Liu was already trembling with anger, but she couldn't say anything to refute, and Kong Yinkui's mind also exploded like a thunderbolt.

This Dongchang really can't be let in. The fact that they arranged the crimes is really horrifying to think about. Just going around like this, they actually came up with a shocking case.

Chapter 8: Infighting in the East Factory

Seeing the fearful faces of the surrounding Kong family members, Wei Ximeng completely stopped covering up and smiled triumphantly.

Afterwards, he came to a disciple of the Kong family, snatched back the book "Kong Family Rituals" from him, and said:

"We Dongchang came to the Confucian Mansion, and the whole world watched it. We can't go back empty-handed. In this way, the factory owner and the old man will lose face."

"We don't continue to search in the Confucian Mansion. This book is a step. Both parties will end well. How about it?"

"You stray dog—" Mrs. Liu was about to continue scolding, but it was Kong Yinkui, a doctor of the Five Classics, who took two steps forward and whispered:

"Grandmother, Dongchang has never paid much attention to etiquette. It is really urgent. They searched the inner room, and our Kong family will lose face."

"This time the fan is coming in a violent way, and the trouble is too big to end well. I'd better go down the donkey and sell them this face, and wait for Yan Shenggong to come back and then make a long-term plan."

In fact, Mrs. Liu knew it in her heart, but she just couldn't swallow the bad breath.

In today's Qi Dynasty, the emperor favored Quan Eun, and Dongchang was in full swing. If he really wanted to tear his face, it would be disadvantageous for the Kong family.

Wei Ximeng heard the members of the Kong family cursing publicly and secretly, but his face was as calm as water, without the slightest ripple. He could hear the scissors in his ears, and there would be no ripples for a long time.

I don't worry that the Kong family will disagree, they must agree.

This matter directly tore up the face today, but the fans are fine, at worst, they will make a fuss in the Kong family, and they will not lose anything.

Wei Ximeng, in particular, has long been punctured by scholars, and his whole body has been blackened like coke. He can't be cleansed at all, and he is not afraid of adding another negative image.

Not to mention Wei Zhongxian, the leader of the group of eunuchs. Since the Ming Dynasty, eunuchs have been disliked by scholars, but they have never seen an eunuch hated by scholars to such an extent.

To achieve this step, he is also unprecedented.

As for the Confucian family, the reason why they pay attention to family law is precisely because they are afraid of being criticized by the outside world. The Fanzi directly make a fuss in the Confucian residence regardless of 21 and then leave. This is the last thing they want to see.

Fanzi took away the evidence, and the Confucian government kicked them out, so that both sides save face, which is the best result this time.

As for the future, whether this "Kong's Family Ritual" will be effective or not depends on the game between Wei Zhongxian and the Kong family.

Thinking of this, Mrs. Liu was silent for a while, and said: "You guys go, never step into the Confucian mansion again, next time, you will not be so lucky!"

"Confucius, it's not like any pig or dog can break in casually!"

Wei Ximeng was not afraid of the ruthless words from the Confucius family, bent down to salute, squinted his eyes and said: "Grandmother, we don't want to come either, but the emperor's order can't be called..."

"We are also investigating the case by order. If there is another chance, we can't just bring back a book."

"You—" Liu's integrity, he was speechless for a while, and his face was full of anger.

Wei Ximeng, on the other hand, accepted as soon as he saw a deal, turned around and left with the fans, and left in front of all kinds of people watching outside the Confucian Mansion Gate.

Seeing that there was one more book in Wei Ximeng's hands than before he entered, everyone started talking even more.

"What's in his hand?"

"Hmph, I think this is evidence that the Confucian government was involved in the imperial examination case!"

Even the Confucian scholars couldn't stand up anymore, the great sages in front of the Confucian mansion became even more nervous and began to whisper, and some people began to panic.