Chapter 127 Yan Sheng Gong
"This time you won't let you do those boring things. It's your elder brother who came back and got ashore from Tianjin Port. You brothers and I will greet you on my behalf. The appointment will be here in the next few days." Li Mingxun said, pinching his youngest son's fat face.
When Li Junwei heard that he could leave the palace, he immediately laughed, and the prince asked, "Last time my elder brother returned to Beijing, wasn't he welcomed him?"
"Your elder brother returned in triumph last time, and he had the merit of restoring Jiangsu and Zhejiang and pacifying the southwest. It was a great gift for the country. This time it was not triumph. Just go and welcome it."
"Dad, why don't Brother Junhong and I go, and Brother Prince wants to help you with government affairs?" Li Junwei said with a smile.
Li Mingxun didn't understand why Li Junwei said this. His youngest son was only seven or eight years old, so why did he get involved in the fight between his two brothers? What did he know at a young age?
Fortunately, Li Junhua reacted quickly and quickly responded to the job and left with Li Junwei.
Li Mingxun looked at the backs of his sons and snapped his fingers. A servant came to Li Mingxun. Li Mingxun ordered: "Please pay attention to the matter between the third brother and the prince these days, and then ask the people around Li to see if Concubine Li and the third brother said something."
The two brothers left the imperial study room, discussed it, and decided to go to Prince Cheng's Mansion to discuss the matter with Lin Junhong to Tianjin after lunch.
On the way to Prince Cheng’s Mansion, Li Junhua said: “What are you talking nonsense in front of your father today? Why don’t you let me welcome your elder brother? Which bastard taught you how to say this.”
Li Junwei had never seen Li Junhua get so angry. He was very thick-skinned and laughed without answering. Li Junhua did not let him go and continued to ask: "Brother, you can't be angry with you, but you have to tell me who taught you how to say this."
"No one asked me to say that, it's because I don't want you to go." Li Junwei said honestly.
"Why don't you let me go?"
Li Junwei said embarrassedly: "Second brother, look, if you want to welcome your elder brother now, you have to go to Prince Cheng's Mansion with me, which will ruin the big event between me and Jun Hong."
"What a big deal? Could it be that you and King Cheng have prepared for your elder brother? I'm not allowed to know?" Li Junhua asked.
Li Junwei waved his hands repeatedly and said, "We are going to take revenge!"
"Avenge? What kind of revenge should you seek?" Li Junhua looked puzzled and became alert in an instant.
Although the third brother was naughty in the school and the palace, he was very arrogant and did not talk about the superiors and inferiors. Even if others provoked him in the school, at most he would fight recklessly. If he didn't fight, he would never know each other. He never heard of any hatred between him and others.
"Of course it's that...hehe, don't know who you want to take revenge on your second brother. You are the prince, it's not good to know." Li Junwei wanted to speak but stopped.
Only then did Li Junhua realize that his younger brother did not let him pick up King Ying, but did not want to stay with him these days, so as not to miss his plan of revenge. Li Junhua thought about it and then recalled the person Li Junwei had come into contact with during this period, and finally remembered a guy who could be called Li Junwei's enemy.
"Is it Yan Shenggong?" Li Junhua asked.
"How do you know?" Li Junwei covered his mouth, and when he couldn't hide it, he gritted his teeth and said, "It's Kong Yuqi, who is so shameless that he has lost such a big face. I have to deal with him."
Seeing that Li Junhua was about to persuade him, Li Junwei hugged his chest and said, "Second brother, don't persuade me. I have discussed it with Brother Junhong anyway. Just pretend you don't know. I will take care of what happened!"
"You..." Li Junhua hesitated. Kong Yuqi was the eldest grandson of Confucius' 66th generation and the eldest grandson of the empire. Since he knew, he should not sit idly by. It can be seen that the third brother was so confident. When he thought about Kong Yuqi's actions, he couldn't bear to restrain his younger brother. He gritted his teeth and said, "You can think clearly. When the father knows, you must punish you. Besides, don't cause a big mess."
Li Junwei smiled and patted the prince on the shoulder: "This is my good second brother, don't worry, I'll let him be embarrassed and will not cause a big mess."
In fact, the grudge between Li Junwei and Yansheng Gong Kong Yuqi has been around for a long time, and it can even be said to be a "familiar feud". When the Qing Dynasty entered the pass, it was regarded as a role model for all generations by the Ming Dynasty, the descendants of Confucius, who were honored as the sage of the sage and ancestors of the Yansheng Duke, chose to bow down to the dogs, sheep, and barbarians, and were favored by the Qing Dynasty. Obviously, the traitors of the Kong family were not tolerated by the imperial regime, but because of their special status in Chinese culture and thought, they were also treated differently by the empire.
After the Battle of the Three Emperors, Li Mingxun led his army north to the capital. At that time, the pseudo-Yan Sheng Gong Kong Xingxie wanted to change his family and enjoy the glory and wealth of the new dynasty. This was natural for the Kong family. Over the past two thousand years, the emperor had changed hundreds of emperors. Respecting Confucianism and Taoism, he had to respect the Confucius family. From ancient times to the present, the title of the Kong family continued to rise, and it was until Yansheng Gong. However, Li Mingxun refused Kong Xingxie's surrender, but did not punish him, but just asked him to think about his mistakes behind closed doors. Later, the empire was established, and Li Mingxun ascended the throne and became emperor. Kong Xingxie, who was thinking about his mistakes behind closed doors, encountered a liquidation committee.
Such a big traitor would obviously not be let go, but unlike ordinary literati and officials who were confiscated their families and their ancestors were exiled to the frontiers, the Kong family was still treated preferentially, not because Li Mingxun or imperial officials were interested in preferential treatment. After all, these are not students of Confucius, but because of the public opinion of the people. Perhaps the imperial officials from the lower class had no special feelings for Confucius, but many officials in the empire were old ministers of the former Ming Dynasty, especially those who supported the progress of the empire during the restoration period. They all regarded themselves as Confucius' disciples, and raiding the Confucius family and extermination of the tribe were obviously not an option.
In fact, the imperial officials did not care about the Kong family at all. Most of the people in the liquidation committee were from merchants. They often put business concepts such as yields in liquidation. The Kong family had a lot of land, money and money, and how much money they had been copied. The resulting problems and impacts were very large, and the income and effort were completely disproportionate. Therefore, the final outcome was that Kong Xingxie, the head of the Kong family, went to Changping and Yongli, and Fulin played chess. The rank of Yansheng Duke of himself and his father, was cancelled, and the two were not allowed to go to the Confucius Temple to worship. In other words, the second generation of Confucius who surrendered to the Qing Dynasty was deemed to be gone, and Kong Yuqi, the son of Kong Xingxie, was re-appointed as Yansheng Duke by Li Mingxun.
There was a time when Li Mingxun wanted to turn Confucianism into Confucianism and under the control of the Religious Bureau, but found that Chinese culture was too deeply influenced by Confucian culture. If so, Confucianism would become the state religion and would be left alone.
Of course, after sorting out the Kong family, the empire continued the tradition of respecting Confucius in all dynasties, but also used the Kong family. In the eyes of the emperor, Confucius' thoughts were profound and profound, and it depends on how to explain them. Therefore, the Education Bureau took over the responsibility of interpreting Confucius' thoughts, and then spoke it through the Kong family, using the influence of the Kong family to suppress some Confucian theories that were not conducive to the development of the empire and ideological liberation. The first ones were the Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism and Yangming Mind Studies.
Although Kong Yuqi became Yan Shenggong, he could not enjoy his ancestors' empress in his hometown in Qufu. He was a little younger than Li Junhua and moved into Yan Shenggong Mansion in the capital. He received a new education from the empire with the prince and nobles. Because he was similar in age, he naturally became Li Junwei's classmate.
The grudges and hatreds of the two came from a worship of Confucius in the Confucian Temple. The mainstream ideas of the empire were not very respectful to Confucius, but could only be regarded as respect. Therefore, Li Mingxun naturally did not have the "consciousness" to kowtow to Confucius. In fact, in order to avoid the rise of feudal ideas, Li Mingxun not only did not worship Confucius himself, but also did not allow the two prime ministers of the cabinet to worship Confucius. The prince only asked the ritual officials to deal with it every year, but this year he raised the specifications and let the prince sacrifice on behalf of him.
The emperor was not unfaithful to Confucius, and Li Junwei, as a prince, had no need to mention it. In his eyes, "clay sculptures" like Confucius that need to kowtow themselves are similar to gods of various religions. After he went there, because of the long etiquette, he knelt in the Confucian Temple and fell asleep. There was nothing in this book. Who dared to tell the emperor's favorite son that he was the emperor's most beloved son, but there was only the newborn calf who was not afraid of tigers, that was Yansheng Gong Kong Yuqi. When he saw Li Junwei dozing off, he played a word game after leaving the Confucius Temple, showed off his literary literacy, and gave Li Junwei the first couplet:
The eyelids fell to the ground, making it difficult to read Confucius's book.
Li Junwei was neither interested nor capable of writing such profound writing skills, nor did he meet them, but he didn't know whether it was intentional or intentional. The third prince was published in some tabloids on the surface of the Confucian Temple and this couplet, and then promoted it. Some people who are flirting with Li Junwei made a second couplet:
The qi is so strong that I have to dream of Duke Zhou.
Obviously, the couplets are neat, but Li Junwei lost his face, and he lost a lot of face.
When the two brothers arrived at Prince Cheng's Mansion by car, they not only saw Lin Junhong, but also saw several princes from Xun's in-laws, including Li Junhua's classmate Pei Yuanqi. Li Junhua's face turned black and Li Junwei's revenge on Yan Shenggong was really a big battle.
Seeing that the prince was coming, some people cheered and some retreated. The cheering people thought that the prince had joined the plan, while the retreating people believed that the prince was there and it was impossible to do this.
"You just accompany the third brother to make a fuss. If you make a big fuss, see how you end it!" Li Junhua said to Lin Junhong with a cold face.
"Crown Prince, I can't watch our brothers be bullied by a traitor. The emperor spared him and gave him a reputation and wealth. The Kong family did not act like a man with their tails, but instead dared to cause trouble for the royal family. They can't let them do this." Lin Junhong smiled and said.
"you........."
Lin Junhong pushed Li Junhua into the house and said, "Crown Prince, you will have a good rest in the royal palace for two days. You don't know about this. If we cause trouble, we will be scolded by the old man. Don't get involved."
"What do you want to do with Yan Shenggong?" Li Junhua was still worried after all.
Lin Junhong smiled, took out the waist tag given by the emperor, and said, "Don't worry, I am now working in the Security Bureau. Some of them are the idiots in the law politics. The prince stays in the palace and is not aware of it. The third brother and the others follow me to watch the fun and don't participate in it in person."
Those who could gather in Prince Cheng's Mansion at this moment were Li Junhua's classmates. They grew up together with their childhood, and Li Junhua could not resist them, so they had to do so.
Obviously, Li Junwei's plan to retaliate against Kong Yuqi has not been a day or two. Lin Junhong took advantage of the opportunity of the Security Bureau to make arrangements. At night, Lin Junhong took Li Junwei out of the palace and went straight to Yanzhi Hutong north of the intersection of Xizhu City. When sitting in the car, you could hear the singing and cheers coming from the nearby hall and theater.
Yanzhi Hutong may not be famous, but if it were said to be the eight great hutongs, it would be well-known to people in later generations. Yanzhi Hutong is one of the eight great hutongs. Of course, in this era, the eight great hutongs were only in the prototype, and were born because of the gathering of opera teams such as Huiban and other opera teams who came to Beijing. However, unlike the male rooster style, which was dominated by the Huiban male dan, with the destruction of the scholar-official class, the romantic places in Yanzhi Hutong have become the world of prostitutes.
"Oh, my masters, please come in."
The car stopped at the entrance of Cuiyun Tower in Yanzhi Hutong. The madam and his sisters all came out to greet him. Seeing a group of handsome young men with red lips and white teeth, the sisters all smiled wickedly, and the madam was warmly entertained.
Lin Junhong lifted a corner of his robe and revealed the waist sign of the Security Bureau. The madam was shocked and almost knelt down. Lin Junhong smiled and said, "These young men are here to make tea and don't eat meat. The third floor is ours."
Seeing that Lin Junhong and others were not here to find fault, the madam was no longer afraid. The so-called tea-making circumference means only wandering around in brothels and not asking girls to accompany guests. Although the madam did not know what her own house was worth seeing, she did not dare to be arrogant when facing the people of the Security Bureau. She had been in this industry for many years and knew that Lin Junhong could enter the Security Bureau at this age, she must have a very special background, and the Security Bureau yamen was the least afraid to mess with.
"Please, come here, bring the refreshments quickly." The madam arranged.
Li Junwei came to the brothel for the first time. Seeing the sisters who were wearing red and green and winking at him, he couldn't help but blush, but he couldn't help but browse the beautiful scenery. He was dragged away by Pei Yuanqi, and only then did he remember that he was here to do a serious business.
The madam brought several sisters to bring them refreshments, but was stopped by the guards of Prince Cheng's mansion on the second floor. The two stood at the entrance of the stairs and watched with their knives. No one dared to approach them anymore. They handed the things to the guards, and after receiving the reward, they left them.
Yanzhi Hutong is the city of the capital. It was already night. The lights were on, and the red and pink lights illuminated the area. Lin Junhong pointed to a cathedral opposite and said, "Third brother, I have arranged the person opposite, you just wait to watch the show."
"Kong Yuqi's dog is very slippery, Pei Yuanqi, is your people good?" Li Junwei looked at Pei Yuanqi with some suspicion.
Chapter completed!