Master Yuan, start!

"I just said, all men, no matter who you are, line up in the south of the city."

Wang San still had that cold voice, but compared to his fully armed National Defense Force companions, his words carried much more weight.

Looking at the muskets on the backs of the national defense soldiers, the doorman muttered, "The Duke of Yansheng is out. I will go and ask the elders for instructions."

2 He was used to being domineering and knew that he had hit a wall today, so he decisively admitted defeat.

Not long after, an old man with white braids and a crutch walked out of the mansion.

"I don't know what's going on that causes such a big fuss?" the old man asked knowingly.

"I am following the order of the governor to wipe out the bandits. If I have offended your family, I hope you will forgive me." Wang San bowed and replied.

The white-haired old man knew that the national defense army was powerful, and the Duke of Yansheng had gone to Yantai, so he had no choice but to obey:

Three "Well, you are worthy of being the national defense army that has been in Beijing for two months. Suppressing the bandits and identifying the rebels is also for the country and the people."

Wang San was about to bow in thanks when the old man said:

"However, the Confucius Mansion is a place where the great sage and teacher are worshipped. If all the guards are gone, what will happen if some scoundrels take advantage of the opportunity to cause chaos?"

"It's okay. The Kong Mansion has the protection of our national defense army. It will only take an hour or so, and there will be no disaster."

"That's good, Kong Shiba, take your men and go to the south of the city."

"Yes"

Dozens of guards in the Confucius Mansion put down their sticks and headed south of the city under the light of torches.

Not far away on the floor above, Ming Ye and Lu Tian witnessed the entire scene.

"Let's go!" Ming Ye took off his cloth clothes, revealing a pure black shorts:

"Call the rest of the troops, it's time for us to take action!"

...

Yantai, inside the Governor's Office.

"Kong Lingyi, do you admit your guilt?!"

When Duke Yansheng Kong Lingyi heard this, he was not surprised but laughed, thinking that what was supposed to come had finally come.

"Isn't the land deed dispute being heard today?" Kong Lingyi deliberately asked Song Qing, "Sir Song, what does this have to do with me?"

"Kong Lingyi, do you think that no one else will know about what you did secretly?" Song Qing sneered.

"I wonder what crime I have committed?" Kong Lingyi felt relieved when he saw that the attack had finally begun.

"Kong Lingyi, it has come to this, why are you still being stubborn?" Song Qing was confident of victory. The evidence in his hands was enough to nail Kong Lingyi to death.

However, Kong Lingyi's calm expression still made Yuan Xiangcheng, who was standing beside him, somewhat puzzled. How could he not be panicked when his reputation was ruined in front of so many people?

The two sides confronted each other in the court, and more and more people came back to watch the fun.

The more people there were, the more relaxed Kong Lingyi looked.

"Someone, please bring up the tablet of the Great Sage Teacher!" Kong Lingyi suddenly turned around and shouted at the door.

As soon as he finished speaking, shouting was heard outside the door.

"Let one in, let one in!"

At Kong Lingyi's command, two people squeezed in from the crowd outside the door. After some dodging and maneuvering, they walked into the government office holding the huge tablet of Confucius from the previous ceremonial team.

"put!"

The tablet of the Great Sage Teacher, more than one meter high, was placed upright in the hall, where the prisoners knelt.

It looked like Confucius being interrogated.

Judge Confucius!

This is really big news.

Arthur Morgan suddenly felt that the trip was worthwhile, and looked at Yuan Xiangcheng in front of him with some excitement. Starting from Korea, it seemed that he always encountered some big news by following this man.

The scene of the trial of Confucius reminded Arthur Morgan of Pidorace, the Roman governor who tried the saint Jesus.

Arthur Morgan has accumulated more than a dozen news headlines about Yuan Shikai. As a journalist, he wants to pursue higher fame, but the North China Herald, a small newspaper aimed at foreigners in China, is not enough to fulfill his dream.

What he wanted was to publish his articles in the top newspapers of Europe and America. He believed that readers of The Times, Le Petit Parisien, and The New York Sun would be very interested in the mysterious governor of the East.

Arthur Morgan was imagining the future, but everyone inside and outside the hall was shocked.

Confucius' tablet stands in the hall, which is very eye-catching. Even though the literacy rate in the Qing Dynasty was less than 1%, from royal nobles to peddlers and merchants, who didn't know the name of Confucius?

When Kong Lingyi took out the tablet of Confucius, the meaning was different. Before that, it could be said that he was interrogating an official appointed by the court.

But once the tablet is placed, it means the trial of the "god", and he is a supreme god in the hearts of most scholars.

Before Song Qing could even start a fight, Kong Lingyi put a big hat on him first.

Xu Shichang, who was standing aside, also looked worried. Although Song Qinghe and he knew Yuan Xiangcheng's plan, they did not expect Kong Lingyi's response to be so "rogue".

Is Kong Lingyi really just a 20-year-old young man?

However, the people outside the temple reacted more strongly, even though they were not forced to kneel down when they saw the Master even after entering the Confucius Temple.

But the people who were still living in the feudal dynasty didn't care about all these things. They all forgot that they were here to watch the fun and started to worship the tablet of Confucius.

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"Respectfully welcome the Great Sage Master!"

"The Most Holy King Wenxuan is above!"

"Quick, hurry and pay homage to Master Confucius!"

A scholar took the lead in kneeling and performing the four bows. The common people who were watching followed suit and knelt down with the children beside them. For a moment, all the people knelt down and almost no one stood up.

Even the few idle young men who were riding on the wall pushed themselves up with their hands, jumped down from the wall and knelt on the bluestone slabs.

Scholars, farmers, industry and commerce, scholars, farmers, industry and commerce.

The people, who had been bound by the culture of this land for thousands of years, were now unable to break free from the traditional concepts in their hearts.

Inside and outside the government office, only Arthur Morgan, an American, did not react. Even the presiding judge Song Qing took off his hat, placed it on the table, and bowed to the tablet of Confucius in the hall to show his respect.

Looking at the actions of the people around him, Yuan Xiangcheng's face suddenly became extremely ugly.

"Kong Lingyi, what are you doing?" Yuan Xiangcheng asked loudly.

"Master Yuan, don't forget." Kong Lingyi said loudly: "As the priest of the Great Sage Teacher, I have the job of spreading the kindness of the great sage.

In other words, as long as I want, the tablet of the Great Saint Teacher can appear anywhere."

"Today I'm questioning your guilt," Yuan Xiangcheng said grimly, "What has this to do with the Great Sage Teacher?"

"Of course, it has nothing to do with the Great Saint Teacher." Kong Lingyi smiled and said, "Now that you've finished kneeling, put the tablet away."

The two servants from the Kong Mansion quickly stood up, lifted the tablet, and walked out the door.

The crowd of onlookers automatically made way for the two people holding the tablets to pass through.

"Sir Yuan, tell me, who is suing me, and what crime have I committed?"

Although the tablet was removed, its meaning had changed. Relying on the scene just now, Kong Lingyi straightened his back a lot.

However, despite the incident with Confucius' tablet, Song Qing still refused to give in. He slammed the gavel: 5

"Kong Lingyi, your first wife is the daughter of the treacherous minister Sun Yuwen. Sun Yuwen and the Evil Queen fled to the south together.

But why haven't you submitted a petition to apologize yet? Are you siding with the Emperor or the Evil Queen?!"

The daughter of a criminal is the wife of Duke Yansheng?

Although it was no secret among officials in Beijing, the common people outside the hall heard this official news for the first time and were extremely surprised.

So, does this mean that the current Duke of Yansheng is on the side of the Queen Mother? The onlookers stared at Kong Lingyi, intending to see how he would respond.

When Kong Lingyi heard the same thing, he couldn't help but snort inwardly.

"I've been prepared for a long time. Do you think I'm a three-year-old child? When you threatened me with the matter of my in-laws to come to Yantai, how could I not be prepared?"

After regaining his consciousness, Kong Lingyi turned and walked towards the legal advisor's desk on the other side, scaring the legal advisor so much that he quickly stood up and left.

Kong Lingyi sat on the chair, picked up the paper and pen, dipped them in ink, and started writing.

After a while, he picked up the paper with the ink still wet and spread it on the blue bricks on the ground.

The words on the white paper were too small for the people outside the hall to see clearly. Even the few who could see clearly could not recognize the characters because most of the characters were written in running script.

Zhang Taiyan squeezed to the front and saw the most clearly, and distinguishing running script was not a problem for him.

Therefore, he could see the two big words on the right side of the paper clearly.

"This is a letter of divorce. I have nothing to do with Sun's daughter anymore." As soon as these words were spoken, the people in front of the hall were shocked.

"What a cruel heart! He divorced his first wife just like that."

"What's wrong with divorcing the daughter of a sinner?"

"Then why not rest sooner or later? Why wait until Lord Yuan questions you?"

Not only did the people react strongly, but even Yuan Shikai was surprised.

I thought Kong Lingyi was already a piece of meat on the chopping board, but I didn't expect that this fish could still jump a few more times.

"Master Yuan, please understand that the daughter of a guilty minister should not be my wife. I have been negligent and have not taken any action before. Today, I will divorce her in court to show my loyalty to the Emperor!"

Kong Lingyi took off his hat, knelt on the ground and bowed to the north, acting like a loyal minister.

"Good, good, good! Lord Kong is truly a loyal minister."

At this moment, Yuan Xiangcheng was extremely grateful that he had sent people to the Kong Mansion, otherwise, he might not have been able to kill Kong Lingyi today.

Chapter 163 Farewell, Duke Yansheng

"Then may I ask, Master Kong, what is this?!"

Yuan Xiangcheng clapped his hands and asked someone to send out a piece of silk cloth and a square object from the back hall.

Everyone outside the hall was confused. Duke Yansheng divorced his wife. Did that mean the matter was over?

Little did he know that using his wife to accuse someone was just an excuse for Yuan Shikai to summon Kong Lingyi from Qufu.

Only when the Kong family mansion in Qufu was left without an owner could he find the truly crucial evidence.