As we all know, the ancient dynasty was actually only a few hundred years old, so when it came to the time of destruction, not only the emperor would fall, but even the hundred officials in the dynasty could not continue. In fact, even if the dynasty exists well, as long as the emperor is changed, he will appoint his own group of people. But in our country, there is such a family, although it is only in front of the county order, but there is an advantage, even if the dynasty is changed, the county order is still held by them, even the emperor does not dare to replace, what is going on?
In fact, this family is very prominent, they are the descendants of Confucius, and the county they are in charge of is naturally Qufu. From the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, for more than 600 years, the county order of this place has always been held by the people of their family, and has never changed. Although the county order was only a seven-pin petty official, the county order in this place was not designated by the superior, but was always appointed by the emperor.
Of course, the appointment of the emperor is only a formality, a good look, because no matter who is appointed, it must be a member of this family. In fact, during the Han Dynasty, the Confucius family did not have such a high status, because at that time, the two families of Confucianism and Taoism had been arguing for many years. Later, after Liu Che became emperor, he beat the tone, making Confucianism orthodox, and Confucius's descendants also enjoyed the grace of their ancestors.
Since then, with the continuous changes of dynasties, successive emperors have highly respected Confucius, making his status higher and higher. During the Song Dynasty, the status of scholars far exceeded that of any other dynasty, and Confucius was also crowned by the emperor as a YanshengGong. Since Confucius had long since been reduced to a bowl of yellow earth, this title could naturally only be enjoyed by the descendants of his family.
From that time on, his descendants continued this title from generation to generation. But it is very interesting that when the Song Dynasty was first, this title was only an eight pin, but through the Yuan and Ming dynasties, three pins and one pin were mentioned respectively. This made it difficult for the Emperor of the Qing Dynasty to make it difficult for him to promote official qualities, but then the Emperor also came up with a way to give the family more privileges, such as being able to ride horses in the imperial palace, such as being able to walk on the imperial road, which were treatment that other officials could not enjoy at all.
In the beginning, he served as the patriarch of the Kong family of Yan Sheng Gong and also served as the local county commander. Later, because his affairs were too complicated, in addition to the big and small affairs within the family, he also vigorously promoted the ancestral thoughts, so he also entrusted the affairs of the county to other people in the family. Anyway, this county order is always surnamed Kong.
Of course, in so many years, there were also county orders that were really embarrassing, and even the Jiajing Emperor, who refused to go to the court for decades, could not look at it, but after he proposed to choose another county order, he was immediately opposed by the court ministers. Later, the emperor felt that the opposition was too loud, plus it was only a small county order, and he could not do it against the hundred officials for him, so he only strengthened the supervision.