The Confucius family in Qufu, Shandong Province, is famous because his family produced a "Kong Sage". Coupled with Dong Zhongshu's proposal by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty to "depose the Hundred Schools of Confucianism", the status of Confucius was supreme in China for two thousand years.
After all, feudal dynasties come and go, to catch up with the five generations and ten kingdoms, changing emperors is faster than changing clothes. Just in response to the saying that the soldiers who fight iron in the camp and flow water, only the emperor becomes a flowing water soldier, and it is the Kong family that cannot move.
If you know a little about the Kong family, you will know that the Kong family has "two monsters":
The first is to divide the "inner hole" and "outer hole". The inner hole is naturally a saint concubine; as for the outer hole, some say that it is the descendant of Kong Zhongni's brothers, some say that it is a person who sold himself as a slave in Kong Province after changing his surname, and even more, that there is also a "feud" in the inner middle;
The second is that whenever the Confucius Temple is sacrificed, there is a "Grandmother Zhang" who attends it. Not only is he in the main position, but he can shout insults when he sees that the rules and etiquette of the Confucius House are slightly wrong. The people of Kong Fuzhong not only will not stop them, but also bow their heads and listen to the lessons.
These two monsters, in fact, dating back to the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, can be gathered on the same case.
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During the Later Liang Qianhua period (910 AD), because of years of war, there were countless civilian displaced people. As a thousand-year-old noble family in Qufu, Shandong, the Kong family opened its doors to households and widely recruited displaced people who had no place to go to the house to work.
The original intention was to do everything in its power to comfort the people of the world, but I did not expect that there were people with vicious hearts lurking in it, bringing disasters to the Kong family.
In the third year of Qianhua, the title of Duke Yansheng had already passed to Confucius's forty-second grandson Kong Guangsi. Although the three words "Yan Sheng Gong" sound magnificent, in fact, the imperial court soldiers are in chaos and have long stopped Feng Lu, and Kong Guangsi also has to go on official business outside to subsidize the huge family.
However, in the eyes of some small people, "Yan Sheng Gong" and "Kong Fu" represent their step up to the heavenly ladder. Kong Mo, who had been newly in Kong Province for less than two years, was one of them, whose original name was Liu Mo.
Kong Mo was the name he changed after he entered the house. The Kong family will change their surname to the laborers who have a skilled and hard-working body, and those who change their surnames mean that they and their descendants can have a place in the Kong family.
Such a great favor still could not satisfy Kong Mo, because he was looking at the identity of "Yan Sheng Gong".
The suspicious Kong Mo was so bold that he finally found the opportunity to unite with the local warlords and killed Kong Guangsi, the lord of the Kong family, and the lady attendants in Kong Guangsi's courtyard.
If Kong Renyu, the only son of Kong Guangsi, was too young to leave the nursing mother and went to the nursing mother's home, I am afraid that he would have died on the spot, and there would be no subsequent events.
Kong Renyu's nursing mother, Mother Zhang, was very alert, and after receiving the report from the Kong family, she knew that Kong Mo would not stop there, and would definitely immediately chase after and kill the little master. In a hurry, she could only put Kong Renyu's brocade dress on her own son, who was about the same age.
Only when the dress stopped, Kong Mo really arrived, the knife fell in his hand, and the young son who had just been alive and toddler was already in a different place.
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Seeing that the great trouble in his heart had been eliminated, Kong Mo finally swung back to do his spring and autumn dreams, when his fake and inferior "Yan Sheng Gong" went; and then Liang waned, unable to pay more attention to the internal strife of the Kong family in Qufu, and it was kong Mo who had dreamed for so many years.
But dreams are dreams, and dreams always have to wake up. The day you wake up from your dream, you will have to repay the sins you have done before.
Kong Renyu was raised by Zhang's mother as her own child. In addition to studying hard, he recited the Confucius family training every day to remind himself that he could not forget the original revenge of killing his father and killing his mother.
Time passed, Hou Liang was destroyed by Later Tang, and Kong Renyu also grew from a swaddling baby to an 18-year-old teenager. This year, he was admitted to Taixue and entered the capital to study.
A few days later, a letter was sent to the imperial case of Later Tang Mingzong, in which the old case of "Kong Mo Chaos Hole" in Qufu, Shandong Province, 17 years ago was clearly explained, and the end of the text was even more painful: Kong Mo stole official titles and pretended to be concubines, and if he could not be severely punished, Kong Shi and Later Tang were in danger.
Thinking about how Hou Tang killed Hou Liang himself, the back of Emperor Mingzong's neck was faintly cold. Indeed, although the current dynasty is not in a proper position, if the Kong bloodline is allowed to be confused, it will not be corrected.
Therefore, Emperor Mingzong sent eunuchs and courtiers to investigate together, and finally proved that what Song Shuzhong said was true, Kong Mo and his descendants were killed, and Kong Renyu inherited the title of "Duke of Yansheng" and was also given the title of "Duke of Wenxuan".
Since then, the Kong clan of Qufu has re-prospered, and Kong Renyu has also been known as the "Ancestor of Zhongxing".
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Kong Renyu was able to overturn the case, thanks to the nursing mother Zhang's mother who replaced him with her young son, saved his name, and provided him with reading for the exam.
Therefore, before leaving Beijing, Kong Renyu deliberately asked Emperor Mingzong for a seal for his nursing mother. Emperor Mingzong, in gratitude for Zhang's great righteousness, gave him a special official title of "Grandma Zhang", and from now on, the eldest daughter-in-law of Zhang's parents and eldest daughters-in-law will pass on this title from generation to generation.
After returning to his hometown, Kong Renyu was worried that if there was an evil servant in the family, Yang Fengyin, he would not put the nursing mother and the future "Zhang Grandma" in his eyes, so he specially abducted the imperial gift that should have been offered to the table in the middle hall, and gave it to Grandma Zhang in front of the whole clan at the Confucius Temple ceremony.
He also loudly told Grandma Zhang that from now on, the Zhang family is a generational benefactor of the Confucius family, and the "grandmothers" can freely enter and leave the Confucius Palace; every New Year's Festival ceremony will be seated; and wherever the people in the Confucius House make mistakes, including the Duke and His Wife, Grandma Zhang can discipline them.
In addition, Kong Renyu also mentioned that after a hundred years, when the descendants sacrificed themselves, they must have the two grandchildren of the Zhang family go to accompany the sacrifice.
This is actually a guarantee to the descendants of the Zhang family: no matter what kind of situation, they can get the help of the Kong family and retain the blood incense.
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The case of "Kong Mo Chao Kong" was passed down from generation to generation in the Kong clan of Qufu, which also gave rise to rumors that the Kong clan inside and outside had a "feud". More importantly, every descendant of kong relived the great righteousness of Grandma Zhang in this story.
Without Grandma Zhang's righteous deeds, the holy descendants in Kong Renyu's generation would have been slaughtered completely, and no one would have reopened the case decades later: first of all, the title of Duke Yansheng was not in the hands of the side branches, and secondly, no one in the Qufu Kong clan knew the inside story.
It was Grandma Zhang who used her own son in exchange for the preservation of the Holy Blood Bloodline; and after decades of relying on each other, Kong Renyu also understood more and more how much heartache Grandma Zhang's decision would bring her later.
And the existence of "Grandma Zhang" can also always remind the Kong family to remember the tragic case of that year, and warn themselves of what a catastrophe they will cause if they neglect discipline and lose their etiquette and law.