When Lu Fatzi began to further poison the little demon king of the Lianguo family in Nanning City, the news that he resigned angrily and left Qujing had spread through various channels, and the first reaction of the local governors such as Zhang Dedi, the governor of Sichuan and Guizhou, Lu Zhen, the governor of Biyuan (Hunan Governor), and Cai Yurong, the governor of Huguang, Sichuan, who were the first to learn the news, was:

"Quick! Send someone to find Lu Yifeng immediately, and you must pull him back! Tell him that as long as he comes to Ben Du (Ben Fu) to take up work, he will open whatever conditions he wants! The Governor can also vouch for him in front of the Emperor and guarantee that he will be safe and sound under the rule of the Governor! He said that if he wanted to recover, Ben Du (Ben Fu) would definitely protect him from the court! ”

There is no way, Lu Fatzi's reputation as a cash cow is too big, and he will reinvent the entire Qujing in less than three years, and by the way, he also helped Wu Sangui completely solve the big problem of Yungui being unable to self-sufficiency, how many such capable ministers can there be in the world? Is there a place in the world where the governor can not be blushing? Can you hope that such a capable minister can appear under his rule, not only to get benefits for himself, but also to gain a good reputation for himself for the benefit of the people, and leave a strong mark in the history of thousands of years? Now that I see such a glimmer of hope, what kind of local governor doesn't try his best to fight for it?

The biggest hope is, of course, Jin Guangzu, the governor of Liangguang, and Ma Xiongzhen, the governor of Guangxi, as well as the old general Ma Xiongma, the governor of Guangxi, who received the news that Lu Fatzi not only went to Guangxi, but also went to Nanning to defect to the father and son of Lian Guoan, and Ma Xiongzhen, who had been stationed in Guilin for a long time, and Ma Xiong, the governor of Guangxi, did not even care about exchanging news with each other, and immediately personally took his entourage to Nanning to kill. There is also Jin Guangzu, the governor of Liangguang, who also set off from Guangzhou for the first time and personally rushed to Nanning to persuade Lu Fatzi to go out of the mountain and serve in his shogunate.

To Governor Jin's surprise and not at all surprised, when his team arrived in Wuzhou, he ran into two teams sent by the Pingnan Palace, the first was sent by Shang Zhixin, the son of the King of Pingnan, and was personally led by Shang Zhixin's half-brother Shang Zhijie, who was also preparing to rush to Nanning to persuade his brother-in-law to settle in Guangdong; The second team was personally sent by Shang Kexi, the king of Pingnan, and the leader was Huang Zhangsi, an important henchman in front of Shang Kexi, with Shang Kexi's handwritten letter, asking his son-in-law and daughter to take his grandson back to his mother's house in Guangzhou to settle down - whoever dares to go to Guangzhou to find trouble with his daughter and son-in-law, Shang Lao Wang personally cut them!

Some people laugh and some people cry, the princes and governors in the southwest and south China have seen a glimmer of hope to envelop Lu Fatzi, but the new Yunnan governor Zhu Guozhi Zhu Zhongcheng scolded his mother on the way to Yunnan to take office - Zhu Guozhi, Zhu Zhongcheng, who is currently recognized as the first corrupt official in the Qing Dynasty, went south to take office this time with the intention of making a big profit, but before the person officially took office, the first wealth collector under his rule had already resigned and left the country, and the disappointment and anger in Zhu Zhongcheng's chest can be imagined.

At first, Zhu Zhongcheng thought that he was unlucky and happened to catch up with Lu Fatzi's resignation, but when he met Gan Wenkun in Guiyang, he learned from Gan Wenkun that Lu Fatzi's resignation was because of the persecution of Kong Sizhen and his gang, Zhu Zhongcheng immediately forgot that he was able to come back because of Kong Sizhen's party recommendation, and scolded Kong Sizhen and Xiong Cixu and others in front of Gan Wenkun.

In the face of Zhu Zhongcheng's Langlang oath, Governor Gan, who has been in a state of anxiety for the past few days, can only smile bitterly and say: "Zhu Zhongcheng, then please you, this governor has worked with Lu Yifeng for two years, and for Lu Yifeng to exonerate him, maybe the court will think that this governor has received any benefits from Lu Yifeng, you have never met Lu Yifeng, and you have never had any contact, and the court should pay more attention to your objective evaluation." By the way, Zhu Zhongcheng, how many followers did you bring this time? ”

"How many followers did you bring?" Zhu Zhongcheng was stunned, and only after a while did he wry: "Don't blame the governor, Yungui is remote, thieves and Miao Yi are rampant, so the lower officials brought more entourage this time, the maid and the mother-in-law, the master's secretary, and the long-term guard, there are nearly three hundred people in total." ”

"Too little." Gan Wenkun's answer surprised Zhu Zhongcheng, and Gan Wenkun frowned and said, "In this way, this governor will lend you another 500 green battalion soldiers to escort you to Kunming to take up your post." ”

"Then borrow 500 green battalion soldiers from the lowly post to escort the lowly post to Kunming to take up the post?" Zhu Guozhi was dumbfounded, and asked in surprise: "Your Excellency, is the road to Kunming so unsmooth?" ”

"You'll know when you get to Qujing." Gan Wenkun sighed and said, "I won't tell you now, I'm afraid I'll scare you, in short, after passing the victory level, you have to be careful." ”

With a head full of questions, Zhu Zhongcheng set off from Guiyang and rushed to Kunming to take office, but after entering Yunnan, the confused Zhu Zhongcheng quickly understood the painstaking efforts of Governor Gan - as soon as the team passed the victory pass, Zhu Zhongcheng's team was stopped by thousands of people of all ethnic groups in Pingyi, and they all held up papers to shout for Lu Fatzi, asking the Qing court to transfer Lu Fatzi back to Yunnan, so that Zhu Zhongcheng, who was forced to abandon his official position overnight because of the Crying Temple case, was both jealous and envious and even stranger- Isn't Lu Fatzi the county governor of Qujing, this Pingyi has not been managed by him, how can there be so many people crying out for him?

After inquiring carefully, Zhu Zhongcheng was even more dumbfounded, it turned out that among these people were not only the people of Pingyi and Qujing, but also the people who came here from Luo Ping, Xuanwei and Lu Liang hundreds of miles away to shout grievances to Lu Fatzi, and they kept saying that Lu Fatzi was framed by the annihilation of the court, so he was forced to leave Qujing, and was forced to leave the people of Qujing, whose lives had just improved, and asked Zhu Guozhi to ask for his life for the people, so that Lu Fatzi could return to Qujing as an official.

There are still few people shouting grievances in front of Shengjing Pass, and Zhu Zhongcheng put on an official stand to talk about the scene, but he can still temporarily pacify these people, but when Zhu Zhongcheng's team passed the Jiaoshui Pass and officially arrived in Qujing County, Zhu Zhongcheng couldn't resist it at all. On the road, the people of Qujing who stopped the sedan chair and stopped the horses and shouted grievances were densely packed, thousands, and the emotions were still extremely excited and angry, Zhu Zhongcheng had just said a few words to believe in the court and Xiao Mazi's nonsense, and the rotten vegetable leaves and rotten eggs had already been smashed all over the world, and even the people shouted the slogan of beating Zhu Zhongcheng away in public, picking up stones and tiles and other weapons of mass destruction and smashing them indiscriminately, causing a civil uprising on the spot.

When Zhu Zhongcheng, who was covered in vegetable leaves, was finally protected by the army and fled into Qujing City, he was greeted by empty streets where people were closed and boycotted everywhere to protest, as well as local officials such as Zhang Gaomo, the prefect of Qujing, and Chen Dou, the prefect of Qujing, who were sad. And when Zhu Zhongcheng was furious and scolded Zhang Gaomo, Chen Dou and others for their poor governance, Zhang Futai immediately took out the fold of asking for resignation, and comforted him with a sad face: "Lord Zhongcheng, in fact, you are already very lucky, you have to come here for a month, it is estimated that you will be surrounded until tomorrow, Lord Zhongcheng, you will not be able to enter Qujing City." ”

"Is that an exaggeration? Is this still not the land of the Great Qing Kingdom? Zhu Zhongcheng asked angrily.

"Lord Huizhongcheng, of course this is the land of the Great Qing Kingdom." Zhang Gaomo said helplessly: "But Lord Zhongcheng may have forgotten that this is Yunnan, where Han and Yi live together, and the people are fierce, and a word is wrong, those Miao and Yi people dare to draw their swords to look at people." To tell the Governor that since the resignation of Lord Lu, more than a dozen of the servants sent by the lowly officials to collect taxes have been killed, and not even a single murderer has been caught. ”

"Just because a magistrate left his job, there was so much turmoil?" Zhu Guozhi felt a little incredible, and shouted: "Even if he, Lu Yifeng, really benefited the people of Qujing countless times, won the hearts of the people, and was a rare clean official, but when Jackie Chan resigned from Luocheng, why didn't the people of Luocheng make such trouble?" ”

In front of countless others, of course Zhang Gaomo didn't dare to explain the real reason to Zhu Guozhi, just looked left and right, until Zhu Guozhi understood his meaning and retreated left and right, Zhang Gaomo leaned into Zhu Guozhi's ear and whispered: "Lord Zhongcheng, of course there are people behind this, some people deliberately spread rumors among the people, saying that the high-ranking officials in the court have accepted the silver from corrupt officials, so they deliberately drove Lord Lu away, and the corrupt officials who are ready to exchange the silver come to Qujing to scrape the land and confiscate the folk planting rights of the Eight Banners Fushou Paste of the people of Qujing, So of course the people are going to make trouble. ”

"Also, there are rumors that Lord Lu is unwilling to exploit the people to bribe and take bribes, and because he overthrew Li Shuzu and offended the big corrupt officials in the court, the big corrupt officials deliberately transferred Lord Lu to the north to facilitate the move, and then killed him, and the people of Qujing have even more reason to make trouble."

"Who spread the rumors? Did you find out? Zhu Guozhi asked in surprise.

"Why do you want to ask knowingly? Who else could there be? Zhang Gaomo smiled bitterly and asked: "The people of Qujing are now desperately opposing the imperial court to send another official to govern Qujing, insisting on only letting the western election officials come to Qujing to be officials, who is more beneficial?" And after Lord Lu left, the Qujing Green Camp, which Lord Lu had managed to do well, was immediately controlled by the generals from the Pingxi Palace, who was more beneficial? ”

"Him?!" Zhu Guozhi shivered, and then finally understood why Gan Wenkun wanted to go to the Qing court and insist on letting Lu Yifeng stay in Qujing. However, our Zhu Zhongcheng is not only a well-known corrupt official but also a famous sycophant, and he naturally didn't dare to shoot at the high-ranking Wu Sangui when he first arrived, so after thinking about it for a long time, Zhu Zhongcheng could only sigh and say: "When I get to Kunming, I will hear what the prince means about this matter." ”

"Lord Zhongcheng, do you plan to truthfully report Qujing's current situation to the imperial court?" Zhang Gaomo asked again.

"Ben Fu has already said it, and I'll talk about it when Ben Fu arrives in Kunming." Zhu Guozhi replied impatiently.

"Lord Zhongcheng, this matter can't be delayed." Zhang Gaomo, who is usually so honest that he can't beat a fart with three hammers, was anxious, and plucked up the courage to say: "Lord Zhongcheng, please forgive me for saying a word of condemnation - the more chaotic the people of Qujing are, the more unfavorable it will be to the imperial court, and the more beneficial it will be to the prince. ”

"What do you mean?" Zhu Guozhi asked suspiciously.

"Lord Zhongcheng, you should have heard of the phrase self-respect for thieves, right?" Zhang Gaomo lowered his voice and said: "Right now, the prince is secretly desperately expanding his armaments, I believe that Lord Zhongcheng has already heard about it, if the turmoil in Qujing continues and expands, won't it just give the prince an excuse to expand the army and train his troops openly, right?" When the time comes, the court and the emperor will investigate it, will Lord Zhongcheng be able to afford it? Moreover, Qujing is the only state capital in Yunnan that allows the people to plant Eight Banners Fushou Cream, and the production of Eight Banners Fushou Paste was reduced during the turmoil, and the Eight Banners Fushou Paste grown in the fields of the Wangye Domain was not more valuable? ”

Our Zhu Zhongcheng is a person, that is, he can't find a shining point with a lantern all over his body, and the only thing worthy of praise is his loyalty to the Qing court. It is precisely because of this that after thinking about it again, Zhu Zhongcheng quickly changed his original intention, gritted his teeth and said: "Okay, you write an excerpt to me to report the truth of Qujing, and I will report it to you, and ask the emperor to decide." ”

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Yunnan is too far away from the capital, and there were no trains, planes and telephones at that time, and the first twist and turn of Governor Gan's report on Qujing's situation was still running slowly on the road through the post station, and Zhu Zhongcheng's twist and turn naturally could not be sent to the capital immediately and handed over to the little pockmark who was looking forward to it. I believe that friends will definitely not be interested in how these twists and turns are passed on the road, so let's ignore it for the time being, let's turn our eyes back to Guangxi, turn back to Nanning, and see what illegal things Lu Fatzi has done in Nanning.

In fact, it is said that Lu Fatzi likes to do some things like to steal chickens and touch dogs, and this time he really wronged Lu Fatzi - it is true that he is lazy and slacking off, since he subdued the youngest son of the Lian Guoan family, Lu Fatzi basically gave up and stopped disciplining, and let Lu Qiyu learn martial arts with Hong Xiguan and Zhu Fangdan, the reason is to let him learn to climb first and then learn to fly from himself. In the spare time, Lu Fatzi refused many invitations from the Lianjia father and son, Han Zhang and others, and just took Xiao Erlang and Fang Shiyu to play in the mountains and rivers every day, and traveled around, as if he had changed his evil and returned to the right, and he was determined not to do those illegal things such as anti-Qing and Ming restoration.

Lu Fatzi is so idle every day, not only the father and son of the Lian family are confused, but even Xiao Erlang, who has been with Lu Fatzi since he was a child, is a little confused, finally, when Lu Fatzi led Xiao Erlang and others to wander into the Dayao Mountain, which is almost a primeval forest, Xiao Erlang couldn't help but ask, "Young Master, you told the old general that they were looking at the scenery, but every day they took us to drill some deep mountains and old forests, what is the scenery here?" ”

"Stupid, of course I'm not looking at the scenery." Fat Lu glared at Xiao Erlang, very dissatisfied that his hardcore dogleg didn't understand his thoughts, and explained: "I'm looking for something." ”

"Looking for what?" Xiao Erlang asked.

"Look for tin ore." Of course, Lu Fatzi would not hide it from Xiao Erlang, and said: "According to my research, there must be a big tin mine in this area of Nanning, I want to find out and see if I can use it." ”

"Tin ore?" Xiao Erlang scratched his head and said, "Young master, aren't there many tin mines in our Yunnan province?" Why did you still run to Nanning to find it? What's the use of this thing, when you were in Yunnan before, you didn't seem to be interested in tin? ”

"The tin ore here is of good quality, and six or seven percent of a piece of ore is pure tin, which is easy to refine." Fat Lu said casually: "But as you said, tin ore is really of little use to us, even if we want to make tinplate cans, the current process can't do it." I just want to look for it casually, pass the time, and if I can really find it, it can be regarded as repaying the kindness of the father and son of the Lian family for taking us in. ”

"I'm in favor of that." Xiao Erlang raised his hands and said: "I have inquired in the past few days, since the imperial court cut the military salary in Guangxi in the seventh year of the Kangxi Dynasty, the fourth son of Kong Si passed on most of the losses to the old general, and the old general's salary was cut the most, and the army was also cut the most. Listening to Hu Tongchun and Bao Dacheng's generals who are veteran generals, their words are almost unbearable. ”

"That's right, that's right." Fang Shiyu also nodded stupidly, and echoed: "I have eaten twice in their barracks, and the food is much worse than our Qujing Green Camp. ”

"Of course I do." Fat Lu nodded, and sneered with self-absorption: "The more idiotic Kong Si that bitch is, the better, what kind of person is Lian Guoan, the only famous general in the Pingnan Palace's mansion who has defeated Li Dingguo!" The army he trained was not absolutely elite when he got there? I don't want such an army bitch, I want it. ”

"Young master, what do you mean by selling a big favor to the old general?" Xiao Erlang's eyes lit up, and he lowered his voice and said: "Young Master, do you mean to find out the big tin mine and give it to the old general and the third general to help them solve their immediate needs, not only to repay their kindness for taking them in, but also to sell them a favor - in the future, there will be a chance to pull them over?" ”

"Smart, I've been with me for so long, and I've finally learned a little bit of my skills." Lu Fatzi nodded with satisfaction, and said in a low voice: "But don't publicize this matter first, first, I don't have much confidence in finding that big tin mine, and second, even if I find this tin mine, I have to wait until the father and son of the Lian family can't hold it anymore or beg me bitterly, and I will sell it again." ”

"Understood." Xiao Erlang, who had been completely taken away by Fat Lu, smiled heartily and agreed.

It's easy to say, but it's difficult to find the mine, especially Lu Fatzi is not good at mining, and he doesn't know whether the famous big tin mine is an open-pit mine or a deep buried mine, so Lu Fatzi has to look for ore veins by observing the cliff fault and stream scouring surface like luck, but it's a pity that Lu Fatzi and others have been in Dayao Mountain for a day, and they have never found anything that looks like tin ore ore.

On the way back to Nanning City, Xiao Erlang suddenly had an idea and said to Lu Fatzi: "Why don't we ask those locals who like to go into the mountains to collect medicine and hunt?" Let's see if they've found anything like tin ore, and if we can find a little clue, then we'll have a lot easier. ”

"It's a good idea." was reminded by Xiao Erlang, Lu Fatzi immediately nodded and agreed: "It just so happens that tomorrow is the day of the market, let's go to the market to ask these people and see if they have any clues." ”

After thinking about it, after Lu Fatzi and the others rested for a night, they went to the market early the next morning, and specially selected those locals who like to go into the mountains to collect medicine and hunt carefully, but unfortunately, Lu Fatzi and the others' mouths were almost dry, and most of the medicine pickers and hunters shook their heads, saying that they had not heard of the kind of tin ore described by Lu Fatzi. It wasn't until the afternoon that Lu Fatzi inquired from two belated medicine collectors that they had seen a stone with a silver-white metal sandwiched between them several times in the area of Dingjiantou near Fenghuang Mountain, just west of Nanning.

Of course, the silvery-white metal is very similar to tin, and under the great lift of spirits, Lu Fatzi immediately decided to prepare tools and dry food, and the next day he went to the vicinity of Phoenix Mountain to investigate on the spot to see if he could find the big tin mine that was basically dug out of the legend is pure tin. But just when Fat Lu was leading Xiao Erlang and the others to prepare tools, Fat Lu's open door was suddenly knocked on, and then Yu Xuan's crisp and beautiful voice that looked like a woman came in, and asked politely: "Lord Lu, can Yu Xuan come in?" ”

"General Liusan, please come in, this is your house, and the door is open, why be so polite?" Fat Lu hurriedly turned around and saluted Yu Xuan outside the door.

"Lord Shelu." Yu Xuanyan smiled, jumped into the room briskly like a woman, and then turned to look at Xiao Erlang, Fang Shiyu and the others who were packing their luggage in the room, and asked in surprise: "Lord Lu, why are you preparing so many dried steamed buns and salted meat, as well as clothes, are you going to go there?" ”

Speaking of this, Yu Xuan's face, which was beautiful enough to make any woman feel inferior, suddenly showed a nervous voice, and asked cautiously: "Lord Lu, don't you think our Lian family is not treating you well and are ready to leave Nanning?" ”

"Of course not." Fat Lu smiled, tried to stand far away from this beautiful man who looked very dangerous, and explained: "That's right, I inquired, more than twenty miles west of Nanning City, there is a Phoenix Mountain with very beautiful scenery, and it is also rich in very rare Jinhua tea, I plan to go there to visit and enjoy some scenery, because the distance is a bit far, so I have to prepare to spend the night there." ”

"Oh, I see." Yu Xuan breathed a sigh of relief, smiled again, and said: "Lord Lu is really amazing, I only came to Nanning for a few days to know the origin of Jinhua tea, it just so happens that Jinhua tea has bloomed in the past few days, it is a good time to visit, if Lord Lu does not dislike it, Yu Xuan will arrange some entourage for you, bring a few tents, so that you can visit with peace of mind?" ”

"Since that's the case, then Lu Yifeng is welcome." Lu Fatzi was worried about his lack of prospecting manpower, so he naturally agreed. At the end, Fat Lu asked again: "General Liusan, is there something you have to do with the students?" ”

Lu Yuxuan nodded, and looked at Xiao Erlang and the others present, looking like he wanted to speak and stopped, of course Lu Fatzi knew that he wanted Xiao Erlang and the others to leave, but seeing Yu Xuan's face that was more delicate than flowers, and the two soul-destroying mustaches on Yu Xuan's cherry mouth, Lu Fatzi had a little chrysanthemum twitching feeling, so he had to pretend to be deaf and dumb and smiled: "General Lu San, please say it directly, Lu Yifeng listens." ”

"Lord Lu, can you let the servants avoid it for a while?" Yu Xuan lowered his head and asked shyly with a slightly red face.

"No......." Fat Lu subconsciously just wanted to refuse, but he didn't think that several dogs, including Fang Shiyu, a fool, all saluted Yu Xuan like a conditioned reflex, and then went out of the room together, and closed the door tightly from the door. So, in the small room, there were only two left, the poor little sheep Lu Fatzi and the dangerous big bad wolf Yu Xuan.

"General Liusan, there is no one else, please say something if you have something." Fat Lu said in fear.

Yu Xuan didn't rush to speak, but slowly raised his head, a pair of big watery eyes full of sincerity, staring at Lu Fatzi, the cherry lips under the mustache were still trembling slightly, as if he was nervous about to say something psychological. Lu Fatzi's poor little heart couldn't help but tremble, for fear that this third son, who was absolutely good at a glance, would open his mouth to woo him - then Fat Lu would really not be able to stay in Nanning.

Suddenly, Yu Xuan suddenly took a step forward and walked straight towards Fat Lu, so frightened that Fat Lu hurriedly took two steps back, stumbled under his feet, and even sat on the ground with his ass............

"General Liusan, I really don't have that hobby!" Fat Lu almost screamed in despair.

(To be continued)