When Lu Fatzi was still guiding the people to carry out spring ploughing work in the farmland of Qujing County, on February 25, Lin Tianqing's team, which turned over and re-appointed as the governor of Yunnan, finally arrived at the Shengjing Pass at the junction of Yunnan and Guizhou. This is a rather large team, in addition to the three hundred elite soldiers who escorted Lin Tianqing to his post, there are hundreds of variegated teams composed of maids, masters, clerks, long-term followers and servants, surrounded by Lin Tianqing's green sedan chair and four small sedan chairs sitting inside, and ascended to the Shengjing Pass located on the top of the mountain.

This is a very magical pass, there are two pairs of stone lions under the famous archway, facing the stone lion of Yunnan side, covered with dry thin soil red dust for many years, facing Guizhou side but covered with lush moss, less than three feet apart but distinct, and at the foot of the stone lion, it is the natural formation, more distinct soil demarcation line, Yunnan side is red soil, Guizhou side is brown soil, like a line over the mountains and mountains, through the river and the stream, stretching for hundreds of miles, neatly and neatly separate Guizhou and Yunnan provinces, the magic of nature, It's truly breathtaking.

Along the post road from Pingguan Bazi slowly ascended to the only shorter Shengjing Pass in the ridge, Lin Tianqing, who gave up the sedan chair and rode the horse, saw at first glance that there was a long queue in front of the Shengjing Pass, headed by his old friend Li Shuzu, the prefect of Qujing, when he was the governor of Yunnan last time. Looking at the familiar old subordinates, and then looking at the familiar Yunnan landscapes, Lin Tianqing couldn't help but feel proud and emotional, "It's been four years, I'm back, I'm finally back!" I thought I would never have a chance again. ”

"Playing music! Play "Triumph Order"! Li Shuzu, who came from Qujing Mansion City to Shengjing Guan to pat his fart, couldn't wait to shout, and the bands on both sides hurriedly sang in unison, playing a joyful movement that warmly welcomed the return of Lin Zhongcheng. Li Shuzu led a large group of civil officials and military generals of Qujing Mansion to step forward, and he knelt under the Guanming archway respectfully, and shouted in unison: "Humble rank, welcome Lord Chenglin in this province to take office." ”

"Su Yuan, please get up quickly, my lords, please get up quickly." Lin Tianqing turned over and dismounted, personally picked up Li Shuzu, and said with a smile: "Su Yuan, you and I are also old acquaintances, why are you so polite, come to Shengjing to greet me in person?" This Qujing City is not close to Shengjing Pass, it is more than 100 miles. ”

"Lord Zhongcheng is polite." Li Shuzu said pretendedly: "Lin Zhongcheng once again served as the governor of Yunnan, the minister of Yunnan, this is the supreme blessing of the people of Yunnan, the humble rank can spread the holy grace under the wise leadership of Zhongcheng, and benefit the people, which is also the supreme blessing of the humble grade, so there is a reason not far away from the border?" ”

"Hehe, Su Yuan is still so good at talking." Lin Tianqing smiled happily, looked up at the Qujing civil and military officials behind Li Shuzu, and found a lot of old departments from them, but he didn't see the new acquaintance, Lin Tianqing asked casually: "Su Yuan, where is Lu Yifeng?" Why didn't he come? ”

"Why did Old Man Lin take the initiative to ask about Lu Yifeng?" Li Shuozu was a leng, in order to pat Lin Tianqing's sycophants this time, he deliberately took Qujing's civil and military officials to run more than 100 miles to greet Lin Tianqing, of course, he refused to take the eye-catching Lu Fatty, and was ready to find an opportunity to take some eye medicine in front of Lin Tianqing, saying how Lu Fatzi was so arrogant and conceited, so that Lin Tianqing was dissatisfied with Lu Fatman, and then acted cheaply. It's just that what Li Shuzu couldn't have imagined was that Lin Tianqing, the governor of a province, would take the initiative to ask about such a small county magistrate as Lu Fatzi, and his tone was so kind.

"In the forest." Liu Wenjin, the chief soldier of the Qujing Green Battalion, who was directly under Lin Tianqing, stood up and said honestly: "When I went out of the city, Lu Yifeng reported to Zhongcheng with his humble position, he was just a Qujing County order, and he didn't dare to set up his duties without permission, and now is the spring ploughing season, Lord Lu is busy organizing and supervising the people to carry out spring ploughing, so he won't come to Shengjing Pass to greet you, please forgive me." ”

"Lin Zhongcheng, don't listen to that guy Lu Yifeng." Li Shuzu took the opportunity to take the bad medicine and said: "Speaking of this Lu Yifeng, he is not only an ordinary madman, he has always been in his eyes, he has been in Qujing for a month, and he refused to even do the routine ceremony of meeting his boss, how could he come so far to meet you?" According to the lower officials, this Lu Yifeng didn't take others seriously at all. ”

"Miyoshi is not such a person." Lin Tianqing shook his head and said with a smile: "I know the old man Sanhao very well, and he may be a little arrogant, but he is still very respectful and respectful to his elders and superiors. And he is also very right, it is spring ploughing now, and as the county governor of Qujing, he should put the organization of the people to open up the wasteland and sow seeds in the first place, and it is natural that he will not come to welcome me. ”

Li Shuzu was dumbfounded, Liu Wenjin opened his mouth, and knew that Zhang Gaomo secretly wiped a handful of sweat, secretly glad that he had never provoked the plague god Lu Fatzi. Lin Tianqing said again: "Su Yuan, Wen Jin, the two of you are officials in the same city as Yifeng, and you are his boss, you have to help him a little, if there is any mistake, you must point out in time and help him correct it, even if he offends you, please look at the old man's face and bear with it." Of course, if he really goes too far, you can rest assured that the old man will do justice for you. ”

Li Shuzu continued to be dumbfounded, and Liu Wenjin saw the wind and said: "Lord Zhongcheng's instructions are right, and I remember my humble duties with my heart." In fact, there is no need for Lord Zhongcheng to say that the lowly post has also done the same, a few days ago, there were a few lowly subordinates who stepped on the horse, and the lowly post also immediately tied them up and sent them to Lord Lu for treatment - if Lord Zhongcheng didn't believe it, he could do it for Lord Li and Lord Zhang, they were all witnessed. ”

"Really?" Lin Tianqing was very happy and said, "Wen Jin, you can put down your identity and maintain the law and discipline like this, the old man is very happy. It seems that I haven't seen you for four years, Wen Jin, you have grown a lot, you are no longer Wuxia Ameng, and in the future, the military affairs of Qujing Mansion, the old man can worry a lot less. ”

Hearing this, of course, Liu Wenjin was so smiling that his eyes were about to squint, Zhang Gaomo and the rest of the civil and military officials all looked at each other, and they all warned themselves in their hearts - don't provoke Lu Yifeng's plague god! Li Shuzu almost vomited blood, and couldn't help asking: "Lin Zhongcheng, Lord Lu Yifeng, Lord Lu, is your protégé?" ”

"Neither." Lin Tianqing shook his head and said casually: "Although he has always served me as an elder, the old man treats him as a year-old. After that, Lin Tianqing looked at the sky again and urged: "It's not early, everyone don't hold on to it, those false etiquette should be waived, if you delay it any longer, you won't be able to spend the night in Pingyi before dark." ”

"Obey Zhongcheng's orders." All the officials agreed together, and hurriedly hugged Lin Tianqing through the pass, scrambling to be almost sycophant, and they were extremely enthusiastic. Only Li Shuzu stood still, motionless, and his mind was overturned, "What kind of character is this Fat Lu man?" Why is Lin Tianqing's old thing so biased towards him, so that as soon as we met, he warned us that we must tolerate Fat Lu? Isn't it too irrational for me to break up with him? ”

Things have come to this point, although Li Shuzu regretted that his intestines were blue because of the fact that his brother-in-law and Lu Fatzi turned their faces, and he also scolded his brother-in-law in his stomach - if he hadn't pushed himself to the opposite side of Lu Fatzi for dozens of acres of land, things would have been like this? But there was no turning back when he opened the bow, and Li Shuzu had no other way but to go all the way to the dark, ready to fight to the death with Lu Fatzi. Thinking about this, Li Shuzu gritted his teeth, and stomped his foot to catch up with Lin Tianqing.

Fortunately, before it was dark, Lin Tianqing's team finally arrived in time to Pingyi (now Fuyuan), which had not yet established a county at that time. During the banquet, Long Kuo Tusi even brought up the topic of Lu Fatzi, and asked Lin Tianqing curiously: "Lord Lin, what is the matter with Lu Yifeng, the commander of Qujing County, you Han people?" ”

"What's wrong with Lu Yifeng? Is there anything about him that offends Long Kuo Toast? Lin Tianqing was a little nervous, Long Kuo's toast is not a good stubble, someone has a knife and a territory, and he is stuck in Yungui's throat, if Lu Fatzi has a conflict with him, it is really inconvenient for him to mediate favoritism.

"No offense, the messenger he sent was kind." Long Kuo Tusi was very refreshing, and said directly: "I'm just wondering, how could he send someone to persuade me to plant a hibiscus?" He also sent me fifty acres of hibiscus seeds, saying that as long as I planted these hibiscus like wheat, after half a year, he would buy these hibiscus back with so much silver that I couldn't imagine, Lord Lin, is Lu Yifeng bragging? Are these things smaller than sesame seeds really that valuable? ”

"Oh, I see." Lin Tianqing breathed a sigh of relief.

"Speaking of which, Lin Zhongcheng, about this matter, Lu Yifeng should also be impeached." Li Shuzu took the opportunity to say: "After Lu Yifeng took over Qujing County, he also vigorously encouraged the people of Qujing to plant hibiscus, advocating that planting hibiscus can help the people of Qujing get rid of poverty and become rich and make a fortune - the people refused to plant, and he also forced the people to plant. Originally, there was nothing to grow medicinal herbs, but things like hibiscus have always been imported from the West, and no one has ever planted them in the Qing Dynasty. When the time comes, there will be a civil uprising, but it will be a big deal. ”

"Lu Yifeng really forced the people to plant Hibiscus?" Lin Tianqing puffed out his eyes, stared at Li Shuzu solemnly and asked.

Of course, Li Shuzu wanted to say that Lu Fatzi forced the people to plant, and even wanted to say that some people were unwilling to plant, but he was arrested by Lu Fatzi and beaten to death in prison. But considering Lin Tianqing's cordial tone when he mentioned Lu Fatzi, Li Shuzu still swallowed these nonsense back into his stomach and said vaguely: "It seems to have it, right?" The lowly position is also reported by the officials, and the specifics are not clear. ”

"Then you go and find out, if Lu Yifeng forces the people to plant a hibiscus, then of course the official will not spare him." Lin Tianqing breathed a sigh of relief again and said, "But if the people listened to his persuasion and volunteered to plant Hibiscus, then the official would not care." ”

"Lord Lin, you haven't said whether this Furong is worth anything or not." Long Kuo Tusi protested.

"Long Kuo Toast rest assured, this thing is not only valuable, it is simply more expensive than gold!" Lin Tianqing twisted his white beard and said with a smile: "As early as the Tang Dynasty, this hibiscus was a good medicine for diseases, but this thing is not produced in China, so it can only be purchased from foreign domains, and the price is very high. So you can rest assured that Longkuo Toast, plant a little less first, if you can really grow well in the land of Qujing, then Longkuo Toast you are waiting to get rich, it is several times more cost-effective than you grow food. ”

"Really?" Long Kuo Tusi was overjoyed and said: "I think so too, anyway, what I have is land and babies, so I have planted all the fifty acres of hibiscus seeds, just thinking that if I can really exchange so much silver, next year, I will plant more, or even plant all of them!" ”

"You can only use the spare land to plant, not all of it." Lin Tianqing was quite calm and reminded: "No matter what, we must ensure that the food grown is enough for the people to eat, if we plant too much Hibiscus and the food is not enough to eat, then it will be a big trouble." ”

"That's for later, and I'll talk about it later." Long Kuo Toast laughed, and he didn't take this matter to heart at all. - Of course, if Long Kuo Tusi knew that his descendants would be killed countless by the descendants of Lu Fatzi who encouraged him to plant this thing, and his family would be destroyed, he would definitely take Lin Tianqing's advice to heart.

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At the end of the pleasant banquet, the beautiful girls who danced and offered wine went down to rest with the officials of all sizes, Lin Tianqing with his family and self-contained identity, so he refused Long Kuo's kindness, and led his henchman Yang Ruqi back to the room arranged by Long Kuo alone, where he rested for the night. But after returning to the room, when Lin Tianqing was still drinking tea to relieve his hangover, the door of the room was quietly knocked, "Lin Zhongcheng, is Lord Zhongcheng resting?" Li Shuzu, the lowly prefect of Qujing, has some trivial matters that he wants to report to Lord Zhongcheng alone. ”

"I knew that when Lu Yifeng arrived in Qujing, he would definitely face off with Li Shuzu, and that was the case. It seems that the old man also has to be a peacemaker. Lin Tianqing sighed and muttered in a low voice, and glanced at Yang Ruqi, who understood and hurriedly went out to open the door of the outer room. Li Shuzu, who was outside the door, couldn't wait to thank Yang Ruqi, and beckoned to the back, and the master Bi Huibin immediately led four servants, carrying a heavy box and following in, until he was carried to the inner room where Lin Tianqing was, put down the box and kowtowed to retire, leaving Lin Tianqing, Yang Ruqi, Li Shuzu and Bi Huibin to talk secretly in the room.

"Humble Li Shuzu, please say hello to Lord Zhongcheng." Li led the ancestors to kneel down and kowtow, got up and opened the box again, revealing a large box full of white flowers and silver, and said flatteringly: "Lord Zhongcheng has been reinstated and served as the governor of Yunnan again. ”

Lin Tianqing is a master with a seriously unclean ass in this regard, so he is accustomed to Li Shuzu's actions, but his eyelids moved, and he said, "Li Futai, what are you doing here?" This official has always been honest and honest, and his sleeves are clean, and he doesn't accept these things, isn't it a bit too much for you to do this? ”

"Fuck, if you really have a clean breeze on your sleeves, the last time you were the governor of Yunnan, you wouldn't have taken more than 5,000 taels from Lao Tzu!" Li Shuzu roared in his heart, and said flatteringly: "Lord Zhongcheng teaches a lesson, but the humble position does not mean to tarnish the official motto of Lord Zhongcheng, these inconspicuous little things are just a little caution from the humble position to Lord Zhongcheng, and I hope that Lord Zhongcheng will not shirk." ”

"Then ......, let's not take it as an example." Lin Tianqing snorted, and reluctantly accepted Li Shuzu's little heart.

"Just accept it." Li Shuzu breathed a sigh of relief, knowing that Lin Tianqing was still quite faithful-at least, he didn't often accept money like he did. After secretly rejoicing, Li Shuzu hurriedly said: "Lord Zhongcheng, I will meet Lord Zhongcheng here, and there is one more thing, that is, I want to impeach a person ......." ”

"Do you want to impeach Lu Yifeng?" Lin Tianqing interrupted Li Shuzu and said, "You still want me to ask for the king's order flag, and cut Lu Yifeng first, right?" ”

"Lord Zhongcheng, how do you know?" Li led the ancestor for a moment, and then suddenly came to his senses, and asked tremblingly: "Could it be that Lu Yifeng and Lord Zhongcheng have correspondence?" ”

"Not really." Lin Tianqing shook his head and said with a wry smile: "It's just that this official has long expected that with the surnames of you and Lu Yifeng, if two people are placed in the same city, they will inevitably face each other in the same city, and the fight will be dark and inextricable-today you said bad things about Lu Yifeng in front of the old man twice, and the old man knew that the old man's prediction was accurate." ”

"Damn, I'm scared to death." Li Shuzu breathed a sigh of relief again, and hurriedly said: "Lord Zhongcheng is really like a god, this time he is indeed preparing to impeach Lu Yifeng, and I want to ask Lord Zhongcheng to re-treat him." But the lowly position is not for personal grudges, but this Lu Yifeng is indeed too deceitful and too much, even if he confronts his boss, he also fabricates rumors to slander the lowly position, beats the lowly subordinates on the street, and arrests the subordinates of the lowly yamen at will, which is unconstitutional and rampant! The lowly position was unbearable, so I turned my face with him. ”

"Does he do these things?" Lin Tianqing asked slowly.

Li Shuzu was speechless, so he had to lower his head. Lin Tianqing sighed and said, "The old man knows that you can't answer the old man's question. Lu Yifeng has always done things without leakage, does not take full advantage of legal principles, and never acts rashly! What he said to you must have been based on real evidence, otherwise, he wouldn't have joked about his head and top. ”

"But, but ......." Li Shuzu wanted to quibble.

"But what?" Lin Tianqing interrupted Li Shuzu's words, shook his head and said, "Su Yuan, what do you want to say, the old man knows very well. Yes, the old man has the right to take off Lu Yifeng's top, and he can also cut it first and then play it, and ask the king to kill Lu Yifeng with the banner, but do you have any evidence? Is there any evidence for the old man to do this? ”

"I have, I have buried the stone man by the Bada River in Qujing." Li Shuzu whispered in his heart.

"Of course, you can also fabricate charges against him and fabricate some incriminating evidence." Lin Tianqing continued: "But, do you know that Wu Yingqi is not the only backer behind Lu Yifeng? Let me tell you the truth, Lu Yifeng entered Beijing this time to see His Majesty, he lived with the old man in the palace of the prince of Pingxi, and the prince of Pingxi also wanted to leave Lu Yifeng in the capital to be his helper, and the emperor and Ao Zhongtang also wanted to promote Lu Yifeng and let him serve as the two Huai patrol salt roads - that was the fat difference that the world could count with his fingers, but Lu Yifeng refused. ”

"Think about it, a person like Lu Yifeng, you use fabricated charges and fabricated evidence to deal with him, are you able to bring him down? Or will it be self-inflicted? ”

Finally, after Lin Tianqing finished speaking, Li Shuzu's teeth were already fighting, and he said tremblingly: "The emperor and Ao Zhongtang both appreciate him? Do you want to reward him with the world's first fat shortage on the Lianghuai Patrol Salt Road? So why did he refuse? ”

"Why refuse? Don't you understand? Lin Tianqing asked rhetorically: "If it weren't for the long-term vision, lofty goals and certain certainty, would he give up that fat shortage?" Tell me about yourself, if you are not sure that you will have a brighter future in the future, you will be willing to give up the first fat shortage and two Huai salt laws in the world and voluntarily go to Qujing to be a seven-grade county magistrate? When you fight him, aren't you killing yourself? ”

"Lord Zhongcheng is a clear man, and he doesn't want to fight him." Li Shuzu cried and mourned, and said honestly: "Let's be honest with Zhongcheng, the origin of the conflict between the lowly and him is because the lowly brother-in-law is not angry and covets the people's more than 20 acres of fertile land, he enforces the law impartially, and the lowly wants to save the brother-in-law, so he turned his face." ”

"In this case, don't expect to save your brother-in-law." Lin Tianqing raised his head, looked at the roof and said: "Judge how you want, don't show favoritism, don't bend the law, don't kill him." Su Yuan, we are old friends, and I am also for your good - quietly tell you that Lu Yifeng's excerpts can bypass you and me, and even bypass the six departments and the upper study, and be sent directly to the emperor, and even directly to the Empress Dowager Lafayette! Fighting him in this kind of thing that he is completely in possession of, unless you are tired of it. ”

Li Shuzu not only fought with his teeth, but his whole body trembled like a sieve of chaff - in fact, this is also good, if Li Zhifu knew that Shi Lang, the admiral of the water division, and Tuhai, a scholar of the Hongwen Academy, were also under the ruthless Lu Fat butcher's knife, then Li Zhifu would be able to pee his pants on the spot.

glanced at Li Shuzu sympathetically, and Lin Tianqing said again: "So, the old man advises you, Suyuan, you can bear with it, don't fight with Lu Yifeng, he can do whatever he likes, even if he wants to be Qujing's prefect to point fingers at you, you have to endure it, because you just want to lose with him!" Anyway, with his own talents, as well as the emperor, Pingxi Wangfu and Aozhongtang his appreciation, it won't be long before he can be promoted and transferred away, and then you can not only be the emperor of Qujing again, but also inherit the good situation he left you, and get more, isn't it the best of both worlds? ”

"Lord Zhongcheng, your hard work and humble duties are understood, and thank you." Li Shuzu almost didn't shed tears, and said with a sad face: "You can save your brother-in-law if you don't save your brother-in-law, you can clean it up as you want, and you can also bow to Lu Yifeng if you want to do it. However, Lord Lu, he doesn't spare his humble position, these days, he has received dozens of complaints against his humble position, and he has also mastered a lot of real evidence, and he went to give him gifts and climb relatives, but he used mean words to greatly humiliate his humble position, and it was clear that he wanted to fight to the death with his humble position. ”

"In this way, Lu Yifeng has gone a little too far, and he is too unforgiving." Lin Tianqing was not afraid that Li Shuzu would be sad, so he said to himself in person: "No, after the old man sees him, he has to scold this little fat man - like him, it is very offensive in the officialdom and not good for his future." ”

"What about the lowly position?" Li Shuzu was about to cry - Lin Tianqing's words didn't think about him at all.

"The old man came forward and asked for a favor for you." Lin Tianqing said helplessly: "When you get to Qujing, the old man will take you to make amends for him, for the sake of the old man's old face, I think he will let you go, and he will not continue to fight with you." - But the old man said it first, the old man doesn't care about your brother-in-law's matter, Lu Yifeng acted according to the law, even if you set a hanged sentence for your brother-in-law, you don't want to ask the old man to intercede and hit the wooden clock. ”

"Lord Xie Zhongcheng, Lord Xie Zhongcheng is gracious." Li Shuzu kowtowed again and again, and said from the bottom of his heart: "As long as Master Lu can no longer target the lowly position, the lowly position can not save the brother-in-law, and he can no longer interfere in all his government affairs, let alone dare to wear small shoes for him, even if he wants to be the Taishang prefect of Qujing, it's okay!" ”

"As long as you have this in mind." Lin Tianqing was very satisfied with the effect of his intimidation and threat, and said with relief: "I guess you can guess it, the old man has a very shallow relationship with Lu Yifeng, and if the old man comes forward, he will not give the old man this face." ”

The dignified governor Lin Tianqing's face, of course, Lu Fatzi can't help but sell it, but if he doesn't downcast Li Shuzu, and doesn't put this informant and hardcore Han Zhan to death, Lu Fatzi doesn't dare to let go of many big things, and when Lin Tianqing arrives in Qujing City and takes Li Shuzu to intercede, how should Lu Fatzi deal with it? If you want to know what will happen next, please prepare the starting point coin to subscribe to the next chapter, "The Governor is Coming"!

(To be continued)