In order to verify whether Lin Tianqing was telling a lie or not, and in order to fight for as many interests as possible for the Yungui army, Lu Fatzi resolutely risked his head and brought a letter full of nonsense into the palace to test it. Who knew that after reading this letter, the old witch of Xiaozhuang immediately threw the letter full of Lu Fatzi's ghost talismans on the dragon case, and sneered loudly, "Lu Yifeng, you are really loyal to your prince of Pingxi!" Yesterday, Lin Tianqing was arranged to enter the palace to use a counter-strategy, and today he personally came to play Jiang Gan's book stealing in front of the mourning family, are you really a fool to be the mourning family and the emperor? ”

"Wechen is wronged!" Fat Lu knelt down with a plop, his forehead pressed against the ground, and shouted tremblingly: "Lafayette Mingjian, Weichen really doesn't know what you're talking about!" ”

"Lu Yifeng, your courage is indeed not small." Xiao Mazi sneered and said: "When Your Majesty saw me yesterday, Lin Tianqing had already explained to me truthfully, the reason why he entered the palace to show me the minimum salary of the Pingxi Palace, was a carefully arranged counter-plot!" The real military salary limit of Pingxi Wangfu is not 3.5 million taels! Lu Yifeng, what else do you have to say now? ”

"Your Majesty, Lord Lin, did he really say that?" Fat Lu raised his head in surprise and asked dumbfoundedly, "Lord Lin, his betrayal of the Pingxi Palace, is it a counter-plot deliberately arranged by someone?!" ”

"Lu Yifeng, do you still want to continue acting?" Aunt Su Mala also spoke, and said with a smile: "Lord Lin woke up quickly and took the initiative to confess his crimes, do you still want to continue to be obsessed and commit crimes against the king?" If you come from the truth, the emperor may also consider sparing your dog's life. ”

Xiaozhuang, Su Malagu and Xiao Mazi, you said a word, mercilessly pointed out the sinister intentions and vicious intentions of Lu Fatzi, and scolded Lu Fatzi so that he had a fat face and a colorless face, a fat belly and a body like chaff, and kept shouting in his mouth, "Lafayette, wronged!" Aunt Su Ma, wronged! Your Majesty, Weichen has been wronged! Weichen even ate the leopard's gall, and he didn't dare to bully the king! ”

"Do you still have the face to cry out for injustice?" Su Malagu sneered and said, "Since you are wronged, how can you explain Lin Tianqing's words?" Say! ”

"This ......, this ......." Fat Lu was completely speechless.

"Dog minion, do you still refuse to admit your guilt even now?" Xiao Mazi sank his face, patted the dragon case and shouted: "Come on, push this bullying Lu Yifeng out of the noon gate and behead the public!" ”

"Cover!" Li Xu, who was guarding the door of the Heart Cultivation Palace, was the first to happily agree, and the first to rush into the Heart Cultivation Palace, pressing the fat head of the fat man Lu to the ground, and laughing wildly in his heart: "Dead fat man, you also have today!" Over there, Cao Yin, Wolf Tan and other young guards also swarmed up, picked up Lu Fatzi and walked out.

"Your Majesty, spare your life, spare your life!" Fat Lu struggled desperately, crying bitterly and begging for mercy. But how could Lu Fatzi's small body struggle with Li Xu, Cao Yin and other young guards who practiced Buku every day, and they couldn't struggle with all the strength to eat. But when he was about to be put up at the door of the Heart Cultivation Palace, Lu Fatzi's crying and begging for mercy suddenly stopped, and he shouted like waking up from a dream, "Your Majesty, Weichen understands!" Wechen understands everything! Your Majesty, the micro-minister is guilty, the micro-minister is guilty! ”

"Slow! Drag him back. Xiao Mazi finally spoke. Li Xu, Cao Yin and the others over there were disappointed, but they had to drag Lu Fatzi back to his place, and Xiao Mazi asked: "Lu Yifeng, you said you understood, convicted?" ”

"Back to the emperor, Wechen understands, Wechen is guilty." Fat Lu cried and cried: "When I was dragged to the door of the main hall just now, Weichen suddenly understood everything!" It turned out that Weichen was tricked, and the prince of Pingxi sent Lord Lin to use the counter-plot, but Weichen didn't know what to do, and he was fooled, and introduced Lin Tianqing Lin to the emperor, and then Weichen was fooled again, and went to the prince's study to steal a fake letter to dedicate to the emperor, and almost missed the emperor's major event! Weichen said, Well, this letter from the prince of Pingxi, why didn't it be delivered early or late, but it was sent to the capital yesterday evening, and it happened that Weichen saw the messenger ......, and it took a long time, it turned out that someone deliberately deceived Weichen. ”

"Weichen damn it! Wechen is guilty! Wechen is confused! Wechen is stupid! was used by others, and Weichen was guilty! Please spare your life, please spare your life after the Empress Dowager Lafayette! ”

Fat Lu cried and shouted, crying so much that he was dead and alive, and the pear blossoms brought rain, which can be said to be sad for those who heard it, and cried for those who listened. Here, Xiao Mazi and the old witch of Xiaozhuang and others were silent, but they quickly exchanged a look with each other, and Xiao Mazi slapped the dragon case again, and roared: "Bold slave, so far, dare to quibble?" I have come to ask you, what kind of person is the Emperor of Zuodu, how can he accept bribes from others? You dog slave bullied the king, forget it, and you dare to frame the loyal ministers of the court, what crime should you be guilty of?! ”

"Wechen should be damned, Wechen should be damned!" Lu Fatzi slapped himself twice, and said with a sad face: "Wechen didn't dare to deceive the emperor, when Wechen secretly copied the letter, he also felt very incredible when he copied this paragraph - Lord Wang Xu, he is a great Qing official and loyal minister of our Qing Dynasty, how can he accept bribes from others?" It's just that Weichen actually saw this paragraph, so he didn't dare to copy it truthfully and report it to the emperor! Now that I think about it, it must be that Weichen fell for someone else's plan, was used by others, and inadvertently fell into someone else's plan, Weichen should die, please spare the emperor's life, please spare the emperor's life! ”

"Inadvertently fell for someone else's scheme?" Su Malagu laughed cruelly and said: "Master Lu, you are so good at quibbling, let me ask you, how tightly guarded is Wu Yingxiong's study, you are a seven-grade sesame official who lives in his mansion, you can neither climb over the wall nor sneak at night, can you enter his study so easily, swaggeringly copy his confidential letters and swagger away?" ”

"Back to Aunt Su Ma, Wechen won't go over the wall, but Wechen will take sweat medicine." Lu Fatzi hurriedly took out a small porcelain vase from his arms and explained: "The situation at that time was like this, when Weichen was with the prince of Pingxi, he happened to meet the messenger of the prince who handed this letter to the prince, and Weichen moved his mind and wanted to steal this letter and present it to the emperor. It happened that Weichen had this bottle of sweat medicine on his body, so he used the excuse of eating supper to find an opportunity to put the sweat medicine into the night snack of the Wu family on duty in the backyard, and turned them over, so that Weichen was able to touch into the study and copy the letter. ”

Xiao Mazi glanced at Li Xu and Cao Yin, and the two guards understood, took the porcelain vase, opened it and checked it, and finally said to Xiao Mazi reluctantly: "Your Majesty, this is indeed the sweat medicine that the thieves like to use." ”

"What are you doing with sweat medicine on your body at any time?" Aunt Su Mala asked unrelentingly.

"Return, go back to Aunt Su Ma, this is Weichen'......, it's Weichen'......." Lu Fatzi swallowed for a long time, and then said with a red face: "This is used by Weichen when he is looking for a woman, Weichen looks a little ugly, and the girls don't like it very much, and then Weichen asked Liu Zhen and Liu Xu, who were born in the rivers and lakes, to get this medicine, and take it with them at any time, and use ...... when they have the opportunity." ”

"Bold slave, dare to [***] people's girl!" Xiao Mazi laughed angrily.

"The emperor spares his life, Weichen is just ready to use it, but he has never used it on the girls." Fat Lu hurriedly shouted injustice.

"Even if you have this mind, you can't do it!" Xiao Mazi turned his face and shouted: "Take this dog slave down and listen to Hou's disposal!" ”

Li Xu, Cao Yin and others followed the order, and dragged Lu Fatzi, who was shouting for mercy, out of the Heart Cultivation Hall and temporarily imprisoned. Here, Xiao Mazi turned to the old witch of Xiaozhuang and said, "Grandmother, are you too careful?" Lu Yifeng risked his life to steal this crucial letter for me, which is enough to prove that he is indeed loyal to me, why do you insist on testing him? ”

"This letter is too important, this Lu Yifeng is too slippery, grandmother has to be careful." Xiaozhuang groaned and said, "Your Majesty, do you think this letter is true?" ”

"My grandson is a little skeptical." Xiao Mazi also groaned: "It stands to reason that in the first paragraph, Wu Sangui asked Wu Yingxiong to make appropriate concessions, which is understandable, over the years, I have adopted various strategies to break the three feudatories, and all kinds of spearheads are pointed at Wu Sangui, and Wu Sangui wants to lead the water to the east, which is very normal." But in the second paragraph, I don't understand, I know very well what kind of person Wang Xu is, he is as clear as water and as cheap as a mirror, he doesn't take a penny except for money, and he is so poor that he often has no overnight food, how can he accept a huge bribe from Wu Sangui? ”

"There are only two explanations." Xiaozhuang raised two fingers and said word by word: "First, this letter is all fake, and it is a counterplot used by Wu Sangui and his son to defraud huge military salaries and frame political enemies!" Another explanation is that this letter is all true, Wu Sangui's plan to ask for 3.5 million taels of military salary is true, and Wang Xu is also a white-eyed wolf in excellent disguise, who is honest on the surface, but behind his back he is greedy and bribe-taking, and he is vain in his grace! ”

"Lafayette, is there a possibility of half-truths?" Su Malagu interjected and said, "Is the matter of military pay true? Is Wang Xu's affair fake? ”

"Confused!" Xiaozhuang scolded: "Wu Sangui has eaten too much to hold on, why do you write a half-truth letter to your son?" ”

Lu Fatzi is indeed very good at grasping and analyzing the psychology of the enemy, Xiaozhuang said this, suddenly shivered, and said in his heart: "If this letter is fake, Wu Sangui and his son only need to mention military salaries, why deliberately mention Wang Xu's matter?" What is it that doesn't expose flaws? Would Wu Sangui and his son make such a mistake? Could it be that this letter is true? ”

Thinking about this, Xiaozhuang couldn't help but ask Xiao Mazi: "Grandson, Mingzhu took Wang Xu and Li Tianyu to investigate the assassination of Nan Huairen, how is the situation?" ”

"It's a mess!" Xiao Mazi said angrily: "Mingzhu reported to his grandson today, he summoned Yang Guangxian and Wu Mingxuan, who were the most suspects in this case, and the two refused to admit it, Mingzhu wanted to be tortured, Wang Xu resolutely objected, and asked Mingzhu to focus on the investigation of the missing Aobai guard, but now in this situation, does Mingzhu dare to investigate Aobai's body?" Now the case is deadlocked, and I don't know when the truth will be found. ”

Mingzhu didn't dare to check the reason for Aobai's body, of course Xiaozhuang understood, and when he heard Wang Xu's insistence on checking Aobai's body, Xiaozhuang was secretly annoyed that Wang Xu didn't know how to change and ignore the overall situation, and it was inevitable that he had some suspicions, "Could this Wang Xu be deliberately trying to mess up this water?" Judging from all kinds of signs, the old thing Ao Bai still stood with the mourning family and the emperor in the matter of salary, thinking about how to reduce Wu Sangui's military salary as much as possible and save silver for the court and the treasury. If this Wang Xu muddies the water as he wishes, and involves Nan Huairen's case on Aobai, and Aobai and the emperor completely break up, then wouldn't Wu Sangui be ....... ”

Thinking of this, Xiaozhuang couldn't help but have a creepy feeling, and said in his heart that if this is the case, then this Wang Xu is really too disguised, the big annihilation seems to be loyal, the real annihilation seems to be loyal!

"Grandmother, what do you think?" Seeing that Xiaozhuang was silent for a long time, Xiao Mazi couldn't help but ask anxiously: "Do you think this letter is true or false?" Is Lu Yifeng loyal or annihilated? ”

"For a while, it was difficult for my grandmother to judge." Xiaozhuang groaned and said: "But this time, grandmother thinks that Lu Yifeng is loyal to your grandson, even if this letter is fake, he must not know the truth and is just being used." After all, if he deliberately sent a fake letter and exposed a little flaw, it was the danger of falling to the ground, and Wu Sangui didn't have much kindness to him, and it was impossible to offer him a higher price than the emperor to buy him, so he couldn't take such a big risk for Wu Sangui. ”

"I'll just say, how could a loyal and honest courtier like Lu Yifeng do something sorry for me?" Xiao Mazi patted the dragon case and came to a conclusion that made him regret his green intestines.

"Lafayette, what about the authenticity of this letter?" Su Malagu asked: "Although the military salary figure mentioned in the letter is the same as what Lin Tianqing reported to the emperor, it also reveals the important news that Wu Sangui intends to make appropriate concessions. But if you want to say that Wang Xu is a corrupt official and accepted Wu Sangui's silver, the slave and maid are the first to not believe it! ”

"Su Ma, do you remember when Li Zicheng entered Yanjing?" Xiaozhuang said slowly: "At that time, Chongzhen raised salaries from the ministers in order to raise military salaries to deal with Li Zicheng and our Qing Dynasty, and the ministers were more fierce than one another, but when Li Zicheng entered Yanjing, when he put a knife on their necks, they paid the silver faster than one another. - This is a common disease of the Han people, and it is also a common disease of all officials! ”

"Grandmother, in this way, do you suspect that Wang Xu is just a hypocrite who is loyal and has really accepted Wu Sangui's silver?" Xiao Mazi asked nervously.

"It doesn't matter whether Wang Xu accepts money or not, whether he is a corrupt official or not." Xiaozhuang sneered and said, "There are fewer corrupt officials in the court? Suo Etu, Mingzhu, Kana, Wu Liuyi, which of these families is not a mountain of gold and silver? Can they afford such a large family business by their rewards alone? Therefore, corrupt officials are not terrible, the key is where the butt of this corrupt official sits - if the position is wrong, even if it is a really clean official, it is more terrible than a hundred corrupt officials! ”

It seems that there is a great talent who said that the palace and the Jiyuan are the most hypocritical places in the world, Xiao Mazi grew up in this kind of place, and naturally he is also used to seeing the ushering in, hypocrisy, and a set of backs in front of the face to see people and talk about ghosts, coupled with the power and teaching of Xiaozhuang and Su Malagu for many years, Xiao Mazi, who is quite talented, immediately heard some of Xiaozhuang's off-strings. After thinking about it carefully, Xiao Mazi couldn't help but blurt out: "Grandmother, do you mean that Wang Xu has been bought by Wu Sangui?" Now he plans to use the Nan Huairen case to provoke me and Ao Bai to lose peace with the monarch and ministers, and sabotage my and Ao Bai's plan to reduce Wu Sangui's military salary, so that Wu Sangui can benefit from the fisherman? ”

"The mourning family is only suspicious at the moment, and thinks it is possible." Hyo-joon nodded. After thinking about it carefully, Xiaozhuang picked up Lu Fatzi's letter, found out the subsections of the first paragraph and the second paragraph, and carefully tore it from the middle. At the end, Xiaozhuang handed the first paragraph to Xiao Mazi and instructed: "Grandson, do this, you copy the first half of this letter, and give the copy to Wang Hongzuo and Marseille (the sixth year of Kang Mazi's Hubu Han Manshang Book), and let them work out a number of military salaries in Yunnan and Guizhou provinces according to Wu Sangui's military salary ceiling, as our salary floor." ”

"My grandson understands." Xiao Mazi agreed, and then asked, "What about the original?" Leave it to Aobai? ”

"No, the original is for Shang Zhixiao and Geng Juzhong." Xiaozhuang replied quietly.

"Wonderful!" Xiao Mazi was overjoyed and said: "Shang Zhixiao and Geng Juzhong saw that Wu Sangui planned to betray them like this, and they would inevitably have the idea of devouring Wu Sangui alive, and they would inevitably make major concessions on the matter of salary!" ”

"The second half will be handed over to Mingzhu." Xiaozhuang handed the second paragraph to Xiao Mazi again, and Yin Yin said: "Let Mingzhu secretly investigate whether Wang Xu is corrupt and bribery, if so, then you don't have to be polite." These days, Ao Bai has significantly strengthened the control of the Gyeonggi army, and most of the people in the court are his henchmen, so in this case, Ao Bai can no longer be stimulated. ”

"It's still the grandmother who thinks about it, and the grandson understands." Xiao Mazi nodded solemnly - he has been in power for less than a year, and most of the power of the court is still in the hands of Aobai.

"Grandmother, what about Lu Yifeng?" Xiao Mazi asked embarrassed again: "This kid risked his life to give me such an important letter, and I want to scare him, what should I say when I see him?" ”

"Su Ma, I'll leave this matter to you." Xiaozhuang lightly instructed Su Malagu: "You go and explain to Lu Fatzi, such a big matter, the emperor and the mourning family have to be cautious, ask him to understand the difficulties of the emperor and the mourning family, let him forget about the incident with Suo Mintai last time, and don't mention it when you see the emperor." ”

"And the emperor, Lu Yifeng is loyal, you should also give him a reward, just raise a flag for him, secretly seal an official position in the Internal Affairs Office, let him and Lin Tianqing go to Yunnan, and keep an eye on Wu Sangui's old thing."

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After returning to Yunnan, when Lu Fatzi told Liu Xuanchu about this thrilling trip to the palace to dedicate books, Liu Xuanchu not only did not praise Lu Fatzi, but was furious and scolded Lu Fatzi for being a bloody dog, "Confused!" You know that even if the imperial court only gives the prince 2.5 million taels of military salary, the prince can accept it, why do you take such a big risk to enter the palace to offer fake books? Do you know that if Lin Tianqing sells you in advance, you will definitely not be able to leave the palace alive! Gambling on your family name for a little silver, are you the material for doing big things? ”

"Teacher, the student knows that this move is very risky, but the student also saw it before taking this risky move." Lu Fatzi was not in a hurry, and said with a smile: "The student had already expected that no matter whether Lin Tianqing betrayed the student or not, Kang Mazi and the Empress Dowager would not kill the student and would let the student go." ”

"Why?" Liu Xuanchu asked in surprise.

"Teacher, please think about it." Lu Fatzi said slowly: "If Lin Tianqing really betrayed the students, then when the students presented fake books, why did the emperor and the empress dowager kill the students?" Killing the students is tantamount to telling the prince and the prince that Lin Tianqing has sold them and has completely fallen to the imperial court, and the imperial court is also completely uneasy about the prince and the prince, so they are willing to take such an inconsequential seven-pin county as the student for a vital governor of Yunnan Province? Are they cost-effective? ”

"Besides." Speaking of this, Fat Lu smiled even more gloomily, "If they reveal their hostility towards the prince and the prince, and force the prince and the prince to be really anxious, aren't they afraid that the prince and the prince will completely fall to worship?" Join forces with Aobai to fight them? Therefore, the students dare to conclude that even if Kang Mazi and the old witch of the Empress Dowager knew that the students were offering fake books, they would not kill the students and startle the snakes, but would only pretend to be a plan and let the students leave with a swagger! ”

"Don't tell the teacher." Lu Fatzi smiled and said to the stunned Liu Xuanchu: "In fact, as early as the Empress Dowager's first sentence, the old witch accused the student of playing Jiang Gan and stealing books, and the student had already concluded that Lin Tianqing did not sell the student - otherwise, would the old witch still need to bluff the student?" Pretending to be fooled directly, wouldn't it be more beneficial for her and Kang Mazi to kill the prince by surprise when the time comes? ”

(To be continued)