Chapter 429: Destiny Returns

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Lu Fatzi decided to move out of the splendid Forbidden City and live in the Fengtai military camp full of big men, not to mention that the civil and military officials of the Fat Army disagreed, but several wives of Lu Fatzi did not agree, especially Xiao Chili, who was already pregnant, and even more crying and fussing said that he would not leave the Forbidden City, and he was even more unwilling to go to the cow and sheepskin tent to raise the fetus and give birth. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

There is also Lu Yu'er, who is not from Pingxi Palace, has no feelings for the Honghua Imperial Court, and the dowry of her mother's family is even more generous, and among Lu Fatzi's several wives, she actually wants Lu Fatzi to be the emperor more than Xiao Pepper, so I heard that Lu Fatzi decided to move out of the Forbidden City in order to prove that he had no ambition to be emperor, and Lu Yuer also jumped three feet high, pointed at Lu Fatzi's nose and scolded Lu Fatzi for a bloody dog, and also threatened to pull up the Guangxi generals in the Fat Army's team to launch a mutiny, For Lu Fatzi, he killed the loyal ministers of the Wu clan who opposed Lu Fatzi's claim to be emperor in the ranks of the Fat Man Army, as well as their children, and put Lu Fatzi on the throne.

Shang Wanzhen doesn't care, except for her son who was detained as a hostage in Yunnan, she basically has nothing to worry about, no matter where she lives, where there is Lu Fatzi, it is her home. Wu Xiaosuo was already weak, and Lu Fatzi's decision to move out of the Forbidden City was partly due to her father, so she didn't dare to say anything except crying. However, Lu Fatzi's two Mongolian concubines who played soy sauce were a little happy, because the environment of the barracks was actually similar to the yurt they lived in when they were children, and not only did they not feel uncomfortable living in the tent, but they also seemed to have returned to their hometown.

Xiao Chili and Lu Yu'er are useless to oppose it, Lu Fatzi is Wang Ba is hard-hearted, announced that he would move out of the Forbidden City on the morning of the first day of July, and packed up and moved into the Fengtai camp in the afternoon of the same day, and forced Xiao Chili and Lu Yu'er to move together, and threatened that if Xiao Pepper and Lu Yu'er dared to fall into injustice, they would divorce their wives! Seeing that Lu Fatzi was resolute and said such heartless words for the first time, Yuer and Little Pepper had no choice, so they had to scold Fat Lu for having no conscience, and at the same time obediently packed up and moved to live in Fengtai Camp.

Lu Fatzi, who is only one step away from the world, moved out of the Forbidden City, the news of course caused a sensation in the entire Yanjing City, and at the same time, the reason why Lu Fatzi moved to Fengtai Daying to live was also spread intentionally or unintentionally by the civil and military officials of the Fat Army, and soon made the entire capital a household name. In this regard, there are those who applaud and those who scold Lu for being stupid, but more people don't care, anyway, the emperor has to be someone, and it doesn't matter if the surname Lu is or the surname Wu.

By the way, Wu Laohan gave a dream to Lu Fatzi, saying that if Wu Shifan lived in the Forbidden City, it would cause disaster, and it was also used as a joke and a warning at the same time in Gyeonggi Zhili to spread wildly, and some fools and fools who were brainwashed by feudal superstition believed that they would be suspicious, but more people listened to it as a joke after tea and dinner, and scoffed at Wu Laohan's warning.

On the second day of the seventh month, Wu Shifan's pure gold statue was jointly cast by Wang Shirong and Feng Su, which is very similar to Wu Shifan's appearance. In the early morning of the next day, Lu Fatzi personally led the civil and military officials to welcome the golden statue of Wu Shifan into the Qianqing Palace, and led the civil and military officials to kneel and bow to the golden bow three times, and officially confirmed that Yanjing was the Great Zhou Yanjing and the Forbidden City was the Great Zhou Palace. At the same time, Wu Lao Han's spiritual seat was stationed in Yanjing Taimiao, and Lu Fatzi led the crowd to pay tribute, fulfilling his duty as a courtier.

In the next period of time, Lu Fatzi for the convenience of the office, asked the fat man Liucao Yamen to also move to the Fengtai camp, Lu Fatzi's lackeys and accomplices did not dare to disobey, obediently according to the order, Lu Fatzi ordered to expand the camp size of the Fengtai camp, while trying to appease the lackeys and accomplices, and asked the lackeys to understand their own hardships, as a courtier of the Great Zhou, he really should not do the disloyal, unfilial piety, unkind and unrighteous usurpation. Lu Fatzi's henchmen and lackeys were full of resentment, but seeing that Lu Fatzi's attitude of refusing to be the emperor was resolute, they had no choice but to bow their heads and accept their fate.

On July 15, Lu Fatzi led hundreds of civil and military officials into the palace to bow to the golden statue of Wu Shifan, and when he returned to the Fengtai camp, he suddenly raised troops to mutiny, led the army to surround the Fat Army's civil and military officials, knelt in front of Lu Fatzi with a dragon robe, and begged Lu Fatzi to ascend the throne and claim the emperor. In order to prevent things from getting bigger, Lu Fatzi adopted a gentle strategy to appease the loyal generals, who knew that Lu Fatzi's attitude was a little mild, and the civil and military officials of the Fat Man's army would immediately be wrong, and almost all of them knelt down to force Lu Fatzi to be emperor, and threatened that if Lu Fatzi did not claim the emperor, they would die in front of Lu Fatzi.

was forced to have no choice, Lu Fatzi had no choice but to draw his sword in his hand, wept bitterly and reaffirmed his oath, threatening that unless God fulfilled his oath and let Deshengmen collapse by itself, the Temple of Heaven cracked and gushed water, proving that he was the destiny of heaven, otherwise he would rather die than take the throne than rebel against the Great Zhou! Saying that, Lu Fatzi pretended to kill himself with a sword across his neck, and the civil and military officials of the Fat Man Army on the side hurriedly pulled it, and Lu Fatzi asked the Fat Man Army soldiers to give up and force themselves to be emperors, otherwise they would commit suicide, and the mutinous Fat Man Army soldiers were forced to be helpless, so they took back their dragon robes, lifted the siege, and Lu Fatzi did not punish any mutinous soldiers.

Three days later, Gao Dejie and Wang Xu suddenly joined forces to launch a mutiny, arresting Wu Guogui, Wang Pingfan, Tao Jizhi and Wu Guozheng and other loyal ministers of the Wu family, and asking them to respect Lu Fatzi as the emperor. Fortunately, Lu Fatzi arrived in time, drank Gao Dejie and Wang Xu and other generals, stopped the mutiny, and sent Wu Guogui, Wang Pingfan, Tao Jizhi and Wu Guozheng back to the palace. Gao Dejie and Wang Xu and other generals of the Fat Man Army were very dissatisfied, and asked Lu Fatzi, if Wu Shifan killed Lu Fatzi and the generals of the Fat Man Army in the future, what would he do? Lu Fatzi was speechless, but asked Gao Dejie and Wang Xu and others not to forget Wu Laohan's old kindness, Gao Wang and others remembered Wu Laohan's past kindness, and reluctantly retreated.

At the same time, the local officials of the Fat People's Army who received the news also wrote to the table, begging Lu Fatzi to reconsider the matter of becoming the emperor, and not to live up to the hopes of the people in the world and the people. There were also a large number of speculative gentry and literati who went to Lu Fatzi to seek death and life, hanged themselves and threw themselves into the water, forcing Lu Fatzi to ascend the throne and become emperor. persuaded to enter the table, car and boat, persuaded the officials and people to support the wilderness, the hypocrite Lu Fatzi was overwhelmed, had a headache, and suffered by himself.

Almost embattled, he lived in the Fengtai camp for nearly a month, and in a blink of an eye, it was the day of July 28 of the fourth year of Honghua - which also happened to be the same day as the first anniversary of Lu Fatzi's oath at the Temple of Heaven. In the early morning of the same day, according to the new habit, the magnates of the Fat Man Army came to the Fengtai camp where Lu Fatzi's temporary residence was located to take charge of official business, and reported on the military intelligence and government affairs of the areas controlled by the Fat Man Army - but unlike before, when they thought that they were doing these things to help Wu Shifan, who had no relatives and no reason, Lu Fatzi's lackeys and accomplices seemed listless.

"Lord Qiqi, the prefect of Qingzhou, Shandong, Qian Wen, Qingzhou has a serious locust plague." Wang Shaobo, a bachelor of the Fat Army, finally aroused a little interest from the Fat Army elites, and Wang Shaobo said: "In the areas of Changle, Shouguang and Le'an, it is expected that there will be no harvest this year, and the grain output in Linzi is estimated to be at least halved." Qian asked Wang Ye for permission to exempt the three counties of Changle, Shouguang and Le'an from this year's money and grain, and then asked Wang Ye for permission to intercept the money and grain collected in other parts of Qingzhou Prefecture this year for disaster relief. ”

"Quasi-play." Lu Fatzi looked at the Huguang military situation that had just been sent, and said without raising his head: "The reply gave the money, asked him to organize more people in the disaster area to smelt saltpeter, and then asked Hu Cao to intercept some grain and transport it to Qingzhou, in exchange for saltpeter in the hands of the people, to help the local people survive the famine." ”

"Obey." Wang Shaobo respectfully agreed, and asked cautiously: "Lord, since the golden statue of Emperor Honghua was stationed in the Qianqing Palace, the Central Plains has been plagued by famines, and in less than a month, he has received more than 20 disaster relief requests. ”

"Exaggerated." Lu Fatzi laughed, and continued to say without raising his head: "I have already seen the twenty-one disaster reports, all of them are just some common drought and flood locust disasters, and the damage is only one and a half counties, and more than two counties are only Qingzhou, and most of them are from the Yellow Flood Area left by Emperor Mangou, what is the relationship with Emperor Honghua?" Blame all these on Emperor Honghua, is he wronged? ”

Uncle Wang, who had a hot face on his cold buttocks, couldn't cry or laugh, so he had to say again: "But Lord Wang, this is also the warning of God and the fulfillment of Emperor Taizu Gao's warning. ”

Of course, Lu Fatzi understood Wang Shaobo's good intentions - he wanted to push these disasters that could not be beaten by eight poles onto Wu Shifan, and take the opportunity to abolish Wu Shifan's throne and replace him, so Lu Fatzi had no choice but to put down the not too important military intelligence report, raised his head and said with a smile: "Young Uncle, I know what you mean, and I know your kindness." But don't forget, I made an oath to the gods of heaven and earth at the Temple of Heaven, unless the Deshengmen itself collapses and the Temple of Heaven cracks and springs, I will never do such a thing. ”

"Host, with all due respect." Wang Shaobo was also anxious, stomped his feet and said: "The student doesn't understand, a year ago today, why did you make such an oath in the Temple of Heaven? Since ancient times, that emperor of the Kai Dynasty would make such an oath in public in the Temple of Heaven and block his own path to progress? ”

The fat army magnates who were present at the office raised their heads one after another and peeked at Lu Fatzi's reaction - Wang Shaobo's question was also the question they wanted to ask the most, but their relationship with Lu Fatzi was not as close as Wang Shaobo's, and they didn't dare to ask recklessly.

"It's simple." Lu Fatzi spread his hands and replied: "Because I don't want to be an emperor at all, how tired it is to be an emperor, I can't finish watching the twists and turns every day, I can't finish the work, the people have worked hard for most of their lives, and when they are old, they still have children to raise, and they can enjoy a few years of Qingfu, and when they become emperors, they have to work until they are tired to death, such a drudgery, I don't want to do it." ”

Wang Shaobo and the other fat army magnates almost didn't pounce on Lu Fatzi to strangle him to death, and said together that you want to be shameless, if you really don't want to be the emperor, you would have tried so much to get rid of Wu Sangui's control before, and you would do everything possible to get rid of the Pingxi Palace's military reading power? Besides, even if you really don't want to be the emperor, what if you don't want to be the emperor? You helped Wu Shifan unify the world, Wu Shifan held the power, and we still want to keep our family name?

"Boss, being an emperor is really hard." Wang Shaobo helplessly followed Lu Fatzi and said: "But the owner, you are the destiny of heaven, and you are admired by all the people, if you are not the emperor, you are against the mandate of heaven and the people's ......." ”

"If I'm really destined for it." Lu Fatzi interrupted Wang Shaobo, and said with a relaxed expression: "Then God will let Deshengmen collapse by itself, and the Temple of Heaven will crack and gush the spring, and I will not shirk again, I will choose to follow the destiny of heaven and meet the hearts of the people, and ascend the throne and become the emperor." ”

"Owner, if you want this, then the student has a way to make the Desheng Gate collapse on its own!" Wang Shaobo gritted his teeth and replied.

"I know you have a way, and I have a way." Fat Lu smiled and said, "But what about the Temple of Heaven and the Crack Spring, can you fake it?" ”

Wang Shaobo has nothing to say, the Fat Man Army soldiers have a thousand ways to make Desheng Gate collapse by itself, creating the illusion that Lu Fat Man swore to the sky, but let the Temple of Heaven crack and gush the spring, Wang Shaobo and the Fat Man Army soldiers are completely helpless, such a thing, in addition to the power of heaven and earth, manpower can not be done.

"No way, right?" Fat Lu smiled even more happily, "If you can't help it, then you can wait patiently, and when the heavens fulfill the oath of this king, this king will definitely live up to your expectations and will definitely ascend the throne as emperor." ”

I wanted to put Fat Man Lu on the throne, but I was teased by Fat Boy Lu, of course, Uncle Wang's stomach was full of evil fire, and he sat back in his place helplessly to continue working, and the other powerful people of the Fat Army saw that Uncle Wang's words did not work, and they were completely dead, so they honestly lowered their heads and continued to work, scolding Fat Man Lu for being stupid and stupid.

"What month was the Yanjing earthquake in the eighteenth year of Kang Mazi?" Lu Fatzi was actually more anxious than Wang Shaobo, trying to recall the historical knowledge brought from the 21st century, and secretly wondering in his heart, "Is it July, August or September?" I don't want to remember the wrong year, if the nineteenth year of Kang Mazi is recorded as the eighteenth year of Kang Mazi, then things will be in trouble. If it drags on like this, my internal problems will become more and more. ”

"Moo——————!"

Seeing that it was almost noon, when Fat Lu was about to call his soldiers to pass the meal, a strange sound like a cow's roar suddenly came from the northeast direction, and the fat army magnates who were working in the big tent raised their heads one after another, looked at each other, and didn't understand what was going on. But at this time, a louder and louder cow roar came closer and closer, and the cowhide tent overhead began to tremble slightly, making a creaking and shaking sound, and the shaking sound became louder and louder, and the cowhide tent also trembled more and more, and finally the ground trembled slightly.

"What's wrong?" Fat Lu jumped up and exclaimed in his heart: "Why does it happen to be today?" Happens to be on the same day of the second year I swore at the Temple of Heaven? Is there such a coincidence in the world? Could it be that I am really destined for me?! ”

"It's an earthquake!!"

I don't know who shouted, Xiao Erlang came to his senses first and yelled: "Quick, get the prince out of the account and go to the open space!" Roaring, Xiao Erlang was the first to pounce on Lu Fatzi, but before his hand touched Lu Fatman, there was a loud noise under the ground, the ground shook violently, and Lu Fatzi and Xiao Erlang fell to the ground at the same time.

"Get out of the bill!" Fat Lu also came to his senses and yelled, "Everyone go out of the account and go to the open space!" Erlang, quickly send someone to the back tent and carry Xifeng out, she has been six months, don't scare her! ”

Lu Fatzi and his gang stumbled out of the tent, and when they came to the open space in front of the tent, deep in the center of the earth below the ground, there was suddenly a violent cracking sound, which threw the entire Fengtai camp and countless people fell to the ground. Immediately afterwards, the sentry tower and arrow tower in the distance also collapsed, raising a cloud of dust and fog, and the fat soldier on the upper floor screamed and fell to the ground, either injured or killed, Lu Fat quickly yelled again, and ordered Zhu Fangdan to lead the military doctor to go up to the rescue, and let all the fat soldier on the guard tower and the arrow tower go downstairs and go to the open ground to avoid the earthquake.

The ground continues to shake violently, in front of the power of heaven and earth, the brave and good at fighting the fat army soldiers continue to stagger, shouting and screaming endlessly, fortunately this is a military camp, the soldiers and generals live in light tents, even if they collapse, there is not much threat, so the casualties of the fat army soldiers are not too big. At the same time, the pregnant little pepper was also sent to Lu Fatzi, it turned out that at the time of the earthquake, Xiao Pepper happened to be with the two Mongolian sisters to contact the feelings, to discuss how to rectify the most favored Wu Xiaosuo, after the earthquake came, Lu Fatzi's two Mongolian concubines relied on the experience accumulated in dealing with the storm on the grassland, and quickly carried the little pepper out of the tent, and the little pepper and the child in her belly were not harmed.

"Xianggong." The frightened little pepper threw herself into Lu Fatzi's arms with tears on her face, crying to death, while Lu Fatzi gently patted her back to comfort her, and quickly ordered Hutongchun to send troops into the city, organize the people in the city to take refuge in the city, and protect important facilities such as money and grain warehouses, arsenals, and arsenals to prevent people from taking advantage of the fire to rob. At the same time, he sent a fast horse to send an order to Wang Xu, who was stationed in Daxing, and asked him to organize the army to rescue the wounded soldiers, and wait for the earthquake to stop, and immediately enter Yanjing City to maintain law and order, and rescue the people, soldiers and civilians injured in the earthquake.

Just after noon, the strongest earthquake struck, the arrow tower and sentry tower in the Fengtai camp all collapsed, the ground seemed to be dancing, the shock made the fat soldiers and soldiers fall down, everywhere there were chickens flying and dogs jumping, foxes and wolves howling, the sky was even more chaotic and cloudy, the color was dark red, the heaven and earth were shrouded in a cloud of darkness, wind, hail, thunder and lightning worked together, purple and yellow lightning continued to chop, and the ground became dark and bright. The officers and men of the Fengtai Fat Army all looked frightened, trembling and trembling.

"Oh my God! O earth! ”

I don't know when, Fat Lu had already handed over the little pepper to Wu Xiaosu to take care of, walked to the middle of the clearing, knelt down on his knees, and cried at the turbulent sky, "God! Emperor Taizu Gao, could it be that Emperor Honghua really has no king's blessing, his golden statue has lived in the Qianqing Palace for less than a month, and the sky is going to send such a big disaster to punish the world? ! If that's the case, please let me bear all the sins alone, it's my fault, I shouldn't have listened to Emperor Taizu Gao's warning, and insisted on helping Emperor Honghua to take the throne! I will bear all the sins alone, the people, the army and the people, they are all innocent! ”

Crying and shouting, Fat Man Lu desperately grabbed the ground with his head, and his sincerity was cut to the extreme, and the civil and military officials of the Fat Army also woke up, and hurriedly came up to support Fat Lu, while comforting Fat Lu, he kowtowed to the sky and pleaded guilty, crying and shouting, "God!" It's our fault, we shouldn't give up halfway, it's our fault to give up persuading the prince to ascend the throne and become emperor, all the sins, please let us bear it. ”

It was kowtow and pleaded guilty for a long time, the largest strong earthquake finally passed, but the aftershocks were still continuous, and the intensity was definitely not small, Lu Fatzi immediately made a decision, and immediately organized the uninjured Fat Army generals and soldiers to enter the city for public security, and rescued the injured soldiers and civilians in Yanjing City, Lu Fatzi himself ignored the opposition of hundreds of officials, and insisted on personally leading the army into the city for disaster relief.

The disaster relief team led by Lu Fatzi himself entered the city by the nearest road to Guang'anmen, but when they arrived at Guang'anmen, what made the soldiers of the Fat Army stunned was that the tower of Guang'anmen had completely collapsed in the earthquake, and several large cracks were cracked on the ground, and the ruins blocked the city gate tightly, blocking the road into the city of the Fat Army. Lu Fatzi was forced to be helpless, so he had to arrange a team to rescue the soldiers who were buried in the ruins, and led the army to enter the city by taking the Xibian Gate, which was not damaged.

Because the houses in the outer city of Yanjing are generally dilapidated for a long time, so the outer city of Yanjing was the most seriously damaged in this earthquake, and the houses collapsed in the preliminary estimate of more than 7,000 rooms, and the damage was more than 10,000, but it was also a blessing in misfortune, and because the houses in the outer city were generally short and simple, and the pre-earthquake was not too strong, and the interval between the strongest earthquake was also slightly longer, the people moved to the open area in time, and the people who died in the earthquake on the spot were not too many (the exact number is 485 people). But Lu Fatzi still did not dare to slack off, and immediately led the army into disaster relief, doing his best to rescue the Han people who were buried alive, and at the same time transferring the people to the open area in the southern suburbs to avoid the large and small aftershocks that occurred one after another.

During the disaster relief, Lu Fatzi, who was still wearing a flat yellow dragon robe, kept crying for the victims, and dug out two Yanjing people who were buried in bricks and tiles, and they didn't care if the Tuanlong robe was dirty. And Lu Fatzi kept blaming himself while picking up these people, "Fathers and fellow villagers, it is this king who is not good, it is this king who is sorry for you, this king should not listen to the warning of the previous emperor, it is this king who has harmed you——! ”

At this time, the Daxing garrison led by Wang Xu had also rushed to Yanjing, entered the city from Dongzhimen and quickly entered the disaster relief, and made every effort to rescue the affected people in the nine cities inside and outside Yanjing. Lu Fatzi hurriedly ordered to use all the military tent reserves to set up tents in the open area outside Yanjing City to settle the people who had taken refuge in the city, and decisively ordered the use of grain reserves to build a porridge shed outside Yanjing City to boil porridge and distribute it. Fortunately, the garrison of the Fat Boy Army in the Gyeonggi area, including the Fengtai garrison, was more than 60,000, and the damage in the earthquake was not large, and the manpower was very sufficient, so the disaster relief work was carried out in an orderly manner, and the people were also transferred very quickly under the organization of the army.

During the busy time, the disaster relief team led by Lu Fatzi gradually came to the Temple of Heaven area in the southeast of the outer city, but to the surprise of the Fat Army, the Temple of Heaven, which was open and flat, and should have been able to house a large number of people, was full of cracked cracks several zhang long, and the clear water in the cracks was boiling, and spring water was constantly spewing out. Seeing this scene, without Lu Fatzi's arrangement, there were immediately officials and generals of the Fat Man's Army who roared, "Lord Wang, the Temple of Heaven is cracking!" The Temple of Heaven is cracked! ”

"Lord Wang! Rajah! At this time, a group of fat soldiers suddenly rushed from the crowd, and the leading Wang Xu roared from afar, "Lord Wang, Deshengmen has collapsed!" Deshengmen itself collapsed! General Wu Guogui was also buried alive under the ruins of the city tower of Deshengmen! ”

"Then you quickly arrange someone to rescue you!" Fat Lu stomped his feet and yelled, "Quick, you must rescue my father-in-law!" ”

"Don't worry, the last general has already arranged for someone to rescue him!" Wang Xu agreed loudly and rushed in, but when he reached the edge of the Temple of Heaven, he only glanced at it, Wang Xu was stunned again, and shouted: "The Temple of Heaven is cracked and springs are surging!" The Temple of Heaven is cracked and the earth is surging! Your oath has been fulfilled, Lord Wang! ”

"What of my vows have been fulfilled?" Fat Lu began to pretend to be confused.

"Lord Wang, have you forgotten?!" Countless officers and officials of the Fat Man Army roared, "On this day last year, you swore in the Temple of Heaven that unless the Desheng Gate collapsed and the Temple of Heaven cracked and the earth sprung up, you would never be the emperor!" Lord, your oath has been fulfilled! ”

"The prince is destined to return, and he should be called the emperor!" Wang Shaobo and Yao Qisheng knelt down on Lu Fatzi's knees together, and shouted like crazy: "Long live the emperor, long live, long live!" ”

"Long live the emperor, long live, long live!" Countless Fat Army soldiers knelt down on their knees, kowtowed to Fat Lu, and shouted long live.

"When has this been? Are you still thinking about this?! Fat Lu stomped his feet and shouted: "Disaster relief first, transfer the people first!" I'll talk about the rest later! ”

(To be continued)