(PS: Thank you for the generous reward of 'Brother Chrysanthemum', and I cheekily ask all rich friends to follow suit.) ）

Because of the different speeds, Kong Sizhen's prisoner car has just been escorted to Hunan, Wang Xu's investigation report has been sent to Xiao Mazi in the capital, after reading the crimes committed by Kong Sizhen and Li Shuzu in Qujing, and seeing Jieshu's ugly report in Qujing, Xiao Mazi will inevitably be furious, scolding Kong Sizhen for being lawless, dishonoring the Holy Grace for personal grudges, and framing Zhongliang! He even scolded Li Shuzu for being bold and daring to fabricate evidence to slander his colleagues for plotting rebellion and usurpation, and his surname was so bad and the consequences were so serious that it was the most important in the founding of the Qing Dynasty! Even if you cut him with a thousand knives and ten thousand knives, it will be difficult to eliminate the hatred in Xiao Mazi's heart!

Li Shuzu must not be punished seriously, even for the sake of his ancestors, he can be spared for the crimes of poisoning the people, disregarding people's lives, and taking bribes, and even for slandering his boss Lin Tianqing for accepting bribes, but he used the trick of framing his colleagues with a one-eyed stone man, Xiao Mazi will not forgive him no matter what, and no mite Qing official will agree to Xiao Mazi sparing Li Shuzu - setting this precedent, everyone in the officialdom will follow suit in the future, and then the world will not be in chaos? So there is no way, Li Shuzu must die, even if he is crazy, he can die to apologize for his crimes, and he will be beheaded all over the house!

It is easy to make up your mind to kill Li Shuzu, who was born in an outdated family, but it is difficult to make up your mind to kill Kong Sizhen, Kong Sizhen is an important surname in Xiao Mazi's three feudal strategy, and what is even more rare is Kong Sizhen's loyalty to the Qing court, if it weren't for Kong Sizhen's containment and restraint in Guangxi over the years, with Sun Yanling and Dai Liangchen's ability, Guangxi would have been like Guizhou, which was swallowed up by Wu Sangui and eaten up by whales. How could Xiaozhuang be willing to kill her like this?

Fortunately, Kong Sizhen's behavior has not yet reached the point where Wang Xu asked Wang Xu to ask the Wang Ming Banner to cut her first and then play, so after Xiao Mazi and Xiaozhuang discussed a little, they immediately sent their henchmen Pegasus south to pass the decree, so that Wang Xu changed the public escort to a secret escort, Kong Sizhen was exempted from taking the prisoner car, and handed over to the guards to secretly escort her to the capital to accept Xiao Mazi and Xiaozhuang's personal interrogation. At the same time, Xiao Mazi demanded that Wang Xu not send the confessions and incriminating evidence of the Kong Sizhen case directly to the Internal Affairs Office on the grounds that the Kong Sizhen case involved the Internal Affairs Office of the Thirteenth Yamen, and that it must be sent directly to the Internal Affairs Office, and then the Internal Affairs Office directly submitted it to Xiao Mazi.

Seeing this holy decree on the wharf of the Yangtze River, Kong Sizhen's beautiful face, which had been gloomy for a long time, suddenly burst into laughter, knowing that she could not die, and she had another chance to seek revenge from her old enemy, Lu Fatzi. Wang Xu was gloomy, and he knew that he would be the same as many times, but he would solve the case but not punish the culprit, and let the damned people escape life. But there was no way, under the brainwashing of Mites' servile education, even Wang Xu and Jackie Chan did not dare to disobey Xiao Mazi's will, so they could only hand over Kong Sizhen to the imperial guards sent by Xiao Mazi according to their will, and watched her leave with a few cruel words on her toes.

Everyone knows what kind of temperament and hobby Kong Sizhen is, in order to thank Xiao Mazi for the rescue of the imperial guards, it is inevitable to give a lot of flesh to repay along the way, and Xiao Mazi did not stipulate when Kong Sizhen arrived in Beijing, so Kong Sizhen, who enjoyed the blessings of Qi people, did not rush to the road, and when he arrived in the capital all the way, the time had reached the end of September in the seventh year of Kang Mazi.

In order to prevent accidents, Kong Sizhen helped through Li Xu and Cao Yin, who were close to him, and asked them to send the news of their return to Beijing to Xiaozhuang - the purpose was nothing more than to let Xiaozhuang know that his goddaughter was back, and he still had to meet when he should come forward, so as not to let Xiao Mazi be angry and cut himself with a knife. After doing this, Kong Sizhen ran to the Xihua Gate and handed over the sign to ask to see, and after the waist card was handed into the palace, there was a quick response, and Xiao Mazi was summoned in the Yangxin Palace.

Hearing the place of the summons, Kong Sizhen breathed a sigh of relief, knowing that Xiao Mazi still planned to cover up for himself - otherwise, he should have been summoned to the Qianqing Palace or the Three Great Halls where the government was officially discussed and publicly convicted. Rest assured, Kong Sizhen hurriedly followed Cao Yin into the palace, all the way to the outside of the palace of nourishing the heart, Xiao Mazi and passed the decree to let Kong Sizhen enter the palace, Kong Sizhen did not dare to slack off, and quickly entered the palace again, after entering the palace, he didn't even dare to peek at anyone in the hall, and directly knelt down and kowtowed, and shouted respectfully: "The second-class guard Kong Sizhen, knock to see my emperor long live." ”

"This Lu Yifeng really makes me more and more impressed with him." Xiao Mazi didn't pay attention to Kong Sizhen at all, but said to someone: "I regret it now, I knew that he could do such a big thing locally, I shouldn't have sent him to Qujing, I should have sent him to other provinces." Now it's okay, the big thing he did in Qujing is going to take advantage of Wu Sangui by the way. ”

"Yes, the slave didn't expect anything that Lord Lu would have such a talent." Mingzhu's voice sounded, and he sighed: "If I had known that he had such a ability, the slave would have asked the emperor to send Master Lu to Shengjing and let him benefit Shengjing." Under his governance, Qujing County, a small poor mountain and bad water, created a wealth of more than 300,000 taels of silver in less than a year, and our salt tax in the Qing Dynasty was only more than 2 million taels a year. ”

"What good things did Fat Lu do? More than 300,000 taels of silver were made in Qujing County a year? Is he robbing or stealing? Kong Sizhen was taken aback, and when he secretly looked up to see the scene in the hall, he saw that there were only Xiao Mazi and his three absolute henchmen Mingzhu, Suo Etu and Xiong Cixu in the Heart Cultivation Palace, and several guys were all full of amazement, shaking their heads constantly during the conversation, looking incredulous.

"Your Majesty, is it intentional for Lord Lu to do this in Qujing?" Xiong Cixu, who was recently promoted to the Hongwen Academy because of the impeachment of tens of thousands of words, frowned, and said: "Among the three feudatories, the Wu clan is the strongest, the soldiers are strong and the horses are strong in the world, the only weakness is that Yungui is barren, money and grain cannot be self-sufficient, and ninety percent of the money and grain expenditure has to be imported from the Central Plains, at present, the only way for the emperor to check and restrain the Wu domain is to control his soldiers, horses, money and grain, and now he has made such achievements in Qujing, and next year the whole territory of the Wu domain will follow suit, and what will the emperor and the court use to control the Wu domain in the future?" ”

"Good guy, this one is a good guy." Hearing the dissatisfaction with Fat Lu in Xiong Cixu's words, Kong Sizhen couldn't help but smile a little, and couldn't wait to pounce on Xiong Cixu and kiss Xiong Cixu.

"Lord Xiong misunderstood, Fat Lu had already made it clear in his report to the emperor, and he didn't expect that the Eight Banners Fushou Paste would grow so well in Qujing." Suo Etu, who had been promoted to the right attendant of the ministry, stood up and said, "What he didn't expect was that the Eight Banners Fushou Cream, which should have been very medicinal materials, would be so popular, and there would be so many medicinal material merchants vying to buy it at a high price. His original plan was just to find a way out for the poor people of Qujing and open up financial resources for the imperial court, and to pull down the seriously inflated price of Eight Banners Fushou Cream, so that everyone in the Eight Banners could enjoy this overseas treasure. ”

"And Master Lu also said it in the newspaper." In line with the principle of never going against the disaster star of Lu Fatzi, Mingzhu said to Suo Etu: "He shipped half of the Eight Banners Fushou Paste to Guangzhou to sell, he wanted to try to open up a new source of wealth for the imperial court, and see if the Eight Banners Fushou Paste can become another big export fist product of my Celestial Dynasty like tea and silk, whether the Eight Banners Fushou Paste can be sold from Western merchants, whether it can be sold at a reasonable price, he has no bottom in his heart, it is just an attempt." ”

"Then he must be crazy now, the Eight Banners Fushou Paste received by one tael and one coin pattern silver was sold at a sky-high price of three taels and eight coins of silver in Guangzhou, and this one alone earned more than 100,000 taels of silver!" Xiong Cilu snorted coldly: "Then Wu Fan is going crazy, with this financial road, he will no longer have to worry about the emperor jamming his neck in money and food in the future." ”

"Lord Xiong, according to your meaning, Lord Lu should not benefit the people at all?" Mingzhu smiled and asked, "Could it be that Lord Lu is wrong to share the worries of the monarch, open up financial resources for the imperial court, and benefit the people?" If this is also a sin, then who else in our Qing Dynasty officials would dare to benefit the people and serve the country loyally? ”

"That's right, Ming Zhongtang is right." Suo Etu echoed: "Do you really want Lord Lu to be like Li Shuzu, who made Qujing miserable and starved all over the wilderness, is it loyalty to the emperor and credit to the court?" ”

"Ming Zhongtang and Suo Shilang have misunderstood." Xiong Cilu's old face turned red, and he hurriedly defended: "I'm not saying that Lord Lu is wrong to benefit the people and be loyal to the monarch and patriotism, I just think he shouldn't do this in Qujing, now it's okay, it's cheap Wu Fan for nothing." ”

"Okay, okay, before this, who would have thought that the Eight Banners Fushou Paste could grow so well in Qujing? Sell for such a high price? Achieving such great success? If the unpredictable prophet had known about this, I would not have sent Lu Aiqing to Qujing. Xiao Mazi waved his hand and said: "Of course, Xiong Aiqing's worries are also reasonable, if Wu Fan is freed from the last shackles of money and food, there will indeed be a situation where the tail is too big to be controlled." ”

"But Xiong Aiqing shouldn't worry too much." Speaking of this, Xiao Mazi smiled a little and said: "Just this morning, after I received the urgent report from Guangzhou, I immediately summoned the Manchu Han Shangshu Marsai and Huang Ji (Kang Mazi was appointed in August of the seventh year, and the former Han Shangshu Wang Hongzuo was dismissed for crimes), and asked them about the situation, and I was also worried that Wu Fan would use this to get rid of the shackles of my money and food, so I asked the two of them for advice. ”

"Dare to ask the emperor, what do the two Shangshu adults who specialize in financial management say?" Xiong Cilu asked impatiently.

"Their answers reassured me." Xiao Mazi smiled and said: "They told me that since ancient times, things are scarce and expensive, just like grain, a bumper harvest, the people can't eat all the grain harvested, and the price of grain will still fall, not to mention that this is just a medicinal herb used to strengthen the body, Baqi Fushou Ointment?" The reason why Baqi Fushou Paste can be bought at a sky-high price this year is because no one has ever planted it before, and it is occasionally rumored on the market that it is also from abroad, and the price is naturally extremely expensive. ”

"So." Xiao Mazi said quite intoxicated: "The two Shangshu have concluded that by next year, the people of Yunnan who have tasted the sweetness will inevitably plant in large quantities, and the neighboring provinces will inevitably plant in large quantities, and the price of Eight Banners Fushou Paste will inevitably plummet, and even plummet by more than ten times, Wu Fan will be able to get some cheap this year, and then some cheaper next year, and then the year after tomorrow, it will be unprofitable to plant Eight Banners Fushou Cream, and I will not have to worry about him getting rid of the shackles of money and food." At the same time, the pitiful barren land in Wu Fan's hands will also be occupied by the Eight Banners Fushou Cream, and the grain production will be greatly reduced, and the silver he caught will also be obediently spit out to the grain-producing provinces. ”

"That's right, let Yun Gui plant, and we will also plant." Mingzhu couldn't wait to say: "Next year, we will also plant a large number of in other provinces, and there is spare land in Liaodong, where we will plant a large number of them, which can not only be exported to the West to supplement the country, but also can quickly pull down the price of Eight Banners Fushou Cream, so that Wu Fan's gains outweigh the losses and cry noses!" ”

"Clever plan, if the price of Eight Flags Fushou Paste is pulled down next year." Suo Etu echoed: "Then in the year after tomorrow, it will be Wu Sangui's turn to cry his nose and come to the emperor to ask for food." ”

"Your Majesty ......." Hearing this, Kong Sizhen couldn't bear it anymore, raised her head and wanted to speak.

"Shut up, did I let you speak?" Xiao Mazi interrupted with a fierce voice, and said angrily: "When I wanted to leave Lu Aiqing in the capital for appointment, it was you who persuaded me not to reuse Lu Aiqing, and Lu Aiqing insisted on going to Yunnan because he was afraid of your personal revenge!" If it weren't for you, a dog minion, maybe this year's Qujing miracle would have appeared in Zhili! ”

-- By the way, in order to return to Qujing, who was far away from the Tiangao Emperor, Lu Fatzi pulled out his nemesis Kong Sizhen as a shield, saying that he was afraid that staying in the capital would attract revenge from Kong Sizhen's henchmen.

"Damn it!" Kong Sizhen was sweating, and quickly put his forehead on the ground again, and said tremblingly: "Your Majesty, the slave just wants to remind the emperor - with the prince of Pingxi, will he take such a treasure cheaply for others?" ”

A word woke up the person in the dream, and just now he was still fantasizing about using the Eight Banners Fushou Paste to catch a handful of Xiao Mazi and remediate Wu Sangui's heart tightened, and Mingzhu and Suo Etu also changed color on their faces together. Only Xiong Cixu finally found a bosom friend, and hurriedly echoed: "Your Majesty, the four-grid maxim is reasonable, since planting Eight Banners Fushou Paste is so profitable, how can Wu Fan be willing to share it with others?" If he strictly controls the outflow of the seeds of the Eight Banners Fushou Paste and does not let other provinces follow suit, then even if the Eight Banners Fushou Paste is pulled down tenfold, his profits are still extremely rich, and he can still get rid of the shackles of the emperor's money and food. ”

Xiao Mazi stopped talking, and after a long time, Xiao Mazi gritted his teeth and said: "Immediately issue an order, let Lu Yifeng quickly release a batch of seeds into Beijing, and hand them over directly to the Internal Affairs Office as tribute." ”

"Your Majesty, I'm afraid it's too late at this time." Xiong Ci said in a gloomy voice: "The capital and Qujing are thousands of miles apart, even if the horse passes quickly, I'm afraid it's too late." If Wu Fan is determined to monopolize the Eight Banners Fushou Paste profiteering, this will be the seeds in Lu Yifeng's hands, but I am afraid that they will all fall into the hands of Wu Fan. ”

Xiao Mazi's face became more and more pale, and he said after a while: "It's just a matter of trying your luck, I hope that Wu Sangui's martial artist can't see so far and control the outflow of seeds in advance." ”

"Your Majesty, the slave dares to say it again." Kong Sizhen took the opportunity to take another bad medicine, and said hypocritically: "If Lord Lu is really loyal to the emperor, then even if the prince of Pingxi strictly prohibits the outflow of seeds, then Lord Lu, who single-handedly created the miracle of Qujing, will definitely secretly keep a part of the seeds at all costs and dedicate it to our emperor." ”

"The four-grid aphorism makes sense." Xiong Cilu also took the opportunity to fall into the well, lowered his head and said with a smile on the corner of his mouth: "With Lord Lu's loyalty to the emperor, it is indeed possible to ignore the strict orders of the Wu Domain and privately hide a batch of seeds to the emperor, so that the emperor can try to plant them in other provinces. ”

Xiao Mazi nodded slowly, and said in his heart that this was an opportunity to test Lu Yifeng, if he was really loyal to me, he would definitely do whatever it took to get me a batch of seeds. Thinking of this, Xiao Mazi nodded and said, "Then let's give Lu Yifeng the next will, and see how he answers." ”

"Yes." Everyone agreed. Xiao Mazi pointed at Kong Sizhen again and said, "You all kneel down, I have something to say to Kong Sizhen alone." ”

"Yes." Several of Xiao Mazi's henchmen kowtowed together and agreed, and retreated honestly, but Kong Sizhen's smooth forehead was dripping with sweat. Because Kong Sizhen understands that next, he will welcome the storm and thunder of the young master, and all he can do is to hope that his godmother Xiaozhuang, who likes to seduce the little uncle, can arrive as soon as possible and pull himself along..................

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The huge profits of drugs can make anyone crazy, even Xiao Mazi is no exception, Xiao Mazi, who holds 1,078 imperial villages and 35,772 hectares of imperial land in his hand, is of course no exception, and hopes that the value of the land in his hands can skyrocket wildly, and he can earn money for him to build a garden, repair a summer resort in Chengde, hunt and squander rabbits. At the same time, the last thing Xiao Mazi wants to see is that Wu Sangui uses this thing to get rid of his last restraint on him, causing the tail of the three feudatories to be completely unrestrained and completely unrestrained.

Before waiting for Lu Fatzi's reply, the news that Xiao Mazi did not lose hope and was extremely angry had already come -- on the morning of September 22, Wu Sangui forcibly bought out more than 890 catties of seeds in Lu Fatzi's hands at the price of two taels of silver and one pound of dung in Qujing City, and at the same time issued a strict order strictly prohibiting the outflow of a seed out of the province, and those who violated the prohibition were killed! What made Xiao Mazi even more furious was that Lu Fatzi insisted on letting people from other places also grow this kind of cash crop to get rid of poverty and become rich because he opposed Wu Sangui's control of seeds, and was slapped in public by Wu Sangui's son-in-law Hu Guozhu! Fat Lu burst into tears on the spot!

After reading the top-secret express of Yunnan eyeliner, Xiao Mazi was so angry that he tore up the secret report that ran to death two fast horses before he was sent to him on the spot, and scolded Wu Sangui for not being a dog thief and having bad intentions, but Xiao Mazi couldn't give an order to order Wu Sangui to hand over the seeds - now the decisive battle between Xiao Mazi and Ao Bai is imminent, and at this time, he and Wu Sangui will completely turn their faces, and it will not be any good for Xiao Mazi!

"Your Majesty, could this be a bitter trick staged by Wu Fan and Lu Yifeng?" Xiong Cilu took the opportunity to say: "Lu Yifeng is really so bold, do you really dare to confront Wu Fan in public? ”

"Lord Xiong may have many doubts." Kong Sizhen, who had been demoted to a third-class guard, glanced at her new lover charmingly, and said delicately: "In addition to being able to say good things, do good deeds and have good intentions, Lord Lu also has the courage to be recognized as daring to persuade the prince of Pingxi and the prince of Pingnan to ask for the withdrawal of the domain!" Now that he is facing the prince of Pingxi, it is not a trivial matter for him? ”

"Hmph, if that's the case, then he dares to hide some seeds privately and dedicate them to the emperor!" Xiong Cilu snorted coldly.

"Maybe Lord Lu is not prepared." Suo Etu kindly explained to Fat Lu: "Maybe Lord Lu didn't expect that the prince of Pingxi would be so ruthless in advance, and he didn't allow a seed to flow out of the province, which caught him off guard." It's no wonder to him about this, he didn't know in advance that the Eight Banners Fushou Paste would be so important, he was also kind-hearted, and wanted to benefit the people, but he didn't expect it to be cheaper than Wu Sangui. ”

"Lord Suo is really reciprocating to Lord Lu." Kong Sizhen said with a smile: "The slave family heard that a few days ago, Lord Lu sent someone to send a glass treasure mirror worth a thousand gold to Lord Suo, what's the matter?" Can Master Suo let the slave family see it too? ”

"That's when Lu Yifeng thanked me for helping him uphold justice in Li Shuzu's case, and it was just a normal exchange of courtesies between friends." Not to be outdone, Suo Etu retorted: "And at that time, I also made it clear to the Holy Lord at the first time that if Sigege wanted to impeach the lower officials for accepting bribes, the lower officials would ask the emperor and Wang Zongxian to administer justice for the lower officials." ”

"Alright, you all stop arguing, let me be quiet for a while." Xiao Mazi waved his hand impatiently, and drank the dog-eat-dog of the lackeys angrily.

The lackeys obediently shut up, and after thinking for a long time, Xiao Mazi said helplessly: "This is like this in advance, let Wu Sangui plant for two years first, and then use this Eight Banners Fushou Paste to temporarily appease him, and wait for me to do the matter of Aobai first, and then it is not too late to take out my hand to deal with him." And Kong Sizhen, the thirteen yamen you are in charge of also give me some restraint, don't just focus on my loyal ministers, and focus on the Ao Bai party. ”

"The minions obey." Kong Sizhen agreed, and asked cautiously: "Your Majesty, what about Lu Yifeng?" Wu Sangui was able to obtain the wealth of the Eight Banners Fushou Ointment, but it was all his credit. ”

"Why do you keep an eye on him?" Xiao Mazi said angrily: "Lu Aiqing is to benefit the people and open up financial resources for me, and he introduced medicinal materials in Yunnan to refine the Eight Banners Fushou Cream, which is self-defeating and allows Wu Sangui to take a big advantage, and the merit outweighs the fault!" Moreover, Yunnan was originally my territory, and Wu Sangui was also my courtier, Lu Aiqing made Yunnan rich and helped Wu Sangui become rich, do I still have to blame him for not doing this? So how can I explain to the people of Yunnan? What do people in the world think of me? That's it! In the future, if you sow discord and frame Lu Aiqing again, I will never spare it! ”

can't blame Xiao Mazi for being too gullible about Lu Fatzi, mainly in this era, except for Lu Fatzi, there is no second person who knows the huge poison and terrifying power of the Eight Banners Fushou Ointment, so Xiao Mazi didn't take this matter too seriously. But of course, I must be a little unhappy with Fat Lu's move.

"The minions obey." Kong Sizhen reluctantly agreed, and scolded Fat Lu in his heart for being a fat cockroach that could not be killed. This was also when Kong Sizhen was helpless and hateful in his heart, Cao Yin suddenly rushed in from outside the Heart Cultivation Palace, stumbled and lost his body, and as soon as he entered the hall, he was out of breath and shouted: "Your Majesty, the big thing is not good, it is not good!" ”

"Dog minion! Give me a little bit of unity, do you also want to be assigned to Xihuamen as an errand? Xiao Mazi scolded impatiently: "What's wrong? In detail, the sky can't fall! ”

"Your Majesty, it's not good." Cao Yin shouted with a blank face, which made Xiao Mazi jump up all of a sudden, "The commander of the infantry army, the commander of the Yamen, the commander of the Nine Gates, Wu Liuyi, Wu Junmen, he ......, and died of a violent illness in the Yamen!" After receiving an urgent report, General Mulima, the deputy commander, immediately ordered the yamen to be surrounded by regiments, strictly prohibiting anyone from entering or leaving, and asked the emperor to quickly send officials and doctors to investigate the cause of Wu Junmen's death! ”

"Died of a violent illness?!" Xiao Mazi, Kong Sizhen and the others all widened their eyes, saying that they couldn't believe that Wu Liuyi, who had always been physically strong, would die of a violent illness for no reason. At the same time, Xiao Mazi and the others had another thought in their hearts, "Mulima surrounded the yamen and strictly forbade anyone to enter or leave, is it really to facilitate the investigation of the case?!" ”

By the way, I would like to remind you that you may have forgotten that when a certain scourge told a story to General Mulima before, it seems that a certain general surnamed Wu was an important assistant to the young king in dealing with the old general of Gua.

(To be continued)