Chapter Ninety-Nine: This Time the Lord Has Arrived
When the prince goes out to Beijing to visit relatives, or to visit relatives in a ghost place like Yunnan, where the emperor is far away and the mountains and rivers are poor, the pomp and circumstance are naturally extraordinary. However, because our Prince Kang is a good prince who loves the people like a son and is loyal to the country, so he didn't put on any show along the way, all the way just hurried and hurried, and traveled all night and night, until he arrived in Guiyang City, Prince Kang couldn't resist the sincere plea put forward by the Yungui Governor Bian Sanyuan Bian Butang on behalf of the flattered Yungui people, put up pomp and pull up the dependence, and took the escort team led by Bian Butang himself, and came to Yunnan in a mighty way.
King Kang came, the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou Bian Sanyuan also came in person, of course, the officials in Yunnan officialdom did not dare to slack off, the governor Lin Tianqing, the political envoy Cui Zhiying and the inspection envoy Li Xingyuan and other Yunnan giants joined forces to take hundreds of civil and military officials to the Shengjing Pass to greet them; Although Wu Sangui knew that Jieshu's comer was not good, he didn't dare not go through the motions on the face, so he sent Wu Sanmei and Hu Guozhu to Shengjing Pass to greet Jieshu's honor guard, and at the same time prepared to invite Kang Wangye to Kunming for a visit and enjoy the scenery of Dianchi Lake.
This time it was finally approved by Zhou Peigong, Wu Sangui and the Pingxi Wangfu think tank actually understood the real purpose of Jieshu's coming here with his knees - to cheer for his godson-in-law Li Shuzu, clean up Lu Fatzi, a bastard who despised Prince Kang's authority, and personally visit the movements of the Pingxi Palace, and formulate further information for Xiao Mazi's Yungui policy. But what Zhou Peigong expected, the indecisive Wu Sangui would never have the courage to turn his face with Prince Kang for such a seven-grade official as Lu Fatzi, and carry it to the end with King Kang, and would only adopt the strategy of being alone and even losing his pawn to protect the car, and sit and watch how Jieshu cleaned up Fat Lu and let Fat Lu ask for more blessings.
Liu Xuanchu, Lu Fatzi's good teacher, knew Wu Sangui better than anyone else, and he quickly saw through Li Shuozu's strategy of the Raptors to force the ground snake, and it was expected that Wu Sangui would take a weak position in this matter, but Liu Xuanchu also knew very well that it was absolutely impossible for him to persuade Wu Sangui to turn his face against Jie Shu for the sake of Lu Fatzi. Therefore, Liu Xuanchu had no choice but to try his best to persuade Wu Sangui to save Lu Fatzi's life, and strive to only let Lu Fatzi lose his official position and resign, and then bring Lu Fatzi back to Kunming, where he would give full play to his strengths in Western knowledge, and then slowly find a way to let Lu Fatzi regain his official position -- Liu Xuanchu still had a lot of confidence about this, and he persuaded Wu Sangui to accept his proposition as he wished, and was determined to save Lu Fatzi's dog life at all costs.
When the good and evil parties planned and decided, on the eighth day of the seventh month of the seventh year of Kang Mazi in the Qing Dynasty, the team of King Kang finally arrived at the Shengjing Pass, in an instant, the drums sounded in front of the Shengjing Pass, the firecrackers shook the sky, hundreds of officials and their nearly 1,000 followers knelt on both sides of the road together, chanting in unison the prince Chitose Chitose Chitose, the scene was spectacular. It also made the first time to go out of Beijing to inspect the prince Kang was very satisfied, and he felt majestic, and said that it was no wonder that the imperial guards and princes in the capital had sharpened their heads and wanted to go out of Beijing, it turned out that the prince Baylor and the imperial guards could be so majestic and proud when they went outside, there were countless people kowtowing to ask for peace, and so many people were vying to send silver, it seems that I will also find a way to go to Beijing a few more times in the future to help these magistrates spend a little local silver.
There are also things that make Kang Wang Ye very dissatisfied, that is, Yunnan and Guizhou are too poor, and most of the people of the Han, Yi, Miao, Dong and Bai ethnic groups on both sides of the road are unclothed, with yellow faces and thin muscles, and most of them are holding hoes, dung forks and flat poles and other labor tools in their hands, which are very eye-catching, and smear the face of the prosperous Qing Dynasty. Of course, the things in his hand are not as good as the bird cages, cigarette bottles and cricket cans in the hands of our Manchurian Eight Banners men!
"Dog minions, get away, don't spoil the scenery here, hurry up and farm and pay taxes, we are still waiting to eat hardcore crops!" King Kang scolded fiercely in his heart.
What makes King Kang even more dissatisfied is still to come, the three giants of Yunnan and most of the Yunnan officials who can come are here, the minister of the Qin mission is less than Jackie Chan is here, the representatives of the Pingxi Royal Mansion are also here, or Wu Sangui's younger brother Wu Sanmei and eldest son-in-law Hu Guozhu, even the beauty Kong Sizhen Sigege who is not stationed in Yunnan and Bian Sanyuan, the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou who has been stationed in Guiyang for a long time, are here, and the godson-in-law Li Shuzu, the prefect of Qujing, nodded so much that people suspect that he wants to lick Prince Kang's shoes, but a bastard who Prince Kang paid great attention to did not come- This bastard who doesn't know the height of the sky, of course, is our big fat man Lu Sanhao.
"Lin Zhongcheng, come here." In the end, King Kang is a nobleman in the sky, a big man who has been in the scene for a long time, and he will find the right person when he loses his temper, so he first called Lin Tianqing to the front and snorted coldly at Lin Tianqing: "Lin Zhongcheng, I heard that Lu Yifeng of Qujing Zhixian is your family's son?" Is there such a thing? ”
"No, it's not." Lin Tianqing, the old fox of officialdom, knew that Prince Kang wanted to give himself a horse, so he hurriedly wiped his sweat and explained: "The prince doesn't know, Xiaguan and Lord Lu have only lived together in the palace of the prince of Pingxi for a period of time, and they are more familiar with each other. ”
"Really?" Prince Kang snorted coldly: "Then you, as an elder, seem to be far from enough to teach the younger generation, and you won't even abide by the minimum etiquette. Is this the prestige of local officials? ”
"This prince is still a little tender, you are a provincial relative, and you are not on an errand, Lu Yifeng don't say that he will not come to pick you up, even if you don't see you once in Qujing, he also takes full advantage of the whole reason - the law does not stipulate that local officials must meet and meet with provincial relatives, if you go to the court, you will only be unlucky." Lin Tianqing muttered in his heart, and said with a smile on his face: "Back to the prince, it's no wonder that the lower officials are lowering the officials, the lower officials are asking Lord Lu to come to greet them, but Lord Lu said that the autumn harvest is imminent, and he is busy organizing the autumn harvest, and he has already taken leave from Shangxian Li Futai, so he will not come." ”
"Busy with the autumn harvest?" Prince Kang sneered even louder, and said, "I'm afraid that it wasn't for your protection and favor in the forest, and I didn't take this king in my eyes, so I deliberately didn't come, right?" ”
"The prince has died unjustly." Lin Tianqing shouted injustice and said, "The prince has misunderstood, what kind of protection does the lower official dare to protect him?" Xia Guan and him are just ordinary old friends, so dare to pervert the law of the country for the sake of friendship? If the prince doesn't believe it, he can go and ask Li Futai to see if Lu Yifeng is falsehood from him? ”
Prince Kang continued to sneer, turned his eyes to look at Wu Sanmei and Hu Guozhu who were a little farther away, and saw that their faces were sinking like water, but they didn't have any words, and they didn't dare to say anything about Prince Kang's provocative move of deliberately making things difficult for the Western Election Officials. Prince Kang smiled proudly, and then turned his gaze to Li Shuzu, Li Shuzu understood, and hurriedly said: "Back to my father-in-law, what Lin Zhongcheng said is correct, Lu Yifeng is indeed his own leave to his son-in-law, and the time before Lin Zhongcheng arrived in Qujing, it doesn't seem to be from Lin Zhongcheng's guidance." ”
"That's fine." Prince Kang nodded with satisfaction, then turned to Lin Tianqing and said with a sneer: "Lin Zhongcheng, for the sake of you and my son-in-law as officials in the same province, forget the previous things." But in the future, if you have any deliberate partiality and cover-up, don't blame this king for not remembering the old feelings? ”
"The lower officials don't dare, the lower officials don't dare." Lin Tianqing agreed repeatedly, the sweat on his face became more and more, and he said in his heart: "Sanhao virtuous nephew, it's not your uncle's uncle, you don't care, Prince Kang has already said so openly, and these wall-riding factions in the province will not dare to stand on your side, and the uncle will have to protect himself, you can ask for more blessings." ――As an uncle, you can't gamble your own net worth and surname as a bet to turn your face and fire with a prince, right? ”
Sure enough, Lin Tianqing expected it, Prince Kang stood on the side of his son-in-law so clearly, and the other two giants in Yunnan, Li Xingyuan and Cui Zhiying, immediately led a large number of wall grass snobbery like flies seeing blood, and threw their favorites to 'praise and praise' Lu Fatzi, while King Kang nodded again and again, looking very satisfied. Seeing this scene, Lin Tianqing sighed quietly again, and turned his gaze to Jackie Chan, who had been surrounded by Kong Sizhen and Zhou Peigong, but saw that Jackie Chan was smiling, and he was smiling very happily, as if he was deaf to Jieshu's previous words that had a share and overstepped politics.
"Three good nephews, you're unlucky." Lin Tianqing muttered in his heart again, "If the Qincha who comes here is another Yu Jackie Chan, then your words must be a little better, that old Yu Jackie Chan is a master who dares to play with the prince Baylor!" Hehe, if it is Wang Xu who comes, then your son will be better, that Erlengzi, just with Prince Kang's words today, you can give Prince Kang's prince hat to fly! Unfortunately, you don't have that luck. ”
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With the emperor's cousin Prince Kang in charge, Kong Sizhen and Li Shuzu and other Qing loyalists suddenly had a lot of confidence, and they were also worried that Prince Kang would have direct contact with the people of Qujing's Diao people - Prince Kang would not kill his godson-in-law for a few poor and sour people, right? And Prince Kang also looked down on these ethnic minorities in Yunnan Tusi very much, and continued to set off south after only spending one night in Pingyi, all the way to Zhenyi Qujing, which made the head of Pingyi who was going to befriend the prince Long Kuo very annoyed.
There are also those who are always cautious and vigilant, Zhou Peigong is one of them, during this time, Zhou Peigong has been staring at Jackie Chan with the thirteen yamen experts secretly transferred by Kong Sizhen, preventing this Erwuzai who is holding the sword of the holy decree monk Fang from getting in touch with Lu Fatzi, and even more preventing this Erwuzai from suddenly turning against him and killing everyone by surprise - if this guy really takes out Shang Fang's sword and Jieshu to death, Prince Kang will also have to weigh the consequences of forcibly interfering with Qincha's law enforcement.
Zhou Peigong's caution finally paid off handsomely, and on the afternoon of the second day after leaving Pingyi, when the team arrived at Baishui Pass, taking advantage of the chaotic opportunity of a large group of troops to pass the pass, the two entourages brought by Jackie Chan from the capital suddenly broke away from the team and rode fast horses to Qujing first. Zhou Peigong heard the news and reported to Kong Sizhen, Kong Sizhen immediately sent thirteen yamen to chase and intercept, and finally caught up with them, under the pretext that Yunnan Han Yi lived together, and the road was not safe enough, they were asked to return to the brigade to accompany them, and the two Yu Jackie Chan's entourage explained that they were going to Zhanyi to fight for Yu Chengchan and prepare a place to stay, so as not to have nowhere to stay after the brigade arrived in Zhanyi.
No matter how few houses there are in Anmin's house, it is impossible for the minister to spend the night in the open air, right? For such a superficial excuse for Yu Chengchan's entourage, although the thirteen yamen masters under Kong Sizhen did not expose it to their faces, they also assured with a smile that Yu Chengchan and his entourage must have a place to stay when they arrived in Zhanyi, and they dragged hard to prevent these two entourages from going first, and insisted until King Kang's team arrived at the scene.
In order to suppress this kind of behavior that is smaller than Jackie Chan, when they were spending the night in Zhanyi, Prince Kang and Kong Sizhen teamed up to call Yu Jackie Chan into the room and warned Jackie Chan in person. First of all, Prince Kang sang with a red face and sneered: "Lord Yu, if this king is not mistaken, you seem to be a slave under the Yellow Flag, right?" Although this king's son-in-law, Li Shuzu, is a white flag and you are not the same flag, shouldn't we help each other a little bit between our flag people? Less trouble? ”
"Lord Wang, what did you say? How can you not understand the lowly position? Yu Chengchan asked with fake doubts.
"Don't pretend to be garlic for this king, what are you going to do when you send someone to Qujing today?" Prince Kang waved his hand and asked viciously.
"The prince misunderstood, the lower officials sent people to the front station of Zhanyida to prepare for the night, but they didn't send them back to Qujing." Yu Jackie Chan argued.
"Lord Wang, from the point of view of the slave family, since Lord Yu said so, it is absolutely wrong, and there is no other meaning." Kong Sizhen sang with a white face, and said delicately: "Besides, since Lord Yu arrived in Qujing, it is still very good to get along with us and Li Futai, of course Lord Yu will not do anything to be sorry for his friends, Lord Yu, are you right?" ”
"Of course." Yu Chenglong hurriedly nodded and said: "What Sigege said is extremely true, although Yu Chenglong is not talented, but betraying his friends is something that he will never do and dare not do." ”
"Lord Yu is right, that's the truth." Kong Sizhen hit the snake with the stick, and said with a smile: "Doing things in officialdom is about being with the light and the dust, and Lord Yu understood this truth at that time - he would never offend people everywhere like Lord Yu's mentor Wang Zongxian, and when something happened, there was not even a friend who could talk." Yu, are you right? ”
Kong Sizhen's words brought Wang Xu, who was less than Jackie Chan, who was less than Jackie Chan, of course he didn't speak, and his thin face was a little elongated. Kong Sizhen observed the words and looks, and knew that he had touched Yu Chengchan's reverse scales, so he got up and walked to Yu Chengchan's side, and sat down next to Yu Chengchan in a chair, pressed his little hand on Jackie Chan's thigh, rubbed it gently, and asked with a smile: "What's wrong?" Did the slave family accidentally insult Lord Yu's teacher, and Lord Yu got angry and didn't speak? ”
"If that's the case, then the slave family will apologize to Lord Yu." Kong Sizhen's smile became more and more charming, gently pinched Yu Chengchan's thigh, and said coquettishly: "However, the slave family thinks that what they said is good, but the slave family doesn't understand, Lord Yu, what are you doing so desperately?" Yes, Li Shuzu is a little unusual, Lord Yu, you sent your subordinates to quietly go deep into the people, and none of the crimes of Li Shuzu collected are true, all of them are ......true. ”
"Sigege, you know it all?" Yu Chenglong was startled.
"Of course I know, the slave family is in charge of the thirteen yamen in the south for the emperor in Guangxi, and the slave family is in charge of the slave family on the surface, and secretly sends his subordinates to visit quietly, this little trick can still hide from the eyes of the slave family?" Kong Sizhen laughed wildly, and was very disdainful of Jackie Chan's superficial methods of investigating the case. At the end, Kong Sizhen leaned into Yu Chengchan's ear again, and said with a sigh of relief: "However, does Lord Yu know that Li Shuzu Li Futai is in Qujing, and in fact, he is also quietly responsible for the same messenger as the Thirteen Yamen, do you know what kind of messenger he is?" ”
"Spying on the prince of Pingxi?" Yu Jackie Chan asked in a deep voice.
Kong Sizhen finally put away her charming smile, rarely showed a serious expression, nodded solemnly, and said: "Yes, Lord Yu should understand by now, why Li Shuzu has so many mistakes, so many no, the emperor and the court have been reluctant to attack him, right?" It is easy to bring down Li Shuzu, but after defeating him, who will monitor the Pingxi Mansion for the emperor and the imperial court? Who will control Qujing Mansion, the throat of Yunnan and Guizhou, for the emperor and the imperial court? Have you thought about these? ”
Yu Chenglong stopped talking again, Kong Sizhen glanced at Jieshu, Jieshu understood, and immediately said: "Lord Yu, I can't hide it, in fact, after hearing Sigege's secret report to this king about Li Shuzu, this king is also angry, and he also wants to cut Li Shuzu with a thousand knives and give the people of Qujing justice!" However, it is easy to kill Li Shuzu, where to find someone who is loyal to the emperor and the court to replace him? Moreover, people will make mistakes, it is not terrible to make mistakes, what I am afraid of is that there is no chance to correct mistakes, so you don't want to give Li Shuzu such a chance to correct? ”
"Lord Yu, the slave family and Prince Kang beg you, let Li Shuzu go for the time being." Kong Sizhen almost snuggled into Jackie Chan's arms, and said softly in Jackie Chan's ear: "Look at it, the prince went south to save his relatives, and it was Li Shuzu who came to visit, will you condemn Li Shuzu's guilt and let the prince's face go there?" The thirteen yamen of the slave family, there is a lot of intelligence news to be collected from Li Shuzu, you knocked him down, where did the slave family collect intelligence? ”
"So, Lord Yu, the slave family begs you, let Li Shuzu go once, give him a chance to make amends, and let him promise that he will never dare again in the future, okay?" Kong Sizhen's voice was as sweet and glutinous as if it was mixed with honey, "The slave family guesses, even if Lord Yu, your mentor Wang Zongxian is here, or Yu Chengchan, the brother of the same clan with the same name and surname as you, is here, he will also understand the righteousness and give Li Shuzu, a meritorious and meritorious minion, a chance to correct it, Lord Yu, don't you worship your mentor and your brother of the same clan and the same name Yu Cheng Chan Yu Adult?" Don't you want to learn from them? ”
"Of course, after the deed is completed, this king and Sigege will definitely have a good reward!" Jieshu promised: "After returning to Beijing, this king will secretly show the emperor your profound righteousness, and will truthfully explain your various achievements, and ask the emperor to reward you heavily!" In addition, this king will also ask Li Shuzu to prepare a generous gift to thank you for your life-saving grace. ”
"The slave family will also thank Lord Yu, no matter what Lord Yu wants, the slave family will not refuse ......." Kong Sizhen glanced at Yu Jackie Chan charmingly, and gently pinched him on his thigh, provocative, overflowing with words, and said in his heart, hooking up can't be older than Jackie Chan, and the old lady can't hook up with you less than Jackie Chan?
"This ......." After thinking about it for a long time, Yu Chengchan finally relaxed and said in a low voice: "Lord Wang, Sigege, please allow Yu Chengchan to think about it overnight." ”
"What else is on the table?" Kong Sizhen was sneering, "Lord Yu, haven't you seen it yet?" Bian Butang, the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, Cui Fantai, the political envoy of Yunnan, and Li Zhentai, the envoy of the inspection department, have all decided to stand on our side, so is Lord Yu still planning to turn the tide and stand on the opposite side of everyone? Even if you have this heart and help that fat man, what's the use? What can he do for you? Can it help you get promoted, or can it help you improve your family situation? And finding out the crime of Lu Fatzi bullying the king, isn't it also a great achievement for you? ”
"That's right." Jie Shu nodded vigorously and said: "Fat Lu used a counter-trick against the emperor to deceive the emperor into making concessions on the matter of Yungui's military salary, and the emperor is already very angry. ”
Yu Jackie Chan's face sank like water, he closed his eyes and fought in his heart, and after thinking about it for half an hour, Yu Jackie Chan's lips moved slightly, and he said in a low voice: "Lord Wang, Sigege, collect those things secretly, and ask someone to send them to you in a while." Say, what do you want me to do? ”
The only hope is that Yu Chenglong, the minister of the Qin Mission, has also been dragged into the water, and the scourge of Lu Sanhao, who is like a loyal man, should finally die and have no place to be buried, right? If you want to know what will happen next, please see the next chapter, "There is a Fat Man Playing a Scoundrel"!
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(To be continued)