In the first airship of Pingxi Wangfu, and at the same time the first successful test flight of the airship in this era, I suddenly received the news that Xiao Mazi had used the poisonous plan to disperse the party, and the joy brought by the successful launch of the first Pingxi Wangfu airship was inevitably diluted a lot.

There is no way, Xiao Mazi's hand is really a little too vicious, among the three Wu Sangui lackeys who transferred out of Yungui in one go, Wang Fuchen and Shi Yugui are both old men who have followed Wu Sangui for many years, and they are also Wu Sangui's right-hand man and hardcore friend in the military, Wang Fuchen is one of the four major military regions of Pingxi Wangfu, needless to say, transferring him is equivalent to cutting off one of Wu Sangui's limbs; Although Shi Yugui's official position is slightly lower than that of Wang Fuchen, the Zhenyuan garrison in Guizhou under his control has choked the choke point between Guizhou and Hunan and the Central Plains, and the important surname is irreplaceable.

If the transfer of Wang Fuchen is to cut off one of Wu Sangui's four arms in the military, then the transfer of Lu Fatzi is to Wu Sangui, but it is to cut off his only arm in military technology and new technology. No one knows better than Wu Sangui the important surname of Lu Fatzi to the Pingxi Imperial Mansion - if there is no Lu Fatzi, how could the Pingxi Imperial Mansion completely reverse the weapon disadvantage against the Mites Qing Imperial Court in just three years? If there was no Fat Lu, how could Guizhou, Yunnan, which is notoriously poor and bad, completely reverse the financial decline in just three years, and there would no longer be a need to look at Xiao Mazi's face financially?

Because of this, after secretly transferring the airship to the valley of the Sinuiju Firearms Battalion for placement, when preparing to return to Wuhua Mountain, Wu Sangui met with Lu Fatzi alone, and said to Lu Fatzi straight to the point: "Yifeng, transfer you to Daxing to serve as the magistrate, you think about it carefully, this king very much hopes that you can stay, if you are willing to resign from the imperial court to stay in Yunnan, any official position in Wuhua Mountain, you can choose by yourself, and Gu will also marry Xiao Su to you, so that you can be Gu's grandson-in-law." ”

Lu Fatzi frowned bitterly, and only after a long time did he reluctantly replied: "Back to the prince, of course, the humble post is to dream of staying in Yunnan and stay under the prince forever, but once the humble post does this, the court will immediately understand that the various progress of our Pingxi Royal Mansion in the past few years is because of the ghosts of the humble position, and many of the efforts of the humble position will be wasted." This fact is too big, and the involvement is too wide, and a little carelessness will also have a great impact on the prince, please allow the prince to consider the humble position for a while, discuss it with the teacher, weigh the pros and cons, and then give the prince an answer. ”

"Cheng, when you return to Wuhua Mountain, you will reply to this king." Wu Sangui was quite refreshing, and agreed to Lu Fatzi's request in one bite. At the end, Wu Sangui said meaningfully: "Yifeng, what you have done in the past few years has proved to Gu that you and your teacher Liu Xuanchu are all the way. Although Lone has no intention of forcing you to stay, Lone still wants to remind you that a person like you, when you go to the court, not only is it destined not to be reused, but you may also have a surname at any time, I hope you can think about it yourself. ”

"Now that the prince has understood the ambition of the humble position, the humble position will also be straightforward." Fat Lu knelt down on his knees and said solemnly: "I swear allegiance to the prince to the death, assist the prince in expelling the Tartars, and restore my Han family, and I will be unswerving for life." Even if the lowly position is forced to leave temporarily or forever in order to avoid causing trouble to the prince, the lowly position will not offer a skill to the Tartar for the rest of his life, and make a plan! ”

"This king believes in you." Wu Sangui nodded, and said: "But don't think too much about it, even if you insist on staying, even if it will bring a little trouble to Lone, Lone will not care, the pressure on the court side, Lone will carry it for you." Fat Lu burst into tears, couldn't cry, and knelt in front of Wu Laohan for a long time without saying a word.

Lu Fatzi's tears have always been cheap, basically as long as he needs to, he can cry wolf at any time, but this time he shed tears, Lu Fatzi really had some helpless pain in it - originally according to historical development, Wu Sangui would have to rebel in two years at most, and now after Lu Fatzi's painstaking management, Wu Sangui has carefully created countless advanced weapons that transcend the times, which makes Wu Sangui's ambition greatly inflated, and it is not impossible to advance the time of rebellion. At the same time, Lu Fatzi himself also mastered a small number of extremely elite descendants, just waiting to show his strength on the anti-Qing battlefield, fishing in troubled waters and waiting for the opportunity to stand on his own, but Xiao Mazi just gave Lu Fatzi such a big problem at this time, and Lu Fatzi really didn't know how to choose.

At the same time, they didn't know how to choose, and Hu Liu Fangwang, the four major thinkers of the Pingxi Palace, originally they all hoped that Lu Fatzi would resign from his official position and continue to stay in Yunnan to develop new weapons and give advice to Wu Sangui, but they all understood that once Lu Fatzi did this, it was equivalent to telling Xiao Mazi that the Eight Banners Fushou Paste was a financial weapon that Lu Fatzi deliberately opened up for Wu Sangui, in order to help Wu Sangui get rid of the financial shackles of the Qing Dynasty; There are also various new weapons that appeared in Wu Sangui's army, which were also made by Lu Fatzi to help Wu Sangui improve his military strength and confront the Qing court.

At that time, Xiao Mazi will not only hate Lu Fatzi to the bone, and will inevitably get rid of him quickly, but also will definitely bring countless troubles and countless problems to Wu Sangui - for example, Xiao Mazi will find an excuse or use something as a threat to force Wu Sangui to kill Lu Fatzi, how should Wu Sangui choose? For the sake of Lu Fatzi to raise troops against the Qing Dynasty? Under such a dilemma, when Lu Fatzi found them to discuss countermeasures together, several resourceful Pingxi Wangfu think tanks were completely helpless.

"Yifeng, do you think this is a deliberate temptation of the Tartar Emperor to you?" After thinking about it for a long time, Fang Guangchen put forward a great possibility and said, "Could the Tartar Emperor just plan to test it and see if you have something to do with the Nule Peak camp?" If you pass this test, you will soon be able to return to Qujing and take over Zhang Gaomo's position as the prefect of Qujing? ”

"I think it's very likely." Hu Guozhu also said: "According to the information we have, Gan Wenkun has submitted a recital to the imperial court, asking for the promotion of Yifeng to the prefect of Qujing, and Zhang Gaomo is leveling the big set, which is enough to prove that Gan Wenkun still trusts Yifeng, and is also ready to continue to use Yifeng to keep an eye on us in Qujing." Gan Wenkun, who was close at hand, didn't even catch the handle of Yifeng, and found the true position of Yifeng, how could Emperor Mazi, who was far away in the sky, find out? So I also think that this is likely to be a test of Yifeng by the imperial court, and if it survives this hurdle, the imperial court is likely to put Yifeng back in Qujing again. ”

"What if not?" Lu Fatzi's teacher Liu Xuanchu is more cautious - it's not okay if he is not cautious, Liu Xuanchu is such a proud protégé of Lu Fatzi, he can't watch him die in vain, right? After raising this question, Liu Xuanchu said solemnly: "Yifeng is proficient in Western studies, which he has inadvertently known to the emperor for a long time, and now the gunpowder weapon technology of our Pingxi Palace's mansion has advanced by leaps and bounds, although our secrecy measures have been done well, and some inferior weapons have been used to reassure the emperor - but in case the emperor just pretends to be fooled, in fact, he already knows our true situation, and has already suspected Yifeng, that Yifeng went to Daxing, which is adjacent to the capital, is not a sheep into the mouth of a tiger?" ”

Fang Guangchen and Hu Guozhu stopped talking, and they really couldn't tell how much Xiao Mazi knew about the current situation in Pingxi Palace. At this time, Wang Shirong, who had not expressed his position, suddenly opened his mouth and said: "Even if Emperor Mazi didn't find the flaws of your student, Mr. Maoyao, he went to the vicinity of Gyeonggi this time, and he was beaten with meat buns and dogs, and there was no return." ”

"What do you mean?" Liu Xuanchu didn't react immediately when he was annoyed, but said angrily: "Do you think that Mr. Liangchen, when Yifeng arrives in the capital, he will definitely betray the prince?" ”

"Mr. Mao Yao misunderstood, I didn't doubt your student's loyalty to the prince." Wang Shirong didn't get angry, but said unhurriedly: "I just said that he went to Gyeonggi to take office this time, but I am afraid that it will be more than lucky." Mr. Mao Yao forgot that although you, a student, are very trusted by Emperor Mazi and Gan Wenkun, there are some people in the court who are always suspicious of him. Before, your students were in Yunnan, and they were secretly protected by the prince and Gan Wenkun, and they couldn't do anything to your students, but once he arrived at Daxing, which the prince couldn't reach, they would be polite to your students? ”

"Also, Ao Bai also knew for a long time that your student was in fact loyal to the prince, but at present, he still has a request for the prince, and he is not completely at ease with the emperor, so he must keep a hand, so he did not expose this. However, this doesn't mean that he doesn't want to get rid of you, a student, and cut off the only arm of the prince in terms of firearms and Western studies! ”

Speaking of this, Wang Shirong paused for a moment and asked gloomily: "Mr. Maoyao, think about it, in this case, what will happen to your students when they take office in Daxing, which is directly under the jurisdiction of the capital?" I am afraid that he will be forcibly detained in the capital and that he will not be able to return to Yunnan for the rest of his life, and he is still the lightest and lightest. ”

Wang Shirong's cold voice reminded Liu Xuanchu, and also made Liu Xuanchu's whole body creepy, and quickly turned to Lu Fatzi and said: "Yifeng, Mr. Liangchen is reasonable, you must not go to Daxing to take office, it is better to resign and stay, only by staying in Yunnan, the prince and we can protect your safety!" ”

"No, Yifeng must not resign and stay in Yunnan - at least not publicly!" Fang Guangchen raised his eyebrows and said solemnly: "Yifeng's resignation and stay in Yunnan is equivalent to telling the imperial court that everything he did before was from the instructions and arrangements of the prince, and the prince's Nule Peak camp must also be related to Yifeng!" At that time, the Tartar Emperor will give a death edict down, will Yifeng obey the decree or not obey the decree?! The Tartar Emperor ordered the prince to take the Yifeng lock into the capital with an edict, and the prince obeyed the order? Or do you not obey the order?! ”

"In this way, Yifeng's only way is to stay in Yunnan quietly." Hu Guozhu groaned and said: "Let Yifeng pretend to follow the order to enter Beijing to take office, suddenly disappear on the way, and quietly return to Yunnan?" ”

"It's better to create the illusion that you've been killed by robbers." Wang Shirong suggested: "Get a corpse to pretend to be Mr. Mao Yao's student, and then there will be no such person in the world, and the Tartar Emperor will have no excuse to make things difficult for the prince, and Mr. Mao Yao can also do big things in Yunnan incognito." ”

Hearing these words of Hu Guozhu and Wang Shirong, Lu Fatzi almost didn't cry - fake death and escape is of course a good way to get out of the predicament, but in this way, he will lose a lot of personal freedom, so he can only hide in the heavily guarded firearms camp all day and night to design and produce new weapons for Wu Sangui. At the same time, without his activities in front of Xiao Mazi and Gan Wenkun, the Qujing Green Battalion controlled by his cousin will definitely be swallowed up by Gan Wenkun or Wu Sangui in a short time.

It's better to ask for others than for yourself, taking advantage of the fact that Liu Xuanchu and Fang Guangchen haven't agreed to this proposition, Lu Fatzi hurriedly started his head again and pondered, "Go to Daxing honestly, bet that Xiao Mazi will soon put himself back in Qujing, there will be life-threatening problems, and the variables are too great, if you don't go back, you won't be able to come back, this road will definitely not work, and you can't consider it." ”

According to Wu Sangui's request, he resigned and returned to his hometown, and stayed in Yunnan to serve in the Pingxi Palace, which also did not work. In case Xiao Mazi starts to be ruthless and forces Wu Sangui to hand over himself at all costs, Wu Sangui's old thing may not be able to die for himself and Xiao Mazi - Cha Rulong is a lesson in blood. ”

"Fake death is certainly a good way to get out of the predicament, but the loss is too great, and the previous efforts will be wasted. Is there any way to get out of the predicament like this one, and not let your previous efforts go to waste? Do you have? Do you have......? Do you have............?! ”

Thinking about this, Lu Fatzi's heart suddenly moved, stood up and shouted: "There is a way, I can go to other provinces to become an official!" Go to Guangxi to be an official! ”

"Go to Guangxi to be an official?!" The four major think tanks of Pingxi Wangfu were all taken aback, and Liu Xuanchu was the first to exclaim: "Are you crazy? Guangxi is Kong Sizhen's base camp! ”

"Teacher, of course the student is not crazy." Fat Lu clenched his fists and waved, and said excitedly: "It is precisely because Guangxi is Kong Sizhen's base camp that the students want to go there!" ”

"It's because Guangxi is Kong Sizhen's base camp that you want to go there? What do you mean? Liu Xuanchu was more and more confused by the whimsy of his proud protégé.

"Because the students can be sure that this time the Emperor Mazi transferred the students out of Yungui, and there is a ** in ten that this bitch is the ghost again!" Fat Lu gritted his teeth and said: "She has long suspected that the student is actually loyal to the prince, but she has not been able to find evidence, so she took this opportunity to encourage Emperor Mazi to test me again, if I go according to her arrangement, whether it is to go to Daxing to take office or resign and go into hiding, I will only fall into her trap and be put to death by the rear she has prepared for a long time!" ”

"Even if you fake your death and get out, it may have been calculated by her, and she has also arranged countermeasures, and once the news leaks a little bit, not only will the students be unsafe, but even the prince will definitely be implicated."

"So the best way is for students to give back to others the way they do! Isn't she suspicious of me? I'll go straight under her nose and watch and suspect whatever she wants! By the way, I can also say to Gan Wenkun that I was framed by Kong Sizhen, so I chose to do this in anger, and you will ask the prince to cooperate with me in a play, and take advantage of the chaotic opportunity of my sudden resignation to take control of Qujing in one fell swoop! At that time, Gan Wenkun will definitely be in chaos, and he will feel that his previous efforts have been wasted, and then he will spare no effort to pull me back to Qujing, so that I can control Qujing again for him and stare at the prince! ”

"Even Emperor Mazi will believe that I made this choice in anger when I was threatened and suspicious by Kong Sizhen, and he will only trust me more, and he will listen to Gan Wenkun's opinion and let me return to Qujing."

"Also, there are two advantages to me doing this, one is that even if Emperor Mazi really catches some of my flaws and is ready to trick me back to the capital to make it easier to do it, I will go to Guangxi to disrupt his plan, and if he wants to do it, the prince and I will have enough time to react, so that I can secretly escape back to Yunnan. The second is that even if Emperor Mazi decides not to use me anymore and no longer send me back to Yunnan, I will stay in Guangxi for a while, I can return to Yunnan under the pretext of missing my hometown, and directly and openly serve the prince - after all, it was Emperor Mazi who abandoned me first, and I voted for the master, and he was blameless! ”

"In this way, I can return to Qujing when I enter, and I can disappear without a trace when I retreat, avoiding all the followers of Emperor Mazi and Kong Sizhen. If it goes well, I can also take the opportunity to get rid of many suspicions, gain the trust of Emperor Mazi and Gan Wenkun more, and further completely control Qujing for the prince, and lay the foundation for the prince's major affairs, wouldn't it be the best of both worlds? ”

When Fat Lu was talking, the four big thinkers of Pingxi Wangfu were all dumbfounded, and they were all overwhelmed by Fat Lu's crazy plan, but after Fat Lu finished talking in detail and thought about it carefully, Hu Guozhu and the others felt that although this plan was crazy, it was actually very powerful, and the hope of success was also great - at least, it could avoid bringing countless troubles to Wu Sangui.

Therefore, Fang Guangchen was the first to echo: "I agree, this is a good way, which can avoid the follow-up trouble caused by the prince's public stay in Wuhua Mountain to the greatest extent, and it can also reduce the danger of Yifeng, and further leave Yifeng with hope for a comeback." ”

"I'm in favor of it too." Wang Shirong said quietly: "Letting this student of Mr. Mao Yao fake his death and get out is just a last resort, and no one can predict what the consequences will be." With this method, which no one expected, it is possible to disrupt all the enemy's plans and win the turnaround. ”

"It's a good idea." Liu Xuanchu was still a little worried, and said: "But, Yifeng, you have arrived in Guangxi, what if Kong Sizhen's bitch takes the opportunity to poison you?" ”

"Rest assured, of course students will not be stupid enough to serve under Sun Yanling or Dai Liangchen, that is a real self-defeating net." Lu Fatzi's eyebrows fluttered and said: "The students went to join Ma Xiong or Yu Xuan, and served under them, General Ma Lao and General Lian San have a good relationship with the prince, in fact, under the command of the prince, the students go to them, not only can they be reused, but they can also get their full protection." ”

Liu Xuanchu no longer objected, and after thinking carefully for a long time, Liu Xuanchu turned to Wu Laohan's number one henchman, Hu Guozhu, and asked, "General Jinwu, what do you think?" ”

Hu Guozhu remained silent, and after thinking about it for a long time, Hu Guozhu asked: "Yifeng, after you leave Yunnan temporarily, will it affect our firearms production?" ”

"Of course not." Lu Fatzi replied: "Whether it is a new rocket, a new gunpowder or a Hongyi cannon, our craftsmen in Pingxi Wangfu have mastered all the production processes, and even without me, they are already able to produce on their own." The only thing that will be affected is probably the problem of the airship's aerial operation, but I can try to solve this problem during the time I am away from Yunnan temporarily, or contact me by letter, draw a sketch for the craftsmen to produce and experiment, or wait for me to make all the preparations and return to Yunnan to solve it myself. ”

"General Jinwu, Yifeng's temporary departure from Yunnan will also have many benefits for us." Liu Xuanchu said to the students: "If Yifeng fakes his death or resigns to stay, it is equivalent to telling the court that Yifeng is responsible for our new firearms, but I am afraid that it will bring countless troubles to the prince." ”

"I agree with that, too." Fang Guangchen echoed: "Yifeng has spent more than a year designing and manufacturing the airship, and now it is basically usable, we have been waiting for more than a year, so what's the matter if we wait a few more months?" And as far as I know, in order to produce the first airship, we have also used up all the guta glue in stock, and we have not had time to replenish it, which also requires a waste of time. ”

Hu Guozhu still didn't rush to answer, and after thinking about it for a long time, Hu Guozhu said: "This matter is too big, we must first obtain the consent of Lao Taishan, return to Wuhua Mountain, let's go and ask Lao Taishan's opinion together." ”

After that, Hu Guozhu said to Lu Fatzi again: "Yifeng, if Lao Taishan agrees with you to go to Guangxi to avoid the limelight temporarily, wait for the opportunity to make a comeback, don't go to Ma Xiong, who is too close to us-grievances and hardships, go to Lu Yuxuan, he has the strongest strength in Guangxi, even Kong Sizhen, he does not dare to come to his station, Nanning Hulai." Moreover, Yu Xuan is only secretly very close to us, and on the surface he still keeps a distance from us, and going to him can avoid further suspicion of you by the imperial court. ”

"Thank you General Jinwu for your advice, the lower official understands." Lu Fatzi said excitedly: "Speaking of Nanning, the lowly job has long wanted to go there, the lowly job has studied Western knowledge, and knows that there is a big tin mine there, the ore quality is very good, better than our old tin mine in Yunnan, and the lowly job has long wanted to go to see and see." However, General Kongo, what do you mean by humiliating and working hard? ”

"Hahahaha." Wu Sangui's four lackeys all laughed, and they laughed very badly. At the end, Fang Guangchen smiled and asked Fat Lu with a smile: "Yifeng, you must not have seen Yu Xuan himself, right?" ”

"Nope." Lu Fatzi shook his head and replied honestly: "I just heard of his name, and I also heard that he is very popular with the Guangxi army, and he has had an indirect contact. ”

"So Yifeng, you don't have a special love, right?" Fang Guangchen suddenly asked with a smile again.

"What's your hobby?" Fat Lu was confused.

"Then you're going to have a hard time." Fang Guangchen laughed and said, "I won't tell you the specific reason here, when you see him in Nanning, you will understand everything." ”

Wang Shirong and Hu Guozhu also laughed, while Liu Xuanchu smiled bitterly, laughing so much that Lu Fatzi was confused, and he wondered in his heart, "What is so strange about this Yu Xuan?" ”

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Although he plans to go to Guangxi to temporarily avoid the limelight, disrupt Xiao Mazi and Kong Sizhen's evil abacus, and strive for the last chance to make a comeback, the key to whether he can make the trip depends on whether Wu Sangui agrees with this crazy plan. And after returning to Wuhua Mountain, Lu Fatzi still had no way to go to Wu Sangui and beg him to agree to this plan, and Wu Sangui's four lackeys had to come forward and discuss the feasible surname of this plan with Wu Sangui alone - no way, Lu Fatzi's move was actually temporarily out of Wu Sangui's control, and it was really inconvenient to make this request in front of Wu Sangui in person.

After Hu Guozhu and others went to talk to Wu Sangui secretly, they waited for a long time in the room where they lived alone, and after waiting for more than two hours, the door of Lu Fatzi's room was finally pushed open.

Wu Guogui looked at the ugly face that Fat Lu owed him eight million taels of silver, and he didn't sit down, standing in front of Fat Lu and said coldly: "My father just found me and talked about you and Xiao Su, although I am very opposed, but I can't disobey my father's decision - so in the future, you have to be kind to Xiao Su." ”

"Do you want me to be nice to Xiao Su?" Lu Fatzi first shook his head, then suddenly came to his senses, and hurriedly kowtowed, "Son-in-law knocks on my father-in-law...... ”

"Get up, don't get on your knees!" Wu Guogui grabbed Lu Fatzi and said viciously: "It's still early to salute, and when you come back from Guangxi, you and Xiao Su can be officially engaged!" Also, when you go to Guangxi, your family can continue to stay in Qujing City, and your uncle and I will take care of them, understand? ”

"Understood, understood." Fat Lu nodded like a chicken pecking rice, and secretly admired Wu Sangui's indulgence - he not only promised his granddaughter like a flower to himself, but also detained his family in Yunnan, so naturally he didn't have to worry about betraying him.

"It's good to understand, if you understand, follow me to see the prince." Wu Guogui dragged Lu Fatzi and left, and said fiercely while dragging him: "Listen, after my little man passes through the door, he and your little Gege of Pingnan Wangfu must be no different!" Got it? ”

"Understood, understood."

"Also, if you dare to be sorry for her and let her be wronged, even if I am scolded by my father, I will chop you up! Do you understand? ”

"Understood, understood."

"Also, my little man likes ......, you have to ............."

(To be continued)