"General Mulima, the humble position can be guaranteed." Lu Fatzi said to Mu Lima very seriously: "If the general listens to the story told by the lowly officer, he will definitely be inspired." ”

"Mulima, this is the only chance that the master has given you Gualga brothers." After finishing seriously, Lu Fatzi said more seriously in his heart: "Originally, I was afraid that the historical trajectory would be completely changed, and even Wu Sangui would not be able to turn back, and I was even more afraid that Ao Bai, an experienced veteran, would be difficult to deal with on the battlefield, and I didn't want to get involved in this matter, but looking at the face of misunderstanding your Ao family brothers for so many years, I will give you a chance, and only give this one chance, whether you can seize it depends on your own." ”

"Tell me a story, and surely it will be inspiring?" It is also the Ao family brother who is blessed to the soul, usually known for being rough and irritable Mu Lima first, there will be nothing to do, and secondly, seeing Lu Fatzi's solemn and serious expression, he agreed with a ghostly messenger: "Okay, anyway, I will have nothing else to do, I know that there is a teahouse near here, which is specially used for palace officials to rest and wait, let's go sit together, and listen to your story while hiding from the snow." ”

Fat Lu nodded, and at that moment Mu Lima led the way, leading Lu Fat Man to a small alley between the noon gate and the front door, there was really a teahouse in the alley, Mu Lima asked the boss to prepare a private room, moved a charcoal basin, and ordered a pot of good tea and some snacks, and sat down face to face with Lu Fatzi, and then smiled: "Lord Lu, say it quickly, this general will listen to you, and you will go to the palace gate to pick up the eldest brother and disperse the dynasty in a while." ”

"General Mulima, can you let your men occupy the two rooms next door?" Lu Fatzi said cautiously: "Also, in front of the door and outside the window of this room, please also arrange the most reliable people to guard." ”

"Lord Lu, what is the story? Do I need to do this? No matter how careless Mu Lima was, he could hear that something was wrong, and asked Fat Lu in surprise. Fat Lu didn't answer, but his expression became more serious and dignified. Mu Lima stared at the fat man Lu for a long time, and finally couldn't hold back his curiosity, got up and went out to arrange, and let his henchmen guard the front and back of the room, and even arranged for people to be on duty on the beams of the room, completely eliminating the possibility of being overheard, and then returned to the room and said, "Okay, Lord Lu, it's all arranged according to what you said, can you talk about it now?" ”

"General Mulima don't blame." Lu Fatzi arched his hand, "But after listening to this story, General Mulima, you will definitely understand the hardships of lowly duty." ”

"Say it, you're going to kill me." Murima, whose appetite was completely aroused, urged him to fill a cup of tea for both Fat Lu and himself.

"General Xie." Fat Lu thanked him, took the hot teacup, covered the hot teacup and said slowly: "General Mulima, I want to tell this story, not the story of this dynasty or our Great Qing Kingdom, it is a story that happened in a Western country, in that country called Daman, there is a young king and a meritorious auxiliary minister, the young king ascended the throne at the age of eight, assisted by four old ministers, and later two of the four old ministers died, and one old minister was old and sick. The major affairs of the court of Daman were all decided by the last old minister. ”

"In the end, this old minister seems to be surnamed Gua, I can't remember what his specific name is, but I know that he has made great contributions, and has made countless contributions to the little king's family to fight the world, and he is the first warrior of Daman - just like the first Baturu."

Lu Fatzi's words are not very subtle, and they are even a little explicit, of course Mulima can understand who Lu Fatzi is really talking about, and at the moment Mulima held his breath and listened to the surname. Lu Fatzi continued to take care of himself: "Six years after ascending the throne, the fourteen-year-old little king married the queen and became a politician. At this time, there was a contradiction between the old minister surnamed Gua and the little emperor, for the sake of a few pieces of land, the old minister surnamed Gua killed a few of the little king's favorite ministers, and the little king was very angry, and felt that the power of the old minister surnamed Gua was too great, so he wanted to take back the power of this old minister and kill the whole family of the old minister surnamed Gua -- of course, including the old minister's own brothers. ”

"The little king even wants to kill the brother of the old minister?" Mulima raised her eyebrows,

"Of course." Lu Fatzi nodded and said: "The power of this old minister surnamed Gua is too great, most of the important officials of the Daman Imperial Court are his people, and his own brother is very good at fighting, and there are countless old departments in the army, and he responds to every call - if the little king wants to kill the old minister surnamed Gua, and does not kill his own brother, what if his own brother leads the army to rebel?" ”

"Are you sure that the little king will kill the old minister surnamed Gua?" Mulima asked nervously: "The old minister surnamed Gua has so much merit, and he is so loyal to the little king's father, and the little king also wants to kill him?" ”

"Rabbits and dead dogs cook, birds are all hidden, ancient and modern, Chinese and foreign." Lu Fatzi said unhurriedly: "But I just overheard this story, and I don't know if it's true, I don't know if General Mulima is still interested in hearing how this little king plans to kill this old minister surnamed Gua and his whole family?" ”

"Of course I want to hear it." Mu Lima nodded vigorously and urged: "Lord Lu, you can speak quickly, I'll listen." ”

"That's good, then the lowly position will continue, but the lowly position emphasizes again, this is just a story, out of this teahouse, the lowly position will not admit it." Lu Fatzi smiled, and then continued: "Of course, it is not so easy for the little king to kill this old minister surnamed Gua, because this old general surnamed Gua not only has many friends and subordinates in the court, but also has extremely high martial arts, and no one is the opponent of this old general." Therefore, the little king put up his surname and made a very strict and detailed plan to deal with this old minister. ”

"What's the plan?" Mulima said nervously: "If Lord Lu still remembers the detailed steps of this plan, please tell me the original one, I will definitely thank you." ”

"The little king had a lot of plans, and I remember he wanted to do it in the first place." Lu Fatzi recalled and said: "First of all, the little king wants to let the old minister surnamed Gua take it lightly, and deliberately give the old minister surnamed Gua a big official, so that the old minister surnamed Gua can relax his vigilance, thinking that the little king respects him very much and will not attack him." Then the little king brought a large group of half-grown children into the palace and let them practice boxing, which is a kind of Western martial art, equivalent to our Qing Dynasty's Buku, and prepared to use these half-grown children to deal with this old minister surnamed Gua. ”

"Half-grown kids? Boxing? Buku?! No matter how stupid Mu Lima is, he can understand what Lu Fatzi's words mean, and the shadows of the young guards such as Cao Yin, Li Xu, Wolf Tan and Sun Dianchen also flashed through Mu Lima's heart like lightning - Mu Lima suddenly realized, "Damn! No wonder these guys practice Buku every day, it's for this! ”

"It's a beautiful idea!" Knowing this, Mulima couldn't help but snort coldly, "Just with these three-legged cat kung fu, you also want to achieve your goal?" ”

"Of course, these three-legged cats can't beat the old general surnamed Gua, but this little king is very insidious, and he is very prepared with a lot of tricks." Lu Fatzi said slowly: "The third step, the little king wants to control the army of the capital, and he has exhausted all methods, and finally pulled the admiral of the capital of their country over, so that this admiral is ready to lead troops to block the capital at any time, and catch turtles in the urn to wipe out the whole family of the old general surnamed Gua." In the fourth step, the little king contacted the three major families of their country, Aijia (Aixin Jueluo), Hejia (Hesheri) and Niu Jia (Niu Co Lu), and prepared to deal with the old general's Gua family, and wanted to grab the treasures and land of the Gua family and distribute them to these three families. ”

Hearing this, Mulima's face turned white, from white to blue, and from green to black, and finally suppressed the shock and anger in his heart, and tried to say calmly: "The story is very exciting, Lord Lu, please continue." ”

"The fifth step is to transfer the cronies and henchmen of General Gua." At this point, Lu Fatzi could only continue, "Either under the pretext of promotion, or with the excuse of errands, or with the excuse of transfer, in short, the old general surnamed Gua got all his confidants out of the capital, and the cronies of the little king took the opportunity to control the key yamen of the capital." At this point, the little king is about to get his hands dirty. ”

"How?" Mulima asked nervously.

"How to do it is divided into six small steps." Fat Lu deliberately slowed down his voice, so that Mu Lima could remember it carefully, "The first step is to find an excuse that an old minister surnamed Gua can't refuse, and trick him into the palace." In the second step, the uncle of the little king and queen, and the uncle surnamed Suo, guarded a ...... called Yinghe, yes, guarded at the door called Yingwu Hall (Wuying Palace), and confiscated the weapons of the old general surnamed Gua. ”

"The third step is to prepare a special chair for the old general surnamed Gua, one foot of the chair is sawn off and simply glued, so that after the old general surnamed Gua sits on this chair, he can't use his strength, he can't jump up, and naturally he can't hurt the little king."

"In the fourth step, more than a dozen young masters carefully trained by the little king are ambushed in the main hall, and the two young masters with the best martial arts, one stands behind the chair of the old general Gua to serve, and the other young master brings tea to the old general, and the teacup is boiled in boiling water for more than an hour, which is extremely hot."

In the fifth step, when General Gua took the teacup, he picked up the teacup lid, felt very hot, and didn't dare to drop the teacup lid, because it was disrespectful, so he could only subconsciously raise his hand and force his body to the right side of the chair where his leg was sawn. At this time, the young man behind the chair will push the chair hard, causing the old general to fall to the ground with the chair! ”

"In the sixth step, the little king will shout and order someone to help the old general surnamed Gua up, and a dozen young men who are ambushed in the main hall will rush up, pretending to help the old general, and the old general surnamed Gua will be fooled, and he thinks that these young masters are really here to help him, and he did not resist, but he was pressed to the ground and tied up by these dozen young masters. Only then did the little king stand up, read out the fabricated crime, put the old general surnamed Gua to death first, and then kill the entire family of the old general surnamed Gua, and regain all power! ”

"General Mulima, the story of the humiliation is over." After finishing his tirade, Fat Lu took a sip of tea and asked Mulima with a smile on his face, "How is it?" Pretty exciting, right? ”

Mulima opened her mouth and stammered, her hair stood on end, and her hands holding tea were shaking. After a long time, Mulima put down the teacup and stood up, bowed to the ground with a fist, and said solemnly: "Thank you Lord Lu for your wonderful story, I, Mulima, remember, the whole Guerjia clan, will never forget Lord Lu's guidance." ”

"General Mulima, I didn't tell you anything." Fat Lu blinked his eyes and said with a sly smile: "The humble position just told you a story, a Western story." ”

"Understood, Lord Lu just told me a story." Mu Lima nodded vigorously, and then lowered his voice and said, "General Ben asks again, Lord Lu, where did you hear the story?" And who told you to tell me this story? ”

"Where did you hear that?" Lu Fatzi scratched his head and replied: "It seems to be in Yunnan, originally the one in Yunnan wanted to personally tell General Mulima or the general's eldest brother, but I was afraid that you would misunderstand, so I let the humble post find an opportunity to tell General Mulima, believe it or not, and follow General Mulima yourself." ”

"Wu Sangui used his eyeliner to find out Xiao Mazi's evil plan, I was afraid that we would misunderstand him and wanted to sow discord, so we asked this fat man Lu to tell us." Mu Lima nodded secretly, already understanding the voice of Fat Lu.

"And." Lu Fatzi added: "Originally, a few days ago, the lowly position had the opportunity to tell this story to Ao Zhongtang, but the salary was imminent, and the prince was afraid that Zhongtang would misunderstand, so he asked the lowly position to wait a few more days." Now that the salary negotiation has begun, I believe that Ao Zhongtang and General Mulima will not misunderstand that the prince and the prince have other plans, right? ”

"Understood." Mu Lima nodded vigorously again, and said in his heart Yes, if the Pingxi Royal Mansion leaked this secret to our brother a few days ago, the eldest brother would definitely suspect that the Pingxi Royal Mansion was sowing discord and fabricating lies to deceive the eldest brother into supporting the matter of salary. Now that the salary negotiation has begun, the eldest brother will definitely have expressed his attitude and position on the matter of the salary, this Lu Fat Man told me about this, which is enough to prove that this news is true, and the Pingxi Royal Mansion did not sell Xiao Mazi for military salaries.

Thinking of this, Mu Lima had another thought, "Pingxi Wangfu sells such a big favor to our brother, if the eldest brother offends Pingxi Wangfu too much in the matter of salary today, don't expect Pingxi Wangfu to support our brother in the future!" No, I have to find a way to send the news to my eldest brother immediately, and advise him not to offend the Pingxi Mansion too much, so that there is no one to support him. ”

"Lord Lu, the tea is almost drunk, let's go." With a certain idea, Mulima immediately stood up and said with a smile: "If you have any good stories about Lord Lu in the future, remember to tell me more, this story is very exciting today, and Mulima will repay Lord Lu." ”

"General Mulima is polite, if there is a good story in the future, the humble post will definitely come to you." Fat Lu smirked, agreed casually, and said in his heart: "I guess it's just this time, if you haven't died next time we meet, then we will definitely meet on the battlefield." Sun, what are the consequences of me doing this? Will history go in a good direction or a worse direction? ”

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After breaking up with Mulima, he returned to the palace at noon with a heavy heart, the time was close to noon, but the salary meeting held in the palace was still not over, and it was obvious that around this year's military salary expenses of the three feudatories, the Taihe Palace must still be arguing with words. Fortunately, Fat Lu had already prepared for a protracted battle, and told the Liu brothers to buy dim sum and dry food to satisfy the hunger of the dogs, and got into the warm sedan chair with the soup woman to continue to be patient.

Time passed minute by minute, the copper soup woman has changed the boiling water twice, there is still no movement in front of the palace, Lu Fatzi can still calm down, Xiao Erlang and Li Tianzhi and others began to fidget, Xiao Erlang also specially went to the palanquin drivers of other officials to inquire about the situation, ran back to Lu Fatzi and said: "Young master, the little one went to ask just now, and they all said that the palace dynasty rarely has such a long time, especially since Emperor Kangxi ascended the throne, there has not been an early dynasty or the dynasty has not ended at noon. ”

"Hmm." Fat Lu snorted with his nose, which was considered an answer, but he did not move.

"Young Master, why aren't you in a hurry?" Xiao Erlang lowered his voice and said, "Could it be that the prince has a problem in the palace?" The military salary is too high, which angers the emperor? ”

"So what?" Lu Fatzi snorted coldly, "The prince is a proton, unless the emperor wants to force the prince, will he dare to kill him?" ”

"But what if the emperor cuts the military salary too much?" Xiao Erlang reminded: "If the emperor says that he will not pay more military salaries, what can the prince do with him?" When the time comes, the prince will want to settle accounts with you! ”

"Leave it to fate, it's something I can't decide." Fat Lu sighed, and he couldn't tell what position Xiao Mazi would take, whether to make a slight compromise to stabilize the three feudatories temporarily, and then turn around to clean up the three feudatories after cleaning up, or to take a firm stance and never compromise, and would rather force the opposition to the three feudatories now than let themselves rip off the bamboo. I don't know what position Ao Bai will take, whether he plans to sacrifice Xiao Mazi to curry favor with the three feudatories, or whether he plans to join forces with Xiao Mazi to suppress the three feudatories with all his might.

Waiting for Shen Shi calmly on the surface and anxious in his heart, Lu Fatzi finally couldn't sit still, got up and got out of the sedan chair, and walked around the square outside the noon gate with his hands behind his back, and at this time, a large group of civil and military officials finally came out of the noon gate. Seeing this, Fat Lu immediately rushed to the palace gate as if he had been beaten with chicken blood, looking for Wu Yingxiong's figure.

The first to come out was a large group of ordinary officials, either talking and laughing, or whispering, and more complaining bitterly, beating their backs and covering their chests, shouting hunger and thirst, but Wu Yingxiong was not among them. Immediately afterwards, Shang Zhixiao and Shang Zhili walked out side by side, the two brothers were depressed, their expressions were depressed, and they turned a blind eye to Lu Fatzi, and Lu Fatzi didn't dare to go up and ask them. Then there were Geng Juzhong and Geng Xinghe brothers, the expressions of these two brothers were a little more relaxed, but as soon as they left the palace, they went straight to the sedan chair, and they didn't talk to Lu Fatzi at all, and then the sedan chair was filled with the sound of liquid excretion, thinking that these two brothers were also miserable.

In the tormented waiting for years, Wu Yingxiong's lonely figure finally appeared in front of the palace gate, holding his hands behind his back and walking quietly, and he didn't walk fast, so that people couldn't see his joys, sorrows, and sorrows. Fat Lu held his breath until Wu Yingxiong walked in front of him, and then he moved his lips to ask, but he didn't think that Wu Yingxiong opened his mouth and asked, "Do you have water and snacks?" I was hungry and thirsty. ”

"Yes, yes." Fat Lu agreed repeatedly, and hurriedly rushed back to the sedan chair, bringing the snacks and tea that had already been prepared, Wu Yingxiong took it, and devoured it on the spot.

"Lord Shizi, how is it?" Fat Lu was so anxious that he was about to cry, and asked anxiously: "Is this year's Yungui military salary agreed?" ”

"It's agreed." Wu Yingxiong remained silent and said, "One million and six hundred thousand taels." ”

"It's only 1,600,000 taels?!" Lu Fatzi was struck by lightning, and immediately stayed there - in history, this year's Yunnan-Guizhou 3 million taels of military salaries were only cut by Xiao Mazi 1 million taels, why did he put so much effort into helping Wu Yingxiong beg for salaries, but he was cut 1.4 million taels?

"That's right, it's only 1.6 million taels!" Wu Yingxiong nodded, stuffed another piece of dim sum into his mouth, and then added with a smile: "In addition, there are 1.8 million taels in Yunnan, plus this 1.6 million taels in Guizhou - so the total is 3.4 million taels, which is 400,000 taels more than last year and more than 1 million taels more than my father hoped." ”

"Shizi!" Fat Lu almost didn't roar, but considering that this was outside the noon gate, Fat Lu finally suppressed the urge to strangle Wu Yingxiong to death, wiped his tears and choked up: "Shizi, you are really good at making fun of your humble position, and your humble position was almost scared to death...... Woo. ”

"Hehe, it's me who is not good, I forgot that you are more anxious than me." Wu Yingxiong smiled easily, patted Lu Fatzi on the shoulder and smiled: "Don't cry, this time you are the first meritorious, my father will not treat you badly, and I will not treat you badly." ”

"Woo......." Fat Lu choked up and agreed, but tears of excitement couldn't help but flow continuously.

"Did you see Shang Zhixiao's unlucky bastard just now?" Wu Yingxiong was also very relaxed and excited, and couldn't help laughing: "He lost the worst today, not only did he not fight for one or two taels of silver, but he was forced by the emperor to cut 600,000 taels of silver!" This guy is destined to have no chance to be a son of the world in this life. ”

"What about Geng Juzhong?" Fat Lu asked curiously again.

"The military salary has increased by 100,000 taels compared with last year, and another 200,000 taels will be allocated separately to build warships." Wu Yingxiong said lightly: "Although I didn't add much, mosquitoes are also meat, at least I have an explanation when I go home." ”

"Then Guangxi ......." Lu Fatzi wanted to ask, but he saw Kong Sizhen coming out with Tuhai and the others dejectedly, and the expression on his face was so miserable and miserable - it was no different from his dead mother.

"This bitch has lost badly." Wu Ying Xiong said with a smile: "In order to force us to make concessions, she sang a harmony with the emperor, and took the lead in asking for a reduction in military salaries and military reductions. But I don't know why, I only took a short break in the middle, and Ao Zhongtang, who had always been very tough before, suddenly changed his position, and brought many cronies to support our Yungui salary, so as to prevent the resurgence of Shuixi Tusi, and to exterminate the remnants of the former Ming Dynasty on the border of Yunnan. ”

"Ao Zhongtang suddenly changed his position, why?" Fat Lu was very surprised.

"How do I know?" Wu Yingxiong glanced at the fat man Lu, and said: "In short, Ao Zhongtang suddenly became very resolute in his attitude of supporting the salary of Yungui and Guizhou, and even said that the two provinces of Yunnan and Guizhou must be indispensable for the father to be in charge, and also asked his henchman Marsey to calculate the necessary military salary expenses of our Yungui little by little - damn it, I really don't know how that old thing in Marseille calculated, it was even more than ten percent higher than our estimate of the necessary expenses!" In the end, Ao Zhongtang also made a decision to give us 3.6 million taels in Yunnan and Guizhou! ”

"Seeing this, I was frightened, so I took the initiative to give in and agreed to the emperor's price of 3.4 million taels." Wu Yingxiong smiled bitterly and said: "In this way, Kong Sizhen, who had already taken the initiative to ask for disarmament and salary cuts, fell into bad luck, and he couldn't take back his words, so he was balanced by the imperial court, and he forcibly cut 450,000 taels of military salaries, and he had to disarm 4,000 people. ”

"Haha, happy, enjoyable!" Fat Lu slapped his thigh quietly, and screamed in his heart - this time Kong Sizhen returned to Guangxi, and the old Qiu Ba in Guangxi were afraid that they would kill her.

"Let's go back and talk about it in detail, this is not the place." Wu Yingxiong waved his hand and said, "Anyway, this time I really have to thank Ao Zhongtang for his help, let's go back and discuss how to thank him." ”

"Yes." Fat Lu agreed, and was about to help Wu Yingxiong get into the sedan chair, but there was a hearty laugh from behind, "Ying Xiong's nephew, Mr. Miyoshi, are you going back so soon?" Don't go to the old man's house to sit down? ”

"Say hello to Ao Zhongtang." Wu Yingxiong and Lu Fatzi didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly turned around to salute, but saw Ao Bai leading a large group of henchmen and lackeys over with a smile on his face, and there was also Ao Bai's own brother Mu Lima next to him.

"You're welcome, you're welcome." Ao Bai smiled and personally helped Wu Yingxiong and Lu Fatzi one by one, and smiled at Wu Yingxiong and said: "Ying Xiong's nephew, this year, I have increased your father's salary by 400,000 taels, is it enough?" If it's not enough, just ask, the old man will find a way for you, now that the Central Plains has been basically pacified, the treasury and the inner treasury can be relaxed, and your father's side is hard, so you should add a little more. ”

"That's enough." Wu Yingxiong was frightened by Ao Bai's former and later Gong, and hurriedly gave up his hand and said vaguely: "Ao Shaobao's care for my Yungui military and civilians, Pingxi Wangfu will never forget, and now the little nephew has not been prepared, and the little nephew will prepare a little gift in the future, and then go to the mansion to pay New Year's greetings to the Lord Zhongtang." ”

"Cheng, then it's decided, tomorrow the old man will have a banquet at home." Ao Bai clapped his hands and said with a smile: "When the time comes, Yifeng will also come, and the old man also wants to hear Yifeng tell stories." ”

"Storytelling? What do you mean? Wu Yingxiong was stunned.

"Wouldn't it? It turned out that Old Man Ao suddenly changed his position for this. Fat Lu probably guessed something, and said with a wry smile in his heart: "I can't imagine that little story, and it sold so much silver, this time, I have to dig out the hollow to make up a story to explain." ”

(To be continued)