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"Am I too rash in this matter of Li Shuzu? Before he was sure of killing him with one blow, he directly broke with Li Shuzu and openly declared war, was it too light and reckless? ”

Lying on his back on the beach of the Jiaoshui River Stone Bridge, looking at the thousands of poor people on both sides of the official road in the rear, seeing them helping the old and the young, dragging their children and daughters to come here spontaneously, and waiting for the Qincha team in the scorching heat, Lu Fatzi was both moved and guilty. Wiping off a handful of sweat from his forehead, and then turning his eyes to look at the blue sky and white clouds in the sky, Fat Lu began to self-examine and self-examine his achievements and losses in the decisive battle with Li Shuzu.

It was also at this moment that Lu Fatzi began to realize that in the head-to-head confrontation of the officialdom decisive battle, having the will of the people and mastering the evidence is not an absolute advantage.

No matter how much evidence you have, no matter how much evidence you have, no matter how much support you have, no matter how huge the will of the people, as long as the people above don't want to see your enemy lose, don't want to see your enemy finished, and be defeated by you, these things are just two words - bullshit!

It's like a county erecting a monument to a devil, and there is so much public anger, and the people of the country say that the person who erected the monument should be killed, but what happened to the person who erected the monument? If he doesn't nod his head, who would dare to touch a single hair of him?

The case of Li Shuzu is also clear proof, Li Shuzu has been doing evil and poisoning the people in Qujing for so many years, and no one in the Yungui officialdom really knows? Isn't there anyone who wants to bring down Li Shuzu? Even if these people really don't know, and they don't want to bring down Li Shuzu, then Wu Sangui, who was disgraced by Li Shuzu, won't want to take revenge, right? But after so many years, what happened to the high-ranking and powerful Wu Sangui to Li Shuzu? Is it that Wu Sangui is afraid of the suspicion of retaliation and does not dare to attack Li Shuizu, or is there someone above who does not want Li Shuizu to fall? An obedient and filial loyal lackey like Li Shuzu, and shouldering the heavy responsibility of monitoring Wu Sangui's every move, is the Qing court willing to move him casually?

Before this, Lu Fatzi was not without scruples about Li Shuzu's background, but when he saw the people of Qujing accusing Li Shuzu of his crimes, and considering that he would not dare to let go if he didn't bring down Li Shuzu, coupled with Wu Sangui's instigation and acquiescence behind his back, Lu Fatzi was a little hot-headed, and he took the liberty of declaring war on Li Shuzu before he had a firm foothold in Qujing, determined to fight to the death with this old thing, and get rid of this hardcore Han Jian, Tartar eyeliner, Chinese scum!

There is another important reason for making this decision, that is, Lu Fatzi was carried away by the previous series of victories, and felt that he had successively defeated Shi Lang, Fu Honglie, Tu Hai, Yue Shenglong and Zhao Liangdong and a large group of famous ministers and generals, and played Xiaozhuang, Xiao Mazi, Ao Bai, Suo Etu and Wang Xu and other celebrities and cattle in the palm of his hand. How difficult can it be?

But it wasn't until today that Lu Fatzi suddenly woke up to the fact that the reason why he was able to win battles in the past was entirely because he had mastered history, knew the best secrets of these celebrities and cattle, and could choke their seven inches, and he was hiding behind his back and stabbing the knife with cold arrows, arrows, knives and knives hit the key point, forcing their bosses and masters to attack them, and not acting according to the regular routines of officialdom, so that they could succeed again and again - but in the matter of Li Shuzu, he was openly fighting with Li Shuzu, and fought head-on. Everything is according to the routine of officialdom, not to mention the serious lack of experience, what fatal handle did you get from Li Shuzu?

Embezzlement [***]? Poisoning the people? Bullshit! These crimes can bring down the enemies of officialdom, then there will be no officials in this world for a long time, and they will all die a long time ago!

Even if you are hot-headed, what is even more terrible is to underestimate the enemy's carelessness, after Lin Tianqing just arrived in Yunnan to take office and openly expressed his partiality and protection attitude towards Lu Fatzi, Lu Fatzi had already expected that Li Shuzu would inevitably make things bigger by any means, so as to protect himself and create opportunities for the backstage backers to intervene, but Lu Fatzi did not seize the great opportunity of Lin Tianqing to stand on his side to give Li Shuizu a fatal blow, and because he was going to Kunming to officially complete the marriage, he gave Li Shuzu a chance to breathe, and also gave his rival Kong Sizhen, The opportunity for Zhou Chang to intervene brought endless troubles.

The consequences of being hot-headed and careless about the enemy are of course a painful lesson, a Kong Sizhen suddenly intervened and pressured halfway, and suddenly pressed Bian Sanyuan, the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, who was neutral and slightly biased towards his side, so that he did not dare to move, and did not dare to press the case in the territory of Yunnan and Guizhou, and also forced the important ally Lin Tianqing, an old fox, to avoid suspicion, and did not dare to openly mix, and even prepared to leave a hand to abandon the pawn and protect the car. Then Prince Kang, the backer behind Li Shuzu, made an unexpectedly strong debut, and forcibly put pressure on Li Shuzu, adding an important bargaining chip to the balance of struggle that was already seriously biased in favor of Lu Fatzi, and suddenly reversed the situation, and the balance of victory gradually deviated from Lu Fatzi's side.

"Alas, it's careless to underestimate the enemy." Summing up his recklessness and mistakes, Fat Lu couldn't help but sigh, and blamed himself in his heart: "I'm ashamed of my seniors, if Qin Hui, Lai Junchen and Li Linfu knew that I, a student, had studied them for so long and had so many mistakes and mistakes in doing things, I would definitely crawl out of the grave in anger." This is also a bloody lesson, if I can get through this hurdle, I must learn all the lessons in this incident in the future! ”

"Young Master, it's two o'clock." Xiao Erlang's voice interrupted Lu Fatzi's self-examination, and Xiao Erlang said worriedly: "Zhanyi is not far from Jiaoshui Pass, even if the turtle crawls should crawl, why hasn't the minister's team come yet, will it not come today?" ”

"Eighty percent is the ghost of Kong Sizhen's bitch and Li Shuzu's bastard." Lu Fatzi also noticed this situation a long time ago, and said: "I heard that the people of Qujing spontaneously came to Jiaoshui Pass to greet them, and they were ready to stop the horse and shout the complaint against Li Shuzu, and they will definitely try their best to keep Yu Chengchan in Zhanyi City, so that the people will not have the opportunity to complain to Yu Chenglong." ”

"So what now?" Xiao Erlang wiped his sweat and said: "The weather is too hot, and there are already more than 20 elderly people and children suffering from heat stroke. ”

"That's not waiting." Fat Lu immediately made a decision, stood up and said: "It's useless to let the people wait here any longer, since Kong Si Bitch and Li Shuzu don't want Yu Chengchan to contact the people, it's useless for the people to wait here, they will use all means to keep Yu Chengchan in Zhanyi." ”

"Then I'll take someone to persuade the people to go home?" Xiao Erlang asked tentatively.

"Well, persuade them all to go back." Fat Lu nodded, and then ordered: "Also, let Shen Xin boil more medicinal materials to relieve the heat and cool down at the medicine stall at the gate of the city, and call the people to come over to receive the medicine." ”

Xiao Erlang took the order and left, Li Tianzhi also began to take the officials to pack up the drum equipment, and also sent the officials to go deep into the crowd of the people to persuade the people who spontaneously came to stop the sedan chair to complain and disband and go home, but the effect of these persuasions was not expected to be great, only a small number of people dispersed according to the law, most of the people still refused to move, insisted on the arrival of Jackie Chan's team, and then went to Jackie Chan to stop the horse and complain, accusing Li Shuzu of all kinds of evil deeds, and doing his best to protect Lu Fatzi Such a rare good official - of course, At least for now, he is still a good official.

Li Tianzhi took the officials and said that he couldn't persuade the people to leave even if he had dry his throat, so he had no choice but to come to Lu Fatzi for help, and Lu Fatzi had no other way, so he had to come to the people's team in person, salute the people with fists, and shouted loudly: "Fellow villagers, all the fathers and villagers of Qujing, your kindness and kindness to Lu Yifeng, Lu Yifeng understands it!" But there's no need, jackals, some people don't want to give you a chance to complain in front of Lord Qincha, it's useless for you to stay here, it's so hot, and if you continue to dry like this, you will only get sick, go back, go back. ”

"Lord Lu, it's okay, we're not hot!" Luo Leisheng, who had received the great favor of Lu Fatzi before, took the lead in shouting, "We have to wait here forever, let Lord Qincha see the voices of our Qujing people, and let him know how black Li Heixin is, and how good you are to our people!" We're not leaving! ”

"Don't go, we don't go, we have to wait for Lord Qincha!" Hundreds of people shouted and insisted on waiting.

"Fellow villagers, fellow villagers of Qujing, you don't have to be like this." The crowd was furious, and Lu Fatzi had no choice but to comfort the people and comfort himself at the same time, and shouted loudly: "Don't worry, the Lord Qincha sent by the imperial court this time is called Yu Chengchan, he is a big Qing official, he will not shield and favor those corrupt officials and corrupt officials, his eldest brother of the same clan is also called Yu Chengchan, a well-known Qing official in Guangdong and Sichuan, Lord Qincha will not embarrass their Yu family!" Also, I am the person promoted by the prince of Pingxi, and with the prince of Pingxi here, I will not watch me being killed by those corrupt officials! ”

"Thank you, but Lord Qincha has something to delay today, and he can't come to Qujing for the time being, so you all go back, don't let the poisonous head dry here, go back!" Also, I have asked people to boil medicine to relieve heat and heat in the old place, and if you feel unwell, you can go and get a bowl of medicine to drink, so as not to fall ill! It was Master Zhu's prescription, you all know that his recipe is the most effective, go back......! ”

To put it mildly, most of the remaining people dispersed one after another, and the fat man Lu who was so sunburned that he was sweating all over his body also went back to Qujing City with his doglegs, leaving only a very small number of people who refused to give up or lived nearby still at the scene, hiding under the shade of the tree to chat and wait, hoping for a miracle. Among them, there was the middle-aged beggar who appeared in Shengjing Pass three days ago, and the little beggar of Xuanwei who partnered with him to ask for food.

"Uncle, let's go." The little beggar said to the middle-aged beggar with great regret: "I thought that after standing here for most of the day today, I could get five cents again." ”

"Heh, if everyone here sends five yuan, then the county master surnamed Lu will be miserable, and he will have to send out at least tens of thousands of yuan today." The middle-aged beggar smiled, turned to a local beggar in Qujing next to him and asked, "This brother, let me inquire, what did the county master mean when he said that he was administering medicine in the old place just now?" ”

"Administering medicine at the gates of the city." The local beggar said lazily: "After Master Lu became the county magistrate, he opened a medicine shed next to the north gate of Qujing, and boiled medicine and sent it to us for treatment. Thanks to this blessing, we in Qujing finally did not have a plague this summer. Otherwise, in previous years, wouldn't have been poisoned by miasma in the summer of that year, dozens or hundreds of people died? ”

"The county magistrate often dispenses medicine? Or do you post once in a while? The middle-aged beggar asked.

"It is issued once every half a month, and it is opened for ten days in the summer, and it is specially issued to treat the plague." The local beggar yawned and said: "Some time ago, the county magistrate also asked people to put medicinal sacks in them, and threw a bag in each well, saying that drinking well water can cure plague and prevent diseases." Anyway, the county lord is in charge of collecting taxes, and some of them are silver, so let's toss it hard. ”

"Hehe, if the county magistrate dares to touch the treasury silver casually, then your prefect will already be crazy." The middle-aged beggar smiled again in his own words, pulled the little beggar who was asking for food to stand up, and said, "Let's go, little vest, let's go to the place where the medicine is distributed, and get you a bowl of medicine at will." ”

"Uncle, don't we want to eat? I'm hungry. "The beggar's vest protested.

"Haha, don't worry, I won't let you go hungry, the uncle still has a few copper coins on him, and he will buy you meat buns to eat later."

Jiaoshuiguan is not far from Qujing City, less than twenty miles away, so although the middle-aged beggar with a half-grown child, he still rushed to Qujing City before the sun set, and also found the free medicine stall. Fortunately, most of the people who received the medicine in front of the medicine stall have dispersed, and only a few dozen people are still queuing up to receive the medicine, and there are two big girls and little daughters-in-law sitting on the side of the medicine shed, receiving the pulse diagnosis of Master Zhu -- as we all know, Master Zhu is always very slow when he diagnoses the pulse of the big girl and the little daughter-in-law.

When it was the turn of the two beggars, one big and one young, to receive the medicine, the Qujing County official who applied the medicine brought two bowls of summer medicine to the two beggars, but the middle-aged beggar shook his head and said: "Poor master, one bowl is enough, I am strong enough to withstand the heat, and leave the rest to others." ”

"Heh, it's rare to meet a reasonable one, not bad." The medicine servant smiled, and really handed another bowl to the people in the back, and handed the remaining bowl to the little beggar, urging him to drink it quickly, and then looked at the two beggars, one big and one small, and said, "The little one is your son?" I see you have hands and feet, why do you have to go around asking for food? Do you want to earn food with your own hands and feet, master, I have a good messenger for you, do you want to do it? ”

"Please speak." The middle-aged beggar remained silent, and said, "But this child is not my son, his father and mother starved to death last year, and he and I begged for food." ”

"Orphans? Wretched. The medicine servant shook his head and sighed, and said: "But then you don't have to worry about it, do you want to go to the glass workshop run by our county master?" There is a shortage of manpower and apprentices, you can do some chores when you are old, and the small ones can be apprentices, learn crafts, and have a way out in the future. ”

"Oh? How much does that pay you? The middle-aged beggar asked curiously.

"Take care of food and shelter, eat two meals a day, and pay three cents of silver a month." The official replied casually, and added: "It's great to learn the craft, and the salary is higher than ours, and the highest is ten taels a month." ”

"Really?" The little vest was very tempting, and asked timidly: "Bad master, is it true or fake?" Will it be like the head-catcher in Shengjing Pass, saying that ten texts have become five texts again? ”

"Little guy, do you even dare to doubt my words, master?" The official was a little angry, raised his hand to scare, but never thought that the other officials behind him reminded: "Xiaobao, have you forgotten how Li Zhutou explained?" Do you want to learn from Lao Chen's board with our master? ”

"Teasing him, such a small thing, didn't I hit him with a wrench?" The medicine officer smiled embarrassedly, put down his hand, changed to a kind smile, touched the little beggar's head and said: "Little thing, our Qujing County government is not a government office, and it won't bully you, do you understand?" If you want to learn a craft, you will hurry up to the school tomorrow to sign up, you are signing up over there, I like to recruit you half-grown children who have no father and mother, take care of your food, and also care about your accommodation, and will not deduct your wages, and when you grow up, you will find a daughter-in-law, understand? ”

The little vest nodded as if he didn't understand, but there were tears in the middle-aged beggar's eyes flickering slightly, and he read softly, "See the subtlety, see the subtlety." ”

………………

On the second day, knowing that Kong Sizhen and Li Shuzu and others would never let the people get close, Lu Fatzi died of the heart of mobilizing the masses, so he simply put his head between official affairs and government affairs, and took time to go to the glass construction site to guide technology, develop and produce two important chemical raw materials, nitric acid and sulfuric acid, and step up the production of glass bottles and glass jars for acid, and also sent officials to instruct the people to prepare special tools such as thick needles, awls, and knives for the upcoming juice cutting, and they were very busy.

Lu Fatzi died to mobilize the people's mind, but the people of Qujing refused to lose Lu Fatzi, a rare good dog official, no one organized and agitated, there were still thousands of people rushed to Jiaoshui Pass to wait for the Qincha team, and a large number of people directly entered Zhanyi City, hoping to go to Jackie Chan, the imperial court, to state their grievances. However, it is a pity and natural that Kong Sizhen and Li Shuzu, who are experienced in dealing with mass petitions, are destined not to give them a chance, not only do they use all means to prevent Yu Chengchan from meeting with the people of Qujing, but also find excuses to arrest dozens of people in Qujing who have a resolute attitude in petitioning, and put them in the prison of Zhanyi to make an example of chickens and monkeys, and intimidate the petitioners.

The people were innocently arrested, of course, some family members came to Qujing County to complain, of course Lu Fatzi couldn't ignore it, and at the same time pinned his hopes on taking this opportunity to have direct contact with Yu Chenglong, and immediately prepared an official document, and sent Li Tianzhi to Zhanyi to negotiate, asking Li Shuzu, the prefect, to intervene and coordinate, clarify the charges of the people of Qujing who were arrested in Zhanyi, and punish the guilty according to law, and the innocent must be released immediately. But Lu Fatzi's cautious eyes were immediately seen through by Kong Sizhen, Zhou Peigong and Li Shuzu, and Li Shuizu ordered the investigation and handling of Tuzhizhou in accordance with the law to resolve Lu Fatzi's counterattack, which not only delayed time, but also dealt a blow to the illegal momentum of the people of Qujing crying out for grievances.

For Li Shuzu's move, Lu Fatzi hated it but was helpless, because these Qujing people were arrested in Zhanyi, and the people of Zhizhou were managed by the people of Zhanyitu, and if Lu Fatzi wanted to interfere, he had to ask Li Shuizu to come forward, even if Li Shuizu deliberately shielded and favored the Zhanyi government, Lu Fatzi could only report to the government layer by layer according to the rules, what Yunnan Zhentai Yamen, Yunnan Governor Yamen, Yunnan-Guizhou Governor Yamen, and so on After completing these procedures, the daylily was also cold.

In addition, at the suggestion of the meticulous Zhou Peigong, Kong Sizhen and Li Shuzu also joined forces to bribe Wang Fuchen, the chief soldier of the right town of Pingxi Wangfu, and asked Wang Fuchen to deliberately find an excuse to send Wang Jing, the deputy general of Yunnan, Lu Fatzi's hardcore ally in the right town, to Tianshengguan Gonggan, although Wang Jing knew that Wang Fuchen deliberately transferred himself, so as not to lend a helping hand to Lu Fatzi, but the military discipline of Wu Sangui's army was strict, and Wang Jing, who was directly related to his boss Wang Fuchen, did not dare not disobey the orders of his direct boss Wang Fuchen, so he had to repeatedly tell Lu Fatzi to take care of himself. Angrily, he went to Tianshengguan, the southernmost part of Qujing Mansion, to inspect military affairs. Without this strong reinforcement, Lu Fatzi naturally became more and more isolated in Qujing City.

Just when Lu Fatzi's attention was diverted by the people of Qujing after the arrest of Zhanyi and the transfer of Wang Jing from Qujing City, he also took advantage of the opportunity of the people of Qujing to complain and shout grievances and was paralyzed and suppressed, and on the fifth day, Kong Sizhen and Li Shuzu finally entered Qujing City with Yu Chengchan's team -- in order to avoid accidents, Kong Sizhen also asked his new friends Liu Wenjin and Di Sanpin to transfer a large number of green battalion soldiers, and escorted Yu Chengchan's team into Qujing City with knives and guns -- or set off in the afternoon and entered the city in the evening, Then he lived directly in the prefect's yamen of Li Shuzu.

Yu Chenglong finally entered Qujing City, Lu Fatzi also caught the opportunity to officially contact him, the second morning of Yu Jackie Chan's entry into the city, Lu Fatzi put on an official uniform and went to the prefect's yamen to hand over the sign to ask to meet, and the people of Qujing who heard the news also came to the prefect's yamen to shout grievances, asking to meet Jackie Chan in person. But what made Lu Fatzi angry was that Li Shuzu actually dispatched 800 heavily armed green battalion soldiers to surround the prefect, not only did not allow the people to meet and disturb Yu Jackie Chan's rest, but also did not allow Lu Fatzi to meet Yu Jackie Chan in accordance with the law.

"Lord Qincha has arrived, why can't this official pay a visit?" In front of the prefect's yamen, Lu Fatzi angrily rushed to Li Shuzu on the steps and shouted: "The laws of the Qing Dynasty clearly stipulate that when the Qin is sent to the city on business, the magistrate must meet him according to the law and obey the dispatch, why don't you allow me to see the Qin Mission?" ”

"Lord Lu, you don't need to memorize the laws of the Qing Dynasty, I'm more familiar than you." Li Shuzupi said with a smile: "According to the rules, you should visit Lord Qincha, but people are tired from afar, and occasionally contracted a cold on the road, and your body is sick, so you refuse to meet guests, and you can only meet you when his body recovers." ”

"I'm Langzhong, I'm going to treat Lord Qincha!" Zhu Fangdan stood up and said loudly: "Lord Fulao Fu Tai went in to report it, and asked Lord Qincha if he had heard of the name of Jinghu Zhu Ermei!" ”

"The name of Doctor Zhu, of course Lord Qincha is like thunder." Zhu Fangdan smiled more and more proudly, "But Lord Qincha said that the old man has many female dependents in the backyard of the prefect's yamen, so he doesn't dare to bother Doctor Zhu." ”

"Li Futai, fabricating the order of Lord Qincha is not a joke." Fat Lu sneered, "Lord Li, don't forget, Lord Qincha is a protégé personally recommended by the iron-masked Wang Zongxian, and the trick you use to deal with other Qincha bosses may not work with him." ”

"Hehe, thank you Lord Lu for your advice, this official remembered it carefully." Li Shuzu smiled and said: "What this official conveyed, is it the original words of Lord Qincha, in the future, you will know as soon as you ask, this old man will not have time to accompany you to be verbose, and you have to go back to visit Lord Qincha's condition, so I will not send Lord Lu back to the house." ”

After that, Li Shuzu turned around and left, while Lu Fatzi was puzzled, "Could these really be Jackie Chan's original words?" This guy is a well-known Qing official in history, how could he get along with Li Shuzu and Kong Si Bitche? Could it be that I have been brainwashed by mites again, and being less than Jackie Chan is not a good thing in history at all? ”

"Oh, by the way, tell Lord Lu one more thing." Li Shuzu suddenly turned around again, and said with a smile at Lu Fatzi: "Prince Kang has just sent someone to deliver an official document, he has to be allowed to go south to the province, and he will be able to reach Shengjing Pass after four days, and then the officials from Qujing Mansion will go to greet him, and some officials from the province will also come to greet him, and then you can go too-this official will send someone to send the official document to your yamen another day, and if you go to Shengjing Pass to greet the prince, it will not be considered as leaving your post without permission." ”

"Jieshu Dog Tartar will arrive at Shengjing Pass in four days? It's coming so fast! No wonder Li led the ancestor of the old man to be so proud! Fat Lu was shocked, knowing that this time his pressure was bound to be heavier. But Lu Fatzi also lost the battle, and immediately replied loudly: "Thank you, the autumn harvest is approaching, and the lower officials have to organize the people to grab the autumn grain, and they have the courage to take a vacation, and they don't want to go to Shengjing Pass to meet the prince, and the Lord Wangfutai is gracious." ”

"Cheng, this official has granted you this leave." Li Shuzu agreed with a smile on his face, and looked at Lu Fatzi's cloudy old eyes, but they were full of resentment.

"Laugh, laugh as much as you want."

In the crowd behind Fat Lu, a middle-aged beggar pulled a little beggar, and also looked at the tense Li Shuzu and Lu Fatzi with a smile on his face, and muttered in a low voice: "Laugh, take advantage of this to laugh happily, see who has the last laugh!" Prince Kang, if you don't want to be unlucky, you'd better be honest with me! ”

(To be continued)