Chapter 80 The Patriarch of the Industry, Lu Fatzi

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Golden meat, a famous dish in the Northeast, is made of sliced tenderloin, eggs and flour, with golden color, fragrant and tender, and mellow taste.

Legend has it that this dish was created in the Ming Dynasty, when a general in the Ming Dynasty lived luxuriously, every meal must have eight dishes and a soup, a man left the room for some reason after making seven dishes and a soup, caught up with the general's meal, urged to serve, a slave was in a hurry, with meat slices plus eggs, flour made of this dish to fill the number, never thought that the general had used this dish, praised this dish, then rewarded the slave, and this dish was listed as a common dish, and finally even accepted this clever slave as a godson.

This general's name is Li Chengliang, and this slave's name is Aixin Jueluo. Nurhachi.

This story and this dish, for some reason, are very popular in the city of Qujing Mansion in the southwest border, and the new Lord Lu Yifeng of Qujing County must also use this dish in every meal, and he must say: We and other Qing officials, don't forget the hard-won achievements of my Qing Dynasty, and don't forget the humiliation suffered by my Qing Dynasty Taizu in the home of the former Ming officials. -- As for whether Lu Zhixian specifically refers to it, this is a question of the benevolent and the wise. In short, I think Lu County's order is definitely unintentional, as for whether you believe it or not, I believe it anyway.

In addition, there is a legend that Qujing prefect Li Shuzu also likes to eat this dish, and often says triumphantly that this dish is made by the house slave of the ancestor of the official, and now the house slave of the ancestor of the official is developed, but he has not forgotten his roots, and he has been thinking about my old master's family, and now the pock-faced great-grandson of my house slave has to call the old master when he sees the official. Of course, no one can say exactly where this legend came from, but anyway, when Governor Li heard this legend, his face turned a little pale on the spot.

These vicious words are still an afterword, before the vicious methods of Lu Fatzi were thoroughly understood, in addition to the extreme hatred of Lu Fatzi, Li Dazhifu also had contempt and contempt from the heart, and even after Lu Fatzi caught his brother-in-law with the first fire burned in office, Li Daprefect didn't take Lu Fatzi very seriously, and the abacus in his heart was also - boy, let you be rampant for a few days, and when Lao Tzu's good brother Wang Fuchen came back from Kunming, Lao Tzu will slowly settle accounts with you! When the time comes, if you hit the board on my brother-in-law's ass, I will slap it back on your fat face!

Governor Li's temporary forbearance was indeed out of helplessness, because Li Fatzi was on Lu Fatzi's side, and if he really wanted to make a big deal about it, Governor Li couldn't explain it to the imperial court, but what Governor Li couldn't dream of, and what the people of Qujing County couldn't dream of and cheered at was that on the first day of Lu Fatzi's tenure, Lu Fatzi posted a notice that made Li Shuzu thunder like thunder - encouraging the people to go to the county government to complain, if there is a grievance, you can sue for injustice, and if you have revenge, you can take revenge, and Lu Qingtian must be the master of the people.

As a result, it was natural that in the afternoon of the same day, the Qujing County Government received more than 20 letters of pleadings -- most of them were accusing Li Shuzu's brother-in-law Ren Xinglai, or accusing Ren Xinglai of bullying others and bullying men and women; or accuse Ren Xinglai of bullying the market and monopolizing the medicine and salt shop; or accuse Ren Xinglai of being overbearing and seizing people's land and daughters; There are also people who simply directly accuse Li Shuzu of shielding his relatives and conniving at his relatives to do evil, and Lu Fatzi took them one by one, patted his chest on the spot and promised, vowing to completely eradicate Ren Xinglai, a tumor in Qujing.

This is not counting, what makes Li Shuzu and the Qujing prefect's yamen feel incredible is still behind, and in the afternoon of the same day, a few people reported to Lu Fatzi, saying that a murderer who had been wanted for many years was hiding in Qujing's underground casino, and this casino had a part of Wang Meng, the head catcher of the Qujing prefect's yamen, so no one dared to touch this casino and this wanted criminal. After Lu Fatzi received the report, he sent Li Tianzhi and Fang Shiyu, the new head of the Qujing County Yamen, to get people without saying a word.

Things came to this point, the head catcher Wang Meng of Qujing Mansion couldn't think of showing up, and he also took a group of officials from Qujing Mansion to the underground casino to stop it. As a result, it was natural that the talented county government officials in the team naturally had the upper hand, and Fang Shiyu alone broke the bones of five government offices, and beat seven or eight government officials to the point of vomiting blood, and Li Tianzhi also personally captured Wang Meng, the head of the government office, and escorted him back to the Qujing County Yada Prison together with the casino owner and the fugitive wanted criminal, and also arrested three or four Qujing Fu who took the lead in making trouble.

After this battle, the Qujing County Ya became famous, and the ordinary people shook the sky with joy, saying that the heavens opened their eyes and sent a good county order to Qujing, and the people of Qujing should have a good time this time. The Qujing Mansion Yamen was disgraced and frightened, and Li Shuzu was so angry that he almost vomited blood, and he wrote a recital to impeach Lu Fatzi overnight, and sent a fast horse to the Yunnan Governor Yamen in Kunming, demanding that Lu Fatzi be dismissed from his post and held accountable -- he was impeached by his superiors on the first day he took office, and Lu Fatzi also set a new record in the officialdom of the Great Qing Dynasty.

It's a pity that the prefect Li was disappointed that the previous governor of Yunnan, Yuan Maogong, had returned to his hometown of Shuntian to guard filial piety because of his father's death, and the imperial court also appointed Lin Tianqing to take over as the governor of Yunnan on the eleventh day of the first lunar month. After Lin Tianqing takes office, he will be in charge.

The palindrome was sent, and the thunderous Governor Li flipped the table again, but because he did not have the right to directly dismiss Lu Fatzi in his hand, and he did not catch the slightest handle of Lu Fatzi, he had to grit his teeth and hold back this breath, just waiting for Lin Tianqing to officially take office and use officialdom to clean up Lu Fatman, or wait for his friend Wang Fuchen to return, and use other means to get rid of this thorn in the eye, a thorn in the flesh! However, Li Zhifu's little wife Ren Zeyu ignored so much, and cried, made trouble, and hanged herself in front of Li Zhifu every day, forcing Li Zhifu to quickly rescue his younger brother from prison, which made Li Zhifu tireless, and hated Lu Fatzi even more.

Li Governor's troubles and hatred will not mention him for the time being, since the fight against Lu Fatzi took office, he has indeed done a few good things for the people, first of all, cleaning up the unjust prison and punishing the bullies, needless to say, and then the head catcher brought by Lu Fatzi Li Tianzhi completely regarded the 60-odd officials in Qujing County as an army training, getting up early every day to train, running and patrolling the streets, arresting petty thieves, rectifying the order of the market, and organizing the people to clean up the garbage in the city, standardize the sanitation regulations, and eradicate the source of the plague.

Then, Zhu Fangdan, the master brought by Lu Fatzi, also opened a medicine shed outside the county office, boiled plague-avoiding drugs and distributed them to the people for free, and also took time to diagnose and treat the sick people for free, and the medicine was like a god, no matter what kind of patient, a pair of medicine would improve - the only thing that made the people of Qujing strange was that when this master Zhu who could cure diseases gave the pulse to the eldest girl and the little daughter-in-law, the pulse was always very long, and occasionally the more beautiful big girl and little daughter-in-law would be brought into the back hall to avoid others for examination and diagnosis.

These are still trivial things, the plan of the year lies in the spring, spring ploughing in February is the biggest thing, in order to do a good job in spring ploughing and planting, Lu Fatzi said that Leng is to leave the former county commander Cheng Feng and Cheng Feng's master for a period of time, while letting them help them organize the people to organize spring ploughing and land reclamation, while letting them invite Qujing's large and small landlords and gentry to meet. The landlords and gentry of Qujing also thought that Lu Fatzi was the new official and rushed to come, but to their surprise, Lu Fatzi not only did not accept their gifts, but also paid out of his own pocket and set up a banquet in the City God Temple to entertain these landlords and gentry.

During the banquet, the landlords and gentry of Qujing County had to express their gratitude to Lu Fatzi, and insisted on sending gifts to Lu Fatzi, Lu Fatzi waved his hand and refused, and said in public: "Fellow villagers, as well as all the gentry, you have all misunderstood, this official invited you today, not to accept your meeting gift like other people, please bring back the gifts you brought as they are, this official invited you here for something else." ”

"County Zun, what are you inviting us for?" A small landlord asked timidly. The other landlords and gentry also pricked up their ears one by one, wanting to hear what kind of medicine was sold in Lu Fatzi's gourd.

"There are three main things, one is to meet and get acquainted with it." Fat Lu smiled and said: "Second, by the way, the official will tell you that the official has decided that during the official's tenure, the fire consumption of the land will be set at two cents of silver, and it will not be increased!" I would like to ask you to inform your neighbors and tenants that if the land security officer who collects taxes dares to collect an extra penny of silver, he can go to the county to file a complaint, and the county will deal with it heavily. ”

"Only two cents of silver for fire consumption?!" The gentry in the venue were all in one place, and then cheered together, "Lord Qingtian, Lord Qingtian!" (Note: It means that Lu Fatzi only collected 2 percent of the local tax, and at that time the highest received was more than 200 percent.) )

"Two cents of silver?" The former Qujing County Commander Cheng Feng was also taken aback, and quickly pulled the sleeve of the fat man Lu and said in a low voice: "Lord Lu, are you crazy?" The old man doesn't blame you for comparing the old man, but what are you enough to do with two cents of silver? Is it enough to distribute grain and rice to the servants? Or is it enough for the master? The old man used to collect a penny of silver, and he was still overstretched for anything, so you only received 20% of the old man's money, what is enough? ”

"Don't blame Master Cheng, the lower officials definitely don't mean to compare you." Fat Lu said in a low voice: "It's just that the people of Qujing are too poor, it's so cold in the spring, most of the people don't even have a piece of clothing, and the lower officials really can't bear to add another burden to them." As for the expenses of the lower officials' yamen, Lord Cheng should also rest assured that the lower officials' families are not poor, and it will not be a problem to maintain them like this for ten or eight years. ”

Cheng Feng was dumbfounded, and only after a while sighed and said: "Master Lu, the old man really convinced you, no matter if you are for fame or why, the old man admires you so much." ”

"Lord Cheng has won the award, Xiaguan is definitely not as great as you imagined, don't hide it from your lordship, Xiaguan has a means to make money, but it is not from the people of Qujing." Fat Lu smiled and whispered to Cheng Feng. Only then did he turn around again, waved his hand at the landlords and gentry who were thundering, signaled them to be quiet, and said: "Fellow villagers, gentlemen, please be quiet, the official has a third thing to say, and the third thing of the official is to borrow ten acres of land from everyone present for half a year." ”

The city god temple was quiet, all the landlords and gentry looked at each other, I don't know what tricks Lu Fat wanted to play, the little landlord asked timidly: "Dare to ask the county lord, what are you borrowing ten acres of land from each of us?" ”

"Of course it's something." Lu Fatzi smiled and said loudly: "But please rest assured, fellow villagers, this official has inquired before, one acre of land is used to grow grain and vegetables, and the income is about eight yuan of silver, and this official will count one or two for you." After half a year, if the value of the ten acres of land is less than ten taels, the official will pay you out of his own pocket to make up for it, and he will never let you suffer! ”

"If Lord Lu is right, this is a good deal, and we won't suffer anyway." All the landlords and gentry nodded one after another, and An Jiarong, the big landlord with the most land, asked timidly: "Lu Xianzun, what do you want us to plant?" What about what is grown? ”

"I want you to plant this." Fat Lu asked Xiao Erlang to bring a bag of things, reached into the bag, grabbed a handful of extremely small gray seeds, and said with a smile: "This thing used to be called A Furong, and now it is also called Eight Banners Fushou Paste Seeds, which is a very valuable thing." You plant this thing now, and after half a year, the official will buy back what you have grown with silver, and buy it back with as much silver as you can't imagine. ”

"Ah Furong I know, I also ate it when I was a child, it is very effective and very valuable." An Jiarong nodded, and asked worriedly, "But Lord Lu, does this thing look good in Qujing?" We've never planted it here. ”

"Rest assured, the growth is absolutely excellent, and the land and climate here in Qujing are very suitable for the growth of Hibiscus." Lu Fatzi smiled and said: "Besides, the official has already said that if the planting is not worth ten taels of silver, the official will pay out of his own pocket to make up for you, if you are still not at ease, I can now take ten taels of silver per person to you as a guarantee, and if you fulfill my promise in the future, you will return it." However, I believe that when the time comes, you will regret planting too little and too little. ”

"Since the county lord said so, if the grass people don't borrow it anymore, they really don't know how to lift it." An Jiarong put his mind at ease and said loudly: "Lu Xianzun, the grass people plant thirty acres at home, and you don't need to pay money to guarantee it, even if the things grown in the thirty acres of land are not worth thirty taels, the grass people will admit it themselves." After all, there are floods and droughts in growing grain, and no one dares to guarantee that growing grain will not suffer losses. ”

"Mrs. An is right, I also plant twenty acres." Another small landlord chimed in and shouted: "Even if you can't earn a tael of silver per acre of land, the grass people will admit it themselves, and they will never come to trouble the county." ”

"I also plant twenty acres."

"I plant fifteen acres."

"My family has little land, so let's plant ten acres according to the instructions of the county."

"Lu Xianzun, can this thing be planted on the mountain? If you can, the grass people can plant fifty or sixty acres, the grass people opened a new hill last year, anyway, the raw land to grow grain to harvest much, it is better to plant this hibiscus, and wait for the raw land to be planted into cooked land and then plant food. ”

All the landlords and gentry agreed, and they all agreed to plant the Eight Banners Fushou Paste according to Lu Fatzi's instructions - after all, the harvest that could be produced by ten acres of land was really nothing to these landlords and gentry, and the value could not even catch up with the gifts that these people were going to give to Lu Fatzi today. Lu Fatzi laughed happily and said: "Thank you, thank you for your support and trust in this official, please rest assured, with the help of Master Zhu, although the seeds prepared by this official this time are not too much, it is no problem to plant one or two thousand acres, you can plant as many as you want." ”

"Of course, you can't just plant this hibiscus and forget to grow food. The official is here to give you a suggestion, you can try to introduce some sweet potatoes, artichokes and corn (corn in Yunnan and Guizhou) or something, and there will be a big surprise waiting for you at that time. If you have any questions about finding these seeds, you can also ask the official and he will definitely find a way for you. ”

"Lord Lu, is this thing really so amazing?" It was not only the landlords and gentry in Qujing who were tempted, but also the former county magistrate Cheng Feng who was about to be transferred to Anhui, after grabbing a handful of seeds and looking at them carefully, Cheng Feng asked curiously: "Can this thing be planted in Anhui?" The Jiande I transferred to is also a well-known poor place in Anhui, if this thing is really as good as you say, I also want to try it in Anhui, which can be regarded as benefiting the villagers there. ”

"Of course you can, in fact, as long as the climate is not too cold, this thing can be grown everywhere." Fat Lu smiled and said: "But now it's definitely too late to plant in Anhui, so let's do it, I'm planting in Qujing now, and when I see the effect in July and August, Lord Cheng, you will send someone to me to get the seeds, how about it?" ”

"Success, a word is a certainty!" Cheng Feng was happy when he heard it, and said in his heart that with your help to try the seeds, what am I afraid of? When Cheng Feng raised his hand, he smiled and said, "Lord Lu, then how about we make a decision and swear with a high-five?" ”

"Absolutely." Fat Lu smiled and raised his fat hand, "High-five for an oath!" ”

"Smack!" With a palm blow, Lu Fatzi also established his status as the ancestor of a certain industry, so that in later generations, some people who deserve to die will worship the portrait of Lu Fatzi or the photo of Lu Fatzi in his old age before breaking the law and discipline, and beg for the blessing of Lu Fatzi, the ancestor of the master, and bless themselves not to be caught by the people in the yamen when they enter low and go high.

Of course, the descendants of Lu Fatzi refused to recognize the honor of their ancestors, not only desperately cracking down on and suppressing these unscrupulous disciples who worshiped their ancestors, but also put the blame on Zhu Fangdan with the legacy of their ancestors - if it weren't for the fact that this old pervert used his influence in the apricot forest world to get so many seeds for his ancestors that should have been used for medicinal purposes, would this thing be all the rage in this era?

Zhu Fangdan's descendants will accept this honor and leave him alone for the time being, in short, after Lu Fatzi and Cheng Feng finished clapping their hands, in addition to asking Xiao Erlang and Shen Xin to distribute seeds to the landlord Lao Cai, he also instructed: "In addition, prepare seeds for me to plant 500 acres of land, and send a fast horse to Lu Liang, the second prince of Pingxi has a fief of more than 2,000 acres there, and he wrote back to me and told me, agreeing to lend me 500 acres of land to plant this thing, and send it over overnight, don't delay the agricultural time!" ”

"Also, Master Zhu, send someone to Anmin Da Tusi and Long Kuo Tusi to send seeds of fifty acres of land each, and write two letters to them by the way, telling them how to plant, encouraging them to plant, and when they are planted, I will buy them back with so much silver that they dare not imagine!"

(To be continued)