The news that Lu Fatzi captured Kangxi, the supreme chief of the Mites Qing on the battlefield in Huai'an, was like a shocking thunder, which resounded throughout the world at once!

Hearing the news, the old witch of Xiaozhuang fainted on the spot, and after being rescued, the old witch of Xiaozhuang cried out again, beating her chest and scolding her grandson for not being filial, not listening to her own bitter words, and burying the last ray of life of the Qing court. [Full text reading]

As Lu Fatzi expected, he finally cried enough to calm down, and the old witch of Xiaozhuang hurriedly issued a decree, and immediately stopped using Kang Mazi's Zhu Batch nationwide, and replaced it with the blue batch of the study, that is, let all the officials in the land controlled by Mites refuse to carry out Kang Mazi's holy decree, so as not to steal the jade seal of Kang Mazi from the ruthless Lu Fatzi and make the world even more chaotic. At the same time, the old witch of Xiaozhuang held on to the last ray of hope, and successively sent two secret envoys to contact Wu Lao Hanjian and Lu Fatzi respectively, striving to use political means to rescue her unfortunate grandson.

At the same time, the mite Qing government and army around the south of the Yangtze River also fell into chaos because of the capture of Kang Mazi, and the local officials, large and small, were panicked, all of them understood that the destruction of the mite Qing was a foregone conclusion, and the foolish and loyal organization of the township Yong was ready to rescue Kang Mazi by force, and the smart ones abandoned the officials and fled, and the smarter simply embezzled the treasury silver, while sending henchmen to the fat army or the Wu army to hand over the table, and voluntarily led the people under their rule to cut their braids and grow their hair, and accepted the jurisdiction of the Great Zhou court.

The Qing army was even more chaotic, and the Qing soldiers who were already full of resentment about the lack of food and wages either fled home, or took the initiative to surrender to the surrounding fat army and the Wu army, and even more simply gathered together to launch a mutiny, robbed money, grabbed food, and robbed women.

For Kang Mazi to be captured by Lu Fatzi, the warlord forces controlled by Non-Mites Qing were terrified, especially Geng Jingzhong, who stabbed Lu Fatzi in the back, and understood that once Lu Fatzi freed his hand, he would inevitably find his new account and old accounts together, so Geng Jingzhong simply retreated for thirty miles, while cutting off the head of Huang Kun, Lu Fatzi's henchman and lackey, apologized to Lu Fatzi, and begged to re-sign the alliance with the Fat Army and never invade each other.

There is also the ungrateful Taiwan Zheng Jun who will not save him at the critical moment, he is both unreasonable and timid, and understands that the officers and men of the Fat Man Army will not forget their acts of revenge, Zheng Jing had to send Chen Jinnan, who has a close friendship with Lu Fatzi, to envoy the Fat Man Army to apologize to Lu Fatzi and explain that their strength is not good, so they can't help when the Fat Army is besieged by the fourth line. As for Lu Fatzi's eldest brother Shang Zhixin, he simply sent a secret envoy to instigate Lu Fatzi to betray Wu Laohan and annihilate the army to stand on his own, and join forces with his good uncle who values love and righteousness to fight the world, exterminate the thieves in the world, and divide the country equally.

In addition to being frightened, the major warlords, including most of the generals of the Pingxi Palace, are inevitably envious, jealous and hateful, and understand that with Lu Fatzi's goose plucking, heron's leg scraping meat, and mosquito's stomach scraping oil, the mite Qing court has to be knocked by Lu Fatzi this time, and I don't know how much money to be knocked out by Lu Fatzi in exchange for Kang Mazi, maybe it will force the Qing court to call Lu Fatzi a minister, and the fat army who has long been resentful takes the opportunity to get rid of Wu Laohan's control and read directly!

To everyone's surprise, and at the same time, what everyone didn't expect was that within a few days of catching Kang Mazi, Lu Fatzi actually pulled Kang Mazi directly in front of the Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum and chopped it in front of millions of people in Jiangnan! Not only did he get rid of the mite messenger who was going to redeem Kang Mazi with money and food, but he also burned all the bones of Kang Mazi to ashes, mixed the ashes into clay and burned them into toilets, and distributed them to the Jiangnan city that was mutilated by dogs, so that the people of Jiangnan could vent their anger! The resoluteness of Dai Tian's attitude against the Qing court, and the swiftness of avenging the Han people, made everyone smash their glasses, and also smacked the faces of many despicable villains who maliciously speculated, and established a glorious image of himself as a great man for the country and the people!

All of a sudden, Geng Jingzhong, who was fighting under the banner of opposing the Qing Dynasty and supporting the Ming Dynasty but was eyebrow-raising with the mite Qing army, was disgraced, and Wu Laohan, who first fought the banner of opposing the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty and then usurped the throne and stood on his own, was discredited, and even Zheng Jing, who has always been regarded by the world as the most determined anti-Qing and Ming restoration is also extremely embarrassed, the full dog killed is not as much as Wu Laohan, and the big full dog killed is not as big as the fat man Lu Fatzi, what other face does he claim to be the backbone of the anti-Qing Dynasty and the restoration of the Ming Dynasty? And Lu Fatzi, who has an innocent family background and the most resolute anti-Qing attitude, has completely overwhelmed the usurper Wu Laohan in terms of reputation, and overwhelmed Taiwan's Zheng Jing in a corner of peace, and has become a true hero and a great savior in the eyes of the anti-Qing righteous people in the world!

The news of Kang Mazi's death spread, and the land of China, which was already in chaos in the world, became a pot of boiling porridge, and the local officials and army generals of Mites, who could not find allegiance, were at a loss, some shouted surrender and some shouted to resist to the death, and they went their own way; The Qing court was at a loss, and the old witch of Xiaozhuang was forced to listen to the government again and stand up to preside over the overall situation and stabilize people's hearts.

But it's a pity that the current old witch of Xiaozhuang is over sixty years old, not only is her physical energy far from catching up with the two previous curtains listening to the government, but she is also old and decrepit and can't hook up with the little uncle to sell her life - not to mention that the little uncle of the old witch of Xiaozhuang is all dead, and even the four auxiliary ministers left by Shunzhi to Kang Mazi back then are all dead, and there is only one talent left in the court who is far from catching up with Aobai and Sony's Suo Etu to support hard, and the old witch of Xiaozhuang has the power to penetrate the heavens and the earth. It can no longer support this collapsed building.

It may also be at this time that the old witch of Xiaozhuang can really see clearly what kind of mess Kang Mazi has left her, the treasury and the inner treasury together have less than two million taels of silver, and there is still a debt of 23 million taels of silver owed to the people of Zhili and Shandong, and there is only a two-month debt repayment period left, the price of grain in the controlled land of the Qing court has soared more than ten times, starvation is everywhere, uprisings are continuous, and the people are changing like cow hair, but the Qing court can no longer take out a decent army to quell these uprisings and civil uprisings. I can only watch as the deadline for repaying debts is getting closer and closer, and the civil unrest is getting bigger and bigger.

What's more troublesome is Kang Mazi's successor, Kang Mazi's only son who was not killed by Lu Fatzi and was not taken away by God is only one, Yinhe, who has just turned four years old, and Kang Mazi also has a brother Longxi who is sixteen years old, but unfortunately he is frail and sickly, cowardly and incompetent, and it is difficult to take on a big responsibility - with such a good brother as Kang Mazi, Longxi can still live to this day if he is not cowardly and incompetent? No matter which successor Xiaozhuang chooses, it is impossible to shoulder this burden, and he cannot stabilize the current critical situation.

So Xiaozhuang had no choice, so he could only put Yinhe on the throne on the fourth day of June in the fourteenth year of Kang Mazi, and the line of fire was appointed as the new supreme chief of the mite Qing Dynasty, and the name of the next year was changed to Qianlong, and the old witch of Xiaozhuang herself picked up the burden of the Mites Qing court for the third time, and sat on the actual throne of the mite Qing court for the third time.

This time the throne is not as easy to sit on as the previous two times, just like Xiaozhuang quietly cried to the two henchmen Su Malagu and Li Yinzhen, "The mourning family is too difficult this time, too difficult, the first time there is Prince Rui, military and government affairs are all right-hand men, the second time there is Sony, Ao Bai is unruly and untamed, but he is never ambiguous in major matters, and he is also reliable in war." This time, the mourning family does not even have a helper like Aobai, but the situation is more critical than the previous two times, and the country is also more dilapidated than the previous two times. ”

"Ancestors, please relax, the Qing Dynasty has the care of the true gods, it will not collapse, and there must be a turnaround." Aunt Su Mala, who is the same age as the old witch of Xiaozhuang, comforted softly and persuaded her: "Ancestor, please don't worry, there must be a road before the car reaches the mountain, at least Lu Yifeng's dog thieves did not launch the Northern Expedition, and our Qing court still has time to breathe." Besides, Lu Yifeng is a dog thief with great ambition and has long been disobedient, this time he caught the emperor, and directly harmed the emperor without asking Wu Sangui for advice, Wu Sangui must be very dissatisfied, these two thieves will meet each other sooner or later. ”

Persuading this, Su Malagu paused for a moment, and added: "As long as these two most dangerous traitors fight, the other traitors will definitely take advantage of the chaos and kill each other. ”

Su Malagu's words reminded the old witch of Xiaozhuang, and the old witch of Xiaozhuang quickly wiped away her tears and asked: "Li Yin, the messenger sent by the mourning family to contact the old thief of Wu Sangui has any response?" ”

"Back to the ancestors, not yet." Li replied respectfully: "Maybe it's because the war has blocked the road and the news is slow to transmit, so there has been no response yet, please wait with peace of mind, forget it, the news should also come back." ”

"Today is the sixth day of the sixth month of June, it's been almost a month, no matter how the road is blocked, there should be an echo if it succeeds or not, right?" The old witch of Xiaozhuang was suspicious, and hurriedly asked: "So have we confirmed that the old thief Wu Sangui moved from Xi'an to Wuchang, and now he has gone there?" ”

"This ......." Li Yin, who was in charge of intelligence affairs for the old witch of Xiaozhuang, looked embarrassed, and only replied after a while: "The ancestor forgives the sin, the slaves don't know, and the minions below don't know where the old thief Wu Sangui is now." ”

"How is that possible?" The old witch of Xiaozhuang exclaimed, "The old thief Wu Sangui has ascended the throne and called the emperor, and he uses Luan to drive in and out, why can't you even find out where he is?" ”

"Damn it, the minions really can't be found." Li Yin helplessly knelt down to plead guilty, and said dejectedly: "The minions below, the last time I confirmed the location of Wu Sangui's old thief was in Changde, and the time was also May 16, and then it has been almost two months now, and the minions have not received a single news of Wu Sangui's old thief's movements. But the minions secretly thought that it was impossible for Wu Sangui's old thief to stay in Changde, which was far away from the battlefield, and suspected that he might have quietly left Changde. ”

"So Wu Sangui's old thief's army, has there been any unusual movement recently?" Xiaozhuang stood up and asked, "Especially on the Wuchang side, is there any sign of a large-scale build-up of troops and fleets?" ”

"Nope." Li Yinzheng replied honestly: "This point can be absolutely certain, the first is that our meticulous work did not find that the Wu Dog army was assembled in Wuchang, and the second is that our inner line Lin Xingzhu is the deputy marshal of the Wu Dog Water Division, and he and the Wu Dog Dongting Lake Water Division led by Wu Dog Du Hui have always been stationed in Dongting Lake and have not been transferred to Wuchang to listen to it. ”

"Strange, why did Wu Sangui old thief stand still?" The old witch of Xiaozhuang calculated, "It stands to reason that Lu Yifeng's dog thief has annihilated the main force of our Qing Dynasty's western front, and the old thief Wu Sangui should immediately send troops down the river to pick peaches in Jiangnan and collect the wealth of Jiangnan, why has he not moved so far?" Now as long as he waves his army to the east and joins forces with Lu Yifeng's dog thief, the world will basically be his? Why did he miss such an opportunity? ”

"Isn't it ......?" Thinking about this, the old witch of Xiaozhuang suddenly shivered, and blurted out: "Could it be that the mourning family and the emperor, as well as Lu Yifeng's dog thief, were all played by Wu Sangui's old thief?" Wu Sangui's old thief actually died of illness a long time ago, but he didn't mourn secretly, and used a stand-in to deceive the world, prompting our Qing Dynasty and Lu Yifeng's dog thief to kill each other and buy time for his successor? Let his successor also reap the benefits? ”

"Wu Sangui's old thief is dead?" Su Malagu and Li Yinzheng exclaimed at the same time.

"Yes, that's the only way!" The old witch of Xiaozhuang nodded vigorously, gritted her teeth and said: "Because the old thief Wu Sangui is dead, Wu Gou is fighting for power and profit, and has fallen into civil strife, so he missed this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!" Because Wu Sangui's old thief is dead, he deliberately canonized the rebellious Lu Yifeng dog thief as the king, pretending to appease, but in fact, it is to induce our Qing Dynasty to go all out to encircle and suppress his most dangerous thug Lu Yifeng dog thief, divert our attention, and his internal take the opportunity to eliminate hidden dangers and smoothly transition the military regime! ”

"If that's the case, wouldn't our Qing Dynasty miss the perfect opportunity to turn defeat into victory?" Su Malagu exclaimed again.

The old witch of Xiaozhuang was silent, nodded after a while, and said in a low voice: "It is likely that this is the case, our Qing Dynasty has missed the last chance to turn defeat into victory, if the mourning family and the emperor could have discovered this earlier, and did not put the main force into the Jiangnan battlefield, then we still have hope of turning the tables, but now, everything is over, and the only thing that can benefit can only be the Lu Yifeng dog thief who went crazy and annihilated our main force of the Qing Dynasty without regard for his own interests." ”

Su Malagu and Li Yinzheng thought about it carefully, and now the Qing Dynasty has been abolished by Lu Fatzi and Kang Fatzi, Wu Laohan is dead, no matter who the successor is, it is impossible to have the centripetal force like Wu Laohan's annihilation, let alone surrender the self-respecting Lu Fatzi, if Wu Sangui's army has civil strife because of the transition of power, then the most likely one to reap the benefits may be the sinister and cunning Lu Fatzi who has a heavy army and plenty of money and food.

"Could it be that the world that loves the Xinjue Luo family will eventually fall into the hands of that Luo Di Xiucai?" The old witch of Xiaozhuang smiled bitterly, and suddenly had a ridiculous feeling, more than seven years ago, the old witch of Xiaozhuang was the first time she saw Lu Fat Man in this Heart Cultivation Palace, at that time, Lu Fatman's mouth was like smearing honey, full of loyalty, filial piety, benevolence and righteousness, a face of honesty and honesty, and concealed his own eyes like electricity, I didn't expect that just over seven years have passed, and the Luo Di Xiucai, who is full of benevolence and morality, has become the biggest competitor of his love for the Xinjueluo family, and it is also the most dangerous competitor.

Shaking her head with a wry smile, the old witch of Xiaozhuang thought for a moment and ordered: "Su Malagu, prepare a decree for the mourning family, and order all civil and military officials south of the Yellow River to surrender only to the Great Zhou court, not to Lu Yifeng's dog thieves!" Those who surrendered to the court of the Great Zhou Dynasty were not held accountable for their families and relatives north of the Yellow River, and those whose parents, wives and children were in the capital were given Lumi to support their families according to their grades. Those who surrender to Lu Yifeng's dog thieves, no matter who they are, their parents, wives and children will be killed, and they will never be pardoned! Also, one more decree will be made, and tomorrow the whole family of Zhangtai and Zhuman will be escorted to the court to be beheaded, and no one will be left. ”

"Old Ancestor, do you want to join forces with Wu Gou to avenge the emperor?" Aunt Su Mala asked tentatively.

"Not bad." The old witch of Xiaozhuang nodded, and said calmly: "Tomorrow, I will call the new cabinet university scholar Maqi, and the mourning family will let him go to the southwest with the national rites and national letters, congratulate Wu Shifan, and ask for an alliance with Wu Shifan to join hands to exterminate Lu Yifeng's dog thief, he will eradicate the rebellious courtiers with ill intentions, and the mourning family will avenge his grandson!" As long as Wu Shifan agrees, any conditions can be discussed. ”

"Wu Shifan is young, even if he succeeds to the throne, the military and political power is bound to be in the hands of powerful ministers." Su Malagu said in a deep voice: "But no matter which powerful minister is in power, Lu Yifeng's dog thief who has a heavy army and sits on the land of money and grain in the south of the Yangtze River is bound to be a thorn in his side and a thorn in his flesh. But....... ”

Su Malagu hesitated for a moment, and finally said: "But old ancestor, the death of the old thief Wu Sangui is just our speculation, in case the old thief Wu Sangui did not die of illness, or was only temporarily seriously ill, then if we do this, it is equivalent to giving the entire south of the Yellow River to the old thief Wu Sangui?" ”

"Can we still keep the south of the Yellow River?" The old witch of Xiaozhuang smiled bitterly, and said leisurely: "Let's not say that it is impossible for the old thief Wu Sangui not to die, even if he really does not die, it doesn't matter if he is cheap for nothing, the old thief Wu Sangui has at least made great contributions to our Qing Dynasty, and his heart is okay, he has never slaughtered the city, and he gave him the country, and we love the Xinjue Luo family to have a glimmer of life." But if we give the country to that Lu Yifeng dog thief, the Lu Yifeng dog thief who eats our Daqing Lu rice but has never done a good thing for us in the Daqing Dynasty, then we love the Xinjue Luo family, and we are full of people, and we will definitely be exterminated. ”

Su Malagu stopped talking, and honestly went down to write a purpose, but Xiaozhuang turned his gaze to the outside of the hall, looked at the dark southern sky, and muttered softly, "Wu Shifan, you can't be Lu Yifeng's opponent of the dog thief, the mourning family doesn't ask you to kill Lu Yifeng's dog thief, the mourning family only hopes that you can drag him down, buy a little time for the mourning family, buy a little time for the Qing Dynasty, and the last bit of hope." ”

…………………… Different from the gloomy clouds and miserable fog in Yanjing City, in the city of Nanjing at the same time, it is the lanterns and drums that are all in the sky, the reason is very ridiculous, June 6 is the day festival that the Jiangnan region attaches great importance to, and it is also called the book festival, the book is also called the book festival, the book is in the sixth day of the first month of June, and the books, calligraphy and paintings are spread in the sun, and it is naturally very important in the water town in the south of the Yangtze River where the cultural atmosphere is extremely strong. Therefore, Lu Fatzi, who paid great attention to the gentry and students in Jiangnan, did not dare to slack off, and held a celebration in his pocket, and published books with the literati in Jiangnan, and shared a grand event, and also ordered that the city gate should not be closed tonight.

It was also thanks to the blessing of Lu Fatzi's order, a middle-aged beggar with a disheveled hair and ragged clothes was able to stumble into the city gate of Nanjing, and also inquired about the location of Lu Fatzi's residence when he learned from a scholar that General Lu, who valued literati, was celebrating the book festival with Jiangnan in Nanjing Confucius Temple, the middle-aged beggar hurriedly asked the road, and then followed the flow of literati, and even crawled to find the Confucius Temple, and quickly found the location of Lu Fatzi.

Seeing Lu Fatzi sitting on the Mingyuan Tower with a large group of literati chanting poems, plagiarizing the poems of later generations to scare the literati students of this era, the middle-aged beggar finally breathed a sigh of relief, and quickly pushed away and rushed to the tribute courtyard, but when he arrived at the door, he was stopped by Lu Fatzi's own soldiers, and asked him about his intention, and the middle-aged beggar was furious and shouted: "Call Xiao Erlang, Liu Zhen, Liu Xu and Shen Xin to see me, when Lao Tzu followed the general, there were no you!" ”

The middle-aged beggar's tone was so big, Lu Fatzi's personal soldiers did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly called Lu Fatzi's old lackey Liu Zhen, Liu Zhen came to take a look, and found that although the middle-aged beggar was unkempt, and there were no shoes on his feet, he was really a little familiar, and when he took a closer look, Liu Zhen suddenly exclaimed, "Li Xiongfei!" General Lee! What are you doing here? ”

"Don't ask, take me to the general." Li Xiongfei's body was crumbling and could fall down at any time, Liu Zhen didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly picked up the most unlucky general of the Fat Army and walked in - it was indeed the most unlucky general of the Fat Army.

In a moment, Li Xiongfei was carried up to Mingyuan Tower by Liu Zhen, and when he saw the fat man Lu who was surrounded by a large number of gentry and students, Li Xiongfei knelt down on his knees and shouted with tears: "General, the last general Li Xiongfei, meet the general!" ”

"Li Xiongfei? Brother Li? What are you doing here? Fat Lu also recognized Li Xiongfei, and hurriedly rushed up to support Li Xiongfei, and asked in great surprise: "Brother Li, how did you become like this?" ”

"General, something is wrong!" Li Xiongfei howled and cried, crying and said: "The prince died of illness, the will was not mourned, Wang Shirong and Fang Xueshi escorted the prince's coffin back to Yunnan secretly, and the last general and the second prince were deceived back to Kunming to know the truth!" Later, when we returned to Wuchang, Guo Zhuangtu sent a lackey to pass on the holy decree and hanged the second prince! and the sons of the second prince, Wu Shijun and Wu Shihui, who were also poisoned by Guo Zhuangtu's dog thieves at the same time! The last general escaped from Guizhou by fighting to the death with his own soldiers, and he hid incognito all the way to avoid Guo Zhuangtu's pursuit, and finally came to Nanjing to report to you! ”

"Ah——!h Fat Lu screamed like a pig, and then knelt down in the southwest direction, crying heartbreakingly, "Grandfather——! Uncle ——! My loved ones! My benefactor......! ”

Before the words were finished, Fat Man Lu had already turned over and fainted, and there was a sudden chaos upstairs in Mingyuan, Yao Qisheng and Shaobo Wang and other henchmen and lackeys also hurriedly pounced on Fat Lu and picked up Fat Lu, while shouting that Doctor Zhu came to save people, while muttering in his heart, "If the owner is not pretending to be dizzy, then he must be dizzy, this time, he even has an excuse to start a war with Guo Zhuangtu." ”

Note: A note that I have forgotten for a long time, Wu Shifan's name is actually written accurately as Wu Shifan, but the ghost word 'Fan' is really difficult to type, so I have been typing Wu Shifan by mistake. In addition, Guo Zhuangtu sent a false message of Wu Shifan's will, and hanged Wu Yingqi, Wu Shijun and Wu Shihui in Guizhou Town, which is far from a historical fact, at that time it was still under the condition that Hunan controlled by Wu Jun was basically lost.

(To be continued)