Capital.

In the past two days, the capital has been very quiet, Lu Xiangsheng is about to be beheaded, this matter is spreading rapidly, and countless people are paying attention to this matter, including Sun Chuanting who stayed in Shandong, Hong Chengchou who is presiding over Liaodong affairs, and even Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong who are preparing to rebel.

The name Lu Xiangsheng has a charm that is difficult for others to ignore in the Ming Dynasty, he has exterminated the Liukou Gao Yingxiang, defeated the king of Li Chuang in Shanxi, defeated the Tartars of Liaodong, and recaptured the naturalized city of northern Shaanxi.

The Tartars invaded the Ming Dynasty three times, three times Lu Xiangsheng played an absolute role, the first time he changed, Chongzhen two years, Lu Xiangsheng personally recruited 10,000 soldiers, into the king of Beijing.

In the seventh year of Chongzhen for the second time, Huang Taiji led an army to attack Datong, but was defeated by Lu Xiangsheng and other generals without causing much loss.

The third time, not long ago, when the entire Ming military group was helpless, he could only watch Dolgon lead the army to invade southward, Lu Xiangsheng stood up, without superfluous nonsense, and led the Tianxiong army to directly kill Dolgon in the north of Shandong, and he could not advance an inch.

Such a great achievement, how can it not be feared.

Just like Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and others, before the uprising, the Ming military generals who needed to be paid attention to, Lu Xiangsheng's name can definitely be ranked in the top three.

And now that Lu Xiangsheng is about to be killed, the rogues are very happy, and Lu Xiangsheng's old friends are very uncomfortable, but they can't speak for Lu Xiangsheng now, because before they were Lu Xiangsheng's friends, they were the courtiers of the Ming Dynasty, and they were also the military generals that the Ming Dynasty relied on.

Then Da Ming is over, and he is completely hopeless.

Maybe other people don't feel sorry for this Daming, but they can't, they can be friends with Lu Xiangsheng, at least the current three views are not distorted, and they are still willing to give their lives for Daming, including Hong Chengchou, who guards Liaodong.

"Deming, this is the specific situation of the courtiers' recitals these days, hundreds of officials in the entire Ming Dynasty are all fallen into the well, and they all want Lu Xiangsheng to die now."

At this time, the person in charge of the secret spy department in the capital said angrily, Li Deming was also stunned, looked at the person in charge of the secret spy department and said, "There is no one who has come to defend Lu Xiangsheng?" ”

Hearing this, the people from the secret spy department sighed and said: "It is said that no one has wronged these dog officials, but there is a person who has been wronged for Lu Xiangsheng, but he was directly kicked out by the cabinet and not handed it over to His Majesty." ”

"Oh, there's one more, who?"

The humanity of the secret spy department: "The new household servant Shi Kefa." ”

"Scofa."

Li Deming heard this and muttered the name, and always felt that this name was very familiar, as if he had heard the county zun talk about it, Li Deming thought about it for a long time and patted his head and remembered, Shi Kefa, when the county zun was in school, he said that there are several people in Daming who can do things, and there is this Shi Kefa.

At that time, the county respected that Shi Kefa and Lu Xiangsheng were Jinshi in the same year, and Shi Kefa's ranking was still above Lu Xiangsheng, but Shi Kefa was more than righteous, but less decisive, and had ability, but he didn't know how to plan.

The county respected at the time that this person could be a great Confucian and worthy of admiration, and he could not say that he could become a generation of scholars.

But being an official is very unqualified, the heart is not ruthless enough, and the work is not decisive enough, and it is difficult to achieve great things.

This is Li Chaosheng's evaluation of this person, Li Deming kept it in mind, and when I saw it today, this person is really more than righteous, less than decisive, Lu Xiangsheng has now angered Long Yan, Sun Chuanting, who is good friends with him, Hong Chengchou is silent, afraid of provoking fire, but he Shi Kefa wants to commit a crime against the wind, knowing that doing so may anger Long Yan, but he still has to argue, which shows that he has righteousness.

Li Deming looked at the intelligence report handed over: "The day after tomorrow, Lu Xiangsheng will be beheaded to show the public, and we should go to see him tomorrow." ”

The person in charge of the secret spy department said: "I have arranged this matter. ”

"That's good."

……

The next night, Lu Xiangsheng sat alone in prison, his eyes shining through the skylight, and he looked slightly distracted.

Tomorrow he was going to be beheaded, and when he faced death, even he couldn't help but feel a little strange, even though his heart was already at peace and ready to die.

This feeling of waiting for death is more torturous than the fight in the battle array, although the battle array is tragic, but he does not feel fear, the tense battle makes him have no distractions, even if he is stabbed and shot with an arrow, there is no imaginary pain.

But this feeling of waiting for death in loneliness is not pleasant.

At this time, Lu Xiangsheng wanted to compose a poem, but after thinking about it for a long time, he didn't have a poem that fit his current state of mind.

In the end, I couldn't help but chant it, and I kept Yu Qian's famous story through the ages.

"Thousands of hammers are knocked out of the deep mountains, the fire burns if you are idle, you are not afraid of broken bones, you must leave your innocence in the world."

Lu Xiangsheng slowly recited this ancient masterpiece against the wall, this feeling was even more than the usual recitation, there were thousands of emotions, before you may only have read the written meaning of the poem, but today, in this situation, reciting this poem, I feel that I suddenly understood Yu Shaobao's state of mind at that time.

Bang Bang Bang!

After Lu Xiangsheng finished reciting a poem, he suddenly heard a burst of applause behind him, Lu Xiangsheng was still a little strange in his heart, since Yang Sichang left, no one has come to visit him in this prison for three or four days, who is it this time?

Lu Xiangsheng turned around and saw a familiar face, which he had only seen for a short time.

"Lee, Lee......"

Lu Xiangsheng wanted to call out the other party's name, but after working hard for a long time, he found that he couldn't remember the other party's name clearly, only knowing that his surname was Li, and it was not easy for him to forget this surname, after all, in Lantian, Li is the big surname, Lu Xiangsheng knew that he was from Lantian, and his natural first reaction was to know that the other party's surname was almost Li.

"Li Deming."

Li Deming said to Lu Xiangsheng with a smile, and then said: "In this situation, Lord Lu has such a good luck, I am very relieved." ”

Lu Xiangsheng heard this: "We met in the barracks a few days ago, and we are already in prison today. ”

Li Deming smiled and looked at the cell head on the side and said, "The door is open." ”

Hearing this, the cell boss stepped forward with a smile and opened the cell door, Li Deming entered the cell door with a food box, followed by a wave of his hand, the cell boss turned to leave, and the cell door was not closed again, as if he was not afraid of Lu Xiangsheng running away.

Seeing this, Lu Xiangsheng's brows furrowed, and his face was gloomy and terrifying.

Li Deming didn't seem to see Lu Xiangsheng's expression at all, so he smoothed out the straw in the straw pile and opened the food box, which contained a pot of wine, a plate of fried meat with chili peppers, and a plate of fried peanuts.

Li Deming looked at Lu Xiangsheng, whose expression was still hideous, and said: "Lu Gong, standing and doing something, come and taste my Lantian stir-fry, this is the characteristic of my Lantian field, this chili fried meat tastes unique, this fried peanuts, wine delicacies, and this Lantian sweet potato roast, the tyrant of the wine, the taste is strong, I don't know if Lu Gong is used to drinking it?" ”

Lu Xiangsheng didn't say anything when he heard this, swallowed his breath and sat down, looked at Li Deming and said: "This is the prison of the Ministry of Officials, you have no official body, and you have no king's life, how can you get in?" ”

"I have money."

Li Deming looked at Lu Xiangsheng with a smile, and Lu Xiangsheng shouted with a black face when he heard this: "Can you do whatever you want if you have money?" ”

Li Deming smiled even more happily: "Yes, you can do whatever you want if you have money, of course, the premise is that you have the ability to keep this money, otherwise, being rich will only be a fat pig in the eyes of those in power." ”

Lu Xiangsheng slowly calmed down after hearing this, and still said indignantly: "If you have money, can you destroy the country's laws?" I'm on death row, and I can get in for a fee, and the door is not locked, and where you put the law of the country, this is how the law is trampled on by you. ”

Li Deming listened to this and waited silently for Lu Xiangsheng to lose his temper and said: "Well, what you said is very right and reasonable, but the law is not broken by me, it is you scholars who broke it, you made the law, and trampled on the law by virtue of your status as a powerful person, and re-established a new regulation outside the law, a regulation that asks for money." ”

"And I just followed the customs, followed the rules you formulated, spent some money and did some things in the circle you drawn, why are you so angry, Lord Lu, besides, shouldn't you be angry and ask the criminal department in charge of the prison? What's the use of asking me, as if I don't spend money, I don't come to see you, and this dirty business doesn't exist. ”

Li Deming said neither humbly nor arrogantly, Lu Xiangsheng was angry when he heard this, Li Deming was right, the fault was not Li Deming, in Daming, these people who implemented the law, it was they who trampled on the law, so they had this dirty side.

Lu Xiangsheng sat down weakly, he couldn't change so much as a dying person.

Li Deming put the wine and food on the table, poured a glass of wine for Lu Xiangsheng and said, "Lu Gong, please." ”

Lu Xiangsheng took the wine glass and drank it all, but he didn't expect the wine to be so spicy, so choked that Lu Xiangsheng couldn't help coughing a few times.

"Ah~ This wine, drinking it is still the strongest sweet potato in your Lantian field."

Li Deming said with a smile: "Of course, the wine in other parts of the Ming Dynasty is rice wine, and our sweet potato roast is a distilled spirit, also called liquor, the one you drink is not the strongest, the county respects it in line with the taste of the Ming people, and divides the wine into two degrees, a forty-two degrees, which is used for people who are used to drinking rice wine, and there is a stronger fifty-three degree sweet potato burn, which is the real spirit." ”

Lu Xiangsheng heard this and said: "Degree, this wine still has a degree, don't say it, it's just that your county likes to engage in these new things." ”

Li Deming said: "Yes, the county said, he wants to be the one who sets the standard for the world, our Lantian wine industry is now very standard, there are not many loose wine workshops on the market, all of them are incorporated into our Lantian winery, so our Lantian wine factory standards are the same." ”

"In the past, wine merchants bought wine, often had no bottom in their hearts, sometimes the quality of this wine is good, he earned, if the quality is not good, he will lose, but now after our Lantian standardized wine, wine merchants can rest assured that they can enter, because every jar is the same, because of this, our Lantian wine is now in short supply, and there is such a saying in the wine industry, drink good wine, drink Lantian, every bite is guaranteed."

"Hahaha......"

Lu Xiangsheng laughed when he heard this, Li Chaosheng's Lantian never disappointed him.

Lu Xiangsheng sighed and said: "Lantian is getting better day by day, but Daming is corrupting day by day, so what can I do." ”

Li Deming said: "Everything has a law, one eliminates the other, the old thing is replaced by the new thing This is the law of nature, people can fight with people, but not with the sky, and only if the old is overthrown, the new will be better, just like a dead tree, rotten, decayed, but on this dead tree a new seedling, borrowing the nutrients of the big tree, he can grow into a more vigorous tree, for more birds and beasts to shelter from the wind and rain." ”

Hearing this, Lu Xiangsheng looked at Li Deming and said, "Lantian is this new big tree?" ”

Li Deming said without hesitation: "That's right, he is the new big tree, Daming is the rotten old tree, and you and I are birds and beasts on the tree." ”

Hearing this, Lu Xiangsheng took another sip of wine and said, "You're right, the Ming Dynasty is rotten. ”

Li Deming saw Lu Xiangsheng say this: "Gong Lu, the tree of Daming is about to fall, are you willing to stay in a new tree?" ”

Hearing this, Lu Xiangsheng looked at Li Deming and shook his head and said, "I am a product of the tree of the old era, and the big tree of the new era will not have a place for me." ”

Li Deming said: "As long as you are willing, the big tree of the new era will definitely have a place for you." ”

Lu Xiangsheng looked at Li Deming and said, "Don't bother, I'm going to go to the vegetable market tomorrow to behead the public." ”

Li Deming laughed when he heard this: "Duke Lu, this order was given to you by Emperor Daming, if you are willing to change a big tree, the Emperor's holy decree of Daming will not work on you, and we can take Duke Lu out of prison at any time." ”

Hearing this, Lu Xiangsheng's face darkened: "You dare to rob death row prisoners?" ”

Li Deming shook his head and said, "If I don't rob the law field, I will take you out like this, and the Criminal Department will not take care of it." ”

"What, I'm a prisoner appointed by His Majesty, and they dare to let me go? They regard the law as child's play, a violation of the law, they, how dare they! ”

Lu Xiangsheng roared angrily, Li Deming smiled when he heard this: "Haha, the law of the Ming Dynasty is set up for the people and the poor, it doesn't work for you, Lu Gong, people only have one pair of eyes, these eyes are usually white, and the silver is also white, when the eyes are blocked with silver, the eyes are red, and when the eyes are red, they can't see anything." ”

"How can this be, I, I am a capital crime given by His Majesty, and they dare to lie."

Li Deming looked at Lu Xiangsheng and said: "As long as the money is in place, the officials of the Ming Dynasty, not to mention the capital crime given by the emperor himself, even if the emperor personally supervises and beheads them, they dare to cheat, unless the emperor personally cuts you with a knife, otherwise as long as the money is in place, you can't die, Lord Lu open his eyes and take a look, this is the Ming that you are loyal to, it is rotten to the bones, such a Ming, is it worth your martyrdom for him!" ”

(End of chapter)