scourge the qing dynasty

Chapter 102 Hype Marketing
Li Shizu went crazy, Kong Sizhen was arrested, and the dog-eat-dog relationship between Fatty Lu and Li Shizu finally came to an end.Without Li Suzu's instigation and Kong Sizhen's instigation and instigation, the witnesses recruited by Li Suzu and Kong Sizhen quickly collapsed under the joint cross-examination by Wang Xu and Yu Jackie Chan, and confessed truthfully one by one, admitting that they were wrong. All Fatty Lu's accusations are slander and frame-up, and they all came from Li Suzu's order and Kong Sizhen's instigation.For this, the disgraced King Kang gritted his teeth with hatred, but he couldn't intervene and exert pressure. He could only honestly hurry up and arrange the return to Beijing, and he didn't want to stay in Yunnan and lose face.

On July 21, after more than half a month of trial, after a large amount of evidence of Fatty Lu’s innocence and evidence of Li Shizu’s crimes were presented in court, Wang Xu invited the flag of Wang Ming to declare in public that Fatty Lu was innocent and Li Shizu deserved what he deserved. , although he had gone mad, he was still driven into a prison van and taken to the capital to be handed over to the three courts for conviction.The post of prefect of Qujing was temporarily acted by fellow prefect Zhang Gaomo.Li Shizu's henchmen, led by Chen Er, were all convicted in court. Chen Er and two yamen servants who were involved in the murder case were sentenced to beheaded. The eighty-year apprenticeship of the stick has given a bad breath to the people of Qujing who have been tortured for three years.

In addition, Liu Wenjin and Di Sanpin, the generals of the two Green Battalions in Qujing, were arrested for being involved in the case and temporarily detained by the Yunnan governor's office, awaiting their release. An Shiji, the eldest son of Anmin, who was closely colluded with Li Suzu, was arrested and taken to Kunming to wait for trial. An Shixian, who had a close collusion with Lu Fatty, took the opportunity to take over the throne and took over the throne of his elder brother's reserve chieftain as he wished. empty.And the fuse of the whole incident, Li led the ancestor's brother-in-law, Ren Xinglai, because of the accumulation of various crimes, and the people's anger was too great. Wang Xu asked Wang to order the flag to be executed first and then played.

In addition, the suspicion that Lin Tianqing, the governor of Yunnan Province, accepted bribes from Fatty Lu to cover up and favoritism was also cleared. This time, Lin Tianqing was really wronged. It is a small gain.In addition, Li Suzu's master, Bi Gaobin, because of his meritorious service in confessing and assisting the imperial envoy in investigating the case, pardoned the crimes committed and was acquitted, which also took a small advantage.The unlucky ones are Lord Kang Jieshu and Kong Sizhen, Lord Kang is better, Wang Xu has not found any evidence to take him down directly, so he can only impeach him, and ask Xiao Mazi to deal with it personally—it is estimated that at least the title of prince will be lost; Kong Sizhen It was miserable. He was convicted of a lot of crimes such as interfering with the judiciary, shielding criminal officials, killing and silencing, perjury to frame officials ordered by the court, and leaving his post without authorization.

By the way, because he saw the opportunity quickly, Zhou Peigong, who knew that the situation was not good, made a quick decision when he saw Li Tianzhi and Fang Shiyu capture the killer who was going to kill him. It was taken over by Wang Xu and Yu Jackie Chan.Fatty Lu only knows his name is Zhou Chang, but he doesn't know his name is Peigong, so he didn't take his small role seriously, and didn't pursue it further. Once his crime of helping Kong Sizhen continue to abuse the tyrant was exposed, no one would be able to save him.

Of course, the one who laughed the happiest and reaped the most benefits was the Pingxi Palace. Not only did he accidentally save Fatty Lu, a rare rising star in the Pingxi Palace, but he finally overthrew Li Suzu, a thorn in his side and a thorn in his flesh, and got rid of the mites in the Qing court. The most stubborn and difficult eyeliner in Yunnan made Wu Sangui very angry!At the same time, a large number of civil and military officials in the Qujing Mansion fell because of their involvement in the Li Suzu case, which vacated a lot of vacancies for the running dogs of the Pingxi Palace, which had too many monks and too little food, and also provided an opportunity for Wu Sangui to consolidate his control over Yunnan.

Of course, no one expected that after a large number of official vacancies in the Qujing Mansion came out, there would be countless people vying for each civil and military vacancy, but no one was fighting for the position of the prefect of Qujing. Originally, Wu Sangui planned to strike first In order to be strong, he immediately dispatched Feng Su, the magistrate of Dali, to take over this important position, but after the order was sent to Feng Su, Feng Su shook his head, preferring to make Wu Sangui unhappy, but also to find an excuse to decline, and quietly said to his trusted: "Transfer to Qujing to be the magistrate? I'm crazy! I'm in the same city as a lunatic like Lu Yifeng. Is he the magistrate or am I the magistrate? Can I beat him? Even if I don't fight him, I don't dare to quit Instead of going to Qujing to make things difficult for yourself, it’s better to stay in Dali and be at ease.”

So there is no way, under the circumstances that no one dares to take over or even dare to take over the post of prefect of Qujing, the post of prefect of Qujing has to be temporarily acted by Zhang Gaomo, the prefect. A city would never dare to take the initiative to provoke Fatty Lu, and it is still respectful to Wu Sangui, so Wu Sangui didn't force his other confidants too much, but just came up with the idea of ​​buying Zhang Gaomo for his own use.But what is even more unexpected to everyone is that this situation has only lasted for more than a month, and not long after, the position of the prefect of Qujing will become a sought-after treasure due to certain circumstances, allowing more people to compete for the top spot Breaking the blood, this is a later story, let's not mention it for now.

Let's get to the point, the above trial decisions have been made, Wang Xu and Yu Chenglong are also preparing to escort the criminals back to Beijing, when preparing, Wang Xu took the time to have a private conversation with Lu Fatty.After the conversation started, Wang Xu said straight to the point: "Mihao, although you are not at fault for this matter, your method of doing things is too rough, and your attitude towards your boss is also very problematic, so I hope You must pay more attention to this aspect in the future, and try your best to correct your shortcomings. ——You won’t be so lucky every time, every time you meet me as an imperial envoy to investigate the case.”

"Wang Zongxian pointed out that the next official must learn a lesson in the future and never make such a mistake again." Fatty Lu is submissive, and it is rare for him to admit his mistake from the bottom of his heart - Fatty Lu is very clear that this incident will last until today This step is really because of my shit luck.If another person was appointed as the imperial envoy, then under the joint intervention of Kong Sizhen and Jie Shu, it would be as difficult as heaven for me even if I wanted to die with Li Shizu. The ancestors switched positions, and it was his turn to be put into a prison van and taken to the capital.

"Of course, I'm not saying that it's wrong for you to fight with corrupt officials, but that your method is wrong, too rough and not strategic." Wang Xu was also afraid of undermining Fatty Lu's confidence, so he patted Fatty Lu on the shoulder again. Said: "In the future, there will be corrupt officials like Li Suzu, who are fish and flesh of ordinary people. When you plead for the people, remember to send me a letter to explain the situation. Of course, I can help as much as I can in the court. I will give you some pointers from experience, lest things like this time will get worse and worse, Li Suzu could not be brought to justice, and you almost fell into it yourself."

"Thank you, Mr. Zongxian, Mr. Zongxian's life-saving grace, I will never forget it." Fatty Lu hurriedly thanked him.

"Why are you giving me so much courtesy?" Wang Xu picked up Fatty Lu and complained, "I really want to thank each other. We don't know which one to thank. Also, don't ask Mr. President, Mr. President, This is too natural, how about this, I Zizhuan, I am a few years older than you, from now on you can call me brother Zizhuan, and I can just call you Sanhao."

"I don't dare to be an official." Fatty Lu pretended to be modest.

"Why don't you dare? That's it." Wang Xu smiled and waved his hand, resolutely rejecting Fatty Lu's modesty.After finishing speaking, Wang Xu put away his smile again, and said with a serious face: "But there is one more thing, Sanhao, are you too fussy?"

"Brother Zizhuan, are you talking about drugs?" Fatty Lu asked tentatively.

"That's right." Wang Xu nodded, and said seriously: "I'm not familiar with medicinal materials, I've only heard that the Eight Banners Fushou Ointment is very valuable. There is always a price but no market. It is indeed out of kindness that you let the people in Qujing grow the Eight Banners medicine to earn more money. But I heard that this kind of thing has never been grown here in Qujing. If the soil and climate are not good Yes, the quality of the Eight Banners Fushou Gao is not good, or the yield per mu is too small to sell much money? The common people still count on these few acres of land for food, and you can’t earn money by taking them to grow the Eight Banners Fushou Gao. They have nothing to eat and cannot pay taxes, so who will bear the consequences and losses?"

Speaking of this, Wang Xu paused, and then said: "One more thing, the current price of the Eight Banners Fushou Gao is indeed very high, and it is said that it is still rising, but this is because the Eight Banners Fushou Gao is all purchased from foreign countries in the West. , Rare things are expensive, so it is not surprising that the price is high, but Baqi Fushou Gao is medicinal materials after all, not food. Even if you grow well in Qujing and produce a lot, if you can't sell it, it is still a waste ?”

Fatty Lu was silent. After thinking for a while, Fatty Lu raised his head and said very sincerely: "Brother Zizhuan, I can answer your questions, but I don't want to answer them now. Well, can you bring twenty horses tomorrow morning?" Horses and twenty riders come outside the north gate of Qujing, and I will give you an answer, and let you see something with your own eyes?"

"What do you mean?" Wang Xu was very surprised and asked, "Tomorrow I will bring twenty horses and twenty riders to the north gate of Qujing, and you will answer these questions for me?"

"That's right, there is one more thing, don't feed the twenty war horses with fodder." Fatty Lu nodded seriously, and said, "Talking is unfounded, seeing is believing. Miyoshi wants Brother Zizhuan to see something with his own eyes. Feel something, and then answer Brother Zizhuan’s question, so that Brother Zhuan will also appreciate brother’s good intentions, isn’t that a problem?”

Of course, Wang Xu didn't know what kind of medicine was sold in Fatty Lu's gourd, but Wang Xu also felt that Fatty Lu would never make fun of him, so after thinking for a while, Wang Xu nodded and said, "That's fine, anyway, I won't be leaving until the day after tomorrow. Capital, see you at the North Gate tomorrow morning."

"Thank you, Brother Zizhuan, for giving me this opportunity to prove it. I believe you will not be disappointed." Fatty Lu nodded, and then said, "One more thing, Brother Zizhuan, can I trouble you to invite Lord Kang to come tomorrow? At the scene, let him also see some things with his own eyes and be a witness? In this case, you will have one more witness when you return to the capital."

"Sanhao, are you joking?" Wang Xu widened his eyes and said with a wry smile, "You probably don't know how much Lord Kang hates you and me now? He will help me to be a witness? Help me as a witness?"

"Of course I know." Fatty Lu smiled and said, "I can still guess that Lord Kang has the heart to swallow me and Brother Zizhuan now—but it doesn't matter, as long as Lord Kang still thinks he is Aixin The descendants of the Jueluo family will be willing to bear witness for us, and will truthfully report to the emperor and the court what he saw and heard tomorrow morning."

Wang Xu's eyes widened and he stared at Fatty Lu for a while, before Wang Xu reluctantly said, "Well, I'll try my best and try my best to persuade Lord Kang to take a look at the Qujing North Gate tomorrow morning."

"It's not as much as possible, but definitely." Fatty Lu said seriously: "Brother Zizhuan, for your own good, for my own good, and for the good of the people of Qujing, and even better for the good of the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty, and for the good of Lord Kang, please invite him tomorrow You must go to the North Gate of Qujing in the morning. Brother Zizhuan can even tell the prince, if the prince can go to the North Gate of Qujing, maybe after returning to the capital to play the truth, he will be able to pay off the crime and reduce the crime by one. Wait."

"So amazing?" Wang Xu smiled and said, "Okay then, I'll try my best to persuade the prince, whether it works or not depends on his own luck."

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The next day was also July 22, the seventh year of Kang Mazi in the Qing Dynasty. This day was destined to be recorded forever in the annals of the former Qing Dynasty.At the [-]nd hour of Chenshi that morning, under the joint instigation of Wang Xu and Yu Chenglong, Kang Wangye, who had planned to leave for Beijing on this day, finally couldn't resist his curiosity, and at the same time, he wanted to please Wang Xu and Yu Chenglong and let them go online. With one side in mind, Lord Kang finally came to the North Gate of Qujing with Wang Xu and Yu Chenglong, and brought twenty riders and twenty horses that had not been fed fodder as required, and met outside the city gate as scheduled. It's Fatty Lu.

What made Lord Kang, Wang Xu, and Yu Chenglong even more puzzled was that there were the father and son of the Youzhen commander-in-chief Wang Fuchen and his deputy Wang Jing who appeared together outside the north gate of Qujing. Hu Guozhu, several officials and generals from Pingnan Palace and Jingnan Palace, and even Ma Daning, the representative and nephew of Guangxi veteran Ma Xiong, were all invited by Fatty Lu with rhetoric.In addition, there are two piles of ordinary horse feed and a pile of aphrodisiac flowers outside the city gate.

"Lord Kang, Old General Wu, Wang Zongxian, and all your lords and generals." Fatty Lu was not polite, he hugged a square fist, and said straight to the point: "Your official Lu Yifeng invited you here today, not for In addition, I just want you to see the magical effect of the Eight Banners Fushou Ointment promoted and planted by Xiaguan in Qujing, so that you can know for sure."

"Master Lu, what do you plan to make us think?" Ma Daning, the nephew of Ma Xiong, Kong Sizhen's sworn enemy in Guangxi, asked curiously.

"Good question, General Ma." Fatty Lu nodded, turned around, pointed to various objects present, and said loudly: "Look, everyone, here are twenty war horses that haven't been fed this morning, and two more A pile of ordinary horse feed, and a pile of medicinal materials for making the Eight Banners Fushou Gao. Please see clearly that the essence of these medicinal materials used to make the Eight Banners Fushou Gao has been taken out of the medicine, and the remaining husks, leaves, stems There is no way to make medicine with the root of the medicine, and in the words of the medicine trade-these are the dregs of medicine! Everyone, do you see clearly?"

"I see clearly." Wang Xu nodded first, and the others nodded one after another. Lord Kang looked carefully for a long time, and finally said: "I see clearly, what are you planning to do?"

"My lord, I have the guts to ask a question." Fatty Lu asked, "If the twenty horses brought by Wang Zongxian set off together, and run at the fastest speed to Jiaoshui Pass 36 miles away, and then start from Jiaoshui Guan ran back, a total of [-] miles - will the twenty horses run in a similar time?"

Lord Kang is a horse lover. After carefully looking at the twenty war horses provided by Wang Xu, he nodded and said, "It's about the same. With such a small distance, the fastest horse and the slowest horse will be the best horses. When a horse runs this distance, the difference will never exceed the time of one stick of incense.”

"Very good." Fatty Lu nodded in satisfaction, turned around and waved to Li Tianzhi's team of yamen servants behind him. The horse feed is mixed into one of the two piles of horse feed, and stirred to mix.

It wasn't until Li Tianzhi and others finished their errands that Fatty Lu said: "My lords, do you believe it or not? Divide the twenty horses into two teams, ten of them will eat horse feed mixed with the residue of Eight Banners Fushou plaster, and the other ten If the horses eat horse feed that is not mixed with medicine residue, and then let them set off for a horse race, the first to finish the 36 miles must be the ten horses that have eaten medicine residue?"

"What else?" Wu Sanmei moved his face first, and said, "Master Lu, give it a try quickly, let us see what magical effects the medicine dregs of the Eight Banners Fushou Ointment have?"

"So amazing?" Eight Banners is based on riding and shooting. Hearing what Fatty Lu said, the good prince of Eight Banners, Jie Shu, of course did not dare to neglect, and quickly ordered: "Master Lu, please try it for us."

The other officials and generals also widened their eyes and pricked up their ears, wanting to see for themselves whether Fatty Lu is bragging—after all, the cavalry is so important these days, and the horses of the cavalry are the most important thing Heavy!

"Please wait and see, my lords." Fatty Lu agreed, and took ten red cloths, tied them around the necks of ten war horses, let these ten war horses eat horse feed mixed with medicine residue, and let the other ten horses not tied with red cloth The war horses eat ordinary forage that is not mixed with medicine residue.After a while, after the horses digested and absorbed the medicine, Fatty Lu immediately ordered twenty riders to mount their horses and rush to Jiaoshui Pass for the horse race. The officials present drank tea and waited at the temporary medicine stall outside the city gate.

Seeing the twenty war horses set off at the same time and leave in the dust, Jie Shu, Wang Xu, Wu Sanmei and others waited patiently with itching.After nearly an hour, the first horse rushed back with a red cloth tied around its neck, and the second horse also rushed back, still with a red cloth tied around its neck, and then the third and fourth horses rushed back. , the fifth horse, the sixth horse... all had horses with red cloth tied around their necks, but there was no horse with red cloth tied around their necks, but none of the horses could move back from the beginning to the end.

By the time the tenth war horse with a red cloth tied around its neck ran back to its original spot, Jie Shu, Wang Xu, Wu Sanmei and the others had all stared wide-eyed, and they couldn't think of anything, only the medicine of Baqi Fushou Ointment Scum, it has such miraculous effects!And Wang Fuchen, Ma Daning and other leaders couldn't wait to grab Fatty Lu's sleeves, and said almost pleadingly: "Master Lu, can you give me some of your medicine dregs? Even if it's for money! How many of us are there?" How much do you want!"

"Master Lu, you are the son-in-law of our Pingnan Palace. Don't let this kind of good thing be cheap to others?" The representative of Pingnan Palace also grabbed Fatty Lu's sleeve, and said plausibly: "This year, the Eight Banners Fushou Plaster produced in Qujing Dregs, at least half of it should be left for us, right? The little one will go back and report to the Eldest Prince, asking him to buy these dregs from you."

Hu Guozhu didn't bother to pull Fatty Lu's sleeve, but he was nervously calculating in his heart, "The baby grown on our Yunnan land can't be cheap for others, so please ask the prince to collect all these medicine dregs when we go back. Sichuan horses, Yunnan horses, Tibetan horses, and Guizhou horses don’t need to be afraid of the northern war horses. Damn, how can this bastard, Fatty Lu, conduct such an experiment in front of the court? What should I do if I hand it over to the imperial court? But it doesn’t matter, next year we can grow it ourselves, even if it’s used as horse fodder, it’s a good deal..."

After nearly another stick of incense time, finally a war horse with no red cloth tied around its neck came back dripping with sweat. Before he could get off the horse, the knight yelled loudly: "Master Lu, you are such an amazing medicine dregs!" , My riding skills are not bad, but I still can't outrun a horse that has eaten this kind of medicine residue. Can you give us some of this kind of medicine residue?"

"Wang Zongxian, now you should understand why the lower officials encourage the people to grow more kinds of Eight Banners drug products?" Fatty Lu asked the stunned Wang Xu: "Wang Zongxian, have you heard of Thomas Siddenham, a Western doctor?" Mu (the founder of modern clinical medicine)?"

"No." It took Wang Xu a long time to come back to his senses, and he shook his head honestly.

"It's the lower officials making things difficult for Mr. Chief Constitution. This name is not well-known in the Qing Dynasty, but it is well-known in the West. It is now the number one doctor in the West." Fatty Lu said seriously: "He has such a famous saying: I can't help it. Praise aloud to the great God, the Maker of all things, who brings comfort to the afflictions of the people, and there is no one in terms of the number of diseases it can control, or the efficiency with which it can eliminate diseases. This kind of medicine has the value of Baqi Fushou Ointment!"

"God is the god believed by the Nan priests, and also the greatest god in the West, equivalent to Lao Tzu Tathagata in the Qing Dynasty." Fatty Lu said unhurriedly: "Wang Zongxian, the number one genius doctor in the West compares Baqi Fushou Ointment to As the first elixir bestowed by gods and Buddhas to the living beings in the world, now that you have seen with your own eyes that the medicine dregs of the Eight Banners Fushou Ointment alone has such a miraculous effect, you should understand how important and miraculous this Eight Banners Fushou Ointment is, right? You should also understand the Eight Banners Fushou Ointment How popular is Fushou Ointment in the West?"

"Did you contact the Western market?" Wang Xu finally understood what Fatty Lu meant.

Fatty Lu nodded, and replied honestly: "Don't dare to lie to Mr. President. Before I was dismissed, I had sent people to Guangdong to get in touch with Western businessmen. They had already made a promise that as long as Qujing could grow the Eight Banners drug ointment, they would have as many How much to buy, and the price is ridiculously high, now you should know why Xiaguan is so confident?"

"Understood." Wang Xu nodded, and asked again: "From the current point of view, how is the production of Eight Banners Fushou Gao in Qujing?"

"Thanks to the emperor Hong Fu, he looks pretty good, better than he estimated before he was dismissed." Fatty Lu answered this question vaguely, then suddenly gave a thousand blows to Wang Xu and Jie Shu, cupped his hands and said, "Prince Kang, Zongxian Wang I have something to ask from my humble position. After you return to the capital, you must truthfully report to the emperor what you saw and heard today. Please issue a strict decree to strictly control the sales scope of the Eight Banners Fushou Gao. Banner people use and smoke this extraordinary Eight Banners Fushou Ointment, and sell it in the West for silver to be used in the financial circulation of the Qing Dynasty. It must not be used by ordinary people! Otherwise, ordinary people will be strong and light. Like a swallow, if one counts as ten, our Great Qing will be in danger!"

"Dog traitor!" The eyes of the Han people present, including Wu Sanmei, burst into flames, cursing that Fatty Lu is not a thing, betraying the country and seeking glory, and forgetting his ancestors!

"Of course." Jie Shu said with ecstasy on his face: "After returning to Beijing, I will definitely report the truth to the emperor, please strictly control it, and only us Banners are allowed to use this Eight Banners drug ointment! Also, you Eight Banners The fushou cream is ready, remember to send some to me, let me have a try."

"Don't worry, my lord, I will obey your orders." Fatty Lu respectfully agreed, and then said with a smile: "Let's just say a joke, after the lord has used Baqi Fushou Ointment, if the lord doesn't see immediate results in certain aspects of the bed, he will show his might. , I would like to ask the prince for the crime of lying."

"Get out! This king is for strengthening the body and prolonging life, but I don't want to use it for that!" Jie Shu rarely made a joke with Fatty Lu, but he felt itchy in his heart—if the Eight Banners Fushou Ointment is also good for that aspect. If it really works, Lord Kang can consider marrying a few more side Fujins.

"Okay." Wang Xu nodded seriously, and said, "After returning to Beijing, I will definitely report to the emperor the miraculous effects of the Eight Banners Fushou Ointment and what I have seen and heard today. Please strictly control the emperor, and only the soldiers of the Eight Banners are allowed use."

"Thank you, my lord, thank you, Mr. President." Fatty Lu thanked him respectfully, and snorted coldly in his heart—once you become addicted to these things, it will be strange if you can control them.

After getting up, he looked back at Wu Sanmei, Hu Guozhu, Wang Fuchen, Ma Daning and others who were spitting fire in their eyes. Fatty Lu smiled wryly in his heart and said, "I'm doing it for your own good. Why are you so anxious? Haven't you heard of hype?" Marketing? If I don’t make such a fuss, how can I sell Baqi Fushou Ointment to mites at a high price?”

(End of this chapter)