scourge the qing dynasty

Chapter 3 You Need to Risk Your Life to Treat a Disease

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"Master Feng, you should think about it. Going to treat Prince Pingxi is not a joke." Although Feng Xiang forcibly dragged him to the foot of Wuhua Mountain, he saw that Feng Xiang was going to negotiate with the guards of Prince Pingxi's mansion. The loyal Xiao Erlang still grabbed Feng Xiang's sleeve, and said nervously: "Master Feng, it's okay if you cured Prince Pingxi's illness, but if you can't, then the consequences will be unimaginable. Losing the official position Dismissal, I'm afraid it's still a good idea, if you don't do it well, you will lose your head! Master Feng, do you know this?"

"Of course I know this." Feng Xiang, who was nicknamed "Feng Gudan" in college, was not at all nervous, and said calmly: "But if I don't take this risk, I'm afraid I will be the order of a seventh-rank county magistrate at most in this life." Well, life and death, honor and disgrace, are all decided by others. If you want to get ahead, at least you have to make a name first, leave an impression on those princes and dignitaries, and only then can you hope to realize your lifelong ambitions."

"But Master Feng, you are joking with your own life!" Xiao Erlang was also anxious, and persuaded: "Master Feng, why don't we take this risk, and wait until Prince Pingxi is in better health before going to kowtow?" , and then go to Qujing to serve as Dangzhi County, even if the official is a little smaller, you can still scrape land for money, even if you get less, it’s better than killing people! You don’t know, Young Master Feng, that Prince Pingxi has killed countless people in his life. Killing us is as easy as crushing an ant!"

"That's right, young master, it's better not to take this risk." The other family members of the Lu family persuaded them. They also hoped to follow Feng Xiang to Qujing County to make money, but they didn't want to see Feng Xiang as his backer. Just fell down.But no matter how sincerely and falsely these servants tried to dissuade Feng Xiang, he just refused to listen, and insisted on saying: "You don't understand, my starting point is so low, if I don't take this gamble, I won't be able to become the magistrate of Qujing County in the future. How long have you had a good time?"

Pushing away Erlang and other family servants, Feng Xiang strode to the intersection of the upper mountain at the foot of Wuhua Mountain. Coincidentally, the leader of the guards on duty at the intersection today happened to be the captain of the guard who took Feng Xiang's money yesterday, so there was no When Feng Xiang opened his mouth, the captain of the guards took the initiative to say: "Master Lu, I'm really sorry, you have to make another trip for nothing today. The prince's condition has worsened today, and even the governor of Yunnan and the admiral were refused to see him." Now, go back and wait for a few more days."

"General Chen, I'm not here to kowtow to Prince Pingxi today." Feng Xiang shook his head, and then said in a deep voice: "I'm sorry, General Chen, to send someone to report to Prince Pingxi, saying that the official is here to treat his illness today. There is a panacea in the hands of the official, as long as Prince Pingxi is willing to use this medicine, the disease will be cured and the golden body will be healed!"

"Are you here to treat the prince?" The captain of the guard surnamed Chen was also startled, looked around quickly, and said to Feng Xiang in a low voice: "Master Lu, this matter is not a joke, I am doing it for your own good , the prince is not in good health these days, he also has a bad temper. Last night he killed a servant of the palace. If you say something, you can’t cure the prince’s illness. Not only will you lose your head, but I will also follow you implicated!"

"General Chen, don't worry, I'm only 25 years old, I'm still young, and I don't want to die." Feng Xiang said with a smile: "So General Chen, you can just pass on the word, the official won't make fun of his own head."

"Really? Master Lu, are you really joking?" The captain of the guard looked up and down suspiciously at Feng Xiang, and saw that although Feng Xiang's fat, white and ordinary face was full of kind smiles, his black and white eyes were clear. Very firm, seems to be very confident.Feng Xiang replied with a smile: "Of course I'm not joking, General Chen can just inform the officer. If the officer cures the prince's illness, the general will share the merits too, right?" Feng Xiang said again. He took out ten taels of silver from his sleeve and stuffed it into the hand of the captain of the guard.

"Then... well, I'll report for you." The captain of the guard gritted his teeth and made up his mind, and added: "But I'm ugly to say, if you can't cure Prince Pingxi's illness, the prince will kill you in a rage. I can't save you, and if you're a ghost, don't come to me."

"That goes without saying, of course." Feng Xiang laughed out loud and agreed.The captain of the bodyguard gritted his teeth again, and then explained the errand of guarding the intersection up the mountain, and ran up to Wuhua Mountain to report in person.But after Feng Xiang waited at the foot of the mountain for half an hour, the captain of the guard came down the mountain again dejectedly, and said to Feng Xiang: "Master Lu, it's not that I don't help you, it's the second prince who told you to get out."

"The second prince told me to fuck off, why?" Feng Xiang was a little confused. In Feng Xiang's memory, although Wu Sangui's second son, Wu Yingqi, was of mediocre talent, Wu Sangui's loyalty and filial piety were absolutely worth mentioning, even after Wu Sangui claimed to be the Emperor of the Great Zhou When he was about to die of illness, Wu Yingqi did not complain about passing the throne to his eldest grandson Wu Shifan. He just continued to assist his nephew loyally and persisted in the struggle against the Qing until the last moment. He volunteered to treat Wu Sangui.Confused, Feng Xiang hurriedly asked: "General Chen, why didn't the second prince let me treat Prince Pingxi's illness? Is it because he doesn't believe that I can cure Prince Pingxi's illness?"

"Probably so." The captain of the guard nodded and said, "I arrived at the gate of the palace, and after I asked the guards at the gate of the palace to send the message into the palace, the second prince came out of the palace in a huff, saying that I was calling you, my lord. Hurry up and get out, don't make a fool of yourself here, lest he be scolded by Prince Pingxi again. Also, looking at the appearance of the second prince, he seems to be very angry."

"Hey! Wu Sangui, an old traitor, really has enough airs!" Feng Xiang felt a little helpless. It didn't matter whether he saw Wu Sangui or not, but if he didn't seize this opportunity to show his face in front of Wu Sangui, he would leave Wu Sangui with a smile. I was deeply impressed, and then won the reuse and trust of Wu Sangui. Then, with the background, family background and connections left by Lu Yifeng, it is foolish to realize his ideals and ambitions.What's more terrible is that it is already the sixth year of Emperor Kangxi of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, within two years Oboi will fall, and within six years Wu Sangui will rise up against the Qing Dynasty. How big a role did they play in the anti-Qing struggle?

"It doesn't matter, the opportunity is not to be missed. If you miss this village, you won't have this shop." In desperation, Feng Xiang once again had an idea, asked the servants for pens and paper, and wrote sixteen letters on the letter paper. Words——'Xi Wang's disease is rooted in the heart.If you want to get rid of the disease, you must first cure the heart. ' At the end, Feng Xiang put the letter paper in an envelope and sealed it, held it in front of the captain of the guards together with 30 taels of silver, and said in a low voice: "General Chen, please go and report again, and hand over the pulse case I opened to the lord." Second Prince or Prince Pingxi, if they want to drive me away after reading the pulse case I wrote, then I will leave right away, no matter what."

"This..." The captain of the guard was a little embarrassed, but for the sake of Feng Xiang's confidence and the 30 taels of money, the captain of the guard still gritted his teeth and took the envelope, and said: "That's good." Well, I'll try my best to get scolded and run to help you again, but this is the last time, if the prince and the second prince still refuse to let you go up the mountain, then don't make things difficult for me anymore."

"That's natural." Feng Xiang nodded with a smile, but Xiao Erlang next to him couldn't bear to look away. Taking advantage of the opportunity of the captain of the guards to report to the mountain, he couldn't help pulling Feng Xiang's sleeve and whispering: "Feng Young master, what about it? In order to let him deliver a letter, you actually gave him 30 taels of silver? How much land do we have to scrape in Qujing to get back these 30 taels of silver?"

"You don't understand again." Feng Xiang replied with a sinister smile: "As long as he can deliver that letter to King Pingxi, my 50 taels of silver will be equivalent to 5000 taels of silver. There are a lot of people who can’t find temples to worship gods with pig’s heads, we are lucky, and we can spend a small amount of money to do big things, which is quite good.” Erlang and other servants glanced at each other, and really couldn’t figure out what his young master was thinking, but He had no choice but to go with Feng Xiang.

The captain of the bodyguard surnamed Chen went up the mountain for an extremely long time this time. Feng Xiang and the others waited at the foot of the mountain for almost an hour, but they still did not see him come down the mountain to give an answer. Unable to sit still, he kept standing up and looking up the mountain, for fear that a group of people would suddenly rush down from the mountain and catch the swindling and deceitful god language Lu Yifeng up the mountain and chop him up with a knife.What made Erlang and his servants heave a sigh of relief was that after a while, the captain of the bodyguard finally led down a thin and withered old man. The old man was about five or sixty years old, with gray braids, wrinkled face and hands He was also carrying a pipe thicker than his wrist, and he was wearing the robes that ordinary scholars often wear. It didn't look like he had an official position, but the captain of the guards treated him very respectfully, and the other guards also stood at attention one after another. Salute to him, with a typical appearance of having a lot of background.

"Which one is Mr. Lu Yifeng from Dali Mansion?" The dry old man looked at Feng Xiang and his party and asked.Feng Xiang hurriedly took a step forward, bowed his hands to the dry old man and said: "Mr. Hui, the next official is Lu Yifeng, the magistrate of Qujing County. Dare I ask the old man's name."

"Lord Lu, this is Mr. Liu Xuanchu." The captain of the bodyguard hurriedly said, "Mr. Liu is the number one staff member under the prince's account, and he has won the trust of the prince. Why don't you hurry up and kowtow?"

"Liu Xuanchu?!" Feng Xiang was a little surprised—although Feng Xiang, who loves history, was born in engineering, he had also seen Liu Xuanchu's name in history books, and knew that although this dry old man did not hold an official position, no matter whether it was an internal political Still in terms of strategy and tactics, he has two talents. He is one of Wu Sangui's most important advisers. At the same time, this Liu Xuanchu is also the one who has the most firm stand against the Qing Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty among the people under Wu Sangui's command. Feng Xiang respected Liu Xuanchu as an old man and an ancient man, so he hurriedly brought twenty or thirty family members to kneel down together, kowtowed and said: "Junior Lu Yifeng, lead the family members to kowtow to Mr. Liu Xuanchu, sir, good luck and good fortune."

"No, no, Master Lu, please hurry up." Liu Xuanchu obviously didn't have any airs, so he helped Feng Xiang himself, looked Feng Xiang up and down, nodded and said: "Yes, he is indeed a young hero, Master Lu is so young The old man was a little surprised. The old man thought that the person who could see the root of the prince's illness should be at least a middle-aged scribe in his 40s or [-]s. He couldn't have imagined that Mr. Lu was still so young. It is true that people cannot be judged by appearances. Impossible to measure."

"Mr. Liu has won the prize, and it's just a coincidence that I'm an official." Feng Xiang pretended to be modest, and asked again: "Mr. Liu, I wonder if Prince Pingxi agrees to meet this official once, and ask him to diagnose his pulse and treat his illness?"

"If the lord doesn't want to meet you, I won't come down the mountain to greet you personally." Liu Xuanchu laughed, pulled Feng Xiang's hand, and said, "Master Lu, please, I will take you to see the lord in person." Feng Xiang was overjoyed Hurry up and leave Erlang and other family members waiting at the foot of the mountain, while he followed Liu Xuanchu up the mountain to meet the old traitor Wu Sangui whose reputation was enough to kill half of the people in the city—it was really not easy!

The way up the mountain was not smooth sailing. When he was about halfway up the mountain, Liu Xuanchu suddenly stopped, looked sideways at Feng Xiang and asked, "Master Lu, I have a question for you, I hope you must answer it truthfully."

"Mr. Liu, please, this junior must know everything and talk endlessly." Feng Xiang replied honestly.But the question Liu Xuanchu asked next almost frightened Feng Xiang, who was nicknamed brave enough, to death!Liu Xuanchu asked: "Master Lu, are you a spy sent by the imperial court? If you tell the truth, I will definitely keep you safe. But if you plan to lie, I will not lie to you. The guillotine and executioner are ready for you."

(End of this chapter)