scourge the qing dynasty

Chapter 4 You Are Cowardly and Cowardly
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"Mr. Liu, what are you kidding?" Feng Xiang yelled at being wronged, and replied with a mournful face: "The junior is an elected official in the West, and he is a native of Dali Prefecture in Yunnan. He has never been out of Yunnan. The spies here are spies?"

"Of course I know about this." Liu Xuanchu said calmly, "It is precisely because the old man learned from the second prince that you are the official selected by him for the prince, a native of Dali Prefecture in Yunnan Province, so the old man urged the prince to meet you. Otherwise, Wang Shirong has already suggested to the prince to execute Mr. Lu immediately, and there will be no future troubles."

"Thank you, Mr. Liu." Feng Xiang broke out in a cold sweat. Only then did he realize that he had walked through the gate of hell again. He hurriedly bowed his hands to thank Liu Xuanchu, and then asked tremblingly: "Mr. Why do you still suspect that this junior is an eyeliner or spy sent by the court?"

"Since you are not a spy sent by the imperial court, how did you know that the prince is suffering from a heart disease?" Liu Xuanchu asked calmly, "You are a Dali scholar, an alternate county magistrate, and you have never been out of Yunnan, nor How can you know about the prince’s heart disease after having come into contact with the imperial court’s secret memorials?”

"Return to Mr. Liu, the younger generation judged from the palace report published by the imperial court this year." Feng Xiang replied honestly.This time it was Liu Xuanchu who was taken aback. After a moment of shock, he asked in surprise: "The palace report publicly released by the court? Apart from a few excerpts from officials' memorials, there are also some news about emperors offering sacrifices to heaven and ancestors. How can you get it from it?" Do you know where the prince’s heart disease is?"

"It's very simple, analysis." Feng Xiang said quite proudly: "Mr. Liu doesn't know something. In fact, all kinds of so-called secrets can be figured out at least [-]% from public channels. The younger generation relies on these seemingly trivial things. The details have analyzed the prince's heart disease."

"Oh, the old man needs to ask for advice." Liu Xuanchu continued to ask: "Lord Lu, have you analyzed the prince's heart disease from those trivial details?"

"Return to Mr. Liu, before April this year, among the 21 residence reports issued by the imperial court, seven of them were related to Yunnan-Guizhou affairs." Feng Xiang was not modest, and replied truthfully: "Four of the residence reports mentioned that the weather in Yunnan and Guizhou is good. out of the other three, two mentioned the naturalization of the chieftain of Yunnan and Guizhou and accepted the jurisdiction of the court; the last one appeared an excerpt from the memorial of Wang Xu, the servant of the household department, saying that it was the salary and military pay of Yunnan and Guizhou. There are more than three million yuan in silver, of which local tax revenue only accounts for one-tenth of the expenditure, and the rest of the expenditure must be provided by other provinces. The expenditure is really huge, so I request the court to abolish some Yunnan-Guizhou garrisons and reduce the number of Yunnan-Guizhou officials. The fiscal expenditures of the two provinces!"

"But the residence newspaper also said that Wang Xu's memorial was refuted?" Liu Xuanchu asked with piercing eyes.Feng Xiang smiled slightly, and replied: "Mr. Liu, since the imperial court refuted Wang Xu's memorial, why did it publish the contents in the mansion newspaper? In addition, the imperial mansion newspaper also said that border troubles in Yunnan and Guizhou provinces would be eradicated, and the chieftain would return to the palace." Doesn’t this imply that Yunnan and Guizhou provinces don’t need so many garrisons anymore? Mr. Liu, this junior connects these things together with the news that the prince asked to hand over the governing power of Yunnan and Guizhou provinces, students can still analyze Can't you find out where the prince's heart disease is?"

When Feng Xiang was explaining, Liu Xuanchu kept silent, and his pair of radiant eyes just stared at Feng Xiang's eyes, until Feng Xiang finished speaking, Liu Xuanchu stared at Feng Xiang's eyes for a long time, then nodded slightly , and said: "Let's go, the old man will lead you to see the prince." After finishing speaking, Liu Xuanchu led the way without looking back, but Feng Xiang was in a state of turmoil, not knowing whether his explanation had passed the test, but just insisted. Scalp followed Liu Xuanchu up the mountain.

After arriving at the top of the mountain and entering the majestic Pingxi Palace, Liu Xuanchu arranged for Feng Xiang to rest temporarily in the guest room in the front yard, told Feng Xiang to wait patiently, and went into the west courtyard garden of Pingxi Palace alone.After a long time, two guards finally came in, saluted Feng Xiang very politely and said, "Master Lu, please come with us, the prince will meet you at Lie Cui Xuan." Feng Xiang nodded, trying to calm down his heart Excited and nervous, he went out with two guards and entered the palace garden in the west courtyard of Pingxi Palace.

After walking for a long time along the marble-paved winding path, Feng Xiang was led by two guards to a large piece of neat lawn. On the edge of the lawn was an unusually gorgeous pavilion. In the middle of the pavilion sat a person, 50 He was many years old, wearing a satin flat yellow robe, with a handsome face and a striking scar on the bridge of his nose; six or seven people sitting or standing on both sides, some old and some young, some handsome and some ugly, Wu Yingqi in the memory of Liu Xuanchu and Lu Yifeng was also In it, everyone was looking at Feng Xiang with strange eyes.Feng Xiang first scolded a traitor in his heart, then hurriedly stepped forward and knelt down on both knees, kowtowed and said: "Lu Yifeng, the humble magistrate of Yunnan County, greets the prince of Daqing Pingxi, and the prince is blessed and safe." At the end, Feng Xiang was in the bottom of his heart Add another sentence, "The dog traitor will kill you sooner or later!"

"Stay flat." Wu Sangui, who was sitting in the middle, said lightly: "Lu Yifeng, get up, come closer, let me take a closer look at you."

"Thank you, my lord." Feng Xiang cursed again in his heart, then he stood up, walked carefully ten steps in front of Wu Sangui, and asked Wu Sangui to look at himself carefully.After Wu Sangui looked at Feng Xiang for a while, he suddenly turned his head and smiled at Liu Xuanchu: "Mr. Maoxia, no wonder you appreciate this county magistrate Lu. He is just like you. He is a person who cannot be judged by his appearance. He looks ordinary, but in fact he has a hidden chest. Taolue, full of talents. If Mr. Maoya hadn’t told me about the magic of County Magistrate Lu in advance, I would have missed it once.”

"Fuck! I used to be much more handsome than I am now!" Feng Xiang growled shamelessly in his heart—in fact, if he didn't have that disgusting money rat tail on his head, Feng Xiang's body would be white and Fat, but no matter what, he is two or three points more handsome than the dark and thin body in the past.Liu Xuanchu replied with a smile: "My lord, I appreciate the award, but County Magistrate Lu is indeed a rare young hero, well educated and talented, and I hope my lord will treat him kindly."

"Mr. Liu and County Magistrate Lu are the same bastards looking at mung beans." A very handsome young scholar laughed and said bitterly: "Although it is rare for Mr. Liu to praise people so much, the prince just praised County Magistrate Lu. I'm the same kind of person as Mr. Liu, so Mr. Liu's words are not suspected of being a queen mother-in-law selling melons, selling melons, and boasting?"

"Mr. Wang, did the old man say that?" Liu Xuanchu asked calmly.The handsome scholar smiled even more happily, and replied: "Mr. Liu, don't worry about it. The junior didn't say that you said that yourself. The junior just said, there is this possibility, there is this possibility."

"Hahahahaha..." Several other people present burst into laughter. Wu Sangui, who had long been used to his staff biting each other, couldn't help but smile, and Liu Xuanchu pulled his face long.At this time, Feng Xiang suddenly clasped his fists to Wu Sangui, and asked respectfully: "The humble Lu Yifeng dares to ask the lord, did the lord ever say 'embroidered pillow'?"

"Of course I said so." Wu Sangui replied inexplicably.Feng Xiang smiled, and asked the handsome scholar again: "Then, Mr. Wang, when the prince said embroidered pillows, did you think of the next sentence?"

"That sentence?" The handsome scholar was also taken aback.Liu Xuanchu, who was standing next to him with a long face just now, laughed, "Mr. Wang, the next sentence of the embroidered pillow is usually a bag of straw in the stomach, and occasionally someone will say it more directly, the embroidered pillow-the straw bag! But don't say too much." Heart, I can assure you that the prince is definitely not talking about you, and Mr. Lu didn't mean that, just Lenovo, Lenovo. Hahahahaha..."

"Hahahahahaha." The handsome scholar's face turned from white to blue, and the people next to him were stunned, and then burst into laughter. Wu Sangui also laughed, pointing at Feng Xiang and cursing with a smile: "Good boy, you are indeed Mao. Mr. Xia is optimistic about the person, and he really wears a pair of pants! But you kid, you dared to offend Mr. Wang Shirong as soon as you entered the Pingxi Palace. You don’t know that Mr. Wang is also the king’s right-hand man. You are not afraid of him when you are the county magistrate in Qujing Give you little shoes to wear?"

"Back to the lord." Feng Xiang replied neither humble nor overbearing: "The humble position is to serve as an official for the lord and the second prince. As the county magistrate of Qujing, as long as the humble position is loyal to the lord and the second prince and devotes himself to it, I believe that the lord and the second prince will definitely not be so humble. You will treat Humble, let alone wronged Humble." After that, Feng Xiang added with a smile, "When the second prince decided to appoint Humble to take over Qujing County Magistrate, he also said that as long as Humble is loyal to the prince, then Humble will be You don’t have to be afraid of anything. Therefore, you don’t have to be afraid of anything when you are humble.”

"Really? Ying Qi, did you say that to Lu Yifeng?" Everyone loves to hear good words, even though he knew that Feng Xiang's words were most likely intended to flatter himself and Wu Yingqi, Wu Sangui still laughed happily and turned to his second son. Wu Yingqi asked.Over there, Wu Yingqi hadn't seen the traitor's father's smiling face for several days. Seeing Wu Sangui smiling happily, Wu Yingqi dared to make fun of him, so he nodded and bowed and replied: "Go back to my father, this is how the child explained to Master Lu. It's just that the boy didn't expect that Master Lu really remembered his son's words in his heart."

"Not bad." Wu Sangui nodded, and praised Wu Yingqi for the first time in a few days: "The magistrate selected this time is not bad, at least not like the Yanyuan county magistrate last time, who dared to pay eight taels of salt tax for me! In the future, when selecting people, you need to have more eyes like this time, and pick more talents like Lu Yifeng." Wu Yingqi smiled and agreed, and then nodded to Feng Xiang to express his appreciation.Several of Wu Sangui's relatives and cronies present were all smiling, knowing that Wu Sangui's mood had turned for the better, and the hard days of the past few days could be regarded as a turnaround, but Wang Shirong's face was ashen, and he glanced at Feng Xiang from the corner of his eyes, wishing to see it for a while. Kick that bastard Feng Xiang to death.

After finally laughing enough, Wu Sangui sat up straight, put away his smile and asked Feng Xiang seriously: "Lu Yifeng, I have read the pulse case you gave me, and I think it is good. Now I want to ask You, what disease do you think this king is suffering from?"

Feng Xiang didn't answer, but looked around first, Wu Sangui understood Feng Xiang's thoughts, and said lightly: "It's okay to be straightforward, those here are either my confidants, or my brothers or sons, they are reliable."

"Then I'll talk about it." Feng Xiang cupped his hands, and said pretending to be panicked: "But before you tell me the name of the prince's illness, you have to ask the prince to forgive you for your offense."

"Tell me, don't be wordy." Wu Sangui waved his hand with an impatient expression on his face.Feng Xiang clasped his fists in gratitude again, stood up straight, cleared his throat again, and then said seriously: "My lord, I think that you are suffering from a disease of cowardice! In layman's terms, it is a disease of cowardice! A disease of cowardice!"

"What?" Before Feng Xiang could finish his sentence, everyone present, including Liu Xuanchu, changed their faces.Wu Sangui was startled at first, then jumped up suddenly, and roared with a livid face: "What did you say? I am cowardly? Cowardly?! When I went to the battlefield to kill people, your father was still in your grandmother's arms Breastfeeding, do you dare to say that I am cowardly? Cowardly?!"

"My lord, this Lu Yifeng is clearly mocking you on purpose!" Wang Shirong took the opportunity to shout: "The student thinks that this Lu Yifeng should be pushed out and chopped up immediately, and let him see whether you are brave or cowardly, my lord!" After all, Wang Shirong didn't care whether Wu Sangui agreed or not, and directly shouted: "Come on, push this Lu Yifeng out and chop him up!"

(End of this chapter)