scourge the qing dynasty

Chapter 83
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After being dragged home by Shang Wanyi, beaten to a bruised face and swollen, and swore that she would never spend the night outside casually, dare not look at pretty girls, dare not talk to pretty girls, and even less dare to touch the little hands of pretty girls, Shang Wanyi Finally, he mercifully spared Fatty Lu's fat life, and sent Fatty Lu to Donghe Township to urge the people to work in the spring, so as to benefit the Qing Dynasty and the Eight Banners.

Riding the fast horse sent by Xiao Mazi, I rushed to Donghe Township where the old county seat of Qujing used to be. It was already the afternoon of February [-]th. There are still people plowing and working on one-third of the land, and Zhu Fangdan is wandering around that land with seven or eight government servants, talking to a group of poor people who are shirtless.Fatty Lu rode his horse over, and all the people hurriedly knelt down to salute. Fatty Lu got off his horse and said with a smile: "Everyone, this is not a court, so there is no need for so many salutes. Get up and go about your affairs. Spring plowing season is an inch of time." An inch of gold."

"Thank you, master." The common people all thanked and got up.Over there, Zhu Fangdan asked Fatty Lu suspiciously: "Boss, what's wrong with your ears? Why are they so red? Are they still a little swollen?"

"No...it's nothing, I accidentally bumped into it when I went out just now." Fatty Lu blushed, quickly covered his ears that were almost torn by Shang Wanyi, and changed the subject and asked, "How is it? Has it been planted? And our drug, would the common people be willing to plant it?"

"Back home, the spring plowing is not bad. Except for two lazy men who refused to plant the land left by their parents, the rest of the land has been planted with grain and vegetables." Zhu Fangdan replied honestly: "As for those two lazy men, I They also asked the dibao to bring them here, scolded them, whipped them a few more times, and forced them to plant the land. It’s just that the drug is more troublesome, except for the landlords and gentry who promised to help us grow the drug in the Town God’s Temple. In addition to the promise, ordinary people dare not plant, fearing that they will not be sold for money, and even more afraid of affecting the grain harvest.”

"It's impossible, but it doesn't matter. As long as the first batch of planters get rich, our headache is how to control them to plant less." Fatty Lu sighed, and knew that once he set this precedent, the future He must have a headache about how to suppress and suppress the common people to plant a hibiscus - but Fatty Lu understands better that even if he doesn't set the precedent, the coquettish ahibiscus flowers will bloom all over this land sooner or later.

Long-term pain is worse than short-term pain. For Fatty Lu himself, instead of letting history develop according to the original track and letting drugs ravage this land for hundreds of years, it is better to advance this time and wait until he has enough strength. Come and crush it hard.After all, even if I don't do it myself, someone will come here with strong ships and guns more than 100 years later, forcing the people here to do so.

After sighing again, Fatty Lu rolled his eyes, pondered another wicked idea, beckoned Zhu Fangdan and several yamen servants to his front, and said to them in a low voice: "Have you seen that most of the common people here are They are so poor that they don’t even have a piece of clothing. Go tell the people here that as long as they plant a piece of acre of asparagus, they will have clothes for the winter in half a year. If they don’t even want to grow a piece of land, even It’s fine to plant half a piece of land or one line of land, in the future they will surely laugh so hard that they can’t even close their mouths.”

"Boss, the planting is so scattered, it will be difficult to harvest the juice at that time." Zhu Fangdan said in embarrassment: "At that time, if you want to collect all these scattered seeds and instruct so many people to harvest and cook the juice, it will be difficult to harvest the juice. It's not an easy task, just relying on the manpower of our Qujing county government is definitely not enough."

"Stupid, who wants to accept their drug juice?" Fatty Lu said with a smile: "I want their seeds, think about it, and see the results in half a year. How heavy is it?"

"Wonderful! The owner is really clever. When we collect the seeds, we can still sell them for a high price." Zhu Fangdan patted his thigh, turned to the servants next to him and urged: "Why are you still standing there? Everyone bring a small bag." Go and persuade the people to plant the seeds, and wait for the extra money to make a fortune in half a year."

All the yamen servants were also a little skeptical, and they couldn’t understand why the new county magistrates and masters liked to grow these things, and they insisted that growing these things would make them rich, but considering Fatty Lu’s double salary, these The yamen servants still honestly picked up a small bag of seeds and scattered around to persuade the people to plant them experimentally.Zhu Fangdan then suggested to Fatty Lu: "Boss, the student thinks that if you want to make money with this thing, then the western side must also pay attention to it. The student heard that now foreign doctors also like to use medicine to treat diseases, ah Hibiscus is also sold at a high price."

"Of course, I will do it if you don't say it." Fatty Lu nodded and said, "I have sent someone to Dali to deliver a letter to my uncle, asking him to sell my ancestral house over there, and then Move to Qujing. When my uncle arrives, I will ask him to set up a firm to contact and resell drugs, and then ask Prince Pingnan to help open a branch in Guangzhou to sell to foreigners."

"That's a good idea." Zhu Fangdan said with a smile, "However, Master, you abducted Little Gege from Prince Pingnan's mansion to Qujing, aren't you afraid that Prince Pingnan's son will settle accounts with you?"

"What am I afraid of?" Fatty Lu said disdainfully: "Shang Zhixin is a person who does great things, so he doesn't care if I abduct his sister or not. Besides, in front of a silver coin as high as a mountain, let's not talk about Shang Zhixin." Even Shang Kexi, the old man, has to be tempted to take the initiative to recognize me as a son-in-law."

"Haha, I hope so." Zhu Fangdan smiled, and was about to chat with Fatty Lu again.Suddenly, a group of cavalry from the Qing army came over and shouted fiercely, "Who is Lu Yifeng? Who is Lu Yifeng, the magistrate of Qujing County? Come out and answer!" A lot of wheat seedlings were stepped on, and countless people cried out in distress, but the group of cavalry ignored them.

"Master, it's not Prince Pingxi's army, it seems to be the green battalion directly under the provincial government." Zhu Fangdan warned: "It looks like this is not a good person, master, you have to be careful."

"I'm afraid of his balls. I'm not even afraid of Wang Fuchen of Pingxi Palace, but Liu Wenjin and Xie Chun of his green camp?" Fatty Lu snorted arrogantly, and he came out of the crowd, and replied loudly: "I am Lu Yifeng. What's the matter? Pay attention to your war horses, don't trample the wheat seedlings!"

"So what if you step on it?" The chief general snorted, and regardless of the angry eyes of the people around him, he stepped on the wheat seedlings and rushed in front of Fatty Lu, waving his whip and said grandly: "Come with us!" Come on, our military gate wants to see you."

"Liu Wenjin came back from Xundian?" Fatty Lu asked even more arrogantly.

"Bold, how dare you call the army's name directly?" the chief yelled angrily.

"So what if I called? I'm not under his control, what can he do to me?" Fatty Lu snorted, and said, "I'll remember the matter of you riding horses and seedlings first. I want to meet Liu Wenjin and lead the way."

"Master, be careful." Xiao Erlang saw that this group of green battalion soldiers were not friendly, so he quickly reminded him.

"It's okay, did you take that thing with you?" Fatty Lu asked.Seeing Xiao Erlang nodded, Fatty Lu ordered: "Get ready, I'm afraid it will be used today."

After all, Fatty Lu asked Xiao Erlang to lead the war horse, climbed up awkwardly, and yelled at the green battalion soldiers in a big way: "Lead the way, and warn you again, don't step on the seedlings, otherwise, I will definitely find your superiors Ask for this justice, and when the time comes, your superiors will blame you, but don't blame me for not pleading for you."

"My boy, you are the first magistrate of Qujing who dares to speak to us like that! Crazy enough!" The boss laughed angrily, knocked Fatty Lu with the handle of his horsewhip, and said with a grin: "When we get back into the barracks, Let me see if you are still crazy! Brothers, step on me and see what this kid dares to do!"

"Shen Xin, take someone back to the city to prepare instruments of torture!" Fatty Lu did not show any weakness, and shouted: "If anyone dares to deliberately step on the seedlings again, I will take him back and punish the forty bosses in public!"

Fatty Lu was confronting the Green Battalion soldiers with his head on his head. Everyone was sweating for Fatty Lu. The cavalrymen of the Qujing Green Battalion over there were all so angry that they stomped and stomped their horses deliberately. Fatty Lu sneered again and again. He just led Xiao Erlang, surrounded by the murderous green battalion soldiers, and rushed all the way to the green camp at Sanchakouguan, south of Qujing.Zhu Fangdan, Shen Xin and the others here were very nervous, Zhu Fangdan quickly grabbed Shen Xin and said: "Quick, go to the school grounds and report to General Wu Guogui or General Wang Jing. I heard from Erlang that they got along well with the boss yesterday, please." They're going to rescue the boss."

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All the way to Sanchakouguan Green Camp, the leader rushed in aggressively to report the news, and the rest of the cavalry scattered around, praising Fatty Lu's boldness to his companions, and as a result, Fatty Lu quickly surrounded him A large group of green battalion soldiers with bare breasts, each one was murderous, swearing and swearing, as if they wanted to swallow Fatty Lu alive, Xiao Erlang was scared and evasive, only Fatty Lu remained calm and looked at these people covered in blood. The angry green battalion soldiers turned a blind eye.

After a while, the former general came out and smiled at Fatty Lu with a ferocious expression: "Master Lu, please, our military gate will meet you in the Chinese army camp and let you go in and kowtow."

Fatty Lu smiled, gestured to Xiao Erlang, and led Xiao Erlang into the barracks. Three hundred soldiers stood on both sides of the road in the barracks, forming two human walls to clamp the road. Fatty Lu and Xiao Erlang had just entered the barracks. There was only clanging and clanging, and three hundred sergeants drew their sabers and raised them obliquely, forming a saber tunnel.Xiao Erlang was so frightened that he sat on the ground with his ass on the ground, and almost peed his crotch directly. Fatty Lu smiled slightly. Not only did he not show the slightest panic, he also reached out to a green battalion soldier next to him, and said with a smile, "Little brother, borrow the knife!" have a look."

The green camp soldier was stunned, and finally handed the knife to Fatty Lu. Fatty Lu took it over and looked at the sharpness of the knife, then flicked the blade to check the steel quality, shook his head and said, "The pig iron knife is the worst kind of pig iron. It seems that the quartermasters of your Qujing Green Battalion are not good people, and the military pay given by the emperor is in their own pockets."

After all, Fatty Lu returned the knife to the soldier, laughed and stepped into the camp with his hands behind his back, turning a blind eye to the hundreds of sabers on his head, which made the green camp soldiers on both sides secretly admire, "This fat man is really courageous!" .”

Leading Xiao Erlang swaggeringly into the big tent of the Chinese army, there are also generals gathered in the big tent, Liu Wenjin, the chief soldier of the Green Battalion with a rough face and a beard, folded his arms, half lying on the handsome chair and looked at Fatty Lu coldly, beside him Sitting on Fatty Lu's deadly rival in Qujing, Li Suzu, the magistrate, was wearing casual clothes, with sinister and sinister smiles all over his face, and he was also staring at Fatty Lu.Xiao Erlang was shocked again, and hurriedly said to Fatty Lu in a low voice: "Master, the situation is not good, the surname Li probably took the bad medicine in advance, you have to be careful, if it doesn't work, just give up first, and take it easy with them." account."

"What are you afraid of him doing?" Fatty Lu sneered, stepped forward and bowed his hands to Liu Wenjin in a grandiose manner, "The next official, Lu Yifeng, the magistrate of Qujing County, has seen Liu Junmen." After finishing speaking, Fatty Lu bowed slightly, and then bowed to the generals around him He hugged each other, smiled and said: "Hello, generals, I am in Xialu Yifeng, the new county magistrate of Qujing, and we will be officials in the same place in the future, please take care of me." , Li Suzu was so angry that his eyes spit fire, and he had the urge to tear Fatty Lu apart.

"Lu Yifeng, you are quite courageous." Liu Wenjin finally spoke, playing with a jade ax that he did not know who gave him, and said with a jade ax style: "Listen to my subordinates, you just threatened to fight They pull it off, forget it, but when they saw this army, they didn't even kneel down, what kind of courage medicine did you take, tell me, let me try it too?"

"Liu Junmen, I don't understand what you're talking about as an official." Fatty Lu said calmly: "My Qing court clearly stipulates that the local government uses literature to control military affairs. Civilian, although you are a second-rank official, you are a general, so I don’t need to kneel to you, Liu Junmen, you should know this. ——Now, Liu Junmen, you want me to kneel to you, don’t tell me, Liu Junmen Junmen, have you changed the rule of using literature to control military affairs for the imperial court?"

"Bang!" Liu Wenjin was furious, he slammed his ax on Shuai's case, and said angrily: "My boy, you are really crazy, you talk to me like this, if I want to change this rule today, Are you still going to the court to sue me for being strong?"

"If Liu Junmen must change this rule, I will of course go to my superior Wen to ask if the court allows the army to do so." Fatty Lu said unhurriedly: "But before that, the lower officials have to inform the army At the sound of the door, some of the subordinates of the military gate deliberately trampled on the seedlings and bullied the good people, please ask the military gate to hand over these people to the subordinate officials, and let the subordinate officials punish them according to the law and stick, so as to rectify the law of the country."

"Fatty Lu, you are so courageous, you even want to beat us in the green camp!" An old Qiu Ba roared, "I want to see today, do you have the guts to beat my brothers!"

"This general, why don't I dare?" Fatty Lu said slowly, "Master Li of the Qujing Mansion is here. You can ask him yourself. Do I have the right to punish them?" After that, Fatty Lu turned to Li Suizu and said, "Li Futai, you know the situation. If you cooperate with the Green Camp to cover up the criminals and allow the Green Camp soldiers to trample on the people, you can be dismissed as an official." I want to go to the imperial court and impeach you."

Li Suizu's face turned livid, and he turned to Liu Wenjin and said, "Liu Junmen, have you seen how crazy this Lu is?"

"Of course I saw it." Liu Wenjin's expression also turned ferocious, and he turned to Fatty Lu and said, "Your surname is Lu, I know your background, the West Selector of the Pingxi Palace has some connections with the Pingnan Palace, but this general is the chief soldier of the Qujing Green Battalion , not under the management of the Pingxi Palace, let alone the Pingnan Palace! Today, the commander-in-chief will give you a chance to honestly release Li Futai’s brother-in-law, and kowtow to him and Li Futai to make amends, or else... hum!"

"What else?" Fatty Lu asked back: "Liu Junmen, do you still want to kill this official? The generals of the green battalion are not allowed to interfere in civil affairs. The officials will accuse you of mobilizing troops to cause disaster and interfering in civil affairs!"

"Damn it, shame on your face!" Liu Wenjin yelled out of embarrassment, "Come on, drag this fat man Lu out for me, and beat him with fifty army sticks first, and I will take care of what happens! Fuck me!" Yes, a seventh-rank sesame official, I won’t be afraid to kill Lao Tzu!”

"Cover!" The generals of the green battalion, who had seen Fatty Lu not pleasing to their eyes, agreed happily, and rushed forward to arrest Fatty Lu.Over there, Li Suizu grinned inwardly, "Farewell to Luying, Qiuba from Luying, it doesn't take fifty sticks to beat someone, but ten sticks will send you to heaven!"

"Liu Junmen, I'm afraid you won't be able to afford it!" Fatty Lu laughed loudly and shouted, "Erlang, yellow mandarin jacket, please!"

"Cover!" Xiao Erlang was so nervous that his palms were sweating, he agreed and quickly reached into the package behind his back, pulled out the yellow jacket that he had been carrying with him for the past few days, and shouted to the generals of the green camp, "The emperor bestowed yellow jackets on you!" The mandarin jacket is here, anyone who dares to offend will be tantamount to treason and exterminate the entire family!"

I have to admit that Mite Qing is really good at cultivating slave minds, and because of this, seeing Xiao Erlang showing off the bright yellow jacket, all the generals in the green camp who were fiercely rushing towards Fatty Lu just now were stunned, subconsciously stop.Over there, Liu Wenjin and Li Suzu also jumped up, shouting in unison: "Yellow mantle?! Your yellow mantle?!"

"Didn't you hear that? It was given by the emperor." Fatty Lu asked sarcastically, then put on the yellow jacket in a big way, grinning at Liu Wenjin and Li Shizu and said, "Liu Junmen, Li Futai, put on the yellow jacket , No matter what level of officials, they have to kneel down and salute when they see the officials, what's the matter, you have forgotten this rule? Or, you don't need to pay attention to the things bestowed by the emperor?"

Li Suzu and Liu Wenjin were stunned, they looked at each other in dismay, and after a while they came to their senses, they hurriedly left their seats together, walked up to Fatty Lu and knelt and kowtowed together, and the generals of the green battalion over there also knelt down in a big way.Fatty Lu smiled slightly, pouted at Xiao Erlang, led Xiao Erlang to stride forward, and sat down on the handsome seat in front of Liu Wenjin, then said lazily: "Get up, everyone. There is no need to be polite."

Liu Wenjin, Li Shizu and the others quickly stood up and looked at Fatty Lu who was sitting in the handsome position and wearing a yellow jacket. The good servant Liu Wenjin talked about it, but he still didn't dare to call Fatty Lu up.Fatty Lu asked, "Liu Wenjin, if the information I inquired about is correct, you seem to be a servant of the Yellow Banner, right?"

"Return to Master Lu, the last general is indeed Xianghuang Banner." Liu Wenjin replied swallowing his anger.

"Then who are you, General Jingxi Murima?" Fatty Lu asked again.

"It's the master of the last general's family." Liu Wenjin replied honestly.

"Very good." Fatty Lu nodded in satisfaction, and said, "Then you can send a letter to my master, General Murima, and ask him what kind of friendship I have with him. By the way, tell him what happened today, and Tell him, for the sake of being an official in one place, I will ask you for a favor, and it will be fine if you beat him with thirty military sticks. You don't need to starve to death in an iron cage, and you don't need to bury yourself in a snowdrift. Smothered."

"Master Lu, what is the relationship between you and the master of the last general?" Liu Wenjin's teeth were chattering a little. Mite Qing is a slavery country, and how Murima wants to deal with his slave, even Xiao Mazi has no right to interfere.

"Erlang, show that thing to Liu Junmen." Fatty Lu ordered lazily.Xiao Erlang agreed, took off the saber on his waist, pulled out the blade and handed it to Liu Wenjin, saying: "Liu Junmen, take care, this is the saber used by General Murima himself. General Murima knows that my young master is coming to Qujing to take up the post. When my young master saw him off, he gave this knife to my young master, and asked my young master to use this knife to discipline you for him when necessary. By the way, if Liu Junmen thinks that General Murima’s things are not enough If so, my young master still has something that Xiangye Ao, the leader of the inlaid yellow flag, should I send someone back to get it, and ask Liu Junmen to identify the authenticity?"

"No need, no need." Liu Wenjin was scared out of his wits, and quickly knelt down on his knees again, slapped himself again and again, and screamed: "Lord Lu, please forgive me, I will die, I will kill those who are riding horses and trampling seedlings!" Catch all the bastards and punish them severely, severely punish them!"

"How you conduct military law is your business, but before that, you must hand them over to the official, who will bring them to the scene to execute the sentence according to the law, and give justice to the people of Qujing." Fatty Lu said coldly.

"Yes, yes, the general obeys the order, and the general will ask people to arrest them all." Liu Wenjin kowtowed in agreement, then turned around and shouted: "What are you still doing? Go and arrest those bastards who are trampling seedlings." , tied it up, let Master Lu take it away!"

All the generals in the battalion agreed, and first tied up the previous high-spirited general manager, while Lu Fatty knocked on Erlang's legs and said, "Liu Junmen, it's fine if you don't want Murima to know about this, but you have to tell me , what benefit did Li Futai give you, and you want to help him interfere with local civil affairs?"

Liu Wenjin hesitated to answer, and Fatty Lu sneered again: "Don't say it? It's okay, someone will let you say it, but when the time comes, the lower officials won't intercede for Liu Junmen, so don't blame me Liu Junmen."

"I said, I said." Liu Wenjin had no choice but to say honestly: "Master Lu, Li Futai gave me the jade ax in front of you. I heard from Li Futai that this jade ax is the same jade ax that Zhao Kuangyin used to row the river. That jade ax was awarded to the King of Dali, but somehow it ended up in the hands of Li Futai."

"Li Futai, a big deal." Fatty Lu picked up the jade axe, held it in his hands, and said with a smirk, "You don't dedicate Li Futai to the emperor, but keep it privately at home. Do you want to follow Zhao Kuangyin's example and come here?" A change of dynasty?"

"You're talking nonsense!" Li Suizu was completely anxious, and shouted indiscriminately: "Who wants to change the dynasty? If I want to do this, why give this jade ax to Liu Junmen?"

"So, Master Li wants to change the dynasty of Liu Junmen?" Fatty Lu hit the snake with his stick, turned to Liu Wenjin and said with a smile, "Liu Junmen, I don't think you would have such an idea, do you?"

"Of course the last general didn't, and of course the last general didn't dare to have such thoughts." Liu Wenjin kowtowed again and again, then turned to Li Shizu and glared at him, saying in his heart that the surname is Li, I was almost cheated to death by you!

It is of course very difficult to frame Li Shizu for rebellion and usurpation with just a jade axe - not to mention Li Shizu's greed and stinginess, this jade ax may not really belong to Zhao Kuangyin.So Fatty Lu didn't bother to entangle in this issue, he just said to Liu Wenjin: "Liu Junmen, I won't make things difficult for you, you just report to the court according to the truth about today's affairs, as for you to pass on this official to threaten and intimidate you." It's a trivial matter, you don't need to report it, and I won't tell General Murima. You just tell the court that Li Futai bribed you with this jade ax to lure you to interfere in civil affairs, but you sternly refused, do you understand? ?”

Fatty Lu is blatantly instigating Liu Wenjin to impeach his boss, but even though Li Suizu turned blue with anger, there was nothing he could do about it, while Liu Wenjin over there was overjoyed, and hurriedly said: "Thank you, Mr. Lu, thank you, Mr. Lu. Please rest assured, my lord. I will definitely report the truth, and this jade ax will be sent up as evidence in the end, and Lord Lu will be satisfied with it.”

"Very good." As expected, Fatty Lu nodded in satisfaction, and was about to continue to sow discord, but suddenly there was a commotion outside the tent, and then, a group of soldiers directly belonging to the Pingxi Palace rushed to the tent like wolves, The green battalion soldiers in front of the tent were kicked and beaten, and the leading general was none other than Wang Jing, the deputy general of Yunnan who just discussed with Fatty Lu yesterday to make a fortune together.Before he got the money, Wang Jing yelled: "Brother Lu, don't be afraid, the second brother is here to save you! The surname Liu, you dare to touch a hair of my brother, I will be with you today..."

After shouting here, the warm-hearted General Wang Jingwang couldn't continue shouting, because he suddenly saw that the good brother Lu Fatty, the seventh-rank magistrate, who he was going to rescue, not only did not crawl on the ground covered in bruises as he imagined, but was also wearing clothes. A bright yellow mandarin jacket knocked on Erlang's legs and sat on the coach's seat.And Liu Wenjin, the second-rank general soldier he wanted to stop the violence, was kneeling obediently in front of Fatty Lu, with several red slap marks on his face.

"Who am I here to save?" Wang Jing scratched his head in doubt.

(End of this chapter)