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    On the 11th day of the second year of the second year, Mite Qing Kang Mazi, the main force of the Mite Qing Southern Expedition, who had been stationed at Xiba Ferry, Qingjiang County, Huai'an Prefecture, Jiangsu Province for more than two months, finally launched an operation to cross the river under the command of the coach Yue Le.  After crossing the turbulent and rolling Yellow River, set foot on the real Jiangnan land.

    ? On the same day, the Fatty Army, which was closely monitored here, worked as scouts. After confirming that the Qing army's Southern Expedition Army was indeed the main force to cross the river, it immediately sent this crucial news to the Fatty Army's headquarters-Nanjing at the fastest speed!

    The time when the news arrived in Nanjing was the afternoon of February 13th in the second year of the Lunar New Year. It was also on the same day. Fatty Lu, who has always disliked extravagance and waste and had a very poor drinker, for the first time in his temporary residence, the former governor of Liangjiang  In the yamen, a very grand festive banquet was held, and more than 500 gentry and landowners who were the most famous, hopeful, wealthy and well-off from all the prefectures and prefectures in the Jiangnan area were invited to participate. Gao Dejie, Li Guodong and Han Daren  The top general of the Fat Army was present. Although Li Tianzhi, who was stationed in Suzhou, was unable to attend the meeting due to the emergency of the military situation on the southern front, he also sent Yang Yingyuan, the deputy commander of the army, to Nanjing to attend the meeting.  And Wu Mei, the daughter of the traitor Wu, the princess of Pingxi Wangfu, also left the Humble Administrator's Garden and Suzhou for the first time, and came to Nanjing to participate in this grand event!

    The reason for holding this banquet is that Lu Bangning, the second son born to Fatty Lu by Line Yuer, is full moon. This is also Fatty Lu's first son since he got rid of the control of old traitor Wu.  Do it, and celebrate it in Daqing¡ªat least that¡¯s what the big gentry and landlords in the south of the Yangtze River, who were invited by Fatty Lu himself, thought so.  In addition, Fatty Lu, a country bumpkin, even specially stated on the invitation that there will be 20 dishes for each table at the banquet, in order to show off his wealth and wealth.  Fatty Lu secretly despised it again¡ªa bumpkin from Yunnan, and he didn't ask how many dishes the old man had for a table of flower wine.

    Contempt is contempt, Fatty Lu is also the current emperor of the south of the Yangtze River. He issued an invitation to make a full moon wine for his son. The gentry and landlords who live under the eaves have not dared to come.  When they came to Fatty Lu's Xingyuan, which was decorated with lanterns and festoons, he presented gifts and took a seat.  But fortunately, the Fatty Army went up and down, from Fatty Lu himself to the most ordinary soldiers of the Fatty Army, and their attitude towards these big landlords and gentry is quite friendly, and there is no such thing as the arrogance of other high-ranking warlords who say that life and death are all in my hands  , so the atmosphere of the banquet was not bad, and it was also very good.

    At the time of You, Fatty Lu Xingyuan's servant girl began to serve dishes. Four dishes were placed on each table, which were a plate of scrambled eggs with leeks, a plate of fried shrimp with leeks, a plate of braised chicken nuggets and a bowl of spinach tofu soup.  There was no movement.  All the generals of the Wu army and the gentry and landlords in the south of the Yangtze River thought that the food would be served, so they didn't move. Fatty Lu, who had never wanted to sit in the master's seat, stood up and smiled with an invitation gesture: "Generals, distinguished guests  , twenty dishes are served, everyone please use your chopsticks, you are welcome, eat and drink whatever you want, you must enjoy yourself. Please, please."

    "Twenty dishes?" The generals of the Wu army looked at each other with the gentry, landlords, and wealthy businessmen, almost doubting that Fatty Lu could not count.  Only Gao Dejie, a high-ranking member of the Fatty Army, smiled and said, "Brother Lu, what are you talking about? It's obviously four dishes, how can you say twenty dishes?"

    "Brother Gao, count carefully." Fatty Lu pointed at the table and counted decently with a smile: "One scrambled eggs with leeks, one scrambled shrimps with leeks, two leeks (nine) is 18, plus  Serve a plate of braised chicken nuggets and a bowl of spinach soup, what are twenty dishes?"

    "Heh" There was a burst of happy laughter in the banquet hall, and Gao Dejie couldn't help laughing again: "Brother Lu, no wonder someone calls you the God of Wealth, and you really know how to count carefully. There is still such a way of counting in the world?"

    "It doesn't work if you don't count carefully." Fatty Lu smiled and said loudly: "Brother Gao, do you still remember when we two brothers killed dogs at Yuping Pass? At that time, only one brother in our army had the highest salary.  It was six renminbi a month, and it was the period of war, and the price of goods was soaring. The military salary of six renminbi was not enough to cover three tables of this kind of food and drink. The brothers were all eating chaff and swallowed vegetables, and the two of us ate in the same pot with the brothers.  At that time, we had a table of dishes like this, and we were really not in the mood to drink wine, so we threw ourselves on the table and grabbed it with our arms.¡±

    "Brother Gao, do you still remember?" Fatty Lu asked again: "When we were in a stalemate with Man Gou at Yuping Pass, a brother's horse died of illness, and we were reluctant to throw away the dead horse meat.  Cook it to add vegetables to the brothers, and Yungui does not produce salt, so I don¡¯t even want to put more salt, but just because of that plate of dead horse meat that I don¡¯t even want to put more salt, you and Brother Gao Hongchen will touch each other.  Three glasses of wine."

    "I remember." Gao Dejie nodded and said with a smile: "All the land and people under him will be snatched, so that our descendants will have no worries about food and clothing forever.

    "Follow the prince wholeheartedly, do you really follow this fat man?" Gao Dejie, Han Daren and other Wu Jun elders also began to ponder in their hearts, "The prince is nepotism, and the fat man is meritocracy. The prince's generals are like a cloud, and his relatives and friends are like a sea. In the future, the prince will rule the world. At most  The best things must be given priority to the relatives, friends and confidants of the prince. We can only eat some leftovers. But if this fat man, who will benefit the most? The son, son-in-law, grandson and grandson of the prince  There are a lot of them, we can still play without us, but this fat man"

    "Everyone, everyone." Fatty Lu waved his hand again to signal silence, and after everyone was quiet, Fatty Lu said sincerely: "Everyone, today the puppy is full moon, and you all gave gifts. I saw the gift list, and there are too many.  It's too precious. So I ask you one thing here. When you leave after drinking, please take back all the gifts you brought. Lu Yifeng is already very happy that you can support our Da Zhou army so enthusiastically.  I am satisfied, but Lu Yifeng himself cannot take any more from you."

    "How can that be done? General, please don't say that." All the gentry, landlords and wealthy businessmen hurriedly waved their hands and refused.

    "It must be taken back!" Fatty Lu insisted: "I have already said that I accept your money and food in order to turn your money and food into our common sword and fight for our common land for you.  You can receive a salary, but I will never accept any gifts from you"

    "Report¡ª¡ª!" The messenger who rushed in suddenly interrupted Fatty Lu's hypocritical defense, rushed to Fatty Lu and knelt down on one knee, holding an urgent military report over his head.

    "What happened?" All the gentry, landlords and wealthy businessmen present were shocked.  Fatty Lu kept his composure, took the military report and opened it for a glance, then immediately raised the military report and said with a smile: "Everyone, let me tell you the great news that the dog-man army led by Yue Le Xiaoer finally  Stepped into the ambush circle of our Great Zhou army! It is just around the corner to wipe out this army of dogs!"

    "So that's how it is." All the gentry, landlords, and wealthy businessmen breathed a sigh of relief, and quickly expressed their joy to Fatty Lu, while the generals of Fatty's army looked at each other in blank dismay, saying that most of the people who lead the soldiers in our army are here  , How could the full dog army step into our ambush circle?  Also, when did our army set up an ambush against Yue Leman's army, why didn't we know?

    "Everyone, please sit down." Fatty Lu greeted: "Please sit down and drink to your heart's content, my general, but I have prepared for you-a full twenty dishes!"

    ?Everyone roared with laughter, and quickly re-entered the table, drank some food, and enjoyed the'twenty' delicious dishes prepared by Fatty Lu for them.  It was also at this time that Fatty Lu quietly pulled the salt merchant who claimed to be able to plan with both hands at the same time, and said in a low voice: "Shopkeeper Yu, please do the calculation for me immediately, eighty-eight days, three catties of rations per person per day  How many catties of grain did 120,000 people eat in eighty-eight days? Calculated at one hundred and six catties of grain per stone, how many stones are converted into stones?"

    Without saying a word, Yu Lun grabbed the abacus with both hands and shook it to separate the upper and lower beads. Then his ten fat fingers fiddled with the abacus quickly and gracefully like playing a piano. After flicking for a while, he quickly answered in a low voice.  Said: "Back to the general, two hundred and ninety-eight thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven stone and ninety-five catties."

    "Thirty-two thousand war horses consume eight catties of concentrated feed every day, or eighty-eight days, how much is the total?" Fatty Lu asked again in a low voice.

    Yu Lun once again showed off his superb skill of dialing the abacus with both hands at the same time, and after a while, he said quickly: "Two thousand two million and five hundred and twenty-eight thousand catties, calculated on the basis of one hundred and six catties per stone, is two  One hundred and twenty-five hundred and twenty-nine stone."

    "That's enough, thank you." Fatty Lu replied with a smile.

    "General, what are you doing?" Yu Lun asked curiously again.

    "Of course, when will the military rations of the full dog court bottom out?" Fatty Lu smiled more happily, and said to himself: "That nursery rhyme should have been spread in the capital area, right? Kang Mazi, you must be careful."  Don't let me down."

    Jiangnan Lu, the demon dragon is flourishing, and thousands of troops are out of the army!  The true son of heaven, wield the heavenly soldiers, subdue demons, subdue monsters and slay demon dragons, retake Jiangnan and rejuvenate the Qing Dynasty!  ¡ª¡ªAccording to Fatty Lu¡¯s crow mouth, this nursery rhyme has indeed been spread in the Zhili and Gyeonggi areas under the meticulous work of Fatty¡¯s army. It has spread quietly, and it has also spread to those in the Qing court  In the ears of the censor who has nothing to do (to be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the starting point (qidian.com) to vote for recommendations and monthly tickets. Your support is my greatest  Motivation.) (Remember the site URL: www.hlnovel.com
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