Chapter 478: An unexpected surprise, the followers of the imperial prison
Suddenly, a large group of Jinyiwei came to the imperial prison, and everyone from top to bottom was called into the hall.
Lu Bing was sitting in the lobby, but what came to his mind was the contemptuous look in Jiang Qingzhi's eyes after he splashed tea on his face.
——You are just a dog. Even if you are wearing the robes of a high-ranking official, you are still a dog in my eyes!
That look hurt Lu Bing deeply.
He knew that his words and deeds in the imperial prison had been reported to Jiang Qingzhi.
Those words seemed flawless, but they carried a stance. Jiang Qingzhi could use them to embarrass him, but he didn't dare to fight back.
The jailers were brought in for questioning one after another, and soon it was discovered that as many as 30% of them were corrupt.
"I am incompetent!" All the officials of the imperial prison, including Li Jing, knelt down, starting with the thousand-householder official Ma You.
"You are incompetent." Lu Bing said coldly: "I handed the Imperial Prison to you to take care of, is this how you repay me? Beat me!"
There were several benches outside the lobby. Li Jing and others were tied to the benches, with one person on each side holding a wooden stick.
Zhu Hao came out, "Hit!"
Snapped!
Li Jing's body shook. Judging from the force, it seemed that they were going to be beaten to death.
He tilted his head to look inside the hall. Lu Bing was sitting there with his eyes narrowed. A jailer was whispering something. As he spoke, he pointed at them...
This is Lu Bing's insider planted in the imperial prison.
The Jinyiwei was originally divided into the North and South Pacification Divisions, with the North Pacification Division specializing in the management of the imperial prison. But after Lu Bing took over the Jinyiwei, relying on the trust of the Taoist, he soon took control of the North and South Pacification Divisions.
The person currently in charge of the imperial prison is Lu Bing's confidant, Ma You, a captain of the Embroidered Uniform Guard.
At this moment, Ma You twisted his body as hard as he could under the beating, and groaned miserably from his nostrils and throat.
The sounds inside were intermittent and the pain became more unbearable. Li Jing bit the cork and groaned miserably.
He was sweating profusely and tried hard to look ahead.
Zhu Hao shouted, "The crime you are willing to report is of a lower level!"
Someone immediately reported Ma You, saying, "Captain Ma once brought a prostitute into the imperial prison."
"Captain Ma once accepted bribes from the prisoners' families..."
"Li Jing loves playing with birds and neglects his duties."
Li Jing smiled miserably.
Zhu Hao grinned and said, "That's not what I'm asking. Today, when the commander came to the prison, someone leaked what the commander said in the prison. Who is it? Tell me, and the commander will reward you handsomely. Anyone who conceals the truth will be punished with his accomplices, and your whole family will be killed!"
Only the emperor had the power to execute a clan, but within the Jinyiwei, Lu Bing was the boss. He said that if he could kill your whole family at three o'clock in the morning, even the King of Hell would not dare to stay until five o'clock.
No one said a word.
"Hit me!" Zhu Hao sneered, "I want to see whether your words are tough or the stick is tough."
Li Jing was hit hard with a stick, his head suddenly raised up, and his eyes were red.
He was dying, and someone squatted in front of him and asked, "Who leaked what the commander said?"
The voice was gentle, as if it was rewarding someone.
Li Jing said weakly, "I don't know."
"beat!"
Snapped!
Li Jing raised his head and said with a sad smile: "Your subordinate...is incompetent."
"Captain Ma is dead." The man went over to ask, but found that Ma You was no longer alive.
"What a good horse friend!" Lu Bing sneered.
Ma You's performance just now was exactly like that of a die-hard fighter who was fighting to the bitter end.
Ma You was greedy for food and drink, and liked to play with women, so his body had long been hollowed out. He died before thirty strokes of the cane. The executioner didn't notice and continued to beat him happily. By the time he was found, Ma You had been dead for quite some time.
The dead naturally won't speak.
Li Jing and others were carried into the lobby.
Zhu Hao whispered to Lu Bing, "Most of the centurions are greedy. Deputy centurion Li Jing is okay, but he has a problem."
"What's wrong?"
“I like playing with birds.”
For Lu Bing, he dare not employ people who have no problems.
"What kind of bird are you playing with?" Lu Bing asked, stroking the jade pendant on his waist.
"It's the thrush. He has this one hobby and it hasn't changed for many years."
Li Jing felt weak and thought he was probably not far from death.
"Li Jing!" someone shouted. Li Jing raised his head with all his strength. Through his sweat-blurred vision, he said blankly, "I am guilty. Please...please punish me, Commander."
Zhu Hao laughed and said, "You are so lucky, you are still being punished? Hurry up and thank me!"
The word "thank you" belongs to the emperor, but it is unscrupulous within the Jinyiwei.
Li Jing's cheeks trembled, "Your humble servant... thank you."
"Take good care of your injuries." Lu Bing walked to the hall and patted Li Jing on the shoulder, "Keep an eye on the prison for me."
Li Jing was stunned. "Commander, your subordinate...your subordinate..."
This fits the image of a person who is somewhat silly after being surprised to the extreme.
Lu Bing smiled, "He is so happy that he has gone mad. Take him home and give him the best medicine for his wounds. Come back as soon as possible."
At this time, someone asked how to deal with Ma You's body.
Lu Bing still had a smile on his face. "People must be compassionate when they live. The stray dogs outside the city are starving..."
"Yes." The former superior and subordinate, one was about to be fed to dogs, while the other was rising to prominence.
After being taken back home, his wife and children were terrified. But when they saw that the Jinyiwei who brought Li Jing back were quite respectful to them, they felt relieved.
"It's okay."
Li Jing lay on the bed and said to his wife, "This is just an unexpected disaster."
The wife was puzzled, "What kind of unprovoked disaster?"
Li Jing said: "Ma You may have betrayed the commander, and we will be punished."
"Commander, what's wrong..."
"Shut up!" Li Jing stopped his wife and said, "The commander has been very kind to me. Don't speak nonsense, woman."
"Your kindness is as heavy as a mountain?" His wife choked as she looked at his butt that was almost broken.
"The commander ordered me to take charge of the imperial prison. Isn't this a great favor?" Li Jing whispered, "I should do my best to repay the commander. Also, don't take this as an excuse to be complacent. Don't cause trouble for me."
"I know that it is my husband who is in charge of the Imperial Prison. Isn't this a promotion?"
Outside the window, a dark figure quietly retreated. Later, he appeared beside Lu Bing and repeated the conversation between Li Jing and his wife.
Lu Bing nodded, and after the visitor left, he suddenly smiled bitterly.
"The Mohists want to take the lead, while the Confucians want to block them. The dispute between the Confucians and Mohists has affected everyone. I, the commander of the Jinyiwei, am like a rat in the bellows, suffering from both sides."
Zhu Hao said, "Commander, Jiang Qingzhi was unreasonable in the beginning, so we should go back and trip him up so that Sun Chonglou can confess his guilt."
Lu Bing shook his head. Zhu Hao was anxious. "Does the commander still have to endure it?"
"I'm not forbearing." Lu Bing said, "I wanted Jiang Qingzhi to know what I said to Sun Chonglou. But before Sun Chonglou met Jiang Qingzhi, someone secretly passed the message to Jiang Qingzhi.
I didn't expect that Ma You, this bastard, would betray me. This is an unexpected success, a pleasant surprise."
Zhu Hao was startled, "Did the commander do this on purpose?"
"After Jiang Qingzhi returned from Yunnan, his reputation grew and his momentum grew. He wanted to use his power to expand the Mohist School, while the Confucian School wanted to fight back and strangle him. The war between Confucianism and Mohism is about to begin, and our Jinyiwei cannot avoid it. The only way is to split up with him..."
……
"Lu Bing, this is a way to protect yourself."
Xia Yan was walking in the courtyard with Duoduo in his arms, but he held its paw very carefully.
"I know. Since he wants to protect himself, I will help him." Jiang Qingzhi said with a smile, "I poured a cup of tea and it made me feel relieved. He was willing to be splashed with it."
Xu Wei was teasing Duoduo on the side. This guy had bad intentions and raised his eyebrows at Xia Yan.
"Boy, when I was playing with cats, you were still in your mother's womb." Xia Yan was very pleased that his relationship with Duoduo had improved greatly recently.
Duoduo looked at Xu Wei lazily and closed his eyes again. Xu Wei said regretfully: "At the moment, the two sides are fighting on the land outside the city, and the place of the fight is the case of the stone."
"Tomorrow the Dali Temple will jointly try this case with the Jinyiwei." Jiang Qingzhi took out a medicinal cigarette, "Many people are waiting for Shitou to be convicted of a serious crime, exiled, or even executed."
"My Lord." Sun Bu Tong came over and said, "There is news from the palace. Lu Bing reported to His Majesty that Ma You, the chief of the Imperial Prison, died and recommended someone. In addition, Li Jing is also among them. It is said that he was promoted to deputy chief of the Imperial Prison."
What the hell!
Jiang Qingzhi was stunned.
Xu Wei suddenly burst into laughter, "Lu Bing, Lu Bing, you are blind!"
"But then some people were carried out of the imperial prison, including Li Jing."
Jiang Qingzhi didn't know what was going on. "Old Xu... Never mind. Jinyiwei has good fighters. Let Fucheng go and take a look."
……
Li Jing was drowsy. Sometimes he dreamed that he was beaten to death and his soul returned to the underworld. Sometimes he dreamed that Jiang Qingzhi was teasing him with a bird...
"Captain Li! Captain Li!"
Li Jing opened his eyes, "You are..."
"We are Fucheng, the housekeeper of the Bo Mansion. We met last time."
Li Jing remembered, "Why are you here..."
"My uncle is worried about you, so he asked me to ask."
Li Jing glanced outside, and Fu Cheng smiled and said, "There is a little creature outside, but it didn't find me."
If he can't avoid a spy from the Imperial Guard, his life would be in vain.
Li Jing whispered about today's situation. Fu Cheng was also shocked to learn that he had turned a disaster into a blessing and was appointed as the deputy captain of a thousand households and was in charge of the imperial prison.
"I'm sorry."
"What's the matter?"
"Why is Captain Li willing to work for the Lord?" Fu Cheng asked.
Li Jing tried to support himself with both hands. "That year, I was coerced by my uncle and had no choice but to be an insider. I was unwilling to do so..."
This is human nature, Fucheng nodded.
"Later, I learned that Master Bo was a great figure in the Mohist school." Li Jing tilted his head to look outside, "You probably don't know that when I was young, my family was in a difficult situation, very poor, and I almost starved to death several times."
Fucheng really doesn't know this.
"Once I was starving and couldn't bear it any longer, so I stole half a pancake. I was caught and beaten half to death. While I was being beaten, I desperately protected the pancake and ate two bites. I still remember the taste of that pancake..."
Li Jing smiled and said, "At that moment I swore that if anyone could ensure that the Ming Dynasty would have enough food and that the people of the world would have enough food, I would be willing to die for him."
"Many nobles and high officials have said that they want to revive the Ming Dynasty and feed the people, but they only talk and do nothing." He looked at Fu Cheng, "My uncle also said that he would revive the Ming Dynasty and feed the people in this lifetime. I saw him doing it.
Please tell my uncle,
Li Jing is willing to die for the Lord...! "
(End of this chapter)
