Chapter 29 The Twenty-ninth Case of the White Bone Mystery Case
When Lu Fang thought of this master who was becoming more and more difficult to serve, Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houxi, he couldn't help but think of another person, he was Lu Bing, the former commander of the Jinyi Guard. Regarding the grievances and grievances between Lu Fang and Lu Bing, even Emperor Zhu Houxi of Jiajing really didn't know everything. But only Lu Fang and Lu Bing, who was already dead, knew that the two of them had too many secrets that they needed to keep with their lives.
Speaking of the first head-on collision between Lu Fang and Lu Bing, it should be said that it was caused by a piece of pastry. At that time, Lu Fang was more than seven years old, and Lu Bing had just passed his eighth birthday. Afterwards, Lu Fang commented on Lu Bing in private more than once, saying that Lu Bing was a shameless scoundrel who wanted money and didn't want his life. In fact, when the Lu family turned their backs on Jinyiwei and became the slaves of the Xingwang family, their fate had been linked to the Xingwang family. The reason why the Lu family turned their backs on Jinyiwei for the sake of King Xing was mainly because of their resentment and helplessness. The Lu family can also be regarded as the old man of Jinyiwei, and they have worked hard in Jinyiwei for several generations, but in exchange for such a result. Emperor Xiaozong Zhu Youzhu was good at everything, but he was worried that his relatives would be restless, so he secretly sent Jinyi guards to monitor the vassal kings in various places. Its practical practice of disguised as an ordinary guard to spy on the vassal king, this rule has long been in place. These officers were nominally to protect the feudal kings, but in fact they were to monitor and control the behavior of the feudal kings. When necessary, they will take out the emperor's secret order and directly deal with the vassal king who is about to move. However, Emperor Xiaozong Zhu Youzhu was notoriously benevolent and filial, and as long as the vassal kings did not make substantive moves, the Jinyi guards who were secretly monitoring had almost no real power. That is to say, the Lu family, who came to the vassal with King Xing, is equivalent to staying near King Xing's house, and without the emperor's new instructions, or if King Xing has an accident, the Lu family is equivalent to settling down here. Outsiders don't know, the people of the Lu family and King Xing know that the Lu family is equivalent to being abandoned by Jinyiwei. If this continues, the Lu family will either live in embarrassment from now on, or wait for Jin Yiwei to be expelled from Jinyiwei's team after ten or twenty years. Rather than being fired by Jinyiwei, it is better to take Jinyiwei's salary nominally and actually take refuge with the new master one step earlier. For this reason, Lu Bing's father, under a hint from King Xing, immediately came together with King Xing. In this way, the Lu family, who originally came to monitor King Xing's every move, became "their own person" to help King Xing speak, and also used his special relationship to inquire about some confidential information. Fortunately, King Xing's ambition is not big, otherwise the Lu family would have become an accomplice in causing chaos in the world.
In order to show his loyalty, Lu Bing's father found a reason to bring his family to King Xing's side. Jin Yiwei explained it very well, and said that in order to make King Xing believe them, he had to take his family over. Anyway, Jin Yiwei had long planned to abandon the Lu family, so he immediately sent the Lu family's family over. In this way, the Lu family has been completely attached to King Xing since then, and even made Lu Bing's mother the wet nurse of King Xing's son. Not only did Mrs. Lu become the wet nurse of Xingwang Shizi, but the Lu family arranged Lu Bing to eat and sleep with Xingwang Shizi. As Lu Bing grew up, he naturally understood one thing, he would protect the son of the world in the future, just like his father personally protected King Xing. When there was a little eunuch by the side of the prince, Lu Bing, who regarded himself as the first follower by the prince's side, was of course unhappy.
The reason is that King Xing randomly inspected the son's homework and found that the son has worked a lot hard these days. The prince knew that his child's character must have played a certain role in the people around him, so he ordered to reward some pastries to the people around him. After the old eunuch and the palace maid took away their share of the pastry, Lu Fang finally got his own pastry for the first time, and he didn't have to swallow his saliva secretly. Unexpectedly, Lu Bing appeared at this time, he relied on his ability to do some kung fu, and he was stronger than Lu Fang, so he grabbed the piece of pastry that Lu Fang was assigned and ate it. Lu Fang was angry for the first time, he rushed up and fought hard with Lu Bing, and the two of them were almost defeated.
If the prince hadn't stepped forward and stopped the next behavior of the two people, it is estimated that neither of them would have had a good time. Afterwards, Lu Fang and Lu Bing were always afraid that if they really fought, the weak Lu Fang might be killed by Lu Bing on the spot, but Lu Bing would not be better, because Lu Fang would give Lu Bing the final blow before he died, and even if it did not cause Lu Bing to be disabled for life, it would leave permanent scars. Besides, if Lu Bing killed the personal little eunuch next to Shizi because of a piece of pastry, even if King Xing did not order the disposal, the Lu family would kill the child to show loyalty to King Xing. This matter was talked about by Lu Fang or Lu Bing many times later, and the main purpose was to try to control the infighting as much as possible, so as not to affect the development of the overall situation because of some small internal opinions.
Since this battle, the relationship between Lu Fang and Lu Bing has improved a lot. Lu Bing also inquired about Lu Fang's life experience and had a compassionate attitude. Lu Fang also learned about the relationship between Lu Bing's family and the prince's family from the prince, and even knew that Lu Bing, like herself, would use her life to protect the son. As a subordinate, as a slave who is very loyal to his master, as long as he is as loyal to his master as himself, this person is Lu Fang's friend, and even a comrade-in-arms. Since then, Lu Fang and Lu Bing have come together, gradually adapting to each other, and cooperating with each other more and more closely. In the end, he became the son of King Xing, who was later the second general of Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houxi.
Lu Fang's evaluation of Lu Bing is very pertinent, Lu Bing has his advantages, of course, he also has his shortcomings. Lu Bing is more alert and cunning than ordinary people, and is good at adapting or controlling the situation in an uncertain environment. Of course, his overall view and loyalty to Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houxi are also the most reassuring for Lu Fang. But Lu Bing also has many shortcomings, greedy, stingy, lustful, and adventurous. Lu Fang still always feels that some of the bad problems of Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houxi are caused by Lu Bing. What Lu Fang couldn't tolerate the most was Lu Bing's scoundrel appearance and lustful temper. When Lu Bing was young, there was a sentence that was often on his lips, of course, only his own people often heard this sentence. The sentence is "We are brothers, what is yours is mine, and of course mine is still mine." He has never pulled out a dime, and he often gets stuck in his own people's "oil and water". Lu Fang is the one who is "bullied" by Lu Bing the most, Lu Bing often thinks that he has a large family to raise as an excuse, eating and drinking Lu Fang for nothing is not counted, and every time he "passes" something from Lu Fang. As for Lu Bing's lust, Lu Fang knew about it as early as when he was in the domain. Lu Bing not only went to some brothels by himself, but also secretly taught Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houxi, who was still a prince at the time, some things behind his back. Even Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houxi's first woman was secretly arranged by Lu Bing. For this reason, Lu Fang once again couldn't help but beat Lu Bing hard. This time, Lu Bing didn't dare to fight back, because his own mother, Lao Tzu, was glaring angrily on the side, and they acquiesced to Lu Fang's harsh lesson to Lu Bing. Lu Bing also knew that he had made a big fuss this time, so he had to obediently lie on the ground and let Lu Fang beat him. Among the many battles between Lu Fang and Lu Bing, only this one was the most enjoyable and enjoyable, and of course Lu Fang also felt the most boring. During that beating, Lu Fang felt the importance of Lu Fang and Lu Bing for the first time, in addition to a bad breath, and the adults had already regarded Lu Fang and Lu Bing as indispensable people around the prince, and they were not only comrades-in-arms but also people who restrained each other.
When he first arrived in the capital, it can be said that he was embattled, and Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houxi only had two intimate people, Lu Fang and Lu Bing, by his side. In order to better control the new emperor, both the minister and the empress dowager refused to allow Lu Bing's mother, that is, the wet nurse of Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houxi, to follow Lu Bing's mother to the capital on the grounds that the emperor was old and did not need to be taken care of by the elderly. Therefore, Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houxi had no choice but to bring Lu Bing and Lu Fang to the capital, which was also a last resort arrangement. The queen mother and ministers were not worried about these two half-grown boys at all. In the eyes of these adults, one is a little eunuch who has no power and no foundation, and the other is a descendant of Jinyiwei, one of them is taught by the eunuch in charge of the eunuch, and the other is managed by Jinyiwei, Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houxi is equal to no cronies around him. Unexpectedly, Lu Fang and Lu Bing not only did not turn their backs on Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houxi, but also tied themselves to Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houxi. They can almost eat and sleep with Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houxi, and almost never leave Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houxi. In just two days, Lu Bing and Lu Fang sabotaged and stopped nearly 30 incidents. Some are artificial, some are unintentional, and some are tentative, anyway, almost everything that endangers Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houxi is blocked by Lu Fang and Lu Bing. That's how Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houxi still had two food poisoning and a so-called accident, fortunately, Lu Fang had already prepared some antidote and traumatic first-aid medicines, which were secretly collected by Lu Fang when he was in Xingwangfu. King Xing's alchemy was immortal, and he researched a lot of drugs for detoxification and treatment of external injuries. When these pills were treated as failed pills and were ready to be disposed of, Lu Fang secretly left a part. I didn't expect that at the beginning of Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houxi's ascension to the throne, it played such a big role.
After the food poisoning happened, Lu Fang and Lu Bing paid more attention to it, and all the things that were to be eaten by Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houxi had to be double-tested by Lu Bing and Lu Fang. For this reason, Lu Fang secretly raised a kitten and prepared a silver hairpin for testing drugs. But for the sake of safety, Lu Bing decided to prepare the food himself. He took advantage of the fact that he could no longer spend the night in the palace, during the day to protect the Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houxi, and at night to go back to study the knowledge of Jinyiwei's various protectors, and after getting up early in the morning, the first thing he did was to go to different places to buy some inconspicuous dry food. These dry foods were hidden by Lu Bing and brought into the palace, and the three of them dined together and spent the most difficult years.
In order to control and balance the celebrant supervisor, Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houxi arranged Lu Fang and Lu Bing to the most powerful positions. LĂź Fang served as the chief eunuch of the Qianqing Palace, responsible for taking care of all the biochemical daily life of Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houxi. Of course, the chief eunuch of the Qianqing Palace is also one of the eunuchs of the master of ceremonies and the eunuch of Bingbi, so although Lu Fang cannot be the eunuch of the master of ceremonies, he is also counted as the chief eunuch, which paves a smooth road for Lu Fang to become the eunuch of the seal of the master of ceremonies in the future. Lu Bing was originally born in Jinyiwei, and in order to take away part of the power of the celebrant supervisor, Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houxi asked Lu Bing to serve as the chief of Jinyi Weinanzhen. Jinyiwei has the North and South Town Fu Division, the North Town Fu Division externally, and the South Town Fu Division internally. In other words, the North Town Fuji was a secret agent who monitored the feudal kings and ministers of the court in various places, and the South Town Fu Division was in charge of both the Imperial Palace Ouchi and the imperial relatives in Beijing. In terms of power, the South Town Fu Division is not as good as the North Town Fu Division, and the ranking in Jinyi Wei is only the third at most. But with Lu Bing's age and qualifications, as well as the purpose of Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houxi, Nanzhen Fusi is the best position. Soon after, Lu Fang not only secured the position of the head of the Qianqing Palace, but also used his skills to win over some cronies. In this way, Lu Fang is no longer alone in the palace, at least there are some fighters, so there is no need to worry about being too busy alone. Lu Bing also gained a firm foothold in Jinyiwei and began to secretly investigate the affairs of the Queen Mother. Because Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houyu was able to endure and his subordinates were powerful, in just a few years, Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houyu not only controlled the situation, but also forced the Empress Dowager to give up part of her real power. The reason is that Lu Bing found out through investigation that the Queen Mother and her relatives were using some illegal means to embezzle property that originally belonged to the royal family. Once these things are made public, the relatives of the Queen Mother will die and have no place to be buried, and the Queen Mother will not be able to step down because of this. For the sake of the Queen Mother's face and the Queen Mother's family, the Queen Mother had to compromise with Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houxi.