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Chapter 1083 Be a good person
The lobby was very quiet.

Lu Bing looked at Jiang Qingzhi steadily. Jiang Qingzhi inhaled the medicinal cigarette and said slowly: "Everyone has two sides in his bones, one is a gentleman, and the other is a villain. You are no exception, and neither am I."

"So, where is your villain?" Lu Bing asked.

"The difference lies in whether a gentleman can suppress a villain." Jiang Qingzhi shook off the ashes from his cigarette. "Back to Dou Jialan's matter, you, Lu Bing, actually acted like a gentleman and refused to use this matter to deal with me. This is unlike you! Tell me! Why?"

In history, Lu Bing shone twice. One was when he rescued Emperor Jiajing from a sea of ​​fire, and the other was when Altan Khan's army marched south and arrived outside the capital.

Especially when Altan's army marched all the way to the capital with great momentum, the entire capital was in a panic and chaos.

Lu Bing stepped forward and made many efforts, making great contributions in finally forcing back Altan's army.

Later, he participated in the purge of the Nine Frontiers.

From these perspectives, he is clearly a wise official. But if you look at it from another perspective, he colluded with the Yan Party and did a lot of bad things.

For his own selfish reasons, he has done many things against his will.

Everyone has two faces, one is a devil and the other is an angel.

The script of fate arranges everyone's life perfectly, and it knows exactly when you will become a devil and when you will become an angel.

Lu Bing's life was half devil and half angel, so he had a good end.

Yan Song and his son were more like devils, and they both died a miserable death in the end.

Jiang Qingzhi occasionally thought of these historical events and couldn't help but sigh that there was a god above his head. It was not that he didn't take revenge, it was just that the time had not come yet.

Even in later generations, many of the powerful leaders lost their integrity in their later years. They were successful in the first half of their lives, but fell in the second half, either living in prison or having to eat rice, or their companies went bankrupt and their later years were miserable...

Don't get carried away when you are successful, and don't feel sorry for yourself when you are frustrated. Just be yourself, remember that there is a god above your head, and leave the rest to fate.

Many things cannot be done. That is the life script that God, the director, has given to you, the actor, and it cannot be changed in the slightest. Don't dwell on it. Let go when it's time to let go.

This is the life experience that Jiang Qing summed up in his previous life.

But at this moment, he had to stumble along the thorny road of the new policy, had to fight against fate and the script.

Jiang Qingzhi was testing Lu Bing, and Lu Bing was also testing him.

"This matter..." Lu Bing sighed, "It's been many years, and I had already forgotten about it, but I didn't expect..."

"Tell me about it." Jiang Qingzhi smiled. As the gap in status between the two widened, they felt less dislike for each other.

Old Lu is a handsome man!
Lu Bing knew that Jiang Qingzhi's coming today was a gesture: Hey! Old Lu, we don't have any conflicts that cannot be resolved now, right? How about we be friends?

But you ruined Xu Jie and made me suffer the consequences!

Lu Bing shook his head. The marriage with Xu Jie had now become a hot potato. It was uncomfortable to hold it in his hands, but he couldn't give it up.

He once thought about taking the initiative to propose to cancel the marriage, but after privately thinking about Xu Jie's character, he felt that Xu Jie was too thick-skinned and this would be difficult to accomplish.

Now Xu Jie has become a street rat, and many people want to kill him. There are too many benefits to maintaining a marriage relationship with him, Lu Bing... For the sake of my daughter-in-law, your daughter, you, Lu Bing, can't just sit back and watch me suffer, right?
Only with the escort of the Embroidered Uniform Guards could Xu Jie continue to persist in the capital.

This matter has become Lu Bing's biggest worry recently, making him unable to sleep or eat.

If he fought with Confucianism for Xu Jie, Yan Song and his son would laugh their heads off.

Damn!

All this was caused by this guy in front of me!

There was a hint of fierceness in Lu Bing's eyes. Jiang Qingzhi smiled and shook his head.

——Now you, Lu Bing, are no match for me.

Lu Bing took a deep breath and said, "You also know about the palace coup that happened back then."

"Palace coup?" Jiang Qingzhi thought that Dou Jialan was still a little girl when the palace coup happened!

How does this matter have anything to do with her?

"After the coup, His Majesty woke up and ordered me to investigate the matter secretly." Lu Bing said, "Those palace servants, under severe torture, said in unison that they could not bear the humiliation of His Majesty. This is the news that the outside world has learned, but in fact..."

Ah!
Jiang Qingzhi's eyes narrowed, "What is it really?"

"Someone ordered it." Lu Bing said in a deep voice: "But the clues were cut off. When I took people to arrest him, the man... died."

"Quiet!"

"Yes." Lu Bing nodded. "Those people were ruthless and always one step ahead of me. In those years, I felt like there was a pair of eyes in the palace watching my every move."

The Taoist's palace is probably the most complicated in history.

When Empress Dowager Zhang was around, she was respected in the palace. The women of Daoye were like invisible people in the harem.

Why couldn't Daoye have children? Why was he able to have children again later?

Is it true that God has eyes?

Jiang Qingzhi sneered, and what was later discovered was enough to send chills down one's spine.

"I never gave up investigating this matter, and later found out that it was a palace servant, who was related to someone."

"Sun Ying!"

"Yes." Lu Bing nodded. "That palace maid is a distant relative of a manager in the Marquis's mansion. If it weren't for a coincidence, I wouldn't have found out about this relationship."

Jiang Qingzhi took a puff of herbal cigarettes and said, "They are colluding with each other, why don't they take Sun Ying?"

"There is no evidence at all. It is all speculation. Your Majesty cannot punish a marquis based on speculation."

Jiang Qingzhi nodded.

"I checked Sun Ying. He is a low-key person, but greedy. He opened a gambling house in the city..." "Wait." Jiang Qingzhi stretched out his hand. "Why not use the excuse of investigating the gambling house as an excuse?"

The Ming Dynasty never liberalized the gambling industry from the beginning to the end, which means that opening a gambling house was illegal... Isn't that a ready-made excuse?
"The nominal owner of the gambling house is an elder of the royal family." Lu Bing smiled bitterly. He thought Jiang Qingzhi would be surprised, but Jiang Qingzhi said as if he was used to it: "So that's it."

The cross-ownership of companies in later generations and the complicated relationships behind them are so confusing that it makes your scalp tingle.

What white gloves and black gloves... through various cross-relationships, if the actual controller finally shows up, it would be astonishing.

In Jiang Qingzhi's eyes, Sun Ying's tricks were nothing but child's play.

"How about the royal family member?"

"That man is greedy for money."

Jiang Qingzhi understood, "It might just be a cover."

"Yes!" Lu Bing said, "At that time, your Majesty was being oppressed by those people step by step, and it was not easy to turn against the royal family."

Jiang Qingzhi understood, and soon the Taoist priest escaped into the Western Garden.

——I’m scared!

Such a tough emperor had no choice but to escape when faced with the crazy counterattack of those people.

"It's hard for the Jinyiwei to take action, so I'll send someone to the gambling house..."

Jiang Qingzhi thought of Dou Jialan's father. "It's Dou Jialan's father!"

"Yes!" Lu Bing said, "Dou Xin took advantage of the excuse of accepting bribes to get closer to the gambling house step by step."

It turns out that Dou Jialan’s father is an undercover agent!
Jiang Qingzhi sighed: "But he also became addicted to gambling because of this."

"Fake!" Lu Bing said frankly.

"what?"

Jiang Qingzhi frowned. "Is the gambling addiction fake?"

Later, Jiang Qing asked someone to secretly investigate Dou Jialan's affairs. Dou Xin was addicted to gambling. He sold everything that could be sold in the house, and finally wanted to sell his daughter as well.

"It's fake." Lu Bing said, "Only in this way can Dou Xin get close to Sun Ying. This matter..." He hesitated, "At the beginning, Dou Xin reported that Sun Ying was cunning and difficult to trust. Unless he took the initiative to give him a handle, he would take the initiative to gamble. In the eyes of Sun Ying... Just think about it, if the gambling house owner has an insider in the Jinyiwei, who can resist this temptation."

"Dou Xin did a good job." Jiang Qingzhi sighed, thinking of the hardships Dou Jialan had suffered over the years.

"Yes, he was getting closer to Sun Ying step by step, and was about to find out what happened that year. I had prepared people to raid the Marquis' Mansion and the gambling house, but in the early morning of that day, I got the news that Dou Xin... was dead."

Jiang Qingzhi narrowed his eyes, "What's the reason?"

"On the eve of Dou Xin's death, he came to see me quietly and said that he had found some clues. Before entering the palace, the palace maid had stayed at the house of the steward of the Marquis' Mansion for a day."

Jiang Qingzhi's eyes narrowed, and Lu Bing sighed: "I thought the truth would soon come out..."

Lu Bing closed his eyes. "I feel bad, but I can't go and see him off."

"I know." Jiang Qingzhi nodded. This was also the reason why he could have killed Lu Bing several times but let him go.

If Lu Bing came forward in person, it would prove that Dou Xin was an undercover agent. For a rich and powerful person to be able to open a gambling house in the capital, ruthlessness is a necessary quality.

"If I show up, Dou Jialan will die." Lu Bing smiled bitterly, then gritted his teeth and said, "From then on, I had people keep an eye on Sun Ying, and vowed to uproot the Marquis's Mansion. But for many years, I have been unable to catch him."

Jiang Qingzhi then understood why a female centurion appeared in the Jinyiwei.

"I still remember how Dou Jialan looked when she came to Jinyiwei to recommend herself. She looked very stubborn. The embroidered spring sword on her waist was a bit big, but she just held her head high and said: I want to be a Jinyiwei."

Lu Bing said, "I know that she was a member of the Imperial Guard not to make a living, but to investigate Dou Xin's death. Over the years, I have arranged for people to keep an eye on Sun Ying and the Marquis' Mansion and report from time to time that Dou Jialan is also secretly investigating Sun Ying."

That woman!
Jiang Qingzhi took a puff of the medicinal cigarette and said, "She is indeed stubborn."

"She never thought of asking you for help?" Lu Bing smiled, "Just as I expected."

"Yes!" Jiang Qingzhi nodded, "I'll take care of this."

"I have sent someone to the Ministry of Justice," Lu Bing said. "When Dou Xin died in the line of duty, I could only say against my will that he was addicted to gambling. Now his daughter...how can I just sit there and watch?"

"Old Lu, if you have fewer selfish thoughts, you can have a good ending." Jiang Qingzhi stood up and stretched out his hand.

Outside, Zhu Hao couldn't help but look back at the lobby, and saw Jiang Qingzhi leaning over and extending his hand. Lu Bing was sitting there, letting the hand pat his shoulder.

Not everyone can pat a man's shoulder.

Who else, except the Taoist priest, dared to pat Lu Bing's shoulder over the years?
"gone."

Jiang Qingzhi turned around, holding the cigarette between his fingers, and said as he walked: "Remember, be a good person!"

"But good people don't live long." Lu Bing said.

"The world is hell, and being alive is not necessarily a happy thing. Many times, leaving early is not a bad thing," said Jiang Qingzhi.

"You are deceiving yourself."

"Old Lu." Jiang Qingzhi stood outside the lobby and said without turning around: "Ask yourself, have you been happy these years? You've been calculating all day, fighting for power, feeling happy and sad... Have you been happy?"

Jiang Qingzhi is gone.

Zhu Hao went in, "Commander..."

"go out!"

Zhu Hao went out angrily.

I could vaguely hear Lu Bing muttering inside: "Have I been happy these years?"

(End of this chapter)