Mingda and Zhu Fei are both Sima Ye Qiandi - formerly the King of Qin - the old eunuch, during the "Yongjia Rebellion", his entourage escaped from Luoyang and turned to Guanzhong, the temperament, talent, and even appearance of the two are all very different.

In terms of temperament, Mingda Lu is straightforward and Zhu Fei is humble; In terms of talent, Mingda can lift the crown, which is really an outlier in the eunuchs, and Zhu Fei is fluent in writing and ink, and he also writes a good hand; In terms of appearance, Mingda has a big head and a black face, a strong height, and a large abdomen, in contrast, Zhu Fei is much shorter and embroidery, and the cut is very white, with good facial features, and he looks like a scribe.

Therefore, Xun Di and others started to make the Chinese book control the five schools, and the specific responsibilities fell on Mingda's head, and Zhu Fei was still responsible for the transmission of internal and external official documents.

Let's say that on this day, Mingda returned to the forbidden middle school from the fifth school camp, and met Liang Fang and Zhu Fei side by side, so he bowed and saluted. Liang Fang and the others also returned the salute, and asked, "Mingjun is not in the fifth school, why did he come back?" Mingda replied casually: "Arrange the guard." ”

The national army of the Jin Dynasty can be roughly divided into three parts: the Chinese army, the foreign army, and the state and county soldiers. The Chinese army is the armed force directly under the control of the imperial court, and the foreign army is the reinforcement of the local governor - for example, the three armies of the Great Sima in Guanzhong, the Su Jun army in Qingzhou, the Wang Dunjun army in Jiangzhou, the Zhang Wei army in Liangzhou, and the Zhou visiting army in Hanzhong, etc., the Zujia army also belonged to the foreign army system in the past - the state and county soldiers are the garrisons of each city, which were originally scarce, but now in Yanbei, Qingzhou, Pingyang, Taiyuan and other counties in Jinxia, most of them have more than 1,000 people.

Among them, the Chinese army can be divided into two parts: the Suwei Army and the Yamen Army: the Suwei Army is stationed in Luoyang City, responsible for the defense of the city and the palace ban, and the Yamen Army is stationed on the outskirts of the city, as a mobile force - even if the Zujia Army is partially reorganized into seven armies such as front, rear, left, right, and Xiaocai, the number of which exceeds 40,000, it is naturally impossible for all of them to enter the city to garrison, and the original main force is also located outside Luoyang City.

The real Su Guard, since the "Yongjia Rebellion", has been nothing but nothing. When Sima Ye was in Chang'an, Suo Qi ordered his subordinate Li Yi and other guards, and after Suo Yi was defeated; by Pei Cai's army and guards; When Guiluo arrived, the power of the guards naturally fell into the hands of Zu Li. Xun Shi used the excuse of not conforming to the system, and repeatedly asked for the restoration of the seven armies and five schools, and finally Zu Ti made a certain compromise, allowing him to slowly rebuild the five schools and share the responsibility of the guards.

Therefore, theoretically speaking, the Chinese army is led by the leading generals, and its second guards, five colonels, and some Lang officials are responsible for the garrison of the capital and the palace ban, and the remaining five armies should be stationed outside the city. However, when the five schools were first established, the amount was incomplete, and most of them were filled by civilians and eunuchs in Beijing, and the quality was relatively poor - the real good soldier seedlings, Zu Ti naturally took them away first, and it was impossible to leave them to the five schools - Wei Ce, the general of the left guard, also went out with Zu Ti, and Pei Pi, the general of the right guard, was stationed in Henan-

The reason why Pei Gai changed Pei Pi's department to the right guard that day was naturally because once he had something, he could drive into Luoyang City and serve as a guard.

It's just that the Xun clan also tried to grasp the right to defend the city within the scope of the imperial court system, so when Xu Liu Zuti) set out on the expedition, he asked him to concentrate on defending the city in the name that the former army led by Zu Lian was not worth the guards as usual, and gave the palace ban to the five schools. When Zu Lian crossed to the north and Pei Pi entered Beijing, he had no intention of turning his face with the Xun family for the time being, so he took over the important task of city defense first, and then, the Xun family handed over the five schools to Mingda in preparation for Pei Pi.

The barracks of the fifth school are close to the palace ban, and thousands of people are on duty every day, so it is normal for Mingda to return to the forbidden middle school today and arrange the guards. However, Liang Fang said: "The guard of the forbidden is a core, and at this critical juncture, Ming Jun should always stay in the camp of the five schools." ”

Mingda didn't quite understand what he meant, so he asked: "Today, the five schools are the guards of the palace ban, and the city defense is a matter of defense, and they will be paid to Pei Youwei." Although the thief and the ancestor fought in Xingyang, not far from Yiluo, and there is no need for me to interfere in the defense of the city for the time being, why should he stay in the camp for a long time? ”

Liang Fang glanced at Zhu Fei beside him, then reached out and pulled Mingda's sleeve, pulled him aside, and asked in a low voice: "How can Mingjun not understand it-Shangshu Qijuan, so that Zhongshu leads the five schools, in Jun's opinion, what is the reason?" ”

Mingda said with a smile: "Naturally, because the Xun family wants to take the power of the guard, but there is no general in the bag, so I am temporarily in his position and occupy a seat for them - since it is the fifth school of the middle school, it is naturally inconvenient for my grandfather to snatch it." ”

Liang Fangyu said: "This is wrong, the Xun family recommends the monarch to lead the five schools, not to prepare for the ancestors, but to prepare for Pei!" ”

While speaking, Zhu Fei also came over step by step with his hands behind his back, but Liang Fang didn't intend to avoid him, so he continued to enlighten Mingda: "Last year's 'easy car driving' and other prophecies, of course, it is a thief's plan to discord, but Da Sima is strong in Guanxi, and he throws east and Pingyang, his momentum is not strong, and his power is great, so once he returns to Luo and captures Rongwei, he will become Emperor Jing and Emperor Wen in Cao Wei. ”

When Mingda heard this, he couldn't help but be stunned: "An Neng compares Pei Da Sima with the two first emperors?!" "Actually, the implication of the words: You said that Da Sima has the ambition to abuse power, and even in the future, he will use Pei to change Sima, this, this is not enough.

Liang Fang sighed and said: "People are separated by each other, who dares to assert it? It is because of Pei Youwei's coming that the Xun family hurriedly handed over the five schools to the hands of Ming Jun, specifically to protect the palace ban and prevent the authority of the heavenly family from completely falling out. Then he glanced at Zhu Fei again: "If there is any case, are the two of you willing to die?" ”

Ming and Zhu immediately patted their chests: "We are naturally loyal to Your Majesty, why do you need Liang Gong to ask?" ”

To say that the eunuch group is, in theory, the most loyal to the imperial power—although not necessarily to a certain emperor personally. Because the eunuchs have no foundation and are generally discriminated against by the scholars, if they want to hold money and power, they must be close to the royal family.

Therefore, the emperor often trusted the eunuchs because of this, and even deliberately deprived some of the ministers of their rights in order to confer eunuchs. Of course, the eunuch group pretends to use the imperial power to shake up its majesty, but often overrides or even deposes the emperor without authorization, because what they want is the support of the imperial power, and the emperor is only a signboard of the imperial power in most cases, and there is no hindrance to replace it.

It is precisely because of this that Liang Fang respects the eunuchs such as Ming and Zhu, and gradually cultivates the trust of the other party. Although he is a scholar, in fact, he is more of a relative, and his relatives are sandwiched between the courtiers and the eunuchs, and they are considered to be the emperor's half-drawn personal affairs, and they also need the imperial power to rely on, so in history, the collusion between the relatives and the eunuchs is generally more than the opposition and hostility.

Therefore, Liang Fang stated his thoughts and thoughts in recent days to Ming and Zhu in detail: "The Son of Heaven is still in his youth, and the world is not quiet. When the thieves are wiped out, the world is decided, only the government is in the Son of Heaven, and the society can be stable for a long time◆ Emperor Wu is in power, and it is a prosperous era, filial piety and filial piety are coerced by foreign ministers and foreign vassals, and the country is almost overturned. ”

Mingda nodded again and again, but Zhu Fei said in his heart: The reason why Emperor Xiaohui is too upside down is mainly because of the demon moths made by his relatives

But he didn't open his mouth to argue, just let Liang Fang continue.

Liang Fang said: "However, since the foreign ministers hold the authority, how can they easily return to the king?" We can only be guided by the situation, and if the big Sima fruit becomes a big tail, it will be difficult to go; Only Pei, Zu △ and other foreign ministers antagonized each other, and the heavenly family was expected to benefit from the fisherman. That is, in today's terms, the five continuations cannot fall into the hands of Pei's!

"Originally, although we had the ambition of being loyal to the king, after all, the official was humble and small, and it was difficult to manage. If you wait for October to give birth, the East Palace, the prestige of the heavenly family will inevitably be greatly invigorated, and the Shishu will all hope that they will be successive generations, Yong Baoping, whether it is the Great Sima or the ancestral hussar, will not dare to be delusional again∫ Fang Cai said that the critical juncture does not mean that the thief is approaching, but that the queen has not yet given birth - can the second prince know my mind? ”

Zhu Feixin said that as long as there is a prince, naturally the ministers will not dare to usurp again? Where did you find this naïve idea? However, what Liang Fang said does have a certain amount of truth, Sima Ye's knees are empty, even if he wants to boost his authority, I am afraid it will be difficult to do it, and once there is a clear heir, maybe the hearts of some courtiers and scholars will be slightly biased towards the heavenly family. So he didn't correct Liang Fang, but just asked: "Why does Duke Liang know that the queen is indeed the concubine of the heavenly family, not the princess?" ”

Liang Fangshen smiled mysteriously and said, "I have asked Master Jiyou about this matter, as well as the Wei family, Queen Jieyun will definitely give birth to a boy!" ”

In fact, Mrs. Wei didn't give the right words at all, and the corpse Pear Midora didn't care about the ghost tricks of appearance and divination, "it is inevitable to give birth to a man", which is purely Liang Fang's wishful thinking.

But as soon as the names of the two masters came out, Ming and Zhu Ereun were punished, and they couldn't help but be overjoyed. Zhu Fei also bowed down and congratulated Liang Fang: "In this way, Liang Gong can be a prince in two dynasties, and wealth will not be replaced." "Of course, theoretically, according to Liang Fang's age, he will hang up if he can't wait for the crown prince to take the throne.

Liang Fang was glad to be congratulated and felt quite comfortable. Fortunately, he was still thinking about business, so he quickly pulled the topic back: "Therefore, at this critical juncture, it is necessary to prevent Pei Youwei from taking the right of the guard because of the instructions of the Great Sima." To put it mildly, once the guards are banned, and then they are generally in the hands of foreign ministers, who dares to guarantee the flesh and blood of the heavenly family in the queen's womb, there will be no what? ! ”

When Ming and Zhu heard this, they were all shocked.

After all, Mingda, especially Zhu Fei, has also read books for a few days, and knows that once an external force intervenes, the child in the queen's womb may not be born, or although it is born, it may not be raised. Not to mention external forces, the internal is also fatal, Queen Jia's sorrow for the crown prince Sima Shu was only twenty years ago; As for the fact that Liang Fang secretly gave the secret medicine to Queen Liang, so that the concubine could not conceive the flesh and blood of the Son of Heaven, he could hide it from Sima Ye, and he couldn't hide it from the two eunuchs in front of him.

Liang Fang therefore turned off the light and said: "I expect Pei Youwei not to dare to break into the palace ban, but it must be prevented from coming to seize the five school camps∫ Fang heard that Shangshu Province is to stick to the capital, and urgently summon the ancestral army to return. That's why he wants to take the camp, only within a few days, and at this time, how can Ming Jun not sit in the camp? ”

Mingda nodded again and again: "What Liang Gong said is true." A certain rough man failed to understand the overall situation, thanks to the guidance of Liang Gong - he returned to the camp, and before the former army returned to Luo, he would not enter the palace again. He took a deep swipe as he spoke, then turned his head and walked away.

Zhu Fei hurriedly greeted behind him: "Mingjun and go slowly, forbidden, I still have a few words to ask Mingjun." As he spoke, he hurried to catch up with Mingda, and at the same time, he glanced behind him out of the corner of his eye, and saw that Liang Fang did not come over, so he lowered his voice and said: "The five stores are weak, and they will not be able to resist the right guard, then the right guard of Yunnan will come, and you should be careful not to conflict with it, but you can be perfunctory for the time being, and urgently report to Shangshu and the subordinates, so that the foreign ministers will come to rebuke Pei Youwei." ”

Mingda bowed his head and said: "What you said is very reasonable, I know. ”

So he hurriedly returned to the camp of the fifth school, ordered the camp gate to be closed, martial law inside and outside, and no unauthorized entry and exit were allowed without an order. Sure enough, early the next morning, the sky had just dawned, and I saw a sentry cavalry surging towards the fifth school camp, and when he arrived outside the camp, he immediately shouted "open the door" on the horse.

Mingda Xin said that Liang Gong was really accurate, and hurriedly ordered someone to sneak out of the back of the camp to inform Shangshu and Menxia Province. However, this time is too early, it is estimated that there are no people in charge in the second city-Yin Qiao, who is used to going to work on time, has already left Luoyang-he should delay Pei Pi for a while longer, as Zhu Fei said.

Therefore, when the soldiers came to report, Mingda pretended not to get up and did not respond. It wasn't until Pei Pi shouted three times in a row, but no one answered, and simply ordered to open the camp gate, Mingda had no way to hide, so he had to step out of the governor's office, stand in the gate and answer, and asked: "General Pei is here early in the morning, I don't know what is important?" Did they summon me to guard the gates? ”

Pei Pi glanced at him coldly: "You are Mingda?" ”

Mingda arched his hand and replied, "It's the last official." ”

Pei Lijiao skimmed: "How can a lieutenant control the fifth school?" The thief is approaching, since he is the unification of the guard, the leader is not there, and I take over the five schools in the name of the general of the right guard. ”

Mingda retorted: "The edict ordered Zhongshu to take charge of the five schools, and General He Laopei took over?" ”

Pei Pi sneered: "Although Zhongshu is in charge of the five schools, there is no order in Zhongshu!" You are only the last Chinese scholar, and you are a lieutenant official, and your reputation is not as good as that of the five school governors, how can you be in charge of it? ”

Mingda said: "Whether the last official can take charge of the five schools, you must ask the Son of Heaven, you must ask Shangshu, although General Pei leads the right guard, I am afraid that he has no right to trespass." ”

Pei Pi cross-examined: "The governor of the Chinese and foreign armies is the Great Sima, and the governor of the Chinese army is the ancestral hussar, and Shang Shu'an has to put his beak?" ”

Ming Danai asked: "I don't know if General Pei has a military order from Da Sima or Zu Hussar?" Please present it. ”

The two of them quarreled about this, and they squirted at each other. After all, Pei Pi took charge of the five schools, which is reasonable, but he did not go through the procedure, although Mingda is not too smart, he has been in the middle school for a long time, is familiar with the imperial court system, and thinks about it all night.

Wang Gong hid behind Pei Pi, and immediately lowered his voice and reminded: "He intends to delay, if he invites the elders of the court to interfere, I am afraid it will be difficult to do it - don't argue with him, just rush in!" ”