I'm not Murong Chong

Besides, after Shi Yigui won the post of Imperial Guard from Ren Zhen's mouth, he was promoted to General of Zhonglang. Red top and white, flattering and flattering, Shi Yigui is not frivolous, he smiles at everyone and does not act arrogantly, and even tries his best to make friends with eunuchs and maids who have positions and serve closely, There is a constant flow of small silver coins for bribes and rewards.I don't know when, the name of "Little Zhonglang" has spread like wildfire in the palace. For a while, Shi Yigui became more diligent and careful, wishing to take root in the Huben camp every day, practicing morning and evening and patrolling at all times.

One day when he was training in the school grounds, a sergeant rushed to report: "Xiao Lieutenant Mu started arguing with someone at the door of the room while he was leading a patrol. I'm afraid we're going to do it right away!" Shi Yigui frowned, and just asked a question. Whoever it is, I feel my scalp tightening—Mu Chong is not easy to mess with, but he wants to mess with Murong Yong's number one general—Diao Yun!

That Diao Yun was also an old man from when Ah Fang raised his army. Murong Yong was the only one who followed Yan army loyally and swearing to the death. After returning to the country, he was promoted to the champion general due to his meritorious service, and Yang Ding's leading general They are all side by side, with eight thousand elite soldiers in the Xiaoqi Battalion, in charge of the Gyeonggi garrison and the defense of the palace.

When he arrived in a hurry, the two sides were already at war. Diao Yun folded his hands on his chest, raised his head and shouted among several strong guards: "A wild dog that I don't know where to find dares to bark at this general!"

Mu Chong couldn't read Chinese characters, but he could understand such rude insults. His eyes widened immediately, and he pushed his subordinates to block him and wanted to draw his sword. Seeing this, Diao Yun sneered even more: "Your immediate boss—— What's your name? Shi Yigui? He didn't dare to fart when he saw that the general was going to prostrate, you have the guts to attack the general, you're going to die?!"

Shi Yigui's hearing is very good, when he heard this, he felt a chill in his heart: Although Diao Yun also came from a reckless background, but he followed Murong Yong through life and death for many years, and now he has been granted the altar worship. Mu Chong generally speaks rudely——

Mu Chong was really furious, he pulled out his knife with a brute force, and swept towards Diao Yun like cutting mountains and valleys, and shouted: "I don't care what kind of general you are! I can kill you if you trespass the palace gate!"

"Mu Chong stop!" Shi Yigui hurriedly stopped, stepped forward and pressed his wrist, and squeezed between the two, "Don't be rude to General Diao!"

Mu Chong was furious, but Shi Yigui blocked him with his body, and said in a hurry: "You are also a general, I am afraid he will do something wrong! I will follow your advice and lead a team to patrol at the Yemen. I don't dare to be sloppy. What a fool!" The general rushed in without saying a word, can I not stop him?!"

As soon as these words came out, the guards around Diao Yun burst out laughing, and the leader intentionally said to Diao Yun: "Biaoxia knows that this 'general'—the one in Weiyang Palace who is called 'Little Zhonglang' is! He is the leader of the Huben camp!"

Diao Yun stroked the stubble on his chin, and nodded playfully: "So it's General Zhonglang! Disrespect and disrespect!" There was another burst of low laughter all around.

Shi Yigui is still under the age, and at this moment he feels feverish on his face - it turns out that since the Eastern Han Dynasty, Zhonglang generals were all vacant positions, and they were often given titles to civil servants for the convenience of entering and leaving the palace. , the whole country respects martial arts and bravery, and when generals mock each other, they often use Zhonglang as a joking name.What's more, General Zhonglang is from the fourth rank, that is, he was in charge of the defense of the inner palace. Compared with Diao Yun, the champion general who holds real power and is in charge of the entire palace and even the Gyeonggi garrison, it is very different.

Shi Yigui swallowed secretly, and bowed to Diao Yun: "The last general didn't control his subordinates well, and offended the general, I hope the general will make amends!"

Diao Yun suddenly changed his expression, and said coldly: "The apology is the end of the matter? A little sixth-rank captain dares to be so shameless to this general, and the following offenders—should be dealt with by military law! "Example", I don't know if Zhonglang will have a reading implementation?!"

Shi Yigui broke out in a cold sweat. Of course he knew that the "Hundred Rules for Managing the Army" issued by Murong Yong when he was reorganizing the army in recent months was originally for the purpose of restraining the army after the Yan army entered the city and strictly enforcing military discipline, but Murong Yong For the sake of the "Great Code in Troubled Times", many clauses are deliberately strict. There was once a captain of a thousand nobles from Xianbei who violated the law of corrupting ink. This matter, Mu Chong fell into their hands, if he really didn't die, he would lose half his life!So he quickly pressed Shi Yigui, who was about to jump up, and his tone became softer: "General Mingjian—Although Mu Chong is reckless and rude, he has important tasks in his body and dare not neglect them. edge."

"Important task?" Diao Yun sneered without giving in, "General Zhonglang, tell me what important task your guards of the Huben camp are in charge of! Why stop this general from questioning him!"

These words are really too deceptive, and even faintly ignored the appointed emperor, Shi Yigui was also a little angry: "General, be careful! Although the last general is soft-spoken, the emperor personally ordered us to take charge of the internal affairs." Palace patrol and garrison'—if this is not an important task, dare to ask the general, what is an important task?!"

Diao Yun immediately bowed his hands to the sky and saluted: "I will never dare to question the emperor's order! It's just that I am also a champion general personally appointed by the emperor. I am in charge of the defense of the entire Weiyang Palace. Now I will go to the palace for routine inspections. Why is your Huben camp stopping?! And if you are really only in charge of 'inner palace patrol and garrison', then your Huben camp is overstepping your authority if you set foot here! This one alone would have punished him! Even if it finally reaches the heavens, I will have nothing to fear!"

"The Huben camp routinely patrols the four major gates. Why has it ever exceeded its authority!" As soon as the words came out, Shi Yigui felt regretful, and saw Diao Yun grinning in the middle of his arms: "The emperor has not conferred the queen concubine, and the Jiaofang Palace and the left and right The eight halls of Ye Ting are all vacant, so naturally they are not counted as the harem—even if you are ordered to 'patrol and guard the inner palace', it is only in charge of the emperor's bedroom—the second hall of Jinhua Phoenix! This room gate is one of the four Ye gates. It belongs to the previous dynasty, not the inner palace, and you, the Huben Camp, are patrolling here, are you not overstepping your authority? Are you not overstepping the boundaries? I really want to ask the emperor to give me a ruling on this!"

As soon as these words came out, Shi Yigui's heart was like a mirror when the five thunders struck the top—it was obvious that what happened today was planned and deliberately done by Diao Yun. —Murong Yong must be behind the manipulation!That night in front of the Phoenix Palace, he dared to stop him from entering the palace, and today he will definitely show his anger and avenge him!

"How? The general is now going to take Mu Chong back to punish the crime. 'Little Zhonglang' won't stop him, right?"

Shi Yigui gritted his teeth, he had no choice but to choose his relatives against each other: "Since Mu Chong made a mistake first, he will be punished first. According to the "Hundred Rules for the Administration of the Army", he should be punished with thirty military sticks - but since he committed a crime in the palace, , can be punished by Ye Ting Ling, so there is no need to bother General Diao to commit the crime himself!"

As soon as this statement came out, how could Mu Chong be willing to obey—he was guilty of obeying others' orders and doing his job with all his heart? !Diao Yun had a strange look in his eyes: General Wei Dao once said that although Shi Yigui was young, his mind was deep, his reaction was quick, and he was flexible, and he was afraid that he would not be a thing in the pool in the future.

Shi Yigui was afraid that he would change if he was too late, so when Diao Yun was speechless to refute, he drank around, bound Mu Chong and left.Finally, he bowed his head to bow to Diao Yun and bid farewell, but Diao Yun didn't want to hold back anymore, but suddenly leaned down on top of his head and said in a moderate voice: "Don't think that the emperor is willing to support you now, weigh it before you do it." Weigh your own weight, in our arrogant cavalry camp, if the general says a word, you will die to a hundred of you—you are so smart, don't hit a stone with an egg in Chang'an City."

Shi Yigui didn't need to raise his head, he knew how the soldiers around him would laugh when they heard it, but he bowed again without being humble: "The last general Xie Diao taught me, I will never forget it."

Diao Yun saw that his attitude was like a ball of cotton at the moment, as if he was really convinced, and he could no longer provoke and provoke Mu Chong just now, so he snorted, with a sneer at the corner of his mouth: "General Zhonglang, you'd better remember it seriously." Stop it." After he finished speaking, he waved his hand and retreated with his head held high, and several soldiers laughed and pointed at him and then retreated—even the "routine patrol" that was originally an excuse was too lazy to do it.

Shi Yigui calmly raised his eyes to look at their backs, and only four words came to mind: arrogant soldiers and powerful generals.

After Shi Yigui went back, he behaved as usual, even Ren Zhenjinhuadian Xiaochao came back to serve him as usual.As soon as Ren Zhen took a sip of tea, he hurriedly took the porcelain bowl from the eunuch's hand and presented it to Ren Zhen for him to wash. Ren Zhen pursed his lips and tilted his head, looking at him for a long while: "You are a dignified general now. , you don’t have to serve me personally any more.”

"As long as the emperor keeps me in the palace for a day, I am willing to do these things." Shi Yigui replied in a low voice, then turned to pick up the brocade handkerchief from the maid's tray, and smiled at her: " Thank you, sister." The young man's heroic aura rushed towards his face, making the cheeks of the long-term palace maid suddenly blush.

Ren Zhen leaned on the couch, seeing the ground clearly, and thinking about it carefully, Shi Yigui had indeed grown a lot in the past few months, with profound features, handsome eyebrows, and a light blue beard around his lips, It's not like a half-grown child at all.Turning his eyes, he saw Shi Yigui kneeling in front of the couch again, bowing his head, changing clothes and shoes very smoothly - previously he was deliberately ordered to wait on his body to do some rough work, in order to wear off his insidious and vicious attitude Temperament, now that we have been together for a long time, I feel that although this Shi Yigui is very mean and vicious, he is also somewhat sincere to him. Now I think that he is also a prince, but he became a subjugated slave when he was a baby. If you are careless, you are afraid that you will be torn apart by life, so how can you be open and aboveboard?

With a thought in his mind, he suddenly pressed Shi Yigui's busy hands: "Since I promoted you to Zhonglang General and asked you to start training the Huben Camp, I didn't want the following people to look at you—you are doing what you are doing today. Did the room door suffer a great grievance?"

Shi Yigui was taken aback for a moment, as if he hadn't expected Ren Zhen to know, and then he lowered his head indifferently after a while: "What General Diao taught is that I... dare not be wronged."

Ren Zhen nodded and said: "Diao Yun is a champion general, a third-rank general, of course he teaches."

Shi Yigui was a little surprised and looked up at Ren Zhen—he meant that Diao Yun was in a high position now, so it was reasonable to speak. If Shi Yigui was his immediate boss today, wouldn't it be okay? Any reason?

Ren Zhen's finger moved to his heart: "But I hope you really don't feel wronged. It's only natural for you to kneel down and submit to him today. If you two really make a fuss about this matter, I will punish you as well." camp, and will only be serious and strict, understand?"

The meaning of this sentence is ambiguous but clear—it is precisely because the Huben Camp was established at the beginning, and it is his personal soldier and private family member, so it is even more impossible to give it to others at this time.Shi Yigui suddenly realized, hesitated for a moment, and deliberately suppressed his voice: "The general understands. Now they are in a stronger situation than others. Therefore, we can only be patient and bear it, so as to treat others later."

Hearing this, Ren Zhen suddenly felt something in his heart, and couldn't help but start to meditate—Murong Yong dared to teach Shi Yigui a lesson under his nose, it was too arrogant and unscrupulous.It's all his own fault - he trusted Murong Yong so much in the past, regarded his confidant humerus, and felt that he was not the one who was in charge of the military and exercised power. , centralized power in Murong Yong alone, who would have thought that something would change halfway, the two were separated, and the estrangement deepened, and now the two have reached a situation where the monarch and his ministers are vying for power and competing with each other for supremacy.Murong Yong didn't dare to delegate power for public or private reasons, and Ren Zhen also didn't expect that Murong Yong's party would now hide his tail and not get rid of the danger of raising tigers.

Ren Zhen didn't want to lose his composure in front of others, so he forced a smile at this time, raised his hand and slapped his chin gently, as a small punishment and a big warning: "You're fighting fiercely again! I forgot what I said earlier ! Who can you cure now? The guards of the first battalion of the Huben camp are full of calculations, and there are less than a thousand people. You can restrain and discipline before you speak boldly!"

Shi Yigui didn't go to see Mu Chong who was reprimanded by himself until after dusk, when the shift was over.

That Mu Chong is usually very ungrateful and ungrateful, his colleagues don't get in touch with him, wishing they could hide far away, so now he is lying on the kang in the dark, and he is actually a person who holds a lamp nothing.Shi Yigui walked up to him, didn't call for anyone, just lit a candle, lifted his hem with one hand and watched - Mu Chong offended Diao Yun, Ye Tingling dared not keep his hand, dozens of sticks were like The wolf beat down like a tiger, and the skin between the buttocks was horribly torn.

Mu Chong was startled, he knew that Shi Yigui was the only one who would come to visit him, but he was resentful in his heart, so he turned his head abnormally and ignored him.

Shi Yigui breathed a sigh of relief: "Fortunately, it's all flesh and blood wounds, so it's not a big deal." Seeing that Mu Chong's face was livid, but not in pain, he smiled wryly, "Why? Are you still blaming me for not being able to protect you?"

Mu Chong has an extreme temper, he couldn't stand it when he heard this, he threw off the quilt and stood up: "I obey others, why should I be punished!"

Shi Yigui knew that although Mu Chong was not much younger than him, but his mind was stupid and naive, so he couldn't figure out the way to do it, so he said bluntly: "Diao Yun took the opportunity to make trouble. Follow me."

As expected, Mu Chong didn't understand, and he stared: "Diao Yun is his champion general, and he has no enmity with our Huben camp, but he wants to make things difficult?!"

Shi Yigui frowned a little impatiently, because Mu Chong now considered his right-hand man to be of great use, so he reluctantly did not turn his face, but patiently explained: "You know that the soldiers of the three armies of Dayan are now big Marshal, first-rank general is Murong Yong, the emperor's cousin, who is also the Minister of the Order, and he controls all the military power and authority, and he can be said to be under one man and above ten thousand people." After entering Chang'an City, meritorious deeds were rewarded, and Murong Yong's official Worshiping Shang Shuling, he is already the actual prime minister; in addition, after the "Yiyou mutiny" was quelled, he took the opportunity to swallow the remnants of Duan Sui and Han Yan's second army, and took advantage of the opportunity of establishing the country to reorganize the army to wantonly save the chaff and save the essence, and promoted many supporters. His Xianbei sons are military officers, who call themselves "Jiaoqi Army", and they are in the limelight for a while. There are four major barracks in Chang'an City, and the Jiaoqi Battalion occupies three of them. Only the Weiyuan Battalion in the west of the city is dedicated to training recruits. Under Yang Ding's command, Fu Jian was detained here.

Seeing that the other party nodded in a daze, he continued: "Yang Ding is the one whom the emperor insists on promoting. Although he is Murong Yong's subordinate in name and is coerced by him, he has always monopolized a camp and never buys into Murong Yong's gang. He naturally held grudges in his heart, but he suffered from Yang Ding's military achievements, which were all made with one sword and one gun. The emperor believed in him again, so he couldn't help him for the time being. Now the emperor has surpassed him and established our Huben camp. Although it is small now, but The privilege is not small, and he is the emperor's personal soldier, so he does not have to accept his orders, how can he be willing? But today's humiliation will come sooner or later, and he has to accept it! Don't say that today's rod scolded you, just to seek my bad luck, You have to endure! Although the Huben Camp is also a battalion system, but the number of people is only a thousand, how can we fight against the three camps of arrogant riders?!"

Mu Chong was stunned when he heard this, and after a while he gritted his teeth and said: "Could it be that people are bullying for nothing?! No way! I have to beat up that bastard!" After thinking for a while, he added: "Secretly! of!"

Shi Yigui snorted and laughed, waved his hands and said: "Then there is no need to be secretive, there will soon be an opportunity to beat him openly!"

Seeing that Mu Chong still didn't understand, he said, "This morning's small court in the Jinhua Palace was originally about discussing the 'Martial Arts Competition'." Mu Chong understood this time, and his eyes lit up immediately.

It turns out that the men with five beards are all advocating martial arts and bravery, so there has been a tradition of gathering a martial arts competition on the Shangyuan Festival, called "Yanwuhui". The head of the lottery can even become famous at this point, so no matter which dynasty, country, or clan is a grand event—the former Xiongnu Liu Yuan, the Jie family Shile, and even the Murong family of the former Yan and the Fu family of the former Qin Dynasty proclaimed the emperor and established a country to rule the Central Plains This is the custom all the time.

After Ren Zhen heard it, he simply made the matter grand and grand, from a small-scale playful sparring between generals to a group arena of the whole army—from seventh-rank school lieutenant and above, all those with military ranks in the three armies You can participate in the competition, draw lots, and the winner will advance to the next level. Those who win the first prize will be rewarded.

The reason for the heavy reward is not clearly stated.But when the entire Yan army was in a hurry to prepare for the battle against Yao Qin, some people were speculating whether this heavy reward was the post of leader and commander of the Northern Army.

He didn't say the last sentence to Mu Chongming, but said: "Don't you always think that the daily practice and fighting are too boring to enjoy? Isn't it just what you want in the martial arts performance? Standing out from the crowd, beating the people of the Jiaoqi camp to the ground, making them faceless, not taking revenge for everything?"

Mu Chong racked his brains and asked, "But since Murong Yong is the general of the three armies, the martial arts show must be held in Jiaoqi. He can manipulate and do all he can, how can he easily win?!"

Shi Yigui smiled, then leaned over and stood up suddenly, took out a pack of medicine powder from his sleeve and sprinkled it into the hot tea on the table, then changed the subject: "This is the golden sore medicine specially prepared by my imperial doctor, you have to regularly Take it, you must heal your wounds before you can fight." He turned his head, looked at Mu Chonggao and said inscrutably: "Although the martial arts show will be held in the army, the emperor will never hand it over to Murong Yong's arrogant horse. Camp to do it."

Immediately, he dipped his fingers in the tea, and stroked the table a few times: "One goes up and down, that's where it all comes from."

Mu Chong stretched his neck to look, and saw that the table was water-stained, and a scrawled word "Ji" that implied domineeringness jumped into his eyes.