An old saying goes: Be careful to guard one thing on the border, and be prepared for the unexpected, and do everything you have. When the matter comes, how can you pay attention to it? It means that the defense of the border should be cautiously defended to a certain border and prevent the enemy from sneak attacking. In this way, even if there is a war, there will be no disaster.

On September 3, 2018, the fifth year of Tiande, Daxing, at the request of Yun Buji, the governor of Cangzhou, took more than 20 days to completely consolidate the city defense and investigate the arsenal's armament. Several layers of horizontal wooden rafters were added on the outside of the wall, and the walls were repaired and covered with bricks and stones, and some of the city walls were rebuilt with glutinous rice mortar. The outside of the city roof was built with parquets and women's walls were built on the inside. The walls were built with protruding horse faces several meters, and the enemy tower was built on the horse faces, and a battle shed was built every ten steps on the top of the city.

The military arsenal replaced old weapons, arrows, and added a large amount of turbulent oil, stone throwing machines, and crossbows. The grain and grass warehouse increased the fortune of Yun Buji from where he dispatched food and grass, as well as a large amount of raw fruits and vegetables. Outside the city, a horse-resisting pit and a deer antler wood were added to the original sheep and horse walls and moats, and a large number of thorns and horse-resisting rifles were laid between the defense lines, which was to prevent cavalry from attacking, and the one with the most cavalry was Jiuhong, which was spread all over the northern grasslands.

Roughly speaking, based on the current Tianmen Pass’s defense, troops, food and equipment reserves, even if Jiuhong’s 100,000 troops are approaching, the Yun family army will only defend but not attack, and it will take the first half of the year easily. However, there is no sign that Jiuhong will attack in a short period of time. Because Yun Buji’s sudden strengthening of Tianmen Pass’ defense has led to a lot of opinions on the court. Some agree with the Cangzhou governor to prepare for the future, some are unrelated to their own affairs, some are extremely nervous and shouting that Yun Buji’s plan is ill-telling, and of course, some are also those who take advantage of the troubled waters to secretly do this. Looking at the court, there are only a few people who can do this. Unfortunately, the "living turtle" Eunuch Hu has such energy.

These days, Eunuch Hu followed the advice of Wen Qianzheng, and stole the falsehood of the national letter, and said that if a villain is playing conspiracy, he must not be easily deceived. Isn’t this real villain in the court who has this ability the same is your Eunuch Hu? All officials also know that he has a grudge with Yun Buji, the governor of Cangzhou. It just so happened that Eunuch Hu had no time to take care of the increase in taxes and the forced collection of "disaster prevention silver", so he also muddled the water of the "living turtle".

Tianmen Pass suddenly strengthened its military equipment, which gave Eunuch Hu a great opportunity, so that he could reasonably impeach Yun Buji for "willingness to harm the country." Unfortunately, although Mr. Min was a paper-paste wood Bodhisattva at ordinary times, he ignored Eunuch Hu's misconduct, but once he wanted to be unfavorable to Yun Buji, Mr. Min would definitely take action.

At the beginning, with Liang Wenshu, the Great Lu, and Min Cang steadily suppressed Eunuch Hu. However, one night, Liang Wenshu's house suddenly had a fire inexplicably. None of the hundreds of people in the Liang Mansion escaped, and all of them were burned to ashes after two days and two nights of fire! This incident caused an uproar in the court and the public, and anyone with discerning eyes could tell that it was the means of the "living turtle". Liang Wenshu, a great man, was upright and humble. Although he was not very familiar with each other, he had never offended anyone. However, the partnership with Min Cang that day made Eunuch Hu extremely embarrassed. If anyone could be so cruel and ruthless, even Liang Wenshu's youngest son who had just been one of the month was just over, he would not let go of the whole family of Liang Mansion, and only the "living turtle" could be. But due to the lack of evidence, Liang Wenshu, one of the nine ministers of Daxing, died in vain.

Since all officials can see that this matter was done by Eunuch Hu and unable to overthrow the "living turtle" of the Holy Family Zhenglong, Liang Wenshu's death is a warning, a chilling warning. Most of the officials in the court are in their prime, who is not a family and a family with children and grandchildren? Although the Governor of Cangzhou Yun Buji has a good reputation, although Eunuch Hu's inability to be lawless and indignate, who has the courage to confront Eunuch Hu, and who can guarantee that he will not follow Liang Wenshu's footsteps?

Therefore, in the strange tacit silence of all officials, Min Cang gradually became less capable and was gained by Eunuch Hu. For Daxing, it was really unparalleled at this time, and misfortune never came alone. Once Eunuch Hu got rid of Min Cang's suppression, his memory improved a lot, and the matter of increasing taxes and forcing the "disaster prevention silver" was brought up again. This time, he issued a death order to local officials under the name of Emperor Shang's order. Before October 15, all the funds must be escorted to Beijing, otherwise - Eunuch Hu just "hunted", but still scared the relevant officials in a cold sweat.

Seeing that no one dared to go against him again, Eunuch Hu was proud and majestic. His originally pale face can only see his nostrils. Seeing Min Cang alone and unable to support him, when will he wait? So, this morning, Eunuch Hu started attacking Yun Buji again, "scheming indiscriminately, intending to support his troops and divide the territory." In short, if he dies quickly, he will post it wherever he will die.

"From our eyes, this is not a lice on the bald man's head - it's obvious that Yun Buji must have no intention of being unfaithful to the emperor!"

"I wonder why Eunuch Hu said this?" Although Min Cang was at a disadvantage, the demeanor of the elders of the three dynasties was still there, and he slowly asked the bad questions.

"Min, you are not confused, are you? Yun Buji is named the governor of Cangzhou, but he is actually a vassal king who is separating the country. Now he is even more powerful and openly armed the Yun family army, which is actually his private army. Isn't this trying to rebel, or what?"

"I dare to ask Eunuch Hu, isn't it normal for the troops guarding the border to replace their ordnances and strengthen their city defense?"

"Isn't it normal? Cangzhou has three passes, Tianmen, Zhenxi, and Shalin. Why didn't Yun Buji change all his troops and consolidate the city defense, but he just made a fuss at Tianmen Pass, and the defenders of Tianmen Pass were his Yun family army?"

Min Cang couldn't help laughing when he heard this, "Hahaha! This Eunuch Hu doesn't know anything. Since its establishment, Shalin Pass has been to resist the yellow sand in the northwest. To put it bluntly, it is to prevent the embankment south of the desert. Unless Jiuhong can fly over ten thousand acres of yellow sand, there is no need to build a city defense at all. There is no need to say that Zhenxi Pass, because of the reasons for the mutual market, its city structure and defense are the most solid and strict among the three passes, and its defenders' equipment is also the most exquisite among the three passes; so in the end, Tianmen Pass is the only border that is most likely to be attacked by Jiuhong but has not been constructed to avoid suspicion! I wonder if Eunuch Hu agrees with me?"

"Hmph! Who doesn't know that your youngest son Min Hongcheng, Min, is now the military supervisor at Tianmen Pass. Just to clear Min Hongcheng, you have to say that, let alone, if our family remembers correctly, my husband's second daughter married Yun Buji's adopted son, right? Our family is a little confused. My husband always says that Yun Buji is innocent, but because of this shocking conspiracy, he also has the share of Gong Min. But I don't know what benefits Yun Buji promised to my husband?"

Eunuch Hu said something too much. The previous arrangement of Yun Buji was that he had more subjective speculation than real evidence, but he could still be involved. But Mr. Min didn't know that he was a veteran of the three dynasties and was most loyal to Daxing. However, the massacre of the Liang family was still vivid in his mind, and he didn't want to follow in the footsteps.

Seeing the officials in the court with their own thoughts and their deep scruples, Eunuch Hu became even more proud, and then said sarcastically, "Oh--Our family understands that the lieutenant of Zhenxiguan is my husband's eldest son, the lieutenant of Tianmenguan is my husband's son-in-law, and the governor of Cangzhou is my husband's in-laws. My husband's game is wonderful. The prime minister must be tired after doing three dynasties. It is fake to ensure that Yun Buru is false. Is it true to take this to go further?"

The living turtle is worthy of being a living turtle. He will never let go when he can cheat people. He directly defeated Mr. Min’s army in a few words. If he protects himself at this time, he must be cleared from Yun Buji in order to be innocent. If he continues to protect Yun Buji, he may directly confirm Eunuch Hu’s statement. He must have some tacit understanding with Yun Buji, and even if there are hundreds of people, it is difficult to defend himself. When the officials thought that his colleague was about to fall down, they couldn’t help but shake their heads, which was a sign of sadness for the rabbit and the fox.
Chapter completed!