Chapter 43 4. The shocking plan of the Sima family

"Brother...it turns out that Miss Diaochan has been taken in by you all along..." After leaving the courtyard gate of Xiaoyao Pavilion, Sima Yi couldn't help asking Sima Lang, "But why did you treat her like this?" Sima Lang didn't answer his question immediately, but glanced at Niu Jin and Sima Yin in a blink of an eye, and said indifferently: "You two will follow me and carry the second son to the base stone at the foot of Fuxi mountain wall. Go to the rockery..." After saying that, without turning his head, he took a step forward and still walked forward.Niu Jin and Sima Yin did not say a word, they worked together to lift Sima Yi, and then followed.After walking for about a stick of incense, the four of them came to the last secret place in the back garden of Sima Mansion - in front of the rockery at the foot of Fuxi Mountain.

"Your Majesty and the Second Young Master need to have a good conversation here," Sima Lang raised his eyes and stared at the Fuxi mountain wall that was as steep as an ax chopping a knife, and ordered Niu and Jin, "You two put the bamboo couch together. Put it down, go to the front door and guard it, don't let anyone come close to disturb it!" "Yes!" Niu Jin and Sima Yin agreed in unison, placed the bamboo couch gently on the lawn, and retreated respectfully. When the two of them were out of his field of vision, Sima Lang spoke slowly: "Second brother! As a brother, I'm hereby ordering you to tell you something you should know by now."

Hearing his dignified tone, Sima Yi, who had been lying motionless on the bamboo couch, suddenly stretched his waist, straightened his back, and stood upright, showing no symptoms of wind paralysis! "Second brother's concealment and concealment skills have really reached the level of fake and real ones! I am very impressed." Sima Lang looked at Sima Yi's upright and majestic appearance, and nodded slightly, "It seems that the second brother deserves to be deeply inspired Master Guan Ning of Longgu Ziyuan Academy's true transmission of the mind-there are many Confucian scholars in the world, how many people are as forbearing and submerged as the second brother, and are unpredictable?"

"Brother's praise is ridiculous." Hearing this, Sima Yi hastily bowed deeply and thanked him.Sima Lang's eyes were like lightning, he looked at him sternly, and said, "Brother, I can answer the question you just asked. Miss Diao Chan was nearly killed in Chang'an back then, and it was Father who took the opportunity to escape from Xiliang. She was rescued under the blade of the rebels. Our Sima family has saved her life, and everything she has done for our Sima family is to repay our favor to our Sima family!" "Brother, what is the purpose of her helping our Sima family to train these singing girls and singing maids? What is the use of our Sima family having these singing girls and singing maids?" Although Sima Yi had vaguely guessed the inside story of all this, But still want to hear more details.

Sure enough, Sima Lang replied directly: "These answers, given the talent and intelligence of the second brother, should be able to guess—probably you haven't thought about it yet. Diaochan trained these girls for my Sima family. Hege Maid is completely making wedding dresses for the great cause of our Sima family. The second brother should know that Diao Chan is not a simple woman. Back then she was able to use beauty tricks and serial tricks to make Dong Zhuo and Lu Bu turn against each other and kill each other. An ingenious means of defeating the enemy? Judging from this, she must have a set of femininity and seductiveness that is rarely seen by ordinary women. If the music girls and song maids in our Sima Mansion were trained by her, wouldn't it be true? Can those vulgar fans be compared? They are all the eyeliners brought to Xu Duan for my brother and inserted into the mansions of the princes and generals... Only by doing this, can our Sima family have all eyes and eyes in the court and spy everywhere , naturally 'know yourself and know your enemy, and you will never be imperiled in a hundred battles'!"

After hearing this, Sima Yi didn't agree, and frowned slightly. "What? Second brother, do you suspect that these singer girls and maidservants are not up to the job of eyeliner?" Sima Lang gave him a strange look, "Brother, I have been in the officialdom of Xudu for so long, and I have seen it for a long time." Out of those public officials and generals, all of them seem to be dignified on the surface, as if they don't eat fireworks in the world, but in fact they are the most greedy and lustful in private. Is it because Zhang Xiu was angry and rebelled?" "That's right. Brother, using these singer girls and maidservants as the eyeliner of our Sima family is naturally very effective." Sima Yi said slowly, "but how can we insert them into the generals of the princes and generals without a trace and without any trace?" Going to the Hou's mansion, but you have to think it over carefully. Brother, this matter must be done without anyone noticing it, and they must not arouse the slightest suspicion."

"Brother Wei has already made up his mind about this point. After Brother Wei brought them into Xudu, he first let them mix into Xudu's refugee camp. The official in charge of this refugee camp is the confidant of my Sima family. In the name of arranging refugee refugees, Ji contacted the housekeepers of the major mansions to come and select them, and assigned them one by one to the major mansions of Xudu as slaves and handmaids. In this way, they It has spread to every corner of the officialdom in Xudu." Sima Lang heard Sima Yi's question, and couldn't help but secretly nodded at Sima Yi's careful planning and consideration, "The refugees in Xudu were sent by the government to the ministers and generals. Being a slave is a very common thing - no one will suspect anything."

Only then did Sima Yi nod his head in reassurance and said, "My lord father and my elder brother have worked hard for our Sima family's great cause of 'emerging suddenly and attacking later'. The layout is so precise and the design is so thorough-I really admire it! What will happen at home in the future? I have to use my little brother, just ask my big brother to do it!" When Sima Lang heard that Sima Yi blurted out the words "the great cause of 'emerging from a sudden force and conquering others'", his heart was shocked: This second younger brother is really talented and intelligent, and he can understand everything at a glance. One point is clear, I am afraid that after two or three years of experience, even his own strategic talent will be hard to come by!Thinking of this, a burst of mixed feelings of sadness and joy suddenly appeared in his chest, and he suppressed it for a long time before he calmed down.

How did Sima Yi guess that his eldest brother's thoughts had turned to this direction? Seeing that his eldest brother's face seemed a little ugly, he couldn't help asking: "Is your eldest brother worrying about Miss Diaochan?" Hearing this, Sima Lang gave a wry smile, and his face suddenly became sad: "Worried? No matter how much you worry, it's useless. My brother has long since died of thoughts that shouldn't exist...Second brother! Some You have never experienced feelings, you don't understand..." As Sima Yi listened, he suddenly felt a sharp pain in his chest: Brother, what did you say?You say I don't understand some feelings?You feel sad because you can't get along with Diao Chan when you met Diao Chan, and I feel sad because of Fang Ying's disappearance, "life and death are unpredictable", and I often cry on the bed pillow at night?I didn't understand why you never got married before, but now I finally understand... But, I want to start to regard Fang Ying as really dead in my mind, buried in the deepest part of my memory, so as to completely Cut off the past, and walk hand in hand with another Chunhua who loves me deeply and has become my wife... Sigh!Thinking about it now, I am luckier than you, brother, because I will never see Fang Ying again, so my heartstrings will not be plucked frequently, so I can let time gradually wash away everything about Fang Ying Imprints... and you, Diaochan, although you live in front of your eyes, there is only a curtain between you, but you can only watch from a distance and cannot be close friends, otherwise it will damage everything you currently have, and damage the Sima family The reputation and foundation!This is the greatest torment and torture for you!If I were in your situation, I'm afraid my heart would be like a dead tree and I would never marry for the rest of my life.

The two brothers stood silently in the bleak north wind, watching the fallen leaves swirl like light feathers and drifting away with the wind. They sighed and felt hurt for a while, and then gradually calmed down. down. "That's all! My lord father is right: you and my brothers are all men of lofty ideals who pride themselves on being heroes, so why bother to be as mediocre as poets and poets?" Sima Lang looked in the direction of Xiaoyao Pavilion and said slowly. He said, "Compared with our Sima family's grand plan of 'emerging suddenly, conquering others, and unifying the world', and compared with our Sima family's prosperity and prosperity, what are the joys and sorrows of our own? We... we all He is the sacrificer of the great achievements of the Sima family..."

Sima Yi lowered his head slightly and stopped talking. Sima Lang turned around, looked up at the majestic and towering rocky rockery, and walked around to the back of the rockery. Sima Yi heard him call from the front, and followed him.I saw that on the back of that majestic stone rockery, there were two huge cave doors more than two feet long and carved out of a single piece of black granite! "This... this is..." Sima Yi couldn't help showing surprise. "This is the top-secret cave of our Sima family." Sima Lang explained to him, and went straight forward to activate the mechanism of the cave door.There was only a rattling sound, and the two huge cave doors opened slowly.Sima Yi looked into the cave from behind him, only to see a pitch-black abyss, and he didn't know where it led. Sima Lang seemed to be very familiar with everything here, so he stepped forward and walked in.Sima Yi followed behind him, but saw that his elder brother had pressed some mechanism on the cave wall in front of him, and suddenly his eyes lit up, and a magnificent cave hall suddenly appeared: rows of torch-flaming beasts The head wall lamp, the huge bluestone corridor with a width of several feet, the battle platform and arrow stacks hanging out of the air...everywhere, it shows the color of military facilities that can be used for dangerous battles, offensive and defensive! Sima Yi didn't expect that such a solid and exquisite war preparation facility was hidden in this cave, and he couldn't help but admire it. Sima Lang walked slowly along the wide bluestone corridor, while pointing east and west, he explained in detail: "This Dongcang was built by our Sima family when we used more than 10,000 dockers. It took two or three years to build it. The tunnels here extend in all directions, and there are exits at the mountain wall on the side of Suyi County in Jindao Valley and the Fuxi Mountains in Huojia County. The three most important giant warehouses are the Granary Cave and the Treasure Cave. The entire cavern is extremely large and deep, and can accommodate more than 200,000 Wuding in the food and lodging practice, and can also store millions of stones of grain in it. Enough to support these men and horses for nearly ten years." Sima Yi listened and watched. Along the way, he saw armaments piled up like mountains and grain and grain hoarded heavily. He sighed with emotion: "Father, my lord, and elder brother have worked hard and relentlessly to create a strong foundation for our Sima family! Think back to Dong Zhuo's time. The six-hundred-mile Meiwu built with the intention of dominating the world may not be able to compare with our Sima family's peerless cave 'hidden under the Nine Earths'!" Sima Lang said indifferently from the front: "Now the world is at the beginning of peace, and Hebei is gradually leveling off. You and I will eventually dominate the court and officialdom. I'm afraid this cave will not be needed for a while. However, the future is unpredictable. If there are unexpected changes and opportunities to take advantage of, this Dongcang will still be the base for the sudden rise of our Sima family..." He suddenly turned his face to Sima Yi again, as if recalling something, and said slowly: "Brother back then brought 20,000 soldiers from this county to Cao Sikong, and the names of these people are still in my hands They are all relatives of our Sima family, and they are also an invisible army of our Sima family lurking inside the Cao family... Now, among the 20,000 soldiers of the Sima family, 189 have served as Centurion, there are seventy-two people who have achieved the position of partial assistant general. Second brother, you must remember that we will pay more attention to these people in the future. They are all secret forces that our Sima family can use at critical moments what!" At this moment, Sima Yi had no choice but to admire his father and elder brother's deliberate planning and stealth: the father and brother, invisibly and silently, had "crafted clever moves and secretly planted forces" in the court, inside and outside the Cao family. , and achieved "hidden objects in secret, subdued in mang", once it rises in time, it will be unstoppable!It seems that during the four or five years when I was seeking Taoism and practicing at Ziyuan Academy in Linglong Valley, my father and elder brother were also in my hometown for the great cause of "replenishing energy and recharging energy, and making progress later" for our Sima clan. Don't stop!How precious is this years of hard work!Thinking of this, Sima Yi's eyes couldn't help but get wet. Climbing up the stairs, the winding path is winding, and before reaching a cave wall, a vermilion palace gate stands erect.I saw a jasper plaque hanging on the door, engraved with four flying gold characters - "Linlang Cave Sky". "This is the treasure cave of our Sima Mansion." Sima Lang stepped forward and pressed the switch, and the vermilion palace door slowly moved to the left, making a rumbling sound like rolling thunder.In an instant, thousands of golden rainbows, beautiful clouds, and auspicious auspicious auras danced out, shining from the top, bottom, and sides of the two of them, making people dazzled! Sima Yi squinted his eyes slightly, and looked in quietly: In the granary, boxes full of jewels, jade, jade, and rare treasures were piled up like a sea of ​​gold and silver, dense and endless, with no end in sight at a glance!Moreover, the magnificent, exquisite, rare and gorgeous jewellery, which Sima Yi has never heard of or seen before! Sima Lang looked at Sima Yi from the side, but saw that he still looked calm after looking inward, sighed softly, turned his head and said: "There is an old saying: 'Five colors make people blind, five treasures make people heart Blind, hard-to-find goods are a nuisance." These rare treasures are nothing more than shackles that damage people's ambitions and consume people's minds! Why should my father and elder brother bother to collect them? Our Sima family has great ambitions and embraces the universe. How can you limit yourself by being a rich man full of gold and jade?" Hearing Sima Yi's words, Sima Lang couldn't help nodding his head frequently, stepped into the cave, picked up a brilliant Luan-shaped jade ring, slowly played with it in his hand, and said leisurely: "Second brother is indifferent, quiet, rational If you want to be clear and not be fascinated by gold, silver and jewels, it is really pure and rare! It is still the second brother who can see clearly! There is a saying: "A house full of gold and jade, no one can keep it." Do you know the jewels in this cave? Where did the curios come from?——Dong Zhuo scavenged them from the city of Luoyang back then. He was afraid of being discovered, so he buried them in the caves on the outskirts of Luoyang. Later, his father and his brother got them from Diao Chan Knowing this secret, they sent someone to dig them out quietly... As the saying goes, "money is like a trap, jewels are like shackles". The biggest weakness in the heart, and these gold and silver treasures are precisely the best weapons to deal with them! In the future, when you and my brothers are galloping in the officialdom, these jewels and treasures that you regard as dung will still be of great use." "However, brother, don't overestimate the role of these gold, silver and jewels. Probably only mediocre people will be moved by it. So moved!" Sima Yi looked at the pile of colorful agates on the ground in front of him, and said lightly. "Hehehe... It is naturally impossible to confuse noble people like Xun Lingjun and Doctor Kong with these gold and silver jewels. However, it can still be used to connect with them. The key is that you should give this gift well. Coincidentally, the delivery is wonderful, and the delivery is just right!" Sima Lang said while looking into the cave, "Brother, I remember that Xun Lingjun is very good at incense and self-cleaning, so he naturally welcomes good incense utensils. There is something to add. Second brother, how about the royal treasure of Emperor Xiaowu, the highest-grade purple gold Boshan furnace in the palace? Xun Lingjun should be satisfied when he sees it, right?" Sima Yi followed Sima Lang's gestures and looked carefully: I saw a six-foot-tall Boshan furnace standing there standing there with brilliant purple light. It was majestic, solemn, elegant and magnificent!The shape of the whole golden stove has a wide bottom and a top, which looks like overlapping peaks, just like the mythical and legendary island fairy mountain - Yingzhou Boshan. There are countless rare birds, animals and Qionghua carved in the intersection of mountains and mountains on the stove body. Yaohui, there are six or seven lifelike immortals and masters carved on the mountainside, sitting or standing under the pines, singing and discussing Taoism, playing chess and chatting.And on the peak of the furnace top, there stood a phoenix with its neck protruding and its wings spreading, and the smoke drifted out from the hole in the phoenix's beak. At a glance, Sima Yi concluded that the purple-gold Boshan furnace was indeed a treasure that Liu Che, the great emperor of the Han Dynasty, loved.The origin of this treasure furnace is still a legend: it turns out that in his later years, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was fond of seeking immortals and visiting Taoism. He wanted to live forever. He once visited the Donglai seaside and saw the mirage. Therefore, after returning to Beijing, I personally painted the picture of the mountain scene, and summoned skilled craftsmen to cast high-quality Zijin according to the picture, and finally made this exquisite and unparalleled Zijin Boshan Furnace.Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty often used this stove to burn incense and smoke. Sitting aside and enjoying the beautiful scenery of the rising cigarettes, he felt as if surrounded by auspicious air, and he seemed to be in a dreamlike fairyland of the sea, which was wonderful.Therefore, all the sages and scholars in the world who like to burn incense and incense all regard this Zijin Boshan furnace as the best of their dreams.Now, Sima Lang got it because he met Diao Chan, which is really an adventure from heaven! "Brother, only such a fairy treasure can be worthy of a great sage like Xun Lingjun!" Sima Yi slowly approached the purple-gold Boshan furnace, stretched out his hand to gently caress the shiny surface of the furnace body, Tsk tut and sigh, "If you give it to Lord Xun Ling, Lord Xun Ling will naturally be very happy!"