Chapter 8: The clouds can always block the sun, and the absence of Chang'an makes people sad
"Your Majesty, you must not. Although Chen Tai was the governor of Yongzhou, he was too young and did not have military strategies. If he was the chief general, he would be defeated by Jiang Wei, a pseudo-Han!"
"When Chen Tai was appointed as the governor of Yongzhou, he was mediocre and could he take on the important task!"
"Chen Tai stole high-ranking officials because of his father Chen Qun. If he became the chief general again, the court might be ridiculed by the world!"
I saw an old man with a thin face standing up tremblingly and said anxiously.
"The Taizhong Dafu is such a bad word. Chen Xuanbo is a famous general of the world and is proficient in military tactics. He will definitely defeat Jiang Wei when he goes!"
"Didn't you see Chen Xuanbo defeating Jiang Wei's 100,000 troops in Niutou Mountain this year?"
"Tian Guorang, since you resigned from your post and retired, it is better not to participate in the affairs of the court, so as not to cause trouble!"
Although the Sima Party did not understand why Cao Mao made such a foolish move, it would definitely be beneficial to his side if he had made Chen Tai the leader.
Zhong Hui, who was the first to oppose Tian Yu's opinion, was still making decisions without authorization, only focusing on showing himself, but did not see Sima Shi frowning tighter and tighter.
According to Zhong Hui's original idea, he was the chief general, and the court appointed him as the commander-in-chief of the West. No matter how bad he was, he was the general of Pingxi. After arriving in Longxi, he found an opportunity to kill Xu Yi and others, and then defeat Jiang Wei to make military achievements. Sima Shi must be impressed by him and then promoted him to the title.
This is also the reason why Zhong Hui, as a general, executed Xu Yi without authorization when Sima Zhao launched the battle to destroy Shu in the future.
Now Cao Mao spoke, and suddenly changed the words of Chen Tai...
Zhong Hui was actually not willing to do so, but when he saw Jia Chong, Cheng Ji and others were ready to express his praise, he didn't care about so much and agreed first. As long as he could show his own interests in front of Sima Shi, what is his little benefit?
As long as I become Sima Shi's confidant, when Sima Shi becomes emperor and establishes the country in the future, I will be a founding hero and enjoy a lifetime of glory and wealth!
Even Zhong Hui is like this, let alone others like Wei Guan.
As for Cao Cao's decision, it caused such reactions among the ministers. Why is this?
Because although Chen Tai was a famous general of the dynasty, he was the son of Sikong Chen Qun, when Sima Yi launched the Gaopingling Incident and killed Cao Shuang's party, Chen Tai played an auxiliary role, and this was why all the civil and military officials in the dynasty were labeled as the Sima family.
Wouldn’t let Chen Tai be the leader further strengthen the Sima family’s power?
Cao Cao naturally had his own considerations when he made such a proposal.
Now that we want to regain power, head-on conflict is unwise! Only by finding out something else and taking a strange plan can we kill the Sima family, return the Cao family, and give the world a bright world!
Military power is the top priority in the strategy. Since Zhang He was forced to death by Sima Yi by Zhuge Liang, the Cao Wei army was basically controlled by the Sima family. Although Cao Tai's army in Yangzhou was nominally controlled by the Cao family, it was firmly monitored and controlled by the Sima family. Cao Tai, the general of Zhendong, had long been undermined by the Sima family!
The reason why Cao Cao proposed to use Chen Tai was believed to be Cao Mao's memory. In the memory obtained by Cao Cao, Sima Zhao would instruct Jia Chong in the future to kill Emperor Cao Mao. After Cao Mao died, Chen Tai vomited blood in pain and insisted on letting Sima Zhao kill Jia Chong to avenge Cao Mao. Sima Zhao naturally refused, and Chen Tai eventually vomited blood and died of grief and anger.
In fact, Chen Tai's link also involved Cao Cao's final plan.
To make Chen Tai the leader, he naturally hopes to attack Chen Tai from both inside and outside to destroy the Sima family. Even if the plan is finally revealed, he can still escape to Yongzhou and Liangzhou under Chen Tai.
With Chen Tai's army here, he discussed with Jiang Wei, a pseudo-Han, promised to destroy the Sima family, Cao's family would take Xuzhou, Youzhou, Jizhou, Qingzhou, Yongzhou, Liangzhou, Sili, Bingzhou, and Jiang Wei of the pseudo-Han would agree, and finally, as the Emperor of Wei, he would mark the Sima family as a rebel. By then, the northern states would surely be full of war and smoke.
But this strategy... it will never be used until the juncture of life and death. Otherwise, the world will be in chaos and the warlords in the late Han Dynasty will be resurrected. The north, where Cao Cao spent half his life, was completely collapsed.
In addition, the fake Han Dynasty should not be fully trusted. The fake Han Dynasty Jiang Wei was a world-renowned man. He would definitely tear up the agreement in the name of restoring the Han Dynasty. Even the Cao family would be destroyed, and the fake Wu in the southeast might also take advantage of the situation to rob.
Cao Cao looked at Tian Yu in front of him with arrogant figure and was alone in a fight with his ministers. However, no one of the civil and military officials in the court was willing to speak for him, and a feeling of desolation came to his heart.
In addition, Cao Cao woke up shortly after he was buzzing, his already weak body was even more unbearable, and there was still a lot of information that had not been digested.
In order to refute and suppress Tian Yu's constant quotation of classics, the Sima Party made a long speech, especially Du Yu's most ridiculous. Every time Du Yu said two sentences, at least one and a half were classic sentences in the Analects of Confucius. There were more than only Tian Yu didn't understand them, and even the others in the Sima family looked confused. Finally, after talking for a long time, only he understood...
"What do Chen Yongzhou thinks?"
Cao Cao rubbed his head and interrupted everyone's conversation. He was not in good spirits now and wanted to end his return to the bedroom as soon as possible.
"Your Majesty, the pseudo-Han has repeatedly invaded our Great Wei, but because the world is divided into three parts, Wei occupied eight, and Shu and Wu each got one. Jiang Wei moved north several times and fought with us repeatedly in Qin and Long, and were defeated by us. The local people are so popular with Wei and hate Xichuan. Jiang Wei's move has already aroused the suspicion and complaints of the pseudo-Han emperor Liu Chan."
"I have heard that there is a eunuch named Huang Hao by the fake emperor Liu Chan, who is very favored. Hao is greedy and likes money. If a man with a sarcastic tooth brings a lot of gold and silver to Yizhou to seek help from Huang Hao, and spread the story of Jiang Wei's desire to become an emperor in Xichuan, the fake emperor Liu Chan will have a conflict with Jiang Wei!"
"I am willing to lead an army to occupy Longxi. When there is a change in the pseudo-Han country, it will be able to win in one fell swoop, and then plot against Xichuan to capture Yizhou for our Great Wei."
I saw a middle-aged man wearing armor and walking out of the generals.
He immediately said: "The army will be rectified tomorrow. I would like to move to Longxi tomorrow and wait for an opportunity."
When all the parties heard Chen Tai's long discussion, their expressions were different.
The party led by Sima Shi nodded one after another, and even Zhang Hua and Yang Hu thought this plan was feasible.
Zhang Lu, Liu Xie and others still watched coldly.
Cao Ju, Cao Yu and others still had no expression on their faces.
However, Tian Yu and others changed their faces. Chen Tai's words were reasonable and well-founded, very practical, and had a high success rate!
The temptation to destroy the Han Dynasty would definitely make Sima Shi agree. In this way, it seems that Chen Tai led his army to Longxi has become a foregone conclusion and cannot be changed!
However, Chen Tai defeated Jiang Wei and Chen Tai's destruction of Han were completely different in nature!
Chen Tai defeated Jiang Wei, at most he encouraged the prestige of Sima. Although it would be very unfavorable to Cao's family in the long run, Sima's family did not make any major moves in a short period of time.
If Chen Tai destroyed the pseudo-Han, the world was divided into three parts and became two parts of the world, then it would be inevitable that the Sima family would replace the Cao family. It can be foreseeable that the day when Chen Tai conquered Yizhou was the time when Sima family became emperor!
Before Sima Shi could speak, Sima Zhao and his son Sima Yan were around him lit up. If they could destroy the pseudo-Han, then the Sima family would have great popularity and prestige, and the days would be not far away to replace them!
Especially Sima Yan, the young man was very excited, looked at the throne in front of him with a hot look, and had already fantasized Cao Mao above him as himself...
Looking at Chen Tai talking with sarcastic moments, Cao Cao's eyes were dazed, as if he had seen Chen Qun from that time...
...
"Lord, the military advisor Guo Jia is not doing his job properly, so he goes to drink flower wine again!"
"Lord, the military advisor Guo Jia dresses in disgrace!"
"Lord, the military advisor Guo Jia is arrogant and disrespectful to Confucius in his words!"
"Lord, military advisor Guo Jia..."
...
"Chen Changwen..."
Looking back on the time back then, Cao Cao sighed lightly.
Cao Cao's heart was quite complicated about the nine-rank Zhongzheng system proposed by Chen Qun. Although it laid the root of the Wei Kingdom and triggered the Sima family's disobedience, he did not hate Chen Qun. Chen Qun just represented the interests of the aristocratic families. Even if Chen Qun did not mention it, there would be Li Qun, Wang Qun and others...
Tian Yu, who was kneeling on the ground, could no longer calm down when he heard this. He thought that the old ministers of the Five Dynasties could be saved by assisting the former emperor Cao Cao...
Unexpectedly, Chen Tai made a great speech. Even though His Majesty took back his life, it had already moved the Sima Party...
"Chen Changwen, you have a good son!"
Tian Yu shaking and smiled miserably: "When I was young, Tian Yu, I was ignorant and arrogant, and I committed myself to Liu Bei. Fortunately, I was valued by Taizu Cao Cao. I served as Yingyin, Langling, Yiyang Prefect, etc. During my tenure, I was trembling and did not dare to slack off, for fear of bringing comments to Taizu Cao Cao that I don't know what I know. Fortunately, I was not a big mistake!"
"Later, in order to repay the kindness of my goodwill, I guarded the northern border for more than 20 years for the Cao family. I conquered Wuhuan of Dai County, killed Gu Jin, and defeated Ke Bineng. I made many contributions. I never embarrassed Taizu Cao Cao. I also participated in the battle against Sun Wu, killed Zhou He in Chengshan, and defeated Sun Quan in Yu Xincheng!"
"I, Tian Yu, have never been sorry for the Cao family!"
"I, Tian Yu, are now over 80 years old, have spent all my life for the Cao family. I have resigned and retired, but I am worried about going to the court... What can I do? Forget it, this Wei Dynasty may never have peace in the future!"
After saying that, he got up and left!
Yu Gui and others looked sad and bowed and left...
Chen Tai looked at Tian Yu's trembling back and remained silent. His clenched fists loosened and then opened them, not knowing what he was thinking...
As for the Sima family, they were gloating, especially Sima Yan laughed the happiestly. This old guy has always been against their Sima family. If this person had not been assisted by the five generations of emperors, and he had no rights in his hands, it would be useless to kill him, otherwise he would have thought he could live well?
Cao Cao resisted the grief and forced himself to forget what Tian Yu said just now. Looking around, only three or four people left in the civil and military affairs of the court. The rest seemed to be loyal to the Sima family...
However, Cao Cao did not seem to notice that a scholar behind Sima Shi looked at him thinking, nodded slightly, and a look of praise and doubt flashed in his eyes.
Chapter completed!