Chapter 17: Undercurrents

The following days became much duller for Cao Liang.

With the collapse of Cao Ei, the alert level of the palace was also lowered, and the duty of the Yu Lin Lang did not have to be carried out every day.

However, the situation between the DPRK and China is turbulent.

After Cao Fang ascended the throne, because Cao Shuang was the chief minister, he named Cao Shuang as the general, fake Jieyue, supervised the Chinese and foreign military, recorded Shang Shushi, added the service, changed the title of Wu'an Hou, 12,000 households, gave the sword to the palace, entered the court, praised and worshipped, and Sima Yi commanded 3,000 elite soldiers to govern the government.

Cao Shuang was very respectful to Sima Yi on the surface, but in his heart he was extremely hostile and jealous, and his confidant Ding Mi gave him an idea, respecting Sima Yi as a prince, ascending and descending secretly, and taking the opportunity to slash Sima Yi's military power.

This reason is also high-sounding, Cao Shuang said that His Majesty is young and needs to be taught by people with high morality and knowledge, and Sima Yi is the most suitable to be this Taifu.

After Sima Yi was promoted to Taifu, the position of Tai Lieutenant that he originally held was vacant, and Cao Shuang took the opportunity to say that the leading general Jiang Ji had both talent and talent, and should be promoted to Tai Lieutenant.

As for the vacant position of the middle and leading army after Jiang Ji's promotion, Cao Shuang appointed his second brother Cao Xi to hold it, and at the same time, Cao Shuang placed the third brother Cao Xun in the Forbidden Army's Wuwei Battalion, and Cao Xun took the position of Wuwei General that he originally held, while the fourth brother Cao Yan and Sima Yi's son Sima Shi jointly served as a free cavalry attendant.

And Cao Shuang's cousin Xiahou Xuan was also reused and was appointed as the Central Protector Army, responsible for leading the generals and selecting military attachés in the army.

After this series of personnel adjustments, Sima Yi, Jiang Ji and others were completely hollowed out, and the control of the entire Chinese military forbidden army was in the hands of the Cao Shuang brothers.

Of course, Cao Shuang was not satisfied with just the control of the Chinese army, and then he stretched out his hand to Shangshu Province, and the flashy party that was abandoned in Cao Heng's dynasty has now become Cao Shuang's cronies and confidants, He Yan served as the secretary of the ministry, Ding Mi was the secretary of the department, Ding Mi was the secretary of the department, Deng Yang was the secretary of the five soldiers, and among the five Cao Shangshu in Shangshu Province, the three most important Shangshu positions were controlled by Cao Shuang's family.

Cao Shuang also appointed Li Sheng as Henan Yin, and Bi Liang as the lieutenant of Sili, completely controlling the authority inside and outside the Beijing Division.

Relatively speaking, Sima Yi is much more low-key, and can even be described as submissive, Cao Shuang rose and descended secretly, cutting his military power, Sima Yi also seemed to be indifferent, calmly went to office, and served as a titular master.

Not only did Sima Yi stand aside, but even Sima Yi's two sons didn't get any good errands, and Sima Shi served as a free rider.

Although the free cavalry is a three-rank official, it is a type of official position without real power.

Now the emperor is young, and all the large and small government affairs of the court are under the auxiliary ministers, and the free riders accompany the king, so that they are more like the emperor's nanny.

Sima Zhao became a pawn farmer and a general, and simply went to manage agricultural production.

Cao Shuang is obviously quite satisfied with Sima Yi's attitude of giving power, and the one who knows the times is Junjie, Sima Yi knows that he can't fight himself, so he takes the initiative to take a step back, and is willing to calm down, Cao Shuang has no more inches, and he is pressing step by step.

In his opinion, Sima Yi is old, and it is reasonable for him to retreat bravely.

The ministers of the court and the central government also thought that Sima Yi was indeed old and could no longer compete with Cao Shuang for power, so these ministers fell to Cao Shuang's side one after another.

Only Cao Liang knew that Sima Yi was pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger, holding back, waiting for an opportunity.

Behind Sima Yi's harmless smile was his iron-blooded thunderous means.

It is only when the viper shows its fangs that people know how terrible it is.

Originally, when Cao Liang thought that all this had nothing to do with him, he suddenly received an appointment and was promoted from Yu Linlang of the eighth rank to the governor of the seventh grade.

As the palace guard, Yu Linlang is the fastest promoted military attaché, but no matter how fast he is promoted, it will take at least two years or one year of outstanding performance and major meritorious service before he can be allowed to be promoted.

Cao Liang has not been in Yulinlang for a long time, and he is far from being promoted, and in Yulinlang's position, his performance has always been decent, and there is no merit at all, so it stands to reason that it is really not time to be promoted.

But things are so strange, Cao Liang, who has just been Yu Linlang for a few months, was directly promoted to the rank of door supervisor, so that Zhang Tong, who joined Cao Liang a few months earlier, was envious.

"Brother Cao, it's better to have your back against the big tree to enjoy the shade."

Cao Liang heard the sour taste in Zhang Tong's words, to say that Zhang Tong is also a hero, but compared to Cao Liang, who is the identity of the Cao clan, it is indeed a big difference.

Over the years, the Cao clan has declined, and the Shi family has grown up, but this time Emperor Ming entrusted Gu, Cao Shuang was reused, and the people of the Cao clan were also promoted.

After Cao Xi served as the leader of the Central Army, he felt that he was a little lacking in qualifications, and in order to gain the support of the generals of the five armies under his command, he still intended to marry Cao Yan and these old qualified generals.

Promoting Cao Liang is just a matter of Cao Xi's efforts.

"What's this, it's just a promotion, isn't it still an errand in the palace?" Cao Liang said disappreciably, his face was light and light.

To be honest, Cao Liang really didn't care about the difference between the seventh-grade and eight-grade sesame officials, his opponent was the high-ranking Taifu Sima Yi, if he wanted to fight with Sima Yi, at least he had to get closer to the status between them, with Cao Liang's current status, it was really not enough.

Zhang Tong pouted and said: "Come on, don't be in the blessing and don't know the blessing, you have only been promoted from Yulin Lang to the end of the door governor in a few months, and it will not be Qingbu Pingyun in the future, and it will be popular, we people will have to stay up for years and qualifications, mix well, maybe when you are in the office, you can mix a miscellaneous general, cavalry governor and other officials, if you don't mix well, the six grades and seven grades will come to an end." ”

Cao Liang patted him on the shoulder and said matter-of-factly: "Don't be discouraged, borrow your auspicious words, brother, I will be prosperous in the future, and I will definitely be able to help you." ”

Zhang Tong's eyes lit up and said, "Really? ”

Cao Liang smiled and said: "That's fake, anyway, we are also robes who have stood guard together and been on duty together, and if you have my meat to eat, you must be indispensable to drink soup." ”

"Thank you, thank you." Zhang Tong's heart blossomed, thinking that Cao Liang must have a bright future in the future, and this time he can be regarded as hugging a thigh.

It's just that Zhang Tong didn't realize at all at this time how thick the thigh he was hugging was.