Sima Shi was not in Luoyang at the time, so naturally he didn't know about it, Jiang Ji's death was indeed unexpected by him, but since Jiang Ji was dead, it was just time to vacate the position of the third duke, and Sima Yi could use it to envelop Wang Ling and temporarily stabilize this branch of people in Huainan.

Taiwei is one of the three dukes, is one of the most prominent official positions in the imperial court, Sima Yi gave Wang Ling the position of taili, is not the form of adding officials, but the real three dukes, for Wang Ling, who is bent on climbing up, this Taiwei position is his dream.

Obviously, Sima Yi was a little worried about Jiang Ji's death, Sima Yi swore that he would only remove Cao Shuang from office, which was just Sima Yi's means, Sima Yi didn't take this promise to heart at all, but Jiang Ji is different, he is a decent person, since he promised Cao Shuang, he must keep his promise.

Sima Yi resented Jiang Ji for being really a dead brain, and he ended up depressed because of Cao Shuang's affairs, Jiang Ji originally contributed a lot in this mutiny, and it was when Sima Yi entrusted him with a heavy responsibility, but because of this incident, Sima Yi was missing a capable assistant, which is really impermanent.

At this moment, Steward Hou hurriedly entered, holding something like a notice in his hand, and said to Sima Yi: "Master, look at this-"

Sima Yi took it and looked at it, and was immediately stunned, Sima Shi also leaned over to take a look, originally this was the article posted by Cao Liang to discuss Sima Yi, and attached to the edict of the first emperor.

Sima Shi sneered and said contemptuously: "Really? Presumably, this is just Cao Liang's trick to play tricks, pretending to be the first emperor, thinking that he can act in a righteous and bright way, which is really naïve! ”

Sima Yi looked solemn, shook his head gently, and said, "Although there is something strange about this matter, it may not be false. ”

Sima Shiqi said: "The first emperor has been dead for nine years, is it possible that he can still borrow the corpse to return his soul?" What kind of rebellion against the Metropolitan Governor is just Cao Liang's trick to fool the people of the world. ”

Sima Yi said: "Not really, Shi'er, do you still remember that before the death of the first emperor, the Yellow Gate secretly went out of the palace to ward off evil spirits and issued an order?" ”

Although many years have passed, Sima Yi recalled as soon as he mentioned Sima Shi, according to Zhang Dang's secret report, the evil spirit had been out of the palace once before Cao Rong collapsed, and it was suspected that it was related to the secret edict.

But because of this matter, Sima Yi has been worried in his heart, at that time he deduced that if Cao Rong left a secret edict, he would definitely give the secret edict to a powerful minister, according to the area where the evil spirit finally appeared, Wang Ling's suspicion is the greatest, so many years, Sima Yi has also been regarded as a potential opponent.

But I didn't expect that now that the secret edict has been revealed, it was Cao Liang who got Cao Liang's favor and became the holder of the secret edict.

Sima Yi was indeed surprised, but it was ridiculous that he was trying his best to win over Cao Liang not long ago, even at the cost of his granddaughter, and Cao Liang stood on the opposite side of him with an iron heart, it turned out that it was because of the secret edict, Sima Yi fought geese all his life, and was finally pecked by the geese, a big mistake!

From a small Yu Linlang to a feudal official, Cao Liang's rise over the years is amazing, but this also has a great relationship with Sima Yi's appeasement, even if Cao Liang repeatedly provoked their Sima family, Sima Yi still adopted an attitude of forbearance and restraint, in his opinion, a child of the clan who is greedy for beauty and reckless behavior, after all, what kind of climate has become.

But Cao Liang's career path was soaring all the way, and by the time Sima Yi realized Cao Liang's threat, it had already become a big trend.

As early as when Cao Liang was weak, Sima Yi had a hundred ways to kill him, but unfortunately the opportunity was missed, there would be no more, and now Cao Liang has a secret edict to bless, which will inevitably make the situation take a turn for the worse.

Sima Shi gritted his teeth and said: "Even if this secret edict is true, what should we do, as long as we insist on Cao Liang's false transmission of the holy decree, how can he do anything, and how many people in this world can believe him?" ”

In Sima Shi's view, the so-called secret edict held by Cao Liang is just the thing of Cao Liang, who has been dead for many years, and now that things have changed, the Sima family now controls the power of the imperial court, is it not comparable to a former emperor who has been dead for many years?

As long as the Sima family insisted that this secret edict was forged by Cao Liang, Sima Shi did not believe that many people in the world would believe that this secret edict was true.

But judging from Sima Yi's solemn face, he is still extremely concerned about this secret edict, the situation in Cao Wei's political arena is complicated, this secret edict, whether it is true or not, as long as it is thrown out, it will inevitably set off an uproar in the political arena, thus completely changing the pattern of Cao Wei's political arena.

Since this inscription will appear in Luoyang, Sima Yi believes that it will soon spread to all the cities of Cao Wei, which will definitely not be good news for the Sima clan who has just established its position, and Sima Yi must launch countermeasures to prevent the situation from deteriorating.

Originally, Sima Yi wanted to postpone the appointment of Wang Ling as a lieutenant and see how the situation changed before making a decision, but now it can't be postponed, if it's too late, it is likely that there will be big trouble.

Sima Yi immediately ordered to send people to Shouchun to announce the decree and appoint Wang Ling as the lieutenant, but he did not need to come to Luoyang to take up his post, and still held the position of the governor of Yangzhou and was responsible for the southeast defense line.

Sima Yi's operation was completely based on stability, and promoted Wang Ling to the rank of lieutenant, if he was transferred back to the Beijing division at this moment, he would definitely be suspicious of Wang Ling, and it would be easy to force Wang Ling to rebel first.

If you want to stabilize Wang Ling, you must promote him to an official position and continue to let him stay in Huainan to calm his mind.

For Biqiu Jian in Youzhou, Sima Yi also adopted the same method, promoted him to the governor of Youzhou, and sent people to appease him and give him a heavy reward.

As for Xiahou Xuan in Guanzhong, Sima Yi was not so polite, and directly ordered him to be recalled to Beijing to serve as Dahonglu, and the official position of Yongliang Governor of Zhengxi General was replaced by Guo Huai, the assassin of Yongzhou.

Sima Yi dared to use such tough means against Xiahou Xuan, it was precisely because he had such confidence that Huainan, Youzhou and Bingzhou may have Sima Yi powerless to control the situation, but in Yongliang, there is his world, don't look at Xiahou Xuan is the leader of Yongliang, Sima Yi can knead it at will.