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The situation on the Cao Wei side is transitioning to a situation that is gradually calming down. Of course, it will take a long time for a new monarch to fully stabilize itself, or it will take a long time for any new monarch to fully stabilize himself. But at least judging from the current situation, Cao Pi is doing it according to Lao Cao's arrangement, and the overall situation is quite smooth.

At this point, some people may want to ask, Cao Pi is a standard little soul egg, ruthless and ambitious, not long after taking over Lao Cao's class in the original history, he forced Emperor Liu Xie to hand over the throne, so is Cao Pi also thinking about this now?

It's not that simple.

Cao Pi does have the ambition to become an emperor, but Cao Pi is not a fool after all. In fact, even if it is the original history, if you simply think that Cao Pi thinks so, or is so anxious to become the emperor, you may really misunderstand Cao Pi.

To be precise, the successors of Cao, Liu and Sun, that is, Cao Pi, Liu Chan, and Sun Quan, were in a very unstable state when they succeeded them.

First of all, Sun Quan, when he took over the class from Sun Ce's hands, but don't really think that Sun Quan picked up a piece of the country left by his father and brother, and picked up a big bargain. In fact, not long after Jiangdong was defeated by Sun Cegang at that time, there was only "Wei" and no "En" in the so-called "Enwei and Shi", and because Sun Ce killed too many people and erected too many enemies, the local Shijia Hao clan in Jiangdong basically held a hostile state towards the Sun Group.

In addition, Sun Quan was not even twenty years old at that time, and his prestige was not enough, so he couldn't control it at all, so Sun Quan's class was actually quite difficult to take, and if they didn't handle it properly, their Sun Group would have to finish playing. In general, if it weren't for Zhang Zhao and Zhou Yu to help Sun Quan survive, Sun Quan would have been out of action a long time ago.

Then there is Liu Chan. Liu Bei was burned down by Lu Xun's fire at that time, which caused the entire Shu Han to suffer a fatal blow, and because of Liu Bei's stubbornness, he attacked without dealing with the internal problems of Shu Han, and after the defeat of the army, the internal problems of Shu Han were very serious. To describe it in the sixteen words of a later scholar, it is "the founding of the Shu Han Dynasty, the foundation is not strong; As soon as Liu Bei died, the earth shook and the mountains shook." It can be said that if it weren't for a first-class politician like Zhuge Liang at that time who had survived with the style of "doing his best and dying", the Shuhan Group would have been out of play a long time ago.

Okay, now back to Cao Pi. In fact, Cao Pi's shift was not so easy. In the original history, as soon as Lao Cao died, what followed was the mutiny of the Qingzhou soldiers, the fundamental team of the Cao group, and in order to avoid a real rebellion, Cao Pi adopted a lenient and even laissez-faire attitude. This is fortunate that Liu Bei and Sun Quan fell out at that time, and did not seize the opportunity to attack Cao Wei, otherwise Cao Wei would have lost so much territory.

Next, Cao Pi's biggest problem is the lack of prestige, which makes Cao Pi not enough to stabilize the people's hearts. At this time, in order to increase his prestige and solve the problem of stabilizing the people's hearts, Cao Pi thought of a way to become the emperor. In order to prevent the country from suffering chaos and the people from suffering from war again, Emperor Liu Xie chose to give up the throne to Cao Pi.

Of course, in the eyes of later generations, this kind of thing was simply persecuted by Emperor Liu Xie, and he was replaced by someone else, who was willing to hand over the emperor's throne?

However, it should be noted here that there is another thing, that is, at that time, Emperor Liu Xie still had the prestige of an emperor, and there were still some people or groups in Cao Wei's territory who supported Emperor Liu Xie, and the death of Lao Cao triggered a mutiny in Qingzhou soldiers.

In addition, Liu Bei was already king in Hanzhong at that time, and the mutiny of the Qingzhou soldiers made Cao Wei's garrison in Chang'an and Luoyang have problems.

However, Emperor Liu Xie did not choose to do so, but calmly handed over the throne to Cao Pi. Maybe Cao Pi's coercion will not be less, but Liu Xie, the emperor who is in his prime of life, gave up the opportunity to fight again. After Emperor Liu Xie handed over the throne to Cao Pi, the situation in Cao Wei was immediately improved, at least in the interior of the Central Plains, so there was no more such a situation of melee between the heroes. Therefore, I didn't see these things, but I simply thought that Emperor Liu Xie was a useless puppet, which was really a little misreading of Emperor Liu Xie, and somewhat misread Cao Pi.

There is another thing here that may be corroborated, that is, the so-called "Chan Rang" has been done several times since ancient times, but aside from the legends of the Three Emperors and Five Emperors, the original monarchs after Chan Rang basically did not die without being killed, but only Emperor Liu Xie lived the rest of his life peacefully, and has been treated by Cao Wei with various preferential treatments. And with Cao Pi's ruthless character, he didn't kill Emperor Liu Xie, and this thing is also worth thinking about.

By the way, I have to say that the "dedication" of Emperor Liu Xie at that time did not mean "dedication", but had the meaning of wisdom, benevolence, and generosity, and it should be said that it was also a courtesy given by Cao Wei to Emperor Liu Xie. On the other hand, Liu Bei's "mourning" to Emperor Liu Xie...... Well, I don't need to explain much about this.

In short, it is still the same sentence, although Cao Pi wants to be the emperor, but in a sense, Cao Pi is also a little forced to be helpless. And accepting Chen Qun's nine-product zhongzheng system and giving up Lao Cao's meritocracy, it is likely that there are some such reasons in it. Because at this time, if you do not accept the conditions put forward by the wealthy clan, you will naturally not get their support; And with the situation at that time, if it didn't get the support of the wealthy Shi family, the territory of the Cao Wei Group would really be shaky.

Okay, that's all for that. The original history is like this, but the current situation is due to the emergence of Lu Ren, an outlier figure, under a series of changes, many problems in Cao Wei cannot be said to have been solved by Lu Ren, but they were also suppressed or alleviated by Lu Ren, and Cao Pi's idea of becoming an emperor was also suppressed by Lu Ren. This matter is said in the words implied by Lu Ren in the text: "I am helping you now because our Han has been invaded by foreign clans, and we are both courtiers of the Han Dynasty, and we must resist foreign enemies together." But if you kid is playing on behalf of the Han to stand on his own, then why should I, the courtier of the big Han, help you? ”

Cao Pi is not a fool, how can he not understand the importance of Lu Ren's support for him at this time? Inside, Cao Pi needed Lu Ren's "money bag" offensive against the wealthy families in Cao Wei to stabilize many wealthy families; Outside, Cao Pi needed Lu Ren to stabilize Liu Bei and Sun Quan, and at the same time, he also needed the support of technical equipment provided by Lu Ren for the operation of the Western Regions Alliance. Therefore, Cao Pi took back his desire to be an emperor in his stomach, at least temporarily. As for what will happen in the future, then let's talk about it then.

Therefore, although Lu Ren was not able to help Lao Cao renew his life, he could be regarded as renewing his life for the Han Dynasty. And when Lu Ren thought of this, he really felt a little crying and laughing. A dynasty that has decayed into decay doesn't seem to make much sense to be like this, right? But this kind of dynasty is in line with Lu Ren's current political interests.

In any case, three months passed after Lao Cao's death. And in the past three months, whether it is Cao Pi or Lu Ren, they are all busy jumping up and down, and there are really not many things to deal with in all aspects. But it was at this time that Lu Ren and Cao Pi both received a message that they were very reluctant to hear:

“***！ The Western Regions Coalition launched an attack on Chang'an, and the Xiongnu also intervened!? Well, I've expected this for a long time, but what about the nomadic tribal alliance on the Liaozhou side? Is it more than 100,000 to pay him back!? ”

When Lu Ren received the news, he was so angry that he slapped the table in the office. However, Lu Renqi got that there were more than 100,000 nomadic tribal coalition troops in Liaozhou, to put it mildly, Lu Lingqi, Chen Gong, Tuoba Yu, Murong Ziying are in Liaoxi, Liu Ye and Deng Ai are in Liaodong, although their total strength is only about 30,000, but these 30,000 are regular troops, whether it is military literacy or weapons and equipment, they are not afraid of the hundreds of thousands of nomadic tribal coalition troops that have emerged.

And if necessary, as long as Lu Ren gives an order, the Liaozhou region can pull out a nomadic cavalry force of no less than 60,000 anytime and anywhere...... How so? Anyway, some of the war methods of nomads in history, Lu Ren has learned what he should learn, and he will naturally use them when he should use them.

Therefore, what Lu Ren was really angry about was that the situation he was most worried about before had happened now, that is, after the Western Regions Alliance Army stabilized its foothold in Liangzhou, it united with those nomads in the north at that time to launch a full-line attack on the northern border of the Han Dynasty.

In fact, for this situation, Lu Ren had already taken precautions, and even asked Lu Lingqi and Chen Gong to prepare for support to the front line of Jinyang and Jixian anytime and anywhere in western Liaoning. But what Lu Ren didn't expect was how more than 100,000 people could come out and come directly to attack Liaozhou. Although Lu Ren is not afraid of these hundreds of thousands of nomadic coalition troops, the current situation means that the troops arranged by Lu Ren in Liaozhou will be contained by these hundreds of thousands of nomadic coalition troops, which is likely to cause a situation where it is impossible to reinforce the Jinyang front line in time.

A little later, a supplementary piece of information from Tuoba Yu and Murong Ziying was sent to Lu Ren, which could be regarded as an explanation for the origin of the hundreds of thousands of enemy troops who attacked Liaozhou.

In fact, the hundreds of thousands of enemy troops who attacked Liaozhou were mainly composed of three parts, namely Karasuma, Xianbei and Fuyu. In fact, as mentioned earlier, after Lu Ren sent Tuoba Yu and Murong Ziying to deal with Liaoxi, he adopted a strategy of co-opting and co-opting the original Karasuma and Xianbei departments, although the results were good, but in fact they did not, and it was impossible to co-opt and co-opt the entire Karasuma and Xianbei. Most of the Karasuma and Xianbei tribes were afraid of Lu Ren's strength, and adopted the practice of leaving Liaoxi and moving north to the northern grasslands.

Among them, Karasuma is not enough, they just can't afford to provoke Lu Renchunquing, and the Xianbei tribe has a so-called "tribal orthodoxy" grudge between Lu Ren, or more accurately with Tuoba Yu and Murong Ziying.

As I said before, Tuoba Yu and Murong Ziying are both from the Xianbei surname, but in terms of their identity, in the Han family's terms, they belong to the side branch of the orthodox surname, which can also be understood as "concubine". Speaking of the Eight Classics, Tuoba Yu and Murong Ziying do not have the corresponding inheritance qualifications. Among them, Tuoba Yu is better, she is a standard "concubine", but Murong Ziying is really far away.

But the current situation is that Tuoba Yu and Murong Ziying, after getting the support of Lu Ren, not only established themselves in the western Liaoxi region, but also formed a large number of clans with the orthodox identity of the Xianbei surname, and even beat those real "descendant" factions out of Liaoxi, and no matter who this kind of thing is replaced, everyone will be very sad in their hearts.

It's just that in the past few years, Tuoba Yu and Murong Ziying's momentum has grown, and those "Yanout" factions know that they can't afford to provoke Tuoba Yu and Murong Ziying, so they have to swallow their anger and move to the norther region. If it was just like this, it might be like that, but when they watched Tuoba Yu and Murong Ziying develop better and better in Liaoxi, and Liaoxi was getting richer and richer day by day, and Tuoba Yu's Murong Ziying's small life was getting better and better, these guys naturally became more and more red and salivated the more they looked at it.

Well, if the situation has not changed much, whether it is red eyes or salivation, they will not dare to provoke Tuoba Yu and Murong Ziying. But at this time, the Western Regions Coalition Army appeared, and there was a stick between Cao, Liu, Sun and Lu, which made the situation at that time change a lot.

At this time, Lu Ren was most worried that the Western Regions Alliance would go to collude with the Qiang and Xiongnu tribes, and the Western Regions Alliance Army would do so. In fact, the Western Regions Coalition Army did not launch a full-scale attack on Chang'an or Hanzhong at that time, but had already sent people to collude with the Qiang and Xiongnu.

Originally, the Qiang and Xiongnu were still a little hesitant, after all, Lao Cao's power was still there, and they didn't dare to mess around. But then the news of Lao Cao's illness and death spread to the Qiang and Xiongnu, and at the same time, the news that Cao Wei had some problems also passed over, which made the Qiang and Xiongnu, especially the Xiongnu, feel that this is a good news that can be ruthlessly scooped up.

So the Xiongnu moved, and even took the Xiongnu to inform Karasuma and Xianbei, who had moved to the northern grasslands, and passed on some relevant news. And Karasuma remembers the hatred of Liaoxi, Xianbei remembers the hatred of Tuoba Yu and Murong Ziying, and the husband who was driven to the northern grassland by Lu Ren also has a lot of hatred for Lu Ren, and these three parties all covet the wealth of Liaozhou, so there is no need to say much about the next thing, these three parties pulled up more than 100,000 people and horses and returned to Liaozhou, not only to find Lu Ren, Tuoba Yu, and Murong Ziying to take revenge, but also to get a vote here in Liaozhou......