Chapter Eighty-Four: Sima's Dilemma
Uncle, now the plan is to be safe and good! β
Sima Ling didn't think so, he felt that this nephew was too stable, but what he did was stable enough, but it was not a good strategy for a battle.
In the battle, the fighters are fleeting, and if you are 50% sure of the battle, you should give it a go.
What's more, now that the Sima clan is far away from expelling the Han Kingdom, it is only one step away from the three eastern counties.
You can also teach those families in the three eastern counties a lesson, which is to let them understand that next time they should not make a decision easily between the Han and Wei countries.
For the Sima family, the loser has no human rights, from the first ten years of the Gao Pingling Incident to this year Sima Zhao called the Jin King Jia Jiuxi, the Sima family spent 15 years to consolidate the rule, through the Gao Pingling Change, Huainan Three Rebellion and other events have extinguished all the open and potential opponents.
And those loyalists, supporters, and even sympathizers of Cao Wei have been suppressed from physical destruction to promotion, and finally disappeared from the world, some of them may have their hearts set on Cao Wei, but under the bloody butcher's knife of the Sima clan again and again, these people do not take refuge in the Sima clan, and they have become powder.
At the beginning of the Sima clan's usurpation of power, when Gao Pingling changed, because Cao Shuang did too well in those ten years, the elders of Cao Wei were all on Sima Yi's side.
Sima Yi's strong political appeal made him not show the image of a chaotic minister and thief who was seen as a conspiracy to usurp power, but a meritorious master who came out to Kuang Zheng Chaogang.
At the time of the coup, Sima Yi called Gao Rou "Jun Zhou Bo", which meant that in the minds of the elders of Cao Wei, this move was the same behavior as Chen Ping and Zhou Bo of the former Han Dynasty to eliminate Zhulu and settle the Liu family.
Therefore, they felt that Cao Shuang was the rebellious minister, and the old lady came out to stabilize the situation, re-safeguard the interests of their Cao Wei meritorious veterans, and stabilize Cao Wei, and they thought that what Sima Yi was doing was to protect the imperial family.
And most of the appointments of Cao Shuang were in-laws and counties, which damaged the vital interests of Cao Wei's old ministers at the beginning.
Like Jiang Ji, Gao Rou, Sun Zi, and Liu Fang of the four generations of Lishi, these people all trust Sima Yi, plus Sima Fu, Wang Su (that is, the son of Wang Situ), Chen Tai, Xun Yi, Zheng Yuan, who fell out with Cao Shuang Group, Fu Yu of the Beidi Fu family, Lu Yu of Fan Yang, He Zeng of Chen Jun, Zhong Yu of Yingchuan Zhong, in addition to Sun Li, Wang Guan and others, these people are all allies of Sima Yi.
Cao Shuang's cronies in the Gao Pingling Revolution - their identities are more accurate political enemies of Cao Wei and other Cao Wei elders, since they are on the opposite side of Sima Yi, they can be regarded as loyal to Cao Wei.
After all, they must support Cao Wei's rule, and it is impossible for them to support Sima's behavior of establishing a family.
There are:
Cao Shuang Brothers: Cao Zhenzi
He Yan: Cao Cao's adopted son and married a princess
Deng Yang: Nanyang Deng's
Ding Mi: The son of Cao Cao's fellow villager Ding Fei, who may be a member of Mrs. Ding's clan
Li Sheng: The son of Li Xiu, the Taishou of Shangdang and Julu Second County
Bi Rail: Dongping Bi Shi, a close confidant of Emperor Cao Wei Ming, Cao Cao was the son of Bi Zhan in his early years, and his son married a princess
Huan Fan: Long Kang Huan's family, Cao Cao's hometown
And the above characters ended: Yi Sanzu
Sima Yi's two main allies in the Gao Pingling Rebellion, Taiwei Jiang Ji and Situ Gaorou.
Jiang Ji opposed the extermination of Cao Shuang and others, and was a sympathizer of the Cao Wei regime, so there was no queen, and he only got a viscount when Cao Wei was knighted in the fifth rank.
In contrast, Gao Rou's descendants are much more prominent, the eldest son Gao Jun is a general; The second son was born, and successively served as the assassin of Sanzhou and the servant; The three sons are high, Tingwei, Shang Shuling, and Sikong, this is the gap.
In addition, the representatives of the scholar clan who supported Sima Yi in the Gaopingling Revolution were Shangshu Chen Tai and Shizhong Xu Yun, who persuaded Cao Shuang to surrender.
Chen Tai is the son of Chen Qun, a close friend of Sima Yi of the Chen clan in Yingchuan, and it is very normal to stand on Sima Yi's side during the change of Gao Pingling, but when the noble townsman was in charge, Chen Tai asked Sima Zhao to punish Jia Chong to thank the world, Sima Zhao refused, so the name of the Chen Ji branch of the Chen clan in Yingchuan was slight, and there was no longer the scene of the Han and Wei dynasties and having the same name.
Xu Yun is a member of the Hebei crown family, and Xiahou Xuan and Li Feng are close friends, after the two were killed by Sima Shi, Xu Yun also went to the opposite side of Sima's house, preparing to take advantage of the military parade to do Sima Zhao, and then attack Sima Shi, the incident was exiled to Lelang, and was chased and killed halfway.
And when the Sima clan was unifying Cao Wei's interior, there was also the famous Huainan rebellion.
Huainan's rebellion has both the element of loyalty to Cao Wei and the internal nature of having the right to fight for power, and I personally think that Wang Ling wants to be a powerful minister.
Wang Ling is Wang Yun's nephew, and although he is under the control of the strong ministers on the grounds that the lord is weak, he does not behave much like Kuang Zheng.
The reason why Wang Ling dared to confront Sima Yi was that Cao Wei had a great relationship with him.
Wang Ling himself is a fake Jieyue, Tai Lieutenant, and General of Zhengdong, and his nephew Ling Hu Yu is the assassin of Yanzhou, focusing on the southeast; Zhengnan is the younger brother Wang Chang, the governor of Jingzhou and Yuzhou military, and Zhengxi is Guo Huai, who is Wang Ling's brother-in-law.
However, Wang Ling thought too much and did too little, and his ability was also ordinary, and he was quickly pacified by Sima Yi's personal recruitment.
The impact of Huainan's rebellion did not spread much, firstly, because Sima Yi had killed too many people before, and secondly, Wang Chang and Guo Huai were all cronies promoted by Sima Yi, so only the three clans of Wang Lingzhiyi of Qi County of Taiyuan Wang, Jinyang Branch of Taiyuan Wang, Taiyuan Guo Clan, and Taiyuan Linghu Clan were all safe and sound.
Later, when Sima Yi was in power, no one dared to rebel, but what he did, although he overstepped it, was only Huo Guang.
Later, after Sima Yi's death, it was the second rebellion of Huainan that resurged.
After Sima Yi's death, Sima Shi continued to govern, which naturally aroused the dissatisfaction of Emperor Cao Fang of Wei.
Because Sima Yi himself is a veteran of the Four Dynasties and has been entrusted by two generations of emperors, he has made outstanding contributions, so there is no objection from the emperor to the government and the opposition by his auxiliary government, as for Sima Shi's reputation, how can he control the military and political power?
Even Huo Guang, who was a big man back then, had never been like this, and Cao Cao was the only one who acted like this.
In the first month of the spring of the fourth year of Wei Jiaping, (Sima Shi) moved to the general, added the service, held the festival, supervised the Chinese and foreign armies, and recorded the Shangshu affairs.
Ordered hundreds of officials to raise talents, bright and young, compassionate the poor and lonely, and rationalize and stagnation; Zhuge Dan, Biqiu Jian, Wang Chang, Chen Tai, Hu Zundu Governor Quartet, Wang Ji, Zhou Tai, Deng Ai, Shibao Dianzhou County, Lu Yu, Li Feng were elected, Fu Yi, Yu Song participated in the strategy, Zhong Hui, Xiahou Xuan, Wang Su, Chen Ben, Meng Kang, Zhao Yu, Zhang Ji pre-court discussion, the four seas poured in, and the government and the opposition were solemn.
These names are all closely related to the Sima family, either promoted by Sima Yi, or once served under Sima Yi, or are the good friends of Sima Yi's brothers.
Most of them will still be the confidants of the Sima clan in the future, but there are also a small number of them who were destroyed by the Sima family because of their hearts towards Cao Wei.
Zhongshu ordered Li Feng, Taichang Xiahou Xuan, Guanglu Doctor Zhang Ji and others to prepare a coup d'Γ©tat and kill Sima Shi.
The plan was leaked, Li Feng was hammered to death by Sima Shi himself, Xiahou Xuan was beheaded, and Zhang Ji was given to death in prison.
Li Feng is the son of Weiwei Li Yi, a close confidant of Emperor Cao Rong of Wei Ming, and is likely to be close friends with Biqiu Jian in his early years, and his son married a princess to marry the Wei family; Xiahou Xuan, Cao Wei's clan, the son of Xiahou Shang, the general of the Southern Expedition, and Cao Shuang's cousin; Zhang Ji, the son of Zhang Ji, the assassin of Liangzhou, and the daughter is Empress Cao Fang.
This attempted coup d'Γ©tat in the center of Cao Wei had a deep background in the Cao Wei royal family, and even Emperor Cao Fang was deposed because of this.
The implicated Su Shuo, Le Dun, and Liu Xian are all small characters, but they are treated the same, and they are all of the three clans.
After Sima Shi deposed Cao Fang, the Zhennan general Biqiu Jian of Yangzhou and Yangzhou Assassin Shi Wenqin raised troops, and Sima Shi personally conquered Huainan.
Biqiu Jian is the old Emperor Cao Rong of Wei Ming and a hardcore Cao Wei fan.
Wen Qin, the son of Cao Cao's fellow general Wen Ji, Cao Shuang's cronies, is not as loyal as Biqiu Jian, but at least he is also a supporter of Cao Wei.
After the defeat, the three tribes of Biqiu and Jianyi, Wenqin fled to Wu.
In addition to the two, Liu Tao was also implicated.
Liu Tao, the son of Cao Wei Dahonglu Liu Ye, Cao Shuang's cronies, and the most important thing is the Han clan, after Biqiu Jian, who was also Cao Shuang's cronies, raised troops, Sima Shi asked Liu Tao for a plan, Liu Tao refused to say more, which angered Sima Shi, and Liu Tao was the plain guard, and was cut down by Sima Shi on the way.
However, after Sima Shi pacified this time, he rebelled against Huainan again.
Zhuge Dan is not a real loyal minister of Cao Wei, but he was forced to rebel by Sima Zhao, his friends Deng Yang and Xiahou Xuan have already razed the three clans one step in advance, and Wang Ling and Biqiu Jian, who had previously supervised Huainan, have also razed the three clans, so Zhuge Dan made persistent efforts, supported strong troops according to the important land, and contacted Sun Wu to prepare for secession.
And this time, it was Sima Zhao who took the queen mother, the emperor, and the 260,000 Chinese and foreign troops to personally conquer Zhuge Dan, and fought fiercely for ten months. After this battle, the Sima clan was no longer invincible in the whole country.
After that, Cao Wei produced another noble countryman.
By the time Sima Zhao was in power, the opposition forces of the Sima clan in the middle of the Cao Wei Dynasty and other towns had basically been eliminated, so there was a noble township duke who fought hard and was worthy of being the descendant of Cao Cao.
Cao Wei's noble township fair day for him to preach the scriptures for the Taibao Zheng Chong, Sikong Wang Xiang, with him to discuss the scriptures are the Zhonghu army Sima Wang, the servant Wang Shen, the scattered cavalry Chang Pei Xiu, the Yellow Gate servant Zhonghui, these people are all from the Gaomen clan, but they are all Sima's henchmen, and no one really has a heart for Cao Wei at this time.
And Zheng Chong, Xingyang, Zheng Shi, Wang Xianglangya, Wang Shi, Sima Wang, Hanoi, Sima Shi's nephew, Wang Shen Taiyuan Wang's family, Pei Xiu Hedong Pei family, Zhonghui Yingchuan Zhong family, these were originally still in the Sima family's high-ranking lords, and these people finally became important ministers of the Sima family.
However, the incident of the noble township prince happened suddenly, and in addition to Chen Tai, who wanted Sima Zhao to kill Jia Chong, there was also Man Changwu, the grandson of Taiwei Man's favor, who was the in-law of the Sima family, and was tortured to death by Sima Zhao.
The Sima clan used the most brutal means to make the families inside and outside Cao Wei dare not raise their banners to rebel openly.
Now that the Han State occupies the three eastern counties, it is so easy to occupy, and the Haoqiang clan of the three eastern counties will definitely be to blame, and they will definitely have to kill a batch!
This is nothing to the Sima family, otherwise how can it become a family of powerful ministers, otherwise it cannot usurp the throne.
This is also a continuation of Cao Wei's tradition, and now Cao Wei's forces were also killing people back then, how many famous families of the Han Dynasty were wiped out.
Sima Yan only kept this decision in his heart now, but shook his head again, and then looked at his uncle Sima Ling again: "Uncle, where are the reinforcements the banner of the Han Emperor?" β
Sima Ling immediately shook his head: "I still know how the banner of the Han Emperor is, absolutely not!" Looking at the flag, at most it is only a few soldiers and horses in the imperial camp of the Han Emperor, but it is not a certain thing. β
Sima Yan nodded, and then looked at Sima Ji who was still not leaving, waiting for his praise.
Sima Ji is of course a good person, and he was puzzled for a while at this time, but after thinking about it for a while, he suddenly woke up: "This means that Emperor Han is likely to make a detour to attack Chang'an at this time?" β
"Not bad." Sima Yan nodded too late. "Zhong Situ's Guanzhong army, most of which are now only in front of the defense line, to guard against the Han conquest; This Guan Yi belongs to a team of soldiers and horses, is a pillar of the Han State, this person will definitely be saved by the Han Emperor, and will never give up, this land of the three eastern counties, the Han State will not give up, so heavy, even the Han Emperor, Jiang Wei has not shown up, then they must have more important things, more important current things, they can only go to Chang'an from the back. β
"Then are we going to support Chang'an or open up the three counties?" Sima Ji was finally at a loss at this time.
And Sima Ji also seemed to feel that he should say something at this time, and he spoke again: "Uncle, brother, I have received a message, Zhong Situ scolded us in his heart a few days ago, saying that we are not confused, and we have been standing still in Nanyang County for several days, and we have lost the warplane!" β
"Zhong Hui is in such a hurry, is he looking for death?" At this time, Sima Ling was furious when he heard this. "If he dared to say this before me, he would have died long ago! That is, to bully you! How dare he give me such a letter?
He is also the son of our family, and if he is so domineering, sooner or later he will die......"
Sima Ji was immediately silenced.
After Sima Ling showed his impatience, Sima Yan explained: "Zhong Situ is also a stable person before he thinks about defeat, and he originally wanted to stabilize the back road for that thief and ensure that he is undefeated before attacking, which is a proper move." β
However, after saying this, Sima Yan himself felt ridiculous, when did he start thinking about retreating when the battle started?
What can be achieved with such stability?
Back then, King Xuan's battle against Cao Shuang was simply a hard fight, and there was no one-tenth chance of winning, but he relied on this small elite to beat Cao Shuang unconsciously, and then won the power in the world.
How could King Xuan be proper at that time?
In fact, there were already many problems in sending troops this time, but Sima Yan specially asked for war before he made the trip, and Sima Yan was naturally unwilling to fail here.
In the embarrassing atmosphere of "Seven Days and ......", Sima Yan finally spoke and finally stood up.
"We came here in two days, just if the military situation of the Han people is faster, it will arrive in three or four days at most, then the Han people will not stop for a moment, and send a large number of reinforcements from Hanzhong, otherwise how can it be so fast?"
"As it should be." Sima Ling calculated a little at this time and came to a conclusion.
"Then assuming that Guan Yi will get the military order one day earlier than us, then the Han Emperor should be able to arrive in Chang'an in four or five days at this time, right? Let's go to Chang'an! Sima Ling turned around with a few cases at this time, and walked directly forward into the rain.
"It's about the same, but it's hard to say, the road in Meridian Valley is so famous, but we haven't walked it." Sima Ji glanced at Sima Yan twice, and then hurriedly followed.
"But I'm afraid it's going to be difficult for Chang'an all the time."
"yes."
At this time, Sima Ling looked at Han Shui, who already had only an outline, and sighed for a while.
"Because once the Han Emperor arrives in Chang'an, it is not only a matter of tens of thousands of Han troops breaking into Guanzhong, the Han Dynasty is still known as a prestige in Guanzhong, and the Han Emperor can calmly wait for those traitors to surrender, and he can also wait for the follow-up corps of the Han army, and even the reinforcements of Sichuan and Shu to gather in Guanzhong......"
"Then I just can't fight." Sima Yan was stretching out his hand and gritting his teeth at this time.
"But there is still a war now, Zhong Situ is just a civil servant, I'm afraid that it won't be used, I'll go now, lead 20,000 horsemen over the middle town, and go straight to Chang'an City, see if the Han army camp has arrived, can I break it with one blow."
Sima Ling was eager to ask for battle at this time, and regretted more and more that the battle was handed over to Sima Yan to take command, otherwise he would have led the troops to go!
Sima Yan shook his head at this time: "After waiting for four or five days, when things are really clear, my uncle will go to Chang'an City again." β
Sima Ji was stunned at this time, and for a while he only felt that he didn't hear what Sima Yan said, why is this?
But soon, as Sima Yan turned around and spoke to him again, Sima Ji was still sure that he was not in a dream.
"Xuandi." Sima Yan looked at his closest brother.
"You wait, wait for the Han army reinforcements to be completely understood, then touch it, and pass it on again, if anyone dares to disobey my military order, I will behead him, and no one can protect him!"
Sima Ji still doesn't understand, but Sima Ling is completely clear, having said so much, Sima Yan still has to run, and Sima Ji still wants Sima Ji to break the queen, and Sima Ling to distract the enemy's attention, and even send him to death!
For a while, Sima Ling didn't know whether to be relieved or frustrated, was it really a good thing to be so pitted by his nephew? But this may be a good thing for the family in the long run!
Sima Yan is so bent on going his own way, of course, Sima Ling will not say that he is the god of war, but he is confident that he has read the art of war and has gained something, which is actually very rare.
First of all, reading the art of war is a threshold, in this era, the spread of knowledge is limited, such as the art of war, that is, the county wang family, there may be a few words, like Sima Ling, intensive reading of the art of war, and gains.
It's not just that I read one, but that I read a lot, and that's what I learned.
However, in fact, from another point of view, this is nothing, after all, it can be ridiculed: Zhao Kuo!
Zhao Kuo, who is a fledgling and has a family heirloom of the art of war, fought with Bai Qi at the peak, and the whole army was killed!
Then Zhao Kuo won the reputation of "talking on paper", although the name of "talking on paper" is not something that ordinary people can get, but this is not a good reputation after all, Sima Ling is in such an embarrassing situation, for various reasons, Sima Zhao has never given him the opportunity to make contributions, which has never given him a good opportunity for practical operation.
As a result, Sima Ling is really facing the battlefield now, but everything is fine when the wind is downwind, but when the wind is headwind, he doesn't know the art of war.