On December 26 of the first year of Yanxing of the Shu Han Dynasty, the Hanzhong Army entered Yang'an Pass with a large number of materials for defending the city. Zhong Huijun fell in front of the finish line at the moment before he was about to conquer Yang'an Pass.

On the 27th, Wei Guan and Hu Lie led the defeated troops of the Sword Pavilion battalion to arrive at Yang'an Pass and join Zhong Hui and others.

On the 28th, after absorbing the 20,000 Yongzhou troops and 40,000 people in the camp of Cao Wei Jiange. Liu Chen, Jiang Wei, Huo Yi, Ma Jie and others led the main force of more than 40,000 people to Yang'an Pass.

On the 29th, Zhonghui, who had completely run out of food for the whole army, sent an envoy to surrender to Liu Chen.

On the third day of the first month of the second year of Yanxing (264), Jiang Wei and Ma Jie led the army to appear in Xingshi, and Xun Kai and others, who were guarding the exit at the southern end of Kei Valley, saw Jiang Wei's banner and knew that the general trend had gone. The whole army quickly returned to Chang'an.

At this point, the battle of Wei and Shu, which began in August of the first year of Yanxing (263), came to an end temporarily after more than four months of tragic fighting.

"Your Majesty, Wang Chen, General Wei, General Yi, General Yi, General Yi, Annan, General Yi....... Quan, Zhonglang, and General Jie. In August of the first year of Yanxing, Wei rebelled against our border. At the beginning of the war, the captives succeeded for a while. Yinping and Wudu fell successively. There were also Jiang Shu, Ma Miao and other brazen people who surrendered to the enemy, causing Wang Shifeng to be slightly frustrated...... However, I am a great man, blessed by the ancestors and ancestors, and the army and the people are united. But there was a high-spirited exuberance, and the thieves disappeared in an instant. The enemy was destroyed in the new capital in a war, and the thief chief Deng Ai was awarded the head. The second war was fought in Yang'an, the third battle was fought in Baishui, and the fourth battle was fought in the Sword Pavilion...... Today, Wei rebelled into the chieftain of Kou Dahan, Zhonghui, and the arrows were close to the food, and the whole army surrendered on the 29th...... On the third day of the first month of the second year, the remnants of Wei withdrew from the entire territory of Hanzhong. The ministers will soon send troops to Yinping and Wudu to recover the lost territory and drive away the remnants. The day when the good news is spread is not far away! ”

"Since Yanxing, although there have been occasional traitors who have rebelled against the Han and rebelled. However, most of the subjects and the common people have a loyal heart. Yamen General Guang, Yang'an Dutong, Zitong Shou Ziming, Wei General Zhan, Right General Yu, Yulin Duqiu, Shang Shulang Chong, Wei General Zi Shang...... and more than 26,000 soldiers of the Han Dynasty, all loyal to the country and not in the king's business...... The Great Han Dynasty has turned from danger to safety, all thanks to these heroes and martyrs who sacrifice their lives and forget their deaths, and bravely serve the country! The spirits above the heavens will surely bless the Han forever. It is advisable to build an ancestral hall with enshrinement to make it immortal! ”

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The time entered January 264, in the original plane of history, at this time Shu Han had been dead for two months, but now Shu Han is still alive and well. After arduous efforts, the traverser finally completely changed history at this time!

Of course, Guan Yi was no longer a little butterfly at this time, he changed the history of Shu Han, and at the same time, he also indirectly changed the history of Cao Wei and the Sima family.

From December 21 when he received Du Yu's report, Sima Zhao knew very well in his heart that unless a miracle occurred, Zhonghui's army of 100,000 people would not be saved. And the miracle thing, a political creature like Sima Zhao, who has reached the extreme of reality, generally doesn't expect much.

Therefore, Sima Zhao's response was completely planned according to the situation of the annihilation of his own army.

On December 22, Tingwei Xun Xun (the great-grandson of Sikong Xun Shuang of the Eastern Han Dynasty, whose mother was Zhong Hui's cousin) took the lead, and Shang Shulang Guo Yi (this Guo Yi is Guo Huai's nephew, not Guo Jia's son Guo Yi. Guo Jia's son Guo Yi was a sick boy like his father and died early), and followed up with Heqiao and others. wrote to Emperor Cao Huan of Wei together, saying that Xiangguo had recently formulated a fifth-class knighthood system (the titles of the Han Dynasty were generally only two levels: king and marquis. The words of the duke are generally given to the ministers who are preparing to usurp the throne. Sima Zhao's fifth-class title system was to restore the five-rank title of Duke and Marquis of the Western Zhou Dynasty, and this title hierarchy continued until the fall of the Qing Dynasty. ), so that the imperial court reproduces the Western Zhou ritual system, and the upper and lower dignity is clear at a glance. This is a great achievement.

In addition, Xiangguo invaded Shu this time, in addition to taking Hanzhong, he also took Yinping and Wudu, which his country had lost for many years. Since one county in Hanzhong can be crowned a duke, how should the credit of the other two counties be calculated? Therefore, we suggest that in order to show your majesty's wisdom that you will be rewarded for your merits, it is better to let the Duke of Jin be promoted to the king of Jin as soon as possible!

It is indispensable for Cao Huan to receive such a recital: Originally, I, the emperor, was a rubber stamp, waiting for the Sima family to usurp the throne at any time. If you want to be crowned king, no problem at all. Therefore, as soon as Sima Yan's henchmen put the chapter on the chapter, Cao Huan over there happily issued a holy decree to crown Sima Zhao as the king of Jin.

The emperor didn't care, but Cao Wei's ministers were a little uncomfortable.

Originally, in Cao Wei's unlimited liability joint-stock company, the Cao family was the major shareholder and chairman. The Xiahou family is the second shareholder. Then people such as the Chen family (Chen Qun, Yingchuan family), the Wang family (Wang Lang, Qingxu family), and the Xin family (Xinbi, Hebei family) are minority shareholders. As for the Sima family, he was just a department manager at the beginning.

In the operation of this company, there was a period of time when the chairman did not care about things, and the acting chairman (Cao Shuang) and the second shareholder did not talk very well. So in order to stop the loss, the shareholders promoted one of the most senior department managers together and asked him to serve as CEO. As a result, the CEO is not a good stubble, and he is not satisfied with being a stubble, so he has to let his son continue to be a stubble. In front of him, he continued to embezzle the equity of the chairman and the second shareholder - and now he has overridden the original shareholder and become the acting chairman.

Acting as an agent, although the former horse boy is now a little unhappy to climb on his head, but who let the shareholders not come out of their own way? Moreover, in the process of the Sima family's ascension, while the Sima family embezzled most of the national interests, it also shared a lot of profits for all shareholders. So although everyone was a little unhappy, they reluctantly accepted it.

Note that it is a reluctant acceptance rather than a pleasant acceptance. Although everyone is mentally prepared for the eventual transfer of Cao's Unlimited Liability Joint Stock Company into Sima Unlimited Liability Company in the future. But the pace can't be too fast, you have to have a gradual process of adaptation, right? You said that you only became a prince in October, and now you are in a hurry to be crowned king in less than two months, should you be a little more ugly?

Fortunately, Xun Miao, Guo Yi, and Heqiao, everyone knows that they are Sima Yan's team instead of Sima Zhao's team (Jia Chong, Pei Xiu, these are). So at first, everyone thought that this was just a farce in which the young Sima Yan didn't know political skills and was in a hurry - a mature politician like Sima Zhao would not be so ignorant.

Therefore, when Cao Huan's edict was issued, none of the important ministers in Cao Wei's court followed the trend and asked Sima Zhao to be promoted to the throne of Jin immediately - he would definitely refuse.

As a result, what made everyone's jaws fall to the ground was that Sima Zhao didn't engage in any pushes and three concessions at all like before. As soon as Cao Huan's edict arrived, he immediately accepted it!

The wise family heads immediately understood: either Sima Zhao's life was not long in coming, or the war against Shu had taken a great turn. Or BOTH!

On December 25, 263 AD, when the Zhonghui of Yang'an Pass was still struggling. Sima Zhao roared anxiously to the throne of Jin King!

As mentioned earlier, within an empire, there is a difference in nature between a prince and a duke. The biggest difference is that the king is a monarch and has his own independent state. In this country, it is possible to appoint officials on their own. Moreover, this whole set of official system can be exactly the same as the official system of the empire - in the future, the Wei, Jin, and Chan dynasties can directly achieve seamless connection.

On the 25th, Sima Zhao was officially promoted to the throne.

On the 26th, he canonized the leader of the Wei Empire, and Sima Yan, the Marquis of Xinchang, was the prince of the king.

On the same day, Pei Xiu, the Shangshu servant of the Wei Empire, was the Shangshu Ling of the Jin Kingdom, Bai Jia Chong was the Imperial Lieutenant of the Kingdom, and Yang Jun was the Imperial Historian (Hongnong Yang, Sima Yan's father-in-law, and the distant cousin of Yang Xiu who was killed by Cao Cao), Chen Qian, the commander of the Jingzhou Front Army of the Wei Empire, was the general of the Jin Kingdom's chariots, and Shi Bao, the commander of the Yangzhou Front Army of the Wei Empire, was the Hussar General of the Jin Kingdom......

When the news broke, the whole country was in an uproar.

Excuse me, where are Wei Guan and Zhong Hui? Why is there no title? Excuse me, the military commanders of the Jingzhou Front Army and the Yangzhou Front Army have become important ministers of the Jin State, and what about Deng Ai, the military commander of the Longxi Front Army, the most powerful of the three local corps? None of these people have a list of important ministers of the Shang Jin Kingdom, so what does that mean?

There is no doubt that they were all finished in the war of Shu!

No wonder Sima Zhao, who has been pretending for many years, is so impatient at this time to become the prince less than two months after being promoted to the title of duke! Because if you don't take advantage of this gap to get these things done, then when the news of the fiasco of Shu comes, the Sima family doesn't know when it will happen if they want to get military merit again. At least Sima Zhao can't see it in his lifetime. And if Sima Zhao is dead and the road to usurpation has not been paved, will Sima Yan, who is not yet thirty years old, be able to handle all this?

I see!

Chinese people have always paid attention to getting by on a face. In the past ten years, the Sima family has been brazen and has repeatedly pointed out the deer as a horse, or it is ruthless and frequently copied the big killing weapons of the three tribes. But no matter what, every time the head of the Sima family is promoted to a knighthood, it is at least superficially justified. And this time, in the face of such a crushing defeat for the country, it was actually forced to play a time difference...... Well, you win, who will let the knife handle in your hands. We don't want to be razed...... However, if you do this, we are very uncomfortable in our hearts, and if we are uncomfortable in our hearts, we will inevitably have other thoughts.

In 264 AD, on January 28 of the fifth year of Cao Wei Jingyuan, a month after Sima Zhao forcibly proclaimed the king, the noisy Cao Wei court barely quieted down. At this time, the news of Cao Wei's complete fiasco finally spread.

The 180,000 army, except for the three generals Xun Kai, Li Fu, and Liu Qin, who were in the north of Yang'an Pass, so more than 23,000 people under their command (there were losses in attacking Yang'an Pass) retreated, and the remaining more than 156,000 people plus more than 60,000 soldiers and civilians were all lost in Yizhou.

Although the families of all families had been mentally prepared, when they learned the truth of the matter, they were all dumbfounded and speechless.

On this day, since Liu Bei fled from Xuchang in 199 because of the edict, there was no official contact between the Cao and Liu families. After a lapse of sixty-five years, a team of envoys from Shu Han entered Luoyang.