Rewind the time to a few months ago, since Cao Pi won the victory in the battle to recapture Nanyang and Runan with the help of Zhang Liao, and successfully beat Zhuge Liang back to Xiangyang to return to the dynasty, the battle for storage positions between Cao Zhi and Cao Pi can be regarded as officially entering the white-hot stage.

At that time, Cao Cao was still able to come to the court, and his mind was clear, but anyone could see that Cao Cao gave Cao Pi this great opportunity, Cao Pi did not seize it, if Zhang Liao did not lead the army to help, Cao Pi was only afraid that it was very likely to be defeated by Zhuge Liang, so when Cao Pi returned to Yecheng, he found that many people who had wavered between himself and Cao Zhi had all fallen to Cao Zhi.

With the help of several people who were loyal to him, including Sima Yi, he recruited troops and horses every day in case of emergency, and lobbied back and forth, intending to win over those Cao clan generals who had always been at odds with Cao Zhi.

Although the effect of this toss was not as smooth as Cao Pi thought before, but it took more than two months to win many important ministers to his command, seeing that Cao Cao's body was not as good as day by day, Cao Pi was already fighting around Yecheng, preparing that once Cao Cao died or passed the storage position to Cao Zhi in public, he would have to take action.

But just when Cao Cao was already a little unable to come to the court, suddenly one day Cao Cao took Cao Pi and Cao Zhi and Cao Zhang to Luoyang alone for some reason, and the rest of the ministers were all left in Yecheng, and even the guards only led Xu Chu and hundreds of personal guards, such a move caught Cao Pi very unprepared, so he had to hurriedly ask Cao Zhen and others to wait for his news in Yecheng, and he must not act rashly.

When Cao Cao arrived in Luoyang, he simply let his three sons wait between his beds every day, and recalled many of their childhood experiences with them.

Cao Pi, Cao Zhang and Cao Zhi are brothers of the same father and mother, Cao Cao originally thought that even if one of them inherited the foundation of Wei, the other two would definitely not end up too miserable, but when he finally stopped going on the expedition and stayed in Yecheng to completely explore the competition between Cao Zhi and Cao Pi, he knew that Cao Zhi and Cao Pi had reached the point where water and fire were incompatible, and if this was the case, he would not only bring destruction to at least one of his sons when he died. And the foundation of the Wei State that he had worked hard for half his life would also be destroyed.

In desperation, Cao Cao thought of this method, he tried his best to die outside Yecheng, and he also tried his best to resolve the endless situation between Cao Zhi and Cao Pi, otherwise, even if he shocked the Central Plains, he would be laughed at by future generations.

Cao Cao's mind is naturally good, in these days in Luoyang, he lay on the bed every day to tell the story of the three of them when they were young, and wanted to rely on this behavior that even he himself was a little disdainful to resolve the contradiction between the two, but obviously, it is impossible for Cao Pi and Cao Zhi to rein in the precipice, and there are already too many people behind the two, and the chariot composed of everyone is rolling forward, and it is difficult for anyone to go down at this time.

Cao Zhi and Cao Pi were both controlling Yecheng and the army they had already won over at this time, Cao Zhi was through Yang Xiu, and Cao Pi was through Cao Zhen and Sima Yi.

Cao Cao took the three of them to Luoyang for a month, and as Cao Cao's body deteriorated, the wrestling between the two was also at a fever pitch.

Finally, Cao Cao fell down directly after a back-to-light visit to his sergeants, and died that day.

After Cao Cao's death, the three sons who were originally by his side every day seemed to have evaporated from the world for a while, and they didn't know where they went, and Cao Cao's funerals in the early stage were all presided over by Xu Chu in Luoyang.

At this time, Cao Pi and Cao Zhi naturally rushed back to Yecheng through their own methods, Yecheng, the power center of Cao Wei, has almost all the ministers with real power, and these are the capital to govern Wei in the future, so both of them are desperately trying to take the lead in rushing back to Yecheng and gain this very important initiative.

This time, Cao Pi did arrive in Yecheng before Cao Zhi, but when he gathered the soldiers and horses he had prepared before, he found that only the gray-faced Cao Zhen led hundreds of soldiers to come, Cao Pi asked, and couldn't help but change his complexion, just because according to Cao Zhen's words, just a day ago, Sima Yi, who had been unusual, suddenly turned against the water, and plotted against most of the people in Cao Zhen's army. The Sima family seemed to have disappeared from this Ye city.

Just when Cao Pi was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot, Cao Zhi also entered Yecheng, but what made Cao Pi very angry was that the news of Cao Zhi's entry into the city had just come out, and a group of Wei courtiers came from nowhere, holding an edict in their hands, claiming that Cao Cao had left it at Mrs. Bian before leaving Yecheng, and stated that it could only be opened until after his death.

And the content of this edict is to hand over the country of Wei after Cao Cao's death to the third son born to him and Mrs. Bian, Cao Zhi.

What made Cao Pi even more disheartened was that the person who read out the edict was Sima Yi, who had served before his saddle and horse, such a reversal, although many officials in Yecheng did not understand it, but Cao Cao's edict was in hand, and Cao Pi's important adviser Sima Yi had already demoted Cao Zhi, and it seemed that Cao Pi had no chance, and almost overnight, Cao Zhi was justifiably ascended to Cao Cao's position.

At this point, Cao Pi realized that he was completely defeated, and he was defeated without the power to fight back, and those old clan uncles were simply useless, and when they saw Cao Cao's edict, they were so frightened that their legs became weak, and they forgot the covenant they had made with Cao Pi before.

Cao Pi knew that most of the reason for this failure was Sima Yi's unforeseen anti-water, but he couldn't understand the reason for the anti-water, of course, the reason for this was only understood by Cao Zhi and Sima Yi.

Of course, these causes and effects are no longer important, becoming a king or defeating a villain, Cao Zhi knew what Cao Cao wanted, so he did not seriously kill Cao Pi, but sent him to Pingcheng, north of Bingzhou, across the Great Wall from Xianbei, Cao Pi moved his family to Pingcheng, but among them, there was only one person missing......