In Yecheng, Cao Zhi had already been looking forward to it, seeing Yang Xiu return with his head held high, his heart just fell to the ground, although he had great confidence in the strength of the Praetorian guards and tiger and leopard cavalry he sent, but he was still a little worried about the news leakage, once the news of the troops was leaked in advance, let those Yingchuan Wang clans who had combined up know that they shared the same hatred, and this originally planned blitzkrieg would not end so easily.

But now seeing that Yang Xiu successfully brought back many old people, Cao Zhi breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and secretly decided to start his second step plan immediately, simply to completely eliminate those wang clans and their forces in the dark, although it is of great benefit to the stability of Yingchuan and even the entire Wei State and the stability of the Cao regime, but if he gives up the great opportunity to rectify the Wei court, Cao Zhi will naturally not be reconciled, especially what he wants to see and hear the most, In Yang Xiu's mouth, what share Sima Yi has in Yingchuan, and how much evidence Yang Xiu can come up with to prove this.

In addition, although Cao Pi was assigned to an extremely remote place by Cao Zhifa, there was basically no wave at this time, but the Cao clan and the Xiahou clan who supported Cao Pi in the past did not all withdraw from the court of Wei with the fall of Cao Pi, and they began to speak out in the court again today after being silent for a long time.

Cao Zhi was very tired of these people, so taking this opportunity, Cao Zhi naturally wanted these people who relied on the old and sold the old to completely fade out of the court of the Wei State.

The biggest difference between him and Cao Cao is that Cao Cao is very tolerant of his own clansmen, just like Cao Ren, Cao Hong and others, completely with Cao Cao's connivance all the way to today, because of this, when the person sitting on the throne becomes Cao Cao's son Cao Zhi, they will not pay attention to Cao Zhi, but will despise him, and these Cao clan and Xiahou clan people are all extremely united, so when Cao Cao was in power, Cao Zhi found that he was suspected of manipulating the court, of course, The manipulation is all trivial things, and Cao Cao's informal temperament, they naturally still know.

Sima Yi and those Cao clansmen, Xiahou clansmen, are obviously the goal of Cao Zhi's second-step plan, with such a plan, Cao Zhi welcomed the dusty Yang Xiu into his mansion, and with it, there are dozens of disgraced old men and women and children, Yang Xiu is very ruthless, but all the prime men have already been slaughtered by the tiger and leopard riders and guards under his command, only these old men who have little time left, even if there is something wrong in the future, they will not live long, and those women and children, Naturally, it was prepared to force those old men to speak the truth.

Although Cao Zhi was not a ruthless person, Yang Xiu did carry out according to his deployment, so Cao Zhi did not have any doubts about this, but asked Yang Xiu to temporarily detain all these people in his back garden.

At this time, Cao Zhi and Yang Xiu both knew that time was money, although Yang Xiu had tried his best to hide the identities of these people, but so many people were placed in Cao Zhi's mansion, this matter would definitely leak out within half a day, once Cao Zhi failed to confirm who the family of these people was in with the court before the next day, most of the news would leak out, so that Cao Zhi would not have a chance to fight Sima Yi and those old ministers by surprise, Naturally, the results that can be achieved will not be very significant.

After briefly understanding the situation of the battle of Yingchuan with Yang Xiu, Cao Zhi did not speak, and directly sent him back to the house to rest on the grounds that Yang Xiu wanted to go back to the house to rest first, Yang Xiu knew that he had absolutely no right to touch the inquiries of these people he brought back, he was very smart, so since he caught these old men, he almost never said a word to them, and staying by Cao Zhi's side for a long time made Yang Xiu have a very deep understanding of Cao Zhi's temperament, and at the same time, he also knew, Sima Yi couldn't let him escape punishment under any circumstances.

Yang Xiu, who had not slept all night, returned to his house and ordered his guards to close the door, and then he returned to the bedroom and fell asleep, he knew that he must raise his spirit, tomorrow in the court, there will be a bloody storm, at that time, he will stand firmly by Cao Zhi's side as the only executor, once something goes wrong, and does not achieve the goal that Cao Zhi wants to achieve, most of his previous efforts will be wasted.

On this night, the gate of Cao Zhi's mansion was closed and heavily guarded, and in the back garden, Cao Zhi had already cleared the field, except for himself and the guards loyal to him, who were the old men brought back from Yingchuan like lambs to the slaughter.

Cao Zhi was not a ruthless person, but this time, he knew that if he wanted to achieve his previous goal, he must not show mercy to his subordinates, what should be done must be done, otherwise, in a few years, the person who will be corpsed may not be himself.

Two corpses were secretly transported out of the city from the back door of Cao Zhi's mansion, but fortunately, only these two corpses were produced overnight, thanks to Yang Xiu, who brought back a lot of women and children, the existence of these people made Cao Zhi's inquiry a lot easier, and one by one the names appeared on the pieces of bamboo slips he carried, these were written by Cao Zhi himself, and he knew that by tomorrow, these bamboo slips would become a sharp weapon for him to rectify the court.

The night passed in Cao Zhi's sleeplessness, and by the time dawn, his eyes were already red, but at this time Cao Zhi was finally relieved, because he finally asked all the people Yang Xiu brought back, and the results obtained also made him very satisfied, at this time, the only question left was Sima Yi, or Sima Jia, how should he deal with it, thinking back to how Sima Yi transferred from Cao Pi's command to his own command, Cao Zhi's face couldn't help but be a little gloomy, He knew the truth of giving back to the other in the way of the other, and he was not sure if one day in the future, Sima Yi would defect from him again for the same reason.

Sima Yi ...... In this case, your fate is still in your own hands! ”

After muttering these words, Cao Zhi clenched the bamboo slip in his hand and slowly walked into Zhen's bedroom, where Zhen would serve him to change his clothes in every detail, and then went directly to the court, after a night of nervous questioning, Cao Zhi couldn't think of any other place for him to relax temporarily besides Zhen's room.