Chapter 407: Muddy Waters
Although the people who returned to Sima Yi's mansion were still dressed and behaved the same as Zhang Chunhua who went out before, they had been replaced by Zhang Chunhua's maids.
The real Zhang Chunhua had already pretended to be a ranger at this time, riding a fast horse that Sima Yi had already sent people to prepare outside the city gate, and went straight to Yingchuan with his face covered.
Yecheng to Yingchuan, because the road in the Central Plains is very convenient, Zhang Chunhua rode his horse all the way, and he could reach Yingchuan in half a day, she was definitely a fresh face in Yingchuan, and the people under Cao Zhi would hardly recognize her identity, so this time the news could almost certainly be passed on to the Geng clan.
And in this matter, because the investigation goal of the people sent by Cao Zhi is very clear, that is, the Geng family, and Liu Feng and Zhou Yu have already sent a large part of the evidence of the secret collusion between the Geng family and the Sima family to Yang Xiu, and the investigation of the guards under Cao Zhi is not effortless, and the news is constantly passed on to Cao Zhi's mansion, and these news also make Cao Zhi's expression more solemn these days.
The results of the investigation he obtained were almost all consistent with those mentioned in Yang Xiu's compromise, and he also found many things that Yang Xiu did not mention.
Although there are still some discrepancies with the things mentioned by Yang Xiu, that is, although the Geng clan does have a lot of hidden strength, but after verifying a lot, it is still quite different from what Yang Xiu mentioned in the fold, but this is no longer the reason why Cao Zhi can forgive this Geng clan, there is such a hidden force in his own territory, but he doesn't know it, and Sima Yi, who must have had a decades of friendship with the Geng clan, didn't even reveal the news of the Geng clan to himself, obviously, Even if Sima Yi doesn't want to use the power of the Geng clan to do something, it is difficult to guarantee that when he really hands over the military power to Sima Yi, he will use the power in his hands to help the Geng clan seek any unseemly interests, and the right can change a person's mind, and Cao Zhi, who has come all the way to this day, knows this deeply.
So, Cao Zhi has secretly made a decision, before sending troops to fight with Liu Feng, it is necessary to solve this Geng's matter first, he believes that with the current comparison of his own strength and Liu Feng's, Liu Feng should not be the first to make trouble by himself, this is Liu Feng's rare opportunity to recuperate, so Geng's matter, he can't think about it for too long.
Even though the extermination of the Geng clan would most likely make the Sima family not as obedient to him as before, this was what he had to do as the monarch of Wei, and he must not leave an irrepressible Sima family for himself or his descendants. As Zhen said to him before, whether the battle with Liu Feng can achieve the final victory depends on his own strategy, not Sima Yi's strategy, in that case, Sima Yi will become uncontrollable sooner or later. Therefore, Cao Zhi decided that he would not seek Sima Yi's opinion on this matter, and the Geng family would end it in his hands, and without warning, if this really caused the dissatisfaction of the Sima family, then they could only be dissatisfied, because the Sima family was a courtier, and Cao Zhi was the king of this Wei country.
Just when Cao Zhi was secretly planning how to directly uproot the Geng clan in Yingchuan, Zhang Chunhua's letter had been safely delivered to the hands of the Geng clan in Yingchuan, Cao Zhi's investigation of the Geng clan with great fanfare had aroused the vigilance of the Geng clan, and at this time Zhang Chunhua sent a letter written by Sima Yi, the current head of the Sima family, and the elders of the Geng clan realized the importance of the problem.
They finally know that the current situation is no longer the chaotic situation when the second emperor Huan Ling was in power, and it is no longer the scene when the heroes only occupy the territory and have no time to govern, and now the trend of the three-point world has been formed, if you want to end the troubled times in your own hands, you must govern the territory under your own jurisdiction, and Cao Zhi, after taking the military power and internal affairs of Wei into his own hands, finally started to these hidden forces in the Wei State.
Sima Yi made it very clear in his letter to the Geng family that this is the trend of the times, even if there is no investigation between the Geng family and the Sima family, Cao Zhi will also take action against these Wei forces hidden in the dark in the near future, so this time, there is absolutely no escape.
After saying this, Sima Yi also made it clear that he was determined to protect the Sima family, which means that even if there is no Geng family, the Sima family must be preserved, and once the Sima family is gone, the Geng family will needless to say that it will never be able to be preserved, and the elders in the Geng clan naturally know this truth, so they did not show an angry look, and Sima Yi also put forward his own suggestion at the end of the letter about the danger of the Geng family, that is, to direct this anger from Cao Zhi to every force in Yingchuan, then pull out the radish and bring out the mud, and then see how Cao Zhi wants to act.
The result of this letter reached Cao Zhi's ears only three days later, according to Cao Zhi's original idea, within ten days, the Geng clan would be removed from the territory of Yingchuan with lightning speed, and a detailed plan had been made with Yang Xiu, but this sudden news made Cao Zhi have to temporarily stop all his previous plans.
According to the report of the guards who were sent to Yingchuan by Cao Zhi this time, when they made a final investigation of the hidden strength of the Geng clan, they were unexpectedly driven by the people of the Geng clan intentionally or unintentionally, and by the way, more hidden strength was discovered than before, and the Geng clan investigated before was almost negligible compared with the strength of the forces discovered in the past few days.
But what puzzled these investigators was that after some investigation, they found that although these forces were also rooted in Yingchuan, they were different from the Geng clan, at least not owned by the Geng clan, because their bright faces would also correspond to other prominent clans in Yingchuan, such a situation was never expected by the guards investigating the matter, so they quickly reported the matter to Cao Zhi.
"In addition to the Geng family, Yingchuan actually has other forces hidden in the dark, and according to the situation in the past few days, most of them were deliberately led by the Geng family to find out, which shows that these forces are not related to the Geng family, that is to say, in addition to the Sima family, there are other courtiers in this court who are also inextricably linked with these Yingchuan families, what does Dezu think?"