After Cao Cao became prime minister, he made official appointments to his prime minister's office. Ren Cui Yan is the West Cao Peng (administrative secretary), Mao Yu is the East Cao Peng (personnel secretary), Sima Lang is the chief secretary (chief secretary), Sima Yi is the literary secretary (education secretary), and Lu Yu (Lu Zhi's son) is the Fa Cao Lingshi (judicial assistant officer).

The most important person is Sima Yi, and it is precisely because of this appointment that Sima Yi has entered the stage of history.

Sima Yi is not the first time to enter officialdom, he served as the chief of the plan when he was in the sixth year of Jian'an (201). The above calculation refers to the annual results of officials in various localities, how much grain is produced, and how much tax is collected. And Shang Ji Peng is the county's statistics of these superior officials, and he can be regarded as a statistician!

Sima Yi has been very intelligent since he was a child, and his reputation is outside, and he also has a good relationship with the hermit Hu Zhao. You must know that the hermits of this period are all very capable people, and this Hu Zhao is a person who can be as famous as Mr. Shuijing Sima Hui. Hu Zhaozi Kong Ming is a native of Yingchuan. Everyone knows that Yingchuan is the place with the most talents during the Three Kingdoms period, Xun Yu, Xun You, Guo Jia, Guo Tu, Zhong Xuan, Chen Qun, etc., there are at least dozens or even hundreds of people who can be named.

Moreover, Hu Zhao is particularly good at calligraphy, and he is called Zhong Hu together with Zhong Xuan. You must know that in the history of calligraphy, the inheritance is like this, from Cai Yong to Zhong Xuan, to Mrs. Daowei to Wang Xizhi. Zhong Xuan's status in the calligraphy world is very high, and he can be regarded as a sub-sage, which is equivalent to Mencius's status in Confucianism.

How famous a person is, out of his own accident, depends on what friends he makes. It's like Xu Shu and them, just because they befriended Zhuge Liang, they were remembered by many people. Hu Zhao is famous, and Sima Yi befriended Hu Zhao, so he naturally became famous.

Cao Cao also heard about Sima Yi's reputation at that time, so he wanted to recruit him. But Sima Yi thought that the Han family was weak and didn't want to answer the call, so he excused himself and said that he had wind paralysis. Cao Cao sent someone to investigate, and Sima Yi lay motionless on the bed, making the people sent by Cao Cao think that he really had wind paralysis.

But he couldn't hide it for a while, and after Cao Cao became prime minister, he forcibly recruited Sima Yi to serve as a literary peng, so that he could be with Cao Pi.

Sima Yi looks very peculiar, and he looks like an eagle and a wolf. In history, Cao Cao reminded Cao Pi that Sima Yi would not be willing to be subordinate, but Cao Pi did not listen. In the end, it was proved that Cao Cao's words were right, and Cao Wei really died at the hands of Sima in the end.

In fact, for Sima Yi, he really didn't want to be under Cao Cao, but he couldn't escape. There was no way, Sima Yi could only go on duty. However, Sima Yi is not a fuel-efficient lamp, and he played Cao Hong as soon as he arrived in Yecheng.

After Cao Cao got Sima Yi to Yecheng, he didn't give him an official position. Cao Hong found him first, Cao Hong thought that he was a big boss and wanted Sima Yi to help him. But Sima Yi despised Cao Hong and didn't want to serve him, so he pretended to be on crutches. But after Cao Cao appointed him as a literary scholar, he immediately threw away his crutches and went to take up his post.

This change is very fast, and it is very shameless, very much Cao Cao's style back then.

Cao Cao only served as the prime minister, and he faced another matter, that is, Xiliang had another mess.

Although Cao Cao had already taken the Sili Captain's Department, he did not have much control over Liangzhou, and all relied on the diplomacy of Zhang Ji and others to negotiate to protect Chang'an and other places. But Liangzhou and other places have always been under the control of Han Sui, Ma Teng and others, and Zhang has been dealing with the two of them since he has relied on the name of the Han family.

But there has always been a fight between Han Sui and Ma Teng, and the two had a conflict more than ten years ago, when Ma Chao, who was still underage, was almost killed by Han Sui's son-in-law Yan Xing. The fight between the two has not broken over the years, and Han Sui killed Ma Teng's wife, which is too big. The two have been fighting for many years, and it can be said that they are inseparable!

Cao Cao didn't want the turmoil in Liangzhou, you must know that Han Sui and Ma Teng were both nominal Hanchens, and they both sent their sons to be hostages in Xudu. And the official positions of both of them are very high, Ma Teng is the general of Zhengnan, and Han Sui is the general of Zhengxi, both of whom are Cao Cao's table. And these two people have always been Cao Cao's thugs before, they helped Cao Cao defeat Guo Yuan, the Southern Xiongnu, and also defeated Gao Gan and Wei Gu. It can be said that Cao Cao has been using the soldiers and horses of these two people to stabilize Guanzhong, and of course he does not allow the two to fight.

So Cao Cao sent Zhong Xuan and Wei Duan to persuade peace, with Ma Teng as the former general, changed to Tunhuaili, fake the festival, and sealed the marquis of Huaili. There is a bit of a problem here, the general impression seems to be that the Zhengzhen Anping is lower, but it was not like this in the late Han Dynasty, and the Sifang generals were one level higher than the Sizheng generals.

Zhang Ji went to persuade Ma Teng to give up the army and go to Xuchang as an official. Forced by the situation, Ma Teng agreed. After he arrived in Yecheng, Cao Cao made him a guard lieutenant, named Ma Chao as a partial general, and led the army instead of Ma Teng. Cao Cao thought that in this way he would be able to completely control Ma Teng's army, but he did not expect that it was precisely because of this that the biggest change in Liangzhou was caused and the foreshadowing was laid for the future war.

After Ma Teng entered the court, Cao Cao thought that Liangzhou was fine, and he appointed Zhong Xuan as the captain of the division and commanded the entire division of the school. and appointed Wei Duan as the assassin of Liangzhou, he wanted to gradually master Liangzhou and turn Liangzhou into his own territory, instead of listening to Xuan and not listening to the tune like now.

The external matter was almost settled, and Cao Cao began to clean up the inside. There are many people in the court who are right with Cao Gong, but the strongest one is Kong Rong. Kong Rong is a famous person in the world, and he is upright, and when he sees someone who is not used to it, he will directly scold him. Before Cao Cao captured Yecheng, slaughtered many people, and plundered many women of the Yuan family, he was satirized by Kong Rong.

This time Cao Cao went on an expedition to Wuhuan, and Kong Rong was sarcastic again. And he also kept telling Cao Cao not to abstain from alcohol, and his words were very arrogant. He also said that according to the system of the ancient Jingshi, no feudal princes were allowed within a thousand miles, that is, all the people who were feudal were not allowed to stay in the Jingshi, including Cao Cao and those important subordinates under Cao Cao.

Cao Cao was afraid that Kong Rong would become more and more presumptuous, so he wanted to get rid of him. Shanyang people Xi Wei noticed Cao Cao's thoughts, and he and Kong Rong still had personal grudges, so they fabricated a crime, ordered the prime minister's army to plot a sacrificial wine road to perform, and framed Kong Rong for "recruiting disciples", "trying to misbehave", "slandering the court", "not following the etiquette" and other crimes, and framed Kong Rong to death.

The internal and external troubles were eradicated, and Cao Cao was relieved to prepare armaments and prepare for the southern expedition.