Regarding the rumors that have been circulating in Luoyang City recently, we have to start from the beginning.

Cao Cao raised troops from Yanzhou, first collected Yuzhou, then Xu Fang, and then coerced the Son of Heaven to order the princes, successively defeated Yuan Shao, Liu Biao, Sun Quan and other strong enemies, and finally came to fruition, and was accepted by the Chan Dynasty. At this time, the vast majority of the Central Plains had been stabilized, and even the newly taken Jiangdong land, with Gu Yong, Lu Yi and other leading parties controlling Wu and meeting the heart, basically there was no big chaos. To say that no one stood up to cry out for the Liu family and tried to revive the Yan Han, of course it is impossible - even in the small Zunling Mountain, a self-proclaimed "son of the filial piety emperor" jumped out - but they are all mantis arms as a car, and it is difficult to reverse the general trend.

And in the western realm of Cao Wei, the land was connected to Lü Liang, and not long after Cao Cao became emperor, Lü Bu, the Duke of Liang, swept away the rebellion in Jiuquan and other counties, and the pro-unified army entered the Western Regions to do his dream of "being the king of a foreign land". The Wei army and the Shu army all came to compete for Longshang, and in the end, it was Cao Jiaqi who was one step higher, and with the help of Yang Fu, the minister of state and Yan Xing, the governor of Lu Bu, who was left behind, successfully won the four counties of Longxi, Hanyang, Anding, and Beidi. As for the original Five Kingdoms of Liangzhou, the Wei army did not fulfill its footing, and was still nominally subordinate to Lü Bu, but was actually under the control of Yang Fu.

Therefore, the world says that Lü Bu is no longer enough to worry about, and there are only two things that can really pose a threat to Cao Wei's regime: first, Liu Bei divided Yizhou and Wudu County, and took Jiao and Guang, and slept soundly on the side of the couch; The second is ...... There is also a crown prince Cao Ang in the court, and he is not old and reliable when he looks at it.

In these years, it was difficult to keep any military secrets, and the scholars and doctors spread by word of mouth, Cao Ang once opposed Cao Cao's claim to be emperor, and even said that he would wait for himself to succeed to the throne. It is necessary to return the country to the Han Emperor Liu Xie and other things. It's been rumored for a long time. And wait until Cao Cao practices the extreme. immediately canonized Cao Ang as the crown prince, but Cao Ang's stubborn temper came up, and he resolutely refused to accept it.

The crown prince is the prince of a country, and the future son of heaven has always been cautious and cautious, and he will not easily repent, so he resigned from the prince's affairs. Historically, Cao Zixiu has been the only one - this is not to worship you as an official, but to pretend to be humble. Therefore, Cao Cao was also angry, and immediately sent troops to surround Cao Ang's mansion to imprison him.

The ministers all came to persuade him, and Cao Ang's wife, He Shi, led his sister-in-law Cao Chao, and also ran to kneel in front of Cao Ang, and mourned with a handful of snot and tears. Cao Ang was soft-hearted, and he couldn't see the tears of his wife and children, so he had to reluctantly apologize. Accepted the title of crown prince.

But can this kind of prince who is forced to become a prince really be able to convince the public? The sons of the Cao family were ready to move again. Each faction wants to knock this big brother out of power and replace him.

It's just that since Cao Ang became the crown prince, he no longer messes around, nor does he interfere in state affairs, but just stays in the East Palace to study honestly, so Cao Cao's anger gradually subsides, and others can't find fault with him anymore. To say that Cao Zixiu is a little pedantic in the so-called "righteousness of the monarch and minister", he is middle-class, has a noble character, and has been the prince of Wei for many years, and his influence cannot be underestimated.

Cao Cao also deliberately sent the commentary of Shixun to Cao Ang, asking him to study it for a good life. Sure enough, after Cao Ang finished reading, he seemed to have an understanding, and specially summoned Shixun into the palace and asked him: "As my aunt-in-law said, Han has lost its virtue, and my Cao family can replace it, but can it?" ”

Yes Hoon, yes, you don't just figure this out, do you? Cao Ang frowned, and asked again: "However, there is no such case in ancient times. As the uncle-in-law said, the matter of Yao Shun is vague and difficult to know, and there are many discrepancies in what each family says. Later, Xia lost its virtue, Yin Shang replaced it, Shang lost its virtue, Zhou Wu fell, all clouds to shun and rebel, but with the use of martial arts, did not hear of Zen. Zhou died Qin Xing, turned into Chu annihilation, my ancestor ...... Han Gaozu also gained it from Chu with Rong things. Now my Cao family is a Hanchen, and make Zen let, for example, if you don't take ill-gotten gains, and the rat steals it, it can be described as virtuous? ”

Yes Xun said that you think too much - "Ill-gotten gains, take them without harm, nonsense?" Stealing? If it is for the benefit of the country and the people, who is responsible for stealing talismans from Xixin Ling to save Zhao? ”

If you say it, I really can't persuade you, since you talk to me about historical matters, then prick up your ears and listen carefully: "In the past, Shang Tang was Xia Chen, Zhou Wenchen was in Yin, Qin was sealed by Zhou Zhi, and Han Gao was also a courtier of Emperor Chuyi, how similar is it to Cao's minister Liu?" For Ji, Xu, Xiang Yu and others do not know the sky, they move against the tide, and take the world as their private property and defend it, so Tang, Wu, and Han Gao are also taken horizontally. When the Han Emperor inherited the heavens, the Zen country was in Wei, and he felt his virtue and could not be resigned. ”

Cao Ang said that in this way, Liu Xie is still virtuous, but you also said that Han has lost his virtue, isn't this inconsistent?

It is not contradictory at all - "Since the Han Dynasty Huan Ling, he has lost his virtue for a long time, even Emperor Jian'an has no way to inherit the business of his ancestors, but to let it go to Wei." Its Zen concession can avoid the extinction of the Liu surname clan, but the country can be safe, that's it, a let of virtue, how can it resist the troubled times of the non-virtue? No one is perfect, even a saint has his shortcomings, even a thief has a long foot, is it only long, but can cover up his shortcomings? ”

Cao Ang frowned and thought about it for a long time, but finally shook his head and said that he couldn't figure it out: "The ancestors of the former Han Gao entered the customs, punished Qin and reinstated Xiang Yu, thinking that Emperor Yi would take revenge. How can the virtue of Han be the virtue of Wei? Take great virtue with small virtue, but what? ”

When Shi Xun heard this, he couldn't help sighing, and said in his heart, how did your head grow, and how did you drill the horns of the bull? "The so-called 'gentleman's ze, the fifth generation and beheaded', what about the son of heaven? How could the ancestors be virtuous, and the descendants could keep their karma even if they had no deeds? The way of heaven is there, the fittest survive and the rebel die, why go back to ancient times? After thinking about it, he added the last sentence: "If you talk about it by the ancestors, the ancestor of the Cao family, Shun Ye, isn't there a person who has great virtue and great contributions to the world?" Then the Cao family is the Son of Heaven, who can't do it? ”

How can there be a frenzied pursuit of the achievements of the ancestors, in order to prove that the Liu family should not destroy the country? Who hasn't found one or two good ancestors to come out?

Cao Ang smiled slightly bitterly, and asked again: "However, if the descendants of the Cao family lose their virtues, they will eventually return to his surname?" ”

Shi Xun couldn't help but be stunned when he heard this, and it was really difficult to answer this in his heart - everyone knows that there are no immortal people in the world, and there is no immortal country. You can say it in public. All of them have to be "long live". Who dares to openly declare that our dynasty will eventually perish. It's like setting up a prince for the Cao family, which proves that Cao Cao will always die one day, but really in front of Cao Cao, do you dare to say "What will happen after Your Majesty dies"?

Of course, we can't completely ignore it, because it is a foreseeable thing in the near future, so the ancients made up a lot of hidden words, such as "do not hide" and "thousand autumns". But as for the national society, everyone thinks that it will be many generations before it dies. I guess I can't catch up, I don't need anything, why mention it, it's not good to provoke the emperor?

So Shi Xun listened to Cao Ang's inquiry, so he had to answer around the bend - he took a deep look at Cao Ang: "People have no foresight, there must be near-term worries, the prince can worry about this, the lord of true benevolence and virtue, Wei will be eternal......"

Cao Ang said that it is not interesting for you to talk like this, I am sincerely asking for advice. Please also tell me bluntly - you are my dearest family, and there is no one else around. Even if I tell the truth, my father won't blame me, and I will never blame my uncle.

Shi Xun sighed and said Okay, I'll tell the truth: "The general trend of the world, a long time is a combination, a long time is a division; If a person is born, there will be death, and if the country is prosperous, there will be death. The lord who has never opened the foundation and Dingding, knows the suffering of the people, and can be excited for a while, and the descendants of future generations do not know the hardships of the ancestors, and they are afraid that they will abuse the people, and the country will perish. That is, in terms of Emperor Jian'an, isn't it a wise lord? However, compared to Henkel and Guangwu, it is difficult to calculate. Wei has His Majesty Dingding, the prince Geng Shao, Si Ke is worry-free, but it cannot protect future generations, and the virtuous people in the world are also - Jiuding must move! "Let me tell you the truth, you Cao Wei will definitely perish one day.

"But where are the descendants of the summer queen? Zhou Gu sealed the micronos, but the microns were not the big ears of Yin Shang. As for the descendants of Ying Qin, Qian Chu, Xiang Yu, and Wang Mang, they are not available today. It is known that the Han Dynasty is Zen Wei, although there is no precedent, but it can be the ancestor of later generations, and the surname Liu is not a family today, and the descendants of the Cao family are not a family on the other day. "Let's make a good start to Zen, the future change of dynasty may not be so bloody, you let go of the Liu family today, and it will be easy for your children and grandchildren to be preserved in the future."

Cao Ang sneered: "This is the private interest of a family, not the public of the world." ”

Yeshun said, how can you think that? "The common people are selfish, how can the Son of Heaven be private? Such as the Tang and Wu revolutions, bleeding and drifting, now Wei is subject to Han Chan, and no one is killed, isn't it the blessing of Li Shu? If there is no Your Majesty, it will not be Dong's Ye? Yuan Shiye? He can also follow the example of the soup and the martial revolution, but those who fill in the ravines do not know how many. Emperor Shiyun Han Emperor Chan Wei, virtue also, but if Wei is not subject to Zen and wants to take it by force, what is the reason for its virtue? Then Wei Zhi received Zen, which is also virtuous. ”

In the end, he simply lowered his voice and warned Cao Ang: "If the crown prince returns to the Han Dynasty, His Majesty will depose the crown prince, that is, if he wants to return to power, can he get it?" And the artifact is the greatest, and those who have lost it can no longer be had, if the people's hearts abandon the Cao family, why should they wait for the prince's concession? If the people's hearts are in the Cao family, let the world be in trouble, how can the benevolent do? ! ”

Whether Cao Ang was completely persuaded by himself, Yes Xun didn't know, but since then, Cao Ang has been honest for a long time. It's a pity that the tree wants to be quiet and the wind doesn't stop, and after three years of Yankang, suddenly something happened again.

The reason is that Cao Ang didn't know who was bewitched, so he went to the White Horse Temple twice, listened to the monks in the temple, and seemed to have gained, so he also hung a Buddha statue in the palace and offered it day and night. If that's all it takes, it's just that, Shi Xun knows how much trouble the emperor of the Buddha will cause - for example, Emperor Wu of Liang, Wu Zetian - Cao Cao and his ministers can't think that far, and they think that this belief in Buddhism is like believing in the gods and goddesses, as long as they don't send people to collect the elixir of immortality everywhere all day long, and it will hurt the people and money.

However, in the spring of this year, a monk suddenly came to Luoyang and temporarily stayed in the White Horse Temple, Cao Ang went to Shangxiang to meet him, talked with him, and was overjoyed, so he invited the monk into the palace. From then on, he no longer studied Confucian classics, but was obsessed with Buddhist commentaries all day long, and even fasted and abstinent, leaving behind all his wives and concubines.

Originally, after Lu Bu's daughter returned, she was quite favored by Cao Ang, but now he has stopped staying in the bedroom of Lu Bu's daughter for several months. Under the grievance of the Lu family, she ran to Cao Cao to cry - my father is looking forward to me giving birth to a son to Prince Wei, and I will find a way to succeed to the throne in the future, but now that this son has not been born, my husband will no longer have sex with me, so how can it be good?!

Cao Cao was furious and immediately ordered the destruction of Cao Ang's private Buddhist hall and the arrest and imprisonment of the monk. Cao Zixiu is really desperate, he asked Cao Cao to intercede but was not allowed, and in a fit of anger, he simply ran to the White Horse Temple and asked to leave home!

It's a big deal...... (To be continued......)