Emperor Wei Cao Chao has been in a pretty good mood these days.

Of course, it's not because Hoon is sick, and he's about to hang up. Although Cui Yan saw Tian'er speaking in front of the little emperor and slandering the government of Xun, he was basically right about things and not right people - a Cui Jiqi wanted to face, since everyone knew that he had a disagreement with Shixun, and then he fired directly at the other party, he would be suspected of communiqué personal vendetta; The second is that Xun was trusted by Cao Cao, and he and Cao Chao have no fundamental conflict of interest, the little emperor still relies on Ling Gong, how can Cui Yan be virtuous, and dare to slander?

Therefore, Cao Chao's current view of Shixun is: There is no doubt about the loyalty and ability of his grandaunt and son-in-law, but his governance is in line with the troubled times, emphasizing business, rewarding meritorious heroes, and using cold soldiers, in order to unite all the forces that can be united to the greatest extent, and to extract all the resources that can be extracted to the greatest extent, so as to enrich the country and strengthen the army, and compete for the world. However, when the world is unified, he should re-establish order and rest with the people, and his set may not be suitable, let alone the law of eternity. The old people are all stubborn - even if it is Xun, he is not old, at least not older than Cui Yan - and he is unwilling to change his government, so I have to gradually gather power and clean up the situation.

Therefore, Xun fell ill, and Cao Chao may still feel that God has given him a good opportunity to seize power and change his government, but if Xun can't afford it, it will not be beneficial to the stability of the court and the governance of the little emperor. He would never expect Shixun to die at this time, so he would personally visit him, and after returning to the palace, he also prayed to his ancestors, hoping that Ling Gong could prolong his life.

Cui Yan, Yang Xiu and others naturally understood this, but there were also people who mistakenly rebelled against the situation - Ren Shuji of the Yellow Gate said to Cao Chao cleverly: "If the public is not secret, Your Majesty can make great achievements." ”

There were not many eunuchs used in the court of Cao Wei. It is less than a quarter of the time of the Later Han Dynasty. The main root cause is not far from the rebellion of the eunuchs of the Later Han Dynasty. Although Cao Cao was born in the eunuch gate, he had long since become the vanguard of the scholars against the enemy temple people, and he naturally hated eunuchs. Of course, as long as the tradition of the emperor's concubines remains unchanged, the eunuchs in the palace will not be extinct, so some are raised, but it is expressly forbidden to meddle in state affairs.

And in view of the rebellion of the Later Han Dynasty, Cao Cao abolished all the relevant names. Now the highest grade of eunuchs in the palace is the Yellow Gate. This Ren Shuji was originally a eunuch of the Han Dynasty, who served the emperor Empress Cao, and also helped Shixun in the rebellion of Geng Ji and Wei Huang, that is, he was rewarded by Cao Cao for this merit. Later, Han Chan was in Wei, Ren Shuji refused to follow Liu Xie to become a vassal, begged everywhere, and finally stayed, and became one of the few eunuchs in the Cao Wei Palace.

The net worth and life of the eunuch are all dependent on the imperial power, so Ren Shuji instinctively welcomes Cao Chao anytime and anywhere, but he didn't expect that this time he was slapped on the horse's feet. Cao Chao was furious when he heard this, and he pointed at the halberd and shouted: "Ru Temple is a human ear." How dare you talk about state affairs? How dare you talk about life and death? ! "I ordered him to be dragged down and beaten on the board, and then bombed back to his hometown.

Cui Yan and Yang Xianhao came to see Cao Chao and wanted to ask, now that Ling Gong is seriously ill and unable to serve - and it is estimated that he will not be able to get better - is this position of Zhongshu Ling going to change his life to others? Your Majesty, do you have any suitable candidates? As a result, he happened to bump into Ren Shuji being beaten. After asking the reason, Cui Yan couldn't help but groan, and said: "Your Majesty's love is Hongfu and deep, he doesn't think of heaven's grace and forcibly takes the handle of the king, if he is ashamed, he would rather be ashamed!" ”

The reason why he sighed so much was because after the "Gaoling Incident", Shi Xun returned to the capital Luoyang, that is, he used Huan Fan's strategy to start a series of counterattacks against the inner court.

Shi Xun originally thought that his protégé was all over the world, and his reputation was as high as the sky, but after Cao Cao's death, it became a deep-rooted and unshakable trend, and after this coup d'état, he knew that all this was false. Although there are many protégés and deceased officials, many old people have died, and few have not succeeded, even Zhuge Liang, who has been in the center of the imperial court, Wei Yan, who is actually in charge of military power, etc., if they want to control the power, they have to grow up for another decade or two. Zhuge Liang, you have to wait for Zhong Xuan and Chen Qun to retire before they can come out, Wei Yan and the others, you have to wait for the first generation of Cao Xiahou to die.

Therefore, Shixun felt that he had helped these children on the horse, and he had to give them a ride, otherwise the current important ministers of the DPRK and China could only be regarded as his allies, not his henchmen, and he could not truly inherit and carry forward his own ideas and protect and maintain his own policies. You see, Cui Yan came out to bluff, Cao Chao came out to shake his might, didn't the prime ministers coax? This is not only afraid of conflict with the imperial power, but also because he thinks that it is not a big deal to take such a step or two back in front of the emperor - Zhong Xuan's statement in front of Gaoling can be seen. They may not be willing to do their best to maintain the rules and regulations they have in place, and even if they are, they may not be adequate.

Xiao Gui Cao Sui, it has to be Cao Shen, among the heroes, they all think that the credit is the first, he has this energy, and he has changed others, as long as he encounters a little bumpy road, who cares what the predecessor Xiao Cheng said and did.

So after returning to the capital, Shixun planted party henchmen in the DPRK step by step. First of all, Jiang Ji was transferred from the Ministry of War to the Ministry of Officials, and he grasped the personnel power, and ordered Henan Yin Pei Qian to be the secretary of the Ministry of War - Pei Qian knew very little about military affairs, and all the power fell into the hands of Zhuge Liang, the squire. Succeeding Pei Qian as Henan Yin, it was Sima Zhongda who controlled the Gyeonggi region.

Then let Princess Shanyang carry her young daughter into the palace, pay homage to her mother, the Empress Dowager Bian, and take the opportunity to seek an official for her husband - although he is the emperor's son-in-law, he has actually been doing odd jobs in various departments, and has no actual position or subordination. So after Bian's prompting—after all, it was her own son-in-law, theoretically speaking, closer than her grandson Cao Chao, who was not related by blood—Cao Chao was forced to appoint him as the leader of the Central Army, and he was in charge of the military with Xiahou Chong, the Central Protector.

It was with these various arrangements that it was Xun who was able to gradually take back the power of Cao Chao to the inner court little by little, but unfortunately the plan was just on the right track, and the epidemic was epidemic, and he suddenly became ill. Before he fell ill, he was also trying to summon Zhang Ji and Zhang Derong as the secretary of the Yu Department to replace Sima Lang, who was sick, but as a result, Cao Chao got Cui Yan's recommendation and immediately handed over this important financial department to Cheng Bing, a native of Runan.

Cheng Bingzi Deshu, who had a long history of Shixie, also studied under Zheng Xuan, but perhaps because of his long-term drifting, he was not familiar with the mainstream schools (or rather schools) of Zhengmen such as Xi Xi, Xu Ci, and Ren Yi, but on the contrary, he was an old friend of Cui Yan. It is said that it was Xun who was angry when he heard Huan Fan say this on the sickbed, and said in his heart that I have a lot of things to do, and I don't care about it, you Xi Hongyu appointed himself as the leader of the Zheng Sect, and he didn't even think about winning over this junior brother, so that he finally fell into the hands of Cui Yan - it is really a waste of firewood!

Pull it back and talk about it, Cui Yan sighed because of this, Cao Chao treated Shixun so well, and you, as a minister, still want to steal the lord's authority, are you Hongfu shameless? Yang Dezu next to him thought of the replacement of Zhongshu Ling, and immediately said to Cui Yan: "Looking at the emperor's heart with this, it is impossible to say that it is ...... to make the public book ."

Cui Yan first said, now that Zhongshuling is sick and bedridden, the daily work of Zhongshutai is affected, are you considering changing someone to do Zhongshuling? Cao Chao frowned and said: "Ling Gong is still here, and he has only been sick for a few days, how can it be easier?" "Who hasn't been sick, hasn't had a disaster, it's not like Xun hasn't been sick for months and can't get up, it's only been a few days, and he wants to change the prime minister, it's not appropriate to do this.

Yang Xiu smiled lightly and said: "The minister's private concern is to make the public want to be expected by the world, and he is in charge of the Zhongshu, if he is stopped, there is no one with a similar reputation, and he can ......be followed" Unless you summon the old ministers Liu Ye, Jia Xu and others, or let Zhong Xuan throw down the Shangshu to manage the Zhongshu, there is really no suitable person who can replace Shixun to take the important position of the Zhongshu Order-"How can it be ordered by the Duke for one day, even if it is an order for life, there will be no longer a middle school in the backstage, but a left servant to shoot his position." ”

Cui Yan nodded, and then pointed out Yang Xiu's intentions: "That is, Zhong Lingjun Zhishi, he can also be famous for Shangshu forever, and he will not change Shangshu Lingye - this is a plan to draw salaries from the bottom of the kettle." ”

Yes Xun has been a Zhongshu Ling, Zhong Xuan has been a Shangshu Ling, both of them are the best among the heroes of the Xingwei Dynasty, if they really follow the portrait of the Later Han Dynasty Jianyuntai and Hang the heroes, then they will not only be selected, but also the top ten. Among the new generation of courtiers, who do you think can compare to these two? How can you dare to take over the orders of Zhongshu and Shangshu? So simply, let Shi Xun and Zhong Xuan hold the honor of the second chief officer until they die, and after that, they will no longer set up relevant positions.

In this way, the original six ministers of the outer dynasty assisted the government, Cao Chao through the "Gaoling Change" forced into the two inner court officials, if the Zhongshu and Shangshu two orders are not set up in the future, it is equivalent to Xun and Zhong Xuan are unable to serve due to illness, because of old age and voluntary retirement, or directly hang up, still restore the number of six phases, directly erase the two places from the outer court - then the power of the inner court will inevitably be revived because of this.

"Your Majesty can therefore pronounce an edict to show mercy to the heroes." This is to show respect for the old ministers such as Shixun and Zhong Xuan, even if the officials of the foreign dynasty can understand our intentions, there is nothing they can do to stop it.

When Cao Chao heard this, he couldn't help but nod again and again: "This is really a wonderful plan." Then he took down a letter from the case and handed it to Cui and Yang: "There is a military newspaper to come...... "The little emperor is in a good mood these days, and he was born because of the military report.

In fact, a few days ago, there was a report, Cao Ren urged Huang Zhong to march and take Yongchang directly, and the city had been conquered, Lu Kai died in the chaos, and Wang Yan was captured. It's a pity that he couldn't catch Liu Chan, Zhao Yun broke out of the siege with him, and fled all the way into the wilderness of the southwest. Cao Ren played, saying that there were only primeval jungles and cannibals in those places, and even the Han Dynasty had never been able to extend its power in the past, and it was estimated that Zhao Yun and Liu Chan would not run far away to be a dead word. If a large army is sent to recover, it is really difficult to transport supplies; If a small force is sent to pursue, Lin Mang may not be able to bump into him. So forget it - "Since he is incapable of reviving again, it is better to rest and let him fend for himself." ”

Cao Chao replied and said Okay, Fuguo, you can do it, although Zhao Yun is brave, Liu Chan is still a child, I don't believe that he can make a comeback one day, since he has run away, there is no need to chase deeply.

Then today I received a report that Deng Ai, Shi Bao and others had conquered China. (To be continued.) )