As mentioned last time, Liu Hou went to the city of Xiangyang and wrote a letter to Sima Yi to persuade him to surrender, and the letter explained a lot of great truths, but Sima Yi still replied and politely refused Liu Hou's solicitation.

Liu Hou saw that the reason didn't make sense, so he came ruthlessly, and wrote a letter threatening him to bombard Xiangyang City if he didn't surrender, and he would not end well at that time. The letter asked him to recognize the shape clearly, and the key is to clearly recognize how powerful the Shu State is now, how vulnerable the Wei army is, and his current behavior is no different from using his mantis arm as a car.

Sima Yi was also very entangled after receiving Liu Hou's letter again, how could he not know that the combat effectiveness of the Shu army was much stronger than that of the Wei army now, and the two were not opponents of the same magnitude at all, but he couldn't surrender. His family is in the Wei State, and his family is also in Xudu, and because he brought out so many troops, the people in the imperial court must be very jealous of themselves, and even if their family members are not accused, they must be monitored day and night.

Cao Pi is not a stupid person, how can he not take some measures to prevent himself from rebelling, as long as he surrenders today, it is estimated that Xu Du's relatives will be executed in a few days. So, he's in a dilemma now.

From the perspective of personal interests, he really wanted to surrender, not because he was confident that he would be able to become a bigger official in Shu than in Wei, but because his life was at stake. If he didn't surrender, once the Shu army attacked, he was worried that the Wei army would not be able to stop the terrifying attack of the Shu army, and he himself would be in danger of his own life, and no fame and fortune would be more important than his life, right?

But from the perspective of family and family interests, he can't surrender, if he surrenders, the entire family will inevitably be removed by the angry Cao Pi, especially his closest relatives, the end is absolutely tragic, there is no need to doubt this, and there is no need to be lucky.

Although Sima Yi is an old fox, he is not the kind of person who ignores his six relatives, is indifferent and has no family affection, and he can't do it if he wants to watch his family perish in vain.

Sima Yi struggled for a long time, and finally replied again and rejected Liu Hou's solicitation. However, this time he had a sentence in his reply: "The eldest husband should be loyal to the king and patriotic, how can he leave his relatives behind because of his own selfishness." ”

Sima Yi's reply was full of impassioned words, expressing his loyalty to the Cao Wei court, including the above sentence, which was also righteous on the surface, and he had to write it this way, because every correspondence between him and Liu Hou was copied by the prison sent by Cao Pi and sent back to Cao Pi for his attention.

If there were any inappropriate words in his reply, then he was dead, and his relatives were dead. The above sentence Cao Pi seems to think that he is showing loyalty to the Wei court, but from the perspective of Shu, it is different, if there are smart people in Shu, they can see from the middle, this sentence reveals his true thoughts in his heart: he is not unwilling to surrender, but he is afraid that surrender will affect his relatives.

Of course, there are smart people in the Shu army, Guo Youzhi, Deng Zhi, and Bu Qi, the three stinkers, studied Sima Yi's reply for a long time, and the three of them summed it up, and then Guo Youzhi reported to Liu Hou:

"Your Majesty, Sima Zhongda's letter implies that he wants to surrender, but he doesn't dare to surrender because he is worried that his family will be affected."

Although Liu Hou is also a smart person, after all, he is still young and has little life experience, even if the two lives are combined, his life experience is not as good as the three stinkers, so he didn't see the meaning implied in Sima Yi's letter for a while.

"Oh? Really? Liu Hou asked.

"It should be true, Your Majesty, please look at this sentence: 'The eldest husband should be loyal to the king and patriotic, how can he leave his relatives behind because of his own selfishness.'" He did not explain what he said about being loyal to the monarch and loving the country. His Majesty still remembers that the last time we were in Xiangyang City, His Majesty also told him about the orthodoxy of the Han Dynasty and the Liu family's world, and he disdained it at that time, and ridiculed him.

But this time, His Majesty also mentioned this issue in his previous letter, but he did not say anything about this issue again, and only politely refused His Majesty's solicitation. It's a bit intriguing that his attitude has changed so much twice before and after.

Look at the latter half of the sentence, 'How can you leave your relatives behind because of your own selfishness', doesn't this clearly mean that the reason why he did not surrender was because he was worried about affecting his relatives? "Guo Youzhi.

"What do you mean: as long as we can help him get his relatives out, he will surrender?" Liu Hou is a person who draws inferences from one case to another, and when he heard Guo Youzhi's reason why Sima Yi did not surrender, he has already begun to think of ways to deal with it.

His heart has already begun to burn, if he can get a big bull in the wisdom world like Sima Yi to surrender, how cool it is. Even if you don't say how much he can help himself in the court in the future, just solving the more than 200,000 Wei troops in front of him and sweeping away a major obstacle on the road to the Northern Expedition is a great benefit and achievement.

What's more, now the Wenchen generals of the Wei State are in the green and yellow, and the veterans who used to dominate the world with Cao Cao are either old or dying, Deng Ai, Zhong Hui and other powerful new generations have not yet risen, if the Wei State is missing Sima Yi, who else can stop their own progress?

Submitting Sima Yi also had the advantage of avoiding a big war and killing many young people. Although these people are from the Wei State, in the final analysis, they are all Han people, and Liu Hou has always wanted to retain a little more vitality of the Han people, so this matter is worth trying anyway.

"Your Majesty is wise." This time, the three stinkers bowed down and praised together.

"So how do we do that?" Liu Hou asked.

"First of all, our army is confronting Sima Yi here, buying time for the rescue operation. Secondly, we should send people to Xuchang to smuggle Sima Yi's people out of the Wei realm, as long as they all come to the territory of our Han Dynasty, we can coerce our relatives to order Sima, and then we will not be able to prevent Sima Yi from returning. This time it was Bu Qi who added.

Hearing this, Liu Hou thought of Xu Shu in his heart, Xu Shu was originally optimistic about Liu Bei, who knows, Cao Cao sent someone to control his mother. Xu Shu is a filial son, and he can only submit to Cao Cao for the sake of his mother, but his heart has always been towards Liu Bei, and he swore not to offer a plan or strategy for Cao Cao for the rest of his life. Later, the events of "Xu Shu entering Cao Ying" and "Guan Yu descending to Cao" evolved into the idiom "being in Cao Ying, and being in Han".

Now Sima Yi's situation is a bit similar to Xu Shu, if he controls his relatives, then will he also surrender half-pushed? Liu Hou is looking forward to this, not only him, but Guo Youzhi and others also think that it is very likely.

Ancient people were very filial piety, Xu Shu could switch to another lord for the sake of his mother, Sima Yi for the sake of the entire family, if he refused to switch to the Ming lord, just wait to be scolded by someone pointing at the backbone.

Moreover, he had the intention of surrendering, and acquiring his relatives was just a good excuse for him to get off the donkey, and there was no reason why he should not go down this step. After analyzing and analyzing, everyone agreed that this plan was feasible and should be carried out immediately.