Chapter 217 Copycat Jiang Gan steals books

After solving the problem of surrendering troops, Liu Hou still has a problem to solve, that is, the problem of Sima Yi, specifically the Wei court, or whether Cao Pi still doubts Sima Yi.

Originally, after a series of previous foreshadowing, it had laid a good foundation for Sima Yi to get rid of suspicion, but considering that the emperor was generally suspicious and short-tempered, what if he learned that his 200,000 army was wiped out, and a person who did not resist the tyranny in his heart directly ordered the slaughter of the Sima clan?

The emperor is a creature with a changeable personality and can do whatever he wants, and after thinking about it, Liu Hou decided that he still had to find a way to strengthen Sima Yi's positive image in Cao Pi's mind, lest he do something irrational and sabotage his plan to subdue Sima Yi.

For Sima Yi, Liu Hou's mood is very complicated, he knows the direction of history, and knows very well that Sima Yi and his descendants later controlled the government of Wei, and finally succeeded in usurping the throne, overthrowing Wei and establishing the Jin Dynasty. That is to say, if you want to use this family, you must be wary of the possibility of them plotting to usurp the throne.

In order to prevent them from rebelling in the future, the best way is to destroy them while they are still in power, but Liu Hou is reluctant to do so. Because he knows that Sima Yi is very talented and capable, if he can return to his heart, he can help himself a lot. If you kill him indiscriminately now, it will feel like a violent thing.

Besides, it is not a good thing to be punished without teaching, after all, the Sima clan will rebel, after all, it will be a matter of the future, after all, it will happen in the Wei State, and now they have no sign of rebellion, and they will kill him without any evidence, so what will people think of themselves? If he had just surrendered and killed him, who would dare to submit to him in the future?

After struggling for a long time and thinking about it, Liu Hou still decided to leave Sima Yi first, intending to use his wisdom and talents to serve the empire first. Liu Hou is confident that as long as he guards against him carefully in the future, he believes that with his prestige, he can completely suppress him and not give him a chance to have any bad intentions.

Liu Hou's idea is very good, but he didn't learn history well enough, and he only knew that it was Sima who established the Jin Dynasty, but he didn't expect that it was not Sima Yi who established the Jin Dynasty, but his grandson Sima Yan. In fact, Sima Yi did not rebel, and before his death, he persuaded his two sons not to rebel, and to be loyal to Wei and Cao.

His eldest son, Sima Shi, followed his father's teachings and was always loyal to Wei, but unfortunately Sima Shi was too short-lived, and after his death, his younger brother Sima Zhao took over from his father and elder brother. This guy has been rebellious since he was a child, he didn't listen to his father's teachings, and his brother's personality is diametrically opposed, his rebellious heart is obvious, leaving Sima Zhao's heart is a well-known idiom.

He killed the Cao royal family and the ministers loyal to the Cao royal family step by step, and walked step by step to the abyss of rebellion, and finally his son Sima Yan succeeded in usurping the throne. That is to say, if this process is followed, it is impossible for Liu Hou to rely on his own prestige to subdue the Sima clan.

Because Sima Yi had no intention of rebelling, there was no need for him to suppress him, and when Sima Yan rebelled, he didn't know that he was buried in that mausoleum and rotted, and when his son or grandson succeeded him, this kind of little emperor who was born in the deep palace and had never been on the battlefield had the prestige and ability to suppress Sima Yan?

If you are far away, let's get back to business, since Liu Hou still wants to make good use of Sima Yi, he must deal with his feelings now, so as not to slaughter his relatives and lead him to be psychopathic and hateful to society. So, he decided to do something to continue to deceive Cao Pi. He soon thought of a way, that is, to follow Jiang Gan's story of stealing books and design a bureau to deceive Cao Pi.

Thinking of this, Liu Houxing summoned the three stinkers and Sima Yi and told them that he would follow the story of Jiang Gan's book theft and implement a counter-plot to further deceive Cao Pi.

Who knew that the four of them looked at each other after listening to the story Liu Hou said, and they all said that they had not heard of this story. Liu Hou was stunned, the Battle of Chibi is only more than ten years away, it is impossible for these people to forget it so quickly, right? Even if it's too long, but this is a story that has been passed down for thousands of years, I've heard it as a half-drawn intellectual, but haven't I heard of the four Confucians in front of me who are full of poetry and books?

Liu Hou frowned and thought about it for a long time, and finally understood what was going on, probably the story of Jiang Gan's book theft was not true, but was made up by later generations, or made up by Luo Guanzhong, or someone else created a folk tale that was included in Luo Guanzhong's "Romance of the Three Kingdoms".

I, a pseudo-literati who doesn't read history books and thinks that after reading this novel, I will be invincible in the world once again made a big joke about romance as historical facts. As a last resort, Liu Hou had no choice but to tell the story of Jiang Gan's book theft that he knew to the four people.

Jiang Gan's book theft is a standard anti-plot bridge. This story in the romance takes place on the eve of the Battle of the Red Cliffs of the Three Kingdoms, Cao Cao personally led an army of one million and stationed on the north bank of the Yangtze River, intending to cross the Yangtze River and go straight to Soochow.

Zhou Yu, the governor of Eastern Wu, led his troops to confront Cao's army across the river, and the two sides were tense. Cao Cao's adviser Jiang Gan, because he had been studying with Zhou Yu since he was a child, recommended himself to Cao Cao Mao, and wanted to cross the river to Dongwu as a lobbyist to persuade Zhou Yu to surrender.

As a result, Zhou Yu set up a plan to make Jiang Gan steal the letter of surrender written to Zhou Yu by Cai Mao and Zhang Yun, the governors of Cao Cao's navy.

After Jiang Gan stole the letter, he fled back to Cao Ying's camp overnight and dedicated the book to Cao Cao, Cao Cao was furious, killed Cai Mao and Zhang Yun on the spot, and replaced two naval governors. As a result, in the battle of Chibi, Cao Cao lost two governors who were familiar with the navy, and the navy was finally defeated.

After Liu Hou finished telling the story, the four of them were silent for a long time, and finally Guo Yuzhi spoke first, he said: "At the time of the Battle of Chibi, Weichen was still young and had not had the opportunity to serve under the first emperor, so I had never heard of it.

This story is indeed a good theme of anti-plotting, but Wei Chen is worried that since this story happened to Cao Mengde, there are still some old ministers in the Wei court who followed him to conquer the north and south.

Will they remember what happened back then? Since Cao Jun suffered such a big loss in this matter back then, when a similar incident happened again, would they be vigilant or even see through this strategy. ”

Hearing Guo Youzhi say this, Liu Hou also frowned, as the saying goes, eat a trench and grow wise, since the Wei people have suffered a loss in this regard, it is still a big loss, then they must be impressed, and there must be people who remember that if this strategy is still forced, it is likely to be self-defeating.