Cao Yi was critically ill and urgently summoned Cao Shuang and Sima Yi back to Beijing.

When receiving the summons, Cao Shuang's army arrived in Wancheng and immediately handed over the command of the army to Li Sheng, and he hurried back to Luoyang with his core staff He Yan.

A little later than Cao Shuang, Sima Yi also received a summons outside Xinye City, and saw that Cao Yi was critically ill in the edict, and Sima Yi was summoned to return to Beijing.

had no choice but to hand over the command of the army to the deputy general Biqiu Jian, and let Biqiu Jian continue to command the army to attack Xinye, while he took his two sons and Zhong Hui and hurried back to Luoyang.

Three days later, Cao Shuang and Sima Yi both returned to Luoyang and hurried to the palace to meet with Emperor Cao Rong.

At this time, Cao Rong's mind was not very clear, and he often fell into a coma, and could only wake up occasionally.

Next to Cao Ei's bed, there are some clan members, as well as Cao Fang, who has just become the crown prince, as well as Empress Guo, Zhang Cairen, He Cairen and other concubines.

Cao Shuang and Sima Yi waited by Cao Ei's bed for a long time, and Cao Ei finally woke up.

After opening his eyes and seeing the two of them, he drove everyone out, leaving only Cao Shuang, Sima Yi and the crown prince Cao Fang.

Cao Rong said faintly: "The limit of loneliness is coming, there are some things to tell the two of you quickly......

Cao Shuang suddenly couldn't cry, and Sima Yi also looked depressed.

Cao Rong said slowly: "The two Aiqing don't have to be sad, this is all lonely blessings, lonely in this life, it has always been like this, when she was young, she was suppressed by Queen Guo, she was not loved by her biological father, and her biological mother was killed by her biological father." Later, he finally ascended to the throne, but he repeatedly fought with Han and Wu, but fortunately, there were ministers such as Cao Zhen and Sima Yi outside, and Chen Qun and other ministers to support him, so as to stabilize the situation. ”

Hearing that Cao Ei began to evaluate his life, Sima Yi hurriedly said:

"Since Your Majesty entered politics, he has loved the people like a son, chosen loyalty, leniency, mercy, and provincial service, and won the hearts of the people. His Majesty also defeated Gongsun Yuan, surrendered Xianbei, expanded the territory for thousands of miles, and his martial arts were not inferior to Emperor Wu of Wei! ”

Hearing Sima Yi's comment, Cao Rong suddenly couldn't hold back two lines of tears, and he said with a smile:

"Don't comfort Lone, Captain Lone, Lone knows that since Lone ascended the throne, he was indeed very diligent in the past few years, but since Zhuge Liang's death, Lone began to repair the palace, spending national strength, recruiting beauties, and emptying his body, I am afraid that in the future, there will be an evaluation of a faint monarch in the history books!"

Sima Yi Zhengse said: "Your Majesty Shen Yi decides, does whatever he wants, covers the gentleman's generality, is a generation of Ming Jun, even the history books dare not comment indiscriminately, otherwise the minister will never agree!" ”

Seeing that Sima Yi was so resolute, Cao Yi seemed to have a major event in his heart, so he took a long breath and said:

"I know that time is running out, and the only thing I can't worry about now is that there are two things, the first thing is that Chang'an has been lost and has not been recovered, and the second thing is that the prince is young and needs support."

So he summoned Cao Fang to come close to him and said to Cao Fang:

"Fang'er, you are only eight years old this year, it is still early before you are sixteen years old, before you are sixteen years old, Lone left you two auxiliary ministers, one is Cao Shuang, the other is Sima Yi, after Lone is gone, the major affairs of the DPRK and China will have to be discussed with the two auxiliary ministers, understand?"

Cao Fang nodded seriously.

Cao Rong said again: "Cao Shuang and Sima Yi listen to the order!" ”

Cao Shuang and Sima Yi hurriedly tidied up their clothes and knelt down to listen to the order.

"Jin Cao Shuang is the general, and the Taiwei Sima Yi is the auxiliary minister, and the auxiliary prince Cao Fang. After the death of the orphan, the auxiliary left Cao Fang until the pro-government, can you two understand? ”

Cao Shuang and Sima Yi cried bitterly and kowtowed repeatedly.

"The ministers will do their best to assist the crown prince Cao Fang and glorify the Great Wei."

Cao Rong nodded reassuringly, he looked at Cao Shuang and Sima Yi, and then at Cao Fang quite lovingly, and finally said, "Hurry up...... And he opened the doors of the temple...... Solitary...... Lone wants to take another look at Lone's new palace......"

Cao Shuang hurriedly got up and pushed the door open, then turned back to Cao Rong and said, "Your Majesty, look at ......"

Who would have thought that Cao Rong on the bed had closed his eyes forever......

The Great Wei Emperor Cao Rong died.

The emperor died, the whole country was mourned, Cao Shuang and Sima Yi held a grand state funeral for Cao Ei, after consultation with Sima Yi, the emperor Cao Ei temple was called Liezu, called Emperor Ming, and was buried in Gaoping Mausoleum.

Shortly after the state funeral, Cao Fang ascended the throne as emperor, honoring Cao Rong's empress Guo as the empress dowager, and was jointly assisted by the general Cao Shuang and the imperial lieutenant Sima Yi.

The new emperor ascended the throne, and at the suggestion of Sima Yi, Cao Wei began to strengthen the defense of the battlefields in various places, and suspended the attack on Xinye, thus temporarily fixing the Yongzhou battlefield on the Tongguan line, and the Jingzhou battlefield temporarily fixed in the Xinye area.

For the time being, he will not take the initiative to launch an attack, but just maintain the battle line, and then start a big war after the situation in the DPRK is stable.

As soon as Cao Shuang became the auxiliary minister, he began the layout of seizing power at the instigation of his core staff He Yan.

He Yan thought that Sima Yi's wolf ambition could no longer let him control the military power, so he offered a plan: it was to take three steps to gradually seize the power in Sima Yi's hands and gradually empty Sima Yi.

The first step was to seize the influence of Empress Dowager Guo and other harem forces on Cao Fang; The second step is to win over the clan and the party henchmen in the DPRK and China, promise huge profits, form a majority party in the DPRK and China, and gradually grasp the military power of the DPRK and China, and suppress the strength of Sima Yi; The third step is to promote Sima Yi to the empress, completely deprive Sima Yi of his military power, and make Sima Yi a fictitious position.

Cao Shuang didn't think about anything, so he agreed to He Yan's strategy.

So, Cao Liang's bones were not cold, Cao Shuang moved the Empress Dowager Guo to Yongning Palace, and for a while Cao Shuang's brothers were "good at government affairs, brothers and forbidden soldiers, many trees were pro-party, and the system was repeatedly changed", and the power was arrogant to the extreme.

Cao Shuang not only occupied Cao Ei's harem, but also directly accepted Cao Ei's most beloved Zhang Cairen and He Cairen, messed up the harem, and even took away seven or eight talented people of Emperor Ming as his wives and concubines. However, everyone in the palace dared to be angry and did not dare to speak, and they were intimidated by the power of the Cao Shuang brothers, and they all kept silent and protected themselves.

Immediately afterwards, Cao Shuang began to cultivate henchmen and connived at his own henchmen's misdeeds.

Cao Shuang's core aide He Yan cut hundreds of acres of mulberry fields and Tang Mu land in Luoyang and Yewang Diannong as his own property, and stole official property and demanded it from other states and counties, but the officials did not dare to resist the rebellion.

And some ministers who offended He Yan and others, such as Lu Yu and Fu Yan, were dismissed for trivial matters.

And Cao Shuang's diet, carriages, horses, and clothes were similar to the emperor's. Moreover, a lot of precious playthings have also accumulated, and he is good at using Taile musical instruments and tuning the arsenal forbidden soldiers to make gorgeously arranged cave rooms, and he Yan and others have drunk and had fun in them many times, which is extremely luxurious.

His brother Cao Xi was very worried when he saw this, and he advised him many times, but Cao Shuang did not listen. wrote three more articles, stating that excessive arrogance and extravagance would lead to disaster, and his words were very sincere, but he did not dare to directly accuse Cao Shuang, but pretended to admonish his brothers to warn Cao Shuang. Cao Shuang also knew that Cao Xi was actually warning him, so he was very unhappy. Cao Xi saw that Cao Shuang ignored the advice, so he had to cry and leave.

At this time, Sima Yi chose to retreat step by step, sat back and watched Cao Shuang's misdeeds, and even simply said that he was ill, and returned home, out of sight and out of mind.

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