Zhang Xi said this, Zhuge Liang and Pang Tong couldn't believe it.

This Sima Yi, is it really that powerful?!

Not to mention the ability of Wang Ji and Xu Shu, even Guan Yu had to use the effect of local advantages to break through the Wancheng defended by Sima Yi?!

It's kind of blown over, right?!

That's Guan Yu!!

Although he is arrogant and his popularity is not very good, on Cao Wei's side, no one in the older generation of famous generals does not recognize his ability, and Guan Yu himself has also dealt with these famous generals of Cao Wei's older generation, and no one dares to say that he can win Guan Yu.

This Sima Yi has to have this ability, when he was under Cao Cao's account, how could he just be a scribe and never heard of a reputation at all?!

Don't let the chief get some rumors from hearsay, and use them as important information.

But on second thought, it doesn't seem right.

Zhang Xi is a person, not to mention anything else, looking at people's eyes, it is surprisingly accurate.

This is not what Zhuge Liang and Pang Tong think, and now it can almost be said that it is almost universally recognized that the people who can be valued by Zhang Xi must be talented people.

From the earliest Huo Jun, Zhang Wei, Li Qiu, to the recent Liu Yin, it can be said that half of the Mesozoic generals of the Han Dynasty have the grace of Zhang Xi's promotion and reuse.

Although until now, Zhuge Liang has not figured out why Zhang Xi sees people so accurately, as long as Zhang Xi thinks that a person is very capable, there will rarely be a time to say something wrong.

The only question is - why is Sima Yi obviously capable, but during the Cao Cao period, his reputation was not obvious?!

Although Cao Cao is a thief, his ability to see people and use people is still very strong, otherwise it would be impossible to gather so many talents, and finally swept the Central Plains, Guandu defeated Yuan Shao, and occupied most of the world.

Could it be that Cao Cao is still clumsy and doesn't see that Sima Yi is a great talent?!

Zhang Xi gave the answer to this question - Sima Yi made it himself.

Who asked him to show off his high position, and Cao Cao recruited him to go out of the mountain and dared to pretend to be sick, so that the old Cao could get used to him? !

In addition, Cao Cao's evaluation of Sima Yi is really not very high, thinking that this person is "looking at the wolf", worried that he is uncontrollable, so he has been suspicious and suppressing him, and he can have a chance to show his talent.

That is, Cao Pi felt that he had a good personal relationship with Sima Yi and could control him, so he chose to reuse him.

After listening to Zhang Xi's information, really, Zhuge Liang really wanted to ask Zhang Xi, how did Zhang Xi get this almost top-secret information.

Even Cao Cao's evaluation of Sima Yi and Cao Pi's attitude towards Sima Yi can be inquired? !

But. Back then, in Xinye, Liu Bei's attitude towards this choice was not to ask, believing in Zhang Xi's character and loyalty, but now that so many years have passed, even if Zhuge Liang wants to ask again, he can't ask anymore.

Anyway, Zhang Xi's information is rarely wrong, and when he entered Sichuan, there was a mistake in Zhang Ren's judgment, and everything else was basically accurate.

In this case, this Sima Yi is really a trouble, if the Jingzhou Legion does not have an excellent commander to lead, it is really not necessary to defeat Xiawancheng.

For this reason, Zhuge Liang began to draw back and forth in his own camp to see who could go to Jingzhou to replace the sick Guan Yu and command the Jingzhou army.

This candidate is not easy to choose, he must have enough leadership ability, be good at strategy and change, and at the same time have enough prestige in the army.

With so many requirements added together, Zhuge Liang found that except for Zhang Xi, Zhang Fei, and Zhao Yun, there was no one else who could do it.

Even if you go to Jingzhou yourself, you can't do it.

Don't look at Zhuge Liang's leadership to quell the Qiang rebellion this time, but in fact, he really doesn't have much experience in leading troops, and his prestige in the army is far less than that of Zhang Fei, Zhang Xi, and Zhao Yun, let alone replace the general Guan Yu and command the Jingzhou Army.

But the problem is that Zhang Fei, Zhang Xi, and Zhao Yun have their own responsibilities and can't easily leave their own areas.

Zhang Fei is a general of the Che Cavalry, it is not impossible for him to go to Jingzhou to replace Guan Yu to command the Jingzhou Legion, with his official position, prestige in the army, and his relationship with Guan Yu, no one dares to disagree with leading the Jingzhou Legion.

Although there are some shortcomings in resourcefulness, with the assistance of Xu Shu and Wang Ji, it can barely be done.

But the problem is that now that Zhang Fei is in Chengdu, Gong Wei is safe for the Son of Heaven, if he goes to Jingzhou, as long as Cao Wei's meticulous work is not a fool, he will know that the Han will make big moves in Jingzhou.

Otherwise, what task can Zhang Fei have to give up Gongwei Tianzi and go to Jingzhou to stay? !

The same principle is the same for Zhang Xi and Zhao Yun.

Two people, one is a former general and Yongzhou assassin, and the other is General Wei and the leader of Liangzhou military and political affairs, both of them are burdened with heavy responsibilities, and it is easy for them to leave their jurisdiction. Suddenly ran to Jingzhou, there must be a reason.

In this way, Zhuge Liang's Northern Expedition plan may be exposed in advance.

And some other generals with little reputation went to Jingzhou to take Guan Yu's place, not to mention whether the Jingzhou army was convinced, or really convinced, these people could be the opponents of Sima Yi, who "did not lose to the world's famous generals", as Zhang Xi said? !

Therefore, no matter how you think about it, the idea of finding a suitable general to replace Guan Yu to control the Jingzhou Army and command the Northern Expedition will not work.

In this way, we can only think about how to pit Sima Yi and transfer Sima Yi to other places.

This matter, anyway, it is not so easy for Zhuge Liang to come.

According to the intelligence, this Sima Yi was one of the ministers designated by Cao Pi to be left to Cao Pi's auxiliary government before his death.

The other three ministers are Cao Zhen, Xiahou Shang, and Chen Qun.

By the way, this candidate is slightly different from what Zhang Xi knows, and there is no Xiahou Shang among Cao Pi's four major ministers, and the original candidate should be Cao Xiu.

But in this time and space, Cao Xiu was so disappointed that Cao Pi not only didn't listen to the dispatch, but also lost his temper with himself afterwards, and stayed in Runan under the pretext of illness, but he didn't want to go back to Luoyang.

Such a person, how could Cao Pi still choose him as a minister.

chose his confidant and good friend Xiahou Shang as the minister of Tuogu.

But it doesn't really matter.

Cao Pi chose these four people as the ministers of Tuogu, in fact, it may not be without the meaning of checks and balances - four people, two are Cao Wei's relatives, and two are representatives of the family.

But no matter how they check and balance internally, externally, the four ministers of Tuogu have no suspicions, and they still seem to be quite harmonious, and it happens that two of them are guarding outside, and two are staying in Luoyang.

It is not so easy to separate the relationship between Emperor Cao Wei and a minister who supports orphans.

But Zhang Xi thinks that this thing may not be impossible.

Just because of one point - Cao Ei's relationship with Cao Pi is not very good.

This matter, there is really no need to "use" Zhang Xi's special intelligence network, in fact, Zhuge Liang also knows it.

Back then, Cao Pi abolished Zhen Mi's queen throne and made Mrs. Guo the queen, and the world was rumored.

Really, there is no need to deliberately collect intelligence, those reliable and unreliable rumors or intelligence, Zhuge Liang himself has received a lot here.

No matter why Cao Pi killed Zhen Mi, he also let her "stuff chaff in her mouth" and bury her. Cao Ei is Zhen Mi's biological son after all, and at that time, Cao Ei was already a teenager, and he completely remembered what was going on.

The relationship between Cao Pi's father and son, since then, has not been very harmonious, and these things have been confirmed by intelligence in Luoyang and Yecheng, and there is a high probability that it cannot be wrong.

Therefore, Cao Rong really can't say how much he has a good impression of the minister who left behind by his father.

Again, Cao Ei, a person whose brain is much more sober than his father, although he succeeded to the throne at a young age, but in the second year of Cao Wei's Taihe, that is, the second year of Cao Ei's succession, Cao Ei, who had just stabilized the government, issued an edict to reprimand the "flashy" phenomenon that was popular in the Cao Wei court.

This is the cause of the "flashy case" in history.

The so-called "flashy" phenomenon refers to the fact that some people rely on their fathers and brothers to occupy high positions in the court, and they have no talent themselves, but they can still be touted by folk families, recommended by Zhongzheng, and recommended to the court as officials.

To put it bluntly, this is the result of the drawbacks of the Jiupin Zhongzheng system in the process of use.

Historically, Cao Rong was very dissatisfied with this "flashy" phenomenon since he succeeded to the throne, but because he had just succeeded to the throne and his prestige was not established, he did not dare to directly do it to the family until the first year of Qinglong, and then took the opportunity of Dong Zhao's book to set off a "flashy case" and attack the family.

Of course, it is only the third year of Taihe, and there are still several years before the first year of Qinglong, Cao Rong has just stabilized the government, and the external environment is also very bad, so it is impossible to turn his face with the family at this time.

However, the hidden dangers left by Cao Pi back then, because of his short life, could not be eradicated in the end, and Cao Ei's political IQ was no worse than his father, obviously, he had already started his own layout at this time.

No one knows if it can be done in the end, but when Zhuge Liang received this information, he was worried for a long time.

From this hand, Zhuge Liang can see that Cao Ei is also a long-term lord, and may not be easier to deal with than his father Cao Pi.

But now, if you look at this hand in reverse, it actually gives Zhuge Liang an opportunity to take advantage of.

Not to mention anything else, Sima Yi, but he was born in a Hedong family, and his two sons, Sima Shi and Sima Zhao, have a reputation in Cao Wei, which is really not weak at all.

You must know that today's Sima Shi and Sima Zhao, one is 20 years old, and the other is only 17 years old.

At this age, although it can be said that they have reached the age of becoming a leader, in terms of officialdom, they are just people at the level of "yellow-mouthed children", even if they are really talented, why can they be touted by so many people? !

In the eyes of the family, this is just a matter of carrying a sedan chair to each other and boasting to each other, but in the eyes of Cao Rong, who is also a young monarch, can he really look at Sima Yi pleasing to the eye? !

is also from a big family, is also a minister of Tuogu, Chen Qun's son Chen Tai, why is it not as famous as the two brothers of your Sima family?!

Since Cao Yi himself has the idea of targeting the family, it is just that the situation is not good, and Sima Yi is from a family and is in charge of the military and political power of a place. Can Cao Ei really rest assured?!

(End of chapter)