The person who betrayed the blame in Cao Ei's heart was actually no one else, but Chen Tai.

The performance of the Yingchuan family in this battle of Yanzhou really made Cao Rong so angry that they surrendered so quickly, which in itself shows the choice made by the Yingchuan family - they no longer choose to stand on the side of Great Wei.

If it weren't for the fact that there were many heroes of Yingchuan nationality in the court, and if it weren't for the fact that there were still many middle- and low-level officials of Yingchuan nationality in the current Great Wei Dynasty, Cao Rong would have wanted to have a big purge to eliminate the influence of the Yingchuan family in the Great Wei.

It's a pity that Cao Ei can't do this.

It's not just that there are too many officials from Yingchuan, but more importantly. In the Great Wei Dynasty, the power of the family is too great.

If Cao Wei dares to purge the Yingchuan family for such reasons today, then tomorrow Cao Wei can also use the same reason to purge the Hedong family and even the Hebei family. This is the foundation of Cao Wei's founding of the country.

Cao Wei's timing is actually not good, Cao Pi is too impatient, if he can have Cao Cao's eloquence and strategy, and then engage in "Zen concession" after really dominating the world, then he is really full of confidence.

But Cao Pi couldn't wait for that day, and he didn't think he had the ability to dominate the world, so in order to be the emperor, Cao Pi made a lot of transactions and compromises with the family, in exchange for the family's support for the Cao family's generation of Han Naturally, Cao Wei and the family were too deeply bound, so that now Cao Rong can't imagine what the Great Wei court will become once he loses the support of the family.

Therefore, cleaning the Yingchuan family, on Cao Wei's side, is not advisable.

However, although Cao Ei can't do this, it doesn't mean that Cao Ei has no other way to achieve this goal As an emperor, Cao Ei is still very qualified in terms of imperial skills.

As for Chen Tai Cao Rong, he can only say that he is helpless.

Cao Ei may not have any sense of Chen Tai, but he still trusts Chen Qun very much. If he could choose, Cao Rong didn't want Chen Tai to take the blame.

But there's no way, who let Sima Yi and Guo Huai come back, but you Chen Tai was captured by Shu thieves.

If it is said that Chen Tai was finally able to "escape" back to Wei. No matter how he Chen Tai came back, as long as he can come back, then Cao Rong will not let Chen Tai take the blame, but will add officials to the lord and reuse him.

However, if Chen Tai finally chose to surrender to the Shu thief, or chose not to surrender or go out, but he was stranded in Yingchuan and did not return, and he was duplicitous. Then, don't blame Cao Rong for being unkind.

And now what Cao Ei is waiting for is accurate news from the fine work in the Central Plains, and Cao Ei must grasp the true information of Chen Tai.

Don't look back like Guo Huai, Cao Rong just buckled the pot here, and he Chen Tai came back. Then the pot will leak completely.

And this matter, I didn't let Cao Ei wait too long. Within two months, Cao Rong received information from the Central Plains.

The puppet emperor of Shu thieves held the annual Zhengdan sacrifice ceremony in Chang'an, and it is rumored that someone saw Chen Tai at this ceremony. And the position of the platoon is quite high.

Zhengdan ceremony, this is a very serious occasion, ordinary ministers are not qualified to participate, but Chen Tai can appear on this occasion, and the top ranking is not the treatment of an ordinary general.

Obviously, this is a sign that the Yingchuan family headed by Chen Tai has completely fallen to the Shu thieves, and only with the support of the Yingchuan family can Chen Tai get a high position as soon as he surrenders.

In this case, Cao Rong's pot is quite easy to deduct.

The reason why the Battle of Yanzhou failed was entirely because Chen Taili was connected to foreign countries, led Shu thieves into Yingchuan, broke Sima Yi's plan to attack Luoyang, caused Sima Yi to return to the army unfavorably, and secretly colluded with Shu thieves in the middle, resulting in the annihilation of Cao Zhao's cavalry, making the Yingchuan Wei army fall into the siege of the enemy's superior forces, forcing Sima Yi to preserve his military strength and retreat to Hebei.

This is the battle report analysis report of the entire battle of Yanzhou - the main responsibility is Chen Tai's.

And Sima Yi, as the commander-in-chief, in the whole process of the operation, used the troops conservatively, did not want to forge ahead, although he had the merit of the whole army, but also had the responsibility of losing the land, demoted Sima Yi to the former general, reduced the number of households by 500, and stayed in Beijing to listen to the use as a punishment.

All the punishments of the Battle of Yanzhou will only be officially concluded at this time.

Immediately afterwards, Cao Rong issued another edict and changed the year name to Jingchu to show a new atmosphere. This year is the first year of Jingchu.

After this operation, everyone basically understands that this matter, no matter who is right and who is wrong, it will be completely over here, and the emperor has changed the yuan, what old accounts do you want to turn over?!

Those Yingchuan heroes who originally wanted to intercede for Chen Tai and the Hedong family who wanted to intercede for Sima Yi suddenly closed their mouths.

Cao Wei used this method to temporarily stabilize the situation after the loss of Yanzhou, at least on the surface, Cao Rong stabilized the political situation.

But in private, this needs Cao Ei to sort it out again. With Cao Rong's ability, it is actually not difficult to do this, but it takes time.

But Cao Rong didn't know if the Shu thief would give him this time.

After all, the Shu thieves have just taken Yanzhou, and the momentum is flourishing, if they forcibly cross the river and attack Hebei, the current Great Wei may really not be able to withstand such a toss.

And the big man is here. Don't say it, there are really people who suggest that you take advantage of the victory and chase it.

It's none other than Li Yan, the Chinese book.

But this matter, it is useless for Li Yan to say it, he is not Zhuge Liang!!

Moreover, as far as Li Yan's character as an old fox, he took the initiative to mention the intention of the Northern Expedition, not necessarily because he really insisted on going north immediately, but more just to show his sense of existence.

Compared with continuing the Northern Expedition, Li Yan cared more about his right to speak in the imperial court.

And Zhuge Liang doesn't have as many eyes as Li Yan, as the prime minister, he has a lot of things to do.

In the fifth year of Yanxi, after the end of the Zhengdan Dynasty in Chang'an, Zhuge Liang summoned Zhang Xi, Wei Yan and others to stay in Chang'an temporarily to discuss the military planning after the end of the Battle of Yanzhou.

In terms of government affairs, Zhuge Liang made proper arrangements long before the Zhengdan Dynasty.

Most of them are appointments by a number of civilian officials.

Now Zhuge Liang began to consciously separate local military and political affairs, the local government is too guarded, only managing government affairs, and local military affairs are generally controlled by local town guards. In this way, it can prevent the local government from being too conservative and grasping the military and politics with one hand, and then sitting on the power of the family and losing control.

Especially in a newly pacified county like Yanzhou, this can minimize the possibility of another rebellion.

Therefore, in addition to Zhuge Liang letting Xu Shu serve as the assassin of Yanzhou and control the overall situation, the rest of the states and counties are basically a combination of a civil official and a military attache.

And out of the need to appease the locality, the civil officials of Yanzhou Prefecture and County appointed by Zhuge Liang were basically selected from Yingchuan County or local families in Yanzhou. There are only military generals guarding the town, and Zhuge Liang still needs to have a serious discussion with Zhang Xi and others.

In fact, the main object of discussion is Zhang Xi, plus a Wei Yan.

Who made these two people the representatives of the current Han military.

The four permanent generals of the Han Dynasty, for some special reasons, Liu Chan has no intention of appointing the general and the general for the time being, and although the general of Wei Zhao Yun has retreated to the second line because of old age, this position must accompany him for life and cannot be easily changed, so among the four permanent generals, only Zhang Xi, the hussar general, is the general.

It can be said that Zhang Xi is now the de facto first person in the Han military.

In addition to Zhang Xi, among the remaining four expeditions and four town generals, only Wei Yan, the general of Zhengxi, can be compared with Zhang Xi in terms of ability and qualifications, and the two of them naturally became representatives of the military, and they must consult with Zhuge Liang about the candidates for the town guard generals in various places.

After all, when the first emperor Tuogu said that Zhuge Liang could control the military and political power, but in terms of military affairs, he needed the endorsement of the military.

This is not Liu Bei's last life, but the tacit understanding between the four ministers.

Now that Zhang Fei is gone, Zhao Yun has taken a back seat, Zhang Xi is still there, and he must do this.

However, the matter of guarding the general is actually not important, today's Han, at least among the new generation of generals, still has a lot of talents, and they may not all have the ability to command the army, but in the land of a county, many people have a feeling of being big and useless.

Therefore, according to the back and forth discussions between Zhuge Liang, Zhang Xi, and Wei Yan, it was finally decided that Zhang Wei would guard Yingchuan County, Jiang Wei would guard Chenliu County, Hu Fen would guard Jiyin County, Wen Qin would guard Taishan County, and Deng Ai would guard Dongjun.

These five counties were the greatest gains of the Han in this battle of Yanzhou.

As for the remaining three countries and one county in Yanzhou, the situation is more complicated.

On the Chen side, because the Eastern Wu Zhu sent troops from Runan to attack the Chen State, Liao Hua had few troops, so he could only temporarily retreat to the northern part of the Chen State and keep one-third of the land of the Chen State.

In terms of Qian County, Sun Shao went north, Zhuge Qian was completely unable to resist, and was finally broken by Sun Shao, completely driven out of Qian County, and retreated to Liang to join Biqiu Jian.

In terms of Shanyang County, Hu Zun's northward speed was slow, and Lu Xun's containment made it impossible to take into account Shanyang County next door to Jiyin County, which was easily occupied by Zhuge Dan.

And Liang Guo's Biqiu Jian, after Hu Zun went north, rushed to Liang in time, just blocked Lu Xun from Dangshan, and fought against Lu Xun's 20,000 soldiers with 10,000 people, barely stabilizing the defense line.

In addition, Hu Zun suspended his northward movement after entering Dingtao, and Lu Xun did not dare to go too deep, slowing down the pace of the attack.

As for the situation, this is the situation now, and what needs to be seriously discussed now in terms of military strategy is not whether to cross the Yellow River immediately, but how to clean up this mess in southern Yanzhou.

In the end, whether to acquiesce to the status quo and stop the army and stabilize the place, or take advantage of the fact that there is still strength to drive south to drive the Eastern Wu army, all according to Yanzhou.

That's what needs to be discussed at this meeting.

And extending along the agenda of this meeting, there is actually a more critical question - next, whether to go north or east.

After all, just as Sima Yi predicted, the difficulty of the Han army crossing the river to attack Cao Wei in Hebei was much more troublesome than that of Xuzhou, which advanced eastward to attack Eastern Wu, and it was softer on the Eastern Wu side.

(End of chapter)