In a mansion in Xu Du, Sima Yi hurried in, all the way through the cloister, to the hall.

In the hall, Cao Pi and Cao Zhi sat and drank tea without saying a word.

Cao Pi sits straight, his movements are natural and elegant when drinking tea, and his every move is in accordance with etiquette, elegant and rude.

Cao Zhi sat with his arms open, without any image, picking up the teacup from time to time and putting it down.

Sima Yi came in and saluted Cao Zhi.

Cao Pi and Cao Zhi have no official positions, Cao Pi is the son of the Marquis of Wuping, and Cao Zhi is not even the son, but Sima Yi has a lot of courtesy, and he salutes with the etiquette of an official.

Cao Zhi bowed slightly, but did not answer.

Only then did Sima Yi bow down to Cao Pi and said loudly: "Zihuan, I am really not at fault, but the general of Beifu frequently bullied me, please Zihuan protect me!" ”

He had just returned from the battlefield in Hefei. Hefei and his party, back and forth for less than a month, Sima Yi lost a lot of weight, his face did not change, but his heart became more cold-blooded.

The battle in Hefei was too cruel, and in order to protect himself, he repeatedly saw through the strategies of the Jiangdong Army and made a lot of contributions, but he also gave up the order to abandon the soldiers defending the city.

The polishing of the battlefield made him more forbearing, and he could even endure the death of his younger brother Sima Jin in the hands of Cao Wu, lest Cao Pi suspect him of raising dead soldiers.

"How he humiliated me in Beifu that day, Zihuan saw it with his own eyes. In Xiangyang City, at the Celebrity Conference, one of his maidservants scolded me in public, and Zijian had also seen it. Another of his maidservants wanted to kill me, and Zijian and Cangshu were both present in this matter......"

Sima Yi knelt on the ground and said a lot of things about Cao Wu against him in a row.

Cao Pi listened quietly, and only after listening did he come over, and helped Sima Yi up kindly: "Zhongda, don't worry, the general of Beifu is too arrogant, and Zijian and I have already made up our minds." ”

Sima Yi looked at Cao Zhi, and Cao Zhi laughed and said: "The general of Beifu was not called, and went south to join the army privately, first beheaded the captain Ding Fang for no reason, and then connived at the slaves in the army to release the enemy generals privately. Proud and complacent, disrespectful to the Son of Heaven, causing an uproar among officials, and taking the lead in exempting cronies from forced labor, breaking the rules. This pile, one by one, has already been passed to the Yushi Taizhong, just waiting to ask for the guilt. ”

Listening to the words of the two of them, Sima Yi not only did not feel joy, but his expression changed, and he muttered: "No! ”

Cao Zhi wondered: "Hey, why not?" ”

Sima Yi hesitated and did not speak.

Cao Pi said: "Zhongda, you and I have no need to be taboo. ”

Sima Yi smiled bitterly at this time: "How dare the two generals of Beifu dare to run rampant like this? He relied on neither prestige nor power, but the trust of the prime minister, as long as Cheng believed in him, these small things would not defeat him, but would only make things not turn around. ”

The last time Baiguan went to Beifu, if Sima Yi knew that Cao Wu was so trusted by Cao Cao, it would be impossible to make a move.

Now that Cao Wu has made meritorious contributions in the southern battlefield, it is even more difficult to move, with Sima Yi's meaning, let Cao Pi protect himself first, and then find a way to fight Cao Wu.

When it comes time for him to make a move, he must strike quickly with thunder and will not release a trace of vitality.

Cao Zhi snorted: "Zhongda, don't you and I know about this?" Although I don't know why my father trusts him so much, since the two of us have decided to join forces, we naturally won't keep our hands, just to take advantage of my father's absence to finish the matter, so as not to cause trouble. ”

Cao Pi nodded and said: "The impeachment of hundreds of officials has put pressure on Xun Lingjun, and he can't help it." In the next step, he only needs to obtain the edict of the Son of Heaven, and then he can be released and moved out of Xudu. ”

Sima Yi was puzzled: "But when the prime minister comes back, won't the two of them be implicated?" And the prime minister can still transfer him back with a paper order? ”

This kind of trick of startling the snake made him puzzled.

Cao Pi smiled: "Zhongda, you don't know something. This plan is to act like this, first instigating hundreds of officials to impeach him, and then Zijian and I came forward to find officials who are familiar with each other to protect him, and make a situation of court arguments. In the end, under the pressure of the two of us, the court will not only not exempt him from the title of miscellaneous general, but will also promote him to an official and let him be released as a general! ”

"This ......"

Sima Yi didn't expect that Cao Pi and Cao Zhi would have such an idea, so that when Cao Cao came back, he couldn't see that Cao Pi and Cao Zhi were behind the scenes, and thought that the two of them would fight to protect Cao Wu on the basis of reason.

Sima Yi asked, "So where is the place to be released......

Cao Pi smiled: "Since it is a general's release, it is naturally at the border." However, Jiangdong has just suffered a defeat, and he may counterattack at any time, and the Jiangdong front line cannot be reached, so as not to hurt my uncle. ”

Cao Zhi also said: "The Southern Xiongnu have just committed a border, and they can't go." ”

Sima Yi patted his head: "Then I can only go to Longxi!" ”

Cao Pi and Cao Zhi looked at each other, and the two continued.

"That's right, Longxi, Weiwei Ma Teng has just entered Beijing, and Liangzhou is the most stable place. Sent to Longxi to station, nominally a frontier, but there is no danger. Let him go to the border of Longxi, it was the two of us who talked about filial piety to my uncle, and the original intention was to hide from the court dispute and come back. ”

"Since there is no danger, there is no need to repay my father for such a trivial matter."

"It's just a little thing, Captain Ma Teng misses his son from home, and sends a messenger to find that son."

When the two said this, they said no more.

Sima Yi finally understood the whole picture of the plan of the two.

Ma Teng was originally the head of the warlords of Xiliang, but now he is old, in order to protect his son Ma Chao to continue to mercenary Xiliang, he is also tired of killing, so he went to Xudu and became a guard captain in Jiuqing. This is what happened before the Battle of Chibi.

Ma Teng's whole family, except for Ma Chao, is in Xudu.

Although Ma Teng is a rough man, he is not stupid, he must know that after Cao Cao is a hundred years old, Cao Pi and Cao Zhizhong will have an inheritance from Cao Cao.

Then when two people go out at the same time and let him do a small thing.

Ma Teng, who didn't know Cao Wu's true status in Cao Cao's heart, how could he not agree.

The Central Plains was initially decided, but the frontier was still unstable, and it was normal for a general to be released and die on the road.

At that time, who knew that this series of schemes was all done by Cao Pi and Cao Zhi?

This plan is really clever!

Sima Yi admired: "I don't know whose hand this serial plan came from?" ”

"Yingchuan Chen, Chen Changwen!"

"Hongnong Yang, Yang Dezu!"

Two people came up with two different answers.

Cao Zhi sneered and retreated.

Cao Pi smiled back.

Sima Yi understood that it was probably Chen Qun and Yang Xiu who jointly planned all this.

Both of them are elites of the family's generation, and their knowledge and ability are top-notch, and this plan is indeed top-notch.

Cao Pi and Cao Zhi will hide the things that instigated the impeachment of the hundred officials, and then expose the things that they argued for Cao Wu, so that everyone thinks that they just did something wrong with good intentions and killed Cao Wu.

In this way, even if Cao Cao doubted it, he would not blame them for it.

Among the sons-in-law, the two of them are the most likely to inherit Cao Cao's family business, how can they dispose of the two at the same time?

I'm afraid that after getting rid of Cao Wu, there will be a rivalry between Cao Pi and Cao Zhi, and between Chen Qun and Yang Xiu.

Sima Yi thought for a while, and then said: "The first step, the impeachment of hundreds of officials, how is it carried out?" ”

He was afraid that he would be seen as a horse in the first step, after all, among the hundred officials, many of them were hand-picked by Xun Lingjun himself.

"This is to Xie Runan is too full of favor, he was the first to write to impeach my uncle, and other officials saw that his father was not there and Ling Jun was sick, so he followed the impeachment."

"That's good, that's good."

Sima Yi was very satisfied with this answer, Man Zhong is notoriously upright, and it is impossible to be bought, he impeached first, proving that there is no one behind the scenes.

He put his mind at ease, and in this way, it was really seamless.

Sima Yi sneered in his heart, Beifu Cao Wu, if you want to blame, you can only blame yourself for doing too much injustice, so that the full pet is not used to it.

Wait, the butcher's knife of Xiliang Tieqi will make you regret your arrogant and domineering life!

……

In that wine shop, Xiahou Nan's confession had come to an end.

"My father asked me to befriend the officials in Beijing. Ma Tenggui is the captain of the guard, and his third son Ma Tie wants to be a cavalry captain, but there is no merit. I relied on my father's old relationship to help him dredge up, and he became a cavalry lieutenant, so I got acquainted with him......"

Cao Wu, who was sitting on the horse, sneered: "So Cao Pi thought of you, and through your matchmaking, he caught up with the old horseman of Ma Teng?" ”

"Yes...... Be. But Zihuan forced me, I didn't want to do this! ”

"Did he force you to go to Beifu that day?"

"This ...... This...... It's that I don't know my uncle's majesty, it's me who did it wrong! ”

Xiahou Nan just raised his head and lowered it again.

He has been a gentleman since he was a child, and he has been rampant in Xu Capital for a long time, and he has never been so embarrassed, but the cheap uncle in front of him who rides upstairs seems to have the ability to suppress all the gentlemen, it seems that he is the real gentleman, compared to him, he is really nothing.

Cao Wu saw that everything he should ask was almost there, Xiahou Xuan's relationship was here, and he didn't plan to really do anything to Xiahou Nan, so he said, "Get out!" ”

Xiahou Nan stood up as if he was amnesty.

Cao Wu saw that he was wearing armor, which was not pleasing to the eye, and pointed at him with a horsewhip and said: "If the eldest husband wants to make a contribution, go to the front line." Wearing a suit of armor to swagger around the capital, what kind of skill is it? ”

Speaking of this, Xiahou Nan actually stiffened his neck and said: "So that my uncle can know that I am already familiar with Tao Strategy and the art of war, but my father will not let me go to the battlefield and have no chance to serve the country!" ”

Cao Wu rolled his eyes, your father Xiahou Dun, there is nothing to say about force, except for Dian Wei Xu Chu in Cao Ying, no one can beat him.

But when it comes to fighting, he is much worse than the others in Xiahou Cao, the so-called war has not been won, and the promotion has not stopped, it is Xiahou Dun.

As for Xiahou Nan, it was even more of a sigh.

The history books say that he is cowardly and unstrategic, has no military strategy, and is good at managing life. Translated into human words, contemporary Zhao Kuo.

For such a person, Cao Wu didn't want to have too many intersections.

But when he learned of the impeachment of the hundred officials today, he immediately thought that it was very likely that Cao Pi or Cao Zhi did it.

So he didn't think about how to deal with the impeachment of hundreds of officials at all, but came directly to find Xiahou Nan, who had a close relationship with Cao Pi.

You don't need to play around with any twists and turns, and you don't need to do too much layout.

In the battle in the temple, he only needs one move, that is, he slaps the board hard, and if the board doesn't work, he will stab more than a dozen swords.

Those who will be timid outside of him are the ones who don't see the situation clearly.

The sky fell, and there was his brother Cao Mengde supporting him.

Cao Pi, Cao Zhi, and their strategists never dreamed that this seamless plan would be ruined by arrogant and reckless men.