Wei Ni

Sima Shi did not get what he wanted.

After his father Sima Yi learned of his purpose, he did not write a letter to Jiang Ji.

Instead, he often took him and his troops out hunting, using the excuse that the autumn harvest was approaching and the wild beasts that would destroy the food crops needed to be driven away.

But Sima Shi knew that this was just an excuse made by his father.

Since he was promoted to the position of Grand Commandant in the early spring and repelled the invasion of Shu general Ma Dai, his father transferred many military affairs to his generals and county governors. Apart from occasionally inspecting the farming industry, he enjoyed hunting.

For example, a white deer was hunted not long ago.

After being brought to Luoyang as a symbol of auspiciousness, it was praised by Emperor Cao Rui with words such as "When Duke Zhou assisted King Cheng, he presented a white pheasant as a tribute, and now the Grand Marshal who is guarding Yongliang has presented a white deer as a tribute."

Sima Shi knew that his father was not actually very interested in hunting.

The reason why he did this frequently was just to show Emperor Cao Rui and the court in Luoyang that Yongliang was gradually entering a period with few wars, and he had nothing to do, so it was almost time for him to be recalled to the court.

To put it bluntly, he just wanted to retreat while the going was good and give up his duties and military power as the governor of Yongliang.

This is also what Sima Shi has been preparing for recently.

Therefore, after he went hunting several times in succession, he suddenly found that he seemed to be confused.

To be precise, it was after he regarded Xiahou Hui as an imaginary opponent that his competitive spirit became so strong that he became blinded by one thing without realizing it.

If it weren't for his competitive spirit, he should have secretly "helped" Xiahou Hui!
Just think about it.

What is the crisis facing his father, who is at the top of the government?
Half of the reason is that he holds military power, and the other half is because the Wei royal family generals and Qiao Peidu have no successors!

What Sima Yi is doing now is to hand over the military power; and if he wants to help his father, he should help the Wei Dynasty to welcome a powerful commander - if Cao Zhen or Xiahou Shang were still alive, Sima Yi would not have to worry about being suspected!
After all, Shu and Wu are still there!

It has not been many years since the Wei Kingdom replaced the Han Dynasty, but it still cannot be said that it has the support of the people!

No matter how suspicious the current emperor Cao Rui is of his subjects, he would not be so foolish as to do something as self-destructive as "not using Po Mu".

Besides, Sima Shi did not realize that he had already entered the game.

In deliberately leaking information to Wu Ying, letting his younger brother Sima Zhao and He Zeng, as well as Cao Zhaoxu and Wei Si, to make Xiahou Hui afraid, he was involved in it and made things difficult for Xiahou Hui.
It was also a disguised way of doing harm to his father.

In this case, it would be strange if his father Sima Yi wrote a letter to Jiang Ji.

With this realization, he completely let go of his heart and devoted himself to the joy of hunting, no longer mentioning matters related to the temple.

Sima Yi, who knew his son better than his father, was very pleased with his change.

No one knows that in Sima Yi's heart, the achievement he was most proud of in his life was not that he became a general and a prime minister, or that he promoted the Sima family of Henei from a prestigious family in the county to a famous family in the world, but that he had a "good eldest son" named Sima Shi.

Offspring are the continuation of life.

But Sima Shi made him feel that with such a son, there was no regret in death!
However, Sima Shi realized it later and planned to stop interfering in the affairs between the Wei royal family and the Qiaopei children in the short term, but someone took over the matter.

However, since the imperial edict to demote Xiahou Hui came down, Xiahou Xian, Qin Lang and others had a banquet to celebrate.

But they did not think that Xiahou Hui had fallen out of favor.

Moreover, having learned the lesson from the previous incident at the Beimangshan Manor, he did not dare to persuade Emperor Cao Rui at this critical juncture, such as asking him to recall the Zhenhu Division on the grounds that the Luoyang Central Army could not stay away for long.

They were just thinking about whether they could ask the emperor to send a military supervisor over on the grounds that the Zhenhu Department was not under its control.

The candidate has been chosen, and it is Cao Tai, the eldest son of the late Grand Marshal Cao Ren. Yes, they don't mind taking charge of the central army with others.

The reason why Cao Shuang targeted Xiahou Hui was not only because of personal resentment, but also because Xiahou Xian and others targeted him because the achievements Xiahou Hui had made in just a few years made them pale in comparison and made it increasingly difficult for them to gain a foothold in the central army.

It's just jealousy of one's talent.

However, what they did not expect was that before they had discussed how to persuade Emperor Cao Rui, there were voices in Luoyang City asking one of them to go to Yecheng to command the Town Guard Department.

This kind of voice is very unfavorable to them.

It seemed like a show of support, but in fact it would make them alert to Cao Rui, who would think that they were secretly sending people to build momentum in order to get their hands on the military power of the Zhenhu Department.

It also pushed them to the forefront and put them in a passive position.

They even dared not mention the idea of ​​nominating Cao Tai as military supervisor.

To this end, they have privately confirmed with each other, trying to find out which staff are making things worse and to curb this voice.

Of course, their efforts were doomed to fail.

Because this was Xiahou Heng's "reward" to them, a revenge for their clique's suppression of Xiahou Hui.

After the matter had fermented for half a month and gradually escalated to the point where court officials also began to discuss it, Emperor Cao Rui made the final decision and appointed General Le Liang, the General of Suppressing the Rebellion, as the military supervisor of the Zhenhu Department.

But the impact did not end there.

Cao Rui, who was very eager to attack Gongsun of Liaodong, was very angry about the fact that the Zhenhu Department attracted the attention of the court and the public. After he sent officials to investigate privately without any results, he promoted Cao Zhao, the only cavalry captain who was not recommended by anyone, to the position of the commander of the five colonels in order to divide the power of the central army again to warn Xiahou Xian and others.

Cao Zhao, who received the unexpected surprise, was not happy at all.

The reason is that the authority given to him by the emperor is like the yellow mud falling into his crotch.

It made it difficult for him to defend himself.

Qin Lang and Cao Shuang both guessed that it was he who spread the rumor, and that their previous attitude of not helping each other was just an illusion in order to benefit from it now.

Even Xiahou Xian couldn't help but feel suspicious.

Although they did not say it explicitly, the relationship between them was no longer as close as before, and they no longer acted according to the agreement, one openly and one secretly, to use Qin Lang and Cao Shuang as pawns.

Inevitably, he was isolated.

He also aroused the wariness of the public, as well as some sycophants who thought he had a promising future.

Therefore, feeling aggrieved, following He Zeng's suggestion, he simply dropped his disguise and began to actively make friends and win over like-minded people to build his own power.

In other words, he followed in the footsteps of Xiahou Hui.

But unlike Xiahou Hui, he took the likes and dislikes of Emperor Cao Rui as his criterion and moved closer to old ministers and respected aristocratic families who had always been respected by Cao Rui.

Xiahou Hui had no idea what was happening in the capital.

He has now arrived at the seat of the Youzhou Provincial Administration, outside Ji County of Yan State.

Out of secrecy, he did not enter the city. The governor Guanqiu Jian, who had been privately instructed by Cao Rui in a letter, took more than ten troops and went more than 20 miles out of the city to meet him secretly by the water.

(Not recovered yet, feeling uncomfortable, please don't rush.) (End of this chapter)