Sima Yi's Three Kingdoms Collection Collection

Chapter 219: To bury your head in common affairs and win people's hearts (6)
"Today, Zhang Gong, the governor of Liangzhou, sent an urgent letter, claiming that there was a vision of 'Qinghong piercing the sun' in the local area... You can use this to spread the word of divination, just say, 'Qinghong piercing the sun, In this world, some noble women are afraid of being slandered'. In this way, when His Majesty treats Empress Zhen and Junior Sister Fang mercilessly, at least he will be a little cautious because of the astronomical warning."

"This method is very useful." Zhou Xuan nodded after hearing Sima Yi's words, "Okay. After Zhou returns to the Taishi Office, he will immediately spread this rumor according to your teaching. ..."

At this moment, Sima Yi's expression relaxed, looking at the depths of the forest in front of him, he changed the topic: "Hey...it's been so long, isn't the competition between Brother Huan and General Xiahou not over yet?"

"Brother Huan and General Xiahou's riding and archery skills are between brothers - if they want to decide the outcome, it should be at least an hour or so?" Zhou Xuan squinted his eyes and stared forward for a while , suddenly remembered something, turned to Sima Yi and said, "By the way, Sima Pushe, Mr. Zhou has some news for you: Do you still remember the friend Qiao who Mr. Zhou once mentioned to you? Zhou? He is also from a family of astrology and divination, and now he has served as the Prime Minister of the Puppet Shu. Half a month ago, Qiao Zhou sent someone to send a secret letter, talking about Liu Bei's crusade against Jiangdong, the puppet Shu Prime Minister Zhuge Liang It is strongly opposed. It seems that Liu Bei's invasion of Jiangdong this time, the internal differences of opinion are really quite big..."

"Zhuge Liang? Hehehe...Let me guess the reasons why he opposes Liu Bei's Eastern Expedition." When Sima Yi heard the word "Zhuge Liang", an inexplicable and deep smile immediately appeared on Sima Yi's face, as if He seemed quite pleased to hear the news from a long-lost close friend, "He must be advocating the Northern Expedition to the Great Wei and then the Eastern Conquest of Sun Quan. Moreover, in his heart, our Great Wei Fang is the most important enemy of the Shu Han." , while Jiangdong Sun Quan is just an 'old slicker' who guards his own family. As long as we wipe out my Great Wei first, then Jiangdong will win without a fight!"

"Ah! Sima Pushe's eyes are as bright as a torch, and the candle shines thousands of miles away! However, according to Qiao Zhou, the original words of Zhuge Liang's advice to Liu Bei are more incisive and detailed than what you just said - this is what he said to Liu Bei :'I would like to discuss the importance and importance of your Majesty: Your Majesty is the uncle of the Yan Han Emperor. Today, the Han Emperor has been usurped by Cao. Is the relationship with brotherhood bigger or smaller? Others can tell at the first sight, but His Majesty is still raising troops to go east, which is to give up righteousness for small righteousness! The Central Plains is the hub of the sea; In the far-flung struggle between Jing and Chu, the people in the Central Plains witnessed the theft of the Han Dynasty, and they all led His Majesty Xiwang to send troops to rescue—how could His Majesty ignore the Wei Dynasty and instead want to take advantage of his anger to attack Wu? In the end, Liu Bei still insisted on going his own way, turning a deaf ear to this advice, and let him stay in Chengdu, while he led his troops east to Wuwu. Coming from the gorge..."

Sima Yi smiled slightly and said: "It seems that Zhuge Liang's priorities and urgency were appropriate when he was planning and making decisions, not like Liu Bei who is so impulsive and puts the cart before the horse. If Liu Bei's Eastern Expedition cannot get Zhuge Liang's concerted assistance, the prospects may be a little bit different. Can be considered..."

When he said this, he raised his eyes again, stared at Zhou Xuan's face, and said politely: "Xishu and my great Wei have a sworn feud, and we should be more careful. We will arrange for them There should be as many 'eyeliners' as possible. Brother Zhou, how is your fellow countryman Qiao Zhou? Does he have the heart to adore me, Huanghuang Dawei? If he is really a wise man who understands current affairs and discerns the general situation, you will help him. This seat will secretly accept him with all my heart—in the future, when my great Wei conquers the puppet Shu, I will definitely use him!"

Hearing Sima Yi's words, Zhou Xuan couldn't help but be secretly impressed by his holy minister who "has the whole world in his mind, looks at the world, grasps the overall situation, and has a clear outline". Such far-sightedness and exhaustive strategies! Mr. Zhou admires you so much. Mr. Zhou remembers all your instructions—after you go down, you will definitely implement them in detail."

Substitute: Zhengchen Huan Fan

While the two of them were talking, a string of neighing horses flew back in the distance.

The moment Sima Yi heard the neighing of the horse, his face burst into a smile, and he raised his eyes to look forward: but he saw that Huan Fan and Xia Houshang had arrived galloping on horses—both of them were tied with a large amount of cloth tied to the saddle behind them. Heaps of pheasants, hares, foxes, etc.

"Hahaha! Both of you have returned home with a lot of rewards. We have fresh game to enjoy in today's dinner." Zhou Xuan smiled and rode his horse to the front: within an hour, Huan Fan shot a pheasant Six, seven hares, and two foxes; Xia Houshang shot seven pheasants, six hares, and three foxes.The shooting and hunting results of the two were actually the same.

Xia Houshang turned his face to look at Huan Fan, his face full of admiration: "Unexpectedly, Mr. Huan has the temperament of a Confucian scholar, but his skills are so vigorous-who said that 'scholars have no courage, and strong men have no literature'? Mr. Huan is a man with both civil and military skills. Coats!"

"Hehehe...General Xiahou, you really underestimate Huan Jun's righteousness and courage—what is the courage of a man who roams the grass and shoots and hunts animals? The stern face of the lord, the gains and losses of admonishing the lord, It is true righteousness and courage to say that the people dare not speak, to remonstrate the people do not dare to advise, and to act the people do not dare to act. This is the true righteousness and courage. Brother Huan's recent 'Three Memorials' that shocked the government and the public is a clear proof!"

When Xia Houshang heard Sima Yi's words, he couldn't help being deeply moved.Since Huan Fan was recruited by the imperial court as Yilang, he has made three sensational memorials in a short period of ten days. It is really "a blockbuster": Cao Pi originally intended to forcefully relocate more than [-] military households in Shuofang to enrich the capital. Only then did Xin Pi stop and knock and remonstrate without fear or regret, and just now forced the "sacred will" to loosen; at the time when the Wei Dynasty's initial creation was roughly finalized, he openly wrote a letter asking His Majesty to "restore morality and reform with the people", Soothe the Yang family in Guanzhong and the Xun family in Yingchuan, who were loyal to the Han Dynasty in those days, in order to show the great Wei's far and near return to the heart, and the extraordinary amount of no sages left behind.In addition, when he was discussing the state affairs in the inner court, in front of Hua Xin, the official censor, he publicly said that Hua Xin's virtue was far inferior to that of his brother Xuantongzi, Mr. Guan Ning, and asked Cao Pi to use the car soft wheel, brocade clothes and biji Recruit Mr. Guan Ning as Taifu and Marquis of Baode, so as to set an example for the world and comfort the Quartet!The last memorial is particularly commendable-you must know that with the position of Dr. Hua Xin, he is respected, powerful and famous, and even His Majesty today dare not take it lightly; Hua Xin had no choice but to restrain her face and listen, not daring to be proud!
Thinking of this, Xia Houshang nodded to Sima Yi knowingly and praised: "Sima Pushe is right - Mr. Huan is really the number one true warrior in the world!"

Zhou Xuan also praised at the same time: "Brother Huan, you can be said to be the reincarnation of the reincarnation—the style of being clean and upright, which is comparable to that of Shangshu Cui Yan and Master Mao Jie!"

Huan Fan did not change his countenance, without any humility and humility, and said calmly: "A husband who advises and contends, so he accepts the king in the way, corrects wrongs and corrects wrongs, and saves the fallacies of the superior. If there is an absurdity in the superior, there is no one to save it." , it will harm things; if it harms things, it will endanger the way. Therefore, if you don’t hold on to the danger, and don’t support it, how can you use the other side? The way to support is nothing more than admonishing. Therefore, a son who blindly obeys his orders will not succeed. It is filial piety; ministers who are blindly obedient cannot be loyal. It is because the prosperity of the country is valued by the ministers; Lang——Huan is in charge of admonishing and disputing, how dare he sit on a vegetarian diet? He only wants to do his duty and do his best, so that the lord will be a sage for a generation and he will be a good assistant for a lifetime!"

"Well said! Well said!" Sima Yi heard this and clapped his hands.When he recommended Huan Fan to the court, he wanted to use his integrity and uprightness to stand in front of the battle instead of standing in front of the battle and arguing with Cao Pi for the right and wrong of the great Wei Sheji grand plan—now it seems that his move Right again!Huan Fan really lived up to his expectations, and made a "hard-to-hard" remonstrance that he was inconvenient to do directly as a prime minister, so that he could retreat behind the scenes and calmly mediate in front of Cao Pi.It's just that Cao Pi is tolerant and open-minded, but he is stubborn and jealous. I'm afraid he can tolerate Huan Fan for a while, but he may not be able to tolerate him forever: after all, he will not let a loyal minister like Huan Fan wait by his side for a long time, maybe It won't be long before he will let him out with the method of brightening and darkening, and his ears will be clean, right?
Companion with a monarch as a companion with a tiger

Today, Cao Pi summoned Chen Qun and Sima Yi, two chief ministers, to discuss matters in the side hall. From the very beginning, the atmosphere was somewhat inexplicably paradoxical: just four days ago, Cao Pi ordered the inner court to set up a special committee responsible for criticizing In the "Zhongshu Province" of Zhaoyongxi, Sun Zi, a doctor of Jijiu of Taixue, was the order of Zhongshu, and Liu Fang, the chief Yilang of Da Nei, was the supervisor of Zhongshu.In this way, he once again took an important step on the road to power: he divided the power of final adjudication of Shangshutai's memorials, allowing Zhongshu Sheng and Shangshutai to check and balance each other.

In order not to cause a violent reaction from Shangshutai, Cao Pi appointed Zhongshujian and Zhongshuling to be Sun Zi and Liu Fang who had a good relationship with Chen Qun and Sima Yi.He also hopes to minimize the shock of the ruling and opposition parties brought about by this separation of powers.At the same time, he also issued an imperial edict stipulating that the official ranks of Zhongshujian and Zhongshuling are always limited to the fourth grade, so that all ministers will always maintain a sense of superiority over Zhongshujian and Zhongshuling in terms of political status.In fact, he deliberately planted a "wedge" of internal and external discord between Shangshutai and Zhongshusheng, and deliberately inserted some contradictions between the personnel of these two key institutions, so that he can balance and control the two sides in the middle, and always stand on the same page. In the high position of king.

Shang Shu Ling Chen Qun must be secretly unhappy with Cao Pi's blatant checks and balances.Therefore, as soon as he entered the side hall today, there was a faint sullen look between his brows.But Sima Yi didn't get angry like Chen Qun, because Sun Zi, Liu Fang and himself were all from the Xun family of Yingchuan, and his relationship with them was well managed in private on weekdays. Qun, they even buy his "account" - he believes that the "two-in-one" operation of Zhongshu Sheng and Shangshutai can be completely achieved during his tenure as Shangshu Pushe.Cao Pi wanted to use Sun Zi and Liu Fang to deliberately check and balance himself and Chen Qun, I'm afraid it was wishful thinking.

"Sima Aiqing, some time ago you went to Hedong, Hanyang, Yelin and other counties to observe the locust disaster situation. It was really hard work for you. I have been busy with the trivial affairs of the military and the country, and I haven't had time to condolences to you." Cao Pi smiled all over his face. He pointed to the agate bowl on the jade table that was a tribute from the Kingdom of Qiuci.Sima Yi looked intently, but saw that the bowl was steaming hot, and bursts of refreshing aroma of porridge came to his nostrils.At this time, he heard Cao Pi continue to say, "This is a bowl of 'eight treasure porridge' made from the Jiahe rice offered by Meng Dajing. Just try it!"

(End of this chapter)