Sima Yi's Three Kingdoms Collection Collection

Chapter 372 Desperate to Capture, Sima Yi Retires and Returns Home (7)
"As close as a child? Hahaha... I have only heard in the harem that only Grand Tutor Sima Yi really treats his Ding family generals as close as children. Niu Jin was originally a family general of his Sima Mansion, right? But Sima Taifu insisted on promoting him all the way so that he could become a second-rank general and a general of cavalry, with two thousand households in the city! What about you, Sun Qian? It can be regarded as working hard for his Cao family for so many years, but he still let you be a little A petty and unrefined servant and head of the bodyguard!"

Sun Qian's throat was choked: "Sun has never had the opportunity to go out with the first great Sima Duke Cao and General Cao to conquer and kill the enemy..."

"It's not that you don't have these opportunities, but that the Cao family doesn't give you these opportunities—perhaps, they have always thought that the servants of the Cao family should be humble servants all their lives, and they should be locked up in the mansion for the rest of their lives. It's not like Sima Tai Fu, as long as you have real skills, even the most humble slave can be promoted to a majestic general!"

Sun Qian fell silent.yes!This Quartz is right. Once General Cao came to power, he was nepotism. Not only did he install various high-ranking officials and important positions for several of his brothers, even Cao Shou, the most ineffective dude of the Cao family, was appointed by him Infantry Lieutenant of the Inner Guards!This made Sun Qian secretly laugh when he saw it, what kind of thing is this Cao Shou?Apart from spending time, drinking, and having fun, where does he have any real ability to lead troops in battle?Isn't this treating the important task of the country as a child's play?

Quartz looked at him, and said politely: "Sun Qian, to tell you the truth, there are some things I can't tell you. Do you know how the master you have been loyal to, that General Cao, treated you? He There is actually a different kind of intention behind deliberately asking you to stand guard outside the golden house in the Paradise of Paradise..."

"What kind of intentions?" Sun Qian was surprised.

"He just wants to make me scream inside on purpose, to let you hear my voice outside on purpose, and to show off his sense of authority that almost controls everything in front of you on purpose. He, he is a full-fledged Do you know?" Quartz's eyes suddenly turned red, and he choked up and said, "You think, doesn't he know that you are a man? Can't he see the desire in your heart? Doesn't he understand that you are facing only a man on the outside? Will I instinctively have boundless thoughts when I hear his voice but don't see him? Hehehe... How depressing it must be for him to hide such a rare beauty like me, but he can't show it off to any outsiders!

"So, he deliberately chose you as the object to show off all of this. That's why he took you to the door of the golden house every time in the name of 'you are the most loyal'... You know? He gave you more than once As I mentioned before, he just likes such a sense of authority that manipulates everything. Men and women are all played by him at the same time, even if they are as beautiful and elegant as my quartz, even as tough as you Sun Qian, it is actually him A doll used to vent one's desires..."

"Don't talk any more!" Sun Qian punched the shiny gold wall with a "boom", and drops of blood dripped from the wound on his knuckles.

Quartz closed her cherry lips, quietly looking at this heartbroken man, her bright eyes were filled with tears.

After a long time, Sun Qian's chest was still heaving violently, unable to restrain himself.He suddenly turned his head, stared at Shishi and said, "I see, so you are Sima Yi's secret agent! Huh! But, why did you, the Sima Taifu who you keep claiming to praise endlessly, let you, a loyal dead man, be the secret agent?" Falling into this dark dungeon of the golden house and being ravaged by others without rescue? Where is the kindness they treat you?"

Shi Shi stretched out his slender jade fingers, slowly stroking the silver chain tied around his ankle, and said slowly: "The benevolence, righteousness and kindness that Sima Taifu treats us is not a matter of one moment, one thing, one person, he prepared for it at the beginning of his administration. Let the Zhongshu Province draw up an edict to bring the late emperor into Ye Ting's talented people and maids, all sent out of the palace, and returned to the people to reunite with their relatives..." At this point, a bright smile appeared on her face, "That Time is the happiest day for those of us claustrophobic talented people and maids! Really! There is nothing happier than hearing this news!
"Unexpectedly, Cao Shuang, who secretly had his own thoughts, suggested that he should do nothing against Taifu Sima's benevolent policy... It wasn't until that day when I was secretly tied up in the dungeon of the golden house by them that he admitted it himself. What he did at that time was to delay his occupation of us until one day he had gained power! As the old saying goes: "Playing with things loses morale, playing with people loses virtue." Downfall, I'm afraid God is really blind!"

Cao Shuang draws public outrage

Gradually, Cao Shuang was no longer satisfied with having fun in a half-hidden way in the Luoyang capital.In the capital city of Luoyang, there are too many veterans and ministers, and their eyes and ears are too complicated.If the scandals I have done are exposed here one day, I am afraid that if I am not careful, it will cause an uproar, and I will make myself ashamed!Moreover, he also didn't like to sit in the court hall every day and confront the old guys like Sun Zi, Liu Fang, Sima Fu, Wang Su, and Gao Rou with their dark and cold eyes very boringly.Although I also clearly felt that the attitudes of the neutral elders such as Taiwei Jiang Ji and Shang Shupu She Weizhen seemed to have undergone subtle changes, Cao Shuang still didn't care and went his own way.I am the Assistant General of the State of Wei. My father, Cao Zhen, has served the Great Wei for so many years, and I once had a life-and-death contest with the Sima Clan, who was deeply dissatisfied. It was our father, son, brother and family who worked so hard for His Majesty today!Now that I am in power on behalf of the king, shouldn't it be okay to enjoy it and comfort yourself for your hard work?

Once these thoughts filled Cao Shuang's mind, he felt that everything he did was justified.But in order to avoid openly incurring public grievances, Cao Shuang decided to transfer the place of pleasure to the place where Wei was appointed by heaven-to accompany the capital Xuchang.Emperor Taizu Wu and Emperor Gaozu Wen have been operating there for a long time, not to mention the luxurious and exquisite palaces and pavilions, the Red Deer Garden with a radius of ten miles and filled with exotic animals, the rippling blue waves, and the Vermilion Bird Pond where hundreds of boats compete. , and the Yanhan Changle Palace, which stands at the top of the sky and is full of fragrances (it is said that since Emperor Xiandi Liu Xie moved out that day, there are countless relics of emperors Taizu Wu, Gaozuwen and other emperors living there. What about concubines and concubines!)... When I think about it, where is it not fascinating?
The more Cao Shuang thought about it, the more he was addicted, and his mind was determined, so he prepared to leave Beijing and go south on the grounds of inspecting Xuchang and celebrating his 44th birthday.He, the Fuguo General, is 44 years old this year.This should be a very grand event. Since His Majesty has not yet been in charge of the court, the birthday of this important minister of the Wei Dynasty who "acts as a king without the name of a king" should be a celebration that is enough for all people to celebrate and all officials to celebrate. Qihe's important festival!Under his instruction and arrangement, two or three months ago, some vassal envoys and state shepherds unanimously submitted a request to hold a birthday celebration for General Cao to comfort him and honor him. Memorials.Then, the young emperor Cao Fang granted the decree without any accident.As a result, the thirteen post roads from Luoyang to Xuchang suddenly became crowded and lively like never before: fragrant cars and BMWs, beauties who prostitute children, advocating musicians, famous wine and delicacies, a collection of wonderful utensils, and local specialties are like stars chasing the moon. There was an endless stream of transport going south... Almost the whole court was making intensive preparations for General Cao's birthday party.During the period, Sima Fu, Huan Fan, He Zeng, Fu Gu and others once put forward suggestions and opinions that "extravagance and extravagance should not be used", but Cao Shuang used the imperial decree of the young emperor Cao Fang to forcefully suppress them.

However, this huge preparatory project is still a bit stuck at the last link: what rank "cooking ritual utensils" should be used at the birthday celebration banquet?What Cao Shuang said was that the banquet cooking utensils must adopt the standard of Jiuding List!However, according to the regulations of Zhou Rites: "The emperor lists food with nine tripods, princes with seven tripods, high officials with five tripods, and Yuan scholars with three tripods." Therefore, the nine tripods are enjoyed by the emperor. It is a special ceremony that no subject can overstep.However, Cao Shuang, relying on his high position and power, wanted to deliberately overstep in public, and insisted on celebrating his birthday and entertaining his guests and staff with the standard of Jiuding List, so as to demonstrate his current supreme authority.

Zhang Dang, the order of the Huangmen, came to report after finding 81 famous chefs for Cao Shuang: "To the general, the special gift of Jiuding must be matched with the Dayu Jiuding hidden in Shaofu Temple. The Dayu Nine Dings have been handed down since the founding of the Xia Dynasty and have only been used by the kings of the past dynasties when they worshiped the heavens and the earth and respected the ancestors and respected the ancestors. It is rare to see it in ordinary times. I dare not take it without authorization. Please show it to the general!"

"What is there that Dayu Jiuding should not take without authorization? This general can use it if he says it can be used! Go and get it!"

"But……"

"how?"

"Master Wang Guan, Minister of the Shaofu, is in charge of the key to Shangfang's treasury. He has been approached many times by humble officials, but he insists on refusing to give it up. He also publicly declared that taking the nine tripods of Yu Dayu without authorization is an act of trespass. If you come to take it, you will definitely not give it!"

When Cao Shuang heard this, "Teng" flew into a rage: This Wang Guan is really ignorant of good and evil!He listened to Ding Mi's suggestion three months ago, and deliberately transferred Wang Guan from the position of Duzhi Shangshu to the palace to serve as the young minister - the young minister was originally a very rich and fat man, He is in charge of the Shangfang curios, silk artifacts and treasures accumulated by the royal families of the past dynasties that came from the tribute from the Sifang vassal states and the prefectures and counties of the world.According to Ding Mi's original plan, as the saying goes, "Which cat doesn't get fishy", they originally wanted to use such a rich and fat job to lure Wang Guan into a trap.However, they never expected that this Wang Guan was really "clean as water and spotless", and he forcibly did not mishandle every needle, thread, bowl and dish in the Shangfang treasure house of the Shaofu Office!Moreover, Wang Guan also regarded the Shangfang Treasury of the Shaofu Department as his own backyard and guarded it extremely tightly, and he did not allow Cao Shuang and the others to get involved in taking anything or weapons without authorization.Once He Yan, Deng Yang, and Cao Shou went to him together to fetch the Confucius clogs and the White Snake Sword of Han Gaozu stored in the Shangfang Treasury of the Shaofu Office to admire, but they were scolded bloody by Wang Guan and had to Come back angrily!

(End of this chapter)