Shu Chen

When Li Jian entered Wei, the first bureaucrat he met was Sima Yi.

Sima Yi instructed others to handle the documents for passing through the pass and entering various parts of the Kanto.

At that time, through his words and deeds, Sima Yi had doubts, and felt that Li Jian was a spy of the Han army, and that entering Wei State was a conspiracy like Yinbo!
Under the thought of being defensive, he also sent someone to secretly monitor Li Jian.

After the emperor Cao Rui asked his second son Sima Zhao to make friends with Li Jian deliberately, and after the matter was related to the heirs of the family, he made people monitor Li Jian more closely.

Therefore, when Li Jian was arrested in Yecheng, he got the news immediately.

He also knew that the crime he was arrested for was definitely not "misconduct in Weiwu Gaoling" as Xia Houxuan prevaricated.

But at the time, he didn't think that this matter would involve his second son.

On the contrary, he felt relieved.

His second son finally didn't have to be involved with Li Jian.

I can finally get rid of this right and wrong!
However, the subsequent development of the situation was completely beyond his expectation.

On the eve of the decisive battle in Guanzhong, the emperor Cao Rui rushed back to Yecheng in person; even when the matter was concluded, Cao Rui did not pursue his second son Sima Zhao in accordance with the law!

Not even half a sentence of verbal instructions!
After many years of ups and downs in the officialdom, he was once respected by the suspicious and brutal Wei Wu Cao Cao, and he participated in the "Wei Duo Di" and profited from it, so he can't smell that there must be something strange in it?
Yes, the factor that made him insecure was that Emperor Cao Rui did not hold Sima Zhao accountable!
In other words, this mentality is puzzling.

Wouldn't it be a good thing that Li Jian was punished for his misdeeds, but his second son was not implicated or held accountable by the emperor?

Isn't it the embodiment of his holy family's righteousness?

Why do you say that you are in danger!

But from Sima Yi's point of view, the fact that the second son, Sima Zhao, was not held accountable is a manifestation of Cao Rui's grievances in trying to cover up.

Just think about it.

In the past few years, under Cao Rui's instruction, Sima Zhao and Li Jian have an inseparable friendship, like brothers, each praised each other more than once and made each other famous.

According to common sense, now that Li Jian has been condemned, Sima Zhao, who once highly praised Li Jian, should sit down in accordance with the law!

Regardless of whether it is removal from office, punishment or salary, or redress of responsibility with words, there must be punishment.Only after Gein was punished, the matter would truly pass, and no one would be able to bring up this matter again in the future to criticize Sima Zhao.

But Cao Rui didn't do that.

Just this little clue can make Sima Yi realize something.

What Li Jian committed must have been serious, and his second son Sima Zhao was also deeply involved in the matter, and the reason why Cao Rui did not pursue the responsibility was because he was wary and suspicious of him and did not dare to fight decisively in Guanzhong Branches grow outside the festival.
Of course!

Sima Yi didn't take Cao Rui's refusal to pursue responsibility as kindness.

Because that's nonsense!

Let me ask, what if Sima Zhao was dismissed according to the court's law?

With the family reputation of the Sima family in Wen County, Hanoi, and his status as a veteran of the three dynasties of the Wei State, an assistant minister, and the superintendent of the whole country, will it be difficult for Sima Zhao to embark on an official career again in the future?

Why did Emperor Cao Rui choose to turn a blind eye to this obvious tacit understanding of official career?

Why didn't Sima Zhao be held accountable and take him out of this matter, but deliberately left a handle to be criticized in the future!
As the saying goes, with a sharp weapon in your body, you will kill yourself.

Sima Yi, who supervised more than [-] cavalry, was born with a self-dangerous mentality of being suspected, and in order to save himself, he inevitably made some changes in the decision-making of the war.

In other words, he was forced to make a desperate decision.

Yes, forced to be helpless.

It has been nearly ten years since he served as the governor of Yongliang against Nishu, and the doubts about him from the ruling and opposition parties of Wei State have not stopped for a day.

Originally, he thought that Emperor Cao Rui understood him, could understand that the victory and defeat between the Han and Wei dynasties were not simply due to human conspiracy, and could understand his painstaking efforts to maintain the Yongliang front.

Gain Cao Rui was questioned by the government and the opposition just like him, and he was in the same situation as him.

However, now, he suddenly discovered that this trust was gone.

Or it can be said that the Son of Heaven is a person who is said to be lonely and widowed, and he is jealous of the courtiers who hold important powers. This is due to the normal emperor's mentality, which is not surprising.

But Sima Yi still has a feeling of being abandoned and hopeless.

Because anyone in Wei State can question him, criticize him, slander him, accuse him or even insult him.
However, only the emperor Cao Rui can't!
People at that time didn't know the hardships he had endured since he supervised the battle of Yongliang, didn't Cao Rui know?

Others don't know that after the defeat of Cao Zhen, who had all the advantages, the offense and defense of the Han and Wei Dynasties have been reversed. Since he took over, he can only passively defend to clean up the mess. Can Cao Rui not know?
In order to resist the sweeping force of Ni Shu, he couldn't sleep at night and couldn't eat!
The body has changed from the strong and strong body that could gallop thousands of miles to raid Liaodong in the past, to today's frequent minor illnesses, occasional serious illnesses, haggard appearance, and sunset!

The results of it?
Dedicated to his duties and conscientiously abide by the way of courtiers, in exchange for the king's suspicion.

He really couldn't let go of this.

Although he could vaguely guess that Cao Rui deliberately neglected to pursue the responsibility of his second son Sima Zhao.

He is nothing more than to prepare for the worst.

However, for the decisive battle in Guanzhong, Cao Rui had already prepared for the worst.

If he wins, if he drives Nishu out of Guanzhong, under such a great victory that can inspire Wei, he will completely cover up the trivial matter of Sima Zhao and Li Jian's bondage, and there will be no doubts in the court and the opposition. No one dares to mention it.

But if you lose.
This little thing will become an ant nest that breaks the dike.

When some interested people are the first to mention Xia, the princes of Gungun will start to follow the vines and settle accounts after autumn. They will count all the dispatches since he became the governor of Yongliang, and then hold all the crimes of Wei Guo's loss of soldiers and land and so on. A person's body, nailing him to the pillar of shame in the history books!

In this way, the guilt will not be involved in the emperor Cao Rui.

If there is, it will also turn into one: it's just that people are unknown and improperly employed.

And this doubt can be resolved.

He is the auxiliary minister selected by Emperor Wen Cao Pi. Cao Rui just obeyed the last emperor's will and granted authority. How could he have expected that he would be a disaster for the country and the people?

Yes, the emperor Cao Rui, who has also been questioned constantly in recent years, has made a plan to abandon his car to protect his commander-in-chief in order to maintain his prestige and not fall into the crisis of unstable throne after the defeat.

Treat him as an abandoned "car".

Although, as the governor of Yongliang, he already had this awareness in his heart.

But Cao Rui's plan for a rainy day still makes him feel chilling.

The same ending, if he accepts it willingly, it is a kind of tragedy of eating the king's salary; but being forcibly crowned by others is a kind of betrayal.

Therefore, he had the idea of ​​self-help.

Not only for his own reputation, but also for the small clan behind him.