Sima Yi's Three Kingdoms Collection Collection

Chapter 128 Sima Yi's Secret Alliance with Sun Liu (6)
Sima Yi thought about it, talking in secret in the cabin of the wooden boat, it is really a wonderful way to keep secret without touching the sky, without touching the ground, and it is really very safe.He and Lu Su looked at each other and smiled, and both nodded in agreement.Immediately, Sima Zhi and Niu Heng stayed on the shore knowingly and said: "We are here to watch the wind."

Liu Nuo and Niu Jin each put on boatman's attire and stood at the bow and stern of the boat, creaking and shaking the water oar, and saw that the light boat was flowing quietly like a cloud. Under the gentle care of her, she slowly broke through the silver glow all over the lake, and swayed towards the thickest part of the moonlight.

When Sima Yi sat down in the cabin, Zhuge Liang straightened his waist on the couch opposite him, with a solemn face, and said straight to the point: "Mr. Sima, Liang has heard of your righteous deeds of the loyal Han Dynasty. Back then, Cao Cao sent three times The special envoy brought you a lot of money and generous gifts to Hanoi County to conscript you into the mansion, and you have always been able to keep your integrity and stand on your own feet. This kind of solemn style and pine and cypress style really make Liang admire it!"

When he said this, the subject changed, and a look of sadness appeared on his face: "Nowadays, the Han Dynasty is at a time when rebels are rampant and righteous men are in turmoil. Here, Liang earnestly hopes that Mr. Sima can help us to keep our great Han luck." The last chance!"

When Sima Yi heard this, his face changed in a hurry, and he quickly got up and left his seat. Jishou replied in surprise, "How can Yi live up to Zhuge Jun's words? Yi is humble and weak, and I can't do it—please Zhuge Jun take back this statement." .”

Zhuge Liang took a deep look at him, slowly bent down, touched his head to the ground on the seat, and spoke every word sonorously and forcefully: "The deeds of the great man's restoration are as important as Mount Tai, how can we allow loyal ministers and righteous men to give in to them with grace and courtesy?" Is it because of Xu Yi? It seems that this is because Liang's sincerity cannot be touched by Sima Jun, and Liang is willing to cut off his fingers and shed blood to show his ambition!"

After finishing speaking, he stretched out his right hand to touch the scabbard at his waist.

"No! No!" How could Sima Yi expect Zhuge Liang, a well-mannered scholar with a jade face, to have such a heroic and heroic spirit? When he saw it, he couldn't help shouting, and rushed to the side with Lu Su who was sitting beside him. On the next day, Zhuge Liang quickly persuaded Zhuge Liang to act fiercely.

Seeing Zhuge Liang's face full of righteous indignation and generosity, Sima Yi's eyes turned hot, and he sat up straight and said slowly: "Now is the time when the Han Dynasty is in danger, loyal ministers obey their orders, and people with lofty ideals sacrifice their lives. How dare Yi show grace and courteousness?" Does the emptiness respond to Mr. Zhuge? Mr. Zhuge’s loyalty, loneliness and indignation, Yi has already felt the same! Yi has something here, which has been hidden in him for a long time since the first year of Jian’an, and he is always clear. Sit quietly and watch and think about it, so as to remind yourself not to forget the great righteousness of being loyal to the Han family, keeping integrity and living a life! Zhuge Jun and Lu Jun, please see—”

As he spoke, he slowly took out a bulging brocade pouch from between the skirts of his clothes, held it on his right palm very respectfully, and then gently opened it with his left hand.It turns out that in this kit, there is actually a round pottery palace tile, on which a Yinglong with flying beard and tail and wings spread high is carved in the middle, dancing around a red sun, with four corners engraved respectively. There are four small characters "Chang", "Le", "Wei" and "Yang". What is particularly peculiar is that the paint color of this tile is actually one piece of red and one piece of yellow.

This made Zhuge Liang and Lu Su feel a little strange.The paint color of this tile is so special, why is it mixed with red and yellow?According to common sense, the lacquer color of the Han palace tiles should be red all over, and it will never be as nondescript as this tile.Both of them, who are familiar with historical records, know that the Qin Dynasty advocated the virtue of water, so its clothing and flags were all black, and the inscriptions on the steles were also four-character inscriptions, all of which were consistent with the number of virtues of water; Because of the "water-hating" revolution, his clothes and banners are all red, and Yuefu's poems are all broken by five characters, which is also consistent with the number of fire virtues.But this tile was painted with a layer of yellow paint on top of the red paint inside, and the yellow paint has peeled off almost half of it due to the passage of time, so it looks red and yellow, which is very strange.Could it be a piece of fake palace tile?
Sima Yi seemed to have seen the doubts in Zhuge Liang and Lu Su's eyes, still holding the tile with both hands, with a solemn expression on his face, he introduced to them: "Brothers, this is the filial piety of the big man back then. A piece of palace tile in the Weiyang Palace of Chang’an during the reign of the Second Emperor Xiaoping... Its primer was originally red. Later, the treacherous Confucian Wang Mang usurped the Han Dynasty, claiming that he hated the fire virtue of the Han Dynasty with the soil virtue, but when he proclaimed himself emperor, he became emperor. There was no time to replace the palace tiles in a hurry, so "all the palace tiles were painted with yellow paint". Unexpectedly, his act against the heavens drew the attention of God, and overnight, the storm, thunder and lightning fell, and the palace tiles were almost completely destroyed. At that time, an ancestor of our Sima family named Sima Liang was serving as the servant of the Huangmen. He saw a warning from heaven, so he collected this tile, thinking that it would be a token of heaven's blessing, and he abandoned his official position and went back to seclusion. Over the years, this piece of tile has been regarded as a family heirloom by the Sima family in Hanoi, and has been passed down to Yi's hands from generation to generation..."

Hearing this, both Zhuge Liang and Lu Su understood what he meant by taking out this tile, and their faces were deeply touched.Zhuge Liang was even more moved and said: "Sima Jun's family has been loyal and good from generation to generation, and has passed on rites for a long time. It is worthy of being a famous family, and Zhong Da is even more lonely and loyal..."

Sima Yi nodded in agreement, held up the Weiyang Palace tile with both hands, and solemnly presented it in front of Zhuge Liang: "Uncle Liu Huang and Lord Zhuge are both the mainstay of the Han Dynasty, the loyal and pure ministers of the world, hereby Yi is willing to use this tile to respect each other." As a gift, I also wish Uncle Liu Huang and Zhuge Jun an early recovery of Xudu, recovery of the Han industry, and restoration of peace!"

Zhuge Liang took Nawadang respectfully with both hands.He stared at it, and slowly stroked the dragon-shaped decorations on the tile surface with his hands. For a moment, his heart surged, and he slowly chanted: "The yellow paint is hard to stain the red tiles, and evil intentions will not end." .The wiper cloud collects the sunrise, and return my Yan Han's true colors!"

Every word and every sentence of his reciting voice was so powerful that Sima Yi couldn't help saying: "This poem is well written! It's well recited! It will definitely become the eternal swan song of my great Han revival! ——Zhuge Jun, that day in Changbanpo On the road, Yi has already seen all kinds of clever tactics of you and Liu Huangshu in strategizing, commanding well, and winning by surprise, the invincible bravery of Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun, the tenacious struggle of thousands of volunteers, and the ingenuity of setting up the smoke screen...all of this Everything you have given Yi has absolute confidence in your future restoration of the Han Dynasty. Yi will definitely stand at the Suzaku Gate in Xudu and sincerely welcome your benevolent and righteous teachers to drive in."

Sun Liuyi alliance, why fear Cao Cao?

Hearing Sima Yi's praise of Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang, Lu Su couldn't help but have an unnatural wave on his face.He thought to himself: You Sima Yi, why do you put a high hat on Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang as soon as you come up?He didn't even mention it to me, the Jiangdong Sun family!They are really as powerful as you said, they can drive away Cao Cao's 30 troops by themselves!And why bother to go to Chaisang City with Lu Mou to rescue soldiers... So, he said with a somewhat stinging smile: "Yes! In the battle of Changbanpo, Uncle Liu Huang and Kong Ming were surrounded by heavy siege. Retirement is truly commendable. However, it is a pity that the thief Cao finally turned his horse and captured Jiangling City... He still won after all..."

When Sima Yi heard the words, his eyes flashed, and he looked straight at him: "Oh? Lord Lu thinks that Cao Cao can be regarded as a sure winner now that he has captured the Jingxiang River North and the Jiangling vital point? To be honest, according to Yi Yi's opinion , Today’s situation is precisely the beginning of Cao Cao’s Southern Expedition going to failure!”

"Sima Jun, how do you say that?" Lu Su's smile faded away, and he pressed on quickly.

Zhuge Liang put away the tile bag at the side, picked up the goose feather fan and shook it gently in his hand, silently observing how Sima Yi would answer at this moment.

Sima Yi straightened his clothes, sat upright on the seat, and said slowly, "Both brothers are rare strategists in the world, and they will know in their hearts that Cao Cao will be able to capture Lu Bu before the beginning of this year. Pi, exterminating Yuan Shu in Huainan, destroying Yuan Shao in Guandu, breaking Wuhuan in Bailang, conquering the east and west in the west, all relying on the two strategies he held in his hands-one is to coerce the emperor to order the princes, and the other is to borrow The emperor wins the hearts of the people! However, just after he brazenly beheaded Dr. Kong Rong, the backbone of the Han Dynasty this year, his true colors of "using the name of the prime minister of the Han, but in fact a traitor of the Han" have been fully exposed. The two strategies of commanding the princes and using the emperor to win the hearts of the people have collapsed! He no longer has the political advantage that he used to "respect the Han and calm the chaos" in the name of "respecting the Han and calming the chaos" when he swept the Central Plains..."

Hearing this, Lu Su couldn't help but secretly nodded even though he was picky.What Sima Yi said was right.After Cao Cao killed Kong Rong, the bad influence on the image of "Duke Zhou of the Han Dynasty" that he had always deliberately established was too serious.Leaving aside the various criticisms from scholars all over the world, Sun Shao, the prefect of Wu County in the east of the Yangtze River and Sun Quan's capable general, was originally a meritorious service created by Kong Rong when he was the Prime Minister of Beihai. After being slaughtered like this, he put on armor and helmet every day, crying and asking Sun Quan's Daxing Yishi to go north to challenge Cao.Although Sun Quan would not listen to his angry words, it at least proved that Cao Cao's killing of Kong Rong had indeed caused strong resentment in the minds of scholars all over the world.It seems that Sima Yi's insight into the state of the world and people's hearts is indeed somewhat extraordinary.Thinking of this, he hurriedly withdrew his thoughts and listened intently.At this time, I only heard Sima Yi say again:
"...Therefore, when he came to the south this time, he had nothing to be afraid of except relying on the strength of his soldiers and horses to win the victory over the few. Uncle Liu Huang and Zhuge Jun wanted to recover the Han industry and punish them. The traitor is his own responsibility, his faith is everywhere, and his integrity is established in the world. Compared with him, he has the upper hand in politics. As far as Yi knows, all the famous Han families in the Central Plains, high scholars and great sages actually look forward to Uncle Liu and Zhuge You can extinguish Cao Cao's fierce flames in one fell swoop, lest he return to Xudu to abolish Han and stand on his own by relying on the victory of the Southern Expedition. Both Lu Jun and Zhuge Jun should be able to see this. Didn’t Xun Lingjun have been sick and stopped serving Cao Cao in the government? Even General Ma Teng, the hero of the knights, stayed in Xudu, and did not come south with Cao Cao... Cao Cao today looks beautiful on the outside Unlimited, but in fact, in the court of Xudu, it can be said to be extremely helpless!"

Zhuge Liang's expression at the moment seemed as calm as a deep lake, with a faint smile on his face all the time, listening to every word of Sima Yi very carefully.Only Lu Su heard that Sima Yi was praising and praising Liu Bei and the others again, and he became a little impatient again: "Sima Jun, your analysis is certainly not unreasonable, but it is too far away from the current reality! Please don't evade this question, why do you conclude that the Battle of Changbanpo was the beginning of Cao Cao's Southern Expedition going to failure?"

(End of this chapter)