"Shu people bully others too much!"
"Shu people bully others too much!"
As soon as Fei Yi left the main hall, he heard roaring in the main hall. This was Cui Lin's voice.
"Urgent Sikong!" Wei Zhen said with a sullen expression: "Your Excellency...have you ever thought about His Majesty's safety?"
Faced with Wei Zhen's question, Cui Lin did not answer immediately.
In fact, Cui Lin is already riding a tiger and it is difficult to get off.
From the beginning, he proposed to establish a new king. Thinking that the emperor was captured by the Han army, it must be a disaster.
In this case, it would be better to make Cao Rui's eldest son Cao Fang the emperor.
By then, the Wei Dynasty had a new emperor, and Cao Rui in the hands of the Han army had lost its due value.
But——
To his surprise, what he thought was the best choice was not recognized by all courtiers. For example, Situ Weizhen and others put forward opposite opinions.
They want to rescue the emperor.
This——
This is no longer a simple difference in political opinions, because once this opinion is raised, it can only be fought to the end, otherwise it will be doomed.
Cui Lin is very passive now.
I originally thought that even if people like Wei Zhen wanted to negotiate with the Shu people, the Shu people would not necessarily release Cao Rui easily, so his proposal was still very likely to be implemented.
Moreover, he must now firmly support this proposal.
The reason is simple.
The emperor was captured. As an important minister of the Wei Dynasty, he did not want to rescue the emperor.
But I thought of using the simplest way to directly change to a new emperor.
If...if Emperor Cao Rui really comes back...then how should he deal with himself?
Now Cui Lin is most worried about this matter,
Because Shu Han has sent envoys to Luoyang,
Discuss the release of Cao Rui.
This is not a good thing.
Since Shu Han is willing to talk,
In other words, they are ready to release Cao Rui.
Cui Lin feels scared now.
No way——
Negotiations must not be allowed to succeed.
That's why Cui Lin kept blocking the negotiations in order to anger the Han envoy Fei Yi.
This made the Han Dynasty angry and killed Cao Rui. In this way, the Wei State could only establish a new king, and he could maintain the status of the Cui family.
Of course, Wei Zhen can also see it.
"Urge Sikong!" Wei Zhen said: "If His Majesty really can't come back,
We naturally support your proposal and choose a new king..." After saying that, Wei Zhen paused and then said: "But this is also a last resort,
A choice that will be made..."
Wei Zhen just finished speaking,
Cui Lin said: "Wei Situ, haven't you heard it yet? The people of Shu don't really want to release your majesty at all.
They want to use His Majesty,
Use this to blackmail me, the great Wei Dynasty,
Then we will continue to encroach on our Wei territory."
"Eight counties!"
"That's eight counties!"
The more Cui Lin talked, the more excited he became: "If we agree to this request of the Shu people, we will lose half of the Wei Dynasty.
How can we resist the Shu army if we are all doing this? Even His Majesty will not agree."
There is some truth to this.
After all, Fei Yi proposed that Cao Wei needed the land of eight counties.
There are still five hundred carts of fine iron before the big man can release Cao Rui.
Where are these eight counties?
If you agree to this request,
The Wei Dynasty directly lost the Taihang Mountains and Yanshan and other counties along the route, and the Wei Dynasty followed.
You will face crises everywhere,
There is no danger to defend.
When Wei Zhen heard this, he also sighed deeply.
Then he said: "The public's worries,
How could we not know? But His Majesty is in the hands of the Han army now.
We..."
Cui Lin can only grasp this key point now,
Rejecting the Han's proposal on this ground, he continued: "We, the Wei Dynasty, must not compromise now, because the more we compromise, the Shu people will think that we, the Wei Dynasty, have no one, and they may want to take the land of the eight counties, and then they will It’s not impossible to have Youzhou or Jizhou.”
Looking at a group of ministers, still arguing.
Cao Fang frowned. He actually didn't know what to do.
"Everyone!" Wei Zhen looked at the ministers in the hall and finally said: "This matter needs to be discussed in the long term. Since the Han Dynasty has sent envoys to discuss the release of the emperor,
Zhen thinks that the emperor should be safe for the time being... This also gives me, the Wei Dynasty, some time to deal with it."
"I don't need to continue arguing..." He said,
Wei Zhen said in a questioning tone: "We might as well send someone to Hedong.
Ask the general what he thinks."
"What do you think?"
If we continue to argue here, it will naturally be difficult to come up with a conclusion.
It would be better to ask General Sima Yi what he meant.
After all, Sima Yi is now the great general of the Wei Dynasty, and now he has a large number of soldiers and horses in his hands.
"Situ's words are very kind!" A middle-aged official immediately agreed.
Wei Zhen raised his eyes and looked at Cui Lin. Now he needs Cui Lin's support. At least he cannot let Cui Lin continue to compete here, otherwise this matter will be really difficult to handle.
"I agree!" Cui Lin nodded slightly.
Although Cui Lin is worried that if Cao Rui comes back, because he proposes to change the monarch, the Cui family will most likely be destroyed.
But he can't be too obviously opposed to rescuing the emperor.
......
Two days later
Wei Jun camp in Shaanxi County.
Sima Yi frowned. Naturally, he already knew about the emperor's capture, and he also knew about the envoys of the Han Dynasty arriving in Luoyang.
"General!"
Yang Fu asked: "Now the Han Dynasty proposes to use the land of eight counties to release the emperor;" Yang Fu seemed to be troubled: "Now the court and the central government are arguing about this, and I would like to ask the general to come up with an idea."
Yang Fu came to ask Sima Yi on behalf of Situ Weizhen.
Currently in the Wei Dynasty,
Sima Yi’s status,
But the position is high and powerful,
He also won the trust of Emperor Cao Rui and was also a general in charge of the army.
Naturally, the ministers would not easily oppose Sima Yi's decision.
However, when faced with Yang Fu's inquiry, Sima Yi did not answer immediately.
He is thinking——
In fact, as early as last night, someone from Luoyang had come to ask him about rescuing the emperor, but they were people sent by Sikong Cuilin.
Cui Lin's meaning is also very simple. He just wants to ask Sima Yi, now that the Shu Han has made such harsh demands, if he agrees, will the Shu Han really be willing to release the emperor?
Will the Shu people...will they continue to threaten Cao Rui and eventually cannibalize the entire Wei Dynasty?
This——
It's not impossible.
After all, Cao Rui is now in the hands of the Han army.
If we agree to their current request, after the Wei withdraws its troops from these eight counties, the Han army will not release Cao Rui, but will continue to use Cao Rui as a threat and continue to ask the Wei to make various excessive demands.
Even the Wei Dynasty had nothing to do with Shu Han.
Sima Yi felt that Cui Lin's worries were not unreasonable.
But——
Sima Yi would never be like Cui Lin, who would immediately make an idea known to the public and then put himself in a dilemma.
In fact, of course Sima Yi hoped to rescue the emperor, because in addition to the emperor being captured by the Han army, his eldest son Sima Shi also became a prisoner of the Han army.
"General!"
"General!"
Seeing that Sima Yi was deep in thought, Yang Fu asked anxiously: "General, please make a decision quickly...otherwise...I, the great Wei..."
Yang Fu hesitated to speak. He wanted to say that otherwise the Wei Dynasty might fall apart.
Because now there are two different voices in the court.
Some people support rescuing the emperor.
Some people support choosing a new leader.
This——
If it is delayed for a long time, it will not be a good thing for Wei.
"Well..." Sima Yi nodded slightly and said, "Don't worry, young master. Yi... has a plan to deal with it."
"Is this true?" Yang Fu asked happily.
"Seriously!" Sima Yi said with certainty.
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This chapter has been completed!