Chapter 337 Eight Years of Struggle and Consummation
Chapter 337 After eight years of struggle, he finally achieved success
When Zhuge Liang split the two palaces, Li Yan had plans to come back.
When Zhuge Liang withdrew from the court due to health reasons and Ma Su took over the power and repeatedly denied Li Yan's comeback plan, Li Yan decided to take action.
Although Li Yan relied on his own connections to manipulate people including Qiao Zhou, Fei Yi, Yang Yi, and Wang Ping to form a covert alliance of frustrated people, and managed to accomplish the assassination of Ma Su, he still risked huge risks.
risk.
Ma Di is not a kind person, and as a general with military power, it is impossible for him not to attach great importance to "his own safety." Once the assassination operation fails due to uncontrollable factors, not only Li Yan's carefully planned layout will fall short, but also
He will inevitably face all-round revenge from Ma Su.
In order to avoid falling into this situation after a failed assassination, and to avoid being caught all at once, Li Yan had no choice but to set up a few more joints, hide behind the scenes, and control the progress of the entire incident.
In this way, once things fail, he only needs to make a move at a certain link, and then accurately grasp the direction of public opinion in the court, and he will be in an invincible position.
Therefore, after the assassination failed and Fei Yi and Yang Yi were unreasonably exiled by Ma Su, he immediately launched Plan B, instructing Qiao Zhou to poison Fei Yi's family and then frame Xiahou Ba.
Why frame Xiahou Ba instead of directly framing Ma Su?
Because directly framing Ma Su would appear to be a very low-level approach, while framing Xiahou Ba would seem more reasonable - Xiahou Ba had a close relationship with Ma Su and held an important position. Once the poisoning of Fei Yi's family spread, everyone would think
Xiahou Ba's move was prompted by Ma Di.
This was a relatively clever plan to kill two birds with one stone. It not only made it difficult for Ma Su to defend himself, but also confirmed his brutal image of "doing whatever it takes to eliminate dissidents", and also made Xiahou Ba suffer a stigma.
As long as this matter is confirmed, the next thing will be simple. Just incite the officials and let them write a letter to impeach Ma Su.
In the whole process, Li Yan's only miscalculation was that "Qiao Zhou was poisoned on the front foot, and Ma Su bumped into the back foot." He didn't know how Ma Su suddenly went to Beicheng and met Fei Yi's family so coincidentally.
——This is the full picture of Li Yanjing's conspiracy as deduced by Ma Di.
Looking at Li Yan's calm expression after his indignation, Ma Su felt a chill in his heart despite his anger. Behind this guy's calm face, there was such a cruel heart. Thanks to Zhuge Liang and him for not treating Li Yan like
He looked down upon his son because of his criminal record, and raised Li Feng as an important minister. Unexpectedly, all these favors became a breeding ground for Li Yan's ambition.
However, if Li Yan's comeback proposal was simply rejected, Li Yan would not have bothered to put so much thought into assassinating him while Zhuge Liang was still alive. Assassinating him would only allow Zhuge Liang to return to court.
Ma Di really couldn't figure this out. He looked at Li Yan and asked, "Even if you kill me, how can you come to power if the prime minister is still here?"
Qu Shang rushed to answer the question and said to Ma Su: "General, is it possible that he thought the prime minister was about to die..."
"..."
"In fact, it was well known to everyone that the Prime Minister was in poor health at that time. The imperial doctor once declared that the Prime Minister would not live for three months, but something happened later..."
Something happened, and Zhuge Liang used a life extension method to extend his life for twelve years.
It is probably for this reason that Li Yan was so desperate. When he saw me coming to settle accounts with him, he didn't even make excuses. Ma Di nodded, shook his hand, inserted his sword on the ground in front of Li Yan, and said coldly.
said:
"Master Li, you are a decent person, you should know what to do, right?"
"I know." Li Yan nodded lonely, looking straight at the shining sword in front of him, like a sculpture.
Ma Su turned to Xiang Lang and cupped his hands, walked out, and told Qu Shang who was following him, "If he doesn't have dignity..."
Qu Shang understood, "Then my subordinate, please help him look decent!"
Ma Su hummed and walked away.
Qu Shang stayed with a dozen guards.
Outside the pavilion of Li Mansion.
Xiang Lang was still trying to persuade Li Yan: "Zhengfang, how about I show off my old face and go to the Prime Minister to beg you for mercy..."
"No need, Juda." Li Yan shook his head, moved his lips, and stopped talking.
But Xiang Lang knew what he wanted to say later. When he and Zhuge Liang were both ministers of Tuogu and established the court together, Li Yan was so high-spirited and arrogant. He was intoxicated by other people's complimentary words and envious eyes and couldn't help it.
Self-extrication. Suddenly reduced to a common man, suffering from the warmth and coldness of human feelings, he was able to examine the direction of the entire matter from a more objective perspective.
At this point in the development of the matter, no one can save him, and Zhuge Liang will not save him.
No one would forgive a murderer who planned to assassinate himself.
Before his death, Li Yan's only worry was that his son Li Feng would be implicated.
"Juda, I..." Li Yan pulled out the sword on the ground and looked at Xiang Lang for help.
Xiang Lang waved his hands repeatedly, "Zhengfang, I'm sorry that I can't do anything about your son's matter. Farewell, farewell..."
With that said, he picked up his crutches and hurried away with the help of his servants.
Li Yan stood there, motionless for a long time.
Qu Shang, who was waiting in the distance, made an "angry bird" expression, growing increasingly impatient.
"Old guy, are you going to die or not?"
"If you don't die, I will give you a ride!"
"Just die, just die..." Li Yan hurriedly said in a low voice. He couldn't help but be so humble. His little one's life was still in someone else's hands.
"Hurry up! Don't dawdle!"
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On the way back to the General's Mansion, Ma Su's heart was filled with a mixture of joy, anger, confusion, and disappointment. He was happy with Li Yan's execution, angry at the intrigues in the court, and disappointed that the mastermind behind the scenes was not Sima.
division.
He raised the knife in his hand, waiting to catch Sima Shi with the exact evidence of his crime. Then after using Sima Yi, he could easily take over the Sima family.
As a result, the assassination case had many twists and turns, but the final result was planned by Li Yan. This made Ma Su shocked and speechless at the same time.
But this also reminded him that compared to the thorns on the surface, the Alliance of Frustrated People hiding in the dark should not be underestimated. If you are not careful, they will give you a hard blow.
As soon as he returned to the General's Mansion, Ma Di spread out his pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and began to count the officials who had held important positions in Wei, Shu, and Wu.
, processed in batches.
Those who should be dismissed will be sent back to their place of origin, those who should be transferred will be transferred to other places, those who should have their homes searched, and those who should be promoted will be promoted.
In short, those dissatisfied officials with high energy and wide connections are all being liquidated.
For a time, the officers and soldiers in the Chang'an Mansion were furious, coming and going in a hurry, startling many dignitaries. Every dignitary who was expelled and dismissed cursed Li Yan. If Li Yan hadn't been behind the scenes, how could they have suffered such an unreasonable disaster?
After Ma Su had cleaned up the entire Chang'an, he looked up and saw that it was already the end of the 14th year of Jianxing, and the system prompts that it had arrived as scheduled.
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