Let's talk about Cao Cao losing the two important towns of Yecheng and Handan one after another, and he also learned the news that the Western Dynasty had defeated the Shu Dynasty. For a moment, people's hearts were floating, thinking that the Western Dynasty had won one after another, and its national power had completely overwhelmed the Eastern Dynasty, and then clashed head-on with it.
, I am afraid there is no chance of winning. However, the generals of the Eastern Dynasty are not willing to surrender. The two armies have been fighting each other for more than ten years. They have already accumulated blood debts and there is no possibility of reconciliation. At this point, the forces that have been rampant in Heluo since the Yanxing seven years have
Hebei Caoyuan Group was on the road of making a decision about where to go.
According to Shangshu Ling Xun Yu's will, this situation had actually been predicted for a long time. After all, the Eastern Army suffered heavy losses in the Battle of Pingcheng and all its elites had been lost over the years. It was also foreseeable that the Western Dynasty would take advantage of the victory and expand. Therefore, he hoped
Cao Cao "secured the west and expanded to the east, united with Wu to occupy Yan, and waited for the opportunity." Cao Cao also did the same. He built forts in Hebei and defended them step by step. Then he moved people to Liaodong on a large scale and ordered Xiahou Yuan to do it several times.
He conquered Goguryeo, Fuyu and other countries, and made plans to wait for change. However, the deterioration of the situation far exceeded his expectations, and Cao Cao had to put the matter of moving the capital on the agenda.
After all, Xinyang, the capital of the Eastern Dynasty, has actually become the front line of the battlefield. Once it falls, the negative impact on the Eastern Dynasty will be immeasurable. It would be better to move it to Xiangping, Liaodong, so that Yanshan, Liaoze, and Bohai will be the main battlefield.
The screen protection is bound to be worry-free, and it will also help Cao Cao stabilize Pingzhou's rule.
Cao Cao planned to consult those close to him about this idea, and gradually the courtiers heard about it. Unexpectedly, Marshal Shi Tianfeng, Shangshu Mao Jie, Shaofu Juhu, Imperial Servant Wang Can and others all came to advise him.
Tian Feng said: "The country was defeated one after another, and the king's power was almost exhausted, and the people were moved to the bitter and cold places outside the Great Wall. It was the moment when people's hearts were unstable. If the marshal wanted to move the capital, he could just go to Yijing like Gongsun Zan. If he went to Liaodong, he would go to Liaodong.
It will definitely make the people of Hebei panic. Where will Qingxu County be located? This will definitely lead to great chaos! In the future, the counties and counties will turn to the west like clouds, and I will regret it!"
Wang Can also advised: "The marshal doesn't want to go to Yijing, but he can also establish his capital in Ji County. Xiangping is too far away. You must know that once the soldiers and Gu family are far away, they will lose their souls!"
How could Cao Cao not know that they were worried, but he also had his own considerations: what he called moving the capital was just moving the imperial court to Xiangping, and the tyrant he built still stayed in Hebei to assess the situation, and there was not much damage, while the emperor of the DPRK
Liu He is deeply dissatisfied with himself. Once it breaks out during a war, it may lead to the overthrow of the whole situation, so he must be in a safe place.
However, Tian Feng and others were in a dangerous position in the Eastern Dynasty, and Cao Cao could not ignore it, so he ordered the ministers to discuss the matter in court. He had greeted most of them in private, so during the court discussion, most people agreed with Cao Cao.
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Tian Chou, the prefect of Guangyang, was dissatisfied. He said: "Since ancient times, it has never been heard of anyone who can save the territory from the emperor by escaping outside the fortress. Even Lu Wan and Lu Fang were lucky enough to survive [1].
We have the Xiongnu to rely on, but now Xianbei has surrendered to the Western bandits, how can we make sense? Marshal please don't listen to these deceptive words, and fight to the death with the Western bandits under the capital city of Xindu!" What he said was truly unreasonable.
Heavy, there is a hint of comparing Cao Cao to a traitor and Liu Bei to an orthodox person. Cao Cao's face froze when he heard this.
Someone saw Cao Cao's dissatisfied look and immediately said: "Tian Chou is from Youyan. I'm afraid he can't bear to leave his family behind and doesn't want to take care of the overall situation!"
Tian Chou became angry and immediately sneered at the man: "If I don't care about the overall situation, could it be that I am abandoning the people of the counties in Hebei and that is the overall situation for you?"
When everyone heard this, they burst into laughter. Cao Cao also laughed and said: "Since it is a court discussion, it doesn't matter if you just say it."
Seeing that he could not make a decision, Cao Cao invited his internal and external ministers and generals to hold a meeting in the back hall. There were about five hundred people in attendance.
Cao Cao said to everyone: "Today we need to make a big plan. Please express your opinions, but you must make sure your words are reasonable."
In fact, everyone knew what Cao Cao was thinking, but in this situation, the opponent was Tian Fangchou, who had a high reputation in Hebei. It was not easy for anyone to be the first to come forward, so they just watched each other and did not dare to speak out.
Seeing this, Cao Cao frowned and simply said: "There are so many people that I can't ask them one by one. Otherwise, those who don't want to go to Xiangping will be left behind."
So Tian Chou, Tian Feng, Wang Can and others all rolled up their left sleeves. The chamberlain made a rough calculation and found that about one-third of the people were left-leaning. Then everyone breathed a sigh of relief, knowing that the overall situation had been decided.
Although the opponents were unwilling, they put down their sleeves and reluctantly followed Cao Cao's decision.
However, seeing that there were still so many opponents, Cao Cao still felt vaguely uneasy, so he sent an envoy to guard the door of the mansion in advance, waiting for the meeting to dissolve, so that he could observe the attitude of the officials and subordinates and what they said, while he himself was in the hall.
Sit back and wait.
About half an hour later, everyone in the mansion had dispersed, and Cao Cao called an envoy to ask: "Tian Feng, what is Tian Chou's statement?"
The messenger replied: "Although the two princes frowned, they did not speak to the others. They just sighed."
Cao Cao asked again: "What about Mao Jie and Ju Hu?"
The envoy said: "The two of them looked sad, but Sima Zhongda was comforting them, and they talked as usual, and there was nothing unusual."
After hearing this, Cao Cao thought to himself that these people were still scholars after all, and they knew they had to take care of everyone, so he felt relieved. Just as he waved his hand for the envoy to go down, he noticed that the envoy was hesitant and seemed to have something to say, so he asked:
"Is there something else that can't happen? It doesn't matter if you just say it."
The messenger thought about it for a long time and finally said: "Although there is nothing unusual about those people, Da Sima Qu complained loudly when he came out, saying that the matter was decided by the marshal, but he pretended to let the big family discuss it. It was really unnecessary."<
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When he said this, he raised his eyes and glanced at Cao Cao, and found that the marshal's face was as dense as a cloud, and he could not tell the depth at all, and continued: "Then Grand Sima Hou said that the court has become like this because it is really incompetent. The marshal
Use troops to defend the capital. If he comes to the capital, he will fight to the death with the Western thieves to ensure that the Western thieves never come back."
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Cao Cao was silent for a moment and asked, "How did the people around me react?"
The messenger replied: "Most of the people around smiled and passed by. One of the waiters said to the side that Da Sima was complaining again, but there were also many people talking about it and they dispersed quickly."
After saying that, the envoy bowed down and hurriedly left the room, leaving Cao Cao alone in the room to meditate. Cao Cao held his forehead for a moment, then sent someone to summon Jiang Ji, the capital commander, and said to him: "Qu Yi is capricious. Previously, he
He rebelled against Ben Chu and defected to the Western bandits. Later, he was dissatisfied with Liu Bei because of his fame and fortune, and then returned to me. I thought he had received a lesson from this and should restrain himself, but unexpectedly he was so domineering, living under the fence of others, and dared to confuse the public with his arrogant words! Don't kill him!
How can the country be safe with this man?" As he spoke, it was clear that he wanted Jiang Jiluo to accuse him and have Qu Yi arrested and imprisoned.
How could Jiang Ji not know what Cao Cao was thinking, but he showed hesitation and said slowly: "Marshal, Grand Sima Qu usually behaves inappropriately and makes many random remarks. It is indeed not difficult to arrest him and imprison him for speech crimes."
.However, Da Sima Qu was originally a traitor in the Western Dynasty, and he was on the same level as Liu Bei. He would never surrender to the Western rebels. Everyone in the court regarded him as the vanguard to attack the thieves. If the marshal captured and killed him, he would probably hurt the marshal's hope of dominating the government.
Ah!"
After hearing this, Cao Cao felt it was reasonable. He hesitated for a while, so he planned to wait and see for a while. While moving the capital, he sent people to ambush around Quyi's mansion and monitor it day and night to decide whether Quyi should stay or go.
Unexpectedly, within two days, Cao Cao received another reward. It turned out that Qu Yi was drinking with his entourage at home, boasting that he was invincible in the military. Cao Cao and Chen Chong were just ordinary people. If the emperor of the Eastern Dynasty regarded him as his commander, he would definitely be able to mix it up.
East and West, the great cause of rejuvenation. It is also said that the marshal suffers from head wind and is now fifty-seven. His body is not as strong as his. In the future, the marshal will be able to be the pillar of the country in a hundred years, who else will he be?
After reading this, Cao Cao was furious. He immediately summoned Jiang Ji and said, "The country's advisers are like clouds, and its powerful generals are like rain. Without him, we can't fight. He is still greedy for the power of the country. If we don't kill these thieves, how can we inspire the morale of the army?" Jiang Ji was also shocked when he saw the letter. He knew that Qu Yi was seeking death and could not be pulled back no matter how hard he tried. He did not dare to refuse to Cao Cao anymore and immediately led his troops to surround Da Sima's mansion. It was late at night.
Because Qu Yi drank some wine at night and was sleeping soundly on the couch, he was tied up by the sergeants and taken to prison.
When he woke up and understood the situation, he immediately cursed in prison, called Cao Cao "pig intestines", and asked himself what crime he was guilty of. Jiang Ji had already collected the charges and sent someone to reply that it was a monster.
Sin.
Naturally, it was difficult to say the original remarks directly, so Jiang Ji used another thing. It was around the late autumn of last year, when Hebei was droughty and there was no rain for the rest of the month. When Qu Yi was going out, he happened to bump into a prisoner with a tattoo on the road.
With tattoos, his wife and daughters were all expelled as official slaves, so he joked to people: "It doesn't rain in the country recently, probably because of this."
Jiang Ji used this to claim that Grand Sima Quyi was dissatisfied with the imperial court, and found twenty armors in his palace. Quyi could not be refuted, and finally he was beheaded on Renwu in the fifth month. Dozens of his family members died, including his wife and daughter.
None of them were official slaves.
After the news of Qu Yi's death came out, both the East and the West were shocked. Qu Yi, as a long-standing general, had made great achievements in both the East and the West. He once almost killed Chen Chong. Even though many people in the two dynasties were evil in his character,
I have to admit that there are very few contemporary generals who can compare with him. Who would have expected that Cao Cao would be so decisive and capture and execute him so simply and quickly?
However, what is even more unexpected is that because the officials of the Eastern Dynasty did not know the reason, everyone was in danger for a while, thinking that Cao Cao was going to go on a killing spree. Although Cao Cao tried his best to appease him, he was able to control the situation in Xindu. But for the Youzhou princes to the north,
The county is somewhat beyond its capabilities.
On Dingyou in June, Gao Lan, the general at Juyong Pass in the Eastern Dynasty, had an old friendship with Qu Yi. He was afraid that Cao Cao would be implicated, so he simply killed the governor of the Bafu in Guanzhong and sent an envoy to Pingcheng for help, hoping to surrender to the Western Dynasty and bring order to the chaos.<
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[1]: Lu Wan, Lu Fang and the Xiongnu: Lu Wan was Liu Bang's younger brother. He made many military exploits with Liu Bang and was named King of Yan by Liu Bang. Later, when Liu Bang aged, Peng Yue and Han Xin were killed by Empress Lu one after another, so they were very popular.
Fearful, he secretly colluded with the Huns. After Liu Bang died, he fled to the Huns, who named him King of East Hulu. After that, Lu Wan was invaded and plundered by the barbarians. He often thought about returning to the Han family. After living in the north for more than a year, he died of illness.
The land of barbarians.
Lu Fang was the leader of Shuofang in the last years of Xinmang. He claimed to be Liu Wenbo, the great-grandson of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. He also said that his great-grandmother was the sister of King Lihunxie of the Xiongnu Valley, so he was promoted by Liu Xuan, the Gengshi Emperor. After Liu Xuan died, he
He established himself as King of Xiping and communicated with the Xiongnu. The Xiongnu supported him as Emperor of the Han Dynasty. Then he established the capital in Jiuyuan County, captured the five counties of Wuyuan, Shuofang, Yunzhong, Dingxiang and Yanmen, and set up county guards and county guards.
Order, together with the Huns army, invaded and plundered the northern border areas. Later, they attacked each other for many years with Liu Xiu. Liu Xiu could not win. However, because most of Lu Fang's subordinates were Han people and missed their hometown, the people gradually dispersed after a few years. Lu Fang then
He died after living in the Xiongnu for more than ten years.