Chapter 87 Cao Shuangs plan to exchange blood, the deceptive He Yan!
He Yan returned to his mansion after the court meeting, and fell asleep without even taking a bite of lunch. He slept until the early hour of the evening, when Princess Jinxiang sent someone to call him, and he woke up from his sleep in a daze.
wake up,
He slapped his head fiercely, "Fortunately, Madam reminded me, otherwise I would have almost overslept and missed Uncle Zhao's dinner. What time is it now?"
The maid replied with a respectful smile, "Master, it's the first hour of the unitary hour, and there's still an hour before Prime Minister Cao's dinner. It's enough time for the master to take a bath and change clothes, and then bring gifts to the Prime Minister's house for the banquet."
He Yan said happily: "Fortunately, I have such a good wife as my wife. Otherwise, if I miss the time, it would be a great disrespect to Uncle Zhao. I haven't gotten together with Uncle Zhao for a long time.
He didn’t take me with him during his southern expedition. If he had taken me with him, I could still have done something for him. Although I am not his biological brother, I have played with him since childhood and even slept together.
, helped Zhao Bo do many important things,
I will take advantage of the banquet tonight to mention it to Uncle Zhao, so that I can continue to contribute to Uncle Zhao!"
In fact, after He Yan had just talked and liked metaphysics, he relied on Cao Shuang's power to bully the officials in the Luoyang court and the surrounding people.
It can be said that he did not help Cao Shuang at all. He was only pushed back by Cao Shuang, which caused the Wei clan and officials to alienate Cao Shuang. If Cao Shuang continued to use him in an important way,
If he continues to do this with his own power and the chaos in the DPRK continues, it will be impossible for the Wei Dynasty to gain an advantage in the war against Shu and Wu in the future, thus ending the three-legged power that has been formed since the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty.
situation,
After all, there were some aristocratic families with deep roots in the Wei dynasty. If they were pushed into a hurry and their interests were tampered with, they would jump out and have an arm-wrestle with Cao Shuang.
They wouldn't think that He Yan, who was so greedy for profit, would dare to touch their cake without Cao Shuang's support, encouragement, or even secret action.
He Yan didn't dare to do this, because He Yan's own strength was far from enough to go against such a group of aristocratic families with deep roots, both in terms of manpower and material resources.
Only He Yan's little Cao Shuang, with his power in the Wei Dynasty, can shake the "cakes" of these aristocratic families around Luoyang and even other places.
Although the food that these aristocratic families had eaten ended up in He Yan's pocket, these aristocratic families would definitely think that these "cakes" clearly belonged to He Yan.
But the actual owner is Cao Shuang, his father-in-law. In the end, the reckoning will still have to go to Cao Shuang, the man behind the scenes.
He Yan still borrowed Cao Shuang's tiger skin to obtain these things, which was completely impossible to achieve with his own strength alone.
If they want less, they can still tolerate it. After all, what they want is a shabby development and secret growth. There is a saying, a century-old dynasty, a thousand-year family.
No matter how long-lived a dynasty is, it only lasts for a few hundred years, but aristocratic families can often last for thousands of years. If He Yan uses Cao Shuang's power to continue to excessively squeeze the vested interests of aristocratic families, it will only be waiting for them.
It is the strong backlash from aristocratic families. For example, the strength of aristocratic families like the Taiyuan Wang family cannot be underestimated. If they resist desperately, it will consume the national power that Wei has finally accumulated and lead to civil strife.
Cao Shuang knew in his heart that he could no longer entrust his father with important responsibilities, and he had to slowly take back the power of the Ministry of Civil Affairs!
He said that he could not continue to let He Yan hold him back and cheat the Wei Dynasty, but He Yan did not see this. All he could see was Cao Shuang after he became the prime minister of the Wei Dynasty.
What can he gain by relying on Cao Shuang's greater power, such as higher power, more wealth in the hands of others...
He Yan grew up in Xiao Cao's house. He grew up in fine clothes and fine food, and grew up to be an aristocratic son with a face as white as jade. In addition, he read poetry and books, and was able to talk about Qi Huang and the "Book of Changes" in his youth.
Cao Cao felt comfortable with his outstanding talent and betrothed his daughter to this adopted son. He was not afraid of people's ridicule at all. In this environment, He Yan also developed a personality of putting his sights above his own and believed that he was the descendant of Emperor Wu.
Of course, fighting and governing the people is easy. Everything he did before was right. It was all for Cao Shuang, for Wei, and of course, the most important thing was for his own interests.
He Yan was also very short-sighted. Fu Gu, the assistant minister of Huangmen, said to Cao Xi, Cao Shuang's brother: "He Yan is quiet on the outside but impetuous on the inside. He takes advantage of tricks and does not seek the bottom line. I'm afraid he will seduce you brothers first. People with lofty ideals will be far away."
If you stay away, the government will be in ruins."
After He Yan heard about this, he became dissatisfied with Fu Gu, and later found a trivial excuse to remove him from his official position. Many ministers in the court were like this unlucky Huangmen servant.
Either he was dismissed or demoted, which pulled Cao Shuang further and further away from the court ministers, and pulled him to Sima Yi. Helping Sima Yi in disguise can also be seen as being in Cao's camp unintentionally.
On Sima Yi's side, there is no one available in the critical moment...
Two years ago, in the eighth year of Zhengshi (247), He Yan made another plan and asked Cao Shuang to move the Queen Mother Guo to Yongning Palace and begin to monopolize the power of the government.
There is nothing wrong with letting Cao Shuang monopolize power, but moving the Queen Mother Guo to another place and lowering her treatment is creating trouble for Cao Shuang, so that Sima Yi can later use not treating the Queen Mother Guo well as evidence to bring down Cao Shuang.
This caused more ministers who were loyal to the Cao Wei clan to alienate themselves from Cao Shuang, and became Cao Zhaobo's pig teammates in disguise, benefiting their enemy Sima, and siding with the enemy...
The slanderous book at that time said, "There are three dogs in Taichung, two of which are useless as firewood, and one of which can be used as firewood." The three dogs refer to He Yan, Deng Yang, and Ding Mi, and "Mo" is Cao Shuang's diminutive. This means that the three dogs are useless.
He wants to bite people, but Ding Mi is the most vicious.
At this moment, Cao Shuang has to recruit a group of officials and generals like Deng Ai and Zhuge Dan who have some talents but are not too greedy and arrogant to give his camp a major blood change.
Only in this way can his camp be more talented, unlike before where he couldn't find a few people who could fight and govern the people, and all the talented people went to the enemy's side.
After He Yan took care of himself and dressed up, Princess Jinxiang came over and carefully arranged the wrinkled clothes for him, "Husband, tonight you can't continue to get drunk and behave like last night in your house.
There are many officials from the court and the central government in Zhaobo's house tonight, and Zhaobo is not the Cao Zhaobo we knew before and can call him brother!"
He Yan said: "Madam, are you too worried? I still understand Uncle Zhao's character. Isn't it as serious as Madam said?"
Princess Jinxiang said worriedly: "Husband, you'd better be more thoughtful. It's not a bad thing to be more low-key. It's not as good as it used to be!"
Cao Shuang's house is very busy. They are preparing for tonight's dinner. They are almost ready now and are waiting for the guests to arrive...