[Three Kingdoms] Carnival

"From the previous three incidents, it can be seen that personal life and death are not important to the Dao of Heaven, what is important is the established trajectory that cannot be violated. The will of the Dao of Heaven must have believed that if Guo Jia lived to Chibi, many uncontrollable variables would arise. What Cao Gong wants to prove to Tiandao now is that even if Guo Jia lives to this time, Cao Gong will still be defeated in the battle of Chibi, and the situation of the world will not change greatly. In this way, Guo Jia's life and death, in the eyes of Tiandao, will not matter. So important.

According to Mr. Cao's case, the time needed to maintain it is only one year.

After that, at least Guo Jia's life was saved.Cao Gong can try other methods, such as the few words Guo Jia wrote down.

Comparing the things Cao Gong is familiar with, it is like two armies at war.The enemy army wanted to achieve a goal, Cao Gong used various methods to conspire to block the enemy army, making the enemy army overwhelmed, even if he wanted to break the situation, he had no way to start, so he had to abandon this place and find another way.In this way, this deadlock was solved.

The way of heaven, if there is love, it is impossible to be omnipotent. "

In memory, when Xun Chen said this, he suddenly lost the seriousness in his eyes, chuckled lightly, and took another sip of tea:

"However, Chen has said so much, but it is all conjecture. Whether it is true or just nonsense, Chen does not know, and Cao Gong does not know either. Things that cannot be confirmed at all require knowledge to crack Chibi Duke Cao deliberately lost this battle, which was the closest to the unification of the world, and Chen knew it was difficult.

Even just one year is enough to change a lot of things.In Cao Gong's dream, once he lost the battle of Chibi, it would be tantamount to losing the opportunity to unify the world.

Cao Mengde, grand plans for hegemony, the return of the world, isn't that what you have been pursuing from the beginning to the end?Guo Jia is your counselor. He may be very scheming and you may like him, but he is only a counselor. Once it goes against your great cause, you should be very clear about how to choose, isn't it? "

He should be very clear, shouldn't he?

In the 25th year of Jian'an, the cold wind in Luoyang Wei?

On the table in front of you, the folding fan is unfolded and laid flat, and the white silk has turned dark yellow from the years. The word 'Zijin', with a sharp edge like a knife, is the handwriting he is most familiar with, and it also resembles the person he is most familiar with.

"Come on!" Putting the folding fan back into his sleeve with a snap, Cao Cao said loudly, "Send Gu's order, assemble the army and prepare horses, and march into Jiangdong!"

"Zhongda! Zhongda!" Opening the curtain, Cao Pi strode in with the bamboo slips that had not yet dried the ink, "How about helping Pi to see Pi's new poem?"

Sima Yi, who was almost buried in the pile of battle reports, looked up at Cao Pi, then lowered his head: "Wait another hour."

Seeing that Sima Yi ignored him, Cao Pi sat next to Sima Yi, glanced at the military newspaper on the case, and found that it was all news from Jiangdong, and asked suspiciously: "Didn't my father already say that everything about Chibi will be left to Mr. Xiao Xun?" Are you responsible? Zhong Da why bother about these."

"Eating the king's salary and taking care of the king's worries, Yi should be like this." Sima Yi opened his mouth and said, and he knew it was just a cliché.

Cao Pi said "Oh" and stopped talking.However, since Cao Pi sat here, Sima Yi tried several times, but he couldn't refocus his attention on military affairs.In the end, he had no choice but to throw the bamboo slips away, turned to Cao Pi and said, "Bring the poem here.

"The autumn wind is bleak, the weather is cool, the vegetation shakes and the dew turns into frost", your father has a poem "The autumn wind is bleak, and the flood waves surge", which is open and atmospheric, but your sentence is also about autumn scenery, but it is sad but not strong, and it lacks a layer of courage. . "

"That's because Pi and his father's poems have different aspirations." Cao Pi said, "You continue to read."

"...'The humble concubine stays in the vacant room, and I don't dare to forget when I worry about you'...Second son," Sima Yi put down the bamboo slips written with Cao Pi's poems with a headache, "If you have time to study these, why don't you read more about strategy and strategy , an old classic article."

"Pi read those things since he was a child, so it's okay to take a break now." Cao Pi asked Sima Yi again, "What does Zhongda think of Pi's poem?"

Sima Yi: "..."

"Zhongxuan said that Pi's poem has been turned back and forth thousands of times. It not only contains emotion in the poem, but also has an unfinished charm. After reading it, I am full of sorrow, but I don't know where to tell it." After finishing speaking, Cao Pi looked at the poem again. Sima Yi, "Does Zhong Da feel this way?"

"..." Although he really didn't want to talk to Cao Zihuan, but since he was forced by the situation and had to gamble his family and life on Cao Pi, Sima Yi could only sigh secretly and persuaded, "Second son, take poetry and poetry as a fun and idle thing. There is nothing wrong with it. But if you get closer to Wang Zhongxuan and others, the Second Young Master will inevitably be tainted with the popularity of the above, so apart from necessity, it is better for the Second Young Master to have less contact with them."

Cao Pi frowned: "What's wrong with literary popularity?"

"Naive in thinking, ignorant of current affairs, thinking that one's own strength can help the government without ignoring contingency changes, those who did not know how to live and die during the Huanling years and were imprisoned by the party and died, all of them were too literati."

After Sima Yi finished speaking in a cold voice, he felt that his tone was a bit serious.Persuading Cao Pi in this way may backfire.So he had to suppress his irritability, and continued to talk to Cao Pi gently, "Second Young Master, what you want to do is not just a scribe who recites elegance, this great country will be yours one day sooner or later. You have to learn It's the emperor's mind, it's the secret way of power, and it's how to control the officials for his own use. Whether it is Wang Zhongxuan or your brother, even if you are on good terms with them, you can't trust them wholeheartedly. Art, the Second Young Master studies more about these, it will save the Lord a lot of worry." It also made him worry a lot.

"Whether it's Zhongxuan or Pi's brothers, don't believe it completely, this is the emperor's mind..." Cao Pi murmured over and over again, then suddenly raised his eyes to look at Sima Yi, and asked with a smile, "What about Zhongda? "

With a chill in his heart, Sima Yi immediately got up, folded his face and folded his sleeves and bowed deeply to Cao Pi: "It's Yi's luck that Sima Yi can be trusted and reused by the second son."

"It was father, not Pi, who confiscated you to the prime minister's mansion in the end." Cao Pi continued to maintain a faint smile, but looked up at Sima Yi's eyes, with a bit of the same majesty as his father, "Zhong Xuantong is free and easy, Ziwen, Zijian and Pi are the same mother and compatriots. As for Cangshu, who is still young, in comparison, Zhongda is superior in strategy and has great ambitions, and Pi is far behind. From this point of view, "his The phoenix eyes narrowed slightly, and what was covered happened to be the childish light remaining in the eyes,

"The person Pi should be most wary of is Sima Zhongda."

"What the second son said is true." Sima Yi bowed even lower, so that even if Cao Pi was sitting, he couldn't see the expression on his face clearly. He could only hear his voice with endless humility, "The so-called emperor's mind, It is to use the power of an isolated monarch to control the ministers of the world. If you love a minister too close, you will endanger yourself; "

"It's too cold to be at a high place. It's too hard for a king to be alone." Cao Pi said softly, like a sigh but not a sigh.After a while, he looked at Sima Yi again, and the haze and sternness in his eyes had completely disappeared, "However, my father taught that you don't need to be suspicious, and you don't need to be suspicious when you hire someone. If you use Zhongda, you are willing to trust you.

Clever deceit is not as good as clumsy sincerity, but sincerity can win people's hearts.The art of the emperor is definitely not just about tricks and tricks, otherwise even if he wins the world, he will not be able to sit still. "

Sima Yi remained silent, his gesture of bowing did not move at all.

Sima Yi's appearance made Cao Pi's eyes flash with anger again: "However, Zhong Da just had a reason. Pi has really lost his ambition in recent days, and this will not be the case in the future. Zhong Da is busy with military affairs, so Pi will not bother him anymore. After finishing speaking, Cao Pi stood up, took the bamboo slips with poems written on Sima Yi's case, and strode away without looking back.

A long time after Cao Pi left, Sima Yi slowly straightened up until he felt soreness in his waist, lowered his hands, and looked expressionlessly outside the tent, which was already empty.

baffling.

He just wanted to give Cao Pi these four words.

Because of Zhang Xiu, Cao Pi has already disappointed Cao Cao.Now if Cao Cao sees that the war is imminent, Cao Pi is only obsessed with poetry, and I don't know if it will shake Cao Cao's heart to establish an heir even more.Although it was one of his plans to push Cao Pi to get rid of Zhang Xiu, so that Cao Pi's future heir position would no longer be as stable as Mount Tai, but this did not mean that he wanted Cao Pi to completely lose Cao Cao's favor.

If Cao Pi's status is as stable as Mount Tai, there is no need to reuse Sima Yi for advice; but if Cao Pi completely loses Cao Cao's favor and directly loses the possibility of being an heir, then he will have nothing left, and he will pay for it all.

However, Cao Pi's inexplicable attitude made Sima Yi only able to say so much.He couldn't help feeling in his heart that it was really difficult to understand each other when he was nearly ten years younger. Could those poems and prose be exchanged for the prosperity of the country and the safety of the people, or for millions of soldiers and thousands of hectares of good valleys?Cao Pi's last words "playing with things and losing one's ambition" are words of anger, but in Sima Yi's eyes, they are indeed true, exactly.

I don't know if Guo Jia was as tired as he is now when Guo Jia took him.

Suddenly thinking of that person, Sima Yi's expression changed.Although he quickly returned to his original calmness, he couldn't restrain himself from unconsciously thinking more about that person.

In Hanoi that day, when Guo Jia had a complete quarrel with him for the first time, he really hoped that Guo Jia would die soon.But at the same time, he also knew that Guo Jia had detoxified Sima Hui at that time, and with Hua Tuo around, it was impossible for him to get sick again and die early; It is absolutely impossible.So at the time he thought that way, but it was only that way.

However, this is where destiny is impermanent.It was just his random thought, but after a few years, it became true.

When he heard that Guo Jia was so sick that it was difficult to get out of bed, and he wanted to follow Cao Cao to conquer Wuhuan, he really thought that Guo Jia was crazy.The thing that stays deepest in his memory is Guo Jia, who regarded his achievements as floating clouds and the world as grass, day and night thinking about where to live in seclusion and live a long and safe life.

And such Guo Jia, after defecting to Cao Cao, disappeared without a trace within a few years, and was replaced by a person that Sima Yi could not understand at all.

What is a scholar who dies for his confidant?What is heart-to-heart giving even though death is not hesitant?Knowing that if he went, he would die, and he would never turn back. Sima Yi didn't understand this terrible feeling, and he didn't want to understand it.

It is stupid to do it without profit.And the stupid end is like Guo Jia, who worked hard for more than ten years, but died alone in the desert. There was only one young son left in the family, and the few rewards from Cao Cao were gone.

Before returning to the case again, Sima Yi picked up the battle report that Cao Pi had read before coming here.

As Cao Pi said, Cao Cao entrusted Xun You to be responsible for all matters related to the battle with Jiangdong.In terms of common sense, Xun You is the mastermind, and there is nothing wrong with being responsible.In terms of the truth, Jia Xu has become more cautious in his words and deeds since he learned the news of Zhang Xiu's death. Unless he has to answer, he will not be remembered at all; and Sima Yi, who was unceremoniously recruited to the prime minister's mansion by Cao Cao , but has never been trusted by Cao Cao, and it is expected that he will not be entrusted with a major task.

In fact, in Sima Yi's opinion, the Chibi area alone is already a doomed situation where there is no need to struggle any longer.Cao Cao claimed to have an army of 80, but the real number he brought was only [-] to [-]. Many people were not acclimatized and infected with the epidemic, and many of them were not used to water warfare at all. It was obvious who would prevail.

In this matter, Xun You persuaded Cao Cao, Jia Xu persuaded Cao Cao, and even he persuaded Cao Cao, but Cao Cao, who had been dazzled by successive victories, couldn't listen to it at all, and still insisted on going his own way.Now, Cao Cao has handed over the whole matter to Xun You... It is not Xun You's specialty to survive a desperate situation.

The person who is best at this is dead.

So, what is he still looking at the information for?

Thinking of this, Sima Yi immediately lost interest in reading military newspapers.However, after a while, he couldn't bear the urging of the inexplicable feeling in his heart, and picked up the general newspaper again.

Sima Yi couldn't tell if he couldn't bear to see Cao Cao's great cause, which he wanted to achieve at the cost of Guo Jia's life, buried here, or he didn't want Cao Pi's hope that his father's great cause would fall short here, or it was neither.

That's all, let's take it as a way of retreating for the defeated Cao Jun in advance.

After all, no one wants to die in Chibi.

Everyone felt that in the battle of Chibi, Cao Jun's "80 army" would be completely defeated.Sima Yi thinks so, Jia Xu thinks so, Zhou Yu thinks so, Sun Quan thinks so, Zhuge Liang thinks so, even Cao Cao himself thinks so.

That night, as has been experienced countless times, Huang Gai feigned surrender and set fire to Cao Jun's ships.With the help of the east wind, the fire spread along the iron cables connecting the ships, burning the ships crackling, almost lighting up the sky and the earth as if it were daytime.

Among the red flames, buried together with the ship, is the great cause of unifying the world.

"Wait!" After the fire was extinguished, Zhou Yu, who brought soldiers to inspect the battlefield, looked at the wreckage of the ship, and the smile brought by the great victory gradually faded on his face.

"There is no corpse of Cao Jun on this boat."

Almost none.

A month later, Cao Cao, who had stationed heavy troops in various counties of Jingzhou, finally returned to the familiar house in Yangdi without stopping.He didn't even have time to tidy up his messy clothes from day and night, and walked towards the independent small courtyard in the house at a fast pace almost running.

But when he really came to the courtyard, he suddenly stopped in front of the closed courtyard gate.

He slowly raised his hand, intending to push open the courtyard door, but shrank back a few inches.The hand that held the sword all the year round, almost holding the world in its palm, trembled slightly because of a wooden door.

With a "creak", the wooden door was pulled open from the courtyard.

"Jia heard the voice and thought it was General Zhang who came back, but I didn't expect it to be Duke Ming." In the warm spring sunshine, the old man smiled at Yan Yan, just like in the past, "Jia..."

Before he could finish speaking, he was embraced in his arms.The force was so great that Guo Jia almost felt pain from being bound by his arms.

However, only this real pain can prove to the two of them that this is not a yellow beam dream that only happens countless times at night.

After an unknown amount of time, Guo Jia felt Cao Cao's arms loosen.He took Cao Cao's hand, straightened up, looked at Cao Cao's eyes that were no longer red, and said:

"Actually, Jia heard that Gongming knew he would lose and went to fight Chibi, but when he was burned by Zhou Lang, he planned to never treat him again."

As expected, Cao Cao frowned when he heard this, Guo Jia continued before Cao Cao was about to speak:

"However, Jia thought again, how could the insidious and cunning Cao Mengde really put aside his great career, and not think of tricks to hide the truth, but follow the destiny?"

Speaking of this, Guo Jia suddenly broke into a smile.He laughed wantonly and wildly, as if he didn't know that the tears of the person who hugged him just now had wet the clothes behind him.

"It doesn't matter. In the area to the south, Jia will accompany Ming Gong and call back."