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The deceased was long gone, and the living had to continue to work, and at the same time as Sima Yi, the assistant chancellor was Cao Shuang, who was from the imperial family. Who is Cao Shuang? It was Cao Zhen, a famous general in the middle of the Cao Wei Empire. Cao Zhen was the adopted son of Cao Cao as his own son, and Cao Zhen's biological father was surnamed Qin and was called Qin Shao. Qin Shao once went to recruit troops for Cao Cao, but unfortunately was killed, leaving the young Cao Zhen (who should have been called Qin Zhen at the time), and Cao Cao pitied Qin Shao for his early death, so he adopted Cao Zhen as a son. From a biological point of view, Cao Zhen and Cao Shuang do not have the blood of the Cao family, but if we speak emotionally and politically, Cao Zhen and Cao Shuang are definitely royalty and the Cao family.
The previous emperor has just died. The new emperor who is underage has just ascended the throne must have a stable situation. According to Cao Rui's dying instructions, the auxiliary attack ministers were Cao Shuang as the main and Sima Yi as the deputy, and these two each led 3,000 soldiers, taking turns on duty in the palace every day to prevent accidents. In terms of seniority and ability, at this time, Sima Yi was already No. 1 in the entire Cao Wei Empire, and he said that he was second, and no one dared to rank first. Although he was the chief assistant minister, Cao Shuang still had great respect for this old senior at the beginning, and he must consult Sima Yi first, and did not dare to decide alone. Sima Yi was also conscientious and did not dare to be sloppy in the slightest, according to the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", after Cao Shuang assisted the government, he suspected that Sima Yi was obstructing his eyes, so he promoted Sima Yi to Taifu (emperor's teacher) in the name of the little emperor Cao Fang, so that Sima Yi lost real power, and Cao Shuang began to dominate the central government. However, according to many historical sources, including the records of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms itself, this is not true.
The record of Sima Yi being elevated by Cao Shuang appears first in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms among the books we can find now. The author of the book, Chen Shou, was originally a minister of the Shu Han Empire, and after the fall of the Shu Han, he surrendered to Emperor Cao Wei along with Liu Chan. At that time, the Cao Wei Empire was already the domain of the Sima family, and soon, Sima Yan deposed the emperor of the Cao family and established the Western Jin Dynasty, Chen Shou lived in this environment, when describing the struggle between Cao Shuang and Sima Yi, in order to avoid the occurrence of the situation of the literal prison, naturally did not dare to be completely realistic, and could only smear Cao Shuang on one side, and did not dare to say such a thing as a slap on the wrist.
According to the Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms itself, after Cao Shuang came to power, he did not deprive Sima Yi of his power, not only administrative power, but also the most important military power of the Chinese and foreign military forces. In June 241 AD, the Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms. The biography of Cao Shuang records that two years after Sima Yi was elevated, he also ran to Fancheng with an army of tens of thousands of people to fight against Eastern Wu, that is to say, Sima Yi still had a lot of military power at that time, as for being elevated, it was all with time, a few years later. Therefore, what is written in the history books is not necessarily true, and we can only discover the truth when we look at it in great detail.
However, even if there is no fallout now, Cao Shuang and Sima Yi are two factions after all, and under the feudal autocracy, they can never be combined into one faction. From Cao Shuang's standpoint, after all, he was already the first assistant minister, so of course he needed to maintain his absolute dominant position in the imperial court, but compared with Sima Yi, Cao Shuang's biggest disadvantage was that his popularity and seniority were not comparable to Sima Yi's, because he had always stayed in Luoyang City, in front of idle and promising officials, drinking high-ranking and managed wine, holding slim and beautiful women, and never going to the local area to suffer and lead troops to fight. In the eyes of all the ministers of the Cao Wei court, especially Sima Yi, who was an old qualification, Cao Shuang was a brother and a pillow of embroidery.
But Cao Shuang is not paper paste, as a royal son who grew up in the imperial court officialdom, his understanding of the political operation of the official field is still much beyond the average person. Cao Shuang served as a general in the Janissaries, and this official position led the elite of the elite in the Janissaries and the Wuwei Battalion founded by Cao Cao, and it was precisely because of this experience that Cao Shuang attached great importance to the Janissaries and was also very aware of how important the Janissaries were to a powerful subject, so the first step he did was to completely control the Central Janissaries.
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