In 249, Sima Yi, together with Cao Wei's three-dynasty ministers Gao Rou and Jiang Ji, brazenly launched the "GaoPingling Coup", which was originally won by Cao Shuang due to his indecisive personality and eventually led to defeat, in the face of Cao Shuang's indisputable anger, his "think tank" Huan Fan was angry:
"Cao Zi Dan Jia Ren, Sheng Ru Brothers, Calf Ears!" He Tu sat on the Ru and other clans today! ”
The final result was that the Cao Shuang family and nearly seven of his friends were wiped out, and Sima Yi had since become the de facto ruler of the Wei dynasty, while the Cao family had become a puppet and could no longer make waves above the imperial court.
Of course, this does not mean that Sima Yi's father and son have been able to sit back and relax from then on, because there were still many local power factions loyal to Cao's clan in the local area at that time, and for Sima Shuang's father and son, these were potential threats, so after pacifying Cao Shuang, Sima Yi's father and son's next step was to cut off the local power faction, and Sima Yi was the first to target Xiahou Xuan in Guanzhong.
At that time, Xiahou Xuan had an army of 100,000 in Guanzhong, which was the most powerful force among the various governors of Cao Wei, and the relationship between Xiahou Xuan and Cao Shuang was also very close, but like Cao Shuang, the actions taken by Xiahou Xuan at that time were too simple.
At that time, Xiahou Xuan actually had two ways to go after receiving the holy will, one was to refuse to hold Guanzhong's independence hostage without the edict, and the other way was to defect to Shu Han like Xiahou Ba.
However, Xiahou Xuan did not take both roads, but chose to obediently surrender his military power, and from then on it was "man-made knife tricks me for fish meat", so was Xiahou Xuan's move too stupid? At the local level, it is clear that it is a powerful faction, but it has made such a decision.
However, there was also Xiahou Xuan's bitterness in this, because Xiahou Xuan did not want to do anything, but could not do anything, whether it was independent in Guanzhong or xiahou Xuan who defected to the Shu Han Dynasty, so why was this?
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > Guanzhong was mostly Sima Yi's old department, and most of the army's families were in Luoyang</h1>
Let's first talk about the possibility of success if Xiahou Xuan refused to obey the edict at that time and threatened to become independent in Guanzhong. Unfortunately, there is no possibility, and this point starts with two points:
The first point is that because many of Guanzhong were sima yi's old subordinates, after Cao Xiu, Cao Zhen and other Cao clan relatives died of illness one after another, the only person available to the Wei Ming emperor Cao Rui at that time was Sima Yi, and the only one who could resist Zhuge Liang at that time was Sima Yi.
Although Sima Yi's confrontation with Zhuge Liang was a poor record, Zhuge Liang was after all consumed by Sima Yi, so Sima Yi's prestige in the Yongliang area was very high. And what about Xiahou Xuan? In that year, when he and Cao Shuang commanded the Battle of Shu, more than 100,000 troops were blocked by the 30,000 people of the Shu general Wang Ping, and even the gate of Hanzhong was not touched.
It was also because of this battle that Xiahou Xuan's reputation plummeted, so in fact, many people did not listen to Xiahou Xuan's command at that time.
Secondly, that is, the problem of Cao Wei's system, we will first ask why Zhong Hui failed? Because many generals at that time were not willing to rebel with Zhong Hui, so their hearts were like arrows, and at that time, many of the soldiers' families in the army were in Luoyang, so did they fight for the lives of the whole family for Zhong Hui?
And this was also a point that Xiahou Xuan was quite embarrassed about, even if he wanted to refuse to obey the edict to be independent of his soldiers in Guanzhong, he would not agree, because how could the generals' families in Luoyang be willing to rebel against Xiahou Xuan?
Therefore, at that time, Xiahou Xuan actually had the only way to surrender his military power after receiving Sima Yi's edict and obediently accept his orders, because although he was named Cao Wei The Governor, he was actually a light rod commander, and the soldiers under his hands would not listen to him at all.
< h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > Xiahou Ba's persuasion to escape? Why didn't Xiahou Xuan listen to advice? </h1>
In addition to this road, in fact, xiahou ba also specifically sought out Xiahou Xuan because of this matter and persuaded him to join Him in Shu Han, and Xiahou Xuan also refused with words, but the final fate was that Xiahou Xuan was killed by Sima Yi's son Sima Shi a few years later, and Xiahou Ba was reused in Shu Han, and Liu Chan did not kill him because of his father's grudge.
So knowing that there is a way to live and not to go? But he wanted to take a dead end, why was Xiahou Xuan so simple?
It is true that Xiahou Xuan's idea seems very stupid today, but we can't use the thinking of this era to consider that era, there is a Saying in China called "Good birds choose trees and roost", but some people think that "big husbands have something to do or can't do", or "loyal subjects do not do two things".
Xiahou Xuan was obviously the latter, because Xiahou Xuan also had multiple titles in addition to the governor of Guanzhong, that is, the head of the "Zhengshi Mingshi", for Xiahou Xuan, in his eyes, things such as honor and bone qi were more important than life, and defecting to Shu Han was treason and surrendering to the enemy, and for people like him whose fame was greater than life, they would undoubtedly choose the latter.
Therefore, when Xiahou Ba proposed to defect to Shu Han, Xiahou Xuan refused, preferring to die alone and become a fish rather than bear the stigma of treason, and He Yan, who was also a "famous scholar of the beginning", was more "aware of current affairs" than Xiahou Xuan.
Originally a member of Cao Shuang's party, he betrayed his colleagues faster than anyone else, and his purpose was to let Sima Yi keep him alive, but in the end Sima Yi realized that He Yan was a man with two sides and three knives, and finally he was the result.
Therefore, why did Xiahou Xuan choose not to move at that time when he had the opportunity to find an opportunity to gain a way to live. One is unable and one is unwilling.