Deng Ai made a great contribution to Shu, and his heart swelled, and he wrote a letter that made Sima Zhao's heart jump.
Decades ago, when Cao Cao captured Hanzhong, Sima Yi persuaded Cao Cao to get Longwangshu; now Deng Ai persuaded Sima Zhao to get Shu to look at Wu. Deng Ai made a plan to destroy Wu and advocated cutting down Wu.
After reading Deng Ai's letter, Sima Zhao felt that it was time to get rid of Deng Ai.
Deng Ai had already taken control of Chengdu and occupied all the Shu lands, and if he took Wu again, he could rule with Sima Zhao. It didn't matter whether Deng Ai had such a mind, what mattered was that Sima Zhao did not allow such a potential danger to exist.
Sima Zhaoxin was also too late to write, and sent Wei Ou to fly to Chengdu and give Deng Ai eight words:
"Everything must be reported, and it is not advisable to do it."
Deng Ai ignored Wei Ou and wrote a letter to Sima Zhao, stating that he had the right to cut first and play later
"If you wait for the fate of the country, go back and forth, and prolong the sun and the moon"
Blatantly sang the opposite stage drama with Sima Zhao's "everything should be reported, it is not appropriate to act recklessly".
At the beginning, Meng Da plotted rebellion, and it took more than a month for the documents to go back and forth, and Sima Yi "did not report the deeds", and the result was a big victory. Deng Ai was promoted by Sima Yi, he learned From Sima Yi, did Sima Yi's son buy it?
Of course, Sima Zhao did not buy it.
However, there was a risk of recalling Deng Ai, because Yizhou was originally a suitable place for retreating and claiming the king, in case Deng Ai raised an army to resist, wouldn't it be Shu Han who had come back from the dead?
So how to deal with the out-of-control Deng Ai?
A few days later, Sima Zhao received several real-name denunciation letters.
Whistleblowers: Zhong Hui, Shi Lun, Wei Wan.
Reported by: Deng Ai.
Contents of the report: Acting on orders, supporting the soldiers and respecting themselves, and having no vision...
Flipping through these whistleblower letters, Sima Zhaoru received the most precious treasure, because he had gained even more.
It was easy to understand that Shi Lu and Wei Ou reported Deng Ai, because both were sent by Sima Zhao to supervise Deng Ai in the army.
What is the bell meeting for?
After Jiang Wei surrendered, Zhong Hui already had an army of nearly 200,000.
Such a huge army was not in the hands of Sima Shi, but in the hands of people with foreign surnames. Moreover, this man's strategy is more strategic, his wisdom is better than Zhang Liang's, and people say that he has a rebellious heart. After the surrender of Shu Han, Sima Zhao's greatest fear was not Deng Ai, but Zhong Hui.
The spies arranged around Zhong Hui reported that Zhong Hui would use the guarding of the Sword Pavilion and all kinds of documents to go through the convenience of the Sword Pavilion, intercept the letters of Deng Ai and Sima Zhao, use his talent for imitating handwriting, change Deng Ai's letters to Sima Zhao arrogantly and rudely, and change Sima Zhao's letters to Deng Ai to be tough and domineering, intensifying the contradictions between Deng Ai and Sima Zhao.
Sima Zhao sighed darkly: Zhong Hui will eventually be the opposite, and everyone will see it accurately.
Sima Zhao analyzed that Zhong Hui should want the imperial court to get rid of Deng Ai in the name of rebellion, and then he himself stationed in Chengdu and became the new king of Shu.
The bell will have a thief's heart, where does the thief's guts come from?
This is because he met Jiang Wei.
Jiang Wei saw Zhong Hui's restless heart at a glance, and used the Radical Technique to arouse Zhong Hui's anti-heart.
With Jiang Wei's encouragement, Zhong Hui began to brew a rebellion, saying to his subordinates:
"If things are accomplished, the world can be won; if it is not done, it is not possible to return to Shu Han and not lose Liu Beiye."
What he didn't know was that at this time, Jiang Wei wrote a secret letter to Liu Chan, which said: "I hope that Your Majesty will endure the humiliation of a few days, and I will turn the society into safety and see the light again." ”
Jiang Wei's real idea was this: first let Zhong Hui kill the Wei general, then he would kill Zhong Hui, pit wei bing, and finally lead the old Shu Han to restore the country.
Sima Zhao now had to deal with three of the most talented people in the world at the same time: Deng Ai, Jiang Wei, and Zhong Hui.
Sima Zhao ordered Zhong Hui to arrest Deng Ai, which was exactly what Zhong Hui wanted.
Zhong would send Wei Ou on this task.
Chinese New Year's Eve night, Deng Ai and his son Deng Zhong fell asleep peacefully. Now that they are their father and son, they have no reason to be uneasy. They slept soundly, looking like they didn't do anything wrong, and they weren't afraid of ghosts coming to the door.
The ghost still came to the door in Chinese New Year's Eve night.
Wei Ou opened the city gates as a minister of Chincha and took control of the situation while Deng Ai's father and son were still asleep.
On the first day of the Chinese New Year, Deng Ai sat on the first prison cart since the New Year.
On the second prison cart, his son Deng Zhong shivered in the cold wind.
Wei Wan wanted to escort them to the capital.
At this time, Jiang Wei said to Zhong Hui, "We are half successful." ”
Sima Zhao had already anticipated this step. He had already sent Jia Chong to lead 100,000 elite soldiers into Lecheng, and only waited for an order to enter Shuzhong.
On the third day of the Lunar New Year, the large army led by Sima Zhao himself had arrived in Chang'an.
Sima Zhao's arrival alarmed Zhong Hui.
On the fifteenth day of the first month, Chengdu, which has been plagued by war, is dripping blood everywhere and there are no flower lanterns.
Zhong Hui ordered that the guards, the county guards, the Yamen riding governors, and the officials of the original Shu Han all be invited.
When the people arrived, Zhong Hui took out a forged edict of the empress dowager and issued it to everyone, saying that the empress dowager's edict wanted him to raise an army and depose Sima Zhao.
When everyone is undecided, Zhong Hui will be the first to sign the page as a proof. Surrounded by Zhong Hui's own soldiers with knives, almost everyone signed their names.
There are a few who are not afraid of death, and bluntly rebuke the bell society.
Zhong Hui locked up all the generals and Shu Han officials.
Many times, it is not the big people who influence the course of history but the small people. Now, another little person who has shaped the course of history has appeared.
This man was Qiu Jian, who was originally a subordinate of the general Hu Lie, and was now the governor of Zhong Hui. On the sixteenth day of the first month, Qiu Jian saw Hu Lie being detained alone, and he felt compassion, and after obtaining the permission of zhonghui, he asked Hu Lie's soldiers to deliver food for Hu Lie.
When Hu Lie saw his soldiers, he deceived him: "Qiu Jian has secretly passed on the news that Zhong Hui has dug a big pit and prepared a white wooden stick, and then let the soldiers outside come in, worship them as scattered generals, and let them kill us and bury them in the pit." ”
Hu Lie also wrote these contents into a note for his relatives to bring to his son Hu Yuan outside the city. Overnight, the rumor quickly spread throughout the army. This rumor is telling the troops to come and rescue their commanders.
Next, another small person stepped out and pushed the direction of history again.
This man, wang qi, fled from Chengdu and spread rumors that Sima Zhao had led an army of 300,000 to fight Against Zhonghui.
This rumor cut off the idea that some people wanted to rebel after Zhong Hui.
At noon on the eighteenth day of the first month, Hu Yuan, who was eager to save his father, led his father's men to rush out of the barracks. Then, the armies followed Hu Yuan's clamor and rushed to the city gate.
In an emergency, Zhong wei would ask Jiang Wei to find the old Shu Han troops and give them armor and staffs to prepare for battle.
Soon, the large army outside the city invaded the city, and the soldiers rushed in, raining down.
There were only a few hundred soldiers around Zhong Hui, how could they withstand such a large army?
Zhong Hui and hundreds of people under the tent fled around the temple, and were beheaded one by one by the Wei army.
Jiang Wei led the Shu Han generals to meet the battle. Jiang Wei personally killed five or six people, and was finally killed by the rebels, and Liu Rui, the prince of Shu Han, and Zhang Yi, who had previously opposed Jiang Wei's Northern Expedition, were also killed by the Wei army.
At this time, Wei Wan also took advantage of the chaos to find someone to get rid of the father and son.
In this regard, Sima Zhao did not send a single soldier, and in one fell swoop eliminated three of the top talents who brought him trouble today.