King Jing seems to have seen the copper camel disaster, and the ultimate root cause killed Taichu. In 234, Sima Yi, who had been dormant for ten years, suddenly launched the Gaopingling Rebellion and removed Cao Shuang from his post as a general in the name of Empress Guo. At this time, Cao Shuang, who was far away from Gaoping Tomb to accompany Cao Fang to visit the tomb, got the news, and Cao Shuang thought about it all night, abandoned his sword, and decided to surrender to Sima Yi and become a rich man.
In the end, Cao Shuang not only failed to achieve the wishes of the rich man, but also involved his three tribes. At this time, Cao Shuang's cousin Xiahou Xuan, who was far away in Chang'an, held 100,000 elite soldiers, but did not have the side of the Qing Emperor, obediently surrendered his military power, entered the dynasty as a great hongxu, and soon changed to Taichang, according to the relevant contents of the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", combined with his own opinions, a brief analysis is as follows.
First of all, Xiahou Xuan was not good at using soldiers and preferred metaphysics. Xiahou Xuan, the character Taichu, he was a representative figure of metaphysics and one of the "four congeners" at that time. Metaphysical masters pay attention to a kind of demeanor, even in the face of great disasters and calamities, they are not afraid of danger. At that time, lightning hit the pillar and burned his clothes, but he still talked and wrote there. A person like Xiahou Xuan, who had the demeanor of a celebrity, was unremitting in doing things like rebellion.
Xiahou Xuan's military attainments were limited and he was not good at using troops, such as in the fifth year of zhengchu (244), he and Cao Shuang planned the failed Battle of Luogu, but were repelled by Wang Ping of Shu Han and suffered heavy losses. The Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms, Volume 9, Wei Shujiu, and the Ninth Biography of Xiahou Cao of Zhuxia records:
(Xiahou Xuan) and Cao Shuang jointly raised the Battle of Luogu, which was ridiculed by the people at the time.
Secondly, Xiahou Xuan and Sima Shi were relatives and close friends, and there was a fluke mentality. Xiahou Xuan's sister Xiahou Hui married Sima Shi, and although she had died prematurely, it could not deny the relationship between Xiahou Xuan and Sima Shi's cousin. In the early years, Xiahou Xuan and Sima Shi had a close relationship and fought together against shu Han on the battlefield. Xiahou Xuan gave up his military power and returned to the center, relying on his nepotism with the Sima family, he had a great chance of survival, so why risk raising an army?
He believed that he was different from Cao Shuang, did not set up Sima Yi, did not offend the Sima family, and would not follow in Cao Shuang's footsteps. Moreover, Xiahou Xuan had close relations with both the Cao Wei sect and the Sima family, and could serve as a bridge between the two factions and reconcile the tensions between the two factions.
Man is not as good as heavenly calculation, and Xiahou Xuan, who has a gentlemanly demeanor, does not understand the cruelty of political struggle, and even more miscalculates his own ability and the ambitions of the Sima family. He made the same mistake as Cao Shuang and destroyed the great foundation that Cao Cao had created through thorns and thorns. In ancient times, for the sake of power, fathers and sons turned against each other and brothers fought each other. For example, Qin II Hu Hai killed more than 30 of his brothers and sisters, the Sui Emperor killed his father and brother, Tang Taizong Li Shimin launched the Xuanwumen Rebellion, and so on.
Again, Xiahou Xuan was the emperor of Cao Wei and was deeply favored by the emperor for the sake of the stability of the Wei kingdom. Xiahou Xuan (夏侯玄), son of Xiahou Shang, the general of Zhengnan and the mu of Jingzhou, and the cousin of the great general Cao Shuang. He was the true emperor of Cao Wei, who was deeply favored by the emperor and loyal to the king and patriotic. If Xiahou Xuan raised an army against Sima Yi, whether successful or not, it would cause internal friction in the State of Wei.
Shu Han and Cao Wei were on the side, and the internal cannibalism of the Wei state and the decline in strength would give the Shu and Wu states an opportunity to take advantage of. At that time, his uncle Xiahou Ba persuaded him to raise an army against Sima Yi, but he could not do anything, so he went to shu Han. Xiahou Xuandu sternly refused, saying: As the emperor of the State of Wei, how could he surrender to the enemy and commit treason in order to survive?
Xiahou Xuan obeyed Sima Yi's conscription, gave up his military power, and returned to the capital, he also had a kind of consideration, that is, he wanted to confront sima Yi in Luoyang and be a strong backing for emperor Cao Fang. What he thought was that although the Sima family temporarily had power in the opposition, the emperor was still surnamed Cao, and there were many ministers of culture and military affairs who were loyal to the Cao family, and they went to the capital themselves to gather all the ministers loyal to the Cao family to fight against the Sima family.
Heaven did not take care of the Cao family, and Xiahou Xuan and Zhongshu ordered Li Feng and the empress dowager Guanglu's grand master Zhang Ji to accept Cao Fang's secret edict and plot to get rid of Sima Shi, but accidentally leaked it and was beheaded by the door. The Romance of the Three Kingdoms records:
When The governor of Xiahou Xuan had already leaked, he scolded loudly: "Those who weep, for ru wei shock their masters, will plot to usurp their ears!" Shi was furious, and the samurai captured Xiahou Xuan.
In the end, even if Xiahou Xuan raised the banner of revenge against Sima Yi, it would not help. Although Xiahou Xuan was the governor of Yongliang, he commanded an army of 100,000, most of which was the army of Guo Huai of Yongzhou. Guo Huai was a close confidant of Sima Yi, and most of them would not obey Xiahou Xuan's orders to attack Sima Yi, and it was possible that they would counterattack. Sima Yi had been operating in Yongzhou for many years, and his protégés and former officials were all over the army, so if they resisted the attack of the Shu state, they would naturally obey Xiahou Xuan, and if they led them to fight against Sima Yi, it would be difficult to say.
The emperor was in Luoyang, following Xiahou Xuan to raise an army, which was a rebellion, the success rate was still very low, and he was also an old superior who was crusading against himself. Whoever gives this to will measure one or two. Xiahou Ba, who was also recruited, did not obey the order, led 3,000 soldiers and horses to rebel, was suppressed by Guo Huai, the assassin of Yongzhou, and fled to Shu Han. The Romance of the Three Kingdoms records:
When Uncle Xiahou Ba, the uncle of Xuan, heard that he was shocked, he led three thousand soldiers to rebel. There was a town guarding Yongzhou to assassinate Shi Guohuai, and when he heard that Xiahou Ba was rebelling, he led his troops to fight Xiahou Ba.
In one sentence, xiahou Xuan, who had an army of 100,000 troops, summed up why they did not raise an army against Sima Yi, he had no subjective motive, objectively no conditions, and he was also famous, even if he raised an army to fight Sima Yi, it would not help.
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