From the time when the emperor overhauled the palace until the end of the imperial examination for the fittest son of the clan, Wuyang Hou Sima Yi and his eldest son Sima Shi were father and son. His father Sima Yi was promoted and secretly demoted by the emperor, and his military power was deprived of his power. He has been idle at home; where is his son Sima Shi? , he had been deprived of his official position due to a flashy case in the early years, and he was living idle at home. He was originally a little bored, but now that his beloved wife Xia Houhui has passed away, he has naturally become more depressed.
Seeing his most valued eldest son turning into this, Sima Yi naturally felt uncomfortable, so he came up with the idea of making the final decision for his son. It's just that in the capital, there is no other suitable candidate for the unmarried lady who is worthy of being the lintel of her family, except for Wu Qing, the daughter of Wu Zhi and Wu Jizhong, who passed away five years ago [Note 1: the name is fictional].
Although Wu Zhi was one of the "Four Friends" who was as famous as Sima Yi under Emperor Wen at that time, his character was not good, and now that the Wu family has lost power, Sima Yi actually did not like marrying with the Wu family.
But then he thought about it. Now the new head of the Wu family, Wu Ying and Wu Wenshu, Wu Zhi's eldest son and Wu Qing's brother, is a man of extraordinary character and talent. If he can win over Wu Ying, a good horse, it will be a good thing for him. My own family is beneficial and harmless.
Thinking of this, Sima Yi immediately made a decision. Soon after, under Sima Yi's control, Wu Qing successfully married into the Sima Mansion and became the second wife of Sima Shi, the young head of the Sima family.
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After the death of Emperor Wen, Wu Zhi, who only relied on the emperor's power to dominate, lost his high-ranking positions as governor of Bingzhou and general of Zhenbei.
This is not just because Wu Zhi is unpopular with the emperor Cao Rui. The late Sima Shaoling and Yuanhou Cao Zhen, who had always had a very bad relationship with Wu Zhi, became the minister of Gu Ming with real power after the death of Emperor Wen. In fact, this is also the case for Wu Zhi in these years. An important reason for failure.
At this time, in the Wu Mansion, the new head of the family, Wu Ying and Wu Wenshu, Wu Zhi's eldest son, were sitting in front of the desk in the study, looking thoughtfully at the poems and poems left by his father during his lifetime.
My father was a minister of Conglong who made great contributions to Emperor Wen. At that time, Sima Yi and Chen Qun were known as Emperor Wen's "Four Friends of the East Palace" with their father, as well as Cao Zhen, who assisted Emperor Wen with his father, Cao Xiu and Cao Xiu not only became ministers of Gu Ming after the death of Emperor Wen, but they have also been deeply trusted and relied upon by the new emperor Cao Rui over the years.
Wu Ying still remembers that year five years ago, which was the fourth year of Taihe under His Majesty. During this year, several veterans of the three dynasties, including his father, such as the elderly Taifu Dingling Chenghou Zhongyao, who was in his eighties, and Liang Xi, Liang Ziyu, who had served as the governor of Bingzhou for many years and was later promoted to the position of chief agricultural officer. They passed away one after another in a matter of months.
After Zhong Yao passed away, he received a great honor. The emperor himself dressed in plain clothes and went to the Dingling Marquis Mansion to pay his respects. As a contemporary of Emperor Wu, Zhong Yao was a veteran of three dynasties with outstanding meritorious services and a full reputation. The world deserves this honor.
What made Wu Ying feel uncomfortable was that many courtiers would rather go to express their condolences to Liang Xi, his father's old subordinate, than come to the house to pay their respects to his father. Wu Ying felt that although Liang Xi and Liang Ziyu were previously governors, they were only an outstanding border minister at best. How could they be compared with his father, a minister who founded the country from Conglong?
What Wu Ying didn't understand at this moment was that Liang Xi, named Ziyu, had moved to Xicao Lingshi as early as the period of Emperor Wu Cao Cao because of his outstanding political achievements. Later, he also took the important position of Bingzhou governor with the position of Sima of another department, and was promoted along the way. During his more than 20 years in office in Bingzhou, he lived in poverty but achieved outstanding political achievements. He diligently persuaded farmers and mulberry trees and issued orders and prohibitions, so that the border could be cleared and the people could live and work in peace and contentment. How can his efforts to rise from the mud to the top and the merits that have benefited the world be compared to his father Wu Zhi, a greedy official with over-the-top reputation, talent but no virtue?
Wu Ying was still thinking a lot at this moment. He thought: After the death of Emperor Wen, his father was deprived of military power, and his father died in depression because of this. Later, at my father's funeral, it was fine that the emperor didn't come in person, and he didn't even send a condolence messenger. I thought it was bearable, but what I never expected and couldn't bear was that the emperor actually chose to let Cao Zhen and Cao Zidan make the decision. My father’s posthumous name!
Everyone knows that Cao Zidan had an incomprehensible relationship with his father back then.
Father Wei Si Xing said Chou, and the posthumous name of his father Wu Zhi was exactly the word Chou.
This made Wu Ying feel as uncomfortable as eating a fly.
In order to change his father's posthumous title of "Ugly Marquis", although Wu Ying knew that he was a low-key person, for the sake of his father's reputation, he still chose to take the risk of offending the emperor and the emperor's famous man Cao Shuang, over and over again, tirelessly. He wrote in an attempt to rehabilitate his father's reputation and change his posthumous title. But over the past few years, the memorials I wrote one after another were as silent as a cow drowning in the sea.
But not long ago, something happened that made Wu Ying feel endless hope.
That was the death of Xia Houhui, the wife of Sima Shi, the young master of Wuyanghou Mansion. Because Wu Ying understands that the only lady who is in the same family as Sima Ziyuan and is about the same age as Sima Ziyuan is his sister Wu Qing.
This is not to say that there is anything wrong with my sister Wu Qing. The problem still lies in his father's extremely poor popularity and weird personality.
Thinking of this, Wu Ying, who was not ignorant, couldn't help but let out a long sigh. In fact, if you ask yourself, it's his own fault for his father receiving this evil posthumous title. But what Wu Ying felt dissatisfied with was that his father's merits and status should at least not end up like this.
Wu Ying thought to himself that the Sima family itself was very powerful, and Sima Yi's brothers and sons were all talented people. Not only that, the father-in-law of Sima Zhao, the second son of the Sima family, was the late Situ Lanlingchenghou. The eldest son of Wang Lang, an important official of the current dynasty, Sanqi often served as Prince Yong of Lanling Marquis Wang Su. If the Wu family can board the Sima family's big ship and climb the big sycamore tree of the Sima family, then not only will they have hope of redressing their father's name, but even revitalizing the Wu family's great cause will be just around the corner.
Thinking of this, Wu Ying's heart was suddenly filled with hope.
A month later, as Wu Ying expected, Sima Yi really sent a matchmaker to his home to say that he had hired a matchmaker. How could the smart Wu Ying miss such a good opportunity?
After Wu Ying gave his sister Wu Qing careful explanations and instructions, he prepared Wu Qing's dowry and discussed with Sima Yi an auspicious date for the marriage.
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Just when Wu Ying was about to write another letter to the emperor, in the residences of Tingwei and Yanshou Tinghou, the head of the family, Gao Rou and Gao Wenhui, was also leaning on the desk in the study, writing a letter that he planned to submit to the emperor. Reading memorial.
When Emperor Gao Rou Ziwu first established the Wei Kingdom, he had already begun to take charge of the laws of the kingdom. The case that made him famous was the case in which he interrogated Zhao Da and Lu Hong, two school officials under Emperor Wu. Back then, in court, Gao Rou single-handedly sentenced Zhao Da and Lu Hong to death, impressing everyone including Emperor Wu.
After Emperor Wu reluctantly parted ways and agreed to Gao Rou's execution of Zhao Da and Lu Hong, the whole world was shocked. The Chenliu Gao family, represented by Gao Rou, became the most famous legal family in the Wei Dynasty.
Gao Rou's sons Gao Jun, Gao Dan, Gao Guang, and even his eldest son Gao Xun all specialized in practicing law, and each had their own talents and reputations.
The status of Chenliu Gao's famous legal family has become more and more stable because of this.
At this moment, Gao Rou was sitting in front of the case, thinking about what he should write in his essay.
What makes Gao Rou very worried is that since the death of Zhuge Kongming of the Shu Han Dynasty, Emperor Cao Rui has begun to build palaces unscrupulously, and the people in the capital and various prefectures and counties have been working hard for it; in addition, the emperor has recently been addicted to women, On several occasions, many girls were recruited from among the people to fill the harem; not only that, the princes in the harem died in succession, and the emperor had no biological flesh and blood, so he chose the most suitable son from the clan as the emperor's heir, and the royal family had no heirs. This incident also made Gao Rou feel unhappy. taste.
Thinking about this, Gao Rou sighed and finally started writing his memorial:
"Your Majesty, the minister and the Marquis of Yanshou Pavilion, Rou Fu: Although Zhuge Kongming has died and Sun Zhongmou has retreated, the two captives of Wu and Shu are cunning and are still hiding behind the scenes and plotting a war without any intention of restraining themselves. They secretly think that it is better for your Majesty to raise soldiers. , repair and manage the armored soldiers, and treat them with ease.
However, His Majesty's construction of the palace and the toil of the top and bottom is not a good plan. If Wu and Shu know our true and false intentions and resume the trend of conspiring and merging, it will be very difficult for us, the Wei Dynasty, to control them.
In the past, the Han Dynasty cherished the resources of the ten families and did not provide entertainment on the small platform; to eliminate diseases and worry about the harm of the Xiongnu, it did not neglect the matter of governing the country. What's more, the loss now is not just a hundred gold expenses, and the worry is not Tu Beidi's troubles?
I think that now we can roughly complete the palace and pavilion that we have established, and slightly reduce the rituals of the court banquet, so as to fill the resources for soldiers and armor. Those who beg to stop building palaces will be allowed to return to farming. The work on the palaces and pavilions will be resumed after the two sides are calmed down.
In the past, Xuanyuan had twenty-five sons, so that his family could spread far and wide; only the Zhou Dynasty, with Ji Guo's forty, could flourish over the years. Your Majesty is intelligent and full of reason, but the prince has passed away many years ago, and Xiong Zhixiang has not been able to respond. The hearts of all the people are filled with sadness. According to Zhou Li, there are one hundred and twenty people below the emperor's concubine, and the concubines' rituals are now in full bloom. I have secretly heard the number in the back court, or if I repeat it, the holy heir will not be prosperous, and this is almost impossible. I foolishly thought that I could use Jian Shuyuan to prepare for the number of internal officials, and sent the rest back home. Moreover, Your Majesty should cultivate your energy and nourish your mind, and focus on tranquility as your treasure. In this way, the attack of the katydid can be achieved by common people. Chen Rou bowed his head and bowed again, panic-stricken. "
[Note 2: Xiong Zhi’s auspiciousness comes from "The Book of Songs·Xiaoya·Siqian": "The adults occupy it, and it is a bear and a snake, which is auspicious for men; it is auspicious for a woman and it is a snake." Good omen for boys. Katydid: The name of an insect that lays a lot of eggs; Zheng: a sign. Refers to the sign of many descendants. In addition, in order to make this memorial easier for readers to understand, the author has made many modifications on his own, which are inconsistent with the original text of the historical memorial. 】
After Gao Rou finished writing this eloquent essay, she checked it carefully again, and then blew away the wet ink marks on the essay with satisfaction.
At this time, Gao Rou's three sons, Gao Jun, Gao Dan and Gao Guang, are working together with Gao Xun, the husband-in-law of Princess Cao Ling of Dongxiang and the brother-in-law of His Majesty, who is also their cousin. several difficult cases.
