During the period when Sima Yi was arrested, Fu Wan, the commander of the Tunqi, was seriously ill. His son Fu Dian personally went to the prime minister's mansion to ask Cao Cao to allow the queen Fu Shou to leave the palace to see his father for the last time. At first, Cao Cao refused Fu Dian's request because Fu Shou had secretly planned to plot against him many times, but Xun Yu said to Cao Cao:

"Filial piety is the first priority for all virtues. If the Prime Minister does not allow the Empress to visit Fu Wan, he will probably be criticized."

After repeated consideration, Cao Cao finally agreed to this matter, and under Xun Yu's persuasion, he lifted the siege of the Imperial Guards to Deyang Palace, giving Liu Xie and Fu Shou a certain degree of personal freedom.

At the same time, Fu Ruoxin, who was temporarily arranged by Zhong Yu in the inn, also learned that Fu Wan was critically ill, so she hurried home to visit her father. Fu Wan, who was lying on the sickbed, finally felt relieved after watching his little daughter come back safely. He struggled to lift his right hand and gently placed it on Fu Ruoxin's head:

"I heard you went to Jingzhou alone before. I was really worried about what happened to you. It's great that you are safe."

Looking at his father's haggard posture with a sick face, Fu Ruoxin held his father's hand tightly:

"The daughter is unfilial, which makes her father worried."

Fu Wan turned his face and looked at the top and sighed:

"The person who really worried me was not you, but your sister. I'm afraid that if she continues like this, not only will she die in a bad life, but the entire Fu clan may be implicated by her."

Fu Ruoxin, who knew Fu Shou's temper, understood his father's meaning very well, but at the same time she knew that there was no way to stop him. Fu Wan didn't want Fu Ruoxin to be involved, so he stretched out his right hand and patted Fu Ruoxin's back of his hand twice and said earnestly:

"You must leave this place of right and wrong quickly and find someone who is really good to you to marry. Never participate in the palace affairs."

Speaking of this, Fu Wan couldn't help but feel guilty for not helping her daughter find her husband for a long time:

"I did something wrong for my father, that is, I married your sister to the royal family and the emperor. My daughter remembers not to marry anyone who is involved in the royal family again. It's a pity that my father has not had much time and can't watch you get married with his own eyes..."

At this time, Fu Ruoxin thought of the Sima Yi he liked. It was because he had a close relationship with the royal family that in order not to make his father worry about him, she comforted Fu Wan and said:

"Don't worry, my daughter already has someone she likes. He is a good person and a person worth entrusting for life."

Just now, the eunuch's high-killed and sharp voice came from outside the door: "The Empress is here..."

Everyone knelt on the ground to welcome Fu Shou. At this time, Fu Ruoxin didn't want to see her sister at all, but after all, there was a father who was lying on a sickbed next to her and was in danger. She was inconvenient to directly reflect the conflict between herself and Fu Shou, so she also knelt on the ground to welcome Fu Shou as usual.

After entering the house, Fu Shou saw his sister kneeling on the ground for the first time. At first she was very surprised, but when she saw that her sister was safe and sound, a hint of relief appeared on Fu Shou's face.

While she was dying, Fu Wan still tried hard to persuade Fu Shou not to act against the will of heaven. Cao Cao, who was in power, was not something she and Liu Xie could deal with. However, despite many failures, Fu Shou was still persistent in helping Liu Xie re-police the Han Dynasty. This made Fu Wan deeply sad. He sighed to the sky and closed his eyes forever.

Seeing that his father had already left, Fu Shou and Fu Dian knelt on the ground and cried. Only Fu Shou held back the tears that burst out from his eyes and held Fu Wan's hand tightly: "Father, please watch well in the sky. One day I will let you understand that the path I am on is correct."

Considering that Fu Wan was an old minister of the three generations and had certain expectations, Cao Cao asked the emperor Liu Xie, who had returned to court to make a grand funeral to express his merits of helping the emperor return to the east.

At this time, Fu Ruoxin was exhausted. Her beloved man was locked up in Tingweisi. Life and death were uncertain. Her father had just passed away. She felt very sad and very tired.

In the process of keeping the spirit for Fu Wan, due to the fatigue of several days, many of the Fu family members who kept holding their hands and falling asleep, only kneeling in Fu Shou and Fu Ruoxin's eyes were always staring at Fu Wan's spiritual position.

"You told my father before that you have someone you like, did you mean Sima Yi?"

Even though I knew that my sister was resenting herself, Fu Shou couldn't help but ask for her lifelong happiness.

After hearing her words, Fu Ruoxin still looked at Fu Wan's spiritual position in front of her without looking away, and replied coldly:

"yes..."

When Fu Shou heard this, she couldn't sit still, and she immediately expressed her strong opposition:

"No, you must not be with Sima Yi..."

Although Fu Shou's voice was pressed down as low as possible due to the fact that there were many relatives around her, she could still hear her opposition to this matter. After looking at the surroundings, she said to Fu Ruoxin in a smaller voice than before:

"You should know how dangerous the identity Sima Yi has is for him, how can you continue to like him?"

Fu Ruoxin sneered at this:

"Haha, the Queen should have known that I have Sima Yi in my heart, right? Why didn't you object at that time?"

Fu Shou was speechless when he asked this sentence. Seeing that she was speechless, Fu Ruoxin continued:

"Why don't I answer for you, because at that time you wanted to use my love for Sima Yi to let me pass on the message for you, and then use Sima Yi's loyalty to His Majesty to deceive him by Cao Cao's side and caused his Red Cliff to be defeated. After the heavy losses, you can take this opportunity to take the opportunity to take over the power of the government. Unfortunately, your organization has done everything but failed."

Fu Shou didn't expect that Fu Ruoxin could see this matter so thoroughly and fell into a daze for a moment...

Since he personally issued the delivery of Sima Yi to the Tingwei for a few days, Cao Cao had been unable to sleep well for some reason. While tossing and turning, he always recalled Sima Yi's lingering figure in his mind.

He specially found Jia Xu, told him his true thoughts, and asked what to do with Sima Yi at this time.

After pondering for a moment, Jia Xu did not directly answer his question: "The Prime Minister is a talented person. I am afraid that few people can plot against you in their life. Although Sima Yi is very young, he can make you, who has an absolute advantage, go home in a crushing defeat."

Although Jia Xu did not express his attitude explicitly, Cao Cao heard the taste from his words and then smiled:

"That's not necessarily true? If it weren't for your battle in Wancheng, how could I lose my eldest son's beloved general?"

In fact, Jia Xu was waiting for Cao Cao to notice this, so that he could realize the meaning he wanted to convey to him secretly. For this reason, he did not hesitate to remind Cao Cao of the pain he was most reluctant to touch.

Cao Cao began to hesitate. Seeing this, Jia Xu took advantage of the situation and said, "Can the Prime Minister tolerate Sima Yi who killed the eldest son and General Dian? Can't he tolerate Sima Yi, who was young and energetic, for a moment of enemy?"

Cao Cao listened to Jia Xu's words. Although Cao Hong repeatedly urged Sima Yi to kill him to relieve the defeat of Chibi, Cao Cao did not issue this order for a long time. Instead, he became suspicious and disgusted with Cao Hong.

That night, Sima Yi sat on the grass in the cage, drawing something on the dusty stone wall with white stones. Perhaps because of too much concentration, he did not notice that the prison door behind him was opened.

The person standing in front of the prison door watching Sima Yi's movements was Cao Cao.

Cao Zhen, who was standing next to Cao Cao, wanted to call Sima Yi, but before he made a sound, Cao Cao reached out to stop him.

He just stood at the old door, staring patiently at the content Sima Yi drew on the stone wall.

"All of them are locked up, are you still interested in drawing maps?"

Finally, Cao Cao spoke. After hearing this, Sima Yi threw away the stone in his hand and turned around and bowed to Cao Cao:

"The criminals pay homage to the Prime Minister..."

Cao Cao did not look at Sima Yi whom he had always wanted to see. Instead, he was interested in the map Sima Yi drew on the wall. Instead, he pointed to the map on the wall and asked, "Is this a map of Yong, Liang and Hanzhong?"

Sima Yi replied: "The Prime Minister is wise."

At this time, Cao Cao turned his gaze to Sima Yi again. He bent down and stretched out his hand to push away the gravel on the grass collapse and sat on it, squinted his eyes and looked at Sima Yi:

"When fighting against the Sun and Liu coalition forces, did you agree to become an official in order to make me fail?"

Sima Yi's answer to this without any obscure answer: "It's..."

"Oh, you admit it very readily..."

Seeing that Sima Yi was so readily admitting, Cao Cao couldn't help laughing out loud, and he continued to ask:

"Then let's talk about it, what's the reason why you came to see me?"

Sima Yi pointed his hand at Yong, Liang and Xichuan on the wall. The map of Hanzhong said to Cao Cao:

"The Battle of Red Cliff caused great failures in the Prime Minister and lost Nanjun and other places with Jiangling's important town as the core. Later, the Prime Minister also personally took over Qiao County, built light warships, and trained the navy to attack Sun Quan, but returned in vain. It can be seen that the strategy of southward advance formulated by the Prime Minister can basically make conclusions that are difficult to implement."

Listening to Sima Yi's accurate analysis, Cao Cao was not in a hurry to express his opinion, but chose to continue listening patiently:

“Speak…”

Sima Yi walked to the map and pointed at it and explained: "Now Liu Bei occupied Jingnan, while Sun Quan occupied Jiangdong. In contrast, Liu Bei had a lot of choice. He could advance westward to Duobashu and Hanzhong, and retreat to defend his existing territory. Sun Quan was different. He had no expansion chassis except for going south to occupy Jiaozhou ruled by Shi Xie. Although Sun Quan and Liu Bei were still in alliances in the current situation, even if there was friction between the two sides in a short period of time, there would be no head-on conflict, but as time went deeper, their rift would sooner or later change the situation of the world."

Cao Cao asked, "So, what should I do now?"

Facing Cao Cao's question, Sima Yi stretched out his right hand and spread his five fingers and covered his Hanzhong area and said to Cao Cao:

"The Prime Minister's eyes should be placed in this Hanzhong area. I expect Liu Bei will raise an army to attack Yizhou soon. If Xichuan falls into Liu Bei's hands, Hanzhong will soon be occupied by him. Liu Bei's strength among the enemies the Prime Minister will face will be greatly enhanced, and then the front line you are facing will spread to the west of the Sanfu."

Speaking of this, Sima Yi turned the topic back to the Sun-Liu alliance mentioned earlier, and he believed:

"If Liu Bei conquered Xichuan, he would have to leave heavy troops to defend Sun Quan in Jingzhou. Once he seized the Yizhou Sun Quan, he would be jealous of his whale and swallowed Bashu, which would inevitably intensify the collapse of the alliance. And the Prime Minister raised his troops to settle Hanzhong, and the situation of being attacked by Sun Liu on both sides would be fundamentally changed, because at that time Sun Quan would never sit idly by Liu Bei's family. We can join forces with Sun Quan to attack Liu Bei first, and then try to eliminate Sun Quan."

After basically telling his plan, Sima Yi bowed to Cao Cao and said:

"I have previously caused the Prime Minister to be defeated, and today I will offer a plan to advance westward to make up for my previous mistakes."

Looking at Sima Yi who was servile about the world situation in front of him, even though Cao Cao was still doubting whether he was sincere, he was indeed attracted by Sima Yi's strategy of advancing westward.

No one dared to vent loudly in the silent cage, and the atmosphere made every prisoner so nervous that he could not breathe.

After a long time, Cao Cao finally stood up and leaned over and patted the dust stained on his butt, turned around and walked towards the prison door, while Sima Yi still kept bent down and bowed.

After listening to Sima Yi's argument, Cao Zhen believed that moving westward is the most effective and best way to expand the border, but Cao Cao did not respond and wanted to leave, which made Cao Zhen feel a little worried that Cao Cao would miss this opportunity.

Just as Cao Zhen was about to stop him, Cao Cao, who had stepped out of the prison door with his right foot, suddenly stopped and turned his back to Sima Yi behind him and said: "From today on, you will no longer be a literary clerk in the Prime Minister's Mansion. In the future, you will be divided into East and West Cao with Jiang Ji."

Sima Yi still did not raise his head, but just expressed his gratitude to Cao Cao for activating himself again:

"Thank you Prime Minister..."
Chapter completed!