Chapter 46 2. The choice of Ding Yi

Sima Yi was not the only one who was extremely concerned about how to establish an heir after Cao Cao was granted the Duke of Wei by the Jin Dynasty.Ding Yi, who is in charge of the personnel affairs in the prime minister's mansion, is also worrying about this matter.Contrary to Sima Yi, the object of his support is Cao Cao's second son, Cao Zhi. Why did you choose Cao Zhi as your object of support?His younger brother Ding Yan asked him more than once.Ding Yi always smiled but didn't answer.Yes, from a common sense point of view, Cao Pi, as the eldest son, with both civil and military skills, is the most likely to be established as heir.But Cao Pi is narrow-minded, more than gloomy but not bright enough. Such a person can't achieve great things at all.As soon as Ding Yi thought about this, he couldn't help recalling the grievance complex between himself and Cao Pi.

Ding Yi has been reading extensively since childhood, recites more than a thousand words a day, and has a photographic memory. He is known as a "child prodigy".But because he read too much and didn't pay attention to rest and adjustment, his eyesight was greatly damaged.When he was twenty years old, his left eye became blind due to heat poisoning, and only his right eye was barely able to see.For Ding Yi, the blind eyes of a young man is a deep pain in his heart.But this also happened to be the driving force for his inspiration, forcing him to work hard, and finally became a generation of famous Confucianism, famous in Kanto. He is going to betroth his beloved daughter Cao Ying to Ding Yi as his wife.In order to handle this matter properly, Cao Cao specially ordered Cao Pi to invite Ding Yi with a gift.

Unexpectedly, Cao Pi's good friend Xia Houmao loved Cao Ying very much, so he begged Cao Pi not to promise her to Ding Yi.Cao Pi was in a dilemma, so he persuaded Cao Cao: "Father only loves his daughter, and talents and talents can be found everywhere. If you ask for courtesy, who can't get it? Although Ding Yi is talented, but young and blind, I'm afraid Yingmei I looked down on him, but a lot of troubles happened, and I lost the original intention of hiring Ding Yi with a lot of money!" Cao Cao weighed it over and over again, and finally accepted his suggestion, and did not betroth Cao Ying to Ding Yi.However, after Cao Cao waited for Ding Yi to enter the mansion, after talking with him, he found that he really knew the wisdom and strategy, so he couldn't help patting his knees and sighing: "Young Master Ding is really a genius in the world! You should entrust Ying'er's lifelong happiness to you, let alone you are only blind in the left eye? It's Pi'er who misjudged the truth by judging people by their appearance!" Only then did Ding Yi realize that there was such a foreplay.But he didn't take it too seriously.After all, Ding Yi still has self-knowledge. She has ugly eyes and is not suitable for being the prime minister's beloved daughter. However, Cao Pi has a ghost in his heart.Seeing Cao Pi's narrow-mindedness, Ding Yi felt contempt spontaneously in his heart, and from then on, he was like a passer-by with him and went their separate ways.Moreover, through this incident, Ding Yi saw the flaws in Cao Pi's character. He looks brave but timid, sensitive and suspicious, and he doesn't have the grandeur and boldness of his father's hesitation and absorption of Baichuan.All this is doomed that Cao Pi will never be able to truly rule the world.

And Cao Zhi is different from his elder brother Cao Pi.Cao Zhi was bright and bright by nature, broad-minded, generous and benevolent, and at the same time erudite and talented, enough to be a generation of sages.A good bird chooses a tree to live in, and a wise man chooses a master to work on. Therefore, Ding Yi would rather choose Cao Zhi, who is more difficult to establish an heir, as the object of his allegiance, rather than follow the example of other courtiers to follow Cao Pi. Thinking of this, he slowly opened a collection of poems that Cao Zhi gave him.He is fond of reciting poems and composing Fu, and he is proficient in it, but every time he reads Cao Zhi's poems, he always feels like drinking sweet wine.Cao Zhi's poems are fresh and natural, fluent and lively, with witty words, which are heart-wrenching.In that poem, "the herring leaps in the east marsh, and the white bird plays in the west lake", what a lively mind this is! "I want to fight the six hexes, clear the fog and linger on the purple void", what a magnificent scene this is!The more Ding Yi read it, the more meaningful it became, and she would strike a chord with admiration from time to time.

Finally, Ding Yi fell into deep contemplation after returning to reality from Cao Zhi's brilliant and dazzling artistic conception of the article.Cao Zhi's literary talent is indeed unparalleled in the world, but can this be the condition for him to be established as the son of the world?Ding Yi was not sure about this.But he was going to use this point to cut into reality to help Cao Zhi open up a shortcut to the position of son. He picked up his pen, approved a note, and wrote: "The world's best essays must be shared, how can I leave my desk alone? When the title of the poem moves in all directions, the sky, clouds and shadows wander together." At the same time, he called the servant outside the door. , Picked up the collection of poems sent by Cao Zhi on the desk, together with the comment, and handed it to him, saying: "You take this collection of poems to the doctors of the Literature Museum for circulation, and ask someone to transcribe them. Copy 3,400 copies, and they must be completed within three days, and then distributed to hundreds of officials in the court and all states and counties!" The servant took the collection of poems and was ordered to leave.

Ding Yi pondered for a moment, then slowly picked up the pen, as if lifting a heavy burden, as if it was very difficult.Finally mentioned the mid-air, after a moment of contemplation, the pen in his hand pierced the ground like a dragon breaking through the clouds, and swayed like the wind on the paper on the table. This may be the most difficult and wonderful memorial he wrote in his life.