But no matter how Jia Chong led his men to search, Bai Lingjun was like evaporating from the world, disappearing without a trace, and Jia Chong was helpless. After all, the population of Chang'an is as many as hundreds of thousands. Searching for a woman in the vast sea of ​​people is tantamount to looking for a needle in a haystack.

What's more, there must be experts around Bai Lingjun's side. These masters have great abilities and abilities. Jia Chong's search aimlessly is naturally futile.

Jia Chong had no choice but to send people to continue the search, and at the same time he hoped that the city walls of Chang'an could trap Bai Lingjun. As long as Bai Lingjun did not escape from Chang'an City, Sima Zhao would have the chance to threaten Sima Lun, but if Bai Lingjun escaped from Chang'an City, everything would be useless.

The top priority in front of Sima Zhao is not the search for Bai Lingjun, but the matter of establishing a new king. The sky cannot be without a day, and the country cannot be without a day. Emperor Cao Mao was assassinated. While he was in charge of national funerals, he must also quickly establish a new king and inherit the throne.

When Cao Mao died, he thought he was only sixteen years old and had not yet married, let alone had children, so he had no successor. At this moment, the ministers could only discuss and choose the Cao family's descendants as emperor from the Cao family's royal family.

Previously, Sima Zhao originally liked Cao Huang, son of King Yan Cao Yu, but after experiencing all kinds of troubles, Sima Zhao's ambitions had expanded to an endless level. He was no longer satisfied with being a puppet manipulator behind the scenes, but wanted to ascend to the throne of the Nine Five Lords and experience the feeling of dominating the world.

To be honest, the only way to threaten Sima Zhao's ascend to the throne was Sima Shi. It was not that Sima Shi had no ambitions, but that Sima Shi would weigh the pros and cons. At that time, Sima Shi took over the power from Sima Yi and occupied most of the territory of Cao Wei. Sima Shi had no idea of ​​becoming emperor because Sima Shi felt that the time was not yet ripe.

Now, the Sima family has declined to the two states of Yongliang, and most of the territory that was originally in charge have fallen. When it was in its prime, the time was not ripe. Now that it is defeated, what capital can there be to be called emperor? Therefore, Sima Shi's life will be the biggest obstacle for Sima Zhao to become emperor.

But after Sima Zhao killed his brother, no one could stop Sima Zhao's ambition to become emperor. Sima Zhao was different from Sima Shi. Sima Shi valued the pattern. When the world was not determined and the time was not right, he would not rashly proclaim himself emperor, because he knew that it was easy to be emperor, but it was not easy to defend the country. As soon as he climbed to the 95th position, he was driven down by someone. The old Sima family could not afford to lose that person.

But Sima Zhao is different. Seeing that the Sima family is at a loss, Sima Zhao's ambitions even more aroused. If no one in the Sima family proclaims emperor at this time, there will be no chance in the future. Therefore, while the Sima family can still control Guanzhong and the court, change the dynasty and rule the world, even if they are satisfied, Sima Zhao is willing to die.

Jia Chong, Xun Yi, Wang Xiang, Xun Xu, Wang Shen and others fully supported Sima Zhao's act of becoming emperor. They became fanatical pursuers of Sima Zhao and tried their best to build momentum for Sima Zhao's achievement.

On the contrary, He Zeng, Zheng Chong, Gao Rou and other old ministers all opposed it. They believed that the current situation was tense and Sima Zhao's act of proclaiming emperor would not only not resolve the current conflict, but would also intensify the conflict. The best way was to choose one of the descendants of the Cao family to inherit the throne, so that the conflict might be eased.

But Sima Zhao did not listen to the old minister's words. With his inflated ambition, he had already lost his vigilance and insisted on his own.

First, Sima Zhao entered the palace to threaten Empress Dowager Guo, asking her to issue an imperial edict, listing many of Cao Mao's crimes. The general idea was that when he was assisting Cao Mao, he was interested in his "good books and articles, hoping to be a good person", but he did not expect that "the emotions and nature are violent, and the sun and the moon are very popular". My empress dowager several times and did not work. Later, she discussed with General Sima Zhao to depose and rename him. The general thought that he was young and ignorant, but he could still be crafted and tried to observe the future. But unexpectedly, he became more and more arrogant and shot my palace with bows and arrows, and the bows and arrows even fell in front of me. I asked the general to depose him dozens of times. After Cao Mao knew about it, he even bribed the people around me to poison me. Later, he was killed by an assassin, and the conspiracy failed. This child was "rebellious and should be deposed as a commoner, and this child should be buried with the courtesy of the people."

At this time, Sima Zhao had changed the palace guard commander, all of which were his confidants. Since Cao Mao was assassinated, the palace garrison was extremely strict. The palace people in each palace could only stay in their own palaces, which was like house arrest, and Empress Dowager Guo was no exception.

At this time, Empress Dowager Guo saw Sima Zhao's ambitions clearly. Unfortunately, it was too late. Sima Zhao, who was in power, completely manipulated her life and death. If she refused, it would be the end of Bu Caoma and Sima Shi.

Empress Dowager Guo was regretful, but she had no choice but to write an imperial edict according to Sima Zhao's wishes, deposed the late emperor Cao Mao as a commoner, and buried him with civil etiquette, and no longer received posthumous titles or other treatments.

When Zheng Chong and others heard about it, they submitted memorials, begging Cao Mao to bury him with the king's ceremony and restore his title to the noble township duke. Sima Zhao thought about it for a while and felt that killing was just a matter of being the first to touch the ground. Cao Mao was dead and the throne was deposed. He was buried with the king's ceremony. So he was ready to report it.

On the same day, Empress Dowager Guo submitted a joint letter from Jia Chong, Xun Yi, Wang Xiang, Xun Xu, Wang Shen and others, and added Sima Zhao as King of Jin and gave him nine tins. Sima Zhao refused to accept the resignation. The Empress Dowager issued three edicts, and Sima Zhao first accepted it.

The next day, Jia Chong and others wrote another letter, saying that the country cannot be without a king for a day. Now the descendants of the Cao family are mediocre and mediocre, and their talents are not worthy of the rank of the nine five. Only King Sima Zhao of Jin is both virtuous and talented, capable of governing the world, and can benefit the people of the world. Since ancient times, the position of emperors has been entrusted with virtue. Therefore, King Sima Zhao of Jin inherited the throne and responded reasonably, and asked Empress Dowager Guo to issue an edict to the world, and make Sima Zhao of the country the emperor, and the country was named Jin.

Although Empress Dowager Guo was extremely angry, she was no longer able to change anything now. She could only watch the Cao family's country be taken away by Sima Zhao and was powerless.

In order to seize power, Sima Zhao had already killed many people, and he didn't care about killing many people. One general succeeded and thousands of bones were undone. The emperor's position was always piled up with corpses and lives.

In June of the summer of the second year of Ganlu of Wei, Sima Zhao usurped Wei and established himself, changed the country's name to Jin, and changed the era of Jingtai.
Chapter completed!