Wei Ding Chongguang: Cao Mao's Zhongxing Chronicle

A graduate student in the Department of Modern History passes through Cao Wei's puppet emperor Cao Mao and faces the crisis of Sima Zhao's dictatorship and Cao Wei's decline. In order to help the country, he hid in hiding and indulged in pleasure to paralyze the Sima clan. He took advantage of opportunities such as repairing the imperial mausoleum and inspecting the Imperial College to secretly contact loyal Wei forces, control farmland and racecourse resources, and build a military cave in Mang Mountain to accumulate counterattack force. When the time came, taking advantage of Sima Zhao's expedition to Huainan, Cao Mao planned a palace coup, tested his ambitions by "adding nine tins", and used secret passages to hide his troops for a surprise attack. After experiencing crises such as Sima Wang's counterattack, Zhong Hui and Deng Ai's attacks from the east and west, he relied on countermeasures and precise tactics to resolve one by one. Finally, he defeated the Sima family in a decisive battle on the Weishui River and regained power. After taking power, he implemented the land equalization system, reformed the tribute law, balanced the gentry and poor families, integrated military power, and laid the foundation for unification. Then the sword pointed at Bashu, Lou Chuandong went down, broke through the natural dangers, destroyed Shu and swallowed up Wu, and bridged the separation gap with cultural tolerance and educational reform. However, the cyclical law of the feudal dynasty is difficult to break, and there are hidden worries about the heirs and the system in his later years. Although Cao Mao rewrote the fate of Cao Wei, he left a deep proposition of long-term peace and stability for future generations. His legend of "the hidden dragon rises and the Wei Ding regains its glory" will eventually become a swan song in the annals of history.