History is not only the history of these big people, but also the history of countless small people, and it is precisely because of the existence of countless small people that history appears full and real. Before talking about this seven-pin petty official, we must first talk about a few big people. First of all, the first great figure Sima Yi, Sima Yi was a highly valued adviser to Cao Cao, cao Cao asked him to assist his eldest son Cao Pi during his lifetime, in 220 AD, after Cao Cao's death, Cao Pi forced the Han Emperor Liu Xiechan to make it, and Cao Wei was formally established. When Cao Cao was alive, he discovered that Sima Yi would never live under people for a long time, and Cao Cao Cao Cheng Xiang Who was also, if he did not look at the world's affairs, Cao Cao could blackmail the Son of Heaven to order the princes? However, Cao Pi vigorously defended Sima Yi, and Sima Yi was very good at "pretending to be a grandson", and Cao Cao did not treat Sima Yi well in the end, but before his death, he also solemnly warned Cao Pi not to reuse Sima Yi. However, in 221, the following year after Cao Pi became emperor, Sima Yi was promoted to the post of Servant of Shizhong and Shangshu right servant and became the de facto chancellor (Cao Wei did not have the post of chancellor). In 226, when Cao Pi died, Sima Yi became a Tuoguo heavy subject again, and after the Wei Ming Emperor Cao Rui (Cao Pi's son) succeeded to the throne, Sima Yi repeatedly moved the military heavy posts of general, general, and lieutenant of the army, and Sima Yi not only held a high position of power, but also began to form his own "people and horses". Although Cao Cao's two good sons and grandsons Cao Pi and Cao Rui did not listen to Cao Cao's words, they did not suffer losses in front of them, because Cao Pi and his son Cao Rui were both kings with great ability and means, and although Sima Yi was highly powerful, he was basically very 'obedient', and when Cao Rui died young, the successor king could not stop Sima Yi. Therefore, sometimes not listening to the old man may not suffer losses in front of the eyes, but behind the eyes.
Three kingdoms
From the spring of 228 to the winter of 234 AD, Zhuge Liang led the Shu army on the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains (Cao Wei) five times, and the main commander of the Wei army in the early days was Sima Cao Zhen, who died of illness in 231 AD, and Sima Yi became the main commander of the Cao army against the Shu army, and Sima Yi began to establish an important influence in the Cao Wei army. However, the Wei Ming Emperor Cao Rui had a deep and resolute personality and a strategy, and Sima Yi and other auxiliary ministers were like a decoration, and Cao Rui firmly controlled Cao Wei's military and political supreme power. In 239 , Cao Rui died of illness at the age of 36 , and his only surviving adopted son , Cao Fang ( 232–274 , who was probably the son of Cao Kai the Prince of Rencheng , Cao Zhang 's grandson and Cao Cao 's great-grandson ) succeeded him , assisted by the general Cao Shuang (Cao Wei Zongfu , Cao Cao's grandson ) and Sima Yi ( 司馬懿) the prince of Rencheng. It has to be said that the two generations of emperors of Cao Wei, Cao Pi and Cao Rui' father and son, lived too young, and Cao Pi was only 40 years old when he died of illness, which gave Sima Yi a chance. After that, the contradiction between Cao Shuang and Sima Yi gradually deepened, Cao Shuang was quite a bit of a sense of flying and stumbling, while Sima Yi was humble everywhere, Tao Guang yang was waiting for an opportunity to counterattack, and finally Sima Yi simply pretended to be ill and did not ask about the government. In 249, the time for a decisive battle between the two sides arrived, accompanied by the general Cao Shuang, the leader of the forbidden army, Cao Xi, the leader of the forbidden army, and the Wuwei general Cao Xun (both of whom were Cao Shuang's brothers). Sima Yi took the opportunity to take control of the capital Luoyang, and Cao Shuang's think tank, Huan Fan, who had escaped from Luoyang, saw Cao Shuang and persuaded him to take the Wei emperor Cao Fang hostage to Xuchang in order to order the king of Qin. Cao Shuang did not listen, but instead had sima yi contact, and believed sima yi's promise that he would be rich for the rest of his life by deposing his official post, "Sima Yi just wants to seize my power. I can be a rich man. After Cao Shuang surrendered, he was immediately exterminated by Sima Yi. Sometimes stupidity and innocence are not written on the face, but in the heart, just like the bad words of bad people are never written on the face, and the stupid words are never written on the face, just like this great general Cao Shuang, so naïve and romantic, I really don't know how he became a great general, why do we read history, that is, to make ourselves no longer naïve. From then on, Sima Yi monopolized power, and Emperor Cao Wei became a puppet of Sima Shi.
Zhuge Liang's five Northern Expeditions
In 251, at the age of 73, Sima Yi died, and his eldest son Sima Shi continued to dominate the imperial government as a great general, and in 254, the Wei emperor Cao Fang tried to get rid of Sima Shi, but the matter was revealed, and Sima Shi deposed Cao Fang as the King of Qi and established Cao Fu as emperor. Although Cao Xian (mào) was only a teenager, but as the eldest grandson of Cao Pishu, he was not only strong in character, but also quite strategic, in 255 AD, Sima Shi died of illness more suddenly, when Sima Shi was in Xuchang, Sima Shi urgently summoned Sima Zhao in Luoyang to Xuchang, after seeing Sima Zhao, Sima Shi said, "You take over my great general seal", before the words were finished, Sima Shi was out of breath, and it is estimated that this breath was left to see Sima Zhao. At this time, Cao Zhao, who had only been on the throne for 15 years, suddenly felt that the sun was shining brightly, and ordered Sima Zhao to stay in Xuchang, and let Shangshu Fu Gao lead the army back to Luoyang, Cao Xian was ready to take advantage of Sima Zhao's absence to launch a coup d'état to seize power, but Sima Zhao was not a two-hundred-and-five, Sima Zhao led the army back to Luoyang, and Cao Zhao had no choice but to make Sima Zhao a general.
Sima Zhao
In 260 AD, Sima Zhao's heart was already known to everyone, and Cao Xian was not willing to wait until the day he was deposed, and decided to fight to the death. On the sixth night of the first month of May of that year, Cao Xian gathered hundreds of his loyalists in the palace, Su Wei, and summoned Wang Shen of Shizhong, Wang Ye of Shanqi Changshi, Wang Jing of Shangshu, and others to "Sima Zhao's heart is already known to everyone", and Sima Zhao's heart is known to everyone that this idiom allusion came from this way, and ordered them to go to Sima Zhao's mansion together to capture Sima Zhao. King Shangshu persuaded Cao Xi to make detailed plans and not to be hasty, while Wang Shen and Wang Ye of The Scattered Horse Ran to Sima Zhao's mansion to inform him, and Sima Zhao was shocked to hear the news. On this night, Cao Xian drew his sword and ascended to the throne, and under the shouts of hundreds of palace guards and slaves, he left the palace, and went straight to Sima Zhao's mansion with a tremendous momentum. At the East Gate of chemen, they encountered soldiers led by Sima Ling (Sima Zhao's younger brother), a lieutenant of the Tun Riding School, and at this moment the soldiers seemed to see Cao Cao's figure, and Sima Ling's soldiers fled without a fight. Subsequently, the Central Guard Jia Chong led thousands of forbidden troops to block Cao Xi's party, Cao Xian pulled out his sword, loudly reprimanded, who dared to move the three tribes, at this moment Cao Wei's forbidden army seemed to feel the killing spirit of Cao Pi's grandfather Cao Pi and his great-grandfather Cao Cao, and couldn't help but feel cold, and prepared to retreat in front of this righteous Tianzi. At this time, the younger brother of the horse governor Cheng Qi, Crown Prince Sheren (Qipin) Cheng Ji asked Jia Chong what to do, Jia Chong said, "Sima Gong raised you just for today", so Cheng Ji, who was determined to make a contribution, immediately pulled out Chang Ge and went forward to assassinate Cao Xi, after all, an inch long and an inch stronger, the sword was shorter than Chang Ge, and Cao Ji was stabbed to death. In fact, Cao Xian's weapon is not right, he should take a Sulu ingot spear like Genghis Khan, which is not only heroic, but also has a greater role in actual combat. Hearing the news of Cao Wei's death, Sima Zhao fell to his knees at once, after all, Sima Yi started from Cao Cao's courtiers, and even if he wanted to replace Cao Wei, the shadow area of Emperor Cao Wei in his heart should be very large.
Cao Xian
When Cao Xi was buried, the people gathered together and watched, "covering their faces and weeping, and their sorrows were invincible." Many ministers in the court were even more excited and demanded that Jia Chong be killed, but Sima Zhao kept Jia Chong alive and casually found an excuse to kill Shang Shu Wang Jing. But always find a cannon fodder and scapegoat, otherwise it is really impossible to say, after all, the legitimate Tianzi was killed. So Sima Zhao decided to kill the "murderer" Cheng Ji and his accomplice Cheng Ji's brother Cheng Ji. Feeling that the two brothers who had "made a great contribution" for Sima Shi were quite dissatisfied, they ran bare-chested to the roof of their own house and began to scold Sima Zhao's ancestors for eighteen generations, and were shot by the soldiers who arrived later, which was really a bit "dead and blind". As for whether these two brothers were exterminated of the three tribes, according to the records of the "Records of Emperor Wen of the Book of Jin": "The Jigan state is in chaos, the crimes are not to be blamed, and the family members are collected, and Fu Tingwei is married." The empress dowager followed the three tribes of Yiji. "That is to say, they were exterminated by the three tribes." And the "Biography of Xun Xun" says that "the Emperor Desire Clan Curses You, Xun Zhi Yue, now cheng cheng sentence to stop his body, You Nai Clan Curse, fear the righteous private discussion." The argument through this circumstantial evidence is that Sima Zhao only killed the two brothers, not their three tribes. As for which statement is true, I can only say that I don't know, the ancients who wrote these history books have been dead for more than 1,000 years, and they can't call them out and ask, "Hey, who are you lying?" However, from the analysis of common sense, Sima Zhao's feelings about these two "cannon fodder" are contradictory, on the one hand, he is touched and pitiful to these two brothers, on the other hand, he has to give an explanation to the courtiers and the people, after all, the son of heaven who killed, although he is a puppet, is also a son of heaven, belongs to the king of the king, in ancient times the crime of deceiving the king can kill the head, not to mention the crime of killing the king. It is very likely that the Yisan clan only made a show in the court, and privately killed these two unlucky eggs, and did not destroy the three tribes. Therefore, don't be too excited, excited is easy to become "cannon fodder". In addition, I did not find the historical portraits of these two brothers, they are all small people in history, and it is estimated that the portraits are basically nothing to do with them.