"Cao Wei usurped Han, Sima usurped Wei", some people call this phenomenon "cause and effect". However, if we expand the historical trajectory before and after the Three Kingdoms, we will find another phenomenon of extreme fear, Cao Cao is likely to be just a pawn in the Sima family's attempt to lay out the world a hundred years ago.
I don't know, is this the long-term plan of the Sima family, or the deliberate arrangement of the heavens?
This matter must start from Sima Yi's father Sima Fang.
▲Sima Fang stills
Sima Fang (司馬防), courtesy name Jiangong, was a native of Wen County, Hanoi (present-day Wen County, Henan), who had eight sons, known historically as Sima Bada (司馬朗, 司馬懿, 司馬福, 司馬馗, 司馬恂, 司馬進, 司馬通, and 司馬敏), and Sima Yi was the second son.
According to the "Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms, Wei Shu, WuDi Ji" and the "Three Kingdoms Chronicle of Wei Shu WuDi" and the "Three Kingdoms Chronicle of Wei Shu Wu" quoted in the "Four-Body Calligraphy", in 174 AD, the 20-year-old Cao Cao embarked on the legendary road of the first stop "Luoyang Northern Wei" (equivalent to the current deputy county-level public security bureau chief), which was recommended by Sima Fang of Henan.
It can be said that Sima Fang was also the first cornerstone of the Cao Wei regime.
Later, the Sima family always occupied an important position in the Cao Wei regime, especially Sima Yi, and it was Cao Cao who forced him out of the army with a knife.
In September 254, Sima Yi's eldest son, Sima Shi, deposed Cao Fang's throne in accordance with Huo Guang's story.
Since then, Cao Fang has also become the first cornerstone of the Sima family's unification of the country. This year, exactly 80 years have passed since Cao Cao embarked on the first stop of the legendary road, "Luoyang Northern Lieutenant".
In 263, Sima Yi's second son Sima Zhao, destroyed shu han in the name of Cao Wei.
On November 12, 265, Sima Yan usurped the power of the State of Wei and established the Western Jin Dynasty, known as Emperor Wu of Jin, and the State of Wei was destroyed.
▲ Stills of Cao Cao and Sima Yi
In 279 AD, the Western Jin Dynasty destroyed Wu and unified the whole country. This year, exactly 105 years have passed since Cao Cao embarked on the first stop of the legendary road, "Luoyang Northern Lieutenant".
That is to say, if you count from the time when Sima Fang became the first cornerstone of Cao Wei's regime, it is exactly one century of great reincarnation, and in this century of great reincarnation, if there is no Cao Cao, can the Sima family still establish the Western Jin Dynasty? I don't know how many of them there will be.
However, it was precisely because of Cao Cao's relationship that there were the later Three Kingdoms; it was also because of Cao Cao's relationship that there was a Cao Wei regime with two of the three worlds; and because of Cao Wei's strength, there was a foundation for the Sima family to unify the whole country.
Therefore, 100 years ago, the Sima family or Shangcang may have been laying out the world, and Cao Cao was probably a pawn in the layout of the Sima family or Shangcang.
At this time, some people may say that this is just a coincidence. Well, look at the coincidence below.
According to the research, the "Sima Fang Remnant Stele" unearthed in 1952 records that Sima Fang, the character Wenyu, and the deeds recorded in his inscription should be the same person as the Sima Fang recorded in the history books. Therefore, the name of Sima Fang has also become a historical doubt.
Looking back at Cao Fang, the first cornerstone of the Western Jin Dynasty, there is a "Fang" character in the name of Sima Fang (Fang), is this also a coincidence?
▲Sima Yan stills
Then, looking further down, the Official "Transfer" of cao wei power to Sima Yan's Wei Yuan emperor "Cao Yan". Among them, the word "奂" in the name, in the "Shuowen" written by Xu Shen of the Eastern Han Dynasty, refers to the meaning of "mutual exchange", which is later used as "exchange", that is, exchange and replacement.
In the end, after Cao Huan "handed over" the Cao Wei regime to Sima Yan, he exchanged it
"Emperor Wu of the Jin Dynasty made Cao Huan the King of Chen Liu, ate ten thousand households, and arranged the palace in Yicheng, giving him the use of the Tianzi Banner, preparing a five-hour vice car, carrying out the Wei state Zhengshuo, and the system of ritual music in the suburbs of heaven and earth were all modeled on the system of the early Wei state, and the letter was not called a subject, and he was not commanded to worship."
Treatment.
It can be said that throughout the dynasties of the fallen kings, Cao Yi's ending, status and treatment are the best.
This may also be the treatment of the "pawn" that Wei Zuojin deserves for his wedding dress. After all, Cao Wei made an irreplaceable contribution to the unification of the whole country by the Western Jin Dynasty.
As the saying goes: "More coincidences are not coincidences." "Is it true that Cao Cao was really a pawn of the Sima family to unify the world or a deliberate arrangement of the heavens?" Think carefully, think very afraid!
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