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As the old saying goes, the chaotic world produces heroes, and in the chaotic world in my Chinese history, many heroes and good men have been created, among which the most representative period is the Three Kingdoms.
When it comes to the Three Kingdoms, everyone will think of Liu Guanzhang for the first time. Cao Cao, Zhuge Liang, etc., but the person to be talked about today is not them, but Sima Yi.
For Sima Yi, many people are very contemptuous of him, after all, the evaluation of him in the history books is not very good, netizens jokingly call him "Sima Lao Thief", but it is undeniable that Sima Yi is indeed the victor of the unification of the chaotic world, and his personal ability is also difficult for ordinary people to reach.
However, before Sima Yi's death, he made a will to his descendants not to sweep his grave, and it was not until more than 1700 years later that his will allowed posterity to discover his old calculations. So, what was the purpose of the wills he made before Sima Yi's death? And, behind his will, what kind of secrets are hidden?
For the history of this dispute in the Three Kingdoms, posterity summed up a sentence: "The Cao family fights the world, Sima sits in the world", and the three kingdoms of Wei Shu and Wu fought for decades until the end, they were replaced by Sima Yi's Sima family, and successfully unified the world and became an imperial family.
Sima Yi was very intelligent and ambitious from an early age, and in the face of a power-grabbing "thief" like Cao Cao, he simply did not look up to it, and after Cao Cao blackmailed Tianzi to make the princes serve as ministers, Sima Yi was forcibly taken into his command by Cao Cao, and Sima Yi also sacrificed many practical schemes for Cao Cao in order to survive, so he also won Cao Cao's trust.
After Cao Cao became the King of Wei, Sima Yi became Cao Pi's assistant, and it was with Sima Yi's help that Cao Pi won a great victory in the battle for the throne. Before Cao Pi's death, he elected Sima Yi as a chancellor, and sima Yi's real power grew.
However, after Cao Fang succeeded to the throne, the power of the Sima family was ostracized by Cao Shuang, and at the same time, the real power in Sima Yi's hands was gradually emptied due to the suspicion of those in power.
However, Sima Yi, who knew how to be patient, did not stop there, and he waited for the opportunity to take advantage of Cao Shuang's departure from Luoyang with Cao Fang, and placed people in the middle of the court to directly control Kyoto.
In this way, the Sima family took away all the military and political power of Cao Wei, and the subsequent "Gaopingling Incident" laid the foundation for the future dominance of the Sima family.
Many friends believe that Sima Yi is not a positive person, and he will not hesitate to rebel against the lord in order to win the world, but for Sima Yi, his various actions are just to better survive in the chaotic world.
After many people have learned about Sima Yi, they will think that he is an old adulterer, which can be seen in the special will that Sima Yi left for his children before his death.
According to some records, before Sima Yi died, he chose a mausoleum for himself in Henan, but the way he chose was different from the construction method of many aristocratic tombs, Sima Yi's mausoleum did not have a mausoleum and a tomb.
According to tradition, the way Sima Yi designed this mausoleum for himself was really "different", not only that, he also repeatedly instructed his descendants that after his death, posterity must not sweep the tomb for him, in addition, do not erect a monument in front of his tomb.
It can be said that Sima Yi's practice is tantamount to hiding the location of his tomb from the world, after all, it was he who took the world from the Cao family, and the descendants of the Cao clan will definitely hate him, if the descendants of the Cao clan can know where Sima Yi's cemetery is, presumably they will dig out his bones and then raise the ashes in order to avenge him.
However, as a figure with a high historical status, Sima Yi's practice is really too cautious, but people are not as good as heavenly calculations, more than 1700 years later, Sima Yi's tomb was still discovered by posterity, after some historians explored and discovered, understood Sima Yi's true intention of deliberately concealing his tomb.
Originally, in addition to Sima Yi's fear of retaliation against him by Cao's descendants, he was also afraid that the benevolent and righteous people of later generations would dig his grave, after all, his reputation in history was not good, and the means of seizing power used during his lifetime were also despised by many loyal and righteous people in later generations.
Sima Yi also knew that the Heavenly Dao had reincarnation, and if he didn't hide his grave, presumably he wouldn't have slept peacefully and steadily for more than 1,000 years! Speaking of this, do you think that Sima Yi is a rare old adulterer and a slippery person?
References for this article: "The Biography of Sima Yi", "The Book of Jin and Emperor Xuan", "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms in Vernacular", "Baidu Encyclopedia Related Entries - Sima Yi, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, The Influence of the Sima Family on History, etc."