Although the Secret of the Three Kingdoms strives to restore history in many ways, it does not completely follow the course of history. For example, the appearance of Sima Yi. In real history, Sima Yi did not want to get involved in the chaotic world, so he refused Cao Cao's call. In 208 AD, under the threat of Cao Cao, he joined Cao Wei's camp and became one of Cao Cao's advisers. However, in the play, he was involved early in the dispute between Cao Cao and the Han Room, as well as the dispute between Cao Cao and Yuan Shao, after all, the fake Han Xiandi in the play was his hair and his most recognized brother.
In order to help Liu Ping, he left Wen County and came to Xudu with the entire Sima family in hiding, and constantly competed with Yang Xiu, wanting to take Liu Ping away from this place of right and wrong. Later, Liu Ping voluntarily stayed, and although he was angry, he was also willing to stay and help. Later, under Guo Jia's arrangement, Liu Ping first went to Guandu, then to Yecheng, and met Sima Yi again. Although this time Sima Yi did not come for Liu Ping, but to save his sweetheart Tang Ying, this did not conflict with his helping Liu Ping. However, today we will not talk about this rare brotherhood, but only talk about another "brother" that Sima Yi made after he arrived in Yecheng.
When Sima Yi first arrived in Yicheng, he met Yuan Shao's confidante Judge's son, Zhen Rong, and through his own wisdom and ability to fool, he gained the trust of Zhen Rong, and thus began to call Zhen Rong a brother. It's just that he is vain towards Zhenrong, and Zhenrong is not false to him. Therefore, he was soon arranged by Zhen Rong to enter the Yecheng Wei, and stole the token from Zhen Rong, as well as the key to the Yecheng Prison. After that, The trial suspected Sima Yi's identity and questioned him severely, but Sima Yi easily coped with it, so Zhen Rong trusted Sima Yi even more. Whether it is in real history or in the play, Sima Yi is not a good person, so he is at ease to use the trial match and play it between the palms of his hands.
Friends who have been chasing the drama may have realized a problem, that is, the main line of this drama is very concentrated, and most of the irrelevant characters will not be mentioned too much, so why does this trial appear frequently? It turns out that in real history, Zhen Rong was not the son of Zhen Rong, but the nephew of Zhen Rong. In the zhengshi records, although he was not well-known, he did a big thing - he surrendered to Cao Cao, killed his own uncle, sacrificed Yuan Shang's last base, and promoted the collapse of Yuan Shao's power. What's going on here?
It turned out that in 204 AD, Yuan Shao's eldest son Yuan Tan and youngest son Yuan Shang had not yet ended the infighting, and in this year Yuan Shang left behind to follow his trial to defend Yecheng, and he himself led an army to attack Yuan Tan. As a result, Cao Cao took the opportunity to attack Yecheng. At first, the defense of the trial was very tight, almost leaving Cao Jun helpless, and even almost shot Cao Cao. Later, Cao Cao abandoned the siege of the city, but dug trenches and cut off the connection between Yecheng and the outside of the city. Cut off the grain and grass in the city.
At this time, the trial match still did not give up, but firmly believed that Yuan Shang would return to help, and Yuan Xi would also send troops to help. However, he guarded against foreign enemies, but he did not prevent internal traitors—his nephew Zhen Rong opened the city gates at night and put the Cao army into the city. So the trial was captured, and the city of Ye fell. The Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms records: "With the brother Rong guarding the east gate, the night open door inside the Taizu soldiers, and the matching battle city, raw birds." Although he was not a truly upright and selfless man, he was very loyal, and after he was captured, he did not ask for forgiveness, let alone surrender, but faced north and died-"The voice was magnificent, and there was no scratching word, and those who saw it could not sigh. Cut it off. ”
After the analysis throughout, it is not difficult for us to know that the stupid boy who was toyed with by Sima Yi in the play was also a generation in real history who did not accomplish enough and had more than enough failures.
All the information in this article comes from books such as "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and "Secrets of the Three Kingdoms", and the editor guarantees the authenticity of the content, without any innuendo or politics.