When I was a child, everyone liked Zhuge Liang, because Zhuge Liang was really too clever, clever, able to calculate anything, and everything seemed to be in his control. When we grew up, we knew that Zhuge Liang was deified and not so divine, and at the same time, Sima Yi began to be sought after.
Why do so many people pursue Sima Yi? I have thought about it for a long time, and perhaps many of them are middle-aged and professional people. What exactly is sima yi worthy of praise by so many people?
One word: load.
Sima Yi is indeed very capable of pretending, if it is said that who is the most able to dress in history? I definitely recommend Sima Yi, who has been pretending since he left the mountain.
Sima Yi was born in the scholar clan and was talented, "rarely a strange person, a great deal of cleverness, erudite and knowledgeable, and a Confucian." At the end of the Han Dynasty, there was great chaos, and there was often a worry about the world. (The Chronicle of Emperor Xuan)
Sima Yi, who was born with good talent and good talent, looked down on Cao Cao, and even though Cao Cao killed Yuan Shao, unified the north, and mastered Emperor Xian of Han, achieving great success, Sima Yi still looked down on Cao Cao.
Cao Cao repeatedly invited Sima Yi out of the mountain, but Sima Yi refused. Sima Yi said that his life was not good, he was not blessed, he had wind paralysis, and he had to stay in bed for a long time. Cao Cao did not believe it, so he sent someone to spy on the news at night, and Sima Yi lay there motionless, as if he were really infected with wind paralysis.
Later, Cao Cao simply came hard and said directly: Either go out of the mountain or die. Sima Yi had no choice but to obediently go out of the mountain. Sima Yi's repeated rejection of Cao Cao was nothing more than to inflate his own value and gain more bargaining chips. This is the same as Zhuge Liang's routine.
After leaving the mountain, Sima Yi thought that he could make a big show, but he miscalculated a little, that is, Cao Cao. Cao Cao is a very suspicious person, and while he reuses you and praises you, he also guards against you; while recruiting talents in a big way, he also suppresses talents. In short, Cao Cao could not understand.
Although Sima Yi was invited out of the mountain by Cao Cao repeatedly, Cao Cao did not entrust him with a heavy responsibility. The main reason why it is not reused is that Sima Yi is a wolf. It is said that those who have wolf caretakers have ambitions to usurp the country. Regarding Sima Yi's wolf Gu Xiang, it is recorded in the Xuan Emperor's Chronicle: "Summoning the envoy to move forward, ordering him to look back, facing backwards, and not moving his body." ”
As a result, Sima Yi did not catch anything in his life under Cao Cao, but instead had to be a man with his tail between his legs. In order to dispel Cao Cao's concerns, Sima Yi began to pretend, pretending to be sick, pretending to be crazy, pretending to be loyal, and pretending to be low-key. Of course, while pretending to be on the mountain, he later found Cao Pi.
We have to admire Sima Yi's vision, and from Cao Pi's future inheritance of Cao Cao's mantle, we can conclude that Sima Yi did see it accurately.
After Cao Pi came to power, Sima Yi's good days came. As soon as Cao Pi became emperor, Sima Yi was appointed as a servant of Shangshu, and after another year, he transferred to the army and recorded Shangshu. Later, after Cao Pi's death, Sima Yi also became a chancellor with Chen Qun, a general of the Zhen Army, Cao Zhen, a general of the Chinese army, and Cao Xiu, a general of the Zhengdong Army, and jointly assisted Cao Rui.
Later, by the time of the death of The Wei Ming Emperor Cao Rui, there were only two ministers: the great general Cao Shuang and Sima Yi. Sima Yi's power went one step further. The only deficiency was that Cao Shuang could not tolerate Sima Yi, so he seized Sima Yi's power by means of bright ascension and dark surrender.
Sima Yi was also very knowledgeable, and after being seized of power, he "obediently" stayed at home and did nothing. Even so, Cao Shuang didn't seem to be at ease, so he sent someone to check on the situation. The dispatcher was The Jingzhou Assassin Shi Li Sheng. Li Sheng just happened to be going to a foreign country, and came to bid farewell to Sima Yi by the way. Of course, it is also to spy on the situation.
Hearing that Li Sheng was coming, Sima Yi naturally wanted to stage a good play for him, and it was this good play that Sima Yi played his "costume" to the extreme. Next the show begins:
It is said that Sima Yi was lying on the bed, pretending to be dead or alive, and asked the maid to send him clothes, and he pretended to be weak and did not catch the clothes, and the clothes fell to the ground. Then he pointed his finger to his mouth, meaning he was thirsty. So the maid sent a bowl of porridge, and when Sima Yi drank the porridge, the porridge flowed to his chest.
Then Li Sheng and Sima Yi had a dialogue, and Sima Yi did not match the preface and the afterword, and his words were incoherent. In short, Li Sheng was deceived by Sima Yi and completely trusted Sima Yi.
After going back, Li Sheng told Cao Shuang what he saw, and Cao Shuangxin believed it to be true, and we all knew the story after that. Sima Yi took advantage of Cao Shuang's opportunity to accompany Emperor Cao Fang out, taking advantage of the emptiness in the palace, taking advantage of the opportunity to raise an army, control the palace, and occupy Luoyang. Later, Cao Shuang was defeated and died without a place to die. The Cao Wei regime also changed the Sima regime.
In fact, when Sima Yi launched the court conspiracy, Cao Shuang still had room to save. The situation at the time was this:
Cao Shuang's side had the Heavenly Son and the Great General Seal, so his capital was that he could hold the Heavenly Son and gather soldiers and horses to fight against Sima Yi and rebel.
On Sima Yi's side, the situation was that he controlled the imperial palace, and of course, Sima Yi also had the support of a large number of founding fathers. Why did the Founding Fathers support Sima Yi? Because Cao Shuang had offended them. Old founders like Gao Rou and Jiang Ji, who had been doing things for Cao Wei for decades, all supported Sima Yi.
In this way, Cao Shuang and Sima Yi are equally divided, Sima Yi does not have an absolute certainty that he can succeed, and Cao Shuang also has the opportunity to turn the tables and can let go. So, why did Cao Shuang still give up?
Because of Sima Yi's seduction.
Sima Yi's seduction was indeed too powerful. In order to seduce Cao Shuang, Sima Yi constantly sent important imperial courtiers such as Yin Damu and Chen Tai to say that Cao Shuang had surrendered. Anyway, it means that Sima Yi has made a poisonous oath, as long as Cao Shuang has military power, everything will not change, Cao Shuang, you can still be rich and noble. The Biography of Emperor Xuan of jin: "He also sent Lieutenant Yin Damu of the Xindian Temple to Shuang Shuang, referring to Luo Shui as an oath, and Shuang Yi believed it." When the imperial lieutenant Jiang Ji also personally guaranteed Sima Yi.
Yin Damu was lieutenant of the palace, Chen Tai was the son of Chen Qun, and Jiang Ji was even more of a lieutenant and an old man in the court, so many people gave a guarantee to Sima Yi, and as a result, Cao Shuang believed it to be true.
Because even if you Cao Shuang doesn't believe in Sima Yi, but these old people make guarantees, don't you Cao Shuang still don't believe it? Cao Shuang believed. Believing that Sima Yi was really "only a soldier, not a life."
The result? Sima Yi did not take these people seriously at all, and as soon as he gained military power, Cao Shuang was cut down and eradicated. And what about the guarantors?
Jiang Ji died of anger because Sima Yi rebelled and gave such a person a guarantee. As for Yin Damu and Chen Tai, the results were not very good.
Therefore, Sima Yi can do anything for success, what friends, what allies, what guarantees, and what credibility are all empty talk, all nonsense, and only success.
Did Sima Yi succeed? He succeeded, but his success was through intrigue, betrayal, deception, rebellion, and trampling on the mud along with the oath he had made and the face of his allies. This viciousness and cheekiness can be said to have completely broken through the political bottom line at that time, shocking both himself and his opponents.
May I ask, do we need such success? Is such a Sima Yi our example?
Friends, welcome to pay attention!