Most people recognize that Cao Cao was a generation of tyrants, when the world was in chaos, all kinds of heroes and good men emerged in an endless stream, Cao Cao in so many excellent people to kill a successful road, the establishment of the State of Wei, known as Cao Wei in history. During his reign, the state was one and the same, but unfortunately the good times were not long, and by the time Cao Fang reigned, the power of the state was no longer surnamed Cao. Sima Yi killed about 7,000 members of the Cao family, and Cao Cao's old department did not dare to resist, why?
At that time, the ruler of the State of Wei, Cao Fang, was still young, and Cao Shuang took the opportunity to monopolize power, and if he wanted to dominate alone, the first thing he had to do was to exclude dissidents, and Sima Yi, an old minister of the Three Dynasties and a high-ranking and powerful person, naturally became a thorn in his eye. So he suppressed Sima Yi in all kinds of overt and covert manners in the court, found excuses for officials who stood on Sima Yi's side, and then promoted his own people. Sima Yi had no choice but to pretend to be ill and go home to recuperate.
In order to escape the temptation of Cao Shuang's eyeliner, Sima Yi, such an old minister who pays attention to his face, also has to pretend in front of people that he has epilepsy and cannot take care of himself, Cao Shuang tried several times, and after finding that there was no abnormality, he relaxed his vigilance against Sima Yi and gave Sima Yi enough time to cultivate the dead, according to the history books, the number of dead soldiers was as high as 3,000.
When Cao Shuang accompanied Cao Fang to the sacrifice, Sima Yi led the 3,000 dead soldiers to seize the opportunity to occupy the court and ambush Cao Shuang and his party on the way back to Beijing. He himself is an ambitious person, before Cao Cao was there, he did not dare to oppose, and Cao Pi is a good relationship, embarrassed to oppose, to Cao Fang as the emperor, he was actually still by Cao Shuang, the hairy boy riding on the head, this account he has to calculate with Cao Shuang.
If he was only angry with Cao Shuang, he could have killed Cao Shuang and his men, but Sima Yi chose an extremely cruel method, and history called this incident the "Gaopingling Incident", and it was also this incident that made the people of the world see Sima Yi's ambitions. After capturing Cao Shuang, Sima Yi ordered that all three members of the Cao clan should be arrested, young and old, even if they had any kinship, they had to be arrested, and what was even more excessive was that even the women of the Cao family who had already married as wives were not spared. A total of more than 7,000 people were killed before and after, which can be said to have destroyed the Cao clan.
It can be seen from the fact that Sima Yi has already turned against Cao Wei, and it is reasonable to say that Sima Yi is so rampant, those old subordinates who followed Cao Cao to fight the world before must not be willing, why can they still let this happen?
In fact, I don't blame them, I really have a weak heart, as early as when Cao Shuang was in power, they had already changed the blood of the court, and they were also older, they had long been far away from the government, where they could still have access to military power, how to adjust the soldiers without military power, they could only watch this tragedy happen.