Among the many Characters of the Three Kingdoms, the author feels that Sima Yi is a very good character. In terms of wisdom and strategy, he was not at all inferior to Zhuge Liang, and his mental means were no less than Cao Cao's, and his broad-mindedness was really not a star and a half compared to Zhou Yu. And the most important point is that Sima Yi can be said to be the biggest winner in the Three Kingdoms. So how did Sima Yi, who survived to the end, operate step by step and finally make himself powerful? Please follow me and read on.
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Sima Yi and Cao Pi had a good relationship. Cao Cao told Cao Pi many times that Sima Yi was a man with great ambitions and might endanger Cao Pi's rule, and if necessary, kill Sima Yi. However, instead of listening, Cao Pi reused Sima Yi after Cao Cao's death, and Cao Pi trusted him when he called the empress dowager an official. In this way, Sima Yi quietly established himself in the State of Wei.
After Cao Pi's death, the Wei Ming Emperor Cao Rui succeeded to the throne, and his trust in Sima Yi was also extraordinary, recalling Sima Yi when he was critically ill, and entrusting the crown prince Cao Fang to him with tears, hoping that he could assist the crown prince well, and in terms of military power, Cao Shuang took over the position. After the Wei Shao Emperor Cao Fang succeeded to the throne, he also appointed Sima Yi as the Grand Sima and Cao Shuang as the Great General, and later gave the position of Taifu, which was actually an official position without real power.
In the early days, the general Cao Shuang was still able to pay respect to Sima Yi, but as the days went on, his ambitions gradually grew, and he regarded Sima Yi as a thorn in his eye and a thorn in his flesh, and wanted to find an opportunity to get rid of this person. Therefore, Cao Shuang began to constantly empty Sima Yi's power, and arranged his own people around him and important positions, obviously to help him handle affairs, but in fact to better monitor him.
But how could Sima Yi, who was scheming and calculating, not know these tricks? Therefore, he pushed the boat along the water and simply pretended to be ill and could not go to the court, so that even if Cao Shuang wanted to find a mistake, there was no chance. However, such a scene made Cao Shuang feel uneasy in his heart, and he was afraid that Sima Yi was pretending to be ill, so he asked Li Sheng to visit Sima Yi when he went out to see if his illness was really as serious as others described, and this Li Sheng, of course, was a confidant of the great general Cao Shuang.
Sima Yi received Li Sheng's request to see him, and simply did not even come out of the door, directly let Li Sheng come in to see him, Li Sheng had been muttering in his heart, was Tai Fu already so sick? So he went into the house suspiciously, only to see that Sima Yi's face was sallow and yellow, his body was covered with a thick quilt, and even when the maid fed him porridge, he was vomiting all over, and he said his words to him, and he couldn't even hear him clearly after saying it several times, it seemed that he was really terminally ill, and his life was short.
So Li Sheng told Cao Shuang what he had seen and heard, and Cao Shuang was overjoyed after listening to it, feeling that his opponent was really dying soon, and a big stone in his heart finally fell to the ground, so he and Emperor Wei Shao went to the tomb with confidence. Who knew that Sima Yi was waiting for this day, he took advantage of Cao Shuang and Emperor Wei Shao to go out, he occupied the city gate, replaced Cao Shuang's hyogo with his own people to guard, and went into the palace to see Guo Dahou, falsely passing on Yi's will to depose Cao Shuang of his position.
Cao Shuang had seen such a battle, and Sima Yi, who had already died a short time ago, suddenly became angry and brought the Empress Dowager's will, and he was immediately frightened and out of his body. His advisers advised him that he should take Emperor Shao of Wei into hiding and attack Sima Yi in the future, and if he surrendered according to Sima Yi's words, there would only be a dead end in the future. But Cao Shuang was as timid as a rat, where did he dare to confront Sima Yi? Therefore, in order to save his life, he accepted Sima Yi's conditions.
Subsequently, Cao Shuang was relieved of his duties as a general. Cao Shuang thought he could save his life and be a rich man with peace of mind. However, he did not think at all that Sima Yi had already gained military power, so what was the point of keeping him? In the end, Cao Shuang's ending was indeed as his advisers predicted, and he cried out for his life. Sima Yi himself, on the other hand, effortlessly solved one of his biggest internal enemies, thus grasping Cao Wei's military and political power and laying a solid foundation for the establishment of the Jin state in the future.
Therefore, it is not difficult for us to see from the fact that Sima Yi feigned illness and finally seized power, when Cao Shuang regarded Sima Yi as a competitor, he had already lost. Sima Yi has superior courage and a keen sense of smell, he knows how to show his weak side at the right time, let the opponent let down his guard, and thus strike a fatal blow. This undoubtedly also brings us a lot of enlightenment: when we are in a situation where the enemy is strong and we are weak, do not give up the hope of victory, because we do not have any chance of winning, as long as we judge the hour and size up the situation, we can always turn disadvantages into advantages and achieve final victory.