How fierce is Sima Yi? I would rather freeze to death than hand out cotton clothes, and only after 11 years did I find out that he was really smart
The Three Kingdoms period was an era of heroes, such as Zhuge Liang, Cao Cao, Liu Bei, and Sun Quan, because of the interpretation of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. This makes their image particularly deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. However, as the saying goes: the mountains are not high, there are immortals and spirits; the water is not deep, and the dragons are spirits. In the end, these heroes who galloped for a while failed to unify the world, but were unified by a person with a bad reputation - Sima Yi.
Sima Yi, the character Zhongda, was born in 179 AD, and should be much younger than Cao Cao, Liu Bei, and Sun Jian, who were veteran tyrants. It is precisely because of this that he perfectly avoided a direct conflict with these tyrants, preserved his strength, and achieved a final counterattack. Just as Zhuge Liang had a nickname called Wolong and Pang Tong had a nickname called Chi Feng, Sima Yi also had a nickname called "Tsuka Tiger".
We can understand that a celebrity such as a tiger is a person, but "Tsukasa" means grave, so why did Sima Yi add such a sinister word before his nickname? Because Sima Yi was a particularly vicious person, his appearance once made Cao Cao extremely jealous, calling him "eagle-eyed wolf", and he was worried about it, so how fierce was Sima Yi? I would rather freeze to death than hand out cotton clothes, and it was 11 years before I learned how to strategize.
As the saying goes, heroes cherish heroes, and Cao Cao felt this way when he saw Liu Bei. However, Sima Yi's feeling to Cao Cao was not at all the feeling of "heroes cherish heroes", but a gloomy and vicious feeling. Although Cao Cao is also known as the "adulterous male", in fact, he is still a very sunny person in temperament, likes to sing (drunken as a song, life is geometric), also likes beauty, and is so happy to do great deeds, loves to make friends with Hao Jie to discuss the world's major events, and even worked as an assassin and assassinated Dong Zhuo. But Sima Yi was different.
Sima Yi, Cao Cao, Liu Bei, and Sun Quan were not the same kind of people. They are the pole of masculinity, full of masculine colors, pioneering and enterprising; while Sima Yi is the pole of yin and fierceness, he does not like to sing, does not love beautiful women, and even has no temper (zhuge Liang scolded as a woman is indifferent), he hides everything he has, like a vulture waiting for an opportunity, one blow to the dying prey.
Therefore, Cao Cao instinctively hated this kind of person, thinking that he was not a hero like Liu Bei, but an ambitionist and a bad person. For this reason, he said to his son Cao Pi many times: We must not reuse this person, he will definitely corrupt the world of our family. As for why Cao Cao didn't kill Sima Yi? Sima Yi represented not him alone, but a super large family spanning the Three Kingdoms, and Cao Cao really did not dare to kill him. Unfortunately, Cao Pi obviously did not have the same great talent as his father, and eventually reused Sima Yi.
What's worse is that Cao Pi himself died after 6 years as emperor, so he passed the throne to his son, so who will assist his son? He thought of Sima Yi, and from then on, Sima Yi was released by Cao Pi from the various cages that Cao Cao had set up for him. After Emperor Wei Ming ascended the throne, he basically regarded Sima Yi as a humeral minister, but Sima Yi still acted reclusively, knowing that Emperor Wei Ming did not fully trust him, so he made various moves to paralyze Emperor Wei Ming.
In 237, the Gongsun family, the separatist force of Liaodong, betrayed the State of Wei, and the following year Sima Yi was ordered to conquer Liao. Liaodong was originally sparsely populated, and at this time the talent was withering away; coupled with Sima Yi's steady steps, it did not take long for Sima Yi to defeat the Gongsun family and massacre the men under the age of 15 in the city, collect corpses, and build a Jingguan - this cruel thing; few people in history have done it in the civil war, but Sima Yi really did it.
In fact, Sima Yi was not only cruel to the enemy, but also vicious to his own soldiers. Liaodong was the north of northern China, and when he conquered Liaodong, it was the first month, the cold wind was fierce, and the north wind of Hula was like a knife cutting in people's faces. When Emperor Wei Ming prepared cotton clothes for soldiers for the winter when preparing for the Northern Expedition, he did not explicitly order Sima Yi to send soldiers--this does not seem to require orders, right?
However, Sima Yi did not receive the emperor's order, that is, he did not give the soldiers cotton clothes, and even the soldiers' bitter pleading was useless, and the general's intercession was in vain. But the soldiers didn't dare to confront the general, didn't they see that the general had made all the Liaodong people who were also Chinese into Jingguan? He had no choice but to curse Sima Yi's eight generations of ancestors in his heart, and endured the cold wind to fight against the Yan kingdom of the Gongsun clan.
At this time, of course, many people thought that Sima Yi had done this wrong and lost the hearts of the people. However, when Emperor Wei Ming heard about this, he was very happy, and he thought that he had given the soldiers cotton clothes, but Sima Yi did not issue them, and the soldiers would be grateful to themselves and resent Sima Yi. At the same time, he was also very pleased in his heart for this subordinate who was willing to give up his good name to the leader and bear the insult himself.
Because of this, in 239, Emperor Wei Ming was critically ill, and once again arranged this father's arrangement for his own orphan minister to his son--Cao Cao if he knew that he might not be able to break his mouth and scold: Is your grandson really a righteous gentleman sima Yi? However, at this time, Cao Cao could no longer scold him, and Emperor Ming of Wei also died soon, and from then on, Sima Yi finally completely gained the trust of Cao Wei's regime.
Trust in a gentleman will make a gentleman do things for you more wholeheartedly, and trust in a villain will make him persecute you more brazenly. Unfortunately, although Sima Yi was full of Confucianism, he was not a gentleman. In 249, 11 years after Sima Yi pacified Liaodong, he launched a coup d'état and killed cao Shuang, the core figure of the Cao family, and from then on completely grasped the power of the State of Wei, and the descendants of Cao Cao, who had seized the world of the Han Dynasty, had to scold angrily in the future:
"Sima Zhao's heart, passers-by know it!"
At this time, we know that Sima Yi's strategy is clever, but Emperor Wei Ming is inevitably too unwise: people are coming for your thoughts, you are not guarding against him, and you still have extra trust in him, which is really unwise!