Sima Yi's last will and testament before his death: His descendants are not allowed to sweep my grave, and more than a thousand years later, I found that the real old man was a treacherous giant
In June of the third year of Jiaping (251), Sima Yi, the elder of the Four Dynasties of Cao Wei, became seriously ill and often dreamed of Jia Kui and Wang Ling in his evening dreams, and died soon after at the age of seventy-three. Before his death, he left a strange will: "In Shouyang Mountain, there is no soil, no grave or tree; three articles of gu fate, the time is obeyed, there is no apparatus, and the latter shall not be buried together." ”
What does this will mean? Sima Yi left his life, after his death, buried in Shouyang Mountain, neither sealed the tomb, nor built a mausoleum, only need to wear the usual clothes to bury, the tomb does not need to accompany the burial jewelry, and the widow who died later does not need to be buried with him.
In the ancient tradition of our country, after the death of a man with status, he will generally be buried thickly, like Sima Yi, a big person under one person and above ten thousand people, the funeral should be very solemn. However, Sima Yi was unusual, forbidding his sons to hold solemn funerals for him. This was so strange and inconceivable that no one could figure it out at the time.
However, in the Book of Song, there is an even stranger record:
Emperor Xuan of Jin decreed that none of his sons and daughters should be allowed to visit the tomb. So Jingwen obeyed.
What does that mean? Before his death, Sima Yi repeatedly warned that his descendants would not be allowed to sweep the grave for themselves. Sima Shi and Sima Zhao also listened to Sima Yi's words and really never swept the grave for their father.
In ancient times, the sacrifice of ancestors was a big thing, and even if you were busy, you could not be sloppy in this regard. The ancient emperors paid homage to the ancestors of the ancestors and prayed that the country would be smooth and blessed.
At that time, although the Sima family had not yet replaced Cao Wei, the Manchu Dynasty Wenwu knew that after the change of Gaopingling, it was only a matter of time before the Sima family jumped the dragon gate. Sima Yi, the elder of the Four Dynasties, was embarrassed to seize Cao Wei's Jiangshan, so he followed Cao Cao's example and entrusted this responsibility to his children and grandchildren. Sima Shi and Sima Zhao's brothers, for various reasons, did not attack Cao Wei's puppet emperor, and Sima Yi's grandson Sima Yan played the role of Cao Pi at that time, and just after inheriting the Jin King, he forced the Wei emperor Cao Yi to abdicate, sat in the south and north, became the emperor, and established the Western Jin Dynasty.
A family like Sima Yi, a "quasi-emperor", should be buried thickly, solemnly sacrificed, and blessed for generations to come. Sima Yi did the opposite, advocating a thin burial, leaving a will before his death that "it is forbidden to sweep his grave."
Sima Yi did not let his descendants sweep his grave, so why did he do so? What was his last-ditch grievance? Thinking about it carefully, it is actually very simple, Sima Yi is worried that he will be dug up by someone and throw away his body, because he is not in the right position, and he has slaughtered many people, and there are two more famous "massacres".
First, the Gaopingling Rebellion massacred Cao Shuang and his henchmen.
We know that Sima Yi, like Cao Cao, did not rely on his own hands to fight inch by inch, but gained power through mutiny. Cao Shuang was in a position of power and suppressed Sima Yi very badly, depriving Sima Yi of almost everything. However, Cao Shuang left Sima Yi with this old life, and he believed that Sima Yi was more than seventy years old and could not live for several years, so he naturally grew old. Cao Shuang was wrong, very wrong.
Although Sima Yi was old, his heart was not old at all, and he deliberately showed weakness to the enemy, confused Cao Shuang, secretly lurked, waited for the opportunity, and eliminated Cao Shuang in one fell swoop. After Sima Yi took control of Luoyang, he first promised Cao Shuang that he could become a rich man by laying down his weapons, but he reneged on his promise. Sima Yi exterminated Cao Shuang and his henchmen and slaughtered tens of thousands of people.
Second, Sima Yi slaughtered more than 7,000 men over the age of fifteen in Liaodong.
After pacifying Liaodong, Sima Yi began the "Three Lights Policy" in order to completely solve the Liaodong problem once and for all. Sima Yi bloodbathed the Gongsun Yuan family and their pseudo-officials in Liaodong, beheaded the general Bi Sheng and more than 2,000 other people, and at the same time began to massacre fifteen-year-old men in Liaodong to form a "Jingguan".
More than 7,000 men over the age of fifteen were killed, thinking that they were Jingguan. The puppet secretary of state had already been ambushed and killed more than 2,000 people, including his general Bi Sheng.
Sima Yi had committed too many sins, and before he died, he was afraid that these fish from the families he had slaughtered would take revenge on him, find his burial place, and destroy his mausoleum.
Sima Yi's worries were not unfounded, such as Cao Shuang's Huan Fan was exterminated by Sima Yi, but there was a fish that slipped through the net. More than a hundred years later, Huan Xuan, a descendant of the Huan Fan family, forced Emperor An of Jin to abdicate in 403 AD, established Huan Chu, and ascended the throne as emperor.
If Sima Shi, Sima Zhao, and their descendants had visited Sima Yi's tomb and worshipped Sima Yi, the address of his mausoleum would have been known to the world. When the Sima family was emperor, there was an army guarding the tomb, and no tomb robbers dared to fight Sima Yi's mausoleum. However, the Sima family could not prosper for generations, and it was likely that they would enter the trough hundreds of years later, and the Jin Dynasty would be destroyed.
At this time, the fish that had slipped through the net of the family that had been slaughtered by Sima Yi were likely to wait for revenge, and the mausoleum was the first choice. Even if no one retaliates, the tomb robbers will enter the mausoleum, steal the treasure, and make a fortune to the dead.
At present, Sima Yi practiced simple burial, "no graves and no trees", and did not put valuable jade objects, and at the same time prohibited Sima Shi and Sima Zhao and his descendants from sweeping the tomb for themselves, completely blocking the opportunity for fish that slipped through the net and tomb robbers to rob tombs. Today, more than a thousand years later, the exact location of Sima Yi's mausoleum is still a mystery, and it has not been discovered, let alone stolen. Compared with those tombs that have been stolen beyond recognition, we have to admire Sima Yi's old treacherous giants.