The first time the word "dead soldier" appeared in Chinese history was in the "FourteenTh Year of Zuo Chuan Dinggong", whose volume records that "the evil warrior was in trouble with Wu Zhi's wholeness, so that the dead soldier was present, the birds were in the air, and they did not move." "In the long course of history that followed, the existence of the dead promoted the occurrence of various major events.
And in the "Book of Jin, Jing Emperor Ji", it is also recorded: "Emperor Yin raised three thousand dead soldiers, scattered in the human world, and gathered in one dynasty, and the crowd did not know what was out." In fact, at that time, Sima Yi had already been emptied of power, only a virtual shelf, in this case, he could also guide the coup, which shows that these 3,000 dead soldiers played a huge role when Sima Yi seized power.
First, what is a dead soldier
The dead are literally those who are not afraid of death and loyal to the Lord, and the dead are invisible professions, and their tasks are generally assassinations and assaults.
But in fact, the dead can also be divided into two types, one is the individual, they are often called "assassins", specializing in assassinating those who are valuable and powerful, such as Jing Ke, who assassinated the King of Qin. He is a dead soldier, so that the death soldier who assassinated a celebrity like the emperor is easier to be remembered by others, and it is easier to be famous for eternity.
The second type of dead soldiers trained by Sima Yi was a group with no specific name, and such dead soldiers never carried out personal actions but only followed the orders of their direct superiors. If what you do is not successful, you will become a benevolent, which is equivalent to a well-trained army with no way out. The second type of dead soldier was often more popular with the royal nobles, and their power and effect were enormous, just as Sima Yi's family seized power through this kind of dead soldier.
Sima Yi accompanied Cao Cao to lay the world, although Cao Cao had long been suspicious of him, but he never succeeded in killing him, which was enough to prove that Sima Yi was really wise, and Cao Cao's two successive conscriptions of Sima Yi were enough to show his importance and influence.
It is a pity that Sima Yi, as an old courtier, was reused by Cao Cao, but Cao Pi was very suspicious of him, and Sima Yi's "bright ascension and dark surrender" had gradually been embroiled after Cao Pi had just begun to take the throne.
But Sima Yi did not have a seizure, for the sake of the overall situation Sima Yi chose to be patient, and finally in 249 AD, when Sima Yi took Advantage of Cao Fang to take Cao Shuang to visit the tomb of Emperor Ming of Wei, he suddenly took up a coup d'état and killed Cao Shi by surprise, although the process of seizing power was very tortuous, but in the end Sima Yi laughed to the end.
After experiencing this coup, Sima Yi achieved full success, and the Cao family was accused of the three tribes with no possibility of making a comeback, and the Sima family thus completely controlled the entire World of wei. Perhaps at the beginning, Sima Yi did not train the dead soldiers in order to seize the Jiangshan of Great Wei, but it has to be said that the dead soldiers exerted great force on his seizure of power.
Second, how to ensure allegiance
And holding three thousand dead soldiers, at that time the labor force was not developed in ancient times was not a small amount of power, then the problem is. The dead soldiers were not animals, they were flesh and blood people, people all had their own independent thoughts, how did Sima Yi ensure that these three thousand dead soldiers would be loyal to him and work for him?
This brings us to the time when the soldiers were in chaos and wars were raging. Ordinary people are poor and displaced, and if they have a child at home, it is a huge burden. In ancient times, people were still keen on the matter of giving birth, and they were born but could not afford to raise them, so there were cases of abandonment of babies in various parts of society at that time.
Sima Yi picked up these abandoned babies and began to cultivate these abandoned babies as his own dead soldiers from an early age, instilling in them this idea of fighting for him, and giving them some benefits from time to time to let them understand their own survival value.
These dead soldiers have been trained since childhood, in addition to learning the art of killing, they will not and have not seen the outside world, they can only rely on their masters to survive, they are very aware of their status and value.
What's more, these dead soldiers lived in the era they lived in, and from an early age, they emphasized the need to know the gratitude map. Therefore, such a dead soldier reassured the princes and nobles even more. Of course, these dead soldiers are not all abandoned babies, but there are also children from poor families, who are also gathered by Sima Yi to take huge wealth or threaten their families' lives, just as the so-called people die for money and birds die for food, such threats and inducements can also make those Deadpool die to him and be loyal to him.
Although the work of the dead soldier is dangerous, the reward for success is very high, so those people will take risks, and we can understand it.
3. Organization and management
The management of the dead soldiers can reflect Sima Yi's unparalleled wisdom, and unlike other miserly rulers who treat their subordinates, Sima Yi is very willing to pay for this group of dead soldiers under his hands, and the food, clothing, shelter, and transportation are all good, and the treatment is much better than that of the soldiers who joined the army.
In that era of poverty and lack of supplies, ordinary people could not afford to eat, and the bones of starving people were everywhere. And the dead soldiers can suddenly cherish the taste of the mountains and the sea, and live a rich life. In order to continue to be able to have no food and clothing, these dead soldiers, even if they gave up their lives, they had to fight for Sima Yi desperately.
So where did Sima Yi's three thousand dead soldiers go after helping Sima Yi succeed in seizing power? A team of more than three thousand people can't disappear out of thin air, right? The history books written by the Jin Dynasty do not record the fate of these dead soldiers, but through the previous historical documents on the record of dead soldiers, we can infer that most of these dead soldiers were dismissed by Sima Yi and returned to their hometowns with money and clothing.
4. Summary
After Sima Yi seized real power in a coup d'état, like Cao Cao, he did not establish himself as emperor and usurp the throne, and his throne was only enthroned 15 years after his death when his descendant Sima Yan ascended the throne.
Sima Yi "raised three thousand dead soldiers" and used his own unique means to ensure that these dead soldiers were loyal to him in no different way, and even if people in the present heard of his means at that time, they would not hesitate to lament that Sima Yi's means were clever and resourceful.
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