There is a story in history that Sima Yi loved Lady Bo in his later years, and his wife Zhang Chunhua was difficult to see. Sima Yi was ill, and Zhang Chunhua went to visit, but Sima Yi scolded her for being an old thing. Zhang Chunhua was very angry and protested with a hunger strike, while Zhang Chunhua's two sons Sima Shi and Sima Zhao also went on hunger strike. Sima Yi quickly apologized, and the couple reconciled as before. Later, Sima Yi also explained that the old thing was not enough to pity, and I was just pity for my two good sons.
In this story, it seems that Sima Yi in his later years hated Zhang Chunhua very much.
As a woman who has a lot of ink in the history, Zhang Chunhua is not simple, so sima Yi hates Zhang Chunhua in the story, which is not as simple as simple old age and decay.
Why is Zhang Chunhua not simple?
In feudal society, women are quite statusless, but what about Zhang Chunhua? Sima Yi scolded zhang Chunhua, who was about to go on a hunger strike, and his sons actually followed the hunger strike to fight against their father, forcing Sima Yi to obey.
This shows that compared with ordinary wives, Zhang Chunhua's status in the Sima family is quite high, so that he must be respected by Sima Yi. Moreover, this status is not only recognized by Sima Yi, but also recognized by a family, including the future leaders of the Sima family are Sima Shi and Sima Zhao.
At the same time, from the perspective of Sima Yi's political behavior, in The decades of Cao Wei, Cao Cao Pi Cao Rui was ostracized in the first few years, and Sima Yi endured for ten years before he attacked, so it can be seen that Sima Yi was very tolerant, so Sima Yi, who was so able to endure, dared to throw such a big temper at Zhang Chunhua, who had such a high family status, which showed that behind this matter, it should be very profound.
So what is the deep meaning?
The various records are very sparse, and we can only infer from some clues.
First of all, from the perspective of Zhang Chunhua's behavior. Zhang Chunhua married Sima Yi at a very early age, how early was it? Long before Sima Yi came out of Cao Cao (about 200 years or so). Moreover, Sima Yi and Zhang Chunhua's relationship should still be good, because Sima Yi's two most prominent sons, Sima Shi and Sima Zhao, were both born to Zhang Chunhua, and Zhang Chunhua also gave birth to a son and a daughter, a total of three men and one daughter.
And zhang Chunhua's most dazzling thing also happened when Sima Yi refused to serve Cao Cao. Sima Yi was very talented in his early years, and after the victory at Guandu, Cao Cao sat in the position of chancellor of the Han Empire, and when he heard of Sima Yi's talent, he recruited Sima Yi as a rafter. Sima Yi felt that the situation was still unclear, felt that Cao Cao would usurp Han sooner or later, and was afraid that he would be affected, so he refused to leave the army.
In order to hide from Cao Cao, Sima Yi began to pretend to be ill at home (laying a good foundation for later performance). This feigned illness was 8 years, and during 8 years, Cao Cao had sent people to peek, and for Cao Cao, who was accustomed to killing famous people, if he found out, then Sima Yi would be equivalent to danger. Fortunately, the people sent by Cao Cao did not find flaws, however, in 8 years, there will inevitably be flaws, and the easiest to find is naturally the people around them.
Once, when it was raining heavily, Sima Yi forgot the identity of the patient and ran out to collect the book, and this scene was discovered by a maid. Sima Yi panicked. At this time, Sima Yi's wife, Zhang Chunhua, came out, killed the maid, and disposed of the body, and then quietly cooked herself.
Zhang Chunhua's decisive behavior, as well as the aftermath of personally cooking for Sima Yi and preventing others from having another chance to discover, made Sima Yi very impressed. Since then, Sima Yi has attached great importance to his wife and consulted with Zhang Chunhua on many things.
That is to say, Zhang Chunhua's status was won by her own ability, so Zhang Chunhua is not simple. But this incident also shows that a wife who is determined to kill is certainly a virtuous helper of the cause, but at the same time, there are certainly many things in charge of Sima Yi. Therefore, as the head of the family, Sima Yi may have felt disciplined from time to time (of course, not as strict as in his wife on TV, because Sima Yi later took concubines).
It can be seen from this that this rebuke of Zhang Chunhua should be some reason for winning his dignity and not wanting to be disciplined (spoiling Lady Bai).
Of course, as a politician, family affairs are often linked to the current situation. Zhang Chunhua died in 247, two years before the Gaopingling Rebellion. Therefore, this should be the beginning of the year.
So what kind of situation was Sima Yi in during the first years?
The answer is right, he is being violently excluded and suppressed by Cao Shuang, and in order to protect himself, Sima Yi is doing his familiar work - pretending to be ill. As an old Jiang, but so suppressed by the younger generation that he had to pretend to be ill to avoid disaster, Sima Yi was naturally very depressed. At the same time, at this time, Sima Yi's value was not as good as it was at the beginning, so once he was found to be feigning illness, he would definitely die.
Therefore, this time was even more dangerous than when he rejected Cao Cao, and it can also be inferred from Li Sheng's visit.
So, what does this have to do with reprimanding Zhang Chunhua?
Having just said that Sima Yi did not see Zhang Chunhua in his later years, and Zhang Chunhua was not old and out of favor, then the reason why Sima Yi refused to see Zhang Chunhua is worth exploring.
First of all, Sima Yi's feigned illness this time is very dangerous, And Zhang Chunhua may leak secrets? From Zhang Chunhua's last move and his cleverness, it can be seen that Zhang Chunhua will definitely not betray Sima Yi, and this possibility is excluded.
Well, there is also a possibility that Sima Yi is worried about meeting Zhang Chunhua and causing others to leak this secret, such as Lady Bai.
Perhaps, because Lady Bai was favored in her later years, and in historical dramas, this person is considered to be a spy installed by the Cao clan on Sima Yi's side.
But this inference carries the factor of historical God's perspective, if even Sima Yi had to release a woman in the Cao Pi era, Cao Wei's intelligence network would definitely be busy.
It is difficult to know how history is, but Sima Yi made Sima Lun, the son of Lady Bai, the marquis at the beginning of the coup, so it can be seen that most of the spies' claims are not credible, but there is a possibility.
Sima Yi and Zhang Chunhua have been with each other for many years, as soon as they meet, Zhang Chunhua can see through Sima Yi's feigned illness, in case between words and deeds, someone else discovers this secret and thus reveals Sima Yi's feigned illness? Just like the maid who found Sima Yi collecting the book.
And Zhang Chunhua thought that Sima Yi was really ill and had to come to visit, so there was the farce that the article began. Therefore, Sima Yi is most likely a false reprimand, but in fact he is worried that the matter of pretending to be ill has been leaked.