Introduction: The first time the dead soldier appeared in ancient Chinese history was recorded by the Yue King Gou Jian during the crusade against the State of Wu, at that time because Gou Jian was destroyed by the State of Wu, in order to be able to avenge, Gou Jian could not recruit troops with great fanfare, so he secretly raised some people who were willing to fight for their lives, and these people all had superb force.
And they were also very loyal to Gou Jian, which made a great contribution to the later Gou Jian when he crusaded against the State of Wu, and this matter also spread in ancient Chinese history. In other words, the dead were assassins, or a private guard raised by those who had authority in ancient times.
Dead soldiers generally have two concepts, the first concept is that people who act alone like Jing Ke, their social status at that time was also very high, and they were also selected by their employers to value their superb skills or martial arts. The other part of the dead are those who carry out tasks in teams, and they are generally nameless.
It was cultivated by the employer as a professional killer from an early age, and Sima Yi was the representative of the organization of the second kind of dead. Sima Yi was a military master of the State of Wei during the Three Kingdoms period, and was also a very ambitious politician, who gradually began his own plan to seize the world after Cao Cao's death.
However, his purpose was eventually discovered by the actual rulers of the State of Wei at that time, so they set him up and stripped him of the military power he had. However, this did not affect Sima Yi's implementation of his own plan, but soon after, through a team of several thousand people, he completely seized the cao family's world.
The troops that helped Sima Yi seize the world were the dead soldiers that Sima Yi had kept in captivity, and why did these people absolutely obey Sima Yi's opinions, it is reasonable to say that Sima Yi was hollowed out at that time, and from all aspects, he was not an opponent of the Cao Family Emperor, and if he failed, he would definitely die, but those dead soldiers did not complain at all.
It was only mechanically carried out Sima Yi's orders, and eventually helped Sima Yi to seize the world, in fact, there were three main reasons why these dead soldiers would unconditionally obey Sima Yi's orders. The first reason was that some of them were death row prisoners, who themselves were about to be executed, and only escaped with Sima Yi's assistance.
Therefore, they had the handle in Sima Yi's hands, and if Sima Yi's plan to seize the world was successful, they could also make meritorious contributions, and they could survive. In that chaotic era, it was already very rare to have a stable place to live, not to mention that after these dead soldiers defected to Sima Yi, Sima Yi would give them a lot of property.
They will also be given a life of food and clothing, and anyone who is afraid that they will be addicted to this kind of life, so these dead soldiers can follow Sima Yi wholeheartedly, because once they leave Sima Yi, they will face that situation of unknown life and death. The second reason was that Sima Yi gave them a lot of money to seduce them. At that time, Sima Yi could be said to have put a lot of thought into making these dead soldiers obey his command.
Every month, they were rewarded with gold and silver jewelry by Sima Yi, and these money also closely connected themselves to Sima Yi, making them a tool for Sima Yi to seize the world. But if there are only these two reasons, it may not ensure that these dead people are foolproof, after all, the relationship between money and wealth is not long-lasting.
As a well-known strategist at that time, Sima Yi naturally did not fail to understand these truths. Therefore,1 he had a special criterion when selecting dead soldiers, that is, the priority of abandoned babies. The so-called abandoned babies are babies who were abandoned in that era. Because the situation during the Three Kingdoms period was very chaotic, those adults did not even solve their own problems of survival and food and clothing.
So once they have children, many children will be ruthlessly abandoned by their parents, and these children will be collected and raised by Sima Yi. Those children had lacked the love of their relatives since childhood, and after receiving Sima Yi's help and care, they naturally regarded Sima Yi as their biological father.
Moreover, Sima Yi was also very concerned about them, which also enabled those people to serve Sima Yi wholeheartedly, and Sima Yi's good intentions were finally confirmed, and under the execution of his plan, he successfully seized the power of the Cao family and established the Jin Dynasty. I have to say that Sima Yi is indeed a very good person in using schemes.
Summary: When he first served Cao Cao, he had already conceived a large net to seize power in the world, and later with the continuous replacement of Emperor Cao, Sima Yi finally waited for his opportunity. Coupled with the help of these dead soldiers who did not care about life and death, the process of Sima Yi's seizure of the world was so smooth.