Sima Yi can be a very different figure in the Three Kingdoms period, in his body, you can find modesty and insidious coexistence, low-key and vicious co-existence, Sima Yi can be around the three generations of Cao Wei Heroes, relying on his familiarity with human nature, Sima Yi can deceive Cao Cao, please Cao Pi, favor Cao Rui, and kill Cao Shuang in the Coup d'état in Gaopingling, because Sima Yi understands the weaknesses of human nature.
Sima Yi came from a large family in Hanoi, Sili Prefecture, and his father Sima Fang was Cao Cao's recommender to become a lieutenant in northern Luoyang, and from the perspective of the talent recommendation at that time, Sima Fang recommended Cao Cao to bear the risk, and Cao Cao of course had to repay The Peach, so when Cao Cao's entrepreneurship improved, he gave Sima Fang the important position of Jing Zhaoyin.
Logically speaking, the Cao family should have a lot of ties with the Sima family, but when Cao Cao first asked Sima Yi to go out of the mountain as an official, Sima Yi actually refused, although the scholars at that time had a polite and modest atmosphere, but repeatedly refused Cao Cao's conquests, and did not hesitate to pretend to be ill to deceive Cao Cao, Sima Yi's behavior is no longer modest and courteous, but more like sitting on the ground and raising his value. Eventually, Sima Yi's actions infuriated Cao Cao, who used coercive means to forcibly recruit Sima Yi as an official.
Sima Yi
I. Sima Yi's means of dealing with Cao Cao
Cao Cao is a generation of masters, heroic and strategic, especially in the knowledge of people and the use of people, Cao Cao is even better, Cao Cao found and promoted a large number of talents, for the knowledge of People Cao Cao obviously has his own set of methods, in the time that Cao Cao and Sima Yi spent together, Cao Cao found that Sima Yi has an eagle eye wolf, and also reminded Cao Pi that Sima Yi is an ambitious person, and will definitely interfere in the family affairs of our Cao family in the future.
How did Sima Yi resolve Cao Cao's suspicions?
It is very simple, pretending to be a grandson, all kinds of people are low-key, diligent in doing things, and loyal
Sima Yi is also a master of human nature, Cao Cao can find that Sima Yi has a vision, Sima Yi can also find that Cao Cao has doubts about him, the best way to resolve doubts is to show loyalty, Sima Yi shows loyalty to Cao Cao, especially in politics for Cao Cao's usurpation of the throne, to know that the Sima family is also a big family, and can get the support of a big family politically, for Cao Cao, it is trustworthy.
Sima Yi obviously saw through Cao Cao's thoughts, and it was not only Yang Xiu who could see through Cao Cao's thoughts, but also Sima Yi, and unlike Yang Xiu who preached his wisdom everywhere, Sima Yi was low-key and pretended to be a grandson everywhere, for such a person, even if Cao Cao had doubts, but suffering from no evidence, and could not pick out Sima Yi's faults, of course, he could not put Sima Yi as well, Cao Cao could only remind his successor Cao Pi, pay attention to guarding against Sima Yi, and throughout his life, he could not put Sima Yi as well, and Sima Yi finally deceived Cao Cao.
Cao Cao discovers that Sima Yi has the "wolf look"
Second, Sima Yi's means of dealing with Cao Pi
After Cao Pi took over Cao Cao's position, he never took his father Cao Cao's words of defense against Sima Yi in his heart, as early as when Cao Pi was not yet a successor, Sima Yi had already made suggestions around Cao Pi, and after Cao Pi became the crown prince, Sima Yi was already a prince among the princes, equivalent to the prince's teacher, and Cao Pi would not do anything to his teacher no matter what he said.
Sima Yi was able to gain Cao Pi's trust, which was completely different from the way he handled Cao Cao's suspicions, for Cao Cao Sima Yi was to pretend to be a grandson, but for Cao Pi was trying his best to please, but not the kind of pleasure that slapped the horse's ass, but to give advice and advice, this kind of pleasing, every time Cao Pi encountered difficulties, Sima Yi could provide a good strategy for Cao Pi to deal with, and over time, Cao Pi would form a dependence on Sima Yi.
Sima Yi also became the four heaviest friends + strategists around Cao Pi together with Chen Qun, Wu Qian, and Zhu Shuo, this relationship is not something that everyone can get, Cao Pi is a foreign conquest, and it is Sima Yi who stays in the capital Luoyang, Cao Pi is lonely, and Sima Yi is one of the four ministers of The Orphan, which shows that Cao Pi has great trust in Sima Yi, which all depends on Sima Yi's insight into human nature and the pleasing of Cao Pi.
III. Sima Yi's means of dealing with Cao Rui
Cao Rui was the son of Cao Pi, the second emperor of Cao Wei, and also a wise monarch, who had long since left the four ministers of the Four Heavy Lords of the Trust, and by the time of Cao Rui, Sima Yi had become a major official guarding the frontier, first of all, Zhen Shou Jingzhou was responsible for the military of the Jingzhou region, and the seven-day rapid march of 1200 miles quelled Meng Da's rebellion, and it was the characteristics of Sima Yi to be vigorous and bold and swift.
Sima Yi's response to Cao Rui was to constantly establish military merit and ostensibly maintain the stability of the Cao Wei regime
In addition, Sima Yi's campaign to pacify the Gongsun clan in Liaodong within a year allowed Cao Wei to eliminate the security problems of the northern frontier.
Sima Yi became the only invincible existence in the Era of Cao Rui, in addition to the fact that Cao Wei's talents were broken, and sima Yi's outstanding ability was also the only existence to maintain the Cao Wei regime, Cao Rui thought that he was the hero, but forgot that Sima Yi had become Cao Wei's monopoly of power, and there was a high prestige in the army, such a hero, if there was ambition, it was an absolutely huge threat to the Cao Wei regime.
Sima and Cao Rui
Cao Rui was very helpless, without Sima Yi, there was no one to use, using Sima Yi would have unstable factors in the regime, coupled with the fact that Cao Rui in the later period had lost his enterprising spirit, only knew to seek pleasure and flourish in luxury, and it was a pity that Cao Rui had lost his basic sanity before his death, and arranged for Sima Yi and Cao Shuang, two combinations that could not be balanced at all, and whose strength was hugely different, to serve as a lonely and heavy subject, laying the groundwork for Cao Wei's demise.
Fourth, Sima Yi's means of dealing with Cao Shuang
With Sima Yi's ability, strength, experience, and merit all having a huge difference from Cao Shuang, Sima Yi has experienced hundreds of battles, Cao Shuang has no experience, Sima Yi is full of wisdom, Cao Shuang is stupid and mediocre, Sima Yi is sinister and cunning, Cao Shuang is a villain, and the two trusted and lonely ministers who have huge differences cannot balance each other, just like Zhuge Liang and Li Yan, they are doomed to one of the tragedies.
Sima Yi's method of dealing with Cao Shuang was: If the heavens want him to perish, he must first make him crazy.
With Sima Yi's ability, he was fully sure of overthrowing Cao Shuang in the political struggle, but Sima Yi did not do this, but adopted tolerance, deliberately making Cao Shuang proud and proud, human nature is originally greedy, selfish, hypocritical, and vain, as soon as Cao Shuang has achieved his will, he will forget his form, and once he forgets his form, he will do all kinds of deaths, and he will do a lot of unreasonable things, and this is the weakness of human nature.
Cao Shuang
Sima Yi by taking the initiative to give up the power struggle with Cao Shuang, pretending to be ill and retiring, let Cao Shuang gain great power, under one person, above ten thousand people, power is like poison, once it is obtained, it will not be put down, Cao Shuang has power, he began to do all kinds of death, crack down on dissidents, promote cronies, dictatorship, scourge the harem, in addition to his own cronies, Cao Shuang basically offended the entire imperial court, including the Cao family's clan relatives up and down.
Therefore, when Gao Pingling put forward, all the high-ranking officials of the imperial court were on the side of Sima Yi and opposed Cao Shuang, Cao Shuang did not see the situation clearly until this time, it turned out that except for his cronies, all people were unreliable, even cao Shuang's cronies, some of them quickly turned to Sima Yi, Cao Shuang is more like Sun Wukong in Sima Yi's hands, and he can never jump out of the palm of his hand.
Moreover, Sima Yi secretly raised three thousand dead soldiers, which was definitely not something that could be done in one day or two days, but a long-term process, and what was even more incredible was that the secret cultivation of three thousand dead soldiers had never been discovered. Frozen three feet, not a day's cold, the same reason, ambition is not cultivated in a day, Sima Yi although pretending to be ill, but obviously closely watching all aspects of the entire imperial court, any wind and grass will pass through a huge spy network, and passed to Sima Yi's hands.
Sima Yi seized power in a coup d'état at Gao Pingling
Sima Yi is obviously the easiest to deal with Cao Shuang, and it is a big chess game, it can be said that Sima Yi was able to successfully overthrow Cao Shuang in the end, but also because he understood human nature, Cao Shuang and Cao Cao, Cao Pi, Cao Rui is different from Cao Shuang's ability is too far, Sima Yi can use a long-term fishing strategy to catch big fish to get the incompetent Cao Shuang, instead of having to pretend to be a grandson, dedication, loyalty, but show his fierce, thin-hearted, decisive side, just like he did when he pacified Meng Da, pacified Cao Shuang.
Sima Yi was able to do all this because he deeply understood the weaknesses of human nature, especially the greedy, selfish, vain, and hypocritical side of human nature, and when he encountered different objects of response, Sima Yi knew which method to use to deal with, simply put: seeing people talking about people, encountering ghosts and saying ghost words, this is Sima Yi's method of understanding people like ordinary people, which made him finally laugh to the end in the disputes of the Three Kingdoms.