Speaking of Sima Yi, I think many of us are not unfamiliar with it, after all, Sima Yi, as a well-known courtier in the Three Kingdoms period, few people do not know the name of Sima Yi, but for many people, they only know the name of Sima Yi, many people may know that Sima Yi is ambitious, but when it comes to Sima Yi's life, many people are still relatively unfamiliar, so today I will let us understand the real Sima Yi in history and see what kind of person the real Sima Yi really is.
First of all, let's first talk about the background of Sima Yi, Sima Yi's family is huge, up to even trace back to the ancient period, and the origin of the Sima surname can be traced back to the Xia Dynasty, in the Sima family's top ancestors, Sima Yi XII ancestors followed Xiang Yu's southern expedition to the northern war, was crowned the King of Yin, Sima Yi's gaozu was named the general of Zhengxi, his great-grandfather was sealed Taishou, his grandfather was also Taishou, his father was the capital Jing Zhaoyin, so on the sima yi background, in general, Sima Yi from the ancestors to his generation, Almost every generation is a generation of talents, and the Sima family has been passed down to Sima Yi's generation, a proper family for thousands of years, so if you talk about the background alone, I am afraid that no one in the entire Three Kingdoms can be left out.
The family that has been passed down for thousands of years, the Sima family is also very rich, so When Sima Yi was a teenager, he showed a lofty ambition and lofty ambitions that were different from many other people, so Sima Yi had already become famous in his youth, but from the perspective of Sima Yi's encounter in history, perhaps by the late period of the Three Kingdoms, Sima Yi's family has come to an end, that is, the period of family decline that we often say, in history, even in the history, in the Three Kingdoms, None of them showed the strength of the Sima family, especially an incident that happened to Sima Yi when he was young, which confirmed the decline of the Sima family in the late Three Kingdoms period.
Sima Yi was quite talented when he was young, and the corresponding temper must have been lighter, less young and crazy, and the common sentiment of people, but for Sima Yi, just because of this, he almost took Sima Yi's life, when Sima Yi was young, he and a man named Zhou Sheng, because of some things, there was a conflict, and the two had a deep vendetta, even to the point of killing each other, this time Sima Yi was outside, Zhou Sheng tangled people to go and snipe Sima Yi, but was stopped by Sima Yi's friend Hu Zhao. Therefore, Sima Yi only escaped a disaster, can you imagine that a thousand-year-old family heir, actually need to rely on friends to pray for the enemy to spare him, in order to escape from heaven, will it feel very humiliating? Yes, it is indeed a very humiliating thing, but after this humiliating experience, Sima Yi's life began to change.
What is this shift? It was someone who recommended Sima Yi to Cao Cao, and then Cao Cao targeted Sima Yi, at that time Cao Cao was different from Cao Cao in his youth, jian'an six years, Cao Cao almost became powerful, and although Sima Yi at this time had some fame, but compared to Cao Cao, it was a small witch, so Cao Cao wanted to conquer Sima Yi, but because Sima Yi hid from the sky and crossed the sea, he miraculously hid for seven years, but after seven years, Cao Cao became a minister, and the climate has become a master. At this time, Sima Yi was unable to hide any longer, so perhaps Sima Yi was forced to do so, and Sima Yi began to serve under Cao Cao.
Perhaps Sima Yi in this period did not have any idea of usurping the throne, after all, Cao Cao in that period did not dare to provoke anyone, blackmailing the Son of Heaven to order the princes, although Cao Cao was not born right, but Cao Cao's power at that time had already reached its peak, so the reason why Sima Yi at that time was not willing to do things for Cao Cao, or was unwilling to be with Cao Cao's subordinates, most of the reasons may also be because his literati mind is at work, after all, we all know that there is such a sentence in history: literati are light, In short, Sima Yi looked down on Cao Cao at all, and even more despised a group of "rabble-rousers" under Cao Cao, but his own little life was caught in the hands of others and had to redeem himself.
Therefore, for a long time, Sima Yi was located in Cao Cao's camp, always in a very contradictory state, on the one hand, he did not want to serve Cao Cao, on the other hand, he had to save his own life, so Sima Yi was very contradictory about his own position, but perhaps because of this contradiction of Sima Yi, Sima Yi gradually developed in Cao Cao's clique, and Sima Yi's new clique gradually became a lever for Cao Cao to balance his uncles and brothers and the early strategist clique, after all, no matter which side of the force, Especially if it is a big clique like Cao Cao, the dominance of a certain party is obviously not what Cao Cao wants to see, so Sima Yi has become the key point to balance many people, and Sima Yi has also played his role, scheming and judging, helping Cao Cao win the great war many times, and making good friends with Cao Pi, saving Cao Pi from water and fire many times, so although Cao Cao is still uneasy about Sima Yi, under Sima Yi's hard work, Cao Cao also gradually let go of his suspicions about Sima Yi.
But this process is undoubtedly painful, even for Sima Yi is humiliating, in a modern sentence, that is, Sima Yi gradually lived into his own hated look, behind the apparent loyalty to Cao Cao, perhaps deep hatred and fear, fortunately Sima Yi can endure, endure what ordinary people can not endure, become ordinary people can not do things, Sima Yi can succeed, his patience and perseverance have merit, but there is no doubt that the most important thing is his endurance, during Cao Cao's lifetime, Sima Yi was always loyal to the Cao family, and even loyal to Sima Yi himself was about to believe it, but all this was up to Cao Cao's death.
After Cao Cao's death, Sima Yi further assisted Cao Pi, taking the opportunity to help Cao Pi seize power, Sima Yi began to exert efforts to weaken Cao Pi's clan power, but perhaps Sima Yi was still more nostalgic for the past, during Cao Pi's lifetime, although Sima Yi could almost be said to be a dominant family, but Sima Yi had not usurped the throne, this situation was until Cao Pi's death, Cao Fang succeeded to the throne, Sima Yi was excluded, Sima Yi officially showed his minions, and the suppression effect of many years was remarkable, after the Gaopingling Incident, The cao family's political power officially fell into the hands of the Sima family, and at this point in time, the great family business operated by the three generations of the Cao family was comprehensively taken over by Sima Yi, and the reason why Sima Yi was able to pick up the fruits of the cao family's three generations of operations, the final change of power, was mainly because Sima Yi had enough patience, could wait, was willing to wait, and waited for the Cao family's able subjects to die, waiting for a most mature time, Sima Yi survived the death of two generations of Cao family lords, many stock humerians, Finally seizing power in the third generation of the Cao family, people can't help but sigh, this ending may also be the Cao family's fate, three horses eat a trough, fate is just that.