If you must let everyone say one of their favorite strategists, everyone will definitely be able to say the name of Zhuge Liang, after all, as a prominent figure in the Three Kingdoms period, his contribution can indeed be remembered by many people. However, in addition to him, the opposite Cao Cao is also the object of discussion by many people.
As a chaotic adulterer, Cao Cao had his own great talent, and it was precisely because of this that countless people followed him, so that he could finally achieve a hegemony for himself. The person we are talking about today is Guo Jia, who has been working under Cao Cao for a long time. As the saying goes, a good man has three gangs, Guo Jia is under Cao Cao's command, and finally urges Cao Cao to kill Sima Yi, why can a little Guo Jia guess that Sima Yi will eventually rebel? And what kind of person is he?
Perhaps we have seen too many people conquering their surroundings by force to achieve hegemony, but few people can show the highlights of life in the final period through forbearance. Sima Yi is such a person, as a figure who has gone through three dynasties, he was still able to use his own strength to seize power when he was seventy or eighty years old, which seemed to many people to be a very difficult thing, but he did it. But as a person who has endured for so many years, he has been seen by one person, and this person is Guo Jia. Although Cao Cao did not heed the final advice, we can still see that Guo Guo was a very talented person.
So how did he know that Sima Yi had such a mind?
First, be good at observation. As a very rigorous person in her work, he has always paid great attention to detail, and this control of detail has given her a very important talent that others do not have. Anyone who wants to play his own strengths must have a platform, and he is relying on his observation of leadership to find that Yuan Shao is not his ultimate destination. Therefore, he would rather play at home for 6 years than choose to be with such a useless person. When Cao Cao needed talent, he was recommended to him by his good friend. In the few words with Cao Cao, he could already imagine the future development of this person, and the talent of this person, and it was precisely because of this that he would willingly do things under him.
Second, be far-sighted. Not all talented people will be reused, and the reason why he can make himself stand in such an official arena naturally has a lot to do with his own control of the future situation. As a strategist, he has played a very important role in many things, and on the basis of his own knowledge of people, he can also make a certain judgment on the development of things, which is based on his own experience and the consideration of all sides. If he has a far-sighted perspective on things, then he must be very simple to do things, because this allows him to see Sima Yi's thoughts.
Third, identify problems. It is precisely because of one person's judgment on another person that Guo Jia has a very bad impression of Sima Yi, but he cannot directly say this matter in such a position, so he can only observe it silently in secret. However, this observation allowed him to discover many problems, such as some careful thinking of Sima Yi, some unauthorized departures, or deliberately embarrassing moves, and it was precisely because of this that he concluded his own speculation. Of course, these speculations could not use these exposed horse feet as evidence for him, so he could only persuade Cao Cao to do so in the end, because it was better to kill the wrong person than to leave the consequences behind.
Of course, we must also know that although this matter was not successful in the end, we can find Out of it Guo Jia's ability to recognize people and recognize people. This ability was very important to the ancient model, and it was also the primary factor in obtaining judgment in war. However, in the end, Cao Cao did not listen to the advice, and even Cao Pi did not listen to the advice, so that his country finally came to an end and was directly taken by Sima Yi, which was a historical necessity, but there were also some results caused by some wrong judgments.