At that time, Sima Yi made a will: My descendants are not allowed to sweep my graves! Now I think Sima Yi was really prescient!
In 251 AD, Sima Yi, who was already 73 years old at the time, also died of illness, but before he died, Sima Yi told his descendants a particularly strange will:
"At Shouyang Mountain, it is an earthen treasure, and there is no grave or tree; it is three articles of gu fate, and it is necessary to serve the times, and there is no bright instrument, and those who are finally buried together are not allowed to be buried together."
Before his death, Sima Yi had already built a mausoleum for himself in Shouyang Mountain, neither sealing the tomb nor building a mausoleum, wearing his usual clothes and burying, there was no treasure in the tomb, and the widow who died later could not be buried with himself.
In the Book of Song and Lizhi, there is also a very strange record: "Emperor Xuan of Jin's will, sons and daughters and officials are not allowed to visit the tomb." So Jingwen obeyed. ”
The general meaning of the text is that Sima Yi did not allow future generations to visit the tomb for himself, and his son Sima Zhao, in accordance with his will, never swept the tomb for him.
There is an old saying: "The great affairs of the country are only the sacrifices and sacrifices." In the eyes of the ancients, ancestor worship is to pray for ancestors to bless the peace and harmony and continuation of the family. For the king, it is very important, which means that the country is peaceful and the imperial power is passed down from generation to generation.
And Sima Yi himself struggled for so many years, just to have power after Guangzong Yaozu.
At that time, Sima Yi was in power, but he was buried in a low-key manner, and even did not allow his descendants to sweep the grave for himself, and for Sima Yi to have such a great influence, it may have to start from the change of Gaopingling.
The Wei Ming Emperor Cao Rui died in the third year of the Jing Dynasty (239 CE), and was succeeded by the eight-year-old crown prince Cao Fang, while the generals Cao Shuang and Sima Yi became the ministers of the Tuogu.
After Cao Rui's death, Cao Shuang united with a group of henchmen and appointed Sima Yi as a lieutenant, ostensibly a promotion, but in fact reducing Sima Yi's rights. In order to seize Sima Yi's military power, sima yi was put in the air. Sima Yi himself was also very shrewd and knew that Cao Shuang was jealous of himself, so he used the strategy of "false delusion and not epilepsy" and pretended to be ill at home all day.
Later, because Sima Yi pretended to be ill at home every day, and then Cao Shuang's group completely controlled the forbidden army in the palace, Cao Shuang and He Yan and other celebrities manipulated the center of the imperial court. However, after doing all this, Cao Shuang failed to manage this well. Maybe this is related to Cao Shuang's own living environment, and cao Shuang's body does not see the wisdom of his father Cao Zhen at all.
After that, Cao Shuang wantonly seized power, held the young lord hostage, and imprisoned Empress Guo, who was in conflict with him, in the deep palace; then Cao Shuang used his army to personally lead hundreds of thousands of troops to attack Shu Han, and the result of this practice was that he was killed by Wang Ping and Fei Yi in the Battle of Xingshi.
However, in the face of such failures, Cao Shuang was not only not ashamed, but also held a cocktail party every day to talk with He Yan and others behind closed doors every day, and governed the country into a mess. This way of governing the country caused the dissatisfaction of many ministers and some of the previous meritorious old ministers.
Although Sima Yi was already ill and retired to the second line at that time, Cao Shuang was still very uneasy about Sima Yi, and he specially sent his confidant Li Sheng to visit Sima Yi.
At that time, when Cao Shuang's confidant Li Sheng went to visit Sima Yi, he saw Sima Yi eating porridge under the service of two maids. While eating, Sima Yi's hands shook and the porridge spilled all over his body. The maid changed his clothes for him, but Sima Yi did not stand still, and his clothes fell to the ground again.
When Li Sheng saw Sima Yi like this, he also felt pity and said to Sima Yi, "I am going to Jingzhou to take up my post immediately, and I specially resigned to Taifu!" As a result, Sima Yi "fainted" and said, "What? You're going to merge the state, there are Hu people everywhere, it's not a good place, you have to be more careful! ”
Li Sheng said to Sima Yi at that time: "Taifu heard wrong, I am going to Jingzhou to take up my post!" And Sima Yi "suddenly realized" said, "Oh! I'm old and can't hear you clearly. I hope you will make a contribution in Jingzhou, and when the time comes, I will entrust you with two dogs! ”
After leaving Sima Yi's house, Li Sheng immediately went to inform Cao Shuang of Sima Yi's situation: "Too old, not far from death, the general can sit back and relax!" After listening to Li Sheng's words, Cao Shuang lost his vigilance against Sima Yi.
However, in fact, Sima Yi was lying in bed all day "sick", and actually raised 800 dead soldiers at home, and at the same time contacted Jiang Ji and others to prepare to launch a Jedi counterattack.
Sima Yi was waiting for an opportunity, and in the first month of the first decade (249 AD), Cao Shuang took the young emperor Cao Fang and all his brothers and cronies to the tomb of Emperor Ming of Wei, Gaoping Mausoleum.
At this time, Sima Yi saw that the time had come, so he immediately sent someone to pick up Empress Guo, who was imprisoned, and asked her to order the arrest of Cao Shuang's party. After that, Sima Yi sent people to occupy the most important arsenal. He also sent troops out of the city to defend the Luoshui Pontoon Bridge and occupied the military garrison of Cao Shuang's party.
In 251, Sima Yi rebelled against Wang Ling, an old colleague who was trying to "revive the Wei Chamber", and destroyed his three tribes. After that, Sima Yi would dream almost every day that Wang Ling and his friend Jia Kui were asking for his life. Because of these things, Sima Yi soon became terminally ill, and at the same time issued a will to his descendants: "No graves, no trees, timely clothes, no bright instruments, and no burials for the latter." In addition, children and grandchildren are not allowed to send their own funerals.
The main reason why Sima Yi made such a will with his descendants was because he was afraid that he had committed many enemies by committing terrible crimes in the Gaopingling Rebellion. I am afraid that the descendants of those enemies or enemies will dig their own graves. In addition, he was also afraid that others would follow the law and take the opportunity of his descendants to visit the mausoleum and launch a coup d'état.
