The historical Sima Yi was the founder of the Jin Dynasty, and in order to complete his great cause of unification during the Three Kingdoms period, all the princes racked their brains and fought to the death, but Sima Yi escaped Cao Cao's doubts and restrictions, and finally snatched the military power from Cao Shuang's hands and opened the Sima era.
Sima Yi's success directly rewrote history, and people also knew about this legendary figure, but the Sima family was a warrior family after all, and in addition to Sima Yi, how many brothers did he have? What is the life path of these brothers?
Image: Screenshot of Sima Yi's portrait data
1. The Sima family
The Sima family occupies a very important historical position in the entire long river of history, from the beginning of the grandfather is a military general who is in the limelight, to the grandfather Sima Jun, the father Sima Fang, are also important officials at that time, the Sima family has been precipitated for a long time, naturally has the strength that the people in power can not ignore.
However, Sima Yi was not happy when he was doing things under Cao Cao, Cao Cao was jealous of Sima Yi's "wolf ambition", several attempts, stumbling blocks also gave a lot, Sima Yi even put away the light of the body, do low clothes small, even so, Cao Cao still looked at Sima Yi very unhappy, told his son Cao Pi, to be careful of this person who is not willing to be a courtier to his own family.
Many people will also feel strange when they see this paragraph, since Cao Cao does not like Sima Yi so much, with his suspicious personality, wouldn't it be any worries to find an excuse to kill Sima Yi? In fact, Cao Cao also has his own difficulties, and this difficulty is that there are too many sons of the Sima family!
Image: Sima Yi kneels to see Cao Cao stills
Sima Yi's father Sima Fang had eight sons in his lifetime, and the Sima family style was rigorous, although there were many sons, but there was no bad habit of a clumsy disciple, so the Sima family was also very concerned at that time, and the words of these eight sons all had a "Da" character, so it was called: Sima Bada.
Compared with the family forces behind Cao Cao, the Sima family can be said to have completely prevailed, the Sima family has a deep influence in the family, and due to the long-term marriage relationship, the families and the Sima family are more or less involved, Cao Cao's three generations of grandchildren are full of vigilance against the Sima family, but they dare not move Sima Yi at will, and the Sima family's connections and Sima Bada have a great relationship.
According to historical records, Sima Bada almost all had official positions, not to mention the officials and officials, the stakes were very wide, and Cao Cao knew that if Sima Yi was hastily moved, he would be fighting against the entire country's warrior clan, and it was for this reason that even if Sima Yi was jealous of Sima Yi in every way, and even completely saw that Sima Yi was not willing to be a subject, Cao Cao was still helpless, so what kind of figures were these Badas of the Sima family?
Image: Stills of Sima Bada
2. Sima Bada
1. Boda Sima Lang
As the eldest son of Sima Fang, he must have attracted much attention, according to the ancient family tradition, the eldest son is like a banner, need to take on the heavy responsibility of prospering the entire family, Sima Lang was given such a responsibility and carefully cultivated.
Sima Lang has been reading poetry since he was a child, he has his own insights and cognition, and he is extremely tall, when he participated in the boy exam at the age of 12, he was suspected by the invigilators of his false age, Sima Lang was not angry, but Shi Shiran replied: My knowledge is accumulated through daily study, although I am not old, but I also know that everything can not be rushed to achieve quick success, what is the need to falsely report the age to take the exam?
Everyone present was stunned, and only then did they know that although the grand duke of the Sima family was young and tall, he had a quick mind and was old and steady.
Photo: Stills of the eldest son Sima Lang
After his father Sima Fang followed Cao Cao, Sima Lang's talents and learning were also valued by Cao Cao, and he was also given the post of Sikong Tuan. However, Sima Lang was disciplined more rigidly, and his popularity in the official arena was not as good as that of Sima Yi, but some of his orthodox ideas still won the favor of leaders.
For example, Sima Lang said that Yi Yin and Yan Hui were not the saints defined in everyone's ideals, but their articles were written in pearls, which could arouse the correct thinking of most readers, and use articles to win the world, and they could also exchange them for a peaceful and prosperous world.
This point of view of his made Cao Pi very agreeable and was reused. At the age of 47, Sima Lang went out to Jiangdong together, unfortunately contracted the plague and died, after his death, he left a son Sima Yi, who was crowned marquis of Wuchangting after Sima Yan became emperor, and his adopted son Sima Wangguan to the general Sima and Xi was also a very important figure.
Image: Stills of Sima Lang infected with the plague
2. Zhongda Sima Yi
The second eldest did not need to introduce more, it was precisely because of Sima Yi that the Sima family would bravely embark on the road of usurpation. Sima Yi showed an unusual side from an early age, and before he was twenty years old, he was judged by others: this is an unusual person.
Sima Lang's colleagues compared the two brothers, and although Sima Lang was a few years older than Sima Yi, everyone thought that Sima Yi's future talents must be above Sima Lang's, because he was calm and calm, did not show sharpness, made decisive decisions, and was clean and neat.
Sima Yi was 71 years old when he died, which was a high life expectancy at that time, his sons Sima Shi and Sima Zhao took over his mantle and had absolute control over Cao Wei, and among Sima Yi's nine sons, in addition to Sima Shi and Sima Zhao, who were posthumously made emperors, several other sons were also made marquises, and the scenery was the same.
Image: Stills of Sima Yi and his younger son
3. Shuda Sima Fu
The historical Sima Fu was a man of great moral demeanor, and it is quite strange that this person who claimed to be Wei Chen until his death was Sima Yi's biggest helper in controlling Cao Wei. Sima Fu had a deep attainment in literary morality, so he was highly valued by Cao Zhi and Cao Pi, and the official Zhi Shangshu.
When Sima Yi launched the coup d'état, it was Sima Fuli who was able to successfully carry out the party of Cao Shuang in response to the external cooperation, and then Sima Fugong retired and never participated too much in political affairs, at the age of 92, the longest-lived in Bada.
Image: Stills of Sima Fu
4. Jida Sima Kui
During the Wei Dynasty, Sima Kui achieved Lu Xiang, and there is not much account of himself, and his descendant Sima Yue, the King of Donghai, was the terminator of the fall of the Jin Empire.
5. Xianda Sima Gong
Lao Wu did not leave too many words in history, but also in the Wei Dynasty also had an official and a half-position, relatively speaking, his son would be more excellent, Sima Sui was a great general in the Wei Dynasty, with a heavy army, and in the Western Jin Dynasty, he was named the King of Jinan, which shows that he has absolute right to speak in the local area.
6. Huida Sima Jin
This Sima Laoliu, who had become a Zhongshu waiter during the Cao Wei period, also had a very ordinary biography, and when the Sima family established the Western Jin Dynasty, his two sons did not give any official positions with real power, but only had fiefs and kings.
Picture: Stills of Sima Fang talking to his two sons
7. Yada Sima Tong
In the whole family, only this person was brazenly opposed to Sima Yan's usurpation of the throne, and in the end, Sima Bin's end was also tragic, and Sima Yan exiled him after he ascended the throne, and died of illness in Guzang.
8. Young Da Sima Min
For this old man, in addition to knowing that he was named the Marquis of Anping Ting during the Western Jin Dynasty, there is no other historical record about Sima Min, and even the year of birth and death is not clear, it may be that the old man was born out of Shu, and later it was his nephew Sima Mu who passed on the eldest son Sima Biao to Sima Min, so it is speculated that this Sima Min should have died early and left no heirs.
Article author: Dahui
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