The Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms still maintains much of Sima Yi's record, but it can also be seen that Sima Yi was treacherous. For example, when he fought with Cao Shuang for power, he first let his son go to raise the dead, and then pretended to be ill to paralyze Cao Shuang, so that Cao Shuang felt that Sima Yi's time was running out and relaxed his guard against Sima Yi. Sima Yi took advantage of Cao Shuang's going out to launch the "Gao Pingling" change, and the core force of the "Gao Pingling" change this time was naturally to use the dead soldiers he had raised.
This point was still not enough to calm the whole scene, so Sima Yi continued to play Cao Shuang, and he asked Yin Damu to tell Cao Shuang.
Yi envoys Gao Yang, Xu Yun, and Shang Shu Chen Tai said that it was advisable for Shuang to confess his guilt early, and then made Lieutenant Yin Damu of the Shuangshuo Xin Temple say that Shuang was only exempt from the official, and took Luo Shui as an oath. - "Zizhi Tongjian, Wei Ji, Wei Ji VII"
This incident appears in the Zizhi Tongjian and the Book of Jin.
It certainly cannot appear in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and if such a line appears, then Sima Yi will become a capricious and treacherous villain. As a Jin official, Chen Shou was ordered to revise history, and naturally did not dare to say bad things about Sima Yi, because Sima Yi had already been posthumously honored as King Xuan at this time. Sima Yi, who appears in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, was also replaced by Sima Xuanwang.
Cao Shuang was deceived, surrendered his military power, and was finally destroyed by the three tribes. Jiang Ji refused sima yi to give him a promotion, and soon died of depression, because an important reason for Cao Shuang to give up power was his trust in Jiang Ji.
The "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" does not add material to the matter of Cao Shuang, but it is still truthfully recorded in the matter of Wang Ling, and it can be seen from here that Chen Shou is quite bold and worthy of the title of Liangshi.
He knew that when Wang Ling wanted to support Wang Biao of Chu's rebellion, the first thing he did was:
First pardoned Ling's sins, and then shang shu Guangdong was made a book Yu Ling--"Three Kingdoms Zhi Wei Shu Wang WuQiu Zhuge Deng Zhong Biography"
This technique was the same as he did against Cao Shuang, first comforting. On the other hand, he attacked with a large army, and when Wang Ling was still hesitating, his large army had reached Wang Ling's eyes, and finally Wang Ling had to choose to surrender. After the surrender, Wang Ling did not have any punishment, but was sent to the capital by Sima Yi, in the process Sima Yi also comforted Wang Ling, don't worry, nothing will happen, be a good person.
In the end, Wang Ling committed suicide, and after being buried, Chen's corpse was cut off in a coffin, and Wang Ling's nephew Ling Huyu was also treated in this way.
From these two things, it can be seen that Sima Yi is a standard old fox, he will only use the trust of others, such as Jiang Ji, Cao Shuang, Wang Ling and others, he can turn his hands at any time, and there is no faith to speak of. He didn't seem to have any mental burden in doing so.
In this way, we have a question, Sima Yi behaved like this, did he have a person of trust?
Let's look at the Book of Jin, which records that he was going to inform his two sons, Sima Shi and Sima Zhao, before launching the Gaopingling Rebellion. He also sent someone to do one thing that night.
He told him that the emperor was sleeping as usual, and Emperor Wen could not sit down. - "Emperor Ji of Jin"
He sent people to secretly observe the dynamics of his two sons, and found that Sima Shi seemed to have nothing to do, and Sima Zhao was restless, and found that Sima Shi's psychological quality was much higher than That of Sima Zhao.
Here is not all Sima Shi's high psychological quality, because the dead soldier's matter is Sima Shi's manipulation, he naturally knows that his father will do it one day, but he does not know which day, now that he knows the answer, he is naturally calm. Sima Zhao was different, he had just learned, and it was normal to know that this was a rebellious thing, and it was normal to be uneasy.
The identities of the two people are also different, after Sima Yi's success, Sima Shi profited the most, because he was the eldest son of the concubine, the future successor of the entire family. Sima Zhao did not make much profit, if he failed, the losses of Sima Shi and Sima Zhao were the same, and the mentality of the two was different, which was why Sima Yi entrusted the matter of raising dead soldiers to Sima Shi instead of Sima Zhao.
What was abnormal was this small action made by Sima Yi: sending people to visit, that is, sending people to peep. Why send someone to peep?
Thinking about this small action, he knew that Sima Yi was doing things, he even trusted his own son, and he was afraid that his son would go out in the middle of the night to inform, and there would be such a small action.
If fully trusted, there is no need to peep at all. Thinking about this Sima Yi is still quite scary.
His wife Zhang Chunhua was also a cruel person, when he pretended to be ill and paralyzed to avoid being recruited by Cao Cao, as a result, after the rain, he got up to collect the book, at this time there was still a maid in the family, and as a result, Zhang Chunhua killed this maid and then personally cooked and did housework for Sima Yi.
Later, Sima Yi liked Lady Bai, and Zhang Chunhua rarely saw him. Sima Yi was ill, Zhang Chunhua went to see him, and Sima Yi came with a sentence: Old things are abominable, and he is annoyed. Zhang Chunhua was so angry that he did not eat, and as a result, Zhang Chunhua's children Sima Shi, Sima Zhao, and Sima Gan also said that they would not eat.
As a result, after Sima Yi apologized, he said a word: The old things are not enough to pity, worry about my good ears!
It means that I don't care about you, the old woman, I care about my sons. Did he really care about his sons?
Ru Guang looks at this sentence as if it is true, but combined with the above action, do you think he really cares about his good son?
Suppose that Sima Lun, the child of Lady Bai, who was in charge of the death, do you think Sima Yi would apologize?
Sometimes it's terrible to think about, I feel that he is more vicious and more vicious than Cao Cao, but there is still one thing that needs to be rehabilitated, that is, he has no intention of usurping the throne, he is a loyal subject.
At that time, Cao Fang made him Xiangguo and the Duke of Anping County. Sima Yi resigned.
In the period from the Two Han Dynasties to the Three Kingdoms, to see whether a person is loyal or disloyal, it depends on whether this person dares to accept the title of "Gong", and if he does not accept it, he is loyal, for example, Zhuge Liang was a Hou when he died, Cao Cao took the initiative to ask for a Duke of Wei, Liu Bei simply made a King of Han himself, and Sima Zhao accepted the title of Duke of Gaodu.
Later, there was chaos, for example, after the success of the Tang Dynasty's Divine Dragon Revolution, Zhang Kamzhi, Jinghui, Cui Xuanwei, Huan Yanfan, and Yuan Shuji were all restored to the throne by Li Xian. At this time, the king no longer had the weight of the king during the Three Kingdoms period.
The Book of Jin also records that Cao Cao said that Sima Yi had the appearance of a wolf.
Emperor Wucha of Wei had a heroic ambition and a wolf. Want to test it. - "Emperor Ji of Jin"
Then he also said to Cao Pi: Sima Yi is not a human subject, and he will predict ru family affairs.
I think this statement is still debatable, the reason is very simple, when Cao Cao established Cao Pi as his successor, he began to suppress Cao Zhi's henchmen, this kind of overall view, how can a decisive person who kills and kills want to mess with his own home after knowing Sima Yi without preemptively doing it, or leaving a backhand?
This is also too inconsistent with Cao Cao's personality. Similarly, Liu Bei said that Ma Mo was an exaggerated person and should not be used too heavily. Liu Beidu was sick and died, and Ma Mo was not a heavy courtier at that time, so he must pick the most important one when he said his last words, so why did he comment on Ma Mo? Logically speaking, it is also a place of discussion.
Zhi Changrong felt that the Romance of the Three Kingdoms might have whitened Sima Yitu, and the Book of Jin might have blackened Sima Yitu, and the combination of the two should be the image of Sima Yi. But history never has a truth, and any truth that becomes a literal carries the values of the recorder.