Some people think that Sima Yi's success in the coup in Gao Ping Ling was a fluke. If Cao Shuang listened to Huan Fan, who was known as a "brain trust" at that time, he used his advantage of being the son of heaven to call on other Cao Wei royal families to stop fighting and be diligent, and the outcome is unknown. In fact, don't say that Cao Shuang has no resistance and courage. Even if he wants to fight to the death, he can't succeed. Generally speaking, the reasons for the success of Sima Yi's coup lie in the following points:
The opponent is too bad.
Sima Yi's longevity really gave him an advantage. When those heroes in the early stage left the historical stage one after another, he was able to live indefinitely. At the end of his life, he completed a coup that surprised everyone and planned for a long time on himself, easily stealing the supreme power of Cao Wei. However, this is only a matter of life span. Without a group of opponents whose strength is really insignificant, Sima Yi's road to power would not be so smooth.
Influenced by The Romance of The Three Kingdoms, we generally think that Cao Shuang is a straw bag with no definite view, but it is not entirely true. Cao Shuang, with his imperial clan status, often went in and out of the imperial court during Cao Rui's stay in Wei Mingdi, and was deeply trusted and favored by Cao Rui. When Cao Rui was seriously ill, he was entrusted with the task of being an orphan with Sima Yi. Later, Cao Shuang, who thought he had mastered the power of state affairs, gradually became disloyal and ignored the little emperor Cao Fang and the Queen Mother. What he did gave Sima Yi an excuse to get rid of him.
Because of Cao Shuang's arrogance, Sima Yi won the support of the Empress Dowager when she staged a coup. Of course, it does not rule out that the queen mother knows that she and the little emperor are orphans and widows, and even if she opposes it, it will be useless, which is likely to lead to death.
Just like Cao Cao held the emperor to make the princes, Sima Yi held the token of the queen mother. Even if the imperial clan of Cao Shuang and Cao Wei dared to openly oppose Sima Yi, it would be regarded as resisting the empress dowager and the emperor, so those who did not know the truth and originally supported the emperor and the empress dowager stood on Sima Yi's side. Cao Shuang was the most powerful person in Cao Wei clan at that time. Once he decided not to resist, others were almost incapable of confronting Sima Yi.
Cao Cao established his own political power with the help of his clan (including Xiahou clan). At the beginning of Cao Pi's accession to the throne, the influence of Cao Shi clan was still so great that the emperor Cao Pi who had just acceded to the throne felt that his imperial power was threatened. In order to make himself full-fledged, and to further consolidate his rule, Cao Pi began to rely on aristocratic men who had absolute superiority at that time, initially weakening the influence of Cao Wei's imperial clan in North Korea.
Cao Pi's move seemed brilliant, but in fact it was a serious miscalculation. It can be said that the great Wei established by him is no longer the great Wei regime in Cao Cao's mind. It was Cao Pi who left the future trouble and gave Sima Yi the convenience to seize the highest power. But xelloss was forced by the situation and had to do it.
Adequate bedding
Compared with those opponents who have neither foresight nor ability, Sima family has made long and full preparations for their fame and fortune. Perhaps from AD 234 (the second year of Cao Wei Qinglong), or even earlier, Sima's family began to secretly raise the dead, hiding the dead in white among the people in an unknown way. Once something happens, these people will gather from all directions and make people unprepared. However, even if you cover it up carefully, there will be times when you show flaws.
Xia Houhui, the wife of Sima Shi, was the first to see the flaw. According to the Book of Jin, this woman is very learned. Every time something big happens, she plans for Sima Shi. Perhaps as Xiahou's daughter, Xia Houhui came to Sima's house with some political mission. To be sure, she and Sima Shi had a very happy life at the beginning of their marriage. They gave birth to five daughters, which shows that the couple really have true feelings when they are not facing political struggles.
But even the best feelings are doomed to be destroyed by cruel political struggles. Although Xia Houhui is the wife of Sima Shi, she is also the daughter of Xiahou's family and the cousin of Cao Shuang, Sima Yi's political enemy. It is this special identity that caused Xia Houhui's tragedy. Sima Shi brutally killed his wife, and then, when he finished, he and his brother-in-law Xia Houxuan wiped out the three clans together.
Maybe political struggle has always been so cruel. After all, a generation of British lords like Emperor Taizong did not hesitate to kill their brothers in order to gain the highest power. However, in any case, this killing from intimacy to enemies is still unacceptable to us. The ugliness of human nature, the most unbearable and unbearable, is undoubtedly revealed in this political struggle.
From the standpoint of Sima Jia, killing Xia Houhui is one of the many things they have to do at most, because they have prepared for a long time and are good at keeping secrets. To say that the Sima family is fully prepared to seize power, there is actually a very important natural factor: Sima Yi's father, Sima Fang, has eight sons and was called "Sima Ba Da" by people at that time. The eight brothers of Sima family hold important positions in the DPRK, and their descendants are prosperous.
At that time, only Yingchuan's "Xun's Eight Dragons" kept pace with Sima's family. (The representative figures of its descendants are Yu Xun, etc. ) Sima Ba brothers not only mastered the power to be reckoned with, but also lived a long life. Sima Fu, Sima Yi's third brother, was born in 180 and died in 272, at the age of 92, the oldest of Sima Jia's eight brothers.
Living for a long time, being strong and prosperous, coupled with years of management, once the opposite is created, there is no comparable force to confront it, which is a natural factor that Sima Yi's opponents have to face.
As the trend of the times shows.
The prosperity of Sima family and its mastery of a lot of power are important conditions for Sima Yi to seize power successfully, but they are not completely sufficient conditions. As mentioned above, Cao Pi reused the aristocratic families at that time and fully considered their interests in order to make his Cao Wei regime truly supported by these aristocratic families. In fact, no matter how Cao Pi meets their demands, they can't really support the Cao Wei regime that has quietly changed at this time. Because only representatives who are completely consistent with their interests have the highest power and can fully meet their internal requirements.
With the implementation of the Nine-Graded Zhengzhi System (also known as the Nine-Graded Zheng Zhi System), the power to choose officials has been given to aristocratic families, and most of the new bureaucrats are students of those aristocratic families. Therefore, once the Sima family, which truly represents their interests, revolts, most groups will not object.
However, is the political system in line with the interests of the majority necessarily correct? The situation of "there is no poverty in the top grade and no gentry in the bottom grade" caused by the nine-grade official system makes those rich children monopolize the privilege of entering the bureaucratic system, and the children of poor families are relegated to the ranks all their lives, or have no chance to be an official at all.
Cao Cao put forward that "meritocracy is the promotion", largely because he was an official at that time and didn't care about real talent and practical learning. However, under Zhuge Liang's rule, Shu Han paid more attention to the ability of officials and the style of honesty, which met the requirements of healthy social development, but did not meet the requirements of the times.
There are many similarities between the development of history and the development of a person. No one can be smooth sailing, and it is inevitable to drive backwards and take detours, not to mention the fundamental reason for the evolution of the ruling class. Some powerful families, once in power, will consolidate everything they have through various means, forming a huge network of relationships, laying a more solid foundation for their descendants and providing richer protection. This social phenomenon is still widespread in modern society.
Cao Cao put forward that "meritocracy is the promotion", largely because he was an official at that time and didn't care about real talent and practical learning. However, under Zhuge Liang's rule, Shu Han paid more attention to the ability of officials and the style of honesty, which met the requirements of healthy social development, but did not meet the requirements of the times.
There are many similarities between the development of history and the development of a person. No one can be smooth sailing, and it is inevitable to drive backwards and take detours, not to mention the fundamental reason for the evolution of the ruling class. Some powerful families, once in power, will consolidate everything they have through various means, forming a huge network of relationships, laying a more solid foundation for their descendants and providing richer protection. This social phenomenon is still widespread in modern society.
History chose the Sima family, but they didn't give ordinary people in Qian Qian a suitable place to live. Therefore, compared with such unity, what we miss more is the emergence of heroes. Although wars are endless, there is always hope and possible reconstruction in troubled times. Fortunately, the development of history has its own objective repair function, and such troubled times will eventually end.
Conclusion:
When we think of Sima Yi, we can't help thinking of some negative and dark things about larded school, but everything has two sides, and Sima Yi also has a side worthy of our affirmation. Moreover, although some things do not have a positive impact, our cognitive perspective determines what we will get.
The advantages of Sima Yi can be summarized in three aspects: First, he is good at patience, accumulating strength in patience and making himself strong. Second, we should be good at grasping opportunities, and never let them go when they come. The third is decisive action. Judging from the fact that it took only eight days to make a long trip to Fangling and win the dream in one fell swoop, Sima Yi's success also shows his greatness. For us, if we can do one of them, maybe success is not far away.