Sima yi's will
I believe everyone knows something about Sima Yi. Although he didn't become an emperor, he was a century-old ruler in the Three Kingdoms period. Many powerful people in history hope that they can be worshipped by future generations and admired by thousands of people, but Sima Yi, on the contrary, left such a will before his death, which is also puzzling. He even forbade future generations to be buried with him.
In the Book of Songs and the Book of Rites, he also left such an unexpected will:
"Jin Xuandi has a testamentary edict, and sub-group officials are not allowed to visit the mausoleum. So Wen Jing obeyed. " To put it bluntly, not only are descendants not allowed to be buried with themselves, but they are not even allowed to sweep graves.
The ancients attached great importance to ancestor worship and regarded it as a family event, but why did Sima Yi do it?
High Ping Ling coup
Why did Sima Yi do this? Let's start with the Gaopingling coup. At that time, the reigning emperor was Wei Mingdi. After his death, he passed the throne to Crown Prince Cao Fang. At that time, ICY was only 8 years old and could not handle the failure of state affairs. Thus, General Cao Shuang and Qiu Sima Yi became ministers entrusted to orphans. Compared with Cao Shuang, Sima Yi is just an outsider. Cao Cao naturally didn't want the power of the imperial court to fall into the hands of outsiders, so he United a group of old ministers of the imperial court, deprived him of his rights and excluded him from the edge of power. Obviously, Sima Yi knew Cao Shuang's practice very well, and began to play an old trick again, pretending to be sick at home to protect himself.
Sima Yi is an old fox. Compared with him, Cao Shuang is still relatively young. On the surface, Sima Yi is pretending to be ill, as if afraid to oppose them. In fact, he is waiting for an opportunity, quietly dormant. Before long, he waited for his chance. Cao Shuang led an army of 654.38 million to crusade against Shu Han, but he was defeated. When he came back, he was not ashamed of it. Instead, he felt honored to lead the army to fight. He relied on his own military strength to control the country, which also gave Sima Yi an opportunity. In 249 AD, Cao Shuang took his youngest son, Cao Fang, to worship the first emperor. At this time, Sima Yi had been forbearing for a long time and took this opportunity to fight back.
He first sent someone to contact the imprisoned Queen Mother Guo and asked her to capture Cao Shuang alive in the name of the Queen Mother, then occupied the armory, sent troops to occupy the military customs, and mastered the military stronghold of Jun. Finally, in order to justify his workshop, he planned to kill Cao Shuang under the banner of punishing the rebellion in the last emperor's testamentary edict.
Cao Shuang is no match for Sima Yi. After hearing the news of the mutiny, he panicked. Although he had both the young emperor and the relieving power, he finally surrendered voluntarily. When Cao Shuang's brain trust Heng Fan knew about it, he swore. How can Cao Shi have a loser like you? On the other hand, we also saw Sima Yi's forbearance, which was a fatal blow.
Even if Cao Shuang surrendered, Sima Yi didn't let him go, and directly killed his three families, regardless of the 80-year-old man or the 3-year-old child, he didn't let go, and he was really uprooted. In addition to people in Cao Shuang, people in Cao Shuang followed suit. More than 5000 people were killed by * * *. Although it was cruel to do so, Sima Yi thought it was more important to exterminate the grass at that time, but the nature of such killing activities was very bad, so even the descendants of Sima Shi after the Eastern Jin Dynasty expressed such feelings. If Sima Yi hadn't been in such a hurry at that time, the Jin Dynasty might have existed for a long time.
Although Sima Yi's coup finally succeeded, he was always afraid. After all, he killed so many people, and he always had nightmares at night, dreaming that Cao Shi's descendants would come to kill him. He died soon after, leaving such a will before he died. Future generations are not allowed to sweep his grave. Why are you doing this? After research, historians have analyzed three reasons:
First, too many people have been killed, and they are afraid of revenge and their graves have been dug.
Second, I am afraid that others will follow suit and give him a chance to sweep the grave to launch a coup.
The third reason may be to find inner peace.
Especially at 1 point, Sima Yi was worried that he would be retaliated and his grave would be dug. It has been more than 700 years since his death. Even the tomb of Cao Cao has been found, but the tomb of Sima Yi has never been found. This shows that Sima Yi is indeed a shrewd man.