Chapter 14 105 Sima Yi pretends to be sick

In the few years after Zhuge Liang's death, Shu Han only took a defensive position against Wei.The power of Wei State became stronger, but turmoil occurred inside it. Sima Yi, the general of the Wei State, was born as a landlord of the noble family.When Cao Cao first came to power, he once recruited Sima Yi to be an official.At that time, Sima Yi thought that Cao Cao was of humble background and was unwilling to answer the call, but he did not dare to offend Cao Cao, so he pretended to be suffering from wind paralysis.Cao Cao suspected that Sima Yi was deliberately shirking, so he sent an assassin to break into Sima Yi's bedroom late at night to check, and he saw Sima Yi lying on the bed upright.

The assassin still didn't believe it, so he drew out his saber, put it on Sima Yi's body, and pretended to chop it off.He thought that if Sima Yi hadn't been paralyzed by the wind, he would have jumped up in fright.Sima Yi was really good at it, he just stared at the assassin without moving his body.The assassin had no choice but to believe it, put away his knife and reported back to Cao Cao. Sima Yi knew that Cao Cao would not let him go.After a period of time, people spread the news that the wind paralysis had been cured.When Cao Cao called him again, he would not refuse. Sima Yi successively held important positions under Cao Cao and Wei Wendi Cao Pi.When Emperor Wei Ming ascended the throne, Sima Yi was already the elder of the Wei state.Because he led troops to fight against Shu in Guanzhong for a long time, most of Wei's military power fell into his hands.Later, Gongsun Yuan, the prefect of Liaodong, colluded with the nobles of Xianbei and rebelled against the state of Wei.Emperor Wei Ming transferred Sima Yi to deal with the rebellion in Liaodong.

Sima Yi pacified Liaodong, and when he was about to return to the court, Luoyang sent someone to send an emergency edict, asking him to rush back to Luoyang quickly. When Sima Yi arrived in Luoyang, Emperor Wei Ming was seriously ill.Emperor Ming called Sima Yi and Cao Shuang, the royal minister, to the bedside and asked them to assist Prince Cao Fang together. After the death of Emperor Wei Ming, the crown prince Cao Fang came to the throne, who became Emperor Wei Shao.Cao Shuang became a general and Sima Yi became a captain.Each of them led 3,000 soldiers and took turns to be on duty in the palace.Although Cao Shuang is said to belong to the royal family, he is far behind Sima Yi in terms of ability and qualifications.At the beginning, he had to respect Sima Yi and always listen to Sima Yi's opinion on matters.

Later, a group of Cao Shuang's confidantes reminded Cao Shuang: "Power cannot be distributed to outsiders!" They came up with an idea for Cao Shuang, promoting Sima Yi to Taifu in the name of Wei Shaodi, in fact taking away his military power.Then, Cao Shuang arranged important positions for his confidants and brothers.Sima Yi saw it, pretended to be deaf and dumb, and didn't interfere at all. With the power in hand, Cao Shuang went to have fun and lead a ridiculous life.In order to establish his prestige, he also led troops to attack the Shu Han, but was defeated by the Shu army and almost wiped out the whole army.

Sima Yi didn't say anything on the surface, but secretly had plans.Fortunately, he is indeed old, so he presumes that he is sick and will not go to court. Cao Shuang heard that Sima Yi was ill, which was exactly what he wanted.But after all, I was a little worried, and wanted to find out whether the Taifu had a real disease or a fake disease. Once, Li Sheng, an official close to Cao Shuang, was appointed as the governor of Jingzhou.Before Li Sheng left, he went to Sima Yi's house to say goodbye.Cao Shuang asked him to explore the situation by the way. When Li Sheng arrived at Sima Yi's bedroom, he saw Sima Yi lying on the bed with two maids serving him porridge.He didn't take the bowl with his hands, but put his mouth to the edge of the bowl to drink.After taking a few sips, the porridge flowed down the corner of his mouth, all over the front of his chest.Li Sheng looked at it and felt that Sima Yi was very ill.

Li Sheng said to Sima Yi: "This time, with the grace of the emperor, I was appointed as the governor of this state (Li Sheng is from Jingzhou, so it is said to be this state), and I came here to say goodbye to the Taifu." Sima Yi gasped and said, "Oh, this is really wronging you. Bingzhou is in the north, close to the Hu people, so you have to be careful. I'm so sick, I'm afraid I won't see you in the future!" Li Sheng said: "Teacher got it wrong, I'm going back to Jingzhou, not Bingzhou." Sima Yi still couldn't hear clearly, Li Sheng said it loudly again, Sima Yi finally understood a little bit, and said, "I'm really old and deaf, so I can't hear you clearly.

It's great that you are the governor of Jingzhou. " Li Sheng came out and said everything to Cao Shuang, saying: "Teacher is only one breath away, so you don't need to worry." Cao Shuang listened, needless to say how happy he was. On the New Year's Day in 249 AD, Cao Fang, the young emperor of Wei, went outside the city to pay homage to the tombs of his ancestors. Cao Shuang, his brothers and trusted ministers all followed him.Since Sima Yi was seriously ill, of course no one asked him to go. Who knew that Cao Shuang and his gang would leave the imperial city.Grand Tutor Sima Yi recovered from his illness.He put on his armor, cheered up, took his two sons, Sima Shi and Sima Zhao, and led the troops to occupy the city gate and the arsenal.

Cao Shuang and his brothers were in a mess when they heard the news outside the city.Someone offered him advice, asking him to take the young emperor back to Xudu, gather troops, and fight against Sima Yi.But Cao Shuang and his brothers are people who only know how to eat, drink and play, so how can they have the courage.Sima Yi sent someone to persuade him to surrender, saying that as long as he surrendered his military power, he would never make things difficult for them.Cao Shuang obediently surrendered. A few days later, Cao Shuang and his gang were reported for treason, and Sima Yi sent someone to put Cao Shuang and his gang in prison and execute them.

In this way, the political power of Wei State is still in the hands of the Cao family in name, but in fact it has been transferred to the Sima family.