All the time, various TV series and novels have fixed the image of Sima Yi into a template: great ambition, knowledge, easy to hide, flattering and pretending to be at ease, and looking at the wolf, destined to betray, but this is just Sima Yi in the old age, and it is impossible for Sima Yi in the youth to subvert the Cao Cao regime.
In this way, I would rather pretend to be crazy and foolish, flee the official. Why is the young Sima Yi not willing to be an official under Cao Cao?
For this issue, it should be placed in the social environment where Sima Yi was in at that time. Sima Yi, 22, was appointed as the superior police officer by Hanoi County. What is the superior police officer? It mainly manages the quantity of grain in stock, the number of cultivated fields, taxes, household registration and public security in Hanoi County. It is not big or small. This is a pure civilian position, which involves a wide range of issues and requires people to be good at math. Now it is a general term for the Audit Bureau, , the Finance Bureau and the Tax Bureau. One of the main contributions of Sima Yi was to stand out in the later Three Kingdoms Cao Wei regime was that this experience accumulated a lot of experience in carrying out military farming in the future.
Later, Sima Yi's reputation gradually spread. In addition, Sima Yi's brother Sima Lang has a good relationship with Cao Cao and is Cao Cao's direct and capable subordinate. Cao Cao was eager for Sima Lang's younger brother Sima Yi, so he naturally asked him to serve as a high-ranking official in the capital. However, Sima Yi refused and even dared to pretend to be sick and act stupid.
It is said that if a person has the opportunity to be transferred from the province to the central government, or if Boss Cao, who is in charge of the court alone, is invited by the general public, most people must be ecstatic, but Sima Yi did not take the countermeasure - pretending to be sick. He said that he had "rhea" and his daily life was abnormal, and even Boss Cao, who was suspicious by nature, had concealed it.
For such a situation, many friends subconsciously think that Sima Yi is scheming, but for a person in his twenties, such an evaluation is actually to look at people wearing tinted glasses, which is very unfair to Sima Yi.
In fact, not to mention that Sima Yi did not choose Cao Cao at this time, even if he did multiple-choice questions in Zhuge Liang , he would not choose Cao Cao. To put it now, Boss Cao's company is strong (meaning that there is no position, Boss Cao's number one strategist Guo Jia is still alive), Boss Cao's mortal enemy Yuan Group, although it is divided, it still has strength, and there are many external competitors. The situation in the world is still unclear, and it is still unknown who will win.
When did Zhuge Liang choose Liu Bei ? It means that when Liu Bei is exhausted and seeking talents is so thirsty that he is in a low position, he takes power as soon as he first joined the company. As for Sima Yi, after Cao Cao defeated the Red Cliff, when the old minister was in a state of decline, he was the direct subordinate of Boss Cao, and from then on he became a success.
