The Truth About Sima Yi
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For more than a thousand years, Sima Yi has always appeared as a wise man and political conspirator who makes people love and hate him. In particular, Sima's bloody methods in usurping the power of Cao Wei made him the biggest villain in "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms". But what about the real Sima Yi in history? Sima Yi was an outstanding statesman, militarist, and strategist during the Three Kingdoms period, and the actual founder of the Western Jin Dynasty. He once served as the governor, general, captain, and tutor of Cao Wei. He was an important minister who assisted Cao Wei for three generations, and later became a powerful official in control of the Wei Dynasty. He was good at making ingenious strategies and made many military exploits. Not only did he lead his army to successfully resist Zhuge Liang's Northern Expedition and the expedition to pacify Liaodong, but he also made important contributions to the development of farming economy such as farming and water conservancy. Precisely because of its unique historical status, it has received mixed reviews in history. In literary works such as "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and film and television dramas, it is mostly portrayed as a villain. In order to present a real Sima Yi to contemporary people, we have selected a series of research results on Sima Yi by contemporary scholars such as Zhou Liang, Liu Chunfan, Sun Liqun, Wang Xiaoyi, and Mao Yuanyou, as well as the appendix "Book of Jin Xuandi Ji" and historical evaluations of Sima Yi, trying to help the world correctly understand the real Sima Yi in history.
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