Sima Yi was a famous politician and strategist during the Three Kingdoms period and the 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 the four generations of the Wei State, and later became a powerful minister in control of the Wei Dynasty. Chairman Mao once commented on him: "Sima Yi is a great figure. He has always been said to be bad. I think there are some people who are better than Cao Cao." He commented that he was "from a noble family, rich in strategies, good at contingency changes, and was an important minister of the Wei State." Sima Yi was good at strategizing and made meritorious achievements in many expeditions. Among them, the most significant achievement was that he led the army twice to successfully resist Zhuge Liang's Northern Expedition and the expedition to pacify Liaodong. He made important contributions to the development of farming economy such as farming and water conservancy. The fighting spirit of Sima Yi and Zhuge Liang is widely circulated among the people, such as Sima Yi's "empty city plan, the fire extinguished the valley above, and the Wei governor was frightened when he saw the wood carvings", etc. His popularity among the people is as famous as Zhuge Liang.
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