Sima Yi: Powerful and Strategist

In the troubled times from the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty to the establishment of the Western Jin Dynasty, Sima Yi, a talented man from Hanoi, took "Don't use hidden dragons" as his life background. He pretended to be ill to avoid trouble when called by Cao Cao, but he was eventually involved in the whirlpool of power. Relying on his keenness and forbearance, during the three generations of Wei emperors Cao Pi, Cao Rui, and Cao Fang, he managed step by step in the court game: he confronted Zhuge Liang across the air at Qishan Mountain and Wuzhangyuan, and used deep ditches to fight against Zhuge Liang. Gaobei dragged down the Shu Han Northern Expedition; he used the Gaoping Ling Incident to eliminate Cao Shuang's influence and monopolize the power of the Wei state; and in the family inheritance, "forbearance" and "decision" were engraved into the bones and blood of Sima Shi and Sima Zhao. His wife Zhang Chunhua is his most solid backing. From their strong support when they first met in Hanoi to their strategic cooperation in the deep house in Luoyang, the couple worked together to resolve numerous crises, but they also faced emotional and moral choices in the expansion of power. The appearance of Mrs. Bai, the counterattack of Cao's old tribe, and the turmoil of the Three Rebellions in Huainan have pushed the Sima family to the forefront again and again. In the end, Sima Yi paved the way for the Sima family to replace the Wei Dynasty and establish the Jin Dynasty with his seventy-three years of life. His battle with Zhuge Liang for the "Crouching Dragon Tomb Tiger", the power tug-of-war with the Cao Wei royal family, and the intertwined fates of family members jointly composed an epic of the power of a man in troubled times, and also witnessed the vicissitudes of a dynasty from division to unification.