In Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Zhuge Liang angered Sima Yi with women's clothes in order to force him to fight. Sima yi's generals jumped up with anger, and Sima yi also said that he would fight, so he wrote to Cao Cao not to let Sima yi fight. As a result, many generals have nothing to say. Sima yi also said, it's not that I don't want to fight, it's the emperor.
When Zhuge Liang heard about Sima Yi and Cao Chui's acting skills, he said, "He has no fighting spirit and insists on inviting people to show off in his ear." If you want to be a soldier, your life will not be punished. If you can control us, how can you fight evil thousands of miles away? "Zhuge Liang means that Sima Yi didn't want to fight with me, so he ran all the way to Cao Cao to have a good fight. This is for the military commanders around us, just to save face. This sentence comes from the official history of the Three Kingdoms.
Zhuge Liang hated Sima Yi for playing these tricks, but he was helpless. Because Sima Yi saw Zhuge Liang's shortcomings and fought for a long time, the problem of food and grass was the most serious, so he deliberately dragged him to death. Although Zhuge Liang saw through Sima Yi's intentions, he was helpless. In the imperial edict from Cao Cao, in addition to not letting Sima Yi go to war, he also asked Sima Yi: What is Zhuge Liang's level?
Sima Yi said in response to Cao Cao's question, "If you are ambitious, you will not see opportunities. More plans, fewer decisions. If you are a good soldier, you have no right. Although you lost a hundred thousand soldiers, you will be ruined. " Sima Yi's statement seems to have degraded Zhuge Liang to nothing. Is it reasonable in the end?
Sima Yi said that Zhuge Liang was "too ambitious to know the opportunity", which should be understood as not knowing the historical trend and going against the sky. Mr. Shui Jing also said so. However, "more planning and less determination" shows that Zhuge Liang is too cautious, indicating that he has a clever plan in his heart, but he dare not use it and has not implemented it, which is doomed to his failure. Finally, Sima Yi said that Zhuge Liang "has fallen into my painting and will be broken". Later, the facts were true.
Sima Yi's evaluation of Zhuge Liang was partly belittled, but it was also true. Zhuge Liang died in Wuzhangyuan shortly after. In order to save face, Sima Yi led the troops to kill him. Unexpectedly, when he came to Zhuge Liang's barracks, he saw a wooden statue left by Zhuge Liang. Sima Yi couldn't help sighing: "Kong Ming is a genius in the world!"
Why did Sima Yi's evaluation of Zhuge Liang become so exaggerated after his death? I'm afraid only Sima Yi knows the key point. Can you guess Sima Yi's mind?