司马懿 / Sima Yi

Overview

司马懿 / Sima Yi enters the bounded wiki as a talented late-Han figure whose attempted refusal of 曹操’s summons ends when illness performance meets a threat of arrest. The source also previews his later conflict with Cao Shuang and identifies him retrospectively as a founder behind the Jin transition, but does not yet supply a complete career.

Current Profile

Hanji 1087 says 崔琰 praises Sima Yi’s intelligence and decisiveness in comparison with his elder brother. After the praise reaches Cao Cao, Sima Yi claims a disabling wind-paralysis illness and refuses office; when Cao Cao responds with an arrest threat, he accepts the appointment.

The source makes performance the organizing theme. It reads the first illness claim as a failed attempt to preserve distance from Cao Cao and the later illness performance against Cao Shuang as a successful reversal once Cao-family coercive capacity has weakened. That arc is interpretive rather than a fully evidenced biography: the present profile can establish coerced entry and a later reputation for strategic concealment, but not every motive or detail attached to either episode.

Key Characteristics

• Presented as intelligent, ambitious, and decisive through Cui Yan’s praise.
• Initially attempts to avoid Cao Cao’s summons by claiming serious illness.
• Accepts office after the refusal is met with threatened arrest.
• Becomes, in the host’s retrospective frame, a model of survival through concealed intention and timed performance.
• Is identified as a future opponent of Zhuge Liang and a foundational figure behind the Jin dynasty, without a full career narrative in this source.

Evidence

• Reputation and recruitment: Hanji 1087 says Cui Yan’s praise brings Sima Yi to Cao Cao’s attention.
• Refusal and coercion: Hanji 1087 says Sima Yi claims illness, then accepts office when Cao Cao threatens arrest.
• Later reputation: Hanji 1087 previews a second illness performance against Cao Shuang and invokes the 《晋书》 narrative.

Qualifications

The page rests on one short podcast episode and remains intentionally narrow. It does not establish Sima Yi’s complete family background, offices, campaigns, relations with Cao Wei rulers, conflict with Zhuge Liang, action against Cao Shuang, or the Jin succession. Whether either illness was entirely feigned, why Sima Yi resisted service, how immediate the arrest threat was, and how the later Book of Jin shaped the story remain source-scoped.

What Changed

• Created the page with the source’s coerced-entry episode and carefully bounded later feigned-illness preview.

Relationships

• 曹操 - ruler whose coercive summons turns attempted refusal into service.
• 崔琰 - official whose praise brings Sima Yi to Cao Cao’s attention.
• 安全第一政治生存 - adjacent frame for compliance under an arrest threat and later strategic concealment.
• 《晋书》 - later history invoked by the episode’s retrospective performance narrative.