Ma Yi died at the age of 73, which is a very, very long life in the Three Kingdoms. He used his longevity to serve Cao Cao, Cao Cao's son Cao Pi, Cao Pi's son Cao Rui, Cao Rui's adopted son Cao Fang. He did a lot, a lot of things to serve the Master, a lot of things to betray the Master. He paved a broad road for his descendants, but he did not take the last step, like his old leader Cao Cao, and finally only became the "King of Zhou Wen".
"Sima Zhao's heart is well known", but in the end it was his son who fulfilled it. In 265, Sima Yan established the Western Jin Dynasty. In 280, Wu was destroyed to unify the country.
Western Jin Empire (280)
Among the founding emperors, such as Sima Yan, there was no one; among the founding emperors who unified and divided and ended the chaotic world, he was the most defeated and the least existent! “。“ Qixing also prospered and died suddenly", this description is the most suitable for Sima Yan's Western Jin Dynasty. But few people mention it that way. That is to say, as a negative teaching material, the Western Jin Dynasty is not qualified!
This great unification dynasty, founded by the statesman, military and literary scholar Cao Cao, and who had experienced Sima Yi's old scheming and deep calculations for so many years, was mixed up by Sima Yan like this, which was extremely obscene.
Sima Yan
The Western Jin Dynasty was notorious for its unrighteousness. Even Shi Le, the "Leaning East Gate", looked down on Sima Shi, who bullied orphans and widows. Shi Le once said: "When the eldest husband acts, when the qi falls, like the sun and the moon, he cannot be like Cao Mengde, Sima Zhongda's father and son, and deceive him orphans and widows, and the fox charms to take the world." ”
Sima Shi set a very bad precedent. In the year of peace, Sima Shi was the first to usurp the throne as a courtier and exterminate the former dynasty. This bad beginning was very bad, and the Western Jin Dynasty and Sima Shi were imitated by later generations.
280 years ago, Sima Yan's Wenzhi martial arts were very good, after all, how could someone who could "fight across the Yangtze River to unify all of China" be very poor, basically there would be a temple number of "Taizu". But after the destruction of Wu, Sima Yan was like a changed person.
What do the people of the Western Jin Dynasty remember after the destruction of Wu?
Sima Yan rode the sheep cart around his harem of 10,000 people; Jia Nanfeng was the harem of the demon; Shi Chong and Wang Kai Doufu; Lu Zhu jumped in the Golden Valley Garden; and the constantly coming of the border pass beacon,,,,,,
Green beads
At the time of the annihilation of Wu, the realm of vitality and the competition of all things was still in front of us. But now the social atmosphere of the Western Jin Empire has completely changed. Extravagance, fornication, repression, and the "medicine and wine" between popularity and the scholar.
For the distribution of power, the various dynasties always felt that the previous dynasties were not good. Whether it's a mess or an overcorrection, something new will always come up! Sima Shi felt that the Cao clan was destroyed by the "mean clan room", so he sealed the kings. Judging from the laws of history, in feudal dynasties, autocratic centralization was a more stable way of distributing power than the politics of the kings. The source of the "Rebellion of the Eight Kings" is here.
Because of the popularity of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", we have too many expectations for the Western Jin Dynasty that can end the three disputes and unify China, and Sima Yan's performance is too disappointing. In 290, Sima Yan died, and the empire he left behind was looked at by foreign nations, and inside there were foolish sons and daughters-in-law...
In 280, when Sun Hao, the last emperor of Eastern Wu, was captured in Luoyang, Emperor Wu of Jin summoned Sun Hao and former Eastern Wu officials, pointed to a seat in the imperial hall and said to Sun Hao: "Set up this seat for Qing Jiu. Sun Hao said, "The courtiers in the south also set up this seat to await Your Majesty." "I didn't expect a word to be a slur, and the retribution was not happy." In 317, Sima Yan's nephew established a very undignified dynasty, the Eastern Jin Dynasty, in Jiankang, the capital of Eastern Wu.
Tomorrow we will talk about the external causes of the demise of the Western Jin Dynasty, so stay tuned!
The story of "medicine and wine" can be seen in Mr. Lu Xun's "Wei Jin Demeanor and Articles and the Relationship between Medicine and Wine"
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