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As we all know, the "Gaopingling Change" during the Three Kingdoms period completely changed the situation in the world. In this struggle for power change, it finally ended with Sima Yi launching a coup d'état to kill Cao Shuang's three clans. Since then, Sima Yi's father and son have ruled exclusively for two generations, laying a solid foundation for the establishment of the Western Jin Dynasty. Ironically, however, the demise of the Sima Dynasty was not only very similar to Cao Wei, but also closely related to the "Gaopingling Revolution".
▲Stills of the change of Gaopingling
In the first ten years (249 CE), Sima Yi took advantage of the fact that Cao Shuang and his brothers Cao Xi and Cao Xun accompanied the young emperor Cao Fang to visit Gaoping Mausoleum (the tomb of The Wei Ming Emperor Cao Rui), and launched a coup d'état in the capital Luoyang. After taking control of the Gyeonggi Forbidden Army, Sima Yi coerced Empress Guo into issuing a decree accusing the Cao Shuang brothers of rebellion, and the "Gaopingling Rebellion" began. At the beginning of the coup, Empress Guo ordered The Great Si Nong Huan Fan to be the leader of the military and quickly take over the forbidden army led by the central leader Cao Xi (Cao Shuang's brother), and Huan Fan, as Cao Shuang's "think tank", was loyal to Cao Shuang alone. Huan Fan, who could not bear to see this, after consulting with his son, the father and son quietly escaped from Luoyang City with the letter of the Great Sinong seal and went to GaopingLing to warn the Cao Shuang brothers.
▲ Stills of the Young Emperor Cao Fang
After Huan Fan found Cao Shuang's brothers, he tried his best to persuade them to take the young emperor Cao Fang to the old capital Xuchang, and in the name of the emperor, called on all the soldiers and horses of the whole country to come to Qin wang, in order to counterattack Sima Yi. In order to reassure Cao Shuang, Huan Fan also said that he could use the Great Sinong Seal Letter to transport grain and grass for the army, ensuring that the Qin Wang army would not have any shortage of grain. Who knew that Cao Shuang was not at all interested in Huan Fan's suggestion, they thought that they were backed by the Cao clan, and Sima Yi did not dare to do anything with them, so he foolishly believed Sima Yi's persuasion, and naively thought that after handing over power, he could continue to enjoy a luxurious life and live in the world. Shi Zai: "Shuang both dismissed the soldiers, saying: 'I am not a rich man. Fan cried: "Cao Zi Dan Jia Ren, Sheng Ru Brothers, Calves! He Tu sat on the Ru and other clans today! This means that Huan Fan saw that Cao Shuang was determined to surrender, wept bitterly and scolded the Cao Shuang brothers: "Cao Zidan (Cao Shuang's father Cao Zhen Zizizi) is a hero, I didn't expect to give birth to a few of your useless brothers, it is a bunch of stupid pigs!" From this point of view, your Cao family is not far from the day of extinction. ”
▲ Cao Shuang was accused of stills
It turns out that after the Cao Shuang brothers and others surrendered and returned to Luoyang, they were indeed destroyed by Sima Yi. Sima Yi's Jing Wei would be known to the world, and after killing Cao Shuang, he killed the Huan Fan clan. Fortunately, Huan Fan's youngest son Huan Kai was able to escape, and in order to avoid Sima Shi's pursuit, Huan Kai had to hide his name and live an unknown and plain life. However, what Sima Yi of the "Onizuka" did not expect was that this fish that slipped through the net actually brought ruin to the Sima Dynasty, making it end up with an even more miserable ending than Cao Wei.
▲Sima Yi stills
After the end of the "Rebellion of the Eight Kings", the Sima Dynasty gradually declined, and huan kai's descendants gradually surfaced after several generations of reproduction. By the time Huan Fan's grandson Huan Wen arrived, Huan Shi no longer had to hide in Tibet, and could finally openly admit that he was a descendant of Huan Fan. As an outstanding figure of the Huan family, Huan Wen served as the military governor of Jingzhou Andi Yongyi Liangning, and in one fell swoop he grasped the military power of the upper reaches of the Yangtze River. In addition, he also led an army to pacify The Shu Lands, rebelled against the Former Qin, Later Qin Yao Xiang and Former Yan regimes, and gradually became a veritable ruler of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. In the end, the chancellor Huan Wen even followed Sima Yi's example and deposed Sima Yi, the deposed emperor of the Eastern Jin Dynasty.
▲ Huan Wen Tse horse statue
In contrast, Huan Wen's son Huan Xuan was even more powerful, and he was more obsessed with revenge than his father. In the second year of Yuan Xing (403 AD), Huan Xuan threatened to force The Jin Emperor Sima Dezong to take the throne and replace the Eastern Jin Dynasty to establish the Huanchu regime, just like Sima Yan's Wei Jianjin. If Sima Yi had known about Quanxia and seen that the Sima Dynasty had taken the old path of Cao Wei and had also been defeated at the hands of the "fish that slipped through the net" that he had the opportunity to kill, he would have been extremely angry, and the paradox of history was also here.
bibliography:
Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Book of Wei, Book of Jin
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