The throne of the emperor, which "makes the heroes of the ages bend their waists together", many people with high intelligence and high emotional intelligence squeeze their heads and want to sit in this position, how can there be demented children who become emperors? Reality is often more magical than fiction, and Sima Zheng, the second emperor of the Western Jin Dynasty, was a rare low-IQ emperor in Chinese history.
He is not a general IQ is not too high, such as many emperors will have some confusing operations, Sima Zheng is really born low IQ, do not understand things. His father was Sima Yan, the Emperor of Jinwu, and at the age of nine, Sima Zheng was made crown prince. Growing up a little longer, Sima Yan married Jia Nanfeng, the daughter of the chancellor Jia Chong, as his wife for his son, and this Jia Nanfeng family was the representative of the foreign relatives who had brought calamity to the country and the people after the adultery of the traitors. The name is set early, and sometimes it is also a trouble. In the first ten years of Emperor Wu's reign, he made great efforts to govern, and since Ping Wu, he felt that the world was peaceful and relaxed, so he had become somewhat extravagant, covetous of pleasure, appointed traitors, and most importantly, he was a little confused. Although his prestige was very high, he still firmly grasped the political power throughout his life, but it also laid the root cause of the disasters of the next ten years.
What's going on? In the last year of Taikang, Sima Yan realized that he had to finally determine the candidate for the next emperor, and he also knew that his son Sima Zheng was not a good brain, but after all, he was a prince for decades, "the name is not right", the abolition of the prince still needs to be carefully considered, and although the son is not smart, he is very optimistic about his grandson.
Sima Yan took the opportunity to test his son again, once gathering the officials of the Crown Prince's Eastern Palace Official Office together, and then showing his son the affairs and performances of the Shangshu department and letting him make a decision. Where the prince is right, Jia Nanfeng knows that this is the emperor's test, once he fails, he will not be able to become an empress, so he ordered the left and right to act for the prince, and the scribes around the right quoted a lot of ancient books and ancient things. Zhang Hong was a man of understanding, and said: "The prince does not like to study, and has not read any books, which His Majesty knows very well." Nowadays, it is better to make things clear, and it is not necessary to quote more ancient books. Concubine Jia obeyed, and gave the chapter to the emperor, Sima Yan was overjoyed when he saw it, it seemed that his son was just not good at reading, but he still understood things, so the position of prince was still stable.
So Sima Yan single-mindedly planned for his son and even his grandson. The son's generation should be no problem, but what about the grandson? The Emperor's grandson was not the birth of Crown Princess Jia, which is a bit troublesome, in case after a hundred years, my stupid son was manipulated by the Empress, and my Concubine Emperor's grandson was abolished by Concubine Jia, then it would be a big deal. After consulting with his confidants for a long time, it was still difficult to decide, and finally adopted the strategy of the strategist Wang You, or to guard against foreign relatives first and ensure that his son would succeed to the throne smoothly. He sent the prince's half-brother Sima Kam du of Qin to oversee Guanzhong, the king of Chu and the king of Huainan to guard the key points of Gyeonggi respectively, and the king of the clan to defend the royal family. In order to fear his wife, empress Dowager Yang, wang you was appointed to command the forbidden army.
The idea was good, but the result was not satisfactory. When he was seriously ill, all the founding ministers who had ordered him to die had passed away, and the Qunchen did not know what to do, and thought that only Yang Jun, the closest relative of Empress Yang, was nominally the most able to assist him. Sima Yan improved slightly, and ordered Sima Liang, the king of Runan, to assist him, and wanted several of the younger courtiers in the dynasty to assist him, and Yang Jun was secretive. Sima Yan soon became confused again, and Yang Hou immediately corrected Yang Jun to assist him. After a while, Sima Yan returned to the light and asked if the king of Runan had come, which was the meaning of meeting and then entrusting the aftermath. Left and right said that they did not come, Sima Yan finally could not support it, and he died in the future before he could make a final decision.
Sure enough, this laid the root cause of the troubles of the hereafter. Empress Yang was not Sima Zheng's biological mother, and naturally she still only thought about her own Yang family and wanted to fiddle with the new emperor. Sima Zheng was newly established, making Concubine Jia empress, and the ambitious empress and her family jia mi and others had a fierce conflict with the empress dowager Yang family, and there was no chancellor of the Sima family in the court who could stabilize the situation. The struggle between the empress dowager and the empress gradually became white-hot.
Jia Hou was fierce, and finally won the victory in the name of the emperor many times, killing Yang Jun was not counted, and generally snubbed the empress dowager at most, who knew that Jia Nanfeng was so vicious that he abolished the empress's name, and soon after, he blatantly killed the empress. Unfortunately, she did not expect that after a few years of pride, she finally killed many of the sima family's feudal kings and counties because she went around correcting and killing ministers, causing a lot of dissatisfaction, and finally Sima Lun, the king of Zhao, and others launched a mutiny, entered Beijing to control the situation, and cleaned up the Jia family, and Jia Nanfeng was finally killed.
However, Sima Lun, the King of Zhao, was not a good thing, and soon after entering the capital, he first served xiangguo, and then simply established himself as emperor. It also caused dissatisfaction among other clan kings, and when Sima Yan died, the evil consequences of sealing many clan kings were finally revealed, and the "Rebellion of the Eight Kings" began. The various princes attacked each other, and Luoyang killed several in and out of Luoyang, and then held the emperor hostage on the northern expedition, extending the war to Chang'an, during which Sima Ying, Sima Yong and even his generals all held the emperor hostage, and finally Sima Yue, the king of the East China Sea, temporarily calmed the war, and soon after the emperor returned to Luoyang, Sima Zheng died. Or think that Sima Yue poisoned Sima Zheng.
It can be said that Sima Zheng's life during this period was also very tragic. As the Ninth Five-Year Emperor, he was toyed with by his mother and queen between the palms of his hands, and was manipulated and held hostage by various princes and kings, and he was deposed at every turn, and his sons and grandsons also died one by one, and even he himself was displaced and experienced in the war, once "three arrows in the face", almost lost his life, and was wronged to death in the end. As emperor, Sima Zheng was miserable, and the saddest thing was that he was still demented.