In the sixth year of Emperor Xianning of the Jin Dynasty (280 AD), the Jin Dynasty destroyed Eastern Wu, and since the end of the Han Dynasty, China has been unified again.
Because Eastern Wu surrendered unconditionally after defeat, the Jiangdong Hao clans that were originally attached to the cart of Eastern Wu all fell from heaven to the ground, and their original political status, titles, privileges, etc., were gone.
Such a change obviously made it difficult for the former Jiangdong clan to bear.
But they had no choice, who let them assist the Eastern Wu perished. In the top circle of power, almost all the Jin Dynasty magnates who are northerners will naturally suppress the Hao clan in Jiangdong.
The Hao clan in Jiangdong were not alone, and before the fall of Eastern Wu, the local Hao clan was also the target of suppression.
In the first year of the Western Jin Dynasty (306 AD), when the Western Jin Dynasty had not yet perished, Li Xiong, who was born of exile, was able to establish a state in Shuzhong and claim the title of emperor again, which was actually a direct consequence of the suppression of the political forces in Shuzhong.
The Western Jin Dynasty destroyed the Shu Han Dynasty more than ten years earlier than eastern Wu, and for such a long time, it was impossible to integrate the political power of shu into the entire power system of the Western Jin Dynasty, let alone the Eastern Wu and Jiangdong Hao clans that were more than ten years late?
The defeated have no say, and there are several positions in the circle of power, and from the perspective of the victor, the northern clan naturally enjoys more convenience and power.
If the fallen Jiangdong clan wants to regain its former glory, it can only bow its head and first enter the upper circle of power of the Western Jin Dynasty, and then occupy a place in it through its own ability to see if it can grasp a certain right to speak.
The forerunners and temptations of the Jiangdong clan's northward quest for political status were descendants of the lu family, the once mighty top family of Jiangdong, lu xun's grandson, and Lu Kang's son Lu Ji.
In the tenth year of the Western Jin Dynasty (289 AD), Lu Ji, who had lived in seclusion in his hometown for nearly ten years, went north to Luoyang with his younger brother Lu Yun and began to try to enter the Western Jin Dynasty officialdom, trying to find a way to re-emerge for the Lu family or the rest of the Jiangdong Hao clan.
At the beginning, Lu Ji's uncle Lu Kai had boasted in front of Sun Hao, the last emperor of Eastern Wu, that the Lu family had contributed "two phases, five marquises, and ten generals" to Eastern Wu. But such a background and fame have no effect in Luoyang.
When they arrived at Luoyang, the core city of power, even if they were famous in Jiangdong, the Lu Ji brothers could only honestly go to the magnates, take the road of being introduced, and then wait to be selected and appointed by the magnates.
Lu Ji, who is arrogant and arrogant, has a certain psychological preparation for being looked down upon, and his goal is to re-enter the upper circle of power of the Lu family, and then take the Jiangdong clan to regain a certain right to speak.
Therefore, Lu Ji endured the change of political status from others to his house to invite talents to his own door to plead for a reception, and whispered, just for the opportunity to enter the Western Jin Dynasty officialdom.
However, Lu Ji failed to fulfill his ambitions in the end, and after thirteen years of mixing in the Western Jin Dynasty officialdom, he fell into the fate of the extinction of the life and death clan, and the Lu family completely lost the opportunity to rise again.
The reason for the collapse of the land machine and the landing family was that he did not adapt to the complex political changes in the official field of the Western Jin Dynasty, constantly changed the court, could not firmly establish a foundation, and was framed for rebellion.
In the first year of the Western Jin Dynasty (290 AD), Lu Ji was recommended by the famous scholar Zhang Hua and was recruited as a sacrificial wine by the taifu Yang Jun (the elder brother-in-law of Sima Yan, emperor of the Jin Dynasty).
However, only a year later, Yang Jun was killed by Empress Jia Nanfeng of Sima Zheng, the Emperor of Jinhui.
Fortunately, Lu Ji had already befriended Jia Nanfeng's nephew Jia Mi, who was "good at traveling to the power gate and being friendly with Jia Mi", was not implicated, and could continue to accumulate seniority and experience in the local area (who had served as an official under Sima Yan the King of Wu) and the central government.
In the first year of the Western Jin Dynasty (300 AD), Jia Nanfeng and Jia Mi were killed by a coup d'état launched by sima lun, the king of Jin and Zhao.
This time, Lu Ji, who was "friendly with Jia Mi", was still not implicated, and he was also given the title of Marquis: "Yu Jie Jia Mi Gong, give the title of Marquis of Guanzhong." ”
Obviously, before the jia family was destroyed, Lu Ji had already taken sima lun and participated in the political action of killing the Jia family.
A year later, Sima Lun was killed by Sima Ran the King of Qi, Sima Yuan, the King of Hejian, and Sima Ying the King of Chengdu, and Lu Ji, as Sima Lun's right-hand man, was almost killed.
Fortunately, Sima Ying, the king of Chengdu, and Sima Yan, the king of Wu, attached great importance to Lu Ji and worked together to save him.
As a result, Lu Ji began to mix with Sima Ying, the king of Chengdu.
Under Sima Ying's command, Lu Ji was really reused, but he was also jealous of his reuse, bringing disasters to himself.
In the second year of the Western Jin Dynasty (303 AD), when Sima Ying raised an army against Sima Qi, the king of Changsha, he gave Lu Ji the power to command an army of 200,000 troops: "The general after the fake machine, the governor of Hebei, the governor of The Northern Zhonglang, Wang Pu, the champion and other armies of more than 200,000 people." ”
Because of this appointment, Lu Ji was jealous of the generals who had defected to Sima Ying very early but were suppressed by Lu Ji later.
When someone framed Lu Ji for rebellion, almost all the generals under Sima Ying's command participated in proving that Lu Ji wanted to rebel.
Sima Ying was furious and killed Lu Ji, the Lu Yun brothers, and their three tribes. The Lu family, which had been in the limelight in the Eastern Wu regime, was thus destroyed.
Before Lu Ji died, he sighed, "Huating Crane, how can you hear it again!" It was too late to regret it.
In fact, as early as when Lu Ji was about to be killed because he was implicated by Sima Lun, many Jiangdong Hao clans who came from the south to the north to seek a political breakthrough saw that they could not mix in the Western Jin Dynasty officialdom dominated by northerners.
At that time, many people persuaded Lu Ji to give up and simply return to Jiangdong to be an ordinary rich man, which was better than being oppressed in fear.
However, Lu Ji refused: "When China is in many difficulties, Gu Rong, Dai Ruosi and other xian persuaded the machine to return to Wu, and the opportunity failed his talent, and Zhi Kuang was difficult in the world, so he did not follow." ”
If Lu Ji followed the advice of his friends and returned to Jiangdong to wait for the opportunity, it was really possible for the Lu family to rise again.
Because fourteen years after Lu Ji was killed, that is, in the fifth year of the Western Jin Dynasty (the first year of the Eastern Jin Dynasty Jianwu, 317 AD), the Western Jin Dynasty fell, and the Jin Dynasty crossed south and established the Eastern Jin Dynasty in Jiangnan.
The Eastern Jin Dynasty, which ran to Jiangnan to establish political power, could only rely on and win over the Hao clans in Jiangdong to gain a firm foothold in Jiangnan, and the fate of the Hao clan in Jiangdong also changed dramatically.
Unfortunately, Lu Ji did not wait for that moment, if he could survive until the establishment of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Lu Ji would only be 56 years old, and he could completely rely on the Lu family's position in Jiangdong again, so that the Lu family would become a famous and prestigious family comparable to the two major families of Wang and Xie.
However, Lu Ji insisted on continuing to struggle in the Western Jin Dynasty officialdom dominated by northerners, and eventually brought ruin to the family, if he could take a step back in time, he would be able to open the sea and the sky.
Reference: Book of Jin