At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the princes were divided, the world was in chaos, the three legs of Wei, Shu and Wu were established, and the Three Kingdoms period inherited the Eastern Han Dynasty and the Western Jin Dynasty, which was also the most chaotic period of power change in China's five-thousand-year history. This sixty-year-long war of smoke and smoke, with the decline of Shu Han and Eastern Wu, the victory fell into the hands of Cao Wei. However, the biggest winner of the Three Kingdoms period was not the Cao clan, but the Sima Yi clan.
Sima Yi was a strategist under Cao Cao in his early years, and with Cao Cao's death, he continued to follow the successor Emperor Cao Pi of Wei, and later Sima Yi gradually became more and more powerful in the imperial court, and finally after the success of the Gaoling coup, he officially became the ruler of Cao Wei, and he stole the world that Cao Wei had worked so hard to build for decades into his own hands. However, 60 years after his death, his descendants became slave servants and humiliated.
During the Three Kingdoms period, there were many prominent family forces, among which the Sima Yi clan could be described as a wealth of talents, represented by Sima Yi, whether it was the Liaodong Rebellion, the Eastern Wu Rebellion or the Northern Expedition of the Shu Han Dynasty, he could become the victorious side. In the end, after Sima Yi stole the Cao Wei regime, after 14 years, the Sima Yi clan established the Western Jin Dynasty and unified the world. I thought that this world had fallen to the Sima clan from then on, but what was unexpected was that as a family that had many talents, in the second year of the establishment of the Western Jin Dynasty, a fool was allowed to ascend to the emperor's throne.
After the succession of the so-called Jin Hui Emperor, under the leadership of the stupid and incompetent monarch, the people were not happy, the world was frequently in war, the imperial court was corrupt and incompetent, and the border peoples at this time had already begun to attack the Central Plains. Eventually, after his brother Sima Chi succeeded him, war broke out, and Han Zhao forces invaded the Central Plains, captured the emperor, and incorporated the Western Jin dynasty into their hands. However, in order to save his own head, Sima Chi was willing to become a slave of Emperor Zhao of Han and toast him with tea, but in the end, this timid and cowardly emperor died at the hands of Emperor Zhao of Han, only 30 years old.
The remaining forces of the Western Jin Dynasty supported Sima Ye to become emperor and established political power in the local area, but it was only a name with an empty gimmick and no real power, and the people and ministers were poor and destitute, hungry and undressed, and could be described as the worst emperor, and later with the attack of Han Zhao, Sima Ye defected to Liu Cong, the emperor of Han Zhao. Sima Ye's decision to surrender also contributed to the history of humiliation of the Sima family, and Liu Cong's treatment of Sima Ye was extremely humiliating. When Liu Cong went out hunting, he ordered Sima Ye to put on the clothes of soldiers and crawl on the ground in front of him to open the way; he even asked Sima Ye to clean his wine glasses and wipe the tables and chairs when he was present in front of all the civil and military officials at the banquet. However, in the end, Liu Cong had no interest in humiliating Sima Yi and hastily killed him in Pingyang, only 18 years old.
However, Sima Yi used all kinds of conspiracies to gain the power of Cao Wei and seize the world, and he did not expect that his descendants, as an emperor, would end up as inferior slaves.