In ancient times, the emperor was a symbol of the might of the state and also represented the image of the state. It is said that the emperor is the most important person in a country, not only to govern the country and secure the country, but also to make a hundred officials submit, is a true proud son of heaven, which can be described as a hundred responses. However, there is a dynasty, although the founders are wise, but the descendants are like demons, one is not as good as the other.
This seemingly cursed dynasty is the Jin Dynasty in history, the most incompetent dynasty in history, with a total of 15 emperors, 14 of whom are nesters. The history of the Jin Dynasty was divided into two periods, the early Western Jin Dynasty, only fifty-two years later experienced dynastic changes, because the ruler was still a member of the Sima family, but the capital was changed to Jiankang (present-day Nanjing), so it was called the Eastern Jin Dynasty.
The founder of the Jin Dynasty was not Sima Yi, he only ended the situation of dividing the world into three parts, and it was the descendant Sima Yan who really established the Jin Dynasty. Among Sima Yi's descendants and grandchildren, Sima Yan should be said to be the most prominent and decent, not only pacifying Eastern Wu but also completing the pioneering work of unifying the country. Unfortunately, the genetic quality of the Sima family has since plummeted, and the future emperors are more than one waste.
Sima Zheng succeeded Sima Yan to the throne and was also the second emperor of the Western Jin Dynasty, but his ignorance and faintness were known all over the world, and in the face of the plight of starving people in the face of famine, he actually asked the ministers in the court: The people do not have rice to fill their hunger, so why not drink porridge? To laugh at the dead, not even rice to eat, let alone eat meat? With such a confused emperor, how could Jiangshan get better?
Subsequently, the country was in turmoil, and there was a war of the "Rebellion of the Eight Kings", and the two emperors after Sima Zheng were recommended by the courtiers in the turmoil, which can be regarded as a duck on the shelf. These two naturally were unable to quell the rebellion, and they themselves were framed and died.
After experiencing these four emperors, the Qi number of the Western Jin Dynasty was almost the same. Sima Rui, who then fled to Jiankang, claimed the title of emperor in the name of the orthodox imperial family, but in fact Sima Rui did not have real power, and many things had to be at the mercy of others, and this emperor was also a nest.
Sima Rui died at the age of 47, and several emperors of the Eastern Jin Dynasty after him died early, but died in their twenties. These young emperors, their imperial position is not comfortable, they have neither real power nor ability, and their deaths are unclear. Since then, the development of the Eastern Jin Dynasty has also come to an end little by little.
Almost all of the last emperors of the Sima family were not allowed to die well, either by their own women or by their ministers. It is not strange to say that an emperor was murdered, it is strange that generations have been murdered. The descendants of this Sima family did not know what was wrong, and when they became emperors, they did not even have the slightest heart to defend themselves. Among them, there was also an emperor who killed himself, that is, the Emperor of Sorrow Sima Pi, who studied the Taoist Law at a young age, painstakingly practiced Dan Medicine and wanted to live forever, and as a result, when he was 25 years old, he cut off his grain for several days, only ate Dan Medicine every day, and finally died of poisoning, which really responded to his "mourning" word.
Looking at the time when the Sima family was in power, it was more than 100 years before and after, but after Sima Yi and Sima Yan, the people of the Sima family were like taking the wrong medicine, and they couldn't find a serious person who could achieve great things. The world is tossed and turned, it is simply chaotic, I don't know if Sima Yi will be angry if he knows about it, will he be angry and blow his beard?
reference:
[1] The Chronicle of History
[2] The Book of Jin, Emperor Ji III
[3] The Biography of Wei Shu Cui Hong