The Jin Dynasty was founded by the Sima clan, and the people of this family were extremely deep and clever, and it is reasonable to say that the Jin Dynasty was controlled by the Sima family, which should have been the country's Tai Min'an and lasted for hundreds of years. But the truth is often surprising, the Jin Dynasty was a short-lived dynasty.
This dynasty is very "chaotic", it can be said that it is a mess. so
Where is this "chaos"?
What caused the short life of the Jin Dynasty?
Image: Stills of the Sima family
The short life of a dynasty is roughly inseparable from these reasons: the tyranny of the ruler has caused civil rebellion, the corruption of the government and internal fainting, and the invasion of foreign enemies has been destroyed.
Such was the case with the demise of the Jin Dynasty, and the internal strife of power led to the demise of the state. In fact, the culture of the Jin Dynasty was prosperous, and the literati atmosphere was deeply admired by posterity. However, in the eyes of posterity, the Jin Dynasty is not worth mentioning!
It was precisely because those literati were not accustomed to the struggle within the imperial court that they would choose to stay away from the court and go to the countryside to pursue their own happiness. So how fierce is the struggle between these powerful people? It has forced people with lofty ideals to completely lose faith in the imperial court, so let's analyze it together.
Image: Stills of the Emperor of the Jin Dynasty
In the Jin Dynasty, the Wang clan was a family clan.
From the founding of the Jin Dynasty to the fall of the Jin Dynasty, the Wang clan held important positions in the dynasty, and their prestige was very high, and their status was difficult to shake. The power of the Wang family was even above the imperial power.
To blame, we can only blame Sima Yi's descendants for being too indisputable and unable to restrain these powerful courtiers. In addition, there is another person in the DPRK who is also extremely arrogant, and this person is Shi Chong, who is rich and powerful.
And Shi Chong's and Wang's disciples also accumulated a deep grudge, and they also made it up
"Persuade the wine to kill the maid."
The farce of this has pushed the struggle between the powerful and the powerful to a climax.
At that time, the Wang family held great power in the dynasty, and Wang Dun was the son-in-law of Emperor Wu of Jin, and he did whatever he wanted in the middle of the dynasty, and although the chancellor was unhappy, he did not dare to provoke. If this is the case, why does Shi Chong have a grudge with him? If these two people join forces, won't the Jin Dynasty's Jiangshan be just around the corner?
In fact, it is mainly the difference in the forces followed by these two parties.
Shi Chong
He followed the empress Dowager Jia Nanfeng, and the Jia family and the Wang family also had deep contradictions due to their rights. In this way,
How could they join forces with the Wang clan to seize the Jin Dynasty?
At that time, the crown prince of the Jin Dynasty was Sima Song, but Jia Nanfeng was dissatisfied with him and wanted to use his own power to depose him. The Wang family supported Sima Song, and the choices of the two sides clashed again, and an irresolvable contradiction accumulated.
Later, the crown prince Sima Suo was imprisoned in Xuchang by Jia Nanfeng, who was also a man of great strategy, and forbade any of the ministers of the court to send off when the prince left. The intention of doing so is obvious, that is, to depose the prince, and whoever sends him off is an enemy of me and against the empress of the dynasty.
However, Wang Dun ignored Jia Nanfeng's orders, and instead of ignoring them, he also spontaneously organized a group of people to send off the prince outside the city. Wang Dun also sent a clear signal that he was going to oppose Empress Jia Nanfeng.
It can be seen from this that Wang Dun is extremely confident, and he believes that Jia Nanfeng cannot fight him in this confrontation of power. After Jia Nanfeng received this news, he was naturally very dissatisfied and wanted to use various means to suppress the Wang family.
Therefore, Shi Chong, a powerful man in the DPRK, naturally wanted to act according to Jia Nanfeng's face and shock Wang Dun and others. After the plan, Shi Chong held a banquet and invited Wang Dun to come as a guest. Don't think about it, this banquet is not as simple as drinking and having fun.
Image from the network: Jia Nanfeng
After entering the table, Shi Chong made a request, that is, everyone should drink alcohol. If not, he would have killed the toasting maid on the spot.
Wang Dun felt hostile, but he was not afraid, in the middle of the dynasty, the Wang family is so powerful, what can you do to me? When it was Wang Dun's turn to drink, he waved his hand and said that he would not drink alcohol. This was exactly what Shi Chong wanted, and under repeated persuasion, Wang Dun was still resolute not to drink alcohol.
Therefore, Shi Chong decisively killed the toasting maid. Then, another waitress came up and continued to toast. This is clearly a "face" problem, how can Wang Dun be soft? In this way, Shi Chong killed three handmaidens in a row. Wang Dun, on the other hand, looked at it coldly, without the slightest fear.
At this point, it was Shi Chong's turn to be dumbfounded, and seeing that this trick did not work, he could only give up.
Image from the Internet: Wang Dun
Originally, Shi Chong wanted to kill people in front of Wang Dun to shock him, give him a little bit of Ma Wei, and let him settle down in front of Empress Jia Nanfeng in the future. But Shi Chong's negligence was a little, he killed his own maid, what did he have to do with Wang Dun? Even if he killed dozens of handmaidens, I am afraid that the end would still be the same.
And in this struggle, the maid became the biggest victim. From here, we can allude to the darkness of the Jin Dynasty, and how can the country be healthy and healthy if the ministers of the DPRK and The Chinese Dynasty act so recklessly?
Some may think
Only a few handmaidens were killed, and it had nothing to do with the government. However, these magnates only kill three handmaidens today for their own benefit, what about tomorrow? What about the day after tomorrow? Maybe one day the people of the world will become victims.
Is it still small at this time?
Image: Stills of the Handmaiden of the Jin Dynasty
You must know that the struggle between the powerful is endless, and as long as there are different forces in the DPRK and China, then this struggle will not stop. Although Shi Chong's official position was not high, with his special relationship with the Jia family, he was also a difficult figure to provoke in the dprk.
According to legend, Shi Chong's cultivation by the Jia family relied on the kung fu of "sticking" with one hand. If Empress Jia Nanfeng's mother went to the street, Shi Chong would respectfully kneel down to greet him as soon as he met him, even if the person had gone far away and disappeared, Shi Chong would still bow down and worship.
By "currying favor with the people", you can call the wind and rain in the DPRK, and who doesn't want to do such a thing?
If there is one Shi Chong, there will naturally be a second and a third, so that the DPRK and China are all these obedient ministers, who have no real ability, and spend all day fighting with various forces and currying favor with each other, how can the country be rich and strong.
Photo: Stills of the courtier kneeling on his knees
Of course, since there is a struggle, then there will be an end to the struggle. In the end, Jia Nanfeng was designed by Sima Lun to kill the prince. Subsequently, Sima Lun immediately united with the forces of the other princes to avenge the crown prince and completely eliminate Jia Hou and his henchmen.
In this way, the old struggle was over, but a new struggle was followed. There are no Jia family forces in the court, and there will be other family forces. Therefore, the demise of the Jin Dynasty was naturally a matter of time.
We can see the corruption and chaos of the Jin Dynasty from a small "persuasion to drink and kill the maid". This is still the case with small chaos, let alone great chaos. whereas
The rebellion of the Jin Dynasty not only endangered the dynasty, but also caused a terrible blow to the entire Chinese land. The Jin Dynasty also became the last dynasty the Chinese people wanted to mention.
Article author: Dahui
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