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In the context of the Rebellion of the Eight Kings, in the context of the lack of financial power when King Zong left the town, the Hanmen intellectuals who were born at the lower levels at that time also contributed a lot to this great chaos.
And this is related to the magical bureaucratic structure of the Western Jin Dynasty.
Since the Jin Dynasty did not have enough number and attractiveness to accommodate the local autonomous government of the Hanmen, it was a truth that the Hanmen intellectuals had to get ahead or at least live less unsuccessfully, and could only take the central line—whether it was to defect to the prince or squeeze their heads to become officials of the imperial court system.
It was not easy for the Western Jin Dynasty to emerge from the cold gate
At that time, if the Han men wanted to get ahead in the imperial court, they would first have to be recommended by people with the status of scholars or above, and in this way, they would face the dilemma of being demoted by a high-ranking person at any time.
However, even the imperial court, there are very few places that can be given to the cold door.
During the Western Jin Dynasty, certain official positions were already called "Qing officials" or "Qing officials", and the official positions of Shangshu Province, Zhongshu Province, Shizhong Province, Scattered Riding Province, Secretary Province, and Eastern Palace, such as Shangshu Lang, Zhongshu Sheren, Huangmen Shilang, Scattered Riding Shilang, Secretary Lang, and Prince Sheren, all became the preferred official positions for the transfer of the sons of high-ranking scholars. Due to the reluctance of a large number of high-ranking disciples of the scholar clan to take up foreign posts, it has caused obvious external lightness and internal importance.
The chancellor Li Zhong pointed out in the upper song: "Since the Han and Wei dynasties, the nobility of internal officials has been the most revered today. ”
Since Gaomen held important official positions in the above-mentioned imperial court, they had to rely on the warrior clan to keep their food, and the Cold Gate people who were completely unable to compete with them naturally had to seek foreign posts and other less competitive positions.
At the same time, the kings at least had a greater say in the choice of their own cronies, so compared with the official positions such as Taishou and County Order, which had to be formally appointed by the officials, those who lacked a background in the dynasty naturally chose to defect to the kings more. For example, Sun Xiu, one of the initiators of the expansion of the Eight Kings' Rebellion, was appreciated by Sima Lun, the King of Zhao, and was introduced as a close confidant, with Langya Guoshuzuo as the Attendant of the Zhao State, and it was obviously much more difficult for him to obtain a similar official position that required the official appointment of the official.
In this case, when the Rebellion of the Eight Kings occurred, Hanmen, who was a close confidant of the kings, was naturally deeply involved and became a major accomplice in the expansion of the chaos.
For example, the more extreme cases instigated Sima Lun the King of Zhao to usurp the throne and was entrusted with the heavy responsibility of taking charge of the government, and Sun Xiuhe, who was in power in the middle and late periods, suggested behind his back and directly assisted the lord of the chaotic situation, making the chaos uncontrollable Sima Han's chief aide, Li Han, who believed that these people were one of the main reasons for the chaos of the Eight Kings.
The Rebellion of the Eight Kings has a lot to do with the Cold Gate
As for Zhang Fang, who later kidnapped Emperor Hui of Jin and sent him to Chang'an, he was already infamous at that time.
It is true that the Han men relied on chaos to ascend to power in this great chaos, but because the Han Men took advantage of the turmoil to enter the upper ruling group in an individual form, they relied only on the favor of the leader of a certain faction, and their foundation was extremely unstable.
As politicians, they lack both a political and economic foundation, and no intricate interpersonal relationships such as clans, marriages, protégés, and former officials, and their own status is actually quite fragile, all in the minds of their masters, and because these cold disciples are often unscrupulous in order to seek high positions, and are deeply involved in various extremely vicious conspiracies, they are also equivalent to cutting themselves off from following their masters - unless they take their place.
In this case, as the ruling power continues to change hands, the Hanmen people often face the tragedy of the extinction of the clan after reaching the peak of their careers, and even if the power of the Hanmen and the powerful people are not white bones in the end, the best treatment in the history books is only slightly space--although their actual influence in this great chaos is far higher than the status recorded in their history books.
Indeed, during this great political turmoil, many of the hanmen who speculated in the struggle for imperial power rose to positions that were almost unimaginable under normal circumstances in the Jin Dynasty, but they had neither the ability nor the opportunity to maintain these positions, let alone elevate their family status to the high gate of the scholar clan. The cold-door upstarts who rose in the turmoil disappeared in the turmoil with the failure of the faction they were attached to, and they disappeared into nothingness.
On the contrary, many of the well-rooted warriors were mostly involved in this great chaos, and few rose sharply because of it, but they survived and even prospered for a period of time below.
This is also quite regrettable.
However, if you look back at the chaos, it is difficult to condemn these lower-level scholars, because the set of superficial political theories of the ancient Chinese tradition has never been truly realized in society, and the so-called "external Confucianism and internal law" in China is completely devoid of political theories like the Mediterranean, but only has a set of Confucian theories that have no practical effects, and the means of power struggle with the legalists.
These Han men did not have enough contact with political operations, nor did they have enough experience and insight, let alone have a minimum of political science common sense, but only knew the slogans of Confucianism and the power struggle methods of the Legalists, in this case, of course, they could only guide their own behavior with their own bloody experience from the lower levels of China, not to mention the destruction of the Han men by the politics of the Jin Dynasty.
What is really problematic is to introduce these people as the absolutely trusted Prince of Sima Family, to put these bloody people around, and what they want to do, there is no need to evaluate it.
Well, having said all this, to sum it up simply, the Rebellion of the Eight Kings was a complete centralized dog bite of the Sima family of the Jin Dynasty, and the composition of the military, political, economic or participating personnel was a complete "central structure".
Sima Jiaguang wanted to centralize power in his hands, but because of his lack of experience, he harmed others and eventually harmed himself in the global cold environment, and with it, a vote of lower-class intellectuals who dreamed of stirring up chaos, the cold disciples also lost their lives, and also caused countless innocent civilians to lose their lives.
Most of the people in the Sima family were deceitful
Due to the serious disconnect between China's usual political official theory and practice, intellectuals from the lower classes in China have not lived in the illusion of official weaving since ancient times, or although they have escaped from the illusion, they have fallen into the illusion based on their own experience of fighting at the bottom, falling into the fantasy full of blood, but in fact they know nothing about political operation.
The actions of those caught in the bloody illusion are based on their own clever "predators", always unscrupulous, but do not understand that such behavior will destroy the economy and even the whole society and the country, and it is a kind of chronic suicide for themselves, not only to destroy the enemy, but also to eventually destroy themselves - even if their masters become things, they themselves will be cooked by rabbits and dead dogs.
Once there is a big chaos, such people are either overwhelmed, or they have completely become strange things that constantly harm people and finally pit themselves into it but still feel innocent.
Intellectuals from the lower classes of highly authoritarian and centralized countries should not participate in the upper-level politics of these countries unless they are backed by external forces in this system, because these monopolistic politics were closed and closed structures at the beginning, and the random participation without background was either dead or harmful to others and themselves.
Well, at the end of the very simple summary, the rough and crazy centralization of the Jin Dynasty not only destroyed itself, but also created a large number of freaks, but also killed countless innocent people.
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