I remember that in the middle school textbook, there is a sentence "Fu Wei Holy Pilgrimage ruled the world with filial piety." The so-called "Holy Pilgrimage" refers to the Western Jin Dynasty. Why, at the beginning of the Western Jin Dynasty, when etiquette had long been abolished, some people put forward the initiative of "ruling the country with filial piety"?
All this is because: during the Three Kingdoms and even the Two Jin Dynasties, "loyalty" accounted for very little in the proportion of etiquette. If everyone has the word "loyalty" in their hearts, how can there be forces from all sides dividing the Central Plains and occupying the mountains as kings? Moreover, even if there is the concept of "loyalty" in people's hearts at that time, everyone does not know which son of heaven to be loyal to, after all, the change of dynasties in this period is like walking around the flowers, it is too fast.
Cao Wei's usurpation of Han made it difficult for many readers to accept. Although, over the years, everyone has been fighting back and forth, but no one dares to usurp the identity of "Han Chen". Many celebrities are loyal not to Lao Cao, but to the big man in their hearts. Therefore, when the Cao family usurped the imperial power, Xun Yu, who had worked hard for Boss Cao, sought a short-sighted view of himself, because he really couldn't figure out what was wrong with this world.
The usurpation of power by the Cao family gave the Sima family a wake-up call, seeing that the Sima family was also trying to usurp the throne like the Cao family, at this time some people had learned from the past and decided to do something before history repeated itself. The most restless are those generals who hold military power: the same as the pillars of the country who served Cao Wei, why do you have to turn around and be the master?
In particular, the generals in the Huainan area were the "main war zone" at that time, and it was also the place where Cao Wei had the most garrisons. In the Huainan area, three rebellions against the Sima family broke out, which is what the history books call the "Three Rebellions of Huainan". It happened in the late Cao Wei period, because sima shi seized power and dictatorship, so that the commander who controlled the military town of Shouchun had three mutinies against Sima shi.
Those involved in these three rebellions were all "military leaders" who played an important role in Cao Wei.
The initiator of the first rebellion was Wang Ling, a name we are relatively unfamiliar with, but the mention of his grandfather Wang Yun can't help but give people a thumbs up. It turned out that after this guy was the Great Situ, it was no wonder that he had such boldness.
The initiators of the second rebellion were Yuqiu Jian and Wen Qin, two names that are more common in the history of the Three Kingdoms and were both more active during Cao Wei's campaign against Wu. In particular, Yuqiu Jian is said to be related to the Sima family.
Sima Shi may have made some reflection after resolving the first two rebellions. What kind of magic did Huainan have, whether it was after sending out famous courtiers or foreign relatives rebelled. In order to make the situation in Huainan more stable, the Sima family sent Zhuge Birthday, who they trusted. At that time, Zhuge Was given command of an army of 180,000 people, assisted by Eastern Wu reinforcements.
At this time, Jiang Wei, who was just in time for the Shu Han side, succeeded The Chancellor to launch the Northern Expedition again, and it can be said that the future situation of the Three Kingdoms will be determined in this great decisive battle, and after this battle, no force will be able to overturn.
However, what made Sima Zhao almost vomit blood was that Zhuge Zhi actually turned the other way around.
Zhuge Zhi was another courtier after Zhuge Liang and Zhuge Jin. Although Zhuge Is not very famous, we should not underestimate it, after all, his clan is too powerful, especially Zhuge Liang.
At this time, the situation in the country becomes very delicate. Zhuge Liang was equivalent to the former de facto ruler of the Shu Han region, and jiang Wei and others thereafter inherited his will. Zhuge Jin, on the other hand, was the ruler of the Eastern Wu region, and he was also a fierce character under one person. Although Zhuge Shi on the Cao Wei side was not as intimidating as the first two, his men held at least half of Cao Wei's military power, which should not be underestimated. That is to say, the situation in the world at this time was like a struggle within the Zhuge family.
How to suppress the rebellion had already made Sima Zhao want to break his head, even if he was confident that he had the strength to solve the rebellion, but what he was most worried about was "fire in the backyard".
Three Huainan Rebellions:
The first time was by sima yi, the head of the family, who personally went out on the expedition, and Sima Shizhen guarded the rear;
The second time, Sima Shi put down the rebellion, and Sima Zhaozhen guarded the rear.
By the third time, Sima Zhao had to go out on a hard expedition, but the rear was no longer a trusted minister of the state.
Usually, when an expedition is something like this, it is the enemy who needs to be paid attention to. However, for the people of the Sima family, the most important thing to guard against in the expedition was precisely "their own people". After all, the power of their Sima family was obtained by "fire in the backyard". Therefore, Sima Zhao did something that made the people of the world laugh off their teeth - taking the empress dowager and the emperor to the battlefield together.
A campaign to quell a rebellion was actually to be carried out with the puppet emperor and the empress, which is unique in the history of our country. Sima Zhao took pains to prevent someone from taking up his old nest. Manchu Dynasty Wenwu, there is no trustworthy guy. It is reasonable to say that if the heavens are fair and beautiful, Zhuge Birthday will be able to succeed in everything. Like his predecessor Zhuge Liang, he planned a "flooded Shouchun" and planned to "borrow the rainstorm" to wipe out all the Sima family's troops.
However, after all, Zhuge Zhi's level was still some distance away from Zhuge Liang's, and the timing of asking for rain was somewhat deviated, and his army was submerged in Shouchun, becoming the turtle in the urn, and was successfully completely annihilated by Sima Zhao. Just as the so-called "man is not as good as heaven", Zhuge Shi never dreamed that he, who had taken advantage of the land and the people, was actually put together by the "heavenly time". In the first month of the third year of Ganlu, Zhuge Shibing was defeated and killed. At this point, the armed forces supporting the Cao Wei imperial family were basically wiped out. Since then, the situation of the three divisions of the world has been disintegrated, and there is no longer any force to stop Sima Shi's footsteps.
After that, there were few powerful factions in the imperial court to support Emperor Wei, and the scholars and masters supported Sima Shi one after another, and Sima Zhao successfully went to the road of usurpation. Five years after Ganlu, the Ganlu Rebellion occurred, and Cao Xian, unwilling to be controlled, led his subjects to rebel against Sima Zhao, and was finally killed by Sima Zhao, Jia Chong, and Chengji. In the second year of Xianxi, shortly after Sima Zhao's death, his son Sima Yan usurped Wei as emperor and established the Western Jin Dynasty, and Cao Wei perished.
Resources:
[Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Book of Jin, "Three Rebellions in Huainan" and the Political Situation of the Late Cao Wei Period]