The Jin Dynasty established by Sima Shi was the only country in Chinese history that held power without merit, usurped the throne, was extravagant and lavish, and achieved nothing, and was the first country to be exterminated by foreign nationalities. The Jin Dynasty ushered in the darkest era in Chinese history.
During the reign of Emperor Hui of Jin, VIII
In the sixteen years of the King's Rebellion, many of the kings who participated in the war were defeated one after another, and many people were killed.
The military power of the Jin Dynasty rapidly declined, and the country lost its unified leadership.
The Central Plains were severely socially and economically damaged, and the power of the Western Jin Dynasty was exhausted.
As a result, the Hu people took advantage of the void to invade the Central Plains, burn and loot, and the Hu people marched without grain, and wherever they went, they ate people and slaughtered them at will. The old thin man is called "Rao Put the Fire", the woman is called "not envious of the sheep", and the child is called "and the bone is rotten", which means that the old and thin man is not easy to cook, and needs to add some more wood to the fire; the young woman tastes good, better than the lamb; the child's fine skin and tender meat, cooked to cook even the bones are cooked together.
In the place where the Hu people went, the Han people suffered a catastrophe, like hell on earth, the people did not exist in one, and history called "Yongjia Rebellion", "Central Plains Lu Shen", "Shenzhou Lu Shen". In the past hundred years, the five Hu tribes of Xiongnu, Xianbei, Xianbei, Qiang, and Qiang have established dozens of regimes of different strengths and sizes, also known as "Wuhu Chaohua".
After Sima Yan's death, the Rebellion of the Eight Kings, the Wuhu Chaos, the entire north was harassed by nomads, and the Jin Dynasty of Taikang's prosperity collapsed in an instant.
Why did sima Yan's death, the Jin Dynasty of Taikang's prosperity collapsed in an instant.
We can analyze it from two directions in general: system (weakening of royal power, class antagonism), ethnic groups (gathering of clan power, reduction of Han nationality)
First, the nepotism system for electing officials
The Western Jin Dynasty followed Cao Wei's "Nine Pins zhongzheng system", forming a tool for the monopoly of power of the shijia clan and forming a hierarchical system of door valves for the shi clan. At the beginning of the establishment of the Jiupin Zhongzheng system, the criteria for judging characters were equal emphasis on family lineage, morality, and talent.
However, due to the fact that during the Wei and Jin dynasties, the Zhongzheng were generally Erpin, and the Erpin had the right to participate in the Zhongzheng selection, and almost all of the people who obtained the Erpin were the Door Valve Clan, so the Gate Valve Clan completely controlled the right to select officials. Therefore, in the process of Zhongzheng Pindi, the standard of talent and morality was gradually ignored, and the family lineage became more and more important, and even became the only standard.
By the time of the Western Jin Dynasty, a situation of "no cold door in the upper grade and no scholar in the lower grade" was finally formed. As a result, the people who really had the power in the Western Jin Dynasty and the opposition were all famous and prestigious people, while those who were really capable had no rights, nor could they really contribute to the country and society, which shook the foundation of the Western Jin Dynasty's rule from the perspective of talents
Second, talk about the wrong country
In the society of the Western Jin Dynasty, there was a wind of pure talk and vanity. Talking about Xuanben is the homework of literati and scholars. In order to pursue the so-called "demeanor", many bureaucrats in the Western Jin Dynasty talked about the mysterious tao all day long, so they made things mysterious, mainly discussing some things that were abstract from reality, and even extremely indulgent and willful situations. They held important official positions, but they remained cynical, leading to the abandonment of political affairs.
Metaphysics itself as a cultural phenomenon is self-defeating. But it has affected the functioning of government agencies, making the social atmosphere into empty talk and unrealistic winds. This has a great impact on the rule and stability of the country. Gu Yanwu at the time of the Ming and Qing dynasties also believed that the wind of Qing talk made "the country perish from above, and the religion fell to the bottom", which is the wrong country of Qing talk.
Part of the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Forest
Third, the most gold-worshiping dynasty
Under the connivance and protection of Sima Yan, the mainstream orientation of the whole society has formed something that cannot be done with money. The bureaucratic tycoons of the Western Jin Dynasty spared no effort to pursue profits, greedily plundered the people's wealth, and brutally oppressed the ethnic minorities who migrated inward, eventually provoking their resistance.
Mencius once said: "The country is in danger by handing over profits from top to bottom." "If people all over the country are fighting for profits and pursuing profits, the country is in danger." If this phenomenon becomes a social fashion, then the country will definitely have problems. Driven by money, the social problems of the Western Jin Dynasty became increasingly serious, and the crisis of rule became increasingly apparent.
Fourth, the extremely decaying Western Jin Dynasty ruling clique
The ruling faction of the Western Jin Dynasty, the people in the Sima clique, only had a very vicious killing and plundering relationship with each other, and when they saw profits, they would seize them, and the more they killed, the more fierce they killed, until they launched a great scuffle for more than ten years, exhausting the national strength of the Western Jin Dynasty.
Killing and indiscriminate rewards make the people in the ruling clique gain and loss suddenly, life and death are impermanent, the mood is tense and decadent, the opposite phenomenon of impatience and nothingness, life is reckless and shameless, and indulgence is enjoyed.
For example, Wang Kaishi Chongdoufu, just go to the toilet this shot will require more than a dozen beautiful women decorated with algae to hold agarwood juice, and Wang Kai on both sides of the road forty miles with purple silk as a barrier, Shi Chong's use of brocade to pave the fifty-mile barrier, but also to prepare dozens of three or four feet high coral trees, think about it is a waste.
In fact, people's forgetting about the Jin Dynasty comes from the hatred of it, and the great unification after the chaotic world should have reshaped the peak of history, but it has become an opportunity for foreign tribes to encroach on the land of the Central Plains, making the people of the Central Plains deep in the water for hundreds of years.
Its cowardice and incompetence are the real reasons why people forget it.
For history, Sima Yan is not the leader of an era, more like a lucky person who conforms to the trend of the times, and it is also this luck that makes him not cherish the great rivers and mountains in front of him, but instead uses a wrong means of rule to personally push the rising Jin Dynasty into the abyss.