The State of Jin was an important matter of succession to the Three Kingdoms and the Succession of the Southern and Northern Dynasties, of which the Jin Dynasty was divided into two periods, the Western Jin Dynasty was divided into two periods, the Western Jin Dynasty replaced the Cao Wei regime under the hands of the founding emperor Sima Yan of the JinWu Emperor, and after more than ten years, the State of Wu was destroyed and completely unified the country. At first, Emperor Wu of Jin was still a relatively effective emperor, because his era name was Taikang, so he was also called Taikang Zhizhi. However, in the later period, when we saw that the people lived and worked in peace and contentment, the country was stable and rich, and they began to be arrogant and lascivious, and the political style was very dark, and bribery was rampant.
It was precisely at this time that the nomadic peoples moved inland, laying the foundation for the Wuhu Chaohua and the Wuhu Sixteen Kingdoms. The Jin Dynasty's wuhu chaohua had a bad impact on China, so it has always been criticized by later generations. The Western Jin Dynasty, like Cao Wei replacing the Eastern Han Dynasty, did not rely on military conquest, but by mutiny, just as Cao Cao blackmailed tianzi to order the princes, in the era of Sima Yi, the ancestor of the Jin Dynasty, he had already laid the foundation for future generations, and successfully killed the three generations of Wei kings, (Cao Cao was called the King of Wei at that time, and Emperor Wu of Wei was added by later generations). After the death of The Wei Ming Emperor Cao Rui, Sima Yi took the opportunity to get rid of Cao Zhen's son Cao Shuang and exterminate the clan, the only force that posed a threat ceased to exist, and Sima Dang's power in the Wei state was overwhelming. Later, after Sima Yi's death, Sima Zhao became the King of Jin, and then deposed Emperor Wei at will, and at his time he already had the idea of becoming an emperor, but the day was not a holiday, and then he instructed his son Sima Yan to inherit the throne, and finally forced the last emperor of Cao Wei to give way in his hands, and the Cao Wei regime was completely destroyed. His own history as emperor is also called Emperor Wu of Jin.
At the beginning of the reign of Emperor Wu of Jin was quite OK, but in the late period, the problem of succession was not done well, and the famous fool Sima Zheng in history was established as emperor, also known as Emperor Hui of Jin in history, a fool can be crowned Emperor Hui of Jin, and he is worthy of him, the reason why Emperor Wu of Jin chose Emperor Hui of Jin as crown prince, and the son of Emperor Hui of Jin has a lot to do with it, plus passing the exam (at that time, the crown princess Jia Nanfeng helped him pass the pass), so before his death, let the crown prince, that is, Sima Zheng, the emperor of Jinhui, succeed to the throne.
Later, the crown prince Sima Zheng succeeded to the throne, the famous idiot emperor handled no state affairs, so what happened in the country naturally fell into the hands of Empress Jia Nanfeng, and Jia Nanfeng was a famous ugly woman in history, famous for her ugliness, because she was jealous of the high prestige of the crown prince and worried that the emperor would have an impact on her status after a hundred years, so he asked the emperor to inform the crown prince Sima Song that he was going to rebel, and although Sima Zheng was a fool, he told his son that he would naturally not be able to kill him, and finally the only prince who could be counted on was persecuted and killed by Jia Nanfeng.
Less than a few years after the crown prince's death, the Rebellion of the Eight Kings broke out, and Sima Lun, the King of Zhao, took the lead in invading the capital and killing Jia Nanfeng and putting Emperor Hui of Jin under house arrest. In March of the same year, Sima Ran the Prince of Qi, Sima Yuan the Prince of Hejian, and Sima Ying the King of Chengdu joined forces with Sima Lun the Prince of Changshan (later the Prince of Changsha) to attack Sima Lun the Prince of Zhao. In May, Sima Lun the King of Zhao and his henchmen were removed, Emperor Hui of Jin was restored to the throne, and Sima Ran the Prince of Qi ruled.
In the following year, Sima Ying, the king of Chengdu, and Sima Yong, the king of Hejian, sent an army to attack Sima Yuan, the king of Qi, and Sima Qi, the king of Changsha, responded in the capital Luoyang. In the end, Sima Yan, the king of Qi, and his henchmen were removed, Sima Qi, the king of Changsha, took charge, and Sima Ying, the king of Chengdu, was remotely controlled by Yi. In the second year of Tai'an, Sima Ying, the king of Chengdu, in order to remove Sima Qi, the king of Changsha, who was stationed in the capital, joined forces with Sima Qi, the king of Hejian, to attack Luoyang, but was repeatedly defeated by the king of Changsha.
In the first year of Yongxing (304 AD), luoyang city was short of grain, and Sima Yue, the king of the East China Sea, colluded with the forbidden army to capture the king of Changsha, and Kaesong surrendered. The King of Changsha was roasted to death by the general Zhang Fang of Hejian, and King Ying of Chengdu forced Emperor Hui to make him the Emperor's brother-in-law, King Hejian the Prince of Dazai, and King Yue of the East China Sea as ShangshuLing. After the victory of the King of Chengdu, Banshi returned to Yi and the political center moved north. Later, Wang Yue of the East China Sea gathered forces from all sides and blackmailed Emperor Hui to attack Wang Ying of Chengdu. In the end, Emperor Hui was captured, and the King of Donghai fled to his fiefdom of Donghai (東海, in modern Tancheng, Shandong), and the general Zhang Fang of Hejian (河間王) captured Luoyang.
However, soon the brothers of the King of the East Sea and the Prefecture Assassin Shi Dongying Company Ma Teng and the Youzhou Thorn Shi Wang Jun joined forces with foreign forces such as Karasuma and Qizhu to defeat the King of Chengdu. The king of Chengdu, Emperor Hui of Jin, fled to Luoyang and defected to the king of Hejian who owned Guanzhong and Luoyang, and finally the king of Chengdu was deposed, and the king of Hejian replaced Sima Chi with the emperor's brother-in-law.
In the second year of Yongxing (305 AD), Sima Yue, the king of the Eastern Seas, raised another army in Shandong and attacked Guanzhong from the west. In the first year of Guangxi (306 AD), Sima Yue, the king of the Eastern Sea, attacked Luoyang. Sima Ying, the king of Hejian and Sima Ying, the king of Chengdu, were defeated and eventually killed one after another. Sima Yue, the king of the Eastern Seas, welcomed Emperor Hui of Jin back to Luoyang, and then Emperor Hui of Jin was poisoned, and Sima Chi the Prince of Yuzhang succeeded to the throne as Emperor Huai of Jin, under the dictatorship of Sima Yue, the king of the Eastern Seas. The Rebellion of the Eight Kings ended here. In the Rebellion of the Eight Kings, many of the kings who participated in the war were defeated one after another, many people were killed, the social economy was seriously damaged, the strength of the ruling clique of the Western Jin Dynasty was exhausted, and the hidden class contradictions and ethnic contradictions quickly broke out.
Soon after the Rebellion of the Eight Kings, the Western Jin Dynasty collapsed, and sima Rui, the king of Langya, moved south to establish the Eastern Jin Dynasty, at this time the north completely entered the Period of the Five Hu and Sixteen Kingdoms, and the emperor of the Eastern Jin Dynasty at this time could not fully control the real power, and most of the decisions needed to be decided by many family partners. During this period, although there were also proud achievements in the Battle of Shuishui, he still could not resist the decline, because the emperor had not been able to grasp real power, and even the Eastern Jin Dynasty emperor Sima Yao, the emperor of Xiaowu, was strangled to death by the jealousy of his concubines, and since the imperial ministers were not cared about, it was really rare for the imperial power of the Eastern Jin Dynasty to lag behind to this point. After more than a hundred years of passing, Liu Song eventually replaced the Eastern Jin Dynasty as the hegemon of the south.