When it comes to the Three Kingdoms, people's first impression should be the situation at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, when the masses were divided, and the conquests were fought for years, and Wei Shu and Wu stood on three feet. However, there is a voice that is recognized by everyone, that is, the biggest winner of the Three Kingdoms at the end of the Han Dynasty is neither Cao Cao, nor Liu Bei, nor Sun Quan, but the Sima family, Sima Yi has seized the real power of Cao Wei by conspiring to destroy the three tribes of Cao Shuang, and his son Sima Zhao directly killed the Cao Wei emperor Cao Xi until his grandson Sima Yan usurped the throne.
After Sima Zhao destroyed the Shu state, he soon fell ill and died, and his son, the thirty-year-old Sima Yan, succeeded him as King of Jin. After two generations and three people accumulated, his grandson Sima Yan took the place of Emperor Wei, fourteen years after Sima Yi's death. Sima Yi, Sima Zhao, and Sima Yan of the Sima family were all highly intelligent and played with power in the palm of their hands, but no one expected that the Jin Dynasty created by the Sima family produced the first idiot emperor in Chinese history, Sima Zheng.
There was such an idiot emperor sitting on the stage, all kinds of careerists moved, so there was an unprecedented "Rebellion of the Eight Kings" on the land of China, the whole turmoil lasted sixteen years, the eight princes of the Sima family rose up one after another, dozens of descendants killed each other, hundreds of thousands of people died, the entire northern China Yuan Qi was destroyed, causing the Rebellion of the Eight Kings, after 10 years of civil war to be pacified.
However, although Sima Zheng was an idiot, he did not lose the Sima family's Jiangshan, and in 307 AD, after his death, his brother Sima Zhi succeeded to the throne as Emperor Huai of Jin. At this time, the "Rebellion of the Eight Kings" had just been put down, and the ruling ability of the Western Jin Dynasty had seriously declined, and many ethnic minorities had begun to claim the title of emperor and were suitable for marching into the Central Plains. A few years later, a force calling itself 'Han', historically known as Han Zhao, successfully invaded Luoyang and captured Emperor Huai of Jin.
In order to survive, Sima Chi vividly expressed the four words of endured humiliation and stealing life, and living is the most important thing. Although his purpose of life was achieved, he was also married by Liu Cong, and you can imagine how many of the stories behind this have not been recorded in history. Once Sima Chi was ordered to pour wine for the Han Zhao banquet servants, in order to live, he did not think so, but the old Jin Dynasty ministers were heartbroken and cried, causing Liu Cong to resent, and Sima Chi was poisoned.
After the Jin Emperor Sima Ye succeeded to the throne, this chaotic tianzi was even more unlucky, after he succeeded to the throne, the Western Jin Dynasty had already died in name only, not only did not have a single soldier in his hands, but even eating became a problem, and the Zizhi Tongjian recorded that the ministers of the DPRK and China even had to dig up wild vegetables to fill their stomachs. Four years later, Liu Cong's army in the north once again moved south, and Sima Yi, the emperor of Jin, obediently became a prisoner. His fate was even worse, he became a slave completely, not only responsible for pouring wine for others, Liu Cong went to the toilet, he had to respectfully serve the side. Five years after Jianxing, Sima Ye was killed.
Sima Yi's father and son could not have imagined that after they had gone through their entire lives, they had survived the death of three generations of Cao Wei monarchs, overridden the imperial power of Cao Wei, and monopolized the power of the imperial government, after a short period of decades, their descendants had ended up like this! Some netizens joked that the IQ of the Sima family was used up by Sima Yi and Sima Zhao's two generations, and there were few left in the two generations of Sima Yan and Sima Zheng, and the Western Jin Dynasty had reached this point.