Jia Nanfeng (257–300), also known as Empress Huijia (惠嘉皇后), courtesy name 峕, was a native of Xiangling, Pingyang (present-day Xiangfen, Shanxi). She was the empress dowager of Sima Zheng, the Emperor hui of Jin, and the daughter of Jia Chong during the Western Jin Dynasty.
She was ugly and jealous, and once monopolized power because of Emperor Hui's cowardice, and later died at the hands of Sima Lun, the King of Zhao. The ensuing Rebellion of the Eight Kings led to the famous Wuhu Chaohua in history.
Empress Jia Nanfeng of the Jin Dynasty was born in a family of magnates, and her father Jia Chong, Emperor Jing of Jin, Emperor Wen, and Emperor Wu of Jin, "was the first prince of Jin, deeply favored, and Lu Zhi was often superior to the group of officials", and when Emperor Wu was emperor, he served as a servant, Shangshu Ling, and the Duke of Fenglu County, with a temporary weight.
Guo Huai,the posthumous wife, gave birth to the second daughter, Nanfeng and Noon. In the eighth year of Emperor Wu's reign (272), under the meticulous planning of Jia Chong, Emperor Wu made the 15-year-old Nanfeng crown princess.
Under the influence of his family, Jia Nanfeng was both strategic and deceitful, good at inviting favors and flattering, and soon gained the exclusive favor of the prince after entering the palace, and his position was stable.
However, Concubine Jia had not had children for many years since she entered the palace, which became a major problem in her heart. In order to consolidate favors, fighting for this has become a big problem for her.
In order to consolidate favor and fight for the empress, Jia Ji did not hesitate to use cruel means to achieve his goal, "concubines are cruel, try to kill several people, or use the sword to conceive delusion, and the son falls to the ground with the blade.".
Jia Nanfeng's jealous cruelty became a major excuse for the old historians to deny his people.
Before Jia Hou's dictatorship, there were successively foreign relatives Yang Jun and Sima Liang, the king of Runan, who controlled the imperial government, but neither of them had the ability to govern the country, could not balance the forces of the various factions in the DPRK, and soon lost the hearts of the people.
It can be said that it was precisely because of the fainting of the two people that Jia Hou, who was good at governing the government, was pushed from the palace to the forefront of the history of the Western Jin Dynasty.
Jia Hou ruled the imperial government for 10 years from the first year of Emperor Hui's reign (291) to The first year of Yongkang (300), during which she influenced the direction of western Jin politics.
Jia Nanfeng "wanted to prejudge political affairs, but Yu Jun, who did not get what he wanted, and refused to serve the empress dowager as a woman", as she gradually stabilized her position as empress, she took advantage of the contradictions within Sima Shi's clan.
By the hand of Wang Liang of Runan and Wang Wei of Chu, the political forces of Yang Jun's henchmen were eliminated, and the empress grasped the situation in less than one jia Nanfeng, and killed Yang Jun in March of the first year of Yuan Kang, clearing the biggest obstacle to his own interference in politics.
In this coup d'état, Jia Nanfeng gathered a number of henchmen, including The Emperor Runanwang Liang and Chu Wang Wei, the military attaches of the Janissaries leaders Meng Guan and Li Zhao, and their eunuch Dong Meng.
Jia Nanfeng first passed on a false edict to induce King Wei of Chu to kill Sima Liang and Wei Guan, and then removed King Wei of Chu for the crime of killing a courtier.
In this way of killing people with a knife, she cleverly eliminated the opponents who monopolized the power of the government. After this, Jia Nanfeng's status of "despotic world, prestige inside and outside" was truly established.
Jia Nanfeng was able to monopolize power mainly by holding the status of empress, and the use of this privileged status was widely supported, and he could control Emperor Hui to carry out corrections.
Moreover, at that time, Yang Jun's hegemony also caused dissatisfaction among the people, so Jia Nanfeng was able to quickly control the situation and hold power in his hands.
Since then, Jia Hou's dictatorship has also brought the power of the Jia family in Pingyang.
Jia Nanfeng continued the balance of interests of the various clans of the Sima clan, thus stabilizing the power structure, which continued until Sima Tang, the crown prince of Huaihuai, was deposed and King Lun of Zhao raised an army and disintegrated.
During Jia Hou's reign, the most commendable thing about her political work was her good use of people and advice.
Although the old historians tried their best to denigrate and obliterate the positive role played by Jia Hou personally in stabilizing the political situation in Yuankang, and attributed all the achievements of governance to Zhang Hua and other Yuankang important ministers, they invariably acknowledged that the Yuankang period was "quiet for several years", which proved that Yuankang's political achievements did exist.
It is precisely because Jia Hou, who holds real power, has foresight and is good at using people to give advice that the power group with Zhang Hua and others as the core can give full play to its positive role.
This ensured that after several more court turmoils, under the notice of an emperor with unequal qualifications and "unbearable political affairs", the Western Jin Dynasty was able to correct the shortcomings left by Emperor Wannian and Yang Jun and Wang Liang of Runan, and maintained a stable situation for 10 years.
Therefore, judging from the above historical facts, in the ten years after Jia Hou came to power, the political situation in the Western Jin Dynasty was stable, whether it is regarded as the first stage of the "Rebellion of the Eight Kings" or as the period of "Jia Hou's chaotic government", it is inappropriate.
The real chaos and turmoil in the Western Jin Dynasty began after King Lun of Zhao killed Jia in April of the first year of Yongkang (300), and then established himself as emperor, so it is said that the perpetrator should be Zhao Wanglun, not Jia Nanfeng.
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