The son of the untalented is called great, the power is not the emperor, and the politician is a man... Changle is ominous, Chenghua is not fatal, the living version is dangling, and the sheji hill ruins. The ancients were defeated and died, and if they were divided into each other, if there was no chaos, how dull they were... Kim Yong destroyed the crown, Tang Yin released his neck, and Er all died, and the heavens came and went. —— The Book of Jin evaluates Sima Zheng
In the history of the mainland, Sima Zheng was a very famous emperor, who not only had the allusion of "why not eat meat", but also a more bizarre story. Today, let's talk about it, which may refresh your understanding of the Sima family.
Sima Yan, Emperor Wu of Jin
As we all know, the general trend of the world will be united for a long time, and it will be divided for a long time, and at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the dictatorship of eunuchs has made the people unhappy and the people of the Chinese land have been ruined. In the chaotic world, Cao Cao, Sun Quan, and Liu Bei stood on their feet and divided the world.
Whether it was Cao Cao's repeated dispatches to wipe out the Central Plains, sun quan's conquest of Cao Cao, or Zhuge Liang's 6 out of Qishan, it did not stop the war, and the flames of war continued to burn until the appearance of Sima Yan changed all this.
After years of contention and fighting, Sima Yi seized the power of Cao Wei through the Gaopingling Rebellion, and his descendants also destroyed the Shu state and Eastern Wu successively, so that the three kingdoms were returned to the Jin, and in 265 AD, Sima Yan established himself as emperor and established the Western Jin Dynasty.
It can be said that Wei Shu and Wu fought for a lifetime, but finally made a wedding dress for the Jin Dynasty, I don't know what kind of feelings Cao Cao, Liu Bei, and Sun Quan will feel after they know. What kind of person is Sima Yan? He was very contradictory, very similar to the Qianlong Emperor.
In the early days, Sima Yan worked hard to govern and govern the country, and the people thought that they could enjoy peace and live a happy life of sunrise and sunset, but such days were not very long, because Sima Yan had changed.
In the later period, Sima Yan began to become lazy and extravagant, and became more addicted to harem women. During the Western Jin Dynasty, there was a story that there were many concubines in the emperor's harem, and in order to evenly wet the rain and dew, the emperor made a sheep cart.
Every day he would go on a sheep cart, and if the sheep stopped at the gate of the concubine's palace, the emperor would spoil whomever he wanted. So the concubines put something the sheep liked to eat at the gate of the palace, so that the sheep would stop at the gate of their palace.
The person who made the sheep cart was Sima Yan, which shows how faint Sima Yan was in the later period. As the saying goes, "Tiger father has no dog", which is a positive sentence in itself, but it has become a derogatory term when used on Sima Yan.
Because compared to Sima Yan's fainting, his son is even more outrageous, and it is said that the IQ is only the appearance of an 8-year-old child. Imagine how such a person could govern the country? So much so that a famous joke in history was made.
Send his own concubines to guide his son Duke Zhou
As mentioned above, Sima Zheng's IQ is very low, and words such as "why don't you eat meat" came from his mouth. Seeing this, many people may think that Sima Zheng's joke is "why not eat meat paste", but it is not.
In other words, although Sima Zheng became the crown prince, Sima Yan, as an emperor, was still more worried, especially whether his son could continue his descendants. Sima Zheng had an empress named Jia Nanfeng, and the two had been married for many years, but they had not given birth to a man and a half woman, which made Emperor Wu of Jin even more suspicious.
On this issue, Sima Yan was very entangled, but in the end he still thought of a good way to solve this problem, that is, to let his concubines guide Yi Er. As we mentioned above, Sima Yan unified the Three Kingdoms, so there were many concubines in his harem, and under such circumstances, he found a concubine to educate Sima Zheng.
At that time, the woman who went there was named Xie Jiu. For this matter, Xie Jiu was unwilling to do it, after all, it would damage his reputation. However, the ancient emperor was the most powerful and could only accept the order to go to Sima Zheng's palace.
In this way, the concubine Xie Jiu lived with Sima Zheng and taught her the gift of The Duke of Zhou. It is worth mentioning that during that period, Xie Jiu was actually pregnant, and it is not known whether it was Sima Yan's child or Sima Zheng's child.
The period of Xie Jiu's pregnancy was very contradictory, just like Lü Buwei, Yin Yiren, and Zhao Ji at that time. However, history believes that this child is Sima Zheng's, and Sima Yan also thinks so.
Upon learning of this, Emperor Wu of Jin summoned Xie Jiu to the palace, where he waited and allowed her to give birth to an heir. In fact, Sima Yan also had his own reasons for doing so, one of the Jia Nanfeng families was powerful, and it was very likely that Xie Jiu's (Sima Zheng's) child would not be born.
Second, Sima Yan also thought that since his son's IQ was problematic, cultivating his own eldest grandson was also in line with the ancestral system, which could also ensure the smooth inheritance of the Sima family. Unfortunately, Sima Yan's idea was good, but the ending was different from what he had imagined.
The Fall of the Western Jin Dynasty, the Rebellion of the Eight Kings, and the Chaos of the Five Hus
Since Xie Jiu and Sima Zheng had a son, she naturally became Sima Zheng's concubine, known as Concubine Xie. However, Princess Xie's family background is very bad, she was originally just a palace girl, how could she fight Jia Nanfeng with a very low status?
Jia Nanfeng's father was a powerful vassal of the Western Jin Dynasty, and after the death of Emperor Wu of Jin, Jia Nanfeng monopolized the power of the Western Jin Dynasty for 8 years. At that time, when Sima Zheng was still the crown prince, if there were palace girls and concubines around him who were pregnant, Jia Nanfeng would let them abort.
Because of Sima Yan's protection, Princess Xie was able to give birth to her child smoothly, and she was also Sima Zheng's only son, and was made crown prince when she grew up. Jia Nanfeng, who is jealous and vicious by nature, even though her mother repeatedly warned her to be kind to the prince, she still did not listen.
Later, Jia Nanfeng and his sister designed, lied that he was pregnant in his early years and had a child, but because the matter was secret, not many people knew. At the same time, she also asked her brother-in-law's son to pretend to be her own son, and then ascended to the position of prince, and killed Concubine Xie's son.
When things developed here, Jia Nanfeng's ambitions were exposed, and Sima Lun, the king of Zhao, launched a coup d'état, arresting and poisoning Jia Nanfeng. However, Jia Nanfeng's 8 years of power made the western Jin Dynasty's national strength decline greatly.
When Sima Yan, the emperor of the Jin Dynasty, was in power, he resumed the system of sub-feudalism, and the power of these princes was already greater than that of the emperors of the Jin Dynasty. As a result, the eight princes successively entered the Central Plains, which was historically called the Rebellion of the Eight Kings.
In 306, the power of the Jin Dynasty finally fell into the hands of Sima Yue, and the Rebellion of the Eight Kings ended. However, it seriously damaged the national strength and economy of the Jin Dynasty, accelerated the pace of dynastic change and the demise of the Western Jin Dynasty.
Sure enough, soon after, the Xiongnu Liu Yuan established himself as king, and his son Liu Yao even waved his army to Chang'an, the Western Jin Dynasty collapsed, and the Wuhu Chaohua began. This turmoil lasted for a hundred years, and the people of the Central Plains lived a miserable life until the Sui and Tang dynasties.
It can be seen how big the negative impact of Jia Nanfeng is, and it is no wonder that the ancients would say that red face is a disaster for water. What do you think about that?