Jia Nanfeng (257–300) was the empress of Sima Zheng, the Emperor hui of Jin, of the Western Jin Dynasty. According to the history books, Empress Jia Hui was short in stature (about 1 meter 4), her face was black and blue, her nostrils were facing the sky, her lips were on the ground, and there was a large birthmark behind her eyebrows. So, such an ugly woman, why did Emperor Hui of Jin choose her as empress?
The reason was that her father was Jia Chong, the founding hero of the Western Jin Dynasty at that time, and in 271 AD, Jia Chong was appointed to the town of Chang'an, which made Jia Chong very worried, at this time Xun Xun suggested that Jia Chong marry his daughter to Sima Zheng, the crown prince who had not yet married a wife at that time. At that time, Jia Chong actually wanted to marry Jia Nanfeng's sister to the prince, but the younger daughter was too small and too short, so he married Jia Nanfeng to the prince.
In 290 AD, Sima Yan died and Sima Zheng succeeded to the throne, at which time Jia Nanfeng naturally became empress. When she was still a princess, she was a little more restrained in her work, but when she became empress, she was even more unabashed in doing things. It is rumored that at that time, there would be beautiful men lost on the street every once in a while, because Jia Nanfeng actually sent people to arrest those beautiful men on the street, and after using them, they killed them. However, things always have surprises.
At that time, a small official met an old woman on the way home from an errand, and this old woman said to him that someone in the family was sick, and the divination master said that a teenager in the south of the city went to the town house to ward off evil spirits, and asked the little official to go with her, and there would be heavy thanks in the future. The little official thought for a moment and said, "There is still this good thing," so he got into the car. After getting into the car, the drapery fell and was hidden in a box. Then I walked more than ten miles, past dozens of doors, opened the box and saw that there were pavilions and houses everywhere. So the little official asked where this place was, and the old woman said, "This is heaven." Then he asked the young man to take a bath with fragrant soup, and then he got dressed and ate. Then I saw a woman come out, only to see that the woman was short and blue-skinned, and there was a large birthmark behind her eyebrows. Two people stayed in the room for a few days. Originally, according to Jia Nanfeng's style of doing things, this little official would eventually be executed, but this little official was so good-looking, Jia Nanfeng did not go down, so he let this little official leave, and when he left, he also gave the little official a few clothes.
These things are still just Jia Nanfeng's absurdity in terms of personal, but her absurdity is not only this, she has also done many absurd things at the national level.
After Sima Yan's death, Sima Zheng did not have the appearance of an emperor at all, and was very afraid of Jia Nanfeng. He was unable to govern himself, and at the beginning he was assisted by The Eunuch Yang Jun. However, Jia Nanfeng coveted great power, so he used the hands of Sima Liang of Runan and Sima Wei of Chu to murder Yang Jun's family and his henchmen, and he monopolized the power of the government. Subsequently, Jia Nanfeng also deposed his mother-in-law Yang Shi as a Shuren.
In addition, Jia Nanfeng also killed the deposed prince at that time. At first, Jia Nanfeng did not pay too much attention to this prince, thinking that he could have a son after that, and then he could directly depose this prince and make his son a prince. However, after a few years, not a single son was born, and at this time Jia Nanfeng was also anxious, if the prince was not his own son, then after the Jin Hui Emperor was finished, the crown prince succeeded to the throne, and he also followed the cold.
So Jia Nanfeng sent someone to summon the prince and asked the dancer to force the prince to drink three liters of wine in the name of Emperor Hui of Jin, and he was drunk. Immediately, Jia Nanfeng induced the prince to write a rebellious text, but the prince only wrote half of it, and the other half was completed by Jia Nanfeng. After that, Jia Nanfeng presented this text to Emperor Hui of Jin, who did not have any judgment and directly killed the prince. However, Zhang Hua, the superintendent of zhongshu, asked the emperor to compare the handwriting well, but after everyone compared the handwriting of the prince before his death, no one dared to say that this was fake. However, Zhang Hua still insisted that the emperor treat the matter cautiously. At this time, Jia Nanfeng was also afraid that there would be a change in this matter, so he just deposed the prince as a commoner.
However, according to Sima Lun's subordinate Sun Xiu,quite a few of the generals of the Janissaries in the palace wanted to support the crown prince and abolish the empress, so Jia Nanfeng felt frightened again, thinking that it would not be possible for the deposed prince not to be completely eliminated. Therefore, Jia Nanfeng sent Zhang Hong to arrive at the prince's courtyard with croton apricot pills. Since then, the prince has died in his own courtyard.
In addition, Empress Jia also killed Sima Liang and Sima Wei, who helped her get rid of Yang Jun. Finally, the rest of the Sima family really couldn't bear to look at it, afraid that the next person to die would be themselves, so the rest of the Sima clan gathered their forces under the pretext that the prince was killed, killed the palace, captured Jia Nanfeng alive, and poisoned her with medicinal liquor. Perhaps Jia Nanfeng, who had killed countless people, did not know that he would die such a tragic death before he died.
It can be said that the Heavenly Dao has reincarnation, and the heavens have spared no one. It was Jia Nanfeng that allowed the Sima family to work hard to establish the Western Jin Dynasty to experience the Rebellion of the Eight Kings for 16 years, starting in 291 AD. It was also an indirect contributor to the Wuhu Chaohua (316-439).
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