Sima Pi, the Emperor of the Jin Dynasty, was the sixth emperor of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and after Sima Tan's death, Sima Pi ascended the throne with the support of Empress Chu. During the reign of Sima Pi, the powerful minister Huan Wen controlled the state's major politics, and the Eastern Jin Dynasty was also a warlord in chaos, which was already a sign of national destruction. Sima Pi himself was as short-lived as the previous Eastern Jin emperors, and the frequent transfer of power was also one of the important reasons for the decline of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. So what kind of person was Sima Pi, the Emperor of the Jin Dynasty, in history, and how did he die?
Brief introduction of Sima Pi, Emperor of the Jin Dynasty
Sima Pi was born in 341 AD and died in 365 AD, his father was Emperor Cheng of Jin, his uncle was Emperor Kang of Jin, and Emperor Mu of Jin was his cousin.
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In 342, Emperor Jincheng crowned Sima Pi as the Evil King of Lang, and shortly thereafter, Emperor Jincheng died, and Sima Yue ascended the throne with the support of his foreign relative Yu Bing, sitting on the throne that should have belonged to Sima Pi. In 345, Sima Yue, the Emperor of Jin Kang, made Sima Pi a regular attendant. In 356, Sima Pi was made a general of the Chinese army, and three years later, he was again promoted to the rank of general of the Hun Horse.
In 361, The Jin Mu Emperor Sima Tan died, and Empress Chu ascended to the emperor's throne on the grounds that Sima Pi was the orthodoxy of the imperial family. So Sima Pi declared himself emperor in May, granted amnesty, and gave his original throne of Langya to his brother Sima Yi. In 362, when the Former Yan state repeatedly invaded Luoyang, Sima Pi ordered two generals, Yu Xi and Deng Xi, to lead troops to luoyang, and successfully forced the Former Yan army under Lü Hu to retreat.
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On the first day of December, there was an eclipse, so Sima Pi ordered that the taxes on servitude be reduced to reassure the people of the world. In 363, Sima Pi changed his era name to Xingning and granted a general amnesty in February, and in March Sima Pi's harem concubine gave birth to a prince for him, and Sima Pi was delighted to implement the amnesty again. Shortly thereafter, Sima Pi fell ill and could not manage the government due to the accidental consumption of Dan medicine, and Empress Chu once again came to assist the government.
Soon after, Sima Pi, with the help of Empress Chu and the chancellor of the court, resolved to deal with Huan Wen, a courtier. Sima Pi ordered Huan Wen to be made the Assassin of Yangzhou, and gave him the high position of chancellor to appoint him to the Jiankang court to preside over political affairs, in order to deprive him of his military power, but Huan Wen refused. In July, Sima Pi again issued a holy decree urging Huan Wen to come to power, and this time Huan Wen led his cronies on the road, but after walking slowly for a month along the way to ochre, Huan Wen stopped here and spied on Jiankang's ambitions.
In 365, Sima Pi died in Xitang at the age of 25, and after his death, he was buried with Empress Wang in Anping Mausoleum. So does the cause of Sima Pi's death have anything to say?
How did Sima Pi, the Emperor of the Jin Dynasty, die
Sima Pi was fascinated by the alchemist's alchemy of immortality from an early age, and at a young age he was keen to study the method of immortality. Sima Pi revered the Taoist priests, and was fascinated by the longevity techniques they taught, and he followed the Taoist method of immortal cultivation, cutting through the valley and not eating five grains, and also taking the "longevity" elixir with intense medicinal properties. The Manchu Dynasty minister was deeply worried about this, so the minister Gao Song advised him: "Your Majesty's indiscriminate taking of Dan medicine is not the right way to maintain health, and it should be stopped as soon as possible." Sima Pi did not care about this at all, did not pay attention at all, and finally in 363 AD, due to the outbreak of disease caused by taking the "elixir", he could not deal with the government.
After careful conditioning, Sima Pi's body recovered, but he still did not learn his lesson, still obsessed with the art of alchemy and immortality, and continued to take Dan medicine. In 365 AD, Sima Pi died of a violent illness after taking a large amount of "elixir".
After the death of his cousin Emperor Mu of Jin, Sima Pi took the throne that belonged to him, and during his reign, the Eastern Jin Dynasty was constantly in turmoil, and local warlords in the country were in contention, and the Eastern Jin Dynasty began to show a trend of decline. Sima Pi himself was keen on the taoist art of parental life, and indiscriminately took the "elixir", which eventually led to his untimely death.