Which emperor in history died the most bizarrely? It is estimated that Sima Yao, the Emperor Xiaowu of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, was counted. Sima Yao died both strangely and badly. He died neither in battle nor by illness, but at the hands of his favorite concubine.
Sima Yao's father was Sima Yu, the Jianwen Emperor of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and his mother, Li Lingrong, was a humble palace weaver girl with a black and ugly appearance. In the Southern and Northern Dynasties of the Wei and Jin Dynasties, which emphasized the clan class of the gate valve, Sima Yao was also relatively lucky to be able to become the crown prince.
Portrait of Emperor Xiaowu of Jin
After Sima Yu's death, the crown prince Sima Yao took the throne as Emperor Xiaowu. Sima Yao succeeded to the throne at the age of 11 and reigned for 24 years. When he first became emperor, he personally managed political affairs, appointed virtuous ministers, and expected to do something, which was very clear and gentlemanly. The famous Battle of Shuishui in history took place during The reign of Sima Yao, which defeated Former Qin and consolidated the rule of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. However, later, brothers competed for power, and villains controlled the government of the dynasty, and they were unable to turn the tide. So they broke the jar and broke it, ignored the government, excluded the virtuous ministers, appointed villains, and indulged in wine all day, and the political situation in the Eastern Jin Dynasty fell into chaos again.
Emperor Xiaowu in the film and television drama
In September 396, Emperor Xiaowu sima Yao was drunk again. But he also wanted his favorite Zhang Guiren to continue to accompany the wine. Zhang Gui also drank too much, so he refused emperor Xiaowu's entanglement. The two quarreled with each other. Emperor Xiaowu joked after drinking: "You were only crowned a noble person because of your beauty, and now that you are nearly 30 years old, your beauty is not as good as before, I will abolish you and choose another new person." Some of the harems are beautiful women, and I can pick any one that is better than you. ”
Who would have thought that Sima Yao's drunken joke actually killed himself. For Sima Yao, this sentence was a threatening joke between the emperor and the concubine, and he did not go to his heart at all, and went to sleep after saying it. But this joke, for Zhang Guiren, is tantamount to a thunderbolt on a sunny day. The more she thought about it, the more angry she became, so she moved to kill. Zhang Guiren summoned the little palace girl next to him, and when the emperor was drunk and asleep, he moved a few quilts to cover the emperor's head, and the maid's strength was small, and she could not suffocate Sima Yao for a while. Zhang Guiren also instructed two small palace ladies to bring stones and press them on the quilt, so that Sima Yao, the Emperor Xiaowu of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, was smothered in the quilt.
Statue of Emperor Xiaowu of Jin
The history books record it like this: "The emperor was drunk, lingered in the inner temple, and there were few awakenings, and outsiders rarely saw it." Zhang Guiren favored the harem, and the harem was feared. Gengshen, the emperor and the harem feast, the prostitutes served as much as they pleased; when the nobles were nearly thirty years old, the emperor said: "Ru Yinian should also be abolished, and my intention is even less." 'The nobles are angry, and the emperor is drunk, and he sleeps in the summer hall, and the nobles drink the wine of the eunuchs, and scatter them, so that the servants will be killed by the emperor. Heavy bribes left and right, the cloud 'because of the nightmare collapse'. When the prince was weak, he would make the king Daozi faint, so he did not ask any more questions. (Zizhi Tongjian, vol. 18)
Zizhi Tongjian
The Book of Wei, the Book of Jin, and the Zizhi Tongjian all record the same content, and Sima Yao, the Emperor of Xiaowu, joked with his favorite concubine Zhang Guiren after getting drunk, and was killed by Zhang Guiren with a quilt.
It is really sad that the king of a great country died because of his drunken gaffe, and died at the hands of the concubine beside him.
However, some historians suspect that the cause of death of Sima Yao, the Emperor of Xiaowu, should not be so simple, Zhang Guiren is just a pawn, it may be that brothers are fighting for power, so they borrowed Zhang Guiren's hand and got rid of Sima Yao, otherwise the crime of killing the king, the crime is terrible, a weak woman can not escape safely.
Sima Yao, emperor of xiaowu in the film and television drama
No matter what the real cause of death of Emperor Xiaowu Sima Yao was, in the chaotic world, in the struggle for imperial power, there seemed to be no human feelings to speak of, no blood thicker than water affection, and some were only power and interests.