In 421 AD, Liu Yu, a general of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, gave Emperor Gong of Jin a cup of poisoned wine. However, Emperor Jin Gong resolutely refused to drink it, saying that he could not be reincarnated in this way. The soldiers pressed him to the bed and covered his face with a quilt until he no longer struggled......
At this point, the Jin Dynasty founded by the Sima family was destroyed, and the Sima family was almost wiped out.
However, few people in history will sympathize with this family, but instead think that they are a cycle of cause and effect, and evil will be rewarded.
At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the world was in turmoil. Cao Cao loved talents and took a fancy to Sima Yi, and invited Sima Yi to go out of the mountain many times.
Although Cao Cao admired Sima Yi's talent, he also saw that he had the appearance of a wolf, like a wolf staring at a rabbit, and would bite the rabbit to death if he had the opportunity. Therefore beware of him everywhere.
Sima Yi hid his ambitions and carefully dispelled Cao Cao's suspicions again and again.
Over time, Sima Yi gained Cao Cao's trust and was appointed by Cao Cao as the crown prince's concubine Cao Pi.
After Cao Pi became emperor, he trusted Sima Yi very much and entrusted him with important tasks. When he was dying, he appointed Sima Yi as an auxiliary minister to assist Emperor Cao Rong of Wei Ming.
After Cao Rong's death, Cao Fang, the eight-year-old king of Qi, succeeded to the throne. As Sima Yi's status grew higher and his power grew, he gradually showed his bloodthirsty fangs.
At that time, Cao Shuang, a child of the clan, and Sima Yi were equal in power and opposed each other.
In order to confuse Cao Shuang, Sima Yi pretended to be sick and did not go to court. Cao Shuang tried many times, but Sima Yi always behaved old and frail, which made Cao Shuang completely let down his guard.
In 249 AD, the young emperor Cao Fang paid a visit to the tomb of Emperor Wei Ming in Gaopingling, and the Cao Shuang brothers and their cronies went with him.
Sima Yi took the opportunity to order in the name of the Empress Dowager to close the gates of Luoyang, led his troops to occupy the arsenal, and raised troops to control the capital regardless of Cao Fang's safety.
At that time, Cao Shuang had the card of Cao Fang, the son of heaven, in his hand, and if he coerced Cao Fang to order the princes, he might not have no chance of winning.
At that time, Sima Yi promised that Cao Shuang's net worth was safe, and he could enjoy wealth forever. So, Cao Shuang threw down his saber and surrendered, thinking that he could still be a rich man.
Unexpectedly, after Cao Shuang returned home, Sima Yi reversed himself and put him under house arrest. and fabricated the charge that Cao Shuang wanted to rebel, and exterminated Cao Shuang and his cronies all three clans, implicating more than 5,000 people.
In this way, Sima Yi ignored Cao Cao's kindness, and ignored Cao Pi and Cao Ei's feelings of trust, and wiped out the power of the Cao clan in the court, and Sima was able to completely grasp the power and control the Cao Wei dynasty.
If Sima Yi's white-eyed wolf is just cutting the grass and eradicating the roots for the sake of power, the struggle for power is inevitably full of cunning and ruthlessness, such a situation has happened many times in history, and it is not considered to have broken the moral bottom line.
His son Sima Zhao broke the shackles of orthodoxy and committed such a bad act as "killing the king" that was not tolerated by the world.
Sima Zhao, like his father Sima Yi, is accustomed to being fake and dignified on the surface. In fact, his desire for the throne can no longer be concealed.
In 258 AD, Cao Chao, the fourth emperor of Cao Wei, was forced to issue an edict to crown Sima Zhao as the Duke of Jin, add nine tins, set up the Jin Kingdom, and Sima Zhao resigned nine times.
Two years later, Cao Chao was forced to issue an edict again to add Sima Zhao as the Duke of Jin, and add Jiuxi, but Sima Zhao resigned again and did not accept it.
Sima Zhao didn't seem to be greedy for power at all, and his acting skills reached the level of an actor.
Cao Chao saw that the authoritarian day was gone, and he could not be the master of national affairs, so he was uneasy, and he was often worried about being deposed and humiliated, and planned to convene hundreds of officials in the palace to depose Sima Zhao.
Unexpectedly, the matter was revealed, and Cao Chao had no choice but to lead troops to defeat Sima Zhao. Sima Zhao had already bribed Cao Chao's confidant Cheng Ji, and Cheng Ji took advantage of Cao Chao's unpreparedness and stabbed Cao Chao to death with a sharp blade from behind.
Sima Zhao was shocked when he heard the news, and he fell to the ground and said, "What should people in the world say about me!"
Subsequently, he blamed Chengji for all the crimes and beheaded him. Cheng Ji pleaded not guilty, ran to the roof naked, scolded loudly, and was shot by the sergeant.
Sima Zhao's personality is very pretending, obviously he wants to seize the power of the Cao family, but he pretends to be harmless to people and animals, as if he is a righteous gentleman. Anyone who has watched "Smiling Proud Jianghu" is familiar with Yue Buqun, and the two have the same idea.
In the dynasties before this, the emperor's position was either the emperor's concession, or the opponents competed for the world, and the winner won.
As a close minister of the emperor, killing the emperor to seize power completely violated the idea of "loyalty to the king" propagated in orthodox education throughout history. For the world's greatness, it really broke through the bottom line of the people at that time, which is despicable.
After Sima Zhao killed the king, he made Cao Huang, a son of the Cao family, a puppet son of heaven. Of course, the actual power is all in the hands of Sima Zhao.
Sima Zhao's son Sima Yan further exerted this disdain, on the basis of his father's murder of the monarch and seizure of power, in 266 AD, he forced the Wei Yuan Emperor Cao Huan Chanrang, enthroned as the emperor, and named the country as Jin, known as the Western Jin Dynasty in history.
From Sima Yi, Sima Zhao to Sima Yan, the three Simas who made the greatest contribution to the founding of the Jin Dynasty were very cunning and dark, did not keep their promises, did not value kindness, and did everything for the sake of power, which violated orthodoxy, so they have always been criticized.
And the ruins they caused led to the Jin Dynasty, which was established by the Sima family, which became the darkest dynasty in Chinese history.
The Jin Dynasty was only purified for 25 years under the reign of Sima Yan, Emperor Wu of the Jin Dynasty. After his death, in the absence of the threat of external enemies, the royal family began to stage a drama of self-destruction.
The protagonists of this drama are Sima Zhen, Emperor Hui of the Jin Dynasty, who has a very low IQ, and Jia Nanfeng, the ugly queen who likes to do politics, and the supporting roles are the princes of the eight Sima families.
Sima Zhen was made the crown prince when he was 9 years old, but his IQ was very low, and to put it bluntly, he was an idiot.
The reason why Sima Yan chose him as the crown prince was because he was very optimistic about Sima Zhen's son Sima Shu. thinks that he has the qualifications of a king, and hopes to pass the throne to Sima Shu through Sima Zhen.
However, the stupid son is really incapable of handling the government, in fact, the real behind-the-scenes boss is Sima Zhen's wife Jia Nanfeng.
In 290 AD, Sima Yan died. In order to seize power, Jia Nanfeng secretly plotted to let Sima Liang, the king of Runan, and Sima Wei, the king of Chu, fight against each other.
She took the opportunity to kill the two princes of the Sima family and seized the power of the court. What she didn't expect was that ten years later, she was designed by the same means and was forced to drink a glass of gold dust wine and die with a whimper.
In 301 AD, Sima Lun, the king of Langya, deposed Emperor Hui of Jin and established himself as emperor.
Sima Lun's behavior aroused the dissatisfaction of the other kings, and Sima Yin, the king of Qi, Sima Hao, the king of Hejian, and Sima Ying, the king of Chengdu, took the opportunity to jointly raise troops to attack Sima Lun.
Nearly 100,000 people died in the war. Sima Lun was defeated and was given gold dust wine and died.
Subsequently, the three princes started another round of power grabbing scuffle, during which Sima Yue, the king of the East China Sea, also participated, and they fought in a ping-pong fight. 100,000 words omitted here......
In 306 AD, Sima Yue killed seven Sima princes, poisoned Emperor Hui of Jin and set up a puppet emperor Emperor Sima Chi of Jin Huai.
It began in 291 A.D. and ended in 306 A.D. The 15-year-long civil strife of the Sima family tossed the Jin Dynasty, which had just been established for a short time, into a miasma.
In these civil strife, it can be seen that it almost replicated all kinds of unbearable things when the Sima family usurped the throne, with brothers killing each other, killing kings and seizing the throne, and treachery. It is vividly expressed in the "Rebellion of the Eight Kings".
I have to say that the root cause of these civil strife is still the unscrupulous means used by the Sima family to usurp the throne, and future generations will follow suit.
In 316 AD, the Western Jin Dynasty fell.
Don't think that the "Rebellion of the Eight Kings" is turbulent enough, in fact, this is just the prelude to the chaos in the world. Compared with the later period of the "Five Hu Chaohua", the "Rebellion of the Eight Kings" can be called "a small thing".
After the fall of the Western Jin Dynasty, in 318 AD, a man named Sima Rui of the Sima family jumped out and re-established the Jin Dynasty in Nanjing, known in history as the Eastern Jin Dynasty.
The Eastern Jin Dynasty only occupied half of the southern part of the original Western Jin Dynasty. It turned out that half of the territory in the north of the Western Jin Dynasty had already poured into a large group of various ethnic minorities.
At that time, the minority was known as the Hu people. There are five main ethnic minorities who migrated inward, Xiongnu, Qiang, Xianbei, Di and Qian, so they are called Wuhu.
Different ethnic groups have their own policies, and over the course of more than a hundred years, the Hu and Han people have built dozens of chaotic states, strong or weak, large or small.
These different nations and countries are constantly rebelling, building, annexing, and fighting...... The situation is very chaotic. Therefore, this period is also known as the "Five Hu Chaohua" by later generations.
In troubled times, human life is like a mustard. The common people have suffered, and they have been purged over and over again.
The unarmed Han Chinese, in particular, are in a situation no less miserable than hell. There is nothing but death, death, death......
When the Hu people saw the Han people, they raped, killed, and plundered. They even used the captives as military rations, naming them "two-legged sheep", meaning sheep-like animals that walked on two legs and could eat meat at will.
This period was unimaginably dark, and the Han people were almost in danger of extinction.
In 439 A.D., the Northern Wei Emperor of the Xianbei tribe Tuoba Tao unified the north, ending the 135-year era of "Wuhu Chaohua".
When the north was in chaos and the fighting was dark, the Eastern Jin Dynasty controlled by the Sima family in the south mainly did two things: the Northern Expedition and the Woli Fight.
The emperor of the Eastern Jin Dynasty was either deposed, or became a puppet, or was killed, it was like a marquee.
If you want to say that there has never been a sensible emperor among them, that is Sima Shao, the emperor of the Jin Ming Dynasty.
Emperor Ming of Jin heard about his family history, from the time when Emperor Xuan of Jin Sima Yi started his business, he talked about Emperor Wen of Jin Dynasty Sima Zhao killing Cao Chao. After hearing this, Sima Shao hid his face and lay down on the bed, saying, "If it is like what you said, how can the Jin Dynasty last long!"
It can be seen that Emperor Jin Ming is still a little ashamed. He was ashamed of what his ancestors had done. The reason why the Jin Dynasty was turbulent and morally degraded was not unrelated to the unscrupulous seizure of power by the ancestors, which is indeed a sentence.
Following the idiot emperor Sima Zhen of Emperor Hui of Jin, another idiot emperor also appeared in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Emperor Sima Dezong of Jin An.
Emperor Jin An not only stuttered and spoke poorly, but was so stupid that he couldn't even distinguish between winter and summer, and even couldn't take care of himself.
The actual controller of the government was the powerful minister Liu Yu. Liu Yujun's military achievements are impressive, just like Sima Yi and Sima Zhao back then, with a noble status and great power.
History is always strikingly similar, in 419 AD, Liu Yu assigned his subordinates to strangle Emperor An of Jin and appointed his brother Sima Dewen as emperor, that is, Emperor Gong of Jin.
Emperor Gong of Jin was only an emperor for half a year. In 420 AD, he was deposed as the king of Lingling. Liu Yu openly usurped the throne and established Liu Song. This scene is strikingly similar to Sima Yan's usurpation, and I have to say that you always have to pay it back when you come out.
After Emperor Gong of Jin was deposed, he was terrified day by day, for fear that Liu Yu would take his life.
In order to protect her husband's life, Empress Chu accompanied Emperor Jin Gong every day.
In fact, Liu Yu was indeed playing this idea, and his subordinate Zhang Wei once brought a bottle of poisonous wine to kill Sima Dewen.
Zhang Wei couldn't bear to murder the old master, and it was difficult to explain when he went back, so he sighed: "If you want to poison the lord and let yourself live, it's better to die!" He drank poisoned wine on the road and committed suicide.
Liu Yu was furious and found an opportunity to kill the infant babies of Emperor Gong of Jin and Empress Chu.
Subsequently, he sent Empress Chu's brother to pretend to visit Empress Chu and lure her away.
Liu Yu's cronies took the opportunity to climb over the wall to enter Emperor Jin Gong's room and put poisoned wine in front of him.
Emperor Gong of Jin shook his head and refused: "In Buddhism, it is said that a person who commits suicide cannot be reincarnated again. ”
The soldiers pressed him to the bed, covered his face with a quilt, and suffocated him.
Subsequently, Liu Yu opened a killing ring, almost slaughtering the Sima family's clan, and almost the entire clan was wiped out.
The history of the Sima family's ascendancy is already very disgraceful, and the history of their rule is a profound disaster to the common people.
Whoever talks about the history of the Jin Dynasty will sigh: I'd rather be a dog in a prosperous world than a person in a troubled world. Then he couldn't wait to scold the Sima family.
The ruthlessness and viciousness of the Sima family when they usurped the throne set a very despicable example for future generations. caused chaos within the family and turmoil in the government. It has also caused the moral decline of the entire society, and all kinds of appalling evil phenomena have appeared.
How can such a family, which has repeatedly broken through the bottom line of morality and fought for power and profit by unscrupulous means, not go to the road of destruction?