In 184 AD, the Han Ling Emperor, who was still floating in the West Garden ShangHai, did not know that this big ship was about to sink. Due to the long-term implementation of the party and eunuch politics, the sale of officials and knights, coupled with natural disasters, plagues continued. At this time, the "Taiping Dao", which had been widely spread among the people, had developed and grown, and in this year Zhangjiao began a mighty "Yellow Turban Uprising".
Although after more than ten years of preparation, the main force was suppressed only nine months after the uprising. As the saying goes, "a skinny camel is bigger than a horse", and under the suppression of Cao Cao and other fierce generals, the uprising failed.
However, in order to quell the war as soon as possible, the eastern Han generals were decentralized, so that ambitious generals or officials supported the army and respected themselves, which opened the prelude to the warlord melee at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and planted a distant cause for the separation of the three kingdoms. Under the blow of the peasant uprising, the decaying Eastern Han Dynasty survived in name only and eventually came to an end.
This was followed by the Three Kingdoms period, which lasted for more than 60 years. In 190, the centralized system of the Han Dynasty collapsed, warlords rose up, and the world was in chaos. By the Battle of Chibi in 208, Cao Cao was defeated by Sun Liu's allied forces, and from then on, the prototype of the Three Kingdoms was laid. In 220 AD, the Han Dynasty minister Cao Pi forced the Han Emperor Chan to give up the throne and set the capital at Luoyang, with the state name "Wei", known in history as Cao Wei, marking the official end of the Han Dynasty era. In 221, Liu Bei was proclaimed emperor, with the capital at Chengdu, and the history was called Shu Han. In 229, Sun Quan was proclaimed emperor, the capital was Jianye, the state name was "Wu", and the history was called Eastern Wu.
In the following decades, Zhuge Liang and Jiang Wei of the Shu Han Dynasty led the Northern Expedition against Cao Wei many times, but they never changed the pattern of the three-legged standing. Until 280, the Western Jin Dynasty destroyed Eastern Wu and unified the whole country. At this point, the three families returned to Jin.
As a short-lived dynasty with only half a century, although after ending the division, it created the "Rule of Taikang". But behind this prosperity, there are hidden evils everywhere. For example, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, Emperor Wu of Jin, as the founding emperor, came from a family family, and his family has long formed a huge group of magnates after long-term development. During his reign, he took various measures to protect the interests of the gentry.
These measures of the Western Jin Dynasty undoubtedly gave the clan landlords more preferential treatment politically and economically, but the privileges of the shi clan landlords were too great, resulting in a dark political style, bribery and bribery.
Although Sima Yan strictly forbade extravagance and waste, in the face of the growing development and growth of the family clan, the prevalence of corruption and luxury was only a matter of time. With the prevalence of extravagance, the royal family gradually joined in, so that later bureaucrats not only became extravagant, but also openly robbed and killed people. For various reasons, the causes of the rebellion of the Eight Kings and the disaster of Yongjia were laid.
In 291 AD, as the contradictions escalated, the 15-year-long "Rebellion of the Eight Kings" broke out. In the past 15 years, these princes and nobles have constantly fought with each other, and the land of the Central Plains has been full of wolf smoke. The war spread from the capital Luoyang to all parts of the north and south, and the scale was getting bigger and bigger, and the population was rapidly declining. In order to escape the war, a large number of ordinary people became displaced people, who accounted for one-tenth of the population of the Western Jin Dynasty.
Most of the long-term wars and chaos occurred in the richest areas of the Western Jin Dynasty, when the six prefectures of You, Hehe, and Qin were "exhausted of grass and trees", and production was almost completely paralyzed. So much so that Sima Yue, the king of the East China Sea, who won the victory of the "Rebellion of the Eight Kings", got a devastated and devastated country.
Sima Yue, who held great power, even wantonly slaughtered dissidents, and the Western Jin Dynasty, which was already in ruins, fell apart even more. This was something that Sima Yi's father and son, who had suffered for most of their lives, could not have imagined. However, what their father and son could not imagine was that the "Rebellion of the Eight Kings" was not the most "painful" period of the Western Jin Dynasty.
In 309 AD, the Xiongnu Nobles of the Liu clan launched a ferocious attack on the capital Luoyang. The "Yongjia Rebellion" opened the curtain, although several times resisted Liu's attack, but there were always some "pig teammates" behind the back to "backstabbing" the Western Jin. At this juncture, Sima Yue completely disregarded the capital and led 200,000 people and ministers of culture and military affairs to hide in Xuchang.
As the saying goes, "the wicked have their own wicked grinding", and the shameless Sima Yue was destroyed by Liu's army in Kuxian Before he reached Xuchang, Sima Yue also died in fear. Those scribes, who were known for their "temperament and style", were even more exposed at this time, and they wanted to sell themselves to the trust, but the final result was to be buried alive and die.
At this point, Luoyang fell, and the center of the dynasty shifted to Chang'an. With the fall of youzhou, an important town in the north, the Western Jin Dynasty was even worse. When Liu Shi besieged Chang'an, the grinding and rubbing of reinforcements from all over the world and watching from the sidelines became the last straw that crushed the camel of the Western Jin Dynasty.
In 316 AD, with the depletion of grain and grass in Chang'an City, the desperate Emperor Huan of Jin, bare-chested, passed on the title of Guo Yuxi out of the city and surrendered, giving a miserable end to the "personable" Western Jin Dynasty.
It is not so much that the Western Jin Dynasty died from the Liu clan as it was that it died at its own "work". From the princes and nobles down to the family clans, in the luxurious life, they gradually forgot the "blood of Sima Yi's father and son" and forgot that the Western Jin Dynasty was not easy to come by.