Why did Jia Nanfeng, the ugly empress of the Western Jin Dynasty, control the imperial court?

As the saying goes, "Love the Red Mountain is more love for beauty", throughout the Chinese dynasties, those women who have been deeply favored by the emperor, regardless of whether their birth is noble or lowly, all have the appearance of falling into the country. However, when Emperor Hui of the Western Jin Dynasty reigned, he lived an "ugly and black" woman as an empress, and this ugly-looking woman was able to use political iron fists and superhuman scheming in the Xipu Palace, which was full of hearts and horns, and gradually controlled the power of the Western Jin Dynasty in her own hands, which is undoubtedly worth thinking about for posterity.

Although Jia Nanfeng looked ugly, his father Jia Chong was the founding father of the Western Jin Dynasty, and with the support of his father, Jia Nan carved it for the crown prince Sima Zheng and was crowned as a princess. When he was a princess concubine, Jia Nanfeng was treacherous and vicious, and even did things that directly stabbed the eldest son and other pregnant concubines. Emperor Wu of Jin was extremely angry when he heard about this, and he wanted to depose her, but his cousin's hot soul only said to him: "Your Majesty forgot Jia GongjianYe?" The matter of abolishing concubines was not resolved, so it can be seen that Jia Ke did have a solid position and a prominent position in the Western Jin Dynasty, which also laid a solid foundation for Jia Nanfeng's future power to fall to the opposition.

Jia Nanfeng, who was proficient in power, also made a lot of efforts in the succession of the crown prince Sima Zheng. For example, when Emperor Wu of Jin learned that outsiders were rumored to be "stupid as a pig", he was very worried, so he came up with a set of questions to test the prince in order to decide whether to depose him. The prince panicked when he saw the question, and did not know how to answer, Jia Nanfeng played a big role in this time, she found a slightly literate eunuch for the prince to answer this set of test questions.

After Emperor Wu of Jin read the answer sheet, although he felt that the answer given by the prince was too mediocre, it was not "stupid as a pig", so he dismissed the idea of deposing the prince. Sima Zheng was able to preserve the position of crown prince with the help of Jia Nanfeng, and since then, he has naturally admired her very much and obeyed her words.

In 290 AD, Emperor Wu of Jin died, Sima Biao succeeded to the throne, and was known as Emperor Hui of Jin, and Jia Nanfeng was naturally made empress. The emperor was incompetent and cowardly, and the imperial power was so tempting, so the only thing Jia Nanfeng wanted to do to become an empress was to control the power of the Western Jin Dynasty.

However, when Emperor Hui of Jin ascended the throne, the power of the imperial government was monopolized by Empress Dowager Yang Zhi's father, The Empress Dowager Yang Jun, and Jia Nanfeng was unable to intervene at all, which naturally made her jealous of her pursuit of power, and an irreconcilable contradiction was formed between the two. After a series of open and secret struggles, Jia Nanfeng finally, with the help of the Jin Dynasty and the princes, borrowed the hands of Sima Liang, the king of Runan, and Sima Wei, the king of Chu, in March 291, and killed Yang Jun, his clan and thousands of his henchmen, thus removing the biggest obstacle on her way to seizing power.

Subsequently, Jia Nanfeng took the empress dowager and cut her down to a commoner on trumped-up charges of treason, imprisoned her in Jin, and also drove away all the palace women who served beside him, did not give food for eight days, and starved the Western Jin empress dowager alive. After this coup, Emperor Hui of Jin paid homage to Sima Liang, the king of Runan, as the dazai, and took charge of the imperial government together with Wei Jin's consul Shang Shushi. Therefore, Jia Nanfeng, who was bent on power and opposition, pointed the spearhead at them again. In June 291, Jia Nanfeng directed another historical farce in which "The Correctional Decree made King Wei of Chu kill Dazai, Wang Liang of Runan, Taibao, and Gongwei Ji of Ziyang". Subsequently, Sima Wei was thrown out by her as a scapegoat and killed on the charge of "killing the minister without authorization".

In this way, Jia Nanfeng killed all the way over, cleanly killed the important officials of the imperial court one by one, thus monopolizing power, and Emperor Hui of Jin naturally became a puppet emperor.

Although she already held heavy power, Jia Nanfeng still had a heart disease, because she only gave birth to four princesses for Emperor Hui of Jin, so Sima Tong, born of Xie Cairen, became the eldest son of Emperor Hui of Jin and was made crown prince, Jia Nanfeng was worried that the future prince would succeed to the throne and would not be good for herself, in order to achieve the purpose of long-term control of the government, she first staged a farce of "cheating and having a body, and the internal manuscripts are production tools", and then secretly took her brother-in-law Han Shou's son Han Weizu into the palace for adoption, in 299 AD, Jia Nanfeng, who felt that the timing was ripe, plotted to depose the prince. He then made Han Weizu crown prince.

At this point, Jia Nanfeng eliminated all obstacles. However, history did not give her much leisure, and after the deposing of the former crown prince Sima Tong, Jia Nanfeng still refused to let him go and sent someone to assassinate him, which eventually led to the resentment of the Jin clan and also provoked the rebellion of the kings of the clan. In April 300, Sima Gu the Prince of Qi and Sima Lun the Prince of Zhao led soldiers to the palace, demoted Jia Nanfeng to the rank of Shuren, and killed dozens of his henchmen. Five days later, in the golden city where Jia Nanfeng starved the empress dowager to death, the emissaries sent by King Zhao threatened her to drink a glass of golden crumb wine, thus ending her life.

Jia Nanfeng summoned the kings of the clan to the court to kill Yang Jun, laying a hidden danger for the subsequent "Rebellion of the Eight Kings". After Jia Nanfeng's death, the Western Jin Dynasty began to kill each other, which not only seriously damaged the vitality of the Jin Dynasty, but also plunged Chinese history into a 300-year-long great division.