During the Cao Wei period, Sima Yan of the Sima family at that time usurped power and seized the throne, and then established the Western Jin Dynasty. However, at that time, Sima Yan did not kill the emperor of Cao Wei, but spared the descendant Cao Yi, the king of the fallen kingdom, and also made him the King of Chen Liu.
At the same time, it also gave Cao Huan some power, for example, when he was in the upper dynasty, he did not need to submit to the subordinates. Later, Cao Yi died at the end of his life, and his ending was good.
But then there was such a man, and he also seized power,
Unlike Sima Yan, he did not treat any subjugated monarch kindly, but instead killed them all, even the infants in their infancy.
This person is so fierce, he is Liu Yu.
Liu Yujiangong
During the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Liu Yu relied on his own ability to change from a no-name pawn to a powerful minister.
In his early years, Liu Yu was a grassroots man from a downcast family, and it is said that his ancestors were descendants of Liu Jiao, the younger brother of Liu Bang, the ancestor of Han Gaozu. Liu Jiao was one of the few liu clan members who escaped Lü Yan's murder at that time, and he had been a low-key person before he could survive.
But in Liu Yu's generation, it can already be said that the family has four walls. At a young age, Liu Yu understood that his family was poor, his mother died early, and his father died after marrying his stepmother, so he and his stepmother depended on him. Liu Yu was also known for serving his stepmother in a courteous manner, filial piety and obedience.
Later, Liu Yu, who grew up a little, left his hometown and joined the army and became a petty official who raised horses. Later, he turned to join the army, and after that, he began to build Qigong many times, and Liu Yu's reputation became bigger and bigger, and his officialdom became bigger and bigger.
Later, it was upgraded all the way and stood on the top of the court. With extraordinary courage and scheming, he finally became a minister with great power. The emperor he assisted at that time was a complete fool, and Liu Yu, as a powerful courtier, held all the power.
Usurpation of power
The reigning emperor had no rights and no prestige, which gave Liu Yu a chance, and he gradually developed his own power. At that time, there were many people surrounding Liu Yu in the court, and he himself had great military achievements.
Liu Yu, who was extremely powerful, naturally did not want to be a courtier of a foolish emperor, and began to have the idea of rebellion. He arranged for some assassins to assassinate the Jin Emperor at that time.
But he could not directly ascend to the throne, otherwise he would not be able to block the mouths of the world, and he supported Emperor Jin'an's younger brother Sima Dewen to ascend to the throne and become emperor.
In order to make himself able to become the emperor logically, Liu Yu asked Sima Dewen to write the tricks of the Zen position. Although Sima Dewen was not a fool like his brother, he also understood his situation very well, so he obediently wrote down the edict of the Zen position.
In this way, Liu Yu naturally became the throne of his dreams. Externally, he also claimed to be a descendant of Liu Bang, the ancestor of Han Gao, and it is not known whether he was or not.
And he also adhered to the principle of "allowing others to sleep on the side of the bed", and crowned Sima Dewen as the King of Lingling, so he let Sima Dewen go to his fiefdom.
But he also sent people to monitor Sima Dewen, and later Sima Dewen had a son, who was killed after Liu Yu knew about it. He also wanted to kill Sima Dewen by the way, but it was always not good for the previous monarch to die for no reason. Moreover, Sima Dewen was also extremely careful in his actions, and even his daily diet was not easy to eat and drink.
Later, Liu Yu sent someone to cover Sima Dewen to death with a quilt while Sima Dewen was sleeping. After Sima Dewen's death, Liu Yu's throne also became more and more stable, and later he directly ordered the killing of the Sima family.
Cut the grass and remove the roots
Liu Yudu was already emperor, so why did he order the Sima family to be cut down and rooted out? This has to start from his own situation, when Liu Yu ascended to the throne, he was already a fifty-seven-year-old man, in that era, fifty-seven years old was already considered an advanced age, but Liu Yu's eldest son under his knees was only a teenager.
At this time, if Liu Yu accidentally died, this hard-won Jiangshan would not have to be surrendered and let go again. Moreover, the Sima family is huge, and Liu Yu's side is only a Liu Yu who is more powerful, and the people who suppress the Sima family do not dare to resist, if Liu Yu dies, the Sima family will definitely rise up to resist.
Moreover, he himself was a "royal side branch" of the Han Dynasty's Liu clan relatives, and it would not be good if in the future another person who did not know what Sima was robbed of his own country. This is only one of the reasons, and there is another reason, because Liu Yu is a grassroots emperor.
I don't know if this is the tradition of their Liu family, the emperors at the beginning are quite grassroots. The identity of the grassroots was naturally looked down upon by some so-called "family aristocrats" at that time. If you look down on him, you will not support him, and even though he is powerful, the policies he implements will always not work in the court.
And he was also worried that if someone in the Sima family suddenly stood up in the future, the ministers in the court would begin to support the sima family again. When liu yu was "difficult to defeat with two fists and four hands", it was better to take advantage of the fact that there was no one to succeed the Sima family and directly uproot them to eliminate worries.
There was another reason, and the biggest one, that is, when Liu Yu first killed the emperor, he prepared very suddenly, and things happened too quickly, and everyone had not yet reacted. And he secured his throne almost entirely by killing people.
He only made everyone verbally convinced, and the courtiers at the bottom were still mostly the old departments of the Sima family. Therefore, after Liu Yu ascended to the throne, as long as the sima family's people were still alive for a day, his power would not be stable. For the sake of the stability of the regime, Liu Yu naturally wanted to exterminate the Sima family.
Even if Liu Yu's regime is finally consolidated, but he will eventually die one day, who doesn't want Jiangshan to be "passed on for eternity"?
If the people of the Sima family had been alive, even if Liu Yu's son had succeeded to the throne in the future, someone would have dragged the Sima family to regain power again. Therefore, Liu Yu could not let them have any chance to fight back.
And Liu Yu, this person, is also a tyrant, he has been very shrewd and very capable all his life. For a long time, among the military generals in the Sima family court, only Liu Yu was alone, who was brave and strategic. Whether it was in foreign conquests or civil unrest, Liu Yu made great achievements.
And Liu Yu's seizure of power over the Sima family is also a kind of cause and effect. At that time, Sima Zhao's heart was well known, and after his son Sima Yan succeeded him, he directly became emperor. The Sima family seized the power of the Cao family, and it should be conceivable that one day in the future, their own family's power will also be taken away.
But the Heavenly Dao is good for reincarnation, and the heavens have spared no one. Although Liu Yu seized power from the Sima family in the same way, after several generations of jiangshan, his own descendants could not escape death. Xiao Daocheng, the founding emperor of Southern Qi, also killed Liu Yu's descendants.