Sima Rui's grandfather, Sima Ling, was the son of Sima Yi, and although he was a son, he was also deeply loved by Sima Yi.
After Sima Yi launched the Coup d'état at Gaopingling, Cao Wei's real power was officially in the hands of the Sima family, and Sima Ling was ordered to guard the town of Yicheng. Yicheng was the capital city of Cao Cao when he was king of Wei, and it was the gathering place of the Wei royal family. Sima Ling's ability to guard this place shows the importance that Sima Yi attaches to him.
After the founding of the Western Jin Dynasty, Sima Ling was made the King of Langya and led an army to destroy the State of Wu.
Compared with his grandfather Sima Ling, Sima Rui wants to be more mediocre, and Sima Rui's life can be divided into three stages.
If you tell the fifteen-year-old Sima Rui, who has just inherited the throne, that he has the weather of the Son of Heaven, he may be frightened and send you directly to the official. He was such a cautious person, no soldier and no power, he just wanted to stay as far away from the conspiracy as possible. His circle of friends was very clean, and only one Wang Dao had close contact with him. However, he has an dishonest neighbor Sima Yue, and with this person around, he is destined not to be very ordinary.
In the second year of his succession to the throne, the "Rebellion of the Eight Kings", which lasted for 16 years, broke out.
Obviously, Sima Rui, who was "high and hanging high without concern", was not among the eight kings, but he was still involved because he had a "good neighbor".
Sima Yue took control of Emperor Hui of Jin and issued an order in the name of the emperor to attack Sima Ying, and the 29-year-old Sima Rui was among them, but as a result, he was defeated and captured, and Sima Yue took advantage of the chaos to run back to the East China Sea. Sima Rui did not have such a good life, did not say that he was a prisoner, and watched his uncle Sima Sui be killed for offending Sima Ying, Sima Rui was afraid of tiring himself, and fled overnight and went straight to Luoyang.
After the Rebellion of the Eight Kings, Sima Yue succeeded in taking power. However, Sima Yue himself did not have absolute appeal, so Sima Yue began to contact the Wang clan of Langya, and under the operation of the Wang clan, Sima Rui was able to move south to stabilize Jianye.
Sima Rui, who had just arrived in Jianye, was not very comfortable, and the clan of Jiangdong did not look up to the cowardly King of Langya at all, and the only thing that the King of Langya could rely on at this time was Wang Dao.
For this matter, Wang Dao also had a way, he dressed Sima Rui extremely noble, solemn and imposing, such an abnormal move actually won the hearts of a large number of literati.
Although Sima Yue sent Sima Rui south at that time was an inadvertent move and a compromise of Sima Yue, from the result, Sima Rui went south to retain the last strength of the Jin Dynasty, because in 316, the last emperor of the Western Jin Dynasty, Emperor Huan of Jin, had no choice but to surrender, and the Western Jin Dynasty was destroyed.
In 318, Sima Rui officially ascended the throne.
But for Sima Rui, he didn't seem very happy. Sima Rui could have been a happy prince, and his only wish may have been to make the fief a little bigger and eat more, but now that he has ascended to the throne, the key is that the current Jin Dynasty is really a mess.
He sat on the throne and looked around, and the only person he could trust was Wang Dao.
Well, it's up to you.
Sima Rui appointed Wang Dao as chancellor, called him "Zhongfu", and called him his own Xiao He, who at that time called "the king and the horse, sharing the world". When Sima Rui and Wang Dao fell in love with each other, the power of the Langya family also reached its peak.
At this time, Sima Rui began to be unhappy again.
Wang Dao served as the chancellor to control the court, Wang Dun controlled most of the country's military strength, the army was strong and strong, and Sima Rui was an empty shell.
He began to trust Liu Kui, Diao Xie, Dai Yuan, and others, trying to suppress wang's power.
Under Sima Rui's repeated "persecution", Wang Dun launched a coup d'état, and Sima Rui was defeated. Fortunately, Wang Dun did not have the heart to take the throne, but only added officials to himself, but Sima Rui, the emperor, survived in name only.
Soon, Sima Rui died in grief.
Sima Rui had no great ambitions, was forced to raise an army in the chaotic world, and was pushed to the throne by the tide of the times. I thought he was the master of the times, but he couldn't control his own destiny after all.