Meng Guan and others arrested Yang Jun's younger brothers Yang Jue and Yang Ji overnight, as well as Duan Guang, Liu Yu, and many other members of the same party, all of whom attacked the three tribes and killed thousands of people in one go.
Empress Dowager Yang was also deposed as a Shuren (庶人) for the crime of "Trying to Endanger the Society". His mother Pei Shi should be beheaded according to her sins, and Yang Himself cut off her hair and bowed down, and after her cousin's daughter-in-law Jia, she called herself a concubine and begged for her mother's life. Of course, Empress Jia did not allow it, and after killing Yang Jun's wife in front of this "mother-in-law", she imprisoned Empress Yang, sent people to cut off food and drink, and starved this gorgeous beauty alive.
Portrait of Empress Dowager Yang
According to the inertial thinking that "we support the enemy against us, and we oppose those who the enemy supports", Sima Liang, the king of Runan, Sima Wei, the king of Chu, and Sima Miao, the king of Dong'an (who was promoted to king because of his merits), all entered the dynasty and held great power, and Taibao Baohuan was also appointed as a Lu Shang Shu.
Empress Jia Nanfeng's brother Jia Mo, her cousin Guo Zhang, and her nephew Jia Mi also ascended to heaven and entered the imperial government.
Sima Liang, the king of Runan, in order to please the hearts of the people, criticized Yang Jun's merits and indiscriminately made 1,081 people a marquis, and offered the most indiscriminate rewards.
Portrait of Sima Liang, king of Runan
Fu Xian persuaded Sima Liang: "The present seal of the seal has shaken the heavens and the earth, and has not existed since ancient times." If you are rewarded without merit, then people will not be happy with the misfortune of the country, and it is an infinite disaster! Fu Xian also said that Yang Jun himself was precisely because of the power of the lord of the earthquake and the appointment of relatives that he caused the catastrophe of extermination, and Sima Liang's doubling down was a very dangerous end.
Advice is against the ear, and Sima Liang does not accept it.
Less than half a month after the great chaos, Sima Liang, the king of Runan, demoted him to Daifang County for the crime of "wanting to use the government" of Dong'an.
Portrait of Sima Xuan, King of Dong'an
Sima Wei, the king of Chu, was very conceited because of his great contribution to the attack on Yang Jun, coupled with his youthful vigor and good martial arts, no one paid attention to it. Therefore, when Sima Liang, the king of Runan, and Tai Baohuan, who were assisting the government, became disgusted with him and wanted to seize his military power, they agreed to disperse Sima Wei and the princes in the capital to return to the country.
Sima Wei was naturally resentful, and his chiefs Shi Gongsun Hong and Sheren (attendant officials) Qisheng persuaded the duke to move closer to Jia Hou, and sent the general Li Zhao (the one who initiated Yang Jun's initiation) to Jia Nanfeng to report that King Runan and Wei Wan wanted to depose Emperor Hui and support others.
Jia Hou portrait
Empress Jia had always held a grudge because Wei Wan, in front of Emperor Wu of Jin, had said that Sima Zheng could not succeed to the throne, and coupled with the high reputation of Sima Liang and Wei Wan, the kings of Runan, they were not allowed to specialize in government and politics, and they had long been itching to get rid of them.
When sima wei, the king of Chu, approved this complaint, Jia Hou asked Emperor Hui to make a hand edict to Sima Wei:
"If the King of Runan and taibao want to abolish the throne, the king of Chu may proclaim that the three kings of Huainan, Changsha, and Chengdu will be relieved of the (Sima) Liang and (Wei) officials."
Portrait of Sima Wei, King of Chu
In the middle of the night, the eunuchs of the Little Yellow Gate secretly entered the Chu Palace and gave sima Wei an edict.
Sima Wei also hesitated at first, not knowing the authenticity of the edict, and wanted to enter the palace to repeat it, but the eunuch of Xiaohuangmen urged: "The matter is afraid of leaking, and the original intention of the secret edict is not." ”
Sima Wei, the king of Chu, felt that his words were reasonable, and wanted to take revenge, so he immediately mobilized his own army to wear armor and raise guns, and surrounded Sima Liang, the king of Runan, and Taibao.
Wei Ou Stills
Without doing one thing or two, Sima Wei corrected himself, and the Thirty-sixth Army inside and outside Luoyang was controlled by himself.
Overhearing the siege of the palace by large soldiers, Sima Liang, the king of Runan, was horrified. His bodyguard commander Li Long asked for orders to lead the guards to resist the battle, but Sima Liang did not listen.
Soon, Sima Wei's soldiers climbed the wall and shouted, and there was a lot of noise. Sima Liang stood in the atrium, and in shock, he asked loudly, "I have no two hearts, why is it?" If there is an edict, is it visible? ”
Of course, Gongsun Hong and others would not read him the edict and urge the troops to attack.
Sima Liang's chief shi Liu Huai advised: "They cannot come up with an edict, so it can be seen that it must be a treacherous plot, and there are many elite soldiers and strong generals in the palace, so they can try their best to resist the battle." ”
Sima Liang has always belonged to the kind of people who hesitate to deal with things and do not listen.
The king of Chu rushed in, captured the king of Runan, and surrounded him under the chariot and placed him in close custody.
King Runan sighed, "My loyalty to the emperor can show the world!" ”
Portrait of Emperor Hui of Jin
In the summer, the sun was shining early, the sun was poisonous, and the guards knew that the old prince was innocent, and someone used an instrument fan to shade him. Until noon, no one dared to come up to him and harm him.
When Sima Wei, the king of Chu, heard the news, he hurriedly ordered: "Those who can behead Sima Liang will be rewarded with a thousand horses!" ”
The rebels were greedy and greedy, and immediately swarmed, with a thousand guns and a hundred blades, and stabbed and slashed at the flesh of this honest prince, "the sideburns, ears and nose were all destroyed", and his son Sima Yanming was also killed at the same time.