"Why don't you eat meat" is a famous saying of Sima Zheng, the Emperor of Jinhui, who is known as the Foolish Emperor, that there is a famine in the world, and the ministers tell him that the people have no food to eat, so let him hurry up to relieve the disaster and find a way, he very naively asked everyone: "The people have no food to eat, why don't they eat meat porridge?" "Leave a big joke.
Sima Zheng's joke was more than that, once the frog in the pond in the imperial garden called, and he also asked the eunuch next to him: "Is this naruto official, selfish?" "It's about asking whether the frog is state-owned or private." There were wise men who squeezed the eunuchs out of nowhere, and who took off their wisdom, replied, "In the official land for the official, in the private land for the private." "What is called in a state-owned place is state-owned, and what is called in a private place is private."
This is all Sima Zheng's joke, so later generations have decided that Sima Zheng is a foolish emperor, the one with the lowest IQ among the emperors of all dynasties.
In fact, Sima Yanli also struggled with this son when he was the crown prince, and finally decided to test this stupid son. But Sima Yan is also an asshole, and the examination papers are not sent to proctor, which is ming telling you that you can cheat. So Sima Zheng's ugly and vicious daughter-in-law Jia Nanfeng, who still had many eyes, immediately understood the spirit and found a gunman for the stupid boy. After the gunman answered the questionnaire, there was someone who understood, and Zhang Hong told her that with the brain of our highness, we must hand over this scroll, you look at the side of the report, the emperor just wants you to cheat and can't look at it, our highness is stupid, but we can't take Your Majesty as a fool, and we can't fool around. Jia Nanfeng agreed, and let Zhang Hong write a fairly passable article, and then let his stupid husband copy it. Painting a tiger according to a cat is naturally not very similar, it is estimated that there are typos, missing words, and a lot of sentences that are not smooth, but Sima Yan looks at it, first of all, this is like the level of his own son, and secondly, it is barely that look, get it, just set him up. In fact, it is just a self-deception.
For this "why not eat meat" joke, I think I should say a few words for this stupid boy. It is true that his brain is not bright, but the reason why we laugh at him is from our own point of view, because we have a clear understanding of famine and no food, and we know what is going on. However, Sima Zheng has been dressed and fed since he was a child, and his understanding of rice is rice, not the food collectively. So in his mind, there is no rice to eat, that is to eat tired, change mouth, drink porridge, in his mind is logical. Moreover, he grew up in the deep palace, grew up in the hands of women, and did not have an understanding of the outside world.
Of course, in addition to the emperors who fought in the past dynasties, most of the successors were also like this. But you look at this growing environment of Sima Zheng. His father, according to the evaluation of the Book of Jin, before the unification of the whole country, was still considered to be diligent and generous, but after destroying the State of Wu, he put the five thousand beautiful women of Sun Hao's harem here and immediately began to degenerate. There are more than ten thousand women in the harem, and every day they are busy riding a sheep cart around the harem, and the sheep cart is parked at the door of the beautiful woman, where they spend the night, who has kung fu to manage their sons. His daughter-in-law is also a person with a strong desire to control, every day he thinks about how to squeeze her husband in the palm of his hand, read the "Book of Jin, Huidi Ji" mentioned her many times as a "correction", nor is she a character who teaches her husband and son, the more brainless the husband, the better. His mother is not a virtuous queen, judging from her mother's family's struggle for power, it is also a matter of taking care of this aspect, son... That's it. There is such an environment, that is, to appoint a teacher for him, he will not teach too hard, plus he himself is really stupid, learning things will not be fast, and finally asked out the sentence "why not eat meat".
We joke that he actually failed to think differently, always taking it for granted from our point of view that he should know what the famine was all about, not putting himself in his shoes and thinking about it from his growing environment, his point of view, so he thought he was a fool. Twenty years ago, there was a TV series "Kangxi Micro Service Private Interview", where most of the plot cannot be remembered. But I remember a passage where Kangxi asked the chancellor what the displaced people were, was it pitiful? The ministers began to imitate the misery of the displaced people in the Golden Palace, and Kangxi was touched when he saw it. Before there was no concept of fleeing the wilderness, he also grew up in the deep palace, living conditions are very favorable, can not empathize. Even the Kangxi Emperor, who is known by many as the Wise Divine Martial, is like this, a brain that is already slow, and the growth environment is not conducive to learning and growing, for him to ask this sentence, I think it is not new at all, and it does not mean that he is stupid.
And the frog he asked was "for the official, for the selfish?" It shows that he is still quite willing to use his brain to think, probably because he heard the concept of official and private, and he did not understand it clearly, so he asked this question, and the real fool could not ask this sentence, and would not have the idea of asking this sentence.
And later, this stupid boy was displaced in the Rebellion of the Eight Kings and was almost killed, but it was Ji Shao who sacrificed himself to cover him and saved him. Later, Sima Zheng was saved, and his robe was stained with the blood left by Ji Shao when he was killed. The next look, the robe is dirty, you change one, wash this one for you. He said a word: "This servant is bleeding, don't go." "This means that this is the blood that Ji Shao shed to save me, don't wash me, keep it as a souvenir." He actually understood everything, knew that Ji Shao had sacrificed his life to save him, knew that he had to remember the kindness of others, could such a person be a pure fool? Know the good and the bad, have feelings and righteousness, and be very simple.
Returning to the proposition of this article, of course, it must be admitted that Sima Zheng's brain is really unhappy, not bright enough, and he is a stupid person, but he is not a fool. Pure fools and stupid people are not a concept, such stupid people I think you may have encountered in your life experience, learning is very difficult, very hard to keep up. In the work, it is also slow to talk and do things, and can only do some basic work or not very complicated physical labor.
Of course, such a person is not suitable to be an emperor, but in a state of political repression, imperial despotism, such a person becomes the supreme leader of the country, because he has a group of conspirators around him who point to his political ambitions and push him into that position, and he himself suffers. His so-called jokes are not laughable, but they are actually very sad. Such an emperor, surrounded by a group of suspicious people, cannot not toss, and the lives of the common people will not be better. Sure enough, the Western Jin Dynasty soon fell into the Rebellion of the Eight Kings, which ended in more than thirty years, and China fell into a period of great turmoil for more than two hundred years.