(Photo) "Zhuge Liang and the Five Tiger Generals", Nie Xiugong (painted)
When I was young and read the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, I was reluctant to read it again when I read that the Five Tiger Generals of the Shu Kingdom had all withered away. Because I always felt that when the Three Kingdoms arrived, there were basically no one who could fight, and there were only some nameless warriors left on the battlefield. There is a saying in the commentary that is very correct: there is no general in Shu, and Liao Hua is the vanguard. This sentence not only reflects the situation in the Shu state, but also the Wei state and Eastern Wu. Especially in the later stages, not only the top generals died, but even the top strategists died.
In the Shu kingdom after Zhuge Liang's death, even if Jiang Wei was there, it was difficult to return to heaven; eastern Wu was not optimistic, and the old and faint sun Quan sent people to scold lu xun, the governor of his greatest reliance, to death, and there were no elite generals who could only rely on the heavens to survive. However, the Wei side is different, to be precise, the Sima family is different! Because at this time, the State of Wei was no longer surnamed Cao, but became the domain of the Sima family.
Sima Yi not only survived Zhuge Liang's death by surviving for a long time, but also lived six more years than the young Lu Xun. By the time the elderly Sima Yi slowly stood up and looked around, those opponents who had once made him afraid were already dead! But this was not the greatest gift from God to Sima Yi, who gave Sima Yi two good sons, two good sons who were both literate and martial—Sima Shi and Sima Zhao. This is not the end, God even gave Sima Yi a brilliant grandson, Sima Yan. It was this grandson Sima Yan who fulfilled the wishes of three generations of his grandsons, replaced the Cao clan to inherit the State of Wei and eventually unified the world, and established the Jin Dynasty.
But maybe God suddenly understood, he felt that he was too polite to the Sima family, where are the three generations of grandchildren are both literate and martial? Since the first three generations of the Sima family were all temporary heroes, let the fourth generation of the Sima family have some problems. As a result, the three generations were all Wen Tao martial arts, but the all-powerful Sima family gave birth to a descendant with an abnormal brain,-Sima Zheng, the Emperor of Jinhui.
Sima Zheng this child actually can not be the emperor at all, even his son Sima Yan, the Emperor of Jinwu, is very uneasy, always suspecting that his child's IQ is problematic, always summoning a group of courtiers to let everyone come up with questions to Sima Zheng to answer. Although Sima Zheng's brain is not bright, it is good that he has a smart wife Jia Nanfeng. Every time at this time, Jia Nanfeng would spend a lot of money looking for a high person to answer, and then let Sima Zheng back and fool the past.
Not only did Lao Zi Sima Yan not favor his son, but even The Manchu Dynasty Wenwu felt that Sima Zheng could not perform the duties of the emperor at all, and a minister named Wei Wan always wanted to remind Sima Yan to change the crown prince as soon as possible, but did not dare to say it explicitly. Once Wei Wan finally couldn't help but rush to Sima Yan's throne and pluck up enough courage to say: Boss, I have something to say. Of course, Sima Yan knew what Wei Wan was going to say, but he pretended not to know. After all, Wei Wan did not dare to say the words of the wasted prince, but only touched the dragon seat with his hand: This throne is a pity.
Sima Yan (236 – 16 May 290), founding emperor of the Jin Dynasty (reigned 265–290).
However, such a stupid Sima Zheng ascended to the throne by relying on the compromise of his witty wife and Lao Tzu, and became a famous demented emperor in history. Sima Zheng reigned for seventeen years, and because he had no ability to manage the government, he was handed over to his grandfather Yang Jun and his wife Jia Nanfeng to do it. In fact, this throne was not originally given to Sima Zheng, in the setting of LaoZi Sima Yan, Sima Zheng was just a transition, and the throne was eventually transferred to his grandson Sima Song (yin tongyu). However, after Sima Yan's death, his grandfather Yang Jun, in order to control the government very well, actually directly made Sima Zheng ascend the throne as emperor.
A silly emperor is like a plaything in his hand, as long as he firmly grasps it, Yang Jun can become the de facto emperor. But Yang Jun ignored one person, that is, Sima Zheng's black fat and black fat wife Jia Nanfeng. Jia Nanfeng's fierceness and brutality are well-known in history, she is jealous, any woman who approaches Sima Zheng will be killed by her, and the history even records that Jia Nanfeng once killed several people with his own hands. Such a strong woman's pursuit of sex is also leveraged, how can a demented emperor meet her physiological needs, so Jia Nanfeng hooked up with the Tai Medical Record, and then even the Journey Record could not satisfy her. Jia Nanfeng sent someone to the street to arrest the beautiful man, blindfolded and sent to the palace, and then killed after a night of affair.
If someone hadn't been caught as a thief while wandering the streets with royal things, the scandal inside the palace walls would never have been discovered. As for why the beautiful man was not killed, it is not known.
How could such a fierce woman Jia Nanfeng allow Yang Jun to control the government, although he could not become an emperor, as long as he held Sima Zheng in his hand, he did not want the wind to be windy or rainy! So in 291 AD, Jia Nanfeng brazenly launched a coup d'état, and Yang Jun, who was hesitant for a while, was directly killed in the stables, and the three clans of the Yang clan were wiped out, and basically withdrew from the politics of the Western Jin Dynasty. But Sima Zheng did not know that every day he was still happily walking in the large palace, and when he walked to the Hualin Garden of the Royal Garden, he heard the sound of frogs cooing inside, and suddenly asked a philosophical dialectical question: Are these grunting things official or private? The attendants on the side really did not know how to answer him, and could only say perfunctorily: In the official's house, it is the official's family, and in the private house, it is the private family. Sima Zheng nodded satisfactorily: It makes sense.
He was carefree like a child every day in the harem, unaware that his wife was frantically killing the former imperial ministers, but everyone that Jia Nanfeng felt threatened him was eliminated by her with thunderous means. For example, Jia Nanfeng instigated Sima Wei, the king of Chu, to kill Sima Liang, the king of Runan, and then accused Sima Wei of killing the chancellor indiscriminately and then killed him. Jia Nanfeng also killed the empress dowager and Taifu without permission, and finally she extended her poisonous hand to the crown prince Sima Song.
Sima Song is described in the history books as a being like Sima Yi, but his birth is a bit unclear, thanks to his stupid father Sima Zheng. Sima Yan, the Emperor of Jinwu, was worried that his son was too stupid to even have sex, so he sent his favorite concubine Xie Jiu to teach him to create people by hand. But who could have imagined that Sima Zheng had a problem with this idiot's brain, but the efficiency of creating people was very high, and soon after Xie Jiu became pregnant and gave birth to Sima Song. Sima Zheng did not know that this was his son until Sima Song was five years old, and his first reaction was to play with his own children, so angry that his old father Sima Yan was almost carried over.
Although Sima Song's intelligence was very high, the growth of genius also needed time, and Jia Nanfeng was obviously unwilling to give him this opportunity. In the ninth year of Yuan Kang, Sima Song was deposed as crown prince and killed the following year. The Jia clan, represented by Jia Nanfeng, completely seized power. None of these things had anything to do with Sima Zheng, but his uncles and uncles were not happy! They all rushed out under the slogan of Qin Wang, and the rebellion of the Eight Kings, which had lasted for sixteen years, finally broke out!
The harm caused by the Rebellion of the Eight Kings is really rare even in the five-thousand-year history of China, which directly caused the demise of the Western Jin Dynasty and also caused ethnic minorities to enter the Central Plains, forming an era of extreme division and extreme turmoil in the Five Hu and Sixteen Kingdoms. However, none of this had anything to do with Sima Zheng, who stayed in the imperial city carefree, but did not know that the victims caused by the Rebellion of the Eight Kings had piled up. When a courtier told Sima Zheng that someone had starved to death because he didn't have enough to eat, Sima Zheng was surprised and asked the stupid words that made him stink for thousands of years.
Why don't you eat porridge when you don't have food?
The naïve Sima Zheng did not know why the people had no food to eat, so he was pinched like a doll by his uncles during the Eight Kings Rebellion for more than ten years, and no one had to consider his feelings. Sima Zheng's uncle Sima Lun the Prince of Zhao ascended the throne himself, made Sima Zheng emperor and imprisoned him in Jin YongCheng, but soon Sima Zheng the Prince of Qi and Sima Ying, the King of Chengdu, rebelled against Sima Lun, killed Sima Lun's father and son, and restored Sima Zheng to the throne. Sima Zheng was kneaded like a dough without being able to do itself.
But such a stupid emperor who laughed at him all over the world also had three moments that made people cry. When I read this, I can't help but wonder, is this really the stupid emperor Sima Zheng who said that he didn't eat porridge without food?
The first time was when the loyal minister Ji Shao died, Sima Zheng was surrounded by rebel troops, and only Ji Shao swore to stay by Sima Zheng's side, and finally was killed at his side, and even blood splashed on Sima Zheng's dragon robe. Later, after the rebel army retreated, when the people on the left and right wanted to help Sima Zheng wash the dragon robe, the stupid Sima Zheng said: There is Ji Shao's blood on it, don't wash it off. Sima Zheng knew that loyal servants were rare, and he knew that Ji Shao died for him.
The second time was after the rebellion of King Zhao, Sima Zheng reversed his own soft personality for the first time, and he angrily pointed at Sima Wei, the king of Yiyang: Ah Pi snatched my jade seal and hurt my fingers, I can't spare him! Even if sima zheng is stupid, he knows that there will be revenge, and anyone who is bullied to the head will resist.
The Rebellion of the Eight Kings was a civil unrest caused by the imperial family vying for central power during the Western Jin Dynasty in China.
The third time was when the Rebellion of the Eight Kings was about to end, when the helpless Sima Zheng was kidnapped by Zhang Fang, he said a word: I am really not smart, which is why I ended up like this. (I don't know how to talk about it. ）
Maybe he was really tired, maybe he suddenly had a little brain trick, but unfortunately Sima Zheng knew too late. In 307, Sima Zheng ate a poisonous cake given to him by Sima Yue, the king of the Eastern Sea, and died violently, and was buried in the Sun Mausoleum under the title of Emperor Xiaohui.
Kindness and love for the people are known as benefits, and Ze Phi Cangsheng is the sun. Even after his death, history did not intend to spare this poor stupid emperor and fiercely ridiculed him.
*Author: Liang Zhixia, a contracted author of the Secret History of Fish and Sheep.