The so-called "Sima Zhao's heart is well known", but because of the limitations of the times, Sima Zhao failed to usurp Cao Wei's orthodoxy before his death. Sima Zhao, like Cao Cao in those days, paved the way for his son Sima Yan. After Sima Yan took over the military state from his late father, he followed Cao Pi's lead in directing a play of "Zen Concession" and officially created the Western Jin Dynasty.
However, perhaps because the Sima family's imperial power came from the wrong direction, the throne of Emperor Sima was not stable, and the state only lasted for fifty years. Putting aside those turbulent periods, the emperor of the Sima family really did not enjoy a few days of stability.
So, why was the Western Jin Dynasty so short-lived?
Historians have given this or another, but the author believes that the root is in a woman. This woman who influenced the historical development of the Western Jin Dynasty is Jia Nanfeng, a generation of ugly queens.
When Sima Yan, the Emperor of Jinwu, was alive, he decided to pass the throne to his second son Sima Zheng. This Sima Zheng is a down-to-earth mentally handicapped child, not because posterity has denigrated his brainpower, but because he was born with low energy.
How can a prince with a brain without a string inherit the throne?
Sima Yan must have considered this question, but due to the early death of his eldest son Sima Yan and empress Yang Yan's constant blowing wind in his ears, he compromised.
In order to test Sima Zheng's ability, Sima Yan sent two ministers, Sima Yan and Yue and Xun Xun, to arrange an examination for Sima Zheng, and because of empress Yang Yan's face, the two ministers opened their eyes and said nonsense, saying that the prince boy was quite good, not the kind of mental weakness that outsiders said, but a great wisdom and foolishness! In this way, Sima Zheng, who was "wise and foolish", became the prince of the Eastern Palace and the crown prince of the Western Jin Dynasty.
Sima Zheng became the crown prince, and the next step was to find him a reliable wife. The crown princess will become the empress of the mother's world in the future, and she must not be sloppy. After thinking about it again, the royal family picked Jia's thousand gold. Since it is a candidate to become a crown princess, that look must be a country that has fallen into the city, like princess Shou of the Tang Dynasty, the national color is heavenly, right?
Non-nor non-also, friends who think so must be extremely disappointed. The appearance of crown princess Jia Shi is enough to rank in the top ten ugly women in history. She was not tall, the place where the flesh should grow was barren, the place where the flesh should not be long was full of extra flesh, the color of her skin was like Kunlun Mountain, and the moles on her face were as many as stars.
The good villain is also picking a wife for the prince, how did he choose such a woman who is a bell?
Naturally, someone moved from it. Emperor Wu of Jin had a powerful minister named Jia Chong, and the emperor was ready to arrange for him to guard the frontier in the western town, but Jia Chong did not want to abandon the glory and wealth of the capital. Sima Yan is the king of a country, is there any joke in junkou? If he wanted to stay in the capital, Jia Chong had to find a reasonable reason.
Therefore, Jia Chong found Xun Xun, who was deeply trusted by Emperor Wu, and the two of them came to Sima Yan together and recommended to him the thousands of gold of Jia Chong's family. Sima Yan had long heard that Jia Chong's wife Guo Huai was one of the best women in the country, and most of the thousands of gold born to such a humble woman were not good girls, so he was a little uncertain.
At this moment, Empress Yang Yan stood up again and blew the wind, saying how the Jia girl was dignified and how gentle she was, and how such a woman was born to be a princess. Sima Yan knew that Yang Yan had already accepted Lady Jia's benefits and betrayed his son. In this way, Sima Yan, the Emperor of Jinwu, was fooled by a group of people and found a tigress for his son.
On this occasion, Jia Chong was eager to quickly send his daughter to the East Palace to let her and the crown prince round the house. As long as the two of them cook mature rice, they are nominally the abbot of the country. As the emperor, Sima Yan, did he have a reason to let his relatives guard the border pass? After Sima Yan determined the candidate for the crown princess, it was early spring, and Jia Chong hurriedly found Xun Xun, and the two of them got together to ponder for half a moment and thought of a bad idea.
The next morning, Xun Xun braved the wind and snow to face the saint and said to Sima Yan: "Now in the middle of spring and February, the heavens are raining snow, which is really an auspicious omen, and the crown prince should choose a good day to get married." As soon as Sima Yan heard this, this was reasonable, so he immediately arranged for the minister to handle his son's marriage.
On the day Sima Zheng married his wife, the joke was even bigger.
Originally, there were two ugly girls in the Jia family, and the appearance of the two girls was uglier than the other, and Jia Chong planned to ration the second daughter Jia Wuxu to Sima Zheng. However, Jia Wu's height was too short, and the wedding dress sent by the palace could not be worn at all, just like a yellow dog wearing a pocket on it. Jia Fu stared up and down wide-eyed, thinking how is this good?
Jia Chong was even more anxious to jump on his feet, fortunately, the guests were organic, and immediately gave Jia Chong the idea of changing a tanuki cat for a prince, so that another ugly woman who stood on the side, Jia Nanfeng, the eldest daughter of the Jia family, married instead of his sister. The wedding dress was put on Jia Nanfeng's body, and it was good to hold up. In this way, Jia Nanfeng inexplicably became a princess.
Sima Zheng is estimated to be the most hated "hijab" man in history, the whole wedding scene, the IQ is not very high, he is in the "hey hey" silly music, thinking that the father found himself a national color heavenly princess. But as soon as he arrived at the cave room to lift the hijab at night, Sima Zheng was completely dumbfounded. Although Sima Zheng's brain power is not good, it does not mean that he does not have aesthetic ability, and he can still distinguish whether a woman is beautiful or disgusting.
The sesame face of Jia Nanfeng under the hijab made Sima Zheng's back chill. It is reasonable to say that Jia Nanfeng mistakenly became a princess, and her own image is not very good, and she should serve her husband well. But maybe Jia Nanfeng planned to go out when he was sitting in the palanquin, who let fate arrange for me to be the princess? It's not what the old lady asked for! Didn't the prince see that I looked cold and didn't want to be close to me? That's lucky for any woman but me!
After marriage, Jia Nanfeng, like hyenas on the African plains, stared at those antelope-like palace girls. Whoever is too close to the prince and throws a wink at the prince, she wants whoever looks good.
One day, Jia Nanfeng heard that a palace maid was pregnant with a child, and this child was the result of the prince's stealing. The angry Jia Nanfeng carried a painting halberd to the palace maid's residence and poked at the pregnant woman's stomach. Under this toss, the palace maid not only miscarried, but even her life was almost in danger.
With this lesson, from then on, the palace ladies of the Eastern Palace no longer dared to look up at the prince, for fear of being discovered by Jia Nanfeng, a jealous woman. Those palace women who were secretly favored by Sima Zheng also tried their best to carry out contraception after they returned, for fear of being detected by Jia Nanfeng and causing a corpse and two lives.
In 290 AD, Sima Yan died, Sima Zheng succeeded to the throne, and Jia Nanfeng naturally became empress. The husband is a stupid boy with a low IQ, so Jia Nanfeng took the initiative to take over the main power. At that time, the feudal system was not very sound, so Jia Nanfeng easily intervened in the military and state reorganization, and even Yang Jun, an auxiliary minister appointed by the previous emperor, was killed by her.
Jia Nanfeng, like those empresses in history who have gained power, began to support foreign relatives.
Suddenly, Sima Liang, Guo Zhang, Jia Mi, Jia Mo and other close associates were given high positions. Not long after, Jia Nanfeng felt that Sima Liang, the king of Runan, was in the way, so he devised a conspiracy to remove him from his post. Subsequently, Jia Nanfeng summoned Sima Wei, the king of Chu, to the palace as "King Qin" and blatantly killed Sima Liang, the king of Runan. After solving Sima Liang, Jia Nanfeng played another hand of "rabbit dead dog cooking", and blamed Sima Wei, who was used, as a "minister who killed without permission", so that Sima Wei, who was too late to defend, also became a ghost under the knife.
Although Jia Nanfeng wanted to be windy and rainy in the palace, she was still not satisfied. As a woman, she knew that if she wanted to gain a firm foothold in the palace, she must give Sima Zheng a big fat boy and take over Sima Zheng's country in the future. However, Jia Nanfeng even coaxed and frightened, and repeatedly let Sima Zheng be fortunate for herself, but her stomach was not angry. After a few times, Jia Nanfeng blamed her husband for her inability to have children on her husband's "no", openly summoned young and strong young men outside the palace, entered the palace to give her "seed", and once the "vaccination" was completed, he killed the person concerned quickly.
Jia Nanfeng tossed the harem into a miasma, but her stomach still did not move, and there was no germination result. The angry Jia Nanfeng vented his anger on the crown prince Sima Song. This crown prince was born to Sima Yan before Sima Yan's death, and because Sima Song's intelligence was normal, Emperor Xian had already made him the emperor's grandson. Jia Nanfeng had long seen that this child was not pleasing to the eye, and was afraid that he would inherit the unification in the future, so he used various means to frame him, and finally Sima Zheng deposed Sima Song, the crown prince of the Eastern Palace. However, even though Sima Suo lost his throne, Jia Nanfeng still refused to give up, and she sent someone to feed Sima Song poison and kill him.
It was not until the crown prince Sima Song died violently that the sons of the clan could see Empress Jia's face.
Therefore, in order to prevent Jiangshan Sheji from being defeated by this woman, Sima Ya, Sima Lun, Sima Lun, and Sima Ran raised troops one after another and killed Luoyang. The kings rebelled, and the officers and soldiers of the central government were powerless to resist. When the rebels entered the capital, the desperate Jia Nanfeng interceded with her husband Sima Zheng, but Sima Zheng stood indifferently and watched the play, allowing his brothers to catch the tigress. Subsequently, Jia Nanfeng was thrown into an iron prison, and Sima Lun, the King of Zhao, personally sent a pot of gold crumb wine to this woman. A generation of ugly queens who had been making waves in the political arena of the Western Jin Dynasty for more than ten years drank bitter wine, and their evil lives also came to an end.
In other dynasties, the appearance of Jia Nanfeng was at best a tragic royal marriage. However, for the Western Jin Dynasty, the chaos caused by a generation of ugly queens has just begun. From then on, the eight kings of the Sima clan were not convinced, and they each other in the same room, and perished one after another in just sixteen years. Trailing behind was the three-hundred-year-long turbulent Southern and Northern Dynasties. Many later historians, when analyzing the Rebellion of the Eight Kings, will summarize some factors. However, if it were not for the emergence of Jia Nanfeng, many of the shortcomings of the Western Jin Dynasty could not have erupted rapidly in a short period of time, so Jia Nanfeng can be called the culprit of the fall of the Western Jin Dynasty.
Resources:
【Book of Jin", "Jinmen-Jiahou"】