Chinese Historical Story The Idiot Emperor

In the first year of the reign of Emperor Taikang of the Jin Dynasty (280), Sima Yan sent an army to attack Eastern Wu, and the last emperor of Eastern Wu, Sun Hao, surrendered, and Eastern Wu perished. At this point, the whole country was unified. But what is unexpected is that the emperor who unified the whole country and created the "rule of Taikang" actually set up an idiot as the prince.

This idiot was Sima Zheng, the eldest son of Emperor Wu of Jin, and Sima Zheng's stupidity was so famous that all the ministers in the court knew it. The ministers felt that the crown prince would become emperor in the future and would certainly not be able to handle political affairs, and they all wanted to persuade Emperor Wu of Jin to depose him. The chancellor and Yao once told Emperor Wu of Jin that the crown prince was natural, simple, and had an ancient style. But now is no longer the time of ancient times, people are sinister, I am afraid that the prince will not be able to control His Majesty's family affairs in the future. Although on the surface complimenting this prince, there is a pure ancient style, in fact, it is a hint that his brain is not enough. But Emperor Wu of Jin ignored this.

Later, emperor Wu of Jin once boasted to them that his son had recently made quite a lot of progress, and asked them to ask in person, and after they returned, a few horse ass spirits said that the prince had indeed grown up a lot, and the emperor said that it was not good at all, and He Yu honestly said that the prince was still the same as before, which made the emperor particularly unhappy, and he whisked his sleeve away at the moment.

Because the ministers often talked to Emperor Wu of Jin about the prince's stupidity and inability to manage the country, Emperor Wu of Jin could not help but be a little suspicious and planned to test him. So he opened a banquet, gathered all the people in the palace together, sealed several documents on the table, sent someone to the prince to decide, to see his ability to actually handle government affairs, and let the envoys have the documents of the prince waiting outside for approval, where can the idiot prince do this, the crown princess Jia Nanfeng was very nervous, and quickly found a person to be a gunner, answering for him, the person was quite learned, quoting the scriptures, and the answer was the tao, at this time there was a eunuch in the palace who reminded Jia Nanfeng that this volume was good, but the emperor knew that the prince usually did not understand things Now to write such a scroll, but to make him suspicious, in case of investigation, it will make things worse, it is better to directly discuss the matter, write a little rougher, Jia Nanfeng was very happy, he said to him, then you still write another copy, in the future to protect your wealth and glory, the eunuch drafted another rough answer sheet, let the prince draw the gourd and copy it again, and then let the waiting envoys send it to the emperor.

When Emperor Wu of Jin looked at it, although the volume was not written very cleverly, he finally had to answer questions, which showed that the prince's brain was still clear, and he was even more determined to make him the prince.

On the 40th and 20th day of the first year of Taixi, Emperor Wu of Jin died, and the crown prince Sima Zheng took the throne as empress dowager for Emperor Hui of Jin, and made crown princess Jia Nanfeng empress.

One summer, Sima Zheng's entourage went to Hualin Garden to play. When they went to a pond and heard the cry of a frog cuckoo coming from inside, Sima Zheng thought it was very strange, so he asked his followers whether these grunting things were for the official or for private, and the retinue said that what was called in the official's house was the official's family, and if it was called in the private house, it was private.

There was another year of famine, the people had no food to eat, there were people starving everywhere, and some people reported the situation to Sima Zheng, but Sima Zheng told the people who reported that there was no food to eat, so why didn't they eat porridge? The people who reported it couldn't laugh and cry, and the victims couldn't even eat, where did the meat porridge come from? This shows how stupid and confused Sima Zheng is.