In Sima You's life, there were two opportunities to sit in the position of emperor, the first time was missed, and the second time was also missed.
<h1>Lost first chance, alas! </h1>
Sima You (司馬佑), courtesy name Dayi, was the grandson of Sima Yi, emperor xuan of Jin, the second son of Sima Zhao, emperor of Jin, and half-brother of Emperor Sima Yan of Jin. He was talented from an early age, loved by Sima Yi and Sima Zhao, and was the heir to the throne.
"(Sima You) only then looked out to the right of Emperor Wu (Sima Yan) and Emperor Xuan (Sima Yi) to the right. Emperor Jing (Sima Shi) was childless and had the right to be his heir. ”
"In the beginning, Emperor Wen took Emperor Jing as the concubine of Emperor Xuan, and in his early life, he took Emperor You as his heir, and he loved to be different, and claimed to be in the position of regent, and after a hundred years, the great cause should be returned to you. Every day: "The world of this King of Scenery is also, and I am with Yan." "It will be the intention of establishing the son of the world."
At this point, Sima You was arranged to inherit Sima Shi as the heir in the eyes of his grandfather and father, not only because Sima Shi had no children, but also because the power of the Sima family was created by Sima Yi and Sima Shi, and Sima Zhao's initial thought after taking over the throne of his brother was still to return power to Sima Shi through Sima You's succession. Sima Shi's childlessness belongs to Tianshi, and Sima You's excellence belongs to people, and according to this development, Sima You's path from shizi to emperor does not need too much imagination to foresee, and this is also a win-win situation for all parties.
However, since the historical record has been formed, the helpless turning point must also exist, and the curve of personal destiny can only be pulled by cold words and turned to another fork in the road.
When considering Li Shizi, although the history books cannot record his psychology, according to speculation, we can still feel that the future fortunes of the Sima family played a role through Sima Zhao's hesitation--- although Sima Zhao's dental words are "this King of Jing (Sima Shi) the world", and in a practical sense, whether Sima Yan or Sima You is the son of the world is the same for Sima Zhao, but from a legal point of view, because Sima You has already passed on to Sima Zhao, "take the emperor's brother as his heir", Sima You was nominally Sima Zhao's nephew rather than his son, so if Sima You was made a son, no matter what the actual relationship between the father and the son was, in the future generations of Sima You, he could only worship Sima Shi as his ancestor, and Sima Zhao's lineage could only be counted as a small sect, which must be the main reason for Sima Zhao's wavering, so Sima You's existing aura also flashed in this swing.
It was precisely because of Sima Zhao's hesitation that "He Zeng and others stubbornly argued: "Zhongfujun (Sima Yan) is intelligent and has supernatural talents. On the ground, hands over knees, this is not the face of a human subject. "Determined by Shi (Sima Zhao)."
He Zeng's abominable, just like the two people playing against each other, one side took great effort to lay out a wonderful game, before it was lost for the number of children, but it was unexpectedly broken by the words of others, so that the strength and weakness changed, the victory and defeat changed hands, the lost son was difficult to make up, the heart was empty, the viciousness outside the chessboard was like the sand grain in the meal, people were caught off guard, the most hateful, seemingly heartless words, really spit.
Moreover, He Zeng was originally a charmer, in order to speak of all kinds of calculating thoughts--- because Sima Yan's hair was relatively long and his hands were longer than his knees, so he could only be a king and not a subject. But where is the first initiative, it is clear that it is the tooth wisdom of the opponent Liu Bei.
For Sima You, what makes people lamentable is not only that there is some former flattery and gang idleness that is hateful, but also that Jia Yun is angry with "helping outside".
Jia Yun, Sima You's father-in-law, "was the concubine of the King of Qi (Sima You)", "(Yun) had a sword and pen talent, and could observe the shangzhi." At the beginning, Emperor Wen praised Wang Ye with Emperor Jing, and Fang Chuan was located in Houyou of Wuyang. Emperor Wu (Sima Yan) was known as Kuan Ren and was also a long man, and he had the virtue of a king, and it was advisable to serve sheji. ”
Also seeing through Sima Zhao's thoughts was Jia Yun, although he was Sima You's father-in-law, but when he chose to take sides, he did not support his son-in-law, but helped outsiders, Sima Yan. People outside the gang can be angry when you treat him as your own, but he treats you as an outsider, unexpectedly snubbed, suddenly lost, like two armies against each other, suddenly turning against each other.
Sima You's first chance, with a high score, was perfectly lost in an incredible way with the assistance of this group of "gangs".
The lamentable point is that if he had not taken such a fancy to Sima Yi, if he had not been passed on to Sima Shi, if he had been left in Sima Zhao's lineage, it would have been entirely possible for him to inherit Sima Zhao and become emperor; if there had been no help from He Zeng, without Jia Yun's help, without Sima Zhao's hesitation, he would have been able to seize this opportunity. Everyone did the right thing, but "if you hadn't been so right, the ending wouldn't have been so wrong." ”
<h1>Lost second chance, pathetic! </h1>
If the superior's rule of dealing with the losers of competition did not work in Sima You, then his fate would be much better than the fait accompli. However, no "predecessor" will have a good life, such as the former Hai Xiahou and the latter such as Yang Yong.
In the early days of the reign of Emperor Sima Yan of the Jin Dynasty, the two brothers were quite brothers and brothers, "Emperor Wu practiced qi and sealed the king of Qi", "Open the palace and open the summons, and the three divisions of the ceremony". But the impending and missing second chance was a constant reminder to Sima You that his brother had always been wary of him.
"In the later years of the emperor, the sons were not weak, and the prince did not order, and the courtiers inside and outside were all interested in you", the second opportunity was because first, Emperor Wu's crown prince Sima Zheng was the founder of "not meat paste", and second, in view of Sima You's ability, popularity, and legal legitimacy, so the courtiers inside and outside were all interested in you.
This time, even Jia Yun is helping. But the more this happened, the more Sima You's fate was verified by his elders---
"And the emperor was sick, worried and uneasy, weeping for the story of Emperor Wu's narration of the Han Dynasty Huainan King and Wei Chensi", "and the empress dowager's death, also drooling to say the emperor: "Tao Fu is anxious, and Ru is not kind to his brother, if I can't afford it, I'm afraid I won't be compatible." If you are a ru, don't forget your word. ”
Sima Yan, who felt that the threat was still there, demanded that Sima You "be the country", and again asked Sima You to "beg to guard the tomb and not allow it", and it was also to Sima You to "turn around and hurry to the Tao". Even in order to weaken Sima You's power, he first prepared to transfer his father-in-law Jia Yun out of the capital, and then agreed to marry the crown prince Sima Zheng and Jia Yun's daughter to gain his support.
After a series of blows, Sima You not only lost the opportunity to gain the throne for the second time, but also lost his life "resigned from the letter, and the blood of Europe was born, and the time Chinese New Year's Eve six". Xun Xun and Feng Zhen, who had previously had a gap with Sima You, even said to Sima Yan:
"The king of Qi is overdone, and the whole world belongs to him." Now since the fall of the fallen, the blessing of the society, Your Majesty's mourning! ”
Sima You once again lost the opportunity, this time even more pitiful than the first time, because the history books can hardly see Sima You's initiative to claim the throne in the process, but because of the threat he brought with him, he was hit again.
The first time he lost the opportunity, it was because Sima Yi was too optimistic about him, and the second time was because the courtiers were too optimistic about him.
The first chance was lost because Sima Yan was weaker than him, and the second time the opportunity was lost because Sima Yan's son was weaker than him.
The first time he lost a chance, he had another chance, and the second time he lost a chance, he lost all his chances.
Sima Yan's existence seems to be to make the succession of the Sima family's throne a joke--- he was originally a candidate for the son of the world, he lost a good opportunity, and because of his existence, it made the emperor of "why not eat meat" sit on the throne, if it were not for the threat of Sima You, Sima Yan could choose other sons to inherit the rights, at least the king of Shoucheng, but at that time, except for Sima Zheng, there was no one whose legitimacy could be compared to Sima You, Sima Yan's heart was more Than Sima Zhao's calculations, less Sima Zhao's hesitation, So the realistic black humor has its own reason.
Even until Sima You left this world, the Sima family's imperial succession was not more stable because of this, because the disappearance of the "optimal solution" that was expected by everyone at that time, under the temptation of greed, stimulated other kings to fight for "sub-optimal solutions", so that the Western Jin regime fell into the quagmire of infighting.
Rather than saying that Sima You lost two opportunities to become emperor, it is better to say that the Western Jin dynasty also lost two opportunities to make its life more "long" and could only continue to "decay".
The sima family's succession problems, all the way to Sima You's next generation, Sima Yuan's generation, were generally erupted--the rebellion of the eight kings in which Sima Ran forcefully participated was finally staged, and his father's unfair encounter was not only a lingering shadow that hovered in Sima Yuan's heart, but also the important instruction spirit laid by the core of the first and second generations of Sima Yi, Sima Shi, and Sima Zhao, or a lei.