The Rebellion of the Eight Kings (III)
After burying the empress, Sima Yan adopted a new era name in the following year: Xianning.
Maybe he wanted everything to be peaceful, and he never expected that his life would make a big wave.
In the same year, the plague swept through the city of Luoyang, killing tens of thousands of people.
At the end of the year, Sima Yan was also knocked down, which is a very serious infectious disease, and those infected will most likely die.
Sima Yan was very ill, and he canceled the new year's day of the first month of the second year of Xianning (276), and everyone thought that he could not survive this time.
It is said that Sima Yan had already made a crown prince, and once there was a difference, the chancellor should welcome the crown prince to rule, but the important ministers in the court all set their sights on Sima You, the king of Qi.
They went so far as to secretly discuss letting Sima You inherit the throne, and did not take the foolish prince seriously at all.
If Sima Yan could not afford to be ill this time, Sima You would have found a treasure.
But unfortunately, Sima Yan miraculously recovered.
After Sima Yan was well, he looked around and couldn't help but sweat coldly.
These ministers who had supported themselves in those years were not really loyal to themselves, and they elected themselves in order to maintain the tradition of "standing up for growth".
Once their opinions disagree with them, they will try to put their ideas into practice.
Sima Yan had been emperor for ten years, and had always adhered to the law of innocence and inaction, and was only a balancer of power.
Now he definitely considered that his emperor was going to change his ways, especially for his younger brother Sima You, who had to be genuine with him.
Sima Yan played three moves:
The first move was to take the two ministers who supported Sima You.
One is Yin Xiahouhe of Henan, and the other is Sikong Jiachong.
Xiahou He openly suggested to Jia Chong: "Sima You and Sima Zheng are both your son-in-law, and supporting everyone is the same, it is better to support one with a level." ”
Jia Chong listened and did not answer, but remained silent.
Xiahou He was right, his eldest daughter married Sima You, and his younger daughter married Sima Zheng. Whoever became emperor was the head of the state to Jia Chong. So he remained silent.
Sima Yan was not happy when he knew it, and silence was riding the wall, that is, playing slippery.
He has to shoot.
First, Xiahou He was transferred, and then Jia Chong's military power was abolished.
Despite this, Sima Yan still did not tear his face with the two people and did not move, the two people only changed their positions, and their treatment and status did not change.
The second step is to introduce the power of foreign relatives who are absolutely loyal to themselves, and use foreign relatives to suppress the courtiers.
This force is his new father-in-law Yang Jun.
In the second year of Xianning, Sima Yan married the new empress Yang Zhi, and at the same time vigorously promoted Yang Jun, appointing him as a cheqi general and knighthooded as the Marquis of Jin.
The title has a lot of meaning.
Yang Jun was from the Yang clan of Hongnong in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and his ancestors had been given the title of Marquis of Linjin in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and Sima Yan gave him this title first, asking him to revitalize the lintel of the Yang clan, and secondly, the name of the kingdom of this dynasty was Jin, Lin was the meaning of Guangda, and Sima Yan wanted him to expand the Jin state.
Sima Yan had great expectations of him.
Yang Jun's eyes were like beans, his qi was small, and when he had just had power, he cocked his tail to the sky.
At that time, people interpreted the word Linjin, but they read out the meaning of being above the Jin state, foreign relatives supervised the country, and the Eastern Han Dynasty died here, which was a harbinger of the country's chaos.
Of course, these Sima Yan would not listen, because the more stupid Yang Jun became, the more loyal he became, which made him very relieved.
Then he began to lay out the third move: re-crowning the king.
This time the title was different from the one who had been crowned king ten years earlier, and Sima Yan had stipulated a strict system.
First, non-princes are not allowed to be kings, and only the imperial family can be crowned kings, so the new kings this time are all their own children. The purpose of this is obviously to strengthen the weak branches, consolidate the power of the imperial family, and weaken the power of other clans.
The second is to implement a demotion system for the kings who were originally divided into fiefs, and if the descendants inherit the throne of their predecessors, the level of feudalism is decreasing, and the number of fiefs and the army are reduced accordingly, so that the strength of other clans is weakened step by step. At the same time, with the Tuien Order, the princes with multiple children can divide the feudal kingdom into several small pieces and pass it on to multiple children.
The third is to strictly control the army of the feudal state, in addition to the limitation of the number of people, this time it is clearly stipulated that the army of the feudal country is controlled by the lieutenant sent by the imperial court, and the princes and kings are not allowed to interfere.
Fourth, the princes and princes who did not hold part-time positions in the imperial court were all to go to the feudal state and were not allowed to stay in the capital Luoyang.
If these four measures are strictly implemented and implemented for a long time, the princes will not be able to sit on the throne at all, and can only die out step by step.
The Rebellion of the Eight Kings could not occur.
If you look at the Xianning period alone, the national fortunes of the Jin Dynasty can be said to be thriving.
In the north, Wei Wan implemented a divisive plan to provoke the division of the Xianbei nation.
In the west, although the bald tree function of the Xianbei people in Hexi repeatedly rebelled, there was a fierce general Wen Duan who broke it, and then a god completely pacified Ma Long.
After doing all this, in Xianning five years began to plan the cutting of Wu, Eastern Wu no longer had the hero who sat in the south of the River, and the army of the Western Jin Dynasty was destroyed and decayed, and it was completely destroyed in less than half a year.
The Western Jin Dynasty completed its unification in an all-round way.
At this time, Sima Yan had completely proved his Wenzhi martial arts with his strength, and his personal prestige had reached a fixed point.
Unfortunately, this is not the end, because Sima You's problem has not yet been solved.