In March of the first year of the Western Jin Dynasty (300 AD), Sima Suo, the deposed crown prince imprisoned in Xuchang Palace, was in a daze, having been imprisoned for more than three months, ignorant of the fate that was about to fall on his head. Soon, a eunuch named Sun Wei came from the capital Luoyang, and he found Liu Zhen, the ruler in charge of guarding the prince, and explained his intentions, and Liu Zhen brought Sima Suo out of the palace, locked him in a small black room, and ordered that the wasted prince's diet be cut off. Sima Suo understood that the emissaries of the capital had come to harm their own lives, and they were going to starve themselves alive.
Although Liu Zhen did not give food to eat, relying on some food secretly sent by other palace people, the wasted prince survived for a few more days. But Sun Wei couldn't wait any longer, the prince didn't die for a day, he couldn't go back to his life, so Sun Eunuch broke through the door, took out the "Croton Apricot Pill" made by Taiyi Cheng's own hand, and told the prince to eat it quickly. Of course, the prince refused, and Sun Wei showed a vicious image, dragged the prince to the toilet, and smashed him alive with a medicine pestle, which is known in history as "the prince shouted, and the sound was heard outside", and the prince was only 23 years old when he died. It is estimated that Sima Song did not know in the end that the person who plotted to take his life was actually a villain he had never heard of, Sun Xiu.
Sun Xiu, a native of Linyi, Langya (Shandong), is a Chinese character. When he was young, he worked as a small official in the mansion of Pan An's father, the "first beautiful man in ancient times", and was a small person without compromise. But I don't know if Sun Xiu is because he is not good-looking, or because his behavior is too obscene, at that time, the young young master Pan was not pleasing to his eyes when he saw him, and he called over to take a whip and smoke wildly, and Sun Xiu, who was of humble status, was naturally afraid, aggrieved, and resentful.
Sun Xiu, who was very poor in Pan Province, had to leave and go to find another high. He should be very good at making friends, between turning east and west, and between several requests, he actually mixed into the palace of Sima Lun, the king of Langya, and the acquaintance with Sima Lun was the starting point of Sun Xiu's real development. Sima Lun was not an ordinary person, not even an ordinary king, but the son of Emperor Xuan's Sima Yi (Lao Jiu), who was also the uncle of the current emperor Emperor Wu Sima Yan, and the imperial nobleman of the Eight Classics of Zheng'er, who could give him an errand boy, and Sun Xiuzu could be regarded as burning high incense. But how could such a noble prince play with a low-level official like Sun Xiu, and then obey his words? There is only one answer: heroes know heroes, villains cherish villains, and this Sima Lun is not a reliable and good species at all.
It is estimated that when he was very young, Sima Lun was the kind of stupid, strange behavior, and very obedient personality, and the emotional intelligence was extremely low, not only did not inherit his father's superb wisdom, but also did not have the intention of turning to a normal person when he grew up. To give just one example, after Sima Yan became emperor, he made this ninth uncle the King of Langya, but he didn't know which tendon of this uncle was wrong, and he actually sent someone to steal his nephew's imperial robe (imperial fur)! After the incident, Du You, who was then a court lieutenant, and Liu Yi, the counselor of the court, resolutely advocated that this prince be slaughtered for the crime of "great disrespect", and that he should be punished by Ming Zhengdian! It can be seen that few people in the DPRK have put him in their eyes. Thanks to Sima Yan's good temper and no in-depth investigation, his old life was saved.
Later, Sima Lun also played soy sauce in some important military and political positions, such as General Xuanwei, General Pingbei, and General Anbei, and in the middle, he was renamed king of Zhao from the king of Langya, but they were all lonely and nameless. He became famous in the early years of Yuan Kang (291 AD), when Sun Xiu had become his aide. The reason why it is famous is because the Two Tribes of Qi and Qiang, who were originally obedient in Guanzhong, directly rebelled after he became the General of the Western Expedition. Not only that, the generals stationed in Guanzhong at that time, such as the Yongzhou Assassin Shi Xie, Feng Yi Taishou Ouyang Jian, and others, were almost offended by Sun Xiu. When Sima Tong, the king of Liang, came to take over the work, the generals rose up and attacked him (to make a small report), and if Xin Ran had not broken the siege, Sun Xiu's small life would have almost been given to northern Shaanxi.
As a result, this waste prince and his little follower were taken back to the central government, and the intention of the central government was also obvious, since the evil head would cause trouble outside, it was better to put it next to him and stare at it.
When the troublesome King Zhao returned, he became much more well-behaved, and stupid things such as stealing his nephew's imperial fur could no longer be done. At that time, Emperor Wu's Sima Yan was already dead, and Sima Zheng was not long on the throne, but the power of Empress Jia Nanfeng was just like the sun in the sky! In order to protect himself, he desperately tried his best to marry the empress of his granddaughter-in-law's generation and the empress dowager Guo Huai of his daughter-in-law's generation. As everyone knows, after inadvertently planting willows and willows, and having a relationship with Jia Nanfeng, Sima Lun has actually jumped into a pit that is more dangerous than Guanzhong, and Sun Xiu has finally had the opportunity to climb to the forefront of history because of changes in the environment and soil, and has brought his "talent" of disrupting the whole country to the extreme.
At that time, Sima Zheng, the Emperor of Jinhui, was only 32 years old, and the new emperor was in his prime and in good health, so how could his wife suddenly become the most powerful person in the dynasty? The answer is simple, because this Sima Zheng is a fool, and he has intellectual problems. Although he was the eldest son of Sima Yan, the Emperor of Jinwu, he did not even have the bottom in his own father's heart, and even once he had the idea of abolishing Chang Liyou. This also attracted the covetousness of the "imperial brother" Sima You, the King of Qi, for the position of heir apparent. Later, Sima Yan spent a lot of effort, almost paying the price of being an enemy of half of the imperial court, before he died, he cleared his brother's forces in the dynasty and helped this heartless son to the throne.
The son was cowardly, and the daughter-in-law had to be stronger, so Sima Yan, after several hesitations, finally chose Jia Chong's daughter, Jia Nanfeng, the Duke of Lu, and became Sima Zheng's crown princess. This princess was ugly, dark and short and ugly, with a bad temper and jealousy, but his father was very good. This Jia Chong was no ordinary person, he was a close confidant of Emperor Wu's father Sima Zhao. On the eve of the Wei and Jin dynasties, the puppet-like Wei Emperor Cao Xian was momentarily on the top of his flesh and blood, and personally led the crowd to attack Xiangfu to take Sima Zhao's dog's life, and it was this Jia Chong, under the "one heart of loyalty", who personally ordered the life of Cao Xian and "rescued" the lord from danger. Since then, Jia Chong has always been trusted and loved by the Sima family, and the officials have become bigger and bigger, before his death, he has been promoted to Sikong, Taiwei, and Lugong, and there are many henchmen and branches in the dprk, and there is such a strong family and daughter-in-law to back up The Heir, Sima Yan can finally end up smiling.
However, he never expected that this daughter-in-law had overdone her life, and when Sima Yan died, she actually used the hand of the clan to slaughter the father-in-law's father-in-law and the empress dowager of the Zhenggong Palace, and even the auxiliary ministers who had helped her, Sima Liang, Wei Wan, and Sima Wei, the king of Chu, also killed her one after another. Her fierce heart and strong wrists frightened the government and the opposition, and now, she was holding the emperor's husband who lacked heart and eyes in her hands, and there were Zhang Hua, Pei Jun, Jia Mi and a group of capable ministers and relatives to help grasp the situation, and the entire empire was firmly held in the palm of her hand, and it was no wonder that the old bastard Sima Lun would rush up and run to tie the knot as soon as he returned.
However, in the eyes of the cunning and wise Sun Xiu, Jia Nanfeng's invincible state was very flawed. The first flaw is emperor Hui himself. Sima Zheng was in the core of the empire, but he could not play the role of the core, which meant that as long as he mastered Sima Zheng, he could control the entire empire! Such as the "imperial brother" Sima You's operation of taking concubines, the Three Yang Rebellion after emperor Wu's death, and the power struggle between Empress Jia and the three kings of the clan, these chaos appeared not so much because there were too many thieves, but rather that Sima Zheng's incompetence became the bait of the thieves. As long as he was still in the emperor's position for a day, he was constantly attracted to ambitious people, and Jia Hou could only be said to be a stage victor.
The second flaw is more intuitive and realistic, that is, Jia Nanfeng cannot give birth to a son. In order to prevent other concubines from giving birth to the crown prince, Jia Nanfeng almost cut off the possibility of her husband having relations with all other women, and even had the evil act of attacking the pregnant concubine and causing her to abort. However, her own stomach was not angry, and after marrying Sima Zheng, she gave birth to four daughters in succession. Moreover, it was still an accident to guard against death for half a day - Sima Zheng actually had a son who even he did not know, that is, Sima Tangerine, the prince of Huaihuai mentioned at the beginning of this article.
Sima Tangerine's biological mother, Xie Jiu, was originally Xie Cairen, a concubine of Emperor Wu Sima Yan. Before the prince got married, the old father specially arranged for this little wife to accompany the prince in the East Palace and teach him about the bed of men and women. A few years later, when Sima Zheng went to his father's bedchamber to pay respects, he saw a three- or four-year-old boy playing in the temple, which was very cute, and the old father told him: It is Ru'erye, take it back to feed him. As a result, Sima Zheng so vaguely got a son (or possibly a brother), this boy was Sima Song, the eldest son of Sima Zheng, and was crowned crown prince in the same year that Sima Zheng succeeded to the throne.
This prince, who was almost approved by the previous emperor, was regarded by Jia Hou as a serious problem! With Emperor Wu's well-known favor as an endorsement (saying that this child is like Sima Yi), coupled with the fact that this prince is very smart and is the only son, Empress Jia is very worried that the foolish husband will be unfavorable to herself, and often has the impulse to act first, but she is suffering from not being able to find a good excuse, and the prince is not an easy thing to move, and as a result, this matter has been dragged on until the prince grows to 22 years old.
As an adult, Sima Suo's temper was still relatively large, although his father did nothing on the throne, he was the crown prince appointed by Emperor Wu. Seeing that the "mother queen" who was not her mother was carrying a bunch of relatives and nephews in the imperial court, the young and fierce prince was very unhappy in his heart, and the conflict was about to break out sooner or later, and the fuse was the empress's nephew, Jia Mi.
This second ancestor was the empress of the dynasty and the actual helmsman of the Jin Dynasty, and his daily behavior was also very high-profile and uninhibited. The crown prince took a fancy to Shang Shuling Wang Yan's eldest daughter, but jia mi married this special object away. Even the woman that the prince looks up to dares to grab, which shows how crazy Jia Mi is, and the prince's heart is definitely very unpleasant, and he also has something to say. Another time was when Jia Mi and the prince played Go, he not only did not let go, but also competed with Sima Song for the Qi Road, and the two of them also quarreled, so that Sima Ying, the king of Chengdu who was guarding on the side, could not look down, and directly scolded Jia Mi, and the young master Jia was annoyed and afraid. Therefore, he counted the princes in front of his aunt every day, saying that the prince did not buy land and property day and night, and that many animals and private wealth were also in the shadows, which was directed at our old Jia family. Colleagues also told the old lady about the stakes, saying that in case Sima Song became emperor in the future, he would take our old Jia family's set of Yang clan to deal with us, and it would be too late to regret it, so it would be better to take advantage of the fact that the raw rice has not yet been cooked to maturity, first shovel this Sima Song and replace it with an obedient prince, and the future of our old Jia family will have a guarantee.
Jia Nanfeng originally did not like this prince who was not his own, coupled with the fan wind of the eldest nephew who did not have day and night, so he was deeply aware of his words and made up his mind to clean up Sima Song.
Soon after that, all kinds of gossip about the prince's immorality and lack of conduct began to go up and down the government and the public, like what prince was not good at learning, did not respect the teacher, and used needles to prick the teacher's ass; the prince did not care about the government, but opened a market in the palace, and sold wine and bought meat like a small trader every day (Han Bei's grandfather was a butcher); what kind of prince was naughty, teasing people all day long, deliberately letting people fall off their horses to make fun of it, and so on. It is difficult to distinguish whether these things are true or false, and most of them should also be made up blindly, but when these gossip spread, I believe that many people who understood, including Sun Xiu himself, had already felt that something big was about to happen in the DPRK.
Sure enough, after the heat was almost brewing, Jia Nanfeng was ready to start. In December of the ninth year of Yuan Kang (299 AD), the empress sent someone to summon the prince to the palace, saying that his father was ill and asking him to come to see a doctor. When the prince arrived, he was immediately thrown into a small black room, and a palace maid named Chen Wu forced the prince to eat a large number of wine dates, and Sima Was drunk and confused. Immediately after that, he took out a draft of the rebellion written by the beautiful man Pan Yue and copied it for the prince, who was "drunk and unconscious", and confusedly drew the tiger again according to the cat, and copied the lack of east and west, and finally Pan Yue added a lot of words on it, so as to put together an "iron evidence" of the prince's rebellion.
With this in his hands, Jia Nanfeng immediately declared an edict to the Qunchen in the name of the emperor, saying that the prince was plotting rebellion, and the evidence was overwhelming, and now I want to put him to death! As soon as this move came out, there was an uproar in the court, the matter was full of loopholes, and the evidence was far-fetched, and even Zhang Hua and Pei Feng, who were close associates of Jia Hou, firmly believed that this manuscript was from the hands of the prince (which shows how difficult it is to take down the prince). Things suddenly froze on the spot, in order to prevent changes, the "alert" old lady Jia immediately retreated to the second place, changed the "death" to "waste for the common person", which reluctantly made things turn over. So poor Sima Song lost his position as crown prince in such a vacuum, and was escorted to Jin Yongcheng under house arrest with his wife and children.
Xuan Zhao's scene of the group of ministers on that day caused a great psychological shock to Jia Nanfeng, and she never expected that Sima Song's influence among the group of ministers would be so great. But bad things have already begun, and it is impossible to stop, and in order to eliminate the greater political risks, we can only send the deposed prince to hell to be unpopular. After the new year, Jia Hou arranged for a eunuch to be the ghost of the dead, asking him to confess to conspiring with the prince to rebel, and once again issued a message to the courtiers to show that it was necessary to put Sima Song to death. At the same time, he also moved Sima Song to Xuchang for imprisonment (meaning guan yuan, afraid of being robbed of prison). Jia Nanfeng's wishful thinking and step by step made the dissatisfaction in the DPRK and China more and more intense, and an "anti-Jia force" began to surface. Among them, the most fierce, is the distant relative of the clan sima ya, and Chang Congdu Xu Chao, they originally had a very iron relationship with the prince, the prince was unjustly deposed after the intention was even more unharmed, seeing that the prince was precarious, the more they wanted to be sad, and then the more they wanted to be annoyed, since you Jia Nanfeng can set up a set of wasted princes, then we old people who are princes can't find someone to abolish your Jia Nanfeng?
Driven by this mentality, the less powerful two took aim at Sima Lun, who held military power in the palace, and through the connection with Sun Xiu, expressed their desire to ally with King Zhao and use his strength to jointly depose Jia Hou and welcome the prince back to the palace. Sun Xiu initially agreed to this motion, and also consulted with Sima Lun, and even prepared the internal response of the post-abolition action. However, after considering it all, Sun Xiu still found that this plan was very unspeakable! If according to Sima Ya's design, the one who benefited the most after the coup was actually the prince and Sima Ya, the old man, Sima Lun was at most a "third-class merit", a "sponsorship award", taking such a big risk to launch a coup d'état, and finally getting a third-class merit, which was very worthless in Sun Xiu's eyes. After several thoughts, Sun Xiu's mind formed another script, that is, to give up the prince! Let the crown prince be killed, and then let Sima Lun launch a coup d'état in the name of the prince's revenge, depose Jia, and sweep the government in one fell swoop to maximize benefits! Sima Lun had no idea, Sun Xiu said how to change him to do it, so the lord and the two immediately changed their strategy, day and night to persuade Jia Mi and Jia Hou, quickly slaughter the prince, in order to be extremely popular, and even deliberately revealed the coup plan to Jia Mi, and the evil of his intentions was evident. Under this strong stimulus, the scene at the beginning of this article finally appeared, and the prince died tragically at the hands of Sun Wei.
After Sima Song's death, Sun Xiu's plan came to fruition. A few days later, inspired by the great banner of revenge for the prince, Sima Lun entangled the disciples and invaded the palace in one fell swoop, and with almost no resistance, he swept away the Jia Hou family and its henchmen, and at the same time deceived Zhang Hua, Pei Jun (wei), Du Bin and other important courtiers into the palace to be beheaded. Soon, Jia Hou was deposed and killed in Jin Yongcheng, Emperor Hui was placed under house arrest, the imperial city was all in the hands of Sima Lun, and the one who went along with it and the one who rebelled died, that is, overnight, King Zhao replaced Jia Hou and became the first person in the world!
After the dove occupied the magpie's nest, the master and servant entered the highlight period of life. Sima Lun appropriated all the power and titles of the original Jia clan for himself, occupied important positions, eliminated dissidents, and sealed his cronies, and became the supreme ruler of the Western Jin Dynasty, and also defeated the "counter-revolution" of Wang Yun of Huainan who did not measure up to his own strength. As the chief staff member and the strongest brain in the team, Sima Lun's admiration, favor and dependence on Sun Xiu have also reached an incomparable degree. After the coup, Sun Xiu immediately paid homage to Zhongshu Ling, and took the title of county and took charge of military power; on the residence, in order to show respect, Sun Xiu lived in Sima Zhao's former Xiang Mansion; in government affairs, Sima Lun read little and could not do anything, so the state affairs were not huge and detailed, all of which could be implemented after Sun Xiu's instructions, that is, the edict issued by Sima Lun, Sun Xiu also wanted to change it, and withdrew it if he wanted to, as if he was the first person in the world; in order to seek dignity, Sun Xiu also formed a family with Emperor Hui, and his son Sun Hui, who had been a son who had been a son of Emperor Hui, married Emperor Hui's daughter Princess Hedong. When the horse was made, the news came out, and the people were stunned.
When people reach this point, they are almost invincible in the world, and who to use and who to kill is a thought. The old bosses and famous nobles who once looked down on Sun Xiu fell under the knees of this former "Langya little official", such as Pan Yue, a beautiful man who had nothing to do with the whip, who ran to Sun Xiu and set up a set of nears, and said: Lord Sun still remembers our once beautiful past, don't you? Sun Xiu's eyes narrowed: I have never forgotten you for a day! Pan Yue was dumbfounded. Soon, this talented "first beautiful man in ancient times" was detained at the execution site for "plotting rebellion", and the heads fell to the ground and the three ethnic groups were cursed. At this time, there was another person waiting to be stabbed, that is, Shi Chong, the former richest man in Luoyang, who would end up in such a field, supposedly because he did not want to give one of his geji to Sun Xiu. As a result, the two friends were "white and returned together" because of the same person and on the same day.
It is said that things have done this, and it should be suspended for a period of time to consolidate the results of victory. However, Sun Xiu has been "successfully" overwhelmed by the brain, he has no intention of stopping at all, but to go further, turn Sima Lun into an emperor, make himself a "founding father", and achieve a qualitative leap in life!
Under Sun Xiu's several strokes, Sima Laozi quickly overcame the psychological obstacle of becoming emperor, and he not only believed that he was pushing the boat along the water and the expectations of the people, but also had the "blessing of the Mandate of Heaven". Because Sun Xiu said that he dreamed of his father Sima Yi, his father said to let him quickly enter the Western Palace and take the throne, even his father was on his side, so there was still any hesitation? So a Zen drama was staged, and Sima Lun's henchmen methodically prepared various props, edicts, and rituals needed for the Zen position; and according to the "process", they snatched the hui emperor Sima Zhen's sleeping hall, throne, jade seal, and yin sui. In order to comfort his frustrated nephews and nephews, Sima Lun honored his grandson Sima Zhen as "Emperor Taishang", and then used a magnificent and grand honor guard to escort the "Emperor Taishang" to Jin Yongcheng, the place where his son and wife were once placed under house arrest, and began his turbulent life.
At the end of the ceremony, Sima Lun changed the era name to "Jianshi", and he became the "Jianshi Emperor". The new emperor and his ministers of culture and martial arts began a carnival-like celebration of the end of the world, and their indiscriminate rewards were so great that they even directly created an idiom! However, the "founding monarchs" who were immersed in joy seemed to have overlooked one thing: if the abolition and killing of the prince was considered to be a shake of the society, then wouldn't the usurpation of power be a landslide? Jia Nanfeng moved the prince and was tragically killed, the three clans were exhausted, and you Sima Lun directly seized the throne, is this not putting yourself in a more dangerous position than Jia Hou?
Unsurprisingly, a few days after the "Jianshi Emperor" ascended the throne, Wang Ying of Chengdu, Wang Yong of Hejian and Wang Yu of Qi rebelled one after another, and in the name of restoring Sima Zheng, they rebelled against the "Jianshi Emperor" and Sun Xiuyi's henchmen, which was almost the same as Sima Lun's crusade against Jia Hou a few months ago, but the movement was even greater, and gradually spread to the whole country, becoming the starting point of the three-hundred-year-long war in China.
There is no suspense in the end of the turmoil. Although Sun Xiu and Zhao Wang Lun did their utmost to organize resistance, although the "Jianshi Army" also won several quite big victories, although Sun Xiu also launched "special functions", set up sacrifices on the altar, invited Sima Yi, Wang Qiao and other gods and immortals to come to help, but the energy of the "rebel" kings still grew bigger and bigger in the struggle. The looming opposition exerted strong pressure on the Founding Dynasty and caused its internal collapse.
In fact, from the day the Three Kings raised their troops, the "Founding Emperor" and Sun Xiu in Luoyang City became more and more conspicuous day by day, and in order to avoid disasters, many people had begun to sum up, whether to be strong first, slaughtered these two disasters, and the rebels in the province implicated themselves when they broke the city, frightening Sun Xiu not even to dare to come out of the house. However, the situation was still deteriorating, and when he received the news that the "government army" had been defeated and retreated on all fronts, the resourceful Sun Xiu had no choice but to do anything, and just as he was discussing with his cronies where to flee, King Shang Shu Zuo suddenly launched a rebellion and led seven hundred troops into the palace (with internal response), intending to rob and kill Sun Xiu and his cohorts, Sun Xiu could not escape, was beheaded by the left guard general Zhao Quan, and the remaining party collapsed and was killed. From the time the prince was deposed and Deposed Jia, to now being beheaded by the chaos, Sun Xiu's most glorious peak of life has lasted for more than a year.
On the same day that Sun Xiu was killed, Sima Lun's "founding" throne was also deposed by Wang He, and the officers and soldiers were restored from Jin Yongcheng by the imprisoned Hui Emperor, and at the same time, the father and son of the deposed emperor were installed in (Jin Yongcheng was busy). Soon after, at the suggestion of Sima Tong, the King of Liang, Sima Lun was given death, and the old bastard who blamed himself and did all the bad things was finally sent to Huangquan by a cup of golden crumb wine, and before he died, he covered his face and cried, even shouting"Sun Xiu misled me!" ”。
Sun Xiu's life of disrupting the world has come to an end, but the story of the Sun Xiu family is not over. A hundred years later, in the land of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Sun Xiu's nth generation grandson, Sun En, launched an uprising with the "Five Buckets of Rice" sect, which swept through the vast area south of the Yangtze River, continuing the "fine bloodline" of this family to disrupt the world.