Chapter 3 The First Yongjia Rebellion

Jinwu Emperor Sima Yan was much worse than his father Sima Zhao, and even worse than his grandfather Sima Yi, but he was still a shrewd person anyway, but his crown prince Sima Zhong was a True fool.If the demise of the Eastern Han Dynasty was largely due to the stupidity of Emperors Huan and Ling, and the demise of the Shu Kingdom was largely related to Liu Chan's dull aptitude, then when Sima Zhong, an idiot, became the emperor of the Jin Dynasty, it meant that It is not far from the time when the world is in chaos. (When Sima Zhao was laughing at Liu Chan's stupidity, if he knew what kind of person his grandson would be, it would be hard to laugh. Compared with Sima Zhong, Liu Chan is simply "a little idiot seeing a big idiot!" " up.)

In fact, when Emperor Wu of Jin was in power, he also realized that it might not be feasible for him, the prince, to be emperor.Since he is not at ease, there is naturally a solution, one of which is to find some difficult state affairs to test the crown prince.So once he specially gave the prince a bunch of documents related to daily business, to see how the prince would deal with it.When the prince got the document, he naturally couldn't answer it, but he never thought that although the prince is an idiot, his wife is quite powerful. This is the famous ugly queen Jananfeng in history.

Jia Nanfeng's ability to become a princess is largely due to her origin. Her father was Jia Chong, the founding official of the Jin Dynasty.When the Crown Princess was about to be registered, Emperor Wu had a lot of opinions on marrying the Jia family.He thinks that the daughter of the Jia family is "jealous and has few sons, ugly and short-haired". After this marriage. Jananfeng was two years older than the prince, and she was a jealous woman. When she saw a concubine who was pregnant with the prince's child in the harem, she would often throw a halberd over and beat the fetus alive on the spot. It was brutal and bloody.Emperor Wu wanted to abolish her several times, but all because of the opposition of the harem and courtiers.And Jananfeng's standard of playing power is beyond the reach of ordinary concubines, and it can also be ranked first in Chinese history.The prince's test this time was obviously related to the important matter of whether the prince would stay or be discarded. She hurriedly found a capable person around the prince and wrote an answer sheet for him.Jananfeng was very happy after reading it, and thought that if he handed in this answer sheet, he would definitely win the favor of the emperor.

At this time, a eunuch named Zhang Hong reminded her: "The crown prince is not learned, and the emperor knows it too. If you write the answer sheet so citing scriptures, I'm afraid you will be cheated." Jananfeng thought, yes, thank you for reminding me, I hurriedly asked Zhang Hong to rewrite a much shallower answer sheet, and asked that idiot prince to copy it again. (Fortunately, this prince is not yet illiterate, he can write a few words, it seems that he does not belong to the category of mentally handicapped.) Emperor Wu looked at the answer sheet, ah, it's okay, although the answer is not very good, but it still makes sense after all, so the prince was finally preserved.

After this idiot prince became the emperor, he made a lot of jokes.Once when he was playing in the back garden and heard the sound of frogs in the pond, he asked the eunuchs around him: "Is this little thing called for the official family or for the private family?" (Looks like a funny expert.) There really was a clever eunuch who said after thinking about it: "The ones in the official land should be called for the official family, and the ones in the private land should be called for the private family." Later, there was a famine all over the world, and he heard that many people starved to death. He felt very strange, so he asked a question: "Why don't you let them eat meat porridge?"

There was such a stupid emperor in the Jin Dynasty, so the political system of the world was in chaos, and internal and external troubles followed one after another.The so-called "internal troubles" refer to the "Eight Kings Rebellion" that lasted more than ten years. Sima Zhong's uncles and brothers surrounded the emperor's throne and began to kill each other, making the Jin Dynasty dying; ", that is the rise of the Liu Yuan tribe of the Southern Huns. The origin of the Southern Huns stems from the marriage between Emperor Han Gao and Mao Dun Shanyu.Some Huns spent more time with the Han people after many marriages with the Han royal family. Their descendants believed that they were descendants of the Han royal family, so they changed their surname to Liu, the emperor of the Han Dynasty.

In the early years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the son of Wuzhuliu Ruotan Shanyu (Halo! What a long and awkward name) of the Huns at that time established himself as Nan Shanyu, lived in the area south of the Great Wall, and established himself in Lishi (now Shanxi) and other places. tribal settlements.During the Yellow Turban Rebellion, Shanyu Qiangqu sent his son Yu Fuluo to lead troops to assist the Han Dynasty in crusade against the Yellow Turban Army. Unexpectedly, unexpected events happened, the Xiongnu broke out in civil strife, and Qiang Qu was killed by his subordinates.Yu Fuluo couldn't return to the north, so he stayed in the Han Dynasty, claiming to be the Xiongnu Shanyu, and his tribe was roughly concentrated in the present Shanxi and Hedong regions.After Yu Fuluo's death, his younger brother Hu Chuquan succeeded Shan Yu, and Yu Fuluo's son Liu Bao was named Zuo Xianwang. (The names of the aforementioned Chanyus are quite long, perhaps because they are familiar with the monosyllable language of the Han people, and they also find it too troublesome to pronounce in the Hun language, so by Liu Bao’s generation, their names are no different from those of the Han people.)

After Cao Cao pacified the north, he divided the many tribes of the Southern Xiongnu into the left, the north, the south, and the middle five tribes according to their geographical location. The handsome left. Liu Yuan is the son of Liu Bao. He has read a lot of books since he was a child, and he is familiar with the art of war.Before Emperor Wu of Jin destroyed Wu, he had intended to promote him and "let him do things in the southeast".But many ministers pointed out: Liu Yuan's talent is unmatched in the world today. If he is allowed to attack Wu, he may never return! (Another Sun Quan?) The so-called "people who are not of my race must have different hearts." (Hehe, this sentence can be said to have been overused during the Sixteen Kingdoms period. Think about the Jin Dynasty, it was not destroyed by your own brothers, so it is impossible to solve things like racial discrimination Question. However, having said that, if Emperor Wu had really sent Liu Yuan to crusade against Soochow, I am afraid that the history of the Sixteen Kingdoms would have been completely rewritten.)

Although he failed to defeat Wu, Liu Yuan was able to continue to expand his power by virtue of his talent.After Liu Bao's death, Liu Yuan succeeded him as the commander of the left army of the Southern Huns. He had strict criminal laws and recruited wise men. Scholars in Youzhou and Jizhou all admired his reputation and voted for his subordinates one after another. In the last year of Emperor Hui of Jin (Sima Zhong's posthumous title), Sima Ying, King of Chengdu, was appointed General Zhenbei to guard Yecheng.In view of Liu Yuan's influence, he was appointed as General Ningshuo and supervised the five military forces, and transferred to Yecheng.

At this time, the "Eight Kings Rebellion" began, and the world was in chaos, and the Xiongnu tribe naturally had some ideas.Liu Yuan's ancestor, the former captain of the north, Liu Xuan, the king of Zuoxian, and others discussed together: "In the past, our ancestors were brothers with the Han family, and they shared worries and prosperity. Since the fall of the Han Dynasty, the Wei and Jin Dynasties have prospered, and our ancestors Although 'Shanyu' has a false name, he has no real estate. He has been reduced from a prince to a registered household (it is no different from ordinary people). Now that the Sima family is fighting each other, and the world is full of turmoil, it seems that it is time for us to rejuvenate the country and resume business. gone."

Everyone believed that Liu Yuan was "extraordinary in appearance and superior to the world", and unanimously recommended him as the Great Chanyu, and sent his party member Hu Yanyou to Yecheng to inform Liu Yuan.Liu Yuan also had this intention for a long time, so he asked Sima Ying to come back with an excuse. After all, Sima Ying had doubts and did not let him go.Liu Yuan had no choice but to let Hu Yanyou go back to deliver a message, and ordered Liu Xuan and others to summon the five Huns and other Huns to prepare for an incident in the name of responding to Sima Ying.As a result, the Jin Dynasty was already crumbling in the wind and rain.