Chapter 14 Emperor Hui of Jin's "Different Thinking"

The idiot son of Emperor Wu of Jin ascended the throne and became emperor, Emperor Hui of Jin.He is so stupid that he doesn't even know who he is, how can he manage the country, naturally he made a lot of jokes. One day, Emperor Hui of Jin was wandering around in the back garden. It was early summer, and there were bursts of frogs singing in the pond.So the emperor was very interested, and asked the people around, "Do you think these little things are calling for officials, or are they calling for private people?" Youdao is a fool's question, and a hundred wise people can't answer it.Regarding Jin Huidi's jumping thinking, the left and right followers felt incredible, looked at each other, and didn't know what to say.Fortunately, there was a eunuch who often served the emperor, who probably knew his thinking characteristics better, so he said solemnly: "Your Majesty, if these frogs cry in the official field, they are for the official; If you call it privately, it is for private people." This kind of answer, which is completely nonsense, may just be in tune with Emperor Jin Hui's low intelligence level.So he was very happy after hearing this, and felt that a big problem that troubled him had been solved.

When this incident got out, everyone laughed at the emperor for his lack of brain.But the next thing that happened made this stupid emperor a big hit, and he also left a famous saying through the ages. One year, there was a famine in a certain place, no grain was harvested, and countless people died of starvation.When the official document was reported to the capital, all the officials gathered to discuss countermeasures.Emperor Hui of Jin listened stupefiedly, feeling very strange, and asked: "How can such a good-looking person starve to death?" There was a famine, and the people had no food to eat." Emperor Hui of Jin also felt very embarrassed, and suddenly, he had an idea, and proudly came up with a solution: "It doesn't matter if there is no food, why don't you eat meat porridge?" When the ministers heard the emperor's "wonderful" idea, they were all dumbfounded, dumbfounded.Emperor Hui of Jin also left his name in the annals of history by virtue of this incident.I think there have been many emperors in China since ancient times. Except for the good ones and the bad ones, most of them can only be left in the thick and dusty history books, waiting for historians to discover.This stupid Emperor Hui of Jin, but because of the phrase "why not eat minced meat", many people know his name, which is considered a kind of luck.Coincidentally, on the eve of the French Revolution in the 18th century, when Queen Mary of Louis XVI heard that the people had no bread to eat, she also said: "If there is no bread, why don't you eat cakes?" The same reason.The so-called noble people are the stupidest, probably when people climb to a high position, they will always have a little "altitude sickness", and their mind will become dizzy, but it has nothing to do with IQ.

For a living treasure like Emperor Hui of Jin, if there is nothing wrong with the country, his being so stupid is just to add some jokes to everyone.But the political situation at that time was not optimistic.Emperor Wu of Jin has always been worried about this stupid son. Although he was in his thirties when he came to the throne, he arranged for his uncle Runan Wang Sima Liang and the queen's father Yang Jun to assist him.But when Emperor Wu of Jin died, only Empress Yang and Yang Jun were by his side. Yang Jun wanted to monopolize the power, so he colluded with his daughter Empress Yang to forge the will, appointed himself to assist the government alone, and wanted to get rid of Sima Liang.Sima Liang fled to the feudal Xuchang overnight to avoid disaster, and the power of the court fell into Yang Jun's hands.General major edicts were formally drawn by Emperor Hui of Jin, and they were issued only after they were presented to Empress Dowager Yang and Yang Jun.

Yang Jun was originally a low-level official, always planning and indecisive, tough on the outside and timid on the inside.Because he borrowed the empress dowager's daughter's position as an extremely talented minister and took charge of the government, he couldn't help but get carried away, as if he had the air of acting for the emperor, but when encountering major events, his idiot nature was revealed.He knew that he didn't have much prestige, and he couldn't get the support of the high-ranking nobles, so he gave a lot of rewards and added titles indiscriminately, in order to gain a good reputation.Empress Dowager Yang Zhi and others have repeatedly persuaded this ridiculous practice, but Yang Jun turned a deaf ear to it.His domineering aroused the resentment of the kings of the Sima family, and also aroused the sideways attention of Emperor Huidi and Empress Jananfeng.

Jananfeng was originally a very ambitious woman.Empress Dowager Yang and her father Yang Jun controlled all the power in the court. She was very dissatisfied and began to look for opportunities to cultivate cronies in private.She united with King Sima Wei of Chu, summoned him to lead troops into Luoyang, and manipulated Emperor Hui of Jin to announce that Yang Jun had rebelled against him and barbarated his tribe.Then, with the help of Sima Wei, king of Chu, he ordered the execution of Sima Liang, king of Runan, and Wei Guan, the old minister.So far, the two Gu Ming ministers left by Emperor Wu of Jin have been eliminated by her.Then, she executed Chu Wang Sima Wei on the charge of unauthorized homicide.After this dazzling action, Jananfeng finally took the power in his own hands.

Empress Jananfeng was in power, and began to appoint pro-party members.However, in order to reconcile the contradictions, she appointed Zhang Hua and other celebrities as senior officials such as Shizhong and Zhongshuling to be in charge of confidentiality.These people are loyal to the imperial family and assist the government with their hearts.Therefore, in the past ten years, the political situation in the Western Jin Dynasty has become a little more stable. For the stupid emperor Jin Huidi, it would be a good thing if it could continue like this.Anyway, he didn't understand anything, it was just a bet after the big decision was made, and he was happy to hand over the court affairs to the queen.But although Jananfeng is in power, he also has a thorn in his side, and that is Emperor Jin Hui's prince Sima Yu.

Since Jananfeng had no son, he hated the prince very much and always wanted to get rid of him.This Sima was clever and clever when he was young, which made his grandfather, Emperor Wu of Jin, have great hopes for him.But maybe it's really young, it may not be good to be old, but when I grow up, I don't like reading and play around all day long.He opened a market in the prince's east palace, doing business for fun, and selling pork himself, it is said that he can weigh two pounds with his hands, and it is accurate.His master Du Xi often advised him to check his words and deeds, cultivate virtue and promote goodness.Sima Kui got impatient, so he asked someone to hide a big needle in Du Xi's cushion, and stabbed the old man until he was dripping with blood.It seemed that all his cleverness was used in this kind of mischief.But although he was absurd, he didn't do anything too outrageous, and he was the only son of Emperor Hui of Jin. If Jia Nanfeng wanted to get rid of him, he had to spend a lot of time thinking.

In December of the ninth year of Yuankang (300), Jananfeng sent someone to call the prince into the court on the grounds that Emperor Hui was ill.When the prince arrived in the palace, some servants came out to guide him to the other room.As soon as he was seated, a servant girl brought three liters of wine and a large plate of jujubes to the prince to eat and drink in front of him, saying that it was a gift from the sage.The prince's alcohol capacity is light, and he drank half of it. He was already drunk, so he said that he could not drink any more.But the maid in the palace scolded him: "The emperor gave His Highness wine, and His Highness refused to drink it up. Could it be that he was afraid that the wine might be poisoned?"Then, another court lady held a pen, inkstone, paper and ink, and urged the prince to copy a document.The prince's drunken eyes were blurred, and he didn't even look at the words, so he recorded them one by one, with crooked handwriting.After finishing writing, his wine has not sobered up.

On the second day, the silly emperor angrily took out a piece of paper in the court hall and gave it to the officials.When the officials looked at it, it was written crookedly on the paper: It turned out that this was what the prince copied that day.This was a strategy set by Jananfeng, who wanted to trick the prince into copying the objectionable document while he was drunk and unconscious, so as to frame the prince for treason.The original copy of this anti-book was written by Pan Yue, the servant of Huangmen. This Pan Yue is very famous. Later generations described the handsome man as "Pan An" in "Yan Ru Song Yu, Appearance Than Pan An" (Pan Yue's word is An Ren).He was not only a handsome guy, but also a great talent, as famous as the writer Lu Ji at that time.However, Handsome Pan must have been very reluctant to be ordered to write something that would implicate the Nine Clans, so he concocted such a thing: the content was reversed, the meaning was confusing, and it was definitely lower than the normal level of the talented Pan.Maybe Pan Dacai thinks that this way, ordinary people can see that this is not right, but with the poor IQ of Jin Huidi, he firmly believes in this kind of nonsense.As a result, Jananfeng's scheme succeeded, and the prince was deposed as a commoner and moved to Jinyong City where the Jin royal family held prisoners.

Since Jananfeng got what he wanted, enough should be enough.But she was insidious and vicious, and she still couldn't let the prince go, so she sent someone to kill the prince.This kind of behavior aroused the attention of the courtiers, and even aroused the dissatisfaction of the kings, which eventually led to chaos that overthrew the Jin Dynasty.