Chapter 5 Who will inherit the great country

——The life and death of Emperor Wu of Jin Dynasty In the later period of Emperor Wu of Jin's reign, the issue of heirs became the key to key events. Since Wei Wendi Cao Pi set up the "Nine Grades of Zhongzheng System", the family status of the gentry has not only become a huge political force over the years, but also the most critical indicator considered by the upper ruling class for marriage.With a clear family background, it has become the first choice for high-ranking nobles to form marriages.After Sima Shi married the daughter of the Yang family, the grandson of the famous Confucian Cai Yong in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and Sima Zhao married the Queen's family of the famous Confucian Wang Suchang in the Wei Dynasty, Sima Yan also hired the daughter of the Yang family of the Gao family of Hongnong Huayin as his wife.Emperor Wu of the Jin Dynasty "has long hair and looks very majestic", and Empress Yang Yan is "little intelligent, good at books, and beautiful in aptitude".In such a strong union couple, they gave birth to three sons and three daughters.Everything else is good, except that the prince Sima Zhong was born stupid, and his IQ is slightly higher than that of an idiot (Sima Gui, the eldest son of Emperor Wu of Jin Dynasty, died early).

From the perspective of medicine and genetics, Sima Yan and Yang Yan are both healthy, and Jin Hui Emperor Sima Zhong also has a son and four daughters, all of whom are smart.Huidi has a low IQ in the middle. It is likely that his mother was pregnant for too long or the midwife was too nervous when she was born and bumped the big fat boy's brain when she was lifted out of the birth canal, turning the real dragon into a stupid dragon, causing trouble A lot. Although the emperor's father and son do not eat and live together like ordinary father and son, Sima Yan also knows that the crown prince Sima Zhong has some problems in his mind. When they usually meet, anyone can see that the prince's mind must be in trouble. Over the water.Sima Yan is not short of sons, almost a group of sons, he has twenty-six sons in total. The three kings in the "Eight Kings Rebellion" (Sima Wei, King of Chu, Sima Yun, King of Changsha, and Sima Ying, King of Chengdu) and later Sima Chi, the Emperor Huai of Jin Dynasty, were all handsome and had superhuman IQs.Emperor Wu had a good relationship with Empress Yang and his wife. After he returned to the palace, he said that the crown prince could not bear to serve as the emperor and wanted to change his son to succeed him.Empress Yang was shocked when she heard the words, and persuaded: "How can you move if you want to be an elder and not a virtuous one!" From the perspective of the feudal patriarchal system, the queen's words are very reasonable, but it is really unfair to let her son, who is a fool, sit in the position of prince. There is no foresight in a woman's view.Emperor Wu of Jin had soft ears, and after being persuaded by the queen, he didn't want to cause any more trouble.In addition, Sima Yan, the son of the crown prince Sima Zhong, was very clever and clever, and he was very pleased with Emperor Wu of Jin. The so-called "looking at grandchildren but not sons" made Sima Yan's idea of ​​changing the prince even weaker.After the crown princess Jiananfeng entered the palace, she was good at scheming, and even helped the silly prince a lot at the critical moment.

Before Crown Prince Sima Zhong got married, Emperor Wu of Jin wanted to marry the daughter of Wei Guan who was "virtuous and had many sons, beautiful and long white" for his son.However, Empress Yang had a good relationship with the powerful minister Jia Chong's wife, Guo Shi, and also received many rare treasures from Guo Shi, so she called Jia Nanfeng generous and virtuous in front of the emperor's husband, and she could be the princess.Emperor Wu of Jin, who has always been soft-hearted, was once again mistaken by the queen, and welcomed a short, fat, black and ugly girl into the palace to pair up with the prince Sima Zhong.This "ugly and sinister" woman became the biggest time bomb that ruined the Western Jin Dynasty in the future.

Originally the princess should be Jia Wu, the sister of Jia Nanfeng.Jia Wu was twelve years old at the time, and the young prince Sima Zhong was one year old. After all, he belonged to the Jia family. The twelve-year-old Jia Wu was "ugly, short and black, and short in clothes". At the age of fifteen, Jiananfeng married into the palace and became a princess.Jananfeng was "jealous of power and fraud, the prince was afraid and confused, and the imperial concubine rarely entered the imperial court".At the same time, Jananfeng was cruel by nature, and once killed several maids on his left and right with his own hands.Once she discovered that a court lady was secretly pregnant with Prince Sima Zhong's child. In her jealousy, she stabbed the child with a sharp halberd, and the formed fetus fell to the ground and died.Emperor Wu of Jin was furious when he heard the news, and decided to imprison her in Jinyong City (Jinyong City was the place where the Jin Dynasty specially imprisoned concubines, concubines and royal family who were deposed).At that time, Empress Yang (this Empress Yang was Yang Yan's cousin Yang Zhi. Before Yang Yan died, she entrusted the funeral in the arms of Emperor Wu and asked Emperor Wu to marry her cousin, "the emperor shed tears.") Because Jananfeng was Recommended by my cousin, the Jia family has a good relationship with my own Yang family, so I persuaded Emperor Wu with good words: "Gong Jia (Jia Chong, the father of Jian Nanfeng) has made great contributions to the country (helping the Sima family to usurp the Wei Dynasty), and his family should be lenient even if they are guilty. Forgiveness, let alone his own daughter. Concubine Jia is young now, just the age to be jealous, and she shouldn't cover up her father's virtue with her minor faults." Hearing this, Emperor Wu of Jin calmed down his anger.But as the empress of the dynasty, although she was only ten years older than Jia Nanfeng, Empress Yang still admonished this "daughter-in-law" many times, telling her to restrain herself and be a good person.Concubine Jia didn't know that Queen Yang had saved her behind her back, but thought that Queen Yang had spoken ill of herself in front of Emperor Wu, so she was full of resentment towards this "mother-in-law".

In the later period of Emperor Wu of Jin Dynasty, he was drinking too much and his health was very bad. The officials were deeply worried.Shangshu and Qiao euphemistically remonstrated and said to Emperor Wu of Jin: "The crown prince has a pure and ancient style, but the end of the world is full of hypocrisy. I am afraid that your majesty's family affairs will be affected." Sima Yan silently did not answer.Veteran Wei Guan once took advantage of the banquet and drinking wine, caressed the throne and said to Emperor Wu of Jin: "This seat is a pity." Emperor Wu of Jin was also not at ease.Once, he recruited all the officials of the Crown Prince's East Palace to have a banquet in the palace, and then sealed several documents in a large envelope, and sent someone to the Prince for a decision. The ability of government affairs, and asked the envoys to sit outside and wait for the prince's document to be approved. "The (Prince) concubine is terrified, and outsiders answer the questions. The answerers often quote ancient meanings." Jananfeng's ugly woman was terrified. If her husband is abolished, she will become an ordinary concubine from a concubine. Human slaughter.Originally, marrying this stupid guy was just to plan for his future queen seat next to the Ninth Five-Year Dragon Chair.It is estimated that I will catch up temporarily, find a Donghao Furu as a gunner, and quote the book bag on the side of the document, full of allusions and idioms.However, there was an idle eunuch named Zhang Hong in the palace who was smart. He said: "It is well known that the prince is not good at studying. Now that he widely quotes ancient Chinese allusions in the imperial approval documents, the emperor will definitely see through them. If you blame it, you must still pursue the person behind it who is responsible for finding the shooter. It is better to discuss the matter directly and write down your judgment."

Jia Nanfeng was overjoyed, and said to Zhang Hong: "Please write it for me, so that you will be rich and prosperous in the future." , the prince with a low IQ copied it as a cat and a tiger, and sent envoys who had been waiting all the time to deliver it to the banquet where the officials of the imperial palace and the Eastern Palace and the ministers of the current dynasty were having a banquet. "I am very pleased with the emperor's province. First show the crown prince Shao Fu Weiguan." Originally, the expectations for the crown prince Sima Zhong were very low, but suddenly he saw the judgment written by his stupid son with clear intentions and proper handling of things. Sima Yan was overjoyed and handed the document to the Wei Guan, invisibly leaked such a piece of information: You often said that the prince does not have the qualifications to succeed, look, it's not bad, ah! "Everyone knows that (Wei) Guan made slanderous words first, and everyone in the hall called him long live." From this, Jiananfeng's family also secretly wrote down Wei Guan's sum, and kept it for later to settle accounts.

Of course, all kinds of history books have written that Jananfeng, a black and ugly girl, is extremely scheming, as if it was all because of her deception that the stupid man Sima Zhong finally became Emperor Hui of Jin.According to the author's speculation, it was Jinwu Emperor Sima Yan himself who really made the final decision.What he valued was precisely Sima Yu, the son of Emperor Hui. Sima Yan, according to historical records, his mother Xie Jiuqing Hui Zhenzheng was selected as a talented person in the back court of Emperor Wu of Jin Dynasty, and Sima Yan had already tasted "fresh".Sima Zhong was established as the crown prince at the age of ten, and as soon as he entered the East Palace, the selection of the crown prince was listed as a top priority. "Emperor Wu thought that the prince was still young and didn't know about the curtain room, so he sent him to the East Palace to serve him." This sentence in "Book of Jin" revealed the truth. Emperor Wu must have used this beautiful and flowery talent several times before he felt that This talent is smart and considerate, and he sent him to give his stupid son a sexual enlightenment, test "sex" by himself, and teach the stupid boy to "that" with women in bed. "(Xie Cairen) is lucky to be pregnant." After Jia Nanfeng passed through the door, he could kill other concubines in the crown prince at will, but he dared not to Xie Cairen.Xie Cairen also knew that Concubine Jia was jealous, "I begged to return the West Palace, so I gave birth to Prince Minhuai (Sima Yan)." A few years later, the foolish prince went to the palace to meet his father, and saw a three or four-year-old white fat boy with several people. The prince was playing together, very cute, so he walked over and held the child's hand and giggled.Emperor Wu saw it from a distance, walked up to him, and said to Sima Zhong, "It's your son." Sima Zhong didn't know, so he went in, so he could only kneel on the ground and thank him.

From this, it can also be imagined that this beautiful child, Sima Yu, is also the blood of Emperor Wu of Jin. Although Xie Cairen and Sima Zhong have been in love for a few times, the possibility of a twelve or thirteen-year-old child being pregnant is not very great after all.Emperor Wu of Jin only made a transition for this stupid son who was in the position of eldest son, and deeply hoped that his younger son, Sima Yu, would inherit the throne as the emperor's grandson in the future.But what Emperor Wu of Jin didn't expect was that the concubine Jiananfeng was too sinister, the ministers in the court were too useless, and his own Sima's son, the prince, was not up to date. The grandson (or prince) also died under Jananfeng's butcher's knife in the end.

In addition to his many sons, Emperor Wu of Jin actually had a younger brother who was a "best relative of Mingde" - King Sima You of Qi. Sima You, King of Qi, was originally the younger brother of Emperor Wu of Jin, Sima Yan. The two had the same father and mother, and were originally close relatives with the strongest blood.At the beginning, after the death of the old treacherous hero Sima Yi, his eldest son Sima Shi still controlled the power of the Wei Dynasty and "assisted the government" with the general of the Fu army.Seeing that his elder brother had no son, Sima Zhao, Sima Shi's younger brother, adopted his second son, Sima You, to his elder brother as his son.Sima Shi went eastward and westward, constantly expanding the power and achievements of the Sima family. He died of illness in the battle against Wenqin in Huainan at the age of forty-eight.After receiving Zen in the Jin Dynasty, Master Sima was named Emperor Jing.

After the death of Master Sima, Sima Zhao, the younger brother, was not a good person. He did not obey the order of the Wei Dynasty to order him to sit in Xuchang. , completely controlled the military and political power of the Wei Dynasty.When he was in power, Wei Emperor Cao Mao was killed for "rebellion", and he made Wei's clan Gaogui Xianggong the puppet emperor, "Sima Zhao's heart is known to all passers-by!" Sima Zhao was named the King of Jin in the Wei Dynasty, and tried to make his second son, Sima You, the eldest son many times.First of all, Sima Zhao and his brother Sima Shi had a deep relationship, and they often said to people around them: "The world is the world of King Jing (at the time of the Jin Dynasty, it was said that Sima Master's posthumous title was King Jing, not Emperor Jing)!" Therefore, The adoption of Sima Shi's second son, Sima You, was also Sima Zhao's wish to explain to his deceased elder brother (Sima Shi was the eldest son of Sima Yi, and Sima You adopted him to Sima Shi, so he should also be the heir); secondly, Sima You was a man "Qing and fair, kind to the virtuous, loving scriptures, able to belong to literature, good at chido", has a good reputation, "only looked to the right of Emperor Wu (Sima Yan)", he was a good seedling of good quality, so that Sima at that time Every time Zhao saw this second son who was adopted by his elder brother, he would pat his seat and call Sima You by his nickname happily and affectionately, saying, "Tao Fu, this is your seat." There are many of them."

Because of Sima Zhao's cronies, He Zeng, Jia Chong, etc., said that "the Zhongfu Army (Sima Yan's official position in the Wei Dynasty at that time was Zhongfu Army, Xinchang Township Marquis) was smart and martial, and had talents beyond the world. Hands over knees, this is not the appearance of a minister."It is estimated that He, Jia and others said that Sima Yan was "inhuman and ministerial" and moved the heart of Sima Zhao who had always wanted to usurp Wei Ding. In addition, Sima Yan was his eldest son after all. The second son, Sima You, took the position of the son of the world. Deep in his heart, Emperor Wu of Jin Dynasty, Sima Yan probably regarded his younger brother, King Sima You of Qi, as his strongest competitor.There is no better way to know a child than to be a father, and no way to know a child is like a mother.When Sima Zhao was about to die, he still struggled to explain to Sima Yan and Sima You brothers the story of the incompatibility between King Huainan of the Han Dynasty, King Chen Si (Cao Zhi) of the Wei Dynasty and the elder brother emperor, exhorting the two to love each other and help each other, " On the verge of collapse, hold (Sima) Yau's hand to confer on the emperor (Sima Yan)".When the Queen Mother was about to die, she also said to Sima Yan with tears, "Tao Fu (Sima You's nickname) is impatient, and you, an older brother, are not loving. If I die, I'm afraid you brothers will not be compatible. I hope you If you can love your younger brother, don’t forget me.” Qi Wang Sima You is indeed not a hypocritical prince with hypocritical appearance and hidden ambitions.After Emperor Wu of Jin practiced Zuo, Sima You, who was awarded the title of King Qi, "Presidential Sergeant, Fu Ning inside and outside", made great contributions to helping others. "When there are floods and droughts, the people will increase the loan, and reduce it by two, and the country will rely on it." "Let yourself be humble, treat things with faith", and from time to time persuade Emperor Wu of Jin to focus on farming, and to go extravagant and frugal.Inside and outside, everyone is happy to have such a dignified, kind, benevolent and kind prince. "In the later years of the emperor, all the sons were weak, but the crown prince refused to order, and the courtiers both inside and outside the court favored (King Qi) you."The flattering ministers around Emperor Wu of Jin, Zhong Shujian Xun Xu and Shi Zhong Feng NFDA5 were afraid that Sima You would succeed to the throne after Emperor Wu's death, which would be detrimental to their wealth and status, so they took advantage of the opportunity to slander Emperor Wu of Jin: "After your majesty lives long, the crown prince cannot be established. " Emperor Wu was shocked and asked: "Why?" Xun Xu also said on the sidelines: "All the officials at home and abroad are loyal to King Qi, how can the prince be established? If your majesty doesn't believe it, you can pretend to issue an edict to let the kingdom of King Qi (return to King Qi) To his fiefdom), there will definitely be a situation where the court thinks it is impossible." Feng NFDA5 beat the drums aside: "Your Majesty sending the princes to the country is also the law of the country, and we should start with relatives. The closest relative, King Mo Ruoqi, he should first respond to the order to leave the capital Go to your own fief." Emperor Wu of Jin took it for granted because he had kept his faults in his heart for a long time.He issued an imperial edict, pretending to put Jinan County into the fiefdom of Qi State, and made Sima Jian, Sima You's son, the king of Beihai. Under the edict, a group of ministers such as Wang Hun, Wang Jun, Yang Xiu, and Wang Ji in the court persuaded him one after another, thinking that King Qi is the closest relative of the prince and should stay in Beijing to assist the government.At the same time, the ministers brought up the last orders of Sima Zhao, the Empress Dowager and others, cited the old codes, and persuaded Emperor Wu of Jin to take back the orders.Emperor Wu refused to listen, thinking that "brothers are close relatives, it is my family's business to be the king of Qi today", and demoted Wang Hun, Wang Ji and others to foreign posts. Amid fear and resentment, and knowing that Xun Xu, Feng NFDA5 and others were framing him behind his back, Qi Wang Simayou wrote a letter begging himself to guard the tomb for his dead mother, the Queen Mother, "the emperor forbids it."Seeing that the imperial edicts of the Urging Kingdom became more and more urgent one after another, Sima You became angry and anxious, and his condition worsened. In order to find out whether the younger brother pretended to be sick to delay leaving Beijing, Emperor Wu of Jin kept sending imperial doctors in the palace to the mansion of Prince Qi for consultation. "All doctors hope that there will be no disease."The imperial doctors walked around the palace all day long, all of them were human beings, they knew what Emperor Wu was thinking, and when they returned to the palace, they all reported that King Qi was in good health. The real situation is that seeing the emperor's elder brother's imperial edict urging him to death, Qi Wang Simayou's condition is getting worse day by day, but the edict urging him to go on the road has become increasingly severe, and there is no room for maneuver. Qi Wang Sima You was born with a strong personality, belonging to the kind of temperament of "frozen to death standing against the wind".Even though he was so ill that he could hardly walk, he still struggled to put on a new imperial uniform, washed and tidied his crown, and entered the palace to bid farewell to Emperor Wu. "Although the illness is sleepy, I am still self-sufficient and behave as usual. The Emperor Yiyi doubts that there is no illness." The two brothers shook hands and said goodbye with their own concerns.After resigning for a few days, King Qi finally couldn't bear it, he vomited blood and died at the age of thirty-six. When Emperor Wu of Jin received the news of his younger brother's death, he realized that Sima You was not pretending to be sick, but was really dead.Emperor Wu also felt sad and wept unceasingly.The attendant Feng NFDA5 would also enlighten, saying: "The king of Qi is too famous, and the world belongs to him. Now that he himself fell ill and died, it is a blessing for the community. Why are you so sad, Your Majesty!" Emperor Wu of Jin stopped crying. At the time of the funeral, Sima Jiong, the son of Sima You, fell to the ground and wailed, crying and complaining that the imperial doctor falsely claimed that his father was not sick, which delayed the diagnosis and treatment.Feeling guilty, Emperor Wu of Jin also went down the slope, and issued an imperial edict to execute several imperial doctors who had treated King Qi, so as to cover up his own fault. Crying to cry, ashamed to be ashamed, it is estimated that Emperor Wu of Jin also secretly breathed a sigh of relief: this heroic and intelligent brother will no longer threaten his son's throne. In all fairness, since Emperor Wu of Jin had such an idiot prince, it would be better to leave the throne to Sima You, his brother of the same father and mother.According to common sense, Sima You, who is filial, lenient and modest in nature, really inherited the throne, and would not kill his stupid nephew.Moreover, Guo Lai Changjun has rich experience in leading troops and ruling, and Guo Zuo in the Jin Dynasty is likely to be another scene of prosperity.But there are no "ifs" and "what ifs" in history. Existence is a fact, and the succession system of father and son is not easily shaken. Every historical figure has his own unique and inherent destiny!