Chapter 6 "Morning Chicken" Chao Gang Tang

——The Situation of the Western Jin Dynasty after Emperor Hui of Jin ascended the throne When Emperor Wu of Jin was critically ill, he failed to nominate Minister Gu Ming in time. In addition, the old important officials died of illness and retired. Only Empress Yang's father served Yang Jun in the forbidden palace.Taking advantage of this opportunity, Yang Jun became addicted to being an emperor. Anyway, the jade seal was in his own hands, so he casually filled in the names of his cronies on the letter of appointment, and after it was printed, it became a decree.At the same time, all the guards in the inner palace were replaced by people he trusted and close to him, and none of the princes or ministers could enter the palace to greet the emperor.In the meantime, Emperor Wu of Jin came back to the light and woke up. Seeing that the guards on the left and right were all unfamiliar, he couldn't help angrily scolding Yang Jun: "Why is it like this now!" The general's uncle, Runan Wang Sima Liang, who had not yet left for office, came back to assist the government with Yang Jun.Hearing this, Yang Jun feared that this seasoned imperial family would compete with him for power, so he asked people to take back the imperial edict from the Zhongshu Ministry on the pretext of checking for any flaws in the content, and then destroyed it.Soon, Emperor Wu of the Jin Dynasty was in great danger, and Empress Yang summoned Zhongshu Supervisor Hua Gu and Zhongshu Ling He Shao, and verbally announced the Emperor Wu's edict, appointing his father Yang Jun as Taifu, and supervising all military affairs, ministers, and ministers at home and abroad. , It can be said that it combines the power of the party, the government and the army.At the same time, an imperial edict was issued to urgently urge Sima Liang, king of Runan, to go out to Xuchang immediately to take office.

Before his death, Emperor Wu regained consciousness for a moment, struggling to ask: "Is the King of Runan here?" Come. The crown prince Sima Zhong was the emperor, changed to Yuan Yongxi, respected Empress Yang as the empress dowager, and established Concubine Jia as empress. Yang Jun is always scheming, tough on the outside and timid on the inside, and when faced with a major event, his disposition of being unable to support the wall with a dead dog is revealed.He lived and worked in the Taiji Hall in the palace, surrounded by more than a hundred guards in full armor, as if he was facing an enemy every day.Runan King Sima Liang hadn't left the capital yet, and when he heard the news of the death of Emperor Wu of Jin, he didn't dare to enter the palace for the funeral.After crying, Sima Liang came up with a form and asked to stay in the funeral of Emperor Wu and then go out to town.Someone took the opportunity to say that this Prince Sima wanted to send troops to attack Yang Jun.Yang Jun was terrified, and hurriedly discussed the matter with the Empress Dowager's daughter. He called the stupid new emperor Sima Zhong and asked him to write an imperial edict to ministers Shi Jian and Zhang Shao, ordering them to lead troops to capture Sima Liang immediately.Zhang Shao is Yang Jun's nephew. When he heard the edict, he immediately put on his armor and mounted his horse. He rushed to Shi Jian to ask him to send troops together under the edict.Shi Jian believed that Sima Liang was a respected relative of the emperor's family, and he would not send troops.On Sima Liang's side, his subordinates persuaded him to raise troops to attack Yang Jun. After much deliberation, the old prince finally couldn't make up his mind. The biological son of the treacherous Sima Yi finally rushed to Xuchang overnight to escape.During the great funeral, the palace was kept safe for the time being, avoiding the chaos of Xiao Qiang once.

Yang Jun also knew that he was suddenly expensive because his daughter was a queen, and he had no popularity, let alone the sincere support of the high-ranking nobles, so he gave a lot of rewards and indiscriminately increased the rank of nobility, in order to gain a good reputation.Even his younger brother Yang Ji, nephew Li Bin, and fellow party member Shi Chong tried to persuade him of this absurd practice, but Yang Jun still went his own way and refused to listen.At the same time, Yang Jun was "severely tyrannical" in dealing with political affairs. He harbored deep suspicion internally, was intimately close to the party externally, and excluded all Sima royal family members from the decision-making pivot of the central government. Countless grievances.Wang Zhang, a native of Taiyuan, was appointed Sima by Yang Jun because of his Qing name, but Wang Zhang "evaded and accepted".Someone asked about it, and Wang Zhang replied: "Since ancient times, a family with two queens from one surname has been prosperous for a while, but there is no undefeated one in the future. Taifu Yang Jun is close to villains and alienated from gentlemen. How long can he support himself?" ? Emperor Wu didn’t care about the important affairs of the society after his death, the successor emperor didn’t have the ability to inherit his career, and the ministers who ordered orders were not appointed by human beings. The chaos in the world can be dealt with immediately!”

Yang Jun not only rewarded nobles indiscriminately in the court, but also the Huns and other ethnic minorities who moved inward from Guanzhong also added officials and promoted them to nobles.In the future, Liu Yuan, a member of the Huns who conquered the Western Jin Dynasty and captured and killed the two emperors Huai and Han, was also conferred the title of General Jianwei and the Governor of the Five Huns. A high-ranking official hat. Empress Jianan is sinister, jealous, and has a lot of power, Yang Jun has long been aware of this.In order to prevent Jia Nanfeng from becoming a big one, Yang Jun appointed his nephew Duan Guang as a regular attendant on Sanqi, in charge of military and state secrets; his confidant Zhang Shao was in charge of the Central Guard Army, in charge of the Imperial Guard.General important edicts are all drawn by the foolish emperor Sima Zhong in a formal manner, and the edicts are issued only after they are presented to Empress Dowager Yang and Yang Jun.

Although Jananfeng's husband is an emperor and he is a queen, he still feels very unhappy inside and outside, because all the power in the court is controlled by the Queen Mother Yang and her father Yang Jun, and he is just a junior. In the imperial palace, Meng Guan and Li Zhao, the middle servants in the palace, have always been underestimated by Yang Jun, and they often have complaints.When Empress Jia found out about this, she sent her trusted eunuchs to contact Meng and Li to plot to get rid of Yang Jun.With internal response, there is still a lack of external cooperation.Li Zhao and Meng Guan secretly contacted Sima Liang, king of Runan, and Sima Wei, king of Chu, who was in Jingzhou, respectively.Runan Wang Sima Liang refused.Sima Wei, king of Chu, was in his twenties, a young man named Guorui, who readily agreed, and wrote a letter requesting to be admitted to Chaomianjun.Yang Jun has always been afraid of the heroism and bravery of Sima Wei, the king of Chu. Before that, he "wanted to recruit him but did not dare". Let them enter the court together.

In April of the first year of Yuankang (291) of Emperor Hui of Jin Dynasty, Emperor Hui of Jin was sleeping soundly when he was suddenly awakened by Zhonglang Li Zhao and Meng Guan in the palace, and asked him to sign an imperial edict, saying that Yang Jun had rebelled and ordered the King of Chu to Sima Wei sent troops to Sima Men, and Ma Yao of Dong'an Company led 400 soldiers to arrest Yang Jun.In a hurry, Emperor Hui had no ability to distinguish right from wrong, so he signed the edict like a puppet.Duan Guang, who was sent by Yang Jun to be in charge of the secrets in the inner hall, knelt in front of Emperor Hui and kowtowed to explain to his uncle: "Yang Jun is lonely and has no children. How could he have the heart to rebel and usurp the throne. I hope the emperor will consider it carefully." Silly, and was pulled out of the bed in the middle of the night, confused and dumbfounded without saying a word.

Grand Tutor Yang Jun lived in Cao Shuang's old house at the time (choose this place to know that Yang Jun's fate was not good. At the beginning, Cao Shuang's family was killed by Sima Yi, and the geomantic omen was so bad that Yang Jun didn't have any worries. They took it as a big "case" to explain Mongolian money), near the national arsenal of the Western Jin Dynasty, and heard that there were changes in the palace, he hurriedly summoned the ministers of the DPRK and China to discuss countermeasures at his home. Yang Jun was an idiot, cowardly by nature, sitting in the middle of the panic, asking everyone for advice.Zhu Zhen, chief of staff of Taifu (Yang Jun's chief of staff), suggested: "Now that there is a change in the palace, it must be that Empress Jia plotted against you. You should immediately send someone to set fire to the Yunlong Gate to create momentum, and then enter the palace to arrest the rebels. Then send troops to attack the Wanchun Gate, and lead the soldiers from the East Palace and the Outer Battalion to protect the Crown Prince from entering the palace. In this way, the people in the palace will definitely behead the leader because of fear, and open the palace gate to welcome the surrender. Otherwise, you will not be able to, Mr. Yang Avoid it!"

At such an extremely critical juncture, Yang Jun, the father of the Empress Dowager, who is powerful at home and abroad and holds all the civil and military power in the Western Jin Dynasty, thought for a long time, and only came out with one sentence: "The Yunlong Gate was built by Emperor Wei Ming, and it took a lot of work and money. How can I burn it!" When the lives of myself and the party were at stake, Taifu Yang suddenly became a protector of cultural relics. The ministers were greatly disappointed, and all asked that they would enter the palace to watch the safety of the emperor, and they all dispersed.Yang Jun's party member, General Liu Yu of the Zuo Army, never received a letter from the Taifu. He led a brigade of troops to Yang Jun's gate, and met Pei NFDA6 (cousin of Queen Jia Nanfeng), the general of the Right Army, and hurriedly asked where the Taifu was.Pei NFDA6 lied to him and said: "The Taifu has already fled to Xicheng with two servants in a small car." Liu Yuwu was careless and asked himself what to do without asking what happened. Pei NFDA6 said, "You should go to Tingwei Surrender yourself." Hearing this, Liu Yu was really obedient, abandoned the heavily armored soldiers under his command, and surrendered himself to Ting Wei.

The Empress Dowager Yang was the last to know the news, and all the gates of the Forbidden Palace were closed by Empress Jia and her party. In desperation, she herself wrote on silk "Whoever saves the Grand Tutor will be rewarded" and sent eunuchs to shoot out of the palace.It happened that Empress Jia's party members picked up the silk book, and Empress Jia took the opportunity to falsely claim that Empress Dowager Yang and her father had conspired against each other, and sealed the door and imprisoned the current Empress Dowager. Originally, at the beginning of the chaos, everyone involved was waiting and watching. If Zhu Zhen’s plan to burn Longyunmen was successful, or Liu Yu led an army to encircle Yang Jun to surround the palace, there was a 200% chance that everyone in the palace would immediately turn their backs and kill them. After losing Jia, wait for others to seek merit.Yang Jun was panic-stricken, the situation outside the palace gradually became clear, and there were no soldiers and horses to surround the palace. shoot it".Yang Jun's guards were blocked by the rain of arrows and trapped in the house.The army collapsed like a mountain, and the imperial guards quickly rushed into Yang Jun's house, found the idiot grandpa who was hiding in the stable, and killed him with a knife on the spot.Meng Guan and others went all out and arrested Yang Jun's younger brothers, Yang Jue and Yang Ji, as well as Duan Guang, Liu Yu and many other accomplices overnight.

Empress Dowager Yang was also abolished as a commoner for the crime of "intending to endanger the country". Her mother, Pei, should be beheaded according to the crime. life.Of course, Empress Jia forbade it. After killing Yang Jun's wife in front of this "mother-in-law", she put Empress Dowager Yang under house arrest, sent people to cut off food, and starved to death of this magnificent beauty. According to the inertial thinking that "we support what the enemy opposes, and we oppose what the enemy supports", Sima Liang, the king of Runan, Sima Wei, the king of Chu, and Sima Yao, the king of Dong'an (upgraded because of meritorious service), who had been rejected by Yang Jun all entered the country. When the court took power, Taibao Weiguan was also appointed as Lushang Shushi.Empress Jiananfeng's clan brother Jia Mo, cousin Guo Zhang and nephew Jia Mi also ascended to heaven and entered the court to assist in the government.In order to please the hearts of the people, Sima Liang, the king of Runan, talked about the merits of punishing Yang Jun, and indiscriminately conferred the title of Marquis on 1,081 people, the most indiscriminate reward.Yushi Zhongcheng Fu Xian persuaded Sima Liang: "Today, rewarding Xunhe, shaking the world, has never happened since ancient times. If you are rewarded for nothing, you will be happy and the country will be in trouble. The source of disaster is endless!" Fu Xian also called Yang Jun himself. It was because of the authority of the Shaker Lord and the appointment of relatives that the catastrophe of genocide was caused, and Sima Liang doubled down on it, which was a very dangerous start.Faithful words are harsh, but Sima Liang doesn't accept them.

Not half a month after the chaos, Sima Liang, king of Runan, relegated Sima Yao, king of Dong'an, to Daifang County for resettlement on the charge of "wanting to do good government affairs". Sima Wei, the king of Chu, was very conceited because he played a great role in the attack on Yang Jun. In addition, he was young and vigorous, and he was good at martial arts, so no one looked down on him.Sima Liang, king of Runan, and Taibao Weiguan, who were in charge of the government at the time, "evil him and wanted to seize his military power", and discussed the dispersal of Sima Wei and other princes who were in the capital to return to the country.Of course Sima Wei was angry, and his elder Shi Gongsun Hong and Sheren (attendant) Qi Sheng persuaded the lord to get closer to Empress Jia, and sent Jinu General Li Zhao (the one who initiated the execution of Yang Jun) to Jia Nanfeng to report Ru Nan Wang and Wei Guan wanted to abolish Emperor Hui and support others. Empress Jia has always been resentful because Wei Guan said in front of Emperor Wu of Jin that Sima Zhong could not succeed in the reunification. In addition, Sima Liang, the King of Runan and Wei Guande are famous, and he must not be good at government affairs. two people.It was convenient, and Sima Wei, the king of Chu, approved the complaint. Empress Jia asked Emperor Hui to make an edict to Sima Wei: "The king of Runan and the Taibao Weiguan want to abolish the establishment, and the king of Chu can issue an edict ordering Huainan, Changsha, and Chengdu. The king stationed troops at all the gates of the palace, and exempted (Sima) Liang and (Wei) Guan officials." In the middle of the night, the eunuch of the small Huangmen in the palace secretly entered the palace of the king of Chu and issued an edict to Sima Wei. Sima Wei also hesitated at first, not knowing the authenticity of the edict, and wanted to go to the palace to repeat it, but the eunuch Xiao Huangmen urged, "I'm afraid it will be leaked, it's not the original intention of the secret edict." Immediately mobilize our army to wear armor and carry guns, and surround the mansion of Runan King Sima Liang and Taibao Weiguan.Incessantly, Sima Wei pretended that all the thirty-six armies inside and outside Luoyang should be restrained by himself. Suddenly hearing that soldiers were besieging the mansion, Runan King Sima Liang was shocked.Li Long, the head of his bodyguard, asked for orders to lead his guards to resist the battle, but Sima Liang refused to listen.Soon, Sima Wei's soldiers climbed up the wall and shouted, and Sima Liang stood in the courtyard, horrified, and asked loudly: "I have no two hearts, why is it! If there is an imperial edict, can it be seen?" Of course Gongsun Hong and others would not Show him the edict and urge the troops to attack.Liu Huai, Sima Liang's chief historian, advised: "If they can't come up with an edict, it can be seen that they must be treacherous. There are many elite soldiers and strong generals in the palace, so they can try their best to resist the war." listen.The soldiers and horses of the king of Chu rushed in, captured the Runan king, and sat him under the chariot to be closely guarded.King Runan sighed and said: "I am loyal to the emperor, and I can show it to the world!" In summer, it dawned early and the sun was hot, and the guards knew that the old prince was innocent, so they used ceremonial fans to shield him from the sun.Until noon, no one dared to harm him.Upon hearing the news, King Sima Wei of Chu quickly ordered: "Those who can kill Sima Liang will be rewarded with a thousand pieces of cloth!" Greedy for profit, the rebellious soldiers swarmed up, stabbing and hacking at the honest prince with thousands of spears and blades. , "The hair on the temples, the ears, the nose are all destroyed", and his eldest son Sima Yanming was also killed at the same time. There are few guards in Taibao Weiguan's mansion, but they can also gather a crowd to fight. His left and right urge him to close the door and refuse to fight, "(Wei) Guan will not listen."Rong Hui, the general who followed Qinghe King Sima Xia to arrest Wei Guan, was previously the governor of Wei Guan when he was Sikong, and was reprimanded by Wei Guan for his crimes.At this point, it happened to complain, and immediately killed Wei Guan and his sons Wei Heng, Wei Yue and other nine grandparents. (Wei Guan was a loyal minister in the Jin Dynasty, but he was also a scheming man. After Deng Ai and Zhong Hui seized Xichuan, they fought for merit, and Deng Ai monopolized power. Zhong Hui conspired with Wei Guan, the then supervisor of the army, to frame Deng Ai. Zhong Hui sent Wei Guan to arrest Deng Ai, and thought that Wei Guan would be killed by Deng Ai because of his lack of soldiers, and he would attack and kill Deng Ai because of it. Wei Guan went to Chengdu at night and told all the generals that he was arrested by a secret edict. Deng Ai, the rest didn't ask any questions. At dawn, Deng Ai and his son were still asleep, and Wei Guan had already driven to the front of the Chengdu Palace, and captured Deng Ai and his son, who had made the first victory in the attack on Chengdu. Deng Ai's relatives wanted to rob him one after another. In the prison car, Wei Guan falsely claimed that he was expressing his grievances on behalf of Deng Ai, "the generals will believe it." Soon, Zhong Hui and Jiang Wei conspired to establish themselves in Sichuan. Order the generals to discuss Zhonghui together. After Zhonghui and Jiang Wei were killed, Deng Ai's generals chased the car and broke the lock, and returned Deng Ai and his son to Chengdu. Deng Ai killed him, and wanted to monopolize the miraculous feat of killing Zhonghui and Jiang Wei, so he sent Tian Xu, who had a personal grudge with Deng Ai, to Mianzhu overnight to attack and kill Deng Ai and his son——in the dark, doing things against Yin De Well, Wei Guan's fate is a kind of retribution. His grandson Wei Jie is as famous as Pan Yue in Chinese history, and he treats people with forgiveness. It is too beautiful, "people in the capital heard his appearance, and the viewers were ashamed. He was overworked and sick, and died in the sixth year of Yongjia, at the age of twenty-seven. People at that time said that he was watched and killed." (This is the allusion of "seeing to kill Wei Jie" origin.) After killing Runan King Sima Liang and Taibao Weiguan, Qi Sheng, a family member of Chu King Sima Wei, advised: "We should use the force of the army to enter the palace and kill Empress Jia and others, so as to bring peace to the world." Chu King Sima Wei Young and reckless, inexperienced, he had just made a major event of killing a prince and a minister, and he couldn't make up his mind to do it again for a while. The young prince Fu Zhang Hua, who heard the chaos, was mature and prudent. After collecting information from all parties, he sent someone to persuade Jananfeng: "Since the king of Chu punished the second prince, all the authority in the world will be returned. How can the master be at ease! It is better to use (Sima) Wei Bo The crime of killing will be punished." Originally, Empress Jia wanted to take advantage of the chaos to get rid of dissidents, but upon hearing this she readily agreed, and immediately ordered the Dasha hated emperor to get rid of Sima Wei.Zhang Hua took the opportunity to enter the court, and sent the general in the palace, the palace, to hold up the Zouyu flag and go out of the palace to disband the troops, shouting loudly: "The king of Chu is arrogant, and everyone does not obey his orders." When everyone heard this, "All let go of the battle and leave." , King Sima Wei of Chu became a bare-handed commander, and there was no one left around him. No matter how strong his martial arts were, he could only be captured with nothing. (Zouyu banners and white tiger banners are very rare things in the Jin Dynasty imperial palace. The white tiger is fierce and fierce, and it is the banner of the war supervisor. Zouyu is a benevolent beast, and it is used to relieve troops and stop wars. Looking at Jin Shu, Zouyu banners are in There were as many as seven times when the situation was reversed at critical moments. The soldiers would flee in shock when they saw the Zouyu banner, which shows how powerful this flag is. No other dynasty in Chinese history has the name "Zouyu banner", only Jin Dynasty Only in the morning.) When he was escorted to the downtown area to be executed, Sima Wei also took out the Emperor Hui's green paper imperial edict hidden in his bosom, and wept to claim his innocence.The prison officer knew that he was wronged, but his order was strict, and he could only cry with him for a while, and then ordered the execution of the sentence.Sima Wei was twenty-one years old when he died.His advisers, Gongsun Hong and Qi Sheng, were killed.As the fifth son of Emperor Wu, Sima Wei "did alms and gave alms, which won the hearts of the people". On the day of his death, the people built shrines for him, and the former soldiers also shed tears for him.But such a majestic prince, a handsome boy, eventually became the murderous knife of the ugly Jia Hou. After killing Sima Liang and Wei Guan, he himself became a ghost under the knife. So far, the first act of "The Rebellion of the Eight Kings" has ended, and Sima Liang, the king of Runan, and Sima Wei, the king of Chu, "call the curtain".The two were the first to be killed among the Eight Kings.Empress Jananfeng was in power, and began to appoint pro-party members.In order to reconcile the conflict, at the suggestion of his nephew Jia Mi, he believed that Zhang Hua, Pei NFDA6 and others were of high prestige, and they were not from the royal family, so they did not pose a direct threat to the imperial family. "(Zhang) Hua is loyal to the imperial family, filling in the gaps. Although the Empress Jia is dangerous, she still respects (Zhang) Hua. It is the credit of (Zhang) Hua et al.In the past ten years, the political situation in the Western Jin Dynasty was rough and stable, and there were no major political incidents in the capital.