Chapter 8 Flesh flying and killing
——The chaos caused by the killing of the crown prince Sima Yu
Empress Jia's abuse became more and more serious, and the foul sound spread in the universe.Jia's nephew, Jia Mi, who is a regular servant of Sanqi, also feels very good about himself.When he was speaking in the prince's east palace, he had an arrogant attitude, and when he was playing Go with the prince, he was also yelling, and he would not give in to the current prince for a chess piece, without any humility.At that time, Sima Ying, the sixteenth uncle of Crown Prince Sima Yu, was present at the meeting. Seeing Jia Mi being so disrespectful, he scolded him face to face.Jia Mi harbored resentment, and soon went to the palace to report Sima Ying to her aunt, Jia Nanfeng.Empress Jia naturally favored her nephew, and immediately issued an edict to send Sima Ying out of Yecheng to drive him out of Kyoto.
Although Jia Mi relied on Empress Jia to be unscrupulous, not all of Jia's relatives were so domineering.Empress Jia's elder brother Jia Mo and Empress Jia's cousin Pei NFDA6 "fear that disaster will affect themselves, and I am very worried about it."The two found Zhang Hua, Sikong of the dynasty, and discussed current state affairs together.Pei NFDA6 even proposed to abolish the lewd and wanton Jananfeng, and support the crown prince's birth mother, Concubine Xie Shu, as the queen.As soon as the words came out, Zhang Hua and Jia Mo were very frightened, thinking that "the emperor himself has no intention of abolishing the queen. If we do it exclusively, the emperor may not agree."At the same time, the two were afraid that the kings of Sima would support their own troops, and there would be many cronies in the court, which would lead to disasters, "the death of the country is in danger, and it will not benefit the society."
Pei NFDA6's discussion was originally deliberate. Seeing that Zhang Hua and Jia Mo disagreed, he was helpless and helpless. "But the faint-hearted person (referring to Empress Jia) has nothing to fear, and can deal with chaos immediately. What will happen?" Zhang Hua, an old minister, had no intention of causing trouble, so he said to Jia and Pei: "You two are now because of They are relatives of the queen, and they are quite trustworthy. I hope that they will advise the queen more often. If nothing happens, there may not be any chaos in the world. In this way, we can finally return home safely." Although Zhang Hua has always been a loyal minister of the Jin Dynasty, But in the face of constant danger, wise and wise to protect his life, he is also a scholar, and in the end the three clans are not safe, and his head is in a different place.
In fear, Pei NFDA6 could only find Empress Jia's mother and his own aunt Guo Huai, Lord of Guangcheng, and sincerely stated his misfortunes and blessings, asking the old lady to admonish Empress Jia to treat the crown prince well.Jia Mo also met Empress Jananfeng many times, and told her stories of good fortune and misfortune.Not only did Jananfeng refuse to listen, but he also thought that the clan brother was turning his elbows out and had a different intention, so he began to reject Jia Mo in the court.Jia Mo was depressed and worried, and soon died of illness.
Empress Jia's mother, Guangcheng Lord Guo Huai, who was extremely jealous all her life, took a turn for the better when she was old. She often advised the queen's daughter to be better to the crown prince, and from time to time scolded Jia Mi, the grandson who was rude to the crown prince.In order to get married and make sure that the Jia family will be safe after the crown prince succeeds, she also wants to betroth Jia Mi's younger sister to the prince as his concubine.Empress Jia, Jia Mi, and Jia Wu didn't listen, and instead married the youngest daughter of the minister Wang Yan (that is, the man who "talked about it") as his concubine for the prince.At the same time, Empress Jia hired Wang Yan's eldest daughter as his wife for Jia Mi.The crown prince has long heard that Wang Yan's eldest daughter is more beautiful, but now she is snatched away by Jia Mi, and he is very upset.
Guo Huai was dying, and her words were kind when she was about to die. She had been telling her daughter Jia Nanfeng to be kind to the prince and not to listen to Jia Wu and Jia Mi's words.After finishing speaking, I feel so sad.Regarding this, Empress Jia of course regarded it as the nonsense of her dying mother, and it was like the wind in her ears.
Speaking of the chaos at the end of the Jin Dynasty, I have to mention Sima Yu, the prince of Emperor Hui.
The crown prince Sima Yan, whose name is Xizu, is the eldest son of Emperor Hui of Jin (and possibly the son of Sima Yan, Emperor Wu).According to historical records, he was "young and intelligent, loved by Emperor Wu, and always by his side".Once there was a fire in the palace in the middle of the night, and Emperor Wu of Jin went upstairs to watch. Sima Kui, who was only five years old at the time, pulled his grandfather (or father) into the shadows by holding Emperor Wu's belt.Emperor Wu of Jin was very curious, and asked the child why he did this. Sima Yu said: "Twilight is in a hurry, and you should be on guard. You should not let others see the emperor in the light." Therefore, Emperor Wu was even more surprised by Sima Yu.When Sima was six or seven years old, he accompanied Emperor Wu of Jin to the place where pigs were raised in Tailao (the sacrificial department). He said to Emperor Wu: "These pigs are fat and big. Why don't you kill them and feed them to your ministers? Stay here." Waste of five grains and food." Emperor Wu was overjoyed, and immediately sent someone to kill pigs to distribute to the ministers, and stroked the child's back and said to the minister Fu Zhi: "This child should rejuvenate my family." Not only that, Emperor Wu also told the crowd at the court meeting The minister said that Sima Yu's character and appearance are very similar to Sima Yi, the founding emperor of the Jin Dynasty, "so his reputation spreads all over the world", and he is an irreplaceable model of the crown prince.
It's a pity that it's an hour, and it may not be a big time.The crown prince Sima Yu "is not easy to learn when he is a senior, but he plays with his left and right, and cannot respect Bao Fu".The sinister and vicious queen Jananfeng has always been jealous of the well-known crown prince who is not his own, and secretly dispatches the eunuchs around him to encourage the prince to "do whatever he wants".Sima, who was in adolescence, saw that no one was in charge, and became more presumptuous, "so he slowed down, or abolished the court servants, and kept playing in the back garden."He often cut off the saddle belt, and ordered the left and right attendants to ride on horseback. Seeing these people falling off their horses, he laughed and took pleasure in it;He also often set up a market in the Prince's East Palace, buying and selling for pleasure, and "carrying a catty in his hand, the weight is not bad." The father of the prince's biological mother, Concubine Xie Shu, is a butcher. I don't know if this skill is also "inherited".The imperial court pays 500,000 yuan to the East Palace every month, and the prince often exceeds the budget, and sends people to sell the green vegetables harvested by the prince's west garden and the rice, noodles, and chickens for his own use in the market, and all the income is used for his own rewards. .At that time, Jiang Tong, who washed horses for the prince (that is, the one who appeared in "Yi Rong Lun". The prince washes horses is an official position, not the person who washes horses for the prince) wrote to the prince, admonishing him to correct his mistakes, but the prince refused.Du Xi, a member of the prince's family, also advised the prince to cultivate virtue and be good from time to time. Sima Yu was angry and impatient, and asked people to hide a big needle in Du Xi's cushion, which made the old man drip with blood.
Since the crown prince Sima Kui and Jia Mi's nephew Jia Mi are about the same age, they are both young people in their twenties, and they are incompatible with each other.The crown prince married Wang Yan's younger daughter who was not as good looking, and Jia Mi married Wang Yan's beautiful eldest daughter.When Jia Mi came to see him in the East Palace, the prince often didn't take it seriously, and often even left Jia Mi alone in the room, and went to the backyard to play games with the left and right.Jia Mi also felt resentful, so she went to the palace to meet the queen's aunt, and said that the prince had told others that he would follow the previous story of abolishing Queen Yang to abolish Queen Jia and kill Jia's family.Jananfeng didn't rub the sand in his eyes, and he had always been jealous of the prince. Of course he was furious when he heard the words, and immediately sent people around to expose the prince's shortcomings.
In December of the ninth year of Emperor Hui of Jin Yuankang (300), after long-term planning, Empress Jia finally made up her mind to abolish the killing of the prince. She sent someone to call the prince into the court on the grounds that Emperor Hui was ill.Previously, Pan Yue, a well-known handsome man in the Jin Dynasty, was called into the palace by Jia Mi overnight to meet Empress Jia.
Pan Yue and Jia Mi are friends of wine and meat, and they are very close, but it is really the first time in many years to meet the current queen in the palace.Empress Jia was forthright, and told Pan Yue that she wanted to abolish the prince, and asked Pan Yue to write a draft in the tone of a prince, planning to get the prince drunk and let him do the same, so as to convict him.
Although the history books did not record Pan Yue's condition in detail at that time, we can still imagine that the beautiful man must have been frightened to death, and he was very frightened.If it was to serve this black, ugly and short fat queen on the bed, Pan Yue would probably not be too reluctant, anyway, he is not the first buddy to cuckold the emperor; but designing to frame the prince is a serious crime to destroy the nine clans No one dares to accept such a "heavy task" lightly.But facing the earnest gaze of his friend Jia Mi, and the chubby and fierce face of the black and ugly girl, Pan Yue also knew in his heart that if he said "no", he would move his head at that time.The arrow is on the string and has to be fired.The handsome man settled down in shock, thought for a long time, took up a pen and imitated the tone of the prince and wrote such a draft:
"Your Majesty should take it easy; if you don't, I should enter it. The middle palace (queen) should take it easy; if you don't, I'll let it go. And Concubine Xie (Prince and Mother) will have two shots during the York period. Don't doubt and hesitate, causing future troubles. Ru Mao drank blood under three hours (referring to the oath), the emperor promised to sweep away the troubles, and made Daowen (the son of the prince) the king, and Jiang (Jiang's, the prince's side concubine) as the internal master. May it happen, When the three sacrifices are sacrificed to the northern king, the world will be pardoned. Be as strict as the law." The confusion in the book is not only caused by Pan Yue's fear, but also because of Pan Yue's deliberate intention to leave a way out for the prince (and Pan Yue himself). , because as long as a sensible person with a little common sense can deduce at a glance that the content is logically chaotic and nonsense, it is definitely not what the prince did when he was sane.
In any case, Pan Yue is unlucky to be involved in the internal affairs of the royal family. This alone is enough to exchange the heads of his three clans.
Before he had breakfast early in the morning, the crown prince Sima Yu was rushed into the palace.Entering the inner hall, the prince knelt down and saw Jia sitting upright in the back hall, and ordered his servant Chen Wu to hold three liters of wine and a large plate of dates for the prince to eat and drink in person.The prince hurriedly said that he usually does not drink alcohol, and because he has an empty stomach in the morning, he is afraid that he will lose his composure after drinking and lose his manners in front of the emperor's father.Jia Houtang scolded: "Why are you so unfilial? Your parents won't let you drink. Is there something evil in the wine?" The maid Chen Wu also stood in front of the prince and urged.As a last resort, the prince had no choice but to drink up three liters of old wine, "the body was desolate and lost consciousness".Soon, another court lady held a pen, inkstone, paper and ink, and urged the prince to copy the words on a piece of white paper (a draft made by Pan Yue).While drunk, the prince shook his hands and copied, "The characters are half incomplete, and the queen (the queen) will make up." He immediately sent someone to send it to Emperor Hui for inspection.
In fact, Emperor Hui didn't know the severity at all, he was just a puppet.Under the auspices of Empress Jia, Emperor Hui ascended to the palace and summoned all ministers to discuss matters.Empress Jia sent eunuchs to hold the prince's usual handwriting and the green paper edict he had copied while drunk, and showed it to everyone, saying, "(Sima) wrote like this, so I will die now."
All the ministers dared not object.Only the ministers Zhang Hua and Pei NFDA tried their best to protect the prince's innocence. They quoted from many sources and argued repeatedly until it was getting late and the court discussion was fruitless.Fearing that things would change for a long time, Empress Jia hurriedly submitted a petition to abolish the crown prince as a commoner, and made her own emperor's edict "Xu Zhi".Zhang Hua and Pei NFDA6 had already seen the situation like this, after all, they saved the life of the prince, so they had no choice but to retreat.
Empress Jia sent people to hold an edict in the East Palace, abolished the crown prince Sima Yu as a commoner, imprisoned him and his three young sons in Jinyong City, and issued an edict to kill the crown prince's biological mother Xie Fei and the prince's side concubine Jiang Jun.
Just after the Spring Festival, Empress Jia threatened the eunuch of the East Palace to surrender, saying that the prince's liaison wanted to rebel. Taking this opportunity, he sent the prince to Xuchang Palace outside Luoyang for imprisonment.In Dianpei Dao, the prince's eldest son, who was already sick, died of distress.
"The prince is abolished, and everyone is angry."Sima Ya, governor of the right guard who used to be a guard in the prince's east palace, Xu Chao, the governor of the constant congregation, and Shiyi, the middle man in the palace, gathered together to discuss, planning to abolish empress Jia and restore the crown prince.Everyone discussed and discussed, and they all felt that the ministers Zhang Hua and Pei NFDA6 had always kept their positions and could not seek trouble with them. At that time, General Zhao Wang Simalun, who was holding a heavy army at the time, was greedy in nature and could encourage him to join the uprising.
Everyone knew that Sun Xiu was the "backbone" of Sima Lun, so they secretly asked him to meet, and persuaded him: "The empress Jia is jealous and innocent, and she and Jia Mi and others falsely accused the prince. Now the country has no heirs, and the country is in danger. The ministers are all ready to start an incident. Sun Gong, you have a very good relationship with King Zhao and the Jia family. It is said that you two were also involved in the abolition of the crown prince. Once an incident occurs, disasters will follow. Why don't you take the initiative and avert the disaster? For blessing?"
After listening to what Sun Xiu said, he felt that it was reasonable.He went to the palace to inform Zhao Wang Sima Lun of the situation, and persuaded his master to secretly prepare for an incident.Sima Lun obeyed Sun Xiuyan, and made an appointment with Zhang Lin, Zhang Heng and others who were on duty in the palace, ready to wait for the opportunity to act.
After everything was ready, Sun Xiusi thought about it and came up with another thought.He said to Sima Lun: "The prince is smart and fierce. If you return to the East Palace, you will definitely not be controlled by others. You have always been the party of Empress Jia, and everyone knows that although you can abolish Empress Jia and restore the prince, you will definitely not be able to buy it." What's the point, the prince will think that you are forced by the popularity of the people and have to do it to avoid crimes. Therefore, when the prince gains power in the future, he will definitely find fault with you, and maybe you will inevitably be killed. According to me Look, it’s better to delay the date of the incident, during which Empress Jia will harm the Crown Prince. As long as the Crown Prince dies, our act of abolishing Empress Jia will win the hearts of the people, not only will we be able to completely avoid disasters, but we will also be able to seize power.”
Sima Lun repeatedly said yes.
So Sun Xiu sent many people out to spread rumors, saying that many people in the palace wanted to abolish Empress Jia and return the crown prince to restore him.Although Empress Jia had feasts and pleasures every day, and kept robbing handsome men to "pile" herself, she never relaxed her guard. She often sent court ladies and eunuchs in disguise to inquire about the news in the market.After learning that someone was going to embrace the crown prince, Empress Jia was terrified.At the same time, Zhao Wang Sima Lun and Sun Xiu tried their best to persuade Jia Mi and others to get rid of the prince as soon as possible in order to break the expectations of everyone.Empress Jia was surrounded by young men and women who had no political experience like Jia Mi and Jia Wu. She was very afraid that the prince would return to the palace, and together with the ministers in the court, they would scoop up the Jia family, so they anxiously persuaded Empress Jia to do it.
Empress Jia and her old lover, the imperial physician Cheng Ju, finished their affairs in bed and ordered him to mix poison in the palace.Then, the eunuch Sun Li was sent to Xuchang Palace to kill the prince with poison.
After Sima Yu was deposed, he was always afraid of being poisoned, so he cooked in the house every day.After the eunuch Sun thought about Xuchang, he saw that there was no way to start, so he discussed countermeasures with Liu Zhen, who was in charge of the prince.Liu Zhen sent someone to move the prince to a small black house to cut off his food source.The maids in the palace and the prince's entourage were very loyal to the prince, throwing food across the wall from time to time, so Sima lingered for a few more days.Sun Li got impatient, so he broke into the door, took out the poison and forced the prince to drink it.The prince refused, and the eunuch became anxious, showing his fierceness, and picked up a medicine pestle that looked like a baseball bat, and knocked the prince until his brains burst out, and he died.When Empress Jia heard that the prince was dead, she hypocritically asked to bury the prince with royal rites.
Seeing that Empress Jia and his party were going down step by step according to the preset situation, Sun Xiu and Sima Lun were ready to attack.
One day in May of the first year of Yongkang (300) of Emperor Hui, Zhao Wang Sima Lun and Sun Xiu first asked the right guard on duty, Fei Duluhe, as the internal response, and agreed to start an incident in the middle of the night with the sound of drums.After the arrangement was completed, Sun Xiu sent Sima Ya to Sikong Zhang Hua to complain: "King Zhao wants to work with Zhang Gong to help the country and eliminate harm for the world!" Zhang Hua still refused.Sima Ya was furious and said, "How dare you say no with the sword in your neck!" After saying that, he turned around and left.This Zhang Hua is really smart all his life, and he was confused for a while.Empress Jia committed the wrath of the world. The matter has come to this point, and she still has not made a clear statement. It seems that she can only resign herself to fate.
Sima Lun, the king of Zhao, was dressed all over his body, pretending to be the emperor's imperial edict, summoning the chief Sima of the three divisions of the imperial guards, and proclaiming an edict in the name of Emperor Hui: "The middle palace (empress) and Jia Mi and others killed my prince, and now let Zhao Wang enter the palace and abolish the imperial edict." Empress Jia, all of you must obey your orders, and when the matter is over, you will be presented to nobles, officials, and marquises, and those who do not obey will be punished by the three clans." So everyone obeyed.Sima Lun, Sun Xiu and others led a brigade of forbidden troops to enter the palace at night. Chen Bing was full of Taoism and controlled all the key points in and out of the palace. The silly buddies set it up and used him as an indispensable "prop".
After everyone sat down, Jia Mi was summoned in the name of Emperor Hui, saying that there was an urgent matter to discuss.After Jia Mi entered the palace, he saw the emperor in the palace sitting stupidly looking around, Zhao Wang Sima Lun and others were murderous, each with a sharp sword in his hand, suddenly felt that something was wrong, and ran out, yelling: "Queen! Help me!" The young man couldn't outrun the soldiers no matter how fast his legs were, he stabbed with a sword and slashed, and Jia Mi was thrown into disarray in an instant.
Jananfeng had just killed the prince recently, so he was in a good mood.After the prostitution during the day, he was sleeping comfortably at night, when he suddenly heard the commotion outside the hall, he woke up and saw the fierce King Sima Jiong of Qi outside the window, asking soldiers to break open the door of the hall.Empress Jia was frightened, and asked, "Aiqing, why did you come here?" Sima Jiong replied: "There is an edict to arrest the queen!" Empress Jia was still thinking habitually, and asked: "The edicts are all from my own hands. Whose edict is Qing obeying?" Sima Jiong didn't bother to talk to her anymore, and commanded the soldiers to slam the gate with his sword.
Empress Jia was in such a state of distress that her short legs slammed and fled straight to the high pavilion in the palace. From a distance, she saw her silly husband Huidi sitting in the middle of the east hall, and shouted loudly: "Your Majesty has a wife, so let people depose her. You can do it yourself!" Before the words finished, Qi Wang Sima Jiong rushed behind her and kicked Empress Jia on a big horse.At this point, Jananfeng calmed down and asked Sima Jiong: "Who is the one who caused the incident?" Sima Jiong replied: "King Zhao (Sima Lun) and King Liang (Sima Xun)." Hearing this, the black girls regretted it , Slapped the ground and shouted: "Tie a dog to tie the neck, but tie the tail instead. Why not!" It was too late for regret, and Empress Jia was deposed as a commoner and imprisoned in Jianshi Hall.
At the same time, all the rioters immediately arrested Jia's relatives in the capital, and the whole family was killed.Jia Wu, Jia Mi's mother and Empress Jia's younger sister, was also arrested and imprisoned, beaten to death with a club.Since Sima Lun already had the intention of usurping, he "wanted to get rid of court hope first and report old grievances", so he issued an edict to arrest ministers Zhang Hua, Pei NFDA6, and Xiexi and Xiejie who had previously had enmity with Sun Xiu. "Then they were all beheaded, and the three tribes of barbarians were still alive."It's a pity that Zhang Hua, an old talent, even argued that he was a loyal minister of the Jin Dynasty before he was sentenced.Zhang Lin, who was executing the sentence, called the imperial edict and asked: "Qing is the prime minister. Why can't the crown prince be abolished by death?" Zhang Hua argued that he tried his best to persuade Empress Jia to abolish the crown prince.Zhang Lin asked again: "Why don't you resign if you don't follow the advice?" Zhang Hua was speechless.
What should be abolished is abolished, what should be killed is killed, and what should be closed is closed. Zhao Wang Sima Lun "proclaimed the imperial edict to forgive the world, and he was an envoy to hold festivals. He supervised all Chinese and foreign military, ministers, and ministers. "Fu Wei Story" combines civil and military power in one person, and confers princes on all princes. Sun Xiu and others also confer big counties and master military power.Sima Lun was the ninth son of Sima Yi, the great-uncle of Emperor Hui, and was in his sixties at the time.The bad old man had no skills, and he actually became a puppet in Sun Xiu's hands. "(Sun) Xiu is the order of Zhongshu, and his power shakes the court. The world is full of (Sun) Xiu, but there is no need for (Sima) Lun."
In order to buy people's hearts, King Zhao issued an edict to restore Sima Yu's crown prince, and named his two sons Sima Zang and Sima Shang kings.Sima Xun, the king of Liang, was appointed as the Taizai (the king of Liang died of illness soon), and Sima Yun, the king of Huainan, was the general of the hussars, who also led the Central Guard Army.
After everything was settled, Sima Lun sent someone to Jinyong City, where Empress Jia was imprisoned, and gave him death with gold shavings wine.The history of Empress Jia's death is unknown. It is estimated that the fat black girl was also pressed down by several people and forced to drink poisoned wine to die.The author once traveled to Japan, and saw that the Japanese were puzzled. As the name suggests, there was a lot of expensive "gold flakes wine" for sale in the market.The wine is glittering with golden light and flakes of gold foil. According to the pharmacology of traditional Chinese medicine, raw gold can indeed disinfect and remove dampness.However, the name of the wine is "Jinxie", which means that the Japanese have only a half-knowledge of the ancient Chinese culture, but they don't know that the Jin Dynasty bestowed this kind of "Jinxie wine" on the dead.It is really unlucky for such an ominous thing to be given as a heavy gift by the Japanese people during the festival and New Year.
Looking at the three court coups after the death of Emperor Wu of Jin Dynasty, there are two points worth noting: one is the importance of the power of the imperial guards, and the other is the key role played by scholars from poor families.
In "Book of Jin·Yang Jun Biography", it is written that after Yang Jun's father and daughter Jiaozhao took sole control of the military and political power in the Western Jin Dynasty, Yang Jun "had more relatives and led the forbidden soldiers." Obviously he knew the importance of controlling the Imperial Guard from the beginning .However, due to Yang Jun's busy political affairs, most of his energy was devoted to guarding against the children of the Sima family. He thought that Emperor Hui was too stupid, and the wife of Empress Jia didn't pay much attention to the power of the imperial guards in the palace. Only his nephew Zhang Shao was in charge The Central Guard Army, pro-party Liu Yu is the general of the Left Army, and both of them are senior generals of the Forbidden Army outside the palace, and it is Li Zhaohe, the middle-level official of the Forbidden Army in the Palace who is usually not valued by Yang Jun, who finally leads to Yang Jun's downfall. Meng Guan.
At that time, Empress Jia lived in the Imperial Palace of the Forbidden Court, and could directly issue "supreme instructions". There were also Sima kings outside who had always been resentful and were not reused. When the incident happened, Liu Yu, the only available general of the left army, was again Pei NFDA6 Lied to surrender, without a "gun barrel" by his side, Yang Jun, who had no great wisdom and courage, could only die.After the execution of Yang Jun, there were as many as 1,081 people from the imperial guards and foreign battalion soldiers.Empress Jia used Sima Wei, king of Chu, to get rid of Yang Jun, and then used him to kill Sima Liang, king of Runan, and Taibao Weiguan. The imperial guards attacked and killed Sima Wei, completely controlled the 36th army of the inner and outer imperial guards, and made his nephew Jia Mi the general of the rear army, his uncle Guo Zhang the general of the right guard, and his cousin Pei NFDA6 the general of the left and right armies.In this way, it is very easy to falsely abolish the prince Sima Yu.With the soldiers in hand, the edicts can be filled out at will, and you can mess with whoever you want.After Zhao Wang Sima Lun entered Beijing, he became deeply involved with the Jia clan, and finally won the key position of "General of the Right Army" in the Imperial Guard.As a result, Empress Jia also found a gravedigger for herself and her clan.In the action of abolishing Empress Jia, many officers of the middle and lower ranks of the imperial guards participated in the incident, including Sima Du of the left guard, Sima Ya, Xu Chao, the governor of the general public, Lang Shiyi of the palace, Yin Hun, the censor of the palace, and Sima Dulu of the right guard. Shi Shi, Youwei Qifei, Du Luhe, and Qi Wang Sima Jiong, a lieutenant of the imperial family Yijun, entered the palace late at night. No matter how deep the schemes of Empress Jia are, no matter how powerful the power is, they will not escape the hands of these professional soldiers.
After Zhao Wang Sima Lun took power, he also ordered Sun Xiu and his own sons to serve as high-ranking officials of the imperial guards, completely controlling the imperial guards.If you master the Imperial Guard, you also master the emperor.With the emperor in hand, he can use the emperor to command the princes, and in the name of the emperor, he can get twice the result with half the effort and control the situation of the world.It was only later that the three kings of Sima rose up one after another and attacked the capital directly. Sima Lun had to send the elite imperial guards out of the city to resist, which weakened his strength and eventually led to his own downfall.
In the major events that led to the violent political turmoil in the Western Jin Dynasty, several civil servants from poor families also became extremely key figures.
In the execution of Yang Jun, Sima Wei, the king of Chu, showed his talents, and then Sima Liang, the king of Runan, was also initiated by him, which opened the prelude to the "Eight Kings Rebellion".But Chu Wang Sima Wei is only in his early twenties, and he is completely a "wet" generation in the field of political struggle. The ones who really control the situation are his long history Gongsun Hong and Sheren Qisheng.The two first gave Sima Wei an idea to get him closer to Jananfeng so that he could stay in Kyoto.After killing Sima Liang and Wei Guan, the two remonstrated Sima Wei and took the opportunity to go straight to the palace to abolish Empress Jia.Sima Wei hesitated, but the opportunity was lost. Empress Jia preemptively attacked, falsely claiming that Sima Wei falsely preached the imperial decree and killed princes and ministers without authorization, and finally killed Sima Wei. Gongsun Hong and Qi Sheng were also "killed by the three clans".If Sima Wei had followed the advice of these two people, the outcome of the funeral would have been completely different.Zhao Wang Sima Lun is old and stupid, and Sun Xiu advises on everything. "(Sun) Xiuqi was born as a small official in Langya." He was born in a purely poor man, but he single-handedly planned Zhao Wang Sima Lun to meet Jia Hou when he entered the capital, contact the guard officer, and provoke Jia Hou to kill the prince. Abolished the whole process of killing Jia, and after the successful coup d'état, he became a senior official of Shizhong, Zhongshujian, and Hussar General, and became a relative with the emperor, and actually controlled the government of Jin Dynasty.
In the Western Jin Dynasty, where education was the most important thing, noble families, no matter whether they were virtuous or foolish, had always monopolized important positions at all levels, and the poor class had been striving to climb up in an oppressive atmosphere.These people are often talented and intelligent, but have no way to show their talents. They can only do everything possible to join the kings or high-ranking officials.Of course, the counselors of the poor class were only dignified for a while, and they were short-lived, and soon the three clans were punished and killed by their roots.