Chapter 10 After you sing, I will appear on stage

——"Getting Better" in "The Rebellion of Eight Kings" Emperor Hui was restored, and Zhao Wanglun, who had usurped the throne, was given to death, so King Qi naturally also rewarded the "heroes".King Sima Jiong of Qi was granted the title of Grand Sima and added Jiuxi; King Sima Ying of Chengdu was made General and added Jiuxi; King Sima Yong of Hejian was named Taiwei and added Sanxi; General.Among them, King Sima Jiong of Qi is the cousin of Brother Hui, Sima Ying, King of Chengdu, and Sima Ai, King of Changsha, and Emperor Hui are half-brothers of the same father and mother (Sima Yi and Sima Wei, King of Chu, have the same father and mother, and the King of Chu followed him when he raised troops. Left and right, were demoted to Changshan King), these people are all young and middle-aged princes in their twenties and thirties.Sima Yong, King of Hejian, was the cousin of Emperor Hui, about forty years old.It is conceivable that these people are together, and the emperor sitting sideways in the palace is a foolish emperor, who can bow his head to whom?

When King Simawei of Yiyang, who had seized Emperor Hui's seal, retreated to Jiuqu (now Gong County, Henan Province), he heard that King Sima Lun of Zhao had fallen.The kings deliberated and wanted to spare him, but Emperor Hui, who had been sitting blankly in the seat, suddenly said, "Api (Sima Wei's nickname) broke my fingers and took away my seal ribbon. You must kill him." It was also the only "decision" he made by himself as emperor in his life. Of course, the kings had nothing to say and sent people to kill Sima Wei. Just a few days after they settled down, several princes formed a group to worship the ancestral mausoleum.Sima Xin, the king of Xinye, persuaded Sima Jiong, the king of Qi: "You and the king of Chengdu have made great achievements together. You should leave him to assist the government in the capital. If you don't want to, you should cut off his military power." Mausoleum also suggested to his half-brother Sima Ying, the king of Chengdu, "The world is the cause of the first emperor, and Wang Yiwei should rectify it." It means that people from Emperor Wu's lineage should maintain it and beware of King Qi.

Lu Zhi, Gao Shen under the King of Chengdu, put forward a strategy of retreating and advancing. He said: "The king of Qi claimed to have millions of people at that time, and they were defeated by Zhang Hong. It was you, the prince, who succeeded in attacking Sun Hui. If the two heroes do not stand together, Your Majesty, you should return the above form to Yecheng on the grounds that the concubine (the birth mother of the King of Chengdu) is ill, and the court will appoint the king of Qi. This move will win the hearts of the world." Sima Ying, the king of Chengdu, was very obedient, and immediately entered the palace to bid farewell to Emperor Hui , and returned to Yecheng from Luoyang with great speed, "the reputation of the scholars and the people all belong to (Sima) Ying".After returning to Yecheng, Sima Ying promoted Yu Jiuxi's special ceremony again, commending the heroes, helping the victims, and burying the fallen soldiers, "it was all Lu Zhi's plan".According to historical records, "(Sima) is beautiful but dazed, ignorant of books, but honest and honest, and entrusted to (Lu) Zhi, so he can achieve his beauty."

Qi Wang Sima Jiong always suspected that the great talent Lu Ji wrote the edict of the Zen throne for Zhao Wang Sima Lun for Emperor Hui, so he arrested Lu Ji and Lu Yun brothers and wanted to kill them.The king of Chengdu also argued for it, saved the two, and stated that Lu Ji was the internal history of Pingyuan and Lu Yun was the internal history of Qinghe.Friends of the Erlu brothers advised them to return the land of Wu as soon as possible and stay away from right and wrong. Lu Ji thought that Sima Ying had recommended him and "could make meritorious service", so he refused to listen.Sima Jiong, king of Qi, and Zhang Han (named Ji Ying), Dong Cao’s subordinate, were also from Wuzhong. The eunuchs have traveled thousands of miles to invite famous nobles!' Then he ordered to drive back." This was a clever move, and it really saved his life.Water shield soup and sea bass may not be very delicious, but using this as an excuse to sail away will not only avoid disaster, but also leave a reputation of being chic and unrestrained forever. Zhang Jiying's move is the work of a real celebrity.

Since Emperor Hui's prince, Sima Yu, was killed by Empress Jia, and Sima's two sons were killed by Zhao Wang Sima Lun, Emperor Hui had no heirs.According to the order of successors, "The great general (Sima) Ying has the potential to be established next (as the emperor's younger brother)." Of course, King Sima Jiong of Qi would not allow the situation to develop like this, so he asked Emperor Hui's nephew, the younger brother, to be established. Sima Qin, who was eight years old at the time, was the crown prince, and he appointed himself the crown prince's tutor. He also named Sima Yue, the king of the East China Sea, as Sikong, and served as the supervisor of Zhongshu.Sima Yue is also the uncle of Emperor Hui.

After Qi Wang Sima Jiong took power in his hands, he was extravagant and arbitrarily domineering, built up a large mansion, and indulged in feasting.Shizhong Ji Shao, Dianzhong Yushi Huanbao, Sun Hui and others all wrote letters to persuade them, especially Sun Hui wrote a letter with sincerity and clear reasoning: "There are five difficulties in the world, and four are not to be done, and Ming Gong lives in them. Offending Feng Ren, The first is difficult; the gathering of heroes is the second; sharing the hardships with the soldiers is the third; the weak can overcome the strong, the fourth is difficult; the revival of the imperial career is the fifth. A great name cannot last long, a great service cannot last long, and great power cannot Persevere for a long time, and the majesty cannot live for a long time. The king does not think it is difficult to do what is difficult, and considers it impossible to call it possible. The Duke of Ming should think of a way to retreat..." King Sima Jiong of Qi responded to these good remonstrances with "contempt Thank you, but I can't follow."

More than a year later, in the second year of Emperor Hui's Yongning (302), Sima Yong, king of Hejian, rose up at the instigation of Li Han, the long history.Li Han came up with an idea and said: "Sima Ying, the king of Chengdu, is the emperor's close relative. Sima Jiong, the king of Qi, became more in-laws and became a dictator. Get rid of the king of Qi for this crime, and support the king of Chengdu to enter the capital to secure the country." Sima Yong, King of Hejian, was originally a close friend of King Sima Lun of Zhao. At that time, he had to join the army to challenge King Zhao because of the situation. King Qi has always held a grudge against him.At this point, he felt that the time was right, so he sent generals Li Han and Zhang Fang as vanguards to lead the army straight to Luoyang. At the same time, he sent envoys to invite Sima Ying, the king of Chengdu, to send troops together.Lu Zhijian persuaded Sima Ying not to listen, and prepared to send troops.

Generals Li Han and Zhang Fang of the Hejian King's Department approached Luoyang to station their troops, and they ordered Sima Ai, King of Changsha, to attack Sima Jiong, King of Qi.The two princes were originally in Beijing at the same time, and the relationship was not bad, but King Qi thought that King Changsha and King Chengdu were brothers (half mothers), so he acted preemptively and sent people to attack King Changsha. "(Sima) Yi is seven feet and five inches long, cheerful and decisive, extremely talented, humble corporal, and has a very good reputation." He led more than a hundred people to fly into the palace, closed all the doors, and "sent the emperor to attack Da Sima's mansion."With the emperor in hand, he immediately turned from passive to active.That night, there was a great battle in the city. The King of Qi called it "Changsha King Jiaozhao", and the King of Changsha called "Da Sima (King Qi) conspired against him".Emperor Hui, who was shivering and taking refuge on the upper east gate tower, was taken aback again.

After three consecutive days of fighting, King Qi's troops were defeated, and Sima Jiong was sent to the palace by his chief historian Zhao Yuanzhi. "(Sima) Jiong came to the front of the palace, the emperor felt sorry for him, and wanted to live." The foolish emperor also knew good or bad, this cousin supported him to restore himself, and wanted to spare his life. "(Sima) Yiqu pulled it out from the left and right", beheaded under the gate of Changhe, and followed the first six armies to show the public.King Sima Jiong of Qi was the fourth prince among the Eight Kings to die.

The generals Li Han, Zhang Yan and others of Sima Yong, the king of Hejian, heard that the king of Qi was dead, so they led their troops back to Chang'an. Just over half a year later, in August of the second year of Emperor Hui's Tai'an (303), because Changshi Li Han and others were killed by Changsha Wang Sima Yi, Hejian King Sima Yong launched another crusade.Although the King of Chengdu has been in Yecheng, he was able to "remotely rule the court" at first because of his arrogance and extravagance. However, as the wings of Changsha King Sima Yi became stronger, the brothers had a rift, so the King of Chengdu joined the King of Hejian and went to Luoyang to crusade King of Changsha.Lu Zhijian persuaded Sima Ying not to listen.

Sima Yong, the king of Hejian, took Zhang Fang as his governor, and sent 70,000 soldiers from the valley east to Luoyang.Sima Ying, the king of Chengdu, led the army to station Chaoge, took Lu Ji as the former general and the forward commander, and led more than 200,000 people south to Luoyang. Everyone fought, tens of thousands of casualties.The king of Changsha has the trump card of Emperor Hui in his hand, and the key battles are all in the army to show the emperor's support.In the battle of Jianchunmen, Lu Ji was defeated. "When you go to Qilijian, the dead are like an accumulation, and the water will not flow." Because Lu Ji's brother and Meng Jiu, the eunuch of Chengdu King Sima Ying, did not get along, Meng Jiu said that Lu Ji had two hearts. Want to join forces with the King of Changsha to rebel.The King of Chengdu had no idea and ordered the execution of Erlu brothers and their three clans.Before the beheading, the great talent Lu Ji sighed: "Huating Cranes, you can hear it again!" It is very similar to the sigh of the yellow dog that the prime minister of the Qin Dynasty who was beheaded in Xianyang City back then.If you know how to retreat, you will never regret it! After defeating the Lu Ji sent by the King of Chengdu, Sima Ai, the king of Changsha, deeply felt that Emperor Hui's cover was really useful, and said, "When the emperor attacked Zhang Fang, (Zhang) Fang's soldiers retreated when they saw Chengyu (the emperor's imperial chariot), ( Zhang) Fang’s army was defeated.” The two sides were deadlocked.Changsha Wang Zhu Zuti (the protagonist of the two allusions "Wearing the Chicken Dancing" and "Strike the Ship in the Middle") suggested that someone should be sent to the northwest with an edict to order Liu Chen, the governor of Yongzhou, to attack the rear of Sima Yong, the king of Hejian. If you don't return, you can break the siege of the capital. Although Sima Ai, the king of Changsha, always used the emperor's silly brother to fight in the army, he "did not lose the gift he offered", and he served well, and the etiquette was not lost. Sixty to seventy thousand people.The soldiers and horses of the two kings who besieged the city were almost exhausted, and Zhang Fang was also preparing to flee back to Chang'an. At the critical moment, Sima Yue, the uncle of Emperor Hui's family who was originally with the king of Changsha, "wouldn't care about things", and was afraid that more and more soldiers and horses from the two kings would gather outside the city, so he conspired with the generals in the palace, rushed into Sima Yi's room in the middle of the night, and killed him. The majestic and heroic Changsha king was tied up and locked up in Jinyong City. He issued an imperial edict in the name of the emperor to remove him from office, and called Sima Ying, the king of Chengdu, to the city to assist in the administration. "Since the city was opened, the soldiers in the palace saw that the foreign soldiers were not strong, regretted it, and even planned to rob (Sima) Yi to reject (Sima) Ying."Seeing that the situation was not going well, Sima was terrified, and wanted to kill Changsha King Sima Yi to disappoint everyone.Pan Tao (a literati with the same official surname as Pan Yue) came up with a bad idea. He sent someone to inform Zhang Fang and use Zhang Fang's hands to get rid of Sima Ai. Zhang Fang was brutal by nature, so he sent troops to escort Sima Ai from Jinyong City, tied him up in a barracks outside the city, and slowly roasted him to death on a fire. He was twenty-eight years old. "(Sima) Ai's voice of grievances spread to the left and right, and the three armies wept for it." Among the eight kings, Sima Ai, king of Changsha, was the fifth to be killed. Chengdu King Sima Ying, who had been defeated several times in the battle, was proud at the moment. After entering the capital, he flaunted his might and returned to Yecheng. "The edict takes (Sima) Ying as the prime minister, and the king of Jiadonghai (Sima) Yue abides by the minister's order." Sima Ying also sent his trusted general Shi Chao to guard the twelve city gates of Luoyang. Go to the guards."He also abolished the crown prince established by King Qi as King Qinghe, and Sima Yong, the king of Hejian, also obediently bought it, and asked Sima Ying to be the emperor's younger brother, "obeying him". In the northwest, Sima Yong, king of Hejian, was repeatedly defeated by Liu Zhen, and urgently summoned Zhang Fang to return to Chang'an.Before Zhang Fang left, he plundered more than ten thousand men and women from the Luoyang Palace. He ran out of food on the way, so he killed the looted men and women and mixed them with beef and mutton to serve as army rations.After arriving in Guanzhong, Zhang Fang and Sima Yong joined forces, defeated Liu Zhen, and beheaded the governor of Yongzhou. "The younger brother (Sima) Ying is extravagant and extravagant day by day, and he takes advantage of his luck, which greatly disappoints the public."Sima Yue, the king of the East China Sea who lived in the middle of the capital, also had a heart of self-reliance for a long time. In the autumn of the first year of Emperor Hui's Yongxing (304), he sent troops to Yunlongmen to denounce the king of Chengdu and restore Sima Qin's status as the crown prince.Sima Yue also imitated Sima Ai, "Following the Emperor's Northern Expedition" and marched directly to Yecheng with more than 100,000 troops.Shi Chao, who was guarding the city gate for Sima Ying in Luoyang City, had already heard the news and fled back to Yecheng.Sima Ying gave him 50,000 soldiers and ordered him to attack Sima Yue. The soldiers and horses of the two sides met in Dangyin (now Tangyin, Henan), and Shi Chao defeated Sima Yue's army.In the chaos, Emperor Hui of Jin's car fell into the grass, with a knife in his face and three arrows in his body, and he was in a panic. "All the officials and imperial servants are scattered", and only Ji Shao, the servant, "gets off the horse and mounts the chariot to defend the emperor with his body".The soldiers pulled Ji Zhao from the chariot and slashed wildly with knives. Emperor Hui shouted: "Loyal ministers, don't kill!" Underneath, "Blood Splattered on Emperor's Clothes".Soon, Sima Ying sent Lu Zhi to find Emperor Hui who was sitting in the grass and crying loudly, and moved to Yecheng. "The left and right want to wash the emperor's clothes, and the emperor said: "Ji Shi has blood, don't wash it! At this point in the book, Shi Chen also sighed: who said that Emperor Hui is stupid! Ji Shao's father, Ji Kang, did not cooperate with the Sima family at the end of Wei Dynasty, and was framed and killed.Ji Shao Chunchen, who died loyal to the Sima family, can be described as a gentleman and a great husband. No wonder Wen Tianxiang also used him as a model of loyal ministers in his poem "Song of Zhengqi". When Sima Yue, king of the East China Sea, sent troops from Luoyang, Sima Yong, king of Hejian, had sent Zhang Fang to attack Luoyang.The defeated Sima Yue had to flee back to his fief Donghai (now Tancheng, Shandong).According to common sense, Sima Yue's clan, Shuzong, was already defeated, and he couldn't slow down to pull Chengdu Wang Sima Ying and Hejian Wang Sima Yong. But there is always such an accident in history. Wang Jun, who was the military governor of Youzhou at that time, sat on the mountain and watched the tigers fight. Join forces and go south to attack Yecheng. When Sima Ying heard that the minority cavalry was coming to attack, she hurriedly sent Wang Chao and others to resist the battle. They lost consecutively. "There was a great earthquake in Yezhong, hundreds of bureaucrats rushed, and soldiers scattered." Lu Zhi advised Sima Ying to return to Luoyang under Emperor Hui. At that time there were more than 15,000 armored soldiers, more than enough to serve as guards when they fled.At dawn, Sima Ying's biological mother, Concubine Cheng, was attached to Yecheng and was reluctant to get up for a long time. "(Sima) Ying was suspicious." "Russia and the crowd collapsed", the more than ten thousand troops saw that the commander had no plans, so they dispersed. Sima Ying and Lu Zhi only led dozens of cavalry and hugged Emperor Hui to the south in a small cart, in a panic.Fleeing to Mang Mountain, Zhang Fang led ten thousand cavalry elite soldiers to greet him, "(Zhang) Fang will pay homage, and the emperor will get off the car and stop himself."The dignified emperor, even though he was a fool, realized that he couldn't even bear the kneeling of a general. After Wang Jun invaded Yecheng, he plundered with his troops.Before the soldiers returned to Jizhou, Wang Jun was afraid that the Xianbei soldiers would carry the plundered women to march and delay the business, so he ordered: "Whoever dares to kidnap Tibetans will be killed!" All the stunning women who came were pushed into Yishui and drowned, and more than 8,000 people died in total. During the war among the kings, Li Xiong, the refugee leader of the Jin Dynasty, had established a separate regime in Bashu and called himself the King of Chengdu.Liu Yuan, a nobleman of the Xiongnu, was originally recommended by Sima Ying, the king of Chengdu, as the champion general.These highly Sinicized Xiongnu buddies are really "human-faced and beast-hearted". The last two emperors of the Western Jin Dynasty, Emperor Huai and Emperor Han, were captured by them. The pain that cannot be wiped away. After Emperor Hui entered and returned to Luoyang, Zhang Fang supported the army to rule the government, and Sima Ying, the king of Chengdu, lost his former power and was effectively under house arrest. Most of the soldiers under Zhang Fang came from Chang'an, and they always regarded the capital as a big piece of fat. They plundered and looted Luoyang, and they all clamored to "move the capital to Chang'an by the emperor".They wanted to trick Emperor Hui and his officials out of the city on the grounds that they invited Emperor Hui to visit the mausoleum temple in the suburbs.Emperor Hui didn't want to travel any more, and refused to go out of the city.Zhang Fang then led a large number of soldiers in armor to enter the palace, found Emperor Hui who was hiding in the bamboo forest in the back garden, and forced him to get into the chariot. "The emperor followed him weeping."So Sergeant Zhang Fang wantonly raped court ladies and robbed treasures in the harem, "dividing the government possessions, cutting tassels and military tents as horse barriers, and accumulating since Wei and Jin, sweeping away everything."Zhang Fang also wanted to burn down the palace and the ancestral temple with a torch, so Lu Zhi advised him: "Dong Zhuo has no way, burns Luoyang, and the voice of resentment still exists for a hundred years, why attack it!" Zhang Fang finally gave up. Zhang Fang hijacked Emperor Hui, King Sima Ying of Chengdu, and another younger brother of Emperor Hui, King Sima Chi of Yuzhang, to Chang'an, and King Sima Yong of Hejian temporarily became the real master of the Western Jin Dynasty.He asked Emperor Hui to issue an edict to abolish Sima Ying's status as the emperor's younger brother, and make Sima Chi, the king of Yuzhang, the emperor's younger brother. "Twenty-five emperor brothers, Weiying, Chi and Wu Wangyan survived at that time." In July of the second year of Emperor Hui's Yongxing reign (305), Sima Yue, the king of the East China Sea, charged Zhang Fang and Sima Yong, the king of Hejian, with "robbing and driving a chariot".The old troops of Sima Ying, the king of Chengdu, also set up troops in Hebei one after another.Seeing the rise of troops in Shandong, Hebei and other places, the king of Hejian was "very afraid", so he named Sima Ying, who was in the same trench as him and now under house arrest by himself, as the general of the town army, and sent Lu Zhi and more than a thousand soldiers to escort him back to Hebei soothe. Sima Ying, the king of Chengdu, was very weak and exhausted at this time, and had already lost the prestige of the hundreds of thousands of bears and tigers under his command in the past. Sima Yue, the king of the East China Sea, is on the verge of making a comeback on Dongshan Mountain. He marched smoothly all the way, and his army approached Luoyang.Seeing that every day is not as good as one day, Hejian Wang Sima Yong wants to make peace with Sima Yue.Because Zhang Fang himself was guilty of "hijacking and driving", he was afraid that the reconciliation between the two kings would be unfavorable to him, so he firmly opposed it.The King of Hejian sent Zhang Fang's old friend Zhi Fu to cut off the arrogant general's head while Zhang Fang was reading the letter under the pretext of delivering the letter. I thought that after killing Zhang Fang, Sima Yue, the king of the East China Sea, would agree to retreat, but political struggles have always been "increasing progress", and Sima Yue, the king of the East China Sea, continued to advance westward.At that time, Sima Ying, the king of Chengdu who was stationed in Luoyang with the remnant soldiers, could not stand in Luoyang. He was defeated by Huayin in embarrassment.If the two kings make peace, the king of Chengdu himself will definitely be killed as a victim. In May 306 A.D., Qi Hong, the general of the King of the East Sea, invaded Guanzhong and defeated the army of Sima Yong, the king of Hejian.Sima Yong himself also ran into Taibai Mountain.At that time, all the officials scattered and gathered acorns in the valley to satisfy their hunger.After Qi Hong's army invaded Chang'an, the Xianbei soldiers under him indulged in plunder and killed more than 20,000 people.After Qi Hong captured Emperor Hui, he returned to Luoyang with the emperor in his arms.King Hejian took the opportunity to regain Chang'an City, but the Guanzhong region surrendered to Sima Yue, because Emperor Hui was in Sima Yue's hands, and King Hejian only kept Chang'an City. In July 306 AD, Emperor Hui returned to Luoyang, the old capital, and changed Yuan Guangxi.After every catastrophe, Emperor Hui was forced to change his year name, which is also a major feature of the "Eight Kings Rebellion" in the Western Jin Dynasty. After Sima Yue, the king of the East China Sea, moved into Luoyang with an army, he was appointed as Taifu and Lushang Shushi (in fact, he appointed himself).He also took his own cousin Fanyang King Sima Yu as Sikong, and the town army Yecheng (Sima Yue and Sima Yu are both the grandsons of Sima Yi's younger brother Sima Kui, and they are the emperor's Shuzong).Wang Jun, who had made great contributions to the attack on Chengdu, was appointed General Hushi, who supervised the military forces of Dongyi and Hebei, and led the governor of Youzhou. Sima Ying, the king of Chengdu who was in panic, heard that the brothers of the king of Donghai had taken control of the capital, so he wanted to escape from Huayin to Wuguan.Traveling to Xinye County, the King of the East China Sea has issued an order in the name of Emperor Hui to search and arrest.In a panic, Sima Ying didn't care about her mother and wife, and just crossed the Yellow River with a soldier in a royal chariot to drive her two young sons to Chaoge. The subordinate Gongshifan.Before going far, Fan Yang Wang Sima's subordinates killed Sima Ying and others, and locked them in Yecheng Prison. "King Fan Yang (Sima) is secluded, and has no other intentions." It is estimated that Sima Yu has no ill-will towards this younger brother of Emperor Hui, and he does not intend to kill him.Unfortunately, King Fan Yang suddenly died of a sudden illness. His subordinate Liu Yu (brother of the great writer Liu Kun) knew that Sima Ying had been sitting in Yecheng and had a good reputation. People pretended to be Taiwan envoys, "Called Zhao Yeci (Sima) to die". At the last moment, the young and beautiful prince was very calm.After reading the "edict", he asked the supervisor Tian Hui: "Is King Fan Yang dead?" Tian Hui replied: "I don't know." This question and answer is very interesting.Seeing that there was an imperial edict granting her death, Sima Ying guessed that King Fan Yang was dead, and Tian Hui, as an office worker, couldn't disclose the news.Sima Ying asked again, "How old are you?" Tian Hui replied, "Fifty." Sima Ying asked, "Do you know the destiny?" (Confucius said that he "knows the destiny at fifty"), Tian Hui said: "No I know." In the face of this ruthless "policeman", the prince was helpless, and it was impossible to have a deep conversation with such a person. He sighed to himself: "After I die, the world will be safe and secure? This year, I didn't see my body, hands and feet to take a bath, so I took several buckets of soup!" Wei Jin demeanor can also be glimpsed in such a dying prince. Sima Ying's two sons were terrified and crying. The prince knew that it would be useless to regret death, and it would be useless to pity his son.After washing and bathing, "Naicai first lay down in the east", lay down by himself, and ordered Tian Hui to hang himself to death at the age of twenty-eight. "The second son also died, and Yezhong mourned him."This is the sixth of the Eight Kings who was killed. In December of 306 A.D. (the first year of Emperor Hui Guangxi), Sima Yue, the king of the East China Sea, felt that the big fool Huidi was of no use, so he sent people to put medicine in the cake and poisoned the old fool. He was forty-eight years old. .Since Emperor Hui ascended the throne, in the sixteen years of ups and downs, how many nights he was awakened from his dreams, forced to ascend to the palace, and forced to write and kill his grandfather, mother, queen, prince, brother, younger brother, emperor, etc. Uncle, and the names of many ministers whose names he can't even figure out.Being hijacked by this one today as a shield, and tomorrow being dragged by that one to show off in the army formation, there is hardly a single day in which he survived.Finally, there came a day when my stomach hurt so badly, my body twitched, my brother thrashed about for a while, and he could finally fall into a long sleep. Never again would the cold hands of a soldier drag him out of the hot blanket on a cold night. The sad thing is that Emperor Hui of Jin was between a half-fool and a half-fool, knowing cold and heat, suffering and pain, he could be angry when Sima Wei broke his fingers, and sad because Ji Shao's blood splashed his clothes, but He couldn't act in an orderly manner like ordinary people, and he was in the ninth-tier throne in vain.Especially his "joke" of "Why don't you eat minced meat?" (and the world is in chaos, the people starve to death, the emperor said: "Why don't you eat minced meat?"), we read the details, only sad, only pity, true The root cause of the disaster lies in "Emperor Wu does not know his son", and in the benevolence of his biological mother, Empress Yang.Emperor Hui passed away safely, and the people all over the world breathed a sigh of relief. Everyone was finally relieved, and eagerly hoped that a good emperor would be born to rule the world. After the death of Emperor Hui, Sima Yue appointed Sima Chi, the twenty-fifth younger brother of Emperor Hui, as emperor, and changed Yuan Yongjia to Emperor Huai of Jin. Remembering that there was still King Sima Yong of Hejian who was guarding the lonely city of Chang'an, Taifu Donghai King Sima Yue ordered Sima Yong to be a Situ in the name of Emperor Huai of Jin Dynasty.It stands to reason that this "rarely famous and wealthy gentleman" prince also lived in his forties. After so many years of "politics", he was suspicious and repeated. He should know that there will be no good fruit to eat when he returns to the capital.It is estimated that one is the reminder of death, the other is that all the kings were killed, the third is that the isolated city is hard to protect, and the fourth is that the new emperor ascended the throne. Sima Yong also has a fluke mentality. Forget about enjoying your old age.So, he accepted the edict and went to the conscript, and drove to Luoyang with his three sons in a complicated mood.As soon as he arrived at Xin'an Yonggu, Liang Chen, the general Liang Chen sent by Simamo, the king of Nanyang, the younger brother of the king of the East China Sea, had led a group of elite soldiers to "wait" for him.After asking that the car was indeed the King of Hejian, Liang Chen got off his horse, rushed into the car, and strangled the always scheming prince to death with his big hands.Then, he drew out his knife again, and chopped off the heads of the three young sons of King Hejian three times.So far, Sima Yong, the king of Hejian among the eight kings, reported to hell and ranked seventh. Seven of the eight kings were killed one after another, and Sima Yue, the king of the East China Sea, seemed to be the last winner. In fact, his fate was not much better. After Sima Yue embraced Emperor Huai, he took over the power alone. First, he killed Emperor Huai's nephew, Sima Qin, the fourteen-year-old king of Qinghe.Sima Qin had been appointed as the crown prince by Emperor Hui, and Sima was more afraid that this child would succeed Emperor Huai in the future, so he acted first.Before long, he killed Emperor Huai's uncle Wang Yan, minister Gao Tao and others, and fled to chase minister Gou Xi. "(Sima) is more specialized in authority, the picture shows hegemony, and he looks up to the virtuous, so he is selected as an assistant official; famous generals and powerful soldiers fill his own house. The traces of disobedience are known everywhere." In the fifth year of Emperor Huai's Yongjia reign (310), Sima Yue, who saw the smoldering fires outside Luoyang city, entered the imperial court in uniform.After he led 40,000 elite troops to go out to fight, he flew to all states and counties to recruit troops, but "none of them were recruited." "Public interests are exhausted, the local bandits are in chaos, the prefectures and counties are brought together, the top and bottom are disintegrated, and the disasters are deep."Fearing fatigue, and learning that Emperor Huai ordered Gouxi and others to kill him, when Sima Yue, king of the East China Sea, arrived at Xiangcheng (now Shenqiu, Henan), he suddenly fell ill and died there. Sima, king of Xiangyang who was traveling with the army Fan He Taiwei and Wang Yanmi did not send out a funeral, but prepared to lead the army to send Sima Yue's body to be buried in his fief East Sea (Tancheng, Shandong). After hearing the news, Shi Le, the leader of the Jie tribe (at that time a subordinate of Liu Yuan, the king of the Xiongnu race), led his cavalry to chase after this group of leaderless dragons and a mixed team of soldiers, officers and families, and started a massacre in Ningping City (now Dancheng, Henan) in Kuxian County. , The brigade of cavalry shot arrows around hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians of the Western Jin Dynasty like hunting. After one day, "more than 100,000 kings, princes, officials and concubines died."Shi Le sent soldiers to burn Sima Yue's coffin on fire, saying: "This man has messed up the world, and I will repay it for the world, so burn his bones to tell the world." Fortunately, more than 200,000 Western Jin soldiers and civilians who survived were burned to death by Liu Yuan's other army. "Eat it together" has become an army ration for barbecue human flesh. Shile's army arrested many senior officials of the Jin Dynasty, including Taiwei Wang Yan, Minister of the Ministry of Officials Liu Wang, and six royal princes including Sima Fan, King of Xiangyang, and Sima Ji, King of Rencheng. "Everyone is afraid of death and makes more statements." Wang Yan also persuaded Shi Le to proclaim himself emperor.Only Sima Fan, the King of Xiangyang, was still a man, "with a stern look on his face, and Gu Hezhi said: 'Why are there so many things about today? Finally saved the whole body. Sima Yueliu sent Luoyang's general He Lun and others to hear the defeat, and rushed to embrace Sima Yue's son and his princess Pei to flee from Luoyang to the East China Sea. The civilians in the city also followed the soldiers.When he ran to Weicang, he was intercepted by Shi Le's army again. The prince of Donghai and the forty-eight princes of the royal family died at the hands of the rebellion. In June of 311 AD (the fifth year of Emperor Huai's Yongjia reign), Emperor Huai of Jin was captured by the Han army of Liu Yuan, the Hun, and was killed in 313 AD at the age of thirty.In 316 A.D., another nephew of Emperor Hui, Sima Ye, Emperor Min of Jin, also came out naked and was killed shortly thereafter at the age of eighteen.At this point, the Western Jin Dynasty perished.Both Emperor Huai and Emperor Min were very good young talents, but the "Eight Kings Rebellion" had already caused huge cracks in the Jin Dynasty Building that were difficult to repair, and no one could recover. Zu Ti once said, "The turmoil in the Jin Dynasty was not due to superiority and injustice, but the people resented and rebelled. The kings fought for dominance, destroyed each other, and made the Rong and Di take advantage of the vain, poisoning the middle land."Although Emperor Hui of Jin was faint and not abusive, it was simply unprecedented in ancient and modern times for such a vast imperial Jin Dynasty to be governed by a foolish emperor.Emperor Wu of Jin had no foresight, entrusted no one, and his son did not live up to expectations. The minister Tuogu was either a power-hungry rat like Yang Jun, or a sophisticated veteran like Zhang Hua, so that Empress Jia treacherous woman Bingguo, Zhao Wang Sima Lun's insidious prince usurped Rebellion, the kings fought, and the chaos ended. A unique feature of the "Eight Kings Rebellion" is that at the beginning of the chaos, various forces acted under the banner of supporting imperial power, or "coordinating edicts", and it was by no means a naked and random fight like the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty.This is mainly because Emperor Wu of Jin reigned for twenty-six years, and the influence of the emperor's authority was huge.Zhao Wang Sima Lun is so powerful, but once he usurps, he will soon be defeated by the kings under the banner of welcoming Emperor Hui, and Sima Zhong, the "earth puppet", can just become the biggest in the hands of royal careerists. The trump card, until 306 AD, Sima Yue, the king of the East China Sea, saw that the fool emperor had nothing to do with it, and the afterglow of the mighty imperial power in the Jinwu Emperor era had completely passed away, so he killed the pretend emperor with poison. Thinking back to the eight Sima royal families that led to the final demise of the Western Jin Dynasty, the original intention of the Sima family was entirely out of the idea of ​​"feudal relatives and virtuous, supporting the imperial family", but Emperor Wu of Jin had no long-term plans, Emperor Hui was in the dark, and the ruling ministers were content with extravagance Liberation caused Empress Jia to take power arbitrarily, and the eight kings had secret selfishness, and they rose up one after another, fanning the wind and causing disasters, resulting in "the death of the Chongguo and the destruction of both the name and name".However, the personalities of the Eight Kings are not the same.Sima Liang, king of Runan, said that "the young and clear policemen are talented and useful", and the chaos was not caused by it, but it was kind; Sima Wei, the king of Chu, was young and vigorous, with little political experience. The prince, although he has selfish intentions of grudges, ends up being the tool of Empress Jia's murder, and he himself cannot avoid being stabbed; King Sima Lun of Zhao, respected by his uncle, is dim and cowardly, and his sons are useless. It can be said that he is the most despicable old man among the eight kings; Sima Jiong, the king of Qi, "less called benevolence, but good to promote". Yu Shi; Changsha Wang Sima Yi is "cheerful and decisive, extremely talented, humbly corporal, and has a great reputation", it should be said that he is a versatile man of civil and military affairs, decisive and smart, but in troubled times, people are unpredictable, and he was eventually betrayed by the King of the East China Sea, and his success was on the verge of failure; Chengdu Wang Sima With the help of counselor Lu Zhi and others, Ying originally cleared the rebellion and won the hearts of the people, but in the end he favored Xiao Xiao, not only turned against his cousin King Qi, but also fought with his half-brother Sima Ai, controlling the queen of the court from afar. However, the king of Chengdu couldn't make a quick decision and indulged in his own desires, and in the end he was killed by a rope.Sima Yong, king of Hejian, was originally the Shuzong of the Sima royal family. Attached to Zhao Wang Sima Lun, and together with Qi Wang Sima Jiong to attack Zhao Wang, and Chengdu King Sima Ying to attack Changsha King Sima Ai, his subordinate Zhang Fang was even more cruel, hijacking Huidi's car, scouring Luoyang, Kyoto, and riding in the East China Sea He robbed Emperor Hui to Chang'an and put the King of Chengdu under house arrest, which completely became the culprit of the melee among the kings at that time. Although there was such a city, he was eventually strangled to death; Sima Yue, the king of the East China Sea, was also Shuzong of the Jin Dynasty, "has little command and reputation, and is modest and humble, and is regarded as the family at home and abroad." In the harsh political struggle, Sima Yue betrayed the ally Changsha King, then turned against the Chengdu King, and attacked the Hejian King. , and poisoned Emperor Hui of Jin to death. Although he could eventually become the prince who would not be beheaded among the "Eight Kings", his bones were not cold, and a fire in Shile burned him to ashes. If you sell it off, you can sigh in the end. "Since Emperor Hui lost his power, it was difficult to set up Xiao Qiang. Flesh and blood were killed, Li Yuan was ruined, Hu Chen was shocked and the world heard about it, and the chaos followed and the palace and temple fell. The relatives caused the disaster, and the Rong Jie took advantage of the gap, and the husband was sad!" The successor of Emperor Wu is a mediocre and long-term master. All these princes can start well and end well, and they will be listed in the Jin Dynasty.Even if anyone harbors wolfish ambitions, he can only be King Taiping Shun under the unified imperial power. Another mishandling in the era of Emperor Wu of Jin Dynasty was the abolition of a large number of state and county soldiers.Of course, the original intention of the disarmament was good. According to the "Field Occupation Law" of the Western Jin Dynasty, these retired soldiers could get a piece of land to work on, which not only ensured their own food and clothing, but also paid rent to the state.However, the military strength of the states and counties weakened, and when there were major events, such as the rebellion of the clan's troops, or the rebellion of the ethnic minorities in the border areas, the neighboring states and counties would of course be helpless and could only resign themselves to their fate and allow themselves to be slaughtered and invaded.At that time, it was not that there were no people who understood. Shang Shupu She Shantao advised Emperor Wu not to dismantle the military equipment of the states and counties, but Emperor Wu of Jin, who was intoxicated with the victory of the "Great Unification", could not listen at all, thinking that raising troops in the states and counties was costly, laborious and unproductive. , issued an imperial edict to strictly disarm the troops. It is precisely the reality that "if you forget the battle, you will perish", soon after the death of Emperor Wu, the world was in chaos.Just imagine, there are only a hundred military officials in a large county, and only fifty military officials in a small county. Such a "Yanwu Xiuwen", how shallow and short-sighted Emperor Wu of Jin is! In addition, the great feuding of kings with the same surname in the early Western Jin Dynasty was not the real trigger of the "Eight Kings Rebellion".Careful study of the system of the Western Jin Dynasty revealed that the clan kings had no real power to govern the people in the fief. ) The country of Yau, pretends to be a superintendent, but has no reality." The kings ruled the land, "the law is the same as the counties, and there is no system to form a country."The real reason why the kings were able to have the power to raise troops one after another was actually the authority given to them by Emperor Wu in the later period, such as King Sima Wei of Chu Township Jingzhou, King Sima Yun of Huainan Township of Jiang and Yangzhou, King Sima Liang of Runan Township of Xuchang, etc.After Emperor Hui succeeded to the throne, King Zhao, King Hejian and others successively took control of important towns in Guanzhong, King Chengdu took control of Yecheng, and King Sima Jiong of Qi took control of Xuchang.The kings have been leading troops for a long time, and the shogunate has mixed people, and the desire to win the crown has grown quietly without knowing it, which eventually led to the rise of these local kings one after another. The Western Jin Dynasty is one of the few regimes in Chinese history that did not die due to peasant uprisings.Although the decline of Confucian classics, the rise of metaphysics and Buddhism, and the internal migration of ethnic minorities became important sources of interference for the weakening of the Western Jin regime, the real cause of its demise was the internal chaos and collapse caused by the mutual attacks of the eight kings. The French philosopher Pascal said: "The cause of progress must be replaced by progress." Good luck and bad luck, although the demise of the Western Jin Dynasty caused great social turmoil in the north and south of China for more than a hundred years, you can sing about it in various regimes I made my debut, but I also achieved an unprecedented top priority in Chinese history: for the first time, the Chinese nation accelerated the integration of nationalities to the greatest extent in the "Battle of Brothers" among various nationalities in China, and the Hu nationality culture washed away the original culture of the Han nationality The dregs and dross in the Chinese nation have added fresh vitality factors to the spiritual blood of the Chinese nation, and laid a rich ideological foundation and psychological accumulation for the unification of the Sui and Tang Dynasties in the future. 纷乱大伪之世，却生出那么多英雄、豪杰、骚客、奸雄、懦夫，共同合演了一场盛大的世间戏。台上戏是先离后合，与台上之戏不同，世间戏却先合后离，辛酸处处，血迹斑斑。“这是最好的时代，也是最坏的时代；这是智慧的年代，也是愚蠢的年代；这是信仰的世纪，也是怀疑的世纪；这是光明的季节，也是黑暗的季节。我们拥有一切，我们一无所有，我们直上天堂，我们直落地狱……”——英国大文豪狄更斯这一段话，形容“八王之乱”前后的西晋社会是再恰当不过的了。