The Sima family was slaughtered, why was the whole country killed
History stretches like a long river, the change of dynasties is as natural as day and night, new monarchs ascend the throne, incompetent monarchs abdicate, and this cycle constitutes a closed loop of history.
In general, the royal family of the previous dynasty was rarely subjected to cruel treatment. Firstly, this helps to establish an image of a generous monarch in the hearts of the people, and secondly, the royal family of ** has lost real power and cannot make any waves.
The Sima clan was exterminated after the fall of the Jin Dynasty, what was the reason? The story should start with the grievances of the previous dynasty. Cao Cao was the final winner of the Three Kingdoms period, having met Sima Yi and was aware of his ambitions.
Cao Cao always wanted to get rid of Sima Yi, but his son Cao Pi listened to Sima Yi's words and reused him instead.
Sima Yi staged a coup d'état and usurped Cao Wei's power. However, he was not the loyal minister that Cao Cao had foreseen. Cao Pi's trust in him eventually became a warning to the future of the world.
On his deathbed, Cao Pi entrusted his youngest son Cao Ei to Sima Yi, and Cao Ei became the emperor, also out of his father's order, and believed in Sima Yi. However, Sima Yi secretly consolidated his power and staged a mutiny, forcing the Cao family to withdraw from the stage of history.
Not only that, but he dealt a cruel blow to the Cao family and completely forgot about the promotion of the first emperor. His son inherited his brutality and showed no mercy to the Cao Wei clan.
The Western Jin Dynasty was destroyed by the Gaopingling Rebellion, and the Eastern Jin Dynasty rose as a result, but such a monarch could not win the hearts and minds of the people, and the people were afraid of their capriciousness. As a result, the Western Jin Dynasty perished after less than half a century, and the sins they had committed ended up falling on the heads of the Eastern Jin Dynasty.
Maybe it's because the hatred of the past is no longer traceable.
Sima Rui, a monarch of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, experienced many difficulties in the process of starting his family. With the help of Xie An, he successfully survived the Battle of Huangshui and stabilized his position.
However, his throne was not so secure. During the Eastern Jin Dynasty, various forces were mixed together, and some even surpassed the imperial power and stood high. It stands to reason that such a situation may lead to the Eastern Jin Dynasty being replaced by these forces.
However, this is not the case. Liu Yu, a halfway monk, finally seized the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Liu Yu probably shouldn't have been surnamed Liu because he was a child abandoned by his family.
His mother had a difficult birth because she gave birth to him, and his father was unwilling to raise him and even wanted to abandon him. Luckily, his neighbors, Mr. and Mrs. Liu, picked him up and raised him.
Therefore, Liu Yu inherited the surname Liu.
Liu Yu was born in poverty, and in order to change his fate, he joined the army and made a name for himself in the army with his natural military talent. Starting as a Sima, he continued to make contributions in the army, and was finally promoted to join the army.
However, at the same time as he was successfully promoted, the powerful minister Huan Wen unexpectedly claimed to be the emperor. This news stimulated Liu Yu, who was obedient to Huan Wen on the surface, but secretly plotted a plot to replace Huan Wen in his heart.
Liu Yu did not stay at the planning stage, he secretly united his old department and prepared for action. In the end, he gathered his team and launched an attack on Huan Chu, and Huan Wen became the first to die at his hands.
Soon after, Murong Chao, the emperor of Southern Yan, also became Liu Yu's defeated general. Murong Chao personally led his troops to attack Huaibei, but Liu Yu had already planned to attack Nanyan, but Murong Chao was looking for death by himself.
As a result, Liu Yu easily destroyed Nanyan and became a military giant.
Liu Yu's Northern Expedition eventually destroyed Later Qin and Western Shu. Among them, the Western Shu Emperor was forced to kill himself, while Yao Hong of Later Qin was killed by Liu Yu after conquering many countries, and was replaced by a more obedient puppet emperor Sima Dewen.
Faced with an unchangeable fate, Sima Dewen finally chose to give Chan to Liu Yu, and Liu Yu accepted the result.
Although the Sima Dewen Sima clan was destroyed, after Liu Yu became emperor, he did not open up to them. He chose to exterminate the Sima family, probably because he was born as a military general, had a cold and hard heart, and showed no mercy to the innocent descendants of the Sima family.
In addition, his son is still young, and Liu Yu has too many enemies, and he is worried that something will happen to him. Therefore, he made this decision to pave the way for his son, hoping that he would become emperor smoothly.
Liu Yu called the emperor, after the Han family was killed by Cao Wei, Cao Wei was killed by Sima Yi of the Western Jin Dynasty, and now he treats the Sima family equally cruelly, perhaps it is the reincarnation of retribution, no one can clearly judge who is right and who is wrong.
Because of the cruelty of the ancestors of the Sima clan to Cao Wei, which led to the consequence that they are now being mutilated by Liu Yu, this can be said to be another form of self-reperciation.