In China's long history, if there is one dynasty that makes people feel the most speechless and disgusted, the Jin Dynasty established by the Sima family must be among the top three.
From Sima Yi's seizure of Cao Wei's power from orphans and widows to the killing of Sima Dewen, the last emperor of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, it took nearly 200 years.
During this period of time, the Central Plains was filled with gunsmoke, wars continued, the court was controlled by the clans, corrupted, invaded by foreign tribes, and the lives were miserable.
During the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Liu Yu, a famous general of the Beifu Army, faced a chaotic situation and killed six emperors successively, which was nicknamed "Liuwei Dihuang Pill" by later generations.
When he established the new dynasty, he did not adopt the previous practice, but slaughtered Sima Yi's descendants all over the house, which made people feel a chill in the back, but considering the reality at the time, this may be his helpless move.
Many people like to compare Cao Wei and Sima Wei.
At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, political corruption, in order to eliminate the ten permanent servants, the general He Jin dispatched the Western Liang warlord Dong Zhuo to Beijing.
Dong Zhuo was extremely ambitious, and after entering Beijing, he abolished the Han Shao Emperor Liu Wei, established the Han Xian Emperor Liu Xie, and proclaimed himself the prime minister of the country, controlling the government.
Yuan Shao and others formed the Eighteen Road princes to discuss Dong Zhuo, Dong Zhuo took Emperor Han Xian hostage and fled all the way to Chang'an, and burned the palace in the eastern capital Luoyang before leaving.
Dong Zhuo was eventually killed by his righteous son Lü Bu, and the Xiliang army under his command rebelled unrestrained, and Lü Bu was defeated and led his troops to flee, and Li Dao and Guo Yan were also killed successively.
Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty, under the protection of the surrounding ministers, fled from Chang'an in a hurry and rushed all the way back to Luoyang.
When they returned to Luoyang hungry and thirsty, and covered with dust, they saw devastation.
Just when they were on the verge of despair, Cao Cao arrived with a large army.
Cao Cao not only brought delicious food, but also respectfully welcomed Emperor Han Xian and his ministers to his base camp Xudu.
In the palace of Xudu, Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty regained his long-parted sense of security.
And Cao Cao, in the name of Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty, began to conquer the east and west, to clean up the princes who were detached from morality one by one.
Although everyone in the world scolded Cao Cao as "a thief under the pretense of Han Xiang", as Cao Cao said: "Let there be no loneliness in the world, I don't know how many people are kings and how many people are emperors." ”
Yuan Shao, the most powerful, was defeated, Yuan Shu, who proclaimed himself emperor, also committed suicide, and Liu Biao's Jingzhou also surrendered to Cao Cao.
Cao Cao's prestige reached its peak for a while.
Although after the Battle of Chibi, Cao Cao was defeated and the army returned north.
But Cao Cao still occupied the entire north.
Cao Cao did not claim the title of emperor until his death, but only crowned the king of Wei.
His son Cao Pi and Emperor Liu Xie of the Han Xian Dynasty were related by marriage, although they forced the Emperor of the Han Xian Emperor Chan to give up the throne, but the Han Xian Emperor was named the Duke of Shanyang, but the territory was smaller, and the etiquette of the Son of Heaven could still be retained in the fief, and he was buried in the Zen Mausoleum after his death and received preferential treatment.
Sima Yi was first a clerk of Cao Cao, and because of his intelligence and resourcefulness, he was sent by Cao Cao to Cao Pi's mansion as the prince's concubine to assist him.
When Cao Pi was competing with Cao Zhang and Cao Zhi for the throne, he gave advice to Cao Pi many times, so that Cao Pi could turn evil into good fortune and win the final victory.
Starting from Cao Pi, the Cao family has a short life for several generations, Sima Yi is forbearant and resourceful, and finally launched the "Gaopingling Change", forcing the Empress Dowager Guo to give an order and depriving the general Cao Shuang of his power.
Cao Shuang was executed, and the power of Cao Wei fell into the hands of the Sima clan.
By the time of Sima Yi's sons Sima Shi and Sima Zhao, the power of the Sima family in the court was the same as that of Cao Cao in front of Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty.
They first eliminated Western Shu and took Liu Chan to Luoyang, and then Sima Zhao's son Sima Yan replaced Cao Wei to establish the Jin Dynasty, and easily destroyed Eastern Wu, and China was restored to unity.
After Sima Yan established the Jin Dynasty (known as the Western Jin Dynasty in history), he worked hard for a while, but after the unification of China, he began to indulge in the gentle countryside.
He ingeniously invented a sheep cart to pull him to the beauty's house, and he went to pamper whoever the sheep cart stopped.
So much so that the beauties put fresh grass and salt in front of their homes to lure the sheep pulling carts to stay at their doorsteps.
After Sima Yan's death, he was succeeded by his son Sima Zhen.
Sima Zhen is congenitally deficient, has low intelligence, and can't even be a normal person, so how can he manage the country and rule the world?
His wife is Jia Nanfeng, a famous fierce woman in history, Jia Nanfeng is domineering internally and seizing power externally, which angers other relatives of the Sima family.
They raised troops one after another to ask for an explanation, in fact, they just wanted to seize the throne.
In the protracted war, eight princes participated in the civil war, which is known as the "Rebellion of the Eight Kings".
The nomads, who had been excluded from the Great Wall, saw the internal friction in the Central Plains and the great loss of strength, so they took advantage of the situation and quickly occupied the territory north of the Yangtze River.
These uncivilized nomads treated the people of the Central Plains with cruelty and outrageousness, resulting in a lack of room in the northern region.
This has also become one of the important reasons why the Sima family has been criticized for thousands of years.
The surviving Sima family crossed south and continued the rule of the Jin Dynasty (Eastern Jin Dynasty) south of the Yangtze River, while the Hu tribes in the north established a number of regimes, the most famous of which was the "Five Hu and Sixteen Kingdoms".
These Hu tribes attacked each other, and it was often the Han people who did not have time to flee that suffered.
Sima Rui, a distant relative of the imperial family, re-established the imperial court in Jinling (present-day Nanjing), and it was still the former scholars who controlled the government, which caused dissatisfaction among the majority of the Shu and ordinary people.
Seeing that the people in the north were suffering, Sima did not want to forge ahead, and the ministers who had ideas expressed their indignation.
They either formed their own armies to send troops to the Northern Expedition, or contacted the remnants of the Han forces in the north to resist, the most famous of which was the Zu Ti Northern Expedition.
But without the support of **, these rebellions all failed without exception.
People were even more desperate for the Sima clan, and the powerful minister Huan Wen saw the opportunity to buy people's hearts and seize power, and set up the Sima emperor.
But Huan Wen was old and sick, and died of illness before he could play a role.
His son Huan Xuan succeeded him, deposed the Sima clan, and became emperor himself.
Because Huan Xuan was lewd and lustful, especially delicious, and did nothing, the northern regime repeatedly violated the border.
Once again, the ministers who had pinned their hopes on him were disappointed.
At this time, local forces began to rise, and Liu Yu, a famous general of the Beifu Army, took advantage of the banner of counterinsurgency to drive away Huan Xuan and re-establish Sima as emperor.
But his purpose is not to recreate the Great Jin, but to have other plans.
When he was full-fledged in the court, he deposed Sima Dewen, the last emperor of the Sima clan.
Liu Yu is a descendant of Han Gaozu's elder brother, and he can be regarded as a descendant of the Han family.
His appearance reminded people of the once glorious Han Dynasty, so people expressed their support for him, and he established a new dynasty in Jinling, the Song Dynasty.
After the establishment of the new dynasty, he did not divide the emperors of the previous dynasty like Cao Pi and Sima Yan before, but slaughtered the entire Sima clan.
Some people think that Liu Yu is a femme fatale, but the reason is very realistic, after the Sima clan took power, people are resentful, and the power of the major warrior clans is too strong.
Liu Yushu was born in the clan, once he is a hundred years later, future generations will not be able to suppress these scholars, so he also learned Cao Cao's hand "Rather teach me to bear the world, and stop teaching the world to bear me".
Sima Yi was good at forbearance and scheming all his life, but he would never have thought that for more than a hundred years, his unscrupulous descendants would plunge the land of China into many disasters, and his descendants would suffer a catastrophe.