Sima Yan's harem is 10,000 people, and the choice of concubines is alternative
The ancients said: It is easy to start a business, but it is difficult to keep a business. Those who wish to ascend to the throne will not be impossible to succeed if they have the background of their families and the assistance of virtuous ministers.
However, how to sustain the business after success is another matter. "
Let the life of Emperor Sima Yan of the Jin Dynasty repeat itself, and the eloquence of his grandfather Sima Yi will definitely make people feel emotional, especially his feat of overthrowing the Cao Wei regime, which laid a solid foundation for Sima Yan's ascension.
However, Sima Yan, who was extremely heroic when he was young, was here"Power"Under the **, he gradually lost his former ambition and became a person who was obsessed with power. In the last ten years of his reign, the number of his harem exceeded 10,000, and in order to give all his concubines the opportunity to sleep, he even invented a unique way of serving.
The originally difficult battle for the throne became very easy here for Sima Yan, he had a grandfather named Sima Yi, who was a powerful minister during the Cao Wei period, and the Sima family had gradually controlled the court over the years, until Sima Yan's generation, he directly exposed the ambitions of the Sima family, forced Emperor Wei Yuan to take the throne, and he himself became Emperor Wu of Jin, creating a new era.
After Sima Yan ascended the throne, his wife Yang Yan naturally became the queen, Yang Yan is the daughter of the minister, not only talented and beautiful, but also has the nobility of the queen.
Before Sima Yan ascended the throne, Sima Zhao had already sought Yang Yan for him and made him the princess. After Sima Yan ascended the throne, his heart was full of ambition, hoping to make the country more prosperous through his own efforts.
To that end, he has been a staunch advocate of reforms that encourage freedom of expression and distinguish between rewards and punishments. However, it was not easy to let the people live and work in peace and contentment, Sima Yan felt unprecedented pressure, and began to question himself more and more.
At such times, it is often more comfortable to escape than to move forward, so Sima Yan, who has lived a good life since childhood, finally failed to persevere, and chose to return to his comfort zone and become a mediocre and incompetent person.
This transformation occurred mainly in the last decade of Sima Yan's life, and his way of achieving this life was very simple, that is, to indulge in sound.
02 Sima Yan's harem was unprecedented, and tens of thousands of wives amazed the world. The way this emperor stored the harem can be described as simple and rude, which can be seen from one thing.
In 280 AD, Sima Yan unified the Chinese region and defeated the state of Wu, and the joy of victory made him act more and more indulgently. So, he ordered all the women in the palace of Wu to be brought back to his harem, just because he heard that they were gentle and beautiful.
However, Sima Yan's behavior did not stop there, and it was only two or three years later that he lost interest in these women and began to hold drafts across the country, which was even more absurd.
The core idea of the new copywriting: Sima Yan's harem is huge, and the way to store the harem is simple and rude, and his behavior is surprising and regrettable.
Sima Yan's draft caused controversy, and the national marriage was suspended just to select harem concubines. In the end, more than 10,000 women became his harem concubines, breaking the record for the number of harem concubines in ancient times.
However, this huge harem also brought new problems, Sima Yan was already tired of the concubines with familiar faces, and in the huge harem, there were people he had never seen before.
How to make those harem women also be favored? Sima Yan thought about it for a long time, and finally came up with a new method, that is, "sheep cart hope luck". He ordered someone to build a luxurious chariot, and then tied three sheep to the front of the chariot, and he sat in the chariot himself, and pulled the chariot into the harem.
He deliberately did not intervene in the path of the sheep, leaving them free to choose, and the place where the sheep stopped was the palace gate of the beauty he wanted to pamper. Although this method is absurd, it does reflect fairness, the fate of beauties is decided by luck, and Sima Yan is no longer troubled by choosing women.
Although this method was convenient for Sima Yan, it increased the pain of the harem woman.
They want to show themselves in front of the emperor, but if the sheep don't take the initiative to come, how can they fulfill this wish? Some of the clever women chose to take the initiative by sprinkling salt water and planting young grass at the door, knowing that sheep like to lick salt and feed on young grass.
As long as the sheep smell the smell, they will definitely stop at their door, and they will have a chance to meet the emperor. However, the story of "Sheep Cart Wangxing", although absurd, reflects that Sima Yan's absurd behavior hastened the decline of the Jin Kingdom.
When the monarch took pleasure in luxury, the whole country was inevitably affected, and the social atmosphere of the Jin Kingdom quickly sank. After Sima Yan's death, the heirs he chose did nothing and acted in a way that even exceeded his faults, which eventually led to the invasion of the northern Hu soldiers and the disappearance of the Jin state.