In 280 AD, the Jin Dynasty destroyed Sun Wu and unified the country, and China ushered in another prosperous era, and by 300 AD, the population had recovered from 16 million in the late Han Dynasty to 35 million.
Because Sima Yan, Emperor Wu of the Jin Dynasty, became the emperor of the Jin Dynasty with the support of the Shi bureaucracy, after the establishment of the Jin Dynasty, the scholars and heroes received preferential treatment in politics and economy, which became the basis of the Jin Dynasty's rule, and the Jin Dynasty also became the first unified dynasty in Chinese history controlled by the clan.
However, Sima Yan was also aware of the potential threat of the Haoqiangshi clan to the imperial power, and was worried about the repetition of the "Chan Rang" story, so he made the sons of the same sect the king, and successively divided the twenty-seven kings with the same surname, so that they could configure troops in the kingdom, choose civil and military **, collect taxes, and control the military and political power of the feudal country, which laid endless hidden dangers for the occurrence of rebellion.
Emperor Sima Yan of the Jin Dynasty not only failed on the issue of sealing the king, but also made a big mistake on the issue of heirs. Because Sima Yan likes the smart grandson Sima Shu, he made the idiot's son Sima Zhen as his heir.
In 290 AD, Sima Yan died, and Sima Zhen ascended the throne as Emperor Hui of Jin, because of his low intelligence, he was assisted by Taifu Yang Jun and Dazai Sima Liang.
However, the queen Jia Nanfeng is not a vegetarian, it is said that she is dark and short, cunning by nature, cruel and cruel, and her ability to bring disaster to the country is also unparalleled in the world.
Jia Nanfeng is powerful in the world, but unfortunately she has no heirs in her life, and because her husband is an idiot with low intelligence, her personality is even more distorted under the influence of power and fear. She didn't listen to her mother's advice, and instead of relying on the prince Sima Shu in the future, she harmed the prince.
The death of the crown prince gave the feudal kings an excuse to rebel against Jia Nanfeng.
The Rebellion of the Eight Kings began.
**Wan Fan Incentive Plan Sima Lun, the king of Zhao, is the youngest son of Sima Yi and the teacher of the crown prince Sima Shu, on the charge of killing the prince by the queen Jia Nanfeng, forged the edict of Emperor Hui of Jin, killed Jia Nanfeng and his henchmen, and two years later in 301 AD, he deposed the idiot Emperor Hui of Jin and established himself as emperor.
This stabbed the hornet's nest, and also brought the Jin Dynasty, a big ship that had just set sail, to the abyss from which it will never recover.
The first was the Three Kings Uprising, in which the three brothers of Emperor Hui of Jin led hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses to attack Luoyang, killing more than 100,000 Sima Lun's family and powerful ministers and officials, and welcoming back the deposed Sima Zhen to the throne.
Soon, the three kings fought again, and Sima Yi, the king of Changsha, controlled the government.
Sima Hao, the king of Hejian, and Sima Ying, the king of Chengdu, each led a large army to attack Luoyang from Chang'an and Yecheng respectively, and Luoyang became a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, so that the river could not flow.
The war lasted for a year, and Sima Yue, the king of the East China Sea in Luoyang City, took the opportunity to rebel and captured Sima Yi and presented it to the king of Hejian, but Sima Yi was roasted to death by fire.
After that, the king of the East China Sea, the king of Chengdu, the king of Hejian and other royal families broke out a more tragic power struggle, many royal families of the Sima clan died in the war, the ethnic minorities Xianbei, Wuhuan and other ethnic groups were also conscripted to participate in the war, Luoyang, Chang'an, Yecheng, Xuchang and other prosperous cities in the north were looted by the war, hundreds of people were slaughtered, and the Central Plains became a hell.
In the end, in 307 AD, Emperor Hui of Jin died suddenly after suffering from many years of puppet life and suffering all kinds of **, Sima Yue, the king of the East China Sea, welcomed Sima Chi, the younger brother of Emperor Hui of Jin, as emperor, and the rebellion of the Eight Kings ended.
The Rebellion of the Eight Kings was one of the most serious imperial civil strife in Chinese history, with the most tragic catastrophe lasting for seven years, which not only brought great disasters to the Central Plains, but also exhausted the ruling power of the Jin Dynasty in the war, and brought Chinese history into the period of the Sixteen Kingdoms.
The kings used ethnic minorities to participate in the war, which led to the rise of many nomadic regimes, so that the Central Plains fell into a larger-scale melee, and a series of tragic tragedies were staged in the land of China, and this dark and turbulent situation has lasted for nearly 300 years.