In the first year of Taixi (290), Sima Yan was seriously ill and did not entrust the important ministers with national affairs, and the founding heroes had all died, and the courtiers were panicked and had nothing to do. And the national abbot Yang Jun (Yang Yan's uncle and cousin Empress Yang Zhi's father) rejected the minister, personally served around Sima Yan, and took the opportunity to remove the minister at will and promote his henchmen.

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Sima Yan's second empress was Yang Zhi, the cousin of the first empress Yang Yan.

Yang Zhi Cao Wei Ganlu was born in the fourth year (259 years), is the cousin of Sima Yan's first queen Yang Yan, in 274, when Yang Yan was critically ill, Hu Guifei was favored, the prince was stupid, Yang Yan was afraid that after his death, Hu Guifei would enter the throne, which would be unfavorable to the prince, so he cried and begged Emperor Wu of Jin to set up his cousin as the queen after his death, and Emperor Wu of Jin agreed before she closed her eyes and left with satisfaction.

In the second year of Xianning (276), Yang Zhi was canonized as the queen.

After Yang Zhi, who had just turned eighteen, entered the palace, because she was beautiful and innocent, docile and virtuous, her reputation spread in the harem, and Sima Yan was very fond of her. Soon, she gave birth to a prince, Sima Hui, the king of Bohai.

In the ninth year of Taikang (288), Yang Zhi led his inner and outer wives and ordained wives to personally go to the western suburbs to collect mulberry and raise silkworms, and rewarded the wives with different quantities of silk silk.

In 283 AD, Sima Hui died at the age of two.

Yang Zhi's father, Yang Jun, had no talent and no reputation, he had been a petty official such as a county order, and also a subordinate of the general of the cavalry, and later relied on the relationship of his daughter and was named the Marquis of Linjin and became a general of the chariot cavalry.

Many people in the court despised him as a person, and Guo Yi, who had always been knowledgeable, also wrote to persuade the emperor, saying that Yang Jun was too small to take on the heavy responsibility of the society.

But Sima Yan has his own set of ideas: he believes that the weak lords of the previous dynasty were in power and the clan was strong, all because they reused powerful ministers and auxiliary ministers like Huo Guang and Wang Mang, who were famous and had tough methods, so that they would hijack the weak lords to compete for power with the clan. Therefore, Yang Jun's mediocrity and incompetence were regarded by Sima Yan as the best candidate to assist Xinjun.

Because Yang Jun will not have different intentions if he is incapable, he must do a good job of balancing with the clan; Secondly, he is Sima Zhen's grandfather and the father of Empress Yang Zhi, and the most important point is that Yang Jun is "lonely and childless", even if he thinks about it, it is meaningless. Considering the above conditions, Sima Yan did not pay attention to the minister's statement, but reused Yang Jun even more.

When Yang Yan was alive, Sima Yan appointed her eldest son Sima Zhen as the crown prince according to her wishes, and selected Jia Nanfeng, the daughter of the lord Jia Chong, as the crown princess. Jia Nanfeng was not only extremely ugly, but also jealous by nature, and even killed the palace maid who was pregnant with Sima Zhen's child with his own hands.

When Sima Yan heard this, he was furious and wanted to send Jia Nanfeng into the cold palace and choose a virtuous woman as the crown princess.

However, Empress Yang Zhi entrusted her cousin with the crown prince and the crown princess before her death, so she strongly persuaded Sima Yan and said, "Jia Chong has a Xun Sheji, and he is still a few generations of concubines, and Concubine Jia is his daughter, and she is jealous, which is not enough for a glance."

g) Cover up their virtues. ”

That's when the matter was suppressed.

After that, Yang Zhi often sternly admonished Jia Nanfeng, asking her to repent. However, Jia Nanfeng decided that Sima Yan wanted to abolish her, and it was all Yang Zhi's intention. Therefore, he is very resentful of Yang Zhi.

In the tenth year of Taikang (289), due to excessive indulgence, Sima Yan's body was good and bad. So, he handed over the government to Yang Jun, and he lived in the harem to recuperate.

Yang Jun in order to cooperate with the important minister Wei Qian (guà

Fighting for power, he asked Sima Yan to issue an edict to recapture Princess Fanchang, who was married to Wei Xuan's son Wei Xuan. Yang Jun said that Wei Xuan was a good drinker and often made mistakes. Emperor Wu of Jin asked Huang Menlang beside him if there was such a thing? Huang Menlang said that after that, Sima Yan played it on the spot.

At this time, someone wrote a letter demanding the removal of Wei Xuan and the handing over of Wei Xuan to Tingwei for punishment, but Sima Yan did not agree.

Soon, Wei Qian claimed to be old and asked for abdication. At this time, Sima Yan suddenly realized that Yang Jun was ostensibly dealing with Wei Xuan, intending to force Wei Xuan to abdicate. Sima Yan summoned Huang Menlang to ask him if he had fabricated a slander against Wei Xuan with Yang Jun, and Huang Menlang confessed.

So, Sima Yan wanted Wei Xuan to remarry the princess, but Wei Xuan had died of grief at this time. At this time, Sima Yan's physical condition was getting worse and worse, and his mind was sometimes sober and sometimes faint.

Once, when he came to his senses, he looked up and saw a new face replaced by Yang Jun, so he ordered Zhongshu to draft an edict to summon the king of Runan to rush into the pilgrimage to meet him. At this time, Sima Yan already understood that his seemingly honest old man was unreliable. He only saw that Yang Jun was not capable, but he ignored another problem: the more capable mediocre people are, the more they are self-sufficient.

Ambition is great and talented, which is a common problem of mediocrity.

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Sima Yan's condition improved slightly, and when he saw that Yang Jun was using the wrong person, he said to Yang Jun seriously, "How can you do this!"

So he issued an edict to Zhongshu and asked Sima Liang, the king of Runan, and Yang Jun to assist the royal family.

Yang Jun was afraid that he would lose his authority and favor, so he borrowed the edict from the Chinese book and hid it.

The middle book supervisor Hua Xuan (yì) was frightened and personally asked Yang Jun for an edict, but Yang Jun refused to give it after all.

Two days later, Sima Yan was critically ill, Yang Zhijuan asked Yang Jun to assist him, and Sima Yan nodded.

So Empress Yang (Zhi) summoned Hua Hui and Zhongshu Ling He Shao to verbally convey Sima Yan's will and let them make a testament.

After the edict was written, Yang Zhi, Hua Hui and He Shao jointly presented it to Sima Yan, who did not speak after reading it, and died two days later at the age of 55 and was buried in Junyang Mausoleum.

Relatives began to abuse power.

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No, there are some things that have to be discussed in detail, but not in detail, as if there is no cause or effect.

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In the second year of Xianxi (265), Sima Zhao died of illness, and Sima Yan inherited the throne of Xiangguo and Jin, and held the military and political power of the whole country.

After careful preparation, in December of the same year, he imitated the story of Cao Pi Daihan and prepared for his ascension to the throne.

After Sima Yan took over as Xiangguo, some people were instructed by Sima Yan to persuade Emperor Cao Huan of Wei to abdicate as soon as possible.

Those people said to Cao Huan, "Silly B, don't you hurry up and give up the throne to the Sima family, are you still waiting for him to kill you?" ”

Soon, Cao Huan issued an edict saying, "King Jin, your family has assisted the emperor for generations, and your merits are higher than heaven, and the four seas have received the blessing of the Sima family, and God wants me to give you the emperor's position, please obey the mandate of heaven and don't shirk!"

Sima Yan pretended to give in many times.

Sima Yan's henchmen He Zeng, Wei General Jia Chong and others led the Manchu civil and military officials to repeatedly advise. After Sima Yan pushed it many times, he accepted the concession of Emperor Cao Huan of Wei and named Cao Huan as the king of Chen Liu.

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Sima Yan ascended the throne in the second year of Xianxi (265), and the country was called Jin, known as the Western Jin Dynasty in history. The Yuan was changed to Taishi, and Cao Wei died. But at this time, Sima Yan's heart was not easy, he knew very well that although he ascended to the throne, the crisis still existed.

From the inside, in order to pave the way for the Sima family to seize the throne, his grandfather and father once carried out a brutal massacre of the three clans led by Cao Shuang and their affiliated forces, and the shadow caused by this incident still lingers in people's hearts.

From the outside, although Shu Han is peaceful, Sun Wu is still there, although the Eastern Wu at this time is no longer enough to compete with the Jin, but after all, it is also a big threat. In order to consolidate political power and thus accomplish the great cause of annexing Soochow and reunifying China, it is first necessary to strengthen the cohesion of the ruling clique itself, and to achieve this goal, it is necessary to adopt a policy of softness.

In the first year of his reign, Sima Yan issued an edict to let Emperor Wei, who had become the king of Chen Liu, carry the banner of the Son of Heaven and carry the banner of Wei Zhengshuo. At the same time, he gave the son of Anle Gong Liu Chan a person as the captain of the horse, and in the second year, he lifted the confinement of the Han family.