Text Foolish dreams: Sima Zhen reset
A brief story about Chapter 8: After Sima Lun usurped the throne, Sima Ying, the king of Qi, united Sima Hao, the king of Hejian and Sima Ying, the king of Chengdu, to kill Sima Lun, and invited the idiot emperor Sima Zhen to restore the throne.
This story illustrates that the royal family members who hold great power have the ambition to stand up when the imperial power is threatened, but once they grasp the power of the court, they will inevitably embark on the road of seeking power and usurping the throne, and the families who are proficient in political means, in the face of the cannibalism of the royal family, in order to maintain the long-term power of their own family, can only stand in line with each other, waiting for a stable ruling stage to emerge, and seek to become the ruling class again.
It can also be seen from this that the landlord class of the scholar clan actually could not play a leading role in maintaining a stable unified dynasty in the feudal dynasty, when the royal clan members caused a small wall, the soldiers fought against each other, and the ruler appeared in the situation that you sang and I appeared, the family just waited silently, and the selfishness and hypocrisy of the landlord class of the scholar clan were unobstructed.
In the situation of the melee of the kings of the Western Jin Dynasty, the idiot emperor Sima Zhen can only become a puppet at the mercy of others, and there are not many people who can be emperors twice in the great unified dynasty of feudal society, and it is estimated that there are only Ming Yingzong of the Ming Dynasty and Puyi, the last emperor of the Qing Dynasty, but the situation of the restoration of these two emperors is completely different from Sima Zhen, and next, we will talk about some things about Yingzong and Emperor Xuantong.
The story of Ming Yingzong, we have mentioned some before, here you might as well say more, Ming Yingzong is called Zhu Qizhen, the eldest son of Ming Xuanzong, after Zhu Qizhen succeeded to the throne, reused the eunuch Wang Zhen, and Wang Zhen was born in Luodi Xiucai, although he is coarse and literate, but he can only sigh at the imperial examination, the history books do not record why he became a eunuch since he was castrated into the palace, I guess it is likely to be forced by life, Wang Zhen is a scholar, powerless, and the bottom literati of feudal society are actually very bitter, But he wants to get ahead, and the imperial examination is too difficult, so being a eunuch is a good way.
After Wang Zhen entered the palace, because of some of his culture, he was assigned to the East Palace to serve the prince, Wang Zhen was cunning, and he was very trusted by the prince Zhu Jianshen at that time, so when Zhu Jianshen ascended the throne, he entrusted all the major affairs of the court to Wang Zhen to manage, and Wang Zhen finally had a bright day, so he took the opportunity to make a lot of money, framed Zhongliang, and excluded dissidents, which made the Ming Dynasty government a dark place.
At that time, the Yuan Dynasty created by the Mongols did not perish, but Emperor Yuan Shun led the Mongolian nobles to flee back to the Mongolian steppe, known as the Northern Yuan Dynasty, and later the Northern Yuan Dynasty was divided into two divisions, Tatar and Warat, of which the power of Warat was the most powerful, and the leader of the Warat Department also wanted to restore the prosperity of the Yuan Dynasty first, so he frequently led the troops to harass the border of the Ming Dynasty, and at this time, Wang Zhen had been in charge of the government for many years, and wanted to take the opportunity to return to his hometown.
The leader of the Warat Department also first learned that Ming Yingzong led the army to conquer in person, so he wanted to defeat the Ming army in one go, and he also personally led hundreds of thousands of Mongolian cavalry to meet the battle, at this time, the Ming army already knew that he also led the army to attack first, Ming Yingzong and Wang Zhen were not capable figures, originally thought that there were not many Mongolian troops harassing the border, and they showed off their might, but they didn't expect to lead the army to come first, and they were naturally very afraid, Ming Yingzong hurriedly led the army back to Beijing, but Wang Zhen returned to his hometown in order to return to his hometown, and instigated the emperor to lead the army to take a detour and return, So that the Ming army delayed the trip, in the Tumu Fort was surrounded by the cavalry led by the first, and was cut off from the water source, under the impact of the Mongolian cavalry, the Ming army completely collapsed, Ming Yingzong was captured, Wang Zhen was also killed by the angry Ming soldiers, and naturally wanted to take advantage of the victory to conquer Beijing and recover the capital of Yuan.
At this time, Ming Yingzong was captured, the news of the annihilation of the Ming army reached Beijing, the court was in chaos, Yu Qian, the minister of the Hanmen Shu clan, and others recommended Zhu Qiyu, the younger brother of Ming Yingzong, as the emperor, was the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty respected Ming Yingzong as the emperor, driven by Yu Qian and others, the Ming army was strong and clear, according to the city, and the Ming Dynasty all over the Qinwang army rushed to come, and had to retreat first, the Ming Dynasty won the victory of the defense of Beijing, and the Ming Dynasty also offended the Ming Dynasty, unable to trade with the Ming Dynasty, which made the strength decline sharply, I had to make peace with the Ming Dynasty first, and sent back the captured Ming Yingzong, but how could the Ming Dynasty Zong give up the emperor's throne, so Ming Yingzong was placed under house arrest in the palace and respected as the emperor.
It's a pity that Ming Dynasty Zong is unlucky, younger than Ming Yingzong, but his physical condition is far inferior to his brother Ming Yingzong, within a few years, Ming Dynasty Zong will not be able to afford to be ill, and his own biological prince Zhu Jianji does not have his own abolished prince Zhu Jianshen's long life, did not wait for his father Ming Dynasty Zong to die, Zhu Jianji took the first step, the ministers saw that the emperor was unable to deal with the government, and did not see his reinstatement of the prince Zhu Jianshen, when I don't know how to be good, there are some ministers who are not relied on by the Ming Dynasty Zong in order to obtain the merit of support, they launched a coup d'état and attacked the palace, Welcoming the reinstatement of Ming Yingzong, Ming Mingzong closed his eyes in helplessness. The restored Ming Yingzong was neither English nor clear, after the reset, he killed the hero Yu Qian, and reused the traitorous villain, fortunately in his later years, remembering that when he was captured, the queen Qian was blind and crippled due to excessive grief, so he decreed the abolition of the palace funeral system formulated by Zhu Yuanzhang, which was not really a feat of generosity and benevolence.
The restoration of Ming Yingzong was not caused by the change of the ruling class, but from his reset, it can be seen that the Hanmen Shu clan as the ruling class is not monolithic, and will also have internal fighting with each other because of their own interests, which is mostly reflected in the party struggles in various feudal dynasties, and the emergence of the emperor is limited to the accidental incident of Ming Yingzong's capture. Moreover, Li Shimin, Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, and Zhu Di, the ancestor of the Ming Dynasty, who usurped the throne as royal relatives after the Sui and Tang dynasties, were also produced at a relatively accidental stage, which also shows that the landlord class of the Shu nationality was the ruling class of the feudal dynasty. Although there were certain internal disputes, on the whole, the maintenance and rule of the feudal dynasty was relatively long-term and stable.
The situation of the restoration of the last emperor Puyi is more complicated, because it not only involves the change of the ruling class, but also involves the great transition period of China's feudal society.
Pu Yi ascended the throne less than three years old, the Qing Dynasty is already precarious, in its accession to the throne less than three years, under the military pressure of Yuan Shikai, the young Pu Yi had to abdicate, China's last feudal dynasty Qing Dynasty officially perished, ending more than 2,000 years of feudal society in our country, but after the abdication Pu Yi still lives in the palace, when the infighting between the Beiyang warlords continued, the Manchu Qing Dynasty old Zhang Xun, took the opportunity to invade Beijing, and invited Pu Yi to sit on the throne of the Qing Emperor, But at this time, the Republic of China has been established for more than five years, democracy, the idea of republicanism is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, just more than ten days, Zhang Xun was defeated by the Anhui warlord Duan Qirui, the dragon chair has not yet sat on the hot Pu Yi had to awkwardly abdicate, in the Beiyang warlords of the infighting, Feng Yuxiang won the victory of the coup d'état in Beijing, in order to make a gesture of supporting the republic, Feng Yuxiang took Pu Yi's restoration as an excuse to drive him out of the Forbidden City, Pu Yi had to flee to Tianjin to live temporarily, wait and see the development of the situation.
When the imperialism wanted to annex the Northeast and establish the puppet Manchukuo, he remembered Pu Yi, who was a duke in Tianjin, and sent the notorious female agent Kawashima Yoshiko to take Pu Yi to Changchun, Pu Yi ignored the opposition of his father Zaifeng, and wanted to restore the Qing Dynasty, so he returned to his hometown in the Northeast and became the puppet emperor of the puppet Manchukuo, with the end of World War II, Japan surrendered unconditionally, Pu Yi was captured by the Soviet Red Army that destroyed the puppet Manchukuo, and returned to New China, after New China's transformation of Pu Yi, The emperor of the feudal dynasty transformed into a citizen of New China, and happily started a new life, Pu Yi from his death to today is only more than 60 years, from his writings, you can see that as a citizen of New China, he is so proud and proud, the degree of happiness far exceeds the days of being the emperor, it can also be seen that the superiority of the new Chinese system is unprecedented, and the current prosperity of the country and the strength of the people shows that socialism with Chinese characteristics is the well-being of hundreds of millions of people.
If you think that Pu Yi had two resets, I don't agree with it, because the third time Pu Yi took office as the puppet emperor of the puppet state of Manchukuo, in fact, it was completely a conspiracy of Japanese imperialism to destroy China, and the Japanese had sinister intentions, which cannot be compared with Zhang Xun, who was loyal to the Qing Dynasty, and Manchukuo was only a puppet regime under Japanese rule, Pu Yi was nominally the emperor, but in fact it was a fig leaf for the Japanese to enslave China, and the puppet Manchukuo had no ruling characteristics of a sovereign state at all, so in my opinion, Pu Yi has only been emperor twice in his life, and he has been reset once. Because the last emperor Puyi spanned the three periods of the Qing Dynasty, the Republic of China and New China, we will not talk about it more.
Through the restoration of Ming Yingzong, it can be seen that although the Shu landlord class has fought against each other, it still vigorously defends the feudal imperial power, which shows that the Shu landlord class is more suitable for the development of feudal society.
However, the Western Jin Dynasty emperor Sima Zhen who was coerced by the aristocratic landlord class and the scholar landlord class did not have the good luck of Ming Yingzong and Pu Yi at all, even after its reset, the infighting of the ruling class was still continuous, although Sima Zhen re-ascended the throne, but the prince Xiangning had a kind of concept that had been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people at that time, no one took this reset idiot emperor seriously anymore, and the collapse of the Western Jin Dynasty was imminent.