Chapter 9: in the same room

At the end of 302 AD, in the palace of the Hejian King in Chang'an City, Li Han, who had just hurried back from Luoyang, urgently asked to see Sima Hao, the king of Hejian

Before Sima Hao could ask, Li Han, who was in the dust, hurriedly said: "The prince doesn't know, Sima Jian, the king of Qi, is now like an emperor, never going to the court, there are hundreds of officials in the palace, the ministers are all expressing the king of Qi, and the prince is selected by the king of Qi, and the king of Qi has a lustful voice, the political affairs are wasted, and the people who advise are punished, and the ministers of the court dare not speak." ”

Li Han took a sip of water and continued: "In April last year, when Sima Lun, the king of Zhao, was abolished, the king of Chengdu was dissatisfied because of the king of Qi's seizure of power, and now Sima Ying, the king of Chengdu, has a very high reputation. ”

Sima Hao, the king of Hejian, was silent for a long time and said: "Aiqing has been working hard all the way, first go to the pavilion to rest, the stakes are very high, let me think about it for a day." ”

Li Han immediately retreated, and Sima Hao, the king of Hejian, hurriedly summoned Zhang Fang to come and ask for advice, Zhang Fang said: "Li Han is loyal, his words are true, and the king of Qi has no way, so he can ask for it." Now the king of Changsha Sima Yi is still in the capital, the prince can indicate in the text that the king of Changsha is the internal response, misleading the king of Qi, so that the two kings will kill each other in the capital, the king of Changsha is small, and he will be killed by the king of Qi, so that the hearts of the people in the capital are even more unstable, and the prince will get the benefit of the fisherman. ”

Sima Hao, the king of Hejian, stretched his furrowed brows and said, "Listening to your words, my heart suddenly brightened!" ”

He then ordered someone to write a document stating Sima Yin's crimes, and clearly stated that Sima Yi, the king of Changsha, who was an official in Luoyang, was the internal response. and personally wrote a secret letter and sent his confidants to Sima Ying, the king of Yecheng Chengdu, and Sima Ying readily agreed. So Sima Hao, the king of Hejian, and Sima Ying, the king of Chengdu, raised troops to defeat Sima Jian, the king of Qi, and marched into Luoyang together.

When the text reached Luoyang, Sima Yin, the king of Qi, and Sima Yi, the king of Changsha, were shocked, and the king of Qi sent his men to attack Sima Yi with all his might.

Sima Yi, the king of Changsha, saw the text and knew that the wood had been completed and that he was in danger, so he summoned the only more than 100 soldiers in the palace and said: "The king of Qi is stupid and has no way, and he will definitely exhaust his troops to come and destroy us. This king guessed that at this time, the army of the king of Qi was already on the way, so we might as well take advantage of the emptiness of the palace and strike first, choose a small road to attack the palace, kill the king of Qi, and maybe have the possibility of life. ”

The crowd shouted loudly: "May I follow the prince with my life." ”

Who would have thought that Sima Yi, the king of Changsha, and this more than 100 soldiers were put to death and then lived, with the same hatred of the enemy, and attacked the palace in one fell swoop, killing Sima Jian, the king of Qi, the ministers responded, controlled the capital, and killed the henchmen of the king of Qi, and at this time the army of the king of Hejian and the king of Chengdu was still on the way, Sima Yi was already in charge of the government, so he sent an envoy to crown the two kings, and the two kings knew that they had no name, so they had to return in a huff.

Sima Hao, the king of Hejian, returned to Chang'an and scolded Zhang Fang, and Zhang Fang hated Sima Fang. Sima Hao was still unwilling, so he sent Li Han to Luoyang to assassinate Sima Yi, but Sima Yi saw through it, Li Han and others were killed, and Sima Yi did not pursue it in order to seek stability. On the contrary, Sima Hao was afraid in his heart, and secretly asked Sima Ying to rebel, and Sima Ying was not willing to make wedding dresses for others, so he made an appointment to raise troops.

In the summer of 303 AD, Sima Hao was poor, so he ordered Zhang Fang to lead 70,000 troops and more than 200,000 troops led by Sima Ying to fight against Sima Yi. Sima Yi had no choice but to lead his troops to meet the attack. The two sides fought for several months outside Luoyang City, and Sima Yi was brave enough to defeat the combined forces of Sima Hao and Sima Ying several times, killing tens of thousands of people. However, after the chaos of Sima Lun, the king of Zhao and Sima Jian, the king of Qi, the imperial court was already empty, and there was no food available. However, Sima Yi's soldiers knew that the two kings had rebelled and were unpopular, and they were all willing to die on the battlefield, and the people in the city also took out their own food to support the defenders. The rebels of the two kings attacked the city several times in vain, and Zhang Fang believed that the battle line was too long, and it was difficult to transport grain and grass, and it was difficult to win, and it changed over time. Immediately, he hated Sima Yi even more, so he could only write a letter helplessly, suggesting that Sima Hao withdraw his troops back to Chang'an and think about it in the long run. Just when Zhang Fang was anxiously waiting for Sima Hao's order, the battle took a turn.

At the beginning of 304 A.D., Sima Yue, the king of the East China Sea, who served in the imperial court, saw that there was no grain and grass inside, and there were no rescuers outside, and he thought: Sima Hao entered the city sooner or later, I belong to the distant branch of the clan, and my status is far inferior to that of other kings.

Sima Yue immediately colluded with some generals of the forbidden army, took advantage of the fatigue of the soldiers defending the city, secretly arrested Sima Yi overnight, opened the city gate, let the rebels enter the city, and presented Sima Yi to Zhang Fang, Zhang Fang was jealous and hateful, so Sima Yi was roasted to death with fire.

After the rebels entered the city, Sima Hao ordered Zhang Fang to garrison Luoyang, and he was still stationed in Guanzhong, remotely controlled the imperial court, crowned Sima Ying as the emperor's younger brother, and gave him a large number of fiefdom population. Sima Yue was also crowned a high-ranking official and stayed in the court to assist Sima Cheng in handling daily government affairs.

At this time, Liu Qiao, the assassin of Yuzhou, advised: "It is really inappropriate for the prince to wait for the arrangement, you and the king of Chengdu are not in the court, Sima Yue is a distant branch of the clan, with bad intentions, and he stays in the court, he is changing day by day, and the prince is beyond the reach of the whip, I am afraid that the success will fall short!" However, Sima Hao laughed, thinking that he had great power, and disagreed.

If you know whether the things in the court are as Liu Qiao said, look at the next chapter.