Chapter 7 The dog's tail continues to marten

In the first month of 301 AD, Sima Lun, the king of Zhao, conspired to poison Empress Jia and monopolized power.

However, Sima Yun, the king of Huainan, and Sima Jian, the king of Qi, thought that Sima Lun was like Cao Cao and Fuhan, and they had grievances in their hearts. Above the court, everything must be at odds with King Zhao's opinion, Sun Xiushen thought it was jealous, so he instigated Sima Lun to summon Sima Jian to let Sima Jian go out of the town and take back Sima Yun's army. Sima Yun was angry and raised troops to get rid of Sima Lun. However, the matter was not classified, but was killed by Sima Lun.

Since then, there has been no opposition in the court, and Sima Lun has become more and more unscrupulous, believing that the time is ripe for usurpation.

Sun Xiu is like a roundworm in Sima Lun's abdomen, thinking about what he thinks. Sun Xiu knew that Sima Lun believed in the theory of witches and evil gods, so he asked Yamen Zhao to play Sima Lun, pretending that when he was asleep, Emperor Xuan of Jin Sima Yi had summoned him, saying that he wanted Sima Lun to enter the West Palace as soon as possible. And he was the Sasuke of King Zhao in Beimangshan. Sima Lun was overjoyed when he saw the chapter, so he ordered someone to set up a temple of Emperor Xuan in Beimang Mountain. At the same time, he ordered Sun Xiu and others to settle the army, install henchmen, and instigate Sima Wei, the king of Yiyang, to persuade him to enter the table at the meeting. Sima Lun pretended to be humble and humble. The kings of the clan and the ministers of the clan, forced by obscenity, did not dare to disobey, and all pretended that there were auspicious signs in various places, and collectively persuaded them to advance, and Sima Lun pretended to reluctantly agree.

That night, Sun Xiu sent troops to guard the gates of the capital. Sima Lun ordered Sima Wei, the king of Yiyang, and others to lead troops into the palace, and forced Sima Zhen to take out the jade seal and seal ribbon. And overnight he was escorted to Kim Yong City.

Sima Rui, the king of Langya, although he was persuaded on the surface, was disgusted in his heart, and was afraid that people would harm Sima Zhen, so he secretly sent people to Jinyong City to protect him.

The next day, as soon as the sky was slightly bright, Sun Xiu summoned hundreds of officials to welcome Sima Lun to stay in the West Palace with a car, Sima Lun, who couldn't wait, led 5,000 people to enter from the end gate, ascended the Taiji Palace, Sun Xiu led the ministers to His Royal Highness, Sima Wei, the king of Yiyang, went to the palace to present the jade seal to Sima Lun, Sima Lun then usurped the throne and called the emperor, and appointed the prince Sima Xun as the prince, amnesty to the world, and respected the emperor as the emperor. Within a few days, Sima Lun knew that his talents were mediocre, there were many vassal kings, and he was afraid that those who would not accept it were even more panicked, and in order to win the hearts of the people, he was a big feudal minister, beyond imagination, and ordered the officials and scholars in Beijing to be all feudal marquis, county sergeants, all of whom were filial piety, and county sergeants, all of whom were honest officials. The conspirators were all exceptionally promoted, and the servants and servants in the Zhao Wangfu and the conspirators' subordinate families were also knighted, and the number of people was innumerable, and the successive dynasties were incomparable.

At that time, the official uniforms of high-ranking officials in the palace of the Jin Dynasty were all in a uniform style. The hat is inserted with a mink tail, and the position of the insert is also different depending on the official position. Due to Sima Lun's wanton promotion to the rank of knight, the mink tail was not enough for a while, so he had to replace it with a dog tail. At that time, the folk song satirized: "The mink is insufficient, and the dog's tail continues." "To feed so many high-ranking officials, the grain and silk of the imperial court treasury are far from enough to reward, and the gold and silver are not enough to smelt the seal, and the entire imperial court is in a miasma.

Sima Lun is still absurd as the emperor, and his favorite retainer Sun Xiu is even more lawless.

Sun Xiu was originally a small official in the palace, because he planned for Sima Lun, he deposed the prince by divisiveness, killed Jia, and ascended to the throne. Diaosi counterattacked, Sima Lun was named the emperor and was named a servant, an auxiliary general, and Sima of Xiangguo, with a high and powerful position. At this time, Sun Xiu's idea was not how to deal with the government, but to make a lot of money and sell his official beard, but Sima Lun had a lot of officials, and Sun Xiu found that the money was too slow, so he coveted the wealth of Shi Chong, the richest man in the country at that time.

Shi Chongyuan was the assassin of Jingzhou when Emperor Wu of the Jin Dynasty, Jingzhou was the key point of the country, and the merchants were constantly coming and going. He once fought with Wang Kai, the uncle of Emperor Wu of Jin. Wang Kai brushed the pot with honey water after dinner, and Shi Chong used candles as firewood; Wang Kai made a forty-mile purple silk cloth step barrier, and Shi Chong made a fifty-mile brocade step barrier; Wang Kai painted the walls with red stone grease, and Shi Chong painted the walls with peppercorns. Emperor Wu of Jin secretly helped Wang Kai and gave him a coral tree, two feet high. Wang Kai took this coral tree to Shi Chong's house to show off, but Shi Chong waved the iron Ruyi to smash the coral tree, Wang Kai was distressed, thinking that Shi Chong's jealousy was burning, Shi Chong smiled and said: "Uncle Guo, don't feel distressed, I will return you." ”

After speaking, he ordered to take six or seven coral trees left and right, these coral trees are three or four feet high, dry and vulgar, shining like the sun, Wang Kai's one was suddenly eclipsed, Wang Kai fled in the wilderness.

At this time, Shi Chong had stepped down for many years and was living in Luoyang.

Its favorite concubine Green Pearl, beautiful and good at playing the flute, Shi Chong is pampered, especially to solve the homesickness of Green Pearl, built an extremely luxurious "Golden Valley Garden". Sun Xiu bullied people, so he asked for green beads, Shi Chong did not give it, Sun Xiu framed him for rebellion, sent soldiers to surround the "Golden Valley Garden", Shi Chong was full of anger, helpless, but the green beads were strong, and then jumped off the building and died. Sun Xiu was furious and beheaded Shi Chong and others to make all their fortunes.

It can be seen that under the administration of Sima Lun and Sun Xiu, the entire government is already in chaos, not to mention disaster relief and counterinsurgency, it is inevitable that Li Te, Li Xiong, and his son will become bigger. If you know what the ending of Sima Lun, Sun Xiu and others will be, whether the princes and ministers will take action, and see the next chapter.