Chapter 1 When the Opportunity Knocks on the Door 7.The Response of the Jin Kingdom
Except for more chaos, the Great Jin courtiers in Luoyang City had nothing to deal with.
There is a large army outside, and there is a lack of food and drink in the city, and people's hearts are fluctuating; Sima Yue, the final victor of the Eight Kings Rebellion, held the power alone, and Emperor Huai of Jin was like a puppet in his hand; The entire imperial court was detached from morality, and for several years sat back and watched the rapid rise of the Xiongnu and other ethnic minorities to become powerful, and could not come up with an effective and feasible plan to save the country from fire and water.
I forgot to mention that Emperor Sima Zhen of Jin Hui had died in 307, because Sima Yue really didn't like him, so he poisoned him to death and replaced him with an emperor to continue to be a puppet. This kind of thing Sima Zhen is very experienced, from the beginning of the succession to the throne, but I don't know why Sima Yue wants to change people, and the successor is Emperor Sima Chi of Jin Huai.
The mountain rain is coming, and the wind is full of buildings, and the entire Luoyang City is filled with the atmosphere of the dead country.
The minister of salvation cannot be encountered once in a century. The Great Jin in the crisis was not blessed to meet such a generation of heroes who could turn the tide and fall down, and may have appeared, but they were strangled in the cradle by Sima Lun and Sima Yue, annihilated in the vast sea of people, and before they even had time to bubble up, they were already burned to pieces by the years of war of the Eight Kings Rebellion. Maybe it's just a soldier inadvertently waving a knife and asking for the life of that genius.
The ministers of salvation can not be counted on, but there are still ministers who save the time, such as Liu Kun who fought against the Xiongnu and Han in the Jinyang region, and Gou Xi, the assassin of Qingzhou, can be called the last straw of the Jin Dynasty. But Gou Xi and Sima Yue are not comrades-in-arms in the same position, and Sima Yue dare not use them. Liu Kun's plan to "borrow the troops of Xianbei Tuoba Qilu in northern Jin to contact all parties and discuss Liu Cong and Shi Le" was shelved because Sima Yue did not dare to employ people.
Borrowing the Xianbei army to participate in the war will bring new problems, the problem of luring wolves into the house. After the battle, what if people don't leave? But the bigger problem is that if the home is lost, where can you care if you can't enter the house! I remember a book on battlefield ambulance that says: There is only one principle for first aid for the wounded on the battlefield: that is, let the wounded survive. Only by surviving can we continue to talk about sequelae, about disability.
In short, this idea, which was not bad at the time, was vetoed by Sima Yue. Not because of the sequelae, but because of the suspicion of his own general.
Emperor Sima Chi of Jin Huai ordered the edicts of King Qin to be scattered like pieces of paper, and no one cared about them like pieces of paper. Sima Chi still cares a lot about the survival of the country, and it should be said that he cares a lot about his own life. He once told the envoy to tell the guards and generals everywhere: You can still come to the rescue now, and you can't wait if it's too late! It's just that Sima Yue is in charge. No one cares about the puppet emperor's orders because he is a puppet; No one wanted to listen to Sima Yue's orders, because he was not the emperor.
Luoyang, no one cares.
The ancients said: The king is humiliated by his ministers, and the king is humiliated by his ministers! At that time, the Manchu Dynasty was civil and military, and no one was ashamed of Emperor Huai of Jin's situation, let alone the word "death". After years of turmoil and traitorous ministers, the ministers were accustomed to seeing the rise and fall, so they hurried home to pack up the gold and silver, took their wives and children, and prepared to run away. What is the great principle of "the wind knows the strength of the grass, and the country shows loyalty in chaos", even if you have heard it, you must selectively forget it.
At that time, only two people were willing to go to the battlefield to serve their lives. One is Xiangyang Shanjian (the son of Shantao, one of the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Forest), and the other is Wang Cheng of Jingzhou. Not long after Shanjian's soldiers and horses left Xiangyang, they were defeated by the exile Wang Ru, and Wang Cheng's army heard that Shanjian was defeated and collapsed without a fight.
These were the only two reinforcements, and they were defeated without even seeing the regular army of the Xiongnu and Han countries. Moreover, if you retreat again and again, you can't even hold the original territory.
The former Cao Wei, relying only on half of the Central Plains, destroyed the Huns and Ping Wuhuan, and looked down on He Xiong! In the past, Shu Han, in the southwest corner of An'an, went out of Qishan six times, and attacked the Central Plains nine times, so that Sima Yi lost his armor and abandoned his armor, and Sima Zhao's soul flew away. In the past, the Eastern Wu sat down and the war in the southeast did not end, and he gave birth to a son like Sun Zhongmou. The blue-eyed rivers and mountains are like iron beating copper.
These countries were in fact destroyed by the Great Jin Dynasty (including Shu Han). However, the Great Jin Empire, which dominated the world, was so weak that even the little Huns could not help it, but faced the threat of losing the country. It has to be thought-provoking! Why does it rot so fast?