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Although Sima Shu obtained the coveted real power of the imperial court through a coup d'état, he did not feel relaxed at all, because he knew that the Jin Dynasty had long been terminally ill. Looking at the family property he confiscated from the families of Empress Jia and Zhao Wang's henchmen, it was enough for a year's income of the imperial court, which shows the prosperity of corruption and extravagance at that time.

Sima Shu stared at the music in front of him and thought about how to convict Empress Jia's henchmen, while carefully recalling the original Jin Dynasty.

As far as he knows, the Western Jin Dynasty was originally a strong dynasty, its predecessor - Wei destroyed Shu, it itself destroyed Wu, the three kingdoms were unified, how majestic!

Who knew that as soon as the founding king died, a palace coup broke out, and within a few months, it came again.

After that, it was quiet for a while, but eight years later, the turmoil broke out uncontrollably. The palace coup escalated into a large-scale civil war, today the king's head fell to the ground, tomorrow the king's head fell to the ground, coaxing you to sing and I appeared, staged a shocking "Eight Kings Rebellion".

The battle of the eight kings continued, and the Wuhu rose up again, which turned into the famous Yongjia Rebellion, and the Western Jin Dynasty fell from then on. It was only twenty years after the death of Emperor Wu of Jin.

To put it bluntly, the Western Jin Dynasty died in the struggle for supreme power. This contention is a typical example of the most extreme in history. All dynasties have struggled for the highest power, but there is no such endless and endless death as the Western Jin Dynasty.

The Rebellion of the Eight Kings revealed to the world in an extreme form a truth: the distortion of the social atmosphere caused the collapse of order, which would push all people into the abyss of turmoil, and would also bring deep and long-term disasters to the society.

Although historically, there are many reasons for the Rebellion of the Eight Kings. For example, the heir to the throne was not properly chosen, the auxiliary ministers were not favorable, the feudal kingdom was too powerful, and the kings were too powerful in military power, and so on. These reasons are indeed related to the Rebellion of the Eight Kings.

But none of them can explain why large-scale wars break out so frequently in this society.

Some people think that Emperor Jin Hui's IQ is too low, and if he had the ability of Cao Cao and Sima Yi, there would be no Eight Kings Rebellion. However, there were also many idiot emperors and infant emperors in other dynasties in Chinese history, most of whom were safe and sound, and even if some were usurped, large-scale wars would not break out.

The kingdom of the Western Han Dynasty was much larger than that of the Western Jin Dynasty, and although the Seven Kingdoms Rebellion broke out, it was only once. During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the Song, Qi, and Liang dynasties, the military power of the kings was also very strong, and they did not make trouble to the point of the Eight Kings Rebellion.

Obviously, the Rebellion of the Eight Kings is not just a one-line chain of cause and effect, it is a symptom of a sick society, and it is precisely because this society is sick that the turmoil and misfortune of the Rebellion of the Eight Kings are constantly being created.

There will inevitably be disputes and conflicts in society, and a healthy or normal society can control them to the extent that they do not collapse the order, and many evils will be eliminated.

Sick societies, on the other hand, often turn trivial matters into serious incidents, and magnify small disputes into monstrous catastrophes.

Persuading wine is a trivial matter, just because the guests don't drink, Shi Chong wants to kill the person who advises wine. And Wang Dun deliberately didn't drink, seeing that he was killing, he had already killed three people in a row, but he didn't drink, Director Wang complained, but he said: "Suicide Yi family, what is the matter?" ("The World Speaks New Words").

Could it be that the ancients thought that killing someone was just a trivial thing like dropping a cup? No, homicide has been a serious event at any time from ancient times to the present day. Because human instinct does not allow us to do this. Gaozu entered Xianyang and made three chapters with the Qin people, the first of which was the death of the murderer. It can be seen that the ancients also believed that the right to life was the first and foremost.

Is it normal for a society to tolerate such an inhumane case, and for a person in a society to create such an injurious thing without changing his face?

The social atmosphere in the Western Jin Dynasty was extremely bad, showing that there was a high risk of strife and conflict lurking in society. This bad social atmosphere has three main characteristics, extravagance, heterogeneity and clean talk.

The extravagance of the Western Jin Dynasty is the most extreme example in history.

Shi Chong and Wang Kai's fight for wealth can be described as unprecedented, Wang Kai washed the pot with starch sugar, and Shi Chong used candles to cook rice. Wang Kai made a purple silk cloth walking barrier (used to block the sight of pedestrians when the female dependents went out) for forty miles, and Shi Chong made a brocade walking barrier for fifty miles.

With such a pen, it is no wonder that the name Shi Chong is regarded by later generations as a synonym for wealth.

Prime Minister He Zeng was extravagant, curtained in car clothes, extremely poor and beautiful, and the taste of cooking was more than a king. Ten thousand dollars a day, it is still said that there is no place to go. Liu Yi and others were extravagant in their impeachment, and the emperor and his important ministers did not ask anything. His son He Shao was even more extravagant, with a daily eclipse of 20,000 yuan.

The opposite side of luxury is actually profit-seeking. Think about it, if you don't have money, you can afford to be extravagant. The society of the Western Jin Dynasty fell into a frenzy of profit-seeking.

Lu Bao's "The God of Money" depicts the profit-seeking behavior at that time, which is really into the wood: "Money is the body, and there is a good thing." is like a brother, and the word is called Kong Fang. There is no virtue and respect, and there is no power and heat. Row the golden gate, into the purple hair. Danger can make peace, death can make life; Expensive can make cheap, and life can make killing. It is because of the anger that is not won by money, the stagnation is not money, the grudge is not incomprehensible, and the news is not money. Luozhong Zhuyi is a man on the way, loves my brother, all have nothing to do, hold my hand, hold me always. All those who are today are only money. (Zizhi Tongjian)

It's just money, tsk, all the people of today, the people of the Jin Dynasty are like parasites on money.

To be different is to behave in a way that is very different from what is traditionally morally appreciated. The Seven Sages of the Bamboo Forest can be represented. These people have gained a reputation for their shocking behavior, advocating nothingness, despising etiquette, drinking and drunkenness, and leaving the world behind.

Infantry captain Ruan Ji played chess with someone, reported the funeral and said that his mother was dead, and the player of the game begged to stop, Ruan Ji must gamble on the outcome of the game, and then drank two fights; openly eating wine and meat in public during mourning; I like to travel drunk and drive, but I don't follow the road signs, so I cry bitterly every time I go to the end.

Ruan Xian had an affair with his aunt's maidservant, and his aunt took the maidservant away, Ruan Xian was entertaining guests, and immediately borrowed the guest's donkey to chase after him, and then the two returned with the donkey.

Liu Ling was fond of alcohol, and often carried a pot of wine, so that people followed behind with a shovel, and ordered: "If you die, bury me"; "The World Says New Words" said: Liu Lingheng indulged in wine. or undressed naked in the house, and they are ridiculed. Ling said, "I regard heaven and earth as my building, and my house as my trousers. What are you in my pants? ”

It's a pity that it's only used for strong words. As for Wang Rong, the money obsessed with his mind is not worth mentioning.

Qing talk began in the late Han Dynasty and gradually became popular at the end of the Wei Dynasty. At that time, the Qing Dynasty talked about punishing the two Han Dynasty Confucianism for finding chapters and extracting sentences, and the disadvantages of superstition, and the focus of thinking turned to the Taoist Lao Zhuang's learning, and the main purpose of Lao Zhuang's learning was not in politics, so although the Qing Dynasty in the late Wei Dynasty had made ideological achievements, it had obviously hindered political affairs.

Extended to Wang Rong and Wang Yan of the Western Jin Dynasty, Qing talk became more popular, bureaucratic, and boring. At this time, there was no longer any idea to talk about, it was purely for the sake of talking, but in fact it was talking for fame and profit.

Wang Rong is listed as one of the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Forest, but he is different from Ji Kang, Ruan Ji, Liu Ling, etc. The former is cynical and takes pride in seclusion; Wang Rong is purely a person who chases fame and fortune, and he never forgets to be promoted to become rich.

Wang Rong is the third duke, with the ups and downs of the times, there is nothing to help, the subordinates of the commissioners, and the travel is light. Sexual repetition and miserliness, gardens all over the world, every self-grasping, day and night accounting, often insufficient. There are good plums at home, and if you sell them, you are afraid that people will get seeds, and they often drill their cores. Whatever is rewarded, it is a matter of fame.

Wang Yan is Wang Rong's cousin, this person is extremely good-looking, smart and clever, has a great reputation, is inclined to the world, is wonderful and good, and only talks about "Lao" and "Zhuang".

Wang Yanqing doesn't care about ideology, he only pays attention to personal image and overwhelms the other party verbally, and only plays with pleasing movements, beautiful words and words. When talking about the Tao of the Universe, you always have to catch the tail of the jade handle, and the white hand is the same color as the white jade, which complements each other, and is called a must. Yili was uneasy, and then changed it, and the world name was "Female Yellow in the Mouth" ("Zizhi Tongjian").

This is really a shallow age, and even the field of thought, which is known for its profundity, has been so shallow, what can be kept solemn and dignified.

Wang Yan's clean talk posture catered to the impetuous and empty social psychology of the time, which made the government and the opposition angry, and called it "the first dragon gate", so he was tired of holding a prominent position. So that the backward people, all admire the effect, high and frivolous, and then become a custom. The celebrities of the scholar clan and the elite of the court all regard political affairs as secular affairs, and they are outside the house, holding their tails all day long, talking about mysteries, and "they are all free to let go, as for the drunk naked, they don't think it is wrong."

Most of the elites of Baume & Mercier are drunk by madness, mad because of drunkenness, and it is difficult to get out of drowning. For example, "The World Says New Words" contains "Bi Maoshi (Bi Zhuo, who was a minister during the Daxing period of Emperor Hui of the Jin Dynasty) cloud: "One hand holds a crab claw, and the other holds a wine glass. Shooting in the floating wine pond is enough for a lifetime. ”

It was precisely such a sick society that gave rise to such a profound disaster as the Eight Kings Rebellion, and the resulting Yongjia Disaster plunged the economically developed northern China into endless turmoil and caused a division between the north and the south for more than 300 years.

The Wei and Jin dynasties were eventful times, and the Chinese nation was burdened with a heavy historical burden, coming out of the profound disaster of the turmoil at the end of the Han Dynasty and exploring how to go ahead.

However, Sima's family disregarded their personal reputation and the fate of the country and the nation, and single-mindedly fought for power and profit, which caused the entire society to fall into despicable and filthy, and finally caused a monstrous disaster, resulting in chaos and the sinking of China. Really, there is no way to pray for sin.

Since coming to this world, Sima Shu has been working hard to change the fate of the entire nation, and now he is standing at a crossroads, if it goes well, he can open a prosperous era, if he takes a wrong step, not only him, I am afraid that the whole nation will enter the dark abyss.

Thinking of this, Sima Shu was determined to forcefully rectify the officialdom of the Western Jin Dynasty.

On the second day of the prince's wedding, a shocking news spread all over the world, Empress Jia colluded with King Zhao to rebel and tried to kill the prince, but unexpectedly the prince Sima Shu planned to uproot Empress Jia and King Zhao's party, and the next day Luoyang City was full of soldiers to arrest the key criminals who plotted against him.

Except for Jia Mo, all the other Jia family members who were once prominent were imprisoned by the crown prince Sima Shu and waited to be beheaded. The huge wealth of the Jia family was confiscated by Sima Shu, and a large number of vacant fields were distributed by him to the displaced people all over the Central Plains.

The entire city of Luoyang was shrouded in the white terror set off by the crown prince, but this time it was different from before, and the common people at the bottom were rejoicing, because every big family was condemned, and a large number of common people would get a share of the land.