Chapter 331: The Rebellion of the Eight Kings (1)
Ruyin County's agriculture is advancing in an orderly manner, industry and commerce are developing healthily, and culture and education are thriving. At the same time, Luoyang City was killed by the Sima royal family, and there was another bloody storm.
After Sima Jian, the king of Qi, became an assistant to the government, because of his great achievement in setting things right, and because of the special status of his father Sima You.
At that time, the position of Sima Yi, the founder of the Great Jin Dynasty, was originally passed to the eldest son Sima Shi, and because Sima Shi had no children, he was succeeded by his younger brother Sima Zhao after his death. Although Sima Shi had no children, he succeeded Sima Zhao's son, Sima You, as his heir. Sima Zhao admits that he is not his father's eldest son, and feels that he cannot be at ease inheriting this position, and once thought about passing the position to Sima You. Although Sima You is also his own son, since he has been passed out, there is an essential difference in name, and it was finally passed on to his eldest son, Emperor Wu Sima Yan.
Even after Sima Yan became the emperor, because his son-in-law Sima Zhen was too unbearable, there were still calls in the court to make Sima You the emperor's younger brother. In the end, of course, it was still unsuccessful. Sima You missed the throne twice because of this, and died of frustration.
In Sima Jian's opinion, if either it was his grandfather Sima Zhao or his uncle Sima Yan back then, who could pass on the throne to his father, he should be the emperor now, not the elm-headed cousin Sima Zhen.
Based on this level of resentment, coupled with his great achievement of overthrowing Sima Lun and welcoming Sima Zhen to restore the throne, Sima Jian was empty-eyed and didn't take anyone in his eyes at all.
Living in the Forbidden City of his father Sima You, he felt that it was not enough, and Sima Jian built the first hall again, and did not hesitate to demolish more than 100 public and private houses, and the standard was on par with the imperial palace. He was still not satisfied with being named the Great Sima and Jiuxi, and he enjoyed the highest standard dance that only the Son of Heaven could enjoy in front of the court, the Eight Hundred Dance. He was only addicted to wine and never met Emperor Sima Zhen. In the palace, he accepted the worship of hundreds of officials, took charge of the government, cronyism, and excluded dissidents. There is an imperial history to the imperial court without first knowing about it, and he directly tortures the imperial history. Except for the fact that he did not usurp the throne, he was almost equal to Sima Lun in other aspects. So the courtiers looked sideways and were greatly disappointed.
In order to be able to control the government for a long time and safely, Sima Jian also interfered with the canonization of the successor to the throne.
Since the death of the emperor's grandson Sima Shang, Sima Zhen has been completely wiped out. He grew older, and he was no longer young and strong. At this age, you can't go without a prince for a day. Without his own bloodline, he can only choose another successor from among his close relatives according to the level of blood kinship.
The highest voice is to canonize Sima Ying, the king of Chengdu, as the emperor's younger brother. Sima Ying is young and strong, and has a certain prestige, and has the strength to compete with Sima Yin. If Sima Ying is really established as the prince, will Sima Yan be unscrupulous in the future? So he made a stumbling block and chose Sima Zhen's nephew, Sima Qin, the king of Qinghe, who was just eight years old, as the crown prince.
Sima Jian's actions aroused the eyes of three royal princes, two of whom were Sima Hao, the king of Hejian and Sima Yi, the king of Changsha, who had followed him to crusade against Sima Lun, and of course, Sima Ying, the king of Chengdu, who was deprived of the position of prince.
Sima Yi, the king of Changsha, because he and Sima Wei, the king of Chu, are brothers of the same mother. At that time, Sima Wei was assassinated by Jia Nanfeng, and he was also implicated and demoted to the king of Changshan, who had a smaller fief, and later restored the title of king of Changsha because of his meritorious work in overthrowing Sima Lun.
Sima Yi and Sima Ying are both Sima Yan's sons, and they can be said to be the most upright royal princes. Sima Hao is very estranged from the blood relationship of the royal family, and he is not even a direct descendant of Sima Yi, but the grandson of "Shuda", one of the "Sima Bada", that is, Sima Yi's nephew. Although he is the most distant, this person is very ambitious. His original intention was to use Sima Yin to get rid of Sima Yin, and then get rid of Sima Yin with Sima Ying, and then abolish Sima Zhen, support Sima Ying as the emperor, and make himself the first auxiliary minister. So he instigated Sima Yi and Sima Ying and said: The country of the Great Jin Dynasty was passed down from your father Emperor Wu, and it should be your two brothers who should have the auxiliary power the most, what is he Sima Jian? How can you watch him do it? If you wish, I will join you in the crusade against him.
Sima Ying originally held a grudge against Sima Yin for depriving him of the position of crown prince, but when he heard Sima Hao's agitation, how could he not care? Sima Yi also hit it off. The three of them discussed, with Sima Yi, who was a hussar general in the court, as the internal response, Sima Hao, who was the general of the expedition to the west, and Sima Ying, the general of Zhenbei, each gathered hundreds of thousands of horses to besiege Luoyang.
Sima Yi first started a war with Sima Jian in the city, and the night was full of flames and arrows. provoked the emperor Sima Zhen to also go to the city to watch. Of course, he has no ability to stop either side at all, but purely to watch the excitement, after all, the outcome of this battle is related to who he will listen to in the future, so he is still very concerned. However, the two sides did not restrain because of the emperor's arrival, the rain of arrows poured down, the attendants were killed and wounded, and the ministers hurriedly risked their lives to escort Sima Zhen away.
Sima Hao originally wanted to take this opportunity to get rid of Sima Yi, so he didn't really help Sima Yi's side, but he didn't expect Sima Yi to be quite fierce, fighting for three days and three nights in a row, and killing Sima Jian in one fell swoop with his own strength, and the same party wiped out the three clans.
In this way, the biggest beneficiary of this coup seems to have become Sima Yi. Sima Yi thus became an auxiliary minister. Sima Hao and Sima Ying led their respective men and horses to retreat to their base camps of Chang'an and Yecheng respectively.
In fact, Sima Yi himself did not have much ambition. At the beginning, no matter how big or small the imperial court was, he would go to Yecheng to ask Sima Ying. Even so, can Sima Ying and Sima Hao, the two great careerists, accept this status quo? After only eight months of stability, the two of them entangled hundreds of thousands of elite soldiers to defeat Sima Yi.
Of course, Sima Yi can't sit still. Although he is the side that has been defeated, holding the power of the court is his greatest advantage. In the name of the imperial court, he characterized Sima Hao and Sima Ying's behavior as rebellion, moved out of Sima Zhen to be his backstage, and also gathered hundreds of thousands of horses out of the city to fight.
In the past, although the Jin family has experienced many coups d'état, they are basically within tens of thousands of people, and the duration is often only a few days, but this time the battle between the three kings not only has as many as a million, but also lasts for several months. This has gone beyond a coup d'état and has turned into a large-scale war.
Both sides were evenly matched, and both suffered heavy casualties. Seeing that it was not a way to hold each other like this, because Sima Yi and Sima Ying were brothers of the same father, they should be able to make peace, so they pushed Wang Yan as a representative to go out of the city to persuade Sima Ying. Who knew that Sima Ying did not think about brotherhood, and the two sides each proposed reconciliation conditions, but neither of them refused to give in, and the negotiations finally broke down. The two sides continued to fight for several more months, and the dead piled up and even the river was blocked. In the end, both sides were exhausted and devastated their vitality. Seeing that Luoyang could not be attacked for a long time, Sima Hao had no confidence, so he planned to retreat and return to Chang'an.
Who knew that at this critical moment, a daredevil appeared in Luoyang City, which completely changed the situation. This daredevils are Sima Yue, the king of the East China Sea. In terms of the relationship with the royal family, Sima Yue is the same as Sima Hao, both belong to Sima Yi's nephew, Sima Hao is the grandson of the third uncle, and Sima Yue is the grandson of the old four seasons. These distant royal families can have the opportunity to gradually participate in the struggle for power in the court, which indirectly shows that the close relatives of the royal family died in the previous battles, and lost too much of it.
The city of Luoyang was besieged for several months, and the food and grass became increasingly poor. A soldier can not be afraid of death, but he cannot be without food and grass. Sima Yue saw internal worries and external difficulties, and expected that Sima Yi would definitely not be able to survive, and when the time came, he would definitely be implicated if he was attacked into the city by Sima Ying and Sima Hao. So he took advantage of Sima's unpreparedness to tie him up and send him to Kim Yong City, and Kaicheng surrendered. But after opening the city gate, I found that the situation outside the city was not much better than that inside the city, and maybe the troops would be withdrawn after a few days. Sima Yue couldn't help but regret it, and it was impossible to regain support for Sima Yi.
Sima Yi was unexpectedly killed by Sima Ying and Sima Hao.
The winner is a prince and a loser, and the thief is a thief. Sima Ying and Sima Hao, who were defined as rebellions, counterattacked and became the heroes of King Qin's meritorious service. Sima Ying was named prime minister, Sima Hao was Dazai, and Sima Yue was commonplace.
Sima Ying's goal is the throne, not the prime minister of Shoufu. At present, he has swept away the two major obstacles of Sima Jian and Sima Yi, and has really gained momentum. Sima Hao pushed the boat along the water, and asked the deposed crown prince Sima Qin to be restored as the king of Qinghe, and Sima Ying was appointed as the emperor's younger brother.
Under normal circumstances, the prince of the royal family should only have the crown prince. In addition to the crown prince, the Great Jin also has two titles: the emperor's grandson and the emperor's younger brother. In addition, the title of Emperor Taishang given by Sima Zhen when he was usurped by Sima Lun can be described as varied. These titles, no matter which one of them are rare in other dynasties, are concentrated in the Jin Dynasty, which shows how chaotic the situation in the Jin Dynasty is.
Although Sima Ying, as the prince and the first assistant, did not want to stay in Luoyang, but returned to his base camp Yecheng. However, this did not delay him from becoming a powerful man. No matter what happens in the court, he has to go to Yecheng to report to him, and Sima Zhen in the palace is basically just an ornament. Even in Yecheng, if Sima Ying himself is in charge of the affairs of the court, it would be fine, he actually listened to a eunuch male pet in everything, and even the reason why he stayed in Yecheng for a long time was because this male pet did not like Luoyang.
This caused dissatisfaction among civil and military officials.
In today's situation, not only the royal Sima kings, but even the civil and military ministers have to participate in the attack. The decline of the Jin chamber has reached the extreme. The world has reached the point of great chaos.
The hundred officials wanted to go north to conquer Sima Ying, and Sima Zhen was moved out, called the Imperial Expedition. Of course, this is indispensable to the shadow of the instigation of Sima Yue, the king of the East China Sea, who is the governor of the capital. In the previous coups, Emperor Sima Zhen sat on a cold bench and watched, just knowing who he ended up with, but now he was forced to participate in it himself. It's so sad.
All the royal expeditions are often a male lord leading the tiger and wolf division to expand the territory or quell the rebellion, and Sima Xin's royal expedition is just a name, just a joke.
Although Sima Yue's side was personally conquered by the emperor, Sima Ying's fierce generals were like clouds, and after several hard battles, Wang Shi was defeated, and even the jade seal of the country that Sima Zhen carried with him was lost. Sima Ying went on a killing spree and ordered everyone except the emperor to be killed. Sima Yue saw that things were not good, so he left Sima Zhen and fled.
Someone sent the emperor to the door, and Sima Ying was very willing to accept it. Of course, he knew that it was not Sima Zhen's idea to crusade against him, so he did not embarrass his stupid brother emperor, but he did not escort him back to Beijing, but detained him in Yecheng.
Of course, Sima Yue, who fled in embarrassment, was not reconciled, and lobbied everywhere to gather people, and even invited Fanbang foreign aid Xianbei soldiers. Correspondingly, Sima Ying had the Huns as foreign aid. With the blessing of the Xianbei and the Huns, the two sides fought again.
Sima Yue Xu gave reinforcements a lot of benefits, which made this counterattack extremely fierce, and Sima Ying's side was defeated and retreated. Seeing that he couldn't support it, he could only take the thirty-six plan as the best plan, and secretly fled back to Luoyang with Sima Zhen.
What Xianbei people are best at is grabbing things and women. In addition to having fun, robbing women also has a main purpose, that is, it can be used as dry food when necessary. Under the sacking of these rebels, Yecheng was almost an abandoned city.
Sima Ying has been defeated, even if he flees to Luoyang, Sima Yue will not let him go. Fortunately, Sima Hao, who was in Chang'an, got the news and sent the general to lead the troops to the rescue, which saved Sima Ying's life.