The Rebellion of the Eight Kings exhausted the national strength of the Great Jin Dynasty, and the imperial court was no longer able to control the locality, so that the warlords in various places did not listen to the dispatch, and the rebels were surging. Among them are Chinese, and there are also Fanbanghu people who are on the border and originally attached to them. There are even two who have taken the lead in usurping the throne: one is Li Xiong, the son of Li Te, a Bayi native in the southwest, and the other is Liu Yuan, a Xiongnu who is in the interior and state.

According to legend, the Ba Yi Li family is a descendant of the Miao of the Emperor of Liao, and it should have been the Ba clan. There is also a very poignant love story about the entrepreneurial history of his ancestors. At that time, the people of the Lijun tribe originally lived in a small and isolated mountainous area, with no arable land, only gathering and hunting, and living in caves. After conquering the other tribes of his clan, he became the leader. He was not satisfied with the status quo of life, so he led his people out to find a broader living space. When I walked to the Yanyang area, I met the goddess of salt water. The goddess of salt water saw that Di Jun was a heroic figure, and she fell in love, so she wanted to keep Di Jun by her side. And he said to him, "I have a vast area here, rich in fish and salt, and I would like to share it with you, so don't go away." Of course, Di Jun was not satisfied with this, but he seemed to have a high emotional intelligence, so he did not refuse directly, but said tactfully to the goddess of salt water: I want to find fertile land for you, and I can't stay here. The goddess of salt water has a deep love for Di Jun and refuses to let him go. So every night, he slept with Di Jun, and during the day, he and his subordinates turned into countless flying insects and flew into the air, covering the sky and the sun, just like the night, so that Di Jun could not distinguish the direction and could not go out of his own realm. The infatuation of the goddess of salt water did not influence Di Jun, but also buried herself. He is determined to leave and seek greater ambitions. He had a plan in his mind, and said to the goddess of salt water: I will give you a green wisp, and you will bring it with you to show that we are happy with each other, and I will stay here and live with you; If you don't wear it, it means that the two of us have no feelings, and I am bound to leave you. The goddess of salt water didn't know what the plan was, but she gladly accepted it, and took this green wisp and her subordinates to fly into the sky again as flying insects. Di Jun knew that the location of the green wisp in the air was the goddess of salt water, and his heart was horizontal, so he knelt down in the direction of the green wisp first, but he took the heavy bow with both arms and shot towards the green wisp. The goddess of salt water died at the death of the arrow, and the flying insects that covered the sky and the sun also dissipated. He was able to continue his search for a vast place to live. The story of an infatuated girl.

Of course, this is just a legend. As for Li Te, his ancestors had already fused the blood of other peoples during the migration, and they were not pure descendants of the Emperor. But he has the ambition of a gentleman. After several years of development, it was finally able to compete with the imperial court.

After Li Te's death, his son Li Xiong succeeded him and established himself as king of Chengdu. Although the Li father and son rebelled earlier, the geographical scope was not wide, only within the scope of Sichuan and Shu. However, Liu Yuan, the Xiongnu who merged with the state, developed extremely rapidly.

The Xiongnu were the descendants of Shan Yu Maodun at the end of the Qin Dynasty. Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, once married Mao Dun as a princess as a clan girl, and formed a brotherly alliance with him. Due to the strength of the Han Dynasty, the Xiongnu of the Maodun Department had a sense of awe and wanted to be attached to it for a long time, so in order to get closer to the Han family, they changed to the surname Liu of the Han royal family.

Liu Yuan was born in a single family and succeeded his father as a tribal leader. Because it has been attached, of course, at this time, it cannot be called Da Dan Yu, only called Zuo Xian Wang, the governor of the five departments. Liu Yuan was born with a superb demeanor, proficient in Chinese culture, brave and resourceful, and most importantly, extremely ambitious.

The Xiongnu people have been moving inward for more than 100 years, but they have always been self-contained and have not integrated into the Wei and Jin Chinese. In the later period of the Eight Kings Rebellion, the Xiongnu in Bingzhou saw the decline of the Jin Dynasty, so they began to move, and several members of the upper echelons of the tribe secretly discussed: I think that at the beginning, my Xiongnu was also a powerful race that was as famous as the Han Dynasty. I had no choice but to meet a generation of male lords, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and my Huns fell apart from then on. Since the death of the Han Dynasty, although our Xiongnu were accepted by the Wei and Jin dynasties and retained the tribes, they only had imaginary names and did not have their own size of the land, which was no different from ordinary people. Now that the Sima clan is killing each other, and the four seas are boiling, it is a good time for Xingbang to resume business. King Zuo Xian is a noble person, not a person who lives under others. This must be God's desire to revive my Huns, otherwise how could this person be born?

So he picked up Liu Yuan and pushed him to be the master.

Liu Yuan was originally ambitious, and of course he was happily accepted by everyone. So he wanted to go to the Lishi area to plot an incident. At that time, he was the right-hand man of Sima Ying, the king of Chengdu. Sima Ying was the general of Zhenbei, and also asked Liu Yuan for the post of general. Liu Yuan led the men and horses of his headquarters to resist Sima Yue's Xianbei soldiers for Sima Ying. If he wants to leave, he must ask Sima Ying for his resignation. But if you tell the truth, you are undoubtedly looking for death. He lied that he wanted to return to his hometown to bury his ancestors. But at that time, Sima Ying and Sima Yue were in a stalemate, how could Sima Ying let him go? So he changed another reason, saying that he would go back to recruit men and horses from other Xiongnu tribes for Sima Ying to fight against Sima Yue. Sima Ying was worried that he would not be able to win against Sima Yue, and Liu Yuan's remarks were of course very much in line with his wishes, so he readily agreed. But Liu Yuan's departure is like letting a tiger return to the mountain, and it will eventually become a big disaster.

In less than a month away from Shizuo City, Liu Yuan gathered tens of thousands of people and was elected by the clansmen as Da Danyu. The Xiongnu had been suppressed by the Wei and Jin dynasties for a long time, and finally waited for the opportunity to turn over, so they clamored to restore the Xiongnu homeland and the old system. But the finch does not know the ambition of the bird. Liu Yuan's goal is far more than that, his goal is to emulate Han Gaozu and Emperor Wei Wu and achieve hegemony in the world, and just restoring the old Xiongnu system cannot be satisfied at all.

Corporal Liu Yuan Lixian, many Hu and Jin tribes defected to him. Although he wanted to revive the Xiongnu, he did not dare to use it in the name of the Xiongnu. Because the Xiongnu have been regarded as a barbarian state since ancient times, if they start an incident directly in the name of the Xiongnu, they will inevitably not get a response from the people of the world. If you want to be orthodox, you have to be right. No matter how far-fetched it is, you have to find a reason. Liu Yuan then involved the Han-Hun peace affair again, and declared to the outside world: The world originally belonged to the Han Dynasty, and the Han family declined, so it was replaced by the Wei and Jin dynasties. I, the Xiongnu, are the nephews of the Han clan and become brothers. The so-called brother died and brother Shao, even if the Han family died, it should be replaced by my Xiongnu, what is Wei and Jin? I will take it back and replace it! In order to show sincerity, Liu Yuan also officially set up a shrine to worship Han Gaozu and other Han emperors as ancestors. Just worshipping the emperors of the two Han Dynasty before and after felt that it was not enough, so they actually enshrined Liu Bei of the Shu Han Dynasty, and even posthumously honored the queen Liu Chan as the emperor of filial piety and worshiped them together. Adou was deposed by Sima Zhao. Liu Yuan's move was obviously to belittle Sima and cite Liu. Adou could never have imagined that he who had no chance of being the emperor at all, and who only took An Le Sigong as his nickname after his death, was actually posthumously honored as the emperor's nickname. It's just that it's not his descendants who respect themselves, but the completely unexpected Fanbanghu people.

After the foundation was laid, the clansmen suggested that Liu Yuan should be called the emperor directly, but Liu Yuan thought that the time had not yet come and he should not be reckless, so he imitated Liu Bang and called the king of Han first.

At this time, the Jin room can be described as internal and external troubles, and it is really in danger.

But at this time, the "First Emperor of the Ages" Sima Zhen suddenly died. The cause of death was very strange - death from food poisoning.

At the beginning of Sima Zhen's birth, the Sima family had already established a hegemonic position, and he had never experienced the difficult and thrilling entrepreneurial process of his father and ancestors, and only enjoyed a comfortable life. But when he reached the age of knowing the destiny of heaven, he was held hostage by Sima Yi and Sima Ying to fight in the south and the north, and was robbed by Sima Hao and Sima Yue in the east and west. When I fled, I didn't have time to prepare for the car, I even lost my shoes, I was always hungry and full, I was penniless, and I had to borrow thousands of dollars from the attendants around me, which was really miserable. If he had died in that chaotic time, it would have been normal. But he survived and arrived in Luoyang safely, but suddenly died of food safety problems.

Food poisoning is not unusual, but deaths caused by food poisoning are rare even in the homes of ordinary people, so how can such a low-level mistake occur in the imperial dining room of the palace? It was clearly done in bad faith. Who would do this to this stupid emperor? The biggest suspicious person is, of course, Sima Yue, the king of the East China Sea, who holds the auxiliary power, but it is also said that Sima Chi, the king of Yuzhang, the younger brother of the emperor of the East Palace, did it. There are different opinions, and no one can be sure, leaving behind a mystery for the ages.

The so-called capable go up and the mediocre go down. The resignation of a mediocre person like Sima Zhen is simply a great benefit to the Great Jin Dynasty and even all the people. If this happened fifteen years earlier, there would not have been so many disasters in the Jin family. If the murderer was motivated by this consideration, he risked his body and bones and was infamous for his rebellion to pull the emperor off the horse, and he was still worthy of the admiration of the world. Unfortunately, there are no such people in the world, and their considerations are only for personal gain.

No matter who made the poison, Sima Zhen ended his life at the mercy of others, and by the way, ended his strange and pathetic career as an emperor. At the age of forty-eight, this age is considered a long life for the emperor's profession. However, if he had not been elected as the crown prince at the beginning, but had been a prince and king in peace, enjoying wealth and wealth, and worry-free, he might have lived to the age of antiquity. has been an emperor for more than ten years, and he has not been able to die properly, and after he died, he caused chaos in the world, what is the point of sitting on such a throne?

Sima Yan's inheritance to Sima Zhen may be the biggest failure of the primogeniture inheritance system in history, which not only destroyed the Jin family and ruined the people of the world, but also affected the trajectory of history. Confucius said: If you are not in your position, you will not seek your government. It seems that a sentence should be added in front, it is not able to do it, and it does not seek its position. Since you want to have the four seas and rule over all the people, you should have the talent of one in a million. Sima Zhen is not qualified to be an ordinary person, but he let him reign in the world, which is extremely irresponsible to Jiangshan Sheji.

Since Sima Zhen succeeded to the throne, he has been subject to his maternal uncle Yang Jun, uncle Sima Liang, younger brother Sima Wei, queen Jia Nanfeng, uncle Sima Lun, younger brother Sima Yin, Sima Yi, Sima Ying, uncle Sima Hao, and Sima Yue. These ten people took turns to take the stage like a puppet emperor to manipulate the puppet emperor, and staged a series of sad and ridiculous historical dramas, vividly interpreting the ugliness and greed of human nature.

With the fall of this puppet emperor, the Western Jin Dynasty will soon come to an end of its own history.

After the death of the emperor, princes and even princes, descendants will generally evaluate them with a nickname, such as "Emperor Wen", "Emperor Wu", "King Zhuang", "Duke Huan" and so on. The basis of the evaluation should be the merits and demerits of the victim during his lifetime, but there are also many injustices hidden in this. For example, after Jia Chong's death, according to what he did during his lifetime, the doctors rated him with the word "wild". This nickname should be appropriate for Jia Chong, but it is very ugly. At that time, Jia Nanfeng had already become the crown princess, and the Jia family was very powerful, so of course this nickname could not be passed, so he tried to intervene, and finally changed the word "Wu".

If the minister is still like this, the emperor will do more in terms of nicknames, and those who have not been emperors may be added as emperors; Those who have been emperors may not be willing to call him the emperor's nickname, or even have no emperor's nickname. Like Cao Fang and Cao Chao in the previous dynasty, they were all really emperors, but one of them was abolished by Sima Shi, and the other was directly killed by Sima Zhao. Liu Chan, the queen of Shu Han, was a little better than the two of them, and after he was destroyed by Sima Zhao, he was abolished as An Le Gong, and after his death, he was called An Le Si Gong. Of course, the nickname should be commented on by posterity after death. It is too far-fetched to be pursued after decades, even by a foreign race, to be counted. In contrast, only Emperor Liu Xie of the Han Dynasty was still mixed well, although he was also a deposed emperor, but later generations were finally accustomed to calling him the nickname of Emperor XX.

On the contrary, two people like Cao Cao and Sima Yi obviously did not become emperors, but because their descendants Zhaojian became emperors in the new dynasty, they were also posthumously called emperors, known as Emperor Wu of Wei and Emperor Xuan of Jin.

In fact, the founders of the dynasty glorified their ancestors upwards and shaded their descendants downward; On the contrary, the mourners of the dynasty are still difficult to take care of, let alone glorify the ancestors and grace the descendants!

Although Sima Zhen's career as an emperor was extremely unsuccessful and he destroyed the Great Jin Dynasty with his own hands, he was not the last emperor of the Great Jin Dynasty. The successor of the Great Jin Dynasty couldn't bear to give him a particularly ugly nickname, but those high-end and good-sounding nicknames were imposed on him, so he flipped through the "Confession Law" and commented on the word "Hui", so the history called Sima Zhen Emperor Hui of Jin. There are two interpretations of "Hui" in the "Confessional Law", namely: softness and kindness to the people and love for the people. These two items are quite suitable for Sima Zhen. Without any merits, he can only be beautified like this.