Sima Yi is the last winner of the Three Kingdoms. He was a counselor under Cao Cao. In 220, after Sima Yi endured Cao Cao, he endured Cao Cao's son Cao Pi and grandson Cao Rui. In 149, Sima Yi took advantage of Cao Cao's great-grandson Cao Fang, and Cao Shuang and other relatives of Cao Wei to worship their ancestors and launched the Gaopingling Incident, seizing control of Cao Wei's country, and Emperor Cao Fang also became a puppet of the Sima family.
263, Sima Yi's son Sima Zhao sent troops to destroy Shu Han, causing Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang to ashes to ashes. In 265, Sima Yi's grandson Sima Yan followed the example of Emperor Wen of Wei Cao Pi and forced Cao Huan to abdicate the throne to him and became the emperor himself. The Wei dynasty established by Cao Cao and Cao Pi was destroyed. In 280, Sima Yan sent troops to destroy the Eastern Wu, and Sun Quan's foundation also fell into the hands of the Sima family.
At this point, the three families have returned to Jin.
There is reincarnation in the heavenly way, who will the heaven spare? Sima Yi seized the Cao Wei dynasty through mutiny, and his descendants followed suit and followed him in the mutiny to fight for the throne, which eventually triggered a bloody drama of the descendants of the Sima family killing each other, the Eight Kings Rebellion.
The root of the Eight Kings Rebellion lies with Sima Yan, the founding emperor of the Jin Dynasty. Sima Yan's eldest son Sima Zhong was mentally depressed and was not suitable to be an emperor.
Sima Yan knew about this and was a little worried, so he asked a few questions and wanted to do a test for Sima Zhong. Sima Zhong's Crown Princess Jia Nanfeng , guessed Sima Yan's thoughts. After she found someone to do the question, she asked Sima Zhong to copy the answer. After reading Sima Yan, although his literary talent was average, it was reasonable and quite pertinent, so he felt relieved that he passed the throne to Sima Zhong a hundred years later.
After Sima Zhong ascended the throne, he was demented and did not take responsibility, and the Grand Tutor Yang Jun was the military and political affairs. Sima Zhong's queen Jia Nanfeng wanted his family to control the court, so he contacted King Sima Liang of Runan and King Sima Wei of Chu to launch a bloody coup, kill Yang Jun, and demoted the Empress Dowager Yang Zhi (Yang Jun's daughter) to a commoner and escorted back to Jinyong City. In the end, Yang Zhi didn't eat for 8 days and starved to death.
291, after Yang Jun was killed, the power fell into the hands of King Sima Liang of Runan and the veteran Wei Guan , and Jia Nanfeng's ambition to control the court was not realized.
In June of the same year, Jia Nanfeng instructed King Sima Wei of Chu to kill King Runan Sima Liang, and then falsely accused the King of Chu of Chu for forgery of the imperial edict and executed King Sima Wei of Chu. After the deaths of King Sima Wei of Chu and King Sima Liang of Runan, Jia Nanfeng controlled the court. Afterwards, Jia Nanfeng began a series of acts of committing suicide. She used people as relatives, killed ministers indiscriminately, and persecuted pregnant concubines and palace maids in the harem. She was a famous evil queen in history. In 299, in order to consolidate his power, Jia Nanfeng abolished the crown prince Sima Yu. The next year he killed Sima Yu.
Jia Nanfeng's killing of crown prince Sima Yu has aroused public anger.
301, the commander of the imperial guards, Zhao Wang Sima Lun, who joined forces with the King of Qi, launched a coup, and executed Jia Nanfeng in the name of Emperor Hui of Jin, Sima Zhong. After controlling the power of
, Sima Lun deposed Sima Zhong and proclaimed himself emperor.
Zhao Wanglun’s behavior of usurping the throne also caused dissatisfaction among other princes and kings. King Sima Jiong of Qi, King Sima Ying of Chengdu, and King Sima Ying of Chengdu, and King Sima Yong of Hejian, successively raised troops to attack King Sima Lun of Zhao. At the same time, the imperial guard general Wang Yu in Luoyang City also raised an army to rebel against ethics. Wang Yu killed Sima Lun and supported Emperor Hui of Jin to restore the throne. After the death of King Zhao Sima Lun, King Qi Sima Jiong entered the capital and began to assist Sima Zhong.
302, King Sima Yong of Hejian raised an army to attack Sima Yu in Guanzhong. The Changsha King Sima Yi in Luoyang City also took the opportunity to raise an army to enter the palace, eliminated King Jiong of Qi, and controlled the regime in his own hands. The kings fought over and over, but the stupid Sima Zhong was their puppet.
303, King Sima Yong of Hejian and King Sima Ying of Chengdu raised an army to attack King Sima Yi of Changsha. Sima Yong ordered the governor Zhang Fang to lead 70,000 elite troops to advance from Hangu Pass to Luoyang; Sima Ying mobilized more than 200,000 troops to cross Henan to Luoyang.King Sima Yong of Hejian and King Sima Ying of Chengdu had an army of 270,000, but they were defeated by King Sima Yi of Changsha many times. Sima Yi was fighting fiercely with the two kings, Sima Yue, the King of East China Sea in Luoyang City, joined forces with some imperial guards to launch a rebellion and captured Sima Yi alive. Then he was handed over to Sima Yong's general Zhang Fang, who was burned to death by Zhang Fang. After Sima Yi's death, Hejian King Sima Yong entered Luoyang to become the prime minister and ruled as the crown prince.
After Hejian King Sima Yong took over the regime, he was worried that he would repeat the mistakes of other kings in Luoyang, so he returned to his base Yecheng . Sima Yong issued a government order in Yecheng, and the political center of the Jin Dynasty also moved to Yecheng. Sima Yi was removed, but the power fell into Sima Yong's hands, which made Sima Yue, the King of East China who took the risk of launching a coup, very dissatisfied. So Sima Yue, the King of East China, led the imperial guards to hold Sima Zhong hostage to attack Yecheng, hoping to get rid of Sima Yong, the King of Hejian. In the Battle of Dangyin, Sima Yue was defeated by Sima Yong, the King of Hejian, who had a very good relationship with Sima Ying of Chengdu. Sima Yue, the King of Donghai, had to flee back to the fiefdom in a panic, and Sima Zhong was captured by the King of Hejian.
Then, King Sima Yong of Hejian sent his general Zhang Fang to conquer Luoyang. At the same time, Sima Yue, the younger brother of Sima Yue of Donghai, Sima Teng, the governor of Bingzhou, and Wang Jun, the governor of Youzhou, jointly launched an army and broke through Yecheng, the fief of Sima Ying of Chengdu. Sima Ying had to take Emperor Hui of Jin to flee to Chang'an. In 305, Sima Yue, the king of Donghai, made a comeback and raised an army from Shandong to attack Guanzhong. Not long after, Sima Yue, the King of East China Sea, defeated Sima Ying, the King of Hejian, and regained Luoyang. In 306, Sima Yue defeated and killed Sima Yong and Sima Ying, and welcomed Emperor Hui of Jin back to Luoyang.
After Jia Nanfeng was in chaos, the King of Runan, Sima Liang, Sima Wei, King of Chu, Sima Lun, King of Zhao, Sima Jiong, King of Qi, Sima Yi, King of Changsha, Sima Ying, King of Chengdu, and Sima Yong, King of Hejian, were killed one after another. Only King of Donghai, Sima Yue, laughed to the end and took control of the power.
At this point, the Eight Kings Rebellion ended.
306, Sima Yue welcomed Sima Zhong back to Luoyang. The following year, Emperor Hui of Jin died of food poisoning, and people suspected that he was poisoned by Sima Yue.
After Sima Zhong's death, Sima ChiAsced the throne, but he obeyed Sima Yue everywhere and was a puppet of Sima Yue. At the same time, in order to consolidate his power, Sima Yue killed loyal and kind people and eliminated dissidents, which aroused the dissatisfaction of the people, and the uprisings rebelled against him continued within the Jin Dynasty. The surrounding tribes such as the Xiongnu , Xianbei , Jie, Qiang, Di took the opportunity to invade, creating a dark period of the Five Barbarians in my country's history, causing heavy disasters to the people and almost causing the interruption of our national civilization. In 311, Sima Yue died of worries and fear.
