has always been good at reincarnation. The Three Kingdoms period Cao Wei regime, and the later Sima Yi family, are typical examples.
Cao Cao Since he took the emperor to command the princes, he wanted to usurp the throne. However, for the sake of face, he wanted to keep a good reputation, so he left the matter of usurping power to his son Cao Pi .
After Cao Wei was established, Cao Pi and his later successor emperor both trusted Sima Yi and the power in the court was tightly held in the hands of the Sima family.
After the time was ripe, the descendants of the Sima family followed the Cao family's approach and took the Cao Wei Dynasty to establish Jin Dynasty .
knows that the reputation of Jiangshan is not right. After Sima Yan took office, he wanted to do something different, to prevent the same fate as the Cao family. But how can man defeat nature? Many years later, the Sima family was massacred and almost lost their descendants.
Who did the Sima family offend and suffered this catastrophe?
In fact, it is not their enemies who killed the Sima family. There are no eternal friends or enemies in the world. Only interests can create friendship, which is also the fundamental reason for killing. Killing under political struggle does not require any emotional factors.
The Sima family's self-destruction
The people who ordered the nation to kill the Sima family were called Liu Yu , the founding emperor of the Liu Song regime . After the demise of the Western Jin Dynasty, the Jin royal family moved south, intending to rebuild the Jin Dynasty by following the example of Emperor Guangwu of Han and restoring the Han Dynasty.
can Eastern Jin cannot reproduce the glory of the Han Dynasty like Eastern Han , but the more you get, the worse it gets. The Eastern Jin Dynasty tried many Northern Expeditions to regain its original territory, but each time it failed. The north had long been occupied by the Hu people and several regimes were established.
However, these are all that Jin Dynasty found. The Three Kingdoms have been warring for many years, and the epidemic has caused a sharp decline in population. After the founding of the Jin Dynasty, we hoped to quickly restore the population to increase social productivity. So Sima Yan's mind became hot, and was opened to the public, introducing the Hu people .
These foreign barbarians, When Qin Shihuang was there, they did not hesitate to make great efforts to build Great Wall to show their determination to resolutely resist the barbarians. The Han emperor was also actively fighting against the Hu people.
When the Jin Dynasty arrived, the Sima family took the initiative to invite the Hu people to live in the Han area, and the disaster was buried.
Hu people are not convinced by Han people control, overthrow the Han people's rule, causing trouble. Due to Sima Yan's great title of vassal kings, the Jin Dynasty caused the rebellion of the Eight Kings. The royal family fought for many years, and the Five Barbarians invaded China. The Han people were almost massacred by the Hu people, but the Jin Dynasty royal family could not get any solution.
Only this is called Liu Yu's slight contribution, pacifying the uprising, eliminating multiple separatist , and causing the South to reunify again after a hundred years of chaos.
Liu Song's political massacre
Like Sima Yi's status in Cao Wei, Liu Yu was also a famous military politician in the Jin Dynasty. He was Jin'an Emperor Sima Dezong's minister .
With his military achievements like Sima Yi, Liu Yu took all the military and political power of the Eastern Jin Dynasty in his hands, became the prime minister and was named King of Song .
There are no powerful ministers who do not want to take the emperor to replace him. Cao Cao and Sima Yi are like this, and Liu Yu is no exception. In 419, the Eastern Jin Dynasty became increasingly chaotic, and Liu Yu took the opportunity to kill Sima Dezong. After the demise of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, he proclaimed himself emperor. The name of was named Song after his title of King Song.
Liu Yu is light in taxes and equitable for the people's livelihood. He acts like a good emperor to the outside world, but he is a big killer to the descendants of the Sima family.
The biggest difference between Liu Yu and Sima Yi and Cao Cao is that he is from a poor family and has been earned entirely by his own hard work.
Sima Yan was appointed as the vassal king because he believed that the reason for Cao Wei's failure was that he had no support from his clans, which gave his family a loophole. Therefore, he conferred all the Sima family as king, hoping to consolidate the imperial power.
Unexpectedly, Sima Yan's move backfires. The vassal kings fought for the throne, and the Jin Dynasty became a mess.
Liu Yu has no clan member to be granted, but he knew that the people from the Sima family were still staring at the throne. After all, the Sima family has been in power for more than 100 years and has too many descendants.
is to avoid seeking revenge and restoring the country from the Sima family. The only way is to to eliminate the roots of , and does not leave a single Sima in the world. After
issued a hunting order, the people responded one after another, wanting to kill the culprit who had killed the Central Plains for so many years. For a time, people with the surname Sima in China, no matter whether they have anything to do with the Sima royal family, were like rats crossing the street, killed and then taken to credit.
Sima family has been around for many years, and its tribe is spread all over the country. Since Liu Yu carried out a large-scale massacre of them, there are only less than 30,000 people with the surname Sima in .
Today, there are not many people with the surname Sima. Compared with other surnames that have been passed down from a long history among the Hundred Family Surnames, the population is pitiful.
Due to the massacre during Liu Yu's reign, many Sima surnameds were forced to change their surnames. They either disassembled the word Sima and changed the duplicate surname to a single surname, or directly changed it to a surname that had nothing to do with Sima, and then they survived quietly.
But Liu Yu did not preserve his country either. He died of illness after only two years of being the emperor. The Liu Song regime he established was once again destroyed by the cycle of history in 479.
powerful minister Xiao Daocheng usurped the throne and changed the country's name to Qi. Of course, these tragedies obtained by usurping power and seizing throne did not last long, and the Southern Song Dynasty regime later fell into the hands of others.
