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Chapter 101 The Rebellion of Eight Kings?Emperor Han Jing felt the same way 【Subscription】

[What is the Rebellion of the Eight Kings?What is Wuhuluanhua? 】

[At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Three Kingdoms were divided. After experiencing the changes of the times, the Three Kingdoms returned to Jin, and China was once again unified. 】

[However, this unification is full of controversies in the history of China. One is that the unified Sima family stepped on the shoulders of the Cao Wei regime, and it can even be said to usurp power by stepping on the blood of Emperor Cao. This is a traditional era in which Confucian ethics is the main criterion, which must be condemned. 】

[The second is that the Jin Dynasty unified by the Sima clan was not like other Chinese periods, such as the unification of the Sui Dynasty, the unification of the Ming Dynasty, and the unification of the Qin Dynasty. After the unification of troubled times, there was a peaceful and prosperous age. 】

[But after Jin unified the world, there was a worse era and a more chaotic situation. 】

[The Rebellion of the Eight Kings is its manifestation. The Rebellion of the Eight Kings not only led to internal disputes and chaos in the Jin Dynasty, but also attracted the continuous invasion of the Huns and other forces. "Complete the achievement of unity. 】

[Emperor Sima Yan of Jin Dynasty, in order to fight against the gentry, gave the clan king great political and military power. Because the power of the clan king was too inflated, hidden dangers were laid for the occurrence of rebellion. 】

[After Sima Yan proclaimed himself emperor, he distributed the feudal titles to the kings. Instead of the vain feudal titles of the Cao Wei period, they were real feudal titles. That is, each king had his own fiefdom, as well as an army, and his power was extremely powerful. 】

[After Sima Yan died, Sima Zhong inherited the throne, but Sima Zhong was almost an idiot, and he was weak, and soon the power of the Jin Kingdom was no longer in his hands. Sima Zhong, the emperor, was a mascot. 】

[Eight kings refer to the eight kings: Sima Yue, king of East China Sea, Sima Yong, king of Hejian, Sima Lun, king of Zhao, Sima Liang, king of Runan, Sima Jiong, king of Qi, Sima Ying, king of Chengdu, Sima Yi, king of Changsha, Sima Wei, king of Chu. 】

[In the first year of Taixi, when Emperor Wu of Jin Dynasty Sima Yan was dying, he appointed General Cheqi, who was born in Hongnong, and the father of Empress Yang, Yang Jun, as the Taifu and the governor of the capital to take charge of the government. 】

[Why did the Rebellion of the Eight Kings happen?Then I have to mention Jin Huidi's wife-Jia Nanfeng. 】

[Jian Nanfeng's father is the famous treacherous official Jia Chong. Jia Chong has made great contributions in helping Sima Zhao seize power and Sima Yan become emperor. This man has many tricks and insidious methods. 】

【And her mother, Guo Huai, is a domineering woman. Since she has such parents, Jananfeng will not be any better. 】

[You can't expect such a pair of arrogant parents to raise a gentle and virtuous daughter. 】

[Sure enough, Jananfeng is not a fuel-efficient lamp. 】

[This Sima Zhong seems to be the emperor, but he is actually tightly controlled by the shrew Jananfeng, and Sima Zhong is also very afraid of Jananfeng. 】

[The cruelest thing Jananfeng has ever done is that after Sima Zhong’s other concubines were pregnant, when Jananfeng found out, she used a halberd to imitate Lu Bu to kill people, beat those concubines’ abdomens violently, and continued to abort them. 】

[After Sima Yan found out, he was very angry. He didn't expect this daughter-in-law to be so cruel, so he planned to abolish her, but this Jananfeng's father's network is very strong. Many ministers and even the queen pleaded for Jananfeng, so in the end Sima Yan It was nothing, but it left a legacy for his own country. 】

[After Sima Yan’s death, the court of the Jin Kingdom was in turmoil. In order to allow her family to take power, Queen Jananfeng launched a coup by the imperial guards in the first year of Yuankang (collaborating with King Wei of Chu) and killed Yang Jun, but the power fell to King Runan. In the hands of Liang and veteran Wei Guan.]

[Empress Jia's political ambitions were not realized. In June of that year, Chu Wangwei was ordered to kill Runan Wang Liang, and then falsely accused Chu Wangwei of arbitrarily killing ministers, and Wei was executed. 】

[Jia Hou then came to power, and in the ninth year of Yuankang, the crown prince was abolished, and he was killed the following year. 】

[From then on, the kings fought for the right to rule, and launched an extremely brutal civil war, known as the Rebellion of the Eight Kings in history. 】

[After a series of fights, five of the "eight kings" have died, leaving only three kings, namely Sima Ying, Sima Yong, and Sima Yue. 】

[These three kings started a new round of conquests against each other. As a result, Sima Yue won the victory, Sima Ying was defeated and killed, and Sima Yong was murdered after the war. 】

[But Sima Yue didn't get any better, he just lived for five more years, and he died after five years. 】

[Although Jananfeng and the Eight Kings who caused the Eight Kings Rebellion have all died, the disaster caused by this chaos did not end with the death of the Eight Kings. What awaits the land of China will be the most tragic and inhumane in the history of China , the most unbearable, and the most shocking catastrophe. 】

[The Rebellion of the Eight Kings lasted for 16 years, during which there were wars from time to time. In the later period, the imperial court could no longer control the whole country, and the areas affected by the wars became larger and larger. 】

[In addition to the calamities caused by the Eight Kings, there were other series of wars during the period. 】

[These wars have caused a lot of damage to the Jin Dynasty, resulting in frequent occurrence of disease and famine. 】

[Many people left their homes and became displaced. 】

[The Rebellion of the Eight Kings lasted for a long time, and it was mainly carried out near Luoyang, the ruling center at that time. 】

[More importantly, the "Five Disorders in China" caused by the war brought an almost devastating blow to the Han people in the Central Plains, and also had a profound impact on the population structure, psychological quality and national self-confidence of the Han people. 】

After watching the video, the First Emperor Yingzheng couldn't help but sigh with emotion:
"The Rebellion of the Eight Kings?"

"In the final analysis, this group of princes and kings have too much power."

"For a long time, it is definitely not a good thing."

"In the end, it will eventually become like the six countries, each occupying a part of the world."

"Are all future emperors so stupid?"

"How many soldiers and soldiers have died by sweeping Liuhe, how difficult is it, can't they see it?"

"The unity of the world is the destination of my Huaxia."

"The princes and kings have too much power, it will only lead to turmoil, and in the end it will be the people of the world who are unlucky."

Ying Zheng shook his head.

Regarding the demise of the Jin Dynasty, he felt that the other party could only suffer on their own.

Why give princes and kings so much power?
I'm afraid they won't respond, right?

Big man.

Han Jingdi Liu Qi sat on the dragon chair, watched the video content, and couldn't help sighing.

Who is most empathetic to the Eight Kings Rebellion in the Jin Kingdom?

That must be him, Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty, Liu Qi.

It is said that when the Chu and Han were fighting each other, Liu Bang was forced by the situation and enfeoffed princes and kings with different surnames.

In the fifth year of Emperor Gaozu of the Han Dynasty, after Liu Bang proclaimed himself emperor, the parallel system of prefectures and states was implemented, and the political status of the vassal states was much higher than that of the prefectures.

The vassal state has a vast territory, a large population, is located in an economically developed area, and has strong armed forces, which are dispatched by the vassal kings at will.

The status of princes and kings is second only to the emperor, and they monopolize power in the feudal country.

These kings of different surnames support their own self-respect and dictatorship.

In addition, they also collected taxes and minted coins by themselves, becoming a de facto independent kingdom, which eventually became the biggest obstacle to centralization.

So Liu Bang took decisive measures to eliminate the kings with different surnames.

However, after eliminating the kings with different surnames, Han Gaozu was unable to directly control the whole country. At the same time, when he summed up the historical lessons of Qin's death, he believed that the reason for Qin's death was that the children of the same surname were not enshrined as kings.

Therefore, in the old land of kings with different surnames, he successively enfeoffed nine descendants of the Liu clan as princes and kings, known in history as "nine kings with the same surname", and made an oath with his officials that "no king is not a surname of Liu".

The vassal states with the same surname in the early Han Dynasty had vast land and numerous household registrations. However, because the vassal states with the same surname were close to their ancestors, loyal to the Han Dynasty, and played the role of defending the central government, the contradiction between the central government and the local vassal states was not prominent at this time.

But in the period of Emperor Jing, this contradiction became more and more serious.

After Emperor Han Jing ascended the throne, the censor Chao Cuo proposed to weaken the power of the princes and kings and strengthen the centralization of power.

In the third year of Emperor Jing's reign, Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty adopted Chao Cuo's "Strategy for Cutting Fans" and successively issued edicts to seize the fiefdoms of Chu, Zhao and other vassal states.

At this time, Liu Bi, the king of Wu, joined forces with Liu Wu, king of Chu, Liu Sui, king of Zhao, Liu Piguang, king of Jinan, Liu Xian, king of Zichuan, Liu Ang, king of Jiaoxi, Liu Xiongqu, king of Jiaodong, and other princes and princes of the Liu surname to launch a rebellion in the name of "side of Qing emperor". It is the famous Seven Kings Rebellion.

Due to Liang Guo's perseverance and the attack of the Han army led by the Han general Zhou Yafu, the rebellion was put down within three months.

The Rebellion of the Seven Kings was the outbreak of the contradiction between the local separatist forces and the central autocratic imperial power.

The pacification of the Seven Kings Rebellion marked that the threat of the power of the princes and kings in the Western Han Dynasty was basically eliminated, and the centralization of power was consolidated and strengthened.

"Hey!"

"There are always emperors who don't know what lessons the princes and kings have learned from becoming big?"

"It's a pity that this idiot emperor has no real power, and he can't do anything he wants."

"How can such a weak emperor, who has no power in his hands, be able to quickly put down the chaos of the Eight Kings?"

"If these princes and kings are allowed to continue to cause chaos, it will be a strange thing that the Jin Kingdom will not be divided."

"It is really a misfortune for the people of Jin to have such a weak emperor!"

Liu Qi, Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty, saw it very clearly.

The idiot emperor Sima Zhong farts no power, but a proper puppet emperor.

The power is in the hands of Empress Jia.

And these eight kings have great power, and they have strong soldiers and horses in their hands. How can they be calmed down in a short period of time?
See what Liu Qi did?

Han Jingdi Liu Qi was very cold-blooded and tough, because he himself was Chao Cuo who actively helped him cut down the vassal, but in order to make the Seven Kings unnamed, he even beheaded Chao Cuo and his whole family.

Furthermore, when the Seven Kings attacked the Central Dynasty of the Han Dynasty, they were stubbornly resisted by Liu Wu, the younger brother of Emperor Han Jing, the King of Liang.

Liu Wu, the king of Liang, appealed to the imperial court, but Emperor Han Jing actually used the army of King Liang to hold back the main forces of Wu and Chu, looking for opportunities to cut off the opponent's supplies, and then waited for an opportunity to defeat the rebels, which put his own brother in danger.

In addition, during the period of quelling the Seven Kings Rebellion, the generals were such famous generals as Zhou Yafu, and Zhou Yafu is comparable to Bai Qi.

Zhou Yafu's bravery was immediately manifested, and the Seven Kings' rebels could not find their way to the north.

(End of this chapter)