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Chapter 236 The Rebellion of the Eight Kings
My charming but short-lived ancestor: It means that Emperor Jing obviously took a narrow path. After this incident, who would dare to play chess with him?

I didn’t think about using this online name first: Indeed, who plays chess without wearing a helmet?
Jiangnan is already in mist: of course it’s our poor Liu Xian!
I can’t sleep at night (Guan): Hahahahaha! Do you mean you are polite?
Wudu refuses: Agree! But it seems that besides Zhuzhu, Emperor Jing also grew up in the love of his father! Otherwise, how could it be so wanton?

Pay attention, this woman’s name is Xiaomei: Liu Xian: Are you wanton? In exchange for my life!

Lianlian: Hahahahaha! Although it's evil, it's funny

Who in the clouds sent a brocade book: It is said that Emperor Jing felt uncomfortable because he killed Chao Cuo. Will Chao Cuo forgive him?
Yu Yusi Ning: Chao Cuo said that if I’m dead, don’t worry about me anymore!

Yun Xi: Hahahahaha! Outrageous!

Su Yue kept laughing while looking at the comment section, calmed down, and said: "Although the Seven Kings Rebellion was partly chaotic, Emperor Jing still put it in order, but this rebellion has earned eternal infamy! It It’s the Eight Kings Rebellion!”

The Western Jin Dynasty had just unified the country. Emperor Wu of the Jin Dynasty had the ability to rule and had relatively high prestige, so he was able to firmly hold the supreme power in his own hands and maintain political stability.

At the same time, the land was vast and sparsely populated, and the land problem was not serious; the Jin Dynasty promulgated land occupation laws, household transfers, dismissed state and county soldiers, and taxes and corvees were not very heavy, so the entire social production was moving forward.

If the emperor who succeeded Emperor Wu of Jin after his death was not very stupid and was a middle-aged man, or if the auxiliary ministers who accepted Gu's orders had considerable prestige and talent and could basically control the political situation, there would be no suitable environment for the Rebellion of the Eight Kings to occur. .

However, the situation of the succeeding emperor and the auxiliary ministers who accepted orders was far from that.

The successor of Emperor Wu of Jin was Sima Zhong, Emperor Hui of Jin.

He was born to Empress Yang, Emperor Wu of the Jin Dynasty. His elder brother Sima Gui died early, and his younger brothers were all too young. Therefore, on Dingmao day of the first month of the third year of Taishi (267), he was established as the crown prince at the age of nine. Years old, he is the legal heir to the throne.

However, his nature is dull, and Shiyan even calls him an idiot.

Many ministers advocated abolishing him based on the interests of the Jin Dynasty and the feudal landlord class. The more prominent ones were Wei Guan and He Qiao.

Emperor Wu of the Jin Dynasty was also worried about the prince, but he was afraid that the throne would fall to his lineage after his death. In addition, Sima Zhong's son Sima Yu was young and smart. He seemed to have the talent of a prince, and Emperor Wu loved him very much.

In order for his beloved grandson to inherit the throne in the future, it was not easy to save it. However, the guards are not talented, the imperial power has fallen aside, and the source of chaos has become a reality.

In the year after Emperor Huai of the Jin Dynasty came to the throne, in the first year of Yongjia in the Yuan Dynasty (307), prisoners were granted amnesty and the punishment of three tribes was abolished.

Sima Yue, the Taifu and King of Donghai, assisted the government and took control of the court.

At this point, Sima Yue, King of East China Sea, became the final winner in the Eight Kings Rebellion.

influences
The Eight Kings Rebellion lasted for sixteen years, during which there were frequent wars. In the later period, the imperial court was no longer able to control the country, and the areas affected by the wars became increasingly large.

In addition to the wars in which the kings attacked each other, there were also the Wannian rebellion of the Di people during the Qi Dynasty, as well as a series of wars between the Cheng-Han and Han-Zhao regimes against the Western Jin Dynasty. There were also mutinies in the south such as Du Zeng, Wang Ru and Zhang Zhang. Chang's uprising. These wars have caused serious damage to many areas across the country. Famines and epidemics have occurred frequently, and many people have been forced to leave their hometowns to make a living and become refugees.

The leaders of the Cheng Han Dynasty, Li Te, Li Liu, and Li Xiong, all lived in Luoyang. They fled to Shu to escape Qi Wannian's rebellion. However, Zhao Yan, the governor of Yizhou, saw the situation of the Eight Kings Rebellion and wanted to become independent. He appointed them as his minions, and later Zhao Lian and the next governor Luo Shang mishandled the situation, causing the Li family to rebel against Jin and establish themselves, establishing the Cheng-Han separatist regime among the Sixteen Kingdoms.

As early as the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Southern Xiongnu tribes moved inland to Hanoi County due to the Yellow Turban Rebellion. When Cao Cao divided the Huns into five tribes, people from each tribe also lived in the Bingzhou area until the Jin Dynasty.

Liu Yuan, a Xiongnu tribesman, joined forces with the King of Chengdu during the Eight Kings Rebellion, and used this to connect the Xiongnu tribes and increase their strength.

After the King of Chengdu was defeated by Wang Jun and others, Liu Yuan took advantage of the situation and established the Han Dynasty, which became the force that later destroyed the Western Jin Dynasty.

During the Wei and Jin Dynasties, other foreign tribes except the Xiongnu also moved inward. During and after the Eight Kings Rebellion, foreign tribes often participated in the war in the Central Plains. For example, Liu Kun, the governor of Bingzhou, joined forces with the king Tuoba Yilu to resist Han attacks on many occasions; Wang Jun and Sima Teng also joined forces with the Wuhuan people and Duanbu Xianbei to fight against the King of Chengdu.

These contributed to the Five Husties and the Sixteen Kingdoms era.

The system in the early Jin Dynasty originally separated local military and civil affairs, and were in charge of governors and governors respectively. After the destruction of Wu, local military power was withdrawn, and each governor became a local military force.

However, in the later stages of the Eight Kings Rebellion, the local government was unable to resist the rebellion and the system failed. The governor then took charge of both military and civil affairs. For example, Wang Jun, who also led Youji, Liu Kun, who led Bingzhou, and Gou Xi, who led Qingzhou, were all on one side. A military town in the north to resist the invasion of Han Dynasty.

Gou Xi even issued a campaign against Sima Yue, King of the East China Sea.

After the Yongjia Rebellion, the Luoyang court overthrew, and Wang Jun, who occupied one side, even wanted to stand on his own feet.

But these military towns were later destroyed by the Han Dynasty.

Sima Yue, the king of the East China Sea, took control of the court after the Eight Kings Rebellion. He was unable to control the growing Huns and Han regime externally. He eliminated dissidents internally and killed Miao Bo, the eunuch of Zhongshu, and Wang Yan, the official of Sanqi, which greatly lost the hearts of the people.

Later, in the fourth year of Yongjia (310), he led an expedition out of Beijing with the intention of conquering the Han Dynasty, and left the capital Luoyang with a large number of troops and princes and ministers. As a result, Luoyang's defense was weak and thieves were rampant.

After his death, the army he led and a large number of princes and ministers were massacred by Han general Shi Le in Ningping City, Ku County. Soon Luoyang also fell in the Yongjia Rebellion.

Although King Sima Ye of Qin came to the throne in Chang'an to continue the state after the death of Emperor Huai of Jin, he was captured in the fourth year of Jianxing (316), and the Western Jin Dynasty was officially destroyed.

As early as after the defeat of Dangyin, Sima King of Donghai traveled eastward and gathered troops in Xuzhou. Later, he raised troops to attack the King of Hejian and welcomed the emperor back eastward. At that time, the King of Donghai left Sima Rui, King of Langya, and General Andong to supervise all the military forces in Yangzhou and guard Xiapi.

Later, King Langya moved the town to build Ye and developed in Jiangzuo, laying the foundation of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. After the death of Emperor Min of Jin, Sima Rui, King of Langya, came to the throne as Emperor Yuan of Jin.

During the sixteen years of the Eight Kings Rebellion, many kings who participated in the war were defeated one after another, many people were killed, the social economy was severely damaged, the power of the Western Jin Dynasty was exhausted, and hidden class conflicts and ethnic conflicts broke out. The "Five Husbands" disrupted China and the Western Jin Dynasty perished, and the Rebellion of the Eight Kings was an important reason.

The Eight Kings Rebellion showed the world the distortion of social atmosphere in an extreme form, causing the collapse of order, pushing everyone into the abyss of chaos, and bringing deep and long-lasting disasters to society.