A thousand-year-old family that began with the Battle of Makino

Chapter 497 Emperor Tuwu of the Jin Dynasty became seriously ill, and Jia Nanfeng and Yang Jun took over power

Taikang ten years
There was peace all over the world, and the Xiongnu, Xianbei, Wuhuan, Qiang and other ethnic groups in the north all submitted to the Jin Dynasty. They were afraid of angering the behemoth Jin Dynasty in every move, so the border areas were peaceful.

In addition, the Liaodong Protectorate and the Western Region Protectorate guarded the two corners of the Jin Dynasty, preventing the imperial court from sending troops to both sides for several years.

The hometown of Wu State in the south has long been attached to the imperial court because of its governance over the years, and many scholars from Jiangdong came to serve in the central government.

The barbarians in the southwest believed that the Jin Dynasty was the continuation of the Han Dynasty and was safe and sound because of their agreement with Zhuge Liang.

There was also a successor to the Eastern Wu Navy who included Yizhou into the territory of the Jin Dynasty, and its reputation spread far and wide to the Nanyang Islands.

Today's territory of the Jin Dynasty, the easternmost part is the Korean Kingdom-Chenhan Principality-Chenhan City under the Liaodong Protectorate;
The northernmost is Zhenbei County of Wuyuan County. The Xianbei people in Mobei are also included in the tributary system of the Jin Dynasty and pay tribute every year.
The far west is Shule City, the Kingdom of Shule under the Western Regions Protectorate;
The southernmost part is Dajin Jiaozhou-Rinan County-Xianglin.

It can be said that it inherited the foundation of the previous Han Dynasty and opened up the territory of the present dynasty.

Internally, because of the feudal system established by Sima Yan, the princes and princes of the Sima clan spread all over the world to suppress local unrest, so that there was no rebellion in the world for more than ten years.

With Sima Yan's encouragement, starting from the first year of Taikang, world-famous masterpieces were handed down every year, and some previously reclusive scholars also became officials and made suggestions for the world.

The whole world bursts out with a scene of vitality and all things competing.

December

Sima Yan suddenly felt weak and fell seriously ill in bed in just one day. The doctors from the imperial hospital entered the hall one after another to treat him.

But after more than ten days of continuous treatment, Sima Yan still did not get better.

In order to make himself happy, Sima Yan accepted the minister's suggestion and changed the next year's name to "Taixi".

The first year of Taixi
April
Sima Yan was already on the hospital bed. He had been lying on the bed for four months. His condition recurred from time to time, and sometimes he even became unable to speak and was paralyzed.

However, because the illness came so quickly, Sima Yan did not have time to think about what happened after his death, so no edict was ever issued.

This made the officials very panic. Now the founding heroes have passed away, and even Bai Wangbiao has retired and returned to his country. The person in charge of Baifu is now Bai Gongyan, who holds the post of Sikong.

It was the first time for them to face this kind of thing, so everyone seemed at a loss and didn't know what to do. They all looked forward to Sima Yan's order.

Yang Jun, the head of the state, took advantage of the exclusive power of his daughter, Queen Yang, to exclude the ministers from outside the palace, and personally waited on Sima Yan to block his ears and eyes.

Then, in the name of Sima Yan's oral instructions, he replaced ministers at will and promoted his confidants.

April 10
Under the dedicated care of more than a dozen imperial doctors from the imperial hospital, Sima Yan finally improved. When he came out of the palace for the first time, he saw that Yang Jun was using someone inappropriate and immediately reprimanded him.

Yang Jun was very frightened, but Sima Yan did not go into details. He just issued an edict to Zhongshu and summoned Sima Liang, king of Runan, to Beijing to assist the royal family with Yang Jun.

In Sima Yan's mind, as long as the clan and relatives are balanced, Sima Zhong will not become a puppet, at least there will not be a situation like Soochow where the powerful ministers and one family dominate and the emperor can be replaced at will.

However, things did not go as planned, and the edict was drafted only in Zhongshu Sheng. Before he had time to show it to Sima Yan, Sima Yan's condition began to deteriorate again and he fell into a coma again.

Seeing that Sima Yan was unable to govern, Yang Jun was afraid that the edict he had just issued would cause him to lose his authority and favor, so he borrowed the original edict from Zhongshu Province on the pretext that Sima Yan needed to review it, and hid the edict.

Zhongshu Supervisor Hua Jie saw that Yang Jun had hidden the edict, and was afraid that Sima Yan would be punished for his crimes after he got better, so he asked Yang Jun for the edict many times, but Yang Jun refused to give it.

April 14

The Imperial Hospital issued a "critical illness notice" to Sima Yan, and Queen Yang petitioned Yang Jun to assist the government.

Sima Yan was speechless now and could only nod his head and wait for Queen Yang to say Sima Liang's name again, because this was what he had decided before.

However, Empress Yang did not mention the names of other people. Instead, she directly summoned Zhongshu Supervisor Huasheng and Zhongshu Ling He Shao, and verbally conveyed Sima Yan's intention to let Yang Jun assist the government and asked them to write a will.

After the edict was drafted, Yang Zhi, Hua Zhi and He Shao jointly presented it to Sima Yan.

Sima Yan didn't say anything after reading it, but just stared at Queen Yang. Queen Yang was so stared at that she became hairy and said directly to the three people below:

"Your Majesty has agreed. Zhongshu Province will hand over this matter to Shangshu Province for execution."

Hua Ai and He Shao looked at each other, bowed and promulgated the edict.

April 16

Sima Yan died at the age of fifty-five. The ministers discussed the posthumous title of "Wu" and the temple name of "Shizu".

April 20

Prince Sima Zhongling ascended the throne in front of the emperor. After paying homage to the ancestral temple, he officially became the new emperor.

He respected his stepmother Queen Yang Zhi as the Queen Mother, and established his concubine Jia Nanfeng as the Queen.

May
The hearse of Emperor Zuwu of the Jin Dynasty drove into Junyang and was buried in Junyang Mausoleum.

May

At Yang Jun's suggestion, Sima Zhong changed the name of this year to "Yongxi" and ordered a general amnesty for the whole country.

At the same time, he also ordered that the official rank in the world be increased to one level, those who participated in the funeral of Emperor Wu of Jin were added to the second level, the people were exempted from taxes for one year, and officials with more than 2,000 shi were granted the title of Guanzhong Marquis.

Then he issued an edict, claiming that he was new to the throne and was unskilled in political affairs. He worshiped Taiwei Yang Jun as Taifu, Grand Governor, and Fake Huangyue, to take charge of the government affairs and command all officials.

August
Sima Zhong issued an edict and established the prince Sima Yu, King of Guangling, as the crown prince.

He Shao, the eunuch of Zhongshu, was appointed as the crown prince's chief tutor, Bai Fu, the minister of official affairs, was appointed as the crown prince's chief tutor, and Yang Ji, the general of the Wei, was appointed as the crown prince's chief guardian.

Since Yang Jun took control of the government, he was afraid that people around the emperor would say bad things about him, so he placed his two nephews around Sima Zhong as close attendants for surveillance.

Because he knew that Queen Jia Nanfeng had a fierce temperament and was difficult to subdue, he was afraid that she would seize power.

Therefore, many pro-party members were cultivated to lead the imperial troops. He also appointed Liu Yuan, the Xiongnu left commander and northern commander, as General Jianwei and the governor of the five tribes. He was granted the title of Marquis of Hanguang Township and was given jurisdiction over the five Xiongnu tribes. He used them as foreign aid and secretly fought against the powerful families and the Sima clan. .

But other people are not fools either. Yang Jun's series of very obvious xenophobic actions offended the royal family of Gongqing who held military power, as well as ministers from aristocratic families.

This makes them hate Yang Jun very much, and whenever they talk about Yang Jun, they often refer to him as a thief.

Yang Jun's younger brothers, Yang Jue and Yang Ji, were both talented people. They tried to dissuade Yang Jun many times, but Yang Jun refused to listen and was banished from his family.

Furthermore, Yang Jun does not understand ancient rules and regulations, and often violates them when doing things.

This year is the funeral of Emperor Wu of Jin Dynasty. The year is not over yet, so this year's reign name should not be changed. This makes everyone in the world think that Yang Jun's move violates the "Spring and Autumn Annals": the new emperor only changed his reign title in the second year and officially ascended the throne. Regulation.

Although the imperial court was aware of this mistake, it ordered the historian to erase the record of the change of Yuan Dynasty and record it as the first month of the second year before changing the year name.

However, the imperial court was not the only one to record the history of the world. The Bai Kingdom also kept a historian in Baifu all the year round, so it still recorded Yang Jun's change of the reign name this year.

Yang Jun relied on Queen Yang to ascend to a high position, so he knew that he had no prestige and was afraid that he would not be able to convince people near and far. So he followed the example of Cao Rui when he came to the throne and issued a large number of rewards to please the officials.

However, this move not only failed to win over the ministers, but also made them feel ashamed to accept Yang Jun's reward.

Meng Guan and Li Zhao, the lieutenants in the palace, have never been respected by Yang Jun. They once humiliated them in public, so they secretly accused Yang Jun of plotting to subvert the country.

Because Sima Zhong was a weak person and trusted Empress Jia very much, he followed Empress Jia's advice in everything.

In addition, Empress Jia was unwilling to serve Empress Dowager Yang, who was not Sima Zhong's biological mother, in a womanly manner, which gave Empress Jia the idea of ​​​​interfering in the government affairs.

But he was afraid that Yang Jun would hold the power, so he failed to achieve his goal several times, so he came up with the idea of ​​deposing Queen Mother Yang.

At this time, Dong Meng of Huangmen saw an opportunity and approached Queen Jia as a bridge between Queen Jia, Meng Guan and Li Zhao.

The four sent letters to discuss, and finally Empress Jia asked Li Zhao to inform Da Sima and King Sima Liang of Runan, asking him to unite the armies of the vassals to attack Yang Jun.

Without Yang Jun's support, Empress Dowager Yang would be destroyed.

But Sima Liang was unwilling and wrote back:
"I know that Yang Jun is very violent, but his current rebellious behavior will eventually lead to his demise soon. The queen does not need to worry about this."

Sima Liang failed, and Li Zhao found Chu King Sima Wei again.

Seeing the opportunity to seize central power, Sima Wei immediately agreed to cooperate with Jianan Fengliyingwai to kill the Yang family.

On the same day, he went to the court and asked to enter the court.

Here, Yang Jun received Sima Wei's memorial requesting to enter the capital, and immediately agreed to his request, but strictly restricted the number of soldiers and horses that Sima Wei could enter the capital.

Because he was always afraid of Sima Wei, he had long wanted to recall him to the court to prevent him from causing trouble locally, so he allowed Sima Wei to enter the court.

The first year of Yuankang (the second year of Yongxi)
In order to prevent the world from saying that he was uneducated, Yang Jun changed this year's reign name to Yuankang, hoping that people in the world would forget the reign name Yongxi.

February
Sima Wei led a guard of a hundred people to Luoyang.

Not long after, Meng Guan and Li Zhao reported to Sima Zhong at night, explaining how Yang Jun was dictatorial and nepotistic, and he might be the second Dong Zhuo.

Let him issue an edict at night, inside and outside the martial law palace, and send envoys to depose Yang Jun according to the edict, and let him keep the marquis and return to the mansion for waiting.

Under Empress Jia's persuasion, Sima Zhong agreed, and immediately wrote an edict to depose Yang Jun, put him in Zhongshu Province, and left full authority for subsequent arrangements to Empress Jia.

February 20

In the name of Sima Zhong, Queen Jia ordered Ma Yao of Dong'an Company to lead 400 guards in the palace to attack Yang Jun.

Yang Jun's residence was in the south of the arsenal. Hearing that there were changes in the palace, he summoned the officials to discuss countermeasures.

Zhu Zhen, the chief secretary of Taifu, advised Yang Jun:

"Now there are changes in the palace, and the purpose can be imagined. It must be the eunuchs who are plotting for Empress Jia, which will not be beneficial to the public.

The Duke should have set fire to the Yunlong Gate nearby to demonstrate to them, asking them to hand over the culprits who caused the trouble, open the Wanchun Gate, and draw out the troops from the East Palace and the outer camp for reinforcements.

At this time, the duke himself takes the crown prince into the palace and asks for the traitor. The palace will be shocked, and the traitor will be killed and his head will be sent away, so that the duke can avoid suffering. "

But Yang Jun hesitated:

"Yunlongmen is a major project built during the reign of Emperor Zhuang of the Han Dynasty. It cost so much money, how can it be burned down all at once!"

Upon hearing this, Fu Zhi, the servant, knew that Yang Jun was indecisive and would surely die in this coup, so he went out and said:

"The palace cannot be left unattended. I am willing to find out the news for you."

Yang Jun agreed, and the other officials also walked away, leaving Yang Jun alone in the mansion to think about countermeasures.

Soon, the palace guards led by Sima Yao arrived. They first burned Yang Jun's mansion, and then ordered the crossbowmen to go up to the attic to shoot arrows into Yang Jun's mansion.

The dense arrows prevented the guards in Yang Jun's mansion from coming out and were burned alive in the mansion.

Yang Jun fled to the stable and was killed with a halberd by the pursuing soldiers.

February 21st

Meng Guan and others received secret orders from Empress Jia to kill Yang Jun's relatives and members.

As a result, Empress Dowager Yang was deposed, and the rest of the Yang clan were executed. There were as many as a hundred members of his party or officials who were falsely accused and implicated. In the end, thousands of people died in the aftermath of the coup.

(End of this chapter)