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Chapter 72 The sheep cart looks lucky
"But there is a problem with this system, that is, Sima Yan only stipulates how much land you can have instead of giving you how much land you have. How come Sima Yan and the Western Jin government don't care about the land."

"There is also a very important aspect of the land occupation system. Officials of the first rank have the right to occupy fifty hectares of land, and each rank below has the right to occupy five hectares of land. Up to the ninth rank, they can occupy ten hectares of land. Nobles and bureaucrats can also cover their relatives, with more than nine tribes and less with three tribes. .”

Li Shimin: In the early years of the Western Jin Dynasty, when there were fewer people and more land, the contradictions of this system were not obvious. But when there are more people, there will definitely be an impact.

Liu Che: Doesn’t this system further encourage the expansion of the noble gentry?
Qin Shihuang: These nobles can use this system to occupy more land and even begin to gain economic privileges. Over time, it will definitely be a big blow to the court.

Zhu Yuanzhang: This is where it comes from, not only the land system, but also the feudal lords during Sima Yan's reign!It is not clear how the Eastern Han Dynasty was divided?Give the princes so many rights?
Qin Shihuang: No!Sima's family is also from a powerful family, Sima Yan doesn't know this?
"Because the Western Jin Dynasty at that time followed Cao Wei's nine-level Zhongzheng system, but after Sima Yi came to power, he established Zhou Zhongzheng, which continued into the Western Jin Dynasty."

"On the surface, it seems that the state regime has further transferred the rights of the pindi people in the election to the imperial court, which is conducive to cracking down on the local gentry."

"But it also facilitated the wealthy noble families in power to expand their power. They controlled the local and even court official selection systems. This also made the wealthy noble families become stronger, which in turn threatened the emperor's authority."

"The Sima family is also from a wealthy family. How could Sima Yan not know this? When he ascended the throne, because of the talent selection system, these families could threaten the court. After he ascended the throne, his status was unstable and he had to rely on the talents of these families. Help can only raise the princes to compete with these aristocratic families, which is destined to cause another great chaos."

"The solid foundation laid by his grandparents allowed Sima Yan to finally reap the fruits of victory, but he did not have the courage to change the problems, so the Western Jin Dynasty became the most special one among the unified dynasties."

"But Sima Yan is also a capable person. At least these problems didn't break out when he was alive. It's just that after his death, everything became uncontrollable, and Sima Yan was very stupid in his later years."

"This brings us to another point of criticism of Sima Yan, which is the later period of his reign."

"The dignified emperor actually took the lead and started to indulge in extravagance. When the people below him saw it, they began to imitate it. As a result, villains took power and indulged in extravagance and waste, and the atmosphere gradually deteriorated."

"The ministers and nobles also compete for wealth. For example, if this minister's family spends [-] yuan on food every day, then another minister's family must have a four-cornered meal. If the food expense reaches [-] yuan a day, it must be better than someone else's. .”

"Sima Yan's uncle, Wang Kai, once competed with Shi Chong, the richest man at that time, to show off his wealth and compete for glory. It can be said that at the end of Sima Yan's period, the entire Western Jin Dynasty was in an extremely sick state."

Li Shimin: At that time, these aristocratic families were really rich.

Liu Bang: I really want to know how to compete for power.

Shi Chong and Wang Kai competed for glory.When Wang Kai's family was washing pots with rice and syrup, Shi Chong ordered candles to be used as firewood in his kitchen. "

"In order to show off, Wang Kai used purple silk to weave barriers for forty miles on both sides of the main road in front of his house. Shi Chong used more expensive colored satin to lay a barrier for fifty miles."

"Emperor Jin Wu was afraid that his family would lose, so he gave Wang Kai a two-foot-tall coral tree collected in the palace. Shi Chong saw it and smashed the coral tree with iron Ruyi. Wang Kai was very angry, and Shi Chong Chong said: "If there is not enough hatred, I will pay you back today. "So he ordered people to take out all his own coral trees. There were six or seven coral trees three or four feet high, and each was bigger than Wang Kai's coral trees."

"In the end, Shi Chong, the richest man, won and was called the "No. [-] rich man"."

Qin Shihuang: This is quite rich, better than what I can eat and use.

Li Longji: I don’t even have so many, such big coral trees!I really envy!

"As for Sima Yan's lust, I have to tell the story of "Yang Che Wang Xing"."

"He heard that the beauties in the south of the Yangtze River were different from those in the north. They were particularly delicate and charming, so he asked his ministers to select many beauties from the south of the Yangtze River to be his maids and concubines, and they indulged in lust regardless of morning or evening."

"There are many concubines in the harem, and there are nearly ten thousand Fen Dai. Which concubine will be lucky every night has become a very troublesome problem."

"So he came up with a way to let the sheep walk freely in the palace in a sheep cart, and he would favor his concubine wherever the sheep cart was parked."

"So a palace lady put bamboo branches on the door and sprinkled salt water on the ground. Because the sheep liked the taste of salt water, they stopped eating, so the sheep cart stopped at the gate of her palace."

"Because of this story, later generations called the desire to be valued or favored by others "Yangche Wangxing"."

Cao Cao: Will the country of Wei be destroyed by this kind of person?

Fusu: Obsessed with women, lustful!
Zhao Kuangyin: This Sima Yan is very lustful. He once selected [-] virgins from mid-level and above officials and ordinary noble families to serve him in the palace. How could such a stupid person not be in the second generation of pits that Miss Zhang talked about at the time? .

Liu Bang: It's quite a fun game.

"The last controversial decision in Sima Yan's life was the arrangement of the aftermath. The ability of the successor Sima Zhong is worrying. Yang Jun and Sima Liang, the important ministers who were preparing to leave the orphan, also had various disagreements. These problems that Sima Yan could have avoided during his lifetime were ultimately eliminated. Failure to handle it properly led to the outbreak of chaos."

"Sima Yan was mediocre in his reign, but after his death, he did not deal with the matter of heirs, so his idiot son Sima Zhong, Emperor Hui of Jin, came to the throne, and the crown prince selected by Sima Yan."

Liu Xiu: Is this the idiot emperor?

Sima Zhong, Emperor Hui of Jin, was the second son of Sima Yan, Emperor Wu of Jin, and the second emperor of the Western Jin Dynasty. He reigned from 290 to 307. Later generations called him "Emperor Jin Hui". The chaos caused the Western Jin Dynasty to decline.

"The Rebellion of the Eight Kings was a civil strife that occurred during the Western Jin Dynasty in China and was caused by the imperial family's struggle for central power. It was caused by Queen Jia Nanfeng's interference in political power."

"The "Eight Kings Rebellion" was one of the most serious royal civil strife in the history of Huahua Kingdom. At that time, the social economy was severely damaged, which led to the subjugation of the Western Jin Dynasty and nearly 300 years of turmoil, which made the northern part of the Central Plains enter the Sixteen Kingdoms ( Five random China) period."

"This Sima Zhong was born to Sima Yan's empress. The crown prince must have been established first. At that time, the elder brother of the same mother died early, and the younger brother was too young. The second was Sima Zhong, who succeeded the crown prince. The position is reasonable."

(End of this chapter)