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

Chapter 499: There is a gap between the two palaces after learning white, and a hurried passerby in Jinyong City

Yuankang ninth year
Today's crown prince Sima Yu is not the biological son of Empress Jia, but the son of the talented Xie Jiu, with whom he has never been close.

In her early years, Empress Jia's mother often advised her to love the prince Sima Yu and treat her as her own. She could learn from the empress Bai of Emperor Zhaolie of the Han Dynasty and rely on Sima Yu to keep her wealth.

However, Empress Jia knew very well that Sima Yu had a strong temperament and often disrespected his teachers, which was completely different from Emperor Han Yi's temperament. She could never entrust wealth and wealth to his hands, so she never listened.

This led to the growing rift between Sima Yu and Queen Jia, and even extended to other people.

One day, Jia Mi went to the East Palace to meet Sima Yu. Sima Yu knew that Jia Mi relied on Empress Jia's position to be noble and could not be used by him. He was also dissatisfied with Empress Jia for being picky about him, so he left him and went to play in the back courtyard.

After Prince Zhan learned about it, he immediately advised:
"Jia Mi is very favored in the middle palace, and he has a disobedient attitude towards you. If one day he stirs up trouble, your career will be over. You should be humble and courteous to prevent it from changing, and be sure to ask wise men to help you."

However, Sima Yu was used to being willful, and when he was young, Empress Jia secretly instructed the palace officials to indulge him, which made him unable to listen to advice at all.

Sure enough, after Jia Mi received a cold reception and continued to compete with him for various reasons, he began to speak ill of Sima Yu in front of Empress Jia:

"Auntie, I heard that the prince bought a lot of land, but most of it was used to accumulate personal wealth and make friends with villains. This is because he wanted to bring down the Jia family.

I secretly heard him say: "After the queen dies, Gu must prey on the Jia clan to vent his grievances." '

Not only that, if the emperor dies and he takes the throne, he will follow our old example of deposing the Yang family and kill us. He will also follow the example of the empress who deposed the Empress Dowager Yang and deposed the empress in Jin Yong.

The nephew thought that it would be better to start late than to start first, arrange his place earlier, and appoint a kind and obedient prince to protect himself. This is the best strategy. "

When Queen Jia heard this, she was very angry. She immediately agreed with Jia Mi's opinion and publicized the prince's shortcomings, spreading the news to both the government and the public.

The news reached the ears of Zhao Jun, the Central Protector, and he immediately found Sima Yu and asked him to launch a coup to depose Empress Jia as soon as possible to avoid unexpected events.

But Sima Yu still refused to listen, thinking that he was Sima Zhong's eldest son and had the love of his grandfather Sima Yan, so Empress Jia did not dare to take action.

December

Empress Jia finally strengthened her determination to depose the crown prince under Jia Mi's constant persuasion, and immediately lured Sima Yun into the palace by pretending that the emperor was not feeling well.

Sima Yu was really fooled, but did not see him after entering the palace. He was placed in a separate room, and sent a maid to pretend to be Sima Zhong's will, forcing Sima Yu to eat the drunken dates prepared in advance. Soon Sima Yu was drunk. Gooey.

Then he asked Pan Yue, the servant of Huangmen, to make a draft, imitating Sima Yu's usual tone, and asked the little maid to bring a pen and paper and the draft for Sima Yu to copy it down.

Sima Yu was confused and couldn't distinguish, so he wrote accordingly. Empress Jia ordered Pan Yue to fill in the incomplete strokes.

I saw this copy of the text clearly written:

"Your Majesty, Queen, why don't you abdicate the throne quickly? If you don't abdicate voluntarily, I will enter the palace and depose you. Then I will become the emperor and make Jiang Mei the queen."

Empress Jia took the book and made an excuse to hand it to Sima Zhong. Sima Zhong was furious when he saw it. He immediately went to Xing Shiqian Palace and summoned the ministers on duty.

Let Dong Meng, the commander of Huangmen, show what Sima Yu wrote and his edict to kill the prince to all the princes.

No one dared to speak. The ministers saw that no one dared to say a word. Only Si Baibiao, Situ Zhanghua, and Shangshu Pushe Pei Yu had studied the handwriting and proved that it was definitely not written by the prince.

Empress Jia was afraid that things would change, so she immediately acted as a good person and asked Sima Zhong to exempt the prince from being a commoner and pardon his death penalty. Sima Zhong praised Empress Jia's kindness and agreed.

Here, the emperor's envoy arrived at the East Palace. The prince was visiting the garden. After receiving the edict, he could not move at all. The envoy was so anxious that he only had time to leave a letter to the prince. Then he was put on an ox cart and taken to Jinyong City for house arrest.

After Sima Yu was deposed, Empress Jia immediately approved the appointment of Sima Lun, the king of Zhao who was friendly to her, as the right guard general.

Let him take control of the Suwei army.

After Sima Yu was abandoned because he was not guilty of his crime, there was a lot of resentment among the people.

However, Empress Jia was so powerful that no one could do anything about it. Only the Right Guard Governor Sima Ya and the Chang Cong Governor Xu Chao both favored Sima Yu, and they were deeply saddened.

It happened that King Sima Lun of Zhao was serving as the right-guard general at this time. Sima Ya believed that Sima Lun was at least a member of the clan and could uphold justice for Sima Yun.

Then he found Sima Lun’s adviser Sun Xiu:

“The country has no direct heirs, the country is in danger, and disasters caused by ministers are bound to arise.

King Zhao serves in the middle palace and is close to Queen Jia. Now about the dethronement of the crown prince, everyone is spreading rumors that you knew in advance that if something happens, disaster will definitely affect you.

For the king’s plan, why not plan it in advance? "

Sun Xiu conveyed Sima Ya's words to Sima Lun, and Sima Lun accepted it deeply. He quickly made a plan to save himself and help the prince.

After deciding on the plan, Sun Xiu advised Sima Lun again:

"The prince is an upright and fierce man. If he succeeds in his ambition, he will definitely indulge his temper.

And you have always served the Queen, and everyone in the streets thinks that you are the Queen's accomplice.

Although you want to make great achievements for the prince now, even if the prince wants to bury his resentment in his heart, he will definitely not reward you. He will say that you are driven by popularity and are capricious, and you are just exchanging merit for crime. If you make a small mistake and you are still unable to escape punishment, it is better to delay the date. The queen will definitely harm the prince, and then depose the queen to avenge the prince. In this way, you can achieve both merit and success. Isn't this the time when you have great power? "

Sima Lun thought this plan was very clever, and then Sun Xiu used a counter-intuitive plan, saying that someone in the palace wanted to depose Queen Jia and welcome the prince back to the palace.

When Queen Jia heard about it, she was really worried all night, so she ordered the imperial doctor to make Croton apricot pills.

Sun Lu of Huangmen was sent to Jinyong City with medicine to poison Sima Yu, but Sima Yu refused to take the medicine. In the end, Sun Liu blocked him in the toilet and beat him to death with a pestle.

The first year of Yongkang (the tenth year of Yuankang)
Although Sima Yu was not a good person, he still had a slight reputation in the government and the public. Now that the prince died unexpectedly, Empress Jia quickly lost the support of the people.

March
King Sima Lun of Zhao forged an edict to depose Jia Nanfeng on the charge of murdering the prince. He received support from many people, including General Zuowei and King Sima Ji of Qi.

Sima Lun is Sima Liang's younger brother and one of the few remaining sons of Sima Yi. After Sima Liang's death, he became the oldest surviving descendant of the Sima family.

Sima Jiong was the one Sima Yan was most afraid of at the beginning. The second son of his uncle Sima You was one generation below Sima Lun, so he had to obey Sima Lun's orders.

March 2
Sima Lun and Sima Jiong led their troops into the palace that night. They first killed Jia Mi, the initiator and general of the rear army. Then Sima Lun personally arrested Empress Jia's gang members and asked Sima Jiong to arrest them everywhere in the palace. Queen Jia Nanfeng.

Here, Jia Nanfeng saw Sima Jiong entering the palace overnight, followed by a large number of soldiers. Knowing that something was wrong, he asked in shock:

"Why is King Qi here?"

"We have issued an imperial edict to arrest the queen!" Sima Jiu answered.

Jia Nanfeng then asked:
"The edict should be issued from my hands. What edict are you following?"

Sima Jiong stopped paying attention to her and escorted her out of the back hall.

All the way to the Shangge, Sima Zhong's shadow was vaguely visible, and Jia Nanfeng shouted from a distance:
"Your Majesty, are you just watching your wife being crippled without saying a word, just because you are afraid that in the end, your Majesty himself will be crippled?"

Jia Nanfeng shouted with all his strength, but to no avail, he asked Sima Jiong again:

"Who is the rioter?"

Sima Jiong answered without hesitation: "It's King Zhao and King Liang."

After hearing this, Jia Nanfeng felt regretful and cursed angrily:

"I tied the dog by its neck, but I tied its tail instead. It was what it deserved. I only regretted that I didn't kill these two old dogs first, but they bit me instead."

March rd
Jia Nanfeng was escorted to Jinyong City, and then she was deposed as a commoner.

At the same time, under the instruction of Sima Lun, he began to arrest Jia Nanfeng's party members such as Zhao Can, Jia Wu, Cheng Ju, etc.

In order to facilitate his dictatorship, Sima Lun also arrested some prestigious ministers, such as Situ Zhanghua, Shangshu Pushe Pei Yu, etc. in the name of Jia Nanfeng's comrades, and executed them.

Removing Sikong and Baiwang Baibiao from their posts, they made room for their own people.

From the series of turmoil in Luoyang, Bai Biao was very keenly aware that the Luoyang coup was more than that. The so-called gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall, so he immediately wrote a letter stating that he was old and stupid and could not govern, and requested to return to the country.

Sima Lun did not have the same scheming ideas as Sima Yan and Sima Zhao. Instead, he always believed that Bai Biao's stay in Luoyang was in the way, unable to move, and unable to drive.

Now Bai Biao proposed to return to the country, and Sima Lun was very happy to agree on behalf of the court.

March 10
Bai Biao packed up everything and officially embarked on the road to return home. From then on, no Bai family son stayed in Luoyang. Even the Bai family in Luoyang, because they were in the wrong team, were either demoted or exempted and returned to their hometown.

Not only the Bai family, but also the continuous chaos in the government made the scholars avoid Luoyang for fear of being contaminated, so over the years, courtiers continued to resign.

And successive powerful ministers brought their own party members. Although they had little ability, they were quite loyal to those in power.

So they took over the positions of many capable ministers who left, which also made the court full of people who were in corpse positions.

It was also rare that after Qi Wannian's rebellion, it took a year for the court to respond.

March 23
Because Sima Zhong has been placed under house arrest by Sima Lun, just like Han Yi Emperor Liu Chen and Han Deposed Emperor Liu Jin.

Therefore, Sima Lun falsely issued an edict and appointed himself as Chijie, Grand Governor, Commander-in-Chief of all military affairs at home and abroad, Prime Minister of the country, Shizhong, and King Zhao as before.

He also appointed four people, namely, Chang Shi, Sima, and Zhong Lang, ten people to join the army, twenty subordinates, and an army of ten thousand people.

His own sons were promoted to high positions, and Sun Xiu and other close confidants were also granted the title of county princes. The titles they granted were all large counties with military power.

So among the civil and military officials, there were thousands of people who were granted the title of marquis, so all the officials were willing to obey Sima Lun.

October
Sima Lun sent people to Jinyong City to poison Jia Nanfeng with gold dust wine. This was the third big figure to die in Jinyong City.

(End of this chapter)