In the Jin Empire, Emperor Ming of Jin, Yuan Rui, defeated his eldest brother, the legal prince Yuan Yong, and became the emperor. This was probably the karma of Emperor Taizong Xuanwu.
In the process of Yuan Rui seizing the throne, Sima Yi, the great hero of the Jin Dynasty, played a decisive role. It can be said that without Sima Yi's support, there would be no later Emperor Jin Ming.
But what puzzles many people is that before the battle for the crown prince began, Sima Yi was already a great hero, so it seemed that there was no need to participate in the dangerous battle for the heir apparent for Yuan Rui.
In this case, why did Sima Yi support Yuan Rui instead of the legitimate prince Yuan Yong?
First of all, in the previous Jin Dynasty's southern and northern wars, Sima Yi participated in many battles as Taizong Xuanwu Emperor Yuan Xi's right-hand man. In the process of the previous wars, Sima Yi and Yuan Rui's uncle Zhen Yu formed a good relationship. Personal relationship.
There are also many similarities in political interests. In addition, although Zhen Mi is not the queen, after Gao Yue's death, it was Zhen Mi who actually took charge of the harem.
Therefore, it is normal for Sima Yi to have such considerations. After all, he is not the only one who thinks so, right?
Secondly, Sima Yi has a strong ambition for fame. From a positive perspective, Sima Yi's strong ambition for fame prompted him to repeatedly perform great feats and make significant contributions to the development of the Jin Empire.
But from a negative perspective, Sima Yi's strong ambition for fame also allowed Sima Yi to abandon any principles in order to climb up.
Therefore, Emperor Taizong Xuanwu Yuan Xi, who knew Sima Yi well, was afraid that Yuan Rui could not control him, so he demoted Sima Yi first, and then hinted that Yuan Rui promoted him, just to make Yuan Rui be kind to Sima Yi. However, Sima Yi was not a pure minister. Is it right.
Sima Yi, who had great achievements in the world, was not the number one minister of the Jin Dynasty at that time. The great hero of the Jin Dynasty, the most important supporter of the prince Yuan Yong, and the prince's uncle's Gao Rou pressure on Sima Yi.
Only by helping Yuan Rui and winning the battle for the crown prince can Sima Yi overthrow Gao Rou, the biggest obstacle to his upward development. Although Sima Yi no longer has the desire to usurp, his desire to become a powerful minister like Gao Rou is still very strong. .
Finally, during the trial before officially participating in the battle for the crown prince, Sima Yi learned a very important piece of information: the Empress Dowager Liu supported Yuan Rui as the crown prince. The Empress Dowager is the grandmother of Yuan Yong and Yuan Rui, and the biological mother of Emperor Taizong Xuanwu of Jin Dynasty Yuan Xi. One can imagine her great political energy.
After learning that the Empress Dowager supported Yuan Rui, Sima Yi believed that Yuan Rui had more than 60% chance of winning in this battle for the crown prince. Because of this, Sima Yi decided to participate in the crown prince's battle, which has high normal returns and a high chance of winning.
Once, after Liu Liang, a famous master of physiognomy in the Jin Dynasty, came to Chang'an, he was invited to his home by Sima Yi and asked him to observe the physiognomy for his descendants. That is, the one who made the back drawings for the Jin Dynasty.
As soon as I arrived in front of Sima Yi's mansion. Liu Liang said: "The evil in this house is too heavy, and the family will suffer a great disaster. If it is not with you, it will be with your descendants."
Sima Yi asked: "How to eliminate disasters?"
Liu Liang said: "Behave with virtue."
Sima Yi then asked him to appoint his sons Sima Shi and Sima Zhao as ministers. Liu Liang said: "The general is already a very popular minister and a noble man. Why should his descendants be ministers again?"
Afterwards, Liu Liang said to people: "Sima Gong's body is still alive, but he is still greedy for money and enjoying himself when he reaches the throne, and he has no virtue. The future development of events will definitely lead to the death of his body and the destruction of his family."
Later, Liu Liang's words came true exactly.
In his later years, Emperor Xuanwu of the Jin Dynasty, Yuan Xi, encountered a very difficult problem: determining the candidate for the crown prince. Not long after he ascended the throne, he made his eldest son Yuan Yong the prince.
But Yuan Yong was unsatisfactory, extravagant, lustful, not good at pretentiousness, and careless, which made Yuan Xi very dissatisfied and doubted whether Yuan Yong could inherit the throne. If this was not the eldest son of him and Gao Yue, Yuan Xi would have been deposed long ago. Got him.
At this time, Yuan Xi's second son Yuan Rui saw an opportunity, so he had ulterior motives and pretended to be pretentious in order to gain fame. At the same time, in order to successfully seize the legitimate son, Yuan Rui spent a lot of money to ask Sima Yi to deal with it for him and let him appear in front of Yuan Xi. Speak for yourself.
When Sima Yi received Yuan Rui's gift of a thousand pieces of gold, he was surprised and said to his family: "The East Palace is in danger!"
As a lieutenant in the imperial court and a general in charge of military power, Sima Yi knew very well that Yuan Yong was a real person with average intelligence and was not bad in nature, but he just couldn't cheat. What Yuan Rui did was completely planned and premeditated.
Once, he said to his family: "The king of Linzi, Yuan Rui, decorates simple and pretentious things to attract fame. It is probably not a good deed."
But just because the prince Yuan Yong was a careless man, Sima Yi didn't respect him very much, and Yuan Rui also gave him a thousand pieces of gold. In comparison, he felt that Yuan Rui was reliable. If Yuan Yong ascended the throne in the future, it might not be beneficial to him. After weighing the two, for the sake of wealth and power, Sima Yi decided to help Yuan Rui seize the East Palace and form a party with each other.
In front of Yuan Xi, Sima Yi often spoke ill of Yuan Yong, how benevolent and filial Yuan Rui was, and so on. Once, Yuan Xi asked Sima Yi: "Yong Yong is so extravagant that he may not be able to inherit the country."
The words revealed the intention of deposing Yuan Yong. Sima Yi's answer was very clever and the tendency was very obvious: "As the saying goes: There is no better minister than the king, and no better son than the father. Your Majesty knows that the King of Linzi is benevolent and filial, but other ministers do not know it either."
Therefore, Sima Yi played a key role in Yuan Xi deposing the prince Yuan Yong and establishing Yuan Rui, the king of Linzi.
It is said that on the day Yuan Rui was established as the prince, an earthquake occurred in three counties near Chang'an. Rain and snow fell, thousands of houses were destroyed, and more than 400 people were crushed to death. It shows that Emperor Taizong Xuanwu of Jin Dynasty and Yuan Xi acted against heaven, and God has given a warning.
On September 9, the twenty-seventh year of Emperor Xuanwu's reign, Emperor Taizong of the Jin Dynasty, Yuan Xiyi fell ill and would die soon. As the imperial lieutenant, Sima Yi, together with the Grand Sima Yuan Mai and Situ Gaorou, entered the cabinet to serve, accepted the imperial edict, and were entrusted with Gu Zhongzhong to assist Yuan Rui.
Therefore, when Emperor Yuan Rui of Jin and Ming Dynasty seized the throne of the East Palace, Sima Yi participated in his plan from beginning to end and made great contributions to Yuan Rui's throne. After Yuan Rui succeeded to the throne, he first joined forces with Sima Yi to overthrow Situ Gaorou, the uncle of the deposed prince Yuan Yong.
However, Da Sima and King Zhongshan remained neutral from beginning to end in order to protect themselves and themselves wisely, but little did they know that his neutral attitude brought him a fatal disaster.
Therefore, after Yuan Rui ascended the throne, he worshiped Sima Yi as his Situ and rewarded him with huge amounts of money and vast hectares of fertile land, which his descendants would inherit from generation to generation. This could be regarded as a reward for Sima Yi's efforts!
In fact, Yuan Rui was just using Sima Yi. Once he became the emperor, Sima Yi's use value would be over. Moreover, Sima Yi knew all the inside story about seizing his direct brother and killing his brother, which was a big hidden danger for Yuan Rui.
At the same time, Sima Yi had been in charge of the army for decades. He was the prime minister and assistant in the court and held a high position of power. He was also the most critical figure in assisting Yuan Rui in seizing the throne. He was obviously suspected of overpowering the emperor due to his high achievements.
Therefore, Yuan Rui showed respect and favor to Sima Yi on the outside, but was jealous of him on the inside. As Sima Yi himself, he knew this well.
At the end of the tenth year of Emperor Qinglong's reign in the Jin Dynasty, Sima Yi became seriously ill. After Yuan Rui found out, he ordered a famous doctor to examine him and give him famous medicine. However, he secretly asked the imperial doctor: "How long can he live?"
As soon as Sima Yi saw the emperor's famous doctors and medicines, he knew what was going on, so he refused to drink them and said, "I don't want to live anymore!" He died soon after. After learning the news of Sima Yi's death, Yuan Rui said happily: "Fortunately, he died early, otherwise he would have been exterminated!"
The greatest achievement of Emperor Jin Ming was to overthrow the powerful minister Gao Rou and kill Taiwei Sima Yi. However, it was a pity that Emperor Ming of Jin Yuan Rui died of a strange disease three years after Sima Yi's death.
In the end, Jin Wang Yuan Zhi succeeded the emperor as the emperor's uncle, and was known as Gaozong of the Jin Dynasty in history.
Two years later, Empress Dowager Zhen Zhen Mi climbed to the Qinzheng Building and wanted to commit suicide by jumping off the building. She was publicly convicted of the crime of "unfilial piety to our legitimate mother" by Emperor Gaozong of the Jin Dynasty, but was stopped by the attendants. Emperor Gaozong of the Jin Dynasty was furious after hearing the news. Empress Dowager Zhen died in her palace that night, apparently secretly killed by Emperor Gaozong of the Jin Dynasty.
Moreover, he died in a miserable state, covering his face with hair and stuffing chaff into his mouth, which was regarded as revenge for his dead brother Yuan Yong.
In the third year of the Zhuque reign of Emperor Gaozong of the Jin Dynasty, Grand Sima and King Yuan Mai of Zhongshan were secretly killed by Li Nie, the aging leader of the Jinyi Guards.
