Although winter snow comes in the Xiangbei area at the right time, it is unexpected that there are already many soldiers here.

In the already dilapidated Yun County city, within the Wei army camp, which was built with obvious fire marks, there were many soldiers standing by, with neat curtains, and constant soldiers carrying armored armies patrols on the camp, as if they were not affected by winter snow at all.

On the top floor of the building, a general wearing armor was sitting behind several tables with a frown, then looked at the soldiers around him hurriedly took the flags and set up a simple canopy above and around him. His brand new gourd-like silk-lined red tassel helmet was placed on the table, but the red tassel was wet with the rain.

At the same time, behind him, the magnificent Han River is still clearly visible in the floating winter snow... No matter how many generations of dynasty changes, it will not affect the river rolling eastward.

This general was about thirty years old, but his face was thin and yellow, but his skeleton was huge and his eyes were like lightning. If there were old ministers of Cao Wei here, he would definitely feel that this person's expression was as similar to that of Wei Wu back then.

However, when Wei Wu was in a down-and-out and difficult situation, or when he was well-developed and proud, he could never hide his heroic spirit. Although this general was not handsome like Wei Wu, he obviously had a trace of something that was opposite to his heroic spirit. It was a kind of wealth and honor, not a wealth and honor that many generations of ministers could not support.

This temperament can be seen in many high-ranking masters. It is the unique temperament brought by the identity of living among people for generations and having a bright future after birth.

That's right, this person is nothing else, but Sima Yan, the Crown Prince of Jin who was promoted not long ago, and the Central Guardian Army. Although Jia Chong still served as the Central Guardian Army, he had already gone to Xiliang after all, so the army in the imperial city was personally led by Sima Yan.

In this period, how can such a key position be entrusted to others? If it is entrusted to others, there will inevitably be another Zhonghui; even if it is a poor family, it may be more reliable, but it may not be completely reliable. Maybe it will be taken away by the royal family or other high-ranking sects, just like what Sima did back then.

It was not surprising that Sima Yan appeared here. Now the Sima family has not really rebelled, but Sima Zhao is already old.

In this situation, if the Sima family wants to successfully replace Wei, what must Sima Yan do to drive the Han army out of Nanyang, but the three eastern counties are still like thorns on their backs.

Although it is said that this battle is now protecting Xiangyang, allowing the Wu army to retreat without success, and then driving the Han army to restore Nanxiang County, this contribution is not small.

However, this contribution was too small for Sima Yan, who was determined to be the world. Among the current generations of dynasties, Qin Emperor and Han Gao, to Han Shizu, no one did not have great military achievements.

By the way, as we all know, the Sima family suddenly rose and achieved its current hegemony in just 20 years. Although anyone can scold the Sima family, in the final analysis, no one can deny that the Sima family's heroes gathered in two generations at that time.

Otherwise, why didn’t other families swallow Cao Wei?

If these heroes are counted carefully, Sima Yi himself would not say that his generation, Sima Lang, the governor of Yanzhou in Han Dynasty, was named Boda; Sima Yi (King Xuan) of Wei (King Xuan) of Wei, was named Zhongda; Sima Fu, the chief minister of Wei, was named Shuda; Sima Kui, the marquis of Dongwucheng, Wei, was named Jida; Sima Xun, the chief of Wei Honglu, was named Xianda; Sima Jin, the chief of Wei Zhonglang, was named Huida; Sima Tong, the marquis of Anchengting, Wei, was named Yada; Sima Min, the marquis of Anpingting, Wei, was named Youda; this generation alone proved that the Sima family was prosperous, and from then on, they stepped from the county-min family to the noble family.

The next generation of Sima family has emerged with many talents. Although Sima Shi and Sima Zhao are ambitious, they also have the strength to contrast with their ambitions... All kinds of characters are experienced in military affairs, and a few are both civil and military, but they are all worthy of being a big book.

However, the levels of Sima's talents are uneven, and they can be divided into grades or rankings.

For example, if it is an internal public opinion, the first hero is not someone else, but Sima Shi, but if it is a crime, it is Sima Zhao.

After all, the Sima family is so bad... Sima faced too many problems in replacing Wei with Jin.

First of all, it took too long. After all, the powerful ministers usurped the throne and did not compete for the world. It took a total of 16 years from Sima Yi launching the Gaopingling Incident and controlling the political situation of Cao Wei to Sima Yan's independence in the Wei Dynasty.

Moreover, it took Sima Jin another 15 years to unify the world, which took three generations and four people a total of 31 years.

As the saying goes, if the night is long and the dream is too long, the longer the time is delayed, the more complicated the transfer of power, the greater the consumption will be.

Sima Yi himself is a powerful minister, not a prince or an emperor. What qualifications does Sima Shi have to inherit his power and status?

So after Sima Yi's death, let alone the Grand Tutor, even the General was finally appointed by Sima Shi's ability. Moreover, there were many people who were dissatisfied with him inside and outside. Zhang Ji, Li Feng, Wen Qin, Qiu Jian, and Qiu Jian all launched an action against Sima Shi, and Sima Shi himself died in the fight against the rebellion.

Sima Zhao's ruling policy is much more round than Sima Shi, which is to give up officials and win over all the powerful lords and tie everyone to the Sima family's chariot.

Of course, Sima Shi was also using this trick, but the reward given by Sima Zhao was obviously much more heavy. Whenever something happened to the Sima family, they would give people crazy rewards.

Taking Jia Chong, the loyal son of the Sima family, as an example, before Sima Zhao came to power, Jia Chong was only a 400-household marquis. Sima Shi destroyed Wen Qin and Qiu Jian to celebrate, and increased to 750 households. Sima Zhao destroyed Zhuge Dan and celebrated, and became a marquis of 1,750 households. Jia Chong presided over the death of Cao Mao and celebrated, and increased to 2,950 households.

How many years did this take? Just five years, and the territory of Cao Wei basically did not increase.

If you have never expanded your territory, you will have such achievements. How should you reward the country if you destroy it?

Comparing the fiefs of only seven or eight hundred households of the founding three Dukes of Cao Wei, Jia Xu, Hua Xin and Wang Lang, you will know how exaggerated Sima Zhao's reward is.

And Sima Zhao could not only buy his own bad guys. He wanted to gain everyone's support, such as Cao Wei's old ministers, noble relatives and noble officials, and chief officials from the border.

Cao Zhen, the general of the royal family who controlled the central army in Cao Wei, had only 2,900 households until his death. During the Sima Zhao period, the generals in the border town had almost more than 5,000 households per capita.

Sima Zhao did this, and it was even more exaggerated when he arrived at Sima Yan.

After all, Sima Zhao fought some wars during the Sima Shi period and had made contributions. What contributions did Sima Yan have? If you want to win people's hearts, you can only have wholesale property rights and positions.

Sima Yan was just over thirty when he came to power. Although he was not young, all the high-ranking officials in the court were his elders. This situation could not be changed until Sima Yan died.

Among the few people who were staying to assist his son Sima Zhong, Sima Liang was Sima Yan's uncle, Yang Jun was Sima Yan's father-in-law, and they were both Sima Zhong's grandfathers. Wei Guan was a peer (in-law) with Sima Yan. However, Wei Guan was 16 years older than Sima Yan and 39 years older than Sima Zhong. After all, he was still two generations away from Sima Zhong.

This is how Sima Yan deals with a group of elders for the rest of his life.

He had no prestige and everyone in the court was full of old men, so Sima Yan rewarded the ministers much more generously than Sima Zhao.

The Han Dynasty and the Cao Wei court always regarded the Three Dukes as their respects, but by the Sima Yan period, the Three Dukes of the Jin Dynasty were no longer enough and became the Eight Dukes.

In addition, Sima Yan also enthroned a group of dukes and mass produced a batch of Wanhuhou.

But after a hundred years of war in the world, can the speed of productivity recovery keep up with the speed of Sima Zhao and his son rewarding?

If it had not taken the effort of three generations but had completed the transformation from a powerful minister to an emperor in one or two generations, the problems left by the Western Jin Dynasty would not have been so serious.

Of course, Sima's demonstration role has been too bad since the Sima family has come to this point.

If the behavior of Cao Cao and his son proves that after the chaos in the world, those with big fists can kick the emperor away after the success of the emperor, then the behavior of the Sima family proves that even if there is no chaos in the world, this can be done.

Take the Zhong Hui Rebellion that had not yet occurred in this plane as an example. Zhong Hui was born in the Zhong family in Yingchuan, at the age of 40, and now he is a Situ official.

Comparing with Sima and his son, in terms of origin, the Sima family in Hanoi is a few streets away from the Zhong family in Yingchuan.

In terms of qualifications, Sima Yi was a secretary for Cao Cao when he was 40 years old, Sima Shi was a guardian at the middle age, and Sima Zhao was a general of the Western Expedition by relying on his father and brother at the age of 40, and all of them were not as good as Zhong Hui, who was already ranked third.

In terms of credit, nothing else is mentioned. Just by leading the main force to advance straight into Hanzhong in the battle to destroy Shu, Sima Yi can compete with each other, and even without Deng Ai's help, Zhong Hui can destroy Han within three years.

In this way, you will definitely be able to fully control the army in your hands before you can raise the flag to rebel.

Zhong Hui’s only disadvantage is that he is not as capable as the Sima family. He can be born among the great families, but his most outstanding talent is that the Sima family in Hanoi relies on being able to be born, and he has gained its current momentum in just one or two generations.

However, the Zhong family's family also made up for this shortcoming. In this case, your Sima and his son can usurp the throne, so why can't I, Zhong Hui, have any ideas?

However, the impact of this behavior was quite bad. Although later people wrote a lot of records in the book that someone predicted that Zhong Hui would rebel, when Zhong Hui really rebelled, Sima Zhao was completely confused at the beginning - I was so good to Zhong Hui, how could he rebel?

When Zhong Hui treason rebelled, the interrogation was not reached, and outsiders told him first; the emperor would be honest and unsuccessful.

This reaction is actually very double standard. Is the Cao family not good to your Sima family?

Previously, Sima Zhao wanted to increase his fief for Zhong Hui, but Zhong Hui didn't want it, and he was appointed as the Nine Ministers, and Zhong Hui didn't do it.

People at that time called Zhong Hui the rebirth of Zhang Liang, not only saying that he had complete plans, but also praised him for his indifferent fame and fortune.

However, these can be pretended. When the Cao family rewarded Sima and his son, did Sima and his son give in less?

But who else can Sima Zhao and his son believe? Later, someone falsely accused Shi Bao, who was guarding Huainan, of rebellion. Shi Bao was a confidant promoted by Sima Shi. He had a low background and had poor popularity. He was almost a low-level match. Deng Ai. Sima Yan was so scared that he immediately summoned him back to the court, and then he was dismissed.

Even if it is a hard-core dog-legged Jia Chong, it is still impossible for him to rebel.

Regarding his opposition to the destruction of Wu, Wang Fuzhi later commented that Jia Chong wanted to take credit for himself so that he could be the second best person in Sima Yi.

I knew that Wu would be destroyed, but I wanted to keep it for my own achievements. I had been ill-treated for a long time, and I was afraid of difficulties and did not dare to speak out.

The plan to pacify Wu began with Yang Hu. Hu died and Du Yu was appointed to end his affairs. Since Chong could not be the first, he could inherit the later part of his merits and not be able to do it. He only stopped his actions and waited for Emperor Wu to lose his country's power. Then Wu could do it today, so that all the generals' merits belonged to him, and he was in charge, and it was not difficult for Yi to do so. Jin was detained by Chong to kill the king to protect him, but he did not defend himself early, so it was difficult for him to avoid chaos.

Fortunately, Emperor Wu died seven years ago and began to die. Jia Mi was mediocre and not Xue Yin, so he was not Sima Zhaoer.

Otherwise, how could the sword of the noble Xianggong be afraid of the Sima family? Women are still enough to destroy Jin, and they are full of money, so what should they do?

It is said that when Sima Yan launched the destruction of Wu, Jia Chong died three years ago. He was already half-in-law, so how could he have such great ambitions?

However, wasn’t Sima Yi also launched the Gaopingling Incident, which was only two years away from his death, with vivid positive textbooks placed in front of him.

Even if Jia Chong might not think so, Sima Yan would not suspect Jia Chong thought so. So the curse left by Sima Yi has always troubled his descendants and even the kings and ministers of all dynasties have been constantly flirting with suspicion.

Such behavior of Sima also turned the advantage of the prosperity of the Sima family in Hanoi into a disadvantage.

During the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the great families relied on marriage to consolidate their relationship, and some rising stars were able to quickly rise and join the gentry circle, which was also used this method.

The Sima family has great advantages in this regard. Sima Yi has 7 brothers, and he has 9 sons and 2 daughters. Although Sima Shi has no sons, he has 5 daughters. The most exaggerated one is Sima Yan, with a total of 26 sons and 13 daughters.

Relying on its powerful ability to spread branches and leaves, the Sima family almost formed a marriage relationship with the high-ranking surnames at that time.

At the same time, the male man in the family became a good helper for the three generations of Sima's grandson to seize power. Sima Wang, Sima Liang, Sima Yichang, Sima Jun and others all went out to seize the power and made contributions.

However, these royal families have become increasingly influential, such as Sima Fu, who cried and said that he was a loyal minister of the Great Wei Dynasty. He was Sima Yan's grandfather. He destroyed Cao Shuang, defeated Zhuge Ke, and deposed Cao Fang. Not to mention Sima Fu, even Sima Fu's son Sima Wang was not the target Sima Yan dared to provoke casually.

Therefore, after Sima established the Jin Dynasty on behalf of Wei and Jin, Sima Fu was named King of Anping with 40,000 households, and he specially brought the position of Dazai from ancient times for him.

In addition, since Sima Shi was succeeded by his younger brother Sima Zhao when he died, Sima Yan's younger brother Sima You also wanted to take over his brother's stance all day long.

Later generations once said that they accused Sima You of his death because of Sima Yan. In fact, Sima Yan was very kind to Sima You. Before his death, Sima You treated him as follows: King Qi, Grand Sima, and general of the military affairs of Qingzhou. He was appointed as the Shizhong. During the holiday, he personally rode a thousand people in the camp and rode the Sima carriage under the tent as usual. He promoted one more department, with twenty official cavalry and five Sima.

It can be said that you need power, status, face and face, but you will never be willing to be appointed as your heir.

In this case, Sima Yan had to give the kings real power. On the one hand, he was learning from the negative examples of Cao Wei, and on the other hand, Sima Yan did not have the strength to attack his huge family.

If Sima Yan wants to attack the royal family, in terms of prestige and legal principles, there will be no shortage of princes who can stand up and take the lead in resisting, and there will be no shortage of princes who are qualified to inherit Sima Yan's position.

If Sima Yan can barely suppress the scene, what about Sima Zhong, who succeeded to the throne after Sima Yan's death?

Such a bad result is the various reasons for the unstable establishment of the Sima family. In order to tie the interests of the great families together, several generations of the Sima family have given great rewards.

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Chapter completed!