The revival of Shu Han

Chapter 231 The Prince of Jin

In April of 267 AD, the Jin court received news that Guan Yi was about to make a northern expedition.The news, to be honest, made Sima Yan heave a sigh of relief while having a splitting headache.

Without him, before that.The court of the Jin Kingdom was already in a state of quarrel.There are already signs of full-scale party struggle among the ministers.If the news of Guan Yi's upcoming Northern Expedition had not properly attracted everyone's attention, he didn't know how long he would be bothered.

In July 265 AD, the Wei, Jin and Chan Dynasties.At that time, the state of Jin had no prince.Sima Yan was not established, and the officials didn't care - the eldest son of the emperor, Sima Gui, was both the eldest son and the first son.Moreover, he is intelligent, good-looking, and a proper candidate for the crown prince.It doesn't matter whether you stand up or not.

However, the child died in August of 266...

The death of Sima Gui suddenly awakened everyone in the Jin Kingdom: Oh, we are such a big country, and we have been established for more than a year, yet there is no crown prince yet?Hurry up, hurry up, a prince must be established!
The main reason for the rush is: Sima Yan's second son, who is also the second-in-law son, is called Sima Zhong, who is mentally handicapped.

When Sima Gui was here, everyone didn't think that Sima Zhong's mental retardation was an eyesore—it's not that your Sima family is mentally ill.But it can't work now, after Sima Gui's death, no matter whether it is blood relationship or age sequence, as long as he follows the etiquette.Sima Zhong should be the crown prince no matter what—but, that master is mentally retarded!

In the ancient feudal society, the family belonged to the world.Whether the offspring of a team leader is good or not is very, very important to the stability of the hearts of his subordinates——Boss, you will be gone in the future, and it will be your son who will pay me wages.I am gone, my son and grandson will still have dinner at your house.If your heir is a bastard, then the rest of my life and the happiness of my descendants will be lost!
So, if you want to make that retarded emperor the boss, then we have to talk about it.

The second reason is after Sima Gui's death.Sima Yan's other concubines with children all had ideas about the position of the prince.

Although it is said that if the ancient emperors were dedicated to one woman, it would definitely not be a virtue.On the contrary, the ministers had to protest and encourage the emperor to find more women and have more sons.But as far as Sima Yan was concerned, that was another matter.

This guy is super horny!In the historical plane, because the Three Kingdoms returned to Jin, the world was unified.The complacent Sima Yan wantonly expanded the backyard, and the number of concubines in the palace reached an astonishing 500 people.Even now, due to the relationship of the traversers, Jin's international environment is not as good as the historical plane, but Jin is, after all, the largest country in the world.So less than three years after Sima Yan came to power, the number of concubines in the backyard had expanded to more than [-].

A place where women get together must be full of right and wrong.In the palace, where there are only male resources, everyone wants to have the emperor's exclusive favor.Therefore, in the court of the Jin Kingdom, all kinds of palace struggles emerged endlessly, constantly refreshing the lower limit.The queen Yang Yan had to ask her natal family to bring her younger sister Yang Zhi into the palace as soon as possible, otherwise she would not be able to stop the concubines below.

Now Yang Yan's eldest son is dead, and her second son is mentally retarded.The third son, Sima Jian, is only four years old and less than five years old.And Sima Jing, the son of Sima Yan's concubine Aesthete, is also over four years old—and Aesthetes is currently more favored by Sima Yan than Yang Yan.So, someone thought about it.

"Your Majesty, I am deeply saddened by the death of the eldest son of the emperor. But once this happened, it is extremely necessary for the country to establish a crown prince. Therefore, I have the courage to decide on the candidate for the crown prince as soon as possible, so as to reassure the hearts of hundreds of millions of subjects."

There is no problem with Shang Shuling Pei Xiu's words.The country has been established for several years, and the eldest son of the emperor died.At this time, it is indeed time to decide on the crown prince.Otherwise, with the level of medical care in this era and your living habits, Your Majesty, what should this country do if one day you have a sudden wind?

But who is the prince, this is worth talking about.

The positions of Yang Jun and Yang Yao brothers were the same at the beginning: it must be Yang Yansheng's child!

But is it Sima Zhong or Sima Jian?The opinions of the two brothers were not unified: Yang Jun hoped that it was Sima Zhong, and Yang Jue hoped that it was Sima Jian.

Pei Xiu, Zhang Hua, Ren Kai, and Qiao also agreed: Sima Jian and Sima Jing are both acceptable, but they can't be Sima Zhong anyway—the prince of the country cannot be mentally retarded.

The opinions of Jia Chong and Xun Xu are also very unified: Mental retardation is fine.In the future, when the mentally retarded become the emperor, we can do whatever we want!
So, Jia Chong and Pei Xiu, who were once allies, made a fool of themselves!Yang Jun, the former political enemy, became Jia Chong's ally instead.

Jia Chong's opinion is very convincing: Your Majesty, the second son of the emperor is the most qualified to be the prince no matter his age or blood relationship.If he is not chosen as the prince but other princes, what are the rules?Without the rules, will everyone be able to covet the crown prince's position in the future?Only by strictly following the etiquette to determine the crown prince can those who are not qualified to give up thinking about it.

The reason for Pei Xiu's side is simple: no matter what, the emperor must have the capital of a middleman, right?Your Majesty, don't you want the Great Jin Dynasty to last for thousands of years?If nothing else, just look at Cao Wei. If Cao Fang was not too young when he came to power, how could there be anything wrong with your ancestors?That's still a normal young person.You are a mentally handicapped child. Even if Your Majesty lives to be a hundred years old, the second prince will not have a normal IQ just because of his age, right?
Sima Yan, Sima Zhao commented that he looked capable and decisive, but he was actually indecisive.It should be said that this evaluation is correct.

In the historical plane, Sima Yan wanted to abolish Sima Zhong's crown prince many times, but stopped midway many times.All in all, he paid too much attention to his family's feelings, and he was not as ruthless as an emperor should be.

So now, he struggled and hesitated, unable to make a decision for a long time.

If he hesitated like this, the country of the Jin Empire would be miserable.

Back then, Sun Quan wavered between the crown prince and the King of Lu for too long, which led to the intensification of the party struggle in Nanlu and the complete split of the entire Eastern Wu court.The longer he procrastinates on the issue of the first crown prince of the Jin Empire, the greater the division among the courtiers within the Jin Empire will be--if it gets bigger, it will be a complete party struggle!
Since August of this year, the entire bureaucratic class of the Jin Empire has been involved in the issue of establishing a reserve.Even the main attention of the bosses are all focused on this.What autumn harvest, do a good job of preventing the invasion of Wu and Shu, all of them are queued to the back.The whole court was noisy and lively.

Sima Yan is not stupid, he knows very well that such indecision will do great harm to the country.But he just couldn't make up his mind.

In the end, it was Qi Wang Sima You who helped him make up his mind.

Speaking of which, Sima Yan's younger brother from the same mother was born to Master Sima.And who is Master Sima?On the road of the Sima family's power minister, one who inherits the past and ushers in the future.Great contribution to the Sima family!So Sima You naturally threatened Sima Yan's status.After the founding of the Jin Kingdom, no matter how unhappy Sima Yan was in his heart, he would hang a signboard of the president of Chinese and foreign military affairs on his own brother and confess.

It's a pity that this pure and filial child is a political idiot: you said that the output of the fief is enough to live a superior life, and you are determined not to receive the salary of the court, which makes many other princes very embarrassed.You set [-] taxes on your own serfs in the fief—this ridiculously low tax rate has caused many serfs from other princely fiefdoms and even self-cultivated farmers from the country to pour into your fief, that’s all.You don't hesitate to go to the Chinese army barracks as a prince to preach benevolence and righteousness to those mud-legged people who don't know how to read.Do you think that your identity is not sensitive enough, and that I don't have enough suspicion of you?

On the question of who to choose for the crown prince, Sima You did not express his position at first.Later, when I saw that Jia Chong and others were making a scene, I couldn't help but said: Li Sima Jian.

Huh? !Are you trying to do Hammerfell at the end?So that Jian'er will be grateful to you in the future?I don't!
In the first month of 267 AD, Sima Yan made a decree: make his second son, Sima Zhong, who was just eight years old this year, the crown prince.

The news came out, but the expected stop did not come.On the contrary, most of the courtiers who sincerely hoped that this country will go to glory were all fired!The snowflake-like memorials and letters drowned Sima Yan in the palace city in an instant.

For more than three months, if you don't go to the court, you will open the memorial in the study all day long, and countless courtiers will say that your majesty does not take Da Jin Jiangshan to heart.Let's go to court, it's just the ministers of the two factions complaining to each other... The whole country, at least the central government, has a tendency to stagnate in its operation.

Finally, it's April of this year.News came from Jinzuo Cao: Guan Zifeng in Xishu is likely to raise troops to invade the bandits after the spring plowing ends next year.Please Your Majesty and the princes of the court make preparations early.After receiving this news, the Jin court temporarily stopped the quarrel, and everyone reluctantly united together and began to discuss how to deal with the enemy's invasion.

(End of this chapter)