EBE Chapter 516 The Chicken Dinner Contest Begins!
Chapter 516 The Chicken Dinner Contest Begins!
The Great Han Dynasty at this time
Liu Che was truly impressed. The Sima family was causing endless trouble: granting him the Nine Bestowments—staging a coup—claiming the throne and then purging him…
What the hell?! They've turned this into a three-piece set for usurping the throne! Shouldn't the Sima family be awarded an prize for being a family of usurpers?! Their family tradition of learning is truly profound!
His Majesty the Pig was cursing and swearing, having no goodwill towards the Jin Dynasty. He believed that the Jin Dynasty's founding and ascension to the throne were illegitimate, crooked from beginning to end!
As for the others, they were worried that the central court was not like the imperial court. With princes rebelling and capable ministers dying one by one in coups, how many more years could the remaining people maintain their power?
Look at the Sima family's moral bottom line, it's not high at all. Who knows what kind of trouble they'll cause this time!
Everyone sneered: →_→ This coup d'état is never-ending! They're just making trouble!
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"Sima Lun's rise to power provided new ideas for his later brothers. His father, Sima Yi, was the teacher of those who came before him!"
"But Sima Lun's abilities were really not outstanding. For example, when he first came to power, he not only granted a general amnesty, but also lavishly rewarded people."
"If it were just a reward for his confidants, that would be understandable. But Sima Lun didn't even forget the servants and men who served him, and he gave hundreds of them a single title. Are you here to do wholesale? Giving hundreds of titles for every kind of marquis!"
Sima Lun: Kings, nobles, and high-ranking officials are being sold in bulk!
"So, the court officials looked around and saw that everyone had been promoted, and to a high degree."
"So much so that some officials, who originally used sable tails for hat decorations, found that there weren't enough sable tails for all the officials, and they all started using dog tails instead."
"Thus, Sima Lun's absurd actions gave rise to the idiom 'to add a dog's tail to a sable coat,' which shows that Sima Lun's political abilities were not entirely nonexistent, but rather greatly overestimated!"
"Of particular importance, the bureaucratic system of the Western Jin Dynasty descended into chaos under Sima Lun's lavish rewards and honors."
"He himself or his party have little ability, have made no political achievements, and have low moral standards. How can this not make others eager to take advantage of them?"
Everyone: (°ー°〃) Who's the strongest in usurping the throne and rebelling? The Western Jin Dynasty, look to Sima...
"On the other hand, Sima Jiong, who was ostracized, did not become despondent. When he arrived in Xuchang, he brainstormed with Wang Sheng and Wang Chumu to prepare for something."
"So in March of that year, Sima Jiong raised an army. He had a predecessor who did this. He and Cao Cao carried the bride together, but ended up falling into a ditch with Yuan Shao, Yuan Benchu."
Yuan Shao: I really don't like this introduction!
"Sima Jiong followed the example of the heroes who attacked Dong Zhuo in the past and issued a proclamation calling on all the princes in the country to jointly attack Sima Lun."
After Lin Ke finished telling this story, she suddenly sighed, "The plot seems to have returned to its starting point. This was all a trap set by Sima Yan!"
"The situation in the Western Jin Dynasty seemed to have returned to that of the late Eastern Han Dynasty, but the first to respond was Sima Ying, the Prince of Chengdu. He had spoken up for the Crown Prince in the struggle between Jia Mi and Sima Yu, and was subsequently suppressed by the Jia faction and exiled to Ye City."
"And there was Sima Yong, the Prince of Hejian in Chang'an. This was the Three Princes' Rebellion, the second phase of the War of the Eight Princes."
"At this moment, it seems that we have truly entered the War of the Eight Princes, because after Sima Ying, the Prince of Chengdu, and Sima Yong, the Prince of Hejian, there are also Sima Yi, the Prince of Changshan, and others who have responded one after another."
"The core princes we mentioned earlier have formed a large army and are marching towards Luoyang. This means that the era of imperial supremacy is over. Whoever has the strongest army can take that position. Therefore, the princes have raised an army, and the world will be in chaos."
The people in Wanchaozhong: Damn, we still got confused! But now that everyone's here, chaos begins!