Chapter 723 The Dark Age when All the Wise Men Died!

After countless fierce battles and contests of wits, the Sima family finally succeeded in completely conquering the stubbornly resisting Shu Han.

Since then, the situation of the Three Kingdoms was broken, and the situation in the world gradually became clear.

With the victory of the war, the Sima family began to systematically seize the power of the country from the Cao family.

They used various means to gradually weaken the power of the Cao family, causing it to gradually lose control of the government.

In this process, Sima Yi demonstrated outstanding political wisdom and political tactics, laying a solid foundation for the rise of the Sima family.

But he could not withstand the bets of the gods, and he only persisted for a few years before passing away.

However, Sima Yi's death did not slow down the Sima family's pace of progress.

His son Sima Zhao inherited his father's business and continued to advance the struggle for power.

Sima Zhao was even more daring to order his men to kill the emperor Cao Mao in the street in broad daylight!

This move undoubtedly caused an uproar in the court and the country, but at this time Sima Zhao's power was already at its peak, and his unification was like a rolling torrent, unstoppable.

Unfortunately, the good times did not last long. After Sima Zhao killed the emperor, he died of illness only five years later.

But the foundation he created was as solid as a mountain, paving the way for his son Sima Yan.

Sima Yan naturally enjoyed the profound accumulation of Cao Wei and the Sima family for nearly a hundred years.

After many court officials hypocritically refused and declined three times, he finally accepted the abdication edict of the Cao Wei emperor, ascended the supreme throne, and officially established the country as Jin.

Shortly after Sima Yan ascended the throne, he broke the iron chain chain formation of the Eastern Wu, broke through the capital of the Wu Kingdom, and defeated the last rebel.

At this point, the world was once again unified under the rule of the Sima family, ending the long-term situation of division and turmoil.

In the early days of Sima Yan's reign, the people were peaceful and the families were well-fed, which was known in history as the Taikang Reign.

Sima Yan enjoyed the fruits of his labor and finally completed the grand cause of unification.

At this moment, the last ten percent of the spiritual chips fell as a reward to the gods.

However, this ten percent of the spiritual chips seemed to be numerous, but in fact they were quite scarce after being distributed to the gods.

After all, Sima Yan's unification trend was almost a well-known fact, and almost all the gods who had not yet been eliminated had received this bonus to a greater or lesser extent.

As a result, the share that actually fell into the hands of each god was really limited.

However, this was a benefit that could be obtained without any effort, and which god would be dissatisfied with it?

The gods were naturally delighted to pick up this unexpected fortune.

However, after becoming emperor, Sima Yan failed to keep a clear mind, but fell into the quagmire of indulgence and pleasure.

He was addicted to sensual pleasures all day long, and became increasingly lazy about political affairs, and even too lazy to ask about state affairs.

Under the influence of the emperor's bad example of indulgence in pleasure, the ministers in the court followed suit and became unscrupulous.

Among them, He Zeng, Wang Ji, Wang Kai, Shi Chong and others competed with each other for wealth, competing to show off their huge wealth for fun.

They built luxurious mansions; held extravagant banquets with a dazzling array of delicacies; and traveled with great pomp and circumstance.

The behavior of these people was not only extremely extravagant and wasteful, but also seriously corrupted the social atmosphere, making the entire ruling class of the Western Jin Dynasty permeated with a decadent and decadent atmosphere.

Because of this, the society in the Western Jin Dynasty became more and more extravagant and licentious, morals were degraded, and values ​​were infinitely distorted.

After Sima Yan successfully achieved the great unification, the time was less than a year, and the heavenly secrets had not yet recovered to their former clear state.

The gods were also very interested and wanted to continue the game.

However, they changed the originally cruel and ruthless life and death game into a more gentle value stock game, and the chips were also transferred from Sima Yan.

Such a change greatly reduced the spiritual pressure on Sima Yan, and because of this, he was able to safely pass the fifty-year-old hurdle.

It is regrettable that after Sima Yan completed the great unification, he was too addicted to sensuality and indulged his desires without restraint.

Not long after, his body collapsed completely like a rotten building.

In the end, his son Sima Zhong inherited the throne, and Jia Nanfeng was canonized as the queen.

Sima Zhong, the newly enthroned Emperor Hui of Jin, was born stupid and could not take on the responsibility of governing the country. He even said the stupid words that would be passed down through the ages, such as "Why not eat meat porridge?"

Under this circumstance, Taifu Yang Jun took the opportunity to monopolize power, formed a clique for personal gain, excluded dissidents, and vigorously supported the power of his confidants.

His actions not only aroused strong resentment within the royal family, but also made the people of the world indignant and boiling with resentment.

After that, Queen Jia Nanfeng launched a coup, killed Minister Yang Jun in one fell swoop, quickly took control of the court, and began to "dictate the world and subdue the inside and outside".

During this period, she had a unique vision and vigorously used Zhang Hua and other poor but talented commoners to assist in the administration.

Thanks to their concerted efforts, the court presented a peaceful scene of "quiet in the court and the country" and "peace in the country".

But soon at the critical juncture when the situation took a sharp turn for the worse, Jia Nanfeng had a vicious plan, falsely accused the crown prince Sima Yi of treason, and successfully deposed him.

In March of the following year, she even forged an imperial edict and cruelly killed the crown prince, attempting to establish the son of her brother-in-law Han Shou as the new crown prince.

At this time, Zhao Wang Sima Lun sensed an opportunity. He adopted the strategy of his adviser Sun Xiu and resolutely launched an attack on the palace.

In the end, Sima Lun broke through the palace gate, successfully abolished Jia Nanfeng's position as queen, imprisoned her in Jinyong City, and ruthlessly executed her.

So far, Jia Nanfeng's nine-year dictatorship finally came to an end.

However, who could have expected that her downfall would be like opening Pandora's box, thus opening the prelude to the Eight Kings Rebellion of the Jin Dynasty.

The Central Plains, which had just recovered slightly after decades of recuperation, was once again deeply involved in the raging war.

The consequences of this Eight Kings Rebellion were simply unimaginable, causing unprecedented damage to the social economy of the Western Jin Dynasty.

The people were displaced, farmland was barren, and business was in decline. The once prosperous scene was gone forever.

The nomadic peoples who had been eyeing the Central Plains took the opportunity to rise rapidly and rushed into the Central Plains like a flood.

As a result, the Five Barbarians' Invasion of China came into being. The Sima clan had no choice but to move south with the court officials.

The Hu people were unscrupulous and rampant in the Central Plains, burning, killing, looting and committing all kinds of evil.

For a time, the whole Chinese land was in mourning, the people were living in misery, and a new era of chaos had arrived.