In the area of Xiangbei, although the winter snow came at the right time, it did not mean that the soldiers here were already intensive.

In the already dilapidated Yunxian county, in the Wei army camp roughly built according to the city, around a watchtower with obvious traces of fire, there are many armor soldiers, the curtain is neat, and the sergeants who are constantly coming and going around the periphery are constantly patrolling the camp with armor and weapons, as if they have not been affected by the winter snow at all.

On the top floor of the watchtower, a general dressed in armor was sitting behind a few cases with a frown, and then watched as the surrounding soldiers hurriedly took away the flag and erected a simple canopy above and around his head. And his brand-new gourd-like silk lined with red tasseled iron helmet was on the table, but it had been wet with red tassels from the rain.

At the same time, just behind him, the magnificent Han water was still clearly visible in the falling winter snow...... No matter how many generations of dynasties change, it will not affect the river to roll eastward.

This general is about thirty years old, but his face is thin and yellow, but his skeleton is huge, and his eyes are like electricity.

However, when Wei Wu was downtrodden and difficult, or developed and proud, he always couldn't hide his heroism, and although this general was not handsome like Wei Wu, there was obviously a trace of something opposite to heroism, that was a kind of wealth, not a wealth that was difficult for generations of ministers to raise.

This kind of temperament can be seen in many high-ranking lords, and it is the unique temperament brought about by the identity of living on people for generations, and being born with worry-free food and clothing and a promising future.

That's right, this person is none other than Sima Yan, the crown prince of the Jin Kingdom who was promoted to the throne not long ago, and the middle guard; Although Jia Chong still served as the middle guard, he had already gone to Xiliang after all, so the army in the imperial city was led by Sima Yan himself.

In this period, how can this kind of key position be entrusted to someone, if it is entrusted to a non-person, it is inevitable that there will be another bell meeting; It's a cold door, although it may be more reliable, but it may not be completely reliable, maybe it will be pulled away by the royal family or other high-ranking lords, just like what Sima did back then.

It is not an accident that Sima Yan appeared here, and now the Sima clan has not really rebelled, but Sima Zhao is already old.

In this situation, if the Sima clan wants to successfully replace Wei, Sima Yan must do something to drive the Han army away from Nanyang, but the three eastern counties are still like thorns in the back.

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

However, for Sima Yan, who is interested in the world, this merit is too small, and today's dynasties, Qin Emperor Han Gao and then Han Shizu, which is not a great achievement.

In other words, as we all know, the Sima family suddenly flourished, and it has achieved today's hegemony in just 20 years, and although anyone can scold the Sima family, in the final analysis, no one can deny that the Sima family had two generations of heroes in succession.

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

And these heroic figures, counting them carefully, Sima Yi himself does not say, his generation, "Sima Bada": Sima Lang, the assassin of Han Yanzhou, the word Boda; Wei Taiwei (Xuanwang) Sima Yi, the word Zhongda; Wei Dazai Sima Fu, the word Shuda; Wei Dongwu City Hou Sima Kui, the word Jida; Wei Honglu Cheng Sima Sui, the word is obvious; Wei Zhonglang Sima Jin, the word Huida; Wei Ancheng Pavilion Hou Sima Tong, the word Yada; Wei Anping Pavilion Hou Sima Min, the word Youda; This generation alone also proves that the Sima family is prosperous, and since then he has stepped from the county family to the family of the princess.

The next generation of the Sima family is even more talented, and the two brothers Sima Shi and Sima Zhao are certainly ambitious, but they also have the strength to match their ambitions...... All kinds of characters, most of them are in the military, and a few are both civil and military, but all of them are worthy of special mention.

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

For example, if it is an internal public opinion, the first hero is none other than Sima Shi, but if it is a crime, it should be Sima Zhao.

After all, the Sima family's head is too bad... Sima Yi Jin Dynasty Wei faced too many problems.

First of all, it is too long, after all, the usurpation of the throne by the ministers is not a race for the world, from Sima Yi launched the Gaopingling Revolution and controlled the political situation of Cao Wei, to Sima Yan became independent on behalf of Wei, a total of 16 years.

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

The longer the time drags on, the more complicated the transfer of power, and the greater the consumption will be.

Sima Yi himself is a powerful minister, not a prince, let alone an emperor, what qualifications does Sima Shi have to inherit his position of power?

So after Sima Yi's death, don't talk about Taifu, even the general became Sima Shi after two years with his own ability, and there are many people who are dissatisfied with him inside and outside, Zhang Ji, Li Feng and Wen Qin, Qiu Jian all launched actions against Sima Shi, and Sima Shi himself died in the counterinsurgency.

Sima Zhao's ruling policy is much more mellow than that of Sima Shi, that is, to increase the number of officials and enter the lord to vigorously win over the powerful lords from all walks of life, and tie everyone to the chariot of the Sima family.

Of course, Sima Shi is also using this trick, but the reward given by Sima Zhao is obviously much heavier, and the Sima family frantically rewards people whenever something big happens.

Take Jia Chong, the loyal dog-legged son of the Sima family, as an example, before Sima Zhao came to power, Jia Chong was only a 400-household pavilion marquis, Sima Shi destroyed Wen Qin Biqiu Jian to celebrate, increasing to 750 households, Sima Zhao extinguished Zhuge and celebrated again, becoming a townsman of 1750 households, Jia Chong presided over the death of Cao Chao and celebrated again, increasing to 2950 households.

How many years did it take? It was only five years, and the territory of Cao Wei basically did not increase.

If you have not opened up the territory and expanded your territory, you have such a feat, so if you destroy the country, how should you reward it?

Compare the seven or eight hundred households of Cao Wei's founding father, Jia Xuhuaxin, Wang Langna, to know how exaggerated Sima Zhao's reward is.

And Sima Zhao can't just buy his own doglegs, he wants to get everyone's support, and Cao Wei's old ministers, relatives and nobles, and feudal officials can't be left behind.

Cao Zhen, the general of the clan who controlled the Chinese army in Cao Wei, had 2,900 households until his death, and in the Sima Zhao period, the generals in the border towns almost had more than 5,000 households per capita.

Sima Zhao did this, and it was even more exaggerated when he came to Sima Yan.

After all, Sima Zhao had fought some battles during the Sima Shi period, and he had merit, what credit did Sima Yan have? If you want to win people's hearts, there is only wholesale property and the like.

Sima Yan had just turned thirty when he came to power, although he was not small, but all the high-ranking officials of the Manchu Dynasty were his elders, and this situation did not change until Sima Yan's death.

Among the few people Sima Yan stayed to assist his son Sima Zhen, Sima Liang is Sima Yan's uncle, Yang Jun is Sima Yan's father-in-law, and they are all Sima Zhen's grandparents, Wei Qian and Sima Yan are the same generation (in-laws), but Wei Yan is 16 years older than Sima Yan and 39 years older than Sima Zhen, in the final analysis, he is still two generations behind Sima Zhen.

This is how Sima Yan has dealt with a group of elders all his life.

He has no prestige, and everyone in the court is an uncle, so Sima Yan's reward for the minister is much richer than Sima Zhao's.

The Han Dynasty and the Cao Wei court have always respected the three dukes, but by the time of Sima Yan, the three dukes of the Jin Dynasty were no longer enough and became the eight dukes.

In addition, Sima Yan also sealed a bunch of dukes and mass-produced a batch of Wanhu marquis.

But after a hundred years of war, can the speed of productivity recovery keep up with the speed of Sima Zhao's father and son's reward?

If it hadn't taken three generations of hard work but one or two generations to complete the transformation from a powerful minister to an emperor, the problems left by the Western Jin Dynasty would not have been so serious.

Of course, Sima Shi has come to this point, and Sima Yi's exemplary role is too bad.

If the behavior of Cao Cao's father and son proves that after the chaos in the world, a person with a big fist can use the name of the emperor to do things and then kick the emperor away, then the behavior of the Sima family proves that even if there is no chaos in the world, it can be done.

Take the Zhonghui Rebellion, which has not yet occurred in this plane, as an example, Zhonghui was born in the Yingchuan Zhong family, was 40 years old, and is now an official residence.

Compared with Sima's father and son, in terms of background, Hanoi's Sima clan is a few streets away from Yingchuan Zhong's clan.

In terms of qualifications, Sima Yi was working as a secretary to Cao Cao when he was 40 years old, Sima Shi was in the middle of the army when he was 40 years old, and Sima Zhao became a general of the expedition to the west by virtue of his father and brother when he was 40 years old.

In terms of merit, not to mention anything else, just the fact that he led the main force to drive straight into Hanzhong in the battle of destroying Shu means that Sima Yi can compare, and even without Deng Ai's help, Zhong Hui can destroy Han within three years.

In that way, you must be able to fully control the army in your hands, and then you can raise the banner and rebel.

The only disadvantage of Zhonghui is that he is not as good as the Sima family, he can be born in a high-ranking family, but he is the most outstanding talent, and the Sima family in Hanoi relies on being able to give birth, and it is only one or two generations that he has today's momentum.

However, the Zhong family's family also makes up for this shortcoming, and in this case, your Sima father and son can usurp the throne, why can't I Zhong Hui have ideas?

However, the impact of this behaviour is quite egregious. Although later people wrote a lot of records in the book as an afterthought that someone predicted that Zhong Hui was going to rebel, but when Zhong Hui actually rebelled, Sima Zhao was completely confused at first - I am so good to Zhong Hui, how could he rebel?

and Zhong Hui rebelled, and the interrogation did not arrive, and outsiders told him first; The emperor will be thick, and he will not believe it.

This reaction is actually very double-standard, is the Cao family not good for your Sima family?

Previously, Sima Zhao wanted to add food to Zhong Hui, Zhong Hui didn't want it, Feng Zhong would be Jiuqing, and Zhong Hui wouldn't do it.

At the time, people called Zhong Hui the reincarnation of Zhang Liang, not only to say that he had no last resort, but also to praise him for his indifference to fame and fortune.

However, these can all be pretended, when the Cao family rewarded Sima and his son, Sima and his son resigned?

But in this way, who else dare Sima Zhao's father and son believe? Later, someone framed Shi Bao, who was guarding Huainan, for rebellion, Shi Bao was a confidant promoted by Sima Shi, with a low background and bad popularity, almost a low match Deng Ai, Sima Yan was also frightened when he heard the news, and immediately summoned him back to the court, followed by a dismissal.

Even if it is a hardcore dog-legged Jia Chong, it is not impossible 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 Sima Yi's second.

Knowing that Wu Zhi would die, and wanting to keep it for his own merits, he had been ill-intentioned for a long time, and he was afraid of difficulties and did not dare to speak.

Naiping Wu's conspiracy began in Yanghu, Hu, and raised Du to end his work, full of both Fu can be first, and then to share the merit and not enough, but to prevent it from doing so that Emperor Wu did not have the right to uphold the country's power, and then said that Wu can be done today, then all the merit is attributed to himself, and it is not difficult for him to operate and Yi. Jin Gan is full of killing the monarch to wear himself, and he does not prevent it early, and it is difficult to avoid chaos.

Fortunately, after seven years of death, Emperor Wu began to collapse, Jia Mi was mediocre, and he was not bloody, which was not enough for Sima Zhao'er.

Otherwise, the blade of the noble countryman, how can there be a Sima clan who is afraid and does not give it? A woman is still enough to die, and if she is full, how can she be?

It is said that when Sima Yan launched the extermination of Wu, Jia Chong died three years ago, and he was already a person who was half cut into the ground, how could he have such great ambitions.

However, isn't Sima Yi also the Gaopingling Revolution launched when he was only two years away from his death, and a vivid positive textbook is in front of him.

Even if Jia Chong may not think so, Sima Yan will not doubt that Jia Chong thinks so? So the curse left by Sima Yi has been haunting his descendants, and even the kings and ministers of the subsequent generations have also been constantly consumed in suspicion.

And Sima's behavior also turned the advantage of Ding Xingwang, a member of the Sima clan in Hanoi, into a disadvantage.

During the Wei and Jin dynasties, the relationship between the big clans was consolidated by marriage, and some rising stars were able to quickly rise to join the circle of scholars, which was also used in this way.

The Sima family has a great advantage in this regard, Sima Yi has 7 brothers, he himself has 9 sons and 2 daughters, although Sima Shi has no sons, but has 5 daughters, the most exaggerated is Sima Yan, a total of 26 sons and 13 daughters.

Relying on his strong ability to spread the branches and leaves, the Sima family almost formed a marriage relationship with the Gaomen surname at that time.

At the same time, the men in the family have become good helpers for the three generations of Sima ancestors and grandchildren to seize power, Sima Wang, Sima Liang, Sima Ling, Sima Jun and others have all gone out of the town and made contributions.

However, the influence of these royal families is also increasing, like Sima Fu, who cried and said that he was a loyal minister of the Great Wei, he was Sima Yan's grandfather, and he made great contributions to the destruction of Cao Shuang, the defeat of Zhuge Ke, and the abolition of Cao Fang, not to mention Sima Fu, even Sima Fu's son Sima Wang was not the object that Sima Yan dared to provoke casually.

Therefore, after Sima replaced Wei Lijin, Sima Fu was named the king of Anping of 40,000 households, and he also moved to the position of Dazai in ancient times for him.

In addition, because Sima Shi was succeeded by his younger brother Sima Zhao when he died, this caused Sima Yan's younger brother Sima You to also want to take over his brother's class all day long.

Later generations once said that Sima You was accused of Sima Yan's death, in fact, Sima Yan was very good to Sima You, and Sima You's treatment before his death was as follows: King Qi, Da Sima, and the military governor of Qingzhou, plus the service, the fake festival, the camp of 1,000 people, personally riding the tent under Sima Dache as before, adding one more advocacy, 20 official horses, and five Sima horses.

It can be said that if you want power and power, you want status and status, and you want face and face, but you just refuse to make him the heir.

In this case, Sima Yan also had to give the kings real power, on the one hand, to learn from Cao Wei's negative example, and on the other hand, Sima Yan really did not have the strength to attack his huge family.

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

If Sima Yan can barely control the scene, what about Sima Zhen, who succeeded him after Sima Yan's death?

Such a bad result is the reason for the instability of the Sima family, and several generations of the Sima family have carried out a large reward in order to tie the interests of the big clan with themselves.