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If one of the dozens of dynasties in history is selected to have the greatest influence on the Chinese nation, I believe that the Han Dynasty will definitely win the championship.

The influence of the Han Dynasty on the Chinese nation is deeply rooted. The language we speak is called Chinese, and the characters we use are called Chinese characters. The main ethnic group of the Chinese nation is the Han nationality. Gift, why did the Han Dynasty have such a profound influence on the Chinese nation?

First of all, the Han Dynasty has unparalleled cultural accumulation of the Chinese nation in more than 400 years. The Han Dynasty is the era with the most good emperors among the major dynasties in history.

The famous three ancestors and five ancestors let us admire them, and the six prosperous ages that appeared in the Han Dynasty will make the people of later generations "think of Han" and be fascinated by them!

The so-called prosperous age refers to the era of social stability, economic development, production progress, advanced technology, and people living and working in peace and contentment!

Such an era appeared at least six times in the Han Dynasty.

They are Wenjingzhizhi, Hanwu Shengshi, Zhaoxuanzhizhi, Guangwu Zhongxing, Mingzhangzhizhi, Yongyuanzhilong.The Western Han and Eastern Han each accounted for three.

After the founding of the Han Dynasty, it was not stabilized until the time of Hanwen Emperor Liu Heng, and the social economy began to develop rapidly. The era when two generations of emperors were in power, Hanwen Emperor Liu Heng and Han Jing Emperor Liu Qi, was called the rule of Wenjing.

The rulers in the early Han Dynasty adopted a policy of recuperation, reduced the burden of corvee and taxes on the common people, and paid great attention to the development of agricultural production.

The two generations of emperors Wen and Jing continued to vigorously implement this policy, and the social economy soon prospered, and people's lives showed an initial affluent level of well-off.

Sima Qian said in "Historical Records" that the common people's households are very rich, and there is no lack of food or clothing. The granaries are full of grain, and the granaries and warehouses in all states and counties are also full. Chang'an and other places collect it. Because the tax money has not been used all year round, the ropes that string the money are all broken.

The grain in the national granary was piled up outside the warehouse because the old grain could not be used up.

Historians praised the Wenjing period for its clear politics, economic development, and stable people's lives. It was indeed a peaceful and prosperous age, and it was also the first ruling era among feudal dynasties in Chinese history.

The prosperous age of Han Wu is the prosperous situation after the rule of Wenjing, and it is coherent with the rule of Wenjing. The prosperous age of Hanwu has been further developed on the basis of the rule of Wenjing. In a prosperous situation, the comprehensive national strength was well-deserved number one in the world at that time.

During the heyday of Han Wu, the mainstream form of Han culture was basically formed, which opened the prelude to the influence of Chinese civilization on the world.Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty conquered the barbarians and expanded the land, and the country's prestige spread far and wide.

In the east, the four counties of Han Dynasty were set up on the Korean Peninsula, in the south, Baiyue went directly to the central part of Vietnam, in the north, the Xiongnu recovered Hetao and set up Wuyuan and Shuofang counties, and in the west, they occupied the western part of the Hexi Corridor.

And the Western Expedition to Dawan made the countries of the Western Regions surrender. This is the first time in the history of our country that the Chinese nation has occupied the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains and Central Asia, and established the incomparable Han family in the previous life!
The reason why historians say "Qin Huang Han Wu" together is that Emperor Wu of Han made many pioneering and innovative strategies for governing the country.

Zhaoxuan Zhongxing, also known as Xiaoxuan Zhongxing or Zhaoxuan Zhizhi, was a prosperous era created by Emperor Zhaoxuan of the Han Dynasty Liu Fuling and Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty Liu Xun.

Zhaoxuan Zhongxing was connected to the heyday of Han and Wu. The reason why it was called Zhongxing was because during the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the use of troops against the Xiongnu and other places caused a lot of consumption of national power.

Therefore, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty stopped using foreign troops in his later years and issued an edict of guilt to the world. After the death of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Emperor Han Zhao succeeded to the throne. With the assistance of Huo Guang and other ministers, he rested with the people.

After rectifying the administration of officials and vigorously developing social production, the national power of the Han Dynasty began to rise again. However, Emperor Zhaodi of the Han Dynasty died young, and Liu Bing, the grandson of Emperor Wudi's eldest son Liu Ju, was welcomed as Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty.

After Emperor Xuan succeeded to the throne, he made great efforts to govern, encouraged social production, and vigorously developed the economy. On the basis of the prosperity of the Han and Wu Dynasties, he created a prosperous situation of national strength, Sibari people's obedience, economic prosperity, and people's livelihood.

Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty was also a very low-key emperor, but his ability to govern the country was stronger than that of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. According to historical records, during his reign, the politics was clear, the society was harmonious, the economy was prosperous, and the barbarians were obedient.

Although he has only been in power for more than 20 years, his martial arts and martial arts have surpassed Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and the national power of the Western Han Dynasty also reached the peak of history during his reign.

Generally speaking, there is no dynasties in the three prosperity periods of Wenjing Zhizhi, Hanwu prosperity, and Zhaoxuan Zhongxing. Therefore, these three prosperity periods are also rare long-term prosperity periods in Chinese history, lasting more than 130 years.

Guangwu Zhongxing is a prosperous situation created after Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu killed Wang Mang who usurped the power of the Han Dynasty.Speaking of Liu Xiu, the founding emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Emperor Guangwu.

Everyone who knows him will be full of praise. The so-called literary ability to govern the country and military ability to stabilize the country, there is almost no one who surpasses this person in history. Emperor Guangwu started his army at the age of 28 and became emperor at the age of 31. He caused chaos in the world within ten years. The current situation has turned into a ruling situation, and he is the real one who changes the world and benefits the world!
Emperor Guangwu reigned for 33 years. Under his rule, social stability, economic recovery, and population growth appeared in the early years of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

Emperor Guangwu brought the country out of the great turmoil at the end of the Western Han Dynasty and made the Han Dynasty prosperous and strong. According to historical records, the social prosperity of Emperor Guangwu in his later years has already caught up with that of Emperor Wu of the Western Han Dynasty. Historians call this period Guangwu Zhongxing, and there has never been a ZTE situation in history. Comparable to Guangwu ZTE.

Following Guangwu Zhongxing, the prosperous scene also appeared during the reigns of Emperor Guangwu's descendants Han Ming Emperor Liu Zhuang and Han Zhang Emperor Liu Da. Both emperors knew how to rest with the people, reduce taxes, and manage officialdom.

Therefore, at this time, the Han Dynasty had clear politics, stable society, economic development, simple folk customs, rapid development of scientific and technological social productivity, and the popularization of education. The Eastern Han Dynasty had its heyday.

The two emperors Ming and Zhang ruled for 31 years (57 A.D.-88 A.D.). The two generations of emperors inherited the governance policy of Emperor Guangwu and worked hard for governance, economic development and social stability.

It made great achievements in Wenzhi and martial arts, and became one of the golden periods in the history of the Han Dynasty, so it is called "Mingzhang Zhizhi" in history.

Yongyuan Zhilong is the ruling scene created by Emperor Liu Zhao of the Eastern Han Dynasty. After Emperor Zhang of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the power of the Han Dynasty was alternately controlled by foreign relatives and eunuchs.

After that, he made great efforts to govern, rectified the administration of officials internally, recruited talents, reduced taxes, and cared about the hardships of the people; he was very diligent in politics and was a famous diligent emperor in history. Moving westward, so far, the Huns, a barbarian tribe from the northern grasslands, have fought with the farming peoples of the Central Plains for hundreds of years.

Finally, it was completely wiped out and disappeared into the mist of history. Emperor Hanhe also appointed Ban Chao as the protector of the Western Regions, and the countries of the Western Regions became part of China.

During this period of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the country was prosperous and the people were safe, and the people of the Siyi were served. If you look at the world at that time, the Wei Dahan can be proud of the world.

Of course, the flourishing ages of later generations are all products of the rule of Wenjing.

Then the Seven Kingdoms Rebellion during the Wenjing period created a prosperous Han Dynasty, why did the Eight Kingdoms Rebellion after Cao Wei not create a corresponding prosperous dynasty?
Next, let us look at the historical process of these two things.

Feudal towns and the reduction of feudal vassals is one of the most enduring and eternal themes in Chinese history, running through almost every dynasty of the Chinese Empire.

In the Han Dynasty, kings with different surnames and kings with the same surname rebelled, the pattern of feudal towns in the Tang Dynasty, the Battle of Jingnan in the Ming Dynasty, and the San Francisco Rebellion in the early Qing Dynasty.It is very appropriate to compare the phenomenon of feudal towns to the cancer of a dynasty in the imperial era.

The reason is that the highly unified imperial power has brought great power temptation and the strong military force needed to defend this great power naturally constitutes a circular causal relationship.

To consolidate power, one must have military power, and with military power one must almost covet power.Therefore, among the great dynasties in China, only the Song Dynasty was relatively weak in facing the problem of feudal towns, but this was at the cost of sacrificing the defense power of the dynasty, so although the Song Dynasty was stable, it seemed weak.

Generally speaking, the more immature the imperial system was in the early historical stage, the more serious the scale and impact of the feudal town phenomenon was.This may be based on two reasons.

One is that before the imperial examination system was established, ordinary scholars lacked social channels for social advancement, which resulted in a considerable number of ambitious and capable talents not being able to become officials in the central dynasty, so as to seek to emerge in the local government; Thought and related concepts have not yet completed the system construction.

In the early historical stage, it was far from being deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and allegiance and sole allegiance to the central government has not yet become a universal political correctness and conscious belief.

Therefore, "a good bird chooses a tree to live in, and a good minister chooses a master to do things" frequently appeared in the mainstream consciousness of some people, and it was not until after the Song Dynasty that it became the so-called "reading the books of Confucius and Mencius, you must reach the Duke of Zhou". gift.

One horse does not have two saddles, and loyal ministers do not serve two masters." However, the ridiculousness of China's political ethics is also here, holding the banner of Confucius and Mencius, but Mencius himself advocated: "A gentleman should not stand under a dangerous wall."

Confucius was also satirized by Mr. Jin Yong quoting Feng Menglong's "Ancient and Modern Laughter": "Everything talks about Wei Qi".

Of course, the above reasons are more general reasons.

The real direct and decisive reason is the conflict of interests.Because of seizing interests, there will be feudal vassals, and because of defending interests, there will be feudal vassals.Some people may ask, since we know that there will be hidden dangers of the separatism of the feudal town later, why bother to establish the feudal town in the first place?
The reality is that there is no other better way.

Decentralized governance is a means of governance that people have to adopt when communication technology and management systems are backward.

Because communication is backward, the timeliness of information limits the spatial scope that an administrative center can cover, so effective governance must be based on geographical segmentation, and the administrative managers of regional centers must have independent authority.

This makes decentralization inevitable.Since the separation of powers is inevitable, the question of who to grant the powers to is an important question, and the answer is of course cronies.

But ironically, cronies are actually a relative concept.One generation people are relatives, after three or four generations they are hardly relatives anymore.But it is even worse not to hand over power to relatives, because that may not even last a generation of peace.

So it became a seemingly unsolvable problem.

As long as the separation of powers is also achieved in time, the impact of the emergence of separatist regimes can be offset. This is the tenure system, or the rotation system.

As long as those in power with local independent powers are not fixed for a long time, their threat will be reduced to a very low level.

But this involves a problem, that is, a large number of technical bureaucrats are required.

It is not difficult to find someone to become an official. During the Wei and Jin Dynasties, people recommended officials based on their nepotism, which would only form a large clan of elites, which was actually equivalent to a separatist regime.

It was not until the imperial examination system came into being that this problem was completely resolved.China's imperial system (the feudal system mentioned in textbooks) is actually an anomaly in the world. It not only appeared very early, but also lasted for a long time.

The reason is that China's ruling class has been constantly trying to find innovations in management technology, and these reforms will also bring various troubles. The Seven Kingdoms Rebellion and the Eight Kings Rebellion are two such big troubles.

At the beginning of the founding of the Han Dynasty by Gaozu Liu Bang, seven people with different surnames were granted and nine people with the same surname.Among the kings with different surnames are famous generals such as Chu Wang Han Xin, Huainan Wang Yingbu, Liang Wang Peng Yue and so on.

Among them is the king of Han, also named Han Xin, who was generally called Han Wangxin in history.It can be said that the enfeoffment of these kings with different surnames is not a need for governance, but a need for united front when fighting for the world.

So once Liu Bang seized the world, he began to cut off these heroes with Queen Lu.

In 195 BC, Liu Bang established the White Horse Alliance, and the Han Dynasty no longer named kings with different surnames.After the Zhulu rebellion was settled, the kings with different surnames basically disappeared.

However, Liu Bang obviously did not expect that as long as the enfeoffment system exists, there is actually no difference between having different surnames.

During the reign of Wen Jing, the central government of the Han Dynasty tended to be stable, and the national strength and people's livelihood were greatly developed.But at the same time, the power of the kingdoms with different surnames is also developing rapidly, and the degree of friction with the central government is deepening day by day.

More importantly, the blood relationship between the princes and the emperor is also becoming more and more distant.More and more people have begun to see the potential threat of Wang, who has the same surname.

During Emperor Wen's time, Jia Yi, a well-known counselor, reminded Emperor Wen of Han to be vigilant against princes and kings, and suggested to adopt the strategy of "many build princes but less power" to deal with it.This policy was later used by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty to push the grace order, that is, to let the princes and kings continue to use their territories to entrust their descendants, so as to achieve the purpose of naturally and steadily dividing the power of the princes and kings.

But Emperor Hanwen did not adopt it.In the period of Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty, Chao Cuo, an angry youth, came.Although he was also loyal, he strongly remonstrated the dangers of the princes and kings, and advocated the reduction of the vassal.

But his strategy is too low-level, it can be summed up in two words: hard cutting.This directly led to the general outbreak of the Seven Kingdoms Rebellion.So that later Yuan Mei compared Jia Yi and Chao Cuo and said: "If you use what you do, you will be farther than Chao and Dong."

Of course, Chao Cuo's cutting of the vassal was just a trigger, and it was a joke to say that he was an angry youth, because Chao Cuo himself expected the consequences: "If you cut it, you will reverse it, if you don't cut it, you will reverse it. If you cut it, it is urgent, and the disaster is small; no If you cut it later, it will be a disaster."

The real reason for the Rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms was that the growing separatist forces posed a serious threat to the central royal power.Among the Seven Kingdoms, there is only one real core rebel force, and that is Wu Wang Liu Bi.

During the period of Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty, there were more than 20 princes and kings, among which Wu State was a very large country.Its fief has three counties, 53 cities, and a total population of about 70 million.

More importantly, the state of Wu occupies a favorable location and is extremely rich.There are copper mines in Yuzhang County in its jurisdiction, which can directly mint money, which is equivalent to having the central bank's currency issuance rights; in addition, it is close to the sea, so it can boil water to get salt.In the era of salt and iron monopoly, these two strategic resources made Wu Guo rich.

Thanks to its strong financial resources, the state of Wu does not need to impose heavy taxes on the people. At the same time, Liu Bi will send people to the people to condolences to the disadvantaged groups every year.Therefore, the hearts of the people are attached, and the internal affairs are clear.It is also because of the money that the King of Wu recruited talents and all kinds of brave people. Any bandits from other places who fled to Wu would be protected and appointed.

We can't think that Liu Bi always had the intention of rebellion, but the relationship between him and the central government did start with Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty.

Liu Bi was the uncle of Emperor Han Jing.When Emperor Jing was still the prince, Liu Xian, the son of Liu Bi, had an audience with Emperor Wen of Han as the prince of Wu, and Emperor Jing of Han.

They were brothers of the same clan, and they played chess in the back garden. As a result, the two second-generation officials had a bad temper since they were young. They refused to give in to each other in a game of chess. Emperor Jing Liu Qi smashed Liu Xian's head with a chessboard.

Emperor Wenwen of the Han Dynasty felt that he was wronged, so he asked people to bury the prince of Wu Guosheng and send him back to Wu Guo.As a result, Liu Bi heard the news and looked at his son's body again.Furious, he refused to sign the courier on the spot, sent the body back to the capital, and said vehemently, "Where a person dies, he will be buried there!"

He pouted the face of the emperor, and from then on excused his illness and never went to court to pay homage to the emperor.

In 157 BC, Emperor Wen Liu Heng died, and Prince Liu Qi came to the throne.

Emperor Han Jing accepted Chao Cuo's suggestion and decided to cut down the vassal, and it was a hard cut, which directly reduced the territories under the jurisdiction of the vassal states.Sure enough, hard chipping results in a hard bar.After the three vassal states reluctantly implemented the policy of cutting vassals, the dissatisfaction of the princes and kings had reached the limit. As soon as the fourth order was issued, the rebellion broke out.It was Wu Wang Liu Bi who provoked the rebellion.

Of course, Liu Bi also knows that no matter how rich he is, he is still weak compared with the central government.So he contacted some other equally disaffected princes.There are mainly Chu Wang Liu Wu (pronunciation: Wu), Zhao Wang Liu Sui, and the four kings of Qidi include: Jinan King Liu Piguang, Zichuan King Liu Xian, Jiaoxi King Liu Ang, and Jiaodong King Liu Xiongqu. They are all sons of Liu Bang's son Liu Fei.

Their fiefdoms are small vassal states formed after the original large Qi division.The rebellion of these seven vassal states was called the Rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms in history.

According to the plan, the rebel forces of the Seven Kingdoms were divided into three groups according to their geographical location: the Wu-Chu coalition forces were the strongest, and they were the main attackers, attacking Luoyang and Chang'an westward.

Zhao Guo is on the north side, responsible for contacting the Hu people and Huns in the north, and marching from Hebei; the four kingdoms of Qi are on the east side, outflanking from Shandong.Three ways to advance troops, divide into joint attacks, and join forces in the Central Plains.

A plan that sounds perfect.But the execution is completely out of shape.Because they unfortunately encountered god-like opponents and neurotic teammates at the same time.

As for Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty, seeing the momentum of the rebel army at the beginning, he felt a lot of anxiety in his heart. He even listened to Yuan Ang's suggestion and beheaded Chao Cuo who suggested cutting the feudal clan, hoping to negotiate peace with the rebel army in exchange.

But obviously, killing Chao Cuo is not the real demand of the rebels at all.Therefore, Emperor Han Jing had no choice but to make tit-for-tat military deployments.The rebel army came from three directions, and I also went on three directions. Let Li Ji attack Zhao Guo, Luan Bu attack Zhu Qi, Taiwei Zhou Yafu led Li Guang, Wei Wan and others to meet Wu Chu's army.

General Guan Ying led the army to garrison Xingyang as the general reserve.The main battlefield of the two sides is of course Liang Guo, which was attacked by the Wu Chu army.

At that time, King Liang was the younger brother of Emperor Jing, so of course he fought desperately.

However, the enemy attacked fiercely and gradually couldn't support them. They asked Zhou Yafu for help one after another. However, Zhou Yafu was calm and ignored him.

Of course, he didn't do nothing, but he saw the crux of the problem. His military strength was no stronger than that of the Wu-Chu Allied Forces. Instead of saving Liang, it was better to cut off food.

Zhou Yafu immediately sent Han Dian, the son of Han Wangxin, to lead the cavalry to cut off the Wu Chu army's food road, and made defensive preparations at the same time.Wu Chu's army found that the grain road was cut off, and they knew something was wrong, so they rushed towards Zhou Yafu frantically, but Zhou Yafu correctly judged the enemy's attack direction and held his position firmly.

In the case of running out of food, Wu Chu's army was defeated.

And when the Wu Chu army was fighting fiercely, why did their teammates go?It turns out that all the troops of Qi are still staying in their hometown in Shandong.They are not standing still, but are debating with arms!
It turned out that before the rebellion, King Xiao Qi agreed to join the Qi rebels in Jiaoxi, Jiaodong, etc., but later Zhu Qi found that King Qi was fooling people, so he didn't want to send troops.So everyone surrounded the state of Qi and began to ask for an explanation.

In order to delay the time, the King of Qi fought and stopped, presented the facts and reasoned, broke them apart and smashed them to pieces. Until the reinforcements from the Han army arrived, these princes were still spraying each other!Completely forgot to assist the main force of Wu Chu army.In the end, he was caught without a fight.

As for King Zhao, Chen Bing had been at the border all along, and he wanted to wait for the Huns to march together as soon as they arrived.As a result, the Xiongnu didn't come, but they waited for the army sent by Qu Zhou Hou Li.

Zhao Wang had no choice but to retreat to Handan, and persisted for 7 months. After Luan Bu took care of the Shandong rebels, he came to reinforce and finally broke Handan.The Rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms was overthrown.

The Rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms seems to have great momentum, but its actual impact is very small.The main battle process lasted only about three months, and the area affected was only one-fifth of the territory of the Han Dynasty.

This is all because during Emperor Jing's period, the central government was still very powerful, and the feudal towns in various places had not yet grown bigger.But in contrast, the Rebellion of the Eight Kings in the Western Jin Dynasty was a world of difference, because at this time the control of the central government was already very weak, and the princes and kings of various places were strong enough to challenge the central government.

The Rebellion of the Eight Kings did not count court struggles, but only considering the duration of the war, it lasted 6 years, affecting almost half of the Western Jin Dynasty, and at the same time, it was the most prosperous center of Jin.

The Rebellion of the Eight Kings almost exhausted all the elite troops and financial resources of the Jin State, which directly contributed to the short-lived national fortune of the Western Jin Dynasty.The Western Jin Dynasty only enjoyed the country for 37 years from the unification of the whole country to its fall.

Another biggest difference between the Rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms and the Rebellion of the Eight Kings is that the plot is simple and the plot is complicated.Compared with the Rebellion of the Eight Kings, the plot of the Rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms is almost equivalent to nothing.

Because these seven countries are seven members of a team, they were eliminated after one game.However, in the Rebellion of the Eight Kings in the Western Jin Dynasty, each king represented a team, and it took rounds of PK like auditions, and finally the champion was produced.If you don't believe me, I'll first write out the official plot summary as concisely as possible, so you can see if you get dizzy.

Emperor Wu of Jin Dynasty Sima Yan died, and Emperor Hui of Jin Dynasty Sima Zhong succeeded to the throne.

Sima Zhong is considered to be a person with low IQ, and he is also the famous imbecile emperor who said "why not eat minced meat".Sima Zhong's grandpa Fu Yang Jun and uncle Runan Wang Sima Liang entrusted him to assist the government alone.

Yang Jun wanted to take power alone, so he drove Sima Liang away.

Sima Zhong's wife, Queen Jia Nanfeng, was dissatisfied with the empress dowager's natal family's interference in politics, so she secretly contacted Sima Wei and Sima Liang, kings of Chu, to get rid of Yang Jun.

Sima Wei led troops into Beijing, killed Yang Jun, and entrusted Gu minister Sima Liang to take power.Jananfeng ordered Sima Wei to kill Sima Liang again, and the next day he turned his face and said that Sima Wei had faked the imperial decree to kill Sima Wei and killed Sima Wei.

A few years later, the queen wanted to get rid of the prince Sima Yu who was not born by herself, and got the support and instigation of King Sima Lun of Zhao.After killing Sima Xun, Sima Lun suddenly launched a coup d'état to kill Empress Jia in the name of revenge for the prince.

A few months later, Sima Lun deposed Sima Zhong and became emperor himself.The three kings Sima Jiong, Sima Yong, and Sima Ying jointly killed Sima Lun, and Sima Jiong took power to welcome Emperor Hui of Jin back.

Sima Ying and Sima Yong rebelled against Sima Jiong again, and Sima Ai in the capital killed Sima Jiong and took power by himself.Sima Ying and Sima Yong did not get power again, so they raised troops to fight Sima Ai again, but failed.

Although Sima Ai won, he did not expect to be caught by Sima Yue inside, and then roasted to death.Sima Yue apparently took power and stayed in Luoyang, while Sima Ying actually took power and returned to Yecheng.

Sima Yue was dissatisfied, and led the emperor to attack Sima Ying and fled back to the East China Sea.However, Sima Teng, Sima Yue's younger brother Sima Teng, joined forces with Wuhuan and Jie Zhu to defeat Sima Ying. Sima Ying and Jin Huidi fled to Luoyang and were controlled by Sima Yong.

Finally, Sima Yue made a comeback and defeated Chang'an.Later, Sima Yong and Sima Ying were killed, and Emperor Hui of Jin was poisoned, and Sima Chi succeeded him as Emperor Huai of Jin.So far, the Rebellion of the Eight Kings is over.

Since Qin unified the world, the development of Chinese history has often been repeated. For example, Qin Shihuang implemented the system of prefectures and counties under the strong recommendation of Li Si, and the system of prefectures and counties is not considered a feudal system. Split.

But later, the enfeoffment system appeared to varying degrees in different dynasties and different periods. It appeared in the early Han, Jin, and early Ming.

What is more interesting is that when the dynasty was considering whether to establish a feudal system, it mainly referred to the reasons for the failure of the previous dynasty.The abolition of enfeoffment is to consider the internal turmoil in the clan of the previous dynasty, and the adoption of enfeoffment to princes and kings is also to worry about the change of dynasty due to the excessive power of foreign clans.

For example, in the Western Jin Dynasty, he believed that the reason why Jin could replace Wei was that the Wei family was weak, and if Cao Shuang was dealt with, everything would be fine, so he strengthened the power of the clan.

Zhu Yuanzhang practiced the feudal system, and after killing all the heads of the army, he still worried that the crown prince was not strong enough. The later crown prince was even more immature, so he naturally needed the clan to maintain the stability of the imperial power.

The Rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms in the early Han Dynasty did not cause fatal damage. On the contrary, the central court successfully implemented the reduction of vassals and strengthened the centralization of power.

However, the Rebellion of the Eight Kings in the Western Jin Dynasty had no purpose of cutting down the feudal vassal states, but it directly destroyed the Western Jin Dynasty and caused Yongjia to cross to the east.What are these for?

Let me talk about the Seven Kingdoms Rebellion first. At that time, the central government realized that the vassal states were too strong and directly threatened the centralized rule of the central government, so Emperor Han Jing began to cut down the vassal under Chao Cuo's suggestion.

In the vassal states, the princes and kings at that time were no longer granted by Emperor Wen or Emperor Jing, and their blood was far away from Emperor Wen or Emperor Jing.

For example, Liu Bi, the most powerful king of Wu, is the son of Liu Bang’s second elder brother Liu Zhong. When he was 20 years old, he followed Liu Bangping and Huainan Wang Yingbu’s rebellion. Don't take Emperor Han Jing seriously, let alone provoke him, so there is basically no room for compromise between the two sides, and they must fight.

Emperor Han Jing's final victory was also a lot of luck, and the advantage is that.

The court is relatively united, with an old lady sitting in the town, who can live stably in the rear; second, Emperor Han Jing’s younger brother Liang Wang Liu Wu played a good role in the barrier, and there are many generals like Zhou Yafu and Li Guang in the court to command;

Even if Emperor Han Jing fails and Liu Bi succeeds in usurping the throne, Han will still be Han with the surname of Liu, and the cutting of feudal vassals will continue to be done more thoroughly, just like Zhu Di.The central government will still be strengthened, but the emperor will change individuals.The ruling foundation of the Han Dynasty will not be shaken.

The situation in the Western Jin Dynasty was not so lucky.

First of all, the Eight Princes' Rebellion did not have the central government's intention to cut down the feudal vassals. It caused conflicts with powerful ministers, so he used the princes king Sima Wei, the king of Chu, to eradicate his opponent, Sima Liang, the king of Runan. At that time, he blamed the king of Chu and killed the king of Chu.

Without a stable central government, of course the princes and kings will not be monolithic;
The princes and kings of the Western Jin Dynasty had great power, and the princes and kings of the Han Dynasty already had great power, but the administrative power of the local administration, the prefect, the governor, the governor, and the personnel were still in the central government, while the princes and kings of the Western Jin Dynasty directly took over, which caused the imperial court to restrain the princes and states. No power, no gossip;
In the Rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms, although the princes and kings are powerful, they want to win in one battle, so the outcome of victory or defeat will be resolved soon, and it will end in three months. In fact, it was you who sang and I came on stage, and it was this prince who was dissatisfied with that prince who issued orders instead of the emperor in the central government, and raised troops when there was a disagreement.

And it is very strange that the king who took over the government has not been beaten, which shows how disharmonious the highest ruling class is.So there are two stages before and after the Eight Kings Rebellion.

The first phase lasted three months, and the second phase lasted seven years.

Both Chang'an and Luoyang were turned into ruins. There were so few people in Luoyang that wormwood as tall as a person grew everywhere. The emperor wanted to escape when he encountered robbers on the street and hid back. The capital is like this, let alone an ordinary city. The Holocaust is in the books.Therefore, in the civil strife in the Western Jin Dynasty, there was no winner, and those who survived to the end were all lingering, without the strength to restore order.