In April 267 AD, the Jin court received the news that Guan Yi was about to enter the Northern Expedition. To be honest, Sima Yan was relieved while his headache was split.

Nothing else, before that, the Jin court had already quarreled. The ministers had already shown signs of a full-scale party struggle. If it weren't for the news that Guan Yi was about to enter the Northern Expedition and properly attracted everyone's attention, he wouldn't know how long he would have been upset.

In July 265 AD, the Wei and Jin dynasties were in the Zen period. At that time, there was no crown prince in Jin State. Sima Yan was not established, and the ministers didn't care. The eldest son of the emperor, Sima Gui, was the eldest son and the legitimate son. He was also intelligent and beautiful, and he was a good candidate for the crown prince. It was the same as the case whether he was established or not.

However, the child died in August 266...

Sima Gui's death suddenly made the Jin State suddenly awaken: Oh, our big country has been established for more than a year, but there is no crown prince yet? Let's do it quickly, and we must establish a prince!

The main reason for being so anxious is that Sima Yan's second son is also the second son, and the one named Sima Zhong is mentally retarded.

When Sima Gui was there, no one thought that Sima Zhong was annoying with anything that was annoying with his mental retardation. Your Sima family is not mentally ill. But now it is not possible. After Sima Gui died, whether it is a blood relationship with a illegitimate wife or a senatorial order, as long as it is followed by etiquette, Sima Zhong should be the crown prince - but that man is a mentally retardant!

Ancient feudal society was the family. Whether the descendants of a team leader are excellent is very important to the stability of the hearts of his subordinates - if you are gone in the future, your son will pay me a salary. I am gone, and my son and grandson will still have to have dinner at your house. If your heir is a bastard, then the happiness of my descendants will be unsecured in the second half of my life!

So, if you want to establish a mentally retarded emperor, then we have to speak carefully.

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

Although it was absolutely not a virtue if the emperors in ancient times were dedicated to one woman. On the contrary, the ministers had to object and encourage the emperor to find more women to have more sons. But for Sima Yan, that was another matter.

This guy is super lustful! In the historical plane, since the Three Kingdoms returned to Jin, the world was unified. Sima Yan, who was proud and satisfied, expanded his backyard extensively, and the concubines in the palace reached an astonishing scale of 10,000 people. Even now, due to the relationship between time travelers, the international environment of Jin State is not as good as the historical plane, but Jin State is the largest country in the world after all. So less than three years after Sima Yan took office, the concubines in the backyard had expanded to more than 500 people.

A place where women gather together must have many right and wrong. In the palace, where there is only one place for male resources, everyone wants to have the emperor's favor. Therefore, in the palace of Jin State, various palace fights emerge one after another, constantly refreshing the lower limit. The queen Yang Yan had to let her parents' family bring her sister Yang Zhi into the palace as soon as possible, otherwise she would not be able to stop the various open and secret arrows of the concubines below.

Now Yang Yan's eldest son is dead, and his second son is mentally retarded. The third son Sima Jian is only over four years old and less than five years old. Sima Yan's little wife, the son of the aesthetic man, is also over four years old. And the aesthetic man is currently more favored by Sima Yan than Yang Yan. So someone has thought about it.

"Your Majesty, the emperor's eldest son has passed away, and I am very sad. But once this matter occurs, it is extremely necessary for the country to establish a crown prince. Therefore, I dare to set up a candidate for the crown prince as soon as possible to assure the hearts of hundreds of millions of subjects."

There is no problem with the words of Shangshu Ling Pei Xiu. The country has been established for several years and the eldest son has died. At this time, it is indeed time to decide on the crown prince. Otherwise, with the medical level of this era and your lifestyle, what if you get a chance to do one day, what should this country do?

But whoever is appointed as the crown prince is worth talking about.

The positions of the Yang Jun and Yang Yan brothers were consistent at the beginning: they must be the child born by Yang Yan!

But is it Sima Zhong or Sima Jian? The two brothers' opinions are not unified: Yang Jun hopes it is Sima Zhong, and Yang Ju hopes it is Sima Jian.

Pei Xiu, Zhang Hua, Ren Kai, and He Qiao's opinions are also relatively unified: Sima Jian and Sima Jing are both OK, but they cannot be Sima Zhong anyway - the country's crown prince cannot be mentally retarded.

Jia Chong and Xun Xu also had a very unified opinion: It’s good to be mentally retarded. In the future, when mentally retarded becomes emperor, we can do whatever we want!

So, Jia Chong and Pei Xiu, who were once allies, were disguised as a fuss! The former political enemy Yang Jun became Jia Chong's allies instead.

Jia Chong's opinion is very convincing: Your Majesty, now the second son of the emperor is most qualified to be the crown prince, regardless of age or blood. If he does not choose him as the crown prince but chooses other princes, then where are the rules? Without the rules, will everyone be able to covet the position of the crown prince in the future? Only by strictly determining the crown prince in accordance with etiquette and law can those who are not qualified have their thoughts.

Pei Xiu's reason is very simple: no matter how the emperor is, he must have the right to be a middle-aged man? Does Your Majesty want the great Jin Dynasty to be forever? Let's not talk about anything else, look at Cao Wei. If Cao Fang was not too young when he was in power, how could his ancestors have anything to do with you? Then he is still a normal person who is young. You are a mentally retarded child. Even if Your Majesty, you will live a hundred years old, the second prince will not have a normal IQ because of his age, right?

Sima Zhao's evaluation of Sima Yan seems to be very capable and decisive, but in fact he is indecisive. It should be said that this evaluation is correct.

In the historical perspective, Sima Yan repeatedly wanted to abolish Sima Zhong's position as crown prince, but stopped in the middle. In short, he attached too much importance to his family's feelings, and there was no ruthless that an emperor should have.

So now, he is confused and hesitant, and cannot make a decision for a long time.

After he hesitated, the Jin Empire was in trouble.

The long time Sun Quan wandered between the prince and the King of Lu that year, the party struggles in the Southern Lu became more and more intense, and the entire Eastern Wu court was completely divided. The longer he delayed the issue of the first prince of the Jin Empire, the greater the division of court officials within the Jin Empire - if it continues, it will be a complete party struggle!

Starting from August of this year, the entire bureaucratic class of the Jin Empire was brought in due to the issue of establishing a crown prince. The main attention of the bosses was all focused on this. What about autumn harvest? Doing a good job in preventing the invasion of Wu and Shu, all of them were lined up behind. The whole court was noisy and lively.

Sima Yan is not stupid. He knows very well that this unyielding will cause great harm to the country. But he just can't make up his mind.

The last one to help him make up his mind was King Sima You.

Speaking of which, Sima Yan's brother, was inherited from Sima Shi. Who is Sima Shi? One of the powerful ministers of the Sima family who inherited the past and made great contributions to the Sima family! Therefore, Sima You naturally threatened Sima Yan's status. After the founding of the Jin State, even if Sima Yan was unhappy, he would give this younger brother a sign that would be president of military affairs in China and abroad.

Unfortunately, this pure filial child is a political idiot: You said that the output of the fiefdom is enough to live a superior life, and you will definitely not receive the salary of the court, which makes many other princes very embarrassed. You set thirty taxes for your serfs on the fiefdom, which makes many of the outrageously low tax rates, which caused many serfs from other princes in the fiefdoms and even the self-cultivated farmers from the country to flock to your fiefdoms. You actually ran to the central army camp as the prince to tell the truth to those ignorant mud legs. Do you think your identity is not sensitive enough, and do you think I don’t have enough suspicion about you?

Sima You did not express his opinion at first on whom to choose the crown prince. Later, seeing that Jia Chong and others were really distorted, he couldn't help but speak: Sima Jian.

Huh?! Do you want to make the sound of the hammer at the end? Will you be grateful to you in the future? I don’t!

In January 267 AD, Sima Yan issued an order to make his second son, Sima Zhong, who was just eight years old this year, was the crown prince.

When the news came out, the expected cessation did not come. On the contrary, most of the ministers who really hoped that this country would be glorious were all lit up! The memorial like snowflakes, and the book instantly submerged Sima Yan in the palace.

After more than three months, I didn’t go to court. I opened the memorial in the study all day long. Countless ministers said that His Majesty did not take the great Jin Dynasty to heart. When I went to court, the ministers of the two factions criticized each other... The entire country, at least the central government, had a tendency to stagnate.
Chapter completed!