Why is Sima Zhong's life miserable? What did he do?

At the end of the Jin Dynasty, there was a famous "fool" emperor Sima Zhong, and many of his deeds were passed down as jokes. Sima Zhong's life is both helpless and pitiful.

Sima Zhong, born stupid, became the most famous "stupid" story of Prince Sima Zhong by virtue of his eldest son status. Why don't you eat minced meat? . Sima Zhong, who was still a prince at that time, was even more puzzled when he learned that the people in famine years could not even eat: "Why don't these people eat porridge?" Such a foolish image was passed down to later generations.

Sima Zhong's father, Sima Yan, has more than twenty sons. It stands to reason that Sima Zhong is so stupid that he can't be an emperor. However, Yang Yan, the mother of Sima Zhong, was the queen of Sima Yan, and Sima Zhong was the eldest son. Yang Yan is very popular in Sima Yan. In addition, Yang's family is also a big backer of Sima's family.

Therefore, under the comprehensive balance, Sima Yan let Sima Zhong inherit his own throne.

Let his wife help him cheat, and Sima Zhong became emperor smoothly. Although Sima Zhong was appointed as a prince, Sima Yan was still very worried about his son's ability and once wanted to abolish his status as a prince. However, both the Queen and the Yang family decided to stop it. So he decided to test whether Sima Zhong had the ability to be a prince. He asked his son some questions to see how he handled these political affairs.

At that time, Jia Nanfeng, the Crown Princess, knew that her husband could not answer these questions, so she asked several knowledgeable people to answer them for Sima Zhong, and asked Sima Zhong to copy the answers. Sima Yan looked at his son's test paper and thought that his son was not so stupid, so he gave up the idea of setting up another prince. In the end, there is no doubt that Sima Zhong became the next emperor of the Western Jin Dynasty.

The puppet emperor Sima Zhong ended his miserable life in chaos. Although Sima Zhong became emperor, because of his stupidity, power was actually in the hands of Queen Jia Nanfeng. After Jia Nanfeng came to power, he was unscrupulous and indulgent, and did things that hurt ministers and persecuted the royal family. Later, Jia Nanfeng even ignored Sima Zhong and had an affair with others.

Because of what Jia Nanfeng did, the Eight Kings Rebellion was triggered. Every brother and vassal in Sima Zhongli raises the flag today and I will rebel tomorrow. In the end, after being treated as a puppet by the king, Sima Zhong was poisoned by his own brother, ending his tragic life.