"八王之乱"与禁卫军权

作为中国古代专制君权有机构成的禁卫军权，它既是维护君主专制政体正常运作的必要条件，同时也会成为破坏这一体制的重要因素。“八王之乱”是中国历史上规模最大、影响极为深远的一场统治集团争夺最高统治权力的政治斗争。参与政争的太后及外戚杨骏、惠贾皇后、宗室诸王之间围绕宫殿禁廷的控制权而展开了多次较量，对禁卫军权的控制和利用成为斗争中最常见的手段，能否有效掌握禁卫军权往注成为决定胜负的关键。“八王之乱”与禁卫军权的关系，提供了认识中国古代君主专制政治和禁卫军权关系的一个典型个案。

The"Eight-King Rebellion"and the Power of the Imperial Guards

As an integrated part of the monarch's autocracy in feudal China,the power of the imperial guards had played a double role.It was both a necessary tool for the maintenance of the autocracy system and a destructive element for that system.The eight king rebellion was the most influential event of political struggle in the center of high power,and the empress dowager,Yang Jun,empress Hui Jia,and relations to the emperor,all tried to gain absolute control of the power of the imperial guards because the control of that power very often meant control of the ultimate power of the state.This is a typical case study of the relationship between monarch's autocracy and the power of the imperial guards.