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Empress Jia was now in control in close association with several advisors that she trusted — the capable official Zhang Hua, her cousins Pei Wei ( 裴頠 ) and Jia Mo ( 賈模 ), and her nephew Jia Mi ( 賈謐 — originally named Han Mi but posthumously adopted into the line of Jia Chong's son Jia Limin ( 賈黎民 )).

She also closely associated with her distant cousin-once-removed Guo Zhang ( 郭彰 ), her sister Jia Wu ( 賈午 ), and Emperor Wu's concubine Zhao Chan ( 趙粲 ).

She lacked self-control, and was violent and capricious in her ways, but Zhang, Pei, and Jia Mo were honest men who generally kept the government in order.

However, as she grew increasingly unbridled in her behavior ( including committing adultery with many men and later murdering them to silence them ), Zhang, Pei, and Jia Mo considered deposing her and replacing her with Crown Prince Yu's mother Consort Xie, but they hesitated and never took actual action.

After Jia Mo died in 299, it became even harder to control her actions.