Chapter 104: The heroes of the Northern Expedition

After the death of Emperor Ming of Jin, the crown prince Sima Yan succeeded him as Emperor Cheng of Jin, assisted by Wang Dao and his relative Yu Liang. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 infoAt that time, the important military towns were Taokan to guard the Jingxiang area, and Su Jun and Zuyue to guard the Huainan area. Tao Kan suspected that because of Yu Liang's intervention, he was dissatisfied with the failure to assist the government, and Yu Liang asked Wen Qiao to guard Wuchang in order to guard against Tao Kan.

Because Su Jun and Zu Yue were dissatisfied with Yu Liang's policy of consolidating the central government, they rebelled. In the following year, the Suzu coalition army captured the Jingshi and coerced Emperor Jin Cheng, and Yu Liang fled to Xunyang. At this time, Tao Kan waited and watched, and decided to crusade against Su Jun under the persuasion of Wen Qiao, Su Jun was killed in battle, and the Tao-Wen coalition army recovered the Beijing division and successfully quelled the chaos.

Afterwards, Yu Liang pleaded guilty and transferred to guard Wuhu, and the court was governed by Wang Dao. After Tao Kan died, Yu Liang replaced him, still remotely controlled the imperial court, and had a bad relationship with Wang Dao. Wang Dao and Yu Liang died successively, and Yu Yi ruled and controlled the military power of Jingzhou.

After the establishment of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the Jin people who moved south did not want to launch a northern expedition to recover their homeland that had fallen in the north. However, since the Shi clan has settled in Jiangnan, the abundant assets of the south make it difficult to return to the north. However, after the establishment of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, many northern expeditions were still carried out.

In the early days of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the imperial court adopted an offensive and defensive attitude to resist the north. Zu Ti intended to go on a northern expedition, and Emperor Jin Yuan gave full support, not only taking out 3,000 horses from the inventory of thousands of cloths to support, but also ordering Zu Ti to recover the Central Plains. He recruited exiles to build an army to the north, and Emperor Yuan of the Jin Dynasty also successively sent his second son and Sima Yang to cooperate with Zu Ti, and cooperated with the local Wubao, and finally succeeded in recovering the territory south of the Yellow River and holding it across the river from Shile.

Zu Ti is an open-minded and ambitious person, but when he was a child, he was a mischievous child who did not like to read. When he was young, he realized that he was poor in knowledge and felt that he could not serve the country without reading, so he began to study hard.

He read extensively and studied history carefully, from which he absorbed a wealth of knowledge and made great progress in his studies. He had been in and out of Luoyang, Kyoto several times, and those who had come into contact with him said that Zu Ti was a talent who could assist the emperor in governing the country. When Zu Ti was twenty-four years old, someone once recommended him to be an official, but he did not agree, and still worked tirelessly to study.

Later, Zu Ti and his childhood friend Liu Kun Yizhi served as the chief secretary of Sizhou, he and Liu Kun have a deep relationship, not only often sleep in the same bed, sleep together, but also have a common lofty ideal, make contributions, revive the Jin Kingdom, and become the pillars of the country.

Once, in the middle of the night, Zu Ti heard the crowing of a rooster in his sleep, and he kicked Liu Kun awake and said to him, "Do you hear the rooster crow?"

Liu Kun said: "It's unlucky to hear a rooster crowing in the middle of the night. ”

Zu Qi said: "I don't think so, why don't we get up and practice swords when we hear a rooster crow in the future?" Liu Kun readily agreed.

So they get up every day after the rooster crows to practice swords, the sword light flies, the sword sound is sonorous, spring goes to winter, cold comes and summer, never stops. After a long period of hard study and training, they finally became all-rounders who could write good articles and lead troops to win battles. Zu Ti was named the general of Zhenxi, realizing his desire to serve the country; Liu Kun became the general of the expedition to the north, and was in charge of the military affairs of the three prefectures of Merge, Hebei, and Youzhou, and also gave full play to his literary and military talents.

Due to the civil strife in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the imperial court sent Dai Yuan as the general of the expedition to the west, and the capital supervised the armies to guard Shouyang, and the general Zu Ti of the western part of the town was unwilling to be subordinate to him, and repaired the military prison along the Yellow River for defense, and learned that Wang Dun and Liu Kui were full of contradictions within the imperial court, and died of grief.

Wang Dun rebelled because of Zu Jun's death, and Zu Ti's army was led by his younger brother Zu Yue, and finally rebelled with Su Jun. Due to the internal contradictions of the Jin Dynasty, the lost land was regained, and when the Jin Dynasty became the emperor, Yu Liang and Yu Yi brothers presided over the Northern Expedition, and they took Jingzhou as the center and intended to launch the Northern Expedition. But because it was resisted, reunification was not achieved. After the death of the Yu brothers, the imperial court successively led to many northern expeditions by Chu Li, Yin Hao, Xie Shang, Huan Wen, Sima Xun, etc.

Huan Wen crusaded against Yaoxiang in Henan, defeated and captured Luoyang, and repaired the imperial mausoleum. Huan Wen ignored the imperial court's request for him to garrison and operate Luoyang, leaving only 3,000 people of Mao Mu to guard Luoyang and retreat south on his own. After Emperor Ai of Jin and Emperor Abolition of Jin became emperors one after another, Huan Wen had already controlled the military power.

At that time, the north presented a situation of secession between the former Qin and the former Yan dynasties, and Luoyang was occupied by the former Yan. In order to prepare for the dictatorship, Huan Wen crusaded against Qianyan. At that time, the Yan army was defeated, and the Jin army entered Fangtou to confront the Yan general Murong Chui. In the end, the Jin army retreated due to lack of food, and Murong Chui led the army to chase and kill, and the Jin army was defeated.

Huan Wen abolished Emperor Sima Yi of the Jin Dynasty as the king of the East China Sea and renamed Sima Yu as Emperor Jianwen. In the following year, Emperor Jian Wen died, Emperor Xiaowu of Jin succeeded to the throne, Huan Wen asked Jiuxi, ministers Xie An and Wang Tanzhi delayed the matter, and soon Huan Wen died of illness, and the Eastern Jin Dynasty temporarily suspended the Northern Expedition.

As the emperor's son-in-law and the princess's husband, such a proud status is enough to make everyone in the Eastern Jin Dynasty envious, but Huan Wen's success depends on more than this. The emperor has many daughters and sons-in-law, but there are not many who can become instruments.

If the emperor meets him as an ordinary person, he is often a son-in-law, at most, he has raised a mediocre talent in the palace. Give an official position, an iron rice bowl, don't worry about food and clothing, and go into the water with a good stomach, but it won't do anything. Huan Wen relied on real kung fu and real skills, he destroyed the Han Dynasty and the three Northern Expeditions to the Central Plains, these are all well-known events. Huan Wen has proud political achievements and the prestige of conquering the battlefield. It can be said that Huan Wen's prominent position in covering the sky with his last hand is directly proportional to his great achievements.

Huan Wen was able to become the son-in-law of Emperor Jin Ming, in fact, it is not accidental, after all, not everyone can be the emperor's son-in-law, right?

Huan Wen's father, Huan Yi, was just a small Xuancheng Taishou at that time, and he was too ordinary. The reason why Huan Wen can stand out is that his appearance is one of the aspects, he is very great, his eyes are like purple stone edges, and he must be obscene, he is a pure gentleman type who attracts women.

The emperor's daughter is not worried about getting married, but it is not easy to find a handsome guy? More importantly, Huan Wen has had strange bones since he was a child, and Zuo Changshi Wenqiao called him a true hero and concluded that he would be a talent in the future. Later, Liu Yi, who was once a prime minister, also praised Huan Wen, saying that Sun Quan and Sima Yi were slightly inferior to him.

Huan Wen Wei Zhen inside and outside, Emperor Jian Wen was afraid that he would be abolished by Huan Wen. The usurper is to be the emperor himself, Huan Wen is ambitious and has the intention of autocracy, but he is still far from usurpation. Emperor Jian Wen was originally a puppet of Huan Wen after he abolished Sima Yi, even if he was abolished, Huan Wen would not necessarily be the emperor himself.

directly said in public that Huan Wen wanted to rebel, it was the powerful minister Sima Daozi, but he also said it after Huan Wen's death. At a banquet, when Sima Daozi was drunk, in front of everyone, he said to Huan Wen's son Huan Xuan: "Your father wanted to commit a crime before he died, is that the case?"

This is nothing more than a drunken phrase with no real basis. Changshi Xie Zhong refuted Sima Daozi and said: "You should be discerning about those suspicious remarks. ”

Sima Daozi said: "I know that you are still talking nonsense, but I don't know what your intentions are." ”

And Sima Daozi said that Huan Wen was going to make trouble, and he was not much better. During the reign of Emperor Xiaowu Sima Yao, Sima Daozi sang with him and stole his power. Emptied Sima Yao, he was good at government affairs, and what he did was what Huan Wen had done, why didn't he say that he had the intention of usurping?

Moreover, he bribed his officials to move, and his political punishment was chaotic, which made the court miserable, and his political performance was far worse than Huan Wen. said that Huan Wen had the intention of usurping the throne, and there is also an objective fact, that is, Huan Xuan's rebellion later. However, the son's rebellion cannot be counted as a father, and Huan Wen had been dead for thirty years at that time.

When Huan Wen passed by Wang Dun's grave, he said, "Lovely people, lovely people. ”

It is also regarded as evidence of usurpation, because Wang Dun once made trouble, and Huan Wen praised Wang Dun, so Huan Wen himself must want to imitate Wang Dun, which is just speculation. In fact, Huan Wen did not look down on Wang Dun in his heart. Huan Wen has his own idol, that is, the famous general Liu Kun of the year, the one who smelled the chicken and danced with Zu Ti, and later did the history of the state assassination and fought against the Hun Liu Yuan in the north.

But some people compare Huan Wen to Wang Dun, he is the leader of the Langya Wang clan, the brother of the Great Sima Wang Dao, the Marquis of Han An, in charge of all the soldiers and horses in the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River. However, Huan Wen was not happy about this kind of simulation, because he admired a real hero like Liu Kun.

During Huan Wen's Northern Expedition, he met a kabuki who had followed Liu Kun and said to Huan Wen: "You look like our master Liu Kun." ”

Huan Wen was very comfortable after hearing this, so he went into the house and cleaned up well, gathered his hair and wiped his shoes Qiao Yiqiao's clothes, and turned around to let the kaki look at it, ready to wait for a good compliment. But the singer said, "The face is like but thinner, the eyes are like but smaller, the beard is like but redder, the body is like but shorter, and the voice is like a woman." It doesn't look like it anywhere together. Huan Wen was very stimulated all of a sudden, his hat was thrown off his clothes, he fell asleep, and he was depressed for several days.

Huan Wen himself said a sentence that was passed down as a classic in later generations: "It is better to leave a stench for 10,000 years." ”

This is just a plan for Huan Wen's life, although his speech is a little extreme, and his performance is full of ups and downs, it is just a kind of sharpness that wants to get ahead. Compared with Cao Cao's I'd rather bear the people of the world than teach the people of the world to bear me, it is far behind. If it can be enjoyed for a hundred years, Huan Wen will never choose to leave a stench for 10,000 years.

That kind of heroic and dry blood, in fact, Huan Wen is a temperamental person, he is bold and graceful, and he is more emotional than rational. Huan Wen has been bloody since he was a child, and he is a person who will take revenge. When Su Jun rebelled, Huan Wen's father Huan Yi was killed by the rebels, Huan Wen wept blood, determined to take revenge, and finally stabbed the son of the enemy, when he had just turned eighteen years old.

Huan Wen is a very emotional person, and he understands filial piety very well. Huan Wen's mother died of illness, and he asked to resign to give his mother a funeral, which was a typical filial son. He applied for resignation, which shows that Huan Wen is not very demanding of power. Huan Wen's first Northern Expedition, when he walked to the place where he was too punctual to be a wolf's tooth, he saw that the willow trees he had planted before were all around, and he couldn't help but sigh and said: "The wood is like this, how can people be worthy." So he broke off the branch and played with it, and his temperament was evident.

It is a fact that Huan Wen later controlled the government and did things that were revived and abolished, and people dared to be angry and did not dare to speak, and their opinions were very big. But how did the imperial court treat Huan Wen at that time? Huan Wen repeatedly wrote to the Northern Expedition, but it was not approved, in fact, the imperial court was afraid that Huan Wen would be a master of high merit and would not be easy to control, so it first sent a Yin Hao to replace him in the Northern Expedition. Coincidentally, Yin Hao is a useless person again, and after several years, he has been defeated repeatedly. The battle was not won, but the consumption of the war was very expensive, which hurt the morale of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and the whole court was very dissatisfied with Yin Hao. Huan Wen then took the opportunity to participate in Yin Hao's book, and the imperial court had to send Huan Wen to take command. Since then, Huan Wen has been in power and has begun his three Northern Expeditions.

After Huan Wen recovered Henan, he asked the court to move the capital to Luoyang, but people didn't listen at all. As a military general, Huan Wen has the ambition to recover the Central Plains, how can he serve the country without a way, he is always obstructed in every way, and it is reasonable to do things that are prosperous and abandoned, who doesn't want to find an obedient puppet?