Chapter 105: The Eastern Jin Dynasty Falls
On the eve of the Battle of Weishui, during the reign of Emperor Xiaowu of the Jin Dynasty, Xie An was in power, Huan Chong was the assassin of Jingzhou and defended the Jingxiang region, Xie Xuan guarded Guangling, and Xie An defended the Huainan region. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoIn order to strengthen the military strength of the central government, Emperor Xiaowu of Jin ordered Xie Xuan to recruit the people of Huainan and Jiangbei and established the Beifu Army.
After the former Qin destroyed the former Yan, the former Qin emperor Fu Jian intended to destroy the Eastern Jin Dynasty to unify the world and capture the two states of Liangyi in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Fu Jian's goal was to the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and Huan Chong led an army of 100,000 with the intention of recapturing Xiangyang, and Fu Jian sent Fu Rui, Murong Chui and others to defend. Fu Jian thought that the time had come, and led the whole country's army to the south to conquer the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and the troops were divided into three routes, and the momentum was huge. He personally led 600,000 infantry to Xiangcheng, sent Fu Rong as the vanguard to lead 270,000 troops to attack Shouyang, and Liang Cheng and others Tunluojian to control the Huai River. The Jin court was shocked, Xie An was calm, and ordered Xie Shi to be the governor of the front line, Xie Xuan to be the vanguard, and Xie Yan, Huan Yi and others led 80,000 Beifu soldiers to the north to rescue.
After the Qin army captured Shouyang, Fu Jian rushed to command and sent Zhu Xu to persuade Xie Shizhu to surrender. However, Zhu Xu revealed the reality of the Qin army and suggested a quick victory. Xie Xuan sent Liu Gaozhi to lead 5,000 elite soldiers to break through Luojian, and the Jin army marched west to confront the Qin army at Weishui.
Someone suggested to Fu Jian to retreat to the decisive battle, and the Qin generals thought that it was safer to block the enemy on the banks of the Weishui River, but Fu Jian thought that he could take the initiative to fight while the Jin army crossed the river and attacked halfway. When the Qin army moved backwards, the Jin army crossed the water and assaulted, and Zhu Xu shouted in the rear army that the Qin army had been defeated. At this time, the Qin army was in chaos, Xie Xuan and others took advantage of the victory to pursue, the Qin army completely collapsed, Fu Rong was killed in battle, Fu Jian was hit by an arrow, and fled back to the north alone, escorted by Murong Chui. The complete victory of the Jin army in this battle is of great significance in the history of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and it is known as the Battle of Weishui.
After the war, Xie An supervised the military of Zhuzhou and prepared for the Northern Expedition to the fragmented Former Qin. Xie An ordered Xie Xuan and Huan Shiqian to lead the army to the north, and Xie Xuan and others went north from Guangling, conquered Juancheng, Guanggu and other places, and built the Qingzhou faction to transport grain and grass. In this campaign, Shandong and Henan were recovered, and the territory was divided to the south of the Yellow River. The Jingzhou army also successfully recovered Sichuan and Xiangyang.
Xie Xuan continued to go north, and the striker Liu Gaoyi hit Yecheng once. However, Sima Daozi, who was in charge of the imperial court, tabooed Xie's high merits, and the court agreed that the battle had been fought for a long time, so it was advisable to return to the army, and ordered Xie Xuan to return to the division to guard Huaiyin, and finally the Northern Expedition failed.
Sima Daozi was the younger brother of Emperor Xiaowu of the Jin Dynasty and was very trusted. After the Battle of Weishui, Xie An and Xie Xuan were excluded by Sima Daozi, and finally died one after another, the imperial court gradually became chaotic, and the Beifu Army was led by Wang Gong and others. After the death of Huan Chong, the Huan family was later led by Huan Xuan, and Emperor Xiaowu of Jin was dissatisfied with Sima Daozi, and Wang Xun and Wang Ya entered the imperial court, and Wang Gong served as the assassin of Yanzhou and Yin Zhongkan served as the assassin of Jingzhou.
When women begin to get older, their mentality will be more complicated, especially those who were once beautiful, and their mentality will be more complicated. Many of the glory and benefits, material and spiritual benefits, come from their youth and beauty, and once they get old, these added values will be greatly reduced, and many people can't bear the psychological gap.
In the evil society of ancient times, women were like clothes, they could be exchanged for clothes, and no matter how old a man was, as long as he had the power and money, he could marry a wife and take a concubine in one room and one room, which was extremely unfair to women. The smart women who are trained in this environment do not believe in the durability of love, they will rely on their sons and power to maintain their status, and those who are not smart enough will not be able to protect the fate of being abandoned, but there are also women with short tempers.
In the last years of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Sima Changming, Emperor Xiaowu of the Jin Dynasty, became emperor at the age of eleven. At first, with the assistance of the ministers, the country was governed quite dedicatedly, but as soon as the ministers died, the still young Emperor Xiaowu regained his appearance of being a young man, drinking and banqueting with the prince Sima Daozi every day, and almost all day long in the drunken country.
The court at the end of the Eastern Jin Dynasty was extravagant and open, the banquet was extremely joyful, and the princes and nobles in the prime of life also had a good time, and the young men and women living in such an environment could imagine their nostalgia for youth. At that time, the most favored and influential woman in the harem was Zhang Guiren, who was extremely beautiful. This year, she is nearly thirty years old, the so-called back waves of the Yangtze River push the front waves, young women continue to fill the position, although she is well-maintained, the newcomer can not shake her status for a while, but the threat to her is real.
One night, Sima Changming was drunk again, and in a daze, he took Zhang Guiren's hand and said something that he didn't treat himself as an outsider: "With your age, it's time to step aside, I prefer young women......"
This sentence pierced Zhang Guiren's sensitive little heart and made her think a lot about the future. Sima Changming made this half-truth joke and forgot about it, how did he know that this sentence triggered Zhang Guiren's mid-life crisis.
Sima Changming, who was drunk that night, fell asleep deeply, but Zhang Guiren was terrifyingly sober. She rewarded all the eunuchs with wine, sent them away, and then ordered her maid to cover Sima Changming's face with a quilt and suffocate him to death. This year, Sima Changming was thirty-five years old, and then Zhang Guiren bribed the entourage in the palace with a lot of money, claiming: "The emperor encountered a ghost in his sleep and died of a sudden illness." ”
This reason is quite absurd, and Zhang Guiren's move is extremely risky. It is said that a thirty-year-old woman who has lived in the court for so long will not be ignorant of the risks, not to mention that a concubine with no heirs has no future without a husband, and the gain of killing the monarch really outweighs the loss. Why did she do such a reckless thing? There was no other, but Sima Changming's words stimulated her and made her completely hysterical.
At that time, Sima Daozi, an important minister of the imperial court, had a gap with Sima Changming, and he was also addicted to drunkenness, and the thirteen-year-old prince Sima Dezong was demented and never cared about things, so no one pursued the big case. Another powerful minister, Zhongshu Ling Wang Guobao had planned to enter the palace to take care of the aftermath, but was stopped by the waiter: "The emperor has died, the crown prince has not arrived, and those who dare to enter the palace will be beheaded!"
So this incident passed in such a nonsense, and a few days later, the crown prince Sima Dezong took the throne, and the Jin Dynasty entered a new era, and no one mentioned it.
Wang Gong united with Jingzhou Assassin Shi Yin Zhongkan and Guangzhou Assassin Shi Huanxuan to raise troops again, Sima Daozi ordered his son Sima Yuanxian to be the governor of the capital and led an army with Wang Yu to resist, Wang Yu was defeated, and the coalition army attacked the Beijing division. Sima Yuanxian bribed Liu Gaozhi's defection, Wang Gong was defeated and died, Yin Zhongkan and Huan Xuan learned that they retreated to Xunyang, and Huan Xuan served as the leader of the alliance, and finally the two sides made peace. In order to divide Yin Zhongkan's forces, the imperial court appointed Huan Xuan as the Jiangzhou Assassin, Yin Zhongkan as the Jingzhou Assassin, and his subordinate Yang Yan as the Yongzhou Assassin.
Sima Yuanxian was worried that the Beifu army was unreliable, so he recruited tenants from the Jiangdong Hao clan to establish a new army, which he called Lezhi. This led to a popular uprising, Sun En led the crowd to capture Huiji, Sun En served the Five Bucket Rice Dao, and the Five Bucket Rice Dao was greatly believed by the clan and the common people. Sun En expanded his power, the wealthy clans of Jiangdong and Wudou Midao responded one after another, and the eight counties of Jiangdong completely fell. Sun Enwei attacked Dantu directly by sea, and the Jingshi was shocked. Liu Gaozhi sent Liu Yu to Haiyan to defeat Sun En, who retreated by boat and was defeated by Liu Yu.
In order to avoid Huan Xuan's sneak attack, Sima Yuanxian preempted the westward expedition and appointed Liu Gaozhi as the vanguard and Sima Shangzhi as the rear. Huan Xuan also led the army eastward and broke Sima Shangzhi, Liu Gaozhi thought that Sima Yuanxian was useless and defected, leading the Huan army into Jiankang. Huan Xuan controlled the imperial court, killed dissidents, successively killed Sima Yuanxian and Sima Daozi, seized Liu Gaozhi's military power, killed some of the generals of Beifu, and promoted Liu Yu, the general of Beifu. Huan Xuan initially intended to reform the imperial court, but in the end, he indulged in extravagance and impermanence, and gradually lost popularity.
Sima Daozi was the seventh son of Emperor Wen of Jin Dynasty, Sima Yu, and his mother was Li Lingrong. During the period of Emperor Xiaowen, he was entrusted with important tasks by the imperial court and excluded the Xie family.
However, Emperor Xiaowu and Sima Daozi both loved to drink, which led to the arbitrary reuse of treacherous villains, and the government was becoming more and more corrupt, plus the courtiers trusted by Emperor Xiaowu also had many people who were not convinced by Sima Daozi's faction, so the contradictions between the two factions intensified, and the main ministers fought constantly.
After the death of Emperor Xiaowu, Sima Daozi began to assist the government and took power, and continued to use Wang Guobao and other courtiers he liked, and his actions attracted Wang Gong to send troops to crusade. relied on his son Sima Yuanxian to calm down the matter, and from then on, all political affairs were managed by Sima Yuanxian, and Sima Daozi indulged in drunken dreams and death.
In the end, Sima Yuanxian was defeated by Huan Xuan, and Sima Daozi was also exiled, and soon after, Sima Daozi was poisoned by Yushi Du Zhulin and died at the age of Chinese New Year's Eve nine. A few years later, the Huan Xuan Rebellion was pacified, Emperor An was reinstated, and the general Sima Zun was in charge of all political affairs in the imperial court, he posthumously presented Sima Daozi as prime minister, and also sent Sima Xunzhi to retrieve Sima Daozi's bones, bury him, and posthumously crown him as King Wenxiao.
Sima Daozi's father, Sima Yu, he is the youngest son of Emperor Jin Yuan, and also the half-brother of Emperor Ming of Jin, Sima Yu is naturally intelligent and very pleasing to his father. When he was a child, the famous scholar Guo Pu prophesied: "He must be the one who revitalizes the Jin Dynasty." ”
Sima Yu's father believed this statement very much, so he issued an edict to crown Sima Yu as the king of Langyu. Huan Wen has succeeded in many northern expeditions, and even the imperial court is very jealous of him, and Sima Yu has taken all measures to contend with him. Sima Daozi's father, Sima Yu, ascended the throne as the emperor, and during his reign, although he was the emperor, he was like a puppet, he didn't dare to talk much, and he was afraid of being abolished by Huan Wen, and lived a trembling life.
Sima Daozi and his emperor's brother are quite believing in Buddhism, so that many monks and nuns enter and leave the palace, and they are particularly favored, the emperor can't trust others, so he naturally has to find his own brother to help, so he entrusted him with a heavy responsibility, plus there were foreign Chen Jun Xie clan at that time, in order to share a little power in their hands, and then squeeze out, Sima Daozi's status naturally rose again and again.
It's just that this Sima Daozi and his brother are obviously not a Ming Jun's material, they both love to drink, or the kind they like very much, plus they love to use villains, so the courtiers below naturally can't stand it, which also produces a lot of contradictions.
Sima Daozi was a generation of powerful ministers in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, but his reputation was not very good, and some people even called him a nonsense worm. When Sima Daozi was thirty-nine years old, he was poisoned by Huan Xuan, although he was posthumously named prime minister after Huan Xuan's death, but in the end nothing could be changed. He left only one son in his life, but Huan Xuan killed Sima Daozi's son together, Sima Daozi's son is Sima Yuanxian, which is also the only son in his life.
He once held power in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, when Sun En captured the Sanwu region, which was the only area that the imperial court could control at that time, but under this situation, Sima Yuanxian was still very corrupt, resulting in a very chaotic government. When he saw that the treasury was empty, he began to collect money from the people, and he was very arrogant, and he was also partial to villains in political affairs.
Later, Sima Yuanxian began to fight against Huan Xuan, in order to strengthen his strength, he took refuge in Liu Xuanzhi, but soon after Liu Gaozhi surrendered to Huan Xuan, Sima Yuanxian could only end up defeated, and after a period of time, he was killed at the same time as several of his sons, and Sima Yuanxian was only twenty-one years old at this time.
Huan Xuan usurped the throne and became the emperor, and founded the country Huan Chu. Liu Yutong Beifu generals He Wuji and Liu Yi raised troops to recover Jiankang, and Huan Xuan coerced Emperor Jin An to withdraw west to Jiangling. Later, Huan Xuan led his army eastward and was defeated by Liu Yi, and finally Huan Xuan fled to Shu, where he was killed by Feng Qian on the way.
Liu Yu took control of the imperial court, and after Liu Yu eliminated a number of dissidents, he launched two Northern Expeditions in order to justify himself as emperor. At that time, Murong Chao of Nanyan invaded repeatedly, and Liu Yu led his army to attack Nanyan. In the following year, he broke through Guanggu, the capital of Southern Yan, captured and killed Murong Chao, and Southern Yan died. Liu Yu went on another northern expedition, linking Xuchang and Luoyang, and in the following year, Liu Yu's soldiers besieged the fortified areas in two ways, and finally broke through Chang'an, and then Qin died.
However, in the winter of that year, Liu Muzhi, who stayed in Beijing, died suddenly, and in order to avoid changes in the imperial court, Liu Yu had to return in person. He ordered his youngest son Liu Yizhen to defend Chang'an with Wang Zhenxi, Shen Tianzi and other generals.
Liu Yu ordered Liu Yizhen and other generals to lead the army to return eastward, but was pursued by the Xia army, and his vitality was greatly damaged, so the Northern Expedition ended. After the loss of Guanzhong, Liu Yu began to actively seek the throne, and in the same year, Liu Yu killed Emperor An of Jin and set up his younger brother Dewen as Emperor Gong of Jin. Liu Yu abolished Emperor Gong of the Jin Dynasty and established the Song Dynasty, known as the Southern Song Dynasty in history, and was Emperor Wu of the Song Dynasty, and the Eastern Jin Dynasty perished. After the Northern Wei Dynasty unified North China, it entered the period of the Northern and Southern Dynasties.