Chapter 102: Sima Rui's scheming
When Sima Rui was alive, people thought he was quite stupid and weak, but in fact, he was also a very scheming person, because he could use one thing to separate the relationship between Wang Dun and Wang Dao when he was dying. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
His counter-plot is not complicated, that is, when he was dying, he appointed Wang Dao as an auxiliary minister in front of Wang Dun. Originally, it was normal for the first emperor to appoint ministers to assist the new emperor before his death, and it would not achieve the effect of rebellion. However, Sima Rui made good use of the particularity of the environment he was in at that time, which made this appointment a reversal.
When Sima Rui died, Sima Shao, who succeeded him, was already in his twenties, which was an age with full capacity for conduct, an age that could judge right and wrong, and be able to make decisions, so in the eyes of others, there must be some special reason for promoting an auxiliary minister at this time. Especially Wang Dun, he will think that Director Wang has betrayed him and befriended Sima Rui, or because of other reasons, Director Wang is no longer his own person.
Another point is that Sima Rui put aside Wang Dun, who also had a high status in the court, and only appointed Wang Dao, which made Wang Dun feel very unhappy, and even felt that he had lost face with the ministers, which made the relationship between the two Wang brothers have another layer of estrangement, so Wang Dun dismissed some of Wang Dao's positions.
And after the relationship between Wang Dao and Wang Dun broke up, Wang Dun began to face the rebellion of other brothers, and everything began to go wrong, and finally he died of illness.
Most of the emperors in ancient China reached their old age, and they would become mediocre because of old age, so they began to covet enjoyment, indulge in beauty and wine, although they left infamy, but their old age was also quite good. But Sima Rui's old age was indeed unfortunate, and he lived like a prisoner.
Sima Rui's father is the Lang Evil King, he was born in a royal family, and he has no power in his hands. Later, he became the founding emperor of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, mainly because of the support of Wang Dao and Wang Dun in all aspects, in fact, this was the foreshadowing of his later life like a prisoner.
When the Eastern Jin Dynasty was first established, those who did not accept Sima Rui becoming the emperor, Sima Rui sent Wang Dun to conquer, Wang Dun was originally an ambitious person, so he followed Sima Rui's order to quell those rebellions, while developing his own power, appointing officials by himself, and the officials were all his cronies, which greatly reduced Sima Rui's power outside, or even none.
Especially in Sima Rui's later years, Wang Dun replaced those officials in important positions with his own people with the same surname, and replaced the assassins in Jingzhou, Jiangzhou, Xuzhou and other places with people with the surname Wang. Originally, Sima Rui was supported by Wang Dun and Wang Dao because of his throne, and the official position of Wang Dao and Wang Dun was very high.
As the real monarch, Sima Rui was imprisoned in the palace like a prisoner, and the important news outside was relayed to him by the family surnamed Wang, and most ministers would also listen to Wang Daoyi about decision-making, so he was imprisoned as a prisoner in his later years.
Sima Rui was the monarch of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and there are different versions of his father. Some people say that he should not be surnamed Sima, but should be surnamed Niu, so whose son is he?
Sima Rui, surnamed Sima, the name is a single word Rui, the word Jingwen, he is the son of Sima Jin, the evil king of Lang, and his wife Xiahou, thinking that he is the son of Sima Jin, after all, he has always taken Sima as his surname, and the surname of the Eastern Jin Dynasty he established is also Sima.
But some people also say that Sima Rui was born by Xiahou's affair with Niu Jin, that is, Sima Rui is Niu Jin's son. In fact, in ancient China, where polygamy was practiced, this was still possible, because it is possible that the Xiahou clan was not favored by Sima Ji at that time, and when people had wants, in order to satisfy their own desires, she accidentally made a mistake.
However, some people say that Niu Jin was already an old man at that time, even if he cried love with Xiahou, his fertility should have deteriorated, and Xiahou would not be pregnant.
There is also a theory that Sima Rui was the child of Xiahou's affair with a subordinate surnamed Niu Mingqin. This statement is related to the prophecy of Niu Jima at that time, when Niu Jin was guarded by the emperor because of this statement, they Niu Jin would replace the throne of Sima, so Niu Jin was executed, but Xiahou gave birth to Sima Rui with the surname Niu. And Sima Rui later became the emperor of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, although the surname was Sima, but after all, he was the flesh and blood of the surname Niu, so that prophecy still came true.
The ruling class of the Eastern Jin Dynasty was mainly held by the Shi clan, and due to the heavy military power on the outside and light on the inside, many Fang Zhen were ambitious, resulting in the Wang Dun Rebellion, the Su Jun, Zuyue Rebellion and the Huan Wen dictatorship. At this time, although there were successive Northern Expeditions to regain the lost land, due to internal contradictions, it was never possible to rebuild the consolidated national unified power.
Former Qin dispatched a national army with the intention of destroying the Eastern Jin Dynasty. In the face of the disaster of the country, the monarchs and ministers of the Eastern Jin Dynasty were united, which was the most united since its establishment. After the decisive battle of Weishui, the former Qin collapsed, and Xie An, Xie Xuan and others successfully recovered a large number of lost land.
However, in the later period, there were rivalry between friends and Huan Xuan's usurpation, and due to the heavy burden on the common people, there was a rebellion between Sun En and Lu Xun. In the end, Liu Yu rose, pacified the rebellion, and seized the throne, entering the period of the Northern and Southern Dynasties.
In the early days of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Wang Dao and others adopted a strategy of calming down to stabilize the situation. Due to the improvement of agricultural technology, under the intensive development of the overseas Chinese and Wu families, the south of the Yangtze River was fully developed and prospered, and the economic center of China gradually moved southward, so that the emergence of the Grand Canal later, and the great progress in handicrafts and commerce.
Because the threat of external invasion from the north still existed, the support of the Lai Shi clan and Fang Zhen of the Eastern Jin Dynasty stabilized the situation, which made many scholars hold strong armies and form a separation. In order to suppress the power of the Wang family, Emperor Jin Yuan used Liu Kui, Diao Xie, Dai Yuan and others to contain him, and defended Wang Dun to weaken his military power.
Wang Dun took advantage of the death of Zu Ti and the lack of defense of the capital to send troops to capture Jiankang, Diao Xie and others were killed, Emperor Yuan of Jin died of grief, and the crown prince Sima Shao succeeded to the throne for Emperor Ming of Jin. At that time, Wang Dun wanted to be autocratic, moved to the town and then became critically ill, Emperor Ming of Jin ordered a crusade, and the rebellion was successful.
When Emperor Jin Ming was only a few years old, he once sat on Emperor Yuan's lap. At that time, someone came from Chang'an, and Emperor Yuan asked about the situation in Luoyang, and he didn't feel sad and wept. Emperor Ming asked his father what caused him to cry, and Emperor Yuan told him about the imperial court's eastward crossing.
So he asked Emperor Ming: "Do you think Chang'an is farther away from the sun?"
Emperor Ming replied: "The sun is far away, I have never heard of anyone coming from the sun, obviously you know." ”
Emperor Yuan was surprised by his answer, and the next day he called the ministers for a banquet, and told everyone the meaning of Emperor Ming, and asked him again, but Emperor Ming replied: "The sun is near." ”
Emperor Yuan was stunned and asked him, "Why are you different from what you said yesterday?"
Emperor Ming replied: "Now when you raise your head, you can see the sun, but you can't see Chang'an." ”
The Western Jin Dynasty perished in the southern invasion of the Hu people, and the royal family of the Western Jin Dynasty crossed eastward, and the capital was set in Jiankang, and the country was ruined, and the lives were ruined. Someone from Chang'an, who had just come from the enemy-occupied area in the north, Emperor Yuan asked about the news of Luoyang, and heard that Luoyang was ravaged by the Hu people, so he burst into tears.
Emperor Ming's answer is really too clever to be true, and Emperor Ming's two different answers to the question of whether Chang'an is far or the sun is far away are not simply playing rhetoric, but each has its own pertinence.
The Jin dynasty crossed east to Jiankang because foreign invaders occupied the Central Plains. For the people from Chang'an who arrived in Jiankang after all the hard work, Emperor Ming could not help but take care of it in his words, so there was an answer of "the sun is far away, I have not heard that people come from the sun, only I have heard that people come from Chang'an".
The next day, at the banquet of the ministers, Emperor Ming suddenly changed his words and said that the sun was near, which contained the meaning of motivating the ministers. "You can see the sun when you raise your head, but you can't see Chang'an" is because Chang'an has fallen into the hands of the enemy. The language is known for being simple and timeless, and simple and timeless means expressing rich and profound connotations in simple language.
Emperor Sima Shao of the Ming Dynasty of the Jin Dynasty, the second emperor of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the son of Emperor Yuan of the Jin Dynasty, and his mother was born in Daijun. Sima Shao not only worked in calligraphy, was a corporal of etiquette and filial piety, and was also quite brave, Wang Dun called him Xianbeier. Wang Dun once wanted to ask Emperor Jin Yuan to abolish the crown prince, but he gave up because of the opposition of his ministers. Sima Shao ascended the throne after the death of Emperor Sima Rui of the Jin Yuan Dynasty and granted amnesty to the world.
Sima Shao once took a horse to spy on Wang Dun's camp, and after quelling Wang Dun's rebellion, he stopped the investigation of Wang Dun's henchmen, reused Wang Dao to stabilize the emperor's authority, and maintained a harmonious attitude with the clan, and successfully dealt with the aftermath of Wang Dun's rebellion.
Sima Shao has a favorite concubine Song Yuan, Song Yuan is beautiful and fragrant, good at playing the flute, is the female disciple of Shi Chongzhi's concubine Luzhu, soon Sima Shao was seriously ill, the ministers admonished, invited out Song Yuan, and finally Song Yuan was sent to the Ministry of Shangshu Ruan Yao. Sima Shao died of illness at the age of 27 and was buried in Wuping Mausoleum.