Chapter 103: Witty Emperor Jinming
Sima Shao, Emperor of the Jin Ming Dynasty, was the second emperor of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and Sima Shao was also the only emperor in the entire Eastern Jin Dynasty who did something. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
Sima Shao was the son-in-law of Emperor Yuan of the Jin Dynasty, so Emperor Yuan named Sima Shao the crown prince after succeeding to the throne. Sima Shao was very disliked by Wang Dun when he was a child, because he was too smart compared to his father Emperor Yuan. For this reason, Wang Dun often persuaded Emperor Yuan to abolish Sima Shao, and later Emperor Yuan and Wang Dun were snubbed after the failure of the struggle for power, and Sima Shao was almost deposed.
Sima Shao succeeded to the throne on the same day after Emperor Yuan's death, and Wang Dun had little opinion on this. In fact, Wang Dun did not abolish Sima Shao and his dad, the main reason was to control the imperial court and support Kui. Therefore, Wang Dun dared to let him be the emperor with confidence and boldness, trying to entrap him first, and then find a way to kick him away and become the emperor himself.
However, Wang Dun was blindsided, because Sima Shao was completely different from his waste father. Although Sima Shao's genetics are not very good, he is very smart, and he is very smart since he was a child, a bit of a prodigy. Sima Shao's calligraphy is very good, and his mind is also very meticulous, and he belongs to the kind of person who does great things.
Sima Shao's vision is better, and he can be a corporal of Lixian and make others very convincing to him. Therefore, when Wang Dun once wanted to abolish Sima Shao, many ministers stood up against it, and Wang Dun did not dare to confront the ministers, so Sima Shao still sat firmly on his throne.
In the face of Wang Dun's provocation, Sima Shao still reused Wang Dao and asked him to help assist the government. Wang Dun saw that Sima Shao didn't make any moves, so he thought that there was an opportunity, and he was always thinking about a plan to usurp the throne. However, at this time, Sima Shao was also thinking about a plan to eliminate Wang Dun, Sima Shao is different from Sima Rui, in addition to his good brain, Sima Shao's body is also very good, and he belongs to the kind of people who can calculate and fight. In the face of the people of the Wang family, Sima Shao had already prepared his soldiers and horses and was ready for battle.
Wang Dun was seriously ill, and his plan to usurp power had to be temporarily postponed, and after Sima Shao got the news, he seized the opportunity and planned with his henchmen to send troops to recruit Wang Dun. Wang Dun faced this situation for the second time, and he was also a person with some experience, so he preemptively sent troops from Jingzhou down the Yangtze River to attack Jiankang. But this time it was different from two years ago, Sima Shao led the Jin army to wait for the battle, and seized the opportunity to beat Wang Dun. Wang Dun's strength was not strong and he couldn't afford to lose the battle, and his morale was hit again, so the rebels retreated to Jingzhou, and Wang Dun also returned to Wuchang.
Seeing the rebels retreating, Sima Shao hurriedly gathered troops to chase after him. However, when the Jin army was still on the road, the news of Wang Dun's death suddenly came, and all the rebels in Jingzhou were dispersed, Sima Shao seized the opportunity to regain his own imperial power in one fell swoop, and the usurpation of the throne led by the Wang brothers also temporarily subsided.
Having solved the internal problems, Sima Shao also began to plan to recover the lost territory in the north. However, the situation in the Eastern Jin Dynasty was still very bad at that time, although the Central Plains was very chaotic, but it was difficult to carry out a large-scale Northern Expedition with the strength of the south of the Yangtze River.
Moreover, the two major military commanders in the north at that time, Shi Le and Liu Yao, were not ordinary people, and when the two of them were mixing, Sima Shao may still be breastfeeding. In line with the huge advantage of cavalry fighting infantry, the Xiongnu army could easily turn the infantry of the Eastern Jin Dynasty around. Sima Shao is not an immortal, he can't conjure up soldiers, horses, grain and grass, and he definitely can't play the two old fritters of Shi Le and Liu Yao.
It's good if people don't come to find trouble first, but always thinking about beating people is actually looking for death. Sima Shao knew that if he wanted to be someone else's teacher, he must first be someone else's student, and if he didn't follow the law of recuperation, he would undoubtedly plant himself in the fire pit.
It's a pity that God is jealous of talent, and not long after Sima Shao decided to recuperate, he became seriously ill. Sima Shao's illness worsened, and he died after ineffective treatment, before Sima Shao died, he called Dazai Sima Xiang, Situ Wang Dao and others into the bedroom to accept Gu Zhi, set up the crown prince Sima Yan as the emperor, and let the three of them assist with all their hearts. The next day, Sima Shao died of illness in the East Hall of Jiankang Palace, but Sima Shao was too confident in his son, and this way of caring for his life was actually very problematic.
The general of the Jin Dynasty led the Muwang of Jingzhou to plan a rebellion, and the news was known to Sima Shao, the emperor of the Jin Ming Dynasty. At that time, Wang Dun was taking a nap, dreaming that the sun was ringing around the city, and woke up, Wang Dun deduced from the foreshadowing of the dream that Sima Shao, the emperor of the Jin Ming Dynasty, might be coming, so he sent five henchmen to ride forward to search for him.
Emperor Jin Ming saw someone chasing him, and hurriedly galloped away, the horse pulled a pile of dung on the road, and Emperor Jin Ming poured cold water on the horse manure in order to confuse the pursuers. At this time, he saw a woman selling food next to him, and Emperor Jin Ming was in a hurry, and walked forward to hand over his seven-horse whip to the woman, and said to her: "There is a cavalry chasing after you, so show them this horse whip." ”
After Emperor Jin Ming finished speaking, he took out a few pieces of money and gave them to the woman as a reward, and then thanked him and left. After a while, five pursuers arrived, and asked the woman if she had seen anyone fleeing on horseback, but the woman was also witty, saying that a man had passed by on horseback and had left a whip, and that she had been gone for a long time. When the woman had finished speaking, she handed the whip to the five soldiers, and when they saw the sparkling light, the five sergeants rushed to see it, and they couldn't put it down, and they delayed the pursuit.
One of the soldiers found that the horse manure on the side of the road was cold and cold, and thought that Emperor Jin Ming had gone far, far away, so he stopped chasing and went back to Wang Dun's tent to resume his life. After Emperor Ming of Jin escaped, when Wang Dun was seriously ill and the morale of the army was weakened, he ordered a crusade and defeated Wang Dun. Emperor Sima Zhao of the Jin Ming Dynasty escaped from danger, and his witty deeds spread in the local area.
Emperor Ming of Jin quelled Wang Dun's rebellion, stopped the investigation of Wang Dun's henchmen, reused Wang Dao to stabilize the emperor's authority, and maintained a harmonious attitude with the Jiangdong clan, and successfully dealt with the aftermath of Wang Dun's rebellion. Wang Dun was autocratic, raised troops into the court to eliminate dissidents, Sima Shao was ready to personally meet Wang Dun, and Wen Qiao dissuaded him. Wang Dun was therefore jealous of Sima Shao, and once he summoned a hundred officials, Wang Dun said that the crown prince had any virtues, and wanted to depose the crown prince on the charge of unfilial piety. However, Sima Shao was brave and martial, and was admired by the government and the opposition, Wen Qiao also praised him for his loyalty and filial piety, and the ministers all echoed and agreed with Wen Qiao, so Wang Dun could only give up.
After the death of Emperor Yuan of the Jin Dynasty, Emperor Ming ascended the throne and immediately set about strengthening the military power of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. In order to test him, Wang Dun offered a jade seal, expressing his flattery, and then wrote to say that he wanted to enter the court as an official, in fact, to see if Emperor Jin Ming dared to remove his real power, Sima Shao immediately issued an edict to let him enter the court.
Wang Dun saw that he wanted to relieve himself of his real power, so he had an attempt to rebel, he pretended to accept it and set off for Yuhu, but he secretly prepared to raise troops. Sima Shao was also very decisive, and immediately announced the promotion of Sikong Wang Dao to Situ, wooed Wang Dao, and let Wang Dun take over Wang Dao's Yangzhou pastor, and the two had a conflict. Wang Dun was also actively deploying, he murdered Liu Chun, the Badong prison army, and began to clear the rear of dissidents.
Emperor Jin Ming established Empress Yu, crowned Tao Kan as the general of the expedition to the south, and conquered Xi Jian into the dynasty as the Shang Shu order. Wang Dun did not accept the edict and began to delay his entry into the court. Wang Dunjiao took his elder brother Wang Han as the general of the expedition to the east, and replaced himself as the military governor of Yangzhou. In the second year, Wang Dun was seriously ill, and his cronie Qian Feng asked about the future, Wang Dun said that it was the best policy to give up military power and return to the imperial court, and to return to Wuchang, and to contribute to the imperial court to defend itself was the middle policy.
Wang Dun harmed Emperor Jin Yuan's cronies Gong Chengxiong and Ran Zeng, and prepared to raise troops. On the one hand, Sima Shao sent his confidant Shen Zhen to secretly lobby Wang Dun's cronie Shen Chong, promising to take the position of Sikong, and on the other hand, he added Wang Han as a hussar general to express his appeasement. and personally secretly went to Yuhu to reconnoiter Wang Dun's movements, and after being noticed by Wang Dun, he planned to get rid of the tracking and return. Sima Shao crowned Wang Dao as the governor of the capital, and the history of Yangzhou was assassinated. Wen Qiao and Bian Hu were ordered to guard the stone, and the northern Jin army in Huaibei and other places was requisitioned to guard the Beijing division, and the war between the two sides was about to break out.
Wang Dun sent Wang Han, Qian Feng and others to command an army of 50,000 to attack Jiankang. Wang Han asked how to deal with the Son of Heaven, and Wang Dun said that he had not yet held a ceremony in the southern suburbs, so he could not be regarded as the Son of Heaven, you just need to protect the king and princess of the East China Sea. Wang Dun planned to kill Sima Shao, set up the king of Donghai as emperor, and raised troops in the name of crusading against the traitor Wen Qiao.
Wang Han commanded the army to reach Jiangning, and Emperor Ming of Jin personally conquered, and spread the news of Wang Dun's death, issued an edict to appease Wang Dun's subordinates, and crusaded against Wang Dun. Because of the conflict with Wang Dun, Wang Dao also persuaded Wang Han to return to obedience and disobey, so he publicly mourned for Wang Dun.
Wang Han's army and the troops commanded by Emperor Ming of Jin fought a decisive battle near Jiankang, Wen Qiao thwarted its sharpness, and Sima Shao commanded Duan Xiu, Cao Hun, Chen Song and others to defeat Wang Han in a night attack. Wang Dun died of illness, and Sima Shao personally faced Qian Feng and won consecutive battles. Shen Chong led an army of 10,000 people to join Wang Han's army and build a fortress to hold on. Liu Yao and Su Jun also arrived with 10,000 handsome people, and Emperor Jin Ming personally went to comfort the two and reward the three armies. The rebels were defeated in successive battles and wanted to go north to cross the Huai River, but were routed by Su Jun.
Emperor Ming of the Jin Dynasty was a magnanimous monarch, he first pardoned the rebel soldiers, and then pardoned Wang Dun's old generals, so that the situation in the Eastern Jin Dynasty began to develop in a good direction, but soon the Ming Emperor Sima Shao of the Jin Dynasty died of illness at the age of twenty-seven.