Text Foolish dreams: Sima Yue is in power
A brief story about Chapter 11: Sima Yue relied on the cavalry of the Xianbei Duanbu and defeated Sima Ying and Sima Hao in a row and finally gained control of the Western Jin Dynasty, Sima Ying was disheartened and was killed, but Sima Ying still did not give up, and plotted to go to Liu Yuan's tribe and compete with Sima Yue again, but the strength of Liu Yuan and the Gongshi Domain sent by Sima Ying should not be underestimated.
From this story, we can see that the kings within the Western Jin Dynasty fought for more than ten years, and finally came to an end, the imperial family headed by Sima Yue mastered the power of the Western Jin Dynasty, but the Western Jin Dynasty has long been a collapse of etiquette, the emperor's prestige no longer exists, although Sima Yue is in power, but it is also a sign that the aristocratic landlord class has withdrawn from the ruling class, although Sima Yue has the power of the Western Jin Dynasty, but at this time the Western Jin Dynasty fell apart, the central government was difficult to implement local control, and the whole country has entered the stage of collapse.
At this time, the family headed by Wang Yan had already attached himself to Sima Yue, who held the power of the court, and took the opportunity to arrange the scholars of his family to serve as state pastors in the Jiangnan region, which laid the foundation for the establishment of the Eastern Jin Dynasty later.
The Eastern Jin Dynasty is the beginning of Sima Rui's claim to be emperor in Jianye, until Liu Yu killed Sima Dewen, sharing the country for 103 years, the Eastern Jin Dynasty has always been in a corner of the south of the Yangtze River, in the face of the turmoil of the Sixteen Kingdoms in the north, although it has gone through several Northern Expeditions, but all have returned in vain, and only Liu Yu's Northern Expedition at the end of the Eastern Jin Dynasty has achieved some results, I think the Northern Expedition of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, in the final analysis, lies in the Northern Expedition led by the family, after all, it is the military action taken by the family in order to enhance the prestige and experience of the family, which is completely hypocritical, Selfish military actions cannot succeed. Let's take a look at what the emperors of the Eastern Jin Dynasty did, and how the great families at that time were in charge of national affairs.
Sima Rui, the king of Langya of the Western Jin Dynasty, saw that the dynasty had collapsed, so he relied on the power of the Wang family who was an official in the south of the Yangtze River and relied on the indigenous families in the south of the Yangtze River to establish the Eastern Jin Dynasty and began the historical stage of the king and the horse sharing the world, which marked that the Eastern Jin Dynasty completely became a feudal dynasty with the family as the ruling class.
Although the emperors of the Eastern Jin Dynasty all took the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains as their political slogan, in the face of the impact of the family represented by Wang Dun on the imperial power within the dynasty and the struggle for power between the northern family and the southern family, the Eastern Jin Dynasty had a chaotic situation in the early stage, and the Northern Expedition only became an empty slogan.
Under the rule of the first two emperors of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Sima Rui and Sima Shao, although the Jiangnan region was vigorously developed and laid the foundation for the current Jiangnan region to become the center of economic gravity, in the face of the complicated political situation, the father and son emperors never had a good way to deal with it. Even if Sima Shao eliminated Wang Dun's rebellion during his reign and balanced the relationship between the family and the imperial power, there was no way to completely eliminate the control of the Shi landlord class over the Eastern Jin Dynasty.
At the time of the reign of Emperor Sima Yan of Jincheng, Sima Yan began to attach importance to the role of the Hanmen Shu clan in the feudal dynasty, and enabled the Hanmen Shu clan represented by Yu Liang to grasp the power of the dynasty, and began to exclude the family family, but at this time, the power of the family was in full swing, and they all committed rebellion in the name of the Qing monarch's side, and Yu Liang was only alone in the court. Yu Liang and his clansmen held on to the place until they were defeated by the clan headed by Huan Wen, and the strength of the Hanmen Shu clan was temporarily suppressed. This also shows that in the feudal dynasty controlled by the family, it is impossible to tolerate other forces to intervene in the ruling class, when the feudal rulers saw the hypocrisy and selfishness of the family, they began to know the superiority of the Hanmen Shu clan, and the good deeds of Yu Liang also showed the recognition of the feudal rulers to the Hanmen Shu clan.
After eliminating the outcropping power of the Hanmen Shu clan represented by Yu Liang, the family of the Eastern Jin Dynasty also began to divide the ruling stage, although the emperor of the Sima clan was nominally respected, but there was a situation of hereditary local governors of the family family in the local area, and the government of the Eastern Jin Dynasty was also controlled by the family family, and the power of the emperor can be said to have reached the minimum in the feudal dynasties. When the family headed by Huan Wen conquered the Cheng Han Dynasty that divided the Shu land, the power of the family reached a peak, Huan Wen was Sima Yue, Sima Dan, Sima Pi, Sima Yi, Sima Yu and other five Eastern Jin Dynasty emperors after Sima Yan, became the tumbler and actual controller of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, in Huan Wen's later years, began to impact the imperial power and abolished the emperor Sima Yi, Sima Yu as the emperor, but in the face of the Wang family and the Xie family, Huan Wen's ambition died before he was paid, However, his family's power was still strong in the military town of Jingzhou, and the power of the Eastern Jin Dynasty was also in the hands of the family led by Xie An and Wang Tanzhi.
The puppet emperor Sima Yu of the Eastern Jin Dynasty was established for less than a year, and died of grief, and his son Sima Yao succeeded to the throne in the support of the family, and at this time, the northern land has been unified by the former Qin Emperor Fu Jian, who relied on the Hanmen Shu tribe to start the unification, and the ambitious Fu Jian did not wait to solve the domestic ethnic problems and couldn't wait to destroy the chaotic Eastern Jin Dynasty, and sit on the emperor of the ages who unified the world, and after Sima Yao succeeded to the throne, the Eastern Jin Dynasty weakened the Huan family under the auspices of Xie An, balanced the various relationships between the family and the family, and was in an unprecedented stable stageIn the face of the large-scale invasion of foreign races in the north, the clans in the Eastern Jin Dynasty abandoned their grievances and grievances, unanimously won the great victory in the Battle of Weishui, and completely preserved half of the Jiangnan of the clans. In my opinion, the reign of Sima Yao can also be regarded as a glorious stage of the ruling period of the scholar landlord class.
With the death of Xie An, a representative of the family who was loyal to the Jin family and willing to be a minister, the family within the Eastern Jin Dynasty re-entered the struggle for power and profit.
When Sima Yao was killed by the concubine because of his jokes, he was equivalent to the idiot prince Sima Dezong succeeded to the throne, which seems to be the reappearance of the idiot emperor Sima Zhen of the Western Jin Dynasty, Sima Zhen is also the monarch of the Great Unification Dynasty, and the royal family and the family in the court are in a state of fighting with each other, even if the Western Jin Dynasty perishes, there is still the continuation of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and the ancestral foundation has not been buried. But Sima Dezong did not have the blessings of his ancestors, when the Huan Xuan of the Huan family went down the river from Jingzhou, the old nest, this idiot emperor could only face the fate of being abolished, and the establishment of the Huan Chu regime was only a follow-up to the family family, but even if the Huan family was called the emperor and founded the country, it also broke the political balance between the family members and the Sima family as the emperor, and various forces in the south of the Yangtze River were conscripted, and finally the Hanmen Shu clan represented by Liu Yu temporarily suppressed the various forces of the family and controlled the power of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. and symbolically invited the idiot emperor Sima Dezong to be reinstated, and the Eastern Jin Dynasty at this time actually existed in name only.
After Sima Dezong was poisoned by Liu Yu, who was in charge of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, his younger brother Sima Dewen succeeded to the throne, which was just a stepping stone for Liu Yu to find a stepping stone to cater to the prophecy, even if Sima Dewen had great talent, he was unable to return to heaven, so his fate of being abolished was inevitable.
The demise of the Eastern Jin Dynasty was actually a major attempt by the Shu landlord class in order to become the ruling class, although the Liu Song Dynasty was replaced by the family represented by Xiao Daocheng more than 70 years later, and established the Southern Qi regime, because the Shi landlord class became the ruling class again, and the suppression of the Hanmen Shu clan was more intense, and the Hanmen Shu clan faced the suppression of the Shi landlord class, and also began to carry out armed struggle through the ruler's implementation of the inspection behavior, although it failed to shake the dominance of the Shi landlord class. However, it still greatly weakened the national strength of Southern Qi.
At the same time, the internal instability of the Southern Qi Dynasty is the natural disability of the landlord class of the Shi clan, in just more than 20 years, the internal struggle in the Southern Qi Dynasty continued, three of the six emperors did not die well, as the infighting intensified, and the last emperor Xiao Baojuan was mediocre, Xiao Yan, who was also a big family, raised troops to replace the Southern Qi and established the Southern Liang Dynasty, and the Southern Liang was also like Huan Chu, just a successful case of the impact of the family on the imperial power, because the Liu Song Dynasty established by the Hanmen Shu clan was more successful in the governance of the Jiangnan region, and it was fruitful. The Jiangnan region controlled by the family has gone through decades of turmoil, so the Shu landlord class has been recognized by the people, even if Xiao Yan, who was born in the family, in order to maintain his own rule, has carefully governed the Jiangnan region, but his later years are very happy, and he believes in Buddhism, which finally triggered the Hou Jing Rebellion that lasted for four years, and the Jiangnan region fell into the quagmire of war again, Xiao Yan also starved to death in captivity, and his two generations of emperors were unable to deal with the chaotic government. The common people finally lost patience and confidence in the landlord class of the Shi clan, and Chen Baxian, who was born in the Hanmen Shu clan, grasped the power of the Southern Liang in the process of quelling the rebellions in various places, unceremoniously replaced the Southern Liang, and established the last dynasty of the Southern Dynasty, the Southern Chen.
The establishment of the Nanchen Dynasty, the Shi landlord class began to gradually withdraw from the historical stage, the Nanchen emperors from the Hanmen Shu clan lived up to expectations, vigorously developed the economy internally, making the Nanchen the richest dynasty in the Southern Dynasty, but because of too much attention to economic development, its military strength was far weaker than the Northern Zhou Dynasty of the Northern Dynasty, and the ruling class of the Northern Zhou Dynasty was also transitioning to the Shu landlord class.
When the extravagant Chen Shubao succeeded to the throne, Yang Jian, who had just relied on the Shu landlord class to replace the Northern Zhou Dynasty to establish the Sui Dynasty, defeated the Southern Chen, and unified the world that had fallen apart since the Western Jin Dynasty, and the Shu landlord class completely became the ruling class of the feudal dynasty. In the Tang Dynasty, the family completely disappeared, and the common people finally ushered in their own era after thousands of years of struggle in the feudal society.