Chapter 215: Eastern Jin Dynasty Chaos

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However, at this moment, the Eastern Jin Dynasty was busy fighting for power and profit, and had no time to pay attention to the chaos in the north.

Therefore, Yao Chang's plan to use the Eastern Jin Dynasty to balance Hexi is destined to be a failure.

The period from the tenth year of Taiyuan (385 AD) to the fifteenth year of Taiyuan (390 AD) when Xie An died was a period when Sima Yao and Sima Daozi, a pair of wine bags and rice bag brothers, cooperated more than they disagreed, and contradictions gradually piled up.

Although, during this period, the personnel arrangements from the central to the local level were dazzling.

However, every step was the result of Sima Yao's efforts to consolidate imperial power and balance the interests of the gate lords.

Yangzhou, needless to say, was succeeded by Sima Daozi shortly after Xie An's death.

Jingzhou was originally the territory of the Long Kang Huan clan, and Huan Chong took over after Huan Wen's death.

Then, a year before Xie An's death, Huan Shimin, another handsome man of the Huan clan, took over the post of Jingzhou Assassin.

Six years later, in the fourteenth year of the Taiyuan Dynasty, Huan Shimin died, and Emperor Sima Yao finally regained power in Jingzhou.

Wang Chen was immediately appointed as the assassin of Jingzhou, and the Huan family lost its last Fang Town.

Sima Yao's action of constantly suppressing the Long Kang Huan clan caused great dissatisfaction among the Long Kang Huan clan headed by Huan Xuan.

Xuzhou, after Xie Xuan resigned in the twelfth year of Taiyuan Dynasty, he was led by Sima Daozi.

Yuzhou, to the fifteenth year of Taiyuan was replaced by Yu Kai to replace his brother Yu Zhun.

In Jiangzhou, after Huan Yi's death in the fifteenth year of the Taiyuan Dynasty, the imperial court briefly served as the assassin of Wang Xizhi's son Wang Ningzhi (and then transferred to the internal history of Huiji).

In Yanzhou, after Xie Xuan resigned in the twelfth year of Taiyuan Dynasty, he was succeeded by Zhu Xu, and soon the imperial court was appointed by Sima Tian, the king of Xu.

Three years later, in the fifteenth year of the Taiyuan Dynasty, Sima Tian, the king of Qiao, died again, and Sima Yao was appointed as the queen's brother Wang Gong.

In the tenth year of Taiyuan Dynasty, Sima Yao established Yongzhou in Xiangyang, and Yang Liang, the father of Yang Yan, was the assassin of Yongzhou.

In the thirteenth year of the Taiyuan Dynasty, Zhu Xu was added as the governor of Yongzhou, Liangzhou, and the military of the nine counties in Chuzhong, and the history of Yongzhou was assassinated, and Luoyang was guarded.

Yizhou, Taiyuan was succeeded by Guo Quan in the fifteenth year.

During this period, the history of Ningzhou was Fei Tong, and the history of Guangzhou was Kong Wang.

As for the post of Huiji Internal History, after Xie Xuan's death, he was succeeded by Xie Yan, the son of Xie An.

In the sixteenth year of the Taiyuan Dynasty, Xie Yan was promoted to the right servant of Shangshu and the crown prince Zhan Shi, and Wang Ningzhi took over the internal history of Huiji.

In the five years after Xie An's death, Sima Yao and Sima Daozi cooperated to complete the adjustment of the main Fang Town.

Among the towns of Zhufang, the most important ones are Xuzhou, Yanzhou, Yuzhou, Jiangzhou, and Jingzhou, and the changes in the chief officials are eye-catching.

After the Battle of Weishui, the old generals of Beifu moved north to both sides of the Huai River, and Yanxu Erzhou became the garrison of Beifu soldiers.

When the north fell into chaos and the pressure on the border was reduced, the soldiers of the northern province had changed from the pillars of the imperial court to the object of suspicion and defense.

Especially after Xie Xuan's resignation, the Beifu soldiers lacked a leader who was deeply respected, and was soon divided into two by the imperial court, Xuzhou was led by Sima Daozi, and Yanzhou was stationed in Jiejingkou by Sima Tian and Wang Gong after Zhu Xu's short transition.

Faced with the possibility of being unloaded and killed by the donkey, the old generals of Beifu consciously united around Liu Gaozhi, and through Liu Gaozhi, they were closely linked to the Xie clan of Chen County.

However, Liu Gaozhi obviously cannot be compared with Xie Xuan, although he has qualifications and prestige, he does not have the corresponding ability.

At this point, the Beifu soldiers are temporarily dormant in Lianghuai, and they will not rise again until Sun En rises up.

In 390 A.D., that is, before the fifteenth year of the Taiyuan Dynasty, Sima Yao and Sima Daozi, the two brothers of wine bags and rice bags, cooperated more than they resisted.

As the imperial court completed the adjustment of various local towns, a conflict finally inevitably broke out between Sima Yao's imperial power and Sima Daozi's relative power.

In order to balance the increasingly powerful Sima Daozi, Sima Yao appointed Wang Gong, the queen's brother, as the governor of Yanqing Jiyou and the military of the six states of Xuzhou, the general of Pingbei, the assassin history of Yanqing and the two states of Yanqing, and the false festival after the death of Sima Tian, and guarded the Jingkou.

Wang Gong's appointment came eight months after Wang Chen took office as the assassin of Jingzhou, and Wang Chen was the younger brother of Sima Daozi's confidant Wang Baoguo, so Sima Yao's move was obviously to secretly check and balance Sima Daozi.

In recent years, the contradictions between Sima Yao and Sima Daozi have further intensified, almost to the point of irreconcilability.

In the seventeenth year of Taiyuan Dynasty, that is, this year, in the summer of 392 AD, Wang Chen died of illness in Jingzhou.

At this time, the wine bag and rice bag brothers were all focused on fighting for control of Jingzhou, so they naturally didn't have the heart to care about Hou Qin's life or death?

And coincidentally, not long after Wang Chen's death, Zhu Xu, who was guarding Xiangyang, also resigned due to illness.

This made the post of Jingzhou Assassin the focus of common attention of the Eastern Jin Dynasty and the opposition.

Because no matter which faction takes up the post of Jingzhou Assassin, they will control the entire Great Jingzhou region (Jingzhou in the Eastern Jin Dynasty is different from Jingzhou in the Han Dynasty, excluding Xiangyang and other north of the Yangtze River).

After all, Emperor Sima Yao occupies the position of righteousness, so he is relatively quick.

In the same month of Wang Chen's death, Sima Yao naturally appointed his cronies and the prince's right guard Shuai Xi Hui to replace the elderly Zhu Xu as the assassin of Yongzhou and guard Xiangyang, preparing for the next step of arranging candidates for the assassination of Jingzhou.

In the face of the emperor's aggressiveness, Sima Daozi was also not to be outdone, and wanted his henchman Wang Guobao to take over as Wang Chen.

Wang Guobao is Wang Chen's third brother, and he is also Sima Daozi's brother-in-law, and he takes over this position, of course, Sima Daozi couldn't be more happy.

However, Sima Yao definitely did not want Sima Daozi to succeed, and he intended to let Wang Gong be stationed in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River with the respect of his uncle.

In addition to the wine bag and rice bag brothers competing for Jingzhou, Wang Xun of the Lang Evil Wang clan is also salivating for the position of Jingzhou Assassin.

However, although Wang Xun also stood on Sima Yao's side, because he was a former official of the Huan clan, it was impossible for him to go to the land of Jingchu, which was all over the old department of the Huan clan.

For Sima Yao, he and his father were frightened day and night when Huan Wen was alive, so much so that he hated Huan deeply.

Even if the throne of their father and son still came because Huan Wen deposed the Duke of Haixi, they could not let Sima Yao lenient the Huan clan.

Therefore, since Sima Yao came to power, he has adopted a strategy of actually suppressing the Huan family and ignoring it on the surface.

For this reason alone, Sima Yao would not appoint Wang Xun, who had an old friendship with the Huan family, to be the assassin of Jingzhou.

However, just as the wine bag and rice bag brothers were focusing all their attention on each other, they didn't realize that Huan Xuan was also secretly planning for Jingzhou's assassination.

Huan Xuan knew very well that he could not take charge of Jingzhou for the time being, and his plan was just to prevent Wang Gong from ascending to the throne.

When Wang Chen was in Jingzhou, he opposed Huan Xuan everywhere and suppressed the Huan family's forces.

And Wang Gong, as the emperor's confidant, naturally will not have a good impression of the Huan family, once he succeeds to the Jingzhou assassin history, Huan Xuan will definitely continue to be suppressed.

So, Huan Xuan sent someone into Beijing to bribe the nun Zhi Miaoyin, whom Sima Yao favored, and recommended Yin Zhongkan, a waiter of the Yellow Gate who he regarded as a weak talent, through Zhi Miaoyin.

The result was beyond everyone's expectations, and because of Huan Xuan's secret operation, the candidate for Jingzhou's assassination finally fell to Yin Zhongkan, who had little prestige.

Yin Zhongkan is Yin Hao's nephew, and he, like Wang Chen, belongs to the target of Huan Wen's suppression.

The appointment of Yin Zhongkan reflects Sima Yao's intention to continue to guard against the remnants of the Huan clan in Jingzhou.

So in 392 A.D., the imperial court officially took Yin Zhongkan as the military governor of Jing, Yi and Ning, the general Zhenwei, the history of Jingzhou, the fake festival, and the town of Jiangling.

It's a pity that Yin Zhongkan is different from his predecessor Wang Chen, he is full of fear of the Huan family in his heart, and he is very afraid of Huan Xuan.

So much so that after he arrived in Jingzhou, not only did he not dare to suppress the Huan family, but he also took the initiative to make friends with Huan Xuan.

After Yin Zhongkan arrived, Huan Xuan changed Wang Chen's restraint when he was in office, and acted more and more unscrupulously, gradually suppressing the history of Jingzhou's assassination.

It is said that once, Huan Xuan took a spear and tried it against Yin Zhongkan, and almost stabbed Yin Zhongkan.

Yin Zhongkan's subordinate Liu Hui immediately reprimanded Huan Xuan and forced Huan Xuan to leave with hatred.

After Huan Xuan left, Yin Zhongkan was so frightened that he hurriedly asked Liu Hui to leave Jingzhou and flee for his life.

Yin Zhongkan's cowardice and Huan Xuan's strength can be seen from this, and it also makes Jingzhou fear Huan Xuan more than Yin Zhongkan.

Maybe Sima Yao didn't expect that he would try his best to snatch the important town of Jingzhou from Sima Daozi.

But because of the non-people, Jingzhou finally gradually fell into the hands of Huan Xuan in fact.

Since then, Huan Xuan has gradually stepped onto the political stage and become a powerful figure in the Eastern Jin Dynasty.