The year 372 A.D. was a year of great entanglement for Huan Wen.

Since the Jin Yuan Emperor Sima Rui was in Jiankang, that is, the emperor's throne was changed to Yuan Taixing, the royal family Sima has been taking the route of co-governance with the elite of the family, which is also the way of power division in the Eastern Jin Dynasty - the royal family occupies the name, and the family is divided by the children of the elite alternately.

If Huan Wen does not rebel, then he is the representative of the family's forces, and there is no problem at all in suppressing the royal family. Out of consideration for the community of interests, all the families will regard him as the leader of the alliance regardless of the distance, and even Xie An will serve him as a "king" in the service. In such a situation, even Emperor Jianwen Sima Yu has to act according to his eyes, otherwise he may be abolished and replaced by a new puppet to come to power if he is not careful-Sima Yi, the former deposed emperor, now has a notoriety of impotence, and he is in fear as the Duke of Haixi in Wu County.

But if Huan Wen wants to replace himself as emperor, then things will change radically. A powerful emperor with real power, not all the families are willing to see, at this time Huan Wen is equivalent to standing on the opposite side of all the families, all the original help in the light and the dark will become resistance, as long as one is not careful, there will be a chain reaction, once the consequences of collapse are unpredictable.

This is not without precedent.

After the honeymoon period between Sima Rui and the Wang family, the first dispute that broke out was a living example, and it was impossible for Huan Wen not to think about the old incident that had just passed less than fifty years.

Wang Dun, one of the two kings of Langya who was powerful Xuanhe tried to rebel back then, did not have the power accumulated over the years under him, and he was an important minister who was originally in a high position in the Western Jin Dynasty. However, once he stands on the opposite side of all the scholars and wants to be the emperor, even his cousin Wang Dao, who is the king of the Langya Wang family, will not help him!

In terms of the power of the family, the Langya Wang clan at that time was by no means under the current Long Kanghuan clan, and it was they who personally supported the current dynasty!

Sima Rui is just an idle royal family, after Yongjia crossed to the south, with the full support of the Wang family, he gathered the joint support of the northern scholars and the southern scholars, and finally called the emperor after the Jin Emperor surrendered to Liu Yao, and built the capital Jiankang, known as the Eastern Jin Dynasty in history.

In return, Wang Dao was appointed prime minister, and all political affairs above the court came from him, and Sima Rui called him "Zhong Father", which was more important than Guan Zhong Xiao He to stay in the central position; Wang Dun served as a general, supervising all Chinese and foreign military forces, and controlled the vast majority of the military power of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. At its peak, three-quarters of the officials above the court were inseparable from the Wang family.

Later, when Sima Rui tried to recover the imperial power, he had a dispute with Wang Dun, and was defeated head-on by Wang Dun in the ancient name of "Qingjun Side", not only killed the henchmen that Sima Rui had cultivated with great difficulty on the spot, but also forced Sima Rui to give up his throne to keep him safe, but was finally rejected by Wang Dun. From then on, he was the emperor in vain, and all the government was ruled by Wang Dun until he was angry to death like this.

Things took a turn for the worse when Wang Dun expressed that he wanted to be the emperor, and the next thing was mysterious: Wang Dun wanted to abolish the crown prince, but the result was that "all officials did not obey"; wanted to discuss the seizure of the throne with the mastermind, but his nephew Wang Yunzhi revealed all the complete plans to the new royal family Sima Shao; wanted Wen Qiao to train Danyang soldiers for Danyang Yin and monitor the movements of the imperial court by the way, but Wen Qiao reflexively reported Wang Dun's rebellion to Sima Shao, and by the way, aimed the trained Danyang soldiers at him - and so on, if you carefully distinguish them, the figures of the families can be seen almost everywhere.

Huan Wen now wants to imitate Wang Dun's story back then, how can he not take these into account?

So he can only test the bottom line that the family can accept step by step. It's not that he doesn't want to be the emperor quickly, but he really can't—he can't, he can't.

Time passed day by day in such an invisible consumption, and the first one who couldn't stand it was Sima Yu, the emperor who was sitting on pins and needles.

In July 372, Emperor Jian Wen, who was seriously ill, tried to issue an edict to make Huan Wen follow the regency of the Duke of Zhou, but was rejected by Wang Tanzhi of the Taiyuan Wang clan and changed to an auxiliary government; Emperor Jian Wen died, and Huan Wen wanted to decide whether to set up another young emperor, but Wang Biao of the Langya Wang clan was blocked, and the crown prince Sima Yao succeeded him; In February 373, Huan Wen led troops into the pilgrimage to pay homage to the emperor's mausoleum, but was forced to return in the silent resistance of the ministers, and he was only in Beijing for more than ten days; After returning to Guyu, Huan Wen forced the imperial court to add his nine tins, and Xie An of Chenjun Xie Shi postponed Yuan Hong's poor composition, and did not finish writing until he died.

The story of a generation of heroes ended hastily in such a way, which has to make people sigh.

Even if he died, Huan Wen, like Wang Dun back then, did not dare to jump out of the gate valve system to fight against the gate valve himself.

After Huan Wen's death, he handed over all military power to his younger brother Huan Chong, who was relatively capable. The prince Huan Xi was not convinced, and his uncle Huan Mi, his younger brother Huan Ji murdered Huan Chong, and was exiled after the defeat, and there were disputes within the Long Kang Huan clan, and the overall power declined greatly.

In 375, Huan Chong himself dismissed Xie An from Yangzhou, an important place in Gyeonggi, which was tantamount to giving up Huan's position as the core power. The natural group of the Huan Party objected, and Xi Chao, the mastermind of Huan Wen, also tried his best to dissuade him, but Huan Chong had made up his mind, and immediately changed his position to Xuzhou Assassin History, and merged the Zhonglang Mansion in the north into the General Mansion of the Chinese Army, and went out of the town of Jingkou.

The Huan clan has since moved away from the center of power and retreated to the ordinary clan, although they have lost their power, they have also kept their peace.

As for the influence, that is, the "Shengde Rixin Xi guest" has since concentrated on Buddhism and has not asked about the world, and died three years later; "The people of the world hope for Xie An" has also stepped onto the stage of history since then, and is about to bloom the brightest light of the Xie family.

It's a pity that none of this has anything to do with Zhao Gao, and after defeating the coalition and returning to Bei County, he uncharacteristically chose to hide. In the past seven or eight years, he has never appeared in everyone's field of vision again, and all daily related affairs have been handled by Zhao Fujin.

As a local hero, there were people who came to consult him at first, but the disputes above the court became increasingly fierce, and his little shrimp was gradually consciously forgotten - Meng Fu has no heirs, and it is estimated that there will be no heirs in the future, which is the most reassuring and makes him the safest.

It can even be said that until he is the heir, anyone who covets his power will only try to please him as much as possible. After all, the power of a person without a future to fight back is terrifying, and the lessons of the four surnames of Wu Jun are there. The Lu family, the most powerful of them at the beginning, is still in the whirlpool of power struggles within the family, and has reached the point where it is about to fall out of the position of a first-class wealthy family in Jiangdong.

The one who mixed the best was Zhu Yan. Although he failed to become the co-owner of the four surnames as he wished, because of the weakening of the other three, the Zhu family became the head of the four surnames again, and his voice in the four surnames greatly increased. As for the promise he made with Zhao Gao, it was left behind by him in an instant. As an ambitious person who didn't have too much forejudgment, if he wasn't afraid of the strong army under Zhao Gao, he would most likely form a four-surname alliance again for the second expedition.

This made Fang Jingshu, who had gone out with the army, extremely angry. No matter from which point of view, Zhu Yan is the kind of incompetent villain, except for the power skills during the infighting, which is quite useful, the rest of the time is simply a waste. Now such a despicable villain has climbed to a high position beautifully, and even has a lot of nuisance to the borders of Bay County. If it weren't for the fact that the beggar army supported by Bei County was really fierce, it is estimated that Zhu Yan would be even more unscrupulous.

In fact, only the real top people know that Zhao Gao has already bought and left, not only bought the most unpopular one, but also pressed the heavy bet of his whole net worth, which is both admirable and helpless. Of course, Zhao Gao's choice this time was also different, so that even wealthy families such as Wang Xie could not ignore Zhao Gao's choice this time, so they had to let nature go.

In 375, "Guanzhong Liangxiang Wei Wang Meng" died of illness, and the Battle of Weishui officially kicked off.

PS: This chapter is so difficult to write, I am not satisfied after writing it several times.