After two years as an official, Tao Kan did some real things, and the people knew it, and they asked Tao Kan to stay. Of course, this is impossible, and the relationship with the superior leadership is stiff, and staying only adds to the troubles.

After leaving Wugang and no longer being suppressed by Jingzhou Taishou Lu Yue, Tao Kan's mood was extremely complicated, and he couldn't be happy. He couldn't let go of the people of Wugang, especially the Miao Yao people in Chengbu Village, because he left office halfway, those officials might increase taxes at any time, and if they forced the ethnic minorities, they would rise up and rebel against the government.

But what if you can't let it go? I hope that the next county magistrate can love the people like himself and love the people like a son. On the surface of the Zishui River, Tao Kan looked at the surging river and couldn't let go for a long time.

With a lot of helplessness and indignation, Tao Kan returned home. But he couldn't be idle, and after that, under the recommendation of a friend, he became a county elementary school Zhongzheng.

If it weren't for the uproar of the displaced people in Jiangnan and giving him the opportunity to fight the brigade, I am afraid that he would only be a petty official such as a county magistrate for the rest of his life.

In the last years of the Western Jin Dynasty, Queen Jia Nanfeng intervened in the government and politics, caused chaos in the harem, killed the prince with a pestle, and the ministers were angry and the clan was angry. In April of the first year of Yongkang, Sima Lun, the king of Zhao, Sima Tong, the king of Liang, and Sima Jian, the king of Qi, fraudulently claimed the imperial edict, and led troops to rush into the palace to kill Jia Mi and abolish Jia Hou. The kings of Houzong attacked each other, and the world was in chaos, which was known as the "Rebellion of the Eight Kings" in history. The Central Plains is full of smoke, wars are endless, the dead and wounded are sleeping, and the mourning is everywhere.

A large number of Central Plains people fled south to avoid the war. Due to natural disasters and wars, a large number of civilians in the Qin and Yong areas migrated to the Liang and Yi areas for food, causing turmoil in the situation in the south of the Yangtze River. Li Liu and others revolted in Shuzhong, and the people of Shuzhong became homeless people and ran to Jingzhou.

In the first year of Yongning (301), the displaced people gathered to revolt because they could not bear the oppression of local officials. The imperial court hurriedly mobilized Jingzhou Wuyong to go to Yizhou to suppress it. Those Jingzhou warriors who were transferred were reluctant to go on an expedition, and were driven by local officials to gather and start an incident. **In the second year, (303) Yiyang Barbarian Zhang Chang also gathered people to revolt in Jiangxia, and Ding Zhuang, who was unwilling to go on an expedition, and the displaced people around Jiangxia defected to Zhangchang one after another.

In order to gather popularity, Zhang Chang found an official named Qiu Shen, changed his name to Liu Ni, and falsely claimed to be the queen of the Han family, so as to serve as the Son of Heaven. Zhang Chang claimed to be Xiangguo, and falsely claimed to have seen the phoenix, found the jade seal, and took the Shenfeng as the country name.

Zhang Chang spread rumors that the south of Jianghuai was opposed, thus strengthening the unrest around Nanyang, in order to confuse people's minds, and the people around the Yangtze River and Hanshui responded with troops.

Zhang Chang is a good person to talk about offensive warfare, and he sent Ma Wu to enter Wuchang, and he still has some strategic vision. Wuchang was an important military town operated by Sun Quan for many years, and was an important strategic location until the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Zhangchang took Wuchang as the center, reached Xiangyang in the north, controlled Jingnan in the west, and Jiangzhou in the east.

After the establishment of the regime, Zhang Chang did not have any long-term strategy, and the local officials appointed by Zhang Chang were all thieves and heroes, and they were still robbers.

Zhang Chang's subordinate general Shi Bing was also a figure, defeating Chen Hui, the assassin of Yangzhou in a short period of time, and almost captured all the counties of Yangzhou, only some Jin troops in Shouchun, Guangling and other places in Jiangbei.

The Western Jin Dynasty divided the area of present-day Jiangxi and Wuhan into Jiangzhou, which was soon captured by Shi Bing. Linhuai people seal the clouds and dominate the world! Raise troops in response to Shi Bing, intending to advance Xuzhou. Chen Zhen, another general of Zhang Chang, successively won Wuling, Lingling, Yuzhang, and Changsha. In addition to Jiaozhou, Zhang Chang almost won the territory of Sun Quan when he founded the country, and also more areas of Yuzhou and Xuzhou.

Zhang Changqin led his army to capture Xiangyang, which was originally the base of Sima Xin, the king of Xinye. After several battles, Sima Xin was killed, and the defenders of Xiangyang still resisted according to the city.

Zhang Chang then turned to capture Jiangxia County, and by March, the army had grown to more than 30,000 men. The development and growth of Zhang Chang's power caused unease in the imperial court.

The imperial court immediately sent Liu Hong, the captain of the Southern Barbarians and the assassin of Jingzhou, to seal the general of Zhennan and lead the army to suppress it. This Liu Hong is not small, he is the grandson of Liu Fu, who runs Hefei and can't make Sun Quan able to conquer anything.

As soon as Liu Hong took office, he immediately set up Tao Kan as the chief history of the Southern Barbarians, and ordered him to go to Xiangyang as a pioneer to crusade against Zhang Chang. To be reused by Liu Hong, Tao Kan is of course very happy. Moreover, in times of turmoil, joining the army and making military merits is also a shortcut to promotion.

Tao Kan led his army into Xiangyang, but Liu Hong's army was defeated by Zhang Chang in Wan. Zhang Chang turned to attack Xiangyang, that is, along the Han River into the Yangtze River. For a time, most of Jing, Jiang, Yang and other prefectures were controlled by Zhang Chang.

Liu Hong ordered Tao Kan to attack Zhang Chang, and even won the battle, and finally suppressed the uprising. In this process, Tao Kan's military talent made Liu Hong sigh very much, and he said to Tao Kan: "I used to join the army for the sheep duke, and I should live in the future." Observing today, he will follow the old man. ”

Yang Gong is Yanghu, Jin and Wu confrontation, he has guarded Jingzhou for nearly 20 years, and has made great contributions to the destruction of Wu by Jin. Liu Hong thought that it was difficult for him to succeed in his old age, so he hoped that Tao Kan would make a difference in Jingzhou. Later, Tao Kan really became the assassin of Jingzhou, and Liu Hong's words played a great role in motivating Tao Kan.

The rebellion of Zhang Chang was quelled, and Tao Kan and others were rewarded for their military exploits. There was a temporary stable situation in Jing, Yang and other prefectures, while the war in the north had intensified, and the Western Jin Dynasty court existed in name only.

Seeing the chaos in the north and the inability of the imperial court to control Jiangdong, Chen Min, the minister of Guangling, raised troops to occupy Yangzhou, and sent his brother Chen Hui to attack Wuchang along the west of the Jiangxi in an attempt to seize Jiangnan. Liu Hong ordered Tao Kan to be the Taishou of Jiangxia and led the army to resist Chen Hui.

Tao Kan and Chen Min are in the same county, and they were recommended to be officials in the same year, and their friendship is acceptable. Therefore, some people are quite suspicious of Tao Kanju in the big county and the strong army. In fact, Tao Kan will not give up the achievements he has achieved and go to refuge with a person who has no roots in Jiangdong.

In order to prevent Liu Hong from listening to this suspicion, Tao Kan sent his eldest son Tao Hong and his brother Tao Zhenyihong to Liu Hong as hostages. Liu Hong was introduced to join the army, and he was sent to supervise and protect, so that he and the army could resist Chen Hui's attack. Liu Hong is not suspicious of employing people, and solves Tao Kan's worries well, he leads the troops to fight with Chen Hui, and everything will be broken.

The successive defeats of Zhang Chang, Chen Hui and other opposition forces established his military position in the Jingzhou region. At this time, Tao Kan is no longer the "distant man" and "villain" who were looked down upon in the past, and has become a powerful local general.

In the first year of Guangxi (306), Liu Hong died of illness. Soon, Tao Kan also died of his mother's illness. During Tao Kan's mourning at home, the political situation in Jiangnan changed again.

In the first year of Yongjia (307), Sima Rui, the evil king of the Western Jin Dynasty, and the king of the Dashi clan crossed the river and entered Jianye. Sima Rui is the last powerful minister in the "Rebellion of the Eight Kings", and the sworn friend of Sima Yue, the king of the East China Sea. He saw that the Luoyang regime was on the verge of collapse, and took advantage of the opportunity that Sima Yue sent him to guard Jianye to seize Jiangdong.

At that time, Sima Rui only occupied the area of Yangzhou downstream, and there were exile forces in the vast area upstream, as well as the governor and assassin of the Luoyang Imperial Court. Without a stable upstream, there is no safety in the downstream.

In the fifth year of Yongjia, Sima Rui took Wang Dun as the governor to conquer the military, and led Ganzhuo and Zhou Wan to go along the Jiangxi to Jiangzhou, where they met Huayi's forces.

This Hua Yi is also a close confidant of Wang Yue in the East China Sea, and served as the assassin of Jiangzhou in the middle of Yongjia. Although the "Rebellion of the Eight Kings" has just ended, and the world has been in turmoil, Hua Yi still attaches importance to the traditional system and etiquette, and sets up Confucianism to promote Confucianism. Hua Yi has a great reputation and grace in Jiangzhou, and the heroes have befriended him and are deeply loved by the people. Although Hua Yi and Sima Rui belong to the same faction, the new interests have made them on the same page.

After the expiration of Tao Kan's mourning, he also got into a relationship with Sima Yue, the king of the East China Sea, and Sima Yue took him as a member of the army to supervise the military of Jiangzhou. With this relationship, coupled with Tao Kan's prestige, Hua Yi appointed Tao Kan as the general of Yangwu, led 3,000 troops, and Tunxiakou, and Tao Kan's nephew Tao Zhen also served in Hua Yi's army.

As the contradiction between Hua Yi and Sima Rui became more and more acute, Tao Zhen was worried that if he continued to stay there, it would be difficult to make a difference, and he would put his life into it, so he returned home and confessed to Tao Kan: "Hua Yanxia has the ambition to worry about the world, but his talent is insufficient, and he is not equal to Lang Evil, so it is difficult to do it." ”

Tao Kan was very angry and asked Tao Zhen to return to Hua Yi's place as soon as possible and continue to serve: "It is against loyalty to the father and the king, and to turn his back on Hua Yi is against his loyalty." ”

"Uncle, I will do what you want." Tao Zhen nodded and agreed on the surface.

This kid turned his back, smeared the soles of his feet with oil, and secretly ran to Jiankang, and revealed Hua Yi's military deployment situation, and said that he came to defect to Sima Rui, the king of Langya, on the orders of his uncle Tao Kan.

For this reason, Sima Rui Dayue appointed Tao Zhen to join the army, and added the title of General Tao Kan Fenwei. Tao Kan was forced to cut off contact with Hua Yi, and Tao Kan defected before the battle, which greatly injured Hua Yi's vitality, lost Xiakou, and opened the door of Jiangzhou.

At that time, Luoyang was often harassed by the military horses of Han Zhao (established by Liu Yuan of the Huns), and the people were in turmoil, Hua Yi still had the ambition to help the world, and when he sent people to pay tribute to Luoyang, he still did not lose his courtiers. Hua Yi even told the envoy that even if the road to Luoyang was cut off, he should not pay tribute to Sima Rui, the evil king of Lang, to show that he was loyal to the central power of the Sima clan.

Hua Yi thought that he was appointed by the Luoyang court, and Emperor Huai of Jin was still in Luoyang, and refused to accept Sima Rui's orders, and most of his subordinates advised Hua Yi to take a step back and cooperate with Sima Rui.

In the fifth year of Yongjia (311), the Yongjia Rebellion occurred, and the Xiongnu nobleman Liu Yuan led his troops to capture Luoyang and took away Emperor Huai of Jin to return to the north. Sikong Xun Fan elected Sima Rui as the leader of the alliance, so Sima Rui undertook to change the system to the chief, but Hua Yi did not obey.

Sima Rui found an excuse to send troops and sent the left general Wang Dun to lead Gan Zhuo, Zhou Wan, Song Dian, Zhao Lu and others to crusade against Hua Yi. The Hua Yi faction drove Chen Xiong to garrison Pengze to resist, and he led the naval army as foreign aid.

General Yang Lie's Zhou visit was ordered by Sima Rui to lead troops to garrison Pengze in Tun to prevent the expansion of Huayi. Zhou Wan admired Hua Yi's enthusiasm for worrying about the world, and was unwilling to provoke the suspicion between Hua Yi and Sima Rui, so he changed his mind to find the sun.

After the battle between the two armies, Feng Yi, the Taishou of Wuchang, was defeated by Zhou Wan at Huangkou. The former Jiangzhou assassin Shi Weizhan was not valued by Hua Yi, and he was dissatisfied for a long time, so he decided to serve Zhou Guang as Sima Rui's internal response with Yuzhang Taishou and secretly sent troops to attack Hua Yi. Hua Yi was defeated and fled to Anseong, where Zhou Guang pursued and beheaded Hua Yi and his five sons.

Although Tao Kan did not send troops to attack Hua Yi directly, he could be regarded as a great meritorious service, and was promoted to General Long Xiang and Wuchang Taishou. Tao Kan betrayed Hua Yi at a critical time, and did not accept the responsibility of the world, for the sake of the family's interests, it became a custom to form an alliance with the Shi clan, not to mention that Tao Kan did stand on the right side this time!