Chapter 5 Gains and Losses

Liu Muzhi, who stayed in Jiankang, died of illness.

What is the relationship between Liu Muzhi and Liu Yu? If you compare your predecessors, it is equivalent to the relationship between Xiao He and Liu Bang.

Liu Muzhi is talented and has first-class organizational and management skills. Internally, it can oversee the government and provide assistance to the army externally.

In history, when Liu Muzhi was in the office, many people came to him to do things: some came to complain, some came to ask for instructions, and the houses were full of steps.

Liu Muzhi can look at the documents in his eyes, write a note in his hand, listen to other people's complaints and reports in his ears, and respond in his mouth, which is orderly and will not interfere with each other.

The theory of concentration of attention in psychology is completely invalid in front of it, and the god and man are one.

Just ability, not close to the leadership relationship. Liu Muzhi is a native of Jingkou, and Liu Yu is a fellow countryman, and he is also Liu Yu's confidant.

When summing up the lessons of the failure of the Northern Expedition in Huanwen above, it was mentioned that a stable rear was a sufficient and necessary condition for the southern heroes to succeed in the Northern Expedition. Liu Yu led the Northern Expedition and also needed a stable rear, so he chose Liu Muzhi to stay in Jiankang on his behalf, first, to monitor the movements of the imperial court, and second, to provide logistical support for the Northern Expeditionary Army.

"Mu's death, people are easy for me". Now, Liu Muzhi died of illness, Liu Yu was afraid that there would be changes in the rear, so he left his son Liu Yizhen to stay in Chang'an, and led the army back to the base camp in a hurry.

Liu Yizhen was only 12 years old, leaving a child to guard the military and political town of Chang'an? Liu Yu is not worried, because he has equipped his son with a strong auxiliary team, and there are two core members, one is the general Wang Zhenwei, and the other is Shen Tianzi, the general of Long Xiang.

These two are the heroes of this capture of Guanzhong. Let's take a look at Wang Zhenwei's personal file first:

Name: Wang Zhenwei. Family relationship: Grandfather Wang Meng, former Prime Minister of Qin. Ancestral hometown: Beihai County, which is now Changle County in Weifang, Shandong, Wang Meng's hometown. Place of birth: Chang'an.

Wang Zhenwei was born in the former Qin capital where his grandfather Wang Meng served, which is not worth mentioning, it is worth mentioning that his birthday.

Date of birth: June 11, 373, the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar.

In ancient times, who was born on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, Chinese parents had to elongate their faces.

May 5 is the day of the evil moon and the evil day, which is called the day of the five poisons. "Building a house on this day makes people bald", "Don't move in May, don't stick the windows".

Eastern Han Dynasty Taishan Taishou Ying Shao's "Customs and Customs" cloud: It is commonly said that the fifth day of the fifth month of May gives birth to a child, the man harms the father, and the woman harms the mother.

Liu Xin of the Western Han Dynasty and Ge Hong of the Eastern Jin Dynasty compiled and copied the ancient history notes and novels "Xijing Miscellaneous Records" cloud: The proverb (May) is five days, and the long and household will harm themselves, not their mothers.

That is to say, in ancient Chinese customs, children born on the fifth day of the fifth month of the fifth month are not dependent on the father of the male and the mother of the female.

There is an emperor in history, born on May 5, in order to avoid bad luck, changed to October 10, and set it as "Tianning Festival". However, the country was still ruined, and his son and family were also affected.

He is Song Huizong, Song Qinzong's father, father and son and harem concubines were insulted by the Jin people.

Wang Zhenwei was born on the fifth day of the fifth month of May, his parents were very depressed, and his grandfather Wang Meng was very surprised: this is very good, Xi Meng tasted the evil moon and was born together, and the son will also be prosperous!

Therefore, Wang Zhen Evil has the name of "Zhen Evil".

Liu Yu returned to the south, and someone set his sights on Chang'an, he was the lord of Great Xia, Helian Bobo.

Taking advantage of Liu Yu's absence in Chang'an, Helian Bobo sent an army to cut off Qingni in the south and choke Tongguan in the east to attack Chang'an. At the moment of the great enemy, Shen Tianzi and Wang Zhenwei, the two pillars of the auxiliary team who stayed in Chang'an, had internal strife.

At the time of the fall of the former Qin, Wang Zhenwei was only 13 years old, wandering, and once lived in the house of a friend named Li Fang in Mianchi (now Mianchi, Henan).

Wang Zhenwei was very grateful to Li Fang for taking him in: if it develops one day, it will be rewarded.

Li Fang: You are the grandson of the prime minister, you have outstanding virtue and ability, why not be rich. At that time, it will be enough to hire me as the prefectural magistrate of this prefecture (Michi).

Li Fang's requirements are neither high nor low, and this dream was later realized by Wang Zhenwei. A few meals in exchange for a department-level substantive position can be called the best investment.

After Wang Zhen was evil, he and his uncle Wang Yao returned to the Eastern Jin Dynasty and lived in Jingzhou. In 409, when Liu Yu went on a northern expedition to Nanyan and attacked Guanggu City, someone recommended Wang Zhenwei to Liu Yu, who was 36 years old at the time, and was a county magistrate in Linli County, Tianmen County (Lin Boqu, Ding Ling's hometown), and was a department-level cadre.

Liu Yu summoned Wang Zhenxi, and after talking with him, he was quite impressed (the so-called generals have generals), and stayed by his side to use them (Qingzhou Zhizhong engaged in history, Xing Shen Zhongjun Tai Lieutenant Military, Department of the front thief Cao), with Liu Yuping Nanyan, and made military achievements.

As mentioned above, Lu Xun, the leader of Sun En's Taoist rebel army, led his army to attack Jiankang when Liu Yu was in the north of the Southern Yan. He Wuji, the nephew of Liu Gaozhi, a famous general in Beifu, died in battle, and the government and the opposition were shaken.

The three main forces of the Beifu Army at that time, Liu Yu, He Wuji, Liu Yi, Liu Yu's Northern Expedition, He Wuji died in battle, and the heavy responsibility of resisting Lu Xun fell on Liu Yi's shoulders. As a result, Liu Yi was also defeated.

When Liu Yu returned to defeat Lu Xun, his prestige became stronger and stronger, and he became a lieutenant, that is, the executive deputy chairman who presided over the work of the Central Military Commission. Wang Zhenwei also made military exploits and had the title of fifth-class son of Feng Bolu County.

And Liu Yi, the prestige of the imperial court has plummeted, Under Liu Yu's halo, how will Liu Yi choose?

Willing to live under Liu Yu to maintain a certain amount of wealth? Or compete with Liu Yu for the status of the first brother of the Eastern Jin Dynasty?

Character determines choice, which in turn determines fate.

Every time Liu Yi reads history books, when he reads the stories of Lian Po and Lin Xiangru, he always sighs that it is impossible.

Liu Yu destroyed Lu Xun, and Emperor An of Jin set up a banquet in Xichi to comfort him, and ordered his ministers to write poems to praise him.

Liu Yi's poem is: There are many heroes in the six countries, and they are beginning to be romantic.

Interpreting it, you can feel a strong vinegar smell: what is martial arts, elegance is king.

How can such a heart be willing to be subordinate to others? The merger between Liu Yi and Liu Yu is no longer inevitable.

At the beginning of September 412, Liu Yi went to Jiangling (Jingzhou), occasionally contracted an illness, and wrote to ask his cousin, Liu Fan, the assassin of Yanzhou, to be his deputy, and Liu Yu readily agreed.

Liu Yu's refreshment implies deceit. If Liu Fan wants to go from Yangzhou to Jingzhou, he must pass through Nanjing.

As soon as Liu Fan entered Jiankang (Nanjing), Liu Yu took control of him and ordered Liu Fan to commit suicide on the grounds that Liu Yi and Liu Fan had conspired to commit misdeeds.

On September 15, Liu Yu led the troops to the south from Jiankang Shunjiang, preparing to clean up Liu Yi.

Wang Zhenwei accompanied the army as a general of Zhenwu and arrived at Guyu (Dangtu, Anhui) on the 29th. Wang Zhenwei took the initiative to ask for his life, and the general of Long Xiang led a hundred small boats as a vanguard force, day and night, through Quezhou, Xunyang, Hekou, Baling, on October 22, arrived at Yuzhangkou (southeast of Jiangling, Hubei), 20 miles away from Jiangling City.

Wang Zhenwei did not encounter any obstacles along the way (actually on a river), and he was also unimpeded in Liu Yi's territory, because he falsely claimed that Liu Fan went west.

When they arrived at Yuzhangkou, they abandoned the ship and marched on foot. Kui En led the army in front, and Wang Zhenwei followed, leaving one or two people on each boat, and erecting six or seven flags on the shore of the ship, and placing a drum below, telling those who remained: It is estimated that when we will come to the city, we will be under martial law for a long time, and make sure that people look as if there is a large army behind them.

He also sent a special force to burn Liu Yi's ship in Jiangjin (now southeast of Shashi, Hubei) and cut off his retreat.

When he was less than five or six miles away from Jiangling City, he met Liu Yi's general Zhu Xianzhi. Zhu led more than 100 people to leave Jiangjin, and when he saw Wang Zhenwei's vanguard troops, he asked and said that it was Liu Fan's troops.

Zhu Xianzhi was suspicious, galloped to the front, and asked where Liu Liang was. One soldier replied: In the back.

Zhu Xianzhi didn't see Liu Fan, and saw that Jiangjin was full of fireworks, the ships were burned, and the drums were very loud, knowing that there was fraud, he turned his horse's head and galloped back to Liu Yi, and asked him to urgently order the city gates to be closed.

Before the city gate could be closed, Wang Zhenwei had already led his army to break into the east gate of Jiangling City. When he entered the east gate, he turned back to the north, rushed to the shooting hall, and attacked the east gate of Jincheng (now the inner city). Wang Zhenwei directly attacked the west gate and south gate of Jincheng.

Liu Yi had a total of more than 3,000 troops in Jincheng, and the two armies were fighting. Wang Zhen sent people to send edicts and pardons, as well as Liu Yu's handwritten letter to Liu Yi, but Liu Yi didn't even look at it and burned it.

The melee in Jincheng continued, starting from 10 o'clock in the morning and continuing into the afternoon, the battle was fierce, and the evil army of Wang Zhen was few, and it was gradually exhausted.

At the moment of crisis, a man named Wang Huan in Liu Yijun's army stood up.

This family is in Jiangling, and he was promoted by Liu Yu for killing Huan Qian before, and at this time he led more than ten people to join the war group to help Wang Zhen evil.

At about 4 o'clock in the afternoon, Wang Huan worked hard, digging a big hole thirty steps north of the east gate of Jincheng, and took the lead in drilling into the hole.

They are all Beifu soldiers, Wang Zhenxi's soldiers and Liu Yi's soldiers brought from Jiankang, many of them are relatives and know each other. Wang Zhenwei ordered the soldiers to do the ideological work of relatives in the opposing army.

Knowing that it was Liu Yu who was personally recruited, the soldiers of Beifu chose between Liu Yu and Liu Yi with higher prestige. Outside the official office, Liu Yi's soldiers instantly dispersed.

At the first watch, Liu Yi's army leader Zhao Cai, who was deployed in the hall of the official office, was beheaded. However, Liu Yi's hundreds of hardcore soldiers are still fighting to the death.

The siege must be lacking. Wang Zhen was afraid that the night battle would be unfavorable to the central army that came from afar and was unfamiliar with the terrain, so he led the army out of the siege of Jincheng, leaving a road to the south, and using vitality as bait to demoralize Liu Yi's own soldiers.

After all, Liu Yi is a famous general in Beifu, and he is afraid that there will be an ambush in the south, so he led more than 300 people to break through from the north gate at night during the third watch.

Before the breakthrough, due to the suddenness of the incident, when Wang Zhenwei pretended to be Liu Fanjun and entered the city, Liu Yi's habitual war horse was still outside the city, and in a hurry, he went to his son Liu Sumin to get the horse.

Liu Sumin was reluctant to give, and pulled the reins and didn't let go.

Zhu Xianzhi is on fire: Others want to take your father's life, but you are stingy with a horse, and you snatched the horse for Liu Yi.

At the moment of crisis, the son is not as good as a non-related general, and the father-son relationship between the Northern and Southern Dynasties makes people sigh.

As soon as Liu Yi came out on the horse he had stolen from his son, he encountered Wang Zhenxi's army, and then rushed back to break through the siege. After a day of fighting, and exhausted, Liu Yi escaped from the east gate of the city.

Liu Yi fled to the Niumu Buddha Temple outside the city (in the north of Jingzhou District, Jingsha City) and asked to take refuge in the temple, but the monks refused to take him in.

The words of the monks are speechless:

In the past, the dead teacher sheltered Huan Wei, who was killed by Liu Weijun, and today he really doesn't dare to contain outsiders.

It turned out that when the Beifu army gathered to crusade against the Huan Xuan family, Huan Wei also defected to the Niu Mu Buddha Temple, the temple monk Chang hid it, and Liu Yi killed the monk Chang.

Liu Yi was rejected and sighed: It has come to this point for the sake of self-deception.

At that time, Shang Ying fled to the Qin border and wanted to live in a hotel. Because he did not bring his ID card, he was refused by the innkeeper: according to the law of Shang Jun, guests who stayed without a certificate were punished. fled to the border of Wei, but was also denied entry, for a very simple reason - he deceived and captured the son of Wei. was cornered, and was finally killed by Qin Huiwenjun's family.

Be a man and leave a line, and see each other in the future.

Liu Yi didn't leave this line, so he had to go to see the king of Hades and hanged himself.

The next day, the people told Wang Zhen that Liu Yi would be beheaded, and all his sons and nephews were killed.

Wang Zhenwei was named the son of Hanshou County in November because of his efforts to pacify Liu Yi, with 500 households. Later, in 416, he defeated Hou Qin with Liu Yu, and was awarded the title of Anxi Sima and Feng Yijun Taishou. 13-year-old to eat, 36-year-old is in the right place, 43-year-old is in the hall level, Wang Zhen's promotion is not unpleasant.

Has Wang Zhenwei been promoted to the provincial and ministerial level? It's up, but I didn't actually enjoy it, because it was posthumously given.

In 417, Liu Yu left behind in Jiankang Xiao He Liu Muzhi died of illness, Liu Yu returned to the army, leaving his 12-year-old son Liu Yizhen to stay in Chang'an, consolidate the achievements of the Northern Expedition, and equip his son with a luxurious auxiliary team.

Staff officer Wang Xiu is the long history, Wang Zhenwei is the Sima leader Feng Yijun Taishou, Shen Tianzi is also the leader of Shiping Taishou, etc.

Wang Xiu is in charge, Wang Zhenwei is in charge, and Shen Tianzi is in charge of the army, this arrangement seems to be very reasonable. But the problem soon came.

Infighting is always the main theme.

The Northern Expedition captured Chang'an, Wang Zhen made great contributions, but Shen Tianzi was not convinced---You attack Chang'an, I will fight hard to sweep the periphery, you eat meat and I drink soup."

In addition, Shen Tianzi's most taboo about Wang Zhen evil is his identity.

Who is Wang Zhenevil, the grandson of Wang Meng, the former prime minister of Qin, who was born in Chang'an, and is now returning to his hometown. The people of Guanzhong have a deep affection for the Wang family, which has to make Shen Tianzi and other southerners jealous.

Before Liu Yu left, Shen Tianzi went to Liu Yu to complain: Wang Zhen is a bad person in Guanzhong and cannot be trusted.

Shen Tianzi is Hu Zongnan of the Central Army, and although Wang Zhenwei has made military achievements, he is just a ragtag army Huang Baitao who can fight. Out of this consideration, Liu Yu faced Shen Tianzi, who came to complain, and said a passage that made him regret it for the rest of his life:

Zhong Hui failed to make a rebellion after pacifying Shu, wasn't it because of Wei Qian? The tiger is not as good as the fox, there are several of your descendants, you don't have to be afraid of Wang Zhen evil, if he wants to make trouble, you can directly kill him.

Before the person left, he compared one of the two pillars in the auxiliary team to Zhong Hui and the other to Wei Qian. If it was a private word to comfort the descendants, it didn't matter, but Shen Tianzi, the central army of the descendants, collected these words word for word and forged them into a sword of Shang Fang in his imagination.

In the first month of 418, not long after Liu Yu left, Shen Tianzi did something jaw-dropping.

He killed Wang Zhen viciously.

The general died unknown, and Chang'an City hurriedly mobilized urgently to prevent accidents. As a result, Shen Tianzi came to report: Don't panic, it's me who is me, Wang Zhen rebelled against me, and I corrected the law.

Liu Yizhen and Wang Xiu's eyes were about to pop out: What are you kidding, killing such a general, and not even reporting and discussing with us, I think you want to rebel, right?!

The two of them corrected Shen Tianzi again.

Liu Yu had not yet arrived in Jiankang, and as soon as he walked to Pengcheng, he heard about the civil strife in Chang'an City, climbed the building and looked north, tears flowed, and stomped his feet and sighed.

Liu Yu is gone, Chang'an is in civil strife again, and the snot bubbles of Helian Bole, the lord of Great Xia, have come out. I have to get back what belongs to me and lead the army to attack Chang'an.

The two major military pillars died, and Liu Yizhen could not hold Chang'an, so he led the army to evacuate.

You Southern Barbarians, you can come when you want, and you can leave when you want, how can it be so easy.

In this way, Liu Bang's minority nephew's descendant Helian Bobo (Liu Bobo), chasing Liu Bang's grandson Liu Yizhen, beat him up on the territory where Liu Bang made his fortune that year.

The famous general Fu Hongzhi was caught, and Helian Bobo stripped him naked, frozen into a popsicle, and then beheaded. Other captured soldiers, don't behead them. Helian Bobo continued his perverted aesthetics, "accumulating people's heads for the Beijing view, called Calvary".

Liu Yizhen spilled a crotch of his pants with hot urine, hid in the grass, and escaped. He couldn't walk due to excessive muscle spasms due to fright, and was carried back to Jiankang by his subordinates.

It took more than a year to fight hard to grab Chang'an, and before his ass could sit hot, he was exuberant. Liu Yu was almost crazy, and he impulsively wanted to send troops to the Northern Expedition again, but was dissuaded by his generals - after such a farce, it was not easy to recover Chang'an again.

The most important thing is that the people of Chang'an at this time have lost trust in Liu Yu due to the death of Wang Zhenxi, who relied on and trusted. And Helian Bo has a vicious vision, and the text when he left the army is very clear: the army should be innocent in the autumn and treat the Sanqin fathers and elders well.

The emotional balance of the common people in Guanzhong completely tilted in favor of Helian Bobo, and even began to miss Fu Jian and Yao Xing, who were of different races. The evidence is that before Helian Bobo's army arrived, the common people picked up sticks and drove Liu Yuda, who was guarding Chang'an, out of Chang'an. In order to vent his anger, Zhu Lingshi set a fire before leaving and burned down the palace in Chang'an.

You're an arsonist, I'm going to catch you. Helian Bobo chased back Zhu Lingshi and beheaded him.

Wang Zhenwei was only 45 years old when he was killed, and Liu Yu posthumously presented him as General Zuo, Qingzhou Thorn History, and Marquis of Longyang County, nicknamed Zhuang, and worthy of the temple court of Emperor Wu of Song. After his death, he became a ministerial-level cadre, and Wang Zhen under the spring would be blind if he knew about evil.

Don't use suspicious people, don't suspect people. In later generations, although it was a miscellaneous but extremely strong combat effectiveness, Huang Baitao would have retreated to Xuzhou if he had not been ordered to wait for Li Yannian's 44th Army of the Central Army for 3 days, and it was this fatal 3 days that caused Huang Baitao's 7th Corps to be destroyed in Nianzhuang.

The year of Liu Yu's Northern Expedition (416-417) was the 100th anniversary of the fall of the Western Jin Dynasty (317). The people of Guanzhong went from eating pot pulp to welcome the king's division, and finally beating the Northern Expeditionary Army out of chaos to welcome the alien Helian Bobo, which shows that Liu Yu's Northern Expedition was not only a military failure, but also a defeat of the people's hearts. Since then, the Southern Dynasties regime has not done anything decent in the Northern Expedition, as Wang Fuzhi said: After this, Er Xiao and Chen have no foot of land.

People's hearts are the biggest politics.