Chapter 6: The Victory of the Common People

Although Chang'an was gained and lost, after two northern expeditions, a large area south of the Yellow River, north of Huaishui, and the upper reaches of the Han River was controlled by Liu Yu.

At this point, Liu Yu is not the emperor, and it is a bit impossible to say.

As mentioned earlier, the pre-procedure for usurping the throne is to add nine tin. Liu Yu first added nine tin to himself in the name of Emperor An of Jin, and then killed Emperor An of Jin in December 418. Originally, Liu Yu wanted to take the throne immediately, but a warlock said: There are two emperors after Changming.

Changming, that is, Sima Yao, Emperor Xiaowu of the Jin Dynasty. In order not to violate the will of heaven, Liu Yu first appointed Sima Dewen as the puppet emperor.

Everything is ready, and it's almost time to start the program from scratch.

Liu Yu's initiation procedure is the same as that of Huan Wen back then. Huan Wen said at the banquet back then: If you are old, if you don't do something, you will be laughed at by Sima Yi. There was no one to pick up, which was embarrassing.

And Liu Yu: I'm old, boring, and I want to go back to the countryside.

It's the same, but it's slightly higher than Huan Wen's compulsion.

There was no one at the banquet, but a smart man jumped out after the banquet, this person was named Fu Liang, and he met Liu Yu: I went to see the emperor, and I wrote the edict for him.

Liu Yu smiled.

One day in June 420, Fu Liang entered the palace with a written edict on the Zen throne and saw Sima Dewen: Please copy it according to Your Majesty.

Sima Dewen knew it well, gladly accepted it, and said to his subordinates while copying: If it weren't for Liu Yu, the Jin Dynasty would have been replaced by Huan Xuan a long time ago, and now I can continue the national Zuo for nearly 20 years.

Liu Yu successfully ascended the throne, because of his residence in Pengcheng, which belonged to the Song State in ancient times, so its country name was Song, and Liu Yu was the famous Emperor Wu of the Song Dynasty in history.

So far, in the southeast corner of An'an, the Eastern Jin Dynasty, which had been maintained for 104 years, came to an end. The Jin Dynasty in history was always destroyed by the surname Liu. The Western Jin Dynasty was destroyed by the Xiongnu Liu Han Liu Yuan, Liu Cong and his son, the Eastern Jin Dynasty was destroyed by Liu Yu, the descendant of Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, and the Later Jin Dynasty was destroyed by Liu Zhiyuan of the Later Han Dynasty.

After Liu Yu became the emperor, the first thing he did was to kill people.

The first to be killed is the Sima clan.

Although Sima Dewen was not too dissatisfied with Liu Yu's usurpation and felt that it was the trend of the times, Liu Yu still didn't want to let him go. Empress Sima Dewen Chu gave birth to a son and was drowned, and the murderers were the queen's brothers Chu Xiuzhi and Chu Danzhi, Liu Yu's henchmen. After the Zen throne, Sima Dewen was terrified day and night, and lived in the same room with Queen Chu day and night.

In September 421, Liu Yu ordered Zhang Wei, one of the servants of Langya, to bring a pot of poisoned wine to kill Sima Dewen, but Zhang Wei drank all the wine on the way. It's not that he's hungry for alcohol, but he really can't bear to murder the old master, and would rather kill himself.

In the Northern and Southern Dynasties, where deceit and scheming were rampant and fratricide between father and son was commonplace, Zhang Wei let us see a trace of humanity in the endless darkness.

Liu Yuhou was in a hurry, and on November 10, he sent Chu Danzhi to visit Empress Chu under the pretense of pretending to visit Empress Chu, and when the Empress came out to greet her brother, the forbidden army entered over the wall and placed the poisoned wine in front of Sima Dewen. Sima Dewen couldn't help but smile bitterly: Buddhist doctrine says that if a person commits suicide, he cannot be reincarnated again. Let's do it.

The forbidden soldiers also took pity on the old master, and did not force him to drink poisonous wine anymore, so they held Sima Dewen hostage to the bed and covered him with a quilt to death.

At that time, Sima Dewen's father, Sima Yao, was killed by the embarrassed and angry Zhang Guiren with a quilt because of a joke after drinking, but he didn't think that Sima Dewen would also end up like this. The quilt is really good in the Eastern Jin Dynasty.

The Sima clan completely disappeared into the southern kingdom of Shikong. Now, let's stretch the axis of time, look back at the rise and fall of this family for a while, and look for something different from its past and present lives.

The ancestor of the Sima family, Sima Wei (pronounced Tong Ang), was originally a young military general of the Zhao State, who was temporarily unemployed after the company was annexed by the Great Qin Empire. At the end of the Qin Dynasty, when the heroes rose together, he keenly hugged a thigh-Xiang Yu, and finally became one of the 18 princes and kings (King Yin, fief Hanoi) when the overlord of Western Chu divided the world. When Liu Bang and Xiang Yu PK, Sima Wei once again played his true character of hugging his thighs, and keenly observed that although Liu Bang was a business bastard, he was assisted by the big demon king Han Xin, Zhang Liang and other ruthless people, so he took the strategic CBD Hanoi County as the name and joined the coalition team of Liu Bastard.

Judging from the final ending of the Chu-Han hegemony, Sima Wei's vision can not be described as vicious, but he guessed the ending and did not guess the process correctly. In the battle of Pengcheng, which shocked the world, the overlord of Western Chu used 30,000 cavalry to interpret what "your uncle is still your uncle", and beat Liu Bazi's 560,000 coalition troops to "gather as a gang, and scatter as a hundred family names". Liu Bazizi is the master who doesn't even care about his father, wife and children, not to mention the newly accepted little brother. Sima Wei was beheaded by the original leader Xiang Yu.

The first generation of leaders of the Sima family came and went in this way. The descendants have been dormant in Wen County, Hanoi County for more than 300 years, and there was another figure in the Eastern Han Dynasty - Sima Jun, the general of Zhengxi (Sima Wei's eighth grandson, Sima Yi's great-grandfather), who was outstanding, but committed suicide. Cause?

When fighting against the Qiang, Sima Jun ordered his subordinates Zhongguang and others to harvest the crops of the Qiang, but Zhongguang did not listen to the dispatch, scattered and rushed forward, and fell into an ambush by the Qiang. Sima Jun was angry that his subordinates were disobedient and refused to rescue, resulting in Zhongguang and other 3,000 people all killed in battle. When the Eastern Han Dynasty heard the report, Sima Jun committed suicide in fear.

Perhaps, the tragic fact that this outstanding representative of the family died because he couldn't control his emotions gave the Sima family great stimulation and lesson. From now on, reason and forbearance have become the supreme philosophy and profound heritage of this family. After Sima Yi's grandfather Sima Jun (pronounced Tongjun) became the leader of Yingchuan, he used this cultural center of the Eastern Han Empire to secretly accumulate strength, and the Yingchuan Shi group stood behind the empire, which also laid an important foreshadowing for the rise of the Sima family.

In the generation of Sima Jun's son Sima Fang, in addition to reason and forbearance, the Sima family has developed a new concept - eggs will never be put in the same basket. Create multiple subject bids, as long as one wins the bid, it is their Sima family to do it.

After the bully Dong Zhuo entered the palace, Sima Fang, who was the supreme governor of the capital (Jing Zhaoyin), was still silently clocking in and out of work, who was the boss or not? Dong Zhuo wants to move the capital to Chang'an? Just follow along.

Is this cowardice? If he blindly obeyed, he would not be able to give birth to a son like Sima Yi. While Sima Fang was subservient to the warlord Dong Zhuo, he was already quietly laying out the fate of the Sima family. He arranged for his eldest son Sima Lang to lead a large family back to his hometown and wait for the change, while he was alone to accompany Emperor Xian of Han, who had become a political mascot.

Intention? If Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty makes a comeback, he will earn enough reputation as a loyal minister on behalf of the Sima family. If Emperor Han Xian even loses his qualification as a political mascot, the Sima family will only sacrifice him, Sima Fang, a bad old man. After all, after Sima Fang and his wife and concubines were connected, he had already given birth to "Bada" - Boda (Sima Lang), Zhongda (Sima Yi), Shuda (Sima Fu), Jida (Sima Kui), Xianda (Sima Sui), Huida (Sima Jin), Yada (Sima Tong), and Youda (Sima Min). Eight sparks can start the fire of revolution at any time.

Later, after Dong Zhuo died and the remnants of the Xiliang Army rebelled and was pacified, Sima Fang accompanied Emperor Han Xian home safely. When Cao Cao took Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty to Xuchang, Sima Fang retreated, and he sent his eldest son Sima Lang to work in Xuchang, and put his adult second son Sima Yi at home to gnaw at home and be unemployed, the reason? Sick.

Intention? I, Sima Fang, am a loyal minister of the Han family, so I will not go to Xuchang to be at the mercy of your Cao Mengde as a mascot beckoning cat, but Cao Aman, don't forget, I recommended you back then, I arranged for my eldest son Sima Lang to enter your company into the original shares, and the other sons were pure Hanchen at home. No matter if you Cao Apo wins or the old Liu family turns the tables, my Sima family has a chance.

Sima Lang was at home in Cao Yingxin, while working at Cao Xiahou Group Co., Ltd., he was like a fish in water (Yanzhou Thorn History), while secretly protecting the clan and educating his younger brothers. Sima Yi, Sima Fu and others grew up under the protection of their elder brother in this way.

In 217, that is, in the 22nd year of Jian'an, "it was a great epidemic", a wave of plague that was more fierce than the new crown took away five of Jian'an's seven sons, and also took away the 46-year-old Sima Lang, whose family has longevity genes. The pillar fell, what should the Sima family do?

It doesn't matter, as early as 9 years ago, that is, in 208, another pillar of the Sima family had been erected. That is Sima Yi. Wait, wasn't Sima Yi pressed by his father and brother to keep him at home?

Yes, but enough has been raised. In 208, the situation in the north has basically become clear, Yuan Shao and his son have all hung up, and the business of Cao Xiahou Group Company is thriving, and there is no need to choose the basket separately for eggs at this time. During the Three Kingdoms, although there was no need to take the application theory and vocational ability test, it had to be recommended, and it was definitely not possible to rely on Sima Lang to raise the virtuous and not avoid relatives. It doesn't matter, the Sima family also has a bigwig-level figure in the Cao Xiahou Group who can be used as a recommender.

Xun Yu, the second-in-command of Cao Xiahou Group. Why can Xun Yu recommend Sima Yi? Because, he is the head of a noble family.

Yingchuan Shi clan. Familiar? Yes, Sima Yi's grandfather, Sima Jun (pronounced the same as Jun), was Yingchuan's hand in the past.

In the end, Sima Yi spent 43 years to complete the transformation from a small secretary to the number one boss in the empire, coldly watching the Cao family dance and toss for half a century, and then liquidated with one shot.

Until Jia Chong and Cheng Ji killed Cao Chao, Sima Yi's third brother Sima Fu ran to the street and hugged the corpse of this young puppet emperor and cried; In 265, after the Wei Dynasty of the Western Jin Dynasty, when Cao Huan was demoted to King Chen Liuwang and moved to Jin Yong City, Sima Fu took the hand of the deposed emperor and burst into tears. What a loyal servant of Great Wei! A loyal minister of Cao Wei who joined forces with his nephew Sima Shi to control Jingshi and kill Cao Shuang of the Cao family during the coup d'état in Gaopingling in 249.

Still acting after 16 years? 16 years is nothing. Forbearance, all-encompassing, refining internal strength, steady and far-reaching, and always reserved positive dedication, this is the family survival concept that the Sima clan and the Yingchuan clan of Hanoi have refined after three hundred years of war and political struggle.

However, after this family with the highest layout ability in the universe reached its peak, it could not escape the cosmic law of the conservation of all things and the decline of prosperity. Since Sima Yan took a sheep cart to openly hold a certificate for prostitution, Sima's family has been going downhill, becoming the apex on the parabola, and it is also the turning point. After that, the fool ascended the throne, the ugly daughter-in-law rebelled the country, the rebellion of the eight kings, the Wuhu entered China, the clothes were crowned to the south, and the Liu Song Dynasty was ......

Cao Wei destroyed Liu Han, the Sima family usurped Cao Wei, and Liu Han's descendant Liu Yu killed the Sima family again...... Heavenly Dao Cycle. It's boring to think about humans as animals.

Liu Yu, why can't he wait to eradicate the Sima family, which has been a puppet for generations?

First, age is not forgiving. When Liu Yu usurped the throne, he was 57 years old, a proper twilight man in ancient times, and the eldest son Liu Yifu was only 14 years old and underage. Sima Devin is only 34 years old, if he doesn't cut the grass and eradicate the roots, who will sit in the country after a hundred years?

The fact is also that Liu Yu died the year after he killed Sima Dewen.

The second is that Liu Yu was born in a poor family, and the reason why his anti-Huan Xuan succeeded was because his poor identity was deeply recognized by the people, so he responded to every call. Therefore, it is necessary to prevent everyone of the scholar clan from carrying the banner of the Sima clan to reorganize things. Killing the Sima clan can lay the political pattern of the Han clan in the Liu Song Dynasty and end the era of the dictatorship of the Shi clan in one fell swoop.

Liu Bang led a group of dog-killers, blowjobers, and grass-roots government writers to create the first empire established by the grassroots - the Western Han Dynasty. 423 years later, he has been reduced to the 19th generation of straw sandal sellers, with a group of pig slaughterers and fruit sellers, creating the Shu Han regime. Nearly 200 years later, another of his grandsons became the 22nd generation of straw sandals, and with a group of grassroots roots, he destroyed the Jin dynasty of Shu Han and created the Liu Song regime. Lao Liu's family is a legend of the inheritance of the grassroots-supreme-grassroots-supreme, isn't it magical?

Many Sima clans changed their surnames to flee in order to avoid the massacre, and many of today's surnames such as Si, Tong, Tong, and Feng are changed from Sima's surname. According to the sixth census of our country, the former royal family surname Sima is now only 28,000. "You Zhu Quanlu, Gai Yihuan Gong. Wan Qian Sima, Shangguan Ouyang", even in the Song version of "Hundred Family Names", Sima is only ranked 410th, which is lower than Wan Qian (Yin Moqi), a rare surname of the Eile people.

Sima's later celebrities are almost invisible, what? Sima chuck? That's his name in the rivers and lakes, and his real surname is Gangou. On the contrary, after Sima changed his surname, there were some celebrities, such as Tong Xiaoyan, a member of the original Youth Beautiful Girl Group.

Before killing Sima Dewen, Liu Yu had already killed five emperors, namely Huan Xuan of Chu, Murong Chao of Southern Yan, Qian Zong of Shu, Yao Hong of Later Qin, and Sima Dezong of the Eastern Jin Dynasty.

After Liu Yu succeeded to the throne, he carried out drastic reforms to the nascent Song Dynasty, many of which were the first in history and were emulated by later generations:

1. Politics: Liu Yu took Sima as a lesson and focused on weakening local power and strengthening centralized power.

The first knife was naturally slashed at Jingzhou, the strongest of Zhufan and the source of repeated disasters. Liu Yu annexed the districts under the jurisdiction of Jingzhou Prefecture, limited the number of civil servants, and most importantly, he issued an edict to take back the military power of the local governors: in the future, all ministers who went out to fight would be accompanied by the imperial army, and the army would be returned to the imperial court after the conquest.

Has the later dynasties always done this? Yes, it is the inheritance of Liu Yu's methods.

2. Economic: Liu Yu ordered the rectification of household registration and strict registration of household registration, why did he do this?

There are natural reasons. At that time, all the clans of the original Eastern Jin Dynasty were doing a thing to deceive the central government - concealing their household registration, the main purpose of which was to --- tax evasion. This naturally reduces the government's fiscal revenue. Liu Yu ordered that household registration be rectified, the law of land severance should be strictly enforced, and government revenue should be increased.

Liu Yu also created a system that later governments emulated--- government procurement system. The materials needed by the government are not allowed to be expropriated and requisitioned indiscriminately, as in the past, but are purchased by the government with money.

At the same time, Liu Yu also appropriately lowered the taxes on peasants, abolished the harsh tax and miscellaneous orders, and gave the people a relaxed environment to develop production and recuperate. Reducing the burden on farmers is also a practice that successive governments have been emulating.

In addition, Liu Yu also has a praised outstanding advantage, that is, he knows how to be economical.

Since the Wei and Jin dynasties, until the period of the Five Hu, Ten Kingdoms and Six Kingdoms, the royal family of each regime has all advocated luxury. Liu Yu was born in a lonely cold and knew the hardships of the crops, so after ascending to the throne, he paid attention to simplicity and little desire, and usually dressed very casually, and his residence was whisked with earthen screens, cloth lanterns, and hemp ropes.

This is also similar to the CD-ROM initiative that we are advocating now.

In order to warn future generations, Liu Yu even hung the farm tools used in his childhood and the torn cotton jackets with patches and patches in the palace.

This way of admonishing future generations was later used by a famous entrepreneur today, Zhang Ruimin, CEO of Qingdao Haier Group.

At that time, in order to improve the quality awareness of employees, Zhang Ruimin directly smashed the unqualified refrigerator with a sledgehammer, and it was this quality awareness that made Haier Group from a small collective enterprise to a leader in the domestic home appliance industry today. In order to warn future generations, the sledgehammer that Zhang Ruimin smashed the refrigerator back then has been displayed in the exhibition hall of Haier Group.

The race of life is ultimately the last to breathe. In May 422, the wise and martial Emperor Liu Yu of the Song Dynasty died at the age of 59, a modern ordinary person who had not yet reached retirement age.

Born in 363, he was almost thrown into the wild by his father to feed wolves, but he survived thanks to the love of his adoptive mother and stepmother. As an adult, he lived a difficult life, sold straw sandals for a living, owed gambling debts and affected his family, and had no choice but to join the army. After joining the army, it was not until he was 36 years old that he encountered Sun En's uprising. Then, extinguish Huan Xuan, Nan Yan, Lu Xun, Liu Yi, and Hou Qin...... It can be said that he swallowed thousands of miles like a tiger, however, he hung up after only two years as the emperor. Unlike Westerners, since ancient times, the life of Chinese has basically been for children, and what will the descendants of the wise and martial Emperor Wu of Song look like?

Liu Yu died and was succeeded by his eldest son, the crown prince Liu Yifu. Liu Yifu was less than seventeen years old when he succeeded to the throne, and he was still a child, and this son can be called the most interesting emperor in Chinese history. Not only is it fun, but it also covers a wide range of topics and is very enjoyable.

Before Liu Yu died, he felt that the prince was young and did not have the ability to succeed him, so he specially arranged three auxiliary ministers for him: Xie Hui, Sikong Xu Xianzhi, and Fu Liang (the great god who asked Sima Dewen to copy the edict). In addition, in terms of vital military power, Liu Yu arranged for a henchman senior general to control it, and this person was not a member of the Liu family's clan.