Director Wang was also a son-in-law when he was young. Langya Wang's name is close to him, with grace and knowledge, and when he was fourteen years old, he was praised by the old and virtuous hermit for having the appearance of a prime minister. At that time, it was a good situation in the Western Jin Dynasty, there were fine wines, beautiful scenery and beautiful women in Jingu Garden, the copper camel street was wide and straight, and in summer, the burly branches of the catalpa tree and the tung tree would open their wide and fat leaves to cover the scorching sun, and the water channel that ran through the long street next to the tree would always be clear. Walking on Tongcamel Street, I have never been in spring and autumn, and I don't know the cold and heat.

At that time, Director Wang inherited his father's title and lived a very comfortable life. He has a friend named Zhou Yi, who is beautiful and has a generous personality. Zhou Yi's younger brother once lost his temper with him, picked up the lit candle and threw it at him, and he didn't care. Zhou Yi has a good relationship with Director Wang, and his favorite thing is to drink alcohol on Director Wang's belly, the two are a little bit of a brotherhood, and Director Wang never restrains him. This guy is a heavy drinker and drinks one stone of wine a day, Director Wang disagrees, but he doesn't object either.

Director Wang has the charm to make everyone like him: restrain himself and do what he likes. So he is popular. Director Wang later served as a local governor in Nanjing, and he was exquisite and easy to play. Once, Director Wang invited hundreds of people to dinner, and everyone had to go up and talk to others. In the end, there was only one Linhai County surnamed Ren and a few monks before they could speak. People thought that Director Wang would not come, but they didn't expect Director Wang to walk in front of the people in Linhai and say, after you leave, there will be no talent in Linhai. He also said a few words of Zen to a few monks, and these people were flattered, and their admiration for Wang Dao was even more like a surging river.

Originally, he was also a son of a nobleman, and he was a small official, and he could live a leisurely life. But Mencius said, "The heavens will descend on the people, and they must first suffer their minds, strain their muscles and bones, and starve their bodies and skin." Heaven probably thought that Wang Dao was a big dealer, so tribulations followed, first the Eight Kings Rebellion, and then the Yongjia Rebellion, the northern ethnic minorities invaded and occupied the capital Luoyang. The Western Jin Dynasty fell apart. In order to achieve Director Wang, God was very generous, not only torturing him, but the whole era was up and down in blood and fire.

But Director Wang's opportunity really came.

On the eve of the collapse of the Western Jin Dynasty, during the reign of Emperor Huai of the Jin Dynasty, Wang Dao's cousin Wang Yan was in power. Wang Yan, who had already seen the danger of Luoyang, sent three cousins to Jiangnan: Wang Cheng was the assassin of Jingzhou, Wang Dun was the assassin of Qingzhou, and Wang Dao was sent to Jiangnan to assist Sima Rui, the king of Langya. "Three Caves of the Cunning Rabbit", build an escape place in Jiangdong in case Luoyang can't survive. But Wang Yan was not so lucky, and during the march, he was surrounded by Shi Le, the founding emperor of Later Zhao, and was arrested, and finally died at the hands of Shi Le. Wang Yan's defeat at the hands of Shile also marked the end of the last army of the Western Jin Dynasty. Another group of the "Wuhu", Liu Cong, the son of the "Former Zhao" emperor Liu Yuan, soon took advantage of the situation and captured Luoyang, and Emperor Huai of Jin was killed on the way to Chang'an. Sima Ye, the last emperor of the Western Jin Dynasty, succeeded to the throne in Chang'an and became an "island" emperor.

Sima Rui was already operating in Jiangnan at this time. When the news of the fall of Luoyang came, Sima Rui also gathered the troops of the four counties in the south of the Yangtze River, put on his armor and went into battle, preparing for the mighty Northern Expedition. But "suddenly discovered" that the grain and grass had been late, and there was no way to pull it out. Sima Rui was so angry that he slashed the head of Chun Yubo, who was in charge of grain and grass. Unexpectedly, on the executioner's knife, Chun Yubo's blood flowed backwards - God could see that Sima Rui was looking for a scapegoat to be cannon fodder for his hypocrisy. So Liu Kui, the director of the office, took the opportunity to "muddy the waters" and eliminate dissidents, reporting that it was Zhou Xuan and others who should really be punished, and they should be dismissed. At that time, there were many people in Sima Rui's court who were chilled because of Chun Yubo's death: before they were rich and noble, they were fighting in the nest, how would people mix with you in the future?

At this time, Director Wang stood up. Carrying all the black pots: it's my fault, it's all my fault. I'm misemploying people, the criminal law is inappropriate, and I don't know what to do, so fire me. Sima Rui just wanted to find a reason not to go to Luoyang, of course he wouldn't really blame Director Wang. So he hurriedly followed Director Wang's example and blamed himself, and finally calmed down a turmoil. But no one wants to ask anymore, can Chang'an be saved? Not long after, there was no rescue, and Emperor Jinchou, who was trapped in Chang'an, was killed by Liu Cong. The Western Jin Dynasty officially died.

Sima Rui finally ascended the throne in name and became the founding monarch of the Eastern Jin Dynasty.

But the matter is not over yet, Sima Rui, his strength is not enough, and he can't gain a foothold in Jiangnan at all. The entire imperial court was made up of a group of people who had fled from the north, and there was not even a regular army. The scholars in the south of the Yangtze River are all families that have been operating here since the Soochow period, and the interests from Nanjing to southern Jiangsu have been properly divided, and no one wants to play with the northerners. Even if Emperor Sima Rui personally showed goodwill to Gu He and Lu Wan, the leaders of the scholar clan, they ignored it.

The matter of losing a smiley face still has to rely on Director Wang. What does Director Wang rely on, accompany him to eat, talk about Xuan, and take medicine. In short, whatever is popular will accompany you. Civil servants, local tyrants, gentry and even monks, Director Wang can talk to anyone, usher in the send-off, and arrest and coax whom. But there are always people who don't buy it, and the people who want to win over the most are actually the most difficult to take the bait. The wang clans in the south of the Yangtze River are all angry, and Director Wang invites people to eat, but he is often scolded for losing money for food. Once, Director Wang invited Lu to dinner, and arranged a specially made northern-style cheese during the banquet. I have always had a light taste, and I was used to eating those in the land of the sea bass, and when I went back, my intestines collapsed, and I vomited and diarrhea for a while. After recovering, Lu Wan wrote a letter to Director Wang, and said sarcastically, I, a Wu person, almost became a ghost - at that time, the southerners and northerners scolded each other, and they opened their mouths to be ruthless: southerners scolded northerners for their fathers (nephews), and northerners scolded southerners for dogs (water ghosts). Lu Play is the proud Lu family, the descendant of Lu Xun and Lu Kang, and one of the four major families in Jiangnan. Not only did he not dare to cry out for injustice, but he also wanted to sell his children and daughters to others, and invited him to marry Lu Yu. But Lu Wan quickly replied, "Xiaocao and pines and cypresses are like vanilla and stinky grass, two kinds of things, you can't put them together." I'm not a talented person, but I don't do anything that challenges common sense. He humbly scolded Director Wang.

What's even worse is that the house leak happened to rain overnight: people in the south didn't want to pay attention to him, and people in the north were also angry and depressed. They are losing their hometown, and they gather in Xinting on the outskirts of Nanjing every day to drink wine and look at Jiangbei, and tears are in their eyes when they look at it. Director Wang still has to persuade: Don't be like this, we must work hard to recover the Central Plains, we must have the confidence to win, and we will not stay in this place with a big palm forever!

Director Wang actually became the firefighting captain of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, grasping everything inside and outside. First was the secretary of Sima Rui's secretary group, and then the mayor of Yangzhou City, and then Sima Rui became the emperor and became a hussar general (but there was no army), and then later, he added ***** chairman and chief procurator of the Supreme Procuratorate, in short, they are all big cadres. But the court is an empty shell, with neither money nor food, and it is difficult to make demands when living on other people's territory. The family eats salary, and it is moonshine every month, and there is no balance at all. Deal with the rotten fruit before eating, and don't dare to let the son who is particular about eating and drinking know. Director Wang's life is more bitter than Xianglin's sister-in-law, and he has suffered more grievances than Dou E, but he still sees people smiling, first pull you to talk about philosophical issues, the feather fan shakes, the stomach is growling, and his face is also refreshed and fluttering.

Finally, on the ceremonial festival on March 3 of this year, when Wang Dao and his brother Wang Dun traveled with Sima Rui, the big family in Jiangnan offered an olive branch to Sima Rui. At this point, the Eastern Jin Dynasty officially began its actual operation.

But the script arranged by God for Director Wang has not been "reunited" since then, and God has greater expectations for Director Wang, so there are still greater tribulations.

was sent to Jiangnan by Wang Yan back then, in addition to Director Wang, there was also Director Wang's cousin Wang Dun. Unlike Director Wang, Wang Dun is fierce and self-contained. When he was a child, he drank with Director Wang at Shi Chong's house, the richest man in the Western Jin Dynasty, and Shi Chong had an obscene rule: send his family's beautiful slaves and maids to toast guests, and kill the toasting slaves and maids if the guests don't drink. Director Wang drank a lot of glasses as a result, and he was almost drunk. And Wang Dun just didn't drink it, so Shi Chong pulled out and killed one beautiful girl after another. Director Wang tugged at his sleeve and said, "Brother, this is too cruel." You might as well have a drink. Wang Dun rolled his eyes, snorted and said, he killed his woman, it's my business.

Director Wang is a "kind and gentle" person who doesn't like to speak out, so he doesn't like to persuade and educate others. And Wang Duntong was in charge of the military, and in the process of building the capital of Nanjing, he repeatedly quelled the rebellion for Sima Rui. At this time, he was the general of Zhendong, the governor of Jiangyang, Jingxiang, Jiaoguang, and the military of the six states, and the three divisions of Kaifuyi, and he was the number one person with more scenery and power than Wang Dao. His personality was already flamboyant, and at this time, he looked at people with his nostrils, and the emperor was also a head shorter than him.

Sima Rui felt very uncomfortable, but the surname Wang was hanging in front of him every day. In addition to Wang Dao and Wang Dun, there are also Wang Han, Wang Cheng, Wang Shu, and Wang Ying, all of whom hold key positions in the imperial court. What's even more interesting is that the monk Zhu Daoqian, who often goes in and out of the palace and major families, is said to be Wang Dun's younger brother, also surnamed Wang. Some people say that the beginning of the Eastern Jin Dynasty is "the king and the horse share the world", which is a polite statement, but it is actually the world surnamed Wang. Emperor Sima Rui of the Jin Yuan Dynasty deliberately selected two people in the imperial court who advocated strengthening the imperial power to call out Wang Dun: one was called Liu Kui and the other was called Diao Xie. to cure the surname of the king.

These two people are ruthless and vicious, pay attention to etiquette and law, and also pay attention to strict punishment and strict law. The main purpose was to weaken the privileges of the nobles and to be the emperor's thugs. Pick and choose, choose to open the knife and sacrifice the flag, but it is Zhouyi.

Zhou Yi's younger brother married his daughter and paid attention to pomp. When he opened the way for his daughter's wedding, he forcibly demolished other people's houses and injured two people. The director of the Nanjing Municipal Public Security Bureau went to the scene to mediate, but was cut again. This matter was known to Liu Kui, who was in charge of discipline inspection, and immediately wrote a letter to impeach Zhou Yi. said that he did not educate his family well and should be dismissed. The emperor immediately agreed.

Everyone knows that Zhou Yi is a good friend of Director Wang, and they all know that this guy loves to drink and mess around, and he is informal. Liu Kui's dismissal of Zhou Yi this time was a clear call to Wang Dao. Director Wang didn't make a sound.

Emperor Jin Yuan was very happy, and found an opportunity to let Liu Kui be Danyang Yin, Diao Xie became the director of the Central Secretariat, and all decisions were made by the two of them. These were originally the positions where Director Wang had sit, but at this time, these two guys who were bent on making trouble for the Wang family were blatantly squeezed out by the emperor. But Director Wang endured it and still didn't say anything.

Liu Kui saw that Wang Dao couldn't fight, so he turned to fight Wang Dun. persuaded the emperor to send his henchmen out to defend strategic places and grab territory with Wang Dun. He himself supervised the military of Qingzhou, Xuzhou, Youzhou, and Pingzhou, and led 10,000 people to guard Sikou, one of the gateways to Nanjing. He also sent Sima Cheng, the king of Qiao, to manage Xiangzhou, and Dai Yuan to supervise the military. These places, from the lower reaches of the Yangtze River to the middle reaches, formed a run on Wang Dun step by step. Liu Kui really knows Wang Dun very well. When Wang Dun saw Liu Kui's dispatch, it was like a thief in his house, he jumped up in anger and wanted to beat him with his fists.

Before starting, Wang Dun first wrote a letter to Liu Kui, telling the world that the teacher was famous. Wang Dun said that now that the north is still in the hands of the Hu people, we must work together to recover China. Meaning, stop the fight in this nest as soon as possible, or I will be unkind to you. Liu Kui didn't eat his set, saying that fish forgot about the rivers and lakes, and people forgot about Taoism. I will be loyal to the emperor, and I have nothing to say to you.

Wang Dun read his reply, hehe sneered twice, slapped the table, and reversed. There was no regular army in the emperor's capital, and the main force of the army was in the hands of Wang Dun, so he went down the Yangtze River and fought wherever he wanted. Occasionally, there are those who are not convinced, and they are not willing to work for the emperor, just sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight. Soon Wang Dun hit the outer city of Nanjing, Stone Town. As soon as Wang Han in Nanjing heard that Wang Dun was calling, he hurriedly went out of the city to join his brother, and stayed in the city, what else was there but a dead end.

Everyone also persuaded Wang Dao, hurry up and go to your brother. If you don't run, you will be caught by the emperor and killed! However, Wang Dao refused to leave, and took a family of more than 100 people to kneel in front of Emperor Jin Yuan's house every day to plead guilty.

Liu Kui urged the emperor to take this opportunity to wipe out Wang Dao's family and kill the sacrificial flag, but Emperor Jin Yuan felt that this matter was too big, after all, it was still Wang Dao's credit to be able to sit in this position. So it kept dragging it down, and I didn't say to kill, and I didn't say not to kill.

Wang Dao gambled that Emperor Jin Yuan would not dare to kill him. He knelt at the emperor's door and made a humble confession gesture, which was actually the safest choice - whichever side won, there was his benefit. Legend has it that before Wang Dun raised his army, he once asked Wang Dao's opinion. Director Wang was silent, neither raising his hands in favor nor against. It's a tacit approval, but you can't grasp his handle. If Wang Dun succeeds, everyone is a brother after all, and he will definitely not do anything to him. But if he runs out and rebels with Wang Dun, once Emperor Jin Yuan wins, the Wang family will be dead.

Therefore, Wang Daobing made a risky move, relying on the connections he had built up in the court over the years. Wang Dao knelt for many days, but Emperor Jin Yuan just didn't come out. Although Director Wang has calculated many times, the excitement of gambling is that no matter how good the theory is, he has to come to the bottom before he dares to rest assured. Wang Dao was also very anxious - in case Emperor Jin Yuan was ruthless and wanted to kill him, no one could save him. On this day, he was kneeling, and suddenly Zhou Yi came in, and he was drunk and dizzy, and he walked with the smell of wine, and he was about to go in to meet the emperor.

Zhou Yi had been reinstated at this time, and he was very able to speak in front of the emperor. Director Wang hurriedly walked a few steps on his knees, pulled his robe and pleaded, brother, you have to save me! Unexpectedly, Zhou Yi didn't look at him, and went straight inside. Director Wang has always been calm and tolerant, and he can't help but be cold at this time. He is a disciple of the family, and he has always been in a high position, and he has never been so straightforwardly condescended and despised by others. What's more, Zhou Yi is still his friend from childhood to adulthood. Kneeling at the door of Emperor Jin Yuan for these days, only at this time did Director Wang feel the cold to the bone. When Zhou Yi came out, he still had a trace of gentle hope for human nature, and raised his head to look at him, hoping to get a comforting look. Unexpectedly, Zhou Yi went in and drank again, and when he came out, he swaggered, and sang two jokes such as killing the rebels and thieves and hanging the gold seal on his body. Director Wang watched him staggering farther and farther, and his disappointment turned into a kind of anger, and Zhou Yi's disregard for him gathered all Director Wang's disappointment in human nature. He has never been a tough person, but at this time, there is a strong hatred.

It didn't take long for Emperor Jin Yuan to come out and summon him, and he made a ruthless move: let Wang Dao go to crusade against Wang Dun as General Anton: Regardless of whether you collude or not, you give me an explanation anyway. Detain your family, don't be afraid of your collusion, let you dog-eat-dog. So Wang Dao, Liu Kui, Zhou Yi, and Dai Yuan all sent troops to counterattack Stone City. But these people are obviously not the opponents of the battle-hardened Wang Dun, and they all suffered defeats. Zhou Yi was also caught by Wang Dun.

Wang Dun camped on the edge of the palace under the slogan "Qingjun side", but when he arrived in the city, he was even exempted from meeting the emperor. The emperor had no choice but to give Wang Dun the commander-in-chief of the national army, in charge of the imperial court secrets, and the prince of Wuchang County. Wang Dun also planned to abolish Emperor Jin Yuan and find a new little emperor who could be rounded and flattened. So I went to ask Director Wang's opinion, but Director Wang resolutely disagreed, and Wang Dun gave up. Wang Dun really talked about brotherly righteousness, the Manchu Dynasty was civil and military, and there were things that could not be solved, Wang Dun ignored no one, and listened to Wang Dao's words.

Wang Dun soon encountered another tricky matter. He captured Zhou Yi, and originally wanted to give him a big official, but he didn't expect that Zhou Yi, who was usually stingy, nervous, and didn't care about anything, suddenly became loyal and filial at this time, pointing at Wang Dun's nose and angrily accusing Wang Dun of forgetting his ancestors, and scolded heartily. Wang Dun's face turned green, and in a fit of anger, he asked people to knock Zhou Yi's teeth with a knife butt, Zhou Yi was still scolding with blood in his mouth, Wang Dun was furious, and said to Wang Dao, I want to kill him!

Director Wang was still making peace in the court at this time. On the emperor's side, he was polite, and his brother didn't stiffen. It's just that when he heard Wang Dun talk about Zhou Yi, he was silent. The anger accumulated not long ago is rapidly fermenting, others don't know, Zhou Yi, as his haircut, should know his grievances over the years, but he didn't expect that when the disaster came to an end, he refused to even say a word for him, not even a comforting look!

But let him clap his hands freely and agree that Wang Dun killed Zhou Yi, and he couldn't do it. So Director Wang has been silent. If he didn't say it, Wang Dun understood. So Zhou Yi's head fell to the ground. Director Wang still didn't even say a word.

There was a trouble, driving away Liu Kui and Diao Xie, and killing those who were killed, Wang Dun couldn't stay in Nanjing anymore. His base camp was in Wuchang, and the guerrilla troops of Su Jun, Gan Zhuo, and Tao Kan were already on the way to crusade against him, and if they didn't engage in sports warfare, they would be unlucky, so Wang Dun quickly retreated. Although he went south again during the time of Emperor Jin Ming, he was already dying before his death, and it was far less thrilling than this time. And Director Wang, with his low eyebrows for many years, not only saved his life but also kept his official position. The Wang family really did not suffer any fatal blow because of this rebellion.

After the catastrophe, Director Wang almost forgot that he once had a friend named Zhou Yi. Until one day he accidentally found a file in the archives, which was a record of the conversation between Emperor Jin Yuan and Zhou Yi when Wang Dun hit Nanjing that year, that is, the time when he knelt down to plead and Zhou Yi did not look at him. It is recorded in the archives that Zhou Yi presented the essential difference between Wang Dao and Wang Dun in front of Emperor Jin Yuan, and brought Wang Dao's achievements over the years together, and he must let Emperor Jin Yuan go out to talk to Wang Dao. Director Wang looked at the file, burst into tears, heartbroken, and could only murmur, I don't kill Beren, Beren died because of me!

This incident has become the biggest failure in Director Wang's life. Without Zhou Yi's affairs, he almost built himself into a perfect idol with no weaknesses and no shortcomings. But he made the biggest mistake where he shouldn't have made the most, tearing a hole in the perfect mask. The reason why man is human is not because he is perfect, but precisely because those parts that cannot be restrained by reason cannot be restrained, and it is impossible to predict its direction. In addition to carefully concealing and whitewashing, it gives a glimpse of the sincerity.