Chapter Seventy-Five: The King and the Horse Share the World
"When you see this, do you feel relieved, and feel that the governance of the country is okay and the regime is stable?"
Fusu: This Sima Rui is indeed better than the previous two emperors, this stabilized a large number of people who moved south, and some measures against the Tu tribe, which can be regarded as stabilizing the chaos.
Liu Che: Haha! First Emperor, your son still has to learn more to govern the country, and he can't just look at the surface.
Qin Shi Huang: This large number of southward migration, let alone the resettlement of the people, the field is definitely a big mess, and this Sima Rui has sealed so many officials of the family, and the court is not Sima Rui's words, and the internal regime should not be stable at this time! In addition, the group in the north also moved south, and it was only a matter of time before the Eastern Jin Dynasty messed up again, and it depends on what the emperor will do later.
Qin Shi Huang: Fusu has never experienced these troubled times, no matter how much knowledge he learns, he still practices the truth.
Yang Jian: The first emperor's analysis is good, the Eastern Jin Dynasty from beginning to end is characterized by gate politics, the Sima family and the Shi family are almost co-prosperity and symbiosis relationship, without the support of the Shi family, the country will not be a country, and the emperor will have no status.
Li Shimin: The Eastern Jin Dynasty will not collapse like this if it is a little more vigorous.
Kangxi: I thought anyone could be Qin Shi Huang! It's a pity that this Eastern Jin Dynasty is not a weapon!
"The emperors are right, on an equal footing with the scholars, that high seat is bound to be unstable, and there is indeed an ambition of other scholars to fight for power."
At the beginning, it was "the king and the horse share the world", and then the Xie, Yu, and Huan families appeared successively. ”
"These four wealthy families have dominated the political situation in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and they have also allowed the four major families to control the government, and there have been many powerful ministers such as Wang Dao, Yu Liang, Xie An, Huan Wen, and Huan Xuan."
"In the face of strong ministers, most of the emperors of the Eastern Jin Dynasty have no choice but to defend, and there is also a comparison of strength, so that the Sima family has always been in a weak imperial position."
"This has always made a contradiction exist in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, that is, the contradiction between the royal family and the gate valve, which has eliminated one and the other, and made the political situation in the Eastern Jin Dynasty repeated."
"When the emperor is willing to share power, the relationship between the gate valve and the royal family will be good, and the country will be stable. When the emperor is unwilling to share power, the relationship between the gate lord and the imperial family will be poor, and the country will be in turmoil. ”
"The emperors of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, in addition to the founding Sima Rui, are mostly mediocre people, and there is less possibility of reversing the decline and monopolizing power, which makes the Eastern Jin Dynasty have a characteristic that almost no previous dynasties have, balance of power and relative democracy."
"The emperor of that dynasty didn't want to promote his own people to be officials, and the power of how many families was replaced by the emperor for his own people, and the Eastern Jin Dynasty, there was no such thing as people being officials, and the officials were all family members."
"Because the desires of the human heart are endless, and the power of the family is getting bigger and bigger, then the ambition is not only to control the power in the hand."
"This is not in several Northern Expeditions, some people's ambitions came up, in 401 A.D. Huan Xuan led his troops to the expedition, in the name of fighting rebellion, so that he was already sitting on the rich land of Jingzhou, his power further expanded, and he became a powerful faction with two-thirds of the territory of the Eastern Jin Dynasty."
"What should I do if I have the strength? The answer is to let the Sima family get out, the ambition that can't be hidden, after the continuous political struggle, has become a dead fish! ”
"Subsequently, Huan Xuan led his troops to attack Jiankang City, killed Sima Daozi and Sima Yuanxian and other clan disciples, and then brazenly abolished the throne of Emperor Jin'an, turned into an emperor and established the Huan Chu regime."
"The Eastern Jin Dynasty perished for the first time, and perished under the decline of the three major clans of Wang, Xie and Yu, and the dominance of the Huan clan. This is the loss of control of the dynamic balance, without the support of the family and cross-checks and balances, the so-called imperial power is just fish on the chopping block. ”
"What is he relying on?"
Cao Cao: Because the power given by the Sima family is big, such a big power, why don't you dare to usurp the throne.
Li Shimin: The right is also a little, but at that time, because of the famine, these families let them fight among themselves, and when the world is in chaos, they will panic, not to mention that position, and this group of families will not be able to sit on it for a few years before they fall.
"Indeed, as the two said, the fact that this Huan clan can ascend to the position is basically that the power is enough, the opportunity is good enough, and the opponent is too weak."
"The right must have been given by the Sima family, and this opportunity was indeed because of the famine, before the Huan family took the throne, Sun En and Lu Xun rebelled in the Northern Expedition, which put everyone in the Jin Dynasty in danger, agricultural production came to a standstill, and famine broke out throughout the country."
"This makes the family who don't have much ability, except for infighting, worry about the big families, they have no way to alleviate this situation, and they are unable to maintain their status, except for self-protection at home, to be a stable apartment, they are not in the right strength, and they don't have the slightest intention of competing for the throne with Huan Xuan."
"This makes Huan Xuan, the only advantage of this person who is large enough and has enough soldiers and horses, become a temporary emperor."
Qin Shi Huang: The word "temporary" is wonderful!
"As Tang Taizong said, this scholar clan is in that position, not doing business, not dealing with business, not having a little brain."
"Like some emperors, after Huan Xuan usurped the throne, he didn't think about how to make great efforts, but was arrogant and extravagant, and there was no way to hunt."
"My favorite thing to do is to play all night long, even when his brother Huan Wei died, he could cry during the day and then sneak out to play at night, which is not only against human ethics, but also not the way of kings."
"Such a person, dealing with the affairs of the family and the country is undoubtedly nonsense, and it also makes many old generals of the Beifu Army dissatisfied. Among them, the most ambitious, and the most likely to make Hengxuan defeat anyway, is Liu Yu. ”
"Liu Yu, who was born in a poor family, although his family background is not good, in the era of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, which is dominated by gate valves, his career progress is a little backward. However, it is precisely because of this birth, as well as the backward rise and injustice, that he understands a truth. ”
"The family of gate valves, as early as after many years of pampering, decayed. Their rule seems to be solid, but in fact it is just a pavilion in the water, and if you really want to call out to the world, it will be broken at the touch of a button. ”
"In addition to this, Liu Yu also has an advantage, although he was born in a cold family, but his ancestors are also wide, he is a descendant of Liu Bang's younger brother Liu Jiao, the king of Chu, and when he followed the Western Jin Dynasty clan to the south, he belonged to the lowest level of the scholar clan. This birth gave him the possibility of rebellion. ”
Liu Bang: I didn't expect this situation, my Liu family can still be opposed! Is this the Western Jin Dynasty taking back my Liu family again?
"This Liu Yu is not only good at fighting, but also patient enough, coupled with the help of the people, it can be said that the time and place are favorable!"