Sima Shao, the Emperor of the Jin Dynasty, died of illness at the age of twenty-seven after pacifying Wang Dun.
The five-year-old crown prince Sima Yan ascended the throne as Emperor Cheng of Jin.
Emperor Ming of Jin's empress Dowager Yu took the throne as empress dowager, and power fell to Empress Dowager Yu's brother Zhongshu Ling Yuliang.
Yu Liang (庾亮), a native of Yingchuan Yanling (present-day Yanling North, Henan), was handsome and beautiful, loved "Lao" and "Zhuang", and was good at talking. He served as a Zhongshu supervisor during the Ming Dynasty, and also led troops to participate in the war to quell wang Dun's rebellion.
In the course of the war, Emperor Ming sent him to Wuhu to negotiate peace with Wang Dun. Wang Dun had a long conversation with him and admired him.
However, Yu Liang has a fatal flaw: he is old-fashioned.
He was a dignified and dignified man, pursuing the observance of etiquette and law in every move, even in his own bedroom.
Previously, in the Yuan Emperor and The Ming Emperor Dynasty, the ruler was Wang Dao, who was lenient and treated people with "leniency".
Yu Liang himself was old-fashioned and severe, and after coming to power, he overcorrected and strictly governed the country everywhere, causing resentment.
In fact, looking closely at the things he did, there was no way to make everyone not complain.
First of all, after he came to power, he "imagined enemies" on the big tree, believing that Sima Zong, Sima Xi and others in the Sima family would threaten the imperial power status of his nephew Sima Yan, sharpened his sword, and wanted to get rid of these two people.
This Sima Zong and Sima Xi were among the "five horses" in the "Five Horses of the Dragon" during the "Southern Crossing of the Crown of Clothes", and the five horses at that time referred to Sima Rui the King of Langya, Sima Xi the King of Yiyang, Sima Zong the King of Nanton, Sima You the King of Runan, and Sima Hong, the King of Pengcheng.
Sima Rui, the king of Langya, was the Emperor of Jinyuan, and the other Sima You, the king of Runan, and Sima Hong, the king of Pengcheng, had both died with the Emperor of Jinyuan, and the rest were Sima Zong and Sima Hui, who were fifty or sixty years old and the oldest.
Yu Liang did not let go because of their old age, but he was old for his qualifications, and he wanted to get rid of him quickly.
In addition, he and Sima Zong also had a grudge--when Emperor Ming was ill, Yu Liang forcibly wanted to enter the palace to play a role, and Sima Zong and Yu Yin were appointed as left and right guard generals, leading the forbidden army and refusing to let them go. Yu Liang held a grudge in his heart. Later, Emperor Ming became seriously ill and did not want to receive his subordinates. Yu Liang was even more suspicious that Sima Xi and the Sima Zong brothers had provoked dissension from them, and then broke into the palace and demanded the removal of Sima Xi and Sima Zong's brothers, but did not get Emperor Ming's consent.
Now, Emperor Ming had collapsed, and Yu Liang had great power in his hands, and of course he refused to let go of the Sima Zong brothers.
He beheaded Sima Zong for treason and demoted Sima Xi to the position of King of Yiyang County.
When Yu Liang did this, he did not have the consent of the child Jin Chengdi, he thought, a little fart child, understand what? This country is not up to me?
However, although Sima Yan, the emperor of Jincheng, was only six years old, he was very quick-witted, and he did not see the figure of Ma Zong of his great-uncle's company for many days, so he seriously questioned Yu Liang: "Where is the white-haired grandfather I see on weekdays?" ”
Yu Liang didn't want to think about it, and replied, "That person has been accused of rebellion." ”
Sima Zong used to love Emperor Cheng very much and often held him and played with him.
Emperor Cheng, he played with Sima Zong's white beard, and the feelings between his grandfather and grandson were very deep.
At this moment, when he heard that this white-bearded uncle had been killed, he couldn't help but be indignant and indignant, and reprimanded: "My uncle said that others were rebellious thieves, so he killed him; then what should others say that my uncle is a rebellious thief?" ”
Yu Liang listened, his heart and liver trembled a few times, and his face became pale.
Fortunately, Emperor Cheng was still young, and next to him, Empress Yu was disciplining and beating with a tooth ruler, and Empress Yu scolded Emperor Cheng: "How can a child say such a thing?!" ”
The matter was not resolved.
However, Yu Liang's next move is to make a big event.
At that time, the military power of the Eastern Jin Dynasty was controlled by three people: Tao Kan, Zu Yue, and Su Jun.
Yu Liang believed that Tao Kan was the assassin of Jingzhou, sitting on the upper land, and once there was a change, Jiankang, which was located downstream, was in danger.
Zu Yue was zu Ti's younger brother, and after Zu Ti's death, he served as a substitute brother as the general of Pingxi and the assassin of Yuzhou. Shortly after Zu Di's death, Zu Yue's half-brother Zuna secretly played to Emperor Yuan of Jin, saying that Zu Yue had hidden evil intentions.
Su Jun, also spelled Zigao, was a native of Ye County, Changguang Commandery (present-day Laizhou, Shandong), who was originally a scholar, and during the Yongjia Rebellion, the people went into exile, and Su Jun entangled thousands of people to cross south, and was appointed by the Jin Yuan Emperor as the general of Yingyang. After he submitted to the imperial court, he single-mindedly wanted to make a contribution by fighting. In this rebellion to quell Wang Dun, he made great contributions, and was awarded the title of Champion General, Liyang Neishi, the Duke of Shaoling, stationed in Liyang, and his prestige gradually grew.
Yu Liang intended to remove the three men from military power.
Of course, you can't do it all together, you have to break it one by one.
Who's going to hit first?
Yu Liang glanced at Su Jun.
The reason was that after Sima Zong's death, his subordinate Bian Yan fled to Su Jun, and Yu Liang asked Su Jun to hand over people, and Su Jun pushed that there was no such person.
Because of this, Yu Liang hated Su Jun, and in the name of the imperial court, he recruited Su Jun as the Grand Si Nong, and added a regular attendant to the throne, saying that he wanted him to enter the imperial government to assist the government, but in fact deprived him of his military power.
Su Jun relied on the army to make meritorious achievements, and if he left the army, what future would he have? Hearing that he was going to be recruited, he responded: "If Su Jun is to go on a crusade against thieves outside, he will listen to the dispatch of the imperial court no matter how far or near he is, and if Su Jun wants to join the imperial court to assist the government, this is really what I am not up to." ”
Yu Liang did not rely on it. In order to strengthen the pressure, he also sent troops to garrison Su Jun's army and take strict precautions.
This is equivalent to setting up a knife to force Su Jun to rebel.
But Su Jun still had illusions, and did not want to go to this step, and pleaded: "Once upon a time, Emperor Ming took my hand and ordered me to go north to fight Hu Kou. Now that the Central Plains are not jing, I am at peace with my heart! Beg to grant a remote county in Qingzhou a supplementary grant, so that I can serve the imperial court as an eagle dog. ”
Su Jun's words were very clear: As long as you are with your own army, you can go anywhere.
However, Yu Liang intimidated Su Jun, warned him not to bargain with the imperial court, and asked him to put on his imperial clothes as soon as possible to summon him.
Su Jun's adviser advised Su Jun: "The general's request to a remote county is not allowed, the situation is so good, I am afraid there is no way to live, it is better to restrain the soldiers to defend themselves." ”
Su Jun then turned his heart sideways and refused to be called.
Yu Liang was furious and sent someone to threaten Su Jun, if you don't hurry up and leave, do you want to rebel?
Su Jun had no choice but to tear his face and scolded, "Yu Liang has already decided that I want to rebel, can I still live when I enter Beijing?" I would rather stand on the top of the hill and watch the court than look at the court again. In the past, the country was in danger, without me Su Jun would be doomed, now, ahem, rabbit dead dog cooking, but I should repay the person who created the conspiracy with death! ”
Su Juntei rebelled, and before raising troops, he sent someone to contact Zu Yue.
Earlier, Later Zhao Shile's army had attacked Zu Yue, who was sitting in Shouchun, and Zu Yue repeatedly asked for help, but Yu Liang saw that he was dead and refused to send troops.
In the end, it was Su Jun who took the initiative to send troops to help Zu Yue break the siege.
Zu Yue was already disheartened by the previous performance of the imperial court, and it was rare for Su Jun to invite him to rebel, so he painfully and happily sent his nephew Zu Zhuan and son-in-law Xu Liu to lead an army to assist Su Jun.
Su Jun is really able to fight.
He met the two armies of Zu Zhuo and Xu Liu, sent by the emperor, a total of more than 20,000 people, across the Hengjiang River (present-day Anhui and County), and won successive battles, beating the central government army like a falling flower, driving straight in, and soon captured the city of Jiankang.
Originally, Yu Liang sent Wen Yao to be the governor of Jiangzhou Andi, the military governor of Jiangzhou, and the town of Wuchang (present-day Ezhou, Hubei), with the purpose of setting up important towns in the upper stream to contain Tao Kan and Su Jun of Liyang, and he used him to take on this important task.
Now, Jiankang was in danger, and Wen Yu planned to lead his troops to the east to defend the Beijing Division.
Yu Liang was still unable to discern the situation, thinking that Su Jun was a small loach that could not make a big wave, so he wrote to Wen Zhao, saying: "I am worried about the west (referring to Tao Kan in Jingzhou) is even more worried than I am worried about Li Yang (referring to Su Jun's Liyang rebels), and I must not cross LeiChi (southeast of present-day Wangjiang County, Anhui). ”
That is to say, Yu Liang was afraid of Tao Kan's rebellion and wanted Wen Yao to be on guard in place.
As a result, Su Jun's momentum was like a bamboo, and he suddenly attacked jiankang city.
Yu Liang panicked and personally led his troops to deploy at the Xuanyang Gate (the city gate in the middle of the south) of Jiankang City.
Unfortunately, the soldiers did not listen to the command, abandoned their weapons and scattered.
Yu Liang cried bitterly, and only hurriedly got on the boat and fled to Xunyang to find Wen Zhao's protection.
Wang Dao had dealt with Wang Dun's rebellion before, had experience, and was quite calm, and when the rebels invaded Jiankang, he ordered his attendant Chu Yi to ask Emperor Cheng to come out and sit down in the main hall.
The rebels soon came to the palace and scolded the king to guide them out.
Wang Dao shouted loudly, "General Su has come from Liyang to see Shengshang, and you and other soldiers are rude!" ”
These soldiers still did not know what kind of attitude Su Jun had toward the Jin dynasty monarchs, and after hearing this broken drink, they slipped out of the main hall in ashes and plundered the harem.
After a robbery, the 200,000 pieces of cloth, 5,000 catties of gold and silver, hundreds of millions of dollars, and tens of thousands of silks in the treasury were all looted.
Su Jun controlled Jiankang, and was not guilty of the emperor or Wang Dao, and he himself was made a general of the Hussars and a general of the Lu Shang Shu, and the ancestors were appointed as Shizhong (侍中), Taiwei (太尉), and Shangshu Ling (尚書令), Xu Liu (許柳) as Danyang Yin (丹阳尹), and Zu Zhuo (祖涣) as the General of the Horse Riders.
Yu Liang fled to Xunyang to see Wen Zhao, figured it out, listened to Wen Yao's advice, and asked Tao Kan to come out of Ma to quell the chaos.
Tao Kan, who was stationed in Jingzhou, was originally the same as Su Jun and Zu Yue, the target of Yu Liang's attack, and now, Yu Liang had to pull down his old face to beg him.
Fortunately, Tao Kan put state affairs first, spread the word to the world, painfully displayed the rebellion of Su Jun and Zu Yue, moved to Zhengzhen, and jointly sent troops.
The famous generals came out, and the situation changed abruptly.
In March of the fourth year of Xianhe (329 AD), Tao Kan joined forces with Yu Liang, Wen Zhao, and Zhao Yin to solve Su Jun by dividing three by five.
As a result, Tao Kan was promoted to the rank of Shizhong (侍中) and Tai wei (太尉), and was made the Duke of Changsha Commandery (長沙郡公), and Wen Yu (文峤) was made the General of Hussars (骠骠軍), and the Duke of Shi'an Commandery (始安郡公).
Yu Liang was extremely depressed, fortunately there was Empress Yu, although she was deposed, she still had to be named the Assassin of Yuzhou and left the town of Wuhu.