During the Eastern Jin Dynasty, there was a very depressed general who did not want to be an official and lived in seclusion for nearly ten years, but he was forced to be called an official by the imperial court. He had no choice but to obey his fate. Later, this man wanted to do something and was ordered to go north in the north, but as a result, he was repeatedly defeated. But he was not defeated at the hands of the enemy, but there were many generals under him who rebelled, and he was defeated at the hands of his own people. Later, political enemies in the imperial court impeached him, and he was relegated to civilian status. This person was Yin Hao, the minister of the Eastern Jin Dynasty.
Yin Hao was born in 303 AD, a native of Changping County, Chen County (present-day Xihua County, Henan), and the son of Yuzhang Taishou and Guanglu Xun YinXian. Yin Hao was well known at a young age, especially proficient in occult, and both he and his uncle Yin Rong loved Lao Tzu and the I Ching. Therefore, Yin Hao greatly admired Taoist thought and was very disdainful of power, reputation, and interests. Someone once asked Yin Hao: "I dream of seeing a coffin when I am going to be an official, and I am going to be rich and dreaming of dung. Yin Hao replied, "Officials are rotten things, so they are going to be officials and dream of dead bodies; Money is dung, so I am going to get rich and dream of dung. People at the time took his remarks as the most reasonable.
During the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the three provinces of Taiwei, Situ, and Sikong recruited Yin Hao as an official, but he resigned and did not take office. Later, the general Yu Liang of The Western Expedition recruited him to join the army as a recorder, and was promoted to Situ Zuo Changshi several times. The Anxi general Yu Yi asked to be Sima again. Later, he was appointed as a servant and anxi military division, and Yin Haodu said that he was ill and did not take office, and lived in seclusion in the barren mountains for nearly ten years. Later, Wang Meng and Xie Shang visited Yin Hao, and Yu Yi wrote a letter to persuade Yin Hao to take the great righteousness of the country as the most important thing, and Yin Hao insisted on not leaving the mountain.
From the first year of Jianyuan (343) to the second year of Yonghe (346), the Yubing brothers and He Chong died one after another, and Sima Yu (later Emperor Wen of Jin), the son of Sima Rui of Jinyuan, was then the Prince of Huiji and entered the imperial government as an imperial uncle. In March of the second year of Yonghe (346), the Wei general Chu Hao recommended Yin Hao, and Yin Hao was recruited and appointed as the jianwu general and the yangzhou assassin. Yin Hao resigned and wrote to Sima Yu to make his wish clear.
Sima Yu replied: "The country is in serious danger, the decay has reached the extreme, fortunately there are talents from time to time, there is no need to visit the reclusive Qixian." He is knowledgeable and talented, and is used by the country, enough to pass through the world. If I continue to be humble and insistent on going my own way, I am afraid that the world's major events will be over from now on. Now that the country is in decline and the dynasty is in a slump, once the country is destroyed, I am afraid that there will be no place to die. From this point of view, the departure of the foot is related to the rise and fall of the times, and the rise and fall of the times is related to the survival of the society. If you think about it for a long time, you can identify the gains and losses. I hope to abandon the heart of seclusion and follow the wishes of the people. Yin Hao resigned repeatedly, from March to July, and finally there was no way, before accepting the call.
Yin Hao was reused by Sima Yu, and the important purpose was to clamp huan wen. In the third year of Yonghe (347), the Anxi general Huan Wen destroyed the Chenghan regime, so Xiang Meritorious Service, Huan Wen's prestige and power were strong, but at the same time made the imperial court jealous of him. Sima Yu regarded Yin Hao as a confidant, so Yin Hao and Huan Wen were suspicious of each other and disagreed with each other. At this time, when Yin Hao's father Yin Xian died of illness, Yin Hao left his post to keep filial piety. The imperial court ordered Cai Mo to take charge of Yangzhou and wait for Yin Hao. At the end of Yin Hao's mourning period, the imperial court recruited him to serve as a Shangshu servant, but he did not take office. He still served as the general of Jianwu and the assassin of Yangzhou, and participated in the government of the dynasty.
In the fifth year of Yonghe (349), the Later Zhao Emperor Shi Hu died, and Later Zhao immediately became in chaos due to the seizure of the throne by his sons, and the Eastern Jin court decided to take advantage of the Later Zhao rebellion to recover the Central Plains and Guanzhong regions and unify the country. In the sixth year of Yonghe (350), Yin Hao was appointed to the rank of general of the Chinese army. Yin Hao accepted the appointment and made it his mission to recover the Central Plains.
On the other side, Huan Wen also went to the Northern Expedition, but there was no echo. Huan Wen knew that the imperial court wanted to use Yin Hao against him, and he was very resentful, so he led about 50,000 troops to Wuchang on his own after yonghe's 7th december 11 (January 13, 352). This move terrified the imperial court.
At the critical moment, Yin Hao was actually timid and planned to leave his post to avoid Huan Wen, but was dissuaded by Wang Biaozhi.
In the eighth year of Yonghe (352), Yin Hao went on a northern expedition and attacked Xuchang and Luoyang. At that time, Yin Hao had a general named Zhang Yu under his command. When Yin Hao arrived in Xuchang, his subordinate Anxi general Xie Shang failed to appease Zhang Yu, causing Zhang Yu to defect again. Zhang Yu occupied Xuchang and sent troops into Luoyang and attacked Cangyuan, where the Jin army was located, which also hindered Yin Hao's march. Xie Shang had to attack Zhang Yu with another general, Yao Xiang, but Xie Shang was defeated and retreated to Huainan. Yin Hao also returned after learning of Xie Shang's defeat and stationed himself in Shouyang. The First Northern Expedition failed.
In the winter of the ninth year of Yonghe (353), Yin Hao once again carried out the Northern Expedition. He led an army of 70,000 men, ordered Yao Xiang to be the forward, the champion general Liu Qiazhen to guard Lutai, and the Jianwu general Liu Qiazhen to guard Cangyuan, and requested that he be relieved of his post as an assassin in Yangzhou, and that luoyang be exclusively towned, and the imperial court would not allow it. Later, the striker Yao Xiang defected halfway and attacked Yin Hao. Yin Hao's army was greatly defeated, the generals lost more than 10,000 people, Yin Hao abandoned the heavy and fled back, and his second northern dynasty failed.
Yin Hao's two Northern Expeditions failed, the first because of Zhang Yu's rebellion, the second because of Yao Xiang's rebellion, and the shadow of the true enemy of the Northern Expedition was not seen. Yin Hao could be described as extremely depressed. Later, Huan Wen impeached Yin Hao, who was deposed by the imperial court and moved to Xin'an until 356, when he died at the age of fifty-three.