What was the life of Huan Wen, the powerful minister of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, like? How rampant is Huan Wen? How did Huan Wen die in the end?
Huan Wen, a politician, military strategist, and courtier of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, was a eunuch huan wen who was born in a family of eunuchs after the Eastern Han Dynasty's great Confucian Huan Rong, who was not only handsome, but also a man of both culture and martial arts, so the Jin Ming Emperor recruited a donkey horse, Huan Wen as a donkey horse, led troops to fight, successively destroyed Cheng Han, there were many northern expeditions, and slowly, Huan Wen began to grasp the power of the DPRK.
With the failure of the Third Northern Expedition, Huan Wen's prestige was greatly reduced, and his original wish to return to the dynasty to accept Jiu Xi was frustrated. So there was the idea of emulating Huo Guang and deposing the emperor, and after the army entered Jiankang, they began to publicize the emperor's bad words, what emperor could not do that, could not have children, and then favored the courtiers and the concubines in the harem fornicated.
Because of the great power, the emperor had no way at all, plus forcing the empress dowager to issue an edict to depose the edict, even the empress dowager was like this, and the ministers of the DPRK did not even have a fair word, so the emperor was deposed.
Huan Wen did not have no intention of becoming emperor himself, because the Eastern Jin Dynasty has always said that the king is light and heavy, if Huan Wen usurped the throne, the other two families would definitely rebel, so Huan Wen found a person from the Sima clan to be the emperor, and this emperor who stood up on his own became his opponent.
In order to eradicate Huan Wen, the emperor at that time made him a chancellor, left people in the capital, and slowly divided his forces, helpless Huan Wen's old treacherous giant, whether it was an official or a knight, Huan Wen just did not enter the dynasty, there was no way at all.
In July 372, when the emperor was seriously ill, he urgently summoned Huan Wen to return to the dynasty, and even issued four edicts in a row, but Huan Wen was still unmoved, and after the emperor's death, Huan Wen originally thought that Emperor Jianwen would give himself the throne or let himself be regent, but now he was disappointed and resentful. After that, the empress dowager looked at the new emperor and wanted Huan Wen to be regent, but was finally stopped.
The following year, Huan Wen brought troops into the dynasty and eliminated all the royal clans who were politically threatened, and rumors spread that Huan Wen wanted to usurp the throne.
After Huan Wen fell ill, he wanted to add the gift of nine tin first, and then force the emperor to take the throne, the minister of the DPRK said well, but he had been deliberately dragging out the time, this edict had not yet waited, Huan Wen died of illness, the imperial court posthumously gave Huan Wen the title of chancellor, the title of Xuanwu, the funeral ceremony in accordance with the old practice of Anping offering the king Sima Fu and Huo Guang, and also gave jiu Xi luan and Huang Wu Zuo Ling and other things.