Huan Wen pushed Sima Yu, who was more than half a hundred years old, to the throne, because he did not see anything, because Sima Yu was no longer rich and powerful, and he had already hollowed out his body for his descendants' grand plan, providing a time guarantee for Huan Wen's next usurpation. Therefore, huan wen's next step is to concentrate on eradicating the royal family members and dissident forces that threaten him.
Sima Yu's half-brother Sima Xi the Prince of Wuling, in the eighth year of Xiankang (342), together with Sima Yu (司馬昱), the governor of Zhongshu (中書監庾冰), Zhongshu Ling He Chong (中書令何充), and Shangshu Ling Zhuge Hui (尚書令 Zhuge Hui) jointly accepted the last will and testament of Sima Yan, the emperor of Jincheng, and served as chancellors to assist the imperial government. In the eighth year of Yonghe (352), he was promoted to Dazai. Sima Xi had no interest in being a civilian official, and he liked to practice martial arts and train soldiers. Huan Wen was very jealous of him, Sima Yu had only been on the throne for 3 days, Huan Wen said that Sima Xi was born in the imperial family, but he recruited frivolous villains, harbored outlaws, his son Sima Zong was arrogant and cruel, and Yuan Zhen's rebellion was related to him. Requested that Sima Xi be relieved of his official position. Subsequently, he had his younger brother Huan Mi act as a vanguard, forcing Sima Huang, the new king of Cai, to surrender himself, saying that he intended to rebel with Sima Xi, Sima Zong, Lang Yinjuan, Dazai Changshi Yuqian, and Sanqi Changshu Yurou.
Huan Wen then ordered that all the people be arrested and sent to the court lieutenant. Two days later, Huan Wen directly ordered sima Yi's Tian Meiren and Meng Meiren to be killed, as well as their 3 children. Only 1 day later, Sima Tian ( 司馬恬 ) the Prince of Wuling , in the imperial history , adhered to Huan Wen's will and asked Sima Xi , the king of Wuling , to kill him and others. Sima Yu really couldn't bear to see the killing between the clans again, and issued an edict saying, "I am both sad and sorry, and I am terrified and uneasy, and I don't even want to hear this kind of thing, let alone ask me to give orders!" You study and study again!"
Huan Wen had no choice but to go into battle shirtless, personally writing a book to threaten, and his words were extremely fierce. Sima Yu could not bear it any longer, and personally wrote an edict: "If the Jin Dynasty can continue, please ask Sima Dai not to mention this matter again." If the Jin Dynasty's qi should be exhausted, let me abdicate and let Xian!" Huan Wen saw that his steps were too fast, and it was not good to push the emperor too quickly, so he no longer insisted on killing Sima Huang's family, so he changed his role to depose Sima Xi and his 3 sons, and the whole family moved to Xin'an County (新安郡, in modern Chun'an County, Zhejiang); Sima Huang, the new king of Cai, was deposed as a Shuren and demoted to Hengyang (present-day southwest of Xiangtan, Hunan). Sima Yu saved the lives of the clan flesh and blood, and Huan Wen also achieved the goal of weakening the imperial family.
The Yin and Yu clans were in a desperate situation, and Huan Wen ordered them to be cut off. In less than 10 days, Huan Wen deposed the emperor, cut off the royal family relatives, and exterminated the two major high-ranking noble families, and his power was extremely prominent. When Xie An saw Huan Wen, he began to prostrate himself from a distance, and Huan Wen was used in his heart, but he pretended to be surprised and asked, "An Shi, what do you mean by this?" Xie An said, "There is no reason why a monarch bows before him, but his courtiers bow to the latter. "
Even Xie An regarded Huan Wen as a king, and Sima Yu felt even greater pressure. In fact, from the day he took the throne, he was well aware of his situation, and he was always worried, because he was watching Huan Wen go step by step today, and his ambitions had been clearly revealed, since he had opened the head of deposing the emperor, there would be the 2nd and 3rd times, as long as he wanted, who dared to guarantee that he would not directly kill the emperor? Due to the severe heart disease, Sima Yu entered the palace for a few months, he was haggard and aging a lot, his hair quickly grayed, and his body soon could not hold up.
When Huan Wen abolished the establishment of major events, coerced the imperial family relatives, and killed dissidents, Sima Yu trembled and entered Huan Wen as a chancellor and stayed in Beijing to assist the government. However, Huan Wen did not accept it, and only appointed Xi Chao as a Zhongshu waiter, sitting in the middle of the country, while he himself led the army back to Guyi via Baishi, took charge of the military power, continued to control the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, and remotely controlled the government.
On July 23 of the second year of Xian'an (372), Sima Yu was terminally ill, and he was not decisive in his life, so he installed the 11-year-old Sima Yao as the crown prince as soon as possible. Intimidated by Huan Wen's obscenity, he issued 4 edicts a day in a row, urging Huan Wen to join the imperial government, but Huan Wen ignored them. With the last glimmer of hope to impress Huan Wen, Sima Yu learned from Liu Beibai's practice of entrusting the city to the orphans, and made a testament saying: "If my son becomes an instrument, please assist you; If not, please replace it yourself. "
This testament, which concerned the future and fate of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, once it reached Huan Wen's hand, left and right were all in one thought. He could either assist the young lord with all his heart like Zhuge Liang, or he could usurp the throne and stand on his own like Wang Mang, which was something that other warriors did not want to see. Wang Tanzhi, a servant of the Taiyuan Wang clan, tore the edict to pieces in front of Sima Min and said, "The Jin Dynasty was founded by Emperor Xuan (Sima Yi) and Emperor Yuan (Sima Rui), so how can Your Majesty privately grant it to others?"
Sima Yu saw that there were still such loyal ministers around him, and while he was sad, he still felt very relieved, so he asked Wang Tanzhi to redraft the edict and change it to: "All major affairs of the family and the country are subject to the orders of the Great Sima ( , just as it was the old practice of Marquis Zhuge Wu and Wang Cheng Xiang ( Wang Dao ) , and the crown prince should follow the example of Liu Chan respecting Zhuge Wu marquis and paying respect to Sima Dai." Comparing Huan Wen to Zhuge Liang means that great power can be had, and to call the emperor is a great rebellion, and to bind him firmly with morality. On the day of the completion of the will, Sima Yu died at the age of 53, reigning for only 8 months and 14 days.
The country cannot be without a monarch for a day, and some of the courtiers are afraid of Huan Wen, and it is proposed to wait until Huan Wen is asked to make plans. Shang Shu's servant Wang Biaozhi said sternly, "When the Son of Heaven dies and the crown prince stands, the Grand Sima cannot and will not violate the etiquette!" If you ask him in person, you will definitely be severely reprimanded by him. "In the face of danger, he quickly supported Sima Yao as emperor, for emperor Xiaowu.
At the critical moment when the life of the Jin royal family was hanging by the line, the various gate valve clans joined forces to stop Huan Wen's conspiracy to usurp the Jin Dynasty, not only safeguarding their own vested interests, but also ensuring the smooth accession of Sima Yao to the throne and the continuation of the Eastern Jin Dynasty.
And this ending made Huan Wen resentful, he thought that Sima Yu would give himself the throne when he was dying, but he did not expect that Sima Yu had made a prince at the last moment, and he did not even have a regent, just an auxiliary government. In a letter to his younger brother Huan Chong, he vented: "The edict only allows me to follow the story of The Marquis of Wu and the Prince, and wang and Xie handle political affairs in the court, which always makes people indignant." He pointed the finger at Wang Tanzhi and Xie An.
After Sima Yao ascended the throne, in order to appease Huan Wen, Xie An, Wang Tanzhi, and others issued an edict in the name of Sima Yao: "All internal and external affairs shall be handled according to the opinions of Sima Yao. And Xie An personally went to Guyi, recruited Huan Wen to join the imperial auxiliary government, and Yu Bao of the honor guard advocated that there were 60 tigers, and Huan Wen still resigned, and even more refused to enter the DPRK.
But Huan Wen said that the emperor's heart did not die, and since he refused to zen, he could only come hard. In February of the first year of Ningkang (373), Huan Wen led a large group of soldiers and horses and went straight to Jiankang with great momentum, preparing to destroy the Eastern Jin Dynasty and seize power with an armed force. Manchu Wenwu was panicked, not knowing what to do. Empress Dowager Chu ordered Xie An and Wang Tanzhi to lead hundreds of officials to Xinting (新亭, in present-day southern Jiangning County, Jiangsu), because everyone knew that Huan Wen hated these two to the bone, and Empress Chu undoubtedly let them go to their deaths.
Wang Tanzhi was frightened and scattered, but Xie An calmly said, "The survival of the Jin Room depends on this trip." Arriving at the new pavilion, Huan Wen deployed heavy troops to guard, and the officials with a certain status and prestige at that time were panicked. Wang Tanzhi was sweating profusely, and he didn't even know that the plate in his hand was upside down. Only Xie An calmly sat down, and after he sat down, he asked Huan Wen lukewarmly: "I heard that the princes have a way and guard the four neighbors. Ming Gong, why do you have to arrange so many knights around?" Huan Wen was embarrassed to say, "I also have to defend!" Saying that he withdrew all the people, he talked with Xie An from childhood, and talked about it for most of the day. Due to Xie An's wit and composure, Huan Wen finally took the throne without force and quickly returned to his sister-in-law. Huan Wen returned to his sister-in-law and regretted it, he hated himself for being too indecisive, always cowering at every critical moment, in Bashang, Chang'an was within reach; In Fangtou, Yecheng was also within reach, all because they did not dare to move forward decisively and failed. Coupled with this revival of the masses to advance into Jiankang, as long as you take a step forward, you will succeed, and there is absolutely no end for Wang Dun.
But Huan Wen finally returned to the same place as Wang Dun, and he collapsed in his inner torment and entanglement. During his illness, he could not wait for the imperial court to give him a gift of nine tin, and constantly sent people to urge. Xie An, Wang Tanzhi, and others saw that Huan Wen was seriously ill, so they asked the famous literary scholar Yuan Hong to draft an edict and submit it to Wang Biaozhi for review. Wang Biaozhi said: "Your writing is also too good, it is okay to survive as an article, but it is too gorgeous as an official document, no!" Xie An took it and revised it, delaying it as much as possible, and repeatedly never finalizing it. In wang Biaozhi's words: "Huan Wen's body is not as good as a day, and it will not last long, and the Edict of the Nine Tins can be dragged out." "Dragging on to July, Huan Wen fell ill and died at the age of 62, and the Nine Xi Edict was also done. The crisis period at the beginning of Sima Yao's succession was finally passed without any danger.
Huan Wen died, and the pattern of door valve politics in the Eastern Jin Dynasty had to continue. After The death of King Shangshu Ling in August of the second year of Taihe (367), the position of Shangshu Ling remained vacant, and after Sima Yu ascended the throne as a chancellor, Wang Biaozhi was made a servant of Shangshu, and Xie An was the leader of the Shuzhong, Shangshu, and Zhong, and because sima Yu was dying, Huan Wen had written to suggest that Xie An assist the government, so Xie An occupied a very important position in the dynasty.
Huan Wen's positions during his lifetime were envoys, shizhong ( 侍中 ) , governor of various Chinese and foreign militaries , Xiang Xiang ( 丞相 ) , Lu Shang Shushi ( 錄尚書事 ) , Da Sima ( ) , Yangzhou Mu ( Yangzhou Mu , General of Pingbei , and Assassin of Xu Yan ' Erzhou Prefecture ; Huan Wen's third brother Huan Huo was the Right General, the Governor of Jingliang Yongzhou Military, the Commander of the Southern Barbarians, the Assassin of Jingzhou, and the False Festival, and Huan Wen's younger brother Huan Chong was the General of Zhenwei, the military of the six counties of Jianjiang Prefecture, Jingzhou, and Yuzhou, the General of Nanzhonglang, the False Festival, the Assassin history of Jiangzhou, the Lingzhen Barbarian Guard, and the Taishou of the Two Counties of Xiyang and Yu County. Huan actually controlled the six prefectures of Yang, Xu, Yan, Jing, Jiang, and Yu (Liang and Yi prefectures had been captured by Qin), and many of Huan Wen's sons and nephews held official positions of the Taishou rank. Huan Wen had six sons: Huan Xi, Huan Ji, Huan Xin, Huan Yi, Huan Wei, and Huan Xuan, who were deposed for having a conflict of interest with his uncle Huan Chong; Huan Xin was given the title of Duke of Linhe County; Huan Yi suffers from dementia; Huan Wei later also achieved the Jingzhou Assassination History; The 5-year-old Huan Xuan inherited Huan Wen's career and was given the title of Duke of Nan County. Huan Wen's second brother Huan Yun is dead, and his son Huan Xu is the history of Xuancheng City. Huan Wen's third brother Huan Huo had more than 20 sons, and the recorded ones were General Ning Yuan, Nanton Taishou Huanqian, General Ying Yang, Jingling Taishou Huan Shixiu, and Xie An's huan shimin. Huan Wen's fourth brother Huan Mi was deposed along with his nephew. Huan Wen's younger brother Huan Chong also had 7 sons: Huan Si, Huan Qian, Huan Xiu, Huan Chong, Huan Hong, Huan Xian and Huan Yi, who also served in the army at this time, serving as middle and low-level officers. Therefore, although Huan Wen is no longer there, the Huan family still holds the military and political power in the core area of the Eastern Jin Dynasty.