In the 52 years of the Western Jin Dynasty, most of the time was in war. After the death of Sima Yan, who had been in power for 25 years, his sons Sima Zheng and Sima Chi and grandson Sima Yi succeeded to the throne one after another, all of which were standard puppets.
Sima Zheng, the Emperor of Jinhui, was first played by his daughter-in-law Jia Nanfeng, and then became a doll in the hands of several princes of the Sima family, who had a low IQ and was directly played offline.
Sima Chi, the emperor of Jinhuai, originally thought that Bai had picked up a throne, but he did not think that he was first elevated by Sima Yue, the king of the East China Sea, and then poisoned by the Xiongnu Liu Cong, not to mention how tragic.
When Sima Yi, the Emperor of Jin, ascended the throne, it was purely to drive ducks to the shelves. He was almost starved to death in Chang'an, but had no choice but to surrender to Liu Cong, and the Western Jin Dynasty perished.
Although the Western Jin Dynasty had finished calves, the descendants of the Sima family had not yet disappeared. Sima Rui, the younger brother of Sima Yue, the king of the East China Sea, who used to mix with Sima Yue, the king of Langya, began to think carefully: No, at this time, it is my turn to carry the big flag!
Thus, Sima Rui established the Eastern Jin Dynasty in Jiangnan. Who would have thought that the spell of the puppet had already clamped the brain door of the Sima family, and in the 104-year history of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, there were 11 emperors, all of whom were basically puppets.
Even Sima Rui, the founding father of the country, was no exception, what was the situation? Is this puppet mass-produced by the factory? Then you have to ask the four major families of the Eastern Jin Dynasty.
First, the Langya Wang clan, Sima Rui also can not afford to provoke the family.
Sima Rui was a collateral of the Sima family, and his grandfather Sima Ling was Sima Yi's son, so their family and Sima Zhao's lineage were completely incomparable.
Therefore, during the Rebellion of the Eight Kings, Sima Rui could only follow Sima Yue, the king of the East Sea, as a younger brother. If it were not for the rebellion of the Eight Kings, the main clan of the Sima family would have finished their calves, and there would really be no chance for Sima Rui to start a family.
In any case, Sima Rui was also a great-grandson of Sima Yi, and it was a bit reluctant to inherit the unification, but it was not impossible. After all, the power position of the Sima family was all created by Sima Yi.
Unfortunately, there was more than enough in his heart and insufficient strength, and it was basically impossible for Sima Rui, the king of Langya, to inherit the unification by relying on his own strength. For this reason, he had to turn to his friend Wang Dao.
The Langya Wang Clan, that is a famous and prestigious family, has produced many dignitaries and dignitaries. Wang Dao's cousin Wang Dun was the son-in-law of Sima Yan, the Emperor wu of Jin, and was also the assassin of Qing and Yang Prefectures, who had a heavy army.
With the support of the Langya wang clan, Sima Rui justifiably inherited the unification in Jiangnan. On the day of his ascension to the throne, Sima Rui was a little excited, he took Wang Dao's hand, patted his dragon chair, and said: Old Wang, come and come, let's sit together.
Although Wang Dao did not go up to feel it, this behavior also directly showed that the establishment of the Eastern Jin Dynasty was indispensable to the support of the old Wang family.
But later, the old Wang family went astray, and Wang Dun sat in Wuchang, always feeling that he had heavy troops in his hands, and he couldn't do it, so he didn't give Sima Rui half a face at all. Wang Dao served as Zaifu in the middle of the dynasty and held power. Sima Rui almost wanted to scold his mother, but he didn't dare.
Therefore, Sima Rui began to secretly cultivate his own forces, intending to balance the power of the old Wang family. As a result, Wang Dun did not agree, and immediately raised an army to qingjun's side.
Sima Rui did not want to learn from Emperor Jing of Han, so he chose to rise up and resist, but unfortunately the resistance was ineffective. Wang Dun marched all the way into Jiankang, turning the capital into ruins. Sima Rui pointed to the dragon chair and said helplessly: "If you don't become emperor, I will still retire."
Wang Dun smiled, snorted contemptuously, and led the troops back to Wuchang. In the eyes of the old Wang family, the throne is a fart, the iron warrior clan, the flowing water throne, this is the truth.
It was too ironic, Wang Dun's rebellion directly made Sima Rui depressed, and it was not long before the founding prince of the Eastern Jin Dynasty died of depression, only 47 years old, reigning for 6 years.
Second, the Yingchuan Yu clan, the family that does not eat soft rice well.
Wang Dun's rebellion led to Sima Rui's violent death, which made Sima Shao, who had just ascended to the throne, very unhappy. The old father was killed by Wang Dun, and this beam was considered to be knotted! Therefore, after Sima Shao ascended the throne, he sharpened his sword and huo Huo to Wang Dun, and it took 2 years to finally handle Wang Dun.
Of course, if Wang Dun had not died early, the old Wang family would have been arrogant for a while. Those members of the Wang clan who followed Wang Dun's rebellion were naturally brought to justice. But the point is that the eggs of the old Wang family were not placed in the same basket, and it turned out that Wang Dao was resolutely supporting Sima Shao.
Therefore, although the old Wang family was devastated after Wang Dun's death, the camels who died thin and dead were bigger than the horses, and in the end they were still much stronger than the ordinary family. After that, they gradually faded out of the political arena, and the new one to the power was the Yingchuan Yu clan.
Sima Shao's task seemed to be to pacify Wang Dun. After two years on the throne, Sima Shao died at the age of 27. When his son Sima Yan succeeded to the throne, he was only 5 years old. Therefore, the power of the government fell into the hands of Empress Dowager Yuwen.
Empress Yu was also not a person in charge of affairs, and she felt annoyed, so she handed over all the power to her brother Yu Liang. This is good, the foreign relative Yu Liang is in power, and the era belonging to the Yingchuan Yu clan has come.
To tell the truth, Yu Liang's ability is really outrageously poor, there is no level of governance, and he always likes to cause trouble. As a result, he accidentally forced Su Jun and Zu Yue to turn back. Yu Liang was so frightened that he ran away, causing Jiankang to suffer another catastrophe.
Fortunately, at that time, The Thorn Shi Wen Of Jiangzhou and the Thorn Shi Tao Kan of Jingzhou (Tao Yuanming's grandfather) were both relatively powerful fierce men, and under their efforts, the Su Jun Rebellion was barely quelled.
Yu Liang, who regained great power, still did not learn his lesson, and actually thought about the Northern Expedition, presumably to regain some face. Without that diamond, don't do porcelain work, the result is not only the Northern Expedition did not succeed, but even The city was lost. Yu Liang died with shame.
After Yu Liang's death, the power of the DPRK fell into the hands of his younger brother Yu Bing. Yu Bing is aware of the importance of her foreign status and refuses to easily give up her qualification to eat soft rice. Therefore, under his operation, sima yan, the seriously ill jin emperor, passed his throne to his half-brother Sima Yue (at that time Sima Yan had two sons, Sima Pi and Sima Yi).
In this way, Yu Bing was still the emperor's uncle, so the Lao Yu family still held the military and political power of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Unexpectedly, Sima Yue, the Emperor of Jin Kang, died after 2 years on the throne, and Yu Bing no longer had any more to rely on.
The newly installed young emperor Sima Mu of Jin was born to Sima Yue and Empress Chu Garlic, and the status of a foreign relative of the Yingchuan Yu clan disappeared, so their family gradually faded out of the political arena of the Eastern Jin Dynasty.
Third, the Huan clan of the State of Huan almost replaced the Eastern Jin Dynasty.
After Sima Tan, the Emperor of JinMu, succeeded to the throne, the chu clan's foreign relatives also cattle for a while, but unfortunately the family talent was insufficient, and it was not a climate. During his reign, he was successively brought to power by Yin Hao and Chu Qi (the father of Empress Dowager Chu).
Chu Qiao's Northern Expedition failed and his face was disgraced. In addition, Emperor Mu of Jin died early at the age of 19 and did not have a son, so the Chu clan faded out of the historical stage of the Eastern Jin Dynasty in the blink of an eye.
Since Emperor Mu of Jin had no queen, he had to choose an emperor from the sons of Sima Yan, the emperor of Jincheng. At the same time, Huan Wen, the son-in-law of Sima Shao, the emperor of JinMing, gradually took the Huan clan onto the political stage of the Eastern Jin Dynasty.
After Huan Wen held the land of Jingzhou in his hands, he was basically as strong as Wang Dun at that time, and coupled with the fact that he destroyed the Chenghan regime in Bashu, his position of strength was even greater. Therefore, here in Huan Wen, these little emperors of the Eastern Jin Dynasty are all puppets!
The first puppet, of course, was Sima Pi, the Emperor of the Jin Dynasty.
During the Sima Pi period, Huan Wen pacified the Shu lands and completed the unification of the area south of the Yangtze River. He felt satisfied, and then looked at Sima Pi, who was hiding in the harem and taking drugs, with a disdainful face.
At this time, Huan Wen thought of the Northern Expedition. If the Northern Expedition succeeds, then his position in the minds of the southerners will be incomparable. When the time comes to replace the Sima family, it will be very simple. Therefore, Huan Wen's first two Northern Expeditions were both during the Sima Pi period, and both achieved good results.
The second puppet, Sima Yi, the deposed emperor of the Jin Dynasty, was deposed by Huan Wen.
The 25-year-old Sima Pi, the Emperor of The Jin Dynasty, died of drug abuse in the harem, leaving no son. Huan Wen had no choice but to prop up his younger brother Sima Yi as emperor. Obviously, Sima Yi still had no power.
At this time, Huan Wen's two Northern Expeditions had already achieved good military achievements, and he was also crowned as the Duke of Nan County, and his strength and status matched, so he thought about self-reliance. Huan Wen thought of going north again, and if he succeeded, he would be able to claim the title of emperor.
As a result, Huan Wen's Third Northern Expedition met Murong Chui of Former Yan. In the Battle of Fangtou, Huan Wen was defeated and 30,000 troops were killed. Huan Wenqi did not fight a single blow, and he planned to take the little emperor Sima Yi out of breath.
But he couldn't find a reason to abolish Sima Yi, after all, Sima Yi was still quite disciplined. Thinking about it, Sima Yi was given a reason that all men could not accept: impotence!
Huan Wen pointed out that none of the 3 sons of Sima Yi's harem were his own, so he resolutely deposed him as the King of the East Sea. Fortunately, Sima Yi died of drunkenness in the later period, and Huan Wen did not treat him as an onion at all, and he only lived to the age of 45.
The third puppet, Sima Yu, emperor of Jin Jianwen.
The very embarrassing moment came, because the Third Northern Expedition failed, so Huan Wen had no reason to openly ascend the throne. This kind of attitude of being both deserving and standing is really unpleasant.
Therefore, Huan Wen had no choice but to get Sima Yu to become emperor. Sima Yu was Sima Rui's son, and there was no way, several emperors in Sima Shao's line were extinct, and they could only start from Sima Rui's sons.
Sima Yu was also an auxiliary chancellor in his early years, and his long-term confrontation with Huan Wen was tantamount to hitting a stone with a pebble. Now Huan Wen had made him emperor instead, and while he was flattered, Sima Yu was also very sad, because he had no power! So after only 8 months in office, he ended up depressed.
The fourth puppet, Sima Yao, Emperor Xiaowu of Jin.
Strictly speaking, Sima Yao was only half a puppet. He was arguably one of the most accomplished emperors of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, after all, when he ascended the throne, the ambitionist Huan Wen had already entered his twilight years.
Although Huan Wen in his later years had no achievements in his career, his ambition was not less at all. He also thought of adding nine tins and then usurping the throne. But the people in the imperial court were not stupid, xie an and the others dragged it vigorously, and finally dragged Huan Wen to death.
Huan Wen: Xiao Xie, I'm almost out of line, or should I add a wave of nine tin cool?
Xie An: Huan Gong, don't worry, let's take the Charter step by step.
After Huan Wen's death, the Huan clan of huan fell for a time, and later his younger son Huan Xuan rebelled against the Eastern Jin Dynasty, forcing Emperor Chan of Jin to establish the Huan Chu regime, which was a matter of concern for his father. However, Huan Xuan did not take long to be slaughtered by Liu Yu, the first fierce man at the end of the Eastern Jin Dynasty.
Fourth, the Chen Jun's Xie clan, a family that made the northern princes feel frightened.
After the end of the Huanwen family, the famous Chen Junxie clan in history finally stepped onto the political stage of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Xie An, the representative of the Xie clan of Chen County, dragged Huan Wen to death and kept the throne of the Sima family, which can be described as a re-creation of Sima Yao.
Therefore, when Sima Yao was young, it was always Xie An who presided over the overall situation. At this time, the north, under the efforts of former Qin Heavenly King Jian Jian and Wang Meng, completed its unification. However, Wang Mengqian instructed Jian Jian to dispel the idea of the Southern Expedition.
Eight years after Wang Meng's death, Jian Jian forgot Wang Meng's instructions and insisted on attacking the Eastern Jin Dynasty from the south, for which he launched the Battle of Shuishui. This battle was a life-and-death battle for the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and Jian Jian brought more than 800,000 troops.
The commander of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Xie An, only had 80,000 Northern Province soldiers led by Xie Xuan. The strength was quite uneven, but in the end, the Eastern Jin Dynasty still defeated Former Qin.
The victory at the Battle of Shuishui directly led to chen jun xie becoming the most cattle family in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Therefore, there is a saying that "wang Xie Tang Qianyan in the old times" has been born. Being able to juxtaposed with the Langya Wang Clan shows that the old Xie family is not simple.
Of course, Xie An had no intention of usurping the throne, and he especially cherished his feathers. When the Xie clan of Chen Jun reached its peak, he chose to surrender his ruling power and ran to become an official in other places.
This allowed Sima Yao, the Emperor of Jin Xiaowu, to have the right to govern, and Sima Yao felt that the power of the clan was not enough, so he supported his younger brother Sima Daozi to take power, and as a result, the wolf was introduced, and Sima Daozi began to monopolize power again, and the brothers once turned against each other.
And Sima Yao's death method is even more breathtaking, he got drunk and said nonsense to his concubine Zhang Guiren: You are almost 30 years old, the posture is no longer the same as it was then, I will turn around and ruin you!
After he finished speaking, he went to sleep, and as a result, Zhang Guiren was so angry that he couldn't sleep all night, so he simply turned his heart sideways and covered Sima Yao alive with a quilt. Poor Emperor Of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the only one with some real power, actually died so helplessly.
Summary: The four major families are over, and the Sima family is over.
Obviously, with the gradual end of the four major families of Wang Xie Huanyu, the Sima family's Jiangshan also began to collapse. Among these four major families, the Langya Wang clan, the Chen Junxi clan, and the Yingchuan Yu clan are actually loyal to the Sima family, so the Sima family barely maintained a 104-year foundation.
However, after these people gradually lost power, the Sima family's own people could not support the scene, so Huan Xuan gave the Eastern Jin Dynasty a pot, which could not blame Liu Yu to clean up the battlefield.
In the end, Liu Yu, who was born with mud legs, destroyed the two sons of Emperor Xiaowu Sima Yao, Sima Dezong of Jin'an and Sima Dewen of Jin, ending the rule of 11 puppet emperors of the Eastern Jin Dynasty in 104 and establishing the Liu Song Dynasty.
References: Book of Jin, Zizhi Tongjian