After Huan Wen's death, his son Huan Xuan succeeded him to the title.
It is said that when Huan Xuan was born, there was light illuminating the room, and the diviners all felt strange, so Huan Xuan's nickname Lingbao.
The "Alien Garden" records that when Huan Xuan was born, the light filled the room, and a person who was good at divination said: "Here is born with a strange glory, and it is advisable to look at the heavenly people." And named it "Divine Treasure". Huan Wen thought that his name had three words, so he subtracted the word "god" and called it "Lingbao".
Historian Zhou Liang believes that Huan Xuan's name has words such as "Dao" and "Lingbao", which is a sign of Huan's belief in the Tianshi Dao.
Kill the goose in anger
Huan Xuan was a child and fought with a group of cousins, but Huan Xuan's goose was always inferior to his cousin, and he was very angry. So one night he went to the goose pen and killed the cousins' goose. After dawn, the family members were horrified, thinking that something strange had happened, and reported it to Huan Chong. Huan Chong knew that Huan Xuan had done it, and when he asked, it was true.
Huan Wen's desire to become emperor in his later years caused the Eastern Jin court to guard against the Huan family, and Huan Xuan was ostracized.
But Huan Xuan did not sink, he came to Jingzhou, Taoguang to recuperate, waiting for a good opportunity, preparing for a comeback.
In the end, Huan Xuan finally invaded Jiankang, deposed Sima Dezong, the emperor of Jin'an, and ascended the throne himself.
Under the eyes of the powerful enemy, before he could sit firmly on his throne, he became a ghost under the sword of others.
A big man, an outstanding teenager
Since the founding of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the Huan clan has been a Wang clan, and Huan Xuan's father Huan Wen is even more famous, successively serving as the Grand Sima and the Duke of Nan County, holding military power for many years.
As the son of Huan Wen, a powerful courtier, Huan Xuan was extremely honorable from an early age, but he did not spend much time with his father.
In huan wen's later years, he plotted to stand on his own, but for various reasons, he failed to realize this wish until his death.
After Huan Wen's death, the official position was replaced by his brother Huan Chong, and the title was inherited by Huan Xuan, who was only five years old at the time.
After carefully tuned by his uncle Huan Chong, Huan Xuan gradually became a teenager with outstanding temperament and both culture and martial arts.
Huan Xuan often thinks that he is the son of Huan Wen after the famous door, and calls himself the hero Haojie.
However, the Eastern Jin dynasty royal family was always guarding against the Huan clan and resented Huan Wen's usurpation of the throne in his later years, and Sima Daozi, the king of Huiji, was one of them.
One day, Huan Xuan visited Sima Daozi's mansion.
At that time, Sima Daozi's family was entertaining guests, and When Sima Daozi, who was very drunk, saw Huan Xuan standing under the hall, he narrowed his eyes and said, "I think that back then, your father Huan Wen wanted to usurp the throne, was there such a thing?"
After Huan Xuan heard this, he was very frightened and hurriedly knelt down to apologize.
The other guests hurried over to break the siege and said, "Huan Wen has made great contributions to the country, and now that he has passed away, we must not listen to other people's rumors." ”
Sima Daozi was silent after hearing this, and waved his hand to let Huan Xuan get up. Huan Xuan was deeply humiliated by this incident and was annoyed with Sima Daozi and the Sima clan.
Return to Jingzhou and bide your time
Huan Xuan was not only suspicious of the imperial family, but also ostracized by his courtiers, and could never be used by the imperial court, for which he was very sad.
However, he did not want to wait passively, and soon returned to Jingzhou, Taoguang to recuperate, waiting for a good opportunity, preparing for a comeback.
Huan shi has been an official in Jingzhou for decades, the social network is very large, the power is not small, even Jingzhou assassin Yin Zhongkan did not dare to offend the Huan family.
Yin Zhongkan admired Huan Xuan's talents and regarded him as his right and left arm.
When the imperial court general Hu Fan passed through Jiangling Province, he once said to Yin Zhongkan: "Although Huan Xuan is not used by the imperial court, this person's ambitions are extremely great, and I hope you will pay more attention." ”
Yin Zhongkan did not care, and finally swallowed the bitter fruit he had planted.
In the third year (399) of Emperor Sima Dezong of Jin'an, Huan Xuan's power had grown, and he thought that the time had come, so he decisively raised an army to kill Yin Zhongkan and quickly occupied Jingzhou.
Raising troops to rebel, Jiankang was proclaimed emperor
Just as Huan Xuan was killing Yin Zhong, Sun En rebelled against the imperial court.
When Sima Daozi, who was in charge of the imperial government, heard this news, he had no choice but to make Huan Xuan a general and appoint him as the Assassin of Jingzhou, responsible for attacking the rebels.
Huan Xuan was extremely happy to see Sima Daozi take the initiative to be official, and he understood that Sima Daozi was in a state of anxiety at this time and had no time to deal with himself, so he took the opportunity to ask Sima Daozi for more power.
In order to deal with Sun En's rebels with all his might, Sima Daozi reluctantly agreed to Huan Xuan's request and made all Huan Xuan's brothers and nephews official and knighted.
In the face of Sima Daozi's concessions, Huan Xuan's greed grew. In fact, Huan Xuan's ultimate goal was only one, that is, imperial power, and he didn't care about these official positions at all.
When the imperial court sent troops to recruit Sun En, Huan Xuan began to secretly recruit troops and horses and prepare weapons.
Subsequently, he sent people to completely cut off shipping on the Yangtze River, blocking Jiankang's food supply.
As soon as this plan was made, the price of rice in Jiankang City soared sharply, and many ordinary people had no money to buy grain and had to fill their hunger with wild vegetables and chaff skins.
In 402, Sima Daozi, who could not bear it, ordered his son Sima Yuanxian to lead a large army of the imperial court to attack Huan Xuan.
Sima Daozi's father and son have already aroused the indignation of many people because they abused their power for personal gain, corrupted the imperial program, and oppressed the courtiers.
Huan Xuan took advantage of the people's anger to list the crimes of Sima Daozi's father and son, and then led a large army to recruit Sima Daozi's father and son, and defeated Sima Daozi's generals.
Sima Yuanxian saw that Huan Xuan's army was in full swing and did not dare to confront Huan Xuan at all, so he had to lead his army back to Jiankang.
Huan Xuan led his army in pursuit, and soon attacked Jiankang, executing Sima Daozi's father and son, and completely controlling the fate of the Eastern Jin imperial family.
Soon, Huan Xuan forced Emperor An of Jin to make himself a chancellor and take charge of the military affairs of the whole country.
He then forced Emperor An of Jin to crown himself King of Chu. In 403, Huan Xuan deposed Emperor An of Jin and renamed him The Prince of Pinggu, while he himself ascended the throne and established the State of Chu.
Ground can not be loaded
Huan Xuan said that the empress dowager entered the palace and sat on the bed, and suddenly the bed was broken, and everyone saw this and lost their color, Yin Zhongwen flattered: "Your Majesty, your holiness is deep, and the earth cannot bear it." This made Huan Xuan very happy.
The next chapter is written
Huan Xuan is good at writing articles, which can be seen from his deeds. After Wang Gong's death, Huan Xuan once went to the south building of Jiangling City and said, "I now want to make a eulogy for Wang Xiaobo. After a long time, I wrote it and wrote it quickly.
After Huan Xuan destroyed Yin Zhongkan and Yang Qi, the Jingzhou Thorn History Mansion, the Jiangzhou Thorn History Mansion, the Later General's Mansion, the Seven Prefectures Governor's Mansion, and the NanJun Gongfu all came to congratulate him, and the five editions entered together.
There are no cold gear
Huan Xuan likes to collect calligraphy and paintings, and also cherishes calligraphy and paintings. Whenever a guest visits, he shows off his collection of paintings and calligraphy. After some guests ate Huan Xuan's cold equipment to entertain them, they touched these calligraphy and paintings without washing their hands, so that the calligraphy and paintings were stained with oil. Huan Xuan was very unhappy, and after that, the guests no longer had cold equipment. Later generations used the allusion of "Huan Xuan Han With Oil" to refer to the viewing of calligraphy and painting.
Prefers decoration
Huan Xuan liked decoration and calligraphy and painting, and after defeating Sima Yuanxian, Huan Xuan moved the town to the town of Gu, and built a large number of official palaces in the city, and the buildings and rockery pools were very magnificent. In addition, he used a light boat to carry his paintings, costumes, and playthings, so someone advised him, Huan Xuan actually said that these things should be carried with him, and said that at that time, the soldiers were in danger of war, and if there was a problem, they could be quickly transported away. The crowd laughed at him.
Do it for yourself
When Huan Xuan went west to Jiangling because of Liu Yu's crusade, he wrote a "Notes on Living" on the road, which was all about his resistance to Liu Yu's army, claiming that he commanded the various armies and had no exhaustive strategy, and only because the generals violated their moderations, they were defeated, which was a crime of non-war. Because Huan Xuan concentrated on writing the "Notes on Living", he did not have leisure time and group to discuss countermeasures. After writing it, Huan Xuan declared the "Notes on Living" far and near.
Not as honorable as the ancestors
Huan Xuan revered his father Huan Wen, so after usurping the throne and calling him emperor, he posthumously honored Huan Wen as "Emperor Xuanwu", and the Taimiao temple only enshrined him, but did not honor his grandfather Huan Yi or above.2
Therefore, when Huan Xuan was attacked by Liu Yuyi's menacing army, Cao Jingzhi said that he had caused the Jin dynasty gods to drift away and to pursue his grandfather to anger the gods, which made Huan Xuan very afraid and resentful.
Historian Tian Yuqing believes that Huan Xuan's ancestors are likely to be Huan Fan of the Three Tribes who were cursed by Sima Yi during the Three Kingdoms period, and his descendants Huan Kai and Huan Hao did not come out of the Jin Dynasty until after the limelight passed, "After the Huan Xuan Dynasty jin dynasty, he was unwilling to reveal the truth of the history of the Huan family, and he was still secretive", so he could not respect his ancestors.
Huan's defeat was short-lived
At the beginning of Huan Xuan's ascension to the throne, he once adopted measures of meritocracy and eradication of traitors, but soon he lived a life of absurdity and corruption.
In 404, liu Yu, a general of the Beifu army, led an army to attack Jiankang. Since Huan Xuan ascended to the throne, he had long lost the courage and fearlessness of his year, and seeing that Liu Yujun was fierce, he took Sima Dezong hostage and fled to Jingzhou.
Jingzhou was Huan Xuan's old lair, and when he came here, he got carried away with it.
However, Liu Yu led his army all the way to Jingzhou and once again defeated Huan Xuan's army.
Huan Xuan left King Pinggu and fled west alone, on the way he was killed by the generals of Yizhou's assassin Shi Maoxuan, who was only 36 years old.
Huan Xuan ascended the throne less than half a year after being attacked, which shows that a regime without popular support is bound to pass away like a meteor.
Dynastic rumors
It is said that during the YuanXing period, a hen in Hengyang turned into a rooster, but after eighty days, the crown of the chicken shrank. Later, Huan Xuan established the Chu state, and Hengyang County was also within ten counties, and it was about eighty days from Huan Xuan's ascension to the throne until he was defeated in Jiankang. At that time, there was also a nursery rhyme: "Long dry lane, long dry lane, kill Lang Jun this year, and behead Zhu Huan the year after." "Lang Jun was Sima Yuanxian, who was killed in the first year of YuanXing (402), and Huan was killed in the third year of Yuanxing (404) because of Huan Xuan's defeat and death.