"Therefore, Shangshu Zuo's servant, former general Mu Zhi, Zi Ziyi, Xie Zuo Yishi, inner plot, foreign affairs, secret military state, exhausted. and Dengyong Chao right, Yin Si Gyeonggi, Yixin Wanghua, Shizan Baiyi. It is the rong army that has fought in a long distance, and is in the middle of the battle, and the honor of sending it to the government and the opposition. Fang Xuan praised the grandeur, the Holy Age, the achievements of the study, and the distant mourning. The Emperor praised, the class with the three things, both glory and sorrow, and the favored spirit has been thick. "
"Former Shi Zhong, Situ, Nan Kang Wen Xuan Gong Mu Zhi, Bing De Zuo Ming, Yi Liang JingYe, Mou You Jingyuan, Yuan Xun Ke Mao, Gong Ming Ding Yi, Yi ZhangDian Ce, so he has been the former zhe of Hui, the descendant of Xuan Feng. Nearly because of the wandering practice, looking at its domain, the thoughts of the Nine Plains, deeply mourned. It can be sacrificed to the tomb to Shen Yonghuai. "
The above two sentences are Liu Yu's deep nostalgia for Liu Muzhi's death, which shows the importance of Liu Muzhi to Liu Yu's career.
Liu Muzhi's importance to Liu Yu's career
Liu Muzhi (360–417), courtesy name Daohe ( 字道和 ; pinyin : 360–417 ) , was a native of Ju County , Dongguan Commandery ( present-day Ju County , Shandong ) . A chancellor at the end of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the eldest son of Liu Bangshu of Han Gaozu, a descendant of Liu Fei the Prince of Hui. Living in Jingkou, he liked to read when he was young, so he read a lot of books and knew a variety of knowledge.
Liu Muzhi first served as the chief bookkeeper of the Jianwei General's Mansion in Lang Evil Nei Shi Jiang, and in 404, Liu Yu raised an army against Huan Xuan, and He Wuji recommended Liu Muzhi as Liu Yu's main bookkeeper, thus beginning his logistical life under Liu Yu's account.
Liu Yu led the army in the front to fight, Liu Muzhi decided on major events in the rear, although many things were decided in a hurry, but things were handled very properly. Liu Yu will consult Liu Muzhi on everything, and he can always give a perfect solution, so that Liu Yu's career will further develop.
At that time, the Jin Dynasty was lax, the ban was not observed, and the people were poor and had no land to live. Coupled with the corruption of Sima Yuanxian's government decrees, Huan Xuan's restrictions on the people were dense. According to the actual needs of the time, Liu Muzhi corrected it at any time, and within ten days, the customs suddenly changed.
Liu Yu swept away Southern Yan and suppressed Lu Xun, and he was made a taiwei and zhongshu supervisor by the Eastern Jin court, while Liu Muzhi became his eunuch Sima (太尉司馬). Liu Muzhi took care of things up and down the Taiwei Mansion in an orderly manner.
Liu Yu fought in the front, and Liu Muzhi sat in charge of everything in the rear and took care of the family for Liu Yu. Quell political enemies and rebel. Mu Zhi was in charge of the government internally, could help the army externally, and could make quick decisions without delay.
In the twelfth year of Yixi (416), Liu Yu decided to raise an army to attack Qin. He made Liu Yifu a general of the Chinese army, staying behind at the Taiwei Mansion in Jiankang, and Liu Muzhi (尚書) Liu Muzhi (尚書) as a left servant to manage the affairs of the Jingshi area, in fact, he was in charge of the imperial government on behalf of Liu Yu himself.
After arranging the affairs of the base camp, Liu Yu could safely lead the Northern Expedition of the great army. This time, the preparations for the Northern Expedition were more adequate than ever, and Liu Yu's general strategic plan was to attack from Yanzhou, Xuzhou, Jingzhou, and other places on the border of Qin and Jin, and form a semi-circular encirclement posture against Houqin from the eastern and southern directions, taking the Kwantung region in one fell swoop, and then attacking Tongguan in unison. In September of the thirteenth year of Yixi (417), Liu Yu destroyed Later Qin and occupied Guanzhong. However, at this time, the news came from Jiankang that Liu Muzhi died of illness, Liu Yu lost a large arm, and there was no suitable replacement.
Liu Yu had wanted to focus on the Guanzhong region in order to deal with the enemy further north, but now he had to prepare for the return to Jiangnan.
After Liu Muzhi's death
Liu Yu's army destroyed Later Qin, killed Yao Qiang, and shocked Guanzhong, and all neighboring countries originally held a wait-and-see posture, and now they were afraid that the next unlucky egg would be themselves. Countries have courted Liu Yu. In such a good situation, it is not impossible to continue to create new deeds. However, Liu Yu, who was inconsistent throughout the Jin Dynasty, decided to withdraw his army and return to Jiankang, why was this?
According to the "Book of Song" and the "History of the South", it is because Liu Muzhi died of illness, and Liu Yu was worried about the chaos in the rear and had to go back personally; and according to the "Tongjian", in addition to the sudden factor of Liu Mu's illness and death, the generals had been thinking about returning home for a long time and were unwilling to stay in Chang'an.
The specific reasons are now unverifiable, but after Liu Mu's illness and death, Liu Yu's career began to enter a turning point.
Liu Yu stayed in Chang'an for three months and then left. He made his second son, Liu Yizhen, who was only twelve years old, yong and Qin Erzhou assassins, and stayed in Chang'an; Wang Zhenyi, who was the most meritorious in the Battle of Qin, was given the title of Sima of Anxi and Feng Yitaishou, and together with Liu Yu's army wang Xiu, he assisted Liu Yizhen in Chang'an. In addition, Liu Yu also left Shen Tianzi, Mao Dezu, Fu Hongzhi and others to deal with important military affairs.
Liu Yu's arrangement was the place where posterity criticized the most, there were countless cattle people in the Northern Expeditionary Army, and everyone led troops to fight at the top level, but basically did not understand the spirit of cooperation, and no one obeyed each other. This laid the foundation for civil unrest.
In the fourteenth year of the Eastern Jin Dynasty (418 AD), Shen Tianzi killed Wang Zhen evil, Wang Xiu killed Shen Tianzi, and Liu Yizhen killed Wang Xiu. Several of the generals who captured Guanzhong did not die on the battlefield, but still died at the hands of their own men. Helian Chang captured Guanzhong and killed almost all of Liu Yu'ai's generals, including Fu Hongzhi and Zhu Lingshi, but only Mao Xiuzhi surrendered.
This change in Guanzhong made Liu Yu lose too much, his generals died almost, even if he had ambitions, he did not have a leading general, after which he could only go to the south of the Jiangsu Province, and later gradually lost part of huaibei's territory.
In 420, Sima Dewen ascended the throne, and Liu Yu proclaimed himself emperor at Jiankang, as Emperor Gaozuwu of Song. However, Liu Yu only served as emperor for two years before he died of a serious illness.
epilogue
Liu Muzhi had Xiao He Zhicai, a stable political situation, a good hand in handling political affairs, he was Liu Yu's right and left arm, but as soon as he died, Liu Yu lost one arm, which caused a chain reaction, and his other arm, the military general, also began to lose.
Book of Song: "The Jin Gang is in a relaxed disorder, and its gradual reasoning is coming." Filial piety and keeping the text on the top, can not be reduced, Daozi Deju Sect, the charter fell. The importance of using national treasures to start the chaos, coupled with the abuse of the Yuan Xian, and the ancestral relics, the old chapters of the Qungong, are scattered and swept away. The lord is not a tree, the subject is dedicated, the national code is special, the family is different, the order of the household is made up, the wealth of the magnate, the palace's storage, becomes a private collection. It is a curse of the Eastern Demon, it is difficult to tie the world, and the one who is endlessly destroyed by the king's way is ruoqi. Gao Zu created righteousness in the first dynasty, things belonged to the cross-current, changed the chaotic chapter, Bu Ping Dao, and respected the righteousness of the lord and the lowly subjects, which was fixed between Ma Zhuo. The power of the order is cast, the inside and outside are forbidden, and the customs of Taiyuan and Long'an are changed by the wind of Jianwu and Yongping, and this Gaiwen xuan is also public. For a generation of courtiers, with the Qing Temple, it is in vain!"