The friction between the Central Plains Dynasty and ethnic minorities has never been broken, from the pre-Qin Inu Rong, to the Xiongnu in the Qin and Han Dynasties, to the Mongolia in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the Central Plains regime fought countless battles with the nomadic regime, of which the Battle of Shuishui was one of the most classic battles. The Central Plains Dynasty of the two Jin Dynasties was relatively weak among the many dynasties in China, and the north at that time coincided with the period of great integration of various ethnic groups, and also gave birth to a strong and unified multi-ethnic dynasty, Former Qin. As the monarch of Former Qin, Jian Jian has always been ambitious to unify the north and south, and of course, there is nothing wrong with Jian Jian's ambitions, and the people of insight on the Eastern Jin side are not like recovering their homeland.
Qiang Jian's troops and horses raised the strength of the whole country, a total of 800,000 people, and the mighty sword pointed at the Eastern Jin Dynasty. On the Eastern Jin Dynasty side, Xie An was the commander who attacked Jian Jian on the shore of the Feishui River, and everyone knew the outcome of the war, the grass and trees on the Bagong Mountain were all soldiers, and the 800,000 barbarian troops were killed on the shore of the Shuishui River. In the Battle of Shuishui, Jian Jian was both a king and a commander, the glory of success and the shame of defeat should be borne by him, and Xie An on the Eastern Jin side was only the commander of the three armies, and the victory in the Battle of Shuishui seemed to be counted on his head, who remembered who was the emperor of the Eastern Jin Dynasty during the Battle of Shuishui, should we not count this credit as his share.
At that time, the Eastern Jin Dynasty was in the reign of Sima Yao, the Emperor of Jin Xiaowu, and Sima Yao was not a wise emperor, but since the Battle of Shuishui was won under his rule, the victory of the Battle of Shuishui was of course his historical merit. Since the Jin Dynasty, the quality of the emperor is not as good as a generation, Sima Yao is not exempt from vulgarity, Emperor Xiaowu of Jin is in a hurry, he indulged in female sex and neglected government affairs during his reign, when the emperor did not have a right shape, he still liked to compete with the ministers for power, and it was not easy for Xie An to win the Battle of Shuishui under the governance of this emperor. Most of the historical descriptions of the Battle of Shuishui do not have the shadow of Sima Yao, which shows that the ancients did not recognize Sima Yao's substantive contribution to the Battle of Shuishui. The Battle of Shuishui did not make Sima Yao famous in history, but his concubines let him burn in the long river of history.
There was a Zhang Gui in Sima Yao's harem, and Sima Yao was still very fond of her at first, but after a long time of getting bored, Sima Yao gradually felt that Zhang Guiren was old and fading, and he was not interested in her, and he also ridiculed Zhang Guiren, who was nearly thirty years old, and had no children, and threatened to abolish Zhang Guiren. This was originally a joke after Sima Yao drank, but it made zhang Guiren sleep and eat, Zhang Guiren was resentful, and he did not do two things endlessly, taking advantage of the pillow to serve the bed, he picked up the quilt and covered the emperor to death. Poor Sima Yaotang, the king of a country, was actually smothered to death by his own pillow people, and this method of death was too bad for an emperor.