Sima Rui, Sima Yi's great-grandson, from the line of Sima Yan, the emperor of Jinwu, Sima Rui was already a distant relative, and from the perspective of blood relations, Sima Rui had nothing to do with Sima Yan and had nothing to do with Sima Yi, because Sima Rui himself was not a member of the Sima family, and his father Sima Xiao, the Prince of Langyagong, was not Sima Rui's biological father, Sima Rui was actually born to his mother and a small official.
There was nothing special about Sima Rui's early years, he was a very mediocre person himself, even if he sat on the chair of King Langyue, he did not show much ability, if it were not for the chaos caused by the rebellion of the Eight Kings of the Western Jin Dynasty, Shi Le killed the fifty-eight princes of the Sima clan, and Sima Rui's life was estimated to be in this place of Langya.
However, there were always some people who were favored by heaven, and the Rebellion of the Eight Kings sent Sima Rui to Sima Ying, the king of Chengdu, and Sima Ying did not look up to this mediocre cousin at all, and after killing Sima Rui's uncle Sima Rui the Prince of Dong'an, Sima Ying thought of cutting the grass and removing the roots, and he wanted to attack Sima Rui.
Sima Rui
Sima Rui, like Zhao Shuo, had no other skills, escaped first-class, heard that Sima Ying wanted to kill him, immediately rode away on horseback, and when he was close to the Yellow River, because the defenders were interrogating, he was almost arrested, but fortunately, the horse he rode bravely forward, he barely escaped.
Sima Rui, who fled from Yecheng, defected to Sima Yue, the king of the East China Sea, and Sima Yue treated him well, not only placing him in Xia Pi, but also assigning him a soldier to join the army, Wang Dao.
Not long after, Sima Rui was again transferred by Sima Yue to the south and stationed at Jianye.
Dressed in crowns to cross the south
Sima Rui, who had just arrived in Jianye, faced the same problems as the Sun Ce brothers in the early years, and the clans in the Jiangdong region were too arrogant to pay attention to him as a prince at all, especially the Wu people Gu Rong, He Xun, etc., who did not give Sima Rui any face.
Sima Rui and Wang Dao were not the kind of people who shouted and shouted all day to kill, Sima Rui was cowardly, Wang Dao was polite and polite, in the face of the arrogance of the Wu people, Wang Dao dressed Sima Rui extremely solemnly, opened the honor guard, and swung around in Jianye City, Gu Rong, He Xun and so on came to defect.
If Sima Rui's behavior had been placed in other dynasties, it would certainly have been worthless to be belittled by the literati at that time, but at this time, the literati advocated the Wei and Jin wind bones, and Taishan collapsed in front of him without changing color, and the larger the pomp and circumstance, the higher the demeanor, and naturally he could close the hearts of the literati.
Not long after the initial settlement of the Shijia clan in the Jiangdong region, Luoyang in the north fell, and the Xiongnu could not tell the Clan clan of the Western Jin Dynasty what etiquette rules they had, and they would kill them when they were not happy, so the Shijia clan in the north fled south with their families, and the Taiyuan Wang clan, the Chen Junxi clan, the Chen Junxi clan, and the Huan clan of Chen Guo broke through the scalp and squeezed into Jiangdong.
At the suggestion of Wang Dao, Sima Rui was applicable to the number of families who fled, and the common people tried their best to settle, and for a time, Jiangdong became the only happy land of the Western Jin Dynasty. At this time, sima yi, the emperor of Jin, who was in a difficult position, had also become a prisoner in the hands of Liu Cong, and with the killing of Sima Yi, the western Jin dynasty minister Liu Kun and jiangdong ministers who remained in the north advised Sima Rui to inherit the unification and continue Sima Shi's Jiangshan.
Family clan
The king and the horse, the world
In 318 AD, Sima Rui ascended the throne and became the first emperor of the Eastern Jin Empire, Sima Rui, who had just become emperor, did not have much excitement, his dream was just to be a prince who was too peaceful, but current events did not allow it, so he had to be emperor.
On the day of his ascension to the throne, Sima Rui actually repeatedly invited his most trusted courtier, Wang Dao, to sit on the throne with him in front of hundreds of officials and enjoy the worship of the masses, which frightened Wang Dao, who was already very cautious, and under the constant persuasion of Wang Dao, Sima Rui gave up this idea, which shows that the two monarchs and subjects at this time have a very close relationship.
Wang Dao's brother Wang Dun became the premier military commander of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and he who sat in Jingzhou quelled the rebellion of Shi Huazhi in Jiangzhou, swept away the du Tao rebellion, and made great contributions to Sima Rui's sitting in the Eastern Jin Dynasty.
However, Sima Rui changed, he no longer trusted the loyal Wang Dao, but instead had great trust in Liu Kui and Diao Xie, two former courtiers of the royal palace, Liu Kui and Liu Kui did not have much real talent and practical learning, but because of Sima Rui's favor, he was in a smooth state.
Wang Dao, this person, is indifferent by nature, he is very happy to be an official, and he is also very happy to be in power, but he is happier to be alive, he has lost his power, as long as he saves his life, he does not take it as a thing.
However, his clan brother Wang Dun was the complete opposite of him, Wang Dun was a man who was addicted to power, and as Wang Dun controlled more and more military forces, he became more and more dissatisfied with Sima Rui's indifference to Wang Dao, and repeatedly wrote to "advise" Sima Rui to kill Liu Kui and reinstate Wang Dao.
Sima Rui definitely disagreed, he was the only sun in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and now Wang Dun began to order the sun to do things, Sima Rui was very unhappy, and he began to arrange the task of taking down Wang Dun.
Wang Dun commanded the army
At this time, Liangzhou Thorn Shi Zhou died of illness, Xiangzhou Thorn Shi Ganzhuo was transferred to Liangzhou, and Wang Dun recommended his close confidant Shen Chong to be the Xiangzhou Assassin, but Sima Rui refused. The geographical location of Xiangzhou is very important, from top to bottom can quickly control Jingzhou, once controlled by Wang Dun, the Eastern Jin Dynasty will change its name and surname.
Therefore, Sima Rui placed his uncle Sima Cheng, the old and unscrupulous King of Zhen, in this key position, and at the same time made Liu Kui the general of Zhenbei, the governor of The Terracotta Army to guard Huaiyin, the Shangshu servant Dai Yuan as the general of Zhenxi, and the town of Hefei, nominally to prevent Later Zhao from going south, but in fact it was used to monitor Wang Dun in case of emergency.
Wang Dun did not pay attention to Sima Rui's arrangement, and he also wrote to Liu Kui, wanting to improve the relationship between the two and jointly assist Sima Rui, but liu Kui ruthlessly refused, Wang Dun was very angry, but still did not plan to bring troops into Beijing.
Because in Yuzhou there is also a Yuzhou assassin Shi Zudi, Zu Ti loyal to protect the country and stronger than Wang Dun in military ability, Wang Dun did not dare to act rashly, but with the sudden death of Zu Ti, Wang Dun's last threat in the military disappeared, and it was already an ironclad thing to raise troops into Beijing.
Raising troops into Beijing, Wang Dun rebelled
In 322, Wang Dun listed Liu Kui's ten major sins and began to march toward Jianye under the banner of the Qing Emperor's side, and Wang Dun's confidant Shen Chong also raised an army in Wudi, and for a while, the Eastern Jin Dynasty staged a great infighting.
Sima Rui was very angry at Wang Dun's sudden rebellion, and Sima Rui, who thought that he had arranged it properly, was not willing to bow to Wang Dun at all, and he recalled Liu Kui and Dai Yuan to Jianye to guard the capital division.
Wang Dun raised an army
Sima Rui's uncle, Sima Cheng, who was guarding XiangZhou, was much more uncomfortable than Sima Rui at this time, and because he was located in the upper reaches of Jingzhou, Wang Dun ordered Wei Yi to pounce on Sima Cheng with 20,000 elite divisions at the beginning of his army, and the elderly and incompetent Sima Cheng had more courage than enough to plot, and it did not take long to become Wei Yi's ghost under the sword.
Liu Kui, who returned to Jianye, was also full of inexplicable self-confidence, always thinking that defeating Wang Dun was between hands, and he also suggested that Sima Rui kill the Langya Wang clan in Jianye City, but Sima Rui refused.
At this time, the Langya Wang clan, who remained in Jianye, under the leadership of Wang Dao, knelt outside the palace gate day and night, always worried that the head of Xiang Shang was not safe, and every time he encountered Shang Shu's left servant Zhou Yan entering the palace, he would loudly call Bo Ren to save my clan from a hundred mouths.
Zhou Yan never paid attention to Wang Dao, as an outstanding representative of Wei Jinfeng's bones, Zhou Yan was a very good person, although he did not take care of Wang Dao, but in front of Sima Rui, he said all the good things about Wang Dao and saved the lives of Wang Dao's people, but after he met Wang Dao in the palace, he went out of the palace and killed Wang Dao's family to vent his personal anger, which made Wang Dao very angry and resentful from then on.
Due to Zhou Yan's efforts, Sima Rui reactivated Wang Dao, with Wang Dao as the forward governor and Dai Yuan as the general of the che horse, and jointly attacked Wang Dun, with the general Zhou Za guarding The Stone City, and Liu Kui guarding the Jincheng City and waiting for Wang Dun.
Sima Rui's defensive arrangement was quite appropriate, but the use of people was very naïve, although Wang Dao was loyal, after all, he was Wang Dun's brother, the relationship was there, he could not kill, nor should he use it, and Zhou Za was the younger brother of Zhou Xuan, who was snubbed to death by Sima Rui, and only hated Sima Rui, and had no loyalty at all.
Wang Dun's road map for marching
Wang Dun's army had just attacked Stone City, Zhou Zha surrendered Kaicheng, Stone City was lost, Sima Rui and others panicked, these people who had been sitting in the court for many years, only knew how to dance and ink, fiddle with people's hearts, where did they know what kind of military book tactics, and they actually rushed out to try to retake Stone City, and they suffered a big defeat.
At this time, Sima Rui was in tears, he couldn't imagine how things had developed like this, but he was still good to Liu Kui and Diao Xie, and at such a critical moment, he still tried to let them leave, Diao Xie's life was not good, he was killed halfway, liu Kui ran all the way to Hou Zhao and escaped the disaster of killing.
Diao Xie was killed, Liu Kui fled, and Sima Rui waited quietly in the court for Wang Dun's arrival, preparing to give him the throne and return to Langya for the rest of his life.
However, Sima Rui waited for Wang Dun to wait for Wang Dun, so he had to ask the hundred officials to go to Stone City to meet Wang Dun, but Wang Dun still did not come.
I did not kill Bo Ren, but Bo Ren died because of me
Seeing that Wang Dun did not have the intention of deposing Sima Rui, Sima Rui had no choice but to make Wang Dun a minister and supervise all the Chinese and foreign militaries, but Wang Dun still did not accept it, and Sima Rui was confused about what Wang Dun really wanted to do.
Wang Dun wanted to kill Dai Yuan and Zhou Dun, although these two people were Wang Dun's former friends, they did not side with Wang Dun politically, and with their prestige and ability, they would certainly try their best to kill Wang Dun and others in the future, so after consulting Wang Dao, Wang Dun decisively killed Dai Yuan and Zhou Yan.
Wang Dao was very bitter about Zhou Yan, he did not know that Zhou Yan had saved the life of his Wang clan, at the most critical time, he acquiesced to Wang Dun's behavior, and later in Zhongshu Province, when he read the emperor's recital of the emperor, he found Zhou Yan's strong exhortation to the emperor to save the life of the Langya Wang clan, at this time he understood how big the personality gap between him and Zhou Yan was, because of the Zhou Yan character Boren, Wang Dao also left that famous saying that transmitted through the ages: I do not kill Boren, but Boren died because of me.
Dai Yuan and Zhou Yan were killed, Sima Rui no longer had a trustworthy vassal around him, and when Wang Dun was a disciple of the Wang clan, Sima Rui finally tasted the taste of being alone, and as the sons of the Langya Wang clan took over the military and political power of the Eastern Jin Dynasty in an all-round way, Sima Rui, the founding emperor of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, was completely reduced to a puppet.
At the beginning of 323, Sima Rui, who had not long been in power, died of melancholy and anger, and wang Dun did not go to see Sima Rui until Sima Rui died of illness.