(Image of Sima Yao, Emperor Xiaowu of Jin)
21st year of The 21st A.D., 396 A.D., September 20th.
According to China's unique dry branch chronology, it is the year of Prophecy.
On the other side of the ocean, the Roman nobleman Petronius Maximus had just been born, and although he was now a baby in infancy, in the future, he would launch a palace coup that shocked Europe and become the emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
In the land of Jiangnan, there are also things happening.
In this year, the ninth emperor of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Sima Yao, the Emperor Xiaowu of Jin, died.
Everything, there is always always.
Ordinary people will die, officials and ministers will die, and those who are emperors will of course die.
In the era of feudal monarchy, emperors always regarded themselves as the true dragon tianzi, and although the ministers always said that my emperor was long live when they went to the court, the emperor was also a mortal fetus in the flesh, and sooner or later he would leave this world.
(Chaotang)
When the emperor is a high-risk profession, the Chinese history of five thousand years, rough calculation, there are about 450 emperors, and among them, the emperors who can die well, I am afraid that even half of them.
Emperors at the peak of power will always die for various reasons.
Some were killed by relatives in a coup d'état, and some were killed by ministers in the seizure of power.
There are perennial drinking and pleasure, sudden cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, and some like to cultivate and practice Dan, and take heavy metal pills as food.
There are even more funny people, who wrestle on the ground and die, who die of excessive indulgence, and even who fall into the dung pit and drown, all kinds of things, different.
The methods of death listed above are already rare in the world, and the death of this Emperor Xiaowu of Jin can be said to be an ancient anecdote.
Overall, the first half of the emperor's life was a full-fledged Ming Jun.
At the beginning of the reign, the imperial power of the Eastern Jin Dynasty fell by the wayside, and the emperor punched the family clan, kicked the courtiers, and stepped on the footprints, regaining the authority of the Son of Heaven, which had been scattered for many years.
After straightening out the domestic situation, the Former Qin regime in the north led another 200,000 elite troops to attack, and the emperor joined forces with Xie An, the chancellor, to win more with less, and pressed former Qin Emperor Jian Jian to the ground and beat him fiercely. (Battle of Shuishui)
(Images of Ying'an)
The Battle of Shuishui was a famous battle in the history of Chinese warfare in which fewer victories were won more, and its scale and impact were no less than those of the First Two Dynasties.
There is civil rule, there is martial arts, if the emperor can persist, the future of the Eastern Jin Dynasty will change a lot.
But it is clear that Comrade Sima Yao is a man with little longevity.
As soon as he saw that the sky was clear, the rain had stopped, and the Eastern Jin Dynasty was too peaceful, he immediately changed the image of the previous Ming Jun, and began to indulge in wine in the harem all day, so he was lazy even in the dynasty.
Understandably, the emperor was tired and the emperor needed to rest.
Although the Eastern Jin Dynasty is partial to the South of the Jiangsu River, the South of the River is also very large.
(Eastern Jin Dynasty)
Thousands of miles of mountains and rivers, 10,000 acres of fertile land, and many prefectures and counties under its jurisdiction.
The folding zi was continuously sent from the local to the central government, one after another, and the emperor of the fold who was in a hurry to deal with it personally, and the small matter of throwing chickens and dogs in the village must also be the emperor's full authority.
There is no way, the centralization of power, want to centralize power, then there is no big detail in the world, the emperor must know everything.
Dealing with the powerful ministers is very tired, and cleaning up the old neighbor Qian Qin is also very tired, so when is this day a head?
The answer is that there is no end.
If you are a faint prince, you can pursue the life policy of "fainting and calamity to the country for a while, and always calamity to the country has always been cool", but if you want to be a mingjun, as long as you ascend to the throne, you must become a workaholia, and if you keep doing it all the time, it has become the fate of the emperors.
Sima Yao did not want to accept this fate, not so much because he did not want to accept it, but because the emperor thought that he had done enough.
Now, he lingered in the harem, with his left hand qiong pulp wine and his right hand red pink lady, which was much happier than the work of the court all day long?
The emperor had many concubines, but the emperor only favored the noble zhang.
Zhang Guiren is thirty years old, he is no longer young, he has been a nobleman for many years, and he has not given birth to a son and a half daughter for the emperor, on appearance, and those young and beautiful girls who have just entered the palace, there is no comparison.
(Zhang Guiren image)
But it was such a very inconspicuous woman who could obtain the Sacred Heart alone and could accompany the emperor day and night.
As for why Comrade Sima Yao favored Zhang Guiren, the history books did not record it.
Since the history books are not contained, I cannot talk nonsense.
Who is right about the love affair between men and women? Maybe the emperor may not be able to take this bite.
The emperor and Zhang Guiren drank alcohol at night to get drunk, and Sima Yao drank five confused and three ways, and his head was dizzy, and suddenly pointed at Zhang Guiren for no reason and said this sentence:
"When Ru is abolished in the year, I am already a young man." - Book of Wei
The emperor said, you, you are too old, your age is no longer there, and you have not been able to give birth to an imperial heir, don't occupy the pit and not lay eggs, tomorrow I will depose your noble position, and find two young and beautiful girls to accompany me.
At first glance, this is said very harshly and very desperately, and it can basically be concluded that the emperor is a proper scumbag, betraying love, and abandoning it from chaos to chaos.
But in the historical records, before the emperor said this sentence, there was another description like this:
It's a cloud of laughter and drama. - Book of Wei
The meaning of this sentence is that when the emperor said this, the state was very relaxed and humorous.
Yes, the emperor was actually joking with Zhang Guiren.
If a man no longer loves a woman, he will definitely not talk to that woman again.
It is precisely because of love that there will be such jokes.
Because the real lack of love is silent and gradually drifting away.
But unfortunately, Zhang Guiren did not take this sentence as a joke.
At night, while the emperor was asleep, Zhang Guiren pulled up the quilt, covered the emperor's head, and directly covered the emperor to death.
Yes, live and die.
As a result, Comrade Sima Yao, the Emperor Xiaowu of Jin Dynasty, did not die in complicated affairs and work, nor did he die on the battlefield of defending the territory and opening up the territory, but died at the hands of the woman he loved most.
Although Sima Yao is not the protagonist of this article, I still want to leave a concise comment for the emperor, that is:
If it is not necessary, do not joke with your wife.
Since Sima Yao is not the protagonist, who is the protagonist?
He was the son who succeeded his unfortunate father to the throne, Sima Dezong. (Emperor An of Jin)
(Portrait of Sima Dezong)
As for Sima Dezong's narration, we must also start from a piece of historical data:
The emperor is not favorable, from few to long, the mouth can not speak, although the change of cold and heat, there is no way to argue. Whatever moves and stops is not out of their own hands. - Book of Jin
This sentence is very long, but it can be summed up very short, that is, Comrade Sima Dezong is a fool.
The fool mentioned here does not mean to insult people, but simply refers to the emperor's level of intelligence, which is really not too high.
The history books record that Comrade Sima Dezong has a weak personality and does not like to speak, let alone add, subtract, multiply and divide, that is, the four seasons of the year, spring, summer, autumn and winter, he can not distinguish clearly.
And the reason why such a benevolent brother can become an emperor is also very simple, because he is the eldest son.
The imperial power is heavy and selfish, and when it comes to choosing an heir, even if there is a better choice, the result will be more in favor of blood inheritance.
The world of the Sima family must only be inherited by the Sima family, even if Sima Dezong is a fool, all this can only belong to him.
In the patriarchal system of this dynasty, this may have been a legitimate choice, but it was definitely not a wise choice.
A Ming Emperor like his old father Sima Yao did not dare to say that he had completely suppressed the complicated and chaotic field of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, let alone a mentally inferior Sima Dezong?
As a result, as soon as the emperor ascended the throne on the front foot, someone on the back foot revolted.
In 397, Wang Gong of Yanzhou launched a rebellion.
Subsequently, Yuzhou Assassin Shi Yukai and Guangzhou Assassin Shi Huanxuan rebelled.
In 400 AD, Sun En, the leader of the peasant rebellion, rebelled.
Later, Jingzhou assassinated Shi Yin Zhongkan and rebelled.
......
(Frequent insurgency)
Of course, the rebellion is not what I mentioned, if you comb through it carefully, there are actually many more, and I will not enumerate them here.
But seeing this, I think readers and friends can also roughly understand the situation at that time, that is, the emperor with low intelligence has no way to effectively govern the huge dynasty of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and the people at the bottom see that the emperor is not very good, they rebel one after another, and they do not obey the emperor's management, hoping to see if they can catch some oil and water in this chaotic world.
The crowd rises together, and the world is in chaos.
These gangs of heroes beat me today, tomorrow I beat you, grab money, grab people, grab turf, and fight with each other endlessly.
In the end, Comrade Shi Huanxuan of Guangzhou stood out, broke out of the siege, directly led troops to attack the Wang capital Jiankang, self-proclaimed chengxiang, and became the true ruler of the Eastern Jin Dynasty.
It was also at this time that in the history of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, there appeared a person who did not look too inconspicuous, and this person's name was Liu Yu.
At that time, he was just a weak young man with no relatives, and a small group of troops wandering around, but in the future, liu yu's two words would be in the annals of history and become the most dazzling name.
The legend of others is about to be created, but Sima Dezong's life has always been very unfortunate.
Huan Xuan killed The Chancellor for two days, the soldiers were defeated and killed, and the emperor was controlled by another group of heroes, Huan Zhen.
Huan Zhen overthrew the emperor and controlled the government for less than two days, and was beaten down by the rising star Liu Yu.
Liu Yu became the spokesman of the Eastern Jin Dynasty again.
Also a powerful minister, the level of this benevolent brother was much higher than that of Huan Xuan and Huan Zhen before.
Under the leadership of Liu Yu, the Eastern Jin Dynasty destroyed southern Yan, occupied Shandong, and won many battles, and this despondent dynasty finally had signs of revival.
(Image by Yutaka)
But all this has a lot to do with Sima Dezong.
His long life was turbulent and displaced, and as an emperor, he was always pinched and drunk.
One is no dignity, and the other is miserable.
But I think Sima Dezong himself should not care, because with his level of intelligence and understanding, sadness does not exist in his heart.
His perception of the world is weak.
What he was most concerned about was not what would happen to the Future of the Eastern Jin Dynasty of the Sima Family, nor did he ever worry about whether his emperor's seat would sit still or not, the emperor's only concern was tomorrow's diaper, who would help him change it.
In the fourteenth year of Yixi, in 419 AD, Sima Dezong was killed by Liu Yu's men, and Chinese New Year's Eve was seven years old.
The emperor is dead.
Died insignificantly.
It is worth mentioning that from birth to death, from the time he took the throne to the murder, the emperor did not say a word in his life due to his mental retardation.
For thirty years, I didn't say a word.
He was an emperor on earth, but after his death he never left a single shadow.
The Eastern Jin Dynasty has a new owner, where is the future?
No one, can not predict.