Although the Western Jin Dynasty and the Eastern Jin Dynasty were two dynasties in ancient times, they were also dynasties in which the Sima family occupied the imperial throne, and for the Han people at that time, only the Eastern Jin Dynasty, when Sima Shi was the emperor, was the Zhengshuo who inherited the law of western Jin rule. But interestingly, the Sima family once had two emperors who were born idiots, and also appeared in the Western Jin Dynasty and the Eastern Jin Dynasty respectively. What is even more coincidental is that both idiot emperors indirectly caused great turmoil in the country. These two idiot emperors, one was Sima Zheng, the Emperor hui of Jin, who said "why not eat meat", and Sima Dezong, the emperor of Jin'an, who could not distinguish between winter and summer. But the protagonists today are not these two idiot emperors, but the father of Sima Dezong, the emperor of Jin'an, Sima Yao, the emperor of Jin, and Sima Yao's half-brother Sima Daozi.
Sima Yao was born in 362 and was the sixth son of Sima Yu, emperor of The Jin Dynasty, two years older than his younger brother Sima Daozi. On the eve of the death of Emperor Wen of Jin, the eleven-year-old Sima Yao was made crown prince. After Sima Yao succeeded to the throne, Sima Huan assisted him and Xie An held real power. At that time, Huan Wen had ambitions to usurp the throne, but fortunately, Xie An was loyal to the imperial family and avoided the crisis.
The greatest achievement of Sima Yao's reign was the defeat of the Southern Expedition of the Former Qin army, which is also known in history as the Battle of Shuishui. Of course, it was Xie An and the generals under Xie's men who played the main role. Sima Yao was twenty-one years old.
After Huan Wen and Xie An died of illness one after another, the door valve family had a fault. Sima Yao seized the opportunity to strengthen imperial power and had his younger brother Sima Daozi rule for Xie An, and after a series of efforts and measures, Sima Yao became the most powerful emperor of the Eastern Jin Dynasty since the founding of the state at Jiangzuo. But the brothers Sima Yao and Sima Daozi had a common hobby, which was drinking. Moreover, the two brothers later fought for power with each other, causing chaos in the government for a while. Something more serious happened when Sima Yao was thirty-five years old, when he drunkenly told a joke with his pet Ji Zhang Guiren. Zhang Guiren was furious and summoned his confidants to cover Sima Yao to death in his sleep, declaring that he had collapsed in his sleep.
After Sima Yao's death, his 15-year-old eldest son Sima Dezong succeeded him as Emperor An of Jin. After Emperor An succeeded to the throne, Sima Daozi took control of the imperial government. Sima Yao's misfortune due to alcohol did not give his brother the slightest enlightenment, and Sima Daozi still drank heavily every day, handing over the government to his favorite ministers Wang Guobao and Wang Xu.
As a result, in the year that Emperor An succeeded to the throne, Wang Guobao and Wang Xu stabbed Lou Zi. Wang Gong, Yin Zhongkan, and Huan Xuan raised an army to attack Wang Guobao and Wang Xu. Frightened, Sima Daozi quickly killed Wang Guobao and Wang Xucai to make Wang Gong and others strike.
This time almost encountered a catastrophe or did not wake up Sima Daozi, he still drank heavily every day. Therefore, the power of the dynasty was handed over to the brothers of King Yu of Jiangzhou and Sima Shang, the King of Jiangzhou. As a result, the following year, Wang Gong raised an army again, and joined forces with Yu prefecture to assassinate Shi Yukai, Huan Xuan, and Yin Zhongkan to attack Wang Yu and Sima Shang's brothers.
Sima Daozi was once again overwhelmed by fright, so he hurriedly handed over military power to his 16-year-old son Sima Yuanxian, who himself ridiculously continued to drink.
Yin Zhongkan, the assassin of Jingzhou, allocated 5,000 troops and horses to Huan Xuan, and ordered Yang Qi, the minister of Nan Commandery, to be the vanguard with Huan Xuan, and after leading his army of 20,000 halls, he marched his troops down the east side of the river to Xiangkou. Unsuspecting, Wang Yu fled to Linchuan in panic and was captured alive by Huan Xuan. Huan and Yang chengsheng drove jiankang directly, Huan Xuan defeated the Taiwanese army at Baishi, and then marched into Hengjiang with Yang Qi.
The 16-year-old Sima Yuanxian did not sit still like his father, and he bribed Liu Gaozhi, a famous soldier in the Northern Province. Liu Gaozhi's defection. Wang Gong was defeated by Liu Gaozhi, and his soldiers were defeated and killed. Subsequently, Yu Kai was also defeated and defected to Huan Xuan. Liu Gaozhi led the Beifu army to resist the Jingzhou army, and Huan Xuan and Yang Qi had to return to CaiZhou.
At this point, the second crisis encountered by Sima Daozi was basically resolved, but this was thanks to Sima Yuanxian. Sima Daozi, on the other hand, threw the responsibility to others at a critical moment, indulged in alcohol himself, and like his brother who was killed by a concubine while drunk, he could only laugh at the future generations.