In the fifth year of Jianxing (317), Sima Rui proclaimed himself emperor at Jiankang (present-day Nanjing, Jiangsu Province), and the Eastern Jin Dynasty was formally established. From the day of its founding, the Eastern Jin Dynasty was a dynasty with weak imperial power, and Sima Rui was evaluated as "the king and the horse, the world together" when he was emperor. After that, until Liu Yu (Emperor Wu of the Southern Song Dynasty) usurped the throne, most of the emperors of the Eastern Jin Dynasty had a thin sense of existence, and the imperial court became a stage for the struggle of ministers.
However, among the eleven emperors of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the penultimate emperor, Sima Yao, the Emperor Xiaowu of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, was an exception, and he was also the emperor with the greatest imperial power in the history of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. During the reign of Sima Yao, emperor of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the imperial power of the Eastern Jin Dynasty was rarely controlled by the emperor and Sima Shizong' own hands. So why did Sima Yao, the Emperor Xiaowu of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, become the most powerful emperor in the history of the Eastern Jin Dynasty?
The Eastern Jin Dynasty regime was essentially a consortium of shi clan door valves, but a single shi clan door valve did not have the strength to rule over other shi clan door valves, so it elected the Sima imperial family as the "ally lord" of the consortium, that is, the eastern Jin Emperor. The strength of the Shi clan door valve was the fundamental reason for the decline of imperial power and the thin sense of emperor existence in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and the Jin Xiaowu Emperor became the most powerful emperor in the Eastern Jin Dynasty also because of the change of the Shi clan door valve.
Before Emperor Xiaowu of Jin ascended the throne, the Eastern Jin Dynasty's shi clan gatekeepers had a rare official in Chinese history, Huan Wen. Huan Wen repaired the political system, begged for thieves outside, cut off political enemies, and returned to the old capital, and the Eastern Jin Dynasty entered its heyday. The Emperor of the Eastern Jin Dynasty was basically reduced to a puppet, and other warriors were also panicked under the pressure of Huan Wen, who was steadily advancing towards the throne.
However, due to the setback of the Northern Expedition and the boycott of the Shi clan gate valves, Huan Wen died when he was about to "add nine tin (usurpation procedure)", and the Eastern Jin Emperor and other shi clan door valves were difficult not to die. Although Huan Wen did not succeed in usurping the throne, his rule had a profound impact on the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and various major events after the Eastern Jin Dynasty and even the establishment of the Southern Dynasty were related to Huan Wen.
Because the Eastern Jin Dynasty was a consortium of Shi clan door valves, the biggest enemy of Huan Wen's centralized usurpation of the throne was not the emperor surnamed Sima but the "peers" of other Shi clan door valves. Therefore, Huan Wen was not polite to the opponents of the Shi Clan Gate Valve, and killed Yin Hao, Yin Juan, Yu Qian, Yu Rou and others, and the prominent Yingchuan Yu Clan was almost exterminated, and even Xie An was frightened to claim a vassal in front of Huan Wen.
Huan Wen also presided over the implementation of the largest and most thorough implementation of the "Gengzhi Tujue" in the history of the Eastern Jin Dynasty (the meaning of "Tujue" can be seen in the ghost's previous article "What is the very important "Tujue" in the Eastern Jin Dynasty and the early Southern and Northern Dynasties?). "), which dealt a heavy blow to the economic strength and social control of the Shi clan gate valve. Huan Wen's "Gengjiao Tujue" laid the economic foundation for the victory in the "Battle of Shuishui".
After the blow of Huan Wen, the economic strength and social control of the Shi Clan Door Valve were severely damaged, and the talent was also broken, and later generations believed that Huan Wen was one of the key figures that led to the decline of the Shi Clan Door Valve. Huan Wen attacked the Shi Clan Gate Valve in order to centralize his power and usurp the throne, but because it was not the right time to die, all the results of Huan Wen's attack on the Shi Clan Gate Valve were left to Emperor Xiaowu of Jin.
Emperor Xiaowu of Jin did have a certain ability and skill, strengthening his imperial power in the results of Huan Wen's attack on the Shi clan gate valves, and became the most powerful emperor in the history of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. However, Emperor Xiaowu of Jin did not change the attributes of the Eastern Jin Shi Clan Gate Valve Consortium, and coupled with the fact that Emperor Xiaowu of Jin died at the same time as Huan Wen, it was not the right time for the Eastern Jin Shi Clan Gate Valve to be revived after the death of Emperor Xiaowu.