Huan Xuan was the younger son of Huan Wen and a famous general and courtier of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. However, because his father Huan Wen had usurped power, the Eastern Jin court also had doubts about Huan Xuan, so it guarded Huan Xuan everywhere.
However, Huan Xuan did not give up on this, but finally usurped power successfully, and also established the Huan Chu regime, so how did Huan Xuan usurp power successfully? There are three reasons for this.
1. Bribery
Huan Xuan used bribes to get out of the predicament, why do you say so? Because his father Huan Wen had usurped power, the Eastern Jin Dynasty royal family had some scruples about Huan Xuan and did not dare to reuse him.
This made Huan Xuan very unhappy, what to do? At this time, Huan Xuan found an opportunity, that is, Emperor Xiaowu of Jin trusted the nun Zhi Miaoyin.
So Huan Xuan bribed Zhi Miaoyin to let the untalented Yin Zhongkan do the Jingzhou Assassination History, because Huan Xuan was also in Jingzhou at this time, so that Huan Xuan could borrow Yin Zhongkan's army and regain his strength.
2. Borrow the afterglow of the father's generation
Huan Xuan borrowed his father's Yu Wei to gain a foothold in Jingzhou. Huan Wen's father and uncle had been in Jingzhou for a long time and had considerable prestige, which made the soldiers and civilians in Jingzhou have some reverence for Huan Wen.
Since Yin Zhongkan also became the Assassin of Jingzhou with the help of Huan Xuan, he also had contacts with Huan Xuan, and the combination of the two made Huan Xuan control the Jingzhou army and also had the basis for usurping power.
3. The Eastern Jin Dynasty court was not united
The disunity of the Eastern Jin court gave Huan Xuan the opportunity to usurp power. Wang Gong's war with Sima Daozi resulted in Huan Xuanyu's victory and his ally. After Huan Xuan became the ally, his power increased and he captured Jingzhou.
When Sima Yuanxian knew about it, he was going to attack Huan Xuan, but at this time Sun En rebelled, and Sima Yuanxian could not fight Huan Xuan, which gave Huan Xuan a chance to breathe.
Then Liu Chengzhi was worried that Sima Yuanxian would not tolerate him, so he surrendered to Huan Xuan, and soon Sima Yuanxian and the others were all defeated.
Judging from Huan Xuan's usurpation process, Huan Xuan is a very clever person, he knows that things cannot be rushed, and different strategies and methods should be adopted according to the change of timing.
Although his mind was very flexible, he had an incorrect mind and was finally defeated by Liu Yu. This also shows that a person should not be opportunistic, but should go the right way and get the support of the majority of the people in order to achieve victory.
bibliography:
Book of Jin, Biography 69
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