The Eastern Jin Dynasty Su Jun and Zu Yue Rebellion, also known as the Su Jun Rebellion, was a large-scale rebellion that occurred during the eastern Jin Dynasty, almost causing the Eastern Jin Dynasty to fall, Su Jun frantically mutilated the royal family, ministers, plundered the national treasury, and died mysteriously in a major war, and the remnants were wiped out one after another.
1. Su Jun, who started as a "displaced man"
The exiled shuai was an official position that appeared during the Eastern Jin Dynasty. At that time, the Han Hao who remained in the northern region built a fort to recruit displaced people to protect themselves and raise private soldiers, so they were called displaced people.
In 324, when Wang Dun attacked Jiankang, Su Jun sent troops to help the imperial army fight against Wang Dun. Because of his merits to the country, Su Jun gradually had a high prestige, and there were tens of thousands of elite soldiers and sophisticated weapons, which was a powerful military force in Jiangbei. However, Su Jun was arrogant and indulgent, and even more took in outlaws and criminals who were hiding and fleeing. The imperial court decided that Su Jun, the exiled marshal, must be a disaster in the future, and one day it will cause chaos.
2. The imperial court "conscripted" and triggered a mutiny
In 327, in order to solve Su Jun's hidden worries, Yu Liang, the chief legislator of the Eastern Jin Empire (Zhongshu Ling), believed that Su Jun, the county magistrate of Liyang (Anhui Province and County), would eventually erupt in Tun Liyang (HeXian), and planned to use the emperor's edict to recruit him to serve in the imperial court (that is, to deprive him of military power). The minister of the interior, Bian Ju, wrote a letter of objection: Su Jun had already shown his madness, and recruiting him at the whole time was an accelerated disaster, and he was bound to retaliate against the imperial court with his resentment. However, no one supports this view.
3. Rebel imperial court
Subsequently, the imperial court issued an edict to summon Su Jun to be the Grand Si Nong, add the position of changshi attendant, and hand over the soldiers to his brother Su Yi to command. Su Junhou asked him to change the town of Qingzhou to a deserted county, but Yu Liang was not allowed. Su Jun hesitated to go to the call, joined the army Ren Rang and others suggested that Su Jun raise an army, and Su Jun decided to raise an army.
Su Jun was a man of letters, and when he replied to the imperial court with a very sharp writing, he said: "The imperial court insists that I want to rebel, how can I survive?" I would rather sit on the top of the hill and watch the prison than sit in the prison and look at the hill. Some time ago, the situation in the country was so dangerous that it was not me who could not survive the difficulties, the cunning rabbit was dead, and those of us who were hunting dogs only had the portions that were cooked and eaten. But I am dying, and I want to find the person who framed me. Therefore, Su Jun joined forces with Zu Yue to raise an army against Yu Liang.
4. Mutilation of royal personnel
Su Jun successfully invaded the Eastern Jin capital Jiankang due to Yu Liang's defeat, and Wang Dao, together with Guanglu's grand master Lu Ye and Xun Song, guarded the Jin Cheng Emperor in the main hall, and Sima Yan, who was just eight years old, made Su Jun, who had attacked, dare not go to the temple.
However, Su Jun's army immediately broke into the harem, and the palace maids and the left and right handmaidens of the empress dowager Yu Wenjun were robbed and plundered, and Su Jun drove the civil and military officials as slaves, regardless of men and women, regardless of the officials and the people, they all stripped off their clothes and faced each other with red stripes, and these people had to surround the lower body with broken mats or grass, and those who could not find them sat on the ground, buried the lower body with dirt, and cried and cried, shaking the inside and outside of Kyoto (the capital Jiankang).
In addition, it also plundered the inventory of 200,000 pieces of cloth, 50 catties of gold and silver, hundreds of millions of dollars and tens of thousands of silk cloths.
5. Many unrighteous deeds will kill themselves
Soldiers rose up everywhere to serve the king. Yu Liang, Wen Zhao, and Zhao Yin also led 10,000 infantry south from Baishi to challenge Su Jun's army. Su Jun led 8,000 men to resist, and then sent his sons Su Shuo and Kuang Xiao to attack Zhao Yin and defeat him.
Su Jun was comforting the generals, already half drunk, looking at the Eastern Jin army in a daze, the drunken Su Jun stood up and said, "My men can defeat the thieves (Qin Wangjun), am I not inferior to them?" ”
After saying that, Su Jun made a crazy move, without a large army, only a few cavalry on the left and right, launched a surprise attack, but could not attack the position, so he returned to the base camp. Just at this time, an unexpected thing happened, Su Jun's mount was suddenly tripped, and at this moment, the Qin Wang soldiers of the Eastern Jin Dynasty who were fighting against Su Jun, looked at it squarely, Tao Kanbu general Peng Shi and Li Qian, as fast as lightning, threw out an iron spear, right in the middle of Su Jun, Su Jun fell from his horse, the Qin King's army rushed up, killed Su Jun, chopped into pieces, burned the remaining bones, the three armies rejoiced, and shouted "Long live"! Su Jun's troops collapsed in an instant, and the remaining army also surrendered.
The rebellion between Su Jun and Zu Yue had a far-reaching impact. Su Shi commented on this incident: Su Jun's rebellion, the death of Jin Dynasty, and the palace room of the Zongmiao Temple were all extinguished.