Sima Yan, the Emperor of Jincheng, was the third emperor of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and he ascended the throne at a young age with the assistance of Empress Yu. After Sima Yan took power, in order to weaken the powerful political power of the Gate Valve family headed by Wang Dao, he reused the power of foreign relatives, and Sima Yan appointed Yu Liang to take the throne and pushed Wang Dao out. Unfortunately, in order to establish his own authority, Yu Liang killed his ministers arbitrarily, which led to the Rebellion of Su Jun during the Xianhe period, allowing Wang Dao to regain power. So what kind of person was Sima Yan, the Emperor of Jincheng, in history, and what happened to Su Jun's rebellion.
Brief introduction of Sima Yan, Emperor of Jincheng
Sima Yan was born in 321 AD, the son of Sima Shao, the emperor of the Jin Dynasty, and his mother was Empress Yu Wenjun. In 325, Sima Yan was made the heir to the throne as the eldest son of a concubine. Within a few months thereafter, Sima Shao died young, and before his death, he entrusted Sima Yan to the ministers. On October 19 of the same year, Sima Yan ascended the throne with the support of the chancellor of the imperial court, and honored Empress Yu Wenjun as empress dowager.
Image of Sima Yan, Emperor of Jincheng (network diagram)
Sima Yan was only 5 years old when he ascended the throne and could not manage the government, so Empress Yu came to assist the government. He appointed his cousin Yu Liang (庾亮) as the Zhongshu Commander to balance Wang Dao, and used the imperial family to take charge of the military power, with Sima Zong and Sima You as the general of Hu Qi and the general of Wei respectively.
In 327, Su Jun and Zu Yue'er raised an army under the slogan of killing the traitorous minister Yu Liang and attacked Jiankang, which was later pacified by Wen Zhao's troops, and this incident also enabled Wang Dao, who had been retired, to return to power. After that, Sima Yan sent troops to the Northern Expedition and was defeated by Later Zhao's Shi Hu.
In 336 AD, Sima Yan, in order to suppress the annexation of land by the Mengmen Hao clan and the encirclement of mountains and forests, issued an edict prohibiting the privatization of mountains and rivers. In 341, Sima Yan incorporated the Gate Valve Hao clan, which had migrated from the north, into the household, a move that marked the prosperity of imperial power. In 342, Sima Yan fell ill and was bedridden, at this time his two children were not yet young enough to take on the throne. Therefore, for the sake of the stable inheritance of imperial power, Sima Yan made the imperial brother of his mother and compatriots the crown prince and inherited the unification. On the eighth day of June, Sima Yan died at the age of 22, and was buried in Xingping Mausoleum after his death. So what happened to the Su Jun Rebellion that occurred in the second year of Xianhe?
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The Eastern Jin Dynasty quelled su jun's rebellion
In 327, Zhongshu Ling Yuliang insisted on summoning Su Jun to Jiankang to serve as the Grand Si Nong despite the opposition of the courtiers, with the intention of seizing military power in Su Jun's hands and quelling the warlords as a major danger. This provoked a strong backlash from Su Jun, who lobbied Yuzhou Zuyue to raise troops to preemptively so as not to fish for others. In this way, the Su Jun Rebellion broke out during the Xianhe period.
Jincheng Emperor Sima Yan picture (network map)
Su Jun and Zu Yue joined forces and went straight to Jiankang, where the counterinsurgency led by Yu Liang was repeatedly defeated, leaving Jiankang and fleeing in a hurry to Wen Yao for protection. The following year, Jiankang was breached, Su Jun led troops to occupy the imperial palace, he self-proclaimed Shang Shushi monopolized the government, and acted recklessly above the imperial court, only Wang Dao was respected by him. After that, Su Jun moved Sima Yan to Shicheng under house arrest.
In the end, it took 1 year and 4 months for Su Jun's rebellion to be quelled by the joint mobilization of Wen Yu and Tao Kan. Tao Kan also later ridiculed Wang Dao for escaping from Jiankang after Sima Yan was placed under house arrest in Stone City, making Wang Dao ashamed and ashamed.
Sima Yan ascended the throne at an early age, assisted by the empress dowager and Wang Dao, Yu Liang and others, after which he reused Yu Liang, which led to the outbreak of the Su Jun Rebellion, which took more than 1 year to be pacified, which also made Sima Yan's policy of suppressing Wang Dao completely bankrupt.