Sima Yu, the Emperor wen of Jin, was the eighth emperor of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and he was intelligent in his youth, and later became an auxiliary prince during the reign of Emperor Mu of Jin, who was bent on reviving the Eastern Jin dynasty for the gong. It is a pity to use the power of Huan Wen to threaten the government and the opposition by the northern expedition to destroy the country, and no one in the whole country can balance it. After sima yi was deposed by Huan Wen, Sima Yu was made the new emperor, and Huan Wen was eyeing the throne, and Although Sima Yu had the heart to resist, he was powerless to do anything, and finally died of grief for only 8 months. What kind of person was Sima Yu in history, and how did he fight with Huan Wen to help protect Jiangshan Sheji?
Brief introduction of Sima Yu, Emperor Wen of Jin
Sima Yu was born in 320 AD and died in 372 AD, his father was Sima Rui, the Emperor of Jin Yuan, and his mother was Lady Zheng. Sima Yu was clever and astute, and Guo Pu, a famous scholar of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, praised Sima Yu: "It must be this person who revitalizes the Jin Dynasty." After that, Sima Yu went through the 7 dynasties of the Eastern Jin Dynasty and advised the Eastern Jin Dynasty.
Image of Sima Yu, Emperor Wen of Jin
In 322, Sima Yu was enfeoffed as the King of Langya by Emperor Yuan of Jin, and was enfeoffed in Huiji and Xuancheng. In 326, his mother Lady Zheng died, and Sima Yu was only 7 years old to serve his mother. In 328, Sima Yu was renamed the Prince of Huiji and given the title of Commander of the Order.
In 334, Sima Yu was promoted to right general. In 340, Sima Yu was again enfeoffed as a general of the Fu Army. In 345, the young emperor Sima Tan ascended the throne, Empress Chu came to assist the government, and the imperial court summoned Sima Yujin to assist the government, and was crowned as the General of Fujun and Shangshu.
In 346, another auxiliary chancellor, He Chong, died of illness, and Sima Yu took charge of the imperial government alone. In 347, Huan Wen led an army into Sichuan to destroy Cheng han, and his reputation became unmatched in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and his power grew. In order to be able to balance Huan Wen, Sima Yu summoned the famous Yin Hao to assist the government. Yin Hao and Huan Wen's struggle for political rights became increasingly fierce, and sima Yu then summoned the deceased to come to the court one after another, citing huan wen as a helper.
In 354, Yin Hao was attacked by Huan Wen because of the defeat of the Northern Expedition, and Sima Yu was forced to remove Yin Hao from the throne under pressure, and the power of the government gradually fell into Huan Wen's hands. In 365, Sima Yi succeeded to the throne, and Empress Chu also crowned Sima Yu as the King of Langya. The following year, Sima Yu was appointed as chancellor, and the Emperor of Jin gave him the honor of "entering the dynasty without tendency, worshiping without name, and walking on the sword to the temple", but Sima Yu was not allowed to resign.
In 372, Sima Yi, the deposed emperor of the Jin Dynasty, was deposed by Huan Wen, who led hundreds of officials to support Sima Yu to ascend the throne. Sima Yu was worried that the emperor's authority was not strict, and the emperor allowed himself to be bullied by his courtiers, so he wept to the east to show his respect for Sima Yi, who had been deposed as the king of the East Sea, and he bowed and accepted the throne, with the era name Xian'an.
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Puppet emperor under the control of the courtiers
After Sima Yu ascended to the throne, he was actually a puppet set up by Huan Wen, and all major matters of the imperial government were decided by Huan Wen. Sima Yu was afraid that he would also be deposed by Huan Wen, so every time he met Huan Wen, he was in tears, which made Huan Wen's intention to depose Sima Yu's true intention of ceding the throne to him, and it was not easy to state to Sima Yu.
Picture of Sima Yu, Emperor Wen of Jin
Sima Yu feared that the Eastern Jin Dynasty would be usurped by Huan Wen if he did not protect the Jiangshan in his hands, and finally became ill because of his worries. In September 372, Sima Yu, who was seriously ill in bed, summoned Huan Wen to the palace to be appointed to assist Xinjun, but Huan Wen did not arrive. On September 12, Sima Yu created Sima Yao the crown prince and wrote a testament to Huan Wen: "A young son can be assisted by those who assist him, and if not, the king will take it upon himself." Finally, under the persuasion of Wang Tanzhi, he rewrote the edict and ordered Premier Huan Wen to perform major state affairs, following the old practice of Zhuge Liang, the former Shu chancellor. Subsequently, Sima Yu died at the age of 53, and was buried in Gaoping Tomb after his death, known as Emperor Wen of Jin.
Sima Yu was the son of Sima Rui, the Emperor of Jin Yuan, and after 7 dynasties wanted to revive the Jin royal family, Huan Wen deposed the Jin Emperor and supported Sima Yu to ascend the throne, hoping to usurp the throne by doing Zen concessions. Sima Yu was worried about Sima Shi's jiangshan, and his anger caused him to fall ill, and he died after only 8 months on the throne.