Agitation for four hundred years: Sima Yi was deposed sima Yu continued to puppet, huan wen purged dissidents and killed them

This article is the 168th in a long series, Four Hundred Years of Turmoil

On November 15 of the first year of Xian'an (371 AD), Huan Wen summoned hundreds of officials to the imperial hall to nominally discuss the abolition of the establishment, but in fact informed.

No one has experienced this, and I don't know how to proceed. In the end, it was Wang Biao's men who took the "Book of Han and Huo Guangchuan", and according to the gourd painting scoop, announced the empress dowager's edict, deposed Sima Yi as the king of the East Sea, and succeeded to the throne with Sima Yu, the prince of Xiang, Lu Shang, and the prince of Huiji.

According to the procedure, Sima Yi first wore a white beanie hat and a single coat, walked down the West Hall, rode out of the Shenhu Gate in an ox cart, and the courtiers bowed and said goodbye, crying.

Huan Wen then led the hundred officials and the emperor's chariot to the official residence of the Huiji King to greet Sima Yu. Sima Yu changed his clothes in the court, wore a turban, wore a single coat, and drooled facing the east, prostrating himself to receive the seal ribbon, that is, the emperor's throne, for Emperor Wen of Jin.

After successfully deposing Sima Yi, Huan Wen wanted to drive out Sima Xi, the king of Dazai Wuling.

Sima Xi, Sima Rui's fourth son and Sima Yu's half-brother, not only had a respectable status, but also liked to practice martial arts, and was hated by Huan Wen, believing that he was targeting himself.

Before he started, Huan Wen confided in Wang Biao, wang Biao's way: "King Wuling is the venerable of the royal family, there is no obvious sin, and he cannot be deposed casually. If you want to establish the image of a wise man, you should honor and assist the royal family, and have the same virtues as Yi Yin and Zhou Gong. This is a big deal, and we should think about it again! Huan Wen said impatiently, "I have already decided, you don't want to say it again!" ”

On November 21, Huan Wen entered the upper table and said: "Sima Xi recruited frivolous people, and his son Sima Zong was conceited and cruel. Yuan Zhen rebelled, and things were implicated in him. Lately he has suspected that fear will be the cause of trouble. He requested that Sima Xi be relieved of his official position and that the king be returned to the domain. ”

Sima Yu did not dare not comply, and also relieved Sima Xi's sons Sima Zong and Sima Feng the Prince of Liang of official positions, and Huan Wen asked his confidant Wei Commandery Taishou Mao Anzhi to lead his troops to defend the imperial palace.

Even Sima Xi dared to move, and the others were even more out of the question, and Huan Wen began to kill him.

When Yin Hao died, Huan Wen sent someone to send a letter to mourn, but Yin Hao's son Yin Juan did not reply or return the gift, but played with Sima Xi. Guangzhou Shi Yuyun is Yu Xi's younger brother and has always been estranged from Huan Wen. Huan Wen hated the strength of the Yin Juan and Yu Yun clans and wanted to destroy them.

On November 17, Huan Wen sent his younger brother Huan Mi (桓密) to force Sima Huang (司馬晃), the new king of Cai, to surrender himself to Xitang, claiming a conspiracy rebellion with Sima Xi and his sons Sima Zong, Shu Lang Yin Juan, Dazai Chang Shi Yu Qian, Cao Xiu, Liu Qiang (劉强), and Shanqi Chang (散庾柔). Yu Qian and Yu Rou are both Yu Yun's younger brothers.

Sima Yu knew that these were all false accusations, but he was powerless and powerless, but he just shed tears at Huan Wen, who was unmoved and arrested them all and sent them to the court lieutenant.

On November 19, Huan Wen killed sima yi's three sons and their mother.

The next day, Sima Tian (Sima Cheng's grandson) in the imperial history of the Imperial History, fulfilled Huan Wen's will and requested that Sima Xi be killed according to law. Sima Yu couldn't bear it, almost pleading: "Sorrow and regret, panic and anxiety, can't bear to hear, let's discuss it again!" ”

On November 21, Huan Wen once again entered the upper table and insisted on requesting that Sima Xi be killed, and his words were fierce.

In desperation, Sima Yu personally issued an edict to Huan Wen: "If Jin Zuo is the primate, the gong cheaply follows the previous edict; if his great luck goes to The Temple, please avoid the Xianlu Road." "Meaning unless I'm ruined."

It's so rigid! After Huan Wen saw it, he was a little flustered and sweaty, so he asked Sima Xi and his three sons to depose Sima Xi and move all his family to Xin'an County.

The next day, sima huang, the king of the new Cai, was deposed as a Shuren and moved him to Hengyang, where Yin Juan, Yu Qian, Cao Xiu, Liu Qiang, and Yu Rou were all killed by Manmen, and Yu Yun was poisoned and died.

When Yu Xi heard about it, he knew that he would not be spared, and fled to the lake in Hailing with his younger brother Hui Ji and his son Yu Yuzhi.

At this point, Huan Wen uprooted the forces of the Yin and Yu clans in the middle of the dynasty, and the arrogance was so great that everyone looked forward to it.

On the 25th of November, Huan Wen went to Baishi and wrote a letter requesting the return of his sister-in-law. The next day, Sima Yu ordered Huan Wen to be made chancellor, but Sima Dai still wanted him to stay in the capital to assist the imperial government.

Huan Wen stubbornly resigned and asked to return to the town. On November 27, Huan Wen returned from Shiraishi to his sister-in-law.

After hearing about Huan Wen's deposing of the emperor, Jian Jian said to his courtiers: "Huan Wen was first defeated by Bashang and then by Fangtou, and he could not reflect on his mistakes and self-depreciate himself to apologize to the people, but instead deposed the monarch." Sixty-year-old people, acting like this, how can they tolerate themselves in the world? The folk proverb says: 'Anger at his room and make love to the Father', probably referring to Huan Wen. "Ironic Huan Wen can only be horizontal at home.

In December, Huan Wen was not at ease with Sima Yi, and Shangquan said: "The deposed exile should abandon him to a distant place, and not let him get close to the people of Li. As for the King of the East Sea, he should be allowed to live in Wu County according to the method of deposing the King of Changyi in the past. It was implied that Sima Yi should be reduced to a commoner.

Empress Dowager Chu herself issued an edict: "Let the King of the East Sea become a Shuren, and if you can't bear it in your heart, you can continue to be the king." Huan Wen did not spare him, and then said: "He can only be named the Marquis of Haixi County." ”

On December 26, in the middle of the compromise, the Eastern Jin Dynasty court made Sima Yi the Duke of Haixi County.

In just one month, Huan Wen went on a killing spree, threatening both inside and outside the imperial court, and Sima Yu was worried, afraid that Huan Wen would do something to him next.

Previously, Mars lived in the Taiwei Duanmen, and after a month, Sima Yi was deposed. On December 27, Mars retrograde into Taiwei, Sima Yu had a feeling that a catastrophe was imminent.

At that time, The Zhongshu attendant Xi Chao was on duty in the palace, and Sima Yu knew that he was Huan Wen's confidant, and asked him: "The length of fate is not calculated, so there should be no more things like deposing the emperor, right?" ”

Xi Chao coaxed him with kindness: "The Great Sima is stabilizing the country internally and opening up the country externally, and I am willing to use more than a hundred mouths in my family to guarantee that that kind of thing will not happen." Sima Yu was relieved.

But judging from what Huan Wen had done, how could he stop there? For Huan Wen's thoughts, everyone in the government and the public can be said to be well-known.

Once, Xie An, a servant, saw Huan Wen and began to prostrate himself from a great distance. Huan Wen was surprised: "Xie An, why are you doing this?" Xie An calmly said, "No monarch bows before him, but his subordinates bow their hands to the back." "The irony huan wen is the de facto emperor.

Xie An dared to ridicule Huan Wen in person, on the one hand, it showed that Huan Wen was serious and tolerant of him, and on the other hand, it also showed that he was indeed an unusual person.

Because of Huan Wen, Xi Chao's people in the imperial court were also afraid of him like a tiger.

One day, Xie An and one of the left guard generals Wang Tan visited Xi Chao, the sun was about to set before he was summoned, Wang Tanzhi wanted to leave, Xie An said: "Can't you endure for a while to save your life?" ”

A serious thing came from Xie An's mouth, inexplicably more joyful, really a wonderful person.