"In the old days, Wang Xie Tang Qianyan flew into the homes of ordinary people." In the Eastern Jin Dynasty established by Sima Ruinandu, most of the emperors were like "gorgeous puppets", and the Wang family, the Xie family, and the Heng family were the controlling informants behind the scenes. It should be said that the most powerful monarch of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Sima Yao, the Emperor xiaowu of the Jin Dynasty, did not give in, and he maneuvered around the Heng family, the Xie family, and the Wang family to regain power for the imperial family. But the 35-year-old who is well versed in the art of power and scheming, but because of a joke with his favorite concubine after getting drunk, he was smothered alive by the palace maid.
In fact, Sima Yao was originally unrelated to the succession to the throne, and the powerful minister Constant Temperature gave him the opportunity. At that time, under the leadership of constant temperature, the Heng family was like a day in the sky, even if the Xie family and the Wang family united, they were powerless to restrain it. Constant Temperature led the elite armor into the deep palace and deposed Sima Yi.
The reason is very absurd: "Emperor Li had a paralysis in the domain", that is, Sima Yi, as a monarch, had no fertility and should abdicate for the sake of the ancestors. In fact, at that time, Sima Yi had three sons, but like the constant temperature of the day, it was rumored that Sima Yi had "the good of Longyang", and the three princes were born to concubines and Sima Yi's close attendants. The belief or disbelief of the courtiers was harmless, and Sima Yi was eventually deposed as the King of the East Sea.
One puppet fell, and another, more obedient puppet, was to be lifted up to maintain the ridiculous royal dignity. Sima Yu succeeded to the throne, and Sima Yao became crown prince. Sima Yao's father was rather weak, and the power was controlled by constant temperature, which was called the general who commanded the major affairs of the military state, and the widows sacrificed to the Temple. The thermostatic power reached its peak, and Sima Yu had no real power except sacrifice. After less than a year in power, Sima Yu died of humiliation and depression due to constant temperature oppression.
Sima Yao climbed to the "peak of power", but at the age of 11, he faced not royal power and wealth, but terrifying waves. His father Sima Yu reigned for only 8 months, and there was no one to balance the constant temperature, so Sima Yu helplessly decreed on the sickbed: Take Zhou Gong and Zhuge Liang as constant temperature, if Sima Yao can assist, if Sima Yao can not assist, then abolish him.
It sounds like Sima Yu is very cruel, regardless of his son's life and death, in fact, the subtext is to plead for constant temperature, no matter what, we must let the children of the Sima family take the throne. The young Sima Yao was powerless to resist, but fortunately the Xie family and the Wang family contributed a lot, and coupled with the death of constant temperature illness, he sat firmly in his position.
The death of Constant Temperature once plunged the Heng family into a trough, and the Xie family represented by Xie An stepped onto the stage of history. Objectively speaking, although Xie Shi belongs to the door valve, the leader Xie An has a strong celebrity atmosphere. Xie An, who attaches great importance to fame and dignity, although he has great power, he strictly abides by the way of kings and subjects. However, Sima Yao, who witnessed the constant temperature and chaotic government at an early age, decided to control his own destiny.
Sima Yao was well versed in the art of scheming, and after marrying The Queen fahui of the Wang family, he relied on the weaker Wang family to balance the Xie family. Because of Heng Chong, the son of Constant Temperature, he still held Jingxiang and had heavy troops in his hands. Coupled with the Establishment of Former Qin by Jian Jian, it gradually unified the north, so Xie An commissioned Xie Xuan to go to Lianghuai to form a new army.
Xie Xuan was very talented in the military, but he did not have much concept of the door of "Zhilan Yushu". At least in terms of employment, Xie Xuan attached great importance to the courage and wisdom of the generals, and Liu Gaozhi, He Qian, Sun Wuzhong and others were his right and left arms. Mainly the displaced people in the north and the residents of Lianghuai, the new army recruited was strong in combat strength and was known as the "Northern Province Army".
Soon after, Jian Jian, known as the "unified army of a million", went south to attack the Jin Dynasty, and the Battle of Shuishui began. For Former Qin, who unified the north and invaded Sichuan and Shu, the actual elite soldiers and horses were at least more than 600,000. In the Jianghuai River Basin such as Xie'an in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, there were 80,000 troops and horses, including the newly recruited "Beifu Army". In the land of Jingxiang, Hengchong's Hengjia soldiers and horses were roughly similar, and they were also within 100,000.
But Xie An and Xie Xuan, the two uncles and nephews, let the world witness the foundation of the family - talent. Jian Jian was a soldier and horse in the north, and it was difficult to cross the river, and Xie An grabbed Jian Jian's psychology. The letter told him: You retreat first, let my soldiers cross the north shore, and we will fight a decisive battle on land.
Zhi Jian's teeth were all laughed off, and the 80,000 Jin army was going to fight with more than 200,000 of its own cavalry on land? Qiang Jianli overcame the crowd and ordered the army to retreat ten miles, hundreds of thousands of troops did not know the situation, and the queen of Cang withdrew. The Eastern Jin Dynasty general Zhu Xu took the opportunity to shout, "We are defeated, run away!"
Hundreds of thousands of troops in Former Qin did not know the truth, and they were in a mess, trampling on each other and killing countless people. Dressed in bright silver armor, Xie Xuan took the lead and rushed into the Former Qin army like a white dragon, and more than 8,000 elite cavalry of the Northern Province Army were invincible. Subsequently, a large number of infantrymen of the Beifu Army came to cover up and kill, and the million Qin army that "threw whips and cut off the stream" threw away their armor and collapsed into an army.
Xie An and Xie Xuan, who saved the Eastern Jin Dynasty, were famous for a time, and Sima Yao's childhood experience told him that he must start. He chose his younger brother Sima Daozi to divide up the power of the Xie family. First, Sima Daozi was a son of the royal family, and second, Sima Daozi also married the concubine of the Wang family, and the Wang family would do its best to restrain the Xie family.
The fact was also as Sima Yao predicted, and the Taiyuan Wang clan quickly counterattacked in the name of the royal family. Xie An has the demeanor of a national soldier, and this Xie family disciple who lingers in the landscape has chosen to take the initiative to quit. After resigning, Xie An died of illness a year or two later. After Sima Daozi took over the land of Jianghuai, he began to oppress Xie Xuan, the last famous general of the Xie family.
Although the "Beifu Army" was formed by Xie Xuan, Xie An's downfall made Xie Xuan feel disheartened. Xie Xuan, who handed over military power, also died of illness two or three years later. It is lamentable that Xie An and Xie Xuan defeated the 800,000 troops of Jian Jian, but they died of the exclusion and suspicion of Sima Yao and the Taiyuan Royal Family.
The power of the Sima family reached its peak during the Sima Yao period, and the imperial power shone briefly in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, accompanied by the decline of the Xie family. Sima Daozi, who held great power, gradually fought against Sima Yao, and the two relied on different factions of the Taiyuan royal family behind them.
However, with the return of imperial power, the influence of the Taiyuan Wang clan could not be compared with the previous Heng family and Xie family. In the confrontation between Sima Yao and Sima Daozi, by virtue of his orthodox status, he quickly gained the upper hand.
Although after the Battle of Shuishui, Sima Yao began to build a large number of civil engineering and indulge in beauty. But in general, as an emperor, he was well versed in the art of power and strategy, and in the fight with the Door Valve family, he pushed the sima family's imperial power to the peak of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, which once had the sign of Zhongxing.
But he who was addicted to beauty, a drunken joke, changed everything. After empress Wang Fahui died of illness, Sima Yao especially loved Chen Guinu, and for a time Chen Guinu favored the harem. Zhang Guiren was originally unknown, and by currying favor with Chen Guinu, he was favored by Sima Yao, and the two were both favored concubines of Emperor Xiaowu of Jin.
Once, during a visit between Sima Yao and Zhang Guiren, he was very drunk and looked at Zhang Guiren, who was about thirty years old. Sima Yao shook his head and said with a smile, "After a few years, you will be old and decayed." You will be ruined, and you will find some young and beautiful girls." A word hit Zhang Guiren's growing pain, and she drunk Sima Yao's close eunuch and ordered the palace women in her palace to suffocate Sima Yao alive.
Unfortunately, Sima Yao, who survived at the hands of Thermostatics, squeezed the Xie family out of the core of power. Because of a drunken joke, he was smothered alive by his favorite concubine. History once again made a big joke with the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and after Sima Yao, who had some talents, squeezed out the Xie family, he lost his speech after drinking and was smothered alive. The Eastern Jin Dynasty, which lost the last British lord and the strongest gan family, has since moved towards complete destruction.
Resources:
Book of Jin. JianWen Diji. The Chronicle of Emperor Xiaowu, History of the Southern and Northern Dynasties of the Two Jin Dynasties, Politics of the Eastern Jin Dynasty
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