When Li Qingzhao lamented the Song Dynasty's southern crossing, he wrote: "The southern crossing owes Wang Dao a crown, and the news from the north is less Liu Kun. This reflects Wang Dao's irreplaceability of the Eastern Jin Dynasty.
The state of Langya was adjacent to Donghai County, and since the eastern Han Dynasty formed a state system, both places were under the jurisdiction of Xuzhou.
During the Western Jin Dynasty, Sima Shi's sons were crowned kings one after another, among them, Sima Yue was made the King of the East Sea, and Sima Rui was made the King of Langya.
Sima Yue seized on the internecine slaughter of the sons of the imperial family for more than a decade and took control of the Kanto region, thus becoming the last king to laugh in the "Rebellion of the Eight Kings".
Compared with Sima Yue, Sima Rui was a general clan member who appeared to be "frugal and conceited" and had little desire for power, and he initially lived in Luoyang, but later fell to Sima Yue and became a close associate of Sima Yue. Under the meticulous arrangement of Sima Yue and Wang Yan, Wang Yan's brother Wang Dao was sent to assist Sima Rui.
At that time, in the territory of Langya, the most prominent clan was the Langya Wang Clan, as the Langya King, because they were newcomers, they would often take the initiative to make friends with such a clan as the Langya Wang Clan.
It is reported that as of Sima Rui's generation, the King of Langya and the King of Langya have maintained an in-law relationship for decades, which not only reflects the family friendship between the two, but also reflects a political demand for mutual use with family interests as the core.
In 307 AD, the old prince was killed, and the Western Jin Dynasty Emperor Huai took the throne, and the imperial court was already in chaos. Seeing this, Wang Dao urged Sima Rui to stay away from the land of right and wrong and leave the town of Jianye (present-day Nanjing), while the Wang family moved south, including Wang Xizhi as a descendant of the clan.
That's vision! At this time, Wang Dun was the assassin of Yangzhou, and he was also in the Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas, and the two brothers finally converged.
It is said that when Sima Rui arrived in Nanjing, the strength was weak, and the Wudi clan did not bother to pay attention to him, which was very faceless.
At this time, the role of the Wang brothers came into play, and the two brothers let Sima Rui parade in full costume on the street, while the Wang brothers rode around on horseback. Jiang Zuo Mingmen saw that the Wang family brothers were still like this, and they all looked forward to it. With the help of the Wang brothers, Sima Rui finally established himself in Nanjing.
Five years later, Chang'an City was breached for the first time, Emperor Huai of Jin was captured, and the Central Plains was in chaos for a while, and the people avoided chaos in Jiangnan. Wang Dao assisted Sima Rui in taking advantage of the opportunity to recruit talents and regain the hearts and minds of the people. Five years later, the Western Jin Dynasty fell, and Sima Rui formally established the Eastern Jin Dynasty in 318.
At this time, Wang Dao was the prime minister, and Wang Dun was outside the lord, sitting in Wuchang, supervising the military of the six states, and was called "the king and the horse, the whole world." ”
During Wang Dao's tenure as Zaifu, the Eastern Jin dynasty was unstable, but it was precisely because of Wang Dao's presence that the Eastern Jin Dynasty was able to get out of the swamp.
After Wang Dao's vigorous efforts, the Eastern Jin Dynasty began to enter a relatively stable period of development for 70 years. Unfortunately, at the time of this period, the peak era of the Langya Wang clan and the Sima clan that had been maintained for 20 years was coming to an end, and in its place was the era of "Yu and Ma, the world together".
Yu Liang was also a northern warrior, and when he became emperor of Jin, he took the political stage as an uncle and tried several times to launch a coup to abolish Wang Dao, but he did not succeed.
Of course, Wang Dao did not want to bid farewell to the center of power in a abolished way, but he did not want to obviously provoke conflict, so he pretended to be ignorant and calm. When someone told Wang Dao that Yu Liang would raise an army against him, he replied: I am in solidarity with yu gongfu court, which is a rootless rumor; even if Yu Gong really has this intention, I will throw away my wusha hat and go back to Wuyi Lane.
It was Wang Dao's strategy of "calming down and calming down" that avoided the possibility of a military confrontation; it was his inaction that ushered in the relative peace of the Eastern Jin Dynasty.
In 339 AD, Wang Dao died peacefully in Wuyi Lane at the age of 64. After his death, he enjoyed the honor of being a beiji courtier, and yushi ascended to the throne of power in a gentle manner.
For a long time after Wang Dao, the Langya clans were far from the center of power, and even so, they maintained a strong social, political and cultural influence.
The sword in Wang Dao's hand will be hidden for a while, and when this sword is sheathed again, the appearance of Wang's children will be renewed, and in the storm of the change of dynasty in Southern China, they have played their own different but always hot roles.