After Murong Xianbei defeated Ran Zhi and occupied Yi, he searched for the imperial jade seal, but the jade seal had already been sent to Jiankang (present-day Nanjing). In order to defeat the Eastern Jin Dynasty politically and prove that he was the "True Dragon Heavenly Son" and "under the command of heaven", murong Juan, the lord of the state, declared that the Eastern Jin Dynasty had obtained a fake jade seal, and the real jade seal had reached his hands. In order to prove that what he said was not false, Murong Juan engraved a false jade seal and announced that he would change the yuan to "Yuan Xi".
The eight words at the bottom of the legendary jade seal (picture from the Internet)
Murong Juan's brazen and public falsifications opened the fig leaf of the powerful and powerful, and they all followed suit, privately engraving the national jade seal, saying that others were fake. Later, the jade seal of Western Yan, the jade seal of Yao Qin, and so on, were all fakes.
By the time the Imperial Seal reached the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the Eastern Jin Dynasty had already been passed down to the fifth generation, and the reigning emperor sima Tan of the Jin Dynasty was only 9 years old. The previous four generations of emperors, because they did not have the national jade seal, did not dare to be so tough, in today's words, there is no sense of existence, and the common people also call them "white emperors". Logically, now that Yuxi has returned, and the "Emperor's Mandate is Divinely Mandated", can the Emperor get up? It's hard! First, the emperor is still a hairy child, know a ball? Second, and most importantly, since the early Days of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the door valve politics in which the warrior clan and the imperial power jointly governed the world were determined, and this kind of door valve politics had a deep political foundation, and all the scholar clans supported and supported it. Among the scholars, the most powerful are the "four major families", they are the Wang family, the Yu family, the Huan family, and the Xie family. The four major families maintained a delicate balance with each other throughout the Eastern Jin Dynasty, ruling the world together with the Sima family, so the emperor could not afford to make waves. The warriors only cared about their own interests, and did not care whether the emperor had passed on the national jade seal, of course, they were also afraid that the emperor would be overthrown, because once the emperor fell, their life would not be better.
Langya Wang clan
There are also restless people in the four major families, and after they have swelled to a certain extent, they will also twist their minds and want to make an emperor. First the Wang family produced a Wang Dun, and then the Huan family produced a Huan Wen, both of them were real power factions that controlled the army, and also made great contributions to the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and through a series of operations, they were also infinitely close to the throne. Unfortunately, the kick in the door was not right, and both of them did not succeed because they were boycotted by other representatives of the family's interests. But there was one person who succeeded, and he was Huan Wen's younger son, Huan Xuan.
In 369 AD, Huan Xuan was born. Four years later, Huan Wen died, and Huan Xuan inherited his father's title as Duke of Nan County. Huan Xuan was very handsome and intelligent when he was a child; when he grew up, he was even more graceful, tall and mighty, proficient in everything, and quite literate, writing a good article. Measured by today's standards, Huan Xuan is a properly gold-rich, talented, and handsome man with explosive appearance.
Huan Xuan, who is the focus and protagonist everywhere he goes, is unsuccessful in his career. It turned out that the four major families were afraid that Huan Xuan would have the same disobedient heart as his father in the future, so they deliberately did not let Huan Xuan become a high official. It was not until Huan Xuan was 23 years old that he made him a prince with no real power to wash horses, and later let him become the Taishou of Yixing (present-day Yixing, Jiangsu). The ambitious Huan Xuan was unmotivated, and once ascended to the heights and looked at the long sigh: "The father is the uncle of Kyushu, and the son is the chief of the five lakes, not ashamed!" So he abandoned the official and returned to Jiangling (江陵, in modern Jingzhou, Hubei), where the Huan family had deep roots. In Jiangling, Huan Xuan was not idle, wandering among the scholars all day, and with the yu wei and personal talent of his father Huan Wen, he gradually established his own prestige and reputation, and even the Jingzhou assassin Yin Zhongkan at that time did not dare to come out when he saw him.
In April 397, Wang Gong of the Wang clan raised an army in Jingkou (京口, in present-day Zhenjiang, Jiangsu) in the name of The Treasure of the Kingdom of Xue. Sima Daozi, who presided over the government, panicked and killed Wang Guobao. Huan Xuan took the opportunity to propose to be the assassin of Guangzhou. Sima Daozi did not want him to live in Jingchu for a long time, so he pushed the boat along the water and agreed to his request. After Huan Xuan took the order, he did not go to his post, but still stayed in Jiangling and waited for the opportunity.
The following year, Wang Gong joined forces with Yuzhou Assassin Shi Yukai, and in the name of attacking the two brothers of Jiangzhou Assassin Shi Yu and Sima Shang the Prince of Yu, he once again raised an army in Jingkou. Huan Xuan and Yin Zhongkan responded together and jointly promoted Wang Gong as the ally. After several battles, Huan Xuan's power grew larger and larger, forming a three-legged stand with Yin Zhongkan and Yang Qi, and the imperial court was afraid that the three of them would unite, so they used a divisive strategy to divide them, and Huan Xuan's goal was to destroy the two of them.
In 399 AD, the opportunity finally came, and in May of that year, Jingzhou suffered a major flood, "flat land three feet of water". Yin Zhongkan was relieved of the starving people, the warehouse was empty, and the soldiers had no grain and grass, Huan Xuan took the opportunity to lead the army to the west, first attacking Baling, which had accumulated grain and grass, and then marching into Yangkou, defeating Yin Zhongkan's nephew Yin Daohu, and then occupying Zero Pass( twenty miles away from Jiangling). Yin Zhong, seeing that the situation was not good, urgently summoned Yang Qi to rescue him, but it was too late, and both of them were defeated and killed by Huan Xuan.
In March 400, Huan Xuan captured Jing and Yong Prefectures in one fell swoop. At this point, Huan Xuan dominated Jingchu alone, and the soldiers were strong and strong, and the imperial court could no longer continue to suppress him. Huan Xuan was full of ambition, thinking that there were two of the three points in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and Sima Shi's qi had been exhausted, so he repeatedly instructed people to offer Zhen Xiang and Fu Rui for him.
At the end of 401 AD, Huan Xuan wrote to the imperial court and offended Sima Yuanxian, who was in charge, and Sima Yuanxian sent troops to conquer Huan Xuan, and Huan Xuan adopted the suggestion of Bian Fanzhi, the chief historian, and published a text listing Sima Yuanxian's various crimes and rebelling against him. Huan Xuan attacked Jiankang without encountering decent resistance, and Sima Yuanxian and his father Sima Daozi were captured by Huan Xuan.
Huan Xuan stills (image from the Internet)
After Huan Xuan invaded Jiankang, He ordered himself to be the Commander-in-Chief, adding ShiZhong and DuDu to the Chinese and foreign military forces, Cheng Xiang, Lu Shang Shu shi, yangzhou mu, and leading the History of Xuzhou Assassination; he also added fake Huang Yu, Yu Bao Advocate, Ban Jian, and so on, and placed the large and small subordinates of the Xiang Xiang Mansion. He acted vigorously, excluding dissidents, supporting the Huan family's cronies, beating the other warrior clans to pieces, and no longer able to balance the Huan family. At this point, Huan Xuan already had all the conditions for usurping the jin dynasty's royal power.
On December 3, 403, Huan Xuan asked Emperor An of Jin to give him the "Zen throne", and he became emperor himself, with the national name "Chu", and the national jade seal was returned to Huan Xuan.
Chao Qin Twilight Chu Cat: Huan Xuan went from depression to a monopoly, and then seized imperial power, this process can be said to be an inspirational film. His "success", in addition to his own wisdom and courage, was related to the fact that there were no great talents in the four major families at that time who could determine the situation, and it was also related to the support of the Huan family forces for him. Unfortunately, after becoming emperor, Huan Xuan did not sit still, and he was destroyed by another cattle man, and the next section mainly tells the story of liu Yu, a cattle man.