Chapter 26 The setting sun, grass and trees(1/2)
In 317 AD, Sima Rui established the capital of Jiankang.
The Eastern Jin Dynasty began.
Sima Rui's branch belongs to the Sima Group, and has a relatively low status. Logically speaking, it is actually a long distance from the throne.
During the reign of Emperor Hui, Empress Jia and Zhang Hua controlled the government and ruled out dissidents.
Sima Rui has been enduring, fearing that he will cause trouble.
Later, the Eight Kings Rebellion broke out, and Sima Rui, who was the King of Langya, hid directly in his hometown.
Later, Sima Yue valued the Sima Rui's power, and then began to use Sima Rui.
In 307, Sima Yue defeated Chengdu Wang Sima Ying and entered Luoyang.
Sima Rui also gained benefits and became the General of Zhendong.
At this time, the iron hoofs of the Hu tribe moving south became increasingly difficult to resist, and the Western Jin Dynasty regime was at stake.
Sima Yue photographed Sima Rui going to manage Jiangdong, and by the way, he also left a way out for himself.
Sima Rui and his friend Wang Dao came to Jiankang.
When Sima Rui first arrived here, the gentry members in Jiangnan did not take him seriously.
At the critical moment, Director Wang played a very important role.
Because of his existence, Sima Rui was able to establish the Eastern Jin Dynasty.
Both he and Sima Rui knew that it would be impossible to gain a foothold in Jiangnan without the support of local aristocratic families.
On March 3rd of this year, according to local customs, the people and officials would go to the riverside to seek blessings and eliminate disasters.
On this day, Director Wang asked Sima Rui to sit in a gorgeous sedan chair, holding up the banner of King Langya, and the guard of honor sounded the gong to open the way. Director Wang's cousin Wang Dun stood by, and the officials and famous scholars from the north also rode their horses one by one.
The entire team was extremely mighty and headed to the riverside in a mighty manner.
There were too many people watching the fun on this day.
Everyone has never seen such a scene before, and everyone was shocked.
At this time, Wang Dao, Wang Dun and others came out one after another and were respectful to Sima Rui.
Everyone was shocked and came out to pay a visit to Sima Rui.
With such a fuss, Sima Rui's prestige among the gentry in Jiangnan was greatly improved.
And this is the plan that Director Wang came up with for Sima Rui.
As it turns out, this strategy is very successful.
Then, Sima Rui found two famous scholars among the local gentry and gave them high-ranking officials.
Therefore, these two people also strongly praised Sima Rui in their family.
In this way, Sima Rui has gained a firm foothold in Jiankang.
In 317 AD, Sima Rui established the capital of Jiankang, and was appointed Emperor Yuan of Jin.
At the same time, the Wang family of Langya was in power.
Sima Rui became emperor and appointed Wang Dao as prime minister, and Wang Dun was in charge of military affairs.
The king and the horse share the world.
The people at that time said this.
"Sima Rui relied on the strong support of the northern clan Wang Dao and Wang Dun brothers. During this period, Wang Dao was highly powerful, united with the gentry of the north and south, strategized, and was able to dominate the government. Wang Dun was in charge of military power, and was responsible for the conquest, and later took charge of Jingzhou and controlled Jiankang. The Wang brothers were powerful inside and outside, and Sima Rui was just a false reputation. On the day of the throne ceremony, Emperor Sima Rui suddenly grabbed the minister Wang Dao and went to the imperial bed together, and accepted the congratulations from the ministers, expressing his willingness to share the world with the Wang family. This plot should be the peak of the political politics of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, right?"
"This plot is really interesting. There has never been a time when the aristocratic families have reached such a level before, right?"
"Why don't you say that Sima's style is too bad?"
"I feel that Emperor Sima Rui is really too forced to treat him. It doesn't matter!"
"let me!"
"The person upstairs, let you come? Are you afraid that you are the most foolish monarch in the ages, right?"
During this period of the Five Barbarians' Invasion of China, the entire northern land was filled with people's lives and their lives were in trouble.
The people are displaced, and nine out of ten houses are empty.
The Five Barbarians invaded China have caused unprecedented damage to this Central Plains.
"This plot is undoubtedly the darkest age in the five thousand years series. I can't bear to watch it suddenly. I feel my heart hurts."
"The direct reason for the Five Barbarians' invasion of China is undoubtedly that the Jin Dynasty repeatedly and repeatedly strangled from Hebei to the Central Plains during the Eight Kings Rebellion. The consequences of it were: 'Does of soldiers and armor have been destroyed for decades', 'The elite soldiers were destroyed in the conquest', 'Dingkou filled the gullies', 'There was no millet in the four fields'. In the vast land of Guandong, there was a situation where 'the soldiers died, the city was abandoned, and the food was eaten'. It was this good opportunity that the Five Barbarians jumped into the Central Plains and began the double conquest of military and population."
"This kind of nightmarish situation is absolutely impossible to happen during the Three Kingdoms period."
"If the Central Plains are not bad, no one dares to invade the tomb."
"Haha, if the Great Wei Dynasty had a Five Barbarians invasion of China, Wu Hou would probably be able to directly restore the Han Dynasty and return it to the old capital!"
"It's still Sima's family is too trash! If the country is not upright, the disaster should come to this!"
"In this plot, the Han people were massacred by a large number of Han people, and I can no longer watch it! These Hu people burned, killed, looted, and committed all kinds of evil. The entire northern Han people were killed to the point where only four or five million were left."
In order to avoid massacre, the remaining Han people built cities to defend themselves and confront the Hu people.
In 350 AD, Ran Min, who was raised by the Hu people, led his army to the banks of the Lingshui River, defeating 200,000 Xianbei people and seizing 28 Xianbei cities.
Later, Ran Min established the Ran Wei regime, issued an order to kill Hu, and called on the Han people to kill Hu people for revenge.
Han people from all over the country responded.
Ran Min won ten battles with the Justice Army. After several major battles, he defeated the might of the Han cavalry and recovered many lost places in one fell swoop.
In 354 AD, the Eastern Jin generals Chang Wen finally began his first Northern Expedition.
He led a large army to attack the Former Qin.
At this time, Later Zhao had been destroyed in the dust of history.
After many bloody battles, Constant Temperature reached Guanzhong.
The constant temperature garrison was stationed in Bashang.
Chang'an City is right in front of you.
At this time, it had been more than thirty years since the fall of Chang'an City.
The people nearby came to surrender, and many old people cried bitterly.
I really didn't expect that there would be one day when I saw the official army.
But the first Northern Expedition of Constant Temperature stopped here.
His army lacked food, and this situation was discovered by the Former Qin army.
Therefore, they strengthened the walls and cleared the fields, making it impossible for the Jin army to harvest local food.
The Jin army was short of food, so in the end they could only take more than 3,000 households in Guanzhong to retreat.
"In that era, population was the most important thing!"
"So Uncle Liu will never leave the people behind every time!"
"It's so difficult! I don't like this plot."
In 356, Chang Teng made another northern expedition.
This time, the Jin army recovered Luoyang.
However, the Eastern Jin court did not have the intention to manage the north. Soon after, Yuzhou, Qingzhou and other places fell again.
"The first two Northern Expeditions of Chang Wen were nominally regaining lost territory, but in fact, they were to increase their political weight and prepare for their usurpation of the throne. These two Northern Expeditions could have achieved greater results, but the Eastern Jin court and Chang Wen were not here, so the cause of the Northern Expedition was destined to have no results."
"Constant temperature is for myself, right? At first, I thought this guy was to regain the north! I cheered him up in my heart!"
"When will this Central Plains be unified?"
"I can't stand it anymore! It's uncomfortable."
"I said this is the worst-written one by Qi Yuan. Do you have any objection?"
"???? Just say you just like to read cool articles and don't like to abuse."
"I think the constant temperature is still very good. If it were you, would you do better than him?"
"Qi Yuan mentioned calligraphy? What do you think of Wang Xizhi and others' calligraphy?"
"What else can I think? It's just a fantasy! In "Five Thousand Years", I didn't write down what Wang Xizhi's calligraphy looks like!"
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In 420 AD, Liu Yu ascended the throne in Jiankang and changed the country's name to Song.
Since then, the Jin Dynasty ruled by the Sima family officially perished, and history entered the Southern Dynasties era.
Liu Yu was born in poverty and even the villagers looked down on him.
To be continued...