In 436, Liu Yilong was seriously ill, and he issued an edict to recall Tan Daoji, who was assisting him at that time as the first general. Tan Daoji, as one of the founders of Liu Song, did not hesitate and immediately led the envoy to Jiankang City.
However, as soon as they entered the palace, they were arrested, and then received a holy decree that Tan Daoji was executed on suspicion of rebellion.
Before being executed, the famous general, who did not know what crime he had committed until his death, tore off his turban and threw it on the ground, pointed in the direction of Emperor Song Wen's palace, and roared angrily: "You are destroying your own Great Wall!" ”
However, compared to the self-destruction of the Great Wall, Emperor Wen of Song seems to have greater demons.
Tan Daoji was a famous general in the Liu and Song dynasties, and he was once the right-hand man of Liu Yu, Emperor Wu of the Song Dynasty. Tan Daoji was born in the Tan clan of Gaoping, Shandong, but his family was displaced because of war and turmoil during the great ** period of the world.
Tan Daoji grew up in a large family in the south, and his uncle Tan became a member of the court with his background and talent, and adopted the four Tan Daoji brothers as his own. The Eastern Jin Dynasty has always shared the world with scholars, and the power of the vassal clan has gradually expanded.
In the middle and late Eastern Jin Dynasty, the Long Kanghuan family posed a huge threat to the imperial court, and the ** power fell into the hands of the leader of the Xie clan of Chenjun, Situ Xie An.
In order to counter the Long Kanghuan clan and prevent the southern invasion of the northern forces, Xie An ordered his nephew Xie Xuan to train the "Beifu Soldiers" in Jingkou.
After Gaoping Tan moved south, he settled in Jingkou, and Tan Pingzhi, Tan Daoji and other Tan children joined the Beifu Corps, where they met Liu Yu and became his right-hand man.
Tanshi Gaoping Town, Jiangxi Jindu, most of the "Yongjia Nandu" immigrants landed here. Tan Yizhi and Liu Yu became friends of life and death, Tan Daoji and Liu Yu had a close relationship, and they both worked their respective paths.
Tan Daoji became Liu Yu's army under the recommendation of Tan Yizhi, and since then, their fates have been closely linked. In the first year of Emperor Yuanxing of Jin'an, Huan Xuan, the son of Huan Wen, rebelled, and Tan Daoji ushered in a turning point of fate.
In order to improve the national defense strength of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Sima Daozi issued a decree of "free slaves as guests", which made Huan Xuan see an opportunity.
He persuaded Liu Gaozhi to form an alliance with him, and Liu Gaozhi helped him overthrow Emperor An of Jin and became Huan Xuan's traitor under Huan Xuan's persuasion.
After Liu Gaozhi was killed, Huan Xuan eliminated the old forces of the Beifu Army. Liu Yu, Tan Pingzhi, Tan Daoji and others became Huan Xuan's subordinates. Huan Xuan had high hopes for Liu Yu and said that he was a masterpiece.
Liu Yu was Liu Gaozhi's right-hand man, but the killing of his "benefactor" made him unbearable. He led 27 loyal followers to launch the "Kyoguchi Uprising", in which the youngest of them, Tan Daoji, showed great military prowess.
Thanks to their efforts, Liu Yu succeeded in overthrowing Huan Xuan and became the most powerful military figure at the end of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and Tan Daoji also became one of the important generals under him.
After that, Liu Yu began the Northern Expedition again, and Tan Daoji also participated in it and showed outstanding military talent. He advocated ending the war with war, crusading against evil, and pacifying the people, and was welcomed by the people in the north.
However, the door-valve politics of the Eastern Jin Dynasty made the royal power an "ornament", and in this complex environment, Tan Daoji and others still showed their courage and wisdom.
During the Eastern Jin Dynasty, there was a delicate balance between the royal family and the scholar family, and they checked each other. And the maintenance of this balance is inseparable from the containment of the Chen Jun Xie clan, the Long Kanghuan clan and other gate lord clans.
However, with the increasing intensification of the north and the south, this balance was gradually broken, and Sima's country began to become precarious.
Eventually, after Liu Yu took power, due to the successive decline of the clan that had maintained this balance, coupled with the implementation of the Huairou policy, the Sima clan was forced to change his surname to Liu Song.
However, even after the establishment of the Liu Song dynasty, the clan still played an important role in the army, and even affected the stability of imperial power to a certain extent.
Under these circumstances, Liu Yu had to take measures to weaken the power of the clan in order to ensure the stability of the new dynasty.
Except for the two founding monarchs of the Liu Song Dynasty, Liu Yu and Liu Yilong, most of the other emperors were young and mediocre. Tan Daoji put on armor again and again and fought on the front line for them.
However, Liu Yifu had no gratitude for these loyal ministers who worked selflessly, and even had ill intentions and wanted to usurp their power and attack all the ministers who were auxiliary ministers.
Before Liu Yu's death, power was assigned: Xu Xianzhi and Fu Liang were in charge of internal affairs, and Xie Hui and Tan Daoji were in charge of the army outside.
Xu Xianzhi did not have a single soldier, so he tried his best to persuade the four auxiliary ministers to unite the front and abolish Liu Yifu as soon as possible and restore Liu Song's country.
Tan Daoji: I am loyal and martyred by nature, and I was born and died for the Liu Song Dynasty. However, Emperor Wen of Song was always suspicious of me and sent his cronies to take away my military power. I had to quit, but that doesn't mean I have to give up.
I stuck to my beliefs, and it was not until the seventh year of Yuanjia that Emperor Wen of Song used me again, and the situation on the battlefield was reversed. I don't have a high military IQ, but I'm an intelligent general.
I bluffed with sand and rice, successfully lured the Northern Wei troops to attack, and finally scared them away. Despite all the difficulties and challenges I faced, I always stood firm in my beliefs and fought to the end for the Liu Song Dynasty.
Tan Daoji was "scared", and invisibly scared Emperor Wen of Song. The late-born descendant Emperor Song Wen was frail and sickly, and Tan Daoji's military achievements were flourishing, which made Emperor Song Wen even more convinced that after his death, there would be no one to do Tan Daoji.
Tan Daoji's wife once kindly reminded her husband: "The lord of the high world has been taboo since ancient times, and now there is nothing to do, and it will be a disaster." However, Tan Daoji would rather die alone than back down.
Emperor Wen of Song made several trade-offs between "killing or not killing", and with the tightening of the border war, he ushered in a glimmer of life.
However, Tan Daoji's "meritorious service to the previous dynasty, his prestige is very heavy, his left and right hearts have been fought in a hundred battles, and his sons are talented", these characteristics are serious obstacles to the strengthening of the monarchy of the Liu Song Dynasty.
Emperor Wen of Song, who hesitated repeatedly, finally gave the order to kill. After Tan Daoji was killed, a series of adverse reactions to the military posture of the North and South Dynasties gradually emerged.
Hearing that the old opponent was killed, the Northern Wei Dynasty raised a glass to celebrate, and some Wei people who had participated in the Civil War bluntly said: "Daoji is dead, and the descendants of Wu are not enough to recover!" ”