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The king and the horse share the world is not essentially a political balance, but the horse completely manipulates the king behind the back to exercise his own will. This is the truth of the politics of the Eastern Jin Dynasty.
On the 14th day of the first month of the first year of Yongchang (322), Wang Dun formally raised troops in Wuchang, waved his army to the east, and pointed at Jiankang, and in March, Wang Dun had come to Jiankang City, garrisoning outside the stone city in the northwest direction of Jiankang.
With little effort, Wang Dun conquered Stone City and defeated the imperial army formed by Emperor Sima Rui, and Wang Dun had taken full control of Jiankang City.
Yes,This was the backlash of the feudal town against the imperial court, the challenge of the gate lord to the imperial power, and the key battle between the Langya Wang clan and the Sima clan for the dominance of Jiangdong。As a result, Wang Dun, the representative of the Langya Wang clan, who integrated the feudal town and the gate valve, won.
The Eastern Jin Dynasty ran into the era of gate valves.
Then, Wang Dun first killed Sima Rui's henchmen Diao Xie, Dai Ruosi, and Zhou Yi, and then carried out a large-scale reshuffle of the court
Director Wang was appointed as Shang Shuling, Consul General; Wang Xuan served as the assassin of Jingzhou; Wang Di served as the governor of Qingzhou, Xuzhou, Youzhou, and Pingzhou; Wang Han supervised the military south of the Han River; Wang Liang was appointed to Jiaozhou Assassin History; Wang Dun led the governor of Ningzhou and Yizhou.
The important positions in the temples of the Eastern Jin Dynasty and the strategic places in the local area were filled and controlled by the Langya Wang clan, and the emperor Sima Rui completely became a puppet.
In order to extend the authority of the Langya Wang clan to the next generation, Wang Dun even prepared to depose the crown prince Sima Shao, because Sima Shao was smart and assertive, and it would be difficult to control in the future. In the end, it was under the opposition of the ministers that Wang Duncai finally gave up.
After doing this, Wang Dun returned to his base camp Wuchang, and didn't even greet Sima Rui.
On the 10th day of the 11th month of the leap year of Yongchang (322), Emperor Sima Rui died in depression.
Since then, the temples of the Eastern Jin Dynasty are full of the voice of the gate valve, and the political pattern of "the emperor hangs the arch and the gate valve is in power" has been formally formed.
In any case, this day is actually very difficult to avoid. In 307 AD, Sima Rui, the king of Langya, left the northern fiefdom and came to Jiangdong under the planning of the Langya Wang, avoiding the chaos in the north soon after.
When he arrived in Jiangdong, Sima Rui also gained a firm foothold in Jiangdong with the support of Director Wang, and reached a situation of co-governing Jiangnan with the Jiangdong clan.
How to say it, since Sima Yi launched the Gaopingling coup, the family has already taken the initiative and become the protagonist, but Sima Yan, Emperor Wu of the Jin Dynasty, can also suppress the family through the clan and relatives, so that the temples of the Western Jin Dynasty can maintain a fragile balance, but when the Langya Wang clan crossed the river to help Sima Rui support the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the family has become a dominant pattern, and there is no check and balance between the clan and relatives, and the Langya Wang clan almost monopolized the right to speak in the Eastern Jin Dynasty temples.
On March 9, 317 AD, Sima Rui ascended the throne, granted amnesty to the world, and changed the Yuan to Jianwu. As a hero, Langya Wang also fully enjoyed the bonus of Sima Rui's promotion:
Wang Dao was appointed as the supervisor of the middle book, recorded the affairs of the book, supervised the Chinese and foreign military, and led the history of Yangzhou Assassination; Wang Dun was appointed as the general and the pastor of Jiangzhou
One is the leader of the temple, and the other is the local boss.
On March 10, 318, after the Western Jin Emperor Sima Ye was killed, Sima Rui, the king of the Jin Dynasty, officially ascended the throne in Jiangdong and became emperor, changing the Yuan to Taixing.
At the enthronement ceremony, Sima Rui asked Wang Dao to share the emperor's throne with him out of gratitude to the Langya Wang, and the matter was finally stopped with Wang Dao's humility.
On the surface, Sima Rui is a heavy weight on Wang Dao, and even a little cowardly, but this is exactly Sima Rui's cleverness, he knows how the Eastern Jin Dynasty is supported, in order to make the first hero Wang Dao surrender to himself, he deliberately used this move at the enthronement ceremony to force Wang Dao to make a statement in front of everyone.
It can also be seen from this how much pressure Langya Wang brought to Sima Rui.
In order to balance the Langya Wang clan, Sima Rui then played a set of combination punches
In April, Sima Rui issued an edict to Xun Zu and Sima Yi, the king of Xiyang, and recorded Shangshu;
Two months later, Xun Zu's nephew Xun Song was appointed as the left servant of Shangshu. Xun Zu's other nephew, Xun Di, is also an official in the service, and another nephew, Xun Min, is an official in the imperial history;
appointed Diao Xie as Shang Shuling;
appointed Liu Kui as the Emperor of the Imperial History;
With Yu Liang as the attendant to talk about the East Palace, Zhou Yi as the young master of the prince, and He Xun as the prince and the prince to assist the prince Sima Shao;
As the leader of the Langya Wang clan, Wang Dao was not only removed from the prime minister's group, but also drew a clearly visible line between him and the prince to prevent the Langya Wang clan from controlling the next emperor.
Yes,Sima Rui used the forces of the clan, other northern clans, southern clans, and Shu clans to jointly suppress the Langya Wang clan, play a combination of vertical and horizontal cards to concentrate the imperial power.
At the same time, Sima Rui also issued an edict to conduct examinations for the talents and filial piety recommended by the local government in order to regain personnel rights from the family.
Then, Sima Rui started a game with Wang Dun, the general who was sitting in the local area
On November 13, 318, Sima Rui added the title of Governor of Guangzhou, Tao Kandu, to supervise the military affairs of Jiaozhou in order to break down Wang Dun's military power in Liangguang and Jiaozhou;
In August 320, after the death of Zhou Wan, Sima Rui took Ganzhuo, the assassin of Xiangzhou, as the assassin of Liangzhou, and supervised the military in the upper reaches of the Han River;
In December, Sima Rui issued another edict: "Sima Cheng, the king of Xiangzhou, is the assassin of Xiangzhou." ”；
Sima Rui's series of actions on the local area are all based on two words:Cutting the domain
But the fact is that because Wang Dun is the general of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and leads the governors of Jiangzhou, Yangzhou, Jingzhou, Xiangzhou, Jiaozhou, and Guangzhou, he has full control of the military power of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and Wang Dao is the representative of the Langya Wang clan in the court, with a high and powerful position, with the superior resources in their hands, they will definitely not compromise with Sima Rui.
Faced with Emperor Sima Rui's aggressive posture, Wang Dun finally decided to raise troops and use war to regain the power that belonged to the Langya Wang clan.
Since Wang Dun's sphere of influence was in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, he could go down the river east and go straight to Jiankang, coupled with the superiority of troops, so there was little pressure on the goal of conquering Jiankang City.
Yes, this is the advantage of holding control of Jiang Han, Sima Rui is still too confident.
But the goal of the Langya Wang clan is only to make Sima Rui succumb, and he still wants to maintain the pattern of "the king and the horse share the world", which is the goal that the Langya Wang clan determined after crossing the river:
The Sima family was elected as the spokesperson, and the Langya Wang family controlled the government remotely behind the scenes
This is the shrewdness of the Langya WangLet Sima Shi stand in the lightWhen the risk comes, the Langya Wang clan can sacrifice the Sima clan in exchange for the safety of the family, and continue to support the emperor of the next dynasty, and he is still the protagonist.
This is the fundamental reason why Wang Dun did not replace him after he laid Jiankang. At the same time, the Jiangdong clan also did not want the Langya Wang family to be dominant, which was also the fundamental reason why the Langya Wang family had to continue to respect Sima Rui as the emperor.
As for the rise of the Langya Wang family, Sima Rui is also very helpless, politically he can only rely on Wang Dao, and militarily he can only rely on Wang Dun, mainly because there is no one available due to the lack of elites in the early stage of entrepreneurship.
By the time Wang Dun conquered Jiangzhou, Jingzhou, Xiangzhou and other places one after another, the balance had been broken.
Coupled with the fact that the strength of the clan is not strong, Sima Rui is destined not to be the opponent of the Langya Wang clan.
If the Eastern Jin Dynasty was a political pattern of "the king and the horse share the world" before the Wang Dun Rebellion, then after the Wang Dun Rebellion, the Eastern Jin Dynasty was actually the world of the Langya Wang family, and the Sima Emperor was just a puppet.
But any force will weaken one day, and the position of the Langya Wang clan will also be replaced by other clans.
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