Jiankang Imperial Palace) in the third year of Taining, 325 AD, August 25.
The weather in Jiankang City was abnormal, and it snowed all night.
The north wind swept the white grass and folded, and the snow flew in August.
The snow was slaughtered, and there was a dead silence in Jiankang City.
In the silence, Sima Shao, the second emperor of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, died.
Sima Shao's death represents the end of an era.
He is a Ming monarch, a Ming monarch who is extremely rare in the Eastern Jin Dynasty and even in the two Jin Dynasty periods.
ascended the throne at a young age, supported the world, eliminated the ministers, and swept the four seas.
In just twenty-seven years of life, the emperor burned his own life and illuminated the future of the Eastern Jin Dynasty.
Emperor Sima Shao of the Ming Dynasty of the Jin Dynasty).
Now, the Eastern Jin Dynasty is about to usher in his third master, that is, the eldest son of the former emperor, Sima Yan.
The death of the father and the succession of the son are both a natural result and a patriarchal system, but after Sima Yan became the emperor, he could not effectively manage this huge empire.
It is not that the emperor is poor in skills and short wisdom, nor is it because the emperor is shallow in learning, but because the emperor is very young, when he ascended the throne, he was only five years old.
The emperor was young, the lord was suspicious, and he could not govern himself, so of course the power of the court fell into the hands of the Empress Dowager Yu (the power of foreign relatives).
Familiar recipes, familiar tastes.
This is simply a fixed plot for thousands of years in the era of feudal monarchy.
As long as the emperor is young, he will inevitably be the queen in charge.
Is there a problem with this system of listening to politics and weighing the system in the court?
From a macro point of view, there is no problem.
The reason why a five-year-old child can become an emperor is not because he is suitable to be an emperor, but because of the patriarchal inheritance system, he was chosen.
At an early age, he can exist as the mascot of a vast empire, but he cannot take on the operation of the state apparatus.
In other words, the emperor is too young to work, but the court is busy all day, and someone has to take care of things, right?
So, the Queen Mother Yu stood up.
Empress Dowager Yu image).
As the queen mothers of the Linzhao dynasty, they often have to play two or more roles.
Above the court, they are the ** people of the authority of the Son of Heaven, handling all the decisions of this empire for the emperor.
And in the middle palace, she wants to become the queen mother of the world, always remember the etiquette in the palace, and educate the little emperor all the time, so that he can keep learning poetry and economic wealth, as well as the imperial norms.
In addition to these two, she is a woman who came out of her mother's Yu family's relatives, and bears the rise and fall of this family.
Obviously, it is difficult for the Queen Mother to withstand this piece of heaven alone.
For Empress Dowager Yu, there is no way to divide power.
The power of the empire is envious of others, but it is extremely heavy, and if you don't find someone to help you work, you are likely to die of overwork.
And the queen mothers throughout the ages often tend to favor their own maternal family in the division of power, that is, the well-known foreign relatives.
This time, Empress Dowager Yu gave the power of the court to her brother, Yu Liang.
Yu Liang, Ziyuan Gui, is a native of Yanling County, Henan.
The career is not too smooth, I have done the position of prime minister in the army, Zhongshulang and other positions, and my achievements in the job are mediocre, and I have not done any achievements.
If you have to say that Yu Liang is different from everyone else, it is that he is very good-looking.
According to the records of the history books, Comrade Yu Liang is handsome, graceful, and an out-and-out beautiful man.
But it looks good, and it doesn't seem to be of much use in the Eastern Jin Dynasty.
Before the Empress Dowager Yu came to power, the major affairs of the court and government had always been the responsibility of the minister Wang Dao.
Director Wang, everyone must be very familiar with it.
Wang Dao) This is a famous minister.
He once joined hands with Emperor Sima Rui of the Yuan Dynasty to cross to the south and create the Eastern Jin Dynasty.
He also helped Emperor Sima Shao of the Ming Dynasty to adjust the contradictions between society and people's livelihood and revitalize the economic development of the Eastern Jin Dynasty.
This is a famous minister who is worthy of great responsibility.
Be loyal to the emperor, be kind to your colleagues, and be kind to the people.
But as soon as Yu Liang is in power, Director Wang can only **.
It is said that although Comrade Yu Liang's ability is not outstanding, it is not useless, and it is still commendable in many places.
But after all, Director Wang laid a good foundation when he was in office, and as soon as Yu Liang took over, there was a big problem.
Yu Liang is very loyal to the emperor and is not bad to the people, but his attitude towards his colleagues is very bad.
Yu Liang believes that his sister is the emperor's biological mother, the queen mother of the dynasty, then he entered the court as an official, that is, the emperor's relatives, and his natural status is higher than that of these scholars and doctors from poor backgrounds.
After coming and going, there were naturally upright ministers who could not bear this kind of office oppression for no reason, so in the second year of Xianhe, in 327 AD, a mutiny broke out.
Su Jun, the inner history of Liyang, rebelled in the name of raising troops on the "Qingjun side".
Liyang is in today's Ma'anshan City, Anhui Province, and Neishi is just a local grassroots civil official.
Su Jun) An unarmed civilian official wanted to rebel, of course, he had to unite with the military generals, so Su Jun found Zu Yue, who was the general of Zhenxi at the time.
General Zhenxi, as the name suggests, is a military general who guards the western frontier of the Eastern Jin Dynasty.
One article and one martial arts, meat and vegetarian matching, the two of them are combined, Yu Liang is in power in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and the Empress Dowager Yu restricts the middle palace and controls the little emperor, he is the best in the field, so the current political pattern, the relatives are in power, it is really difficult to have the opportunity to be promoted, since this is the case, it is better to reverse him, and vigorously create a great cause of fame.
Of course, rebellion is rebellion, but we can't say that, externally, we still have to play the slogan of "Qingjun's side", and the purpose of shouting this slogan is very simple, that is, to beautify this rebellion.
Are we doing it for self-interest? Are we here to make money? Are we rebels and thieves?
Of course not, we are going to get rid of the traitorous courtiers around him for the emperor.
What the? You say that there are no traitorous courtiers around the emperor?
I'm sorry, I said yes.
Yes, this is a false slogan that everyone knows well, but it has been tried and tested for thousands of years.
Because this rebellion broke out very suddenly, the capital Jiankang had no defense, and Su Jun and Zu Yue easily stole the tower.
The city gate is wide open and undefended, and the Eastern Jin Dynasty will be cool tonight.
The rebellious army invaded Jiankang, and without saying a word, went straight to the palace and directly captured the little emperor Sima Yan.
The six-year-old little emperor was still the supreme son of heaven one second, and the next second he became a prisoner in the prisoner car.
But to everyone's surprise, in the sudden war, the little emperor's performance was unusually calm.
In the face of the vicious eyes and shouts of the rebels, the emperor did not panic, did not beg for mercy, did not please, and was not afraid to dodge, he actually took out a history book from his arms and read it with relish.
Emperor Sima Yan of the Jin Dynasty).
How bold is a six-year-old child, Tarzan collapsed in front of him without changing his face? What a spirit?
With such an emperor, the Guozuo of the Eastern Jin Dynasty should not perish at this time.
Su Jun and Zu Yue captured the palace and took down the emperor, and it seemed that the rebellion was successful, but in reality, this surprise attack was only half carried out.
Yes, the captive emperor does not represent anything.
Three-legged frogs are hard to find, and two-legged emperors are still a lot of them.
Capture this, and that, kill this, and the next one.
But obviously, Su Jun and Zu Yue, who decided to rebel on a whim, ended the plan made by the overnight meeting at that time.
It was a very hasty operation.
The reason why recklessness is recklessness is because although they have the courage of heroes, they do not have the mind of heroes.
Su Jun and Zu Yue never thought about what to do after occupying Jiankang, what to do after controlling the emperor, how to control the armies of the various battalions in Gyeonggi, how to plot against the hundred officials, and how to control the complex and ever-changing political situation in an instant.
They didn't think about anything, and rushed to Jiankang City with two watermelon knives.
And the result of such impulsiveness was that the armed forces of the Eastern Jin Dynasty reacted quickly, and the troops stationed around Jiankang quickly attacked Su Jun and Zu Yue in Jiankang City.
The two anti-thief comrades who were unprepared and had an unreliable plan finally ended up in the chaos of the army.
The emperor changed from a prisoner to the Son of Heaven again, and his relative Yu Liang did not see anyone when he was fighting, and as soon as the war ended, he immediately stepped up his power and directly sat firmly in the position of the top minister of the Eastern Jin Dynasty.
It seems that Yu Liang is an opportunist, or a more despicable kind.
Everything seems to have changed, but nothing seems to have changed.
What's even worse is that Yu Liang, who has absolute power, began to be more rampant, back then he was just fighting dissidents in the office, but now it has directly become a cruelty to his colleagues, and whoever is not pleasing to the eye will be killed.
The royal family of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Sima Zong, the king of Nanton, was poisoned by Yu Liang because of his disagreement with Yu Liang's political views.
King of Nanton, Sima Zong).
The little emperor went up a few **, but he didn't see Sima Zong's fold, and he didn't see him asking for leave, so he asked Yu Liang:
"Where is the bald man all day long? —Zizhi Tongjian, Vol. 93Where did Sima Zong go?
Yu Liang disagreed and replied:
"Liang is right to rebel and ambush him. —Zizhi Tongjian, Vol. 93Sima Zong rebelled and was already killed by me.
The little emperor pondered for a moment, and then said this:
"If your uncle says that a thief is a thief, he kills him; People say that uncle is a thief, what should he do! —Zizhi Tongjian, Vol. 93Uncle (Yu Liang is the emperor's uncle) said that whoever is a thief can kill anyone, so if someone tells my uncle that he is a thief one day, what should I do?
The speaker may not have the intention, but the listener must have the intention.
Above the court, step by step, in the political atmosphere of conspiracy and treachery, the little emperor said a few words, but he pierced Yu Liang's heart like a sharp knife.
Yu Liang), the emperor who ascended the throne at a young age, was politically coerced by his relatives all his life, and he was able to govern himself for almost a day.
But the emperor's words proved to people that he was not a cowardly emperor, and he was unwilling to be a puppet emperor.
But the cruel history made this emperor a prisoner for the rest of his life.
He was too young after all.
Many years ago, he was chosen by fate to become the king of the Eastern Jin Dynasty.
And now, he has struggled all his life, but he still can't escape the invisible prison of Jiankang City.
Yes, as a puppet emperor, Sima Yan is dishonorable.
He has no great achievements, let alone a good story that will go down in history.
He is the emperor, but he is also the most miserable person in the world.
An emperor who has lost his power, to live, is far more painful than to die.
On the fifth day of the sixth month of the eighth year of Xiankang (342), in the middle of summer, the snowflakes were flying, and the cold wind was like a knife.
In the Eastern Jin Dynasty, it was snowing again.
On this day, Emperor Sima Yan of Jin Cheng died of illness in Jiankang Palace at the age of 21.
Born on a snowy night, returned to the snow.
Life is as lonely as snow, perhaps lonely and nameless, is the destination of this emperor's life.