Chapter 42 Six, sunset afterglow

In the first month of the fourth year of Yan Guangshou (360 A.D.), Murong Jun, the first Xianbei emperor, held a military parade in Yecheng, the capital of the country, with his heavy body. The army went south to attack the Eastern Jin Dynasty. The sky failed, and this Emperor Murong suddenly fell ill during the military parade, and his grand ambition to pacify the South had not yet been announced in front of the officers and soldiers of the whole country, and it became a dead letter with his fall.The next day, news of the emperor's death spread from the palace. He was only forty-two years old this year.

The 11-year-old prince Murong Wei succeeded to the throne four days later and became the second emperor in Xianbei history. Because it caught up with the first month of that year, the year name was also changed to Jianxi. In the first month of the year, Qianyan also changed the throne like other feudal dynasties and countries in Chinese history, and everything seemed normal.But as Bo Yang said, each dynasty will have its bottleneck period in its development and continuation process, which means the period when the regime is very dangerous. This time is roughly within twenty to thirty years after the establishment of the dynasty, that is, the second or third The third generation of leaders came to power.Due to various subjective and objective reasons, the succeeding monarch at this time often lacks the ability to control emergencies, and the phenomena of power falling apart and internal affairs are more prominent.

The dynasties of the Sixteen Kingdoms are almost all short-lived, from Liu Yuan and Liu Yao's Han Zhao to Shi Le's Later Zhao, no matter how heroic your founding monarch is, the final outcome is always the same.Calculating with one's fingertips, the former Yan Empire has also entered its twenty-fourth year since Murong Hao founded the country and proclaimed himself king in 337 AD.Everything seems to be well-arranged, making it seem familiar to those of us who play with history: the emperor was young and strong but died unfortunately, and the child who knew nothing about the world became the nominal monarch. Pregnant with ghosts, there are many conflicts among the royal relatives and relatives.

Therefore, if it is said that the former Yan will perish, it will be revealed in this year. Although Murong Jun reused Murong Ke, Yang Yu and others before his death, and let them be assisted by the imperial edict, Murong is obviously just a brat who grew up in the palace. child only.The most powerful person inside and outside the palace is not the very prestigious Dazai Murong Ke (after Murong ascended the throne, he was appointed as Dazai to record government affairs), but the Empress Dowager Kezuhun (don't forget that she was the one who killed Murong Chui) The original culprit of the Duan family) and Tai Fu Shangyong Wang Murong Ping, one of these two people is jealous and capable, and the other is greedy. If they can "try their best", I am afraid that Qianyan will die a few years earlier. Murong Ke was in the middle to ensure the superficial peace at the beginning.But in the eyes of the little emperor Murong, he is very proud of his choice.Think about it, one is my biological mother, and the other is my first teacher, even if I don't believe what anyone says, I can't help but trust these two.

With Murong Ke around, Qianyan continued to maintain its image as the largest empire.As a powerful enemy to the west of the former Yan, at this time, the former Qin Dynasty was in a state of peace under Wang Meng's transformation. "Book of Jin·Fu Jian Zai Ji" said that Fu Jian had been on the throne for five years, "People think of persuasion and encouragement, known as a toast , Stop the thieves, please stop the road, repair the fields, fill the treasury, and don’t have all the rules and regulations.” Reading this passage reminds people of the description of the peaceful scene in the Zhenguan period of Emperor Taizong of Tang Dynasty in the history books. The words are so similar!However, there are too many opponents around Fu Jian, not to mention the Qianliang in the northwest and the Qiuchi Yang in the southwest. The two major tribes in the north and south of Hetao—the Xianbei Tuoba clan and the Tiefu Liu clan are enough for him to work hard. Dealing with (we leave these for the next two chapters).In the few years since Murong came to the throne, Fu Jian had no time to look around.

The Eastern Jin Dynasty in the south of the Yangtze River received the news of Murong Jun's death, and the ministers all had new "ideas" about the north. The general Huan Wen knew that Murong Ke was powerful, and the sentence "Murong Ke is still alive, worrying about the big ears" made the court think that the Central Plains has something to offer. The discussion died down immediately. At this time, the Eastern Jin Dynasty still grasped the results left by the second Northern Expedition—the cramped land around the old capital Luoyang.Murong Ke fully adhered to Murong Jun's unified intention, and this coveted old capital of the Wei and Jin Dynasties became the first sounding stone in his progress. Six emperors Ai Dilong and the first year) sent troops to the south to attack Luoyang.Huan Wen made a strange request to the court (Huan Wen had gone through the extermination of the Han Dynasty and the two Northern Expeditions. At this time, it can be said that the power was in the hands of the government and the people, and the Ming Dynasty was sparse, so it was actually a request): the emperor of the Eastern Jin Dynasty was asked to move his capital to Luoyang to enrich the Henan area. the power of. (Knowing that it can't be done, he still blackmails the emperor with this. Huan Wen is worthy of being "a generation of heroes.") This time, the opinions of the court were finally "rarely" unified. No one dared to attack Murong's army aggressively. Several ministers with high language proficiency wrote a lot of analysis of the situation and opposed the relocation of the capital, and no one could find any loopholes after reading it.Although Huan Wen is bold, he has to face the reality. (This had little effect on him, but Emperor Ai was afraid that Huan Wen would hold grudges because of this, which would be bad for himself, so he quickly made Huan Wen a servant and great Sima, and finally handed over the military power of the entire Eastern Jin Dynasty to him.)

The Eastern Jin Dynasty could not defend Luoyang after several strong attacks by Qianyan. After three years of offensive and defensive battles, Luoyang fell again. No longer able to continue - he exhausted the last energy of his life for this.Only two years later, that is, eight years before Yan Guangshou (367 AD), Murong Ke passed away with the regret of his unfinished business.Half the sky of Qianyan has collapsed. When Murong Ke was dying, he tried his best to recommend to Murong Wei his younger brother Murong Chui, the king of Wu, to take over his position as the chief minister. .Wu Wang is both civil and military, and is a close relative. After I die, I hope that your majesty can delegate power to Wu Wang."

Murong Ke is right. With Murong Chui's talent, if he can really be entrusted with a heavy responsibility, half of the sky of Qianyan should be able to support it again.However, Murong Wei, like his father, did not trust this king of Wu, and left everything to be handled by the Taifu Murong Ping. As a result, the important position of Da Sima fell to the emperor's younger brother, Zhongshan Wang Murong Chong, who was even more ignorant than Murong Wei. Next, Murong Chui quickly proved the serious mistakes of the "decision makers" like Qianyan with his outstanding performance, that is, he beautifully repelled Huan Wen's army who attacked the Central Plains three times.It's a pity that Murong Chui was a victor on the battlefield, but he was not as shrewd as his opponent Huan Wen off the battlefield, and suffered the first "big defeat" in his life.