Chapter 50 Chapter 49 Kangdi Sima Yue

In June of the eighth year of Xiankang (342 A.D.), Emperor Cheng became seriously ill and was about to die.Zhong Shuling and Emperor Yu Bing, who are in charge of the government, are afraid that the son of Emperor Cheng will succeed to the throne. His kinship will be alienated and his power will be weakened. Unchanged, the power and status in the court will be stable and safe.Therefore, he repeatedly emphasized that when a country faces a strong enemy, it is appropriate to establish an older king.Chengdi's sons were all childish, so they were naturally excluded from the heirs.Yu Bing asked Sima Yue, the same mother and younger brother of Emperor Cheng, as the heir to the throne.Zhongshu ordered He Chong to object, saying: "Father and son are passed on from generation to generation. It is an eternal rule. Once it is changed, it will cause disaster." Yu Bing refused to listen.According to Yu Bing's will, the imperial court issued an edict to make Sima Yue the heir to the throne, and made Yu Bing and He Chong the Ministers of Gu Ming.A few days later, Emperor Cheng died of illness, and Sima Yue succeeded him.Because He Chong had a gap with Yu Bing on the issue of establishing the emperor, after Sima Yue succeeded to the throne, he voluntarily asked to go out to Xuzhou to serve as the governor.

During the short two years of Emperor Kangdi's reign, the important state affairs were the unsuccessful Northern Expedition of his uncle Yu Yi.At this time, among the regimes coexisting in the North and the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Zhao Shihu was the most violent in the future.In order to plunder the wealth in the south of the Yangtze River, Shi Hu planned to lead the six armies to crusade against the Eastern Jin Dynasty.He ordered the requisition of minding, and five people sent a car, two cows, 15 dendrobium rice, and 10 silk.Those who cannot be executed will be beheaded.The people were forced to sell their sons and daughters for military supplies. If they were really unable to do so, they often hanged themselves from trees, which was horrible.

At this time, the brothers Yu Bing and Yu Yi of the Eastern Jin Dynasty took control of the government. Since Yu Liang's death, Yu Yi served as the governor of Jiang, Jing, Si, Yong, Liang, and Yi, the general of Anxi, and the governor of Jingzhou, and guarded Wuchang instead of Yu Liang. .Yu Yi aspires to fame and fame, and takes it as his own responsibility to recover the lost land. He wants to lead the people to the Northern Expedition to Shihu, and Yu Bing agrees.Yu Yi then sent people to make appointments with Murong Hao, King of Yan in the east, and Zhang Jun in the west, to regularly attack the stone tigers on a large scale.He ordered the confiscation of slaves, carts, cattle, donkeys and horses in the six states under his control, which aroused resentment among the people.Emperor Kang sent envoys to ask him to stop, but Yu Yi violated the edict and sent 40,000 troops without authorization. He set off from Wuchang in September of the first year of Jianyuan (343 AD).Under Yu Bing's instruction, Emperor Kang had no choice but to issue an imperial edict to add the governor of Yuyi to conquer the military forces. He also ordered Yu Bing to supervise the military forces of Jing, Jiang, Ning, Yi, Liang, Jiao, and Guangzhou, lead the governor of Jiangzhou, and town Wuchang. To help Yu Yi.He Chong, the governor of Xuzhou, led the governor of Yangzhou, and recorded the book to assist the government.Huan Wen, the internal history of Langxie, was the governor of Qing, Xu, and Yanzhou's military forces, and the governor of Xuzhou.Take Chu Po as the general of the guard and lead the order of Zhongshu.

At this time, Shi Hu was also stepping up his conscription.By the first month of the second year of Jianyuan (344 A.D.), more than one million troops were gathered from Zhuzhou of Later Zhao.However, because Shihu believed in witchcraft, and because Taishi ordered divination and said that it was not suitable to go south, Shihu stopped his large-scale attack on the Eastern Jin Dynasty. In September of the same year, the 23-year-old Jinkang Emperor died of illness and was buried in Chongping Mausoleum before seeing much progress in the Northern Expedition.