Chapter 33 Wang Dun's final fate

Emperor Ming of the Eastern Jin Dynasty had just succeeded to the throne for more than three months, and Wang Dun, who had always been weak and sick, also felt that he was at the end of the day.He himself was not good at leading troops into Jiankang without an excuse, but suggested to Emperor Ming that he wanted the emperor to issue an edict to conscript him into the court in order to be "righteous and righteous", and then follow the trend and step by step to satisfy the emperor's addiction. Emperor Ming of the Eastern Jin Dynasty was young and vigorous, and he was calm and fearless in critical moments. He personally wrote the imperial edict to let Wang Dun enter the capital. As a result, Wang Dun felt a bit in a dilemma.

Wang Dun wanted to seek rebellion, but his clan members did not follow him blindly.Needless to say, Director Wang has always supported the imperial family with the safety of the entire Wang clan as the highest interest.Wang Dun's cousin, Wang Leng, repeatedly persuaded him, but was assassinated by Wang Dun's men; another cousin, Wang Bin, was loyal and upright, "remonstrance was very bitter", and he was almost killed.Wang Shu, governor of Jingzhou, was also Wang Dun's cousin. Knowing that Wang Dun was about to start an uprising, he immediately stood with Wang Dao and secretly advised Emperor Ming of the Eastern Jin Dynasty to step up his preparations and plot against Wang Dun.

By the way, before Wang Dun moved to the town of Gushu, before "entering the dynasty" and Jiankang, he followed Qian Feng's words and wiped out the largest local power in Wu - the Zhou clan dominated by Zhou Zha. At the time of Zhou Zha, it was the internal history of Kuaiji, "One family and five princes, the clan is strong and prosperous, Wu Shimo can compare with it."Qian Feng is an old friend of Shen Chong, so he naturally wants to help Shen. "The heroes of Jiangdong, Mo Qiang Shen and Zhou", once the Zhou family is destroyed, the Shen family will naturally be unmatched in Jiangdong.Therefore, Wang Dun falsely claimed that the Zhou family conspired against the law, and sent Shen Chong and others to lead the army to destroy the Zhou family.It is a pity that after Wang Dun's failure, Shen Chong's family was also wiped out, and the native Wu family disappeared in smoke. (It is worth mentioning that Zhou Zha's father is Zhou Chu, the protagonist of the Peking Opera "Eliminate the Three Plagues". The fierce tiger and the long bridge python are collectively known as the "three evils". After being exhorted by brothers Lu Ji and Lu Yun, they rehabilitated themselves and studied hard. He was posthumously awarded as General Pingxi by the Western Jin Dynasty. At that time, Zhou Chu still had a collection of anthologies handed down from generation to generation, including 30 chapters of "Silence", "Feng Tu Ji" and "Book of Wu". He was a true all-rounder in civil and military affairs.)

At the critical moment when the big event is about to happen, Wang Dun's condition worsens.He himself had no children, and Wang Ying, the son of his brother Wang Han, should adopt him as his son.Therefore, he pretended to worship the king as General Wuwei as his deputy, and worshiped Wang Han as the general of hussars. Qian Feng, as the mastermind, was also very anxious, so he asked Wang Dun: "If you don't hide it (in case you "pass" from a serious illness), should the king be able to inherit the important matter?" Wang Dun understood people, and said: "Extraordinary things, extraordinary things that people can do. Wang Ying is young, how can it be a big deal! After I die, I will release my soldiers and disperse the crowd, return to the court, keep my family, and return to Wuchang. , withdraw troops to defend ourselves, don’t give up your contribution, it’s a plan; and I’m still alive, let’s go down with everyone, in case of luck, it’s a plan.”

Master Qian Feng had a shallow view, and he was concerned about himself, thinking that "it is the best policy to make public plans", and made a plan with Shen Chong and others to prepare for Wang Dun's death and impromptu rebellion. Emperor Ming of the Eastern Jin Dynasty was young Yingguo, talented and both civil and military, not as useless as his father, Emperor Yuan.After judging the situation, he decided to preemptively attack Wangdun with Situ Wangdao as the governor, and ordered the ministers Wen Qiao, Xi Jian and others to lead the army and issue an edict to attack Wang Dun.

Wang Dao was far-sighted and led the clan's children to "sorrow" for Wang Dun first, creating the illusion that Wang Dun was dead.It seems that Wang Dun's reputation is indeed great. If his body is strong, Emperor Jinming, Wang Dao and a group of civil and military officials are really no match for him alone. "(Wang) was very angry when he saw the imperial edict; but his illness turned serious and he couldn't control himself."Jin people believed in divination, so Wang Dun asked his secretary to join the army and Guo Pu counted it. Guo Pu was opposed to Wang Dun's rebellion, he pinched his fingers randomly, and replied, "It didn't work."

Wang Dun suspected that Guo Pu had always had a close relationship with Wen Qiao and others in the court. Hearing that it was another ominous hexagram, he firmly believed that Guo Pu's elbow was turned outward.He suppressed his anger, and asked Guo Pu, "Just figure out how long I can live." Guo Pu thought for a while and said, "Considering the hexagrams just now, Minggong's rebellion will surely cause disaster soon; if you live in Wuchang, your life expectancy will be unpredictable." Wang Dun was furious and asked, "How long is Qing's life?" Guo Pu knew that he couldn't help it, so he replied, "It's noon today."

Wang Dunli ordered the sergeants to capture and behead Guo Pu. Guo Pu, courtesy name Jingchun, was born in Wenxi, Hedong.A great writer, a great poet, a great divinationist, and a great geomancer.The imagery of his "Poetry of the Immortals" is novel, and it is the first of Chinese landscape poetry. It is rich in literary talent and profound artistic conception. Jinghua Youxian Cave, where mountains and trees live in seclusion.How rich a rich family is, if it is not entrusted to Penglai.In Linyuan, the waves are eliminated, and in the Linggang, the catkins are pushed out.Lingxi can dive into the disk, and Anshi can climb the ladder.There are proud officials in Qiyuan, and Lai's has a wife.If you advance, you will see the dragon, and if you retreat, you will touch the feudal lord.Going beyond the wind and dust, bowing to Xie Yiqi.

(one) Emeralds play with orchids, and their looks are even more distinctive.The green radish knots tall forests, and the Menglong covers a mountain.There is a dark and lonely soil in the middle, and the quiet whistle caresses the Qing Dynasty.Out of the Lingxiao, chewing the pistil and pouring into the flying spring.The red pine faces the upper reaches, and the red pine rides the purple smoke.Take the Fuqiu sleeve on the left, and pat Hong Ya's shoulder on the right.May I ask the mayflies, would you rather know the year of the tortoise and the crane? (third) Not only capable of poetry, Guo Pu is also good at composing Fu.His works "Jiang Fu" and "Nanjiao Fu" are all magnificent and eclectic.Of course, as a medieval poet, many of Guo Pu's poems and prose works are now little known, but at that time he was a master figure who pioneered a generation of ethos.

When Emperor Jin Ming was the crown prince, he had a very close relationship with Guo Pu, Wen Qiao, and Yu Liang, "all of whom were friends in common clothes". No wonder Wang Dun suspected that Guo Pu had two hearts for him. In the "Book of Jin", Guo Pu's name is listed in the same biography as the great alchemist and chemist Ge Hong, instead of randomly included in the "Art Biography" with a group of doctors and fortune-tellers, which shows his importance at that time sex.He not only wrote the book "Donglin", a complete collection of divination and divination, but also commented hundreds of thousands of words on "Erya", "Sancang", "Chu Ci", "Zixu Fu" and "Shanglin Fu". He is a master of knowledge, talent and Confucianism and Taoism.It's unlucky that such a smart person as Guo Pu, is also the kind of person who is "good at planning for others but clumsy at seeking out himself".

In August of 324 A.D. (the second year of Taining, Emperor Ming of Jin Dynasty), Wang Dun ordered his eldest brother Wang Han and others to lead more than 50,000 elite soldiers from land and water to Jiankang in the name of killing Wenqiao. If Ming Emperor Sima Shao was the weak master, Wang Dun could have succeeded in one fell swoop.However, the young emperor had "literary talent and military strategy, courteous virtuous and loving guests, elegant and good diction".Before the war, Emperor Sima Shao of the Ming Dynasty was able to go out in his own clothes under the honor of Wan Cheng, and took a few servants to Gushu on horseback to scout Wang Dun's deployment of troops. Emperor Ming wore ordinary clothes, but his appearance was extraordinary.His mother's Xun family was from the Yan Dynasty, with Xianbei blood, yellow beard and white face. Hearing from the soldiers that there was a man with a golden beard wandering around near the camp, Wang Dun sat up on the hospital bed startled and shouted: "This must be the Huangxu Xianbei slave!" He hurriedly sent out cavalry to hunt him down.Seeing that the situation was urgent, Emperor Ming got on his horse and galloped away.Along the way, every time there was a pause, he asked his servants to pour cold water on the horse manure. When the horse manure was cold, he thought that the enemy scouts had no time to catch up, so he stopped the horse. "The emperor was exempted only."If you recommend an emperor-level "lonely hero", Sima Shao, Emperor Ming of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, should be one of the best. Wang Han is Wang Dun's elder brother, but Long and Shu have far different talents.In the Battle of Yuecheng, Duan Xiu (the younger brother of Xianbei Duan Pilin) ​​under Emperor Ming defeated Wang Han with a thousand men, and beheaded the forward He Kang. Hearing that the eldest brother was defeated when he dispatched troops, Wang Dun was furious: "My brother, old maidservant. The family is in decline, and the general situation is gone!" He wanted to support his sick body, so he went to the front line to command.Reluctantly, he became terminally ill, and felt dizzy as soon as he sat up, and fell down on the bed.Soon, Wang Dun became seriously ill and died at the age of fifty-nine. "Book of Jin" records that before his death, Wang Dun expressed that he wanted Wang Ying to ascend the throne as emperor.After much deliberation, it is incomprehensible.Wang Dun knew very well that he was about to perish, so it was impossible for him to conceive and let his adopted son Wang Ying, who had failed to live up to him, proclaim himself emperor in order to bring disaster upon his family.Winner and loser, the "deeds" of the loser can only be recounted by the "winner". Wang Ying is really a dead dog who can't support the wall.The situation was so grim that he neither proclaimed himself emperor, gave his subordinates a "hope" to be the hero of the founding of the country, nor mourned Wang Dun, let alone thought about offensive and defensive strategies.This prodigal son really doesn't know what sorrow is, and spends his days drinking and having sex with a few of his men.As for Wang Dun's body, it was wrapped in a mat by the unworthy son, coated with several layers of thick wax, and buried under the ground of the meeting hall.If General Wang had a spirit after his death, hiding under the big blue stone slab every day, wrapped tightly like a rice dumpling, quietly listening to Nizi (probably his nephew) playing group sex on him, the sound of silk and bamboo, Fighting hand-to-hand, the son-in-law and general who have been known for his boldness all his life can only lament his bad luck. On the side of Emperor Ming of Jin, he sent Shen Zhen, a native of Wu Xing, to lure Shen Chong, Wang Dun's die-hard party member, to surrender to Xu Yi, a senior official of Sikong. Shen Chong is very like a man at critical moments.He rejected Emperor Ming's "good intentions": "The position of the three princes should be taken by someone with high beauty and talent. How can I be able to do it in my generation. I dare not accept it. In the end, how can the middle way be changed. If so, can the world tolerate my repeated actions?" After speaking, Shen Chong raised his troops and went straight to Jiankang, leading more than ten thousand people to join forces with Wang Han. Although Shen Chong has a chivalrous style, he is not good at fighting.Someone suggested that he dig out the water of Xuanwu Lake to pour Jiankang back into Jiankang, and sail forward by a big water boat.Shen Chong hesitated and couldn't make up his mind. During the stalemate, soldiers and horses of King Qin from all over the country arrived one after another, especially the soldiers led by Shi Su Jun in Linhuai Nei, who were very powerful in combat.Shen Chong and Qian Feng thought together and felt that Su Jun and others had come from afar, and the soldiers would be exhausted, so they should take the initiative to strike first, so they joined forces to attack Jiankang City.When the two armies fought, Shen Chong and others took the lead and defeated the Eastern Jin army steadily, chasing them all the way to Xuanyangmen. When the rebels were clearing roadblocks and preparing to attack the city in one fell swoop, Su Jun and others, who thought they were too tired from the distance to fight, suddenly led the crowd out and attacked Shen Chong and Qian Feng's attacking soldiers. Shen Chong and others were defeated, and more than 3,000 soldiers fell into the river and drowned.Before he could catch his breath, Liu Xia's first army in the Eastern Jin Dynasty broke through Shenchong in Qingxi again. The most idiot is Wang Han.With tens of thousands of powerful soldiers in hand, he did not cooperate with Shen Chong to attack Jiankang, but just waited and lingered.After hearing the news of Shen Chong's defeat, he took thirty-six tactics and fled by burning the camp overnight. Wang Han fled to Jingzhou with his son and wanted to join his cousin Wang Shu.Unexpectedly, what greeted their father and son was not hot wine and delicious food, nor hospitable smiling faces, but cold chains.Wang Shu, who did not recognize his relatives, locked up his cousin and nephew without saying a word, and threw them into the river to drown in public, drawing a clear line with Wang Dun and Wang Han with "practical actions". Qian Feng ran to Heluzhou, but was also beheaded by Zhou Guang, the prefect of Xunyang who belonged to the same camp, and took his head to the capital to "redeem himself". The army was defeated like a mountain.In a panic, Shen Chong broke into Wu Ru's house, his former subordinate, to take refuge.The old saying goes: "If you are in a hurry, don't go to your old relatives." With a smirk on his face, Wu Ru lured his old boss Shen Chong into the complex wall, and blocked a large stone from the secret door with a bang.He climbed to a high place, smiled and said to the former benefactor from top to bottom: "I can get three thousand households!" Cut off Shen Chong.) Shen Chong was also calm. He raised his head and said to Wu Ru: "It's not enough to be a Marquis. You save me with righteousness, and my clan will reward you generously. If you must kill me, your clan will be destroyed!" The villain Wu Ru, of course, does not believe in the theory of "resurrecting from the ashes". The capital receives the reward. Shen Chong is a wealthy family of several generations in the east of the Yangtze River, with many branches and vines. Before he died, he said something with confidence.But what he never imagined was that it was not his relatives surnamed Shen who took revenge for him, but his own eldest son Shen Jin. Wang Dun's rebellion was put down, not only Qian Feng and Shen Chong were killed, but according to the law of the dynasty, at least three clans must be punished for rebellion.Shen Jin, the son of Shen Chong, was so fateful that he managed to save his life under the protection of the villagers, and was not caught and beheaded by the Eastern Jin government.In the prosperity of the dynasty, the probability of such a father rebelling against his son is almost zero, but the Eastern Jin Dynasty is in a corner, with powerful enemies nearby, and the world is chaotic. It didn't take long before the emperor's birthday, wedding, birth and other festive amnesty, Shen Shen Jin appeared on the market again, and really led his people to kill Wu Ru's family.The local tyrants of the Wu region are filial to each other, and the Eastern Jin government is also willing to fight among them. In addition, Shen Jin is a filial act of avenging his father, which is morally supported by all parties.Shen Jin not only avenged his father, but also became famous all over the world as a hero. "(Shen) Jin has little moral integrity, mourning his father's death due to injustice, and wanting to be a hero, he will be ashamed first." He volunteered to cross the river to resist the northern captives, and fought against the soldiers of Murong Yan many times. 359), Shen Jin defended Xuchang with five hundred soldiers and resisted Murong Ke.Soon, the army was defeated and the city collapsed, Shen Jin died unyielding, and was posthumously awarded the title of "Dongyang Prefect" by the Eastern Jin Dynasty. In this way, in the history, after his father Shen Chong was attached to the "rebellious minister" Wang Dunzhuan, his son Shen Jin was listed in the "Loyalty Biography", which shows that the theory of blood has no real basis. As for Wang Dun, the conclusion is finalized, and feudal historians have to admit his achievements: "Wang Dunli was an official in the middle dynasty. He was well-known for his works. He was a herd of Huaihai. From the perspective of modern people, the author thinks that Wang Dun is a staunch man, daring to love, hate, and act. Moreover, the reason for his rebellion was also because members of the Wang family were excluded, not entirely out of personal ambition.The villains Diao Xie and Liu Wei fanned the flames, Qian Feng and Shen made disasters and disasters, only lamenting that time and fate are not in favor of heroes.After his death, the famous General Wang was dug up by the Eastern Jin government. He died, and he was helped to kneel down and his head was beheaded. After Wang Dun's death, his brother Wang Han and step-son Wang Ying were killed, but the Wang family of Langya was not implicated.Wang Dao took Situ Jin as the Taibao, Wang Shuqian as the governor of Xiangzhou, and Wang Dao's cousin Wang Bin as the secretary of the branch. Wang's family has many people, and they are still the leaders of the aristocratic families in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Waves just level off and waves rise again After the rebellion of Wang Dun was put down, Sima Shao, the emperor of Jin and Ming Dynasties, died of illness shortly after he was only 27 years old.Although he has only been the emperor for about three years, Shi Chen still has a high evaluation of him: "The emperor is clever and decisive, especially good at physics. Yu. It belongs to Wang Dun, who will move the magic weapon under the prestige of the earthquake master. The emperor rides and obeys, uses the weak to control the strong, secretly seeks to be arbitrary, and Langqing Dakun. The four prefectures such as Jing and Xiang are transferred to divide the upper class. To bring order out of chaos, strengthen the base and weaken the branches. Although the country enjoys a shallower state, the scale is far-reaching." Crown Prince Sima Yan came to the throne at only five years old, and became Emperor Cheng of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. The Emperor Boy came to the throne, and the Empress Yu of the Ming Emperor came to the court as the Empress Dowager. Although the Emperor Ming ordered the Taibao King to guide the Minister of the Book and assist the government with the Zhongshu Ling Yu Liang, the real power was concentrated in the hands of Yu Liang. —The empress dowager Yu was his sister, and the child emperor Sima Yan was his nephew. Yu Liang, courtesy name Yuangui, was born in a famous family.This person is "beautiful in appearance, good at talking, and good in "Zhuang" and "Old"". He is a model figure in Wei and Jin demeanor, and he is often mentioned in books.But in politics, Yu Liang is a mediocre, self-willed and narrow-minded. When Emperor Ming was seriously ill, his uncle Yu Yin was the general of the right guard, and he was in charge of the Imperial Guard with the general of the left guard, Sima Zong, king of Nandun.Because the two people have a good personal relationship, it aroused Yu Liang's suspicion and dissatisfaction.Out of a public mind, Wang led out and together with Yu Liang reminded Emperor Ming that Sima Zong and Yu Yin would support Sima Zong's elder brother Sima Yi, the king of Xiyang, as emperor after the death of Emperor Ming.Emperor Ming didn't believe it, but trusted Yu Yin and Sima Zong even more. The brothers Sima Zong and Sima Yi were the sons of Runan King Sima Liang (Runan King was the first old prince to be killed in the "Eight Kings Rebellion". Among them, it is indeed unjust).In terms of seniority, Sima Zong and Sima Yi are the uncles of Emperor Ming, and they are all about fifty years old.Yu Liang only thought about the absolute safety of his nephew's accession to the throne after the death of Emperor Ming, and was very suspicious of the two Sima princes. When Emperor Ming was seriously ill, Yu Liang wanted to visit him in the middle of the night, but was stopped by King Sima Zong of Nandun, who yelled: "Is the gate of the royal palace your own door? You can enter if you want?" Sima Zong hated it to the bone. When Emperor Ming was dying, Yu Liang burst into tears, accusing Sima Zong, Sima Yi and Yu Yin of conspiracy, and hoped that Emperor Ming would "deal with" them immediately.Emperor Ming didn't accept it. Instead, he asked people to call Sima Yi, the Taibao Wang Dao, Shang Shuling Bian Hu, Qi Jian, Yin Wenqiao of Danyang, and Yu Liang, who were then Taizai, to receive the imperial edict to assist the government. Even so, after the death of Emperor Ming, Empress Dowager Yu became the ruler, and the child emperor Chongyou, the power was naturally concentrated in the hands of Yu Liang alone.When Wang Dao presided over the government, he was lenient and controlled his subordinates, which won the hearts of the people; Yu Liang was in power, and he was harsh on the law, which was quite unpopular.At the same time, he was deeply suspicious of Tao Kan, Zu Yue, Su Jun and others who supported the army outside, and he planned how to guard against these three people all day long. At that time, Tao Kan was the governor of Jingzhou, and he had people from the four states of Jing, Xiang, Yong and Liang.Zu Yue served as governor of Yuzhou, in charge of the large area occupied by his brother Zu Ti after the Northern Expedition.Seeing that they were not included in the list of honored ministers in the imperial edict of Emperor Ming, these two people suspected that Yu Liang was behind it and deleted their names.In addition, Su Jun, the internal history of Liyang, made great contributions in the process of fighting against Shen Chong and Qian Feng, and had tens of thousands of strong soldiers in his hands, and he was also full of arrogance. In order to guard against these three foreign ministers, Yu Liang sent his old friend Wen Qiao, who had a good relationship with him, to serve as the governor of Jiangzhou, town Wuchang, and Wang Shu as the internal historian of Kuaiji, thinking of solidarity.At the same time, he sent people to overhaul Stone City, just in case. The mother's queen is in court, the emperor rushes to the young, and his relatives rule under the dictatorship. In this way, the beginning of disaster and chaos has already been seen. In November of the first year of Emperor Xianhe (326), Yu Liang had only been in power for more than half a year, so he sent forbidden soldiers to arrest him on the pretext of rebellion by Sima Zong, king of Nandun.The old prince Sima Zong was stubborn, refused to fight and resisted, and was killed.His elder brother Sima Yi, the king of Xiyang, was also demoted to be the county king, and Yu Yin, the former general of the right guard who had been made a false official, was also demoted to be the prefect of Guiyang.Yu Liang's move was not out of public interest at all, and he greatly disappointed the expectations of the world. Everyone thought he was cutting off the clan and consolidating his authority. Brothers Sima Zong and Sima Yi have always had a good relationship with Su Jun.After the incident, one of Sima Zong's cronies ran to Su Jun to hide, and Yu Liang sent someone to arrest him, but Su Jun refused to confess, which made the emperor's uncle even more evil. The six-year-old Jin Chengdi had no idea what was going on outside.One day, after finishing his homework, he suddenly remembered something, and asked Yu Liang, "Where is that old man with white hair that I used to see in the palace?" The ancestors, the elders of the clan, all set up special beds (sitting on the bed to show respect and favor) in the main hall of the court meeting. Yu Liang told his nephew: "The man who rebelled against him has already been killed." The little emperor cried when he heard this.On weekdays, Sima Zong was very kind to him, often holding him to play in the palace, his kind appearance with white hair and beard made the children feel kinder. "Uncle, if you say that others are thieves, kill them. What if others say that you are a thief?" the child sobbed. Yu Liang was terrified when he heard the words, his expression changed, and he didn't know how to answer the question of the six-year-old little emperor. Empress Dowager Yu was very angry, and hit Emperor Cheng on the head with a tooth ruler, angrily scolded: "How can a child say such a thing?" It was obvious that she couldn't bear to see her brother's terrified face when his son said it.