Chapter 35 The Final Settlement of the Su Jun Rebellion

In June of the third year of Xianhe (328), Emperor Cheng of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Tao Kan personally led an army to Xunyang.The local courtiers and soldiers all talked a lot, thinking that after Tao Kan came, he would definitely "Zhu Yuliang to thank the world" first. Yu Liang was startled and frightened, so anxious that he almost jumped into the river.Fortunately, his old friend Wen Qiao had the idea to let him go to Tao Kan's camp to meet and apologize in person. Tao Kan was not mentally prepared.Suddenly, he saw the emperor's uncle kneeling in front of him, who was full of power and the jade tree was facing the wind, muttering apologies in his mouth, and he was shocked: "Yu Yuangui actually worshiped me, Tao Shixing!"

"(Yu Liang) blames himself, and Tao Kan is not relieved."Jin people are so innocent, magnanimous, and admire the demeanor of characters.Facing such an opponent of a powerful minister who caused chaos in the world, lured wolves into the house, and once wanted to harm himself, if he put it on other people from other dynasties, he would have raised his knife and chopped it off viciously.But the charm of "Wei-Jin demeanor" should not be underestimated. Words and deeds can turn hostility into friendship and hatred into friendship. Tao Kan laughed and said: "Your Majesty, you are overhauling the Stone City to guard against me, and you are begging me to do something today!" After finishing speaking, the two "talked and feasted all day long".

Tao Kan sent troops, and the situation suddenly changed. "There are 40,000 army soldiers, more than 700 miles of banners and flags, and the sound of drums and drums shakes far and near." Su Jun didn't expect Tao Kan to make peace with Yu Liang, so he hurriedly returned to the army from Gushu, and dispatched generals to fight Tao Kan according to Jiankang Stone City. Tao Kan, courtesy name Shixing, was born in Poyang.He is lonely and poor, and likes to study. After entering Luoyang, Zhang Hua sighed.Chen Min caused chaos in the south of the Yangtze River, and Tao Kan served as the prefect of Jiangxia, and repeatedly defeated the thieves.When Emperor Yuan came to Jiangdong, Tao Kan praised him a lot, and he made a lot of contributions in the battle against Wang Chong and Du Tao, and was recommended by Wang Dun.Later, Wang Dun was jealous of Tao Kan's meritorious service, and almost killed the general he had tried his best to recommend.In the chaos of Wang Dun, Tao Kan firmly stood on the side of Emperor Ming.After the incident was settled, he was awarded the governor of Jingzhou and the general who conquered the west. "(Tao) Kan has nothing to do in the state. He usually transports a hundred pots outside the Zhai in the morning, and in the Zhai in the evening. When people ask why, they answer: 'We are committed to the Central Plains. It is too leisurely, and I am afraid it will be unbearable.' His inspiration Diligence is all of this kind.”At the same time, Tao Kan is intelligent by nature, diligent in official duties, respectful and courteous, loves human relations, sits on his knees all day long, and manages every day.He especially hated his subordinates for gambling and drinking, denouncing them as "pig slave dramas", whipping and beating offenders without mercy.If his subordinates "respect" his things, Tao Kan would ask him why he got them. "If it is caused by hard work, even if it is small, the comfort will be doubled; if it is not reasonable, it will be harsh and humiliating, and it will be rewarded." Among the Jin Dynasty scholar-officials who advocated pomp and talk, Tao Kan practiced political affairs personally The doers are very rare, and the comprehensive management is very dense, very comparable to others.Shangshu Mei Tao once praised Tao Kan very pertinently: "Tao Gongji's god is like Wei Wu (Cao Cao), loyal and hardworking like Kong Ming (Zhuge Liang)." There are more than a thousand children, and the treasures and rare goods are rich in Tianfu."The old man was rich and honorable, and died well at the age of seventy-six, with seventeen sons.The most worth mentioning is that he has the most famous great-grandson-Tao Yuanming.It can be seen that the rich are only three generations old. By the time of Tao Qian, he was already so poor that he was thinking about whether to "bow his waist for five buckets of rice" every day.

Speaking back.To be on the safe side, Su Jun played his trump card well and forced the little emperor to move to Stone City.Wang Dao insisted on arguing, but of course Su Jun didn't listen. "The emperor weeps and boards the car, and the palace weeps."The child was only seven years old, and suddenly he was forced to move from the palace he was familiar with. The horror can be imagined. When he arrived in Stone City, Su Jun vacated an empty warehouse as the palace of the child emperor. Every day he had nothing to do, he would speak wildly in front of the child and scold Yu Liang and others.This General Su was also insane. He was born as a scholar and had made great contributions to the Eastern Jin Dynasty. After gaining power, he used his dominance over a child every day. It can be seen that the emperor's uncle Yu Liang made him insane.

Fortunately, Zhong Ya, Liu Chao, Hua Heng and other ministers were loyal, "the ministers are more respectful", they took turns to serve the imprisoned child emperor, and taught him to read, write and learn culture every day. The two sides fight each other and win or lose.The Jin army achieved a greater victory. Wen Qiao's subordinate Mao Bao robbed the ten thousand grains and rice that Su Jun gave to Zu Yue, and beheaded nearly ten thousand bandit soldiers. The morale of Su Jun's most important ally. Soon, Tao Kan led his water army to Caizhou, stationed at Chapu on the west bank of Stone City, and Wen Qiao stationed at Shamenpu.Su Jun climbed up the Beacon Tower and saw the strength of the Jin army from a distance, and he began to feel fear.

Yu Liang was eager to make contributions, and sent his subordinate Wang Zhang to attack Su Jun, who was defeated in the battle.Feeling ashamed, Yu Liang sent his festival talisman to Tao Kan for punishment.Tao Kan was humorous, and sent someone to convey the message: "The ancients lost three times, and the kings and princes were the second. Now things are urgent, so it is not appropriate to count them." After all the armies arrived at Stone City, they all wanted to fight Su Jun immediately. Tao Kan made up his mind and said: "Thieves are abundant, and it is difficult to compete with them. We should use time and wisdom to break them."

Everyone didn't listen, and the result was really "repeated battles without success".Su Jun's army has experienced hundreds of battles. In the early days, it often fought with Houzhao's Jie army in Jiangbei. It was brave and fierce. The general Jin army really couldn't beat this team. As for Zu Yue, his nephew Zu Huan was defeated by Mao Bao, and Hefei Garrison was also captured by the Jin army.Soon, Zu Yue's generals conspired with Hou Zhao secretly. Shi Cong, Shi Kan and others commanded Hou Zhao's army to rush across the Huai River, cooperating inside and outside, making Zu Yue, who had been unpopular for a long time, abandon Shouchun's lair and flee to Liyang.

When the news of the failure of the ancestral agreement came, Su Jun's confidant Lu Yong and others were afraid that the event would not be successful, so they persuaded Su Jun to kill Wang Dao and other ministers and clear the court.Su Jun has always respected Director Wang and refused to listen. Seeing that their own plan was useless, Lu Yong and others also had second thoughts about Su Jun.After Wang Dao heard the news, he instead sent someone to lure Lu Yong to submit to him. In October, Lu Yong led the way, took his two sons and fled out of Stone City to Baishi, where Yu Liang was stationed.

During the stalemate between the two sides, the Jin army was defeated several times.The courtiers who escaped from Stone City all said: "Su Jun is cunning and courageous, and his apprentice is brave and invincible." Wen Qiao was furious and cursed: "You are really cowardly, how can you praise the thief's bravery?" "When you are tired and invincible, (Wen) Qiao is also afraid of it." What's more terrible is that Wen Qiao's army ran out of rations soon, so he had to borrow food from Tao Kan.Tao Kan was resentful that Wen Qiao and others sent troops easily, refused to borrow food, and wanted to withdraw troops before making plans.In the end, Mao Bao volunteered to persuade Tao Kan, and personally led his troops to burn down Su Jun's military reserves in Jurong and other places.Tao Kan settled down, his anger gradually subsided, he rearranged his troops, and distributed 50,000 shi of rice to Wen Qiao's army.

Su Jun's army is indeed soldiers who are good at fighting tough battles.These rebels not only ignored the poor situation, but turned around again and again to actively attack the fortresses built by the Jin army around Jiankang.Baishilei could not be attacked, so they stormed Dayelei (near today's Danyang).Tao Kan originally wanted to send troops to rescue Daye, but his subordinate Shi Yinxian advised: "Our soldiers are not good at fighting on foot. If we fail to save Daye, the whole situation will be over. It is better to rush to the stone city, and the siege of Daye will be solved by itself." Tao Kan Kan from it.At that time, on the battlefields of Wuxian, Jiaxing, Haiyan, Xuancheng and other places, the officers and soldiers suffered successive defeats, and the situation was in dire straits.

If there is no bizarre incident at this time, the Jin army may not necessarily win. The two sides fought hard and beat wolves with hemp sticks. Maybe one day Su Jun would be angry and kill the emperor and other ministers, and the Eastern Jin Dynasty would be over at once. Lose.This bizarre incident is too unbelievable, just like a bad novelist, in order to favor the ideal side of justice, he arranged a bizarre death ending for the "bad guy" out of thin air-Su Jun died in battle! What happened was like this: Generals Wen Qiao and Zhao Yin of the Eastern Jin Dynasty learned that Tao Kan, the allied army, was approaching Stone City, and their long-held breath finally evolved into the guts of the NFDA.From their bases, they led more than 10,000 infantrymen to the south to form an array, trying to press down on the rebels.Su Jun was not afraid at all, and only led 8,000 people to fight against them.During the confrontation, Su Shuo, the son of Su Jun, and Xiao Xiao, the brave general of the rebel army, led dozens of horsemen and horses, rushed towards Zhao Yin's former army, and defeated the Jin army. Dozens of cavalry fought more than 10,000, which is also a miracle in the history of war.Su Jun immediately entered the formation, was delighted to watch, drank several cups of fine wine, and hurriedly sent someone to reward those dozens of soldiers who had won the victory and returned to the camp.Probably because he overestimated his own skills, Su Jun said to the left and right: "Xiao Xiao can defeat the thief, am I not as good as him?" The Jin army formation that was hesitating was followed by only a few cavalry soldiers, and the entire army under them hadn't recovered yet. Alcohol broke out, the wind blew and bumped, Su Jun staggered, his usual heroism was nothing but empty airs.He tried to break out, but was stopped by the Jin soldiers standing in the formation with long shields and spears.Seeing that he couldn't enter the formation, Su Jun turned his horse's head, intending to go up the nearby high slope, and then turn his horse's head to take advantage of the slope to break out again. Several Yamen generals in the Jin army seized this rare opportunity, took Su Jun, who was staggering on his horse because of drunkenness, as a living target, swished several spears nearby, and pierced Su Jun in one fell swoop. In several places, the legendary general fell off his horse and ended his legendary life in a daze.Several Jin generals rushed forward, chopped off Su Jun's head with a knife, dismembered the body, and burned the remaining middle part of the body before the battle (the head and limbs were used as rewards). "Long live the three armies." Everything happened so suddenly that the rebels could only watch helplessly as the coach was "cooked" by the defeated Jin army as a white-cut chicken. Different from the general rebellion, even though the leader Su Jun was killed this time, the rebels still have their hearts.Su Jun's Sima Renrang pushed Su Jun's younger brother Su Yi as the main force, and continued to contend with the Jin army. In grief, Su Shuo found the grave of Yu Liang's parents, dissected the coffin and burned the corpse.Report after report: "My father's body was dismembered and burned, and your parents' bodies were also burned as firewood." On Su Yi's side, they can only close the city and defend themselves.The generals Su Jun sent to attack and plunder heard the news of the commander's death, so they had no choice but to retreat.Although they were still able to stabilize the army's morale, but Su Jun's sudden death, the rebels' spirits have been exhausted, and they can only counterattack and defend. Zhao Yin, the crowned general of the Jin Dynasty, also regained his spirit, and led his army to storm Zuyue, who was shackled in Liyang.Seeing that the city could not be defended, Zuyue led hundreds of family members and cronies to flee northward, and surrendered to Zhao "Tianwang" Shile, the former rival of his brother Zuti. Zhong Ya, the servant of the Jin Dynasty, Liu Chao, the general of the right guard, and others in the stone city heard the news of Su Jun's death, and they were actively active in secret, preparing to take the little emperor out of the stone city in time to join the government troops gathered in all directions.To vent the incident, Su Yi sent Ren Rang to arrest Zhong and Liu.Seeing the rebel soldiers holding shining weapons, tied up the two loyal ministers who were teaching him how to learn calligraphy, and violently pushed them outside, the child emperor stepped forward to hug them, weeping bitterly, and shouted: "Return to my servants! Give me back, General Right Guard!" Ren Rang simply killed Liu Chao and Zhong Ya with two stabs in front of the children.Chengdi's little child, who had never seen such a bloody scene, was sad and frightened, and passed out. This scene is really the last madness of the rebels. In March of 329 A.D. (the fourth year of Xianhe Emperor Cheng), several Jin armies launched a general offensive to attack Stone City.After Su Jun's death, the rebel army's courage was exhausted, and they completely lost their former brave and mighty fighting power. Soon they were defeated and Stone City was breached.The little emperor was rescued by General Jin and sent back to Wen Qiao's command ship. "When the ministers saw the emperor, they wept and pleaded guilty."This scene is ridiculous when I think about it now. A large group of civil servants and military generals, big and small, kneel in front of an eight-year-old child and cry and plead guilty. It is really spectacular and weird. The army was defeated like a mountain.Su Jun's son Su Shuo, Han Huang and others were all beheaded by the Jin army on the way to escape. The former capable generals became the ghosts of their own people.General Han Huang was surrounded by officers and soldiers on a high mountain, and no one dared to go down the mountain. "Wei (Han) Huang went out alone, with two bags of arrows, but according to the bed, he bent his bow and shot them, killing and injuring many people. When the arrows are exhausted, they will be cut." It is really heroic.It's a pity that such a fierce general did not die in the human battle with Hu in the Central Plains, but died in the internal strife among the Han people in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. It's time to settle accounts after autumn.Since all the Jiankang palaces were burned down during the battle, the officials and the emperor dealt with political affairs in the small house in the original Jianping Garden (one of the imperial gardens).Sima Yi, the king of Xiyang, was guilty of "attaching a thief". The old man and his two sons were tied up together and beheaded in public. It is a pity that there are not many "clan elders" left in the Sima royal family. So far, such a respected old prince has also been killed. Get rid of it.Su Jun's Sima Renrang has been old friends with Tao Kan for many years, and Tao Kan "asked to die for him".Although the little emperor was only eight years old and had just been rescued by everyone, the scene of the killing of two loyal ministers was still vivid in his mind.Hearing someone pleading for Ren Rang, he said to the ministers: "This is the man who killed my servant and General Youwei. He cannot be pardoned." Although the emperor is a child, he is also an emperor.Jinkou Yuyan, Ren Rang was immediately pulled out and chopped. When everyone was discussing meritorious deeds and punishing criminals, a sergeant ran in panting and brought back the scepter symbolizing official status that Director Wang hadn't taken away when he fled.Tao Kan lifted his beard and said with a smile: "Su Wu Festival seems to be quite different from your old stuff." Prime Minister Wang blushed, and it was hard to argue back. Although Wang Dao was suppressed by the Yu family for a long time at that time, he was still an influential figure who created the clan politics of the Eastern Jin Dynasty.The reason why Emperor Yuan of the Eastern Jin Dynasty asked him to sit on the imperial bed with him was that the aristocratic families at that time had turned away from the political decorations of the Western Jin Dynasty and became the main attachment and ruling foundation of the Sima regime in the Eastern Jin Dynasty.After the death of Emperor Yuan, Emperor Cheng of Jin wrote his own letter to Dao Wang, in which he always used words such as "should be stunned" and "speech of fear", which is unprecedented in letters to courtiers from emperors of all dynasties.When the child emperor Chengdi came to Wang Dao's house, he saw that Wang Dao's wife actually bowed down, and performed the etiquette of a grandson seeing an old grandmother.Wang Dao went to the hall, and Emperor Cheng also got up to signal.This is not at all the emperor's fear of the powerful ministers, but the awe and respect from the heart. The gentry and "official family" are originally synonymous, and they are also called aristocratic families, powerful families, noble families, and aristocratic families.During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, the status of powerful families became higher and higher, and the imperial power became more and more dependent on them.But it is none other than Wang Dao who truly makes the aristocratic family an indispensable key force in political rule. Back then, Wang Daochu crossed the river and tried every means to unite the Wu people.As a prime minister, it is in vain to condescend to speak a few words of "Wu dialect" when meeting people, and he doesn't care if he is ridiculed. He just wants to get closer to the locals.The most commendable one was a gathering: "When Prime Minister Wang arrived in Yangzhou, there were hundreds of guests, and everyone was very happy, but there was a guest in Linhai whose surname was Ren and several Hu people (Hu monks) had not been contacted. Because he returned to Ren (surnamed guest), Bian said: When the king leaves, there will be no one in Linhai. Ren (surnamed guest) was very happy. Because he passed the barbarians, he flicked his fingers and said: Lan She! Huan." From this, it can be seen that Prime Minister Wang Da is simply a high-level socialite.Although helpless, it can also be seen his efforts and dedication to unite all kinds of people at that time. On the achievements of Pingsu Jun, Tao Kan was made Shizhong and Taiwei, and he was granted the title of Duke of Changsha County; Xi Jian was made Shizhong and Sikong, Duke of Nanchang County; The ministers all added posthumous titles to officials.Yu Liang, who provoked the mutiny, filed a letter of complaint, "wanting to close the door and flee to the mountains and seas", and pretended to board the whole family on a boat, preparing to go out to the capital to be ordinary people. As a result, he was of course blocked by the "Youzhao", and he was still named the governor of Yuzhou and left the town of Wuhu. . Finally, let me tell you about Zu Yue who defected to Shile. The old buddies fled to the territory of Houzhao through untold hardships, "(Shi) Le is a man, and he will not see him for a long time."Zu Yue's brother, the great hero Zu Ti, had been fighting against Shi Le all the time, which made it difficult for this big Jie Hu to move forward in Henan, and his power shrank drastically. This is probably the reason why he didn't want to see his ancestors. Soon, Cheng Xia, Shi Le's counselor, said again: "The world is roughly determined, and the loyalty should be praised and the traitors should be punished. At the time, Han Gaozu beheaded Ding Gong (for his disloyalty to Xiang Yu), that was the intention. Now, those who are loyal to the king can promote nobles and nobles. Obviously, those who betrayed and disobedient ministers will be punished. This is the reason why you are widely supported. Zu Yue rebelled against Jin and came to vote, but your lord did not deal with him, which made the ministers really confused. Such traitors come In addition, there are guests at conferences from time to time, and clan guests take away people's land, causing trouble in the village, and such a person will be a disaster if kept." Shi Le had already compared himself to Emperor Gaozu of the Han Dynasty, but when Cheng Xia pushed him, Lao Jiehu became murderous.Therefore, he sent someone to send a letter to Zu Yue, saying: "Zu Jun is far away, and has not been able to have a happy meeting due to busy business. You can invite the whole family and clan children to come to Beijing to meet." Zu Yue was worried, and on the day of the audience, he pretended to be seriously ill and hid at home.Fainted and unable to die, Shi Le sent Cheng Xia to lead a large number of soldiers to "invite" Zuyue's family to Yecheng. "(Ancestor) knew about the disaster, and drank until he was drunk."When they arrived in Yecheng, more than a hundred men from the ancestral family were all directly escorted to Dongshi to be executed. "(Zu Yue) went to the city, hugged his grandson and wept." Such a person lived a miserable life and died unclearly.A fellow countryman, the elder brother is an eternal hero, and the younger brother is a scumbag for a while, it is really lamentable.As for the women of the ancestral family, they were all given to "Zhu Hu" as concubines and maidservants by order of Shi Le. Among the more than one hundred men from the ancestral family who were killed, there were also several sons of Zu Ti, whose names have not been recorded in history.All his legitimate sons (born to his main wife) died, except for a concubine son (son born to a concubine) who had a strong ancestor and was only ten years old at the time. He was rescued and hid in a temple to survive.More than 20 years later, after the Shi family Zhao and the Jie clan were wiped out by Ran Min's entire group, Zu Daozhong was able to escape from birth and ran back to the Eastern Jin Dynasty. The great hero Zu Ti was able to preserve a bloodline at last. The person who rescued Zu Daozhong was Wang An, a member of the Jie tribe. He had been a servant of Zu Ti and had been treated favorably by General Zu.When confronting Shi Le in Henan, one day, the kind-hearted Zu Ti took out a large sum of money and said to Wang An: "Shi Le and you belong to the same race, so you should go and seek refuge with him. I don't lack you alone here." .” In the era when ethnic groups killed each other, this move was actually a well-thought-out protection for Wang An.After Wang An returned to Zhao, he was a "countryman" of the Jie tribe, capable of fighting, and soon became a general in the army.So far, in order to repay Zu Ti's kindness, Wang An risked his life to rescue Zu Daozhong, and saved a drop of the ancestor's great hero. The three armies of Wang Dun, Su Jun, and Zu Yue were originally the most powerful armies of the Eastern Jin regime.So far, these three new forces have all disappeared in the internal friction of their own people killing their own people.Fortunately, at that time in the Central Plains, the former Zhao and the later Zhao were fighting each other for territory. Otherwise, the Eastern Jin Dynasty would have been wiped out by the Hu people long ago. The so-called "the barbarians and the Dies attack each other may be for the benefit of China" (Wang Fuzhi's words) Therefore, when the situation was in turmoil, Xiao Qiang was brought up several times, and it was really a blessing for the emperors and ministers of the Eastern Jin Dynasty to survive the crisis safely. The great hero Huan Wen's ambition and grudge