Chapter 36 The born son-in-law

——Huan Wen, a boy born from a hero since ancient times After the Eastern Jin Dynasty experienced the Wang Dun Rebellion and Su Jun Rebellion, the palaces and towers in Jiankang City were burned to the ground.Even so, the Jin Dynasty's people's hearts were not slackened, their vitality was not damaged, and their morale and physical strength were still restored.If the courtiers are of one heart, the soldiers are harmonious, the borders are strengthened outside, and the interior is nourished, and the rich land in the south of the Yangtze River accumulates strength, and when the Hu regime in the north is in chaos, it will fight back and restore the former state of the Jin Dynasty in one fell swoop. It is by no means a dream.

It's also a day that the sky is not good enough.The Su Jun Rebellion was just settled. In May of 329 AD (the fourth year of Emperor Cheng Xianhe), Wen Qiao, the Duke of Shi'an, who had made great contributions to the court and had no selfishness, died of illness. Five years later, Tao Kan, the Duke of Changsha, passed away again. . After Tao Kan's death, the emperor's uncle Yu Liang who caused Su Jun's rebellion was like a hibernating snake. The military forces of the state are based in Wuchang.This ambitious and talented literati can't get rid of the chronic illness of Chinese intellectuals' insidious struggle. He doesn't think about the adversity he had with the Wang family in the past, and starts to plot against Wang Dao, who is in power in the Jiankang court, and writes a secret letter to the guardian Xi Jian from Jingkou (now Zhenjiang, Jiangsu Province) asked the other party to join forces to pull Wang Dao from power.Xi Jian refused, and his subordinates persuaded him one after another. Yu Liang had no choice but to put away the poisonous arrow he was about to shoot.

In order to establish his prestige and momentum, Yu Liang came up with the idea of ​​"restoring the Central Plains". He played to the court in the fifth year of Xiankang (339) of Emperor Cheng, preparing to send troops to attack Hou Zhao.With the bravery and loyalty of Zu Ti, he still can't stride across the Jiangbei, and Yu Liang, a mere mediocre talent, dares to speak so loudly. Unfortunately, Wang Dao and Xi Jian, who were able to stop Yu Liang's foolish and pretentious behavior in the court, passed away one after another.Yu Liang's younger brother, Yu Bing, was appointed as the supervisor of Zhongshu, taking over Wang Dao's original position. The power of the Yu family was rising day by day, and naturally no one restrained them anymore.

Yu Liang was freed from the front, back, left, and right sides, and was about to shake off his arms and work hard. The city of Lu (now Huangzhou, Hubei), which was originally under the control of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, was captured by Zhao Ruibing. Zhao Jun was forced into the river and drowned, and tens of thousands of Jin soldiers and Jin people were killed.When Tao Kan was in Wuchang, someone advised him to send troops to guard the city of Zhu. Tao Kan clearly objected: "The city of Zhu is separated from the north of the river, and there is nothing to rely on inside. Thousands of soldiers, even if there are soldiers guarding them today, it will not benefit the south of the Yangtze River." Such an isolated city outside the river, Yu Liang even wanted to use it as a stepping stone for the Northern Expedition.Before moving his legs, the stone was emptied.

The banner of the Eastern Jin conquest had not yet been raised by Zhang, and Zhao soldiers had already taken the first step to attack the strong city.Yu Liang, who was extremely disappointed, went to the court and asked to demote himself to the third rank.Soon, this wise and resourceful uncle died of depression at the age of fifty-one.His younger brother Yu Yi took the post on his behalf. Yu Liang is a master of Lao and Zhuang's studies, with outstanding literary talent and elegant demeanor.At the funeral, his old friend He Chong sighed: "Buried jade trees in the soil, what can be done!"In the chaotic world, this kind of "flower algae and jade" is really the misfortune of the family and the country.As a matter of fact, although Yu Liang is a narrow-minded mediocrity, his younger brothers Yu Bing and Yu Yi both have extraordinary abilities and have little selfishness.

In 342 AD, Emperor Cheng of the Eastern Jin Dynasty died of illness at the age of 22.Yu Bing, the uncle's family, took the lead and supported Sima Yue, the same mother and younger brother of Emperor Cheng, as Emperor Kang.Yu Bing established another nephew as the emperor, but it was definitely not out of selfishness. At that time, the sons of Emperor Cheng were all infants, and besides having strong enemies, it was a wise move to establish the emperor.The luck of the Eastern Jin Dynasty was indeed bad. Only two years later, Emperor Kang died again at the age of twenty-three.The Yu brothers also wanted to make the grown-up Kuaiji king Sima Yu, the son of Emperor Yuan, as emperor.He Chong insisted on Li Kangdi's son Sima Dan.Emperor Kang didn't know anything, and before his death, his son was the heir in his will. Therefore, the two-year-old baby Sima Dan became the emperor of the dynasty, and he was Emperor Mu of the Eastern Jin Dynasty.

There was no advantage in establishing a reserve, Yu Bing died of illness, and the Yu family had lost power in the court.The next year, Yu Yi also died of illness while serving in Xiakou.On his deathbed, he went to the court, hoping that his son Yu Yuanzhi would succeed him as governor of Jingzhou. He Chong, who has a good personal relationship with the Yu family and has gradually become a political rival, is very disapproving of Yu Yi's legacy (He Chong is Wang Dao's wife and nephew, and naturally belongs to the Wang family, and there is obviously a "natural" estrangement with the Yu family) : "Jingchu, the west gate of the country, has millions of households, a strong Hu in the north, and Shu in the west. huh?"

After thinking about it, He Chong came up with an ideal candidate: "Huan Wenying is a little bit better than others, has a civil and military spirit, and is appointed in Jingzhou. There is no (Huan) Wen!" As a result, a generation of heroes was finally pushed to the fore in the turbulent Eastern Jin political struggle. Huan Wen, courtesy name Yuanzi, was the son of Huan Yi, the prefect of Xuancheng, and a son of a well-known "martyr".Huan Yi has always been loyal to the Jin Dynasty.During the Wangdun Rebellion, he was deeply trusted by Emperor Ming, and made a lot of plans. He was granted the title of male in Wanning County, and was recommended by Wen Qiao to serve as an internal historian in Xuancheng, an important town that "blocks mountains and rivers".During the Sujun Rebellion, Huan Yi, with weak soldiers and few people, went to the disaster resolutely. At that time, most of the surrounding counties and counties surrendered or "falsely surrendered." The city fell and was killed by Su Junxiao's general Han Huang at the age of fifty-three.After the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Huan Yi was posthumously awarded as Tingwei, and his posthumous posthumous title was Jian.

When Huan Yi was killed, Huan Wen was only fifteen years old.Knowing that Jiang Bo, the county magistrate of Jing County, was the mastermind who killed his father, Huan Wen "wept blood on his knees, determined to take revenge."Three years later, Jiang Bo died of illness. His three sons were afraid that a revenge-seeking young man like Huan Wen would come to make a funeral.So strict, still unable to escape the vengeful Huan Wen.Dressed in plain white clothes, the young man pretended to be a hanger, sneaked into the mourning hall, suddenly drew a knife from his clothes, and stabbed Jiang Biao, the eldest son of Jiang Bo, who was dumbfounded by fright, to death there.Then, he chased after Jiang Bo's other two sons who had fled in a hurry, killing each of Jiang's three brothers, and finally avenged his father.It was this kind of staunch and bravery to avenge his father that won Huan Wen a good reputation for filial piety and fierce perseverance at that time.

Not long after Huan Wen was born, Wen Qiao, a good friend of his father Huan Yi, saw him and sighed, saying: "Here is a strange bone, let me hear his cry." Hearing his voice, Wen Qiao said: "A true hero and also!" Wen Qiao was "known as a knowledgeable person" in the Jin Dynasty, so Huan Yi immediately named this big fat boy Huan Wen (Wen Qiao's knowledge of people also became the reason why he deceived Wang Dun's confidant Qian Feng when he was under Wang Dun's subordinates. "Secret weapon". In order to make friends with Qian Feng and reduce the vigilance of this famous teacher, Wen Qiao often tells people: "Qian Shiyi (Qian Feng's character) is full of spirit." The four words "full of spirit" make " (Qian) Feng was delighted when he heard about it", and became a "close friend" with Wen Qiao, so that Wen Qiao was recommended by Qian Feng at the critical moment of Wang Dun's uprising to become Danyang Yin and escape from birth.)

After becoming an adult, Huan Wen was "bold and bold, with a very majestic appearance and seven stars on his face".Liu Tun, a famous scholar at that time, sighed: "(Huan)'s warm eyes are like purple stone edges, and he must be made of hedgehog fur. Sun Zhongmou and King Xuan of Jin (Sima Yi) are like Liu Ya." There are seven freckles on the face of the national character, which can also be attached as "Seven Stars" by celebrities. Such a good appearance, such an act of filial piety to kill the three sons of the enemy, and after Zhongliang, the Eastern Jin Dynasty Emperor Ming naturally chose such characters as his first choice when he chose his son-in-law.When Huan Wen was in his early twenties, he married Princess Nankang, the beloved daughter of Emperor Ming, as his wife.As soon as he entered Longmen, he was promoted steadily, and soon he "eliminated the prefect of Langya and moved to the governor of Xuzhou". Huan Wen's father, Huan Yi, was good friends with his uncle, Yu Liang, and Huan Wen himself had a close relationship with Yu Liang's younger brother, Yu Yi.During the Ming Dynasty, Yu Yi, as the uncle of the crown prince, strongly recommended this friend to the emperor: "Huan Wen has few grand strategies. I hope that your majesty will not treat him like an ordinary person. If your son-in-law saves it, you should entrust him with the task of Fang Zhao and entrust him to promote the economy." Hard work." Talent, fame, luck, it can be said that Huan Wen all came together in his youth. After Yu Yi's death, due to the political struggles among the various factions in the DPRK, everyone could only take the middle line and elect a person who was accepted by the world and had "the hope of the world" to replace Yu Yi.Perhaps Yu Yi himself could not have imagined that Huan Wen, his best friend recommended by him, would later take the place of his son.Under the imperial edict, Huan Wen was appointed as the governor of the military forces of the four prefectures of Jingliang, General Anxi, the governor of Jingzhou, and the captain of Nanman.In this way, the heroes of life finally have the people, talent, strength, and place to display their ambitions and ambitions.