Chapter 39 "Trees are like this, how can people be embarrassed!"

——Huan Wen during the Second Northern Expedition In the first month of the twelfth year of Emperor Yonghe of the Eastern Jin Dynasty (356), Yao Xiang, the Qiang chieftain, occupied Xuchang and wanted to capture Luoyang. Luoyang was occupied by Zhou Cheng, a rebel general of the Jin Dynasty. Yao Xiang, courtesy name Jingguo, is the fifth son of Yao Gezhong, the chieftain of Qiang.When he came to the Jin Dynasty, Xie Shang, the governor of Yuzhou, saw him crossing the Huai River alone, so he also went to the guard of honor and greeted him in casual clothes.Once you talk to each other, you will be as happy as a lifelong friend.After rebelling against the Jin Dynasty, Yao Xiang always wanted to occupy Luoyang, which was fortified by mountains and rivers, and started to build a great cause.

In July 356 A.D., the court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty worshiped Huan Wen as the commander-in-chief, the governor, and the military forces of the two prefectures of Ji, and attacked Yaoxiang. This was the second Northern Expedition of General Huan. General Huan took a boat and led an army of water and land from Jiangling, heading straight for the Central Plains. On a clear summer day, Huan Wen and his staff boarded the top floor of the big ship, looked north at the Central Plains, and sighed: "So the Shenzhou land sinks, and the hundred-year-old Qiuxu, Wang Yifu and others have to bear the responsibility!" It can be seen that for Wang Yan and others Huan Wen hated to talk about harming the country.After passing Jincheng, Huan Wen saw that the willow tree he had planted by himself in his youth had grown vigorously.The Fengshen of the Wei and Jin Dynasties can be glimpsed when General Huan reveals his true feelings.

In September, Huan Wen had reached Yishui in the south of Luoyang City. Yao Xiang was so shocked that he withdrew from the siege and gathered troops to resist the Jin army. Yao Xiang is playing tricks.He first ambushed the elite soldiers in the dense forest in the north of Yishui, and then sent someone to send a letter to Huan Wen, saying: "Minggong, your relatives and teachers came here. Yao Xiang wants to return to his life. I hope you will order the three armies to take a step back later. You should personally bow down and greet him on the left." Who is Huan Wen, how can he fall into this trick.He said to Yao Xiang's envoy: "I am here to open and restore the Central Plains. I have nothing to do with you to pay respects to the imperial mausoleum. If you want to meet each other, come here. There will be a chance to meet right away. Don't bother to send people back."

Seeing that the plan failed, Yao Xiang refused to fight against the Jin army in Yishui. Huan Wen marched forward in formation, and personally put on armor to supervise the battle.The two sides fought, Huan Chong and other Jin generals charged bravely, killing Yao Xiang and beheading thousands of people. Yao Xiang led thousands of remnants and fled to Luoyang Beishan.Because Yao Xiang was "courageous and caring for the people", the people around Xuchang and Luoyang, old and young, still followed him all the way when he was defeated repeatedly.Hearing the rumors that Yao Xiang was seriously injured and died, the people who had just been "rescued" in the Huanwen camp "all looked north and wept", which shows that this young man Yao really has an extraordinary charisma.

Under the defeat, Yao Xiang fled westward to Pingyang (now Linfen, Shanxi). Huan Wen summoned Yang Liang, Yao Xiang's former subordinate, and asked Yao Xiang who he was.Yang Liang replied: "Sun Ce's wife is more powerful than Sun Ce." Soon, Yao Xiang wanted to plot Guanzhong again and compete with the former Qin for hegemony.At that time, the cousins ​​Fu Huangmei, Fu Jian and others of the former Qin Lord Fu Sheng sent him to fight fiercely in Sanyuan (now Sanyuan County, Shaanxi Province). seven years old.His younger brother Yao Chang led the rest of the people to the former Qin Dynasty.Later, Emperor Fu Jian was defeated in Feishui, and the generals of all ethnic groups rebelled one after another. Yao Chang finally hanged and killed Emperor Fu Jian who was in the Huluo Plain (Fu Huangmei was going to kill Yao Chang at the time, but at the critical moment, the former Qin general Fu Jian interceded and saved his life), established Hou Qin by himself, and posthumously named Yao Xiang King of Wei Wu.This is a later story.

Looking out from the city, he saw that the Jin army was victorious and Yao Xiang was defeated. Zhou Cheng of Luoyang knew that he was invincible and led his troops to surrender.Huan Wen's army entered the city and stationed Jinyong City.General Huan personally led his staff, paid homage to several imperial tombs in the Western Jin Dynasty, repaired the tombs, and left 2,000 soldiers in the garrison, and moved more than 3,000 people's families to the Jianghan Plain. After hard work and great achievements, the Eastern Jin Dynasty changed the title of Huanwen County Duke, and his son Huan Ji was named Linhe County Duke.So far, the brothers, sons and nephews of the Huan family have all held important positions in the town, and they have been prominent for a while.

In May of 361 A.D. (the fifth year of Emperor Mu's ascension to peace), Huan Wen sent his younger brother Huan Huo to supervise the seven counties in Mianzhong to raise troops back to Xuchang, defeating the former Yan general Murong Chen. In June, Emperor Mudi of the Eastern Jin Dynasty died of illness at the age of nineteen.Since Emperor Mu died without heirs, the courtiers supported the eldest son of Emperor Cheng, King Sima Pi of Langya, as Emperor Ai of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. In the first year of Emperor AI's Xingning (363), the former Yan army attacked Luoyang again. Huanwen sent thousands of troops to help, and wrote to the court, suggesting that the capital should be moved to Luoyang.At this time, Huan Wen had been conferred by the Jin court as Shizhong, Da Sima, governor of Chinese and foreign military forces, and a fake yellow axe. His power was more powerful than this.As soon as he said a word, the Jin court was in panic all day long.

Huanwen's proposal to move the capital really wanted to "prestige the court with false prestige".The officials of the Eastern Jin Dynasty who moved south to Jiangdong, big and small, had already settled down in the south of the Yangtze River, occupying a large area of ​​mountains and rivers. If they moved to Luoyang to the north, they would lose decades of hard work and family business. , wealth and life will be over in one day. In the end, it was Wang Shu, the governor of Yangzhou, who pointed out that Ming Huanwen was just intimidating the court, "but follow it, and there is nowhere to go." Let it go.

Emperor Ai of the Eastern Jin Dynasty died of illness in 356 within three or four years of his succession, at the age of only twenty-five.His mother and younger brother Sima Yi succeeded to the throne as the abolished emperor of the Eastern Jin Dynasty (Gong Haixi).