Section 2: Yan State’s Strategy on Surroundings and the Northern Expedition of the Eastern Jin Dynasty

Huangtou Xianbei entered Luoyang, Hu'er held a halberd and ascended to the Mingtang. The emperor of the Jin family surrendered captives, and the ministers ran like cattle and sheep. The purple flags and banners touched each other secretly, and the chickens and dogs of every family were frightened. The woman went out to follow the rebel soldiers, and her husband died.

I dare not cry in front of me. The princes of the Nine Provinces care about their own land, and no one leads the troops to protect their lord.

Murong Jun died before his opponent could complete his historical mission.

In his later years, Murong Jun never thought that Xianbei Murong could gallop around the world in Saibei, but after entering the Central Plains, he could not deal with this group of petty thieves. In the end, he concluded that the soldiers were small.

Looking at the front, the elimination of Ran Min relied on 200,000 elite soldiers outside the pass. Therefore, he ordered Murong Ke and Murong Ping to recruit soldiers from among the people. Every household had to recruit men, and even only one male per family was left. Let them

In the spring of next year, an army of 1.5 million will be assembled in Luoyang. If you fail to complete the mission, you will die.

After this order was issued, some people below reported the situation, saying that this was a bit too inhumane. Besides, the people still had to farm. Without people to farm, there would be no food, and without food, there would still be no way to fight. Murong Jun thought about it, and it was true.

That's what happened, so he changed the order to three of the five men in the family, and extended the date to the next winter.

After this order came into effect, the entire Yan people were in dire straits and the people were miserable. The taxes in the Yan country were already very heavy, but now they had to recruit so many men, and the people couldn't bear it anymore.

As a result, many ministers in Yan State began to worry, but Murong Jun's attitude was very tough and they did not dare to say anything.

In fact, the people have a lot of complaints about the tax system of Yan State. Officials from all over the country are also aware of these situations. If this matter is not resolved, the situation of Yan State will be very unhappy.

It is indeed difficult to accept that 1.5 million soldiers were recruited from such a large territory as Yan State.

One night, Murong Jun was sleeping and dreaming about Shi Hu. He felt pain in his arm while sleeping. When he opened his eyes, he saw a big man gnawing on his arm. If he looked carefully, this person was Shi Hu. Murong Jun

Frightened, he stepped forward to fight with Shi Hu. The fight didn't matter, Murong Jun fell off the bed, and he woke up only after the fall. After waking up, he quickly moved his arm and found that it hurt.

To the bone marrow.

Murong Jun got angry and immediately asked people to dig up Shi Hu's grave. After digging, they found that the coffin was empty. But don't forget that Shi Hu's sons were busy fighting for the throne. After Shi Zun took the throne, someone

Reminding him that Shi Hu's body was still in the morgue and not being scared, Shi Zun said that it would be over if he just carried the body in. The servants came back and reported that the tomb door had been blocked, but Shi Zun didn't think anything of it.

So he had his father's body thrown away in a random place. So now, when Murong Jun digs up Dendrobium's grave, of course he can't find its body.

But Murong Jun didn't know what was going on, so he posted notices across the country offering a reward to anyone who knew where Shi Hu's body was hidden.

There was a woman in Yecheng who uncovered the list. He said he knew where the tiger's body was hidden. He once walked past a dilapidated temple in the south of Yecheng. This dilapidated temple was called Dongming Temple. Every time he walked in front of it,

You can smell a stench inside as you pass by. Miao Zhu said that the stench was caused by Shihu's corpse being thrown here. They never dared to deal with it without permission, so they kept leaving it there.

Murong Jun immediately asked people to go to Dongming Temple to check, and Shi Hu's body was indeed there. However, although Shi Hu's body was stiff but not rotten, this record makes people feel very strange. If there is no rot, where can the smell come from?

No matter, let's continue. In order to take revenge, Murong Jun stepped on the liger's body and cursed him. After scolding him enough, he had his body whipped and finally threw the body into the Zhang River. According to historical records, the body was thrown into the Zhang River.

After being underwater, the water stopped flowing!

Eleven years later, the State of Qin destroyed the State of Yan, and Wang Meng ordered Shi Hu's body to be buried. We don't know why Wang Meng did this, or what he liked about Shi Hu, but he did it.

After Murong Jun whipped the corpse, he became ill and relied on medicine to maintain his life.

At this time, we are talking about the Eastern Jin Dynasty. In 357 AD, that is the year when Murong Jun of Yan State changed his name to crown prince. In this year, Emperor Mu of Jin Dynasty, Sima Dan, was 15 years old. Queen Mother Chu Suanzi announced that she would return to power and give Sima Dan the throne.

This is the coming-of-age ceremony. This year, the atmosphere in the country and the country has been completely new.

When the great Situ Sima Yu saw that the Queen Mother had returned to power and it was time for him to retire, he took the initiative to ask the emperor to resign. Sima Yu was Sima Dan's great-uncle, but Sima Dan did not agree with his resignation and asked him for advice on what to do in the future.

Governing the country. Sima Yu taught him a trick, saying that our Sima family has relied on two words to manage the world for so many years, balance. There are several big families in the Jiangnan area: Wang, Xie, Yu, Huan, Xun, and Xi.

We need to continue to play the balance between these big families. When Sima Dan heard this, he said, this thing is too advanced and I don’t understand it. It’s better for you to continue to play. I will be responsible for practicing the elixir in the harem.

In the second year, a big event happened in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Xie Yi, the governor of Yuzhou, died. Originally, the death of a governor was not a big deal. But the seriousness of the problem was that once Xie Yi died, the balance of the Eastern Jin Dynasty was broken. Since then,

Who should be appointed as the new governor of Yuzhou has become a big problem. Huan Wen has always been the governor of Jingzhou, and Yu Xunxian has been the governor of Xuzhou. When a governor of Yuzhou suddenly dies, who should be sent?

The governor of Yuzhou has always been held by the Xie family, before Xie Shang, and after Xie Shang, Xie Yi. Logically speaking, it is Xie An's turn now, but he is not keen on officialdom, and the imperial court called him several times, but he did not agree. So,

Sima Yu thought of letting Huan Wen's younger brother Huan Yun take over this position.

When this idea was discussed at the court, it met with opposition from many people. The first to stand up and object were the Wang family. Since Wang Dun's incident, the Wang family has never held military power again. Now they serve as the capital.

It was a civil servant. The first person's objection was that although Huan Yun was talented, Huan Wen already had great power. If Huan Yun was allowed to hold such an important official position, wouldn't half of the world in the Eastern Jin Dynasty belong to the Huan family?

Yes, when that time comes, I'm afraid a disaster will be imminent.

Sima Yu followed his advice and planned to let Xie An's younger brother Xie Wan take over.

At this time, someone came out to object again. This person was Wang Xizhi. He said that Xie Wan had his eyes high and did not take people seriously. If he was placed in that position, I am afraid the border officers would not obey him. He said

This is purely nosy, and I was scolded by my brother, saying that you don't understand politics, so go ahead and practice your calligraphy!

Wang Xizhi did not give up yet. He wrote letters to Huan Wen and Xie Wandu respectively. The purpose of writing to Huan Wen was to ask him to propose that Xie Wan stay in the central government. Huan Wen was angry at this time. How could he pay attention to Wang Xizhi? Wang Xizhi

The content written for Xie Wan is to let him share the joys and sorrows with the soldiers and listen to more opinions. Xie Wan is an aloof person, and he will not pay attention to Wang Xizhi's words. So we say that Wang Xizhi is nosy, and others are unwilling to pay attention to it.

He, he still has to point fingers.

At the same time, Xun Xian, the governor of Xuzhou, fell ill, and the imperial court arranged for Xi Tan to replace Xun Xian. Major personnel adjustments were made to the northern defense line of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. At this time, the Yan State also happened to be recruiting troops in the country, and there would be a war between Yan and Jin sooner or later.

This war came faster than expected. The first battle was provoked by Zhuge You, the Taishan prefect of Jin State. Murong Jun sent general Murong Ke to lead the army to fight. Zhuge You was no match for Murong Ke. It was obvious that he

Defeated. Murong Ke took the opportunity to continue to advance, captured several counties one after another, and then led his army back.

At this time, Xun Xian saw that the situation was critical, and did not care that he was seriously ill. He decided to take the illness to the north and led an army to attack the prefect left by Murong Ke in Mount Tai. The prefect was a 60-year-old man, but he refused to admit defeat and insisted on

He wanted to go out of the city to fight. After leaving the city, he was humiliated by Xun Xian. After all, he was old. He was scolded a few times and was so angry that he vomited blood. He died not long after.

Xun Xian's condition became more and more serious and he couldn't bear it anymore. He had no choice but to lead his army back. When the court heard about it, they sent someone to take Xun Xian back and replaced him with Xi Tan.

Although Xi Tan didn't have much ability, he had a lot of background. He was the younger brother of Wang Xizhi's wife, and he married his daughter to Wang Xizhi's son, and he was also a confidant of Sima Yu.

At this time, Sima Yu and others were also rubbing shoulders in sorrow. They also wanted to try their luck, so Sima Yu ordered the Northern Expedition. The Northern Expedition army was divided into three groups. In the first group, Zhuge You led an army of 20,000 land and water troops to enter Shimen.

, the second group was led by Xi Tan, and the third group was led by Xie Wan.

Murong Jun was still ill. After hearing this, he hurriedly ordered Murong Ping to lead his army to fight. Both armies of the Eastern Jin Dynasty suffered defeats, but Xie Wan was even more ridiculous. He directly ordered a retreat and fled.

This time the Northern Expedition failed, and the defeat was very embarrassing. The Eastern Jin Dynasty must find a scapegoat, otherwise Sima Yu's face would be lost, so Xie Wan was demoted to a commoner and Xi Tan was demoted. The Yan army took advantage of the situation.

After capturing Xuchang, Yingchuan and others, the Yan army was in a good situation.

Personal life insights: Any successful person can think about problems from different perspectives. Past thinking will not be a shackles for them. They can break through conventional thinking and achieve innovative results. When thinking encounters a bottleneck,

You might as well look at the problem from a different angle, and maybe things will suddenly become clearer.

Famous Taiwanese cartoonist Cai Zhizhong said: If we compare oranges to life, one is big and sour, and the other is small and sweet. Some people will complain about the sourness when they get the big ones, and complain about the small ones when they get the sweet ones;

If a person gets a small one, he will be thankful that it is sweet; if he gets a sour one, he will be thankful that it is big.

Everything has pros and cons. There is no unified yardstick to measure whether it is right or wrong. If you look at one thing from different angles, you will see different scenery and have different feelings.

, as long as we treat things with a positive attitude, be more tolerant, and think from others' perspective when we do things, no matter how insurmountable the gap is, it cannot stop us from moving forward. No matter how difficult the problem is, we only need to look at it from another angle.

If you look at it, you may have a completely different effect, and you will see the blue sky behind the dark clouds.

A boatman was rocking the boat in the sea. The waves kept coming to the boat, and the boat rippled slightly with the waves. A seagull landed on the boatman's shoulder and said to him: How happy you are. The sea is rocking you.

It was like hitting the autumn dry. After hearing this, the boatman shook his head and said: No, I am shaking the sea! You see, I have shaken the waves of the sea.

The so-called big and small, strong and weak, happiness and sadness, etc. are often determined according to people's senses and habits. If you look at the problem from another angle, the scenery of life may be very different.

"A blessing in disguise is a blessing in disguise." This is an ancient story that contains profound philosophy. The old man did not have any special abilities. He just correctly analyzed the phenomenon and development process of things. He not only saw the bad side of losing a horse, but also

Seeing the good side of winning the horse, he finally came to the correct conclusion. If he, like the people around him, blindly feels sad and regretful only from the perspective of losing the horse, it will only add to the pain; blindly rejoicing after winning the horse will be even worse.

Seems foolish.

Generally speaking, things have multiple angles, and a complex person needs to be considered from multiple angles. From a historical perspective, evaluating a character requires comprehensive consideration of his characteristics from many aspects. Evaluate this person from another angle, and you will dig out the depth of his heart.

Something more essential can help you understand this person more comprehensively.
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