In the first year of Yongjia (307), that is, the first year after the Eight Kings Rebellion, Wang Yue of the East China Sea came to power. The imperial clan kings were sent out of Xiangyang, Chang 'an, Yeh and several towns in the north, and Si Marui took General Anton and Yangzhou Jiangnan viceroy to guard Jiangnan Jianye.
In September this year, the evil king Si Marui arrived in Jianye, followed by Wang Dao. This is the starting point for the rulers to base themselves on the south of the Yangtze River and preserve half of the country. Jiangdong is the native land of Sun Wu, and the strong ethnic group is deeply rooted. The valley, valley, and he forces in Wu county in the south of the Yangtze River are very powerful, and the original Guangling phase was overthrown by these clans. When Si Marui arrived in Jianye, it was only half a year before the fall of Chen Min. Without the support of Jiangdong clan, it was impossible for him to gain a foothold. So he took Wang Dao as his teacher and asked Wang Dao for advice on big and small issues.
Si Marui's qualifications are not deep, so the clans and celebrities in Jiangdong don't take him seriously and look down on him. He has been in office for more than a month, but no prestigious clan has taken the initiative to visit him at home. Wang Dao was very worried about this and designed a dramatic scene for it. He asked Si Marui, the evil king of the post station, to travel in a big sedan chair carried by eight people, and to visit Qiu at the water's edge to pray for disaster relief and "sacrifice". He, his cousin Wang Dun, the then Yangzhou secretariat, and some celebrities in the north rode their cars and followed the sedan chair, and the procession was neat to show their majesty. This move has indeed produced some effects. Celebrities Zhan Ji and Gu Rong were greatly surprised when they saw it. They rushed out to pay their respects at the roadside. But to win over these people, prestige alone is not enough, and they must be persuaded. When Si Marui, the evil king, saw a good opportunity, he sent Wang Dao to the two largest aristocratic families in the south of the Yangtze River and He Xun, asking them to come out as officials, and they were ordered to come. So, under their impetus, Jiangdong people became officials in succession, and gradually supported the evil king Si Marui. Si Marui finally achieved the cooperation of clans in the south of the Yangtze River.
After the evil king Si Marui, he appointed Gu Rong as the military department, added a regular waiter, and asked him for advice on all military affairs; He Xun was used as a domestic history by Wu, and celebrities in Jiangdong, such as Zhou Ni, were also entrusted with important tasks.
Wang Dao advised the evil king to discuss something important with the cremation in Jiangdong, and kept making suggestions. If the evil king is wrong, Wang Dao can stop him in time. The evil king came to Jianye and often got drunk and caused trouble. Wang Dao put forward and accepted the correction. Wang Dao ruled the country quietly, persuaded the evil king to reduce his capital, and achieved the effect of stabilizing the country, and their relationship between monarch and minister became better and better. The evil king once said to him, "Qing is my Xiao He." Wang Dao replied, "The king needs people like Guan Zhong and Le Yi to build immortal feats and unify the whole country. How can a courtier (Si Marui is an evil king, so Wang Dao is a vassal of a vassal state) be compared with his predecessors! " He didn't take credit, and repeatedly advised the evil king to choose talents widely, showing the tolerance of a broad-minded politician.
At that time, people who crossed the river to the south often invited each other to the new pavilion by the river for drinking parties every free day. After a drinking party, everyone missed their hometown and shed tears. Wang Dao didn't cry. He said seriously, "We should make concerted efforts to serve our country and revive China. Why not cry to each other like Chu prisoners? " Chu prisoners originally referred to Zhong Yi, a Chu who was taken into exile in the State of Jin during the Spring and Autumn Period, and later referred to the suffering people. Wang Dao believes that when national affairs are difficult, it is important to cheer up, strategically despise difficulties and open up the situation. If you just cry relatively and can't do anything, crush yourself first, how to overcome the difficulties! After listening to this, everyone wiped their tears and thanked him.
After Yu Di ascended the throne in Chang 'an, Jianye changed its name to Jiankang because of taboo. Emperor Hao once ordered the wolf evil to make a massive northern expedition, but the evil king did not do so. Only at Zu Ti's request was he allowed to lead a department to cross the river to the north alone. Looking at this matter alone, it seems that neither Wang Rui nor Wang Dao wants to "recover China". But their situation was really difficult at that time, and it was impossible to make a large-scale northern expedition. Because for the south, one is weak strength and the other is internal contradictions. Wang Dao tried to win the cooperation of the southern gentry, but there were always some people who were unwilling to really cooperate. Especially after the increase of northerners crossing the river, it is impossible not to arouse the suspicion of some southerners. In the first year of Emperor Cheng (365,438+03), Zhou Ni and other Jiangnan clans took part in the rebellion. But later, the Jin government did not pursue Zhou's surname, and later made Zhou Xie the satrap of Huaihe River. It is not easy for Sima Shi and the Central Plains clan to cooperate with Jiangdong clan! In this situation, they can only concentrate on stabilizing the southeast region.
For Sima Rui, the evil doctor, at least in the early Eastern Jin Dynasty, Wang Dao was the main object to rely on. In March of the following year (3 17) after the death of the Western Jin Dynasty, Evil Wanglang ascended the throne in Jiankang, known as the King of Jin, renamed the first year of Jianwu, and was known as the Eastern Jin Dynasty in history. In March of the second year of Jianwu, the news of Yu's murder reached Jiankang, and Jin Wang Gai proclaimed himself emperor. He is the emperor of Jin and Yuan Dynasties.
In the first year of Daxing (3 18), Si Marui became emperor and wanted to take Wang Dao to the throne and accept the worship of officials. Wang Dao refused, of course, resolutely refused. For Yuan Di, this is actually a posturing, but he has to rely on Wang Dao. The position of the Wang brothers in the Eastern Jin regime is very clear here.
Another reason why the Jin and Yuan emperors relied heavily on Wang Dao was that Wang Dao's cousin Wang Dun was a formidable man. Wang Dun, Zhong Zi, Donghai was appointed as the secretariat of Yangzhou by Wang Yue. After Yuan Di arrived in Jiangnan, Liu Tao, the secretariat of Yangzhou, died, and Yuan Di appointed Wang Dun to hold the post. He and Wang Dao, one is a local power faction, and the other is a ruling faction, relying on them to consolidate their rule. In the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Sima had his place and Wang had his right. The Wangs and the Sima family almost reached the point of "equal", so there was a saying that "the king and the horse shared the world", which really reflected the political situation in the early years of the Eastern Jin Dynasty.
It is not easy for Yuan Di to gain a foothold in Jiankang. It is naturally more difficult to send orders to places outside Yangzhou and let them take effect. In the fifth year of Yongjia (3 1 1), Huayi, the secretariat of Jiangzhou, disobeyed the orders of the evil king, so that it had to be solved by force. Wang Dun, the secretariat of Yangzhou, crusaded against Huayi. He attacked and killed Hua Yi, led Tao Kan and Zhou Zhou to pacify Du Tao, and stabilized the rule in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River. The middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River are stable, and the area under the jurisdiction of Langxie Wang Rui is roughly equal to the territory of Sun Wu. Yuan Di acceded to the throne and named Wang Dun Jiangzhou Pastoral. In the first year of Daxing (3 18), he served as a shepherd in Jingzhou. Because Wang Dun refused to accept it, he changed to Jingzhou secretariat. Since then, he has mastered the military and political power in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River in Jingzhou, and the situation of "sharing the world" has further developed.
Things have changed since then. For every king, what he pursues is the ruling effect of land and coast, and what he wants is the infinite supreme autocratic power. This situation of being on an equal footing with ministers is really a kind of helplessness with poor strength. As long as there is an opportunity, or the political power is stable, the first thing the Eastern Jin Emperor should do is to get rid of this hidden disease. Once the Jin and Yuan emperors' rule was stable, they gradually became suspicious of Wang Dao and even more suspicious of Wang Dun. What they want is to end this painful sharing as soon as possible. As Wang Dun became an overbearing warlord, he started an uprising and eventually died. Although Wang Dao is still in a higher vocational school, the actual power has been transferred to Yu Liang, the secretary who is in charge with him.
Historians have always belittled Wang Dao's achievements from the perspective of Wang Dao's failure to restore the Central Plains and prevent Wang Dun's rebellion. They failed to grasp Wang Dao's main contribution, but Mr. Chen Yinque commented otherwise. In "Wang Dao's Achievements in the Eastern Jin Dynasty", he said: "Wang Dao strives for the gentry in Jiangdong, unifies internal affairs, and combines the two forces of southerners and northerners to resist foreign aggression, so that the nation can be independent and the culture can be continued. He is a non-national hero.
At the same time, when we evaluate the situation that "the king and the horse rule the world together", we should also see that the establishment of the Eastern Jin Dynasty is essentially the key to the continuation of civilization since the Han, Wei and Jin Dynasties. The Eastern Jin Dynasty and its four successive generations of Song, Qi, Liang and Chen lasted for 262 years. Although these five dynasties are all located in Jiangdong, people in the Central Plains regard them as cultural orthodoxy. Two and a half centuries later, the Central Plains came back to life and ethnic groups merged, so the North and South were unified, turning a new page in the history of Chinese civilization.