EBE Chapter 565 Huan Wen's Campaign Against Shu
Chapter 565 Huan Wen's Campaign Against Shu
At this moment, on the other side of the screen, people from various time periods were lost in thought.
I had no idea about powerful families or aristocratic clans before, and those high-ranking officials, even if they were second only to the emperor, had little to do with them.
But now, who would have thought that after listening to it many times, I could actually manage to say a few words in a seemingly proper way!
"I know why they don't go to the north anymore, they're all eyeing power. Just like my dog, Dahuang, he only cares about meat bones and won't give any other dog any face!"
"What nonsense! They speak so rudely! It's not that they don't want to, it's that they've gone down too densely!"
"What I'm saying may sound harsh, but it makes perfect sense. Tell me, isn't that right? Otherwise, what were they fighting over during the War of the Eight Princes?"
The scholar standing nearby, who had read books, was astonished by their choice of words and phrases. He twitched the corner of his mouth but did not argue.
But he knew in his heart that the powerful clans of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, with their generations of officials and nobles, had deeply entrenched relationships that were not so easy to break!
Otherwise, the Sima family would have found a way to deal with this long ago; how could they have become puppets?!
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"However, the Eastern Jin Dynasty was a grand stage where powerful clans wanted to break into. Although Wang Yu was gone, there was still the Huan and Xie families!"
Director Wang & Yu Liang: ...
"Perhaps history repeats itself, or perhaps it was all preordained. In any case, before Yu Yi left, he recommended his eldest son, Yu Yuanzhi, to take over the position of Governor of Jingzhou."
"But just because Wang and Yu can hold power doesn't mean that others don't want to improve. Now there is the new emperor Sima Dan and Empress Dowager Chu Suanzi ruling the court."
"The era of the Yu family has passed. Who cares about someone who's about to leave? So, Yu Yi's request was naturally rejected."
The Eastern Jin Dynasty court: We don't want your Yu family to have a hereditary system here, OK?
"However, the position of Governor of Jingzhou fell into the hands of Huan Wen in the same year, thus giving him control of the military power in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River."
"Perhaps, this young man, who avenged his father in his youth and was married to the eldest princess, was someone people never imagined that his Longkang Huan clan would become the third aristocratic family after the Wang and Yu clans."
Huan Wen: (????????????) Wuhu! Take off!
"Huan Wen was not a man who played by the rules, and the Eastern Jin court quickly discovered this, because in November of the second year of Yonghe, Huan Wen submitted a memorial: I want to attack Shu!"
"However, this guy had already penetrated deep behind enemy lines before notifying the court. At that time, the Cheng Han regime in Shu was gradually declining, and it was the perfect time to launch an attack!"
"By the way, the Cheng Han regime was already on the verge of collapse during the reign of Emperor Hui of Jin due to years of war in the northwest region, and then there was a long drought."
"Farming is largely dependent on the weather, which led to even greater famines. As a result, people in this region had to abandon their homes and find new ones in order to survive."
"As a result, many of them chose to go to Sichuan. Large groups of refugees gathered together, and naturally there were leaders, such as the Li Te brothers."
"However, the officials in Shu are truly inhumane; they insist on forcing displaced people to return to their hometowns and even extort money from them at will."
"As the saying goes, where there is oppression, there is resistance, and thus the Cheng Han regime came into being."
"On the other hand, the Eastern Jin court was very worried about Huan Wen's attack. If you know how to fight, then go ahead and attack!"
Eastern Jin Dynasty courtier: (?_??) Young man! What arrogance!!!