In Eastern Jin, which is known as an extreme aristocratic society, the clan called Xie of the sun is as powerful as the King of Langya.
Among them, the achievements of Xie An, who was the Chancellor when Former Qin attacked with a large army, and Xie Xuan, who was the commander at that time, are worthy of special mention.
Mr. Xie of the sun summer
Yang Xia is the name of a place around the present Henan province, and if you trace the ancestors of Mr. Xie, you will come across a person named Xie, who was the priest of Jin dynasty. Unlike Mr. King of Langya, it is not a prestigious from ancient times, and Mr. Xie came to take power from the time of Eastern Jin.
Like many other aristocrats, Xie Xie, who hates the War of the Eight Princes and the War of the Eight Princes, moves to Gangnam, where he will be heavily used by the King of Langya.
However, when Wang Dun reveals his intention to seize Eastern Jin, he dislikes it, and despite the seven wiseness of Takebayashi, he leaves the political stage and begins a secluded life.
When Wang Dun actually raised soldiers, he was forced to cooperate, and after that he was heavily used by Mr. Wang, but gradually he lost his political power and the eastern powers moved to Huan Wen. ..
It was Xie An who clearly opposed this Huan Wen.
Xie An confronts Huan Wen
Xie An also retired like a member of Mr. Xie in the summer, and lived happily playing.
In particular, he was on good terms with Yoshiyuki Shosei, a member of the King of Langya, and was a companion who lived a scenic life together in Kuaiji.
His wife is Mrs. Liu, the sister of Liu Sheng, who married the daughter of Emperor Ming, and Xie An's niece is married to Wang Yoshiyuki's second son. It can be said that it was gradually rising.
It is said that Xie An was served at a time when it was over 40 years old, and it was caused by the loss of his younger brother Xie An.
Besides, at first he served as Huan Wen's boss, which seems to have been a request for Huan Wen. Huan Wen has attracted a wide range of human resources, and it is no wonder that he used the celebrity Xie An heavily, but on the contrary, it is no wonder that he served Huan Wen to see what he did after Xie An.
Xie An continued his career under Huan Wen, and Huan Wen also strengthened his power, and his power was already trying to surpass the emperor. At that time, Eastern Jin was divided into two factions called Nishifu and Kitago, but Huan Wen had both factions in his hands and finally built a puppet emperor who could manipulate them at his own will.
Huan Wen's intention was clear, and he was to establish a new dynasty by receiving Shan Rang from this emperor.
But the person here disagrees with this.
It's ironic in a sense because that person was Xie An.
Xie An joined hands with other influential people and had a head-on confrontation with Huan Wen. Huan Wen is angry and tries to kill Xie An, but Xie An is imposing even in the crisis of his life, and he publishes a poem in front of Huan Wen. There is an episode in "A New Account of the Tales" that Huan Wen couldn't kill Xie An because it was so beautiful.
It's a story that was overkill, so it's probably dramatized, but it wouldn't have been easy to kill Xie An, a first-class notable, even for Huan Wen. If Xie An is killed, many aristocrats including Mr. Wang will be turned into enemies. Huan Wen wasn't that stupid.
While doing so, Huan Wen died of illness.
Huan Wen was a representative of Eastern Jin, and although he was influential and excellent, he was never a hero's vessel, including his lifespan.
Xie An became the power of Eastern Jin after Huan Wen's death, and under his rule, Eastern Jin regained power.
Battle of Fei River
There are countless battles in world history. Among them, the number of battles that appear in world history textbooks will not exceed 100.
The Battle of Fei River was one of them, and perhaps the largest battle in the history of the world on a scale.
Around the time when Eastern Jin was in the midst of civil war, a lord was born in Former Qin, which was built by the Tibetan Di tribe.
The king named Fu Jian grew Former Qin into a huge nation under the Han Chinese Wang Meng, eventually unifying North China, and started invading Eastern Jin with a force of 1 million. rice field. On the other hand, the eastern troops are 80,000. Moreover, it cannot be said to be strong in flattery.
Fu Jian, who led a powerful army under the ideal of "Ichimoku Dojin," was not without anxiety.
The Former Qin corps was a mixed army of the Five Barbarians and the Han Chinese, and had no internal control.
Xie An pokes there.
He had previously released a spy inside the Former Qin, and was working on the Han Chinese generals in the Former Qin to be on the side of Eastern Jin.
Fu Jian occupied the area of Jingzhou before this battle, and the Han Chinese general who surrendered there was put on the front line as it was. It wouldn't have happened if Wang Meng was alive, but Wang Meng had died before this battle.
Xie An had his younger brother Xie Xuan command the army and make a plan. This was brilliantly natural, and the Qin corps was destroyed, and Eastern Jin escaped the destruction.
The cause of Qin's defeat was Fu Jian's idealism and internal division.
It can be said that the battle of Fei River is more correct in the defeat of Former Qin than in the victory of Eastern Jin.
Xie An, who heard the report of winning the game, was playing Go, and he said that he had little reaction when he heard it. However, the moment the Go opponent returned, he broke his teeth while he was bouncing around with joy, but there is a story that Xie An did not notice it.
Thanks to his achievements in the Battle of Fei River, Mr. Xie of Yang Xie gained a great deal of fame and developed into a clan comparable to Mr. King of Langya.
Mr. Xie after that
Xie An made a proposal to Emperor Yuan Dong for Northern Expedition, but it was rejected. The reason is that he was wary of further growth of Mr. Xie.
Two years after the Battle of Fei River, Xie An died of illness. He is 66 years old.
And two years later, in 387, Xie Xuan died this time.
After that, Eastern Jin died in a civil war, and when Sun En's turmoil occurred, the foundation became rattling, and it was finally destroyed by the new hero Liu Yu.
Although Xie An and Xie Xuan did not show any remarkable person after his death, Mr. Xie continued to exist as a nobleman of the Southern Court even after the death of Eastern Jin, and when the last dynasty of the Southern Court, Chen, died, Mr. Xie's last descendant. Survived an era of turmoil until it disappeared.
It can be said that Mr. Xie's history is the history of the Southern Court itself.
Personal evaluation of Xie An
In a sense, he is a person who has changed history significantly.
Without Xie An, Eastern Jin would have perished earlier.
But I don't know if that was a good thing. Or maybe Huan Wen's clan was better than the Sima clan, or it might have been better to be unified under Fu Jian.
I don't know if the impact of Xie An was a positive one. However, from the perspective of Eastern Jin, it is certain that Xie An was a hero along with Xie Xuan.