Old Generals Were Gone:Power Reorganization in Beifu Forces in the Late Eastern Jin and the Early Liu Song
At the end of the Eastern Jin Dynasty,marked by Liu Laozhi's suicide,Beifu finally disintegrated.It wasn't reestablished until Liu Yu and others rebelled from Jingkou and defeated Huan Xuan.From Liu Laozhi to Liu Yu,not only had the power corpus changed within Beifu,but its power structure was also quite different from the past.Under Liu Laozhi's leadership,Beifu had not yet formed a strict chain of command.Although Liu Laozhi was the leader of Beifu,he did not have the power to control all his forces,and was thus defeated by Huan Xuan in the end.After Liu Laozhi's death,the old generals of Beifu were either absorbed by Huan Xuan or exiled to the northern ethnic regimes.After Liu Yu defeated Huan Xuan,the remnants of Beifu represented by Liu Jingxuan and Sima Xiuzhi were able to return to their homeland.By virtue of their appeal in the Beifu forces,the old generals were granted prominent positions by Liu Yu,but their real power was limited.The loose power structure of old Beifu was also inherited by Liu Yi,Meng Chang and other founders from Jingkou.The tendency to divide power in Beifu conflicted with Liu Yu's need to centralize the imperial power.During the period of Yixi,Liu Yu gradually concentrated the military power of Beifu by attacking Liu Yi,Zhuge Changmin,Sima Xiuzhi and others,and extended Beifu's domination to the upper reaches of the Yangtze River at the geographical level.The old and new generals of Beifu were eventually integrated into the centralized system led by Liu Yu,and the centralized transformation of Beifu forces also provided a military basis for the imperial autocracy of Liu Song.
Dynastic Change from Eastern Jin to Liu SongHuan XuanOld Generals of BeifuLiu YuNew Upstarts from Jingkou
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