Wang Gong

…The main players in the Battle of Feishui were the Northern Army led by Xie Xuan, and it can be said that after this, the position of the Northern Government rose even higher than before. Wang Gong was the commander of the Northern Army, and he strongly urged the father-son duo Sima Daozi and Sima Yuanxian, who were in charge of the government at the end of the 4th century, to reform the political chaos that had taken hold of the government. Although Wang Gong was defeated and killed (398), it was the Northern Army that put down the Taoist popular rebellion that had taken advantage of the government's chaos, known as the Sun En Rebellion (Sun En and Lu Xun Rebellion), and also drove out Huan Xuan. …

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…淝水の戦の立役者は謝玄の率いる北府軍団であり，これ以後，北府の位置は以前にもましていちだんと高まったといえる。4世紀末の政権を担当した司馬道子･司馬元顕父子に対して，その政治の乱脈の改革を強硬に迫った王恭は北府軍団長であった。王恭は敗死したが(398)，政府の乱脈の機をとらえて蜂起した道教徒の民衆反乱，すなわち孫恩の乱（孫恩・盧循の乱）を平定したのも，また桓玄を駆逐したのも北府軍団の力であった。…

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