Chapter 13 Three, roommates

Liu Yu's success is worth pondering. Everyone knows that Liu Yu is not the first person to usurp Jin.The former Wang Dun and Huan Wen had better conditions than him, but they both failed and regretted their lives. Huan Xuan even made himself a street rat.However, Liu Yu, who came from a humble background, successfully rose from the grass and proclaimed himself emperor after the turmoil. Why is this? Times, and politics. If the Three Kingdoms was the era of heroes and the Wei and Jin Dynasties were the stage for the gentry, then at the end of the Jin Dynasty, the times would no longer produce heroes, and the gentry would no longer be popular.When a hero takes a curtain call, those who appear on the stage may be gangsters;Therefore, Liu Yu's Song, including Qi and Liang later, was doomed to have a bad fate full of blood, and murders continued to be staged one after another.

The killing has started since the founding of the country. The first person to be killed was Emperor Gong of Jin, one and a half years after the abdication.He is the longest-lived among the four abdicated emperors of Jin, Song, Qi, and Liang, but this is not because Liu Yu is soft-hearted, but because Emperor Gong is very strict.He shares a room with his queen every day, and she cooks all the meals in front of the bed.This pitiful former emperor is actually worse than death. Liu Yu didn't want to wait any longer.He managed to get the queen's two brothers to transfer the queen away, and the killer climbed over the wall and delivered the poison.When Emperor Gong claimed that Buddhists who committed suicide would not be reincarnated as human beings, they smothered him with a quilt.

The next to be killed was Liu Yu's own son Shaodi Liu Yifu.The young emperor was abolished and killed by Xu Xianzhi, Fu Liang and others appointed by Liu Yu before his death, two years after his normal succession. He was nineteen years old at the time.Also killed at the same time was his younger brother Liu Yizhen, king of Luling, eighteen years old.It turned out that Liu Yu's third son, Liu Yilong, king of Yidu, succeeded to the throne as Emperor Wen of Song Dynasty. Xu Xianzhi and Fu Liang, who launched the coup, did not end well.When supporting Liu Yilong as emperor, Xu Xianzhi asked Fu Liang: Who can be compared with the king of Yidu?

Fu Liang said: surpass Jin Wendi (Sima Zhao). Xu Xianzhi said: Then we should know our utter loyalty. Fu Liang said: Not necessarily. Sure enough, more than a year later, Liu Yilong issued an edict to sentence Xu Xianzhi and Fu Liang to death for murder, so Xu Xianzhi committed suicide and Fu Liang was arrested.After reading Liu Yilong's imperial edict, Fu Liang said eight words: If you want to commit a crime, there is no reason to worry about it. Fu Liang, who supported two generations of emperors, was a dead dog. Emperor Gong of Jin who gave way to Liu Yu died, Liu Yu's sons Liu Yifu and Liu Yizhen died, Xu Xianzhi and Fu Liang who killed Liu Yifu and Liu Yizhen also died, now it is Liu Yilong's turn to be the emperor for thirty years .

Song Wendi Liu Yilong is of course the hero of a generation, and the rule of Yuanjia was realized in his hands.He even launched the Northern Expedition, trying to regain the lost land of the Central Plains from the Northern Wei Dynasty.It's a pity that the opponent he met was Tuoba Tao, Emperor Taiwu. As a result, the army of the Northern Wei Dynasty rushed to the edge of the Yangtze River like a bamboo.If it weren't for Tuoba Tao's sudden withdrawal of troops later, Liu Song would be almost in danger (please refer to Chapter 2 of this book). Liu Yilong escaped Tuoba Tao's attack, but died under his son's sword.In the second year after Tuoba Tao was murdered by eunuchs (AD 453), Song Prince Liu Shao launched a mutiny.At that time, Liu Yilong was conspiring with his confidants to depose the prince, and they talked all night long.When the Prince's soldiers entered the palace, Liu Yilong was caught off guard and raised several swords in self-defense. As a result, all ten fingers were cut off, and he fell to the ground and died at the age of forty-seven.

Tuoba Tao, who was killed the year before, was forty-five years old. The atmosphere in the palace must have been very tense at that time.When Liu Yilong conspired with his confidant minister, he always asked this person to hold a candle to check around before talking, lest someone eavesdrop.However, it was himself who leaked the secret.For some reason, Liu Yilong told Concubine Pan Shu about the idea of ​​deposing the prince, and Concubine Pan Shu told her son Liu Jun.Liu Jun was originally Liu Shao's accomplice, so of course he wanted to report the news, and the desperate prince Liu Shao had no choice but to take the risk.

Liu Shao, who murdered his father, was equally nervous.After hastily announcing that he was the emperor, he hid in the palace and did not dare to come out. He couldn't even leave his sword at night when he went to bed, and row after row of lamps were lit beside his bed.Liu Shao knew very well that his coup d'état was not popular, not to mention that there was Liu Jun, the third younger brother of Wuling King outside.As the governor of Jiangzhou, Liu Jun has military power in his hands. Liu Shao decided to kill Liu Jun. But what Liu Shao never expected was that the officials he sent to pronounce Liu Jun's death sentence fell on Liu Jun with a blow, and the civil war began in full swing, and the winner was soon determined.Liu Jun became the new owner of the Song Dynasty, and it was Emperor Xiaowu.Liu Shao and Liu Jun became the ghosts under the sword, and they were recorded in the annals of history as murderers.

Some details are worth pondering. Liu Shao was captured after hiding in a well, while Liu Jun surrendered to his uncle Jiangxia King Liu Yigong on the way to escape.The captured Liu Shao completely lost the dignity and airs of the emperor, and he even asked humbly: Where is the emperor? The person who arrested him replied: It is nearby. Liu Shao asked: Can you perform the concert on your behalf and only sentence me to exile? Answer: The emperor has his own punishment. Liu Shao had no choice but to resign himself to fate. Unlike Liu Shao, Liu Jun did not call his younger brother the emperor. He used the title of Liu Jun's official Nanzhong Langjiang, and he used the nickname Hutou for himself.It seems that Liu Jun is still pinning his hopes on the kinship, imagining that his younger brother will be lenient.

Liu Jun asked his uncle: What is Nan Zhonglang doing now? King Jiangxia replied: The king is in the world. Liu Jun asked again: Is the tiger head late? King Jiangxia replied: I am afraid it is too late. Liu Jun asked again: "Isn't he going to die?" King Jiangxia replied: You can go to plead guilty first. Liu Jun asked again: Can you give me a part-time job so that I can make meritorious deeds? King Jiang Xia replied: Then I don’t know. In fact, the new emperor had no intention of giving his two elder brothers a living. Even his sister-in-law and nephew were killed, and their ashes were thrown into the Yangtze River.It is said that before Liu Shao's execution, Empress Yin of Liu Shao asked the law enforcement officer indignantly: "The Liu family is fratricide, why do they harm the innocent?"

The law enforcement officer replied: How can you say that you are innocent when you become a queen? Empress Yin said: If I knew it earlier, I would let someone else do it. It's a pity that this is not up to her, nor to others, suspicion and hostility spread in Liu Song like a virus.Emperor Xiaowu Liu Jun, the former deposed emperor Liu Ziye, the Ming emperor Liu Yu, and the later deposed emperor Liu Yu are all murderers, and the clan's rebellions also occur one after another.Of the nine sons, more than forty grandsons, and sixty or seventy great-grandchildren of the founding emperor Liu Yu, seven or eight out of ten died unexpectedly.

The snipe and the clam competed for the fisherman's benefit, and Liu Song's regime finally fell into the hands of Xiao Daocheng, an ordinary general who was not very suspicious.In 479 AD, three years after Empress Dowager Feng of the Northern Wei Dynasty began political reforms and the Western Roman Empire fell, Emperor Shun Liu Zhun was forced to abdicate.Xiao Daocheng proclaimed himself emperor and changed the name of the country to Qi, which was Southern Qi. Emperor Shun, who abdicated, was killed in the second month, which he had expected when he was forced to abdicate.The little emperor was only thirteen years old at the time, but he knew very well what would happen if he gave up the throne.Therefore, on the day of the ceremony, he hid under the treasure cover of the Buddhist hall and refused to show his face.After being dragged out, the child who couldn't help himself wiped his tears and said: I hope that I will not be born in the emperor's family in the next life. Of course, this is not up to him. Qi Gaodi Xiao Daocheng learned a lesson, he and his son Qi Wudi were able to treat the clan well, and Southern Qi also had the rule of Yongming.But starting from Emperor Qi Ming, the nightmare began again.The previous emperor and clan kings were all slaughtered by him. As a result, Nanqi only existed for 24 years before being replaced by Nanliang. It was Emperor Wu of Liang Xiao Yan who overthrew Southern Qi, and it was Emperor Qi Ming's eighth son and Emperor Xiao Baorong who abdicated the throne.That month, the fifteen-year-old little emperor rejected the plan to commit suicide by swallowing gold. He wanted to drink good wine until he became intoxicated, and let the killer sent by Xiao Yan send him to the west in some way. Emperor Wu of Liang was very satisfied.Of course he never imagined that forty-seven years later, he would die unexpectedly, and even more uselessly.

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