Chapter 40 Nineteen, the licentious emperor shoots ghosts and dies

Liu Jun's prince, Liu Ziye, came to the throne at the age of sixteen.What his father did during his lifetime was an example for him to follow and was carried forward by him. There was an omen from the very beginning. When the young emperor accepted the seal, he had an arrogant and arrogant expression on his face. There was no sign of sadness at all, and he didn't even bother to pretend.Cai Xingzong, the Minister of the Ministry of Officials who performed the ceremony, quietly said to others after he came out: "When Lu Zhaogong came to the throne, he was not sad, and his uncle and grandson Muzi knew that he would not die well. I am afraid that our country will be in a catastrophe!"

Liu Jun left Liu Ziye with five ministers who took care of his life, so it can be said that they did not take care of them meticulously.These five are Taizai Liu Yigong, Hussar General Liu Yuanjing, Shixing Gong Shen Qingzhi, Pu Sheyan Shibo, and the leading general Wang Xuanmo.For every detail, Liu Yigong and Liu Yuanjing were consulted, major matters were discussed with Shen Qingzhi; matters of war were entrusted to Shen Qingzhi, internal affairs were entrusted to Uncle Yan, and external affairs were handled by Wang Xuanmo.It should be said that although Liu Jun is greedy for money and lustful, he is not confused about these matters.With this good card in Liu Ziye's hands, it is no problem to live in peace and security, but he never thought that he would make the Liu Song Dynasty miserable.

The first few months were relatively normal, because he was still covered by his mother, the Queen Mother, so he didn't dare to be too presumptuous.But the Queen Mother soon became seriously ill, and she seemed to be dying. The queen mother missed her son and sent someone to call Liu Ziye to see him.Liu Ziye said: "There are many ghosts in the patient's room, I won't go there!" The Queen Mother was trembling with anger, and said to the attendants beside her, "Go get me a knife, cut open my stomach, and see how I can give birth to such a thing!" The queen mother was still sick and kicked her legs to follow her husband.Now it's all right, Liu Ziye finally "I am number one in the world", he can do whatever he wants.

Dai Faxing, a former official of the former court, often whispered in his ear: "Don't be like this, does your majesty want to be the King of Yingyang (Liu Yifu)!" Liu Ziye had long been impatient with him. People around him said bad things about Dai Faxing: "Does your Majesty know? Many people on the road have rumors that there are two emperors in the palace, and Dai Faxing is the real emperor. Your Majesty...just a fake emperor. It is really worrying!" Liu Ziye As soon as he thought it was okay, he dismissed Dai Faxing from his official position, demoted him back to his hometown, and then let him die.

This incident has a great deterrent effect on officials in the DPRK and China.Jiang Xia Wang Liu Yigong, Liu Yuanjing, Yan Shibo and others carefully survived Liu Jun's reign, but Liu Yigong still did his best to claim credit and applaud him, and only managed to save his life.They thought that Liu Jun was dead, so they didn't have to worry about it anymore, and they sang, danced, and drank carnivally all day long.Liu Ziye took Dai Faxing to the knife, and of course they couldn't be at ease.So several people gathered day and night, plotting to abolish Liu Ziye and replace Liu Yigong as emperor.

Liu Yuanjing felt that it was difficult to do it alone, so he told Shen Qingzhi of the plan, trying to drag him into the water (it was the same trick as Xu Xianzhi, Xie Hui and others used to pull Tan Daoji to destroy Liu Yifu, but this time Shen Qingzhi didn't want to follow in Tan Daoji's footsteps).Shen Qingzhi and Liu Yuanjing often fight side by side on the battlefield, they are considered old comrades in arms, but they can't get used to someone like Master Yan who is arbitrarily arbitrarily dealing with important affairs in the court, and they feel resentful.He ran to Liu Ziye to make a small report. Liu Ziye was worried that he had no reason to get rid of his uncle, so he personally brought the Yulin soldiers from the palace to Liu Yigong's mansion to kill people.

Liu Yigong and the others are still hesitating, so there is no defense.Liu Yigong, Master Yan, and Liu Yuanjing, as well as their nephews and brothers, were all killed (the most unlucky one was Liu Yigong, who gave birth to twelve sons before, all were killed by Liu Shao, and four more were born later, but they were all killed. Still can't escape another catastrophe).Liu Yigong also "enjoyed special treatment", and Liu Ziye ordered his body to be dismembered, his intestines and stomach dug out, his eyes picked out, soaked in honey, named "Ghost Rice Dumpling", and showed off everywhere.So far, all seven of Liu Yu's sons died.

Based on the above records, the cruel conclusion we can draw is that Liu Yu earned wealth through his life's struggle, but what he left to his descendants was terrible misfortune. The uncle's generation had finished killing all of them, and his uncle's generation, his father helped him to almost kill them, and then Liu Ziye slashed the butcher knife at his younger brother.Liu Ziluan, Prince of Xin'an, was the first to bear the brunt. Liu Ziluan is the son born of incest between Liu Jun and his cousin Yin Shuyi.Liu Jun loves Wu and Wu, and he dotes on his son the most, and even thought of making him the prince.Liu Ziye has been jealous of him for not a year or two.Now that the killing went smoothly, of course he couldn't stop, so he made a decree to bestow ten year old Liu Ziluan, his six year old half-brother Liu Zishi, and another younger sister by the same mother to death.Liu Ziluan died of despair while shouting "May I never be born again in the emperor's house".

Liu Ziye started killing the clan. His uncle, Liu Yilong's ninth son, Yiyang King Liu Chang, was stationed in Pengcheng, and he was also worried about his own safety.Liu Jun hated Liu Chang when he was in power, but he didn't find a chance to kill him.It was rumored among the people that Liu Chang was going to rebel, so Liu Ziye led his troops across the Yangtze River to attack him.Liu Chang wanted to raise troops, but the generals in the county ignored him (he was also frightened by the bloody winds of the past few years).He had no choice but to open the north gate of Pengcheng and defect to the Northern Wei Dynasty with dozens of cronies.The Northern Wei Dynasty treated him very preferentially, not only making him the king of Danyang, but also marrying the princess to him.

Speaking of princesses, we have to talk about Liu Ziye's sister of the same mother, the famous Princess of Shanyin.She can be said to be a pioneer in the pursuit of feminism, believing that women should be equal to men, at least on the issue of sex life.The younger brother can have thousands of fans and daisies in the six palaces, but she can only enjoy the consort alone, which seems too unequal, so she proposed it to Liu Ziye.Liu Ziye felt that his words were reasonable, so with a swipe of a pen, he ordered someone to choose 30 face heads for his sister, and gave her the title of Princess Kuaiji County Chief, with the same treatment as the county king.

It's not over yet, Princess Shanyin's sexual desire seems to be unusually strong (hold on, I can't say more, we are writing history, not pornographic novels), because thirty men are not enough, she reads After winning the favor of Chu Yuan, the super handsome servant of the official department, he asked Liu Ziye to take Chu Yuan into the mansion to serve him as a servant.Liu Ziye ordered Chu Yuan to "serve" the princess.Not going to see the princess would be disobeying the order, so Chu Yuan had no choice but to bite the bullet and enter the princess mansion.The princess persecuted Chu Yuan in every possible way, but Chu Yuan refused to obey. He spent ten days in the mansion before he was released. It is estimated that the princess couldn't get enough of him. (That’s why it’s said that there are pitiful little faces, and the “miserable lives” of those faces whose names have not survived can be imagined. In fact, these historical events can produce many thrilling and anti-traditional excellent films, there is no need to To make some so-called "classical" blockbusters that are inexplicable and incomprehensible. My point of view is that current film directors should really strive to improve their historical literacy.) Liu Jun summoned his cousin into the palace, which was licentious enough, but it was not worth mentioning in front of his own son.What Liu Ziye fell in love with was his own aunt, Princess Xincai.Liu Ziye brought the secret of his aunt into the harem, then killed a court lady and handed it over to his son-in-law He Mai, saying that the princess died and asked him to bury her.In fact, he renamed his aunt Xie Guipin and stayed in the palace.The dignified son-in-law was cuckolded by the emperor out of thin air, and was furious, so he plotted to support the emperor's third brother, Jin'an King Liu Zixun.The matter was revealed and He Mai was punished. Liu Ziye expected that Shen Qingzhi would speak out because of this matter, so he acted first and sent Shen Qingzhi's nephew Shen Youzhi to secretly kill Shen Qingzhi.The Gu Ming ministers left behind by Liu Jun were killed by Liu Ziye in this way. (The remaining Wang Xuanmo was also almost killed because of repeated admonitions.) On the contrary, He Mai gave Liu Ziye an excuse to attack his younger brother Liu Zixun who was the governor of Jiangzhou (Zhizai Xunyang).Liu Zixun was only ten years old at the time, so it was impossible for him to have objections.The reason why Liu Ziye hates him seems to be "reasonable". Liu Yilong and Liu Jun are both ranked third, and later became emperors, and Liu Zixun is also ranked third, so he especially taboos this "three", fearing that he will usurp his own. bit. Liu Zixun was young, and there were still a few sensible people around him, especially the chief minister Deng Wan. He thought that "abolishing the faint and setting the light up" was something that had to be done, so he sent people to gather the people from all counties and armed five people. More than a thousand people spread the word to various places and raised troops to protect themselves. The superstitious Deng Wan thought that this "three" could still make things happen, and didn't want the Jiankang court to have a major event first. The whole thing is ridiculous.Liu Ziye was worried that his uncles would pose a threat to him if they were officials outside, so he gathered them all in Jiankang and locked them in the palace as targets of abuse.Among them, Liu Yu, king of Xiangdong, Liu Xiuren, king of Jian'an, and Liu Xiuyou, king of Shanyang, were obese. Liu Ziye made bamboo cages for them and weighed them in them.The heaviest Liu Yu was nicknamed "Pig King", the other two were called "Killer" and "Thief King" respectively, and Liu Yi, the king of the East China Sea, had a bad temper and was called "Donkey King". Liu Ziye dug a pit like a pigsty, filled it with muddy water, stripped Liu Yu's clothes and threw it inside, and put a wooden trough filled with rice.Liu Ziye wanted to kill these three princes several times, but thanks to Liu Xiuren's quick response and good jokes, he saved himself from danger several times.In one of the worst times, Liu Yu had already been tied hands and feet and hung upside down on a wooden stick. Liu Ziye ordered: "To kill a pig!" Liu Xiuren next to him said with a playful smile, "Pigs don't deserve to die." Liu Ziye was startled, Asked why, Liu Xiuren replied: "When the crown prince is born, we will kill the pig and take the liver and lungs to celebrate." Liu Ziye then let Liu Yu untie him, handed him over to the court officer, and released him a day later. up. (In fact, the so-called crown prince is also very absurd. He is not Liu Ziye's own son, but the son born to a concubine of Shaofu Liu Yu. Liu Ziye called her into the harem when she was about to give birth, and the child was born , he proclaimed him prince.) Liu Yu couldn't bear the heavy humiliation, so he planned with his cronies Ruan Dianfu, Wang Daolong, Li Daoer, and Liu Ziye's right and left Shou Jizhi, Jiang Chanzhi and others to find an opportunity to abolish Liu Ziye.Opportunities come and go. Liu Ziye likes to let the court ladies strip naked and chase after fun in the Zhulin Hall of Hualin Garden, which is basically equivalent to organizing a large palace brothel.A famous court lady refused to obey orders and was beheaded by Liu Ziye on the spot.That night, he dreamed that a woman scolded him: "The emperor is abusive and shameless, and he will be finished before next year!" Liu Ziye was afraid, so he searched everywhere in the palace, and dragged out a maid who looked like the man in his dream. , Killed again.But the nightmare didn't end, the slain court lady also ran into his dream, cursing: "I've already sued the heavens!" Liu Ziye couldn't sleep well, so he asked a wizard to investigate. After asking, he said that there were ghosts in the bamboo forest hall.Liu Ziye chose one evening to drive away all the guards and lead a group of wizards and court ladies to Zhulin Hall to shoot ghosts.Ruan Dianfu and others saw that the opportunity was rare, so they contacted Shou Jizhi and Jiang Chanzhi, and at the end of the ghost shooting activity, they rushed into the Zhulin Hall with a knife and killed Liu Ziye. Holding a bow and arrow, Liu Ziye saw Shou Jizhi coming to kill him, so he quickly opened his bow and released the arrow, but it was more difficult to shoot people than ghosts, so he didn't hit Shou Jizhi.Liu Ziye turned around and ran around the rockery in the garden, shouting "Ji Ji" and "Ji Ji" while running, and Shou Jizhi chased after him in a few strides, and then shouted the third "Ji Ji" Liu Ziye hacked and killed.It's really "Ji Ji Ji Ji Ji, the emperor's life returns to the west". Liu Xiuren, Liu Xiuyou and others immediately announced the order of the Empress Dowager, abolishing Liu Ziye, and bestowing death on Liu Ziye's sister and brother Princess Kuaiji and Liu Zishang, the king of Yuzhang, and promoted Liu Yu as emperor, and changed Yuan Taishi.This is the seventh emperor of Liu Song - Emperor Song Ming.Emperor Ming didn't know if Xiaowu was not filial.This fat pig emperor is another prodigal son.