Chapter 47 6. The "model" tyrant

Liu Xiufan was wiped out, and the power of Emperor Wen of Song Dynasty completely ended in Song State.The cannibalism of Liu's descendants still has a small tail. After that, Liu Jingsu, the governor of southern Xuzhou and king of Jianping, launched a small rebellion. Liu Jingsu is the eldest son of Liu Hong, the seventh son of Emperor Wen.We said that Liu Hong was quite lucky among the princes of his generation, because he died early due to illness, and he always supported his brother Liu Jun very much, so his descendants also benefited a lot after his death.When Liu Yu became emperor, all of Emperor Wen's grandchildren had withered away, and Liu Jingsu was the longest, and he himself was quite arrogant.He served as the governor of southern Xuzhou, and when he left Zhenjingkou, he accumulated strength, recruited talents, and wooed various forces in order to find opportunities to seize the throne.Liu Xiufan rebelled, and he seized this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to gather troops under the pretext of entering Jingqin, but he actually sat on the mountain and watched the tigers fight.The chaos was settled, but he was promoted to Zhenbei General without any real contribution.

Jingkou is very close to Jiankang, Liu Jingsu is always concerned about the situation in the court.Liu Yu, who was originally quite honest, began to really expose his true nature after adding Yuanfu at the end of the second year of Yuanhui (AD 474). Canadian clothing, also known as "crown ceremony", is an important ceremony for male adulthood in ancient times.Canadian dollar clothes were generally regarded as minors before, and they did not wear hats, but later they needed to wear hats in public, and they also had to behave according to the etiquette of adults.The time for the Canadian dollar service is not fixed, and varies from person to person. The earliest ones are ten years old, and the late ones are performed at the age of twenty. It also changes in different dynasties, generally between 13 and 16 years old.Like the "culprit" Liu Shao mentioned above, he added the Yuanfu at the age of thirteen. Because Liu Yu became emperor earlier, the time for adding the Yuanfu was also one year earlier. He was only twelve years old in the second year of Yuanhui. age, become an adult. (Although compared with those princes in the Northern Dynasties who started supervising the country at the age of eleven or twelve, and married and had children at the age of thirteen or fourteen, it is actually not very early.)

It is quite dangerous to say that you are an adult in terms of etiquette, but your mind is far from mature.Liu Yu loves to play, and his status as emperor is obviously in the way. Whenever he goes out, he has to hug him. It takes a long time for the guard of honor to leave.For Liu Yu, this is simply a "disaster" - it consumes energy and spoils the scenery!He resolutely "contempt" this kind of formalism. Since the third year of Yuanhui, he has traveled frequently in low clothes, taking only a few of his closest servants with him, and every time he goes out, he walks for tens of miles. Run, go out early and return late, don't know where to end.At first Concubine Chen was able to follow behind in a bamboo chariot, which more or less played a supervisory role, but later she couldn't catch up with her son who was riding a horse and running fast, which made Liu Yu lose all scruples.From going out early and returning late, to staying out at night, you can play as long as you want.

Liu Yu is not just enjoying the scenery casually outside, he has a very strong sense of "participation". When he goes out, he often takes guys with his entourage. There are not a few ordinary people.What's more absurd is that the folks have long said that the emperor is not the biological son of the first emperor, but Li Daoer's offspring. He is not angry, thinking that being Li Daoer's son is also good, so he changed his name when the folks were having fun, calling himself Li Tong, or The style of "General Li" is somewhat similar to the self-proclaimed general of the Ming Dynasty, the extremely licentious Zhengde Emperor Zhu Houzhao, but he surpassed the latter in terms of bloodthirsty.

The records about Liu Yu in the official history, its words make people have a sense of deja vu.After a little thought, we can infer that many descriptions come from the same template of tyrants. Since Tang Wu and Jie Zhou, historians have been accustomed to applying some templates of wise, tyrant, and stupid kings, so that we who read history can see You can guess the next sentence from the previous sentence.Liu Yu was in fact the subjugated king of the Liu Song Dynasty. In order to highlight the legitimacy of the dynasty change, the emerging dynasty used a more typical template, which was unavoidably smeared.For example, the torture he likes in the historical records can be compared with any tyrant in history: piercing the bones, genitals, gouging the head, sawing the neck, all of which are punishments that make people shudder when they look at them.We can barely speak for Liu Yu here. He may not have committed all these crimes against humanity, but he did kill many people who opposed him.

So there was an argument inside and outside Jiankang City that Liu Yu's throne would be lost sooner or later, and Liu Jingsu would succeed him.Of course, the people around Liu Yu didn't think so, especially the former ministers of Liu Yu's era, Yang Yunchang and Ruan Dianfu, who were all thinking that because the emperor was young, he could monopolize power.Liu Jingsu's general Wang Jifu violated Liu Jingsu's order and had a conflict, so he went to Jiankang to inform Liu Jingsu of rebellion.Yang Yunchang and Ruan Dianfu asked to use this to send troops to crusade, but Xiao Daocheng, Yuan Can and others who held military power believed that the evidence was insufficient, and they should not listen to one side of the story, and disagreed with hasty use of troops.There was no dispute, and finally a compromise was made, and Liu Jingsu's title of General North Zheng was revoked.

In this way, Liu Jingsu's sense of crisis became stronger, prompting him to step up his actions.He contacted many military generals in the ruling and opposition parties, and wanted to use Liu Yu to travel several times to launch assassinations and seize power, but unfortunately he did not get the support of military and political officials such as Sigui, and was forced to cancel due to poor consideration.In July of the fourth year of Yuanhui (AD 476), Liu Jingsu finally couldn't hold back and decided to raise troops. From this point alone, it can be seen that this so-called prince who is expected by everyone is actually not high in political quality, and his strategic thinking is chaotic.He hesitated before and did not take any action, but this time he jumped up just because he was encouraged by someone.It turns out that Tan Jizu, the Habayashi supervisor in the capital (an important position in charge of the cavalry of the Habayashi Army), had conspired with Liu Jingsu for a long time. He had lived in Jiankang for a long time, fearing that something might happen, he fled from Jiankang to Jingkou with hundreds of his soldiers. Liu Jingsu said: "Right now, there is chaos inside and outside the capital. I hope that the prince will enter the capital as soon as possible in the name of calming the chaos!" ", mobilized an army of thousands of people, ready to march towards Jiankang City.

With unknown intelligence and lack of successors, what awaits Liu Jingsu can only be death.Yang Yunchang and others in Jiankang City had long noticed that Tan Zhizu was plotting to commit crimes. As soon as he defected, he predicted that Liu Jingsu would rebel and immediately declared martial law inside and outside.Xiao Daocheng led the Taicheng army out of Xuanwu Lake, led the infantry by the champion general Huang Hui, Ren Nongfu, and the left army general Li Anmin, and the right army general Zhang Bao led the water army. Both water and land rushed towards Jingkou at the same time. Although Liu Jingsu gathered a lot of minions to work for him, most of them are incompetent people with no general strategy.They heard that Jiankang had already made preparations, but they didn't know how to deal with it.Liu Jingsu meant to stay in Zhuli (now north of Jurong, Jiangsu Province) to block the route of the Taicheng army.Yuan Qingyan, Yuan Zhizu, Shen Yong and others all said: "It's midsummer now, and the enemy army is tired from afar. Our army just waits for work with leisure, lures the enemy deep, and can be conquered in one battle." Can't stand it, advocate sticking to it.The opinions of the two factions were not unified, and the fighter plane was delayed. In the end, Liu Jingsu's army had to stay in Jingkou to confront the Taicheng army.

Liu Jingsu's navy recruited many good men from the Jingxiang area, who were well-trained and had obvious advantages in combat effectiveness. They defeated Zhang Bao's navy and killed Zhang Bao in battle.However, the other armies could not provide favorable support. As a result, the Taicheng army approached Jingkou and defeated Liu Jingsu's army one by one.The remaining group of dead soldiers trained by Liu Jingsu for many years were extremely brave in combat, but unfortunately the troops were too weak and eventually lost the battle.Jingkou fell, and Liu Jingsu also lost his head.

Liu Jingsu's failure declared the end of the brotherhood of the Liu family.Since Emperor Wen of the Song Dynasty, the descendants of the Liu family have fought each other for their own desire for power and interests, consuming all their strength in unnecessary internal strife.Liu Song's country only ended up being dictated by others. There are quite a few people with such thoughts. Naturally, there will only be one successful person. When Ruan Dianfu bullied the emperor when he was young, he first wanted to make trouble.He discussed with his accomplices, took advantage of Liu Yu's hunting opportunity, closed the city gate, arrested Liu Yu and abolished him, and made Liu Yu's third younger brother, Ancheng King Liu Zhun, the new king.When the incident came to light, Liu Yu captured and killed Ruan Dianfu and others, and expanded his scope of attack. For those who had conspired with Ruan Dianfu, Du Youwen, the regular attendant on Sanqi, Shen Bo, the chief left officer of Situ, and Sun Chaozhi, the guerrilla general, who had conspired with Ruan Dianfu, whether they participated in the conspiracy or not Reverse actions, all clans will be punished.None of the men, women and children from the Du, Shen and Sun families were spared.Shen Bo was in mourning at the time, so it stands to reason that he could not be arrested immediately.Liu Yu didn't care about this, and rushed into Shen Bo's house with his left and right soldiers, beheading anyone he saw.Knowing that he would die, Shen Bo rushed forward, grabbed Liu Yu's ears, and beat and cursed: "You are a tyrant, your death is coming soon!"Liu Yu was so angry that he ordered not only to exterminate the clan of these people, but also to dismember them before giving up.

After this incident, Liu Yu felt that the people around him were also unreliable, especially the important ministers who had monopolized power.Suspicious eyes quickly turned to Xiao Daocheng, the head of the "four nobles". Once in the middle of summer, Liu Yu broke into Xiao Daocheng's mansion, just in time for Xiao Daocheng to take a nap at home with his shirtless arms and belly exposed.He ordered Xiao Daocheng to stand indoors, draw a bullseye on his belly, draw a bow and set an arrow, and he was about to shoot.Xiao Daocheng was terrified, and kept shouting: "The old minister is not guilty, the old minister is not guilty!" Liu Yu's confidant Wang Tianen, who probably had some connection with Xiao Daocheng, quickly persuaded him: "Xiao Lingjun's belly is bigger than ordinary people, so he is a good target. What a pity! It’s better to remove the arrowhead and shoot again.” Liu Yu agreed, so he took an arrow without an arrowhead, and shot it right at Xiao Daocheng’s. belly button.He threw the bow and said to the left and right with a smile: "How about this archery, haha!" Liu Yu wanted to kill Xiao Daocheng, not all because of playfulness.He was indeed afraid of Xiao Daocheng's prestige, and repeatedly clamored to kill him, but there were always people around to speak up for Xiao Daocheng, including his mother Chen Taifei, who advised him: "Xiao Daocheng wiped out Liu Xiufan's rebels, There is the grace of rebuilding my mother and son; if even he is going to be killed, who else can serve our country?" Liu Yu temporarily dismissed the idea of ​​killing Xiao Daocheng, but Xiao Daocheng, who was afraid and had a different ambition, was no longer willing to settle down.He secretly negotiated with Yuan Can, Chu Yuan (yes, the handsome man who had been favored by Princess Shanyin and escaped death) and others, intending to replace this murderous little emperor.