Chapter 48 7. Between Yi Dynasties

Xiao Daocheng's proposal was opposed by Yuan Can, a heavyweight among the four nobles. He said: "The emperor is still young, and small mistakes are easy to correct. Only powerful ministers like Yi Yin and Huo Guang can do big things. In today's chaotic world, it may be difficult to implement. Even if it is really successful, we people may not have a place to live." Apparently Yuan Can is afraid that he will follow in the footsteps of Xu Xianzhi, Xie Hui and others, and at the same time he does not have political opinions. I completely agree with Xiao Daocheng and don't want him to take this opportunity to dominate.

Chu Yuan on the side had a different idea from Yuan Can.The life struggle standard of this dignified son-in-law and minister of life is four words, "follow the power".He understands that Liu Song's regime is exhausted, and someone may replace it at any time, looking around the government and the public, this person must be Xiao Daocheng.So for the smooth sailing of his future official career, he has made up his mind to cling to this new master in advance.On the occasion of this secret meeting, his best response was to say nothing, to show his acquiescence to Xiao Daocheng's disobedience, and at the same time "draw a clear line" with Yuan Can and others.

Xiao Dao wanted to chatter and have a small meeting, so it was better to do it alone, so he "kicked" Yuan, Chu and others aside, and contacted all parties together with his eldest son Xiao Yu, second son Xiao Yi, and his left and right cronies, waiting to dethrone the emperor Opportunity. Soon he got in touch with Wang Jingze, the captain of the Yueqi school who was in command of the forbidden army, and the other party sent him to his door on his own initiative.Wang Jing proposed to Xiao Daocheng that he could use his position to monitor the emperor's activities for Xiao Daocheng.Xiao Daocheng was overjoyed, and he asked Wang Jingze to make friends with Liu Yu's left and right cronies Yang Yufu, Yang Wannian, Chen Fengbo and others, and develop these people into internal support.

It has become an open secret that Liu Yu goes out to play every day.On the seventh day of the seventh month of the fifth year of Yuanhui (AD 477), the little emperor arranged a series of rich recreational activities for himself.He first took a convertible car, took his left and right attendants, and went to the small hill outside the palace to compete in high jumps; when he was tired of jumping, he went to the nearby nunnery to fool around with the little nuns.Seeing that it was getting late, he sneaked into Xin'an Temple again, and stole a dog with his men, killed and boiled it, served the dog meat with fine wine, and ate to his heart's content, his eyes were blinded by drunkenness.Before going to sleep, Liu Yu suddenly looked at Yang Yufu and said, pointing to the Milky Way in the sky, "Today is Qixi Festival, you boy will stay here and wait for Sister Zhinu to cross the river, and report to me immediately if you see it; I can't see, I'll kill you first thing in the morning!" Yang Yufu was so frightened that his legs and feet went limp, and he nodded repeatedly in agreement.

Due to Liu Yu's irregular work and rest schedule and no fixed place to live, the doors of the rooms in the palace are not closed at night.The soldiers of the imperial army were afraid that they would lose their heads for no reason because they were seen by the emperor, so they all fled far away. The internal security work was in chaos.Wang Jing was on duty outside the camp, when he suddenly saw Yang Yufu running to see him in a panic, he was surprised and asked Yang Yufu what happened.Yang Yufu told Wang Jingze everything Liu Yu said, and Wang Jingze thought it was God's will, so he said to Yang Yufu: "If the emperor wakes up tomorrow morning, how can you save your life?" .It seems that we have to act first, call Yang Wannian and the others, and act tonight!"

Although Yang Yufu was afraid of the little emperor, he had no other choice, so he dragged Yang Wannian and Chen Fengbo together to confirm that Liu Yu was asleep, went into the bedroom and secretly took off Liu Yu's personal saber, and chopped off the golden gem. head. After the matter was settled, the three discussed and asked Chen Fengbo to hide Liu Yu's head with the sleeve of his robe, pretending to be the emperor's order, to open the palace gate, and hand over the head to Wang Jingze's camp.Wang Jing took the head and galloped to the front of Xiao Daocheng's army mansion, knocking on the door and shouting "It's over".

Xiao Daocheng was sleeping soundly in the mansion, but was awakened by Wang Jingze's knock on the door, and immediately got up to visit.But he was also worried that this was a trap set up by Liu Yu, and wanted to lure him out to kill him, hiding behind the door and daring not to open it.Wang Jing is a rough man, he doesn't care so much, he thought to himself, you are the leader who commands thousands of troops, but you will be full of pustules at a critical moment.He couldn't open the door, so he picked up the head and threw it in from the wall of the mansion. Xiao Daocheng ordered his subordinates to wash the head and take a closer look, it was indeed the little emperor's head, a heart that had been raised for a long time finally fell to the ground.He changed into his military uniform, rode out, and took Wang Jingze and a group of people to Miyagi.Wang Jing claimed that Yu Jia returned to the palace, shouting aggressively, which was the same as Liu Yu's usual attitude when entering the palace.The soldiers guarding the gate of the palace did not dare to investigate carefully, so they opened the gate wide and welcomed Xiao Daocheng into the palace.The officials in the palace panicked and terrified.Xiao Daocheng walked up to the Hall of Renshou and announced Liu Yu's death to the officials. The whole palace immediately burst into cheers, and the sound of "long live" was endless.

Early the next morning, Xiao Daocheng summoned Yuan Can, Chu Yuan, and Liu Bing into the hall for a meeting by order of the Empress Dowager.Xiao Daocheng was fully armed, while Wang Jing and others stood behind him, waiting for them under the locust tree in front of the main hall. This posture was enough to scare people stupid.Liu Bing is the nephew of Liu Yu, and he is also in the clan. Xiao Daocheng first asked him: "How do you solve the matter of your Liu family?" The military power still has to be handed over to the leader.” Xiao Daocheng glanced at Yuan Can again, and said, "What does Duke Yuan think?" Yuan Can hesitated for a long time, and was about to decline, when Wang Jing drew his saber from his waist, and shouted: "Everything in the world will be punished by Duke Xiao." , who dares to say half a word, my sword, Wang Jingze, has no eyes!" As he said that, he wanted to strike while the iron was hot, pushing Xiao Daocheng to proclaim himself emperor.

Xiao Daocheng put on a straight face, and said with a hesitation: "What do you know!" Wang Jing stepped aside, still holding a knife to monitor everyone in the meeting. Xiao Daocheng wanted to ask Chu Yuan again in turn, but Chu Yuan was very knowledgeable and said first: "No one but Xiao Gong can deal with the aftermath of today's matter!" Xiao Daocheng pretended to be helpless, and said: "Since everyone is unwilling to take charge of the overall situation, how can I refuse!" So he drafted an edict, in the name of the Queen Mother, listing Liu Yu's crimes, and supporting Li'an Cheng Wang Liu Zhun became the new emperor, and changed Yuan to Shengming. This is Emperor Song Shun. (By the way, this Liu Zhun is not the biological son of Song Ming Emperor Liu Yu. It is the child born to Liu Yu who robbed Liu Xiufan Aiji, so Liu Zhun is actually Liu Xiufan's son. Liu Xiufan rebelled and was killed , and now his son has become the emperor instead, the feng shui of the Liu Song royal family is still unpredictable at the last moment.)

Emperor Song Shun was a puppet at all, and his status and role were not even comparable to that of the previous Han Xiandi and Jin'an Emperors.The reason why Xiao Daocheng wanted to place a person surnamed Liu in the position of emperor was because he still needed to eliminate those who opposed him inside and outside the court at this time.The person who fought against him was Yuan Can, who opposed his random abolition and establishment of major events. Yuan Can has the demeanor of a celebrity and the ambition to help the troubled times. He never obeyed Xiao Daocheng sincerely, but was forced by Xiao's lust and powerful military power to temporarily support his decision-making.At this time, the imperial court sent him out of the town of Stone City, and he immediately accepted the transfer order, intending to pull up the team and counterattack Xiao Daocheng.

However, Yuan Can lacked great talent and plan, and was not suitable for political maneuvering, political struggle or even military struggle.A few months after Liu Zhun ascended the throne, Shen Youzhi, the governor of Jingzhou who was stationed in Jiangling, spread the word to the world in the name of the queen mother's letter, announcing that Xiao Daocheng "make friends with the left and right, and personally kill the rebellion", and led troops to the east of the river to crusade against Xiao Daocheng.After Xiao Daocheng received the news, he took the initiative to visit Yuan Can, but Yuan Can refused with the attitude of "difference in Taoism and lack of strategy".At the same time, Chu Yuan and Xiao Daocheng fought fiercely, and they discussed how to deal with Shen Youzhi. Chu Yuan said to Xiao Daocheng: "The matter in the west is a small fight, and it will not succeed. Xiao Gong needs to be careful." It’s Jiankang’s side.” Xiao Dao made a conscious effort to understand, so he secretly sent his cronies Su Lie, Xue Yuan and others to Stone City, nominally to reinforce Yuan Can, but actually to do a good job of internal response and adapt to the situation. Yuan Can has not yet awakened, he conceived a set of plans, roughly to fake the order of the Queen Mother (the name of the Queen Mother is still very appealing at these times, and all forces can use it if they want to raise troops ) ordered Liu Yun and Bu Boxing to lead the imperial army to attack Xiao Daocheng in Miyagi.But since you have made it clear that you will not cooperate with Xiao Daocheng, you should act early and draw a clear line with Xiao Daocheng's people.However, he deliberately wooed Chu Yuan, thinking that Chu Yuan might not dare to completely oppose him, and wanted to take this opportunity to see Chu Yuan's attitude, so he asked his subordinates to tell Chu Yuan the whole plan. Chu Yuan nodded face to face, turned around and reported Yuan Can's words to Xiao Daocheng.Xiao Daocheng prepared with both hands, sent people to the imperial army to report to Wang Jingze overnight, concentrated on dealing with the two in the imperial army, and dispatched general Dai Sengjing to attack with Su Lie and Xue Yuan inside and outside, and took down Stone City. Xiao Daocheng had too many insiders, Yuan Can could guard against one but not the other, not to mention that the plan was not thorough enough at the beginning.The rebellion of the Forbidden Army was quickly quelled by Wang Jingze, and Stone City was opened from the inside by Su Lie and others.Dai Sengjing led the troops to set fire all the way, and went straight to Yuan Can's mansion.Seeing that the situation was over, Yuan Can threw his neck at Dai Sengjing and killed him.Dai Sengjing swung his knife and was about to kill, when a figure in the darkness blocked his way.Yuan Can took a closer look and found that the man was his son Yuan Zui.Yuan Zui begged Dai Sengjing not to kill his father, but willing to die instead.Yuan Can sighed to his son: "I know that the building will collapse and there is no way to support a single tree. It's just for the sake of fame. I have fallen to where I am today, and I am willing. I can be regarded as a loyal minister, and you can be regarded as a filial son." The soldiers behind Dai Sengjing were all moved. Tears were shed. Both Yuan Can and his son were killed by Dai Sengjing, and Liu Bing and his son, who participated in Yuan Can's plot, were also caught and beheaded after they fled.Since then, there has been another ballad at the top of Shitoucheng, which says: "Poor Shitoucheng, I would rather die for Yuan Can than live for Chu Yuan!" Xiao Daocheng no longer has to worry about the future, so he can deal with Shen Youzhi's rebels wholeheartedly.As Chu Yuan predicted, Shen Youzhi is not an opponent who needs to be taken too seriously.After he dispatched troops, he repeatedly missed the opportunity to fight. The strategic target should be Jiankang, but because Liu Shilong of Yingzhou sent people to the front of the battle to scold him, he changed his marching plan at will and attacked Yingzhou (now Wuchang, Hubei) with elite troops.It took a month, but the city was not captured, and the number of deserters who deserted increased day by day.Shen Youzhi saw that the army's morale was slackened, so he had to order the troops to retreat to Jiangling, and then make plans. The frightening thing was that Jiangling couldn't keep it either. Xiao Daoguo was really treacherous and treacherous. He had expected Shen Youzhi's rebellion long ago, so he placed his confidant Zhang Jinger, the governor of Yongzhou, in Xiangyang, north of Jiangling.Seeing that Shen Youzhi's army was out, Zhang Jing'er sneaked into Jiangling, took Shen Youzhi's lair, and killed Shen Youzhi's son and grandson. Shen Youzhi's army walked more than a hundred miles away from Jiangling. When they heard that Jiangling had fallen, they immediately dispersed.Shen Youzhi was homeless, so he "consciously" found a forest and hanged himself. After settling the internal and external turmoil, Xiao Daocheng took advantage of the situation to kill Huang Hui, Yang Yunchang and a group of people who opposed him openly and secretly, and obtained the status Liu Yu obtained sixty years ago.However, compared with Liu Yu's hideous opponents, Xiao Daocheng's success seemed too easy. It took only five years from Liu Xiufan's rebellion to Shen Youzhi's death.The natural cycle is not a simple repetition. Here, I don't know whether it is luck or sadness.