In China's long history of thousands of years, the founding emperors of some dynasties themselves have noble status and status, and their merits are remarkable, of course, there are also the founding emperors of the dynasties, just a cloth, self-made. Or some ancestors have the royal blood of the previous dynasty, and by virtue of their bloodline, they command the crowd to rule the world.
Today's Xiaobian wants to talk about the founding prince of an imperial dynasty, whose ancestors were the brothers of Liu Bang, the ancestor of Han Gao, but it was passed down to his father's generation, and his family was poor. He was Liu Yu, the founding emperor of the Southern Dynasty Liu Song.
In the year of Liu Yu's birth, although the Liu family was a queen of the imperial family, when they arrived at the Time of the Jin Dynasty Emperor, they had long ceased to be glorious. Liu Yu's family was cold, and his mother had already fallen ill when he gave birth to him, and he died within a few days.
The Liu family was poor, Liu Yu's father died again, and his father Liu Qiao could not invite nursing mothers to take care of Liu Yu like those big families, so he thought twice and decided to throw Liu Yu away.
But fortunately, this incident was just seen by Liu Yu's subordinate mother, that is, his mother's sister, his aunt, and immediately stopped his father from abandoning the child and saved him.
It also happened that the aunt had just given birth to a child, and there was enough milk, which could feed Liu Yu.
Liu Yu has shown that he is different from ordinary people since he was a child. He was tall, grand, talented, generous in life, and filial to his aunt who raised him. Although he was born cold, he had a vengeance and great ambition.
So in 339, Liu Yu, who was determined to change his origins, joined the army. After joining the army, Liu Yu participated in many wars to suppress the anti-Jin rebels, and also quelled the Huanxuan Rebellion. He has made many meritorious achievements. Liu Yu gradually gained the appreciation of the upper head, and sat on a high position step by step.
When suppressing the rebel sun en's troops, the strength of the enemy and us was very different. However, he is still not afraid of hardships and dangers, and he bravely moves forward. Don't put your name first, only know to rush forward and fight the enemy in blood. This spirit of not being afraid of death shook the enemies who fought with him, and those enemies were frightened by him. In the end, sun en, the leader of the rebellion Junde, had no way to escape, and could only raise his knife and commit suicide.
Later, Liu Yu also participated in many wars against the surrounding regimes, defeating the Hu people, destroying Southern Yan in the west, and Later Qin in the north. For a while, the merits were outstanding, and countless people of insight followed behind him, holding military power, calming countless wars and chaos for the Jin Dynasty, and opening up a large number of territories.
Liu Yu, who had a high merit in the lordship, and Liu Yu, who had cherished the world since childhood, naturally did not want to be subordinate to others after making great military achievements, so in 420, Liu Yu, who had finished cleaning up the rebel forces, was proclaimed emperor on behalf of the Jin Dynasty, and the Eastern Jin Dynasty was thus destroyed. Liu Yu changed the name of the country to "Song", established his own political power, and became the founding emperor of Liu Song in the Southern Dynasty.