In 548, the Southern Liang general Hou Jing launched a rebellion, and Emperor Wu of Liang, Emperor Jianwen, and Queen Yuzhang were all killed by him. In 552, Hou Jing officially declared himself emperor, changed Southern Liang to Han, and established a pseudo-Han. Historical records describe Hou Jing as an ungrateful villain, and the reason why Hou Jing had the opportunity to destroy Southern Liang stemmed from the fact that he failed to rebel during the Northern Wei Dynasty and fled to Southern Liang for refuge.
Emperor Wu of Southern Liang was kind enough to take him in, and he also entrusted him with a heavy responsibility to pay homage to Yu Prefecture to assassinate shi. But he didn't want to, and Southern Liang was eventually destroyed in the hands of Hou Jing. This is the famous Hou Jing Rebellion in history. Not only that, after Hou Jing usurped the throne, he coveted the beauty of the former princess Liyang and forced her to marry herself. However, Hou Jing eventually paid a terrible price for his actions, not only died tragically, but was also eaten by the people, and Princess Liyang was also among them.
According to the data, Hou Jing liked to ride and shoot when he was young, and he was brave and aggressive. When Gao Huan defeated the Erzhu family, Hou Jing followed Gao Huan and was heavily used by Gao Huan for his resourceful military talents. However, although Gao Huan used Hou Jing very much, he did not fully trust him. He knew this person's ambition, and in order to prevent future troubles, Gao Huan warned his son Gao Cheng before his death to beware of Hou Jing. Sure enough, shortly after Gao Cheng's death, Hou Jing rebelled.
Due to Gao Huan's warning before his death, Hou Jing's rebellion was unsuccessful, and he eventually had to flee to Southern Liang with his remnants. Emperor Wu of Liang did not expect that Hou Jing's arrival would bring a crisis of annihilation to Southern Liang, and the fate of Princess Liyang would be changed.
Hou Jing had just rebelled in Northern Wei, so why would Emperor Wu of Liang accept a rebel? As a monarch, Emperor Wu of Liang made a fatal mistake. He wanted to borrow Hou Jing's hand to succeed in the Northern Expedition, ignoring that Hou Jing himself was a rather ambitious person. After Hou Jing arrived in Southern Liang, he was treated highly by Emperor Wu of Liang, but Hou Jing was not a peaceful person, and when he began to use Southern Liang's internal contradictions to create the Southern Liang crisis, Southern Liang was already in danger. But Emperor Wu of Liang did not think so, and remained unmoved.
In August 548, Hou Jing's rebellion began, and Emperor Wu of Liang was shocked by Hou Jing's ambitions. However, by this time Hou Jing had already drawn together all the forces, and Emperor Wu of Liang was unable to reverse the situation at all, and was starved to death by him in 549 AD. Crown Prince Xiao Gang was made emperor for Emperor Jianwen of Liang. Emperor Wen of Liang was no more than a puppet emperor, and the Southern Liang regime was always in the hands of Hou Jing. Emperor Wu of Liang's most beloved granddaughter, Princess Liyang, was forced to marry her, and at this time, Princess Liyang was only fourteen years old.
In 551, Hou Jing abolished Xiao Gang and established himself as emperor, changing the name of the country to Han. At this time, Hou Jing was brutal and massacred, and countless epidemics and diseases in the city were caused by death and injury, and the people were cut off from food and hated him to the bone.
In 552, Hou Jing fled under the armies of the Liang Dynasty general Chen Baxian and Wang Shengxian, and was eventually killed by his subordinates. After Hou Jing's death, the people who were cut off from grain ate his flesh one after another, and Princess Liyang was among them. None of his 5 sons escaped the fate of tragic deaths.
The "History of the South" also has a record of Hou Jing, saying that Hou Jing is less than seven feet tall, long and short, eyebrows are sparse, broad cheeks and high cheeks, red and few sideburns, low-sighted and repeated, sound scattered, just the so-called sound of the jackal, can eat people, and will be eaten in the future. Historical records record that this is a warlock's prediction that Hou Jing will be eaten by people, but there are also voices saying that this is only an afterthought.