Jinghe First Year, 465 AD, November 30, Night.
The moon is full and the fog is thick.
Under the thick fog, the full moon looks even more miserable.
In the middle of the night, Liu Ziye, the sixth emperor of the Liu Song Dynasty, appeared in the Hualin Garden of the Jiankang City Imperial Palace, dressed in Chinese clothes, with an arrow bag hanging from his waist and a longbow on his back.
The reason why the emperor visited such a secluded courtyard late at night was really for a reason.
A few days ago, the royal worshipper's shaman reported to Liu Ziye that Hualin Garden had recently been full of yin, and it seemed that there were ghosts haunting, and the power of non-emperors could not be surrendered.
Liu Ziye was seventeen years old, and when he heard about such a ghost, he was very energetic, and immediately said that he wanted to go to Hualin Garden to "catch ghosts."
At this time, in the middle of the night, the full moon is hanging high, and the green bamboo in hualin garden swings with the wind, making a "clustering" sound.
Liu Ziye stepped into the garden, Zhang took a bow and arrow, looking around, and the next second, a cold and cold fast knife had penetrated his entire chest.
At this point, the emperor finally understood that he was the "ghost" who had been caught.
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(Song Xiaowu Emperor Liu Jun image)
The eighth year of the Ming Dynasty, 464 AD.
Liu Jun, the fifth emperor of the Liu Song Dynasty, emperor Xiaowu of Song, went on a big trip, and the dragon rode on the guests and received a bento.
The Liu Song Dynasty developed to this time, it has been forty-four years, and five leaders have appeared in turn.
Emperor Wu's Liu Yu established Liu Song after the overthrow of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, laying the foundation for the dynasty.
But Liu Yu was a master who had the life to earn money and did not have the life to spend money, and he died of illness after working in the emperor's seat for less than two years.
The young emperor Liu Yifu was playful, and after becoming emperor, he spent every day boating in the lake and playing with the gods, and as a result, he was quickly pulled off his horse.
Emperor Wen of Song, Liu Yilong, was a very capable master, and after ascending the throne, he governed Liu Song in an orderly manner, but Emperor Wen himself was poor in military force, and when there was nothing to do, he engaged in the Northern Expedition, and three times in a row conquered the Northern Wei regime in the northern grasslands, and the result was that each time he returned without success, and he could not take advantage of it at all.
The Song Emperor Liu Shao, who ascended the throne by usurping the throne by his father, was very much soy sauce in the local area, and after reigning for less than three months, he was dragged from the throne by his brother Liu Jun.
After Emperor Xiaowu of song ascended the throne, Liu Jun was also a commendable emperor, but this emperor had more than enough momentum and insufficient stamina, and in the later period of his reign, he was very lazy in his administration, indulging in pleasure, and often had to build a large number of civil engineering projects and conquests, which led to famine and a sharp decline in population in various parts of Jiangnan.
The protagonist of this article, Liu Ziye, is the eldest son of Liu Jun, the Emperor Xiaowu of Song, and the heir of the Empire who is rooted in Miaohong.
Comrade Liu Ziye was born in the 26th year of Yuan Jia, that is, in 449 AD.
The history books record that Liu Ziye was a very smart child when he was young.
Although he did not reach the level where the ancient prodigies could read a thousand words at the age of three, memorized Tang poems at the age of five, read the Four Books and Five Classics at the age of eight, and memorized the subset of the history of the Classics at the age of twelve, it was still not a big problem to recite the Confucian classic "Filial Piety" from beginning to end.
Preach the Book of Filial Piety at chongzheng hall. - Book of Song, Book VII, Seventh Book of the Book of Benji
In the era of feudal imperialism, the royal family attached the greatest importance to filial piety, and Liu Ziye quickly won the favor of his father Liu Jun by relying on the "Filial Piety Classic" in one hand.
(Image of Liu Ziye, Emperor of the Song Dynasty)
In the eighth year of the Ming Dynasty, that is, in 464 AD, Liu Junlong, the Emperor Xiaowu of Song, who had a mixed life, ended his life of mixed reputation.
Although Liu Jun is not the protagonist of this article, it does not prevent the author from leaving a comment for him:
The rivers and mountains are good, the rivers and mountains are beautiful, Liu Jun was once very fascinated, but Liu Jun did not linger.
He has created the same feats as his predecessors, and he has also committed the same mistakes as his predecessors.
Now, once he died, he handed over the future of the Liu Song Dynasty to his son Liu Ziye.
The old emperor Liu Jun would not have thought that this future, handed over to his son, would not be the worst, but only worse, because Liu Ziye was really an emperor who was too cruel and immoral.
The author even believes that if there is one of the ten most brutal emperors in history, Liu Ziye must be on the list, and may even be at the top of the list.
Most of the good emperors have similar qualities, while the faint and tyrannical emperors are different.
Liu Ziye's brutality can be said to be amazing.
Most of the faint-hearted kings are lustful, and Liu Ziye is no exception.
But the emperor was lustful, nothing more than a concubine, lingering in the harem, and even more excessive, it was no more than a wide range of women, indulging in lust every day.
Liu Ziye is very different, he specifically sought out his relatives to start.
Liu Ziye's aunt, Princess Liu Yingmei of Xincai, was the wife of He Mai, the son of the Wei general He Yu.
(Liu Yingmei image)
Liu Yingmei has a beautiful face and a beautiful face, so she is soon targeted by her lustful nephew.
He passed on the holy will and summoned Liu Yingmei to face the saint, and as a result, as soon as Liu Yingmei came, Liu Ziye forcibly had a relationship with her.
The fact that he raped his aunt had become a reality, but Liu Ziye still did not give up, and he forcibly left Liu Yingmei in the harem, and actually did not let the people leave.
Who the emperor wants to keep and who he wants to keep, others naturally can't control it, and they don't dare to control it.
But the key is that Liu Yingmei is not single, people have long been married to a woman, you don't let the family go home, can the husband of the family He Mai do it?
Of course, He Mai did not do it, his daughter-in-law entered the palace, and there was no news for more than ten days, and his mood was very anxious.
The honest husband ran to the emperor to ask for someone, and as a result, Liu Ziye played Laipi.
The emperor said, Old Ho, it's not that I don't pay back your daughter-in-law, but your daughter-in-law died within two days of entering the palace, and since she is already dead, then this matter is so calculated, you don't ask me for any more people, where is the end of the world, there is no herb, you will not be able to marry a room again.
Is Liu Yingmei dead? Of course, she did not die, not only did she not die, but she was also made a concubine by Liu Ziye and lived in the harem for a long time.
Of course, He Mai would not listen to Liu Ziye's lies, he said very angrily, don't argue with me useless, what is alive and dead, marry a room, you are also an emperor, how can you seize other people's daughters-in-law and not give it?
The hatred of killing the father, the hatred of taking the wife, that is to say that the child who plays with his life will play with his life.
Liu Ziye was gone, but he quickly thought of a way.
He found a palace maid, killed her, and then collected the bones and buried them quickly, holding a lightspeed funeral.
Liu Ziye's meaning is very simple, don't you mean that your daughter-in-law is not dead? Now that I have done your daughter-in-law's funeral for you, and I have buried everyone in the ground, what else do you have to say?
At this scene, He Mai could not say anything bitterly, so he had to leave in sorrow.
(He Mai image)
Such an evil deed is already the common indignation of people and gods, but Liu Ziye's "road of perversion" has just begun.
He often ordered the palace ladies to be naked, to chase and fight in groups in the imperial garden, and to gather the concubines of the princes and ministers in the main hall, and let the attendants around them commit adultery against these concubines.
There are many more such unsightly deeds, but in order to ensure that readers and friends do not make disgusting, I will not repeat them here.
After talking about Liu Ziye's lust, let's talk about his brutal side.
Historically, the tyrannical lords of those platoons basically loved to take people's lives, especially to slaughter innocent people, but Comrade Liu Ziye was very magical, and the emperor butcher knife turned inward, specifically loving to greet his relatives.
Because the previous emperors of the Liu Song Dynasty relied on the royal family to fight each other and mutiny and seize power, this caused Liu Ziye to be very jealous of his royal relatives.
So as soon as he was idle, he began to pack up his relatives.
In the past, if you can become an imperial relative and nobleman, it is a happy event, the so-called one person gets the Tao, the chicken dog ascends to heaven, and the emperor is related, less about wealth and glory, more about the king worshipping the face, is not it beautiful?
But in Liu Ziye's time, whoever was related to him could be regarded as a big misfortune.
Among the relatives, the most unlucky were the emperor's three uncles, namely: Liu Xiuren the King of Jian'an, Liu Xiuyou the King of Shanyang, and Liu Yu, the King of Xiangdong.
Liu Xiuren and Liu Xiuyou were imprisoned in the imperial palace for many years, not only not giving food, but also being beaten in the morning, middle and evening.
Liu Yu was obese, and although the emperor managed rice every day, the rice he managed was pig food made from stinky soup and vegetables.
(Liu Yu image)
Friends, after all, it is his uncle, his own elder, giving pig food to the elders, such a vicious act, it is really infuriating.
Mistreating concubines and cleaning up relatives is not yet finished, and Liu Ziye does not even spare the dead.
In the first year of Jinghe, in 465 AD, the emperor suddenly ordered court painters to redraw the portraits of the previous emperors at the Taimiao Temple.
The emperor asked them to paint, and of course the painters did not dare to be idle, rolled up their sleeves and painted, and completed the task in a few days.
The portrait has been completed, and Liu Ziye naturally wants to go into the Taimiao Temple to see it.
The Temple was solemn, and several generations of emperors looked solemn in the portrait, as if they were examining this very unqualified emperor.
The first thing that catches the eye is the founding emperor, Liu Yu.
In the face of his ancestors (first), Liu Ziye did not dare to make a mistake, and commented very respectfully:
This is a great hero who has captured several Heavenly Sons alive. (Before and after Liu Yu established the Liu Song regime, he overthrew many regimes in the north and south.)
After evaluating Liu Yu, Liu Ziye was no longer polite, and Fang Cai's reverence was gone.
He pointed to the portrait of his grandfather Emperor Wen, Liu Yilong, and blurted out: The emperor deserved well, but it was a pity that he was beheaded by his son in his later years. (Liu Yilong was killed by the crown prince Liu Shao)
(Portrait of Liu Yilong, Emperor Wen of Song)
After saying Emperor Wen, he also pointed to the portrait of his father, Emperor Xiaowu Liu Jun, saying that his father was ugly and had a rosacea nose, but this portrait painted his father as a handsome man, which was really not real enough.
The painters looked at each other and did not know how to answer for a moment.
Then you are the father, the emperor, do we dare to paint him ugly?
But Liu Ziye did not care about this, he strongly demanded that Liu Jun's rosy nose be painted, and strive for truth, and the painter had to repaint it.
Perverted personality, lustful incest, crazy and unscrupulous, persecuting relatives, insulting ancestors, Liu Ziye mixed to this step, and finally fell into the fate of a crowd of rebels, completely confessed himself.
And in the end, it was Liu Yu, the king of Xiangdong, who was imprisoned in the palace and ate pig food all day.
In the first year of Jinghe, in 465 AD, Liu Yu, the king of Xiangdong, could not bear it, and united many clan ministers to arrange for the wizards in the palace to speak to the emperor, saying that there was a mansion in the palace with ghosts, which greatly affected the fortunes of the country, and the emperor himself must go to find out, so there was the scene at the beginning of the article.
In the Hualin Garden, there was already an ambush for Jiashi, Liu Ziye stepped on the front foot, and the back foot was killed by a knife.
Liu Ziye died, and Liu Yu, the king of Xiangdong, who organized the assassination of the emperor, captured the hearts of the people and was elected as the new emperor, that is, the Song Ming Emperor.
After taking a deposed emperor Liu Ziye, came a Ming emperor Liu Yu.
Listen to this name, Emperor Ming of Song, you are a good emperor when you hear it.
It seems that my Liu Song regime wants to be dark and bright, and from then on it has embarked on the right path.
But what everyone did not expect was that this emperor who rose from suffering and tasted pig food on his back was even worse than Liu Ziye.
(Liu Song Dynasty)
It is said that this benevolent brother ate pig food for a few years before becoming emperor, and he should have long wanted to understand that if he did not do a good job as an emperor, did not love the government and the people, and did not practice benevolent government, sooner or later he would end up with Liu Ziye, but he did not know how to learn a lesson, and after he ascended the throne, he still followed Liu Ziye's old path, and the brutal momentum was only more than Liu Ziye, not less than Liu Ziye.
History allows individuals to repeat the same mistakes again and again, but it never gives a dynasty much chance.
Yes, there is not much time left for Liu Yu.
After the willow darkness, the flowers are unknown, and the end of the Liu Song regime is coming.