This article is originally created by: Upstairs Old Fan
Liu Yu, the founding emperor of the Liu Song Dynasty during the Southern and Northern Dynasties, was an outstanding politician, reformer, and military figure.
History has always had such a law, that is, when the world is in turmoil, there will always be people who stand up and turn the tide. Just as the so-called times create heroes, in the chaotic world of the Southern and Northern Dynasties, such a strong person has emerged. In the course of his life, this person killed six emperors and then put on the dragon robe as emperor himself, which was completely contrary to the "king is a subject" in feudal society. However, the people of later generations did not belittle this person, but on the contrary, they admired him immensely, and even some people wrote poems for him and praised his martial arts. This person is Liu Yu, who rose up during the Southern and Northern Dynasties.
During the Southern and Northern Dynasties, when door valve politics prevailed, Liu Yu's rise was completely unexpected by the world. Because the government at that time was completely controlled by the family clan, birth determined whether a person could enter the career path. Liu Yu's origin was obviously a bit more depressed than that of the Wang family and the Xie family at that time. In the early years, Liu Yu lived in poverty, and could only rely on chopping wood and fishing for a living, which was exactly such a life experience that became the starting point for Liu Yu to see the world, and Liu Yu threw himself into the army when he grew up.
After joining the army, Liu Yu has always been known for his strict military discipline, and the army he led never invaded the people of Li. In such a chaotic world of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, Liu Yu's move made him a sharp contrast with the general who came from the door valve, and also allowed Liu Yu to win the support of the people at the bottom, so many people were willing to defect to Liu Yu. At that time, within the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Huan Xuan, who was from the family clan, deposed the Jin Emperor and established himself as the Huan Chu Emperor. At this critical juncture, Liu Yu led his troops to rebel, and defeated Huan Xuan with lightning speed and killed him, so the unfortunate Huan Xuan became the first emperor that Liu Yu killed.
After this, Liu Yu took control of the government of the Eastern Jin Dynasty at that time, and after settling the rebellion, Liu Yu began to set his sights on the northern territory. To know the Northern Expedition in the history of the feudal dynasty, few people can succeed, if you want to find one or two people among the historical figures of thousands of years, then Liu Yu will inevitably be on the list. At this time, the Southern Yan regime established by the Murong family in the north posed a great threat to the Eastern Jin Dynasty, so Liu Yu waved his army north and led an army to break the Southern Yan, and the Southern Yan emperor Murong Chao was defeated and captured, and was beheaded by Liu Yu in the Jiankang street market. After this, Liu Yu was like a hanging, almost victorious in hundreds of battles, and he successively pacified the Rebellion of Shu And Yao Hong, who was occupying the north. For a time, almost no one in the land of China could compete with Liu Yuyi, and it was logical that Liu Yu was crowned king of Song. Subsequently, Liu Yu successively killed Sima Dezong and Sima Dewen, the two emperors of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, put on the dragon robe himself, and became the emperor of the Song Dynasty, known in history as the Liu Song regime.
Liu Yu killed six emperors in his lifetime, but he did not receive too much criticism from his descendants, and the reason for this was Liu Yu's wenzhi martial arts. Looking back at the chaotic era of the northern and southern dynasties, the northern land was divided and chaotic, and although the southern region was relatively stable, it also had to face strong pressure from the north often, and the emergence of Liu Yu obviously made everyone eat the "reassurance pill". During Liu Yu's lifetime, he made several Northern Expeditions and repeatedly made great achievements, which made him have a great deal of popularity. In terms of civil rule, Liu Yu was also different from the traditional family clan, after the establishment of the Song Dynasty, he practiced frugality, never advocated luxury, and reformed the internal affairs of the imperial court, reducing the taxes of peasants, and recuperating with the people. All these Wenzhi martial arts made Liu Yu almost sweep away the negative impact he had to face after usurping the Eastern Jin Dynasty. At the same time, his northern expedition merits and governing ability have also been recognized by posterity, and Liu Ziye once commented on him as "a great hero of the canal, and a few days of heaven are captured."
Time leapt hundreds of years, when the Southern Song Dynasty poet Xin Abandoned Disease climbed the Beigu Mountain, seeing the poverty and weakness of the Current Southern Song Dynasty, he could not help but think of Liu Yu, so he wrote a poem for him, "Think of that year, The Golden Ge Iron Horse, Swallowing Thousands of Miles Like a Tiger" To praise Liu Yu, who continued to carry out the Northern Expedition and repeatedly made miraculous achievements. While constantly sighing, it also alluded to the cowardly and incompetent Southern Song Dynasty at that time. History has become the past, our understanding of Liu Yu has always been based on the fact that he killed six emperors, and once we dig deep into that history, we will find that Liu Yu, who killed six emperors, is behind a lifetime of Wenzhi martial arts.