In 420 AD, the Eastern Jin Dynasty general Liu Yu established the Song Dynasty, and the Eastern Jin Dynasty, which owned half of the country, collapsed, replaced by the powerful Song Dynasty.
What Liu Yu could not imagine was that the name he established was so popular, and after 540, a military general surnamed Zhao also established a Song Dynasty, and posterity recognized the Zhao Dynasty. When it comes to the Song Dynasty, people will first think of the two Song Dynasties, which "can't be punished by doctors", rather than the Southern Song Dynasty, which occupies half of the country.
Coincidentally, Zhao Kuangyin was also a military general, and replaced the Later Zhou Dynasty with a farce of "Chen Qiaoyi Mutiny". If You put Liu Yu and Zhao Kuangyin together, I don't know if they feel sorry for each other, a picture of a hero cherishing a hero, or a big fight between the two, Liu Yu's mouth keeps shouting "tell you to learn from me" and the like.
Today we will talk about Liu Yu's origin and experience, and explore how a poor man with a fate like grass became the king of a country with half the world in his hands.
Liu Yu's family is poor to the point that because he can't afford to buy lamp oil, the family is always dark at night, there is a folk saying that "dogs are not poor", for Liu Yu's family did not have a dog, because of the age can not be verified.
Liu Yu's birth brought a lot of burden to the Liu family, the house leaked overnight, Liu Yu's mother died of postpartum illness, in this case, Liu Yu's father Liu Yu ruthlessly abandoned the young Liu Yu to the side of the straw pile and let him fend for himself.
Fortunately, this matter reached the ears of Liu Yu's aunt, who loved her nephew and resolutely hugged Liu Yu back, and she had just given birth to breastfeed Liu Yu. The father Liu Qiao, because his son was fostered in his aunt's house, gave Liu Yu a lowly name of "sending slaves". After the great disaster, there will be a blessing, Liu Yu has experienced the resurrection of the dead, and his fate has quietly changed.
With some ambition to be earth-shattering, Liu Yu went to the Eastern Jin Dynasty Northern Province Army to join the army and serve the country, starting from the beginning of the small soldiers, and slowly rose to a lower-level officer.
In 399, the 36-year-old Liu Yu was recommended to enter the tent of the former eastern Jin general Liu Jiaozhi and follow the army against Sun En, who had rebelled. In this battle, Liu Yu showed strong combat effectiveness, but Liu Yu, who was originally ordered to reconnoiter the enemy's situation, encountered thousands of troops of the rebel army, and Liu Yu's entourage was only a few dozen. In the case of the disparity between the enemy and the enemy, Liu Yu raised his machete in his hand to resist, and when the Eastern Jin army came to support, the scattered rebels fled in defeat, and the rebel leader Sun En fled to the sea.
In 401, Sun En once again conquered huijian commandery under the jurisdiction of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the Wei general Xie Yan was unfortunately killed, and Liu Gaozhi, who was under the emperor's orders, led an army with Liu Yu to lead an eastern expedition, and Liu Yu, who was a pioneer, once again showed amazing military ability.
In 402, Liu Yu pursued Sun En's troops all the way to Haiyan, creating the myth of war with less victory and more victory three times, and made great achievements in battle bravery and good command. Liu Yu, who had been heading south, followed him step by step, and finally forced Sun En, who had been in turmoil for three years, to commit suicide by throwing himself into the sea, and the Jin'an Rebellion, which had shaken the government and the opposition, was completely calmed. Wave after wave of unrest, seeing that the Eastern Jin Dynasty spent a lot of national strength to fight against Sun En, the capital was empty of troops, and the Eastern Jin warlord Huan Xuan, who was waiting for the opportunity, took the opportunity to enter the capital to control the government, and replaced the Eastern Jin Dynasty in 403 to establish the "Huanchu Regime". In 404, Liu Yu, who pretended to be subservient, gathered the Beifu soldiers to revolt again, and many officers and soldiers were liu Yu's subordinates, and the prestige of Liu Yu was like a bamboo, forcing Huan Xuan to flee Jiankang. The following year, after liu yu recaptured Jiangling, he led an army to welcome back the Jin Emperor of Jin, and Liu Yu's position of power ascended to heaven step by step.
Xin Zhiyi, who had been eager to establish meritorious deeds all his life, also admired Liu Yu, and wrote a sentence "Slanting sun grass trees, ordinary alleys and strange, humane slaves once lived", and even ordinary street scenes became unusual because of Liu Yu's residence.
Liu Yu started with his military achievements, starting from the Beifu Army and prospering in the Beifu Army, and it was precisely because of his prestige in the Beifu Army that he was able to defeat the powerful Huan forces that had been intertwined for decades. In order to eliminate the internal warlord forces and defend against the enemy in the north, Liu Yu spent decades in the military career. In the Battle of Southern Yan in the Jin Dynasty, Liu Yi on the divided side, Bashu in the west, and Later Qin in the north, countless battle achievements were enough to make Liu Yu famous in history, and it is not too much to be named a military god.
It was personal ambitions, not to mention that Liu Yu, who had made great contributions to the imperial court, solved the internal and external troubles of the Eastern Jin Dynasty and expanded the territory of the Eastern Jin Dynasty.
Some people are eager to be crowned king and worship, such as Han Xin, the Marquis of Huaiyin, and An Shi, the Prince of Changing The Fa. Some people are eager to make meritorious achievements, such as the famous Western Han Generals Wei Qing and Huo Fuyi, but Liu Yu did not think so, he felt that the Eastern Jin Dynasty was already like a decaying wood, and the limit was approaching. There were two paths in front of him, one was a famous general of the Eastern Jin Dynasty who bowed down to the end, and the descendants of Enyin, but it was also possible that the lord was suspected by the emperor and ended up in a tragic end in his later years. The other way is to replace Emperor An of Jin and establish his own dynasty, taking his destiny into his own hands. Liu Yu chose the latter, an ambitious path of usurpation, unlike Wang Mang's usurpers of han's foreign relatives, Liu Yu's position was bought in the battlefield where corpses were piled up, and the meritorious magnates arched out of the pile of dead people. Whether it was prestige or prestige, Liu Yu, who had been fighting on the battlefield for many years, won the hearts and minds of the people more than the emperor who sat on the dragon chair all day.
Although Liu Yu already had ambitions to seize the throne, he felt that the Eastern Jin Dynasty "had not exhausted its strength and deserved the Second Emperor", so he hanged Emperor An of Jin and instead supported Sima Dewen as Emperor Gong of Jin. In 420, Liu Yu, who had a premonition that his time was short, deposed Emperor Gong of Jin and established the Southern Song Dynasty, and he learned the lessons of Sima Shi's strong and chaotic government and tried to strengthen the centralization of power. In 422, Liu Yu, who had been a soldier for a lifetime, died of illness, and before his death, he planned to send troops to the Northern Expedition and unify The Plan to unify Jiangshan.
According to Liu Yu's military achievements in previous years, this Northern Expedition may not be unsuccessful, but unfortunately, because of physical reasons, Liu Yu finally gave up this plan and died suddenly with this regret.
References: Book of Jin, etc