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In ancient China, there were countless feudal dynasties, but they did not have a long-term reason, no doubt one dynasty declined, another dynasty rose, with the change of each dynasty, in between, in a dynasty of decline, naturally many traitors to other countries were born. Ancient Chinese traitors can be said to be innumerable, some of which have been left behind for thousands of years, and to this day, they have also been scolded by the world, but this fate is not the most miserable, because there was a traitor in ancient China, and his deeds also affected countless of his descendants, so that in the eyes of our modern people, this is indeed very miserable, because after all, it is what his ancestors did, and this person is Liu Mengyan.
To be honest, the name Liu Mengyan is known to very few of us today. But Liu Mengyan was very famous throughout the end of the Song Dynasty, because he was the prime minister at the end of the Song Dynasty, and we all know that the prime minister had a very high status, and at that time it seemed that he was also a powerful figure. However, the Song Dynasty reached the late stage, and the strength of the entire Great Song Dynasty became weaker and weaker, so even if he was the prime minister of the entire Great Song Dynasty, his status was much inferior to that of the prime minister of other periods, but the fate of the final fate of ten thousand years was really unbelievable.
As the strength of the Yuan Dynasty became stronger and stronger, it directly threatened the capital of the Southern Song Dynasty, but at this critical moment, Liu Mengyan did not resolutely use his strength to fight the enemy army to the death as we think, he directly abandoned his official duties and returned to his hometown, the emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty repeatedly ordered people to send people to find him back, but he did not care, resolutely did not go back. If you say that because of your own lack of ability, you really can't handle some major events in the DPRK and choose to go into hiding, even if you won't be commemorated by future generations, you shouldn't be criticized by future generations. But Liu Mengyan's approach is really disgraceful.
The entire Great Song Dynasty will fall under the iron hooves of the Yuan Dynasty, which land can be absolutely safe? Sure enough, the Yuan Dynasty quickly reached the place where Liu Mengyan's hometown was, but at this time, Liu Mengyan stood up as the prime minister of the Southern Dynasty, and presumably everyone had already guessed that he stood up at this moment, not to fight against the Yuan Dynasty, but to surrender to the Yuan Dynasty so that he could live in the chaotic world. Even after Wen Tianxiang was captured by the Yuan Dynasty, Liu Mengyan's approach at this moment was even more surprising, and he actually told Kublai Khan to quickly get rid of Wen Tianxiang, so Liu Mengyan has been spat upon by countless posterity for all these years.
In fact, not only the Song Dynasty people at that time, but even the Yuan Dynasty people also advocated loyalty and righteousness, they admired Wen Tianxiang's approach, and for Liu Mengyan, the leader and ruler of the Yuan Dynasty also looked down on him. Therefore, after the death of Liu Mengyan until the Ming and Qing dynasties, all the emperors forbade the descendants of Liu Mengyan to participate in the imperial examination, we all know that the imperial examination is the only way to become an official in ancient times, this practice is equivalent to forever eliminating the idea of liu mengyan descendants becoming officials, so that the descendants of Liu Mengyan, the Liu clan can only live in a lowly way, until the extinction of the clan has not been able to get ahead, presumably if Liu Mengyan knows what he has done, it will have such a great impact on his descendants. When I did this, I also regretted it, right?
Comments: In ancient China, when the country was in danger, there were many people who preferred to die unyieldingly and had the courage to sacrifice their lives, of course, there were indeed many traitors like Liu Mengyan, and at the time of peril, they could not put the country first, but put the interests of the individual, the life and death of the individual in the first place, and even in order to be born secretly in this world, they did something that harmed the country and hurt loyal people, and people like Liu Mengyan were really intolerable, and his descendants were banned from taking the imperial examination for generations. It is also because of Liu Mengyan as a person. At the same time, people can only say that the decline of this family is all due to Liu Mengyan alone.
Summary: Liu Mengyan not only hurt his own country, but also tired his descendants, leaving a bad reputation for thousands of years, and having such a dismal end is also a matter of course, and it is difficult to deserve the sympathy of others. His example also shows that we must put the interests of the country first at all times, patriotism is what everyone should have, and we cannot betray our country for our own interests or our own lives, and if we really do this, even if we survive in the world, it is meaningless. In front of the country, everything is a small thing, and we must dedicate ourselves to the country with a patriotic heart.
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