In the first year of the YongChu Dynasty (420), Liu Yudai established himself on his own, and the capital was Jiankang, with the state name "Song" and the historical name "Liu Song". Liu Song jin's methods can be described as bloody, and he killed the former Sima imperial family.
Liu Yu was a famous military man, politician, and reformer, and everything a wise monarch like this did would have a deep political purpose hidden in it, not like the so-called mountain thieves and bandits, who shouted and shouted at every turn, and he killed the Sima imperial family, precisely because he hung the label of "reformer" on him.
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One: Liu Yu is the terminator of the door valve family.
After the Wei Dynasty, the state implemented the "Nine Pins Zhongzheng System" talent selection policy, the scholars mastered the knowledge theory of that era, reading and learning Chinese characters was the privilege of the clans at that time, due to the mutual marriage of the major families, entangled, they controlled the high position of the country, so that the talented people of the cold door no longer had a head.
The family members controlled the high position, but they did nothing, they held a large amount of land, slaves, and hidden households, which greatly reduced the country's taxes, greatly weakened the country's comprehensive strength, and lost again and again in the war against foreign tribes, resulting in the loss of a large amount of land in the north, and the people were also deeply affected.
In the process of growing up, Liu Yu witnessed the situation of the shi clan's arrogance and tyranny, and also saw the inaction of the Sima imperial family as the representative of the door valve family, which led to the overthrow of the Central Plains and the shattering of the family country. Therefore, during his reign, centralizing the central authorities, suppressing mergers and acquisitions by powerful and powerful, implementing land breaks, rectifying the rule of officials, and reusing the cold gate became his necessary means.
This kind of struggle relationship based on political stance, which led to Liu Yu having to use the means of "slaughter" to directly purge the Sima imperial family, the Door Valve family, and various political enemies, and in this purge, not only the Sima imperial family was slaughtered, but even the family clan was uprooted.
There are poems as evidence: in the old days, Wang Xie Tang Qianyan flew into the homes of ordinary people.
It can be said that Liu Yu's approach was contrary to humanitarianism, but it was beneficial at that time, but it was always a bloody tragedy that pushed history forward, not a comedy, which was nothing to criticize.
Second: Liu Yu did not learn From Sima Yan, but from Sima Zhao.
If Sima Yi is sinister, then Sima Zhao is simply mad! Generally, when a courtier usurps the throne, he will leave a lower step for the emperor of the previous dynasty - Zen Rang. The routine of usurping the throne is generally to first be crowned as a duke, then as a king, and finally add nine tin, and the usurper you push me to let it go, this thing becomes.
If this set of procedures were to be completed according to the normal procedure, it would take several decades to complete, but Sima Zhao only took six years to complete. Most importantly, Sima Zhao was the first courtier to kill the emperor in full view of everyone and in broad daylight in order to ascend to the throne.
He pressed forward step by step, forcing the Wei emperor Cao Xian to strike hard and personally lead an army to attack Sima Zhao's mansion. Sima Zhao sent Jia Chong to lead troops to resist, and the then crown prince Cheng Ji used Ge To pierce Cao's back and directly kill the emperor on the car.
Sima Zhao's arrogance brought about sequelae, that is, Liu Yu also gave such a heavy hand to the Sima royal family, which can be described as "the melon that plants melons gets melons, the beans that plant beans get beans, and whoever plants the hatred will taste it himself." ”
Sima Zhao said to the world that as long as you have strength, let alone the emperor, you can poke the sky and the air.
But people are doing it, the sky is watching, and it is always worth it when it comes out to mix. Sima Zhao had a bad start, so his descendants also learned from him, learning his arrogance to the fullest, the eight kings of the Sima family killed each other for the position of emperor, opening the dark era of the "Rebellion of the Eight Kings"; and Liu Yu also learned from him when he ended the Eastern Jin Dynasty, slaughtering the captured former imperial family.