An emperor of the Southern Dynasty killed people for fun and was brutal, and finally was assassinated and deposed
Emperors had supreme authority in the ancient feudal era, they were considered to be people of destiny, and the emperor's orders could be said to be one and the same, and anyone should obey them. Ancient China had a feudal society that lasted for more than two thousand years, there were hundreds of emperors in history, if the country was governed by the Ming Emperor, the people could also live a stable and prosperous life, but if they encountered a tyrannical and ruthless emperor, it can be said that it was also the misfortune of that era, and the reason for this situation was that the imperial power was supreme in feudal society.
Speaking of the famous Ming Emperors in history, Emperor Wu of Han, Tang Taizong, and so on are very familiar to everyone, and their great achievements have also been praised and passed down by later generations. But when it comes to this little emperor of the Southern Dynasty, his personality is really cruel to the extreme, not only during his reign he received due retribution, even after a thousand years to modern times, people can't say anything good about this emperor. The young emperor, named Liu Yu, was the eighth emperor of the Southern Dynasty during the Liu Song Dynasty.
Liu Yu has a stubborn personality since childhood, and is narrow-minded and short-tempered, and the worst thing is that Liu Yu ascended to the throne at the age of ten, when Liu Yu was just a child, did not know how to govern the country, and gained supreme power when his mind was not yet mature, which also led to his abuse of power.
During Liu Yu's reign, it can be said that he often killed people for pleasure, and Liu Yu never needed a reason to kill people, even if the other party was a court official, Liu Yu also said that killing was merciless. Moreover, Liu Yu's personality is very cruel, he likes to do it himself when he kills people, and he is even more cruel to the prisoners, and even directly carries a knife to cut his flesh. Liu Yu had a close associate named Sun Chao, and once Liu Yu smelled the smell of garlic in his mouth, which made Liu Yu unhappy, so Liu Yu directly tied Sun Chao up and personally cut open Sun Chao's alone with a knife, and the purpose of his doing this was only to check whether Sun Chao had eaten garlic.
Later, Liu Yu was suspicious of the general Xiao Daocheng, and he directly ran to Xiao Daocheng's house with people, when Xiao Daocheng was sleeping, and even before he could get dressed and take over, the emperor directly broke in. The little emperor saw Xiao Daocheng's navel eyes and suddenly wanted to use this as a bullseye to practice archery, but fortunately Xiao Daocheng interceded with the people next to him before the emperor switched to soft arrow shooting.
In the case of everyone in the entire court in danger, Xiao Daocheng decided to cooperate with Yang Yufu, a close confidant of Liu Yu at the time, to assassinate the 15-year-old young emperor at the time, and in the end Liu Yu was also secretly murdered by these courtiers, and after Liu Yu's death, the empress dowager also issued an edict to inform the world of Liu Yu's cruelty and immorality, and abolished his throne, and after his death, he was demoted to the position of King of Cangwu, which was also the historical abolition of the Song Emperor.