There is a custom in Chinese history that when two or more dynasties with the same country name appear, the first to use the country name is orthodox, and later it is slightly noted according to the situation. For example, Han and Shu Han, Tang and Later Tang, Southern Tang and so on. The Song Dynasty was an exception, and the Southern Dynasty Liu Song regime obviously appeared in front of it, but was stolen by the Song Dynasty established by Zhao Kuangyin. In fact, history could not have been like this.
Liu Yu, the founding emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty, was not inferior to Zhao Kuangyin at all in martial arts. He came from a poor family and came from a humble background, but in the era of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, which paid attention to door valves, he stood out and achieved the feat of "cold people holding the machine", and later became the "king of chaos and rejuvenation". At that time, Liu Song faced Tuoba Xianbei, who had only been in power for a generation in the Central Plains, but recovered the homeland of "the eighth of the world" during the Northern Expedition. If Heaven had given him another five or six years, perhaps the Southern and Northern Dynasties would have ended.
However, Liu Yu's successor was too poorly chosen, and his eldest son Liu Yifu played and played, did not stabilize the world, and was also in a different place. Interestingly, his empress Sima Maoying actually experienced two such human tragedies.
Liu Yu usurped the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and the last emperor of the Eastern Jin Dynasty was called Sima Dewen, and the history was called Emperor Gong of Jin. After Emperor Gong of Jin was deposed, he was still remembered by Liu Yu. He was demoted to the rank of King of Lingling, posing no threat to Liu Yu at all, but never having personal freedom. After being deposed, Sima Dewen and his wife Chu Lingyuan had just given birth to a son, and they were immediately harmed by Liu Yu's dispatches.
In fact, before that, there were also many Tianzi of zen, such as Liu Xie, the Emperor of Han Xian, and Cao Huan, the Emperor of Wei Yuan, but they were not killed. Even Wang Mang only raised the young Liu Infant in the Anding Gongdi, making him a waster who did not know the six animals. Unfortunately, Sima Dewen became the first Zen monarch in Chinese history to be exterminated.
In fact, Sima Dewen had long been aware of it, and he always felt that there was a pair of eyes staring at him in the dark, always taking his life. Especially after the murder of the son born, this panic reached its peak. Therefore, Sima Dewen was cautious and even cooked himself, so as not to give people the opportunity to be poisoned. His wife, Chu Lingyuan, was responsible for purchasing rice grains, eliminating all available opportunities.
However, Liu Yu wanted to pinch Sima Dewen to death as easily as it was to pinch an ant. He sent Chu Tan to visit before, and his own soldiers secretly followed. Chu Tanzhi is Chu Lingyuan's brother, and Chu Lingyuan went out to greet him after hearing about it. Liu Yu's soldiers climbed over the wall and entered the hospital, placing the poisoned wine in front of Sima Dewen's desk. Sima Dewen refused to take the poison, saying that Buddhist teachings say that people who commit suicide cannot be reborn. Since this was the case, the soldiers blackmailed Sima Dewen into bed and smothered him alive with a quilt.
This could not help but make Xiao Jue think that Sima Dewen and his father Sima Yao, the Emperor Xiaowu of Jin, were a method of death. It's just that Emperor Xiaowu of Jin was smothered by his favorite concubine after getting drunk and died at the hands of the Red Pink Lady, but Sima Dewen was destined to be cut down and rooted.
Although Liu Yu did so fiercely, he did not want to be blamed and left a name for eternity. He harmed Sima Dewen, but pretended to make Sima Dewen and Chu Lingyuan's daughter Princess Haiyan crown princess. The crown prince at that time was the Liu Yifu we mentioned earlier. Poor Chu Lingyuan, deprived of the empress's throne by Liu Yu, watched as Liu Yu killed her husband, but had to send her daughter to the palace and became the daughter-in-law of the enemy.
Although Liu Yu was one of the most underrated emperors with extraordinary ability, expanding countless territories, and relying on killing to establish a state, the dynasty that founded the country was always full of hostility. Even if it has just reached the second generation, there is a big problem.
When Liu Yu was over forty years old, he had the eldest son Liu Yifu. Later, with the improvement of his status, the number of concubines increased, and a large number of sons were born for him, but Liu Yifu was still made crown prince. Before his death, Liu Yu passed the throne to Liu Yifu, leaving him with four powerful auxiliary ministers.
It is reasonable to say that the founding minister is not only extraordinary in ability, but also has passed the test of the emperor and should be trustworthy. After only two years of Liu Yifu's reign, these auxiliary ministers turned their faces and were ruthless. Instead of fighting among the ministers, as in other dynasties, they united to depose Liu Yifu and kill him.
Liu Yifu's empress was Sima Maoying, the former princess of Haiyan, who saw her father being suffocated many years ago, and at this time saw her husband killed. She was also demoted from empress to princess of Yingyang. At this moment, history has gone through a magical reincarnation.