During the Spring Festival in 313 AD, Liu Cong was a group of courtiers at the Temple of Light. During the banquet, the Xiongnu emperor suddenly appeared wolf, changed his polite attitude towards the captured Jin Emperor Sima Chi for several months, and forced the former Emperor of the Jin Dynasty to wear a servant dressed in green clothes and carry a pot of wine for the Xiongnu nobles present.
Emperor Huai of Jin had no choice but to hold his breath, holding the wine vessel in his hand, and patrolling the temple back and forth, and the small waiter poured wine for them in the shouting and laughter of the Xiongnu in the hall.
Portrait of Emperor Huai of Jin
Yu Min, Wang Jun, and other former jin courtiers who were captured with Emperor Huai of Jin and were knighted were overwhelmed with grief and indignation, and cried out in public.
Liu Cong was very annoyed. In particular, recently, the Han army has been defeated one after another, and it has been heard that Sima Yi, the son of Sima Yan the Prince of Wu, the nephew of Emperor Huai of Jin, has been made crown prince by Jin chen in Chang'an, and Liu Cong's evil has started from the heart. Between the banquets and drinks, some people around the left and right reported that Yu Min and others were secretly plotting to cause an incident in Pingyang City to meet Liu Kun, which made Liu Cong even more murderous, and he ordered the guards to lead out more than a dozen people, including Yu Min, an old Jin Dynasty minister who attended the banquet in the main hall, and beheaded them outside the palace.
Portrait of Liu Cong
He then sent someone to deliver a glass of poisoned wine, and when the temple killed Emperor Huai of Jin.
When Sima Chi, the Emperor of Jinhuai, was killed, he was only thirty years old.
"Emperor Huai's heavenly posture is clear, and he is less heroic, and if he encounters the world of Chengping, he is enough to be the lord of Shouwen Jia." After Emperor Hui's disturbance, the East China Sea (Sima Yue) was dictatorial, so there was no rebellion and there was the disaster of exile! For the emperor who was humiliated and killed in the year of his reign, many Later Han courtiers lamented and sighed.
Emperor Huai was captured
But then again, Emperor Huai's several brothers (except Emperor Hui) were no less talented than him, and it was precisely because of the cannibalism that it was finally the turn of Emperor Wu's twenty-fifth son to succeed to the throne. In a chaotic world, humiliating the hands of the Huns is also a fixed number in the underworld.
This Emperor Huai, who was captured for more than half a year, was able to poison a cup of wine, which also saved him from many insults in the future. As for Liu Cong's little Liu Guiren, who had previously given emperor Huai of Jin, she still returned to the harem and continued to be her "nobleman" in the Han Palace.
Portrait of Emperor Huan of Jin (司馬邺).
The news of Emperor Huai of Jin's murder reached Chang'an, and the "crown prince" Sima Yi succeeded him to the throne as Emperor Huan of Jin and changed his name to Yuan Jianxing.
In March 313, Liu Cong made his concubine Liu E empress and ordered her to build a magnificent Phoenix Palace for her. Liu Cong was furious and scolded: "Yuangui is the Son of Heaven, raise a palace, and shut up your rats!" If you don't kill the rats, you won't succeed in the Camp Hall! Yan Ming said: "Push out to kill the head, and together with his wife and children, he will take the head of the East City, so that the rats will be in the same cave!" ”
Chen Yuanda portrait
Before entering the temple, Chen Yuanda wrapped his arms around his waist with chains, and when he heard Liu Cong's angry scolding, he locked himself with a tree next to him and shouted: "The minister offers loyalty to the society, and His Majesty wants to kill the minister." Zhu Yun, a loyal minister of the Han Yuan Emperor, said: "The subject must swim with Long Feng and Bigan underground, and this wish is enough!" Although there were many guards in the palace, they were all busy, and they could not untie chen Yuanda's chain locked on the tree for half a day.
At the same time, Ren Kai, the Grand Master of the Palace, and other ministers prostrated their heads and bled, interceding for Chen Yuanda.
Liu Cong was silent.
Empress Liu Stills
Empress Liu of the harem learned of this and hurriedly ordered the suspension of the sentence left and right, and said with her hands:
"Now that the four seas are not one, it is advisable to love the people' strength." The words of the Ting Wei, the blessing of the society, His Majesty should be rewarded, and even more so, the people of the four seas are called His Majesty! His Majesty killed his courtiers for the sake of the concubines, and all the sins of the world were attributed to the concubines, so why should the concubines deserve it! Concubines have lost their families since ancient times, and they have not been started by women, and their hearts are often sick, and they do not intend to do it themselves today, so that future generations will regard concubines as concubines of the past! Concubines serve His Majesty facelessly, and are willing to give concubines to death in the back hall to plug His Majesty's fault! ”
Liu Congguan's hands were sparse and awe-inspiring.
Portrait of Liu Yuan
This empress Dowager Liu E, along with a sister and four nephews, liu cong, qi men guixing, also belonged to the Xiongnu high-gate noble race, but her father Liu Yin, like Liu Yuan, was a highly Sinicized Xiongnu, and after naturalization, he had always been familiar with Han Confucian classics and was familiar with "poetry" and "history". When Liu Yin was alive, he gave Liu Cong a lot of advice and advice on how to discipline liu cong, and he knew how to humble himself and degrade himself, never accusing the emperor of negligence in an inappropriate face, and always advised Liu Cong after the courtiers left the palace, which was highly respected by Liu Yuan and was good at home. Therefore, although Liu E is of Xiongnu descent, the education she received from childhood was all Han morality and ethics, and she knew the etiquette of books, so she could stand up at the critical moment and know the great righteousness.
Looking at the empress's hand in his hand, and seeing that His Highness was prostrating his head and drooling, Liu Cong's heart turned back and said, "In recent days, I have been slightly sick with wind, moody and angry, and I can't control myself. Yuan Da loyal subjects, ashamed of their hearts, how dare they forget it. He ordered someone to lead Chen Yuanda to the temple, gave the ministers to sit down, showed Empress Liu's handwriting, and said: "The external auxiliary is like a gong, and the inner auxiliary is like a queen, and there is no worry about it!" Then, he turned his head and said to Chen Yuanda, "Qing should be afraid of Qing, but instead make Qing Ye fear!" ”
Chen Yuanda risked death to enter the counsel
As a result, it achieved one of the few good stories of the Xiongnu Han Kingdom.
Of course, at first glance, Chen Yuanda's name may be thought by readers to be Han Chinese. In fact, his original surname was Gao, a native of northern Xiongnu and a member of Liu Yuan's clan. It is also natural that an intellectual of non-Han origin, such a person, would wholeheartedly fight for the Liu Han regime.