Liu Yu was suspicious in his later years, and always felt that in the dead of night, there were countless souls who had been killed by himself inside and outside the dormitory, surrounding his bedside, asking for his life, and his spirit became more and more trance-like.
Previously, Liu Yu frequently asked the ghosts and gods, but to no avail, in desperation, Liu Yu ordered to change the yuan, and planned to change the yuan to Taiyu the next year, which was used to suppress ghosts.
Emperor Liu Yu of the Song Ming Dynasty
Obviously, this change did not bring good luck to Liu Yu, only four months later, the seven-year emperor died of increased suspicion, only thirty-four years old, leaving the crown prince Liu Yu a broken mess, only seven years later, the Liu Song Dynasty was usurped by Xiao Daocheng, and the descendants of the Liu family were slaughtered again.
Why do you say "again", because during Liu Yu's reign, he had already slaughtered any threatening clans and handed over the country to Xiao Daocheng.
Ironically, Liu Yu's nickname is "Ming", but what he does does not show any "Ming" at all.
Of course, there is a reason why he did this, because he took the path of the vassal king's coup d'état to ascend to the throne, so he naturally had to guard against other clans.
Time came to Liu Song Dynasty in May of the eighth year of the Ming Dynasty (464), this year, Emperor Liu Jun of the Song Dynasty died of illness, and the fifteen-year-old prince Liu Ziye succeeded to the throne.
Uncle Liu Yigong was disemboweled, and his eyes were gouged out and soaked in honey, called "ghost eye essence", and his three uncles Liu Yu, Liu Xiuren, and Liu Xiuyou were named "King of Pigs", "King of Killing" and "King of Thieves" respectively because of their obesity, and even stripped Liu Yu and put him in the mud pit, so that he could eat in the trough like a pig.
Liu Ziye's tyrannical history is ranked first
Such humiliation, Liu Ziye is still unwilling, and even wants to get rid of them, it can be said that Liu Ziye has no respect for these clan uncles at all, and even angry with his mother, not to mention other ministers, it can be said that Liu Ziye's various evil deeds have surpassed ordinary tyrants.
The ministers of the clan live in fear of precariousness every day, and naturally breed a heart of resistance, when Liu Ziye succeeded to the throne, his uncle He Mai planned to assassinate Liu Ziye and support Liu Zixun as the emperor, but before he could act, he failed due to leakage, although the coup failed, but Liu Ziye came to this point, and the throne was already in jeopardy.
For example, Liu Yu, who has faced death threats again and again, is secretly organizing party henchmen to find opportunities to kill Liu Ziye, and Liu Ziye is too tyrannical, and the people around him have long joined Liu Yu's forces.
In the first year of Jinghe (465), Liu Yu teamed up with Liu Ziye's cronies to kill the tyrant in one fell swoop, and the Liu Song Dynasty reached this stage, and the court and the outside court had long been bloody and bloody, and every Liu Song emperor after Liu Yu had almost no one succeeded to the throne smoothly, and the brothers and nephews of the monarch and the brothers and nephews were suspicious of each other to the point of pathology, and it was not something that Liu Ziye, a teenager, could control.
Of every Liu Song emperor after Liu Yu, almost none succeeded to the throne smoothly
Therefore, Liu Ziye was killed, in addition to his own tyranny, there were also factors such as Liu Song's consistent court suspicion.
After killing Liu Ziye, Liu Yu ascended the throne with the support of the minister, and Liu Yu, who had just succeeded to the throne, first abolished Liu Ziye's various tyrannies and regained the hearts of the people, but it was only the hearts of the ministers, after all, there were many people who opposed the clan, such as Liu Ziye's other brothers, Liu Zixun, the king of Jin'an.
It was easy for Liu Yu to kill Liu Ziye, but it would take further struggle to consolidate his position.
Liu Zixun is the third son of Emperor Xiaowu of the Song Dynasty, far more qualified than Liu Yu to inherit the throne, although Liu Ziye served as the assassin of Jiangzhou, but he was only ten years old, Jiangzhou affairs were taken care of by Deng Wan, the long history of the long history, with Liu Ziye was killed, Deng Wan united Liu Ziyuan, the king of Shaoling, Liu Zisui, the king of Anlu, Liu Ziwei, the king of Linhai, and Liu Zifang, the king of Xunyang, to crusade against Liu Yu together.
Of course, these vassal kings are not very old, they are all teenagers and ignorant age, and the government affairs are all handled by their own long history, so it can be said that the core of this rebellion is actually the long history of each place.
At the beginning of the second year of Taishi (466), Liu Zixun ascended the throne under the support of Deng Wan, changed the Yuan Yijia, and Liu Song entered the situation of two emperors standing side by side.
The Yijia Rebellion
Liu Yu had little hope of victory relative to the rebels everywhere, and the area he could control was limited to the vicinity of Jiankang in Jingshi, and most of the other areas were controlled by Fang Zhen, who supported Liu Zixun, which was also the largest internal war since the founding of the Liu and Song dynasties, and it was also a civil war between the sons of Emperor Wen of Song and the sons of Emperor Xiaowu of Song for the throne.
At this time, Liu Yu could only rely on the strategist Cai Xingzong and his younger brother Liu Xiuren, with their full support, to send troops to attack on the east and west fronts to crusade against Liu Zixun's troops, among which Liu Xiuren provoked the important task of counterinsurgency because of his resourcefulness.
In just a few months, the rebels were completely pacified, Liu Yu's throne could finally sit firmly, and in order to take revenge on Liu Zixun and others and eliminate the threat to himself from Emperor Song Xiaowu's lineage, he ordered to get rid of all the living sons of Emperor Song Xiaowu, a total of twenty-eight sons of Emperor Song Xiaowu, except for one who died of illness and nine who died young, all the rest died unexpectedly, and Emperor Liu Jun of Song Xiaowu died of extinction.
To be fair, when Emperor Liu Jun of the Song Dynasty killed Liu Shao, who killed his father, the throne was legitimate, but Liu Yu's killing of Liu Ziye was purely a rebellion, so Liu Zixun's army could quickly get a response from others, but with the help of Liu Zixun's brothers, Deng Wan and Yuan Yi were not good at military affairs, although they received widespread support, they still lost in the battle.
And because after pacifying Liu Zixun's rebels, they were forced to surrender to the Northern Wei Dynasty when they dealt with the Sizhou Assassin Shi Chang Zhenqi and the Xuzhou Assassin Xue An, and the Northern Wei Dynasty was reigning at this time Emperor Xianwen Tuoba Hong, who had just ascended the throne for less than a year.
However, Chang Zhenqi and Xue Andu created an opportunity for the Northern Wei Dynasty to invade the south, and the Northern Wei Dynasty sent the famous general Murong Baiyao to directly seize Liu Songqing, Hebei, Yan, Xu and half of Yuzhou, and the entire Huaibei territory fell, which also made Liu Song's national power gradually weaken
The Yijia Rebellion was originally just a battle for the throne, and eventually evolved into a war between the north and the south, although Liu Yu finally won, but the price was the loss of a large amount of territory in Huaibei, which was also the most lost by Liu Song since the Northern Expedition of Emperor Wen of Song.
Huaibei is in mourning
Not really, Shen Wenxiu was able to defend Qingzhou for three years, but he couldn't stop Liu Yu's suspicion of these generals, and reinforcements did not arrive, which eventually led to Shen Wenxiu's Chengpo being captured, so Liu Song's loss of Huaibei was not only due to the strength of the Northern Wei Dynasty, but also related to Liu Song's internal clan overturning.
Liu Yu was the last emperor of the Liu Song dynasty to hold power alone, but during his reign, except for a little ambition to quell the rebellion in the early days, the rest of his energy was focused on suspicion of the clan and important ministers.
For example, Liu Xiuren, the hero of the counterinsurgency, if it weren't for Liu Xiuren's hard persuasion of Liu Ziye, Liu Yu's life would not have been lost many times, and when Liu Yu's throne was unstable, it was Liu Xiuren who turned the tide, but when Liu Yu's throne stabilized, Liu Yu began to be suspicious of his younger brother, and he was overindulgent, and he was afraid that other clans would threaten the status of the crown prince Liu Yu, so he began to cut off the clan.
first got rid of Liu Yi and Liu Xiuyou, and then ordered someone to kill Liu Xiuren with poison, Liu Xiuren was only twenty-nine years old when he was given to die, and in addition to slaughtering the clan, Liu Yu was also very harsh on the heroes.
Of the twenty-eight sons of Emperor Xiaowu of Song, none of them lived until 466 except for their early death
Shen Wenxiu and Xue An were both Liu Song's generals, but they were suspicious of Liu Zixun just because of their support for Liu Zixun and were forced to defect to the Northern Wei Dynasty, causing Liu Song to lose the important place of Huaibei, and Shou Lianzhi and Wu Xi, who were obviously meritorious to Liu Yu, were killed because of suspicion, and his brother-in-law Wang Jingwen, who was afraid that he would threaten the prince with the weight of his uncle after his death, killed Wang Jingwen when he was seriously ill.
Although Liu Song's emperors had good fertility, under the two slaughters of Liu Jun and Liu Yu, they were suspicious, dumped, and killed each other.
Liu Yu only cared about slaughtering the clan to prevent trouble, and the result was that he did not solve the problem from the system, but also directly weakened the power of the clan, paving the way for Xiao Daocheng to usurp the throne, and Liu Yu's killing was also the main reason for Liu Song's rapid decline.
Liu Song was originally the most powerful of the four dynasties of the Southern Dynasty, after the death of Liu Yu, the monarch of Liu Song was not as good as the next generation, civil strife continued, and the huge territory was constantly eroded by the Northern Wei Dynasty, which rose in the north.
During the Liu Yu period, its territory reached almost all the territory south of the Yellow River, so the capital Chang'an and Luoyang were in the bag, but in the Liu Yu Dynasty, a large area of land north of the Huai River was lost again, and Emperor Wen of the Song Dynasty Liu Yilong was still able to be thrifty, but after Emperor Xiaowu of the Song Dynasty, the reigning emperor had long been greedy for pleasure, arrogant and lascivious, and under the effect of the upper and lower lines, the civil strife in the Liu and Song dynasties had already continued.
Liu Song has long been in civil strife
Although Emperor Liu Jun of the Song Dynasty slaughtered many clans in order to stabilize the throne, but before his death, the number of the Liu Song clan was still relatively vigorous, far from the extent that the foundation was shaken, although Liu Jun suppressed the clan, but also did not give up the appointment of the clan, in Liu Jun's layout, the clan has always been an important political force, both need to be prevented and used.
And before his death, Liu Jun began to lay out again, dispersing the power of the clan in the central and local, different branches of the clan king in the inner court, and the outside town to strengthen the domain, so as to defend the royal family, prevent the foreign surname from taking the opportunity to sit big, and also prevent different branches of the clan, and give priority to ensuring that his own family sits firmly, but unfortunately Liu Ziye failed to continue Liu Jun's layout and wasted Liu Jun's arrangement.
As for Liu Yu, he completely had an attitude of not trusting any clan, which completely crushed the mutual trust between the clans, but did not carry out institutional construction, completely marginalized the clan, and it is fair to say that if Liu Yu killed the clan and even reused his younger brother Liu Xiuren, the Liu Song Dynasty could at least continue to live for more than 20 years, after all, Liu Xiuren was less than 30 years old, and he could completely survive Xiao Daocheng.
Liu Yu's actions became the last straw that crushed the Liu Song Dynasty.
In the first year of Taiyu (472), Liu Yu died, and the nine-year-old prince Liu Yu succeeded to the throne, and Liu Yu did the same thing as Liu Ziye.
In the second year of Yuan Hui (474), Liu Xiufan, the king of Guiyang, rebelled, and the rebels entered Jiankang, but Liu Xiufan was assassinated by Xiao Daocheng in a daze, and the rebellion failed.
In the fourth year of Yuan Hui (476), the rebellion of Liu Jingsu, the king of Jianping, was quelled, so far, Liu Song no longer has the power of the clan to be active in the political arena, and the Liu Song regime is controlled by Xiao Daocheng and Shen Youzhi.
In the third year of the Shengming Dynasty (479), Xiao Daocheng deposed Liu Zhun, the late emperor of the Liu Song Dynasty, and replaced the Song Jianqi, and the remnants of the Liu Song clan were almost slaughtered by Xiao Daocheng, and at this time it was only seven years after Liu Yu's death.
What's even more outrageous is that his temple name is still Taizong, which is simply to discredit Emperor Ming and Taizong.