Liu Yifu (406–424), emperor of the Song Dynasty, was the second emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty. Xiaozi Chebing, the eldest son of Emperor Liu Yu of the Song Dynasty, ascended the throne in the third year of the Yongchu Dynasty (422), and changed his era name to "Jingping" (from 423) the following year.
Biography
The Young Emperor Liu Yifu (406–424), the second emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty, was the eldest son of Emperor Liu Yu of the Song Dynasty and his mother Lady Zhang. Yixi II (406), born in Jingkou. In the twelfth year of Yixi (416), when Liu Yifu was 10 years old, he worshipped the Duke of Yuzhang. Song Taijian, worship Song Shizi. In the first year of Yuan Xi (419), he became the Prince of Song. Emperor Wu, Liu Yu, was enthroned as crown prince. In the third year of Yongchu (422), Liu Yu died, and the crown prince Liu Yifu, who was the emperor at the age of 17, ordered a general amnesty. The following year, the year name was changed to "Jingping". Empress Dowager Xiao Wenshou was made empress dowager, and Sima Maoying, the crown princess, was made empress. Sima Maoying was Princess Haiyan, daughter of Sima Dewen, emperor of Jin.
When Liu Yifu was the crown prince, that is, the good fox was small, and when his father Liu Yu was ill, there was no one to supervise him, and it was better to swim. Often take the dragon boat to move to the Tianyuan Pool, play on the water, sing and dance, and orchestral melodiously, until the moon sets and the fatigue strikes the body, and then spend the night on the dragon boat.
Before his death, Liu Yu instructed the chancellor Yifu to succeed to the throne (i.e., Emperor Shao of Song), and because of his excessive play, he was assisted by the assistant sikong Xu Xianzhi, Zhongshu Ling Fu Liang, and the leading general Xie Han, and so on, and edicted: "If there is a young lord in the future, the affairs of the dynasty will be entrusted to the chancellor one by one, and the mother and queen will not bother to come to the dynasty." ”
During Liu Yifu's reign, he was disrespectful and rude, and he was good for the affairs of the wandering fox. Young and young, the child's heart is not lost, but he knows how to play and play, what fathers are lost, what military and national events, let alone pay attention to them. The courtiers did not listen to any advice. Wei Bing invaded the situation, lost the battle, impeached the general, and the people of the country were frightened, he did not care, he was really carefree, happy and happy, not to worry about the sky.
In June 424, the Wenwu generals Xu Xianzhi and Tan Daoji led troops to the shore, took the sleeping Liu Yifu to the shore, collected his seal, and deposed him as the King of Yingyang in the name of the empress. He was killed shortly after, at the age of seventeen. Xu Xianzhi also sent people to kill Liu Yizhen at Xin'an, and later established Liu Yu's third son Liu Yilong as emperor.
The mystery of being killed
After Liu Yu's death in the third year of the Yongchu Dynasty (422 AD), Xie Han, Xu Xianzhi, and Fu Liang were entrusted by Gu Zhi to be alone and loyally assisted liu Yifu, the young emperor of the Song Dynasty, but Liu Yifu's actions soon disappointed them. Although this young emperor was not lacking in intelligence, strength, good at riding and shooting, and proficient in music, he had been uneducated since childhood, and after ascending the throne, he played games with the palace people all day long, indulged in sound and color dogs and horses, and did not pay any attention to state affairs. Xie Han and others had followed Liu Yu on his eastern expedition to the west, and they knew that it was not easy to start a business, and in recent years, they had started a war with Northern Wei, and when they were in trouble with foreign troubles, they were deeply afraid of the grace entrusted by the former emperor, so they consulted with the Southern Yanzhou Assassin Shi Tan Daoji and the Jiangzhou Assassin Shi Wang Hong, and decided to abolish Liu Yifu and establish a new monarch. One day in May of the second year of Jingping (424), the weather was very hot, so the young emperor Liu Yifu went to the Zhonghua Forest Garden (around the present-day Jiming Temple in Nanjing) to escape the summer. At that time, the Young Emperor Liu Yifu built a row of shops in the Royal Hualin Garden, his own small clothes and scarves, short dress, in today's words is "undershirt shorts", personally buy and sell, bargaining. Together with the left and right courtiers, they rowed boats for fun and had fun for a day. In the evening, I took the dragon boat to Tianyuanchi to be happy, singing and dancing, melodious orchestra, so uncomfortable, until the moon set, and went to eat supper, drank a lot of wine, really couldn't resist, and slept on the dragon boat.
In the early morning of the next day, the Southern Yanzhou Assassin Shi Tan Daoji led troops to open the way, and Xu Xianzhi and others followed suit and entered the palace from the Yunlong Gate. Xu Xianzhi's subordinate Zhongshu Sheren Xin Antai had already persuaded the Royal Janissaries first, so no one came out to stop them. Before Liu Yifu could get up, the sergeant had already broken in, killed two of Liu Yifu's attendants, cut Liu Yifu's fingers, abducted Liu Yifu out of the East Pavilion, and confiscated the emperor's jade seal and ribbon. The Civil and Military Officials bowed to him and resigned, and the sergeant sent Liu Yifu back to his former residence, the Imperial Palace.
According to the Chronicle of Chinese History, "Emperor Shao of Song was ruthless, and the ruling Xu Xianzhi summoned Tan Daoji to Beijing, deposed and killed The Young Emperor and Liu Yizhen, the King of Luling, and established Liu Yilong, the King of Yidu, at Jiangling, for Emperor Wen. ", pardon for persons under the death penalty. He also claimed to have taken back the emperor's seal letter on the orders of the empress dowager, demoted empress Sima Maoying to the title of princess of Yingyang, and sent Liu Yifu to Wu Commandery (吴郡, in present-day Suzhou, Jiangsu), where Tan Daoji entered the palace to guard the imperial palace. After Liu Yifu arrived in Wu County, he was placed under house arrest in Jinchangting.
Xu Xianzhi and others sent Zhongshu Sheren to torture Antai and assassinate Liu Yifu. Who knew that Liu Yifu had quite courage (according to the history books, Liu Yifu had the strength to fight, good at riding and shooting, and interpreting the rhythm of music) stood up and fought, and fought and walked, and even had to break out and run, escaped from Changmen, chased the soldiers with door latches, Liu Yifu was injured and fell to the ground, Xing Antai caught up with a knife, and as a result, his life, only 18 years old, had just been emperor for a year, and thus withdrew from the stage of politics and life forever.