Liu Cong was the fourth son of Emperor Liu Yuan of the Northern Han Dynasty. At first, when his mother Zhang Shi was pregnant, she dreamed of a round of red sun in her arms at night, and when she woke up, she told Liu Yuan about it, and Liu Yuan warned Zhang Shi that this was an auspicious omen and not to say it to the outside world. Zhang Shi was fifteen months pregnant before he gave birth to Liu Cong. On the night of Liu Cong's birth, a white light appeared in the home, and when he was born, he found that Liu Cong's left ear had a white hair more than two feet long.
Liu Cong was a bright and studious person since he was a child, and when he was fourteen years old, Liu Cong had already studied the history of the classics, synthesized the words of a hundred families to come to his own unique conclusions, and especially liked to recite the "Sun Wu Art of War". In terms of calligraphy, his cursive and calligraphy are very well written, and in terms of writing articles, he has written more than a hundred poems and more than fifty hymns. At the age of fifteen, Liu Cong began to learn the martial art of stabbing, his arms were as long as ape arms, and he was good at archery, and he could bend a bow of three hundred pounds, which can be said to be the best.
Four years after Emperor Yongjia of the Jin Dynasty, Liu Yuan fell seriously ill. Since the death of Liu Yuan's empress Dowager HuYan, he set up the daughter of the other chieftain Shan Zheng as empress, and Shan Yuan's posture was incomparably beautiful, and her beauty was absolutely crowned in the harem, which was favored by Liu Yuan. Shan Housheng's sons were named Liu Yi, liu yuan loved Wu and Wu, and was also very fond of this son, making him the King of Beihai, Liu He the Prince of Liang, Liu Yu the Prince of Qi, Shang Shu Ling, liu Long the King of Lu, and Liu Cong, the King of Chu, the Grand Sima Da Dan Yu, and deliberately built a Shan Yu tai in the west of Pingyang City as Liu Cong's office. Shan Hou's son Liu Yi (劉義) the Prince of Beihai (劉義) the Prince of Beihai (劉義) was made a general of the Fu Army (福軍) and a lieutenant of the Lingsi Commandery (司尉), while Liu Yao (劉曜) the Prince of Shi'an (陳安王) was made the Governor of Dadu Liu Yuan entrusted the crown prince Liu He to the same surnamed old ministers Liu Huanhe, Liu Yang, and Liu Yannian, and added them to the three dukes to assist the monarch.
After Liu Yuan's death, the crown prince Liu He took the throne as Emperor of Han, who was originally born to Liu Yuan's former wife Hu Yanshi, but was not favored by Liu Yuan, and was later killed by Liu Cong. In order to comfort the ministers, Liu Cong pretended to make Liu Yi, the Prince of Beihai, the son of Empress Shan, the emperor, and Liu Yi of course resigned. So Liu Cong made Liu Yi the emperor's brother-in-law, lived in the Eastern Palace, and waited for Liu Yi to give way to him when he grew up.
In the middle of winter, once Liu Cong feasted on his courtiers, he asked Emperor Huai of Jin to stand on the side in green clothes to pour wine, and even ordered Emperor Huai of Jin to open the lid of the pot for him when he urinated. Emperor Huai of Jin was humiliated, and for a moment he was ashamed and embarrassed, and Yu Min, who was captured together, cried unceasingly. Liu Cong was furious, and soon had people die with poisoned wine, killing all the Jin courtiers who had surrendered to the Han Dynasty, and then taking the empress Liu Shi, who had previously given it to Emperor Huai of Jin, for his own use.
After learning the news, Sima Ye, the grandson of Emperor Wu of Jin and the King of Qin, was established as the new emperor in Chang'an by the western Jin dynasty's widows, and four years later Chang'an was still attacked, and Sima Ye repeated the tragedy of his uncle, and was instructed by Liu Cong to be a slave to serve wine, and even asked him to wait for him to go to the toilet. At the same time, the captured Western Jin courtiers cried bitterly, and Liu Cong was very upset, and two months later he killed Sima Yi, the Emperor of The Jin Dynasty, and the Eastern Jin Dynasty made him Emperor Huan, and the last emperor of the Western Jin Dynasty ended up dying in a foreign land.
The Jin Dynasty has become the laughing stock of history at this point, and if it were not for Yang Yan's stubbornness at that time, the Western Jin Dynasty would not have been defeated so quickly. If it was the third son who inherited the throne that year, then Sima Zheng, as the elder brother of the mentally handicapped, was cared for by his younger brother all his life, and at least he could get a good death. However, due to the wrong decision of his parents, Sima Zheng ascended to the throne and could not help himself for the rest of his life. And the tens of millions of small people under the rule of the Western Jin Dynasty died in the fierce internal strife of the Sima family and the smoke of division. The sorrow of the people is also the sorrow of history.
But history has no assumptions, only sorrow!
Turning around, let's talk about the Han Zhao Empire. Liu Cong, the emperor who destroyed the Western Jin Dynasty, was at first a very talented and ambitious man, and he memorized the Han texts backwards and implemented various laws and regulations in an orderly manner.
But the process of his destruction of the Western Jin Dynasty was too easy, resulting in the expansion of ambition and desire for power, and the extreme corruption of his life, and his harem was a word, chaotic. Liu Cong's empresses have five at the same time, please pay attention to the wording, it is at the same time! Later, there were more than 10,000 concubines in the harem, and they had the posture of PK with Sima Yan. He did not give any reward to the meritorious soldiers who went out on the expedition, but the eunuchs around him often received tens of millions of gifts, which made the ministers very dissatisfied.
Liu Cong had been fascinated by Shan Hou's beauty before, but Liu Yuan did not dare to act rashly. At this time, when he became emperor, he didn't care much.
After seeing Liu Congyi Rong Xiuwei, he had long been in love. The two are of equal age, one is lonely in the spring, and the other is burning with desire, so they steam night and night. Within a few days, the court knew about it, and it was a joke for a while. Liu Yi, the son of Empress Shan, was in a youthful mood and could not listen to the sneers and ridicule of others, so he repeatedly advised her gently when he visited Shan Hou in the palace. After listening to it, he hated and felt ashamed, depressed in his heart, bedridden, and died less than a year later.
Shan Hou's death made Liu Cong mourn, and soon heard the palace people say that the cause of Shan Hou's illness was caused by Liu Yi's advice, and he hated Liu Yi very much in his heart. Just remembering the affection of Shan Hou before his death, he couldn't bear to do something to Liu Yi. Since Shan Hou's death, Liu Cong also selected many beautiful women to fill the harem, appointing the daughter of Sikong Wang Yu as Zuo Zhaoyi, the daughter of Shang Shu Ling Ren As Right Zhaoyi, the daughter of the great general Wang Zhang, the daughter of Zhongshu Supervisor Fan Long, and the daughter of Zuo Shu Ma Jing as nobles, and the daughter of The Right Servant Zhu Ji as noble concubines, all wearing gold seals and purple silks to enter the palace in turn.
Liu Cong heard that the two daughters and four granddaughters of The Taibao Liu Yin's family were all tianzi and national colors, so he wanted to marry into the palace without distinction between respect and inferiority, and take them as concubines. His younger brother Liu Yi persuaded him not to marry with the same surname, but Liu Cong believed that although they were all surnamed Liu, their ancestors were different, and of course they could marry as concubines.
Liu Cong then summoned Liu Yin's two daughters and four granddaughters into the palace, and crowned the second daughter as a concubine and the fourth granddaughter as a nobleman. Liu Cong spends spring supper with six beautiful women every day, where is there time to deal with political affairs? He lived in seclusion in the harem, and the court's music was taken in by the Middle Yellow Gate and judged by the two noble concubines on the left and right. Liu Cong named one of the two noble concubines Liu Ying and the other Liu E, alluding to Yao's two daughters, Empress Dowager E. In ancient times, Empress Dowager Ying married Shun, which meant that Liu Cong was a Ming Emperor like Yao Shun in ancient times.
Liu Cong originally wanted to make Liu Ying the concubine of Zuo Gui empress, but his mother Zhang Shi suspected that Liu Ying was the second liu with the same surname, and did not allow him to succeed Liu Ying, and sent his brother's two daughters Hui Guang and Li Guang to the palace, asking Liu Cong to choose one to be empress. Liu Cong had to choose Hui Guang. Just when Liu Ying's father Liu Yin fell ill and died, Liu Ying died of depression because he did not become empress, coupled with the death of his father.
Liu Cong was arrogant and desolate, and there was no discipline inside and outside the imperial court. Liu Cong's mother did not eat for three days because Liu Cong's imprisonment was too harsh, and Liu Cong's second son, the general Liu Shi, repeatedly cried and advised, and Liu Cong was furious and said, "Do you want me to die?" Crying day and night! As a result, Liu Shiji fell ill and died.
A few months later, Liu Cong's mother Zhang Shi also died, and Empress Huiguang was the only aunt in the palace who hurt her, so she cried and cried and died soon after. Liu Cong saw that his mother had died and no one cared about him anymore, so he crowned Liu Ying's sister Liu E as empress. Fortunately, Liu E was soft-hearted, and often advised Liu Cong, who was absurd and easy to kill, and saved the lives of many innocent people.
The "Left Biography" says that if you don't marry with the same surname, you won't be born! This makes sense, people who are too close by blood, the child born is likely to be stillborn. Sure enough, Empress Liu became pregnant and gave birth to a freak in human form, and Empress Liu also died of dystocia. Liu Cong was very fond of Liu Hou, and inevitably he was overly sad, and he made the funeral ceremony extraordinarily solemn.
However, this nostalgic feeling did not last long, one day he went to the home of Jin Zhun, the middle guard, to drink and reminisce, and saw Jin Zhun's two daughters, both of whom were the beauty of sinking fish and falling geese, called Jin Yueguang and Jin Yuehua respectively, Liu Cong couldn't help but lose two of his three souls. Jin Zhun had long intended to use his two daughters to seek high-ranking officials, and this beauty plan had been raised for a long time. At that time, Jin Zhun presented his two daughters to Liu Cong, and Liu Cong carried the second daughter into the palace that night, and the next day Liu Cong made the second daughter a noble concubine.
Subsequently, Jin Yueguang was crowned empress. Since the favor of Jin Yueguang, the two Concubines of Liu Gui were snubbed, and Liu Cong, in order to comfort them, was crowned as The Left Empress and the Right Empress respectively, and the plus Empress Jin Yueguang was made the Upper Empress. All of a sudden, Liu Cong had three empresses, which was really unprecedented. The imperial court's program often remained categorically absent. Lieutenant Chen Yuanda advised him that the establishment of the three empresses together would have serious troubles in the future, and asked him to take back his life. Liu Cong refused to listen, demoted Chen Yuanda to the rank of Right Guanglu Doctor, and seized Chen Yuanda's military power.
Liu Cong's body could not satisfy so many concubines in the harem, and Jin Yueguang still stayed alone in the empty bed, so it was inevitable to find a few beautiful teenagers to enter the palace to pass the loneliness. Unexpectedly, this matter was clearly heard by Chen Yuanda, who was specifically unable to live with Liu Congji's concubine, and he collected a lot of evidence about Jin Yueguang's secret affairs and wrote it down and handed it to Liu Cong. Liu Cong saw that it was Jin Yueguang's adulterous affair, and the evidence was overwhelming, and he couldn't help but be angry, so he immediately ran to the palace of empress Shang to scold Jin Yueguang and threw Chen Yuanda's fold on Jin Yueguang's face for her to see for herself. Jin Yueguang carefully watched the recital and did not dare to distinguish, so he had to kneel on the ground and cry, begging Liu Cong to forgive her. Liu Cong whisked his sleeves away in anger, and the next day the attendant came to report that Liu Cong said that Jin Yueguang had committed suicide by taking poison.
Liu Cong was originally angry for a moment, and hurried to see it, only Jin Yueguang's face was miserable, so he hugged the corpse and cried a lot, before causing the internal servant to be buried. From then on, Chen Yuanda was blamed for Jin Yueguang's death, and no matter what rules he had, Liu Cong ignored it. He ordered his son Liu Cang to be the chancellor, and all state affairs made Liu Cang decide that he would indulge in adultery in the harem every day and not come out to manage the government.
Xun Yu, a member of the Eastern Palace, secretly informed Liu Cong, reporting that Lu Zhi and the other three had persuaded the emperor's brother-in-law Liu Yi to rebel. Liu Cong immediately put them to death and sent the Guanwei general Bu Shu to lead troops to guard the Eastern Palace and forbid Liu Yi to enter and leave. Liu Yi was very worried, and requested that he be deposed as a Shuren and that Liu Yue, the King of Jin, be placed in the Eastern Palace. Bu Shu intercepted the table seal to keep Liu Cong from knowing.
Previously, Liu Yi had a concubine of the Jin clan, who was the cousin of the protector Jin Zhun, and the Jin clan and the servant Xuanxuan were known to Liu Yi, who killed jin and repeatedly mocked Jin Zhun. Jin Zhun then went to Liu Cang's place to make a plan, let Liu Cang first persuade Liu Cong to remove the guards of the Eastern Palace, let Liu Yi still traffic guests, and then find a gap to lure and intimidate those guests who came and went, and then kill Liu Yi. Liu Yi was indebted to his nephew Liu Cang, who knew that Liu Yue wanted to put him to death. Liu Cang conspired with eunuchs to frame his brother-in-law Liu Yi for rebellion, and Liu Cong was furious and deposed Liu Yi as the king of the north. Liu Cang did not let go, and poisoned Liu Yi with poisonous wine. Implicated in the pit to kill more than 15,000 people, the streets and alleys of Pingyang were empty, which was the horrific massacre that occurred in 317 AD.
In the same year, Liu Cong arrested and tortured officials of the Han Dynasty, regardless of ethnicity. As many as 200,000 families of various ethnic groups defected before and after, and more than a dozen chieftains of the Qiang and Qiang provinces were burned by eye-popping fires.
During Liu Cong's eight years as emperor, the Zhao-Han Empire rapidly declined. Later, Liu Yue was made crown prince, and led the xiangguo and Da Dan Yu, and the general regent of the dynasty was as before.
After the arrangement was in place, Liu Cong was still indulging in wine, and the number of empresses in the harem was as large as seven, and Jin Yuehua was crowned empress. Fan Shi, the palace maid who served Jin Yuehua, was originally a maid of Liu Cong's mother, Zhang Shi, who entered the palace from a young age, and at this time she was also very charming, and Liu Cong was very fond of her and crowned her as empress. Shen, the Prince of Zhongchang, had an adopted daughter, only fourteen years old, who had a wonderful color, and was favored by Liu Cong, who crowned her as Empress Zuo. Shang Shu Ling Wang Jian, Zhongshu Supervisor Cui Yizhi, Zhongshu Ling Cao Ke and others wrote to obstruct it. Liu Cong was furious and arrested all these people and led them to Shi Cao to kill. Zhongchang Shi Xuanhuai followed Wang Shen's example and also found a beautiful woman to dedicate to Liu Cong, and Liu Cong made her empress.
Countless young beauties took turns to provide for the emperor, plus thousands of pink dais in the backyard, making Liu Cong gradually lose his strength. Lying in the bedroom of the Hall of Light, I heard the sound of ghosts crying every day. So I moved to the Jianshi Hall, and I could still hear the sound of ghosts crying. Presumably excessive lust produces hallucinations.
Liu Cong traveled to the harem, sometimes not once in a hundred days, and the courtiers all spoke through eunuchs such as Wang Shen, who decided by their own love and hatred and rarely told Liu Cong. Therefore, the old meritorious man did not see the narration, and the traitorous villain suddenly rose to two thousand stones. The soldiers in the army have no rewards for money, but the rewards in the harem are often tens of millions. Wang Shen and other eunuchs had more clothes and houses than the kings, and their sons and relatives marched from cloth to cloth, and more than thirty elderly people were extravagant and corrupt for the internal history. Many ministers who were jealous of eunuchs were framed and executed.
In the first year of Taixing, Liu Cong was tyrannical, but he also had a good death, and finally died of illness in the capital. He reigned for a total of nine years, and was known as Emperor Zhaowu and the temple name Liezong. Subsequently, the crown prince Liu Yue took the throne.
Under his words and deeds, his son Liu Cang was even more blue, and immediately after ascending the throne, he took all of his father's empresses into his own hands and made empresses along with his wife.
Liu Cangzi Shiguang, when he was a child, was also very intelligent, called a young Junjie, and only then was he also a literary and martial artist. Since becoming the prime minister, he has suddenly become a powerful and unscrupulous person, alienating the loyal and the close to the adulterous. Empress Dowager Jin Yuehua (靳月華) of Liu Cong's empress dowager after Liu Cang ascended the throne, with The Fan clan being Empress Hongdao, the Xuanshi Empress Hongde, and the Wang empress Hongxiao empress. These concubines left by Liu Cong were all under the age of twenty, and they were all heavenly and beautiful, so Liu Cang took them for his own use and steamed them in the harem in the morning and night. Liu Cang was desolate and drunk, traveling to the back court of the feast every day, and the major affairs of the military state were decided by Jin Zhun.
At this time, jin zhuanquan, the ruler of the state, was a fierce figure, and he saw that the foundation of the Han kingdom had been dug up by Liu Cong's father and son, and he launched a coup d'état only two months after Liu Cang took the throne.
Jin Zhun had no scruples, killed all the men, women and children surnamed Liu in the capital, and also dug up the ancestral graves of Liu Yuan, Liu Cong, and others, burned the corpses to vent his anger, and burned down the Zongmiao Temple.
According to the "Search for God", when the temple was burned and burned, the ghosts in the city cried and heard for hundreds of miles. Of course, this record is not credible, but the situation at that time was indeed tragic and sad.
Liu Cong's father and son were both outstanding Junjie when they were teenagers, and when they grew up, they seemed to be sentenced to two, and many scandals that were unforgivable in the eyes of the Han people, such as Zi Na's father and concubine, may be very normal in the eyes of the Xiongnu. In a word, the Han system they did not learn from home, other people's advanced experience and management system they only know the skin.
The "History of Jin" records many absurd stories, highlighting the living atmosphere of these Sinicized ethnic minorities. Moral evaluation aside, Liu Cong's act of appointing so many empresses at once is something that few people can do. The Wuhu Empire, each one short-lived, which had a lot to do with the fact that most of their kings were absurd and cruel, and the flesh and blood within the court had a lot to do with each other, and they had the courage to start a business, but they did not have the patience to keep their jobs.
"Night Wolf Literature and History Studio" Contributing Writer: Bearded Twenty/Wen
Bearded Er zero, formerly known as Yin Jianxiang, is a famous historical writer whose published works include the "History of Barnyard Officials and Women" series, "The Charm of the Bronze Age", "They Were Once So Cruel", "Cao Wei Chaotic World Think Tank", the long suspense novel "Treasure Hunting", "The Secret Room of Despair" and so on