In the TV series "Phoenix Seeking Phoenix", Liu Ziye is extremely cruel and absurd. In real history, Liu Ziye's cruelty and absurdity are also incomparable, which is simply unimaginable to future generations. Moreover, it all came from the hands of a young teenager.
The Book of Song records that when Liu Ziye was 15 years old, his father Liu Jun died, and Liu Ziye was the emperor. He did not look sad at all, but was very happy. The emperor's seat, which had been thinking about day and night, was finally seated, and he was no longer bound by the dead old man. In order to vent his dissatisfaction, he also ordered the destruction of his father's Jingning Mausoleum. Taishi said that digging the ancestral grave was not good for him, so he did not do it. However, people still let people throw dung in Daddy's mausoleum and call him a "slave".
For Yin Shuyi, who had been dead for several years, Liu Ziye did not let go. Who made her almost shake her position as prince? Liu Ziye had Yin Shuyi's grave dug up, and also had people destroy the Xin'an Temple that Liu Jun had built for her.
He had no feelings for his father, because his father did not like him when he was alive and almost ruined him. Liu Ziye's actions are excusable. However, Liu Ziye's attitude towards his mother made posterity see that he was inhuman.
Liu Ziye's mother, Empress Wang, was seriously ill and sent someone to call Liu Ziye, probably to see her son for the last time. Who knows, Liu Ziye said that there are many ghosts in the patient's house, terrible, and he does not go. The empress dowager was very angry and asked the people around her to bring knives, and she wanted to cut open her stomach to see how she could give birth to such a son.
Liu Ziye is even more cruel to people who have no humanity to their parents, to their relatives, especially those who may endanger their throne.
Liu Ziye killed Liu Yigong, who wanted to rebel, and not only cruelly dismembered his body, but also dug out his eyeballs and soaked them in honey, calling him "Ghost Eye Dumplings". He packed three fat men, his uncles Liu Xiuren, Liu Yu and Liu Xiuyou, in bamboo cages, and called them "Killing King", "Pig King" and "Thief King" respectively.
For the fattest Liu Yu, Liu Ziye insulted in every way. He dug a pit in the ground like a pig, filled it with muddy water, stripped Liu Yu of his clothes and put it in the pit, and then put the wooden trough containing omnivorous food in front of him, so that he could eat like a pig with his mouth in the food trough. He laughed at the side himself. Even with such insults, Liu Ziye felt that it was not enough, he wanted to kill Liu Yu and several other uncles many times, fortunately Liu Xiuren would tell jokes and coax Liu Ziye to be happy, and several of them survived.
The cruelty of a teenager, we can attribute him to his attitude towards the imperial power, but his absurdity makes people feel incredible, simply perverted.
The "History of the South" records that Liu Ziye once let all the palace ladies strip naked in the bamboo forest hall and chase and play between the lakes and mountains, and watched themselves from the sidelines. He also ordered that all the princesses and princesses in the capital be summoned into the palace and that the guards rape them all. His uncle Liu Shuo's concubine Jiang Shi did not comply, and Liu Ziye immediately had her three sons captured and killed on the spot. He also had the general Liu Daolong rape his aunt Princess Jian'an in front of him and his uncle Liu Xiuren, the Prince of Jian'an.
Compared with these perverted behaviors, Liu Ziye's own incest is simply a small witch. He took a fancy to his aunt Princess Xincai, so he forcibly stayed in the palace, announced that Princess Xincai had died, and changed her surname to Xie and made her a noble concubine. In this way, the aunt became his concubine in name only.
Liu Ziye is best known for incest with his own sister Princess Liu Chuyu of Shanyin. He and Liu Chuyu often went in pairs, like a husband and wife. Not only that, he also gave Liu Chuyu 30 heads at one time.
Because of too many evils, Liu Ziye often has nightmares. Especially in the Bamboo Forest Hall, there was a palace maid who was killed because she refused to take off her clothes. Later, Liu Ziye dreamed that the woman scolded him for being rebellious, saying that he would not live next year. Liu Ziye found a person who looked like a palace girl in his dream and killed him, and the next day, he dreamed of the woman he had killed. Since then, people have said that there are ghosts in the Bamboo Forest Hall.
Because Liu Ziye killed too many people, Liu Yu was always in danger of being unable to protect himself. He united several of his cronies, bought liu Ziye's people, and killed this little demon in the Bamboo Forest Hall.
From the time he ascended the throne as emperor at the age of 15 to the time he was killed at the age of 17, in just two years, Liu Ziye did countless cruel and absurd things. If Liu Ziye's age is not clearly recorded in the history books, it is really difficult for us to imagine that so many cruel and absurd things were actually written by a teenager. However, his next emperor, his uncle Liu Yu, was more cruel than he was.