After Liu Xiumao's rebellion was put down, Liu Jun once again moved the idea of restricting the clan and the king of the clan. The old clever ghost Liu Yigong quickly figured out what Liu Jun had in mind, so he went up to the court first, requesting further reductions and restrictions on the princes, not allowing them to command the border states, and confiscating all the armor and weapons of the guards, and forbidding the princes to make friends with guests. Liu Jun was of course very happy to see Liu Yigong so sensible, but a person named Shen Huaiwen stood up and resolutely dissuaded him, so that this plan was not passed in the end.
Who is this Shen Huaiwen? Shen Huaiwen (沈淮文), courtesy name Siming, was from the Shen clan of Wuxing, and first served as a member of the Yangzhou, Situ Xing joined the army, dongge sacrificed wine, and other positions, and then served under Liu Shi. After Liu Jun ascended the throne, Shen Huaiwen was promoted and reused by Liu Jun, promoted to shizhong, and participated in the decision-making and discussion of the core issues of the government. Shen Huaiwen was also an outspoken person, but as Liu Jun began to corrupt, Shen Huaiwen's advice sometimes made Liu Jun extremely unhappy.
This successful discussion of Liu Jun's suppression of Emperor Wuzhen was not the first time that Shen Huaiwen sang against Liu Jun. Previously, after conquering Guangling to pacify Liu Shi, Liu Jun planned to increase his control over his brothers. However, at that time, he was dissuaded by Shen Huaiwen, and quoted the scriptures as saying: "Emperor Hanming did not allow his own son to surpass the son of Emperor Guangwu, and in the previous history books, it was recorded as a beautiful talk." Your Majesty has already killed people like Uncle Guan and Uncle Cai, but I hope that in the future, you will respect the actions of King Zhou Cheng's Fengbu Yu, Uncle Kang, Tang, and Wei, so that the country will have some hope. This remark made Liu Jun not good to express it again.
If Liu Jun's suppression of the clan was indeed a bit excessive, and Shen Huaiwen's dissuasion was understandable, then disagreeing with Liu Jun on other matters would inevitably cause Liu Jun to be dissatisfied. In the fifth year of the Ming Dynasty (461 AD, the second year of the Northern Wei Dynasty), Liu Jun issued an edict stipulating that all those who intermarried between the noble clan and the commoner families should be replaced by military posts, which can be seen as a means for Liu Jun to suppress the rich clan. However, in the process of actual implementation, some rich warriors who intermarried with civilians fled elsewhere to avoid military service. To this end, the imperial court further strictly formulated laws, caught fugitives, and immediately beheaded, so that fugitives often defected to the rivers and mountains and became robbers. Shen Huaiwen discouraged this, but Liu Jun did not accept it.
What's worse is that Shen Huaiwen has a good relationship with Yan Jun and Zhou Lang on weekdays, and once Wang Yu, a waiter, praised Yan Jun and Zhou Lang for their outstanding talents between words, and Shen Huaiwen also agreed with this praise. Who knew that these words were reported to Liu Jun by Yan Shibo, and Liu Jun's dissatisfaction with Shen Huaiwen was also on a new level. Not long after, the relationship between the two deteriorated again because of a hunting, Liu Jun went out hunting, and as a result, there was a sudden strong wind and heavy rain, and Shen Huaiwen, Wang Yu, and Jiang Zhiyuan took the opportunity to agree to give advice.
After they saw Liu Jun, Shen Huaiwen was the first to say, "The storm is so urgent, it is not what the Eucharist should bear." Wang Yu then said, "Shen Huaiwen's initiation should be listened to." When Jiang Zhiyuan was just about to continue speaking, he saw that Liu Jun was already staring at the bow and arrow, and said with an angry face: "Do you want to imitate Yan Jun?" Why do you always have to take care of other people's affairs? Then, he said, "Yan Jun, this boy, I still want to smoke his face first." The three of them did not dare to say more.
The relationship between the two also continued to deteriorate. Liu Jun also had a bad problem, and every time at the banquet, he ordered the people present to be drunk and drunk, and then vigorously mocked and ridiculed them. But Shen Huaiwen has never drunk alcohol, and he does not like to tease jokes, so Liu Jun believes that Shen Huaiwen is deliberately against himself. For this reason, Xie Zhuang once warned Shen Huaiwen, saying: "You are different from others every time, so how can you last for a long time?" Shen Huaiwen said, "I've been like this since I was a child, and where can I change in one morning!" I'm not deliberately trying to be different from others, it's just a matter of nature. However, Liu Jun did not think so, and he ordered Shen Huaiwen to serve as the commander of Liu Zixun, the King of Jin'an, and also took charge of Guangling Taishou.
Although he was released, Shen Huaiwen still could not escape death. In the sixth year of the Ming Dynasty (462 CE, the third year of the Northern Wei Dynasty), after Shen Huaiwen arrived in Jiankang to attend the New Year's Day pilgrimage held by the imperial court, Liu Jun ordered him to return to his post. Who knew that at this time, Shen Huaiwen's daughter was ill, and Shen Huaiwen, who loved her daughter, asked for an extension of the period of going back to take care of her daughter. This was beyond reproach, Liu Jun also agreed, who knew that Shen Huaiwen kept postponing the date on this grounds, and as a result, by March, he had not yet set off. This made Liu Jun furious, and he issued an edict to remove Shen Huaiwen from his official position and forbid him from politics for ten years.
When Shen Huaiwen saw that he had been deposed, he simply sold his house in the capital and wanted to go east to return to Wuxing's hometown. In fact, this is not a big problem, who knows that after Liu Jun heard about it, he was furious, and then took the opportunity to order him to be arrested and handed over to Ting Wei, and ordered Shen Huaiwen to commit suicide. Liu Yuanjing tried to save Shen Huaiwen, but he did not succeed.