The old Liu family who sells straw shoes
To say that the old Liu family sells straw shoes, I think the first thing that comes to mind is Liu Bei, the king of Zhongshan Jing, liu sheng. At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the world was in turmoil, Liu Beijia Road was also scattered, and he could only weave mats and sell his shoes as a profession, in order to revive the Han Room, he worked hard, but the Han Room still died.
But no one could have imagined that more than a hundred years later, the old Liu family had produced another capable person, and he almost became the person who ended the chaotic world. That was Liu Yu, the twenty-second grandson of Liu Bang's brother Liu Jiao. Liu Yu's family was poor, and he lost his mother at an early age, but he was adopted by a kind woman and survived. He lived by helping people farm and work, and at the same time, like his predecessor Liu Bei, he sold straw shoes. But when Liu Bei saw his achievements, his heart would be somewhat relieved, although it was not the Kuangfu Han Room, but the Liu Song Dynasty established by Liu Yu was also a mighty world. It is really the poor who rely on mutation, the rich who rely on science and technology, and the old Liu family who rely on "grass shoes", put on grass shoes, and fly the general feeling.
Portrait of Emperor Wu of Song and Liu Yu (Qing Dynasty)
The road to military conquest
Liu Yu, because of his poor family, thought about his way out for a long time as an adult, and finally chose to join the army, which opened his road to military conquest.
Initially, he served as Sima under the northern army general Sun Wuzhong . Later, when the Jin court suppressed Sun En's rebellion, he served as a member of the army under Liu Gaozhi, and eventually forced Sun En to commit suicide by throwing himself into the sea. Sun En's rebellion made the Already weak Eastern Jin Dynasty worse, and Huan Xuan, who was entrenched in Jingzhou, saw this opportunity and attacked the Jin court. When the two armies faced each other in Liyang, Liu Gaozhi did not listen to Liu Yuzhi's advice, and was eventually defeated. Huan Xuan was proclaimed emperor, and Liu Yu raised obscurity under Huan Xuan, and in 404 AD, he rebelled at Jingkou, marching all the way and killing Huan Xuan. Emperor An of Jin was restored to the throne at Jiangling, and Liu Yu began to take sole control of the imperial government in 407 AD.
History is always so similar, once upon a time, the Eastern Han imperial family was weak, Dong Zhuo was in charge of the Han Room, the Han Room existed in name only, and later Cao Cao blackmailed tianzi to make the princes and the old Liu family at the mercy of others. Today, Liu Yu has reversed his previous history, and he has fought all the way, and the Jin Emperor and the entire dynasty have slowly fallen into Liu Yu's hands. The last emperor did not have a good life!
The Battle of the Northern Expedition
Since the End of the Three Kingdoms Era and the establishment of the Jin Dynasty by the Sima family, the world has not been stable for a few days, the Rebellion of the Eight Kings, the Chaos of the Five Hus, the fall of the Western Jin Dynasty, the Battle of Shuishui, and the grass and trees are all soldiers. The Eastern Jin Dynasty, which was in a quiet corner, was always facing the threat of the north, and many Eastern Jin generals in the Northern Expedition had no results, and the familiar Zu Di, who smelled the chicken dancing, was one of them.
In 409, in order to strengthen the national strength of the Jin Dynasty and resist the invasion of Southern Yan, Liu Yu once again set out to the north, and the large-scale Northern Expedition War in Chinese history began from the north and south. Liu Yu set out from Jiankang, passed through Xiapi (Suining, Jiangsu), Langya (Linyi, Shandong), and Da Dashan, and fought fiercely with the Southern Yan regime established by the Murong family, and then besieged Murong Chao at Guanggu (Qingzhou, Shandong), Guanggu was finally conquered, and Murong Chao was taken back to Jiankang and beheaded in the streets.
Nan Yan Murong Chao (image from the Internet)
In 416, the new emperor of Later Qin first succeeded, and the domestic political power was turbulent. Liu Yu saw the opportunity and once again raised troops in the Northern Expedition, arriving at Pengcheng (Xuzhou, Jiangsu) in September, and sending his generals to reach Xuchang and Luoyang via Huai and Huai. He ordered his son Liu Yilong to defend Pengcheng, and he led his troops north to the Yellow River ferry crossing (Dong'a, Shandong), and then along the Yellow River to the west, to Luoyang, starting from Luoyang, and capturing Chang'an in one fell swoop.
Although there was later civil unrest in Chang'an, after two Northern Expeditions, large areas south of the Yellow River, north of the Huai River and the upper reaches of the Han River all became the territory of the Eastern Jin Dynasty.
Liu Yu's two Northern Expeditions also became an example for Xin Abandoning Disease, who when he landed in Jingkou Beigu pavilion, once wrote that "thinking of that year, the Golden Ge Iron Horse, swallowing thousands of miles like a tiger", also expressed his dissatisfaction with the Southern Song Dynasty's partial security corner, and his northern expedition ambitions were difficult to reward.
Territory of the Southern Dynasty Liu Song Dynasty
Dai Jin was called emperor and tried to rule
History is always repeating itself, Cao Cao blackmailed the Heavenly Son to order the princes to empty the Han room, and Cao Pi deposed the Han Emperor. Sima Yi established the Jin Dynasty through the Gaopingling coup d'état, overthrew Cao Wei and Sima Yan. Liu Yu's military merits were remarkable, first killing Emperor An of Jin, then deposing Emperor Gong of Jin and establishing the Liu Song Dynasty. It is true that the Heavenly Dao has reincarnation, and the heavens have spared no one.
Liu Yu claimed that after the emperor, he exerted great efforts to govern, rectified the rule of officials, lightly dispensed with thin endowments, reused the Han people, and reformed the system and centralized power. Since the time of the Three Kingdoms, the scholar clan has always played a pivotal role, especially in the Jin Dynasty, the nine-pin Zhongzheng system of electing officials has led to "no cold door in the upper product, no scholar in the lower product". Although Liu Yu's ancestors were very generous, but by his time he could no longer be lonely, the political power had always been in the hands of Wang, Xie, Geng, Huan and other clans, Liu Yu, as a member of the Hanmen Shu clan, relied on military merit to open up a situation in which the Hanmen were in charge.
Liu Yu's southern expedition and northern expedition laid the foundation for the territory of the Liu Song Dynasty, and also laid the foundation for the formation of the situation in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, laying the foundation for the "rule of Yuan Jia" during the reign of his son Liu Yilong. However, Liu Yu died of illness in 422, only two years after he ascended the throne. Therefore, this gave many people the assumption that if Liu Yu had not died so early, whether it would not have been the turn of the Sui Emperor Yang Jian to unify the world, and whether the Tang Dynasty would have come early.