"The carved fence jade should still be there, but the red face has changed." Li Yu, the lord of the Southern Tang Dynasty, left a famous sentence in his own ancient song "When is the Spring Flower and Autumn Moon". As the king of the fallen country, most of them can die with dignity is already a very good ending. And the last Han Emperor Liu Xie, the last Emperor of the Han Dynasty, ended in his hands for four hundred years, and he was even more displaced in the next few decades of warlord chaos. It was such a person who was actually treated well by the later dynasty, and even died to continue the imperial bloodline.
There were not a few monarchs at the end of the dynasty who became puppets, and Liu Xie was one of them, and his ascension to the throne was completed under the control of the powerful ministers. The times are turbulent, the four-hundred-year-old dynasty has decayed, and even the most outstanding kings cannot go against the trend of the times and save the building from the sky. The elder brother Liu Zheng was tired of the infighting among the imperial relatives in the palace, and when Dong Zhuo entered the capital, he deposed Liu Zheng and forced him to die, and the king of a country fell to this point, and had to make people sigh.
▲ Han Xiandi Liu Xie stills
His long career as a puppet began after Liu Xie escaped from the control of the Western Liang Army, and Yang Feng and Dong Cheng risked their lives to escort Liu Xie out of the capital. After much thought, Liu Xie finally chose Cao Cao, who was then the pastor of Yanzhou, as his target and threw himself into his tent.
▲ Stills of the Battle of Tiger Prison Pass
Cao Cao, who had never been proclaimed emperor in his lifetime, forced Liu Xiechan to be located in Cao Pi at the suggestion of Cao Pi, the King of Wei. Perhaps it was the last words of his deceased father, Cao Pi did not give Liu Xie a dead hand, made Liu Xie the Duke of Shanyang, and sent a fief. In Liu Xie's fiefdom, Cao Pi also allowed Liu Xie to continue the Han Dynasty's temple and dress, following the Han Chamber's ritual law, but without an edict, Liu Xie was not allowed to enter the capital.
▲ Wei Wendi Cao Pi stills
Fortunately, Liu Xie did not abandon himself and did not have the supervision of his side all the time, and Liu Xie began to operate the fiefdom with the attitude of a generation of Ming Jun. The number of fiefdoms in the tens of thousands of households was much larger than that of some princes in the same period, and they were able to sacrifice the former emperors of the Han Dynasty with old rituals, and they could not be worshipped, and Liu Xie's preferential treatment was indeed the most generous among the kings of the fallen kingdoms in all generations.
▲Portrait of Liu Azhi father and son
Worried that Cao Wei would feel that there were remnants of the Han bloodline and kill them all, Liu Xie left his eldest grandson Liu Kang, who inherited the title, before his death, and the remaining descendants were scattered in all directions to preserve the Han bloodline. Ten years later, the Jin Dynasty collapsed, and the Principality of Shanyang withered away.
▲A recent photo of Achigu Shrine in Japan
Liu Azhi arrived with the clan craftsmen, vigorously promoted the development of science and technology in Fusang at that time, after gaining a firm foothold, Liu Azhi began to integrate into Fusang, Liu Azhi Dongdu Fusang's thousand years of time, the blood of descendants passed down for generations, all over the world, endless life, so far there are still some people who miss their ancestors, often proud of their Han bloodline.
Liu Xie's success lies in the fact that after his struggle, he finally accepted the yi of the times, just as the beginning of the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" said, "The general trend of the world, the division of long time will be united, and the combination of long time will be divided." The banner of the Han Empire eventually fell, but Liu Xie withdrew in time, leaving a back road for himself and his descendants, which was also his best end as the king of the fallen country.
Resources:
Romance of the Three Kingdoms Zizhi Tongjian Vol. 59-68 Han Dynasty 51-60