Hello everyone, as we introduced earlier, Liu Yu forced Emperor Gong of Jin to take the throne, the Eastern Jin Dynasty perished, and the Southern Dynasty began. In this episode, we look at why the Liu Song regime established by Liu Yu is full of hostility, Liu Yu can be counted as a professional household who killed the emperor, and why Emperor Wen of Song established a prosperous world in the killing. Look at the history of the Liu Song Dynasty after its establishment.
Liu Yu, who was nearly sixty years old at the time, finally completed his transformation from a commoner to an emperor. Because Liu Yu gave birth to sons relatively late, when Liu Yu died, the sons were relatively young, all around eighteen or nineteen years old. Because when they were born, Liu Yu already had a certain power and status. Therefore, his sons did not have the same hard experience as Liu Yu.
This leaves a hidden danger. Many of these situations in the Five Hu and Sixteen Kingdoms are that the first generation worked hard to start a business, and the second generation did not have the experience of the founding monarch, so they were safe and enjoyed, resulting in the death of the second generation, and the Liu Song regime also encountered the first crisis after Liu Yu.
Liu Yu claimed that the emperor died two years later, and his eldest son Liu Yifu succeeded to the throne, but the new emperor was somewhat absurd, liked to eat, drink and have fun, and his ability to govern was not strong. During Liu Yu's funeral, he was actually drunk with his friends, and the minister Xu Xianzhi and others had several persuasions, but there was no result, and it was found that Liu Yifu was not carved in decaying wood, and these old ministers were loyal to Liu Yu, believing that the Great Song Dynasty must go downhill under the leadership of such a monarch.
In order not to live up to Liu Yu's trust and make the country last, they wanted to establish a new monarch, but Liu Yu's second son Liu Yizhen was not able to do it, similar to Liu Yifu. Earlier we talked about Liu Yizhen, Liu Yu's Northern Expedition hit Guanzhong, and when he returned to the south, he stayed behind. Although Guanzhong was lost, Liu Yizhen could not be blamed all, but it also had a lot to do with his personality. Guanzhong lost, he had expressed, when he paid his own tuition. Later, judging from his behavior, the tuition fee was paid in vain, so the minister was not optimistic about him.
In the end, it most resembled Liu Yu's third son, so these important courtiers first deposed Liu Yizhen in the name of the emperor, and then deposed the emperor Liu Yifu in the name of the empress. In this way, Liu Yilong can ascend the throne. Later, Xu Xianzhi and others killed Liu Yu's two sons.
This Liu Yilong was Emperor Wen of Song, who not only looked very much like Liu Yu in appearance and personality, but also killed decisively, and after Liu Yilong ascended to the throne, he strengthened the centralization of power, and rewarded the ministers Xu Xianzhi and Fu Liang, who were first rewarded, then killed, or forced to commit suicide.
From here, we can see that this Liu Song regime has a problem, that is, the anger is too heavy, Liu Yu can be counted as a professional rank of killing emperors, he killed four emperors, namely, Murong Chao of Southern Yan, Yao Hong of Later Qin, Emperor An of Jin, and Emperor Gong of Jin, plus Huan Xuan of Huan Chu is five, plus six of ShuDi's Huan Xuan.
Xu Xianzhi and others first killed Liu Yu's two sons, and after Liu Yilong ascended the throne, he also killed these ministers.
We see that the establishment of the Song Dynasty and the change of the throne were completed with so many killings, so we say that Liu Song was too angry. In the past, Emperor Xian of Han, as well as the surrender of Shu Han and Eastern Wu, and the usurpation of Jin by Huan Xuan were not so miserable, and most of them were treated kindly.
Let's look at the reasons for Liu Yu's frequent killings
First, the reason for killing the emperor was related to his origin and experience, and the rulers of the Eastern Jin Dynasty before Liu Yu were basically scholars, all of whom were families with high political prestige and influence. Although Liu Yuzu can be traced back to the imperial family of the Western Han Dynasty, by his time, he has become a commoner. Therefore, he can kill people in front of the warrior clan and kill the emperor. Let everyone know that I am not from a good background, but my strength is here.
Second, related to the times, the Five Hu and Sixteen Kingdoms are all killing kings and destroying the country, like the former Zhao and Hou Zhao mentioned earlier, only former Qin's Jian Jian did not kill the defeated monarch, and wanted to unify the world with his own mind, but Fu Jian's generosity finally became a joke, and after the Battle of Shuishui, he was counterattacked by Xianbei and Qiang, and Former Qin perished. Therefore, in that era, there was no one who dared not destroy the country.
Among the four countries of the Southern Dynasty, Liu Song had the largest territory and the longest time.
Although Emperor Wen of Song was more ruthless to his ministers, he was very kind to the people, and under his rule there was a rare peaceful and prosperous world, the emperor lived frugally, gave preferential treatment to the people, and the social laws were strict but not harsh. Jiangnan presents a peaceful scene, historically known as the rule of Yuan Jia.
In addition to the shortcoming of killing ministers, Emperor Wen of Song also had excessive suspicion. Jealous of the chancellor, jealous of the general who can fight in battle, also jealous of his son, and finally killed by the prince, when the prince killed him, he was discussing the abolition of the prince, the killing of the Liu Song regime, so that Yuan Jiashengshi was somewhat flawed.
Emperor Wen of Song also had three Northern Expeditions, but none of them succeeded, because the Northern Expedition failed, and the prosperous situation of Yuan Jiazhi's rule was also over, the three Northern Expeditions caused a great loss of Song national strength, the Northern Wei soldiers and horses also lost more than half, the Northern and Southern Dynasties were exhausted, and the Song and Northern Wei dynasties faced off.
The failure of the Northern Expedition was greatly responsible for Emperor Wen of Song. Emperor Wen of Song had never experienced war, but he also wanted to strategize and set such uncontrollable factors as the time of the marching route by himself.
There is another reason, during the Northern Expedition of Emperor Wen of Song, the north was no longer the chaos that Liu Yu faced, but the Northern Wei Dynasty, which was once again powerful, so the success of the Northern Expedition was not so easy. Later, Emperor Wen was killed by his sons Liu Shao (劭劭) the crown prince and Liu Jun (劭浚) the Prince of Sixing.
Liu Yu and Liu Yilong were the two most accomplished emperors in the Liu Song dynasty, and they knew how to treat the people well and govern the country. At the same time, he is also too jealous, advocating the use of force and killing to strengthen his authority. At this point, there have been so many killings in the Liu Song regime, but the chaos of the Liu Song regime is far from over. Later, we will look at how the Liu Song regime perished in the internal chaos step by step.