In the previous article, we talked about Liu Jun's merits, just looking at those, Liu Jun seems to be a generation of ming lords? Why is there so much controversy?
Many people mention Liu Jun and will relish his incest scandal. The rumored cousin Yin Shuyi I talked about before, the credibility is doubtful. So how to explain the super human affair between Liu Jun and his birth mother, Empress Lu? This is recorded in many historical books, and it should be conclusive. So let's take a look at how these history books record it. The Book of Wei records this passage as follows: "Jun was promiscuous, steaming his mother Lu Shi, the sound of filth, and clothed in Ouyue." "But the Book of Wei, you know, the position is completely opposite to Liu Song, the southern dynasty emperor is not highly evaluated and there is slander and smear, and the credibility of this melon from the mouth of the opponent is problematic.
The Book of Wei is unreliable, so the record of the Book of Song should be credible, especially the sentence "The secret of the palace is not discernible."
Now I don't have to wash it! In fact, there are still doubts about the identity of Shen Yue, the author of the Book of Song. Shen Yue's father was none other than Shen Pu, who had made Tuoba Tao suffer in the Battle of Xuyi. But Shen Pu also had a layer of identity, that is, Liu Shao's confidant, he supported Liu Shao and resisted Liu Jun, until Liu Shao surrendered after his defeat, and was eventually killed by Liu Jun as Liu Shao's party. Shen Yue was still young at the time and successfully escaped the disaster, but Shen Yue lived in poverty because of the decline of his father's family since childhood. It is conceivable that if the son of the enemy is allowed to write the history book, how can Liu Jun have a good image.
In this way, Liu Jun's scandal seems to be difficult to withstand scrutiny, so are his other places criticized by people also slandered?
As the son of Liu Yilong who was not favored, Liu Jun sat outside since he was a child, and his personality was naturally influential in this case, and it was extremely normal to have no sense of security. Then, because his father was killed by his brother, Liu Jun accidentally ascended the throne. Although this throne is good, whether it sits for a long time is another matter. Therefore, in Liu Jun's eyes, the clan room had to be more vigilant, and killing sometimes became an excellent means.
From the beginning of the rebellion against Liu Shao to his death, the Liu Song clans successively existed, Including Liu Shao, Liu Mao, Liu Shuo, Liu Yixuan, Liu Hun, Liu Shi, and Liu Xiumao. Among them, Liu Shao and Liu Mao died in yugu, and Liu Yixuan's death can also be seen as a game between the military strength of Beifu and Liu Jun's newborn Yongzhou clique, and if there is forgiveness, then the remaining few people are basically killed because of Liu Jun's suspicion or the rise of troops, which Liu Jun did not wash at all.
The pawn system was carried forward in the hands of Liu Jun, and it was more to guard against the clan office. Even Liu Jun's living brothers were basically under surveillance, except for the seventh brother Liu Hong, the King of Jianping, who was heavily used, the others were basically not trusted and reused, and there was no appointment at the edge of the town. The starting point is good, but after overcorrection, too much suspicion of the clan also laid the groundwork for the tragedy after Liu Song.
In fact, Liu Jun's killing was not just against the clan. Wang Shengda, Yan Jun, Shen Huaiwen, and others did not escape the fate of being killed by Liu Jun, although some of these people were from the Door Valve Clan, quite arrogant and arrogant, but they were also extremely popular courtiers when they had a good relationship with Liu Jun, and after not being able to get Liu Jun's heart, they were degraded and killed, which was also regrettable.
If there are still various excuses for the above, then ordering the slaughter of the city after the pacification of Liu Jun's birth is to expose Liu Jun's cruelty, and Liu Jun ordered Shen Qingzhi to kill all the soldiers and civilians in Guangling. Fortunately, Shen Qing's heart was intolerable, and shang shu lied. Liu Jun then changed the order to reward all the women in the city to non-commissioned officers, and the men under five feet tall were pardoned, but the rest were still all executed. Thousands of people died, and the bodies were piled up as a beijing temple.
In the later years of Liu Jun's reign, Liu Jun was proud and complacent, building a large number of civil engineering, expanding the palace, and at the time of luxury, in the sixth year of the Ming Dynasty (462 AD), he destroyed the house where Liu Yu lived, built the Jade Candle Hall, and thought that he was a famous scholar and looked down on his uncultured grandfather. In addition, good wine and extravagance, greed for money and profits, gambling with the assassins who entered the capital, restricting them to pay tribute until they won their money, of course, the assassins could not be slaughtered in vain, and the money was passed on to the people.
In fact, Liu Jun's treatment of the group of ministers is also quite unreasonable, often teasing the group of ministers, and arranging each person's nickname according to their appearance. Xu Duo was uniformly called a sheep; Yan Shibo lacked a few teeth and called him "Gong"; Liu Xiuzhi was miserly and called "Lao Wei"; Wang Xuanmo was a northerner, and Emperor Xiaowu called him "Lao Ling".
Of course, compared with Liu Jun's vision when choosing a successor, the impact is really much smaller, because the bad vision directly led to the gradual defeat of Liu Song.