Although Fan Ye had a negative intention, he still had some concerns about supporting Liu Yikang, because he and Liu Yikang had an old vendetta. At this time, Xie Zong stood up and improved the relationship between Fan Ye and Liu Yikang. It turned out that Xie Zong and his father Xie Shu were both treated favorably by Liu Yikang, and Xie Zong's younger brother Xie Yue married Liu Yikang's daughter. Xie Zong was now Liu Yikang's secretary to join the army, so when he returned to Jiankang from Yuzhang, he expressed to Fan Ye the apologies that Liu Yikang had expressed to him, and asked Fan Ye to forgive the past estrangement, and Fan Ye made up his final determination to rebel and support Liu Yikang.
The team plotting the rebellion was also growing at this time, and the general Shi Zhongchengzu was also favored by Liu Yikang before, so when he heard that Kong Xixian was plotting rebellion, he did not hesitate to join it. Zhong Chengzu remembered another person on his side, Danyang Yin Xu Zhanzhi.
Xu Zhanzhi's identity is not simple, his father Xu Kuizhi, his mother is Liu Yu's eldest daughter Liu Xingdi, so he is Liu Yu's grandson. Xu Zhanzhi Pingsu has also always been loved and valued by Liu Yikang, so Zhongchengzu tried his best to befriend Xu Zhanzhi and told Xu Zhanzhi of the secret plan of Kong Xixian and others, hoping to draw him in.
On the other side, the Daoist priests Faluo and the nun Fajing were grateful to Liu Yikang for their old kindness, and they also had close contacts with Kong Xixian and were ready to participate. It happened that Fa Jing's brother-in-law Xu Yao was leading the janissaries in the court, and he promised Kong Xixian and others to be their internal response. Fa Jing also acted as a messenger for Kong Xixian and Liu Yikang, and when Fa Jing arrived in Yuzhang, he took a letter from Kong Xixian and told Liu Yikang Chen the meaning of tuyi.
Fan Ye and Kong Xixian were also further arranging, and those who had bad relations with them were also included in the roster of those who were killed. Kong Xixian also sent his younger brother Kong Xiuxian to write an article denouncing it, declaring: "The thief Zhao Bofu wantonly committed crimes, and the misfortunes were stored, and Zhan Zhi, Ye, and others surrendered their orders to fight, and beheaded Bo Fu and the Communists on the same day." The general Zang Zhifeng fengxi (臧質奉绶) welcomed the king of Pengcheng to the throne. ”
However, Kong Xixian thought that this was not enough, and he felt that liu Yikang's orders should be used to inform everyone when initiating a major event, so Fan Ye forged Liu Yikang's letter to Xu Zhanzhi, ordered him to kill the bad guys around Emperor Wen, and showed the letter to his party.
According to the plan of Fan Ye and others, they were ready to take advantage of the day when Liu Yilong went to Wuyingang for a banquet, and launched a rebellion to kill Liu Yilong. It was Xu Yao who happened to be in charge of Liu Yilong's guard work, which was a godsend for Fan Ye and others. Xu Yao pulled out his saber slightly, and xiang Fan Ye's eyes were ready to move. But Fan Ye was a literati after all, and this kind of scene frightened him, and he didn't dare to look up the whole time. Because of Fan Ye's timidity, Xu Yao did not start from beginning to end, and Liu Yilong escaped the disaster.
Xu Zhanzhi saw that things had turned into this situation, and could not help but worry about whether this matter could succeed, and after thinking about it, he reported all the conspiracies of Kong Xixian and others to Liu Yilong. Liu Yilong was surprised after hearing this, and asked Xu Zhanzhi to carefully inquire into the beginning and end of the matter. Xu Zhanzhi obtained the documents of Fan Ye and others preparing to raise an army, as well as the list of those who were selected to participate in the rebellion, and presented this evidence to Liu Yilong.
After getting the evidence, Liu Yilong was furious and ordered the relevant departments to strictly search and investigate. That night, Fan Ye was summoned to the palace and then placed under house arrest in the guest province. The brothers Xie Zong and Kong Xixian were also arrested one after another, and they all quickly confessed their guilt. On the contrary, Fan Ye was still resisting and resolutely refused to admit it. After Kong Xixian heard this, he despised Fan Ye: "All punishments, runes, and books are all created by Fan, why did Yun do such a thing to resist evil in this day?" Fan Ye's side, until what he wrote in his own handwriting was taken out, did he confess the beginning and end of the incident.
Kong Xixian, although he was cowardly after his arrest, arrived the next day when the heavily armed soldiers delivered him to the court lieutenant. He spoke calmly, without the slightest timidity in his tone. Liu Yilong was very surprised by his talent, and made a review of the buried talent of Kong Xixian, and blamed the former official Shangshu He Shangzhi.
After Kong Xi first learned of these news, he wrote to Liu Yilong in prison, thanking him for his grace, and told Liu Yilong the signs shown on the map, especially warning Liu Yilong to be careful of the evil between flesh and bones, saying: "I hope not to abandon it, but to keep the book in it." If the prisoner dies, he may be posthumously recorded, and under the Nine Springs, he will be less responsible. Unfortunately, Liu Yilong did not seem to take these words to heart.
On the other hand, Fan Ye's performance was a big surprise, Fan Ye originally thought that he would be executed on the day he was imprisoned, but Liu Yilong was thoroughly pursuing the case, so that after twenty days there was no movement, Fan Ye had hope for life again. Even the jailers mocked him, saying he might be imprisoned for long periods of time. As a result, after Fan Ye listened, he was pleasantly surprised. This made Xie Zong, Kong Xixian and others unable to look at it anymore, and they laughed at Fan Ye, "Zhan Shiyu used to be disgusted, prancing horses and looking forward to it, thinking that he was the hero of a lifetime; now he is disturbed and confused, and he is afraid of dying Nell!" Set up an order to give life, people are subject to the Lord, He Yan can survive! ”
However, Fan Ye ended with empty joy, and in the twenty-second year of Yuan Jia (445 AD, the third year of the Taiping Zhenjun of northern Wei), Fan Ye, Xie Zong, Kong Xixian, and their sons, brothers, and his party were all killed. But Fan Ye's performance before his death still made people sigh. Fan Ye's mother rushed to the execution ground, wept bitterly and scolded Fan Ye, and hit Fan Ye's neck with her hand, Fan Ye did not show a look of shame, but when Fan Ye's sister and his wife and concubines came to say goodbye, Fan Ye was sad and burst into tears. Before Xie Zong died, he did not forget to taunt Fan Ye: "Uncle is not as good as Xiahou Se. Fan Ye stopped the tears.
What is even more infuriating is that when Liu Yilong ordered the confiscation of Fan Ye's family property, he saw that those musical instruments and costumes were very rare and gorgeous, and the singers, prostitutes, wives and concubines used endless jewelry and jade, except for Fan Ye's mother's house, which was simple and poor, only a kitchen with firewood, his nephew did not have a quilt cover in winter, and his uncle only wore a thin cloth in winter, and Fan Ye's character was evident.
As for Xu Zhanzhi, who had made meritorious accusations, in fact, he still had a lot of things that he did not say until he was implicated in the confessions of Fan Ye and others, but Liu Yilong pardoned him and no longer pursued him.
At this point, Liu Yikang naturally could not escape the interference, and some ministers suggested that Liu Yikang's title be stripped away and that he be arrested and handed over to Ting Wei for conviction. On The day of Ding Youyou in December, Liu Yilong issued an edict to remove Liu Yikang and his relatives from their official titles, demote them all to commoners, remove them from the clan, and then send them to Ancheng County. The Ning Shuo general Shen Shao was appointed as An Chengxiang and commanded the army to supervise.
It was only then that Liu Yikang calmed down and spent time reading books, and when he saw the matter of Liu Chang, the King of Huainan in the Western Han Dynasty, he dropped the book and sighed, saying, "Since ancient times, I don't know, it is advisable to offend." ”