If there is any dynasty in China's history that is the most chaotic, it is definitely the Liu Song during the Southern and Northern Dynasties. The Southern Song Dynasty was the first dynasty of the Southern Dynasty, and its founder was Liu Yu, the Emperor of the Song Dynasty. As the founder of the Liu Song Dynasty, Liu Yu made important contributions to the country, and he had the title of the first emperor in the history of the Southern Dynasty, but such a heroic monarch, his descendants had a bloodthirsty character.
The Song Ming Emperor Liu Yu was a relatively wise monarch during the Southern Song Dynasty, and he was the son of Liu Yilong, the Song Emperor. The Ming Emperor Liu Yu enjoyed a high reputation in the history of the Southern Song Dynasty, and some later historians even compared it to his father Liu Yilong.
The predecessor of the Ming Emperor Liu Yu was the former deposed emperor Liu Ziye, Liu Ziye was a famous absurd emperor in China's history, he combined perversion and bloodlust, and he was never soft on killing his relatives, and the Song Ming Emperor Liu Yu was almost assassinated by him.
Before the Ming Emperor Liu Yu ascended the throne, he was given the title of King of Xiangdong. In his youth, Liu Yu was a prince of the Dancing Dynasty, and he especially liked poetry, calligraphy and painting, which was deeply loved by Emperor Wen. Originally, there was no need for Liu Yu to participate in the struggle for the throne, because both his father Liu Yilong and his brother Liu Jun had great trust in him. However, things often went unexpectedly, and after the death of Liu Jun, the Emperor Xiaowu of Song, his hard days came.
The newly succeeded emperor Liu Ziye was Liu Yu's nephew, but this seemingly personable emperor was a famous lord of absurdity in history, and during Liu Ziye's reign, he not only arbitrarily killed the ministers, but even killed the clan, and even Liu Yu himself almost suffered a tragic attack.
Liu Ziye was rebellious, and in order to get rid of Liu Yu, he deceived Liu Yu and the other two princes into Jiankang and bullied him at will. Liu Yu was fat, and Liu Ziye gave him the name of The Pig King and ordered him to play the role of a pig to eat pig food. Liu Ziye, such a dignified prince, where has been so insulted, in order to find an opportunity, he had to endure the humiliation and be ready to escape from Jiankang at any time.
Liu Ziye did many evil deeds and had long been unpopular, and Liu Yu, the king of Xiangdong, secretly gave birth, and finally exchanged the hope of survival. When Liu Yu left Jiankang, he vigorously attacked the army and planned to get rid of the deposed emperor. In 466, Liu Yu finally got the opportunity, and in this year, he instructed his close associate Pei Shuzhi to launch a mutiny in Jiankang, and Pei Yuzhi and others led soldiers to break into the Hualin Garden where Liu Ziye often played, and they took Liu Ziye out and stabbed him to death. Liu Ziye's death brought opportunities to Liu Yu, and with the support of the chancellors, Liu Yu finally succeeded to the throne as emperor, and he was the Song Ming Emperor of the Southern Dynasty.
The Song Ming Emperor Liu Yu was already dissatisfied with the emperor because of the previous incident, and after he succeeded to the throne, he quickly killed Liu Ziye's younger brother Liu Zishang, and later, Emperor Ming killed all the descendants of Emperor Xiaowu to cut off the trouble. Although Emperor Ming had killed the clan during his reign, Liu Song was still thriving under his rule. In the early period of Liu Yu's reign, the country was peaceful, and the number of hukou was even greater than that of Emperor Wen of Song during the YuanJia period.
The Liu Song dynasty was a brutal dynasty, and during this period, few clans and ministers were able to achieve a good death. For more than sixty years, there were wars in the Liu song dynasty almost every year, but during the reign of The Song Ming Emperor Liu Yu, the country still gained a short period of stability. After pacifying Liu Zixun, the King of Jin'an, Liu Yu implemented a policy of recuperation throughout the country, and through his efforts, Liu Song's national strength was gradually restored.
The Song Ming Emperor Liu Yu was cruel to the upper, but very benevolent to the lower, and in the later period of Liu Yu's reign, a new round of murder was launched between the clans, and Liu Yu basically killed the descendants of Emperor Xiaowu and Emperor Wen, and finally left only his own line. The two princes who were insulted by Liu Ziye with him did not receive a good death, one was poisoned by himself, and the other was killed by Liu Yu. In liu yu's later years, his personality became extremely obedient, and Liu Yu himself not only killed the ministers around him at will, but even insulted the empress. However, although Emperor Ming was confused in his later years, Liu Song's wheel of progress did not change, and by virtue of this alone, Liu Yu was enough to be called a generation of Ming Jun.
Because Emperor Ming of Song himself killed the clan, it eventually led to the rise of foreign ministers. After the death of Emperor Ming, Liu Song soon fell into chaos, and in 479, The Liu Song general Xiao Daocheng forced Emperor Shun to abdicate, and the Southern Song Dynasty fell.