Three minutes to talk about culture Liu Yu, Emperor Wu of the Southern Song Dynasty, stands alone in the world with the brilliant achievements of "six emperors". He successively killed six emperors, including Huan Xuan of Huan Chu, Murong Chao of Southern Yan, Qian Zong, Emperor of Western Shu, Yao Hong of Later Qin, and Sima Dezong and Sima Dewen of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. These six emperors were all overlords at that time, but Liu Yu was able to defeat them one by one, known as the "emperor harvester", and was the "dragon slayer" in Chinese history.
However, history is always full of irony. The descendants of this "dragon slayer" did not escape the clutches of fate in the end. Their endings are all full of tragedy. This seems to validate the old saying: "The dragon slayer will be slaughtered by the dragon".
When it comes to the six kings killed by Liu Yu, Huan Xuan, Murong Chao, Chen Zong and Yao Hong, all of whom were enemy monarchs conquered in the war of unification, there is no absolute right or wrong in the game of thrones. But the other two Sima clans were Liu Yu's former masters. Especially Jin Gong Emperor Sima Dewen, he was given the Zen position to Liu Yu, when Liu Yu sent Fu Liang to pass the Zen edict, when the draft was sent to him, let him copy it, he did not hesitate at all, gladly accepted, and said to the left and right: "The Jin Dynasty has long lost the world, and to this day, I am willing to do this."
After abdicating, Sima Dewen knew his duty as a Zen monarch, and he was careful everywhere on weekdays, not leaving Liu Yu any excuse to kill him. His wife Chu always guarded him and took care of his diet personally, so that Liu Yu couldn't find an opportunity to start for a while.
Sima Dewen naively thought that his prudence and cooperation could allow him to spend the rest of his life idly and steadily as a "Lingling King" like his predecessors Liu Xie, Liu Chan, and Cao Huan. But he ignored Liu Yu's ambition and decisiveness, and Liu Yu was a person who played cards out of common sense.
Liu Yu was determined to get rid of Sima Dewen, and he sent Zhang Wei, a servant of Langya, to send poisoned wine to Sima Dewen, intending to poison him. However, Zhang Wei was a loyal and upright courtier, unwilling to do such a "dirty" thing, and chose to drink poisoned wine ...... himselfAfter that, Liu Yu secretly sent a group of people to murder Sima Dewen, but they also returned in vain.
Sitting on other people's "rivers and mountains", Liu Yu is weak in the end, and he knows that among the ministers, there are many people who are only superficially obedient to him, and they are still loyal to Sima Dewen in their hearts. In this way, Liu Yu's determination to get rid of Sima Dewen was even stronger.
In the end, one day more than a year after Liu Yu became emperor, he sent Chu's elder brother Chu Danzhi to visit Chu under the pretense of visiting Chu, and secretly ordered his own soldiers to follow him. When Chu went out to see his brother, the soldiers climbed over the wall and entered the room. They quickly ** Sima Dewen and covered him alive with a quilt. In this way, the last emperor of the Jin Dynasty ended his life.
The Sima family has already given up the country, but why does Liu Yu want to kill them all? There is no personal enmity between Liu Yu and Sima Dewen, but power and the country are eternal enemies. In his opinion, cutting the grass without removing the roots is always a hidden danger. In Liu Yu's heart, getting rid of Sima Dewen is a choice without a choice.
When Liu Yu took over the Sima family, he had entered the twilight of his life. At the age of fifty-eight, he knows that his life is like a candle in the wind, which may be extinguished at any time. At that time, his eldest son Liu Yifu was only a fifteen or sixteen-year-old "young man", and the other sons were even younger. Liu Yu worries about whether his young sons will be able to grasp the power in their hands and keep the ...... of "the country" after his death
Liu Yu's fears were not unreasonable, as Sima Dewen was in the prime of life at the time, and he had extensive political experience and extensive contacts. But his physical condition is getting worse and worse, and he may be "rattling" one day. This "dragon chair" has only been sitting for a year, and the emperor's grace has not yet been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, if he just "leaves", with the influence of Sima Dewen, those old and young remnants of the previous dynasty are likely to carry him out to restore the Jin Dynasty. In this way, how can the sons who have not dried up be able to stop it? If the throne is not guaranteed, I am afraid that I will not even be able to save my life!
How could Liu Yu leave such a big disaster for his sons, so the "Dragon Slaying Treasure Knife" raised the ...... again
If Liu Yu had foreseen the tragic fate of his descendants, he might have shown a more thoughtful approach to the issue of Sima Dewen rather than "cutting the grass and eradicating the roots". However, history has no ifs, and his actions became a precedent for the misfortune that later befell the king of Zen. Liu Zhun's experience is undoubtedly a direct irony of Liu Yu's decision-making.
In 479, the "Liu Song Dynasty" established by Liu Yu perished. At that time, Liu Zhun, who had only been a "puppet emperor" for two years, was forced to take the throne, and Xiao Daocheng, the terminator of Liu Song, followed Liu Yu's method and killed Liu Zhun less than a month after his throne; And Liu's clan relatives were imprisoned and died. Before his death, Liu Zhun sadly and indignantly left a historical saying: "I wish to live for the rest of the world, and never give birth to the emperor's family again." This sentence expresses the endless sadness and despair in his heart.
Liu Yu's act of killing the king of Chan Rang not only had a bad impact on future generations, but also brought endless disasters to his descendants. His move not only broke the traditional way of transferring power, but also set a bad precedent in Chinese history.
Since then, the monarch of Chan has rarely been able to die peacefully, and the historian Hu Sanxing of the Song and Yuan dynasties has lamented: "Since then, the king of Chan has rarely been able to get it all!" And the Qing dynasty Ding Yaokang sighed in "History of Heaven": "Liu Yu opened the country with good killing, his descendants inherited the eighth generation and the six masters were killed, and he sought his grandson, and he would rather have no retribution"! The remarks of the two scholars reveal the cruel truth of history.
Liu Yu founded the dynasty with bloody means, killed six monarchs, and his cruel behavior explained what it means to "slayer the dragon will eventually become an evil dragon"! And history is always full of karma, and Liu Yu's children and grandchildren have also suffered backlash because of this. Pathetic? Not! Reincarnation of cause and effect, who does the sky forgive? The door of sin is opened, and it is ...... to pay for its actions