Emperor Xiaowu of the Song Dynasty Liu Jun was the most complicated emperor in the Northern and Sout

Liu Shao image).

In the thirtieth year of Yuanjia, 453 A.D.

It was a gloomy year for the Liu Song regime.

In this year, the crown prince Liu Shao launched a rebellion, turned the butcher's knife inward, and brutally killed his father, Liu Yilong, Emperor Wen of Song.

This emperor, who can be said to be the most capable emperor in the history of the Liu Song Dynasty, may have thought about many of his future endings, such as hard work in the government, accumulation of illness, such as fighting in all directions, and returning to the battlefield, but he never imagined that he would end up in the hands of his most beloved son.

Since ancient times, there has been no father and son, and there is no family affection in front of the throne, it seems that Liu Yilong has not figured out this truth in his life.

Liu Yilong died, and Liu Shao became the new leader of the Liu Song dynasty.

The news of the emperor's assassination soon spread all over the world.

And when the third son of the old emperor Liu Yilong, the protagonist of this article, Liu Jun, learned that his father was killed by his eldest brother Liu Shao, he was even more saddened.

Portrait of Emperor Wen of the Song Dynasty Liu Yilong).

The hatred of killing one's father is not shared, even if this person is his brother.

We know that the capital of the Liu Song regime was in Jiankang, that is, today's Nanjing, and at this time Liu Jun was not in Jiankang City, but in Bakou, that is, Huangzhou, Hubei, to lead the troops to fight against the indigenous barbarians in Liu Song, so even if he had the heart to ask his brother Liu Shao for an explanation, he would not be able to go back for a while.

But soon, he figured out a truth.

If he was in Jiankang, according to Liu Shao's tyrannical habits, I am afraid that he would also fall under the butcher's knife with his father, and now that the country is in turmoil and the throne is alternating, not only is he not in chaos, but he is leading the troops outside and has his own arms.

What does that mean? This is obviously God letting himself cause trouble and achieving a great cause!

Liu Jun is a doer, he will do what he says, he immediately announced the start of the army, and issued a document against thieves, openly opposing Liu Shao's claim to be emperor.

In the feudal era, a teacher needed to be famous, and if the name was not right, it would not be good, and now the new emperor Liu Shao killed his father and usurped the throne, which just gave Liu Jun the truth.

In that environment at that time, there were not many people who supported Liu Shao, but those who had long been dissatisfied with Liu Shao went to the sea.

Therefore, as soon as Liu Jun's slogan against Liu Shao was shouted, ministers from all over the country responded, and soon, under the leadership of Liu Jun, a powerful rebel army was born.

Whether it should be said or not, our Comrade Liu Shao has been dormant for more than 20 years, and finally became the emperor, but he did not cultivate virtue and politics, indulged in pleasure, and soon caused his people to rebel and leave his relatives.

The drums were broken and thousands of people were beaten, the wall fell down and everyone pushed it, and Liu Shao, who played with fire, soon ushered in his final ending.

In the thirtieth year of Yuanjia, in 453 AD, Liu Jun led his troops to break through Jiankang and kill Liu Shao, and immediately won the support of the ministers of the government and the opposition, and became the new leader of the Liu Song Dynasty, known in history, Emperor Xiaowu of the Song Dynasty.

Emperor Liu Jun of the Song Dynasty image).

Facts have proved that Liu Jun is indeed a very good emperor.

Prior to this, the Liu Song Dynasty successively served as four emperors, Emperor Wu Liu Yu, who laid down the territory of Liu Song, but died young.

The young emperor Liu Yifu is a gentleman, and he only knows how to eat, drink and have fun all day long.

Emperor Wen Liu Yilong is a virtuous king, and even created his own "Yuanjia Zhizhi", but he himself is brave and ruthless, and he will do anything about the Northern Expedition when he has nothing to do, but every time he is beaten by others, he can only come back disgraced.

And Liu Shao, when he became the emperor quickly, he was also cool quickly, and he reigned for less than three months, and he didn't even leave a nickname.

The old-timers have mixed reputations, which leaves a good room for the new leader Liu Jun to play.

Yes, whether an emperor can become an emperor who will go down in history and will be passed down through the ages, although most of it depends on the emperor's own performance, luck is also very important.

For example, the first emperors of some dynasties played too well and the starting point was too high, such as Liu Bang, Gaozu of the Han Dynasty, Li Shimin of Tang Taizong, Zhu Yuanzhang of the Ming Dynasty, etc., which will lead to great pressure on the emperors after them, and they will have to catch up with their parents and grandparents all their lives.

But it is clear that Emperor Xiaowu of Song intends to be a rising star who surpasses his predecessors.

The first thing the emperor did after ascending the throne was to reform the way the country selected talents.

Economic prosperity is very important, military development is very important, and cultural prosperity is very important, and these are all important factors for a political regime to become strong, but the premise of all this is that someone must run it.

No one, everything is empty talk.

The emperor will not be a shadow clone, no matter how strong the emperor is, it is impossible for him to govern the country by himself, he must need talented courtiers to help him.

However, since the Wei and Jin dynasties, the talent selection method of the ** regime has always adopted the "Nine Grades Zhongzheng System", that is, by referring to the personal identity background and family origin to recruit talents.

The "Nine Grades Zhongzheng System" proposed by Chen Qun, the minister of Cao Wei).

In layman's terms, it means that if you are rich, powerful, and have a background in your family, and your family has relatives who are officials in the court, then you are born with the opportunity to be an official, and you do not need to go through layers of selection, as long as you reach the age, you will inevitably be entrusted with an official position.

And if you were born in an ordinary family, even if you are full of wealth and talent, it is difficult to be favored by the imperial court, and the reason is very simple: the entrance of the imperial court is open to the south, and you don't have money to ask you not to come in.

Such a talent selection method of "scholars are out of the best and not from poor families" is really inappropriate.

Incapable wine bags and rice bags occupy official positions in vain and do nothing, while those who are really capable and capable can only have empty ambitions and nowhere to show.

Liu Jun deeply understands that the talent selection system of the Liu Song Dynasty must be changed, if it is not changed, and the officials are selected according to the old way, who knows what kind of crooked melons and cracked dates will be selected?

When some readers see this, they may say, this matter is very easy to solve, and it will be the end of a imperial examination system and an open, fair and just selection of talents?

The idea is very good, but I think Comrade Emperor Yang of Sui will say: If Emperor Song Xiaowu is allowed to do this, then what will I do then?

Portrait of Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty).

Yes, Liu Jun certainly has talent, but it has not reached the level of being able to usher in a new era.

But this emperor is not a dry meal, although he did not come up with the imperial examination system to change the times, but he still did it himself, selected a large number of outstanding talents among the people, and took the lead in breaking the precedent of not being out of poverty.

"Quartet show filial piety, don't lift it if you are not talented, offer the value of the promise, that is, you will be promoted" - Book of Song".

As long as you have the ability, as long as you want to be an official, as long as you want to contribute to the country, I welcome you at any time.

Liu Song big stage, if you have the courage, you will come.

Of course, the emperor's achievements are not the only one, Liu Jun has made great achievements in politics, economy, culture, and military.

If this exploit is said, it is too verbose, so I will not repeat it here, we just need to know that Liu Jun, the emperor, is still quite good.

Liu Song Dynasty) But it is a pity that Liu Jun did not carry forward his diligence and ability.

This is very understandable, because although the emperor claims to be a god, he is actually a mortal in the flesh, he has joys, sorrows, and sorrows, he eats whole grains, and he also has the sorrows and troubles of ordinary people.

It is not very easy to be a good emperor from the beginning.

The emperor has to sacrifice his personal time to deal with government affairs, and the emperor must always regulate his words and deeds, so that he can set an example for the people of the world.

The emperor can't do this, the emperor can't do that, all the emperor can do is to work day and night for the development of the entire dynasty.

Once an emperor becomes an emperor, what he does is no longer for himself, but for the sake of power.

Liu Jun can no longer live for himself, but for the dynasty.

The overwhelming twists and turns need to be dealt with every day, and one after another national affairs have to be solved by the emperor himself.

Under such high-intensity work pressure, Liu Jun obviously couldn't support it.

The emperor said that it was too tiring to be a Ming Jun, and I wanted to rest.

Liu Jun took a break, but he ruined all the fame in the first half of his life.

The eastern counties have been drought and hungry for many years, and the cost of a liter of rice is hundreds, and the cost of Jiankang is more than 100 yuan, and the tithes of starvation are six or seven. -- General Knowledge of Information Governance

The work was not done properly, the emperor privately began to expropriate and extort money again, and the common people paid heavy taxes, and caught up with the famine for many years, and the total population of Zhejiang Province alone dropped by 67 percent in one year.

Not only that, but Liu Jun's personality has also changed, from a generation of heroes who rebelled against the usurper of power to a middle-aged man with a fat brain.

It seems that the years are indeed a pig-killing knife, as strong as the emperor, and it will also be carved by this knife to change its appearance.

The emperor didn't love the court in the first place, but whenever he went to the court, the content was basically to make fun of the courtiers below.

Yes, Liu Jun is a person who loves to make fun of his courtiers.

The ministers in the court had a lot of beards, and the emperor called them "sheep ministers".

In the imperial history, Uncle Yan was relatively old and lacked two front teeth, so the emperor encouraged the ministers to laugh at Uncle Yan's leaky speech.

Zong Lingxiu, the squire of the Yellow Gate, was obese and had difficulty moving, and the emperor had to reward him with a lot of things every time he went to court.

The emperor has a reward, and the ministers must kowtow to thank him, Zong Lingxiu is bloated, as long as he kowtows, he will inevitably fall to the ground, and the emperor leads the ministers to laugh.

Portrait of Zong Lingxiu).

From this point of view, Liu Jun seems to be a very down-to-earth person who has a good relationship with his courtiers.

Therefore, in such a very magical scene, in the midst of bursts of laughter in the court, the emperor died of illness in the eighth year of the Ming Dynasty, that is, in 464 AD, at the age of Chinese New Year's Eve.

To sum up, the life of this emperor is legendary.

He rose up as a young man and achieved his own imperial cause, he ascended the throne as the emperor, and created another prosperous era of the Liu Song regime, but in his later years, he abandoned all the achievements he had created before, and turned into a mediocre lord who was passive and neglected the government, regardless of the life and death of the people.

I once had, I once lost, I used to be heaven, I was earth, I was everything, but in the end, I wrote it all off, leaving behind an inglorious image.

There are so many delicate rivers and mountains, Liu Jun once had them.

The country is so beautiful, but Liu Jun is not nostalgic.

The Northern and Southern Dynasties lost an emperor with mixed merits, leaving people with an uncertain future.

What kind of future is it?

We'll see.