Liu Cang was a brutal emperor and was killed by his father-in-law
Liu Cang: A young talent, the heir to the royal family of both civil and military. Liu Yuan, the founder of the former Zhao, was originally arranged by the Western Jin Dynasty to work in the Western Jin Dynasty in order to control him.
However, after the Rebellion of the Eight Kings, the imperial court was too busy and neglected Liu Yuan. At this time, God gave Liu Yuan a chance, and he did not hesitate to leave the imperial court, return to Shanxi, gather the old department, and establish the former Zhao.
At the turn of the Western Jin Dynasty and the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the establishment of a political power is not a big deal.
The former Zhao regime was a very special classical barbarian empire, and its special feature was that its ruler Liu Yuan, a Hun man, respected the emperor of the Han Dynasty and played the slogan of reviving the Han dynasty.
Although Liu Yuan did not become emperor until he was about seventy years old and died after only six years of reign, he was still a late bloomer. Liu Yuanchuan is the eldest son Liu He, but Liu He's performance is not good, and he was robbed of the throne by his younger brother Liu Cong.
However, Liu Cong is not a good bird, after becoming the emperor, he only did his business and lived his life in a daze. After Liu Cong's death, Liu Cang succeeded to the throne.
Liu Cang is Liu Cong's eldest son, but his character is very bad. It is recorded in the "Zizhi Tongjian" that he was in an important position, but he was arrogant and arrogant, far and virtuous, and stern, and even when Liu Cong was still alive, he had already begun to be disgusted by the people.
Liu Cang, the emperor of the former Zhao Dynasty, his life trajectory is full of regrets and tragedies. He acted arbitrarily, did not discuss matters with the officials, and only listened to his own decisions; He doesn't make good friends, and he fools around with fox friends and dogs; He has a bad character, is arrogant, and oppresses ministers.
Such a person is obviously not suitable to be an emperor. However, Liu Yuan and Liu Cong chose to pass the throne to their eldest sons, Liu He and Liu Cang, and although they were Huns, they still had a great Han heart at heart.
After Liu Cang ascended the throne, his favorite thing was to build a palace, became a black-hearted foreman, and requisitioned a large number of migrant workers to work for him, not only for free, but also for food. This led to the direct filling of the resentment of the people of Qianzhao, the sharp social contradictions, and the people's resentment.
Liu Cang's wife, Jin Shi, was named empress, and her father, Jin Zhun, became the emperor's father and a member of the imperial court. However, none of this can change the dark fate of Qianzhao.
Liu Cang's short-sightedness and brutality plunged Former Zhao into endless pain and disaster.
Jin Zhun image: Liu Cang is happy and comfortable, not easy to work hard. When he was young, Liu Cang had great ambitions, but his ambitions were different. Some people love mountains and rivers, some people love flowers and trees, some people want to be emperors to save the common people, and some people just want to die in the twilight of life.
His father-in-law, Jin Zhun, was the official of the dynasty, and the affairs of the country were handled by him, so Liu Cang enjoyed life with confidence. However, behind such a happy life is his father-in-law's worries.
Although he lived a nourishing life as a national ruler and a powerful minister, he knew that his son-in-law Liu Cang was like a time bomb that could explode at any time.
Empress Jin image) As a powerful minister, the success of Empress Jin is not accidental. Her daughter was favored, and she took advantage of this limelight to rise step by step in the officialdom. However, she knows that her daughter's favor is unstable, and what will her future be if she loses power or grows old?
Liu Can's mediocrity and instability worried her, because she knew that this tyrannical lord could kill her at any time. In order to protect her life, she found Wang Yan, the golden purple Guanglu doctor in the court, who has a strong appeal although his official position is not high but has a high prestige.
Faced with the threat of life and death, Jin Zhun no longer hesitated, and she began to act.
Wang Yan image) Jin Zhun tried to usurp power and intended to get rid of Liu Can, and he had to win the support of the majority of the people on **. Jin Zhun went to see Wang Yan with a gift, detailed his plan, and hoped that Wang Yan would lend a hand, but Wang Yan immediately ran away after hearing this, and rushed to the palace to report the news.
Wang Yan is loyal and patriotic, and although Liu Cang's performance is terrible, he will not agree to let him participate in the rebellion. Not only did he disagree, but he did not hesitate to risk his life and run into the palace to report the news.
It is the basic principle of a qualified court not to participate in the rebellion, but it is not enough not to participate, we must denounce and protect the emperor. Liu Cang has never been a trustworthy and supportable Ming Jun, on the contrary, if Wang Yan rebels with Jin Zhun, he will definitely get ** Houlu and endless glory and wealth after success.
However, in the face of official position and wealth, Wang Yan still chose another path that was both unprofitable and full of risks. Helping Emperor Liu Can, Liu Cang may not be grateful to him, and going against Jin Zhun is almost a dead end.
There is no other reason, just because in his heart, in life, there is always something more important than fame and fortune. That is: loyalty.
Wang Yan hurriedly fled to the passage of the palace, but unfortunately met the general Jin Kang, who was patrolling. This Jin Kang is not an ordinary person, he is Jin Zhun's younger brother, a group of two brothers.
So, Wang Yan collided with Jin Kang and successfully stopped him. At this time, Liu Cang was still at ease in the palace, but he didn't know that he had fallen into Jin Zhun's trap and was killed by his guards in the main hall.
With such an ending, Liu Can's death did not cause national mourning, but was ridiculed by the people. A notorious faint king passed away in a peculiar way.
Xie Caibo, a famous scholar in the Southern Song Dynasty, once left such a sentence: "Liu Yuan, Cong, Cang, Yao, Shile, Hu, Min, Fu Sheng, Helian Bobo, etc., they have no way, crazy killing, even human nature is gone, and it is a matter of time before they are retributed." ”
He refers to the many emperors of the Sixteen Kingdoms period, such as Shi Le and Shi Hu of Later Zhao, Ran Min of Ran Wei, Fu Sheng of Former Qin, and Helian Bobo of Hu Xia. Although there were not many of these tyrannical kings, there were four emperors in Former Zhao, including Liu Yuan, Liu Cong, Liu Cang, and Liu Yao.
Former Zhao is known as the classical barbarian empire because its rulers were highly Sinicized Xiongnu people, so it had a strong cultural foundation in Confucianism and Sinology. However, this does not mean that their moral level can reach the level of the Central Plains Dynasty.
The more they emphasize their surname "Liu" and the more they say that they are descendants of the Han family, the more they prove that they lack identity and are chasing it. Their lives are spent in this pursuit.