Throughout the history of the various dynasties, at the time of their demise, there are nothing more than two results, one is to get the preferential treatment of the new dynasty, not to be driven out of the extermination, such as the Han Dynasty Han Xian Emperor Liu Xie was named Shanyang Duke by Cao Pi to die in the fiefdom, Wei Yuan Emperor Cao Huan was named Chen Liuwang by Emperor Wu of the Jin Dynasty Sima Yan was also able to die in the feudal country. The other is to be slaughtered by the new dynasty, and there are not a few people in history who were slaughtered by this royal family when the dynasty fell.
Since the Qin Dynasty, we have rarely seen the descendants of Qin Shi Huang in history, which is no wonder to others, but to blame Qin Shi Huang's youngest son Hu Hai.
In 210 BC, Qin Shi Huang died of illness in the sand dunes, and the original edict was to establish Fusu as the new emperor, but unfortunately the great eunuch Zhao Gao and Prime Minister Li Si tampered with the edict of Qin Shi Huang, renamed Hu Hai as the new emperor, and forced Fusu to commit suicide.
Hu Hai was indeed not a good man, nor was he a good emperor, and after he succeeded to the throne, he was even more cruel to many other brothers and sisters. In Xianyang, the commercial district of the ancient city, he put twelve of his brothers to death. On another occasion, six brothers and ten sisters were crushed to death in Duyou (present-day Xianyangdong, Shaanxi), and the execution ground was horrific. Jiang Lu and the other three are also Hu Hai's brothers, the three of them are relatively calm, and they can't find any charges to frame them, but Hu Hai still locked the three of them in the palace and finally forced the three of them to commit suicide.
Qin Shi Huang had more than 20 sons, and since Hu Hai succeeded to the throne, he killed all his brothers. And Hu Hai himself did mischief during his reign, and many ministers in the court were also killed by him, the most famous of which was the Meng Tian and Meng Yi brothers. As a result, Hu Hai reigned for three years, and the Qin Dynasty fell.
In addition, after Xiang Yu invaded Xianyang, he carried out ** on the remaining royal family of the Qin Dynasty, and even the magnificent Afang Palace was burned by Xiang Yu, and the fire burned for three months.
The reputation of the Jin Dynasty in history is very poor, mainly because the process of Sima Yi's ancestors and grandchildren from usurpation to founding the country was not glorious, and the result was that when the Western Jin Dynasty fell, the fate of the imperial family was very miserable.
After the Western Jin Dynasty passed the Eight Kings Rebellion. After Liu Cong led the army into Luoyang City, he vigorously searched the Western Jin Dynasty clan, according to the recollections of witnesses at the time, Liu Cong's sergeants searched every corner like a wolf and tiger, and captured the members of the Western Jin Dynasty royal family one by one. Most of these royal family members were women, children, old and weak, and they had no power to fight back, and they were soon pierced by swords, and the blood flowed like a river, which was unbearable.
Sima Yan was full of mourning in Luoyang City, and countless corpses were piled up on the streets, emitting a pungent stench. Many of the old and young remnants of the Western Jin Dynasty were brutally killed, even young children could not escape the fate, and the whole family was buried under the blade together. Liu Cong's army completely exterminated the Western Jin clan, which can be described as the extreme.
At the same time, Liu Cong also sent a large army to pursue Sima Ye, the Huai Emperor of the Western Jin Dynasty, who fled to Chang'an. Sima Ye was also unable to gain a foothold in Chang'an, and Liu Cong soon captured Chang'an and captured Sima Ye. Liu Cong was about to kill Sima Ye, who was only 14 years old, and the bloodline of the Western Jin Dynasty was completely cut off.
The royal family of the Eastern Jin Dynasty was also heavily attacked by Emperor Liu Yu of the Song Dynasty.
Although Liu Yu was a descendant of the royal family of the Han Dynasty, he was already an ordinary person when it reached him. After growing up, Liu Yu joined the army, participated in various rebellions, and gradually became a powerful minister of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. In 420 AD, Liu Yu officially proclaimed himself emperor and established the Southern Song Dynasty, and again he killed the last two emperors of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Emperor Sima Dezong of Jin An and Emperor Sima Dewen of Jin Gong. Prior to this, Liu Yu had already begun to squeeze out and eliminate the princes of the Sima family who were a threat to him.
After Sima Dewen and Liu Yu became emperor, they also wantonly hunted and slaughtered the members of the Sima family in the Song Dynasty, and the upper echelons of the Sima family were basically slaughtered by Liu Yu at that time, and there were many fish in the middle and lower classes of the Sima family. Many of the people living in the lower and middle classes of society wisely chose to protect themselves, and they either fled to the north or changed their names and lived in seclusion in the south.
After years of hard work, Liu Yu obtained the Eastern Jin Dynasty to establish the Southern Song Dynasty, but Liu Yu's descendants were not angry, the infighting was serious, the clan withered, and later the close branch of the clan was slaughtered by Xiao Daocheng, and even the descendants of Liu Yu's grandfather of Emperor Wu of the Song Dynasty were able to survive at the request of Chu Yuan.
When Liu Yunan usurped the throne of Qi Xiao Luan, he was wanton with Xiao Daocheng and Xiao Xuan's male descendants, and most of Xiao Daocheng's sons were killed, but it is recorded that only the youngest son Xiao Xuan was killed; Most of Xiao Chen's descendants were killed.
The direct line of Liang Xiaoyan of the Southern Dynasty was also wiped out by Chen Baxian, and some of his descendants died in the Hou Jing Rebellion.
The descendants of Chen of the Southern Dynasty received preferential treatment from the Sui Dynasty and were not **.
The royal family of the Northern Wei Dynasty left in the Northern Qi Dynasty, whether it was a direct line or a side branch, was almost wiped out by Gao Yang, and the clans left in the Northern Zhou Dynasty basically died well except for Emperor Xiaowu of the Northern Wei Dynasty and Emperor Gong of the Western Wei Dynasty.
After the fall of the Northern Qi Dynasty, Emperor Wu of Zhou Yuwen Yong ordered all the Gao clans, including Gao Wei, to be killed, and even the distant Gao clan was not spared, Gao Wei's concubine Feng Xiaolian was given to the acting king Yuwenda by Emperor Wu of Zhou, and the queen and the empress dowager entered the land of fireworks.
After Yang Jian established the Sui Dynasty, he also slaughtered the royal family of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, killing a total of 25 descendants of Yuwentai, 6 descendants of Yuwenjue and Yuwenyu, 12 descendants of Yuwenyong, Yuwenyun and his two young sons were also killed by Yang Jian.
When the Northern Song Dynasty fell, the experience of the royal family should be relatively famous in history, and the "shame of Jingkang" has been famous for thousands of years.
When the Northern Song Dynasty passed to the eighth emperor Song Huizong Zhao Ji, it was already going downhill, Zhao Ji, the emperor, was obsessed with art and had no intention of government, and there were traitors such as Cai Jing, Gao Yu, and Tong Guan in the court. At this time, the Jin State in the north began to rise, the momentum was flourishing, and the continuous southward invasion of the Song Dynasty, from 1126 to 1127 AD, the Jin soldiers went south twice, and Huizong passed the throne to his eldest son Zhao Huan in order not to be the king of the dead country, and he became the emperor himself. Zhao Huan is also an incompetent person and cannot save the Great Song Dynasty.
At the end of the leap month in the first year of Jingkang, the second emperor of Huiqin (1126), the Jin soldiers went south again. On December 15, the Battle of Tokyo was lost, the Jin army broke through Bianjing, and the Jin Emperor deposed Song Huizong and his son Qinzong Zhao Huan as concubines. At the end of March of the second year of Jingkang (1127), Emperor Jin escorted Hui and Emperor Qin, together with concubines, clansmen, thousands of officials, as well as teachers, craftsmen, drivers, honor guards, crown clothes, ritual instruments, treasures, royal collections, and maps of the state capitals of the world, and the public and private savings in Bianjing were plundered, and the Northern Song Dynasty perished. Song Huizong suffered a lot on the way to be escorted. First, the concubine Wang Wanrong and others were forcibly taken away by General Jin. Then, after arriving at the capital of the Jin Kingdom, he was ordered to wear mourning clothes with Zhao Huan and go to the temple where Jin Taizu Wanyan Aguta was borne, which means that Emperor Jin offered prisoners to Taizu. Later, Song Huizong was humiliated by Emperor Jin as the Duke of Dude, and Zhao Huan of Song Qinzong was named the Marquis of Chongdu.
Zhao Gou, the ninth son of Huizong of the Song Dynasty who escaped, succeeded to the throne in Yingtianfu and rebuilt the Great Song Dynasty, known as the Southern Song Dynasty in history, but the Southern Song Dynasty could only settle south of the Yangtze River and never restored the territory of the Northern Song Dynasty.
Summary:
Before the Jin Dynasty, the treatment of the dead monarch and the royal family was relatively good, but from the Jin Dynasty to the Yuan Dynasty, most of the dead monarchs were killed, and most of the royal family was also slaughtered by the new dynasty. The royals who were able to survive were also in the minority.