Emperor Xiaowu Liu Jun was born in 430 AD, ascended the throne in 453 AD, and died in 464 AD at the age of 35, reigning for 11 years. After Liu Jun came to the throne, he did some things to continue to strengthen centralization of power.

Emperor Xiaowu Liu Jun

Emperor Xiaowu Liu Jun was born in 430 AD, ascended the throne in 453 AD, and died in 464 AD at the age of 35, reigning for 11 years. Year names: Xiaojian, Ming Dynasty.

After Liu Jun came to the throne, he did some things to continue to strengthen centralization. In order to facilitate local control, he divided the two prefectures of Jing and Yang into smaller ones, dividing them into Yingzhou and Dongyangzhou . He also shortened the terms of office of local generals to 3 years each.

In order to directly control the local financial sources, the central government sent "Taiwan envoys" to the local areas to supervise the collection of taxes; for important towns, he was not at ease, so he sent young princes to sit in the towns and let the scholars exercise power for them; The governors of various states implemented a "dianxiao" system, that is, the emperor sent a close associate of Han origin to be the "dianxian" officer in charge of the documents and files of military and political institutions to monitor every action of the governor. The governor did not dare to despise them, let alone offend them. The collectors actually controlled the military and political power of each state.

Liu Jun is a tyrant. In April 459 AD (the third year of the Ming Dynasty), Liu Dan, the king of Jingling, rebelled. Emperor Xiaowu sent his confidant Chongqingzhi to lead the troops to put down the rebellion. In July, he captured Guangling and killed Liu Dan and more than 3,000 of his soldiers, as well as his daughter. As a military reward, the soldiers were given sexual pleasure.

In December of 461 AD (the fifth year of the Ming Dynasty), Emperor Xiaowu issued an edict that all those who married in mixed marriages among the gentry should be replaced by generals. Those who escaped and failed to replace them would be caught and killed.

In addition, Emperor Xiaowu's methods of oppression and exploitation of the people were also vicious and cruel. During the reign of Emperor Xiaowu, taxes were as high as a trove of water. For example, every foot of mulberry trees, one acre of fields, and tiles added to the house are all taxed. Therefore, the people did not dare to plant more trees or cultivate more land; their houses were leaky and they did not dare to plaster them with mud.

Another example is that at the beginning of Yuanjia , the service age was changed from 13 years old to 15 to 16 years old, and from 16 years old to 17 years old for adults. However, by the time of Emperor Xiaowu, even more than ten people were allowed to serve. Young boys as young as 20 years old were also conscripted into the military service, so that "there were no men on the roads in hundreds of counties; the weak women were driven out to cultivate the fields and rent them." Coupled with the annexation of land by gentry landlords and usury exploitation, the situation of farmers was extremely difficult, and many people She was forced to sell her son and daughter, and even hanged herself to death due to lack of livelihood.

In the leap month of 464 AD (the seventh year of the Ming Dynasty), Emperor Xiaowu died of illness at the age of 35. After the death of Emperor Xiaowu, Prince Liu Ziye came to the throne, and was known as the former abandoned emperor in history.

The former deposed emperor Liu Ziye

Liu Ziye was born in 449 AD and ascended the throne in 464 AD. He was killed in 465 AD at the age of 17 and reigned for only half a year. Year names: Yongguang, Jinghe.

Liu Ziye was a cruel and promiscuous emperor. Although he only reigned for half a year, he lost all human ethics and did all kinds of bad things.

After Liu Ziye came to the throne, he killed his uncle Liu Yigong and his four sons. Soon, he was afraid that his younger brothers would threaten his throne when they grew up, so he also sent people to kill them. After that, he also murdered 6 uncles.

The cruelty of the former deposed emperor made everyone in the civil and military ministers of the dynasty, as well as relatives and foreign relatives, feel in danger and fearful. But Liu Ziye ignored these, and after carrying out a killing spree within the clan, he also attacked important officials in the imperial court.

Minister Dai Faxing was sentenced to death by him for being tyrannical and arbitrary. Shangshu ordered Liu Yuanjing, Uncle Yan and General Ning Pin to conspire to abolish the establishment and were also killed; even Shen Qingzhi, who worked hard for the Liu Song Dynasty, was killed. The Third Emperor, at the age of 80, was also poisoned to death with medicinal wine. Liu Ziye killed many people, it was too horrible to watch.

Liu Ziye was also extremely promiscuous in his life. Regardless of family ethics, he induced his married sister Princess Shanin to sleep with him and have sex with him. He also selected 30 male concubines for his sister for his sexual pleasure; he also seduced his married aunt. Princess Xincai was his favorite concubine; he even lost his humanity and forced all the princesses and concubines to gather together, all of them naked, and took turns to engage in prostitution. What is shocking is that he actually forced the palace maids to have sex with sheep, monkeys, dogs, and horses. If they disobeyed, he would immediately pull them out and kill them.

In November of 465 AD (the first year of Jinghe), Liu Ziye, the cruel emperor who had been full of crimes, was finally killed by his bodyguard Shou Jizhi.After Liu Ziye's death, the ministers of the court welcomed Liu Yu, the 11th son of Emperor Wen and King of Eastern Hunan , to the throne as Emperor Ming of the Song Dynasty .

Emperor Ming of the Song Dynasty Liu Yu

Emperor Ming of the Song Dynasty Liu Yu was born in 439 AD and ascended the throne in 465 AD. He died in 472 AD at the age of 34 and reigned for 8 years. Year names: Taishi, Taiyu. When Liu Yu became emperor, he was also a complete pervert and a violent tyrant.

Fertility through seed

Emperor Ming Due to excessive sexual pleasure and indulgence, he was physically weak and suffered from impotence. In order to have children, Emperor Ming thought of a little-known method, which was to borrow seeds from others to give birth. He gave palace concubine Chen Miaodeng to his favorite minister Li Daoer.

Chen Miaodeng was ordered by the emperor, but he didn't care about any shame. When he arrived at Li's house, he had sex with Li Daoer every night, and she became pregnant within a month. Emperor Ming was very happy when he learned about it and sent someone to take her back to the palace. After giving birth 10 months later, Chen Miaodeng gave birth to a son for Emperor Ming Liu Yu, who became the later crown prince Liu Yu.

Framicide

If the emperors in the early Liu Song Dynasty were extremely suspicious and committed murders, then by the time of Emperor Ming, the situation became more and more serious.

Liu Yu became emperor, and despite the invasion of the Northern Wei Dynasty and the loss of his territory, he completely fell into a massacre of flesh and blood. According to records, in the month of July in 471 AD (the seventh year of Taishi), Emperor Ming of the Song Dynasty killed 27 brothers. Except for King Guiyang Liu Xiufan who was spared because of his mediocrity and incompetence, the rest of the brothers were killed. They were all killed by him. Therefore, the folk song goes: "Looking at Jiankang City in the distance, the small river flows against the current. I saw a son killing his father before, and a brother killing his brother later."

What's even more ridiculous is that Emperor Ming even believed his dreams to be true. Once, he had a dream, from which he learned that Liu Yin, the governor of Yuzhang, had rebelled. As a result, without waiting for dawn or investigating the authenticity, he sent people to Yuzhang to kill Liu Yin. Emperor Ming was also afraid that the prince Liu Yu was young. After he ascended the throne, the queen's brother Wang Jingwen would have monopoly power, which would be detrimental to the young emperor, so he ordered Wang Jingwen to take poison and die.

In addition, Emperor Ming of the Song Dynasty carried out a large-scale construction project in November 471 AD to build the Xianggong Temple, which was very magnificent. He was proud of it and said to the ministers: "This is my great merit, and it costs a lot of money." However, Yu Yuan, the minister of Tongzhi Sanqi, said sadly: "This is all done by the common people who sell their children to support their wives. If the Buddha has knowledge, he should be compassionate and pity; the sin is so high, how can there be any merit!" Emperor Ming was very angry after hearing this, and dismissed him from the court.

In April of 472 AD (the first year of Taiyu), Emperor Ming died of illness, and Prince Cangwu King Liu Yu came to the throne at the age of 10. Historically known as and then .