After Emperor Gaozong of Song fled south, all the north fell into the hands of Jin . At that time, the Jin Dynasty had limited power and was not familiar with the situation, so it was difficult to manage the huge Central Plains region, so it established a puppet regime to help them enslave the people of the Central Plains.
After the Jin Dynasty destroyed Northern Song , the first puppet regime established was Dachu, Zhang Bangchang was the emperor. However, Zhang Bangchang still had the self-knowledge and took the initiative to give way, and the Great Chu disappeared. After the Jin Dynasty re-captured Kaifeng, it supported Liu Yu as a puppet emperor and established the Daqi regime, known in history as pseudo-Qi .
Liu Yu, from Fucheng, Hebei Province, was born in a farmer family. He has been misbehaved since childhood and once stole platinum bowls and yarn clothes from his classmates. When Liu Yu grew up, he passed the Jinshi exam and later became an official in the court.
After Emperor Gaozong of Song established Southern Song , he appointed Liu Yu as the prefect of Jinan. Jinan was one of the important targets of the Jin Dynasty's attack. The situation was chaotic and thieves rose up. Liu Yu was unwilling to go and requested to work in the Southeast region, but was not allowed. Liu Yu was so angry that he took office angrily.
Not long after Liu Yu took office, the Jin army surrounded Jinan. Liu Yu remembered his previous resentment and decided to surrender. Jinan Prefecture bravely opposed Guan Sheng and was actually killed by Liu Yu.
Guan Sheng is the prototype of Dadao Guan Sheng in " Water Margin ". In "Water Margin", Guan Sheng died of falling off his horse because of drunkenness. " History of Song " and "History of Jin" both record that Guan Sheng was killed by Liu Yu.
In 1130 AD, the Jin Kingdom conferred Liu Yu as emperor, with the name of Daqi, and established the capital of Daming Prefecture. Liu Yu set up left and right prime ministers and civil and military officials to recruit soldiers, form an army, issue laws, and work very hard to help the Jin Dynasty rule the north and enslave the people.
People either sneer or curse Liu Yu's behavior of selling his country for honor and being a puppet. Many of Liu Yu's former friends and colleagues wrote to him, advising him not to be a national sinner. Liu Yu adheres to the creed that having milk is a mother and refuses to listen to anything. Liu Yu was determined to be the lackey of the Jin Kingdom.
Liu Yu, politically upholds the will of the Jin Kingdom, uses the reign of the Jin Kingdom, and formulates laws in accordance with the requirements of the Jin Kingdom. He is completely a puppet regime. According to the Jin Dynasty's rule, Liu Yu used the township as the village and designated the local tyrants as the village chiefs; for the five families, each recruited one person, and the four families were equipped with clothes, food, and armor; for each household, one person was sent to fight, and the single family was responsible for night patrol. Liu Yu also controlled people's thoughts, words and deeds. Anyone who supported , Song Dynasty, and opposed the Jin Dynasty would be punished and brutal oppressed the people.
Liu Yu actively amassed wealth for the Jin Dynasty to meet the needs of the Jin Dynasty. Implementing the "tith tax law" and collecting taxes based on one-tenth of the people's income is a very heavy tax in history. In addition to the "tith tax law", there are also various miscellaneous taxes with many names, which have caused the people in all directions to pay taxes for a day.
In order to plunder wealth, Liu Yu actually started to rob the tomb, looting all the treasures in many tombs, arousing the anger between man and god. The people of the Central Plains have suffered heavy economic exploitation and political oppression and lived in dire straits.
Liu Yu openly became enemies of the Southern Song regime in military terms and acted as a pawn for the Jin Dynasty to attack the Southern Song Dynasty. In order to cooperate with the overall plan of the Jin Dynasty to destroy Song, Liu Yu vigorously expanded his army, recruited rebels, and recruited bandits, and pieced together to form an armed force of hundreds of thousands of troops. Although Liu Yu's army was large in number, it was not righteous, people were uneven and conflicted, so it was not strong in combat.
In order to please the master of the Jin Kingdom, Liu Yu invaded the Southern Song Dynasty several large-scale operations, and each time he used hundreds of thousands of troops. However, under the attacks of famous anti-Jin generals such as Yue Fei and Han Shizhong , they all suffered failures and suffered heavy losses. Liu Yu's backfires, which made the Jin Kingdom look down on him.
Later, Yue's army rose. Yue Fei made several northern expeditions, recovered six counties in Xiangyang, and captured Shangzhou, Guozhou and other places. The focus was on Liu Yu.Liu Yu's territory was lost, a large number of troops were annihilated, and his power was severely damaged. Seeing that Liu Yu was so incompetent, the Jin Kingdom began to think that Liu Yu was abolished. Liu Yuyi was depressed and worried.
Liu Yu felt that the situation was not good and planned to test the attitude of the master of the Jin Kingdom, and asked his son Liu Lin to be the crown prince. Sure enough, the Jin Kingdom did not agree on the excuse of taking it slowly.
Just at this time, the Southern Song Dynasty Huaixi underwent a military revolution. Generals Li Qiong , Wang Shizhong, Jin Sai and others rebelled and led more than 40,000 troops to surrender to Liu Yu. Liu Yu felt like he had a shot of heart attack again, and was very excited. However, the Jin Kingdom was worried that the army brought by Li Qiong was unreliable, so it disbanded them.
At this time, the Jin Dynasty had occupied the Central Plains for seven or eight years. She was completely familiar with the situation and had increased her power. She felt that there was no need for puppets. In addition, Liu Yu was incompetent and he was defeated repeatedly in battle with the Southern Song Dynasty. So she decided to abolish Liu Yu's title of emperor and the Jin Dynasty directly ruled the Central Plains.
One day in 1137 AD, Liu Yu was telling the story of archery in the martial arts palace. Suddenly, a team of Jin soldiers broke in, took him away, and imprisoned him in Jin Mingchi . The next day, Jinren summoned all officials, blamed Liu Yu for his crimes, and announced the abolition of his title of emperor, and changed it to Shu Wang , and later changed it to Cao Wang . The Jin Kingdom directly held the power of rule, and all officials still served the Jin Kingdom.
The Jin Dynasty moved Liu Yu and his son to Linhuang Mansion , which is located in the territory of Inner Mongolia today. Before leaving, Liu Yu said with a sad face: "There is no place for us father and son to be sorry for big gold ."
General of the Jin Kingdom said: "At the beginning, when the Song Dynasty emperor left the capital, the crying of the people spread far away, and some even burned themselves to death. Now that you are deposed, no one sympathizes with you, don't you feel guilty?" Liu Yu was speechless and had to set off silently.
A few years later, Liu Yu died lonely in the north and lived to be seventy years old.
For those who sell their country and seek honor, it is used by their master as a puppet when it is useful, and kick it away when it is useless. This is normal and is also a common rule.
After the establishment of the Southern Song regime, the fate was tragic. Not only did it deal with strong external enemies, but it also had to deal with internal rebellions. Please watch the next episode, " Huaixi Army transformed into " occurred in the Southern Song Dynasty.
