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Founder of South Korean Song (Liu Song)! Please see the rising life of Liu Yu (Wudi)

The era of the Three Kingdoms was over, and Sima Yi's grandson, Sima Yi, made Jin, but he could not maintain his power, and Jin lost the west side and managed to survive as Eastern Jin.

For a while, Fu Jian, a Tibetan tribe, unified North China with great power and tried to destroy Eastern Jin with a large army, but Eastern Jin managed to escape the destruction due to the historical victory of the Battle of Fei River.

Forty years have passed since the battle, and Eastern Jin will finally be destroyed.

The name of the destroyed man is Liu Yu.

He is a person who later became known as the Song Emperor.

The rising emperor

In the history of the world, there are some who have risen from the poor to become emperors of the great empire.

The same was true of Liu Bei, who founded the Han dynasty, and Liu Bei Gentoku, who is said to be a descendant of the Han dynasty, also founded Shu. I don't know if Liu Bei was actually a descendant of Liu Bei. And I don't know if Liu Yu was a descendant of Liu Kun.

Han was also destroyed, and his royal family, Mr. Liu, had fallen to the point where there was no shadow to see. It is said that Liu Yu was on the verge of losing his mouth because of his poverty, and the shock of giving birth to Liu Yu killed his mother and his father at the age of only 10.

He lived in small increments while farming on the small land left by his parents.

Perhaps because of that reaction, he had a very bold personality during his youth, and he had no academic background and became a young man with a flashy personality who liked gambling.

It is unclear how he joined the army of Eastern Jin, but it is common for those who have eaten up the east and west to join the army, and it is believed that Liu Yu was successful there.

In 399, a person named Sun En of the Way of the Five Pecks caused a large-scale rebellion.

Speaking of the Way of the Five Pecks, it was a Taoist sect that was created by Zhang Lu's grandfather Zhang Daoling, who ruled Hanzhong during the Three Kingdoms period, but its power became more active in the world of war.

Religion is needed in a world of war, as is the case with Christianity. Again, ancient and modern eastern and western religions are easy to arm. Islam was strong, and religious forces existed at all times, such as the Crusades and Japanese monks.

Liu Yu became one of the celebrities in his great success in this Sun En turbulence.

According to folklore, his troops were wiped out, but Liu Yu was the only one to withdraw the enemy army.

I don't know if this is true, but Liu Yu became more and more popular.

At that time, Eastern Jin was divided into the northern prefecture centered on Jiankang, the capital, and the western prefecture centered on Jingzhou. The real power of Nishifu was held by the Osamu clan, and the intention to seize the throne was exposed. On the other hand, in Kitago, the hero Xie An and the royal family Sima were in a confrontational relationship in the Battle of Fei River, and the Sun En turbulence was an event that broke the balance of this delicate power relationship.

After the rebellion was suppressed, the influential person in Nishifu, Huan Xuan, took the soldiers and started to advance to the capital Jiankang. Kitago, which had been in repeated internal conflicts, no longer had the power to fight, and Huan Xuan abolished the Emperor An, who was the emperor of the time, and became the first emperor himself with the national name Chu.

At this time, Liu Yu was active as a general of Huan Xuan, and it is said that Huan Xuan greatly aimed at his achievements. However, only Huan Xuan's wife was wary of Liu Yu and suggested to her husband that she should be eliminated as soon as possible.

This wife's view was correct. The unreliable man, Liu Yu, immediately raised soldiers, and named the anti-Huan Xuan soldiers, saying that the return of Emperor An was the cause.

Around here, I'm suffering from Liu Bei Gentoku, whose name is the reconstruction of the Han royal family.

At the time of its launch, Liu Yu had only dozens of soldiers, but the number gradually increased, and only 1,700 soldiers were used to disperse Huan Xuan's army.

Thus, he re-enthroned Emperor An, the emperor of Eastern Jin, and took the position of Chancellor as a hero of salvation.

Liu Yu was well aware that he was an upstart. Therefore, he does not immediately seize the throne, but struggles to solidify the ground. He immediately purged domestic opposition and began northern expedition.

After destroying Southern Yan on the Shandong Peninsula, which was founded by the descendants of Xianbei Murong Chui, Qiao Shu, the same Han nation, and Yao Chang, the Qiang general who killed Fu Jian, succeeded in destroying Qin in quick succession. ..

In 418, he assassinated An Emperor, and in 420, he demanded Shan Rang from the Emperor Gong, who had set himself up, and destroyed Jin and founded the Song dynasty.

After the founding of Song, Sima was annihilated and eradicated in order to eliminate the anxiety of his patronage. Liu Yu was the first to eradicate the royal family of the former dynasty in Chinese history, and has since become a tradition in the Chinese empire.

Although Liu Yu was an upstart emperor, he did not live a regal life like Hideyoshi, and even after taking the throne, he lived in the same room as when he was farming, and his wife. Was the same.

During the reign of Liu Yu, the culture prospered greatly, producing Tao Yuanming, who is famous as a pastoralist, and Pei Songzhi, who paid attention to the Three Kingdoms.

He does not persecute intellectuals just because he has no learning, but rather he is one of the people who encouraged culture and opened the eyes to the Six Dynasties culture.

Personal evaluation of Liu Yu

It is the third rising emperor of Mr. Liu after Liu Kun and Liu Bei.

I don't know if there is actually a blood connection, but it seems that Liu Yu was also an attractive person, and it is common with the former two that he has risen to the emperor as a generation.

What is different from the former two is that Liu Yu himself is terrifyingly strong in battle, and any soldier will win. According to records, only 2700 troops crushed Later Qin and Northern Wei 30,000 troops.

In fact, it may be higher in terms of combat than Lu Bu, who was losing, and Xiang Yu, who eventually lost.

There are several undefeated generals in Rome, but they are truly rare in Chinese history.

However, Chang'an, which was occupied by Liu Yu, is invincible in the battle with the basic soldiers, as the founder of the country, although it can not be said that it is retaken by Xiongnu as soon as Liu Yu returns to Jiankang. Since the country is destroyed about 60 years after the start of the dynasty, it cannot be said that it is a world-historical master, but even so, as the ancestor of the dynasty, I think it is at least a level where the name can be listed in world history textbooks. ..

Come to think of it, it's ridiculous to see your name in a world history textbook.