Chapter 82: The End of Life

In 418 AD, the Eastern Jin Dynasty general Liu Yu led the Northern Expedition army back to Jianye, the Eastern Jin Dynasty Emperor Sima Dezong personally led the civil and military officials out of the city to meet, at this time the Eastern Jin Dynasty ministers are from Liu Yu's door, the emperor Sima Dezong is nothing more than a deaf ear, so Liu Yu just returned to the court, the ministers have asked to play for their additional official prime minister, into the Duke of Song, Sima Dezong is a stupid idiot person, for the invitation of the hundred officials, can only be played one by one, Liu Yu is the first meritorious minister of the court, naturally peace of mind to serve as the prime minister, Song Gong, the Eastern Jin Dynasty power is completely in the hands of Liu Yu.

Liu Yu knew that he replaced the Eastern Jin Dynasty, effortlessly, and the ministers of the court also persuaded him to stand on behalf of the Jin Dynasty, but what made Liu Yu quite distressed was that there was a popular folk proverb at that time that "there are still two emperors after Changming", Changming is the father of the Eastern Jin Dynasty Emperor Sima Dezong, and the Eastern Jin Dynasty Xiaowu Emperor Sima Yao expressed the words, so Liu Yu did not dare to act rashly in response to the prophecy, and only wanted to wait for Sima Dezong to die, the new emperor ascended the throne, and then usurped the throne, but he was close to the age of sixties, and Sima Dezong had just passed the year of his establishment, and he did not distinguish between cold, summer and hunger, Life depends on the left and right waiters, all day long stupid to eat and sleep, but the body is strong, no signs of death, Liu Yurong horse life, and deal with the government, worry about the mind, often feel powerless, so he wants to be in his lifetime, ascend the throne and call the emperor, so he recruited his cronies Wang Shaozhi, to tell him about his troubles.

Wang Shaozhi naturally knew Liu Yuzhi's thoughts, so he conspired with Sima Dezong's attendants, trying to poison Sima Dezong's food and poison him. Although Sima Dezong is idiotic and stupid, but his brother Sima Dewen is still wise, since Liu Yu took charge of the government, Sima Dewen is afraid that his imperial brother will be killed, so he will serve him day and night, every time he eats, he must taste first, so that Wang Shaozhi and his palace attendants have no way to start.

At the beginning of 419 A.D., the temperature fluctuated, Sima Dewen occasionally felt cold, afraid of infecting the emperor Sima Dezong, so he moved out of the palace to recuperate, Wang Shaozhi heard that the emperor's attendants came to report that Sima Dewen was out of the palace to recuperate, and he knew that the opportunity could not be lost, so he personally entered the palace, picked up the underwear on the dragon couch, strangled the emperor Sima Dezong to death, and announced that Sima Dezong died of a violent illness.

Liu Yu finally waited until the death of Emperor Sima Dezong, and he couldn't wait to support Sima Dezong's brother Sima Dewen to inherit the throne, Sima Dewen knew that the death of his imperial brother was strange, but he was unable to return to the sky, everything could only be at the mercy of Liu Yu, after Sima Dewen succeeded to the throne, he had to obey the ministers again, Liu Yu was promoted to the king of Song, and awarded his son of heaven honor guard, Liu Yu gladly accepted this, and began to step up planning to usurp the throne.

In the summer of 420 AD, Liu Yu, the king of the Song Dynasty, who was in charge of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, saw that the time was ripe, so he ordered someone to prepare a Zen edict, and handed it over to the Eastern Jin Dynasty Emperor Sima Dewen into the palace, so that he could copy and promulgate. ”

After that, he handed over the copied edict to the comer. Two days later, the Eastern Jin Dynasty Emperor Sima Dewen Chan was located in the Song Dynasty Liu Yu, the Eastern Jin Dynasty has since perished, from Sima Rui in Jianye to Sima Dewen Chan, a total of 11 emperors, enjoy the country for 103 years.

After Liu Yu accepted the throne of Sima Dewen, he ascended the throne and called the emperor, changed the name of the country to Song, and the history was called Liu Song, since then the Jiangnan region entered the Southern Dynasty period, so the Song built by Liu Yu was called the Southern Song Dynasty by later historians.

Liu Yu, the emperor of the Liu Song Dynasty, named Sima Dewen as the king of Langya and stayed in Jianye, but Liu Yu did not show mercy to Sima Dewen's subordinates because he took the initiative to let Xian, and in the second year of his accession to the throne, he ordered Sima Dewen to be killed.

At the beginning of the Southern Dynasty, and the Northern Dynasty was not established, at this time the northern countries were still at war. When Liu Yu ascended the throne, he was more than sixty years old, and the Eastern Jin Dynasty favored the south of the Yangtze River for more than 100 years, reusing the family family, the guards in the south of the Yangtze River all held heavy troops, and the war was extinguished in all parts of the Yangtze River, and the people were extremely distressed.

Moreover, the northern countries are not weak states, especially with Liu Song directly across the Yellow River confrontation, occupy the Northern Wei of the Kwantung region, after the founding emperor Tuoba Jue was killed, his crown prince Tuoba heir set things right, inherited the throne, Tuoba heir can be civil and martial, after ascending the throne, in the Northern Wei State to select the virtuous and capable, rectify the rule of officials, and in the face of the Kanto disaster disaster for many years, open a warehouse to release grain, relief to the victims, and persuade agriculture and mulberry, rent reduction and exemption, so that the Northern Wei national strength has become the strongest among the northern countries.

The Emperor Tuoba of the Northern Wei Dynasty also personally led a large army to conquer the rise in the northern grasslands, often went south to invade the Rouran of the Northern Wei Dynasty, and repelled Rouran several times, Tuoba Hei to protect the frontier forever, built the Great Wall in the north of Yinshan for more than 2,000 miles, and built the city along the new Great Wall, sent heavy troops to defend, among them, Woye Town (now Inner Mongolia Wuyuan), Huaishuo Town (now Baotou Guyang), Wuchuan Town (now Hohhot Wuchuan), Fuming Town (now Siziwang Banner), Rouxuan Town (now Inner Mongolia Xinghe), Huaihuang Town (now Zhangbei, Hebei) is the most famous, known as the six towns in the north, Tuoba Shao's strict defense of Rouran greatly alleviated the northern border troubles of the Northern Wei Dynasty.

Just when Liu Yu usurped the Jin Dynasty and built the Song Dynasty, and Tuoba Shao made great efforts, the land of Liangzhou in the northwest rose again.

If you want to know what happened in the northwest and what the fortunes of the northern countries were, please see the next chapter.