After Liu Yan successfully controlled Yizhou, he also tried to unite Ma Teng and others against Li Guo's court, intending to take this opportunity to get involved in the power of the imperial court, but with the defeat of Ma Teng and Han Sui, Liu Yan's plot also failed, and then Liu Yan's two sons Liu Fan and Liu Dan died because of this incident, and Mianzhu, the seat of Yizhou, also suddenly burned down his city, and Liu Yan was even forced to move the office to Chengdu again, and the elderly Liu Yan finally died under the successive blows.

【The End of Ambition】

After Dong Zhuo's rebellion, while Liu Yan was conservative and neutral, his ambition to cede land and dominate was also becoming stronger and stronger, and he even made the Son of Heaven's chariot and more than 1,000 baggage cars, and his ambition was already obvious. At that time, Liu Biao, the pastor of Jingzhou, went to the imperial court and said that Liu Yan was quite similar to the words of the sage when Zixia was in Xihe.

Later, tens of thousands of people from Nanyang and Sanfu were exiled to Yizhou, and Liu Yan took all of them into his subordinates, called "Dongzhou soldiers", and used them to suppress the local forces in Yizhou.

After eliminating Ren Qi and Jia Long, Liu Yan was no longer invincible in Yizhou, and his spirit gradually became stronger, at that time Liu Yan had four sons, the eldest son Liu Fan served as the general of Zuo Zhonglang, the second son Liu Dan served as the imperial historian of Zhishu, and the youngest son Liu Zhang served as the captain of Fengche, they all followed Emperor Xian in Chang'an, and only the third son Sima Liu Mao followed Liu Yan in Yizhou.

After Dong Zhuo entered Beijing, he once recruited Liu Yan and his son, but Liu Yan ignored him, so Dong Zhuo once imprisoned his three sons in Yiwu.

Due to Liu Yan's presumptuous behavior in Yizhou, Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty sent Liu Zhang to warn Liu Yan, but Liu Yan left Liu Zhang behind and did not let him go back (one said that Liu Yan called Zhang for illness, Liu Zhang went to Yizhou to see his father, but was left by Liu Yan).

In the first year of Xingping (194), Ma Teng, the general of Zhengxi, rebelled, Liu Yan, Liu Fan and Ma Teng colluded, Liu Yan sent the captain Sun Zhao to lead 5,000 Shu soldiers to help, Liu Fan and others as internal responses, Ma Teng and Han Sui led the troops to attack Chang'an. However, Liu Fan's conspiracy was revealed and fled to Huaili, and Ma Teng was defeated and returned to Liangzhou. Liu Fan was killed soon after, and Liu Dan was also captured and executed.

At this time, Pang Xi, a native of Henan, and Liu Yan were married to each other, so they sent people to find Liu Yan's grandchildren and send them to Shu. At this time, the fire burned down Liu Yan's city, and burned all the cars he built, and the fire also burned the people's houses, and the guest house city burned to nothing, and Liu Yan had no choice but to move the office to Chengdu.

Liu Yan himself was sad because of the loss of his eldest son Liu Fan and second son Liu Dan, and he encountered a natural disaster and fire in a single way, and was frightened, and died in the same year because of a backlash attack.

Liu Yan was not too famous in the Three Kingdoms era, but his ambition was not small, and his ability was relatively good, but unfortunately he was too old to stand the blows one after another, and finally returned to dust with his imperial dream.

【Liu Yan and Yizhou】

Although Liu Yan was the first Yizhou pastor in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, he was not very popular in Yizhou, and the people of Yizhou were mostly afraid of their parents.

Liu Yan has too much blood of Yizhou people on his hands, Wang Xian, Li Quan, Ren Qi, Jia Long, and so on.

Of course, Liu Yan was also very gentle with Yizhou, but that was only at the beginning, when Liu Yan first arrived in Yizhou, out of the need to stabilize the situation after the rebellion ~ chaos and win the hearts of the officials and the people, so he would reward meritorious service and pardon thieves ~ people.

And after Liu Yan gained a firm foothold, in order to establish his majesty, he immediately took the local wealthy family, and later Liu Yan cut off Yizhou and turned his back on the imperial court, Ren Qi and Jia Long betrayed him for this, and waved their troops to crusade against Liu Yan, but unfortunately they all failed and were killed.

But what Liu Yan hates most by the people of Yizhou is not the fact that he has killed too much, but the Dongzhou group.

When Liu Yan entered Yizhou, there were not many followers around him, and many of them were Yizhou themselves, so although Liu Yan became Yizhou Mu, Yizhou was still Yizhou of Yizhou people.

But one day that began to change.

It is said that Dong Zhuo's abolition of the king led to chaos in the world, and the people from all over the country fled to the relatively stable Yizhou and other places for refuge, Liu Yan accepted them all, and even formed a unit from them, because most of the evacuees came from the east of Yizhou, so this force is also called "Dongzhou soldiers".

The Dongzhou forces based on the "Dongzhou soldiers" also slowly expanded their sphere of influence in Yizhou, including scholars, soldiers, and ordinary people, and Pang Xi became the leader of the Dongzhou soldiers after taking refuge in Liu Yan. The influence of the Dongzhou Group in Yizhou continued to expand, and the living space required by them also continued to expand, and then the contradictions between them and the local scholars, wealthy clans, and common people in Yizhou continued to deepen, and the origin of all this originated from Liu Yan.

Liu Yan's murder only took the lives of a very small number of Yizhou people, but the Dongzhou group promoted by Liu Yan single-handedly compressed the living space of the entire Yizhou locals, and formed a Dongzhou group dominated by Dongzhou people and a Yizhou local group dominated by Yizhou locals, and the conflict and confrontation between the two collectives continued to intensify, with Pang Xi and Zhao Wei as the leaders respectively.

The full-scale outbreak of the contradiction between the Dongzhou people and the Yizhou people was after Liu Yan's death, but the "cause" was undoubtedly planted by Liu Yan, and the "fruit" was to be tasted by his son.

If there was a list of the most unpopular people in Yizhou at that time, Liu Yan deserved to be the first, and Dong Fu was estimated to be second.

【Liu Yan in History】

Name: Yan Liu

Attributes: Leadership (B) Liu Yan can be said to be successful, but the Yizhou Group he created really had little influence in the Three Kingdoms era

Commander (B) Liu Yan successively eliminated Ren Qi and Jia Long in Yizhou, and he had a hand in military affairs

Politics (B) Liu Yan was still a little rough during his management of Yizhou

Strategy (B+) Liu Yan's strategy to capture Yizhou was very successful

General Comment (A+) Liu Yan's historical status is not low, after all, he is the first semi-independent prince in the late Han Dynasty

Alias (title): Liu Junlang (Liu Junlang)

Gender: Male

Ethnicity: Han

Occupation: Princes

Official position: Envoy of the Prison Army, Yizhou Pastor

Knighted: Marquis of Yangcheng

Family origin: royalty

Birth and death: ??? ——194

Place of birth: Jiangxia Jingling (now Tianmen, Hubei)

Main social relations: Sons (Liu Fan, Liu Dan, Liu Mao, Liu Zhang)

Major Experience:??? From year to 188, he successively served as the commander of Luoyang, the history of Jizhou Thorn, Nanyang Taishou, Zongzheng, Taichang and other officials

From 188 to 194, under the advice of Dong Fu, he entered Yizhou, and successfully divided one side, but later because his two sons were successively killed by Li Guo's court, and the office suffered a fire and could not accept the blow and died

Summary: Liu Yan is ambitious and capable, but he is too old to stand too many blows, and he can't accept old age