Emperor Xiaowu of the Song Dynasty Liu Jun was the fifth emperor of the Song Dynasty during the Northern and Southern Dynasties and the third son of Emperor Wen of the Song Dynasty Liu Yilong.

Liu Jun was first named King of Wuling, but he had no chance of becoming the emperor.

In 453, after Prince Liu Shao killed the emperor, Liu Jun personally led a large army to attack him. He quickly defeated Liu Shao's forces and became emperor himself.

Liu Jun loves money as much as his life, and he is very good at amassing money.

He once issued such an order: Anyone who holds an official position of more than 2,000 shi (provincial governor level) in Guangzhou must report his property after completing his term and give half of his property to the emperor. Whoever sends more will be promoted.

If he does not deliver, he will be removed from his post.

During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, Guangzhou had a developed economy and prosperous commerce, especially overseas trade.

Some big merchants, even Liu Song, sent merchant ships to and from Vietnam, India, Thailand, Cambodia, Syria, Indonesia and other countries all year round, transporting silk and porcelain out, and bringing back spices and pearls.

, very profitable.

At that time, he was an official in Guangzhou, which was very lucrative.

Of course, there are also some officials who are not willing to enjoy the wealth they have worked so hard to acquire with the emperor. Liu Jun also has a strange trick, which is to invite them to gamble on the game of Gu dizzy (disaster is severe and the drought is severe).

Those governors could only lose but not win, and all the property they had accumulated over the years by plundering places went into Liu Jun's pocket.

Liu Jun had a very eccentric character. Once he came to the house where Liu Yu, the founding emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty, lived. There were displayed things such as lanterns and hemp ropes that Liu Yu used as a servant when he was poor, in order to let his descendants understand.

The hardships faced by our ancestors in starting a business.

After seeing this, Liu Jun actually burst into laughter. Yuan Zhuo, the servant, deliberately reprimanded Liu Jun and praised the great ancestor Liu Yu for his diligence, thrift and virtue. However, Liu Jun said: It is excessive for a farmer to use these things!

Liu Jun also liked to joke and ridicule the ministers of the court. He called Wang Xuanmo, the official of Guanglu, Laoji (which means rude, mean, and uneducated), and he called Liu Xiuzhi, his servant, Lao Xie (Xie means greedy and stingy).

In addition, each person was given a nickname based on their length, weight, and skin color.

Lustful sex is one of Liu Jun's distinctive characteristics.

The four daughters of his uncle Liu Yixuan, the governor of Jingzhou, had been raised in the palace since childhood. They were all as beautiful as flowers and jade. Liu Jun ignored the general ethics and actually summoned these four cousins ????together.

Liu Yixuan was angry and raised 100,000 troops to rebel in the name of the Qing emperor.

Liu Jun was deeply afraid of this and planned to give way to Liu Yixuan.

Under the determined leadership of Liu Dan, King of Jingling, Liu Jun launched an army to quell the rebellion.

Unexpectedly, Liu Yixuan was the spearhead of Yinxiang J. After several confrontations, the army was defeated. Liu Yixuan and his sixteen sons all became Liu Jun's victims.

After getting rid of his uncle and father-in-law, Liu Jun felt that he had nothing to worry about and simply named his four cousins ????as concubines.

Princess Chujiang, the second among the four sisters, is the most beautiful, so she dominates the harem.

Later, she became pregnant and gave birth to a baby boy, named Liu Ziluan, who ranked eighth among Liu Jun's many sons.

Liu Jun loved Princess Chujiang even more and canonized her as Shuyi.

But she was his cousin after all, and it would be too unpleasant to spread the news, so she was asked to pretend to be Yin Yan's daughter and given the title Yin Shuyi to hide her from others.

It's a pity that Yin Shuyi, a beauty who was favored by thousands of people, fell ill and died in April of the sixth year of Daming Dynasty (the reign name of Liu Jun, Emperor Xiaowu of Song Dynasty).

Liu Jun was so distraught that he made Concubine Yin Shu a noble concubine and built a temple in the imperial capital.

The funeral was even more prominent than the queen's funeral. Thousands of people attended the funeral. The officials and concubines all lined up in white clothes and followed the coffin.

Liu Jun also led his concubines and ministers to the tomb of Concubine Yin Shu many times to cry bitterly, and used the sadness of crying as a sign of the courtiers' loyalty or disloyalty.

Liu Deyuan, the governor of Qin County, cried so hard that he almost fainted.

Liu Jun was very happy and immediately appointed Liu Deyuan as the governor of Yuzhou.

There was also an imperial doctor named Yang Zhi who also burst into tears, and several times he almost lost his breath from crying.

Liu Jun rewarded Yang Zhi with many gold and silver treasures.

Afterwards, someone asked Yang Zhi: Why can you cry so sadly?

At that time, Yang Zhi's beloved concubine had just died. He said: I just cried for the death of my concubine that day.

Such historical black humor cannot help but make people feel emotional.

Shortly after the death of Concubine Yin, Liu Jun said that he was emaciated and even fell ill because of missing her. He passed away two years later at the age of thirty-five.

What's amazing is that although Liu Jun is mediocre, greedy and lustful, he is very accomplished in poetry and prose. He once wrote a "Poetry on Dengzuo Leshan": The road is repaired and the bridle is alone, and the stone is flying on the shaft.

Then he climbed to the top of Qianxun and looked at Qiuyuan.

The cigarette smoke disturbs the wind cave, and the accumulated water drowns the cloud roots.

The Han Dynasty spit out new waves, and Chushan brought old gardens.

The soil and grass dominate the homeland, and the arches and trees show off the ruins.

My eyes are full of emotion, and my thoughts are empty.

Wang Euzhi commented on this poem: It is tragic but not wild, and it has a heroic spirit.

"Wen Xin Diao Long·Chronology" said that Xiaowu was versatile and talented.

Liu Jun has many works handed down from generation to generation, and "Quan Song Wen" contains two volumes of his works.