The decline of the Southern Han Regime: If you want to be an official, you have to draw the sword from the palace

The Southern Han Dynasty was a relatively unpopular era. At least, it's not as well known to the public, but it's clear that historians are interested in this period.

The Southern Han regime (917 -- 971) was one of the Five Dynasties and Ten kingdoms. Its territory, about Guangdong, Guangxi and the north of Vietnam, an area of about 400,000 square kilometers, equivalent to the size of Gansu Province.

The period of Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms was also a special period. Like the period of Wei and Jin, it was a transitional period of great integration of national civilization and culture

Features on a disorderly!

In times of turmoil, there are many strange things in nature. For example, the strange talk and absurd behavior of famous scholars in Wei and Jin Dynasties has been yearned for by people so far, called famous scholars and romantic.

This was the case during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, when there were many strange people and things. But South Han is weirder, even weirder. Because when this regime existed, it was a strange period, a period in which men had no role and women had no role in this land.

So, who matters?

It doesn't matter if it's a man or a woman.

This era does not belong to men, nor does it belong to women. It belongs to people who are neither male nor female. This is unique and distinctive in Chinese history.

The Fall of the Southern Han Regime: To Be an Official You must draw your sword from the Palace - World History Net

Why, you ask? We have to start at the beginning.

The father and son Liu Qian and Liu Yin laid the foundation for the Southern Han regime. Liu Qian was originally just a dental general in Guangzhou at the end of the Tang Dynasty. Later, Huang Chao broke Guangzhou, Liu Qian turned when the emperor.

This man is a man of heart, he painstakingly, only in more than a year, there are ten thousand soldiers, more than a hundred warships. At that time, the world was in chaos. Many officials in the south of the Central Plains took refuge, and some of them were exiled. They gave birth and left descendants. Liu Qian's big, mainly gathered up this group of people.

He had three sons named Liu Yin, Liu Tai and Liu Yan. The source of the name is also very strange, Liu Qian's wife was forced to death by his wife, and then Liu Qian went to bury the wife, digging out a stone, written above three words - hidden platform rock.

Liu Qian gave three sons a word to do the name. This also laid the foundation for the old Liu family to change their name.

After Liu Qian died, the eldest Liu Yin took over the class, has been dry to the South China Sea king. After Liu Yin's death, Liu Yan took over and went directly to the position of emperor.

It is worth talking about the characteristics of these generations of emperors, it is really a variety of ah!

Liu Yin did not rise to the position of emperor, but he had several good characteristics. A good scholar can also appoint talents, respect teachers and keep the way. Otherwise, it would be impossible to turn his father's small team into a big one.

But his successor, not so much.

From the reign of Liu Yan to the reign of the last emperor of the Southern Han Dynasty, there were six things going on: changing the name, changing the year title, not liking men or women, killing people, abnormal enjoyment, and fantasizing.

Unspeakable times, men suffering, women despair!

Let's start with Liu Yan.

Liu Yan was named by his father according to providence. But cloud-l when the emperor immediately after changing the name, the name he just like liu bei, liu , long more strange, he lowered his knee. That's the length of your arm. The advantage of long arms is that they are good at riding. Of course, it can also look short-legged. Even though he was seven feet long.

The man's lifelong passion seemed to be fortune-telling, changing his name, changing his year number. He changed his name and title at least four times during his reign.

A monk in the Western regions told him that there was now a rumor that Gong Ye was the one who destroyed Liu's family. Gong's meaning, literally see, should be with the dragon to rule the world, he simply out of zhouyi divination like "dragon in the day," he had made a word -  (" yanyan "). It is said that the white dragon appeared in the Sanqing Hall, special also incidentally changed the year call white dragon. He made a word for his name in Chinese history, Wu Zetian and two others

Not long after, the Southern Han fought a war with the Chu people and was defeated by them. The emperor, who was able to fly the dragon in the sky, was afraid of it. He used the Book of Changes to divination and got the divination that "You are great". He believed it was all the work of fortune-telling and changing the year's name.

He changed his name and year title. He was an emperor, and he could do what he liked.

The most intolerable thing is his perversion. He was clever, but harsh, harsh and cruel. He is an inventor, the knife saw of his invention, dissolving, picking and other punishment, legion of them

He kills people in different ways, and he loves to watch them live, and he enjoys watching them, and he claps his hands and stomps his feet, like a movie. That's not enough. The sickest thing is that when he watches someone being tortured, he flares at his mouth, like a dog seeing a bone.

He loves to spend money. He builds palaces. One pillar is packed with 150, 000 taels of gold. And he begot sons, and begot a great multitude of sons, and the princes were nineteen. The harem must have been very tired.

Fortunately, he did not live long. He lived fifty-four years and was emperor for twenty-five years before he left. Strangely, his posthumous name was Emperor the Great. hehe

After Liu died, his son Liu Bin took over. He is liu  three sons, when the emperor, also learn he torre, name change first, he was named Liu Hongdu.

This elder brothers, not to speak of, liu  is still in the funeral, he was called a bunch of flower girl laid out, and the taste is very heavy, must see the plays, drinking acting men and women have to wear the emperor's new clothes, are not allowed to wear other clothes. That wasn't enough. I had to go out to brothels at night and stay in people's houses at night. Much like the imperial army did.

His younger brother, Liu Hongxi, kept sending him girls with big breasts and long legs. Liu Bin became suspicious, but before Liu Hongxi had time to dispatch him, Liu Hongxi sent a group of wrestling boys to kill Liu Bin, just as Kangxi had killed Oboi

Then Liu Hongxi became emperor and, of course, had to change his name. Liu Hongxi changed his name to Liu Sung.

This guy loves to kill people. For the duration of his reign, he was calculating how to kill, his own brother. He killed none of the nineteen sons of the king Liu, as we have said. Methods include poisoning, assassination, forced killing, framing and so on. It is said that this man is a master of poison, no less than the Five Poisons.

He did not forget the ancestral fortune-telling, and he often boasted that he knew the destiny of the stars. But one night, a lunar eclipse happened between the cow and the girl. He did a divination, and when he finished, he sighed: "I'm finished!" And then a long night of drinking. After a period of time, he also calculate a result, as a result, he should be buried in the north, and shall be shipped Pi as table.

He was right, and sure enough, he died soon after. Thirty-nine years old.

Then came one of the greatest feats in the history of the Southern Han Dynasty.

Liu Chang Liu Sheng eldest son.

When Liu Sheng was in power, men and women had no value in his eyes. He likes eunuchs, probably he thought eunuchs can become undefeated in the East. Of course, he could still get along with the ladies of the court with nice names, such as the long meet ah, Qiongxian and so on.

Liu Chang have idea than his father. He felt that the eunuch could not become the Eastern undefeated he did not know. But he knew that men could not be trusted, because men had wives, mothers and children, and this was a distraction, and no man who cared for his family could serve his country. Women are not reliable, the ability is limited, and bosom friend is also very rare. Who then is useful, or who can serve his country, without encumbrance, and yet have power?

The only people who are invincible in the East!

So, in the presence of the Emperor, if you want to do things, if you want to be an official, if you want to be loyal to your country, even if you want to live, there is only one way -- to draw the sword from the palace.

When Zhao Kuangyin's army entered the Southern Han capital, there were thousands of masters specializing in castration. At the height of the Tang Dynasty, the number of eunuchs also reached its peak, but it was only six or seven thousand. Ha ha, the Southern Han Dynasty did not have a tenth of the Tang Dynasty, but the number of "from the palace" or "from the palace" there were twenty or thirty thousand.

What is the emperor doing?

Have fun. The emperor brother, love men, love eunuchs, do not love Chinese women, love foreign women. Chinese women no longer satisfied his taste, he found a dark and fat Persian woman. I think it's a fairy. It's exotic. State affairs were then handed over to a bearded witch called Fan Beard, who led a group of eunuchs and court ladies.

At that time, the men of Southern Han felt hopeless, the women could see no hope any more, and The Times were immersed in a shrill noise.

After Zhao Kuangyin's army reached Hunan, the emperor was still dreaming of being a screenwriter. He thought that Zhao Kuangyin would be satisfied if he hid some land and gold and silver.

When they reached the door, he said, Oh, run. Then he added the palace treasures to the palace and set it on fire. He prepared a dozen ships, full of treasure and girls, to escape to the sea, to live a free life on a desert island.

However, before the emperor arrived, his favorite eunuch simply sailed away with his ship.

Liu Chang, had to kneel, trembling hands give song taizu jiangshan held in South Korea.

This ridiculous regime survived for 55 years.