Liu Sheng's bipolar disorder actually has a source, and this source comes from his father Liu.
Liu Biekan was the founding emperor of the Southern Han Dynasty, but his life experience was actually very pitiful.
His mother, Duan, was just the concubine of Liu's father, Liu Qian, the kind of wild woman who was raised outside and was not even considered a concubine.
The reason why Liu Qian did not dare to take Duan home as a concubine was because he relied on his wife's Wei family to make his fortune.
At that time, Wei Zhou of Wei Dynasty was appointed as the governor of Lingnan. Liu Qian was just a dental school. By chance, Wei Zhou took a fancy to him and married his niece to him, and Liu Qian was able to make a fortune.
The Wei family is not only Liu Qian's benefactor, they also come from the famous Jingzhao Wei family. For a Lingnan native like Liu Qian to join their family, it can be said that the ancestors have exhausted all their luck in eight lifetimes.
After Wei Zhou left office and returned to the capital, he quickly became prime minister and became more powerful.
Therefore, in Liu Qian's home, his wife Wei Shi has the final say alone. How dare he bring Mrs. Duan home.
However, the paper could not contain the fire. When Liu was two or three years old, Webster finally knew about Liu's existence.
Originally, although Duan was there, Webster could still tolerate it, but she was just a stay-at-home wife and could not change the world.
But the appearance of Liu made Wei Shi unbearable, because after Wei Shi's second son Liu Tai died in infancy, Wei Shi was unable to have children. She only had one son, Liu Yin, her eldest son. Therefore, Liu's appearance would greatly threaten Liu Tai. Hidden status.
So Weishi personally held a sword, broke into the outer room, and escorted Duan and Liu back to her home. She ordered people to bring Liu in. She wanted to kill Liu to avoid future troubles, but when she saw Liu, Weishi was shocked.
Because although Liu was only two or three years old at this time, he had an outstanding appearance, with his hands hanging down above his knees, and he looked like a foreigner.
So Webster changed her mind and chose to kill Liu's mother, Duan, so that Liu could recognize her as his mother.
He was unlucky when he was young, his mother was almost killed in front of his eyes, and he had to identify his mother's murderer as his mother, otherwise his life would be at risk.
His elder brother Liu Yin also looked down on him. If Liu hadn't grown up to be proficient in bow and horse and had great military insights, Liu Yin would never have regarded him as his younger brother.
Growing up in this kind of environment, Liu naturally suffered from bipolar disorder. When he was manic, he would go on a killing spree. When he was depressed, he felt that the whole world was harming him. Then he would become manic again and start killing people, and the cycle started over and over again.
Liu's bipolar disorder and insecurities were perfectly inherited from Liu Sheng. In addition, Liu Sheng killed his brother and came to power, so the situation was even more serious than Liu's.
Therefore, although Liu Sheng is not a fatuous leader, you can hardly say that he is a normal person. In his short ten-year reign, the manic side of bipolar disorder was very obvious.
In ten years, his younger brother Liu Sheng alone killed thirteen people. The other heroes who helped him kill his brother and ascend to the throne, such as Liu Sichao, Chen Daoxiang and others, were also killed. There were also hundreds of people implicated in the annihilation of the nine tribes. Extermination of human beings.
In fact, in Chinese history, it is very, very rare to kill the nine tribes, because the involvement is too wide, and it is easy for the subordinates and generals to lose their most basic sense of security.
In the age of emperors, the power of the emperor itself was very great. If there was no restraint in killing, it would be a very terrible thing.
When an emperor makes everyone uneasy, there is a high probability that a spark will cause the entire dynasty to explode on the spot.
So not to mention killing the nine clans, but also killing the three clans, annihilating the clans, etc. Normal emperors would use very little.
But Liu Sheng was not a normal emperor. When he killed Chen Daoxiang, Liu Sheng killed all of Chen Daoxiang's distant cousins, executing more than 600 people in total.
This is completely beyond the scope of the law, and Liu Sheng and Chen Daoxiang do not have a deep hatred. To act this way, it can only be said that Liu Sheng has completely inherited Liu's mental illness from his father.
As for the problem of bipolar disorder, the biggest fear is being repeatedly stimulated. Once stimulated, he may get sick.
Therefore, Liu Sheng had made a good plan a few months ago. He first wanted to marry a daughter of the Zhang family and try to get as much leverage as possible for himself. If nothing happened, he could accept it and become a rich man in Luoyang, the capital of the gods. .
But after being scolded by Wang Jiu in the past few months, Liu Sheng immediately fell ill.
Genes of killing and self-destruction derived from his father Liu. He began to take control of Liu Sheng's brain, causing Liu Sheng to cut off all escape routes.
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The fall of Wuzhou was a very serious blow to the future of the Southern Han Dynasty and to Liu Sheng.
Because Wuzhou had been the northwest gate of Prince Xing's Mansion since it was captured by the Southern Han Dynasty from Ma Chu six years ago, and the stores of grain, grass, and luggage were piled up like mountains.
Ji Yanyun and the left and right Longxiang troops were also the elite of the Southern Han Dynasty. Once they fell, it was equivalent to losing one-third of the supplies and one-third of the military strength of the Southern Han Dynasty.
Although there is Duanzhou (Zhaoqing) between Wuzhou and Prince Xing's Mansion (Guangzhou), which is regarded as a water and land strategic point, the national power of the Southern Han Dynasty was simply unable to build another defensive fortress outside Wuzhou. Therefore, Zhang Zhaojun passed Wuzhou and Nothing stands in the way.
Liu Sheng received the battle report on the second day after the fall of Wuzhou. He had no good solution. The ministers were afraid of offending Liu Sheng and did not dare to speak. Almost all of Liu Sheng's brothers were killed, so no one came close to him. Persuade.
So, Liu Sheng, who was extremely disappointed, staggered back to the palace and got drunk. The more he thought about it, the more he felt aggrieved and depressed. He felt that everyone was watching his joke and planning to sacrifice him. In exchange for wealth and honor for the Kingdom of Zhou.
It’s crazy, there are too many traitors and traitors in this country!
The drunk Liu Sheng became crazy and immediately ordered the guards to call his twelfth brother Gao Wang Liu Hongmiao to the palace, and then ordered the guards to stand Liu Hongmiao up and drink wine.
He also threatened that if Liu Hongmiao did not comply, Liu Sheng would throw him into a pot of boiling water and cook him. In despair, Liu Hongmiao was forced to drink several buckets of wine, causing severe stomach bleeding.
Seeing Liu Hongmiao vomiting blood wildly, Liu Sheng not only did not call the doctor to come over for treatment, but instead laughed. He felt that it was not enough, so he ordered his favorite actor Shang Yulou to be called.
After Shang Yulou arrived, Liu Sheng ordered his servant to get a large papaya, put it on Shang Yulou's neck and ordered Shang Yulou to clamp it with his head. Then he slashed with his sword, and chopped off Shang Yulou's neck and the papaya with one sword stroke. .
Blood spurted out, and papayas fell to pieces all over the floor. Liu Sheng couldn't stop laughing wildly. He felt that the depression in his heart suddenly improved a lot. He turned around and drank wine again, and finally fell asleep.
And his younger brother Liu Hongmiao was lying on the ground with bleeding from his mouth and nose. From late at night to dawn, no one took care of him, and he eventually died of massive blood loss.
The next day, Liu Sheng woke up from being drunk and called Shang Yulou to come and serve him. Only then did he find out that he had been killed by him last night. Liu Sheng sighed deeply and ordered a generous burial.
As for his younger brother Liu Hongmiao, Liu Sheng didn't even bother to ask and left him lying dead in the palace.
In the end, some chamberlains couldn't stand it, so they dug a hole in the back hall, wrapped a piece of linen cloth, and buried Liu Hongmiao.
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In the eighth year of the Shaoming Dynasty, AD 954, in mid-May, Zhang Zhaojun's troops from the West Route Army captured Duanzhou (Zhaoqing). Lu Guangtu, the governor of Duanzhou, committed suicide and died for his country. The Zhou army followed the river and reached more than 20 miles away from Prince Xing's Mansion.
The Zhou army on the northern route, led by Fanshun, also attacked Yingzhou (Yingde) from Shaozhou. The governor of Yingzhou and other officials of the Southern Han Dynasty surrendered without a fight. The army successfully arrived at Xingzhou along the Qinshui River (Beijiang) from Yingzhou. Huashan (Huaxian) north of the palace.
Not long after, Lin Renzhao's troops on the East Road, under the leadership of the Chaozhou clan, also successfully recruited and surrendered the Xunzhou governor (Huizhou) of the Southern Han Dynasty.
When Lin Renzhao set out, he had only more than 10,000 soldiers and horses. After arriving in Xunzhou, he already had more than 30,000 infantry and cavalry. He immediately stationed at Chi'an garrison (on the seaside southwest of Zengcheng) to wait for Zhang Zhaojun's order.
Lin Renzhao and Fanshun are still very powerful. Zhang Zhaojun stayed in Lingnan for four years in order to destroy the Southern Han Dynasty. This time he went to war, and he was also the general manager of the Lingnan Road camp.
If nothing else happens, he should be the one guarding Lingnan in the next ten or twenty years.
Therefore, after the two men arrived, they had a tacit understanding not to attack Prince Xing's Mansion, but to stand still, hoping to leave the country's destruction to Zhang Zhaojun.
Zhang Zhaojun also did his part. This was not the time to refuse politely. His soldiers and generals who had followed him in Guilin for four years and built the Lingqu Canal must be appeased with the merits and glory of destroying the country. .
So Zhang Zhaojun ordered Fanshun and Lin Renzhao to each select two thousand elite troops to join him. The rest of the troops were stationed in place, blocking the north and east sides to prevent the Southern Han monarchs and ministers from escaping. Then he led his troops to camp under Yaoshan (Yuexiu Mountain) and prepared to attack the city. posture.
Before the official attack, Zhang Zhaojun had one more thing to do, which was to worship Mrs. Xian and repair Mrs. Xian's tomb located in Dianbai District, Maoming in later generations.
As for why it needs to be restored, it is because the tomb of Mrs. Xian has been ransacked in the Feng family’s eldest house, that is, when Gao Lishi was kidnapped to Luoyang, the capital of the gods, it was seized by the Tang court, no! It should have been destroyed by people sent by the Wu Zhou court.
Of course, the destruction was not just like opening coffins to slaughter the corpses and exposing them in the wilderness, but demolishing the mausoleum, Shinto, and sacrificial temples surrounding Madam Xian's tomb, and smashing the stone statues and beasts in front of the tomb.
Zhang Hao sometimes wondered if there was something wrong with Wu Zetian's brain.
Regardless of whether the Feng family was wrongly accused or forced to rebel, even if they really rebelled, they could not blame Mrs. Xian, who had been dead for a hundred or two hundred years.
Without Mrs. Xian, how could Lingnan be returned to the country so quickly? Now that you are implicating Mrs. Xian, do you want to destroy the "since ancient times" of the Central Plains imperial court in Lingnan?
Besides, when you, the heroine Wu Zetian, are in power, shouldn't you hold Mrs. Xian up high to show that there are people who can hold power like men and do not give in to women since ancient times?
As a result, Wu Zetian was so anti-intellectual. She ordered people to destroy Mrs. Xian's tomb, which made the people in Lingnan shed tears and deeply hate her.
Fortunately, Mrs. Xian's sixth grandson, Gaolishi, gained power and asked Emperor Xuanzong to order the restoration of Mrs.
However, although it was restored during the Xuanzong period, it only agreed to the restoration. It neither ordered the Ministry of Industry to restore the previous tomb shape, nor did it rehabilitate Feng.
Therefore, it can only be regarded as a kind of folk restoration, not official recognition.
After Zhang Yan learned about this situation, he immediately knew what to do as the first thing to appease the people of Lingnan.
Under his arrangement, the Imperial Court's Ministry of Rites quickly formulated a posthumous gift and reward for Mrs. Xian, and sent Zhang Yuan, the right minister of the Ministry of Rites, to Lingnan to preside over the ceremony.
On May 17, Zhang Zhaojun led the Zhou army's officers above Yuhou and more than ten officials from the court's Ministry of Rites to build a mausoleum-like structure under Yao Mountain (Yuexiu Mountain), and set up the statues of Mrs. The heads of two animals, chickens, ducks, fish, melons and fruits were sacrificed to Mrs. Xian and Feng Bao.
Maoming is four to five hundred miles away from Guangzhou. It is impossible for Zhang Zhaojun to leave the army now, so he first pays homage to Yaoshan and repairs it after the Southern Han Dynasty is captured.
As the incense was rising, Zhang Zhaojun's face was serious. He knew Zhang Yan's purpose of doing this, and he really admired Mrs. Xian's high moral integrity. Therefore, before the army arrived in Guangzhou, he made a big announcement that he would sacrifice to Mrs. Xian first when he arrived at Prince Xing's Mansion.
The purpose is to let more people in Lingnan know about this through word of mouth, especially the Xian and Feng clans who are now entrenched in Leizhou Peninsula and Hainan Island.
Sure enough, when the sacrifice was about to be completed, Zhang Yuan, the right minister of the Ministry of Rites, announced that the imperial court had posthumously awarded Mrs. The Xian and Feng clan members who came from Leizhou and Qiongzhou showed up crying.
Since ancient times, there is only one woman who has received a royal title.
Only Li Shimin's younger sister Princess Pingyang was given the posthumous title Zhao and was called Princess Pingyang Zhao.
From then on, there was only Qin Liangyu in the late Ming Dynasty, whose posthumous title was Zhongzhen.
So it's no wonder that the descendants of Feng and Xian were so excited that they cried on the spot.
Seeing their appearance, Zhang Zhaojun immediately struck while the iron was hot and announced that after regaining Lingnan, the imperial court would immediately rehabilitate Feng Junheng, the governor of Guangzhou during the Wu Zhou Dynasty, Gao Lishi's father, and return some of Feng's property that had been confiscated in the Tang Dynasty.
In the eyes of ordinary people, the Xin Dynasty has achieved this level, which is far beyond the scope of showing kindness. As the biggest local snakes in Lingnan, the heads of the Feng and Xian families prostrated themselves on the ground, kneeling three times and nine times to the north to express their gratitude.
Zhang Zhaojun took the opportunity to announce in public again that after the army entered Prince Xing's Mansion, they would not kill anyone indiscriminately or plunder a penny of people's property, and anyone with grievances could come to complain.
As a result, the people were convinced and prostrated themselves on the ground. The heads of the major clans expressed their willingness to contribute money and food to help the king.
Sure enough, a few days later, people from more than ten prefectures and counties around Prince Xing's Mansion, led by local wealthy families, took the initiative to help Zhou's army transport grain, grass and supplies.
Zhang Zhaojun bought pigs, sheep, chickens, ducks, fish, shrimps, eggs and other products from them at prices twice as high as the market price.
The work of starching and washing clothes for tens of thousands of troops was also given to local women for a fee, and the human and animal excrement accumulated by the troops was given to local people for free.
Liu Sheng's level of governance was limited to not killing or harming the people. Taxation and corvee were not light at all, and the administration of officials at both the upper and lower levels was relatively rough.
Now, for the first time, the people of Lingnan felt the exquisite administration and handling of affairs by the officials of the Central Plains court. They could not help but be shocked and extremely happy.
They cheered and ran around telling each other that Zhou Junguo was the king's master.
It can be said that as soon as these three moves came out, people's hearts were at peace, and the Zhou army received even more support outside the city of Prince Xing's Mansion than the Southern Han army.
At this time, Prince Xing's palace was still unaware of what was happening outside the city. The officials and people in the city were in panic. Even the Imperial Guards of the Southern Han Dynasty who were guarding the city were also frightened. Only Wu Xun, the commander of the Imperial Army's giant elephant, and Wu Huaien, the internal envoy, were willing to fight. Defeated the Zhou army.
Liu Sheng was overjoyed and handed over all the more than 20,000 forbidden troops in the city to the two men. He then recruited 30,000 brave warriors in the city and ordered them to go out of the city to fight the Zhou army.
On May 22nd, Wu Xun led thirty giant elephants as the vanguard. Each elephant carried more than ten soldiers. They were covered with colorful brocades, and their trunks and tusks were all painted white. They looked extremely terrifying.
It is as high as a mountain wall. When charging, the ground shakes like a monster coming and is unstoppable. Soldiers on the back of the elephant holding strong bows and crossbows shoot down the Zhou army from a high position.
Most of the soldiers and horses of the Zhou army had never seen this thing, and they were killed and retreated for a while.
Zhang Zhaojun was furious and ordered his soldiers to push three bronze cannons to the front of the formation.
These small cannons were improved again by Tiangongyuan after the First World War in Shouzhou.
According to Zhang Zhang's wishes and the actual combat results, Zhang and Zhou's navy currently uses giant cannons as the main force, and pays attention to naval battles, destroying enemy ships with one shot at close range.
The army mainly focused on small and medium-sized cannons that could be pulled by horses and squatting tiger cannons with short and thick barrels. During the Southern Expedition, Zhang Zhi approved three of them for Zhang Zhaojun, but Zhang Zhaojun didn't think highly of them.
He felt that the artillery was cumbersome to load, and its power could only be said to be average, equivalent to two Fuyuan Crossbows. Apart from the terrifying explosion, its advantages were not obvious.
And one of the biggest shortcomings is that the frame carrying the artillery is extremely easy to damage. It is often necessary to replace the wheels and transverse axles when traveling long distances, which is quite troublesome, so the entire army is reluctant to use it.
But at this moment, a giant elephant rushed towards him. Zhang Zhaojun thought for a while, and it seemed that only this fire-breathing and thundering thing could scare the giant elephant on the opposite side.
Wu Xunzheng, the commander of the giant elephant of the Southern Han Dynasty, was flushed with excitement. As soon as the giant elephant completely broke up the Zhou army's formation, the soldiers of the Southern Han Dynasty behind could form a formation and attack hard.
But he didn't feel happy for long, when he heard a sudden thunderous roar from the opposite military formation, and even orange-red flames spurted out.
Wu Xun was stunned for a moment, and then he knew something was wrong.
Because elephants are actually very timid and very sensitive. I have finally trained them so that they are not afraid of the roars of the soldiers in the battle formation, but they will definitely not be able to withstand such noises.
Sure enough, when the charging elephant heard the thunderous roar from the opposite side and the scary fire, it suddenly stopped charging so fast.
At this moment, as if by divine help, a stone bullet fired from a bronze cannon hit the first elephant in the herd.
No matter how powerful the elephant is, it is still a body of flesh and blood. The head of the elephant was suddenly hit on the forehead by a stone bullet weighing more than ten kilograms. It was like being struck by lightning. It hissed miserably, blood came from its ears and eyes, and its brain burst. It fell directly to the ground. on the ground.
The tragic death of the first elephant triggered a collective panic among the other elephants. Zhang Zhaojun immediately asked the army's sharpshooters to shoot with God's Arm bows.
Not only was the elephant unable to carry the cannonballs, it was actually unable to withstand the close-range shots from the God's Arm Bow.
The Zhou army was beaten back and forth just now. In fact, they were frightened and their formation was disrupted, making them unable to concentrate their firepower on these elephants.
Now that the commander was in front of the formation in person, and the artillery was powerful, the soldiers gradually recovered from their panic.
Thinking of the panic just now, these bravest warriors from Zhang Zhou's court couldn't help but feel their faces heat up.
Wang Quanbin, the commander of Youjinwu Guards, went into battle naked. He held a red flag symbolizing a decisive attack in one hand and a wooden crossbow in the other. He shot a Southern Han soldier on the elephant's back to death with one crossbow, and then threw away the wooden crossbow and pulled it out. Hengdao screamed and fought fiercely.
The soldiers were inspired by him, their roars shook the heavens and the earth, and they all fought bravely to take the lead.
Faced with this situation, the war elephants of the Southern Han Dynasty couldn't bear it anymore. Elephants are very smart. They can even sense the morale and strength comparison between the two sides.
Amidst the sky full of divine arm bows and arrows, I felt that I would definitely not be able to defeat them on the opposite side, and I would be the first to be unable to hold on.
More than a dozen elephants turned around and ran away, disrupting the formation of the Southern Han army that was following them. The Zhou army took the opportunity to cover up and kill them, and the 30,000 Southern Han army suddenly fell into unprecedented chaos.
After about an hour of fighting, Wu Xun, the commander of Juxiang, was killed. Thousands of soldiers were lost, and the entire army retreated to Prince Xing's Mansion.
Liu Sheng heard the roar of mountains and tsunamis outside in the inner city. People and even soldiers and officials were fleeing in panic everywhere. They all shouted that the army was defeated, making the city even more chaotic.
In the midst of the crisis, the giant boat commander Wan Jingxin, the crane general Xie Guan, and the chamberlain Pan Chongche rushed over. They protected Liu Sheng and ran to the south port outside the city.
Wan Jingxin said to Liu Sheng: "The country still has hundreds of warships and more than 10,000 navy troops in Nangang. They can board the giant boats and run south, either to Qiong, Ya, Dan and other states, or to settle in Champa country."
Unfortunately, as soon as he finished speaking, flames shot into the sky in the direction of Nangang, and shouts of death and howls suddenly sounded.
Not long after, officers and soldiers close to Wan Jingxin came to report the news. It turned out that Wan Jingxin had just left, and a large number of naval officers and soldiers did not want to go to Champa and other wild places, so they started making noise on the ship. The tooth soldiers left behind by Wan Jingxin Unable to suppress the situation, internal strife broke out between the two sides.
Now some of the naval generals have sailed to join the Zhou people, and some of them have plundered the gold and silver and sent them to sea to steal.
Liu Sheng knew there was no way out and refused to die in the market, so he immediately returned to Daming Palace.
Pan Chongche and Wan Jingxin looked at each other, abandoned Liu Sheng and disappeared into the crowd.
Xie Guan, the crane-controlling general, escorted Liu Sheng back to the Daming Palace. At this time, the Zhou army had entered the city in large numbers, and the situation was even more chaotic.
In desperation, Liu Sheng held a sword in the Daming Palace and killed his beloved concubines and beauties Li Shi and Chen Shi, his chamberlains Lin Yanyu, Guo Chongtao, and palace maid Lu Qiongxian.
At that time, his eldest son Liu Jixing, who later became the last lord of the Southern Han Dynasty, Liu Yuan, was already twelve years old. In front of him, his father was killing people with a sword like a madman. He tried to escape in panic, but was caught up and killed.
Also killed with him were his younger brothers Liu Xuanxing, Liu Qingxing, Liu Baoxing, etc. Only the youngest Liu Chongxing escaped the disaster in his infancy.
After killing all his family members, Liu Sheng laughed crazily and ordered Xie Guan to kill him.
Xie Guan thought that the emperor would not be hurt by swords, so he took three feet of Bai Ling and strangled him to death, then committed suicide with his sword.
The Southern Han Dynasty perished.
(End of chapter)
