He is Liu Ziye, the emperor of the Liu Song Dynasty in the Southern Dynasty. Liu Ziye was born on the 17th day of the first lunar month in the 26th year of Yuanjia. He was from Pengcheng, Xuzhou
The eldest son of Liu Jun, Emperor Xiaowu of Song Dynasty, and his biological mother was Queen Wenmu Wang Xianyuan. In April of the 30th year of Yuanjia, Emperor Xiaowu of the Song Dynasty ascended the throne and established Liu Ziye as the crown prince. Liu Ziye lived in the royal family since he was a child, and his life was very privileged. He was pampered since he was a child, and he was always arrogant and domineering and very extreme and unmotivated. He was often reprimanded by Emperor Xiaowu, so Liu Ziye's temper was also very bad, and he began to indulge himself even more. Very outrageous.
On the 16th day of the intercalary month in the eighth year of the Ming Dynasty (464), Emperor Xiaowu of the Song Dynasty passed away. On the same day, Liu Ziye ascended the throne and changed his name to Yongguang. As soon as Liu Ziye succeeded to the throne, he summoned his sister Princess Liu Chuyu of Shanyin into the palace. This Liu Chuyu was born with a good appearance. When she became an adult, she married He Jian, the grandson of the prime minister monk Shangzhi.
Liu Chuyu, who had excessive sexual pleasure, agreed to his younger brother's request. As time went by, Liu Chuyu became tired of Liu Ziye and said to the emperor: According to "Song Book·Volume 7·Benji 7", "Concubine." Although there are differences between men and women, your majesty has six palaces and thousands of concubines. How can things be uneven?
In August of the first year of Jinghe (465). , Liu Ziye went to worship his ancestors in the temple. Liu Ziye entered the temple and started to make comments. When he saw the portrait of his father, Emperor Xiaowu of Song Dynasty, Liu Jun, he yelled: "You slave!" and asked the painter to paint Liu Jun's portrait. Not only that, Liu Ziye decided to dig up the tomb of his father Liu Jun. It was not until the Taishi official advised Liu Ziye: "It would be unlucky for His Majesty to dig up his father's tomb!" Liu Ziye then gave up, and Liu Ziye was unhappy. In addition, Liu Ziye also favored his aunt, Princess Liu Yingmei of Xincai
Liu Yingmei was the half-sister of Emperor Xiaowu, and later married He Mai, the son of General Wei He Yu. In October of the first year of Jinghe (465), after Liu Yingmei was ordered to enter the palace, Liu Ziye forcibly detained her and had a relationship with her, becoming "Xie Gui's concubine". Liu Ziye also announced that Liu Yingmei had passed away. He Mai couldn't bear the humiliation and plotted to depose Hunjun, but the news leaked out and he was executed by Liu Ziye.
Liu Ziye's atrocities went far beyond that. He often forced his courtiers to rape Liu Xiuren's biological mother, Princess Yang, in front of his uncle Jian'an King Liu Xiuren. If anyone hesitated for a moment, he would be killed. He often ordered his maids to chase each other naked and make fun of each other when visiting the Bamboo Forest Hall of Hualin Garden. On November 29th of the first year of Jinghe (465), Liu Ziye forced his attendants to humiliate and rape all his concubines and princesses. When Jiang, the concubine of Liu Ziye's uncle Nanping King Liu Shuo, did not agree, Liu Ziye ordered the death of Jiang. 's three sons.
Liu Ziye, who arrogantly rebelled against the rule of no king, was afraid of his uncles, so he tried every means to insult them and even made prison cages for them. Wang Liu Xiuyou was very fat. Liu Ziye once used a wooden trough to serve rice, put in various kinds of miscellaneous food, mixed it, dug a hole in the ground, filled it with muddy water, and asked his uncle to roll in the mire, and ordered him to They eat food from the trough with their mouths like animals, laughing and having fun.
As Liu Ziye became increasingly cruel and violent, and kept killing people, the incident of deposing the emperor soon led to the incident. On the night of November 30th of the first year of Jinghe (January 1, 466), Shou Jizhi killed him. , when he was seventeen years old. He was buried in the west of the altar in the southern suburb of Moling County, Danyang County.