Death
After the Xin Dynasty was overthrown in 23 AD and Wang Mang killed, the imperial descendant Liu Xuan (劉玄) became emperor as Emperor Gengshi of Han). However, due to Emperor Gengshi's incompetence, conspiracies and rebellions arose throughout the empire, seeking to displace him.
Two farfetched co-conspirators started one of these rebellions in 25—Fang Wang (方望), the former strategist for the local warlord Wei Xiao (隗囂), and a man named Gong Lin (弓林) -- and their group of several thousand men, after kidnapping Ying, occupied Linjing (臨涇, in modern Qingyang, Gansu). Emperor Gengshi sent his prime minister Li Song (李松) to attack them, and wiped out this rebel force, killing Liu Ying.
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“Such as the wreck of the Hesperus,
In the midnight and the snow!
Christ save us all from a death like this,
On the reef of Norman’s Woe!”
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1809–1882)
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