Liu Li 劉理

Liu Li, courtesy name Fengxiao, was likewise a younger half-brother, born of a concubine, of the Later Sovereign, and he had a different mother from Liu Yong. According to the Biography of the First Sovereign, in the summer, 4th month, of the 1st year of Zhangwu (221) the First Sovereign changed the era name and made Zhuge Liang Chancellor and Xu Jing Minister over the Masses; in the 5th month he set up Lady Wu as Empress and his son Liu Shan as Crown Prince; and in the 6th month he made his son Liu Yong Prince of Lu and Liu Li Prince of Liang. Records, Shu 4 §21Records, Shu 2 §68

The First Sovereign had the Minister over the Masses Xu Jing set up Liu Li as Prince of Liang and issued an edict of investiture. The edict begins, 'My little son Li,' and says that, having inherited the succession of Han, the emperor reverently follows the Mandate of Heaven and observes and cultivates the statutes and order, and sets him up in the east as a bulwark and support of Han. It goes on to say that the land of Liang is a state within the capital region, whose people are accustomed to moral teaching and easily guided by the rites, and instructs him to go and devote his whole heart to cherishing and protecting the people and to preserve his state forever. Records, Shu 4 §21

In the 8th year of Jianxing (230) his fief was changed and he became Prince of Anping. The Biography of the Later Sovereign records that in this year Liu Yong, Prince of Lu, was moved to be Prince of Ganling and Liu Li, Prince of Liang, to be Prince of Anping, because Lu and Liang both lay within the territory allotted to Wu. Records, Shu 4 §22Records, Shu 3 §11

Liu Li died in the 7th year of Yanxi (244) and was given the posthumous name Prince Dao. The Biography of the Later Sovereign records that Liu Li, Prince of Anping, died in the summer, 4th month, of that year. Chen Shou's main text does not record his age or the cause of his death. Records, Shu 4 §22Records, Shu 3 §24

His son Liu Yin, Prince Ai, succeeded him but died in the 19th year of Yanxi (256), and Liu Yin's son Liu Cheng, Prince Shang, succeeded him but died in the 20th year (257). In the 4th year of Jingyao (261) the Later Sovereign issued an edict saying that the Prince of Anping had been established by the command of the late emperor, that three generations had died young and the heirs of the state had been cut off, and that he grieved over this, and he had Liu Ji, Marquis of Wuyi, succeed to the royal title. Liu Ji was Liu Li's son. In the 1st year of Xianxi (264) Liu Ji moved east to Luoyang, was appointed Chief Commandant of Imperial Carriages and enfeoffed as a district marquis. Records, Shu 4 §22

In his assessment at the end of the Biographies of the Consorts and Sons of the Two Rulers (Records of Shu 4), Chen Shou writes only that since the Book of Changes says that there are husband and wife and only then father and son, nothing stands above this as the beginning of human bonds and the height of affection and order, and that he recorded it in order to examine the structure of a state. He does not assess Liu Li separately. Records, Shu 4 §27