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Emperor Yuan was an emperor and Royal Family Member.
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Book of Liang, Chapter 29Volume 29: Three Princes of Gaozu · 8 passages
弟英略振遠，雄伯當代，唯德唯藝，資文資武，拯溺濟難，朝野咸屬，一匡九合，非弟而誰？
My younger brother's heroic strategy resounds far and wide; you are the great leader of the age—in virtue and talent, in letters and arms, saving the drowning and relieving disaster. Court and country alike look to you to unite the realm—who but you?
計瀟湘穀粟，猶當紅委，若阻弟嚴兵，唯事交切，至於運轉，恐無暇發遣。
I reckon the grain of the Xiao-Xiang region is still abundant in store. If my younger brother's strict blockade continues, matters will only grow urgent—and as for transport, I fear there will be no time to dispatch it.
必希令弟豁照茲途，解汨川之圍，存社稷之計，使其運輸糧儲，應贍軍旅，庶協力一舉，指日寧泰。
I earnestly hope my younger brother will see this clearly, lift the siege on the Mil River, preserve the plan for the altars of state, and enable grain transport to supply the armies, so that with combined strength in one thrust peace may come within days.
宗廟重安，天下清復，推弟之功，豈非幸甚。
When the ancestral temples are secure again and the realm restored to order, to credit my younger brother's achievement—would that not be the greatest fortune?
吾才懦兵寡，安能爲役，所寄令弟，庶得申情，朝聞夕死，萬殞何恨。
My talent is weak and my troops few—I cannot serve in this cause. What I entrust to my younger brother is only that he may give voice to my feelings. If I hear his answer in the morning and die by evening, what regret in dying ten thousand deaths?
世祖復書，陳河東有罪，不可解圍之狀。
Emperor Yuan wrote back, setting forth Prince of Hedong's crimes and explaining why the siege could not be lifted.
元帝聞其強盛，乃遣王僧辯帥舟師一萬以逼綸，綸將劉龍武等降僧辯，綸軍潰，遂與子躓等十餘人輕舟走武昌。
When Emperor Yuan heard how strong he had become, he dispatched Wang Sengbian with ten thousand river troops to press Xiao Lun. Xiao Lun's general Liu Longwu and others surrendered to Wang Sengbian; Xiao Lun's army collapsed. He fled in a light boat to Wuchang with his son Zhi and more than ten others.
百姓憐之，爲立祠廟，後世祖追諡曰攜。
The people pitied him and erected a shrine in his honor. Later Emperor Yuan posthumously titled him Xie.