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Liu Sheng was a ruler.
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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 135Volume 135: Biographies of Usurpers 2: Liu Shouguang, Liu Zhi, Liu Chong · 8 passages
尋為其弟晟等所弒，在位一年，偽謚為殤帝。
Soon his younger brother Sheng and others assassinated him. He reigned one year and received the false posthumous title Emperor Shang.
晟，陟第二子也。
Sheng was Zhi's second son.
偽封勤王，又封晉王。
He was falsely made Diligent King and then Prince of Jin.
玢之立也，多行淫虐，人皆患之，晟因與其弟偽越王昌等同謀弒玢，自立為帝，改元為應乾，又改為乾和。
When Bin succeeded he debauched and tyrannized until all resented him. Sheng joined his brother the false Prince of Yue Chang to murder Bin, made himself emperor, adopted Responding to Qian, then Qianhe.
晟率性荒暴，得志之後，專以威刑禦下，多誅滅舊臣及其昆仲，數年之間，宗族殆盡。
Reckless and violent by nature, once enthroned Sheng ruled by terror, slaughtering old ministers and kinsmen until the clan was nearly gone within years.
及湖南馬氏昆弟尋戈，晟因其釁，遣兵攻桂林管內諸郡及郴、連、梧、賀等州，皆克之，自此全有南越之地。
When the Ma brothers of Hunan fell out, Sheng attacked Guilin's prefectures and Chen, Lian, Wu, and He, taking them all and holding the whole Southern Yue.
周顯德五年秋八月，晟以疾卒，偽謚曰文武光聖明孝皇帝，廟號中宗，陵曰昭陵。
In the eighth month of Zhou Xiande's fifth year Sheng died. His false posthumous title was Civil and Martial, Radiant and Sagely, Bright and Filial Emperor; temple name Middle Ancestor; tomb Zhaoling.
是歲，晟以六月望夜宴於甘泉宮，是夕月有食之，測在牛女之度，晟自覽占書，既而投之於地，曰：「自古豈有長存者乎！」
That year on the mid-autumn full moon he feasted at Sweet Spring Palace. An eclipse fell in the Ox and Woman mansions. Sheng read the prognostic books, flung them down, and said, "Since antiquity has anyone lived forever?"