Liu He was emperor for 27 days, was removed for 1,127 offences, and his gold-filled tomb was found after tomb robbers dug into it

Emperor Zhao of Han died in 74 BC with no son. The regent Huo Guang chose Liu He, King of Changyi, a grandson of Emperor Wu. Twenty-seven days after Liu He received the seals, Huo Guang and the ministers petitioned the empress dowager to remove him. The Han History preserves the indictment: in 27 days he had sent envoys carrying the imperial tallies with demands to government offices 1,127 times, made private sacrifices to his own father before the imperial ancestral rites, and jailed an adviser who criticised him. He was sent home to Changyi, and about 200 of his officials were killed. Emperor Xuan later made him Marquis of Haihun with 4,000 households. An official then reported that a man had asked him why, when deposed, he had not held the palace and killed the general. He answered, "Yes. I missed it." His fief was cut by 3,000 households. After he died his heir and then the next son died too, and the court abolished the marquisate on the ground that a man rejected by Heaven should have no successor. Emperor Yuan restored it to another son, Liu Daizong. In 2011 police tracing a tomb-robbing gang led archaeologists to his tomb near Nanchang. A seal reading "Liu He" lay in the inner coffin. The tomb held 438 gold objects, the most found in any Han tomb, and opened as a museum in September 2020.