Liu's clan members were exiled to the modern Guangdong and Guangxi region, while his immediately family was specifically confiscated to become servants at Gui Prefecture (桂州, roughly modern Guilin, Guangxi). After death After Emperor Gaozong's death around the new year 684, Empress Wu who for many years during the reign of Emperor Gaozong until his death, held the power of the empire, now seized absolute power alone with his death and eventually declared herself "emperor" in 690. After Empress Wu's own removal in 705 by her son Emperor Zhongzong, Liu Shi's offices were posthumously restored, and after her death that year, the exile order against Liu's clan members was cancelled. Early in the Kaiyuan era (713-741) of Emperor Zhongzong's nephew Emperor Xuanzong, Liu Shi's grandnephew Liu Huan (柳渙) was serving as a mid-level official at the legislative bureau, when he submitted a position pointing out that Liu was wrongly executed and that, while his reputation had been restored, he was still buried a long distance from the capital and that his only surviving descendant, his great-grandson Liu Wutian (柳無忝), remained in exile. Emperor Xuanzong issued an edict approving Liu Shi's reburial at his home prefecture Pu Prefecture, and had Liu Wutian escort Liu Shi's casket there. Liu Wutian later served in the imperial administration as the commandant of Tan Prefecture (roughly modern Changsha, Hunan). References Old Book of Tang, vol. 77. New Book of Tang, vol. 112. Zizhi Tongjian, vols. 199, 200. 659 deaths Chancellors under Emperor Gaozong of Tang Year of birth unknown Tang dynasty politicians from Shanxi