Gao Yan is He Xuren, he and Gao Yang are the same father and mother, nine years younger than Gao Yang, is the most well-behaved of all the sons born to Lou Zhaojun, so Lou Zhaojun has the most preference for Gao Yan, and the feelings between mother and son are the deepest.
Gao Yan is eight feet tall (due to the inconsistency of Chinese weights and measures, the specific height is difficult to say how tall it is, but it should be about one meter eight to two meters), the waist is extended ten times, very burly, and what is more rare is that The high actor has a calm personality, moody and angry, and is very prominent among the children of the Gao family who have a generally frivolous personality.
Gao Huan died when Gao Yan was only thirteen years old, and the education of Gao Yan from childhood was undertaken by the eldest brother Gao Cheng, Gao Cheng opened a training class in his own home, asked the then Zhongshu waiter Li Tonglu to teach several younger brothers to read, the atmosphere at that time was more focused on rhetoric, but Gao Yan always studied the reasoning and did not care much about rhetoric, a little Zhuge Liang read the feeling, the most like to read the "Book of Han". For the same mistake, the high performance generally does not make it twice. After the death of the teacher Li Tongluo, Gao Cheng changed Diao Rou to be a teacher, but because Diao Rou was not very competent, he was quickly fired, and when he left, only Gao Yan personally came to send him out of the house, and also said goodbye with tears, Gao Yan's move was very well received by the people at the time, and everyone said that Gao Yan was a person who cherished feelings and missed the old.
After Gao Yang became emperor, Feng Gao yan became the king of Changshan, and in 554 A.D. In the fifth year of Tianbao, Gao Yan, who was 20 years old, entered the career and assisted Gao Yang in handling government affairs, no one expected Gao Yan to get started quickly, and soon became famous in government affairs. In 557, the 23-year-old Gao Yan entered Shangshu Province (which can be understood as the State Council) as an official position. In 558, he was promoted to Sima Da, still in charge of Shangshu Province.
At that time, it was already a year before Gao Yang's death, when Gao Yang was already terminally ill, watching his brother abuse his body like that, Gao Yan stepped forward to persuade him, alcoholism was not good for his health, and it affected the government, Gao Yang said to Gao Yan: "Brother, with you helping me take care of government affairs, I can enjoy indulgence and pleasure with such confidence." It can be seen that Gao Yang's trust in Gao Yan. Gao Yan immediately knelt down and lay on the ground and cried bitterly, Gao Yang knew that his brother Gao Yan was very touched by his heartache, so he smashed the wine glass in his hand and ordered the people around him, "In the future, if anyone dares to give me wine, I will kill them all." Brother, don't worry, don't cry, hurry up. He also asked his men to smash all the drinking utensils to show their determination to quit drinking."
But not long after, Gao Yang couldn't help but continue to drink and have fun, wasn't there no wine utensils in the palace, so he went to the home of the noble minister, drank Hi Gao Yang and his men sang together, and also liked wrestling sanda and other sports, frolicking and having fun without any respect or inferiority, but whether Gao Yang or the minister, they were very afraid of gao performance, and everyone who participated in the high performance sat honestly and did not dare to fool around.
The first contradiction between the brothers was because Gao Yan's wife, Gao Yan's wife was born in the Northern Wei royal family, at that time, Gao Yang was cleaning the Yuan clan relatives, but hindered by Gao Yan, he did not do anything to Gao Yan's wife Yuan Shi, but sent a lot of beautiful women to Gao Yan, hoping to break the relationship between the two sons, Gao Yan accepted the beautiful women, but still loved his wife Yuan Shi as before.
At that time, Gao Yang already felt that his life was short, and began to pave the way for his son, Gao Yan was the person who threatened his son the most in the clan room, so Gao Yang opened the mode of finding stubble, because Gao Yan usually worked particularly strictly, his subordinates did wrong things Gao Yan punished them with a big stick, and for those who stole and slipped, Gao Yan always checked clearly and never let go.
So once Gao Yang called Gao Yan over, put a knife against Gao Yan's ribs, and then called the people who had been punished by Gao Yan to come and ask them to say bad things about Gao Yan, but no one could say what mistake Gao Yan had made, Gao Yang had no choice but to let go of Gao Yan, and instructed Gao Yan not to hit his hands with a big stick after gao yan.
A few days later, Gao Yang decided to use the old tricks to play a stinky rogue to kill people, so he pretended to be drunk and gave a group of beautiful women in the palace to Gao Yan, and Gao Yan was called back by Gao Yang as soon as he brought him home, and Gao Yang asked Gao Yan, "How dare you take the women in my palace home without my permission?" Gao Yan quickly said, "Brother, you have wronged me, you gave it to me." Gao Yang said how he didn't remember, and still used the knife of the big ring knife to turn his back on Gao Yan was a beating, giving Gao Yan a body full of injuries, and also locked up Gao Yan. When her mother Lou Zhaojun heard about it, she knew that Gao Yang was going to kill Gao Yan, so she ran to Gao Yang's door and cried day and night to intercede for Gao Yan.
At this time, Gao Yang's heart was extremely contradictory, because his son was too cowardly, the world of great strife, he could not play a round at all, so he had the idea of killing the most dangerous Gao Yan, but killing gao Yan Gao family was completely finished, swinging left and right between his son and the family, after carefully weighing Gao Yang spared Gao Yan.
In the next year, that is, in the ninth year of Tianbao, in 558 AD, in jinyang palace, when he was dying, Gao Yang called the whole family to the hospital bed to talk about his will, And Gao Yang's last words in his life were not said to his son or to his wife, but to his brother Gao Yan, "After I die, you will definitely usurp the throne, but please spare my son Gao Yin... "Saying that he died with infinite regrets and worries ended his restless life.
After Gao Yang's death, Gao Yin, who was only 14 years old, ascended the throne and was assisted by Gao Yan, and at that time, northern Qi's military and political affairs were handled by Gao Yan, who had no experience of the sword and light sword shadow around a group of ministers who were eager to ascend to the throne, Yang Yan, Yan Zixian, Ke Hun Tianhe, Song Qindao, Zheng Zimo, and others, and even prepared to perform a high performance in the air. The means are also very old-fashioned, Ming ascends and secretly descends, giving Gao Yan an empty position as a taishi, incidentally depriving Gao Yan of his military power over the governor of Gyeonggi, and also pulling Gao Zhan's right into Shangshu Province to share Gao Yan's rights.
In the face of Gao Yin's gang approaching step by step, Gao Yan's counterattack was also very sharp, first of all, he took advantage of the opportunity to hunt with Gao Zhan, after various promises to take Gao Zhan, and then entered the palace to find his mother Lou Zhaojun, who loved him, and soon gained the support of his mother, Lou Zhaojun's strength in the Northern Qi regime was not insignificant, the Lou family was a military nobleman, in the process of Gao Huan's army, the Lou family's foreign relatives had a deadly force, and they were all in important positions, which is why Gao Huan could endure his son Gao Cheng to wear a green hat for himself without changing the prince.
After receiving the support of Empress Lou, when he went to work one day, Gao Yan brought the forbidden army to Shangshu Province to work, and also called the ministers to a party, and after toasting three glasses of wine, he had people arrest and bundle up The Shang Shu Ling Yang Huan, the Right Servant Yan ZiXian, the Leader Ke Hun Tianhe, and the Servant Song Qindao, and then rushed into the palace under the protection of Duan Shao (the representative of the foreign relatives) and Gao Guiyan (the representative of the clan office), and the leader Liu Honghui (the representative of the general with a foreign surname), and met Zheng Zimo, a regular attendant at the door of the Zhongshu Provincial Office. Without saying a word, he grabbed it and slashed it with a knife, and when he marched to the East Pavilion Gate, Du Ducheng Xiuning was a royalist, and drew out his knife and led his men to confront Gao Yan and others. Gao Guiyan stood up and persuaded him to surrender, he did not expect that Cheng Xiuning was a die-hard loyalist, dead or alive, gao Guiyan was usually very prestigious among soldiers, Cheng Xiuning's men threw away their weapons and crouched next to them when they saw that Gao Guining was gone, Cheng Xiuning saw that the general trend had gone, so he also threw the knife, and crouched next to him with his hands holding his head.
When Gao Yan led the people to the Zhaoyang Hall, Emperor Gao Yin, Empress Dowager Lou Zhaojun, and Empress Dowager Li Zu'e were all sitting on the main hall. So Gao Yan stepped forward to start his performance, he first pretended to take out a letter of recital, scolded the dog legs around the emperor for not doing anything to frame himself, and asked the emperor and the empress dowager to kill these wang bastards. At that time, Gao Yin still had the opportunity to let go, Gao Yang left his son more than two thousand dead soldiers standing on the other side of the hall under the leadership of the leader "E Yongle", the swords were all drawn, just waiting for the boss Gao Yin to give an order to go forward to fight, "E Yongle" brought two thousand dead soldiers are all martial arts heroes who climbed out of the pile of dead people in the border pass, each brave and fierce, this group of people under the leadership of Gao Yang has always been a hundred enemies, who will live and who will die is really not certain.
But Gao Yin this child is too cowardly, has long been frightened by his uncle Gao Yan can not speak, and at this time Lou Zhaojun quickly spoke up, saying that Gao Yan is not a rebellion, but forced to resist helplessly, and swore that he will never hurt Gao Yin's mother and son, Gao Yin actually acquiesced to his overthrow, so Gao Guiyan quickly came forward to comfort "E Yongle" and other Gao Yang's die-hard loyalists, "E Yongle" and others saw that the boss was instigated, knowing that there was no choice, they put the knife back into the sheath, lost their voices and cried bitterly, It is estimated that the scolding in his heart is the same as Huan Fan scolding Cao Shuang in the past, "Emperor Xian, you are so wise and divine, how did you give birth to a pig!" So Gao Yan asked Gao Guiyan to bring the warriors to Hualin Garden, and then his old subordinate Gyeonggi defenders entered the palace, and after completing the change of defense, he beheaded "Eun Yongle" in Yongyuan. Gao Yin's mother and son had completely become lambs to be slaughtered.
Gao Yan's usurpation of the throne is also about rhythm, first of all, to promote himself to a higher rank, what a great minister, to supervise the Chinese and foreign armies, and to record Shang Shushi. The second step is to return to the old lair of the Gao family in Jinyang and control all the private soldiers of the Gao family, and the third step is to depose Gao Yin as the king of Jinan in the name of the empress dowager and establish himself as the new emperor of Northern Qi.
The rhythm after Gao Yan succeeded to the throne was also very good, first of all, six waves of good people cards were issued to the whole country, the first wave: to find the descendants of the decaying families who had followed Gao Huan to fight the world, give them official rewards, show that they cared about the old feelings, and indeed harvested a wave of good people cards. The second wave: for the world's elderly people to give honorary official positions, yellow hats, crutches. The third wave: to pay for the families of martyrs who died in the war for the country. The fourth wave: all the high performances that made military achievements but were not commended by Gao Yang were all given commendations. The fifth wave: To exempt all officials and slaves over the age of sixty from being commoners. The sixth wave: Gao Zhan, Gao Yan, and Gao Xun in the clan room were all promoted. This good guy card is all-encompassing and has won the favor of the whole country.
Then, the central inspection team was dispatched to inspect all parts of the country, collect the problems encountered by the ordinary people, and examine the performance of local officials, and also collect talents. Gao Yan handled government affairs all night long, and his subordinates advised him to pay too much attention to details, afraid that he would die of exhaustion like Zhuge Liang.
Gao Yan is very filial to his mother Lou Zhaojun, once Lou Zhaojun was ill, Lou Zhaojun's residence is more than 500 meters away from Gao Yan's residence, Gao Yan trotted to the Nangong on foot every day to visit his mother's condition as soon as the chicken barked, and only went back to work when he arrived, that is, from about three or four o'clock in the morning to seven or eight o'clock in the morning, he ran to take care of his mother, and then went back to work. Lou Zhaojun's illness worsened, and Gao Yan built a small bed outside Lou Zhaojun's palace and personally prepared food and soup medicine for his mother. Sometimes Lou Zhaojun still has heartache problems, a pain often rolling shouting, Gao Yan heard it outside the bedroom after being very heart-wrenching, pinching his palms, even pinching blood, the sleeves are soaked. Gao Yan won praise from both the government and the public and his new appointments, both in character and ability, and the Northern Qi regime soon stabilized.
At this time, Gao Yan decided to establish his own military achievements, after Gao Yang's long-term management, Northern Qi already had the economic strength and military strength to compete with Northern Zhou, at that time Northern Zhou had fallen into the situation of Yuwen Hu and Yuwen Tai's sons vying for power, which was the most disunity within the country, so Gao Yan personally went to Jinyang and began to actively prepare for the western expedition and complete the unfinished business of his father and brother. However, Gao Yan, who had never led a soldier, decided to find a soft persimmon to practice his hands first, so he ran outside the Great Wall and killed the Kumo xi people, grabbed a lot of slaves, and snatched back a lot of cattle and sheep.
Gao Yan returned to Jinyang after a victorious battle, and began to prepare for the Western Expedition with great ambition, and during the interval of preparation, Gao Yan suddenly thought that his nephew Gao Yin was always a threat, so he had gao Yin killed. Her mother, Lou Zhaojun, made a big fuss after knowing that Gao Yan had actually broken his promise and killed his grandson Gao Yin. At that time, Gao Yan was very bored, and he probably felt that killing his nephew was indeed very unlicensable. One day with a few servants out hunting and scattering, did not expect that Gao Yan's war horse was frightened and threw Gao Yan off his horse, directly fell into a serious injury, and saw that he could not live, Gao Yan thought about how he bullied his nephew Gao Yin, and then looked at his son Gao Baishi, who was only six years old, so Gao Yan made his younger brother Gao Zhan the prince, and left a letter to his younger brother Gao Zhan, "It is advisable to put my wife in a favor, do not learn from the predecessors." This means to find a good place for my wife and children to settle down, don't learn from me to kill Gao Yin. A few days later, Gao Yan died at jinyang Palace at the age of twenty-seven.
Overall, Gao Yan is a qualified successor to Wenzhi Martial Arts, and his moral integrity is normal compared to his older brothers and younger brothers. Moreover, at that time, the military and economic strength of Northern Qi reached its peak, but unfortunately, it was not a holiday, and after less than two years of being emperor, he accidentally fell into serious injuries and fell to his death. It can only be said that the Gao family does not have the blessing of unifying the world.