Why is Northern Qi called the Beast Dynasty? And the Wucheng Emperor was a gem, and after succeeding to the throne, he was tyrannical and absurd

Emperor Wucheng of Northern Qi, Gao Zhan, the ninth son of Gao Huan, a powerful minister of Eastern Wei, and the half-brother of Emperor Xiaozhao Gao Yan, were all born to Empress Lou. This person is also a beautiful man, who was very favored by his father Gao Huan when he was a child.

When his brother Gao Yan was seriously ill, he secretly discussed with his nephew Gao Yuanhai and his uncle Gao Guiyan, the king of Qin, and others, preparing to send troops to usurp the throne, just when a wizard divination told him that "it is not good to move things, Jing Zeji", Gao Zhancai did not move. Not long after, Gao Yan fell ill and died.

When he was dying, in order not to let his son Gao Bainian fall into the fate of Gao Yin (Gao Yin was Gao Yang's son, because his father died before he was able to take the throne), Gao Yang ordered Gao Yan to assist Gao Yin before his death. Who knows that soon, Gao Yan killed his nephew Gao Yin and took the throne himself by launching a coup d'état), and Gao Yan passed the throne to his younger brother Gao Zhan.

In 561 AD, Gao Zhan ascended the throne, and he was the historical Northern Qi Wucheng Emperor, who changed his name to Yuan Taining.

As soon as Gao Zhan ascended the throne, he demoted the former crown prince Gao Bainian to the title of King of Leling County, and made his wife Concubine Hu empress.

The cunning rabbit died of a lackey, and within two or three months, Gao Zhan, the prince of Qin, who had made great contributions to him, was released as the Assassin of Jizhou. Meritorious and degraded, who can balance in their hearts? Soon, Gao Guiyan rebelled in Jizhou, and Gao Zhan sent a large army to besiege the city, captured the old prince in one fell swoop, and took him to Yicheng, "carrying a car, tying his face, and abandoning the city with fifteen descendants." Gao Guiyan regretted how he had set up such an ungrateful thing in the first place!

One day at the end of the second year of Taining (562), the tyrant Gao Zhan broke into the Zhaoxin Palace where the second brother Gao Yang's widow, Li Zu'e, lived, and stripped naked himself as soon as they met, wanting to rape his sister-in-law. Li Shi did not comply, and repeatedly struggled, only to hear Gao Zhan's vicious words: "If you don't follow, I will kill your son immediately!" Li Shi had no choice but to comply. After coming and going, Lee was pregnant.

Li Shi had a son, Gao Shaode, the King of Taiyuan, who was 15 years old, and came to see his mother Li Shi on this day. The pregnant Li Shi did not dare to meet him, so he had to excuse himself from seeing him, and Gao Shaode shouted loudly outside the cabinet: "Queen Mother, you are pregnant, I know this, you don't see me for this!"

Li Shi was so ashamed that he miscarried himself at that time. Gao Zhan, hearing the news, immediately rushed to see that the dead baby was a girl, and angrily said, "If you kill my daughter, I will kill your son!" He sent guards to press his nephew Gao Shaode in court, and in front of Li Zu'e, he slammed the back of the nephew's head with the handle of the knife and knocked Gao Shaode alive. Gao Zhan:

。 While tapping, he said viciously in his mouth: "When your father beat me, why didn't you persuade me?" Lee cried. Gao Zhan, furious, personally stripped Li's clothes and kicked him in a mess. Lee's cries rolled over, and he died and came back to life in pain. Gao Zhan ordered the people to put Li Shi in a silk bag, throw it in the palace canal, almost choke to death, and later sent him to Miaosheng Temple to shave his hair as a nun and eat and pray to the Buddha.

Northern Zhou destroyed Northern Qi Li Zu'e was captured, and after the establishment of the Sui Dynasty, he was able to return to his hometown, and the final outcome was not bad.

In July of the third year of Heqing (564), due to the appearance of astronomical astrological signs of "White Rainbow Through the Sun" and "Red Star See", Gao Zhan remembered the old prince of the sixth brother Gao Yan and his other nephew, Gao Bainian the Prince of Leling. At that time, there was a Confucian named Jia Dexin who taught Gao Bainian calligraphy, the child did not understand things, saw what to write, had written several "edict" characters, the calligraphy teacher lacked morality, hid these several depicted words, and secretly reported to Gao Zhan. This was terrible, the word "敕" could only be written by the emperor himself, and Gao Zhan seized on this excuse to summon his nephew to the palace.

Before the 14-year-old boy entered the palace, he knew that he was going to be more fierce and less lucky, so he resigned with his princess Huo Lushi and cut off the jade pieces he had left as a souvenir. After entering the palace, Gao Zhangao sat on the throne, with a somber face, and asked Gao Bainian to write a few "edicts". After examination, it is the same as the handwriting of the "敕" character presented on Judd's shin. Gao Zhan, enraged, hit the table hard, and immediately ordered several samurai to go to the hall to punch and kick this nephew, so that Gao Bainian vomited blood in his mouth and fell to the ground. Gao Zhan did not let go of his hatred, let people grab Gao Bainian's hair and drag it on the ground, and the guards behind him also hit it with a big stick, "everywhere they passed, there was blood everywhere."

When he was about to die, the young man pleaded, "Uncle spare your life, I will be your slave." Gao Zhan stood up, personally gave his nephew a knife in the chest, and then kicked him into the pool, and the water in the pool was suddenly blood red. Still afraid that the old prince would not die, Gao Zhan personally followed him to the back garden to watch his men bury Gao Bainian's body. In the past, his brother Gao Yan never had a bad word about him, and then said that the emperor was in him, and he actually killed his own nephew as a "reward", which was really inferior to the beast, and Gao Zhan was simply cruel to the point of inhumanity. When Princess Huo Lushi of gao bainian heard the news of her husband's death, she cried out in grief and refused to eat again, and soon died, still clinging to that yujue when she was dying.

Among the courtiers, Gao Zhan's favorite was Shi Zhong and Shi Kai. The ancestor of Heshikai was originally a Hu merchant in the Western Regions, whose original surname was Suhe, and later stayed in Linzhang, and gradually settled in the Central Plains. Gao Zhan was good at holding a mallet (a chess game) when he was the prince, and Shi Kai was also a big player, so the two became good friends. In addition, Heshikai is good at greeting and is also good at playing Hu Pipa, so he is very favored. The two magnetic fields attract each other and are very close.

At that time, He Shikai flattered Gao Zhan: "Your Highness is not an ordinary person, he is the Emperor of Heaven." Gao Zhan replied, "You are not an ordinary person, but a god of the world."

After becoming emperor, Gao Zhan could not do without Heshikai for a moment, and in order to repay the favor of "knowing the encounter", Heshikai also said "advice" gao zhan: "Since the ancient emperor, all the dust, Yao Shun Xianjun, Jie Shu Jun, what is the difference after death!" His Majesty should cherish the young and strong years, run amok, and live happily for a thousand years a day. The ministers can command the affairs of state, so why bother with themselves!"

Gao Zhan listened to it and was very happy, and sure enough, from then on, it took three or four days to pose for the court, and then returned to the harem to continue to play.

He Shikai "Treacherous day, pampering Miryu, before and after the reward, invincible." In order to be more loyal to the Lord, he and Shi Kai also hooked up with the superb Empress Hu, making this imperial couple very comfortable.

Gao Xiaoyu, the son of Gao Cheng, the son of Gao Cheng, the son of Gao Cheng, the prince of Henan, advised Empress Hu not to play the game of holding a hammer with his courtiers, and Shi Kai took advantage of it to slander him. Gao Zhan, furious, ordered Gao Xiaoyu to drink 37 large glasses at a banquet, and then let people pour poisonous wine into the nephew's mouth on his way home, which was so uncomfortable that Gao Xiaoyu threw water and died. Gao Xiaoyu's third brother, Gao Xiaoyu the Prince of Hejian ( Gao Xiaowan ) , was Gao Cheng 's concubine , and when he heard that his eldest brother had been poisoned , he hated the grass people every day and shot arrows to vent his resentment. When He Shikai heard about it, he said to Gao Zhan, "Gao Xiaohuan shot the straw man as if it were you!" Gao Zhan ordered people to be detained, and Gao Xiaohuan, a concubine who had fallen out of favor, falsely claimed: "Xiao Xian paints a figure of His Majesty crying and cutting teeth at night." In fact, that image is of Gao Cheng, the father of the King of Hejian and his son remembering his father, and every pair shed tears. Gao Zhan, furious, took this nephew into the palace and sent his guards to beat Gao Xiaohuan with a whip.

Gao Xiaohuan saw Gao Zhan sitting in the upper seat drinking and watching the execution, and shouted: "Uncle Nine! Gao Zhan was even angrier, so he asked, "Who is your uncle?" How dare you call me uncle!"

Gao Xiaohuan was also a donkey temper, and instead of calling him "Your Majesty", he said, "I am the grandson of Emperor Shenwu (Gao Huan), the concubine of Emperor Wenxiang (Gao Cheng), and the nephew of Emperor Wei Xiaojing (Yuan Shanjian), so why can't I call you uncle?"

Gao Zhan, hearing this, violently broke his hip bone with a large stick, and Gao Xiaolong died alive.

When Gao Zhan was 27 years old, a comet appeared, and the Taishi official said that it was "the image of removing the old cloth and the new, when there is a change of lord", that is, there should be a new emperor. In order to "respond to the heavenly signs", Gao Zhan passed the throne to his son Gao Wei and called himself "Emperor Taishang". At this point, Northern Qi changed its name to Yuan Tiantong.

In the end, Gao Zhan died of excessive alcohol color at the age of 32. This is: do not live by your own sins!