In the worst case of the royal family in ancient times, none of the 721 people were spared, fishermen: they were all in the belly of the fish
In the tenth year of Northern Qi Tianbao (559), fishermen living near the northern Qi imperial capital Ofe, as usual, came to the Zhanghe River to fish, the Zhanghe River is a very developed water with fishery resources, just when they caught the fish and killed it, intending to take it to the street to sell, a fisherman accidentally found that there was a small hard object in the belly of a fish, and there was hair, and when he carefully identified it, this was clearly human hair and nails! The fishermen were stunned, and coincidentally, other fishermen also found hairs on the stomachs of the fish they caught.
This soon caused panic among the people, and the news spread to the public, and people speculated continuously, surely which robber committed the shocking murder, killing people and abandoning the body in the river. You know, this is the city of Ye where the Son of Heaven lives! Who is so bold? Some fishermen take the initiative to go to yamen? However, the imperial court maintained a high degree of silence on this matter, and the county government did not send anyone to investigate, and the matter became more and more confusing.
Later, The people of Yicheng learned the truth, in fact, the human fingernails found by the fishermen involved 721 human deaths, and this was a very important relationship with gao Yang, the founding emperor of Northern Qi at that time. Gao Yang was born in 526, his father Gao Huan, was a powerful vassal of Eastern Wei, by which time Northern Wei had split into Eastern Wei and Western Wei, controlled by the Powerful Lords of the Gao and Yuwen families, respectively, while the Yuan royal family of Eastern Wei and Western Wei was nothing more than a puppet.
With family relations, in 535, 9-year-old Gao Yang, already hung with titles, he was named the Great General of the Dart Banner, Scattered Horse ChangShi, Zuo Guanglu Doctor and other positions, which is very rare in history, Gao Yang's wisdom and wisdom are therefore very popular with his father, and gao Huan, who grew up, repeatedly established military achievements, so his power became more and more powerful, becoming the leader of the Gao family, after the death of his grandfather and father one after another, in 550 AD, Gao Huan forced Emperor Wei Xiaojing to take the throne in Yicheng and establish Daqi.
Unfortunately, However, Gao Yang was originally a diligent and good emperor, formulating policies and developing the country, but his personality gradually became violent and cruel, he was very prosperous and cruel, and although Gao Yang sat on the throne, he was very afraid of the mistakes of Emperor Xiaojing of Wei, so in 559, Gao Yang suddenly asked the chancellor Yuan Shao, "Why can Emperor Guangwu of Han carry out the great cause of Zhongxing?" Yuan Shao replied, "For the sake of Liu You." This means that Wang Mang still did not kill the surname Liu in the world!"
For this reason, Gao Yang deeply believed that he immediately killed the former Yuan clan, but Emperor Xiaojing was given the throne to himself, the regime was transferred peacefully, and his reputation for killing the former dynasty clan was not very good, so Gao Yang could only issue a secret edict, secretly summoning the Yuan clan in the imperial city into the palace, and then let the samurai kill, even the baby, that night, he threw the body of the Yuan clan into the Zhanghe River to hide his eyes. This can also be said to be the most tragic royal family destruction case in history.
However, there is no impermeable wall in the world, Gao Yang's atrocities were soon exposed, and although the struggle for imperial power had little to do with the small people of Yecheng, it also made them disgusted, and they did not eat the fish in the Zhanghe River for several years. The Book of Northern Qi: "Seven hundred and twenty-one people who died before and after, all the corpses were thrown into the water, and the fish were cut off and clawed, and they all did not eat fish for a long time." ”