Sui Shi: Precursor to Yang Yong's depose – Gao Xi's dismissal
preface
The formation of parties and private parties has always been the most concerned thing for the royal family, and many officials have been charged with this kind of crime, and false responsibility has become the way for the royal family to hurt countless courtiers.
cause
The crown princess of the crown prince died, and the dugu empress wanted to replace the prince, but Gao Xi did not agree.
Dugu Jia Luo (Sui Dynasty Empress)
consequence
Gao Xi was demoted and the crown prince was eventually deposed.
Gao Hao (541–607)
disposal
1. Yang Guang's thoughts
Yang Yong and Yang Guang are both children born to Dugu Jialuo, but in the selection of the prince, Dugu Jialuo is still biased towards his younger son, not eccentric, but the younger son is too good at pretending.
Yang Guang knew that the empress dowager still had certain rights in the imperial court, and his father was also more obedient to his mother, so Yang Guang would always pretend to be a well-behaved son in front of the lonely empress.
For example, Yang Jian did not have a harem, and the lonely empress had the grace alone, so the lonely empress also particularly hated the people who spoiled the concubines and destroyed their wives, but the prince Yang Yong was like this, not only did there be many concubines, the princess also died early, all of which was counted on Yang Yong's head.
▲ Lone Queen stills
On the other hand, Yang Guang, although there are many beautiful women in his own home, he will act, and whenever he goes in and out of the palace, he will take his wife with him, as if the two people are very sweet and sweet, not only that, the beautiful women in the family will be dismissed, creating a feeling of not loving beauty.
Moreover, the emperor and empress did not like extravagance, so Yang Guang pretended to be concise, so that the empress and the emperor felt that Yang Guang was the real candidate for the crown prince.
For this reason, the Dugu Empress had the idea of deposing the crown prince and persuaded the emperor, who also had this kind of thought when he saw that the crown prince Yang Yong was indeed not doing as well as his brother.
▲ Stills of Emperor Wen of Sui and the Lone Empress
2. Gao Xi's refusal
Although the prince is not as important as the emperor, the prince is not easy to change, and it needs to be consulted by the civil and military officials or the prince himself has made a big mistake.
Although the crown prince Yang Yong is not as good as Yang Guang, after all, he is also a prince and has certain connections in the imperial court, so when the emperor mentioned changing the prince, many people disagreed.
However, the Dugu Empress was bent on replacing the crown prince, and the emperor could only consult with the chancellor Gao Xi, but Gao Xi did not agree, first of all, the prince did not make a big mistake, secondly, Gao Xi and the prince were already the sons and daughters of the family, and abolishing the prince was equivalent to cutting off the future of the Gao family.
▲Yang Yong stills
The emperor was deeply helpless about this, but Dugu Jia Luo did not give up, and she decided to first demote Gao Xi, who supported the crown prince, to deter the imperial court and facilitate the deposing of the crown prince.
However, although Gao Xi was bent on the prince, he was still very clean as an official, not only would he not make mistakes, but he was not corrupt, and people could not find his mistakes.
For this reason, it was also difficult for the Dugu Empress, even if the emperor was how to spoil her, it was impossible to degrade the chancellor because of her words, but soon the opportunity came, Goguryeo invaded the Sui Dynasty border and invaded the people.
At this time, the LoneLy Empress thought of a way, since she could not find Gao Xi's mistake, she would spend him to facilitate her own attack on the imperial court.
So the Dugu Empress decided to do ideological work for the emperor first, and she told that Goguryeo's move was disrespectful to the Sui Dynasty, and it should be carried out to fight, and the shock to other countries also showed the strength of the Sui Dynasty.
However, it is necessary to deal a great blow to Goguryeo in order to play a role in deterring other countries, so it is necessary to send such a heavy vassal as Goguryeo to have an effect.
After the lone empress's pillow wind, the emperor thought about it for a long time and decided to send Gao Xi on the expedition.
▲ Emperor Wen of Sui
3. The means of the lone queen
Gao Xi has been in the official field for many years, and naturally he can gap this time after he goes out, the prince will definitely be in danger, so he will resign in every way, but the emperor has already made up his mind, there is no way, Gao Xi can only lead the army to go out.
The Dugu Empress was very happy to see this, but soon after, Gao Xi returned with her troops, because the rain in the Liaodong region at that time was too heavy, and the condition in the army was serious, and it was not suitable for fighting, so she led the troops back.
In fact, Gao Xi was very worried about the safety of the prince, so he went to not disobey the emperor's orders, but came back to protect the prince.
The LoneLy Empress had no choice but to continue to blow the wind in the emperor's ear, saying that Gao Xi was not good, and once she could listen to the emperor's orders, but now she was in violation of the yin and yang.
▲Goryeo
However, things soon took a new turn for the better, Wang Shiji was about to be sentenced to death for committing a crime, at this time the Dugu Empress found him and said that as long as Wang Shiji said that Gao Xi had slandered the emperor, she could spare Wang Shiji's life.
Other women may not be able to do it, but the lone queen can certainly do it, so Wang Shiji did it according to the wishes of the lone queen in order to survive.
The emperor of the imperial court saw Wang Shiji's testimony and scolded Gao Xi, and at this time other officials spoke for Gao Xi, after all, Gao Xi's personality was clear to them, but all this was seen by the emperor, but he thought that this was Gao Xi's party private, so Gao Xi was deposed.
Without Gao Xi's protection, the crown prince had no one to protect him, so the prince of the Sui Dynasty was quickly replaced by the emperor.
▲ Stills of Yang Guang's ascension to the throne
brief summary
With Gao Xi deposed, no one in the imperial court dared to oppose the deposing of the crown prince, and eventually Yang Guang ascended the throne.
【References】
1. "Sui Book Of Forty-One Columns Biography VI"
2. History of the North