A successful speech can inspire people and change the trajectory of things. On the contrary, a failed speech will also destroy the original good situation, and even lead to the demise of a country. In Chinese history, there was such a failed speech that led to the defeat of the country and the eventual murder of the monarch. This unfortunate monarch was The Northern Qi Emperor Gao Wei.
Gao Wei is a notoriously faint and ignorant emperor in history. Such a fainting emperor, but also a lustful emperor, during his reign as emperor, recruited beautiful women from all over the world, incorporated into the harem, and was named a concubine. According to legend, there are more than 500 concubines in his harem, which can be described as no one before or after the ancients. Among his many concubines, the most famous was Feng Xiaopi.
Feng Xiaopi's beauty is comparable to the four beauties, and the family has a beautiful wife. For this beautiful woman, Gao Wei always took her with him and never left or right. Once, in order to show off his beautiful wife, Gao Wei actually let Feng Xiaopi strip off his clothes and sleep on the Golden Ruan Hall, letting the ministers visit, leaving behind a "joke" of "jade body horizontal Chen".
The matter of "jade body horizontal Chen" soon had a huge impact throughout the country, and soon reached the ears of the emperor of the enemy state of Northern Zhou. At that time, the Emperor of Northern Zhou had long been eyeing Northern Qi. It was just that he was not named, and Northern Qi had such a famous general as Hu Luguang, so he did not dare to act rashly. The matter of "Jade Body Horizontal Chen" gave the Northern Zhou Emperor an excuse to destroy Northern Qi, when Northern Zhou, under the pretext of replacing the Heavenly Path, divided his troops and attacked Northern Qi in three ways.
Soon the Northern Zhou army captured the Northern Qi military town of Jinzhou. As a general of Northern Qi, Huo Luguang was well aware of the importance of Jinzhou, so he organized a large army to prepare for a counterattack. At that time, Huo Luguang formulated a method of digging tunnels to attack the city. Originally, he had already sent troops to secretly dig several tunnels from outside the city, hoping to send the army into the city through the tunnels and surprise the Northern Zhou army. However, this method of warfare was known to Gao Wei and Feng Xiaopi, and Feng Xiaopi was bent on visiting the tunnel. In desperation, Huo Luguang could only postpone the attack, but the fighters were often fleeting, and after losing the fighters, the Northern Qi army was instead defeated by the enemy army.
The defeated Northern Qi army retreated all the way back to the capital, Yecheng. At that time, there were still more than 100,000 Northern Qi troops, with sufficient grain and grass, excellent weapons and equipment, and a strong city. Although it was besieged, as long as it was held, it was very likely that as long as it was held, when King Qin's reinforcements arrived, it was also very likely that the Northern Zhou army would be defeated in one fell swoop.
In this trapped situation, the most important thing is actually morale. At that time, the Northern Qi army fought several consecutive defeats, and what was most needed was to improve morale. In order to boost morale, Huo Luguang suggested that Gao Wei go to the barracks to give a speech to boost morale. What Huo Luguang did not expect was that it was this decision that eventually led to the fall of Northern Qi.
For Gao Wei, who usually only drinks and enjoys pleasure, how can he give a speech? Of course, Huo Luguang also knew that Gao Wei "did not learn no technique", so even the content of the speech had been prepared in advance. Not only that, Huo Luguang also gave a thousand instructions: "Long live the performance."
When speaking, we must burst into tears and touch the heartstrings of the soldiers. At the end of the speech, Viva also needs to personally go to the field hospital to visit and comfort the wounded! ”
Although Huo Luguang's arrangement was already perfect, the most important thing about a speech was the person who spoke. However, this time, Gao Wei, who was in charge of the speech, was very afraid. This is not to blame him, who let Gao Wei usually except to play with the palace ladies
Besides, I've never spoken in front of so many people. Gao Wei refused in his heart, but when the soldiers came to the city, he still took his favorite concubine Feng Xiaopi and the eunuch of Nogan with him.
As early as the barracks, the soldiers waiting for this Gao Wei to come to the test were all high morale, and it was not until noon that Gao Wei brought Feng Xiaopi and others with him late. Standing on the stage of the point general, Gao Wei looked at the 100,000 troops under the stage, especially after the 100,000 troops shouted "Long live", even more nervous. Holding the prepared speech, Gao Wei did not know what to say. In desperation, I had to watch the soldiers make a "hehe" sound. Gao Wei's laughter amused Feng Xiaopi, who was also on the stage, and then Feng Xiaopi also smirked, and the eunuchs accompanying him also began to smirk.
The people on the stage laughed, and the soldiers on the stage also smirked, and the speech that should have been serious was covered up by tens of thousands of laughter. After Gao Wei smirked, without saying anything, he put his arm around Feng Xiaopi's waist, passed through the ranks of soldiers, and got into the car and left.
So the speech that should have boosted morale turned into a farce of soldiers smirking at the beauty of the emperor's favorite concubine, Feng Xiaopi. Afterwards, the Northern Qi generals were all chilled: they were selling their lives in the front, while the emperor was playing in the rear. Such a fainting emperor, does he still need to give him his life? So that night, soldiers opened the city gates so that the Northern Zhou army could enter the city.
After the fall of Yecheng, Gao Wei hurriedly passed the throne to his 8-year-old son, but he fled with Feng Xiaopi, and was eventually chased and killed by Northern Zhou's army in Qingzhou, and Northern Qi's decades-old inheritance was destroyed. The immediate cause of all this is the failed speech.