The ancients often said that "accompanying the king is like accompanying the tiger" and "the most ruthless imperial family", these statements are indeed not wrong, when the magnates satisfy their basic desires, it is not uncommon to use the pain of finding in others for pleasure, so this has been implemented for thousands of years of eunuch system.
During the Western Han Dynasty, Liu Bang's favorite concubine Lady Qi, just because of the failure of the palace fight, was subsequently brutally tortured by Empress Lü Yan, her limbs were cut off, her five senses were deprived, and she was thrown in the toilet, becoming a horror story "Ren Yan" that was circulated in later generations, but the most tragic woman in ancient times was not Lady Qi, but she, after death, was made into a pipa by the emperor.' This was Xue Concubine in the Northern Qi period.
Northern Qi is one of the Northern Dynasties during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, established by Gao Yang, the son of Gao Huan, a powerful minister of Eastern Wei, only 28 years after its founding, and then it was destroyed by the Northern Zhou Attack, but during the period it inherited 6 emperors, the reason why the dynasty is so short, it is definitely not without reason, the 6 monarchs of Northern Qi, basically can not find a normal person.
Among them, Concubine Xue was the favorite concubine of Gao Yang, the founding emperor of Northern Qi, but what caused her to be in a different place? Let's take a look.
In 550, the powerful minister Gao Yang deposed Wei and established himself, and when he first took the throne, he was also a more effective monarch, in 553, the 26-year-old Gao Yang personally led the Northern Qi army to fight the Khitan in the north, he "personally overtook the mountains, for the soldiers and soldiers first", the morale of the Northern Qi army was greatly boosted, "showing its head, day and night, traveling more than a thousand miles, only eating meat and drinking water, and being strong." "Defeated the Khitans, captured 100,000 enemies, and obtained more than 100,000 heads of livestock, and after that, Gao Yang successively carried out crusades against the northern nomads, forcing various ethnic groups to surrender, and in northern Qi, agriculture, salt and iron industry, and porcelain manufacturing were also highly developed, becoming one of the richest countries in the Southern and Northern Dynasties.
However, perhaps it was these feats that began to make Gao Yangzhi proud, began to indulge in sound and color, abuse violence, and waited until 555, when the monarch Gao Yang at this time had changed his demeanor: he built a lot of civil engineering, forcibly abducted the women of the people, and let himself and his cronies indulge day and night, and Xue Concubine's national color Tianxiang was even more appreciated by the Emperor of Northern Qi, and the two were like glue, staying together day and night.
However, before being summoned to the palace, Concubine Xue had an ambiguous relationship with her cousin Gao Yue the Prince of Shaowu, which made Gao Yang always grumpy, and it was in that year that Gao Yang sent Gao Yue a cup of poisoned wine and killed him after listening to the rumors.
After this, the ministers of the Imperial Chinese Martial Arts were silent, lest Gao Yang's brutality and murderousness would implicate him, with only Xue Concubine by his side.
However, one day, Gao Yang was drunk again, but inevitably thought of Xue Concubine and Gao Yue, the more he thought about it, the more angry he became, although Gao Yue was dead, he still did not relieve his hatred, Gao Yang actually drew a dagger and immediately killed Xue Concubine. However, he did not sober up because of this, but continued to carry out a terrible act.
According to the Book of Northern Qi, "Fortunately, Concubine Xue, who was favored, ignored her experience and had an affair with Gao Yue, beheaded for no reason, and hid it in her arms." At the feast on the Eastern Mountain, the reward began to be combined, and he suddenly stuck out his head and threw himself on the maple. Dismember his body and make his bones a lute. I was horrified and frightened. ”
Gao Yang hid Xue Concubine's body in his arms, and continued to organize the ministers to carry out cover at the Dongshan banquet, when the guests were seated one by one, Gao Yang suddenly showed Xue Concubine's body, and then dismembered it casually, Xue Concubine's hip bone was made into a pipa, Gao Yang was drunk, and began to sing loudly...
The guests who attended the banquet were all frightened and paralyzed, but Gao Yang still did not think anything of it, and when he was hungry after the end of the fun, he put away the corpse and said to him in tears: "It is difficult for a beautiful person to get it again, and it is a pity that it is even a pity." ”
By 559, Gao Yang's suspicions were getting heavier and heavier, and he was only worried that the previous Northern Wei imperial family was in rebellion, Gao Yang had killed 721 people of the former imperial family, including women and children, and even indulged the soldiers to pick up children with spears and throw them into the air for fun (their babies were thrown into the air and accepted them), and the corpses were thrown into the Zhanghe River, until the next few people found human fingernails in the captured fish, and they did not know about Gao Yang's torture.
In the end, the emperor died suddenly at the age of 34 because of his love, and he also left a person with trepidation, civil contradictions intensified, the foreign tigers looked at the mess, and the collapse of Northern Qi became a matter of sooner or later.