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Among the emperors of the past, there is no shortage of tyrannical generations, from the first emperor in history, Qin Shi Huang, to the Xuantong Emperor Puyi, almost every dynasty has. In particular, the regime established by ethnic minorities was frequently tyrant, such as former Qin Emperor Fu Sheng, Later Zhao Emperor Shi Hu, etc., but if we talk about the most tyrannical, it is still the Northern Qi Emperor Gao Yang.
Gao Yang was the second son of Gao Huan, who had become the De facto ruler of Northern Wei as early as 533 AD for suppressing the power of the Erzhu clan. When Emperor Xiaowu of Northern Wei at that time, Yuan Xiu, was not willing to be Gao Huan's puppet, so he and Gao Huan broke up unhappily, and he led his troops to Yuwen Tai, and Gao Huan then established Yuan Shan as emperor and Emperor Xiaojing, and moved the capital to Yecheng.
In the west, Yuwen Tai later poisoned Yuan Xiu and made Yuan Baoju emperor; to the east, Yuan Shanmi was controlled by Gao Huan, and Northern Wei was divided into Western Wei and Eastern Wei.
After Gao Huan's death, his son Gao Cheng continued to control Yuan Shanmi, who was arrogant and abnormal, and also beat up the Xiaojing Emperor Yuan Shanmi, calling Yuan Shanmi a dog's foot, which is the meaning of waste. Later, Gao Cheng was stabbed to death, and his younger brother Gao Yang took over his great seal and still controlled Yuan Zenmi. But the following year he ousted Motoyoshimi and made himself emperor.
Objectively speaking, in the first few years of Gao Yang's reign as emperor, he was considered a Ming Emperor, who built the Great Wall, persuaded farmers to rejuvenate learning, appointed talents, and defeated Rouran, Khitan and Turks many times, threatening the north, and at that time, the Turkic TaBao Khan even praised Gao Yang as a "heroic son of heaven".
But after six or seven years, Gao Yang was satisfied with his achievements, began to indulge in pleasure, and his personality became more and more tyrannical.
Gao Yang did a lot of ridiculous things, such as after his niece married, he casually mentioned that his mother-in-law was not good to her, and he found an excuse to kill his niece's mother-in-law directly; he sawed the favored Meiji to death with a saw, and also made the beloved Xue's leg bone into a lute to play; he hit his mother, and also shot his mother-in-law's face with an arrow, and hit a hundred whips... Simply not human!
However, the most absurd thing to say is to kill the former imperial family.
Once, Gao Yang chatted with the chancellor Yuan Shao. Yuan Shao was a member of the Northern Wei imperial family and was a nephew of Emperor Xiaozhuang. Gao Yang asked Yuanshao: Why do you say that The Guangwu Emperor Liu Xiu was able to revitalize the Han Chamber? Yuan Shao said six words: For the sake of Liu Is not exhausted. This means that Wang Mang did not kill Liu Mang, so Liu Xiu used his royal status to raise an army to defeat Wang Mang.
These words inspired Gao Yang, so he gave an order, but all the Yuan clans were killed, regardless of men, women and children. At first, there were only 25 families in the massacre, and 19 families such as Yuan Shao were only grounded. However, not letting go out is equivalent to cutting off people's food and grass, yuanshao is hungry and uncomfortable, so he eats his sleeve, but in the end he still starves to death.
Two months later, Gao Yang began a large-scale massacre, and all the Yuan clans who had the title of king or the noble family or strong brothers in the ancestral family were all pulled to Dongshi and beheaded. If it is a child, it is also necessary to torture and kill for fun. At that time, a total of 721 people were killed, and the bodies were thrown into the river, and the people did not dare to eat the fish in the river, because there were often hair, nails and so on in the belly of the fish.
Its babies are thrown into the air and carried with a mallet. 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. - Book of Northern Qi
Yuan Shao's words may have come from the heart, but he did not expect that his words would directly kill 721 people, and these people were his family, and they were also the royal family of the former dynasty.
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