From 221 BC, when Qin Shi Huang created a feudal dynasty, it was Lü Hou, Wu Zetian and Cixi who could truly break through the oppression of patriarchal society and seize the supreme ruling power for more than 2,000 years. But to ask whose means are the most vicious, it must also belong to Lü Hou, after all, the torture of "ren yan" was initiated by her.
Empress Lü's outrageous hatred for Lady Qi all turned into torture by exhaustive means, which made Emperor Hui of Han look frightened and the world shocked. But if you want to say it carefully, Lady Qi is not the woman with the worst death, and Empress Lü did not give her a chance, but Lady Qi herself wanted to challenge the authority of the empress, which is no wonder that she would end up in such a field and finally kill her own son.
As the saying goes, "accompanying the king is like accompanying the tiger", in history, there have been too many emperors who have punished disobedient courtiers with more cruel means than Lü Hou, and Lady Qi will never be the last to be cut off. However, there is only one concubine who is made into a frightening "human bone pipa".
This happened more than 700 years after Lady Qi was executed by Lü Hou, when the Han Dynasty had long since fallen and the Central Plains entered a period of nearly 400 years of war and chaos, known in history as the "Wuhu Chaohua". The Hu people such as xiongnu, Xianbei, and Qi people invaded the Central Plains and slaughtered the people, which was also the darkest period in ancient China.
During this time, there were Hu people who were indoctrinated by the Han etiquette system and changed from barbarism to civilization, and there were also Han people who were hu people and released their wildness. One of them was Gao Yang, the first emperor of Northern Qi, who was born in 526 and was originally a general under Emperor Xiaojing of Eastern Wei.
In 549, Gao Yang forced Emperor Xiaojing of Eastern Wei to give him the titles of Chancellor of Eastern Wei and King of Qi on the pretext of investigating the assassination of Gao Cheng, the Chancellor of Eastern Wei. Only a year later, Gao Yang established himself as the first emperor of Northern Qi and coerced Emperor Xiaojing into giving up the throne. Yes, Northern Qi was the most evil dynasty in ancient Chinese history.
And Gao Yang, who started this dynasty, was only 24 years old at the time, and Yu Xuan Ang, but compared to the handsome and dashing father Gao Huan, the beautiful man's brother Gao Cheng, and the nephew of One of the "Four Beautiful Men" in China, Gao Changgonglai, the nephew of Lanling Wang, the Gao Yang of the Gao family was just not proud, but the perverted genes in the family, Gao Yang was not inherited at all.
Gao Yang's body was left with the blood of the Han people, and at the beginning of the founding of the country, he exerted great efforts to govern, persuade the peasants to rejuvenate their studies, and eliminate the rule of officials, and fought bravely and fiercely, which shocked the people of the Western Regions and northern Hu, and was called a heroic tianzi by the Turks, and was once known as a generation of British lords. But he was also tyrannical and bloodthirsty, treating human life like grass, slaughtering the city and plundering women.
After a long time of stability in Northern Qi, the murderous qi in Gao Yang's body had nowhere to be released, and he actually beat his mother, shot his mother-in-law with arrows, and allowed his soldiers to slaughter babies for fun, so that the Zhanghe River became a red river. But this was not the most terrible thing about Gao Yanggan.
In 555, Gao Yang heard that Xue Concubine of Gao Yue, the King of Zhaowu, could sing and dance and was very beautiful, so he killed Gao Yue and took Xue Concubine captive. Gao Yang saw that Concubine Xue was indeed a great beauty who fell into the country and the city, and she was especially pleasing to people, and she was so happy that she stayed with her day and night, like glue paint.
Gao Yang's love for Xue Concubine had reached his bones, so he wanted to get everything from her, so he began to remember that Xue Concubine was once Gao Yue's concubine. After three rounds of wine in a day, Gao Yang invited guests, and after three rounds of wine, he looked at Xue Concubine next to him and remembered this matter, and suddenly grabbed the dagger and killed Xue Concubine.
When the guests were staying like wooden chickens, they saw Gao Yang dismemberIng Xue Concubine in public and crying at the same time. Finally, Gao Yang took out Xue Concubine's leg bone, made it into a lute, and sang "sadly". The guests were terrified, afraid to speak, creepy, but none of them dared to get up and leave the table, and all witnessed the process.
If it is said that "human bones" can still be used as a punishment and some people imitate it, then Gao Yang's "human bone pipa" is completely crazy behavior. Moreover, although Gao Yang was a Han Chinese, he insisted on implementing national oppression, engaging in xianbei privileges, honoring Hu, and also humbled his own name, and the royal relations of the entire Northern Qi were as chaotic as those of the Hu people, and one term was more brutal and faint than the other. Fortunately, such an evil dynasty lasted only 28 years and was destroyed by the Northern Zhou in 577 AD.