What is history: it is the echo of the past to the future, the reflection of the future on the past. - Hugo
On June 22, 570, a baby boy was born, and His father Gao Wei, who was the emperor, was very happy and immediately announced a general amnesty for the world, and hundreds of officials inside and outside the imperial court were promoted to second-level official positions. Speaking of this, it is a very normal story, but you continue to look down - this batch of "civil and military officials" also includes a few horses, as well as dogs running around in the main hall, these are Gao Wei's pets, they not only enjoy official positions, but also have the same treatment as the ministers, today, we will talk about the story of this absurd emperor.
His name was Gao Wei, born in 556, the second son of Emperor Wucheng of Qi, Gao Zhan, who ascended the throne at the age of 9 and became the fifth emperor of Northern Qi, Qi Hou. Perhaps inheriting the "fine bloodline" of the family, gao Wei acted arbitrarily, absurdly, appointed adulterers, listened to rumors, and built a number of luxurious palaces on a large scale, adding officials and knighthoods to the animals, in short, he did all the bad things he could do.
Let's briefly talk about the "fine bloodline" of Gao Wei's family, first of all, Gao Yang, the founding emperor of Northern Qi, killed concubines, made his corpse into a pipa, and often beat and insulted his mother; then the third emperor Gao Yan, who killed his brother Gao Yang's son (Gao Yin, who was killed just after succeeding to the throne), seized the throne; the fourth Gao Zhan, killed Gao Yan's son, seized the throne, defiled his sister-in-law, and beat his sister-in-law's son alive... The above 3 are all slaughtered and adulterous, and the high latitude that inherits their bloodline is even more than that.
As mentioned above, Gao Wei is a person who is absurd all day long, and naturally does not like to listen to the advice of the opposite ear, so a large number of villains have the opportunity to say some flattering words in his ear every day, Gao Wei is very happy, and directly sealed zu Jue, who is "the most able to speak", as Guanglu Doctor, and later specially named as the Duke of Yan County.
Looking at the emperor's deeds, a person finally couldn't help but stand out, he was the famous Northern Qi general Huo Luguang, this person was brave and good at war, strict in governing the army, just and righteous, defeated the Northern Zhou invasion many times, made great contributions to the country, galloped on the battlefield for decades, almost lost the battle, was considered one of the "seventy-two generals in ancient times", this great general naturally did not look at the behavior of such a villain as Zu Jue.
Therefore, he often rebuked Zu Jue in front of everyone, scolding: "If people use power, the country will be destroyed!" He also told Emperor Gao Wei to stay away from him immediately, Zu Hu was a very careful person, naturally he would not forget Huo Luguang's "humiliation" of him, but because Huo Luguang had a heavy army in his hands, he did not dare to fight with him, so he ran to blow the wind in Gao Wei's ear every day, saying how bad Huo Luguang was, and perhaps he would rebel.
Gao Wei originally hated this great general who accused him every day, and after listening to Zu Jue's rumors, he was even more jealous of him, but he didn't know how to get rid of Huo Luguang, and the fierce Zu Wei immediately offered a plan, saying: "Your Majesty sent someone to tell him that you want to invite him to go to Dongshan to visit tomorrow, so give him a horse, Huo Luguang will definitely enter the palace to thank you, and then you will take him down in one fell swoop!" After Gao Wei listened, he nodded continuously.
Sure enough, after receiving the news, Huo Luguang rushed to the palace to thank him, Zu Hu had already made an ambush in the palace and captured Huo Luguang, Gao Wei immediately ordered him to be killed, and put on the big hat of "rebellion" and cut off the Huo Luguang family, this news shocked the whole country, and the common people wept for Huo Luguang. (Soon after, Gao Wei killed the Lanling King))
Even when the Zhou Wu Emperor Yuwen Yong heard the news of Huo Luguang's death, he was very emotional, such a great general with outstanding military achievements was actually treated like this by The Emperor of Xia, but it was good, once Huo Luguang died, there was no one in Northern Qi who could fight against him, and 5 years later, Northern Zhou destroyed Northern Qi, and Yuwen Yong specially posthumously gave Huo Luguang the title of Shangzhu Guo and Chongguo Gong.