Review
In the eyes of many historians, the Wei and Jin Dynasties and the Southern and Northern Dynasties were a turbulent and dark era, although there were also periods of great divisions such as the Spring and Autumn Warring States and the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms in history, but no dynasty could achieve such absurdity as the Southern and Northern Dynasties period.
In such a dark period, the dignity of the Han people as the lord of the Central Plains was completely trampled, and although the Southern and Northern Dynasties tended to be institutionally stable, they followed the Xianbei culture advocated by the rulers in culture; the Han people were the objects of slaughter and oppression here, and their culture and their dignity were completely buried in the dirt, and the rulers of the Xianbei tribe then trampled it with their feet.
If this cannot prove the darkness of those years, then the short period of 28 years since the establishment and demise of the Northern Qi Dynasty has completely witnessed the absurd actions of a small number of regimes after ruling the Central Plains, just as a poor child suddenly got hundreds of millions of dollars of property will always produce a retaliatory consumer psychology, but the 6 heavenly sons during the reign of the Northern Qi Dynasty used this despicable psychology on people.
The Northern Qi Dynasty did all the ridiculous things
The first emperor of the Northern Qi Dynasty was named Gao Yang, and it is reasonable to say that successive founding monarchs had a courage and ambition to conquer the world in their hearts, and Gao Yang was naturally no exception; but this ambition was completely dissipated in the second year of his succession, because he found that he could not fight other forces at all.
Northern Qi's territory is so big, let alone conquered abroad, it is good to ensure that it will not be crushed. So Gao Yang gave in, but he vented his dissatisfaction with this world on his people.
How ridiculous is this emperor? During his reign, he never paid attention to political affairs, and every day he woke up drunk and drunk, and then went to the street to flirt with the women of the good family, and when he saw the beautiful and beautiful, he was directly arrested and taken to the palace; where there was a little bit of an emperor atmosphere, it was most appropriate to say that he was a hooligan.
What is even more shocking is that Gao Yang has a serious violent tendency, and he directly stabbed Aifei Xue shi with a knife after getting drunk.
After waking up drunk, Gao Yang did not have the slightest remorse, but laughed at this and made Xue's bones into a pipa for his concubines to play. We can imagine what kind of life the people of Northern Qi lived under the rule of this kind of king.
Later, Gao Yang died young, and it is estimated that the lack of morality did a desperate damage to Yang Shou, and anyway, it was northern Qi's turn to take over his younger brother Gao Zhan.
This Gao Zhan was even more than that, he was even more desperate than his brother Gao Yang, during his reign Gao Zhan used the power in his hands to indiscriminately kill the ministers of the DPRK, these ministers did not have any mistakes, but Gao Zhan's feelings were funny, poisoning, assassination and other behaviors repeatedly.
Later, Gao Zhan got tired of playing, and it was estimated that the ministers were almost killed, and he began to extend his hand to his relatives again. He designed to assassinate his own nephew, just because there was rumor that his nephew might want to steal his throne, but at that time, the little nephew was only 7 years old, what could he grab?
This excuse is merely a means of covering up his perverted psyche.
After his nephew's death, it was the turn of his sister-in-law, the concubine of the previous emperor Gao Yang, who forced his sister-in-law to give birth to him and later put her to death. Like his elder brother Gao Yang, Gao Zhan was a short-lived emperor, and the Northern Qi Dynasty ushered in a third monarch, his son Gao Wei.
Humble culture cannot govern the country
Gao Wei inherited the "fine blood" of the old Gao family, and during his reign he did not know how to employ people, nor did he know how to recognize people, and he used whomever obeyed, and he used whomever knew how to flatter. The key is that this man's brain is not good, there are so many official positions in the imperial court, he does not give to the ministers, but to the cattle.
For example, the leopard who paid tribute from Fanbang was called "Mighty General", and the pet dog he raised was called "Right Waiter", but he did not know whether his "Mighty General" would help him or eat him when he was in danger.
And that's not all, Gao Wei likes to build villages in the vast palace, and he plays role-playing and crawls around the village every day, kneeling for food. Sometimes when he was tired of playing, he would find fun from the eunuchs around him, lock the eunuchs in a large vat full of scorpions, and see the twisted faces of the eunuchs, Gao Wei laughed at himself for pleasure.
Fortunately, Gao Wei's various extreme rules did not last long.
In 575 AD, the Northern Zhou sent troops directly to the capital of Northern Qi, and the Northern Qi Dynasty, which had been ho ho for three generations, had long since become an empty shell, where there was still a little combat ability. Gao Wei fell from the throne in fright when he heard that the enemy had killed him, and he had wanted to go south to other countries to seek the protection of the tribes, but on the way, he was caught by the oncoming Northern Zhou army, and Gao Wei could only announce his surrender, and in this way, the Northern Qi Dynasty, which had plagued the people for 28 years, finally perished.
What is the reason why the three generations of Tianzi are doing ridiculous things? This has a lot to do with the slave Han people at the beginning of the founding of the Northern Qi Dynasty and the boycott of Han culture.
In fact, the Han culture can have a long history in the land of China, which in itself shows that it is reasonable enough; but the rulers of Northern Qi did not care about these, they still followed the Xianbei culture after the founding of the country. This Xianbei culture is homologous to the Xiongnu, which is simply the cultural heritage of the northern nomads.
This kind of culture is naturally enough to raise the 30,000-50,000 ethnic minorities of the Xianbei people, but when they take over the Central Plains, they have to face tens of millions of people, then the drawbacks of the Xianbei culture will come out, if the country is managed as a tribe, and it is still accustomed to inheriting the barbaric psychology of the safari, how can the country be rich and how can the people be healthy?
epilogue
The biggest charm of Han culture lies in its unique "inclusiveness", which allows the peoples living in the Central Plains to coexist harmoniously and live in an orderly unified society.
However, the Humble Culture of the Northern Qi Dynasty did not have any tolerance, they rejected the Han culture, but instead ruled the country with wildness, this idea brewed the absurdity of the three generations of Northern Qi emperors, but they also suffered due consequences: Northern Qi has been nailed to the column of shame of history for only 28 years, and it has been nailed to the column of historical shame and become an eternal outlier.