In 546, Gao Huan, a powerful minister of Eastern Wei, led an army of 100,000 men to attack the Western Wei military stronghold of Yubi (玉璧, in present-day southwestern Jishan County, southwestern Shanxi), but suffered a major defeat and 70,000 troops. On the way back to Jinyang, the army rumored that Gao Huan was killed by an arrow. Gao Huan reluctantly supported the sick banquet generals, and while ordering the general Yelü Jin to sing the "Song of Shule", he also greatly boosted the hearts of the army. This is the first time that the Song of The Narrative appears in the history books.
Thorn LeChuan, under the Yin Mountains. Tencel Vault, cage cover four fields. The sky is clear, the wild is vast, and the wind blows grass low to see cattle and sheep.
Back in Jinyang, within a few months, Gao Huan fell ill and died. A mess in Eastern Wei fell on gao cheng, the eldest son of 27 years old.
Gao Cheng became famous as a teenager, basically a prodigy, at the age of ten he could recruit the famous Eastern Wei general Gao Ao Cao alone, at the age of eleven he became Gao Huan's envoy to meet the emperor, at the age of twelve he married the sister of the Eastern Wei emperor Yuan Shanmi, and at the age of fifteen he entered the imperial auxiliary government, worshiped the general, and was crowned the king of Bohai. Gao Huan couldn't help but sigh: How can I give birth to such a smart son?
At the age of 21, Gao Cheng presided over a radical reform of the faltering economy of eastern Wei. The first is to cast Yong'an five baht money to benefit the world. Due to the perennial war, the currency in the hands of the people has been seriously depreciated. Coupled with the fake money minted by the private sector, the quality is poor, and the purchasing power has also declined. If this continues, the economy of Eastern Wei will have to collapse. For this reason, after consulting a large number of materials, Gao Cheng found that the most stable and frequent use in history was the five-baht coin during the Han Wudi period. He decided to carry out currency reform and re-mint five baht coins, also known as Yong'an five baht. The weight and value of the Yong'an five-baht are equal, so the currency retention rate is quite high. After this currency was issued in the Eastern Wei Dynasty, it immediately attracted the praise of the people, who were all boasting: The grand duke of the old Gao family has a conscience!
Even the Sui Dynasty's Kaihuang Five Baht was actually cast and issued with reference to Gao Cheng's Yong'an Five Baht. In addition, Gao Cheng also specially set up two official scales at the market gates of all counties and counties in the world, on which all coins can be approved for weight, so as to distinguish the authenticity, so this thing is also called the hanging scale five baht.
The second is to crack down on local tycoons and expand armaments. After the Six Towns Uprising, the people of Northern Wei were displaced and gradually became slaves of local tycoons. The number of these slaves was unclear, so the court could not tax them. Moreover, with the increasing number of displaced people, the power of local local tycoons has become larger and larger, and the confidence of fighting in groups is much harder. In this way, within the Eastern Wei Dynasty, not only did it lack a large number of people who paid taxes, but also increased the armed forces of many localities, which directly led to political instability and sharp decline in income.
To this end, Gao Cheng has repeatedly sent personnel to areas where local tycoons in Hebei are more concentrated to strictly investigate the direction of displaced people, and three moves will be completed. First of all, if it is found that there are still a large number of displaced people in these areas, then these people will be recruited to serve as soldiers in the army, and the imperial court will feed them with grain and prevent them from falling into the arms of the local tyrants. Or arrange land for them to cultivate and pay taxes. Second, if there are homeless people who have escaped or who are hiding local tycoons, then the displaced people and the local tycoons must be pulled out together to punish them. Especially the local tycoons will be confiscated by raiding their homes. Finally, with the help of this opportunity, Gao Cheng disposed of the local tycoon valves in Hebei province together. The local armed forces that were gradually emerging were wiped out.
The third is to rectify private salt. Gao Cheng directly closed the salt market, allowing private salt from the people to be sold directly to the government, only collecting a lost tax, but being able to avoid the danger of being caught, everyone must be very happy. In addition, Gao Cheng began to set up a large number of seaside salt works, making official salt occupy a decisive position in the market. For a while, I got rid of the threat of private salt.
Through a series of economic means, the economic level of Eastern Wei has increased year by year. The young Gao Cheng was also established as Gao Huan's heir because of his ability.
Gao Cheng has also made remarkable achievements in opening up the territory and expanding the territory. Gao Huan suffered a crushing defeat at the Battle of Yubi, and Hou Jing, who was guarding Jingzhou, heard that Gao Huan was no longer able to do so, and immediately planned to rebel.
Hou Jing's relationship with Gao Cheng is very poor, he once threatened: There is nothing wrong with working for Gao Huan, and working for Gao Cheng's yellow-haired boy? No way!
Therefore, as soon as Gao Huan died, Gao Cheng planned to trick Hou Jing into coming to Jinyang and slaughter him by the way. Unfortunately, Hou Jing was not deceived, and without saying a word, he raised an army to defect to Western Wei. Western Wei Yuwen Tai did not want him, so Hou Jing defected to Emperor Wu of Liang.
Emperor Wu of Liang was very happy, and he made Hou Jing the King of Henan and asked him to start an army on the Northern Expedition. As a result, Gao Cheng sent several generals who could not clean up Hou Jing, and then thought of Murong Shaozong, whom Gao Huan mentioned before his death. Under the leadership of Murong Shaozong, all the lands in Henan occupied by Hou Jing were recovered, and at the same time, Southern Liang's reinforcements were also defeated by Murong Shaozong.
During this period, Western Wei also wanted to take advantage of Gao Huan's death and Hou Jing's rebellion to come and share a piece of the pie. As a result, Gao Cheng personally led his troops and marched all the way to the military strongholds such as Hugao and Luoyang, and captured the Western Wei general Pei Kuan.
Hou Jing arrived in Southern Liang, and soon fell out with Emperor Wu of Liang, and he led his troops straight to Jiankang and launched a rebellion.
When Gao Cheng saw the civil unrest in Southern Liang, he immediately sent Xin Shu to lead his troops to the land of Lianghuai and seized a large area of land in Southern Liang. This time, Gao Cheng annexed a total of 23 states of Southern Liang, and the land of both Huai was returned to Gao Cheng, and even Shouyang, which Emperor Wu of Liang had painstakingly taken, was taken away by Gao Cheng.
However, Gao Cheng was an absurd person, not only had a leg with Gao Huan's concubine Zheng Dache, but also intended to insult Gao Zhongmi's wife, which led to the Battle of Yishan between Eastern Wei and Western Wei.
Two years after Gao Huan's death, Gao Cheng gradually secured his position as the ruler of Eastern Wei, so he easily received a three-piece set of usurpers: sword shoes to the temple, entry into the dynasty, and praise and worship. At the same time, as a great general and Xiangguo, he was crowned as the King of Qi. In fact, it is only a small step away from ascending the throne and becoming emperor.
In August 549, Gao Cheng and his ministers plotted to seize power in the Dongbai Hall of the Northern City, but unexpectedly a cook assassin came out and learned about Gao Cheng with several knives. The Assassin's name was Lan Jing.
The Southern Dynasty Liang Guoyong captured Lan Qin's son Lan Jing during a war with Eastern Wei, and coincidentally, Lan Jing was assigned to Gao Cheng's mansion as a cook.
As a father, Lan Qin naturally does not watch his son's career path become the road of the back kitchen, and let it go. Therefore, Lan Qin turned around several times to let People pass on the word to Gao Cheng, as long as you open your mouth, no matter how much money it is, I am willing to smash the pot and sell the iron to the family to raise money for you, as long as you put my son back.
Proud as Gao Cheng, as the prime minister of a country, how could he be short of money? Therefore, every time Lan Chin sent someone to ask, he decisively refused.
The professional span of dancing guns and sticks and upside-down spoon cutting piers is really a bit big, and Lan Jing himself is really not competent, not to mention that the prince has become a family slave, and the identity change has also made Lan Jing unable to pass the heart. He privately begged Gao Cheng to let him go, after all, the big prime minister's mansion did not lack him as a half-hanging cook. The result was Gao Cheng's head-on scolding, "If you talk any longer, I'll kill you!" ”
Lan Jing, who had been scolded bitterly, lit a small flame of anger in his heart. He then humiliated himself after being captured, and the white-eyed cold treatment that his father suffered to save himself, so carefully pondered, and in an instant the small flame turned into anger in his chest, and secretly made a decision in his heart, privately entangled with six people, waiting for the opportunity to fight back.
On August 8, Gao Cheng, Chen Yuankang, Yang Yan, and Cui Jishu were plotting in the hall to receive Zen, and the guards were taken away early as usual. Lan Jing took the opportunity to deliver food and arrived at the Bai Hall where Gao Cheng was deliberating.
This Gao Cheng saw that Lan Jing had come to deliver food, and while scolding him to retreat, he said to the others, "I dreamed yesterday that this slave was going to kill me with a knife, and I should get rid of him immediately." I didn't expect Gao Cheng to say a word.
As soon as Lan Jing heard Gao Cheng's words, he thought to himself, if Xiao Ye doesn't fight back again, Xiao Ye's life will be gone, and today he must get rid of Gao Cheng. Therefore, he secretly hid the short knife under the plate and once again took the opportunity to deliver food to enter the BaiTang.
Gao Cheng looked at Lan Jing, who had come in again, and the plate in his hand, and said angrily, "I didn't ask for something to be delivered, what are you going to do?" Lan Jing lifted the plate, drew the sharp knife underneath, and shouted, "I'll kill you!" ”
Gao Cheng was so frightened that he immediately got up and wanted to run, but in a hurry, he injured his foot, and seeing that Lan Jing was about to stab him with a knife, Gao Cheng climbed under the bed to avoid.
Yang Yan, who was present, ran faster than a rabbit, and he was the first to escape; Cui Jishu hid in the toilet to avoid the disaster of blood and light; and Chen Yuankang used his body to block the knife for Gao Cheng, and was stabbed several times in the chest and abdomen, and fell to the ground after the intestine spilled.
Lan Jing's six comrades rushed to the scene, and after killing the two guards who intended to rescue Gao Cheng, they and Lan Jing opened the big bed together and killed Gao Cheng, who was twenty-nine years old at the time, under the knife.
When Gao Cheng's younger brother Gao Yang heard the news, he quickly arrested the Assassins and killed Lan Jing and six of his cohorts.
When Gao Cheng died, he was only 29 years old. Many people's lives have just begun, and Gao Cheng's brilliant life has already come to an end. It's a year of great anticipation.
After Gao Cheng's death, his younger brother Gao Yang inherited his father's and brother's business. Gao Yang decisively ascended the throne as emperor and established the Northern Qi Dynasty. Gao Cheng was posthumously honored as Emperor Wenxiang of Northern Qi.
The 6 sons left by Gao Cheng all grew up peacefully and gracefully, and almost all of them were complete in both culture and martial arts. In particular, Gao Cheng's fourth son, Gao Changgong, the King of Lanling, was a famous fierce general in history and a famous handsome man in history!