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A previous article wrote about Gao Cheng, when Gao Cheng was in power in the past, one day with a group of subordinates passed by the street, and people were in awe of his demeanor, but in the crowd, one of the acolytes shook his head and said: "His blessing is too thin, not the appearance of a human lord." The friend next to him kicked the acolyte to make him quieter, and then asked curiously: "Then who do you think can be the master?" The acolytes looked at it for a moment, and secretly pointed to a person and said, "Just the one next to Sangkoku." The friend glanced up and scoffed, "Isn't that Xiangguo's younger brother Gao Yang?" I heard that he is fifteen years old, and he can't even wipe his snot, you look at the two snot he hangs, can he be the master? ”
This is a small story recorded in the history books, Gao Yang is Gao Huan's second son, Gao Cheng's own brother, compared with his father and eldest brother who can eat by his face and praise his appearance in serious history books, Gao Yang is not good-looking, and seems to suffer from diseases such as psoriasis, and his body seems to have scales, which is getting more and more ugly.
His mother Lou Zhaojun, who can see Gao Huan guarding the city gate at a glance, is an absolute face control, so he doesn't like his second son who doesn't look good, but when Gao Yang was young, he performed quite well, "sharp in speech, just decisive in his senses", is an excellent talent, and also contributed the idiom of "quick knife to cut chaos". Gao Huan once made a mess for his sons to find a way to untie, those sons were in a hurry, they couldn't find a way, only Gao Yang pulled out his saber and cut the mess, and said loudly: "Chaos should be cut off, why bother?" ”
Gao Huan also gave his sons some soldiers and horses to let them go out to do errands, and he ordered Peng Le to take the soldiers to feign an attack, and the other sons were very afraid, only Gao Yang fought back, and even after Peng Le dismounted to explain the situation, Gao Yang did not adhere to it, and asked the soldiers to tie up Peng Le before returning to the city.
When Gao Cheng went to Luoyang to stir up the storm, Gao Yang stayed in Jinyang, and if Gao Huan personally conscripted, then Gao Yang was equivalent to the spokesperson of the Gao family in Jinyang, and his status was slightly similar to Gao Cheng.
It seems that "I am young, I have not grown up", as he grows older, Gao Yang's intelligence level has fallen off a cliff, he has become more and more unresponsive, his speech has become more and more articulate, his behavior has become more and more woody, and he has been fiddling with handicrafts at home all day, making some fun but useless gadgets. Fools naturally no one can afford to look at, even Gao Cheng, the elder brother, can't look at his younger brother.
Gao Yang sometimes bought good things for his wife, Gao Cheng would directly ask for them, Gao Yang's wife was unwilling to give them, Gao Yang would also persuade: "This thing is just bought, brother wants it, give it to him, don't be stingy." Gao Cheng looked down on him even more because of this, and often said to people: "My younger brother can be rich, I really don't know what those photo books say." ”
Gao Yang's wife is beautiful and temperamental, and was favored by Gao Cheng, taking advantage of a lot in the open and in secret, many people talked about it, Gao Yang turned a deaf ear to this, making everyone look at him even more, thinking that he was a real fool.
However, it was such a "fool" who, after Gao Cheng was assassinated, immediately led his men to rush to the place where Gao Cheng died, and all the assassins who did not have time to escape in the future were taken down, executed on the spot, and then walked out and said to the people outside: "There are slaves who dare to rebel without knowing death, fortunately, my brother is only injured, and there is no big problem." Saying that, he instructed his cronies to enter the house, carried Gao Cheng's body onto the bed board, and carried it out with a cover of clothes, and he was still pretending to talk to Gao Cheng on the side, showing that Gao Cheng was not dead. Then he distributed generals and officials either in the middle of the dynasty or to local areas to suppress possible disturbances, and after the distribution, he himself entered the dynasty.
The incident happened in a hurry, many people saw Gao Cheng's body, even though Gao Yang tried his best to cover up, the news of his brother's death still spread, and Emperor Yuan Shan couldn't help but be overjoyed when he heard about it: "Gao Cheng died today, but God let power return to my hands." Before the words fell, the outside came to report that Gao Yang asked for a meeting, only to see him enter the palace with his head held high, followed by hundreds of warriors, all holding blades in their hands, as if in battle, Gao Yang said to the emperor: "I have something at home, and I need to go back to Jinyang." Yuan Shanjian did not answer, Gao Yang had already stood up by himself, turned to leave, Yuan Shanjian suddenly lost his color, and when Gao Yang went out, he cried to the people around him: "This person doesn't seem to be easy to deal with, I'm just afraid that my time of death is coming." ”
Returning to Jinyang from Luoyang, the "fool" Gao Yang summoned the proud old ministers of civilization and martial arts, and talked about each other, and the words were amazing, which shocked those people, and when implementing the administrative order, when encountering some difficulties, he would also immediately make a judgment, and there was never any delay, and now everyone knew that Gao Yang was Taoguang Yang before.
It was a few months before Gao Yang's power was recognized by the Eastern Wei dynasty, and he officially announced Gao Cheng's death, and after the funeral, he succeeded to the position of prime minister and king of Qi. Gao Dezheng, a close confidant, was appointed as the secretary and consulted on major matters.
Earlier, Gao Cheng was only one step away from the emperor's throne, and after his death, the imperial court was in turmoil, and when everyone found that Gao Yang's control was not inferior to Gao Cheng, represented by Xu Zhicai, the doctor of Jin Ziguanglu, and others, they thought that the time had come. So someone wrote a book, saying that this year, judging by the stars, there should be a big change. According to nursery rhymes spread in the city, some people said that Gao Yang was the emperor.
In front of the imperial throne, Gao Yang's heart moved, he went to find his mother, the original Empress Lou, now Concubine Lou, speaking of this, Concubine Lou said: "Your father is like a dragon, your brother is like a tiger, they are so talented, they have been courtiers all their lives, have you surpassed them?" Want to covet the throne? Gao Yang did not dare to compare with his father and brother, so he silently came out and told Xu Zhicai about this matter, and Xu Zhicai said: "It is precisely because you are slightly worse than the two of them that you should ascend to the throne as soon as possible." If you procrastinate, I am afraid that you will have two hearts. And nursery rhymes and pictures all indicate that you are destined, what else to hesitate? Gao Yang still couldn't make up his mind, so he used the old example of the Wei Kingdom and cast the bronze man.
The casting was very successful, Gao Yang decided to take action, and Gao Yang put on an angry posture towards the ministers who opposed: "I don't need you to worry about my own affairs, aren't you afraid of being exterminated?" These words frightened the ministers, and no one dared to speak up for the emperor.
The lonely emperor was unable to compete with the Gao family, and the edict of the Zen throne was sent to Gao Yang, who ascended the built high platform, accepted the courtship of hundreds of officials, officially announced his accession to the throne, changed the name of the country to "Qi", historically called "Northern Qi", and the year name was Tianbao (550 AD).
Gao Yang changed taxes, let the rich pay taxes, the poor serve, build schools, and advocate literary style; reforming administrative divisions and eliminating tens of thousands of redundant officials; Enhance the power of supervisory officials, and exert their own strong ability, can quickly judge impeachment between ministers, listen to the opinions of many parties, and correct their own mistakes; emancipating slaves, striking at the Xianbei nobility and gatekeepers, giving the imperial court popular support and more sources of taxation; re-made new currencies to speed up domestic economic circulation; The original law was further revised into the Northern Qi Law, which was an important code of law in the Chinese legal system and the basis of the legal system of the Sui and Tang dynasties.
The news of the change of regime in the east spread to various places, Yuwen Tai raised troops in the name of avenging the Wei state clan family, Gao Yang personally led the troops to resist, when the two sides faced each other, Yuwen Tai saw the neat appearance of the Northern Qi army on the opposite side, and sighed: "Gao Huan has such a son, although he is still alive." Seeing no gap, he had to lead his troops back, and Northern Qi took the opportunity to expand its power to the west, and officials in Luoyang and other places turned to Northern Qi. Gao Yang attacked further south, taking advantage of the chaos caused by Houjing to capture large areas of the Huai River Valley.
For the nomads in the north, Gao Yang also attacked hard, he personally led troops to defeat the Xi tribe in Dai County, and in the following year he crossed the mountains, shared happiness and hardship with the soldiers, traveled thousands of miles north, defeated the powerful Khitan and Turks in a row, and the troops reached the north of Shuozhou, capturing no less than 200,000 enemy soldiers and hundreds of thousands of livestock.
After a year of rest, Gao Yang led troops again, attacked Shanhu, killed more than 10,000 enemies in the first battle, and successively defeated the rebellious Rouran tribe, capturing tens of thousands.
Beginning in the third year of Tianbao (552), Gaoyang defeated the Xi tribe in the north, Pingshan Hu in the west, the Khitan in the northeast, and Rouran in the northwest, and attacked Huainan in the south, extending its power from present-day Inner Mongolia to the north bank of the Yangtze River.
Moreover, in terms of culture, when Western Wei also forced Han officials to change their surnames, such as the two later emperors, Yang Jian's family was once changed to "Puliuru", and Li Yuan's family was once changed to "Daye", and Northern Qi was able to organize scholars to complete the writing of the Book of Wei, which can be included in one of the twenty-four histories.
At that time, Gao Yang "threw a cup and Western Wei was terrified, and Northern Hu was alarmed", received tributes from all directions, and was known as the "heroic son of heaven", and his vast land, large population, prosperous army, and large amount of food and grass all ranked first among the three kingdoms, as if it had the momentum of annexing the world.
However, history has taken a sharp turn.
After leveling the Hu tribe that had been entangled with the imperial court for many years, Gao Yang gradually indulged in wine. Above the court, Gao Yang has a cauldron and a saw, he likes to kill as soon as he drinks, and he drinks from morning to night, which leads to him killing people from morning to night, the palace eunuchs have to die under him every day, and finally everyone is afraid, the imperial court will send the condemned prisoners to the palace for Gao Yang's use, if someone is lucky and does not die for three months, then they can be released, but there are not many criminals with this luck.
In addition to killing, Gao Yang was more lustful than his father and brother, and he even gathered women from his family and the previous Eastern Wei royal family into the palace to let him have fun, and even his brother Gao Cheng's wife did not escape. These things were learned by his mother, Empress Dowager Lou, who called Gao Yang to the front, shouted scolding, and hit Gao Yang with the wooden staff in her hand: "You can't learn from your father and brother." Gao Yang was furious, turned around and ran out, and shouted loudly: "I want to marry this old woman to Hu Ren." Empress Dowager Lou was furious when her son said this, and stopped talking and laughing in front of others.
After a while, Gao Yang regretted it, went to ask his mother for sin, Empress Dowager Lou was still angry, refused to look at him squarely, Gao Yang stood for a long time without anyone to take care of, felt bored, returned to his palace to pick up wine to drink hard, drunk and went to ask his mother for sin, Empress Dowager Lou still ignored him, Gao Yang actually overturned the chair made by Empress Dowager Lou in anger, and threw her mother to the ground, Empress Dowager Lou at this age, was so fell, she fell on the spot, she was even more angry, and drove Gao Yang out.
Not to mention his own mother, even his queen's mother was treated the same. One day Gao Yang went to visit the queen's mother-in-law's house, and the mother-in-law came out to greet him, Gao Yang suddenly bent his bow and took an arrow, and an arrow shot out, right in the cheek of the mother-in-law, the mother-in-law was taken aback and asked what was the reason? Gao Yang scolded: "I didn't even know the Empress Dowager when I was drunk, what do you old woman have to ask me?" Saying that, he took out the horsewhip and kept whipping, beating his mother-in-law beyond recognition, before laughing and leaving.
He took a fancy to a kabuki in the capital again, included her in the palace, and soon hooked up with the sister of the kabuki, and even the sister was more favored than the younger sister, once Gao Yang went to his sister's house to drink, being his sister's favor and arrogance, and wanted to ask his father for an official position of Situ, Gao Yang was not confused this time, and said angrily: "An official position of Situ's level, where can it be given casually?" Gao Yang was furious, and asked people to bring the saw they carried and sawed her alive. During one of the outings, he remembered that this kabuki seemed to have an affair with a minister of the imperial court, and immediately beheaded her. When the ministers and him were happy, they suddenly took out the first rank and threw it in front of everyone, and the ministers were shocked, and Gao Yang took out the body of the kabuki and dismembered it, and made a lute from the thigh bones to play while drinking, and sang loudly: "It's hard to get a beautiful person." A few days later, he buried the woman he had killed with his own hands, crying with great sorrow.
In addition to the pursuit of women, Gao Yang also began to dislike the palace is too simple, so he recruited 300,000 craftsmen in the country to build a new palace, the palace is as high as 27 zhang, the craftsmen are careful to work on the top of the palace, you have to tie yourself with a rope to dare to do things, Gao Yang is not afraid at all, walking back and forth above the palace, others are very scared, he is very happy, running around for a long time before coming down.
In addition to lecherous and extravagant, his favorite thing is to kill, go out on weekdays, like to wear armor equipment, and hold weapons in his hands, once he met a woman who looked clever, Gao Yang asked: "What kind of emperor do you think the emperor is today?" The woman immediately replied, "I heard that the mad is not like a son of heaven." Gao Yang attacked on the spot and slashed the woman to the ground.
Above the main hall of the palace, it was said earlier that Gao Yang put saws and axes in it, often killing people, he killed not only close attendants and prisoners, but also imperial ministers, several officials were killed innocently, even the prime minister Yang Su, whom he valued, was whipped several times, and even used a knife to scratch Yang Su's stomach, making the momentum to peel the skin, or the people on the side dissuaded him to keep the prime minister.
A minister wrote a letter reprimanding Gao Yang and Xia Wei Shanglun as a grade emperor, Gao Yang was furious, tied the minister into the water and drowned half dead, pulled it out and asked: "You say that I am the same as Xia Wei Shangling?" The minister said squarely, "I'm afraid Your Majesty is not as good as the two of them." Gao Yang said with a smile: "There are such people in the world, I know what Guan Longxiao and Bi Gan look like." "Let the minister go, and within two days the minister was going to consult again, and before he could open his mouth, Gao Yang ordered him to be killed.
One year a comet appeared in the sky, and the official who looked at the sky said that this indicated that it was necessary to get rid of the old and make a new one, and Gao Yang was worried that this was a sign of a change of dynasty, he thought of the only dynasty in Zhongxing, and asked a Wei state next to him: "How do you say that Emperor Guangwu of Han did Zhongxing back then?" That Wei Guozong said, "Because Wang Mang didn't kill all of the Liu family. Gao Yang immediately ordered that all the Wei clans remaining in Northern Qi be arrested and killed, and the clan that made this suggestion was thrown into the dungeon, deprived of food for many days, and starved to death.
As many as 3,000 Wei Guozong were killed by Gao Yang in one go, the corpses were thrown into the water, and the fish in the water were changed to human flesh for breakfast, noon and dinner.
Killed the Wei state of the sect, Gao Yang was more relieved to eat and drink boldly, because the drinking was too unrestrained, he could not eat, he could only drink gruel every day, he still refused, replaced the gruel with wine, and finally fell ill, delayed for a few days, felt that he couldn't do it, called the queen and Gao Yan to the bedside, he rarely had the last sobriety, held the empress's hand and said: "People have died early, why die?" I was just worried that my son was young and could not save the throne. He said to Gao Yan again: "If you want to take the throne, I have no choice, I just hope that you will not kill my son at that time." Gao Yan was shocked, and he didn't dare to say anything. Gao Yang entrusted the crown prince to the imperial courtiers, and after the instructions, Gao Yang died of illness at the age of Chinese New Year's Eve.
This emperor can be described as a very special one in the ranks of emperors, when he first took the throne, his ruling measures were quite good, the national strength of Northern Qi developed rapidly, he led troops to the northern countries many times, including Rouran Khitan Goryeo are his defeated generals, he also ordered that insects and trees and fish, turtles, shrimp and crabs should not be damaged at a specific time every year, which can be said to be the strategy of ecological sustainable development thousands of years ago, and his attitude towards corruption is very resolute, as long as it is found is a dead word, Under his rule, the Northern Qi dynasty was a court with few corrupt officials. In the late period of his reign, Gao Yang used alcohol to play crazy and act recklessly, making the imperial court a mess, giving ambitious people a chance and giving the other two countries time to catch up.
Gao Yang also has a characteristic, he especially likes to measure words, he is still one of the masters, when he first took the throne, everyone discussed the national number, most people said that the year name "Tianbao" is good, Gao Yang smiled: "It's really good, but don't you think that these two words are only ten for one person when taken apart?" You mean I've only been in power for ten years. ”
Once he went out with the empress and saw an old Taoist, Gao Yang asked him how long he could be an emperor, the old Taoist priest pinched his fingers and said thirty, the queen was quite happy, thirty years of emperors is a lot, Gao Yang is also very happy, said you look at me and say that I can be an emperor for ten years, seeing the queen look surprised, Gao Yang explained that thirty refers to the tenth day of October of the tenth year, adding up to exactly thirty. Counting up, he reigned for ten years, and his death really happened to be October 10th.
Only a year after Gao Yang's death, his younger brother Gao Yan staged a coup d'état, deposed Gao Yin, and became the third emperor of Northern Qi.