In the history of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, no one knows or knows about Gao Changgong, the king of Lanling. He is not only brave and good at fighting, but also amazing to the world. It is said that his appearance is more handsome than that of a woman, and he even wears a mask to show his mystery during battle. Therefore, he became one of the four beautiful men in history, leaving many spaces for future generations to associate and imagine. Interested readers can follow the editor to read.
In ancient times, a man had three temperaments: white and clean, sunny and healthy, and particularly masculine. He was not only outstanding in appearance and heroic and invincible, but also of noble origin and loyal to the country. His story has been written in countless plays, and his image has been portrayed in plays of various eras. He will forever become a legend, as fascinating and elusive as his name. This man is none other than King Gao Changgong of Lanling, one of the four most praised beautiful men in history.
Speaking of which, King Lanling's family is a strange existence, as one of the Northern Qi royal families, he was actually born in a "perverted family". Because most of the people in the entire royal family of Northern Qi, except for Gao Huan, the founder of Northern Qi, were very manic and did not pay attention to etiquette at all.
Although Gao Changgong does not live solely by beauty, he is definitely a beautiful man with outstanding appearance. In addition, he has a noble character and a fierce ability to charge into battle. But unfortunately, these doomed him to a tragic end.
Gao Changgong's father was Gao Huan's eldest son, Gao Cheng, who almost completely controlled the Eastern Wei regime during Gao Huan's reign. Gao Cheng rightfully inherited this power and began to deliberately usurp the throne. When he was about to accept the Zen concession of the Eastern Wei emperor, he died unexpectedly due to the assassination of others. Therefore, the throne fell into the hands of Gao Cheng's younger brother Gao Yang. Since then, the Northern Qi emperor has also entered a perverted era.
Nevertheless, Gao Yang treated his nephew Gao Changgong well, made him the Prince of Lanling, and familiarized him with government affairs to begin his political career. After Gao Yang's death, his cousin Gao Yin ascended the throne. Gao Yin also paid great attention to his nephew, and made him the King of Lanling, which became his exclusive title.
Unfortunately, Gao Yin was replaced by his uncle not long after. Gao Yin's uncle Gao Yan is also Gao Changgong's uncle, this Gao Yan is also a pervert, and actually directly kills people in the court. However, compared to Gao Yang, he is still a normal person, he discovered the ability of King Lanling during his reign and began to use King Lanling to command the army, but he also began the tragic fate of King Lanling.
When Gao Zhan was the emperor of Northern Qi, King Lanling did something that was famous for a long time.
At that time, Northern Zhou led troops to attack Northern Qi with the Turks, and Gao Changgong led his army to fight the Turks and defeated the Turks. He then continued his campaign against Northern Zhou with his army, including 500 men who went to rescue Kim Yongcheng.
At that time, Jin Yongcheng was besieged by the Northern Zhou army, and Gao Changgong only brought 500 cavalry, which is logically impossible to fight. But although this tall Changgong has a beautiful face like a woman, his combat strength and courage are really big husbands. In order to quickly break through the large array and defeat the siege of Jin Yongcheng by Northern Zhou, King Lanling brought a mask specially made by him.
The pattern depicted on this mask is very vicious, and the reason why Gao Changgong wants to do this is because he is worried that his own face is too soft and will not be able to intimidate the enemy by rushing into the enemy's large array.
Sure enough, this time he brought a mask into the formation, and the enemy suddenly saw a fierce general rushing in with a very terrible mask, and the left and right rushes could not resist at all, so soon the Northern Zhou army outside the city was gouged through by his more than 500 people. However, King Lanling hit under the gate of Jin Yong City, but the Northern Qi defenders inside did not dare to open the gate.
They also didn't know where this masked warrior came from, how dare they easily open the city gates?
So Gao Changgong unveiled his mask, and for a while a beautiful face was exposed in front of the Northern Qi army. King Lanling's beauty was unknown to anyone in Northern Qi, so the defenders on the city tower called long live and shot arrows to cover King Lanling. In the end, with the personal courage of King Lanling, he completely defeated the Northern Zhou army outside the city, and Jin Yongcheng was relieved.
Such a classic battle, which was later adapted into various legends, and also wrote a song and dance to commemorate King Lanling, which is the famous Lanling King Entrance Song.
After that, Gao Changgong, the king of Lanling, led the Northern Qi army to defeat the invasions of the Turks and Northern Zhou many times, and was successively made the Duke of Taibao, Dasima, Julu Commandery, Changle Commandery, Leping Commandery, and Gaoyang Commandery. In addition, the king of Lanling ruled the army well, and he did everything personally, sharing happiness and hardship with the soldiers, even if he got a few melon fruits, he was also divided with the soldiers, and he was deeply loved by the soldiers. But it also laid the seeds for his death.
After his cousin Gao Wei ascended the throne, he often heard stories of King Lanling's breaking of the formation. Gao Wei was quite curious about this, when King Lanling attacked thousands of troops, why was he not afraid of being hurt by others? So he asked Gao Changgong.
Gao Changgong didn't think much about it, he told Gao Wei: State affairs are our family affairs, and I didn't think about my life and death at all on the battlefield. The focus of Gao Changgong's words is the second half, that is, when he fought the war, he did not expect to be injured or sacrificed on the battlefield.
Who knew that his cousins were concerned about the first half of the sentence, Gao Changgong said that state affairs were his family affairs.
When Emperor Gao Wei began to suspect that Gao Changgong, the king of Lanling, might be interested in seizing the throne, he hesitated in the history of the Northern Qi royal family's struggle for the throne. During this tortuous history, relatives often resorted to killer usurpation tactics to seize the throne. Therefore, Gao Wei began to resent Gao Changgong.
In traditional Chinese Confucian ethics, "Fight the brothers of the tiger, go into battle father and son" is a wise saying, and special attention is paid to the blood relationship between father and son and brother. For Gao Wei, Gao Changgong is a cousin of the same grandfather and is extremely close in blood. Therefore, it is natural to believe and rely on Him. However, the royal rules are different from others. Here, "common sense" creates a paradox: the closer the blood relationship with the emperor, the more necessary it is to guard against strikes.
Ascending the throne is not an easy task, it requires great courage and strength. Therefore, even if you are a member of the royal family, if you have mediocre abilities and useless people, you can escape and save your life. However, Gao Changgong was a prominent member of the Northern Qi royal family, and his martial arts were extremely prestigious, and even the enemy Northern Zhou respected him. Gao Changgong has excellent ability, military power in his hands, and his achievements are high. Therefore, Gao Changgong's tragic fate cannot be avoided. This creates a second paradox: the more outstanding the courtier's ability and the greater the merit, the more he needs to be guarded against by the emperor, and it tends to end badly.
Gao Changgong is not only talented, but also of high moral character. He loved his soldiers, and "whenever he got a delicious meal, even if it was only a few melons and a few fruits, he had to share it with the soldiers." He was not greedy for money, and "all the gold and bonds were burned." He is not obsessed with women. Even though the emperor bought him twenty concubines, he only symbolically accepted one of them. However, these qualities of sincerity are understood in the eyes of Cusson as something else: if money and beauty cannot bind you, then I am afraid that only my throne can attract you. If you don't die, I can't be at ease! This is the third paradox: the more virtuous and influential the courtier, the more fearful and uneasy the emperor is, and he must be removed to feel at ease.
Being too powerful leads to being above the emperor, which is one of the "three taboos" of being a courtier, that is, "talent deceives the lord, merit is high, and power overwhelms the lord". Unfortunately, Gao Changgong has all three, and the consequences are self-evident.
Soon after, Gao Changgong realized this. As a result, he felt extremely terrified. On the one hand, he damaged his reputation by accepting bribes, and on the other hand, withdrew from imperial politics as much as possible, pretended to be sick at home and did not go out again. However, it is a pity that the emperor still has not forgotten him.
In 573, Gao Wei sent an envoy to deliver poisoned wine to King Lanling, who was deeply saddened by the fact that he did not understand that he had been loyal to the country and killed the enemy, and when he was famous, he retreated bravely, but in exchange for this result.
His wife Zheng Shi persuaded him to enter the palace to explain to Gao Wei in person, but King Lanling, who was silently dead, had no illusions and died directly at the age of thirty-two. A generation of beautiful male celebrities will die of jade.