Gao Huan, who grew up in the desert, his family was very poor, fortunately, his ancestors were all soldiers of the six towns, so he could have a job of eating official meals after he became an adult, but at this time, the status of the soldiers of the six towns could not be compared with the past. Tuoba Hong's previous six towns were of very high status, the most important military towns in Northern Wei, but with the decline of Ruoran and the move of Emperor Xiaowen to the south, the importance of the six towns quickly declined, and they fell from the first line of defense of Pingcheng to the third-rate role of Northern Wei.
Gao Huan, who worked in Huaishuo Town, one of the Six Towns, was actually an ordinary postman, who often traveled back and forth between Luoyang and Huaishuo Town to pass on news, and in this experience, Gao Huan saw the corruption and decline of the Northern Wei Dynasty and began to plan his future.
Gao Huan's journey of surrender
Like Liu Bang, Gao Huan, who was born with an attractive charm, was favored by Lou Zhaojun, a local lady of the big household, when he was just a postman, and when all parties were opposed, Lou Zhaojun still ignored it and married a poor boy with a dead heart.
Marrying Lou Zhaojun, Gao Huan finally got rich, he bought the first horse in his life, continued to work as a postman, and soon Yu Jing, who opposed Yuan Qi in the imperial court, was sent to Huaihuang Town, Yu Jing acted perversely in Huaihuang Town, and eventually provoked a popular rebellion, triggering a riot in Huaihuang Town, the Xiongnu broke the Six Han Tombs and then led the soldiers and people of Woye Town to open the Six Towns Uprising, and Gao Huan, who was in Huaishuo Town, also took advantage of the situation and took his brother Duan Rong and others who had been cultivated for many years to defect to the Duluo Zhou rebel army in Yanzhou.
Lou Zhaojun
However, when he saw DuLuo zhou, Gao Huan regretted it, this was not a trustworthy human master, there was no leadership ability, lack of ability to restrain the generals, and it was okay to engage in propaganda work, so Gao Huan planned to kill Du Luo Zhou and replace him, but unfortunately the news leaked, and Gao Huan was forced to flee.
Gao Huan's escape route this time is very similar to the time when Liu Bang, the ancestor of Han Gao, was hunted down and killed by Xiang Yu. Riding the only tall horse Gao Huan galloped in front, Lou Zhaojun held two children and drove the ox cart in the back, because Gao Cheng was young, could not withstand the bumps, accidentally fell from the ox cart, Gao Huan was anxious and angry, bending the bow and arrow to shoot Gao Cheng, if it were not for Gao Huan's friend Duan Rong appeared in time, Gao Cheng would have died a long time ago.
Gao Huan, who fled Duluo Zhou, defected to Ge Rong's command, Ge Rong was already the leader of the largest rebel army at this time, Wei Zhen Hebei, the most wanted criminal of the imperial court, but in Gao Huan's eyes, Ge Rong was still not in the flow, and the more battles he fought with Ge Rong, the more he felt that Ge Rong was not good.
So he fled again, and at this time Gao Huan no longer wanted to defect to the rebel army, but to Erzhu Rong, the leader of the Chehu who represented the government army.
The change of Heyin, the riot of Erzhu Rong
Erzhu Rong had long been like thunder to Gao Huan, since the Six Towns Uprising, Gao Huan's good friend Hou Jing and others had defected to Erzhu Rong, telling him in his ear for many years how good Gao Huan was, so when Gao Huan really came, Erzhu Rong was happy.
At the first sight of Erzhu Rong, Gao Huan analyzed the current situation with him, at this time Yuan Qi had been assassinated, Empress Hu was back in power, and there were constant disputes in various parts of Northern Wei, but Empress Hu only wanted to raise more small white faces, so Gao Huan urged Erzhu Rong to set up the banner of "Qing Jun's Side" and send troops to Luoyang to please Tianzi.
Erzhu Rong
At the same time, Emperor Xiaoming, who was at odds with his biological mother Empress Dowager Hu, also sent a secret letter to Erzhu Rong's army, and the two of them coincided, and Erzhu Rong immediately ordered troops and went straight to Luoyang, as a result, as soon as the army arrived at Shangdang, it received a new order from Emperor Xiaoming to prohibit the march, and Erzhu Rong was full of suspicion and immediately sent someone to Luoyang to investigate the matter.
The people who went to Luoyang brought back a news that shocked Erzhu Rong so much that the nineteen-year-old Xiaoming Emperor had been poisoned by Empress Hu.
Empress Dowager Hu poisoned her son and made a three-year-old child, Yuan Zhao, emperor, and this naked greed for power completely annoyed the feudal officials throughout the Northern Wei Dynasty, especially Erzhu Rong, who had the opportunity to blackmail Tianzi to make the princes now want to enter the palace to seize power, and he could only fight a battle.
Erzhu Rong sent his nephew Erzhu Tianguang to Luoyang, met with Yuanziyou the Prince of Northern Wei, who made Yuanziyou emperor, and took him back to the army.
Empress Dowager Hu had done too many bad things in the dprk, too numerous to follow her, and no one was willing to follow her, and seeing that Erzhu Rong's army was coming, they abandoned her one after another, and Empress Dowager Hu was helpless and ran to the Yongning Temple to become a monk.
Empress Dowager Hu, who wanted to escape death through renunciation, finally made a mistake in her calculations, Erzhu Rong was not a benevolent general, on the contrary, he had long plotted against him, wanted to take advantage of the chaos to seize the world of Northern Wei, and now led a large army into Luoyang, and had already realized his original idea, just when he killed Empress Hu.
As a result, Empress Dowager Hu and the three-year-old young emperor Yuan Zhao were sunk in the Yellow River, and more than a thousand clans and ministers of the Northern Wei Dynasty were also killed by Erzhu Rong in Heyin, and emperor Yuan Ziyou and his two younger brothers who stayed in the tent went out to see, and they were dumbfounded, and the blood flowed everywhere, infecting the water of the Yellow River, and Yuan Ziyou's two younger brothers did not escape this catastrophe.
Northern Wei catastrophe
Erzhu Rong's stumbling block, superstition
Yuan Ziyou originally thought that he had found a loyal servant to assist him, but he did not expect that it was a courtier who was inferior to Empress Hu, and Yuan Ziyou made a cruel remark and left the throne to Erzhu Rong, who watched and did it.
Erzhu Rong was also not polite, he had long wanted to be emperor, and now Yuan Ziyou's anger was just a Shunshui favor, and he immediately asked people to prepare the edict of the Zen throne and find a good day to ascend to the throne.
However, Erzhu Rong's general He Bayue was strongly opposed, in his opinion, Erzhu Rong's move was too risky, it was simply to establish himself as a great villain in the world; but there was another person who very much agreed with Erzhu Rong's title of emperor, he was Gao Huan, Gao Huan's wishful thinking was also very good, he did not really assist Erzhu Rong, but to put Erzhu Rong on the fire rack to bake, and when the roast was almost over, Gao Huan could also take advantage of the situation, and the usurpation of the throne was undoubtedly the best booster at present.
The two factions could not fight, Erzhu Rong fell into the difficulty of choosing, whenever Erzhu Rong hesitated, he began to be superstitious, believing in divination, from this point on, Erzhu Rong was doomed not to achieve too much work, Erzhu Rong divination five times in a row, four times showed Erzhu Rong called the emperor a failure, once showed that Yuan Ziyou called the emperor successful.
Erzhu Rong's failure rate of one hundred percent, he did not dare to act recklessly, put down his posture, ran to Yuan Ziyou, apologized first, and then said the words of serving the country, in short, let Yuan Ziyou be in front of him, wait for a while and then divinate to see, in order to be able to effectively control Yuan Ziyou, Erzhu Rong arranged his daughter, Emperor Xiaoming's concubine, to the position of Empress Yuanziyou, a typical messy Mandarin duck spectrum.
Ge Rong's army was defeated, and Yuwen Tai surrendered
Controlling the emperor, Erzhu Rong once again sent troops to fight the rebel army, at this time the Six Towns Uprising after continuous annexation, Ge Rong has become the largest, Erzhu Rong can not watch Ge Rong continue to expand, so he personally led the army to fight Against Ge Rong.
Ge Rong was as arrogant and arrogant as Gao Huan thought in his heart, and as the victories became more and more numerous, Ge Rong paid less and less attention to the imperial court's army, but he did not consider that Erzhu Rong was under the command of a nomadic fighting force that conquered the north and south.
As soon as the two armies clashed, Ge Rong's soldiers and horses were completely overwhelmed by the cavalry led by Erzhu Rong, and the soldiers were defeated like a mountain, and Erzhu Rong did not kill the surrendered soldiers, but let them leave freely, but Erzhu Rong was not so polite to ge Rong and Yuwen Luosheng.
Ge Rong was sent to Luoyang to be beheaded for public display, Yuwen Luosheng was killed on the charge of treason in Erzhu Rong's suspicions and jealousy, yuwen Luosheng's brother Yuwen Tai was spared by Erzhu Rong and appointed as the commander of the army, at this point, Gao Huan and Yu Wentai, the two great tyrants, entered Erzhu Rong's camp.
Yuwen Tai
Unexpected harvest, Chen Qing's Northern Expedition
Ge Rong was destroyed, and the northern opposition forces were only Xing Gao of Jinan and Wan Qian ugly slaves in Guanzhong, in order to eliminate Xing Gao's forces, Erzhu Rong's close confidant Yuan Tianmu who remained in Luoyang led a large army to Jinan, and at this time, Yuan Hao, the king of Northern Wei Beihai, privately found the Southern Liang Emperor Xiao Yan and conspired to conspire to conquer the Northern Wei world.
When the Six Towns Revolt, he took advantage of the opportunity of Northern Wei to take advantage of the fact that Northern Wei had no time to look south, and recovered most of the land that had been lost before, and now Yuan Hao surrendered, in order to send Yuan Hao back to Luoyang, Xiao Yan sent the general Chen Qingzhi to lead thousands of troops to the Northern Expedition, which was a show-like performance, but in Chen Qingzhi's hands, it evolved into a real Northern Expedition War.
Chen Qing's Northern Expedition
On one of Chen Qing's roads, Lian Ke northern Wei soldiers and horses, large and small forty-seven battles, lian ke, captured thirty-two northern Wei cities, entered Luoyang, Feng Yuanhao as emperor, and threatened the central plains, but after Yuan Tianmu's army returned to help and Erzhu Rong came down from the state, due to the differences between Yuan Hao and Chen Qingzhi, they could not work together, resulting in the defeat of the army, Yuan Hao was killed, and Chen Qingzhi fled.
Although Chen Qingzhi's Northern Expedition reached Luoyang, it did not have much impact on the situation in Northern Wei, and after Chen Qingzhi was dealt with, Erzhu Rong immediately took his nephew Erzhu Tianguang as his commander and He Bayue as his deputy commander, and commanded troops into Guanzhong to recruit Wan Qian Ugly Slaves, and the Wan Qian Ugly Slaves who occupied the four prefectures of Guanzhong were not opponents of He Bayue and others at all.
Yuan Ziyou assassinated Erzhu Rong
The northern Wei dynasty was once again restored to reunification, originally it was a matter of universal celebration, but there was one person who could not be happy, that is, Tianzi Yuanziyou, as Erzhu Rong's merits became greater and greater, Yuan Ziyou was oppressed more and more heavily, there was almost no freedom to speak of, even a puppet emperor was not as good, in the middle of the dynasty, he was insulted by Erzhu Rong and Yuan Tianmu and others for many years, in the harem, Erzhu Rong's daughter moved to punch and kick him, Tangtang Tianzi, even the next prisoner.
At this time, Erzhu Rong's family had completely ignored Yuan Ziyou, and in 530, Erzhu Rong led five thousand troops from Hezhou south to prepare to visit his daughter, and along the way, there were rumors that Yuan Ziyou was going to murder Erzhu Rong, and Erzhu Rong, who was not very afraid of it, was also happy and worried.
Arriving in Luoyang, Erzhu Rong immediately rushed into the palace, pointing at Yuan Ziyou's nose and reprimanding: "Everyone says that you are going to kill me, is it true or false?" ”
Yuan Ziyou was very calm in the face of the threat of the courtiers, from this point of view, Emperor Xiandi of Han and others were not worthy to be compared with him, for Erzhu Rong's anger, Yuan Ziyou replied very calmly: "Everyone still says that you are going to kill me, is it true or false?" ”
Erzhu Rong thought to himself, I didn't want to kill you, I just wanted to depose you as emperor, it seems that you didn't intend to kill me, the rumors are not credible.
Yuan Ziyou murdered Erzhu Rong
As a result, Erzhu Rong relaxed his surveillance of Yuan Ziyou and reduced his own guards, and by this time, Yuan Ziyou had secretly contacted Yuanhui wang of Chengyang, Shangshu Yuanluo, and others, and transferred Erzhu Rong's close confidant Yuan Tianmu to Luoyang in an effort to wipe them out.
Before acting, Yuan Ziyou summoned Wen Ziyou, Yuan Hui, and other cronies and said a particularly desolate sentence:
"Killing Erzhu Rong is something I must do, Yuan Ziyou would rather die like Cao Xi under the sword, rather than give up his ancestors like Cao Yan, and the princes conspire with me to conspire with the Erzhu clan, if they fail, they will definitely be implicated and wronged."
After the speech, Yuan Ziyou lied that the empress had a son, ordered Yuan Hui to go to inform Erzhu Rong, Erzhu Rong was overjoyed, and ran to the palace with Yuan Tianmu and his eldest son Erzhu Bodhi, until he saw Yuan Ziyou, who was sitting in danger, Erzhu Rong realized that the situation was not good, rushed to Yuan Ziyou, and planned to kidnap him to protect himself, did not think that Yuan Ziyou hid a knife on his body, and Erzhu Rong, who rushed over, just bumped into Yuan Ziyou's blade and died on the spot.
Yuan Ziyou was killed, and the Erzhu clan was in turmoil
Yuan Tianmu and Erzhu Bodhi, who were behind Erzhu Rong, were also hacked to death by the samurai who were ambushed on both sides, and after learning the news, Erzhu Rong's younger brother Erzhu Shilong fled overnight and went to Hezhou to rectify the soldiers and horses.
The yuan ziyou who got rid of Erzhu Rong had already anticipated the seriousness of the situation, and when Erzhu Rong was alive, he gave too much power to the people of the Erzhu family, and although Erzhu Rong was killed at this moment, the local Erzhu clan did not hurt anything.
Erzhu Shilong elected Yuan Ye the Prince of Changguang as emperor and sent troops to Luoyang; Fenzhou assassin Shi Erzhu Zhao also sent troops to Luoyang, Xuzhou assassin Shi Er Zhu Zhongyuan also sent troops to Luoyang, for a while, Yuan Ziyou was completely surrounded, Erzhu Shilong's army soon attacked Luoyang, captured emperor Yuan Ziyou, killed the Yuan clan, raped and plundered, and sacked the city of Luoyang.
Erzhu Shilong regained power in Northern Wei, Erzhu Zhao was stationed in the north, Erzhu Tianguang was stationed in Guanzhong, Erzhu Zhongyuan was stationed in the southeast, and the world was completely controlled by the Erzhu clan.
Playing with Erzhu's high joy in the palm of his hand
The greater the power, the higher the probability of doing bad things, Erzhu Zhao, who was stationed in the north, was not a kind person, and when Ge Rong's army was defeated, the hundreds of thousands of rebel troops that Erzhu Rong had spared were exiled in Hezhou, becoming the lowest level of labor, and it was also a factor of instability, Erzhu Zhao repeatedly wanted to bury them alive, but was dissuaded by Gao Huan.
Gao Huan
In order to completely solve this difficulty, Gao Huan urged Erzhu Zhao to find a close confidant, reorganize them into an army, and serve Erzhu Zhao, under the joint deception of Gao Huan and his friend He Bayun, the brainless Erzhu Zhao handed over more than 100,000 horses to Gao Huan, and in order to get rid of Erzhu Zhao's control, Gao Huan led his troops into Hebei on the grounds of the locust plague in Hezhou.
After Gao Huan's arrival, he poured out his family property to do things for him, and after Gao Huan was stable in Hebei, Gao Qian and others, at Gao Huan's behest, copied a handwritten letter from Erzhu Zhao, in which they demanded that Gao Huan send 10,000 people into and quell the rebellion of the foreign tribes in Hezhou, but all the generals under Gao Huan were oppressed by the Erzhu clan for many years and were unwilling to serve Erzhu Zhao.
"Now to go is to die, not to go is also to die, what to do?" Gao Huan's face was embarrassed.
"Reverse, reverse, reverse!"