This is the only short-lived dynasty in Chinese history that is known for its perversion, and the initiators of all kinds of animal incidents, without exception, are all emperors who are high above.
The Northern Qi Dynasty was one of the Northern Dynasties regimes in the Northern and Southern Dynasties of China, and Gao Huan was the founder of the Northern Qi Dynasty, Gao Huan was the powerful minister of the Eastern Wei Dynasty during the Northern and Southern Dynasties.
In 531 AD, Gao Huan took advantage of the situation to raise troops in Xindu, and the following year he invaded Luoyang, supported Emperor Xiaowu Yuan Xiu to ascend the throne, and he also became the actual ruler of the Northern Wei Dynasty, but Emperor Xiaowu was not willing to be manipulated by it, so he repeatedly tried to seek self-reliance, after the failure Emperor Xiaowu had to flee to Chang'an, and then Gao Huan and Emperor Xiaojing Yuan Shanjian supported the throne, in order to better control the regime, Gao Huan moved the capital to Yecheng, known as the Eastern Wei Dynasty, after which Gao Huan began his 16-year dictatorship career, although Gao Huan has made a lot of reforms in politics and economy during the 16 years, but the absurd things he did still can't be concealed, Gao Huan is like Cao Cao, always likes to rob other people's wives, but any woman he fancies, he will try his best to get it, Gao Cheng is Gao Huan's eldest son.
In 531 AD, after Gao Huan captured Yecheng, he was set up as the son, decisive he also briefly improved the officialdom at that time, but under the influence of Gao Huan, Gao Cheng was also very lustful, when he was a child, he had an affair with his father's concubine, Gao Huan learned that he was placed under house arrest, and he still maintained this stubbornness when he grew up, after Gao Huan died, Gao Cheng inherited his position, and since then he has become more and more unscrupulous, the wife of Xue Zhen, the minister of the Eastern Wei Dynasty, is very beautiful, so Gao Cheng used his power to snatch it back to his palace, but the woman would rather die than obey, Gao Cheng stabbed him to death directly in a fit of anger, and later destroyed the Xue family, Gao Cheng's nonsense also aroused everyone's resentment, but because of his power, everyone dared to be angry and did not dare to speak, which further stimulated Gao Cheng's ambitions.
In 549 AD, when Gao Cheng's henchmen plotted to usurp the throne, most of the guards were dismissed, and this also gave the assassins an opportunity to take advantage of the long-standing grudge against Gao Cheng, and Lan Jing, who had a long-standing grudge against him, waited for an opportunity to hack him to death, after which Gao Huan's second son Gao Yang took power, and Emperor Xiaojing of the Eastern Wei Dynasty had no choice but to make him prime minister.
In 550 AD, Gao Yang forced Emperor Xiaojing to be located in him, and then he changed the name of the country to Qi, known as the Northern Qi Dynasty, when Emperor Wenxuan Gao Yang was the emperor at the beginning, he was more cautious about the government, he reused the talents, purged the rule of officials, and repeatedly defeated the Turkic and Khitan tribes, and at this time the economy of the Northern Qi was also very developed, it can be said that it is the richest one of the three countries with the Chen Dynasty and the Western Wei Dynasty, but Gao Yang himself is not a fuel-efficient lamp, with the stability of the neighbors, the power of the domination, Gao Yang also began to be diligent to desolate and tyrannical in dealing with things, because Gao Cheng tried to rape his wife Li Zu'e several times when he was alive, so Gao Yang became the emperor, took revenge on Gao Cheng's wife and concubine, and in order to occupy his wife's sister Li, he did not hesitate to kill her husband, and at the same time pretended to go to mourn, but in fact he raped him in front of Li's husband's spiritual position, in addition to this, he once wanted to occupy his father Gao Huan's concubine, but the other party refused to obey, so he was angry and killed him directly.
Gao Yang is also an emperor with transvestism, he often smears and powders, and wears women's clothes to swing through the street, not only that, Gao Yang once had a very favored Xue Concubine, the two are like glue, and stay together all day long, but one day Gao Yang got drunk, thinking that Xue Concubine had an ambiguous relationship with Zhaowu King Gao Yue, so he was jealous and killed Xue Concubine directly, and held her body in his arms, and continued to find someone to drink, and after drinking, he directly took out her body and decomposed it, and also made her femur into a pipa to play and sing herself, making everyone present creepy, even Gao Yang's mother, Empress Dowager Lou, went to admonish, and was also fainted by the words of marrying a bearded woman in his mouth.
In 559 AD, Gao Yang believed that the remaining Northern Wei royal family was still a threat to his throne, so he issued an edict to kill all the clans of the previous dynasty, even the infant baby, and then threw all the corpses into the Zhanghe River, causing the residents on both sides of the Zhanghe River to suffer greatly, but Gao Yang's excessive alcohol also caused his body to be very empty.
In 559 AD, at the age of 34, he died suddenly, and then succeeded by his son Gao Yin, Qi abolished Emperor Gao Yin is a generous and benevolent, gentle and cheerful young emperor, he is very concerned about the people's livelihood, after the throne, he sent envoys to inspect the Quartet, visit the gains and losses of political affairs, ask the people about their suffering, rectify the rule of officials, so that the politics of the Northern Qi Dynasty at this time restored a period of clarity, but at this time the prince in the Northern Qi Dynasty was very powerful, Changshan King Gao Yan, Gao Zhan, the king of Changguang, and the Empress Dowager Lou both controlled the military and political power of the Northern Qi Dynasty, coupled with the large-scale rectification of officials implemented by Gao Yin, and some of the people were resentful, so they took refuge in Gao Yan and Gao Zhan, and the contradictions between the two factions became increasingly hot.
In 560 AD, Gao Yan and Gao Zhan launched a rebellion, Empress Dowager Lou ordered the young emperor Gao Yin to be abolished as the king of Jinan, and then Gao Yan ascended the throne as the emperor, Emperor Xiaozhao Gao Yan succeeded to the throne and began to make great efforts, he actively sought and appointed the virtuous to serve the imperial court, Corporal Lixian from the advice such as flow, but also often self-reflection, in addition to his external military rest, internal recuperation, so that the politics and economy of the Northern Qi have been newly developed, but before Gao Yan ascended the throne had agreed with Gao Yin not to kill him, but soon after, he killed him out of political interests, and then his heart also began to produce guilt, this mood tortured his mind all day long, caused his mind to begin to derange, so in order to distract his mind, he went hunting in the suburbs with a few retinues, but on the way to hunt, Gao Yan's horse jumped up because of fright, and he also fell heavily from the horse, seriously injured and emotionally affected, he died not long after, before his death, Gao Yan in order not to let his son Gao Bainian fall into the same fate as Gao Yin, he passed the throne to his brother Gao Zhan.
In 561 AD, Changguang King Gao Zhan ascended the throne, although he was diligent and pro-sage, concerned about the suffering of the people, but also favored the traitor, although he defeated the Northern Zhou and the Turks many times, but also wantonly killed the clan, Wucheng Emperor Gao Zhan succeeded to the throne, then forced Emperor Wenxuan Gao Yang's queen Li Zu'e to commit adultery with him, and made him pregnant, after Li Zu'e gave birth to a daughter, and killed it with his own hands, after learning the news, Gao Zhan was furious, and directly killed Li Zu'e's son Gao Shaode, and stripped Li Zu'e of clothes and beat him violently, and then put her in a silk bag, thrown into the ditch, not only that, Gao Zhan also successively killed Gao Xiaoyu, the king of Henan, and Gao Xiaowan, the king of Hejian, Even Emperor Xiaozhao's crown prince Gao Bainian, he did not let go, and only three years after Emperor Xiaozhao died, he tortured and killed Gao Bainian and buried him in the back garden of the palace.
In 565 AD, Gao Zhan in order to "respond to the heavenly phenomena", the throne passed to the crown prince Gao Wei, but the military affairs are still played by it, in 569 AD, Emperor Wu Cheng died, at the age of 32, and then by the successor Gao Wei pro-government, during his reign, absurdity, mediocrity and corruption, the appointment of traitors and Shi Kai and others to govern the government, so that the court is smoky, and then the lord Gao Wei is very fortunate to be the concubine Feng Xiaolian, in Jinzhou military is very critical, but also continue to accompany her to ride a horse hunting, Tang Dynasty poet Li Shangyin's "Northern Qi Two Songs" It is said that even to discuss state affairs with the minister, let Feng Xiaolian sit on his lap, in Gao Wei's view, such a beautiful thing as Feng Xiaolian, can not be enjoyed by him alone, adhering to the idea of "it is better to be happy alone than to be happy", Gao Wei directly let Feng Xiaolian lie naked on the table in the court, so that the ministers lined up to take a look at the beauty, but there is no clear historical record of this statement.
Gao Wei also likes to pretend to beg beggars along the streets, and regard cattle, horses, chickens, dogs and other livestock as his ministers, and he even throws people into a pit full of poisonous scorpions, to see people being stung by scorpions for fun, in 572 AD Gao Wei successively killed Hu Luguang and Gao Changgong, the king of Lanling, resulting in the Northern Qi losing a powerful general to resist the Northern Zhou attack, and the already rotten regime became even more stormy.
In 575 AD, Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty led the army to attack the Northern Qi Dynasty, the following year the Northern Qi Dynasty Hou Gao Wei was defeated in Pingyang and retreated to Jinyang, in the fierce offensive of the Northern Zhou Army, Gao Wei retreated to Yecheng, in order to shirk the responsibility of the Northern Qi Dynasty, Gao Wei hurriedly ceded the throne to the 8-year-old crown prince Gao Heng in 577 AD, and the young lord of the Northern Qi Dynasty Gao Heng succeeded to the throne for less than a few days, and hurriedly fled with Gao Wei.
Under the strong attack of the Northern Zhou army, the Northern Qi army was defeated, seeing that the Northern Zhou army was in pursuit, Gao Heng hurriedly located in Rencheng King Gao Xiang, after which Gao Wei and Gao Heng led more than ten cavalry troops to flee south, intending to defect to the Chen Dynasty, but was captured by the Northern Zhou army in Nandeng Village, and soon after the Northern Zhou army captured Xindu, the Northern Qi Dynasty that only survived for 28 years perished.