There are more than two hundred emperors in Chinese history, some of whom work hard to govern and love the people like sons, and some who are brutal and desolate, who regard the people as grass and mustard, and kill at will! Today, Xiaobian will introduce you to the three most brutal emperors in history!
First, northern Qi Gaoyang
Gao Yang, the founding emperor of Northern Qi, succeeded to the throne as the last good emperor, took serious care of political affairs, simplified the prefectures and counties, restored the official Feng Lu, led an army against the steppe tribes such as Ruoran, Turkic, Khitan and Shanhu, and defeated Yuwen Tai of Eastern Wei, successfully stabilizing the Northern Qi regime. However, after only six or seven years, Gao Yang reveled in his achievements, thought that his deeds had been accomplished, began to drink and tyranny, and became the most brutal and absurd emperor in history, and did absurd things beyond the imagination of ordinary people! Her mother, Empress Lou, saw that Gao Yang was drunk all day, and was very angry, and once raised her crutches to think of beating him, saying: "Father is so heroic, how did he give birth to such a child!" Gao Yang actually said, "I will marry this old woman to the Hu people immediately!" "In ancient times, when filial piety ruled the world, it was really a great rebellion, and Empress Lou was furious and never laughed again!
Empress Lou was a mother, and when she was drunk, she resisted at most, and did not dare to mess around, and treating the empress's mother was even more barbaric. Once, when she went to the empress's mother's house, the empress's mother, Cui Shi, thought of persuading Gao Yang not to get drunk all day, and Gao Yang was furious, and immediately scolded: I am drunk and don't even recognize my mother-in-law, you old is something! It took more than a hundred whips with a horse whip to relieve the hatred! There was also a favorite concubine, Concubine Xue, who was extremely favored, but Gao Yang suspected that she was having an affair with someone else, so he directly beheaded her, and also made her thigh bone into a pipa, which was difficult to get against the singer!
Northern Qi Gaoyang film and television image
At the same time, the arbitrary abuse and killing of the ministers of the DPRK! Although Yang Yan was the prime minister, when Gao Yang defecated, he actually let Yang Yan hand over the toilet chip (a small stick used to wipe his ass in ancient times), and whipped his back with a horse whip, beating him with blood, and also thought of cutting his stomach with a knife, and someone persuaded him not to draw! He also put his brother in a cage, let him take a knife and slash it arbitrarily, and then burn him alive on the wood! Then he summoned The Governor Han Zhe from among the people, and beheaded him on the spot without guilt. Gao Yang made a lot of large woks, long saws, setbacks, mortars and other tools openly placed on the court, and whenever he was drunk, he killed people for fun, almost every day. In order to satisfy Gao Yang's penchant for this statement, Prime Minister Yang Yan gathered all the death row prisoners in the capital city in the palace, called the imperial prisoners, if Gao Yang wanted to kill, he chose one of them, and if he was not killed for three months, then he was pardoned and released! God has eyes, such a demon head only let him live for thirty-four years before he died!
2. Eastern Wu Sun Hao
Sun Hao was Sun Quan's grandson, the last emperor of the State of Wu, and the Marquis of Wucheng! After Sun Xiu's death, in order to stabilize the overall situation, the ministers of the Wu court jointly supported the twenty-three-year-old Sun Hao to ascend the throne as emperor! After he first ascended the throne, Sun Hao performed well, and he once ordered orders such as opening warehouses to help the poor and the palace women of Jian Province, which was praised by the whole country of Wu for a while! But he also quickly became a rough alcoholic, arbitrarily killing tyrant! Sun Hao has a characteristic of drinking, that is, he likes to drink with the minister, and he is drunk, and if anyone does not drink, or is not drunk, he will be beheaded on the spot! The standard of drinking was that no matter who it was, what the amount of alcohol was, at least seven liters per person, and he especially liked to let the eunuchs mock the secretary of state and expose the privacy and shortcomings of others. Scattered riding Chang Shi Wang Fan, a long tall and dignified man, once drank and pretended to be drunk, Sun Hao let him carry him out, and then summoned him back. As a result, when Wang Fan returned, he was sober and there was no sign of drunkenness at all, Sun Hao was furious, immediately beheaded him, and also let the group of ministers kick Wang Fan's head as a ball when climbing the mountain, and all of them were broken!
Sun Hao film and television image
Sun Hao had a very strange problem, that is, he was afraid that others would look at his face, and if he accidentally saw it, no matter who it was, he would be killed, so the minister did not dare to look up! The chancellor Lu Kaijin said, "If there is a reason why the monarchs and ministers do not know each other, once there is a hurry, how can they know who the emperor is?" So Sun Hao only agreed with Lu Kai to look at his face! Sun Hao was very jealous of people who were stronger than himself, and once he asked Zhongshu Ling Zhang Shang: "Who do you think my alcohol consumption can compare?" Zhang Shang said, "Your Majesty has a hundred treasures!" Originally, this was Zhang Shang's flattering words, who knew that Sun Hao thought that Zhang Shang compared him with Confucius, and immediately became angry: "You know that Kong Qiu is not the emperor, and you actually compared me with him!" "Soon zhang shang was killed!" At the same time, Sun Hao was still extremely distrustful of the chancellor, and Wu Zhongshu ordered He Shao not to speak after the stroke, but Sun Hao thought that he was pretending, so he was beaten to prison, tortured, and finally did not say a word, and finally sawed off his head with a red-hot saw! Under the brutal rule of Sun Hao, the state of Wu disintegrated, and then was destroyed by the Western Jin Dynasty, and Sun Hao also became the king of the subjugated country!
3. The Song Dynasty deposed Emperor Liu Yu
Liu Yu was the last emperor of the Liu Song Dynasty, who inherited the throne at the age of ten, and under the constraints of his mother Empress Chen and his ministers, he was also a relatively obedient emperor and did not make any major moves. But as I get older, I gradually begin to act uncontrollably! Since he was the crown prince, he especially liked to climb the pole like a monkey, and he could easily climb to the height of a battle, because his father Emperor Ming of Song had also punished Empress Chen! Especially after adding yuanfu, Liu Yu began to like to travel with bodyguards, and at first Empress Chen also drove with the emperor, and later because Liu Yu's speed was too fast to keep up! Empress Chen admonished Liu Yu several times, which caused Liu Yu's dissatisfaction, and she even thought of poisoning him to death, but fortunately someone came in and did not start!
Song deposed emperor Liu Yu film and television image
When Liu Yu travels, he likes to let the left and right carry spears, and the horses, cattle, sheep, dogs and even people he encounters on the road are all killed, and the merchants dare not open the door during the day, and there are basically no pedestrians on the road! Needles, vertebrae, chisels, saws, not far from the left and right, but a little intention, immediately slaughtered, a day without killing, the body is uncomfortable! Once Liu Yu went out to a folk house next to it, heard a woman in the house moaning, immediately broke into the door, a look at the woman was giving birth to a child, Liu Yu immediately let people drive the midwife away, himself to the woman to deliver, directly delivered the child to the ground, the result of the woman and the child are dead, he also shouted fun! Once painted a bullseye on Xiao Daocheng's stomach, and used Xiao Daocheng as an arrow target to link archery, fortunately, there was no arrow shaft, and an arrow hit Xiao Daocheng's navel, which scared Xiao Daocheng out of a cold sweat! Later, Xiao Daocheng, together with other ministers, deposed Emperor Song and established Xiao Qi!