After Qin Shi Huang unified the Six Kingdoms, a centralized system was established, which was a state institution with the "emperor" as the highest center of power. That is to say, in theory, the emperor is supreme and has absolute power. There is no such thing as "rebellion", and if it is a "rebellion", then it must be someone else who threatens the power of the emperor.
Of course, there are also some puppet emperors in history who are at the mercy of their powerful subjects, and even so, almost no courtier dares to say that "the emperor rebelled". But in history, there was a dynasty that made people cry and laugh, a great general because the emperor did not obey him and asked the emperor whether he wanted to rebel, this story happened in the Southern and Northern Dynasties.
In the last years of the Northern Wei Dynasty, Gao Huan gradually grasped the overall situation by "remaking Cao Cao's script", why it is said to be "remaking Cao Cao's script", mainly because his routine is the same as Cao Cao's. In the last years of the Northern Wei Dynasty, because of the chaos in the world and the corruption of the imperial court, the people did not have a good life and set off the Six Towns Uprising, is it not to think of the scene of the Yellow Turban Uprising caused by the chaos in the world at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty. At this time, Gao Huan was in the same situation as Cao Cao, Erzhu Rong entered the capital to depose the old emperor, support the new emperor, and kill the old emperor's mother and son Li Wei, and almost directly seized the throne. Similar to Dong Zhuo's behavior at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, he probably did not expect to have the same ending as Dong Zhuo.
At this time, Gao Huan ostensibly called Erzhu Rong a brother, but in fact he was already waiting for the opportunity. After Erzhu Rong was killed by Emperor Xiaozhuang, Gao Huan gradually gained power with his military talents. In his opinion, most of the credit in this world is his own, so he began to make plays and traps again, simply imitating Cao Cao to blackmail tianzi to order the princes. Since it is a puppet emperor, it must choose an incompetent one. At first, Gao Huan chose Yuan Xiu, and after Yuan Xiu got the "position" of the emperor, he began to fantasize about living an emperor's addiction, so he was not as well-behaved and obedient as Emperor Xian of Han.
He began to "tear" with Gao Huan, "If you want to treat me as a puppet, I will separate from you." He turned to find Gao Huan's nemesis, Yuwen Tai. However, Gao Huan did not eat his set, and saw that this puppet emperor was disobedient and simply changed to an obedient one. In the end, he changed to an honest and well-behaved Yuan Zenmi. In this way, the Northern Wei was divided into Eastern Wei and Western Wei, with Eastern Wei led by Gao Huan and Western Wei led by Yuwen Tai.
Motoyoshimi became a complete puppet emperor and began his own life of humiliation. Gao Huan did not pay attention to this superficial emperor at all, not only that, the whole court knew the fact that he was a puppet emperor, so he was not very "friendly" to him. In order to save his life, Yuan Shanmi offered to marry Gao Huan's daughter as a gesture of goodwill, to put it bluntly, he took the initiative to be the son of others. Because Yuan Shan saw that "well-behaved and obedient" never made Gao Huan dissatisfied with the small actions behind his back, during this time, the two people were still quiet.
But this was different after Gao Huan's death, and Gao Huan's son Gao Cheng had little affection for Northern Wei. In his opinion, this country and mountains were all fought down by the Gao family, so why let an incompetent person sit in the world, even a puppet emperor. However, when the ancients ascended the throne, they paid attention to the proper name and could not directly usurp the throne. In order to find a reason, Gao Cheng began to send people to supervise Yuan Zenmi for twenty-four hours. The slightest verbal blunder of Motoyoshimi would reach Takasumi's ears.
Not only that, Gao Cheng also suppressed this puppet emperor at every turn, giving him small shoes to wear, and destroying him mentally and spiritually.
According to the Zizhi Tongjian, once the Xiaojing Emperor Yuan Shanmi and Gao Cheng went out hunting together. Emperor Xiaojing's horse threw Gao Cheng behind because he rode faster. When the guards around saw it, they said to Emperor Xiaojing, "Emperor, your horse is running too fast, you should not surpass the great general, otherwise the great general will be angry."
The emperor tasted and hunted in Yidong, and raced like a fly. The overseer of the capital, Unaro, was cut down from the rear to the Emperor: "The Son of Heaven is not walking on horseback, and the great general is angry." ”
Gao Cheng was credited with attacking the Liang state and made emperor Xiaojing Emperor Yuan Shanfeng himself a xiangguo. And enjoy the three supreme treatments: praise and worship, do not tend to enter the dynasty, and sword shoes on the temple. This means that: first, even the emperor cannot call him by his first name, but must be called an official; second, the ancient courtiers should bend down and walk quickly when they see the Son of Heaven to show respect for the emperor, while Gao Cheng can walk with his head up and his chest; third, he can bring weapons into the dynasty. It can be seen that he has not taken this emperor in his eyes at all, and he has almost said it.
Under Gao Cheng's twenty-four-hour supervision, he once heard Emperor Xiaojing say a few words of complaint and was heard by Gao Cheng's eyeliner. Immediately told Gao Cheng, Gao Cheng listened and went to the palace to question Yuan Zenmi. Emperor Xiaojing smiled and received Gao Cheng and he prepared a banquet, at which Gao Cheng raised a large bowl of wine for Emperor Xiaojing to drink, just to embarrass Emperor Xiaojing, who was overwhelmed by wine. When the little sheep also broke out, Emperor Xiaojing refused this time. And Gao Cheng was immediately angry when he saw this, "I advise Your Majesty to drink, does Your Majesty not want to give me face?" ”
Emperor Xiaojing couldn't bear it and said, "Since ancient times, many countries have perished, and I can't even drink alcohol to make my own decisions, what is the point of living?" Originally thought that he could scare Gao Cheng, but as a result, Gao Cheng did not eat this set, and scolded Emperor Xiaojing, and after scolding, he felt that he was not relieved and let Cui Jishu punch Emperor Xiaojing three times. It is a historical anecdote that courtiers openly ordered people to beat the emperor.
Wen Xiang angrily said, "Yuan! I! Dog's foot decay! "Wen Xiang made Ji Shu 'beat the emperor' with three punches and rushed out. - "Wei Shu Xiao Jing Ji"
Emperor Xiaojing couldn't stand this kind of grievance for a moment, so he found a few of his own henchmen and prepared to dig tunnels to escape. Then gather soldiers and horses outside to fight With Gao Cheng to the death, the ideal is very full, but the reality is very cruel. Due to being supervised 24 hours a day. As soon as the plan was executed, it was discovered by Gao Cheng's eyeliner. Gao Cheng rushed to the palace angrily and angrily shouted at Emperor Xiaojing, "Emperor, is this a rebellion?" ”
Wen Xiangle entered the palace and said, "Your Majesty does he mean to oppose evil!" The father and son of the subject are meritorious and the society is in the society, and he bears the evil of His Majesty! ”
It sounds ridiculous, but it's true. However, history proves that people who are too rampant will not have good results. Gao Cheng was killed by a cook next to him before he could become emperor because of his tyranny.