During the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the absurd and absurd emperor was not only The Lord of Chen Hou, but also the Lord of the Northern Qi Dynasty, Gao Wei, was a typical absurd and absurd emperor. Northern Qi and Northern Zhou across the Yellow River, on the geographical location, climatic conditions, economic properties, military strength of Northern Qi are superior to Northern Zhou, the two countries often fight, but Northern Zhou has always been on the defensive, every nine cold days when the Yellow River freezes, Northern Zhou is afraid of Northern Qi ice invasion, send soldiers to break the ice, until the spring Yellow River thaws, it can be seen how much Northern Zhou is afraid of Northern Qi. But his absurdity changed the balance of forces, directly leading to northern Qi being defeated by northern Zhou until it was overthrown.
Map of the Battle of Binh Duong
"No Worries Heavenly Son" likes to play. Qi Hou lord liked to play the pipa himself, and composed a song called "No Worries", surrounded by hundreds of attendants who sang and sang, and the common people called him "The Son of No Worries". In order to seek excitement, he set up a poor children's village in Hualin Garden, wore tattered clothes himself, and took pleasure in begging in the village; he also imitated the western border city pool, sent people dressed in black to imitate the Northern Zhou soldiers into the palace city pool, and led the eunuchs in the palace to pretend to resist; Dingzhou Thorn Shi Gao was the brother of qi Hou Lord, cruel and tyrannical, because he fed the dog with a baby and let the dog eat the baby's mother, was locked up and taken to Beijing. Qi Hou Lord asked him what was the most fun in the state? Gao Yu replied that it was fun to catch a lot of scorpions and put them in a container, and then put a monkey in, and it was most fun to see the monkeys squeaking and squeaking. Lord Qi Hou immediately sent someone to catch two or three liters of scorpions, put them in the bathtub, and let people sleep naked in the basin, this man was stung and screamed, qi Hou Lord and Gao Qi watched condescendingly, watching the man's screams and laughing. Qi Hou has a wide range of hobbies, such as eagle driving, playing with birds, walking dogs, riding horses, hunting and so on. He also sealed officials for his favorite dogs, horses, falcons, cockfights, etc., who also had official titles such as Yitong, Junjun, and Kaifu, and enjoyed the corresponding ranks of Feng Lu.
"No worries" is a luxury. The cost of a dress for a harem concubine is worth ten thousand brocades; the palace people compare themselves with each other in the novelty and delicacy of their clothes, and the new clothes in the morning are treated as old clothes at night; the palace garden is overhauled to the extreme, but the preference is capricious, repeatedly destroyed and restored; the craftsmen engaged in civil construction do not have a moment to rest, and often pick up lights at night to fight, and use hot water and mud when it is cold. Kai Jinyang Giant Buddha is, a night to light ten thousand oil lamps, light for dozens of miles.
Northern Qi Empress Dowager Gao Wei and Lady Feng Xiaopi
"The Son of Heaven without Worries" loves villains. Director Qi Hou used Lu Lingxuan, Mu Tibo, Gao Anaqiu, Han Changluan, and others to dominate the government, and the eunuchs Deng Changyan, Chen Dexin, and Hu Ren He Hongzhen participated in confidential affairs, and they each introduced relatives and friends, and held prominent and high positions. They compete for flattery, sell officials and lords, create unjust cases, corrupt the government, and maim the people. For a time, slaves, eunuchs, Hu people, song and dance artists, wizards, etc. were easily rich, and there were hundreds of people with general surnames who were crowned kings, more than a thousand people who opened the palace, countless people who were named Yi Tong, and the number of leaders reached twenty at one time, and there were dozens of waiters and waiters. Opened the highest ever.
Emperor Yuwentai of the Northern Zhou Dynasty
"Carefree Heavenly Son" is very shy. After the Northern Qi Dynasty, the lord was slow to speak and stuttered, did not like to see the officials of the imperial court, and never talked to others if he was not fond of people who were close to him. He was very cruel and cowardly, and did not want others to see him, although the Three Dukes, Shang Shu Ling, Lu Shang Shu Shi and other high officials played things to him, they could not look up at him, they all briefly said some general situations, and then left in horror.
"The Son of Heaven without Worries" loves beauty. The Northern Qi Empress first created Empress Mu, and after she got tired of it, she established Empress Hu, and Empress Mu fell out of favor. There are countless concubines in the palace. After Empress Mu fell out of favor, she gave her maid Feng Xiaopi to Lord Qi Hou, hoping to regain the lost love. This Feng Xiaopi style, ice muscle jade skin, clever and clever, is a famous beauty in Chinese history, and is good at playing the pipa, very good at charm, quite favored by the Queen Lord, and soon was named a Lady Concubine, sitting with the Queen Lord, out of the horse, swearing to live and die together. In the Tang Dynasty Li Shangyin's poem "Two Songs of Northern Qi", it is written: "When you laugh at each other, you forget, and the thorns of He Lao are hurt." Xiao Pi's jade body crossed the night, and he had reported to the Zhou Division to enter Jinyang." The protagonist is Feng Xiaopi. In order to show off feng Xiaopi's beauty, Qi Hou lord actually put Feng Xiaopi naked on the booth, so that the rich officials and nobles could take money to visit and see the aromatic body, which is also the origin of the idiom jade body. In the winter of 576 AD, the Northern Zhou army attacked Pingyang, the birthplace of Northern Qi, at this time Qi Hou Lord and Feng Xiaopi were hunting in Tianchi, and within a day, the people who were anxious in Pingyang came three times, but Feng Xiaopi did not play enough, and Qi Hou Lord played with her again, and when the Qi Hou Lord led reinforcements to Pingyang, Pingyang had fallen. Northern Qi besieged the city and wanted to retake Pingyang. The Northern Qi army attacked by tunnel boring, the city wall collapsed by more than a dozen zhang, the Northern Qi army was about to attack, qi Hou lord ordered a suspension of the attack, to summon Feng Xiaopi to watch his great achievements, but by the time Feng Xiaopi came to freshen up and dress, the Northern Zhou army had already plugged the gap. By the next day, the Northern Zhou and Northern Qi armies launched a tug-of-war, the two armies were advancing and retreating from each other, Qi Hou and Feng Xiaopi stood in the distance to watch, when the Northern Qi army retreated slightly, Feng Xiaopi shouted in horror: "Our army is defeated, our army is defeated"! The soldiers who were fighting did not know it, they collapsed, the rear trampled on the front, the Northern Zhou army slammed the back, the Northern Qi lost more than 10,000 troops, and the military materials and equipment were abandoned for hundreds of miles. Northern Zhou took advantage of the victory to pursue, and the following year destroyed Northern Qi.