Gao Wei destroyed the Great Wall and destroyed the three tribes of Huo Luguang, who was deeply jealous of Northern Zhou, and Northern Qi destroyed the country

In April 565, Gao Zhan resigned from the throne and Zen was placed in the eldest son Gao Wei. In December 568, Gao Zhan died of illness, and Gao Wei was the fifth emperor of Northern Qi.

After Gao Wei took the throne, he did not ask about major national affairs and blindly pursued pleasure. The major affairs of the government were all handled by the traitorous ministers and Shi Kai, who seduced Gao Anaqiu, MuTiba, Han Changwan and other traitors to control the government, thus arousing the dissatisfaction of many upright ministers. Once, the lieutenant Gao Rui listed the crimes of Empress Hu and Gao Wei and Others, and asked the emperor to throw He Shikai out of the imperial court, and the next day Empress Hu and Gao Wei sent someone to kill Gao Rui.

The general Hu Luguang was the prime minister of Northern Qi, a talented military expert, who joined the army since he was married, did not taste defeat in the north, and was deeply feared by his neighbors. Emperor Gao Wei, on the other hand, obeyed the framing of the traitor Zu Ting, killed Huo Luguang and his two sons, and slaughtered the three tribes.

When the Northern Zhou Emperor Yuwen Yong heard the news of Huo Luguang's death, he jumped up happily and ordered a general amnesty, saying instead: "The State of Qi must not be for it."

As a result, Northern Zhou Yuwen Yong led a large army to attack Qi. When the Northern Zhou army attacked the city of Pingyang, Gao Wei was still out hunting with his favorite concubine Feng Xiaopi, and only the next day did he send troops to meet the battle. At the beginning of the battle, the lewd emperor also rode with Feng Shufei to watch the battle, and when he saw that the Qi army had collapsed without a fight, Gao Wei fled on horseback.

When Gao Wei fled to Yicheng (Linzhang, Hebei), he also gave birth to a trick and passed the throne to his 8-year-old son Gao Heng, who proclaimed himself Emperor Taishang. A few days after Gao Wei's reign, he heard that the Northern Zhou army had attacked Yecheng again, so he and Gao Heng fled to Jeju (present-day PingyinXi, Shandong).

Soon, the capital Yecheng fell, and Gao Wei's father and son were afraid and fled from Jeju to Qingzhou, at this time the Northern Zhou army was in close pursuit, and he was preparing to defect to the southern Kingdom of Chen.

Northern Qi had a traitorous chancellor Gao Anaqiu, who had already secretly surrendered to Northern Zhou and was preparing to capture Gao Wei's father and son as a ceremony, so he used rhetoric to dispel Gao Wei's idea of running south. Two days later, the Northern Zhou army arrived in Qingzhou, Gao Ana hurried to open the city gate, and Gao Wei's father and son and others were captured.

In April 577, Yuwen Yong destroyed Northern Qi, and Northern Zhou held a huge celebration banquet, Yuwen Yong also let Gao Wei dance at the celebration banquet, and Gao Wei's father and son had to endure humiliation and obedience in order to steal their lives.

Half a year later, Gao Wei, Gao Heng, and others were all killed, and the rest of Gao's relatives were exiled to the Western Desert for a generation, and Northern Qi perished. Gao Wei reigned for 13 years, died at the age of 23, and was known as the Later Lord.

(The 118th Chronicle of Writing, April 9, 2021)