To talk about the "perverted dynasty" of ancient China, we have to mention Northern Qi. In 550, Gao Huan's son Gao Yang deposed the Eastern Wei puppet Emperor Xiaojing and established Northern Qi. This dynasty lasted only 28 years from its founding to its demise, but it went through six emperors, and most of the emperors were absurd and cruel. Among them, the Gaozhan Emperor is a typical example.
The historical Gao Zhan is not as righteous and infatuated as in "The Legend of Lu Zhen", on the contrary, he favors the adulterous and adulterous court, and is a completely perverted emperor. Before Gao Zhan ascended the throne, he had always coveted his imperial sister-in-law Li Zu'e, peeked at it many times, and was beaten by his brother. After ascending the throne, he directly broke into the room of the imperial concubine, threatened the life of Li Zu'e's son, and forced him to obey, and Li Zu'e had no choice but to rejoice with him day and night, and gave birth to a daughter. Later, Li Zu'e strangled her daughter in shame, and Gao Zhan, in anger, said, "If you kill my daughter, then I will kill your son." Then he beat her son to death in front of Li Zu'e, stripped Li Zu'e of clothes, beat her to pieces with a whip, and then threw her into a ditch to fend for herself.
The emperor on this side is addicted to wine, and the empress on the other side is not willing to be lonely, hooking up with the superb favorite and Shi Kai, the two blatantly flirt and say love, the emperor knows but does not care, it is simply wearing green hats to each other, each playing their own. Gao Zhan, instilled by Heshikai the idea of "having fun in time", simply gave the throne to his ten-year-old son Gao Wei, and he himself became the Emperor Taishang, and he was even more indulgent. And Empress Hu also smoothly became Empress Hu, and she and Shikai were even more unscrupulous, even to the extent that no one inside and outside the court knew about it, and no one was not small.
Not long after, Emperor Gao Zhan, the Emperor of Taishang, died of excessive alcohol, and King Gao Yu of Langya sent his henchmen to assassinate Heshikai, thinking that Empress Dowager Hu could stop, who knew that she was fascinated by the monk Tan Xian again, and brought the monk back to the palace, and rained with him in Gao Zhan's bed. At that time, in order to please Empress Dowager Hu, Tan Xian dressed up his monk apprentice as a woman and sent her to Empress Hu's bed brother. Later, Gao Wei happened to see these two monks dressed as women, thinking that they were beautiful women, and wanted to spoil them, but found their true identities. Gao Wei was very angry, killed the monks, imprisoned Empress Dowager Hu, and ordered that "neither the internal nor external attendants should meet the empress dowager." During the investigation, Gao Wei also found that The King of Yuanshan and other local officials were "the empress dowager's nickname", so he ordered them to be killed together.
Later, the Northern Zhou Emperor Yuwen Yong attacked Northern Qi, and Northern Qi was completely destroyed, emperor Gao Wei was given death, but Empress Hu survived. Regarding her ending, the Northern Qi Book and the Northern History are almost identical: "Qi died in the Zhou Dynasty and committed adultery. Emperor Kai of Sui was killed. However, according to this sentence, later generations fabricated various absurd acts of Empress Dowager Hu after the fall of Northern Qi, among which the most popular theory is that Empress Hu, who had lost her status as empress dowager and was very lascivious, took her daughter-in-law, the concubine of Gao Wei, the lord of Qi, and was only in her twenties, and it was Empress Mu Huanghua, who was in her twenties, who was selling herself to The Qinglou. After the news spread that the two former empresses had now become prostitutes, the people of Chang'an rushed to go, and the grandeur was unprecedented. And Empress Hu left behind the "famous sentence" that "it is better to be a prostitute than to be a prostitute, and it is more fun".
This kind of statement is not recorded in the main history, but it is only a folk tradition, but it is undeniable that a woman like Empress Hu is really absurd and sad. She was also a famous bridesmaid, but after stepping into the chaotic palace, her tragedy officially began. Although she was classified as empress, her husband did not favor her; later she became the empress dowager, but she had a tense relationship with her own son, and she was wary of each other and hated each other. In fact, there were not many women like her in that dynasty, but her identity magnified the absurdity of her behavior, so that thousands of years later, she is still the laughing stock of thousands of netizens.