The history of the Northern Qi Dynasty in Wen Xuandi in the first year of Gan Ming.

Gao Yang (529-559), Emperor Wenxuan, the ancestor of the Northern Qi Dynasty, was a Jinyang native and a Jinyang musician. The founding emperor of the Northern Qi regime in the Southern and Northern Dynasties. He was the prime minister of the Eastern Wei Dynasty, the second son of Gao Huan, Emperor of SHEN WOO in the Northern Qi Dynasty, and the same mother brother of Gao Cheng, Emperor of Wen Xiang. It's fucking Lou [1]. There are strange signs at birth and strange looks. When he was young, he was ugly and taciturn. In fact, he is as smart as a fool, brilliant and generous. Although he is often laughed at or teased by his brothers, his talent is highly appreciated by his father. At the beginning of his reign, he made great efforts to govern, but later he became tyrannical and extravagant.

Chinese name Gao Yang

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Nationality: Beiqi

Han (HA)

Birthplace Jinyang

The date of birth is 529.

Date of death: 559.

The main achievements were formally established in the Northern Qi Dynasty, including Rouran, Qidan and Koryo.

Ruled for 550-559 years

Yearno. natural forest protection

Emperor Shi Wenxuan

Temple name immortal ancestor

In the seventh year of Wuding (549), the 29-year-old Prime Minister Gao Cheng was stabbed to death by his own kitchen slave, which led to chaos in North Korea. At this time, 19-year-old Gao Yang stepped forward and comforted everyone, saying, "It's no big deal that a few outlaws rebelled and the general suffered. You don't have to panic. " Gao Yang is adamant. On the one hand, he personally commanded the guards and searched for assassins. On the other hand, it is in charge of state affairs, military affairs, and orderly. The chaotic political situation is under control again.

In May, the eighth year of Wuding (550), he arrived in Yecheng and sent Pan Le, Shi Zhongxian, Huang Menfu Zhao and others to see Xiao Jing, asking him to follow God's will, follow Yao Shun's example and give up the Zen position to the King of Qi. Then, Yang handed over the meditation book that had already been written. Emperor Xiaojing signed the book with tears in his eyes, bid farewell to discipline and was expelled from the palace. Then Gao Yang ascended the throne, calling himself the emperor, with the title Tianbao and the title Qi. In June 65438+10, the news of Gao Yang's accession to the throne reached Yu Wentai in the Western Wei Dynasty, and Yu Wentai led the army eastward. He wanted to test whether the new emperor, who was only 20 years old, was as brave and good at fighting as his old rival Gao Huan. The western Wei army has been advancing to Jianzhou (now southeast of Jiangxian County, Shanxi Province). In order to show his strength and talent, Gao Yang took the opportunity to correct Xianbei in six countries and held large-scale military exercises. All over the mountains, swords and guns are everywhere, and drums are loud. Yu Wentai can't help but sigh: "Gao Huan is not dead!" Say quickly transfer troops. Yu Wentai felt that his strength was inferior to that of Beiqi, so he kept putting an end to it and did not dare to move eastward easily. During the Levin period, the East and the West were basically at peace, but the North and the South were often at war.

Gao Yang ascended the throne as Tianbao for six years. With the stability of neighboring countries and full control of power, Gao Yang's will began to relax, and he moved from diligence to lewdness and tyranny. Gao Yang often wears make-up and women's clothes to parade in the streets. Or recruit a large number of women into the palace for themselves and their cronies to indulge day and night. Gao Yang once had a very favorite snowfield, which was very charming and beautiful. Gao Yang and she were inseparable and stayed together all day. One day, Gao Yang was as drunk as a fiddler. Suddenly, he remembered that Ai Xue had an affair with King Gao Yue of Wu Zhao. At that time, he was so jealous that he took out a dagger and killed Ai Xue. Then he held the body in his arms and went to find someone to drink drunk. After three rounds of drinking, Gao Yang suddenly took the bodies out of her arms, then casually dissected them one by one, made Xue Jian's moustache into a harp, and began to play and sing. Everyone present was horrified and shuddered.

Queen Lou, Gao Yang's mother, was very angry when she saw that Gao Yang was addicted to debauchery all day. Once, she raised her hand and hit Gao Yang with a stick, cursing: "What kind of father gives birth to what kind of son!" " "Gao Yang was full of alcohol and showed no weakness:" You old woman still dare to scold me, and tomorrow I will marry you to the conference semifinals as my wife. " Queen mother Lu fainted with anger. Gao Yang is still unwilling to rest. At night, he sneaked under the queen mother's bed. After the Empress Dowager went to bed, Gao Yang lifted the bedplate by hand. Queen Lou panicked and rolled down from the bed.

In the tenth year of natural forest protection (559), Gao Yang suddenly asked the ministers around him: "Why did Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty prosper after the rebellion in Lv Hou?" The minister replied, "That's because Liu was not completely killed when he was in power, so Liu was later resurrected." Gao Yang was deeply impressed, remembering that although the Northern Qi Dynasty and Wei Dynasty were established, Yuanshi County, a royal family in the Northern Wei Dynasty, still existed in large numbers. He thought it was a hidden danger, so he wrote a letter and killed everyone named Yuan. Killed 72 1 person before and after, even the baby was spared, allowing soldiers to provoke the baby with spears and throw them into the air for fun. The bodies of Yuanshi County were all thrown into the Zhanghe River. As a result, fishermen on both sides of the Zhanghe River often find that people's toenails remain in their stomachs when cutting fish, which makes residents on both sides of the Zhanghe River afraid to eat fish for a long time.

In his later years, Gao Yang was too dissolute and tyrannical, and his body was deficient. Results He died of illness in October of the 10th year of Natural Forest Protection (559) at the age of 365,438+0, and was buried in Wuning Mausoleum, whose temple name was Xianzu, Wen Xuandi, posthumous title.

politics

Gao Yang reformed the official system. He saw that there were too many local officials and overstaffed people, which increased the burden on farmers. So he took the advice of some ministers and cut down the state and county organizational system. In this way, the number of officials in the country has been reduced by tens of thousands at once, corruption has been greatly reduced, and the burden on farmers has been greatly reduced. In order to prevent the northern nomads from attacking, Levin also strengthened the Great Wall. Every slack season, he dispatched migrant workers to repair the Great Wall, which played a great role in the stability of the frontier. After a series of reform and development. Qi gradually became stronger. [4]

military affairs

Militarily, they still rely on the Xianbei tribe, preferring the brave Xianbei people, organizing the "Suwei Army", which is called "Bai Bao Xianbei", and then selecting the brave Han people to expand the garrison, which is called "Warriors". Military reorganization and innovation made the newly established Beiqi the most powerful country at that time. [5]

When Gao Yang Gang ascended the throne, Yu Wentai of the Western Wei Dynasty, with Gao Chengxin dead, was young, the Northern Qi Dynasty was prosperous, and the country was unstable, so he led troops to invade Qi. As a new emperor, Gao Yang wore a military uniform, marched in person, fought bravely, and had a very strict military appearance. Hearing this, Yu Wentai retreated without fighting and sighed, "Gao Huan is not dead." However, the ambitious Gao Yang did not rest. Instead, they adopted the basic strategy of "first small, then big, first weak and then strong", and frequently deployed troops to explore the south and the north. In the first month of the third year of Tianbao (552), he took advantage of the fact that the northern country was frozen and was not suitable for war, and led the Qi army to crusade against Kumoxi. The battle of Dai Jun (now the first line of Datong, Shanxi Province) was a great victory, with only 65,438+10,000 livestock. In October of the fourth year of natural forest protection (553), the Khitan was cut down again. As the king of a country, Gao Yang "has the advantage of getting the moon first". "He walked naked for more than a thousand miles day and night, only eating meat and drinking water, and he was strong." Encouraged by the monarch leader, the battle with the Khitan reached the edge of the Bohai Sea, and Fang withdrew, capturing 654.38+million soldiers and harvesting 654.38+million livestock. Gao Yang, who was quite capable of military command, did not reward the three armed forces after winning the Khitan War. Instead, he fought continuously with high morale and the excitement of soldiers' courage. He took advantage of his opponent's unprepared look and defeated his army, catching up to the north of Shuozhou and forcing him to send books to the table before giving up. In the first month of the fifth year of Natural Forest Protection (554), Gao Yang led his troops to bravely fight against corals in the north. As a tribal mountain call, how can it be the enemy of the Beiqi army? Defeated in World War I, beheaded by more than ten thousand people. No matter far or near, I respect and submit to the wind. In March, RuRuan Luochen's department rose up and rebelled against Beiqi, and Gao Yang led the army to counter the rebellion and annihilated his department. In April, Ruru army attacked Beiqi from Sizhou (now Xinzhou City) to the west, and Gao Yang led the army to fight back from Jinyang. Ru Ru was defeated and retreated to Hengzhou (now Datong). During the cucumber war, Ru Ru in Northern Qi Dynasty was killed for more than 20 miles, with corpses everywhere, including 30 people, Luo Chen's wife and children. In March of the 6th year of Natural Forest Protection (555), Ru Ru, who suffered repeated defeats in the Northern Qi Dynasty, defeated his army in Qilianchi (now Ningwu, Shanxi Province), courageously pursued Huai Shuo and Woye (both in Inner Mongolia), captured 20,000 prisoners and had more than 6,543,800 livestock. [5]

Gao Yang fought in the north for many years, attacking Rouran, Turkic, Qidan, Coral, Ru Ru and other places. And while winning many battles, they also won most of the battles in the Southern Dynasties. Southern Xinjiang in the Northern Qi Dynasty extends to the south of Huaihe River and ends in the Yangtze River. After years of fighting and the expansion of the North-South border, the national strength of Northern Qi reached its peak when Levin proclaimed himself emperor. The territory has expanded to Shanxi, Shandong, Hebei, Henan, Inner Mongolia, and the vast plains of northern Jiangsu and northern Anhui, with populations of 3 million and 20 million respectively. With its vast territory, large population, powerful army and abundant grain reserves, it became the most powerful of the three separatist countries in the north and south at that time. [5]

Building the Great Wall in the North is also a major feature of the Levin era in the Northern Qi Dynasty. In order to prevent the pressure of the north-south line, Gao Yang often prevented Nanliang from coveting when discussing the North; I was worried about the attack of Beihu Lake when I was going south. So, from the second year of natural forest protection, more than 200 kilometers of the Great Wall from Huangqiling to Shegan Tree was built. In the sixth year of natural forest protection, it starts from the Xiakou of Youzhou (now Juyongguan) in the east and reaches the Great Wall of Hengzhou (now Zuoyun, Shanxi) in the west, with a total length of more than 450 kilometers. In the seventh year of natural forest protection (556), several sections of the Great Wall were connected to complete the Wan Li Great Wall from Xihe Clan Department to Bohai Sea. According to incomplete statistics, during the Levin period, the Great Wall 1500 kilometers was built, and a garrison was set up every 5 kilometers, and each state and town was set up. Finally, in the eighth year of natural forest protection (557), a heavy city was built on the Great Wall, with a total length of more than 200 kilometers, starting from Kugeba in the west and defending at the pier in the east. [5]

other

The agriculture, salt and iron industry and porcelain manufacturing industry in the Northern Qi Dynasty are quite developed, and it is the richest of the three countries that keep pace with the Chen Dynasty and the Western Wei Dynasty. It can be said that there are few young and promising kings in the history of China. However, after six years of natural forest protection, he began to debauchery. In the last year, he ignored state affairs and was supervised by the prince. He either meditates and retreats, or indulges in debauchery. He built three palaces in the capital city of Ye (now Linzhang, Hebei Province), which were very luxurious and used 300,000 civilian workers. It's so extravagant.

Gao Yang's oppression of the people became more severe in the later period of his rule. Accurately speaking, Gao Yang's oppression of the people reflects the incident of repairing three sets of light and sending widows with sergeants to build the Great Wall. 1.8 million people were called in to build the city.

Gao Yang, on the other hand, attaches great importance to ecological development, such as: "It is forbidden to burn crops in mid-winter and January, and it is not allowed to make fires at other times, which will damage insects and vegetation." "In the summer of April, Geng Wu ordered the people to take shrimps, crabs and clams and ordered them to stop fishing in widex. Yiyou, public and private eagles are also forbidden. " In the later period of Gao Yang's rule, although he was drinking and having fun, he was not puzzled by major events and often granted amnesty to the whole world. In the event of a disaster, he will reduce or exempt taxes in the affected areas. [4]

Politically, although Gao Yang lived a luxurious life, he always opposed corruption and severely punished corrupt ministers (such as Gao Dezheng). The ministers selected by Gao Yang are generally honest, which is very beneficial to national governance.

Without justice, there is no Tyrone.

Gao Yang has a jar and a saw in the Golden Hall. Whenever he is drunk, he must kill people to be happy. And he is drunk from morning till night, so he wants to kill people from morning till night. Maid-in-waiting eunuchs and cronies die tragically in his rage every day. Finally, the judicial department sent the prisoners sentenced to death to the palace for Gao Yang to kill. Later, too many people were killed, and the death row was not enough, so the defendants who were being tried in the detention center were all considered "criminals." Is not only sent to the palace, even when Gao Yang patrol, prisoners who work for the royal family are behind Gao Yang's ass, as long as they don't die for three months, they will be acquitted. When Gao Yang was young, Prime Minister Gao Longzhi was not polite to him. He remembered his previous hatred and ordered Gao Longzhi to be killed. Suddenly, I hate it even more. I called more than twenty sons of Gao Longzhi to the horse. The whip was gently buckled on the saddle, and the guards were all under the knife, and their heads fell to the ground at the same time. Gao Yang's niece Princess Le 'an (Gao Cheng's daughter) married the son of the above-mentioned right servant Cui Xian. As soon as the princess returned to the palace, Gao Yang asked about her life. The princess replied, "My family respects me very much, but only my mother-in-law doesn't like me very much." At that time, Cui Xian died of illness. Gao Yang went directly to Cui Xian's home and asked Cui Xian's wife Li if she missed her dead husband. Li replied, "If you get married, how can you not miss it?" Hearing this, Gao Yang silently drew his sword and said, "Since I miss him, why don't I go with him?" Then cut off Li's head with a knife and throw it outside the wall. Gao Yang loves geisha Xue Guimian and has an affair with her sister. One day, when she went to her sister's house for a drink, she relied on Gao Yang's favor and begged him to let her father Stuart. Gao Yang was furious and said, "Situ is an important official position in the DPRK. You can get it if you want it?" Then he sawed her to death with a saw himself. Later, Gao Yang suspected that Shi Xue and Gao Yue were not innocent before, so he poisoned Gao Yue with poisoned wine, then cut off Shi Xue's head, hid the bloody head in his arms and threw it on the table at the climax of the banquet. The whole party was shocked. Gao Yang dismembered her body, made a lute out of her leg bones and sang, "Beauty is hard to find." When buried, Gao Yang followed, unkempt and crying loudly. [8]

When violence broke out in Gao Yang, he treated his mother in the same way. Once, he knocked over the low stool (Hu bed) where his mother, Queen Lou, sat, causing the old woman to fall. Once he lost his temper and declared that he would marry his mother to Xianbei slaves. Gao Yang came to her mother-in-law's house, shot an arrow at her cheek and shouted, "I'm drunk and don't even know my own mother. What are you? " Give another hundred lashes to her mother-in-law whose face is covered with blood. Gao Yang imprisoned his two younger brothers, Jun Gao and Gao Huan, and they often gave him advice on weekdays. Gao Yang personally went to see them, sang loudly and ordered them to make peace. They were afraid and sad, singing and trembling. Gao Yang couldn't help crying when he heard this, and then he raised his iron spear and stabbed them. The guards rushed down with spears, and the two younger brothers struggled with iron spears and wailed loudly, and were soon stabbed into a ball of meat sauce. Finally, together with the iron cage, it was burned together. The last thing Gao Yang did was to slaughter all the royal families in the Northern Wei Dynasty. The babies were thrown into the air, taken away by iron spears and pierced one by one. [9]

There is only one woman in Levin who has never been bullied by him, and that is Li Xinyu. Li is a Han nationality with beautiful talent and color. Gao Yang married her in Taiyuan and made her queen after she became emperor. Although he was unhappy and killed the queen, he was very polite to Li. As for Li's mother and sister, he has special respect for them. Once, after drinking, Gao Yang broke into her mother-in-law's house, and when she saw her pampered, she started a nameless fire. He took a bow and arrow from his entourage, shot an arrow in his mother-in-law's face, and said to her bleeding mother-in-law, "It's unfair that I hit my mother and didn't hit you. I want to beat you up. " So he ordered his men to whip his mother-in-law one hundred times before giving up. [9]

Queen Li's sister is the wife of Wang Wei Yuan Ang. She looks very charming. Gao Yang had long coveted her, so he did the same thing again, playing the fool after drinking at Yuan Ang's house and flirting with Li Jie. He deliberately spilled wine on himself, let Li Jie wipe it for him, and took the opportunity to touch Li Jie. He even spit the wine in his crotch and asked Li Jie to clean it up. As Li Jie stretched out his hand and wiped his hands, Gao Yang suddenly embraced Li Jie in handfuls. Yuan Ang and Li Jie were not humiliated, and their faces were not happy. Although Gao Yang is burning with desire, he can't start. [9]

In order to get Li Jie, I wanted to take her into the palace to do the Three Zhao Yi, but I was afraid that she would miss her husband, so I made a plan, made up an excuse, called Yuan Ang into the palace, and shot her with random arrows. Li Jie set up a mourning hall to pay homage to Yuan Ang and pretended to go there. The burning Gao Yang raped Li Jie in front of Yuan Ang's spirit. The court officials were too scared to be glamorous, and they were sent to the palace with beautiful women. [9]

By the age of 30, Gao Yang could no longer eat, only drank a few bowls of wine every day, and finally died of drunkenness. In history, emperors addicted to sex like Gao Yang are rare. It is said that Gao Yang was promiscuous because he was drunk. It should be said that he pretended to be crazy by drinking, and after drinking, he exposed his wild and cruel nature.