Huang Shen was sent to the northern border with a super Buddhist heart, because the conditions here are relatively difficult.

Huang Shen is in the north of the pass, that's his business, let's take a look at Wei.

During the reign of Emperor Xuanwu of Emperor Sejong and Emperor Yuanke, the Wei State took advantage of the internal turmoil in the Southern Qi Dynasty to expand a lot of territory, and the country was very prosperous, but at that time, there were few courtiers in their hearts, and they were pretending to be emperors.

In this case, there is a relative named Gao Zhao, who is different from these people, and stands out from it.

Who is Gao Zhao? He is the elder brother of Yuan Ke's mother, Empress Wenzhao, and his ancestor, because of the rebellion of Yongjia, entered Goryeo, and Gao Zhao's father, Gao Yang, entered Wei during the reign of Emperor Yuanhong of Gaozong Xiaowen.

In other words, the Gao Zhao family, with a very shallow foundation in the Wei State, and a person with a very shallow foundation, can send his daughter to the palace, become the queen of Yuan Hong, and give birth to the crown prince Yuan Ke, it seems that the means are also very good

Yuan Ke's first queen Yu, nicknamed Shun, Empress Shun died in 504, in March 508, her son also died, in July, Yuan Ke set up Gao Zhao's niece Gao as the queen.

Spit it out, no wonder the ancient royal family members were frail and sickly, they loved to marry close relatives so much, can they have good offspring? It's no wonder that they don't live long, they are not in good health, and they have sex early, and they can live for a long time, which is really a miracle.

Not only is it not in good health, but I am afraid that there are many princes and princesses who are intellectually impaired or disabled, but these disabled descendants of the royal family are probably buried in the dark, and future generations will not even know about their existence.

Due to the establishment of the Gao family, the Gao family celebrated each other, and the whole family was appointed to a high position.

Perhaps, the death of Empress Shun has nothing to do with the Gao family, but such a coincidence has to make people think more, not only later historians suspect that Empress Shun's death was caused by the Gao family, but even the people at that time also had this idea.

Whether it matters or not, the fact is: Gao became the step-queen.

Because the Gao clan has a shallow foundation in the Northern Wei Dynasty, Gao Zhao has no relatives, so he makes friends, and those who are dependent, exalted in the tenth month, and those who violate it will be framed as a major crime, and the typical one who obeys me will prosper and those who disobey me will die.

At that time, the imperial family was also internally unstable, Yuan Ke had many precautions against the princes, and acquiesced in Gao Zhao's framing and killing of Pengcheng Wang Yuanxian, and his son Yuan Ziyou became the emperor, and honored him as Emperor Wenmu, and the temple name was Suzu.

There is also Jingzhao Wang Yuanyu, dissatisfied with his relative Gao Zhao's power and government, launched a rebellion in Jizhou, defeated and captured, and was finally killed by Gao Zhao, at the age of 21. Empress Dowager Hu took power, posthumously crowned the king of Lintao County, and her son Nanyang Wang Yuanbao Ju was called the emperor, established the Western Wei regime, and posthumously called Emperor Wenjing.

Gao Zhao was also cleaned up by Beihai King Yuan Shen, but he was also acquiesced by Yuan Ke.

Gao Zhao is mostly derogatory in the history books, and Yuan Ke lives in the shadow of Gao Zhao, but looking at its content, Gao Zhao is not without merit.

For example: Yuan Yu and Yuan Yu, in historical records, Yuan Yu is "arrogant and greedy, lawless", Yuan Shen is even worse, "arrogant and extravagant, insatiable, public and private dealers, widely occupy the first house, seize people's living rooms", this kind of cancer should be removed!

Another example: cutting the rank and suppressing the dethroned people, it can be seen that Gao Zhao is not a person without ideas.

Yuan Ke's evaluation in the "Book of Wei" is: Yaxing is frugal, and he is an emperor who knows thrift, but, through other accounts, it can be seen that "if there is no political matter, the financial use is insufficient", there is nothing to do, but the daily expenses are not enough, it can be seen that the treasury of Wei at that time was already problematic, and Yuan Ke's frugality was probably forced out.

Perhaps it is precisely because of this that Gao Zhao made a "reduction of the rank and suppression of the lords", Yuan Ke reused him, except for the few courtiers who were loyal to the emperor, Gao Zhao himself was also a talented person.

It's just that Yuan Xian resolutely opposes the abuse of power by his relatives, his concerns are not unreasonable, although Gao Zhao has done some facts, but those who follow me prosper and those who oppose me die, still lead to the darkening of the government, coupled with Yuan Ke's sluggishness, the national strength is gradually weakening, but unfortunately, Yuan Xian's concerns are contrary to Yuan Ke, and in the end, it led to the disaster of killing.

Yuan Ke reigned for fifteen years and died in 515 at the age of thirty-three at the age of Chinese New Year's Eve, and was succeeded by his son Yuan Xu, Emperor Suzong Xiaoming.

The new emperor ascended the throne and began a new round of power struggle.

Yu Zhong, the leading general of Yingli Yuanxu, cleared the barricades, and killed Gao Zhao, tilted the power towards the government and the opposition, killed the courtiers indiscriminately, and held the imperial court edict and the power of life and death.

What kind of immortal is this Yu Zhong?

Yuan Ke's first queen, Yu Jin, the father of Empress Shun Yu, was the younger brother of Yu Zhong's father Yu Lie, Yu Zhong was the cousin of Empress Shun and a relative.

After the collapse of Yuan Ke, the queen Gao naturally became the queen mother, and Yuan Xu's biological mother Hu became the imperial concubine, but after Gao Zhao was killed, Gao was a nun, I am afraid that she was also forced by Yu Zhong, in this way, the imperial concubine Hu sat in the position of the queen mother, for the queen mother, because Suzong Xiaoming Emperor Yuan Xu was only five years old, so the Empress Dowager Hu was in the dynasty.

The first thing Empress Dowager Hu did when she came to the dynasty was to relieve Yu Zhong of his position, and then demoted his official position.

However, the question is, since the power is tilted towards the government and the opposition, it is so easy to be dismissed and demoted? Looking at the powerful ministers in Chinese history, when you want to get rid of them, which one has not experienced the hardships of giving birth to a child? Let's just say that it is relatively close, the Ao worship during the Qing Dynasty, get rid of the Ao worship, it can really be said that the organs are exhausted and frightening step by step, but if Yu Zhong is removed, the Empress Dowager Hu and a few ministers will settle it out? ! I'm afraid that the record of loyalty in the historical materials is biased, right?

Anyway, after Empress Dowager Hu came to the dynasty to take control, Yu Zhong withdrew from the stage of history, but Yu Zhong finally died well, was not killed, framed, and died at the age of fifty-seven.

After clearing Yu Zhong, Empress Dowager Hu thought that it was finally her own world, but she had another yuan fork.

Yuan Cha is the great-great-grandson of Emperor Taizu Daowu Tuoba Jue, the brother-in-law of the Empress Dowager Hu, and has won the trust of the Empress Dowager Hu.

As the saying goes, shrimp looking for shrimp, crab looking for crab, not a type of person, it is impossible to get together, so Yuan Cha, who won the trust of Empress Dowager Hu, had an affair with Empress Dowager Hu.

Yuan Ke's half-brother, Qinghe Wang Yuanyi, can be good in politics, clear in decision-making, analysis of various affairs, very famous, Empress Dowager Hu is also because of his virtue and admiration of everyone, entrusted the government to him, treat him as Zhou Gong, Huo Guang in general, Yuan Yi tried his best to assist the government.

Because of this, Yuan Yi judged Yuan Cha according to the law and often restrained him, which was resented by Yuan Cha.

Yuan Cha falsely accused Yuan Yi of rebellion, but failed to frame Yuan Yi, many officials defended Yuan Yi, and Yuan Yi was released by Zhaoxue.

However, the existence of Yuan Yi is a roadblock for Yuan Cha, and Yuan Yi has a high prestige, Yuan Cha is worried that there will always be Tian Yuan Yi who will harm himself, so he conspired with Liu Teng in the service to launch a palace d'état in July of the first year of Zhengguang (520), known as the "Xuanguang Coup", house arrest Empress Dowager Hu, once again framed Yuan Yi for rebellion, to poison Yuan Xu, this time finally let Yuan Cha succeed, Yuan Yi was imprisoned and killed.

As for Yuan Xu, although he was not under house arrest with Empress Dowager Hu, as a ten-year-old child, he who is not under house arrest can not escape the control of Yuan Cha, Yuan Cha and Gaoyang Wang Yuanyong and other auxiliary governments, in fact, Yuan Cha is the outer emperor, Liu Teng is the internal defense, and he has the sole power.

Zhongshan Wang Yuanxi raised troops to attack Yuancha and Liu Teng, but was defeated and killed; Empress Dowager Hu's subordinate son Monk Jing and Che Qu raised troops to fight, but they still did not resist, and because of this, the Hu family was mostly deposed; Xi Kangsheng, who has an in-law relationship with Yuancha, because he can't get used to Yuancha's misdeeds, wants to use the palace banquet where Yuanxu and Empress Dowager Hu met to kill Yuancha, but Xi Kangsheng is a reckless man, and he can't kill Yuancha, but he was arrested and beheaded by Yuancha; and Yu Zhong's younger brother Yu Jing, who also planned to abolish Yuancha, but unfortunately still failed.

At this time, the people who resisted failed, and Yuan Cha and Liu Teng were in power.

When Yuancha was just in power, he could still pretend to be a little, and it looked good, but after he got the will, his original form was revealed, arrogant, drunk and lustful, and he was in love with the seizure of office, lazy in political affairs, and did not enforce discipline.

And Liu Teng, who was not a good person, was tortured and entered the palace when he was a child, and then sent the abolished prince Yuan Sui to rebel, as well as the adultery of Emperor Gaozu Xiaowen Yuanhong Empress Feng, one second ago he also supported Empress Dowager Hu and supported Emperor Xiaoming to succeed to the throne, and the next second he launched a "Xuanguang Coup" with Yuan Cha, killing King Yuanyi of Qinghe and imprisoning Empress Dowager Hu.

After getting the will, the eight Jiuqing in the court often went to Liu Teng's residence, and after getting Liu Teng's instructions, he acted according to his words. Some newly appointed ministers must also worship Liu Teng before going to work. Whoever asks for public or private matters only weighs property and nothing else. Exploiting the six towns, forcing neighbors, opening up mansions, and building mansions, the people are making a living.

In March of the fourth year of Zhengguang (523), Liu Teng died of illness at the age of sixty.

After Liu Teng's death, the defense relaxed slightly, and Yuan Cha himself relaxed his vigilance, often staying outside, and traveling every day, he would linger in other cities, which was seen by the Empress Dowager Hu.

In the fifth year of Zhengguang (524), in the autumn, during the court meeting with Yuan Xu, Empress Dowager Hu said to Yuan Xu that it was actually for the ministers:

"What is the use of separating my mother and son, and not allowing me to associate with my son? Let me become a monk, and I will never be in the world! ”

As he spoke, he took out a large pair of scissors and prepared to cut off his hair.

Yuan Xu and the ministers were afraid, they kowtowed and cried, and begged the Empress Dowager Hu, but the Empress Dowager Hu was resolute and very stubborn, so Yuan Xu stayed in the Jiafu Palace, for several days, and conspired with the Empress Dowager Hu to deal with Yuan Cha.

Empress Dowager Hu's angry words, wanting to communicate with Yuan Xu's Xianyang Dian and so on, were told to Yuan Cha, Yuan Cha did not doubt him, and also advised Yuan Xu to follow Empress Dowager Hu's wishes and let Empress Dowager Hu become a monk.

So Empress Dowager Hu went to the Xianyang Hall many times, and there was no longer a ban on the two palaces, that is to say, the meeting between Empress Dowager Hu and Yuan Xu was no longer hindered.