Chapter 8 Emperor Wu of Zhou destroyed the Northern Qi Dynasty

After Emperor Wu of Zhou destroyed the Buddha, the two things that Yuwen Yong needed the most were money and people. After having these two things, what is Yu Wenyong going to do? Naturally, it is a common ideal intended to accomplish that pinnacle of power. However, at this time, the ethnic minorities led by the Turks were strong, and Nanchen was politically clear and strong at this time. Although after the destruction of Buddhism, the Northern Zhou Dynasty has developed greatly, but it is impossible to do a multi-front war, and even a single-line war is not certain, because there is also a Northern Qi eyeing the side, in order to solve the great trouble of the Northern Qi first, so from December 576 AD, Yuwen Yong decided to connect the Turks in the north, and the south and the South Chen, and first launched a war to destroy the Northern Qi. The war lasted three years, and the final result ended with the victory of the Northern Zhou and the destruction of the Northern Qi.

In this war of the Northern Zhou Dynasty to destroy the Qi Dynasty, I must say that a person, a crucial person, this person is the most critical person in this war, this person is Hu Luguang of the Northern Qi Dynasty, a real famous general. Why? Let's put the time to 550 years, 26 years before the start of the Battle of Qi. In this year, Gao Huan's second son, Gao Yang, kicked away the puppet emperor of the Eastern Wei Dynasty, Emperor Xiaojing, and established the State of Qi, known as the Northern Qi Dynasty in history. Why not Gao Huan's eldest son? Because Gao Huan's eldest son, Gao Cheng, was killed by a cook when he was preparing to usurp the throne, and this cook was still his domestic slave, called Lan Jing. This is not particularly important, let's not talk about it, anyway, the eldest son died, and the second son Gao Yang ascended the throne, and the life of this Gao Yang's emperor is divided into two parts. The first part is wise and martial, known as the Heroic Son of Heaven, and is a generation of heroes in the Northern Qi Dynasty, but the latter part is self-defeating, and begins to become very brutal and especially fond of drinking. So at the age of 34, he died violently because of excessive drinking, and he loved wine to this point, and it was the only one.

At the time of Gao Yang's death, his son Gao Yin was only 15 years old, so he asked his brother Gao Yan to help his son. What happened next, everyone should be able to guess that Gao Yan killed Gao Yin and became the emperor himself. But maybe God opened his eyes and felt that Gao Yan was too bad, so Gao Yan died of a serious illness in the second year. When Gao Yan was seriously ill, he wanted to pass the throne to his son, but he was afraid that his son would be killed, so he passed it on to his younger brother Gao Zhan, which means that the throne is given to you, don't kill my son. But the first thing Gao Zhan did when he became emperor was to kill Gao Yan's son. It's too messy, this family is really messy, and I'm speechless when I write this. It is said that the emperor is the most ruthless, but in order to compete for the throne, looking at the 5,000-year history of China, there is such a high family. Although the Yuwen family of the same era is chaotic, it is still the dictatorship of relatives in essence, Yuwen Hu is not a son-in-law, he can only be regarded as a relative, and his family is still not so cruel.

Let's go back to the topic, after this Gao Zhan became the emperor, it was just a mess anyway, Gao Yang was still the emperor for a few years, and this Gao Zhan only cared about eating, drinking and having fun. In the end, he felt that being the emperor was too tired and affected his own play, so he passed the throne to his son Gao Wei, and he concentrated on playing. The upper beam is not right, and the lower beam can still be positive? Obviously impossible, this Gao Wei is also ridiculous, in addition to inheriting the characteristics of his family's good womanhood, this Gao Wei is also masculine. Well, that's it, let's not talk about it, if you are interested, you can go to Baidu. I won't say much, it's just a word of confusion anyway.

The ruler of the Northern Qi Dynasty has such a virtue, but the Northern Qi can still resist the attack of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, because of Hu Luguang, and the actions of the rulers of the Northern Qi introduced earlier are actually to set off Hu Luguang. Hu Luguang has a nickname called "Falling Eagle Governor", when hunting with the emperor, he bent his bow and shot the eagle, and the emperor praised him, so he had such a nickname. Do you still remember the paragraph I wrote earlier about Yuwen taking care of his face? Yuwen Hu attacked the Northern Qi and was defeated, that is, he lost in the hands of this person, and the others in the Northern Zhou Dynasty were also planted under Hu Luguang's hands many times.

So Yuwen Yong is in a hurry, if he can't win Northern Qi for a long time, even if he wins later, Northern Zhou will be dragged to death, and the only way to win is to kill Hu Luguang first. But killing Hu Luguang by force is, in a sense, equivalent to the end of the war to destroy the country, which is a particularly troublesome matter. Since external forces are not easy to handle, let's play conspiracy, it just so happens that Hu Luguang is a righteous person, and at the same time he is also an informal person. This kind of character is very good now, and everyone is happy to make friends, but in the kind of society where villains are in charge at that time, Hu Luguang, a righteous and unruly person, often makes some remarks that look down on villains, saying that there are too many villains in the court now, and if the emperor does not rectify it, the country will end sooner or later. But as the old saying goes, it is better to offend a gentleman than to offend a villain, and the biggest difference between a gentleman and a villain is that it is not too late for a gentleman to take revenge; The villain takes revenge, thinking about it day and night. So, this group of villains began to say bad things about Hu Luguang in front of the emperor, of course the emperor knew the importance of Hu Luguang, but he couldn't stand the wind blowing in his ears, just like that, the emperor's sense of Hu Luguang began to deteriorate. When the emperor's senses for a person begin to deteriorate, the result is already predestined.

In the third year of Wuping, that is, in 572, Wei Xiaokuan, the first general of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, sent people to collect a lot of news in the Northern Qi Dynasty in order to solve this pillar of the Northern Qi Dynasty, the most important of which was the news about the discord between Hu Luguang and the people around Emperor Gao Wei. After seeing the news, Wei Xiaokuan smiled, and an old-fashioned but tried and tested conspiracy began.

Wei Xiaokuan asked his subordinates to make up a nursery rhyme "Hundred liters fly to the sky, the bright moon shines on Chang'an", and then let people sing it in the streets and alleys of Northern Qi. This hundred liters is a Hu, and Hu Luguang word Mingyue, the meaning of this sentence is self-evident, that is, you Hu Luguang wants to rebel, to seize the throne of the Gao family, rebellion is the most unbearable thing for the emperor, whether it is the lord or the tyrant, rebellion in which dynasty is a big crime of the nine clans. When the emperor heard this nursery rhyme, even though he knew that he had to rely on Hu Luguang, he also had an irrepressible murderous intent towards Hu Luguang. Although it is inconceivable that we look down on a certain minister because of a word, it is very normal in ancient history. Not only as I said above, but in ancient times, it was also a society that believed in the divine right of kings, and the divine authority of kings made the common people believe that the Son of Heaven was sent by God to rule them, which was conducive to the rule of the rulers. But once this thing is mastered by someone with a heart, it will become a tiger poison against a certain person, and the feudal autocratic emperor believes in this thing more. This thing was also very common in ancient times, and the earliest was when Chen Sheng and Wu Guang rebelled, they stuffed a piece of cloth in the belly of the fish, and the three words Chen Shengwang were written on it. Let's talk about a relatively recent one, at the end of the Sui Dynasty, there was a nursery rhyme about the headless son of the Son of Heaven, which led to the demise of a large number of clans surnamed Li, and Li Yuan also ran back to Taiyuan to barely escape, which is also a meaning. So Hu Luguang died because of this, a generation of famous generals, just died. It seems to be because of this conspiracy, but everyone knows that the real cause of death is because Hu Luguang offended the villain, so we have to remember a sentence, it is better to offend the gentleman than the villain.

After Hu Luguang died, the Northern Zhou easily broke through Yecheng, and the Northern Qi perished. After getting the news of the fall of the Northern Qi Dynasty, Yu Wenyong was full of emotion and said a sentence "If this person is here, how can I reach Ye", and he can get such a high evaluation from his opponent, and Hu Luguang's military talent can be seen. A very difficult war, because Hu Luguang's death became extremely easy, which is unimaginable to Cushman & Wakefield, and it is also unimaginable to the villains around Cushman & Wakefield, but history is like this, what you can't imagine doesn't mean it can't happen, this is the charm of history, we study history, that is, we look for these unimaginable but real events in history. And the next event that we could not have imagined soon happened.

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