It's an exaggeration to say that Gao Yan was killed by a rabbit, but it's absolutely true!

It's not history, but history is more legendary, I have to say that sometimes history is so wonderful, just a few days before the news of the defeat of the Weishui army of the Hu Lawyers Association reached Jinyang, Gao Yan, who has been presiding over the political situation of the Northern Qi Dynasty in Jinyang, was seriously injured because of a rabbit when he was riding a horse and hunting.

When the news of the defeat of the Hu Lawyers Association reached Jinyang, Gao Yan, who was already seriously injured, became more and more injured, although Gao Yan, who was lying on the hospital bed, had the intention to remove the position of the chief general of the Hu Lawyers Association, but on the one hand, he was worried that this would make the battle situation on the front line more critical, and on the other hand, he was also worried that the Hu Lawyers Association, who was still loyal to him, would leave Germany.

So even if the Hu Lawyers Association was defeated in Weishui this time, and the loss of hundreds of thousands of teachers shocked the world, but he still served as the military governor of Qi, Jeju, Qing, and Guangzhou counties, but now the Hu Lawyers Association, who temporarily retains his position, does not dare to attack Wang Ze again.

The crisis of the Hu Lawyers Association itself is over, but the situation in Jinyang is getting worse and worse, and the condition is getting more and more serious as time goes by.

In the autumn of last year, the seizure of his nephew's throne by force coup d'état had become the emperor of the Northern Qi Dynasty, and out of political interests, he secretly ordered his uncle Gao Guiyan, the king of Ping Qin, to secretly kill his nephew Gao Yin, violating the oath he and Gao Zhan had made in front of the old lady Empress Dowager Lou.

As a result, it didn't take long for Gao Yan's old mother, Empress Dowager Lou, to be hit by the successive deaths of her son Gao Yang and grandson Gao Yin, and finally died of depression.

As the highest-rated Gao Yan in history among the Gao family brothers, after his mood calmed down, he began to feel extremely guilty, on the one hand, he felt sorry for his deceased brother Gao Yang and mother Empress Dowager Lou, on the other hand, he was also worried about whether his son Gao Bainian would also get Gao Yin's fate in the future.

In the following days, this feeling of guilt tormented him all day and night, and soon after the winter of last year, Gao Yan's consciousness began to be a little confused, and there were always visions of Gao Yang, Yang Su and others holding swords to avenge Gao Yin, which made him afraid day and night.

Fortunately, the wife of Gao Yan, who was born in the Eastern Wei clan at that time, Buliu Gu, was relatively calm, and hurriedly called someone to "exorcise ghosts", sprinkled the boiling oil inside and outside the palace, and ordered the eunuchs and servants to hold torches and stand around the palace all night to prevent "ghosts" from invading the palace.

After a "exorcism" ceremony presided over by his wife, Gao Yan seemed to feel a little more relaxed, and in the middle of January after the Chinese New Year, seeing that the weather was getting warmer and warmer, in order to relax, he and a few entourages went to the hunting grounds of the royal garden in the suburbs to ride horses and hunt.

But I don't want to run when the horse, a cunning rabbit suddenly rushed out of the bushes on the side of the road, and the war horse that Gao Yan was riding was suddenly frightened and jumped up, and Gao Yan fell heavily from the horse.

Fortunately, several of Gao Yan's entourage around him were more loyal, and immediately secretly escorted Gao Yan, who was seriously injured, back to the palace, and then because the Bu Liugu clan handled it properly, no one else found that Gao Yan was injured in the first few days, but after Gao Yan was injured, his condition changed dramatically, and the previous illusions began to appear again.

In the following nearly a month, Gao Yan often did not eat or sleep all day and night, but often shouted and begged for mercy at night, and as soon as he sobered up, he remembered who should inherit the throne once he died.

When Gao Yan launched a coup d'état to overthrow his nephew Gao Yin, in order to win over his younger brother Gao Zhan, the king of Changguang, he promised to make Gao Zhan the emperor's younger brother after the matter was completed, and Gao Zhan would inherit the throne after his death, but after Gao Yan took power, he immediately repented and set up his son Gao Bainian, who was less than five years old, as the crown prince.

It turned out that Gao Zhan, who was promised to be the crown prince, not only failed to become the crown prince, but only served as the right prime minister, not to mention, the power in his hands was still weakened by Gao Yan, so how could Gao Zhan not hate Gao Yan.

When Gao Yan was sober, he was a little shocked when he thought of this question: I bullied Gao Yin when he was young and powerful, and recruited Xianbei Xungui and the children of the clan to kill the king and usurp the throne, but who can guarantee that after my death, Gao Zhan, the king of Changguang, will not kill my son and become the emperor himself? What's more, Gao Zhan is not that kind of benevolent and righteous person.

After careful consideration, Gao Yan, who had temporarily recovered his senses, felt that the best solution was to remove his son Gao Bainian's title of crown prince, re-establish Gao Zhan as the heir to the throne, and pass the throne to Gao Zhan.

So in the second year of the emperor's establishment, that is, at the end of January this year, Gao Yan, who was seriously injured, issued an edict ordering Gao Zhan, the king of Changguang, to inherit the throne, and wrote a suicide note to Gao Zhan before he died, begging Gao Zhan: "After I die, you must treat my wife and children well, don't follow my example." ”

Facing the throne that had already arrived, Gao Zhan also agreed to Gao Yan's request at that time, so Gao Yan, who seemed to be relieved, died suddenly, at the age of 27, and was buried in Wenjing Mausoleum, nicknamed "Emperor Xiaozhaofu".

In the second year of Huangjian (560), Gao Zhan succeeded to the throne after Gao Yan's death, and changed the Yuan to Taining, which was Emperor Wucheng. Fengyuan Gaoyan's son, Emperor Xiaozhao, the crown prince Gao Bainian, was the king of Leling County, the concubine Hu was the queen, and the son Gao Wei was the crown prince.

In the eyes of future generations, the matter should be solved perfectly, but where is the matter so easy, it is possible to change the matter to someone else, but Gao Zhan is different, he has always been known for his narrow-mindedness among Gao Yang's brothers, how can he not return the bullying he inflicted on him at the beginning?

Gao Zhan recalled that when Gao Yan and he conspired to kill Yang Su and others, he promised to make him the emperor's younger brother after the matter was completed, but Gao Yan set up his son Gao Bainian as the crown prince after the emperor's throne, not to mention, he also used his cronies Di Fengle as the leading general to stay in Yecheng, constantly weakening the power of Gao Zhan, who was the right prime minister at that time.

At that time, Gao Zhan's heart was extremely angry, and he planned to plot a rebellion with his cronies last winter, and Gao Yuanhai, who was good friends with Gao Zhan at that time, also persuaded him to recruit hundreds of civil and military officials, arrest Di Fengle, kill Shang Shuling Gao Guiyan, and re-support Gao Yin, the king of Jinan, as the emperor, and order the world to rebel against rebellion.

However, later when the wizard said in divination, "It is not good to move, quiet is auspicious", Gao Zhan, who trusted the wizard a lot, gave up the attempt of a coup d'état by force, and secretly waited for the opportunity.

Gao Zhan is very ruthless, the last few years of Emperor Wenxuan Gao Yang's life were very absurd and brutal, often killing ministers, so Gao Yang's other two younger brothers, Yong'an Wang Gao Jun and Shangdang Wang Gao Lian, often advised him, but once the two accidentally angered Gao Yang, who was crazy, and was locked in an iron cage and locked in a dungeon after being beaten.

Soon Gao Yan remembered that the two younger brothers who were locked up went to see them in person, and in prison, Gao Yang suddenly sang loudly again, and forced the two younger brothers to sing and harmonize together.

Hearing the sadness of the two, Gao Yang was moved to tears, so he prepared to release the two younger brothers, after all, they are brothers!

But at this time, Gao Zhan, who went with Gao Yang, was at odds with Gao Jun, the king of Yong'an, so he immediately said to Gao Yang: "The beast is out of the hole?" ”

One sentence cut off Gao Jun and Gao Lian's way of life, and Gao Jun, who was angry at that time, called Gao Zhan's nickname: "Step down, the emperor will see you!" "It means that God is watching all these immoral things you have done!

After Gao Yang listened to Gao Zhan's words, he sang and shed tears, grabbed a spear and stabbed it into the cage, and then asked the guards to stab him when he was tired, but when Gao Yang finished singing, his two younger brothers also stabbed into a puddle of meat sauce, and finally set fire to it.

Gao Zhan is not stupid, if he wants to take revenge on others after becoming the emperor, he first has to consolidate his position, he first asked his son Gao Wei to marry the daughter of the Hu Lawyers Association as the crown princess, one is to pull this rising Northern Qi famous general into his chariot, and the other is to use the Hu Lawyers Association to balance other Xianbei nobles who are not down.

His daughter was able to marry the crown prince Gao Wei and then became the queen of the Northern Qi Dynasty, of course, the Hu Lawyers Association was very happy to agree, but at this time, Hu Lvjin, the elder of the Hu Lawyers Association, objected: Our honors and nobles were originally on the throne with their military exploits, why bother to get the position of a relative!

He told Hu Lawyers Association that becoming a relative was not only not a good thing, but it was very likely to cause a catastrophe, but at this time, the Hu Lawyers Association, who was still young, did not take Hu Lvjin's words to heart.

Gao Zhan did not have the talents of several brothers, but he was far more brutal and mediocre than them, and the Northern Qi Dynasty, which was originally quite strong in history, embarked on the road of complete destruction in the hands of Gao Zhan.

In the current history, although the Northern Qi lost hundreds of thousands of troops because of Wang Ze, with the strong national strength of the Northern Qi, as long as it takes a few years to make great efforts, it can quickly become strong, but it is a pity that because of Gao Zhan's mediocrity, this is no longer an impossible thing. see

Less than two months after Gao Zhan ascended the throne, a major event occurred, that is, he set up his meritorious uncle, Gao Guiyan, the king of Pingqin, and launched a rebellion shortly after he was released as the assassin of Jizhou, and was finally defeated and killed.

Gao Guiyan is the brother of Gao Zhan's father Gao Huan, when Gao Cheng was alive, he participated in the war to pacify Hou Jing, and was awarded the title of Changle County Duke for his military exploits, and Emperor Xiaozhao Gao Yan also respected Gao Guiyan very much when he was alive.

After Emperor Wucheng Gao Zhan ascended the throne, Jin named Gao Guiyan as the Taifu, commanded Situ, and allowed him to lead three personal guards into the palace with knives, which shows the grandeur of Gao Guiyan's position.

Since Gao Guiyan took the lead in supporting Emperor Wucheng to ascend the throne, all the nobles inside and outside Yecheng saw that Gao Guiyan was becoming more and more powerful, and they all competed to associate with him.

However, after Gao Guiyan became a high power, he began to be complacent, and often spoke arrogantly and unreasonably, as if no one was around, so that Gao Yuanhai, Bi Yiyun, Gao Qianhe and others who offended Gao Guiyan repeatedly exposed his shortcomings in front of Gao Zhan, and even the ministers who had no enmity with Gao Guiyan also discussed that his authority deterred the Son of Heaven and would definitely cause chaos in the country.

Once Gao Zhan went to Gao Guiyan's house and summoned Wei Shui to draft an edict in person, wanting to crown Gao Guiyan as prime minister, but Wei Shui, who has always had a bad reputation, also said: "Your Majesty, you are the emperor as the right prime minister, and today because Guiyan's prestige is too prosperous, so you will give up this position, how can you add this title again?" ”

Since so many people said bad things about Gao Guiyan, Gao Zhan also began to observe Gao Guiyan carefully, and found that he used to do capricious things, so he began to gradually alienate Gao Guiyan, and soon granted Gao Guiyan the positions of Dazai and Jizhou Assassin, and Gao Qianhe drafted and sealed the edict.

After receiving Gao Zhan's edict, Gao Guiyan was angry and panicked at the same time, although Gao Zhan gave him coins, cloth, honor guards, and medicine, all of which were very thorough and complete, but Gao Guiyan was actually driven out of the power center of Northern Qi by Gao Zhan.

After Gao Guiyan returned to Jizhou, he was very restless, and he was angry and hateful in his heart, and soon he plotted to rebel, but he was denounced by his subordinate Lang Zhong Ling Lu Sili, but Gao Guiyan still took advantage of Gao Zhan's return to Jinyang to occupy Yecheng, claiming that as long as he killed Gao Yuanhai, Bi Yiyun, Gao Qian, and the three, he would die without regrets.

However, Gao Zhan still had a tough life, and Duan Shao, the king of the plains, exterminated Gao Guiyan, and later Yecheng was breached, and he fled north alone. When he arrived in Jiaojin, he was captured, shackled and sent to Yecheng, and soon he was "carried in a car, tied to his face, and his descendants and fifteen people abandoned the city".

After Gao Guiyan, the king of Pingqin, of the Gao clan, was suppressed in Jizhou's conspiracy to raise troops, Gao Zhan, in order to consolidate his throne, cut off the recurrence of things similar to Gao Yin being overthrown by himself and others, and began to kill the kings of the clan on a large scale.

Taiyuan King Gao Shaode is the second son of Emperor Wenxuan Gao Yang, and also the brother of Gao Yin's parents, Emperor Wucheng forced his sister-in-law Gao Yang's wife Li Zu'e to be Gao Shaode's mother Empress Dowager Li, because Li Zu'e killed Gao Zhan's daughter, Gao Zhan angrily scolded Gao Shaode: "When your father beat me, he didn't come to save me!" He also beat and killed Gao Shaode with a knife ring in front of Li Zu'e, and buried him in Yuyuan Garden himself.

Gao Cheng's eldest son, Gao Xiaoyu, the king of Henan, advised Empress Hu that she should not hold a spear with a monk who was a courtier, and said that Gao Chen, the father of Gao Rong, the king of Zhaojun, died of a crime and should not be too close to him.

So He Shikai and Gao Rong slandered him, Gao Zhan was furious, and ordered Gao Xiaoyu to drink 37 large cups at a banquet, and asked Gao Xiaoyu to poison Gao Xiaoyu on the way home.

Gao Xiaoyu's third brother, Gao Xiaowan, the king of Hejian, is Gao Cheng's son-in-law, and when he heard that his eldest brother was poisoned, he hated the straw man to shoot arrows to vent his resentment.

After He Shikai heard about it, he said to Gao Zhan: "Gao Xiaowan shoots the straw man as you!" Gao Zhan ordered people to bow to the news, and Gao Xiaowan, a concubine who had fallen out of favor, falsely claimed: "Xiaowan painted a picture of His Majesty crying and gnashing his teeth at night." In fact, that picture is Gao Cheng, the biological father of the king of Hejian, and his son remembers his father, and every time he weeps for him.

But Gao Zhan was very angry, arrested Gao Xiaowan into the palace, and sent guards to beat Gao Xiaowan with a leather whip, and later Gao Zhan felt that it was not enjoyable and ordered the guards to break Gao Xiaowan's legs with a hammer, and Gao Xiaowan finally died of pain.

After Gao Zhan killed his own brother's son, he didn't finish it, and set his sights on his other half-brothers, and soon Gao Huan's sons Gao Yan of Pingyang and Gao Xun of Pengcheng were killed successively.

After killing these clans, Gao Zhan finally stopped for a while, but soon Gao Zhan thought it was ominous because of the astronomical astronomical phenomena of "White Rainbow Crossing the Sun" and "Red Star Seeing", and wanted to kill Gao Yan's crown prince, Gao Bainian, who was the king of Leling at the time, to suppress and subdue the disaster.

At this time, a Boling man who had taught Gao Bainian calligraphy Jia Dexuan jumped out and secretly reported to Gao Zhan that Gao Bainian had described several "edicts" when he wrote calligraphy. Because the word "edict" has the meaning of the emperor's order, Gao Zhan seized this excuse to summon his nephew into the palace and torture and kill Gao Bainian.

Gao Zhan killed the clan at the same time, and favored a group of ugly and ignorant villains, the descendants of Shanghu in the Western Regions and Shikai were good at holding the lance, and they were funny and flattering, and because of their fornication with Queen Hu, they were promoted to serve in the middle and the right servant of Shangshu at the request of Queen Hu, and Gao Zhan didn't know at all.

And He Shikai also persuaded Gao Zhan, since ancient times, whether the emperor is a holy lord like Yao and Shun, or a faint monarch like Ji and Xuan, it is no different from turning into dust after death.

is such a minister, but Gao Zhan appreciated him very much, and before his death, he actually said that the monk had the talents of Yi Yin and Huo Guang, and entrusted him with the great politics of the court.

In the year of Gao Zhan's reign (the early years of Taining) until his death in December of the fourth year of Tiantong, Gao Zhan has been living in Jinyang to control the government for eight years, and this period is also a period of rapid decline in the national strength of Northern Qi.

But in any case, the decline of the Northern Qi Dynasty was a good thing for Wang Ze, since Gao Zhan ascended the throne, he only ordered Hu Lawyers Association and others to guard the Qingzhou line, and the Qi army never attacked the territory east of the Wei River!

In addition, the old opponent of the Northern Qi Dynasty, the Northern Zhou, suffered a small loss in Nanchen, and the Northern Zhou army, which fought against Nanchen along the Yangtze River, finally retreated to Jiangbei because it was not adapted to being in the damp and cold south for a long time, resulting in a large number of soldiers falling ill and losing their combat strength.

After the failure of the attack on Nan Chen, the Northern Zhou began to re-set its eyes on the already much weakened Northern Qi, and the Yuwen family, who was in charge of the Northern Zhou dynasty, knew that although they failed in Jiangnan this time, as long as they could eliminate the Northern Qi and unify the north, then the losses suffered in the hands of the Southern Chen could be recovered sooner or later.

Compared with the Northern Zhou Dynasty, although the price paid by the Southern Chen was not small, but the new emperor of the Southern Chen was very proud, after the Northern Zhou Southern Expedition army was defeated, Chen Qian personally led Han Zigao, Zhang Zhaoda, Hou Yao, Wei Zai, Xu Ling, Du Liang and other more than ten generals and 100,000 troops to the Northern Expedition again.

This time, after the failure of the Northern Zhou Dynasty to conquer Nan Chen, because of another major incident in the country that assassinated Yuwen Hu, the situation in Korea and China was turbulent, and Nan Chen successfully recovered a large area of land west of Qianshan, not to mention that he had captured Suizhou and fought under the city of Xiangyang.

Although it is a pity that Xiangyang, the gateway to the Yangtze River, was not captured, the general Chun Yuliang who attacked to the west took the opportunity to break through Jiangling City, and Emperor Xiao Jing of Liang threw himself into the fire and died.

This puppet state, known in history as the Western Liang and which existed until the fall of the Northern Zhou Dynasty and was attached to the Northern Zhou Dynasty, was wiped out by the Southern Chen army of the Northern Expedition decades ahead of schedule.

After Chun Yuliang defeated the Western Liang, he led the army to continue the westward attack, intending to recapture the two states of Yiliang that were taken by the Northern Zhou during the Hou Jing Rebellion, because the terrain of the Three Gorges of Yizhou was unsuccessful, but the rising Southern Chen army still recaptured Kip Zhou (the Xiling Gorge area in the east of the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River in later generations) and formed a favorable condition to share the dangers of the Three Gorges with the Northern Zhou.

Subsequently, Nan Chen swept away the entire Dongting Lake basin by virtue of the great victory, not to mention, and continued to attack the upper reaches of Yuanshui (later eastern Guizhou) area, compared to the original historical situation of Nan Chen, today's Nan Chen is much stronger.

Just when Chen Qianzhi was complacent, Wang Ze, who was far away in Sanqi, was heartbroken with his father Wang Yong and others for the rations of the more than 2 million people gathered under his rule.

Since learning that the Northern Qi Dynasty had another political change, Wang Ze finally put his mind at ease and no longer had to worry about the attack of the Northern Qi Dynasty, but now that Nan Chen's life is so good, it seems that Lingnan has also developed a lot of territory, can he get a little help from Chen Qian!