Chapter 24 The licentious and cruel "Son of Worry-free Emperor"

The little emperor was in charge of the government, and the first thing to do was to eliminate dissidents and consolidate the throne, so he killed his younger brother Gao Yan, king of Langya, and his hero Hu Luguang.When the enemy Northern Zhou Dynasty heard that Hu Luguang had been killed, he happily pardoned the territory.However, according to the tradition of their Gao family, killing just a few people is not enough.Then, he became suspicious of Gao Changgong, the king of Lanling with outstanding military exploits.Gao Changgong is Gao Cheng's fourth son.This person is brave and good at fighting, but because of his soft and slender appearance like a woman, he often wears an iron mask to intimidate the enemy when he goes into battle.He once assisted Gao Zhan to win a big victory in the Battle of Mang Mountain. The warriors sang a ballad called "Lanling King Entering the Battle", which was sung by the people of the country and became famous.He is also humble, and when he gets good things, even if they are melons and fruits, he must share them with the soldiers, so he wins the hearts of the soldiers.So Gao Wei became suspicious of him.Once, Gao Wei asked him: "When you go deep into the enemy's line when you are fighting, if you lose, it will be too late to regret." King Lanling said quickly: "The family is kind, so I rushed in without knowing it." This was originally a word of loyalty to the emperor, but " The term "household affairs" violated Gao Wei's taboo, so he sent someone to deliver poison to him.Before taking the medicine, King Lanling sighed to his wife: "I am loyal to my work, why should I be poisoned to death?" His wife cried and persuaded him to meet the emperor in person and confess his innocence.But he said: "How can you see the beauty of the sky!" So he drank the medicine and died.The little emperor killed a lot, felt that the dissidents were exhausted, and gradually settled down.

Although Ansheng is alive, he has no intention of managing state affairs, but wants to find ways to have fun.If the emperor wanted to be absurd, he would naturally regard money as dung and officials as rubble.So those courtiers who flattered and flattered him were all made high-ranking officials, and all the maids who served him were made county lords.He likes to raise horses, and he personally prepares feed for horses. There are more than a dozen kinds of them.He also squandered recklessly, rewarding huge sums of money at every turn.There are more than 500 court ladies in brocade clothes and jade, and a dress costs tens of thousands of pieces of cloth, and it is thrown away after only one day of wearing; a mirror stand can also use thousands of taels of gold.He built a seven-treasure chariot for his beloved Empress Mu, and loaded it with gold and silver to buy pearls in the Northern Zhou Dynasty.The Northern Zhou Dynasty coincided with the funeral of the Empress Dowager, and he refused to sell it to him, so he spent hundreds of millions to buy treasure cars and hakamas from other places.He built a lot of construction, and his likes and dislikes were capricious. Although the palaces and gardens were built magnificently, they were repeatedly destroyed and repaired. The craftsmen engaged in construction did not have a moment's rest.He also built the Twelfth Courtyard in Jinyang, excavated Jinyang West Mountain to shape a huge Buddha statue, and lit thousands of pots of oil lamps overnight, so that the lights could shine into the palace, and the labor cost was hundreds of millions.After such nonsense, soon the treasury was short of savings and the people were in dire straits, so the emperor also felt that he was poor and wanted to be a beggar.They set up a poor children's village next to Hualin Garden. They put on rags and begged others, and they thought it was too much fun.He also imitated the folks to open a market, pretending to be a seller and a buyer for a while, and he was very busy.He also liked to play war games. He drew pictures of some cities in the western region and imitated them. He made the guards wear black clothes to imitate the Northern Zhou soldiers attacking the city, but he shot and killed these "enemy soldiers" on the city with real bows and arrows.The emperor was having a good time, and he really didn't know what else would make people sad in the world, so he composed a song called "No Sorrow" and sang it by playing the pipa himself. Hundreds of people around him sang and danced in response and.Therefore, the folks called this emperor "Son of Wushou".

But compared to the unimaginable atrocities of the previous generations of the Gao family emperors, Gao Wei's nonsense is really too childish.So he "learned hard" from his relatives.Someone reported to him the various atrocities of Nanyang Wang Gaochuo: this prince was debauched and brutal when he was the governor of Dingzhou, and he did everything.He likes to raise Persian dogs, and often makes them bite people.Once, he saw a woman holding a child on the road, so he went up to snatch the child from her arms and threw it on the ground to feed his Persian dog.The woman cried, and Gao Chuo was furious, and let the dog bite her. The dog had just eaten the child and refused to bite, so he smeared the child's blood on the woman. do.When Gao Wei heard about this, he couldn't help admiring the "creativity" of this half-brother.So he was called to Beijing immediately.As soon as the two met, Gao Wei couldn't wait to ask him what was the most fun thing to do in Dingzhou.Gao Chuo said that putting people and scorpions together and watching them fight back and forth is the most interesting thing.Gao Wei sent people to search for scorpions overnight.The next morning, the attendants who had been busy all night managed to catch two or three buckets of scorpions. Gao Wei put the scorpions in a big bathtub, then tied a man and threw them into it. The scorpions swarmed up, and the man was stung. The howling turned over, and the wailing moved the sky.Gao Wei and Gao Chuo watched with relish, screaming and jumping with joy.Gao Wei also complained to Gao Chuo: "Why didn't you tell me such a fun thing earlier." From then on, he liked this brother very much, and named him a general, and asked him to accompany him day and night in the palace to have fun. .

The emperor played a lot of fun, and the government fell into the hands of a group of treacherous villains.Gao Wei's favorite ministers included Mu Tipo, Han Changluan, and Gao Anagong, who were known as the "Three Nobles" at the time.This group of people was later included in the "Biography of Enxing" in "Book of Northern Qi", so one can imagine what role they probably played.They accompanied Gao Wei to drink, sing and dance day and night, but when they saw the courtiers, they would stare and punch, with the tendency of cannibalism.Han Changluan was a Xianbei nobleman who especially hated scholars. He often called courtiers "Han dogs" and said that they should all be killed.Later, Shouyang, an important town in the Northern Qi Dynasty, was captured by the Northern Zhou army, and Gao Wei felt very worried.Mu Dipo persuaded him, saying that even if we lose the south bank of the Yellow River, we can still be a Kucha country.Life is like a post, you should enjoy yourself in time, why worry in vain.This has something to do with a custom in the Northern Qi Dynasty.It turns out that both Gao Huan and Yu Wentai started from the mutiny of the Six Towns in the Northern Wei Dynasty.This Gao Huan was originally from the Han nationality, but he liked the customs of Xianbei, and most of the people he used were from Xianbei.In order to get ahead, some of the Han scholars went as far as to learn Xianbei language and play the pipa.However, the Yuwen family of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, who was born in the Xianbei nationality, learned from the Han people to use "Zhou Li" to determine official names and imitate "Shangshu" to make patents.It's so upside-down but also funny.Therefore, the Northern Qi royal family also prevailed in the Xianbei style, and the court and the public respected it unanimously, and Gao Wei's gang of favorites were mostly Xianbei people.But the reason why they are so favored is that apart from having fun with the little emperor, they also have a lot to do with the little emperor's wet nurse Lu Lingxuan in the palace.

Lu Lingxuan is also a member of the Xianbei tribe. Because her husband was murdered for rebellion, she was confiscated into the palace as a maidservant.She is cunning, wise, and good at flattering, and soon won the trust of Emperor Wucheng of Qi Dynasty Gao Zhan and Empress Hu, who specially ordered her to be the nurse of Prince Gao Wei.Lu Lingxuan naturally did her best, and Gao Wei was also very close to her, calling her "grandmother" and obeying her. After taking charge of the government, she even handed over all the affairs of the palace to her.Later, Gao Wei's mother, Queen Mother Hu, was locked up because of her adultery with the monk, and Lu Lingxuan became the master of the harem.As a result, her son, Mutipo, changed from a palace slave to a court minister who was favored by the emperor.So Lu Lingxuan began to intervene in the government, colluding with Gaowei's favorite ministers to exert power wantonly.For a while, even slaves and servants who advocate excellence can be promoted to officials as long as they agree with them.As a result, officials were corrupted and officials were bribed.There are more than 1,000 officials in the post of Kaifu in the world, and there are countless official positions in Yitong, and the number of leaders alone has increased to more than 20.Although there are many officials, but because the authority is unclear, no one is doing things.For the edicts and documents issued by the imperial court, the twenty leaders tried to shirk each other, and in the end they just wrote the word "Yi" on the documents and threw them aside, and no one carried them out.Lu Lingxuan acted arbitrarily in matters of the imperial court, and naturally she was even more uncompromising in the harem. Even the abolition of Empress Gao Wei was in her hands.Gaowei's empress Hulushi is the daughter of the hero Huluguang.Hu Luguang was framed for conspiracy but was executed, and the Hu Lu family was also abolished.Gao Wei made Empress Dowager Hu's niece the queen again, but he liked Mu Huanghua, the maid of the former empress Hulu's family.Mu Huanghua is also a smart woman. Knowing that she came from a humble background, she worshiped Lu Lingxuan as her mother and found a solid backer in the palace.So Lu Lingxuan spared no effort to improve her status.Let her son Gao Heng become the prince, and then go forward to slander the Queen Mother, making the Queen Mother furious and abolishing Queen Hu.In this way, Mu Huanghua was established as the queen, and Lu Lingxuan was named "Taiji" because she was the mother of the queen, which was equivalent to a first-rank official, ranking above the eldest princess.However, when they were satisfied, they did not expect that Gao Wei, who loves the new and dislikes the old, changed his target again and fell in love with another woman.