Chapter 83 All-round talents in civil and military affairs are immortal

——Gao Yan, Emperor Xiaozhao of the Northern Qi Dynasty Gao Yan, courtesy name Yan'an, Gao Huan's sixth son, is also the same mother and brother of Gao Yang. "You are young and intelligent, and you have already achieved great success."When he becomes an adult, he is "eight feet long, with a belt around ten, and his appearance is very unique." Gao Yang was a violent emperor, and Gao Yan often "expressed worry and anger on his face".Gao Yang also knew that the emperor's younger brother was loyal, so he said, "But if you are here, can I relax and have fun?" Even so, Gao Yang was also angry after several remonstrances.Once, Gao Yang got drunk and presented several beauties from the former Eastern Wei Palace to Gao Yan.The next day, Gao Yang sobered up and couldn't remember the past, thinking that Gao Yan had "taken it without permission", and ordered the guards to beat Gao Yan with big iron knives, almost killing the Changshan King. remonstrance".

After the young master Gao Yin succeeded to the throne, Hanchen Yang Min and others wanted to seize the military power of Gao Yan and his younger brother Guang Wang Gao Zhan. The two preemptively killed Yang Min and others with the support of Queen Mother Lou.In September 560 A.D., Empress Dowager Lou ordered Gao Yan to succeed to the throne and changed it to Yuanhuangjian.The young master Gao Yin was abolished as King of Jinan.Empress Dowager Lou was worried, and after the enthronement ceremony, she told her son Gao Yan: "Don't let the king of Jinan have anything to do with it!" This meant that Gao Yan was forbidden to kill his nephew.

Gao Yan Mingjun, "Since he is in a big position, he knows everything he can do, chooses his order, and examines the name and reality", and he abolishes Gao Yang's bad government. In addition, he seldom occupies a high position. Lustful, he is indeed Gao Qi's best king.In addition, Gao Yan was a very filial person. The Empress Dowager Lou was suffering from heartache. "Friendly and loving brothers, there is no separation between monarchs and ministers."At the same time, Gao Yan also "has an ambitious plan". When his country is rich and the people are strong, he wants to have a showdown with the Yuwen family to complete his father Gao Huan's unfinished business in his life.

The biggest mistake in Gao Yan's life was killing his nephew Gao Yin.When Gao Yan was touring Jinyang, his younger brother Gao Zhan was in Yecheng.Some fortune tellers said that Yecheng had the spirit of heaven.The ancients were superstitious, and Gao Yan was no exception. He was afraid that his nephew Gao Yin would be supported and restored, so he sent someone to bring poison to his nephew to drink.Gao Yin struggled, but the soldiers strangled the young master to death. For this reason, Gao Yan frequently felt "ashamed and regretful" afterwards.After doing this sinful thing, Gao Yan was often in a trance. In Jinyang Palace, he often "saw" his elder brother Gao Yang with Yang Min and others coming and going, and the ghosts angrily threatened to take revenge.Tortured by these hallucinations day in and day out, Gao Yan's health became worse and worse, and he was "gradually dying".Therefore, he also invited wizards and gods to "prepare for things that are annoying, or boil oil everywhere, or burn them with a torch", but nothing helped.In the hallucinations, Gao Yan can still "see" his elder brother Gao Yang, Yang Min, Yan Zixian and others who were killed by him riding on the beams of the palace, sticking out their tongues and eyes at him, making "ghost" faces.

Because there is a solar eclipse in astronomy, commonly known as the eclipse of the dog, the superstitious Gao Yan strengthened his sick body and led the army to "teach martial arts to get tired of it" in the school field.In the middle of the journey, a hare ran away in the grass, startling its mount, and Gao Yan fell headlong, with broken ribs.In ancient times, rib fractures were fatal, and the bone stubble might contusion the lungs or other organs, and internal infection would cause him to die soon. Empress Dowager Lou was visiting her condition, and suddenly remembered that she had not seen her grandson Gao Yin for many days, so she asked Gao Yan, "Where is the King of Jinan?"

Gao Yan was ashamed and afraid, and closed his eyes without answering. The old lady asked a few times, but when her son turned his face and didn't answer, she already understood in her heart.She said angrily: "Did you kill that child? If you don't listen to me, you deserve it!" After speaking, Empress Dowager Lou got up and walked out. Gao Yan was dying, hallucinating constantly, knelt down on the bed all the time, begging for mercy, presumably begging for mercy from the ghosts of Gao Yang and others in his imagination.At the end of 561 AD, Gao Yan died of illness at the age of twenty-seven.Before he died, he sent an envoy to summon his mother and younger brother Changguang Wang Gaozhan to succeed him, and wrote down the number with his own hand: "It is better to take advantage of my wife and not to learn from the predecessors."It means asking my younger brother not to learn how to kill his nephew.