[Not only Li Zu'e, Gao Zhan also slept with other concubines of his second brother Gao Yang, and even snatched Li, a concubine of Emperor Xiao of the Wei and Jin Dynasties. ]

[From this we can see that Gao Zhan, like his father and brother, has an indescribable hobby of taking other people’s wives.]

[In addition, Gao Zhan was a heavy believer in feudal superstition. Later, when a comet streaked across the sky, Gao Zhan felt that he should abdicate, so he passed the throne to the crown prince Gao Wei and became the emperor. Gao Zhan's queen, Hu, also became Empress Dowager Hu. ]

[This Empress Dowager Hu was also very promiscuous. Not only did she have an affair with the fake eunuch, she also committed adultery with Gao Zhan's favorite minister He Shikai in the emperor's bedroom in front of Gao Zhan.]

[After Gao Zhan died, his son, Langya King Gao Yan, led people to hack He Shikai to death.]

[After losing He Shikai, Empress Dowager Hu could not stand the loneliness and often went to the Buddhist temple to have an affair with the monk Tan Xian. The other monks in the temple privately called Tan Xian the new emperor. Even after Gao Zhan died, he was still cuckolded. It was really outrageous.]

[Even though she had a new lover, Tan Xian, Empress Dowager Hu still did not feel satisfied and even enjoyed herself with a few monks.]

[After Northern Qi was finally destroyed by Northern Zhou, Empress Dowager Hu was captured. When she came to Northern Zhou, she became even more dissolute and had affairs with others without any concealment.]

……

"This, this, this..."

"There are still such shameless people in the world..."

Looking at the ridiculous behavior of Gao Zhan and Queen Hu on the sky curtain, the ancient people said that they were eye-opening. This was too extravagant!
Even Yang Guang, who always boasted that he was good at playing, felt ashamed of himself.
Gao Zhan is not angry at all even though he is cuckolded. Does he have some serious illness?

……

[The next person is Gao Wei, the last ruler of Northern Qi.]

[Gao Wei was the eldest son of Gao Zhan and Empress Dowager Hu. He was as dissolute as his parents. When he ascended the throne, the corrupt Northern Qi regime was already in turmoil, but he didn't care. He only cared about having fun.]

[He gave high-ranking titles to all his cattle, horses, dogs and chickens. The titles of the fighting cocks alone included Kaifu Fighting Chicken, Junjun Fighting Chicken, etc. This is the allusion to "Qi Ji Kaifu".]

[Gao Wei's absurd behavior did not end there. Because his concubine Feng Xiaolian was beautiful, he felt that he could not get enough of looking at her, so he ordered his beloved concubine to take off her clothes and lie in the court, and let the ministers line up and see the concubine's elegance one by one according to their official rank.]

【The great Tang Dynasty poet Li Shangyin used this allusion to write "Xiao Lian's jade body lies horizontally at night, and has reported that Zhou's army has entered Jinyang." It is also the source of the idiom "玉体横陈". 】

[In addition, Gao Wei also built a poor village in Hualin Garden, where he personally wore ragged clothes and dressed up as a beggar and lived there, doing business with soldiers who played the role of poor people. Look, this is a "wise ruler" who understands the people's hearts very well! ]

[In the autumn of 576 AD, Gao Wei went hunting with Feng Xiaolian at Tianchi Lake. Just as night fell, the prime minister suddenly sent a military report from the front line, saying that the Northern Zhou army had conquered Pingyang. Gao Wei was a man who loved fighting, and when he heard that his men had been defeated again, he immediately organized a counterattack.]

[At this time, Feng Xiaolian, who was in his arms, complained coquettishly that she hadn't had enough fun yet, and asked Gao Wei to play with her. Gao Wei lost his mind to fight at that time. It didn't matter if Pingyang was lost, it was not as important as having fun in time.]

[As a result, Northern Qi missed the chance to fight. After Gao Wei had his crotch problem solved and had fun, he hurried back to Jinyang and sent out hundreds of thousands of troops to personally lead the army. Don't think too much about it. He did not do it for the sake of family and country. He mainly wanted to satisfy his addiction to leading troops in battle.]

[And for such a fun thing, of course he had to bring his beloved concubine Feng Xiaolian along. ]

[Just like that, the Northern Qi army marched to the city of Pingyang. Seeing the enemy's aggressive advance, the Northern Zhou was ready to give up Pingyang and use Pingyang as bait, waiting for the Northern Qi to take Pingyang back with all its might before taking advantage of the opportunity to attack.]

[As a result, despite having a huge advantage, Northern Qi was unable to capture Pingyang. It was not because of anything else, but because Gao Wei only had Feng Xiaolian in his mind.]

[What happened specifically was that when the Northern Qi saw that the soldiers and civilians defending the city were killing each other, they changed their strategy and prepared to dig a tunnel into the city. Unexpectedly, the tunnel collapsed the city wall and directly dug a large breach more than 10 meters long. The Northern Qi army was instantly excited and rushed into the city howling. ]

[However, at this moment, Gao Wei suddenly called a halt and asked the army to suspend the attack. ]

[He was not as suspicious as Sima Yi, suspecting that the enemy was cheating, but he thought that this was a rare opportunity to show off, and he had to let his beloved concubine Feng Xiaolian see his power. ]

[With this thought in mind, he immediately asked someone to call Feng Xiaolian out to watch the battle. As soon as Feng Xiaolian heard that there was something interesting to watch, she calmly began to put on makeup. When she finished combing her hair, applying powder, and changing her clothes and rushed to the scene, Gao Wei was dumbfounded because the gap in the city wall had been sealed with a wooden fence! ]

……

"How can we treat family and national affairs as a joke?"

Cao Cao was speechless and said, "If my opponents were all this kind of people, I would have sent my army to unify the world long ago!"

Born at the wrong time!
After seeing the absurd behavior of the Gao family in later generations and learning how easy it was to be in the Qing Dynasty in later generations, Cao Cao, who had originally been somewhat fortunate that he was born in troubled times and could accomplish great things, suddenly became jealous!

If he had more opponents like Yuan Shao and Gao Wei, he would have unified the world long ago!

Time is also destiny!

……

"For the sake of a woman, you treat the affairs of family and country as a joke?" Zulong was completely speechless. Did he think he was King You of Zhou?

What era is this? How can there still be such idiots?

I don’t understand, I really don’t understand!
Comparing himself with Gao Wei, Ying Zheng suddenly felt that his beloved son Hu Hai was not so stupid after all!
……

【With this incident, the originally good situation was ruined. 】

【After this incident, the morale of the Northern Qi soldiers was completely lost. At this time, the Northern Zhou ambushers suddenly appeared, ready to take advantage of the opportunity to wipe out the Northern Qi army.】

[But the strength of Northern Qi was there, and the two sides fought back and forth. Northern Qi relied on the terrain advantage to defend and would not necessarily lose, but the bad thing was Feng Xiaolian. ]

[Feng Xiaolian, standing on a high ground, noticed that the right wing of the Qi army was retreating. Since she did not know how to deploy troops and did not know what a tactical retreat was, she suddenly saw the army retreating and thought that they had been defeated. She immediately shouted, "Defeated! Defeated!"]

[When she yelled, the flatterers around her immediately shouted for the emperor to run away. Gao Wei was also a half-witted man. When he heard his confidants shouting like that, he had no time to figure out the battle situation. He ignored the advice of the knowledgeable generals and ran away with Feng Xiaolian on the spot.]

[This escape completely wiped out the remaining fighting spirit of the soldiers. The battle situation instantly turned one-sided. A decisive battle turned into an annihilation war. The Northern Qi army was killed and their armor and weapons were abandoned. The corpses and supplies left behind piled up into a mountain. ]

[But this did not prevent Gao Wei and Feng Xiaolian from being romantic. Gao Wei had originally promised to make Feng Xiaolian the queen, but the war delayed his plan. So Gao Wei ordered his cavalry to rush back to Jinyang as soon as possible and get the queen's phoenix crown and bridal robe for Feng Xiaolian to wear.]

[At this critical moment of the country's survival, he chose to pass the throne to the 6-year-old prince, letting the prince clean up this mess. He also planned to take Feng Xiaolian to the Chen Dynasty. ]

[Gao Wei was willing to abandon his country and become a vassal, but he was unwilling to abandon Feng Xiaolian. Perhaps Gao Wei really loved Feng Xiaolian.]

[But Feng Xiaolian may have never had any feelings for Gao Wei, especially after she was naked in public. Perhaps what she wanted was only the emperor's favor, not the emperor himself.]

[Especially after the fall of Northern Qi, she was still able to thrive in the enemy country and even compete for favor in the enemy's harem. From this, it can be seen that Feng Xiaolian probably never fell in love with Gao Wei.]

[The reason why Gao Wei was considered a tyrant was mainly because he later killed the famous generals Hulugu and Lanling Wang, causing Northern Qi to lose a powerful general to resist the Northern Zhou's attack.]

[Lanling Prince Gao Changgong was originally the fourth son of Gao Cheng. Logically speaking, if Gao Cheng had not been stabbed to death by the chef, Lanling Prince would have had a chance to become emperor.]

[Historical records show that Lanling Wang was extremely handsome. Because he was so handsome, he had to wear a mask to lead his troops into battle.]

[He was brave and good at fighting, and led the Qi army to defeat the Zhou army many times. However, the later emperor Gao Wei was very suspicious of Lanling Wang's holding military power, so he sent an envoy to deliver a cup of poisoned wine. Lanling Wang was extremely sad and angry and resolutely drank the poisoned wine. He died at the age of 30. ]

[Since Gao Wei lost the famous generals Hulugu and Lanling Wang, Northern Qi was no longer able to resist the attack of Northern Zhou and was eventually destroyed by Northern Zhou. After being captured, Gao Wei was canonized as Duke of Wen by Northern Zhou, but was eventually accused of treason and killed.]

[To sum up, among the rulers of the Northern Qi Dynasty, except Gao Huan, no one lived past 28 years old during the short 40 years. In terms of tyranny, cruelty and debauchery, it is known as the Beast Dynasty.]

[Most of them had no regard for human relations and generations. Fathers and sons had mixed wives, brothers had mixed wives, the queen mother had scandals, uncles and nephews killed each other... There were so many things going on, it really deserved the title of a beastly and perverted dynasty.]

……

"Beast! Beast!"

Even Gao Yan, a member of the Gao family, thought what Gao Zhan did was abnormal.

But what he didn't expect was that Gao Wei actually killed his own son... He shouldn't have passed the throne to him in the first place!

Moreover, Gao Zhan was a tyrant, and his Gao Wei was also a tyrant!

"Someone, bring this beast Gao Zhan to me!" Gao Yan's eyes were filled with ferocity.

……

"Gao Changgong was a man of character, like Xiao He and Chen Ping, and his martial arts and heroic demeanor were enough to resist foreign enemies, but he was suspected and intolerable by the emperor, which is really a pity."

Yue Fei shook his head, feeling sorry for King Lanling.

If Prince Lanling was not born out of wedlock, and if his father had not died early, with his abilities, he might have inherited the throne and might have been able to preserve the Northern Qi Dynasty.

But unfortunately...

Looking at the evil deeds of the kings of Northern Qi, even Yue Fei, who was known for his loyalty, felt that it was not worth dying for such a country.

I hope Tianmu can alert Lanling King, allowing him to make preparations early and find a glimmer of hope for survival.

...(End of chapter)