Northern Dynasties Imperial Industry

In the Yedu Palace of the Northern Qi Dynasty, the hall was in chaos. The Lord of Qi, Gao Yang, looked like an enraged beast. His beard and hair were scattered and he was naked, roaring angrily in the hall, and waving his sword to chop down the pillars and utensils in the hall.

All the slaves in the hall were pale and trembling. Some slaves couldn't bear the fright, so they ran out of the hall crying, but this action immediately attracted Gao Yang's attention.

He stalked up to catch up, threw his knife and chopped the slave to the ground, and then dragged her back to the palace. Ignoring the slave's wails and begging for mercy, he directly dismembered the slave in the palace.

This scene made the disciples in the palace even more horrified, and the ministers waiting outside the palace turned pale for a moment after hearing the shrill and inhuman howl coming from the palace.

After a long time, the sound of people in the palace died down, and then an eunuch came out cautiously and shouted to the people outside the corridor: "Your Majesty, your Majesty has summoned King Changshan, Xianggong Yang and others to come to the palace to see you."

Since the Huainan war report arrived in Beijing, several people knew that something bad was going to happen. They had been waiting here for more than an hour. They were under a lot of pressure both mentally and physically. Even though they were summoned at this time, they all felt heavy and knew that they had no way out. To avoid it, you can only bite the bullet and climb the steps into the palace.

As soon as these people entered the hall, a strong and disgusting smell of blood hit their faces. Yang Min felt his feet slipping, and when he lowered his head, he saw a piece of bloody intestine wrapped in an unknown source. Before walking. In shock, he almost fell into a pool of blood in the palace. Seeing that the emperor in the palace was looking down at him, he did not dare to make any big move. He could only take advantage of the trend to rub his feet and shake off the intestines on his shoes.

"You have mistaken me, you have mistaken me!"

When he saw several people entering the palace, Gao Yangzhi stood up from the imperial bed, pointed at them and cursed loudly: "The Qiang thieves violated the agreement and bullied me, causing the defeat of our army. Fei'er and others have been admonishing me so hard these days, how can we avoid this disaster?" !”

Everyone knew that they were in the wrong, and they really didn't expect that Li Boshan could break his promise to such an extent. Before the ink on the contract was dry, he stabbed the Qi army in Huainan. At this moment, when the emperor pointed at them and scolded them, they lowered their heads and did not dare to refute, letting the emperor vent his anger.

However, at this moment, Gao Yang was extremely angry, which could not be resolved by killing a few slaves and insulting the ministers.

He often prides himself on his achievements, but now he is completely compared to others in his most proud field.

Although the previous peace talks at Luoshui were also beneficial to the situation in the Northern Qi Dynasty, they avoided the embarrassment of fighting on two fronts, and were able to quickly mobilize and gather forces to counterattack the Turks and drive them away. It was also the right decision at the time.

However, the subsequent development of the situation made the biggest beneficiary of this decision become the old enemy of the Western Wei Dynasty. Li Boshan quickly withdrew from Heluo, first put down the internal rebellion, and then directly intercepted and killed the Turkic Khan on the Turkic backroad. But now, they have directly regarded the peace treaty as bullshit, and joined forces with Nanliang to backstab the Qi army in Huainan.

Gao Yang's two biggest achievements in foreign development since he took office were: the first was to wipe out Rouran, Turks and other Hu tribes in Monan; the second was to take advantage of Jiangdong's fall into Hou Jing's rebellion and occupy a large area of ​​​​Huainan. This made Qi State greatly surpass the period of his father and brother in terms of momentum and actual territory.

But now, only half a year has passed, and these two achievements that Gao Yang is most proud of have been destroyed to varying degrees, and they were still damaged at the hands of the same person!

Gao Yang's mood has been very unstable and moody recently, but now he was severely stimulated by the defeat report sent by Huainan, and his whole person fell into a state of hysteria.

After angrily scolding the people who had previously advised peace talks with the Western Wei Dynasty, Gao Yang shouted angrily: "Quickly, summon Wei into the palace quickly, write a composition for me, send a message to recruit troops, and attack the Qiang thieves!"

When several people in the palace heard this, their expressions changed. However, seeing the emperor's crazy and angry look, they did not dare to dissuade him for a while. Only Yang Min saw that everyone refused to say anything, so he stepped forward and said: "Your Majesty Calm down your anger, please calm down, our army has suffered heavy losses, and we don’t have Shengjia available, so we should consider this matter in the long term!”

Before Yang Min finished speaking, Gao Yang glared at him again. Before he could get angry, Liu Taozhi, the general of the palace guard, said loudly: "Ms. Yang, what he said is ridiculous. The three units in Yebei have 300,000 soldiers. Even with ten A soldier can be used as a soldier for tens of thousands of soldiers. What does it mean to fight against thieves without soldiers? The Qiang thieves are so unjust and bullying, and the generals and others want to kill them to vent their anger. The soldiers have a lot of hope!"

"Taozhi is truly a loyal and brave man!"

After Gao Yang heard this, a smile appeared on his angry face. He walked straight down the hall, grabbed Gao Yan's hat and Yang Min's belt, threw them into Liu Taozhi's arms, and said: " I hate that you have such a poor life, and it’s hard to get a high position! But if you can capture the Qiang thieves for me, why bother giving you the title of king?”

Liu Taozhi didn't expect that a flattering remark would be so generously praised. He was surprised for a moment and didn't know what expression to make on his face. He held the crowns of Gao Yan and Yang Min and glanced at the two men with gloomy expressions. After all, the man still did not dare to follow the promise on the pole, but hurriedly kowtowed and said: "Your Majesty, are you thirsty? I will give your Majesty some wine to soothe your throat."

After Gao Yang heard this, he was also very greedy, so he ordered some wine and drank heavily in the blood-stained palace. When Wei Shou was summoned and hurried to the palace, the emperor was already in a deep state of contentment, but still did not forget to ask him to quickly write the edict. When Wei Shou suppressed his nausea, wrote it down and submitted it to the emperor, Gao Yang He was so unconscious that he spat out a mouthful of wine on the letter.

The laborers who built Santai were naturally difficult to use as armored soldiers. Although Northern Qi still had strong mobilization power, its national power was not infinite. Although the main losses in this battle in Jiangdong were armored soldiers from Henan, Huainan and other places, even the most elite Jinyang soldiers had just fought a few hard battles with the Wei army at the end of last year, and Hu Lujin's sons had not yet shown their loyalty. Woolen cloth.

Therefore, even if we were to send troops to attack the Western Wei Dynasty, there would be no suitable general to serve as the commander-in-chief. As for His Majesty the Emperor's personal expedition, it is even more worrying.

Gao Yang drank heavily all night. When he woke up the next day, although he no longer clamored for crusade against the Western Wei Dynasty, he ordered a strict investigation of the Li clan in Longxi, intending to execute him.

However, a search revealed that all members of the Li family had gone west. This immediately made Gao Yang furious, and he directly ordered the investigation to spread, not only the Li family, but also people related to him by marriage.

But if it were expanded like this, all the Kanto families would undoubtedly be included in the attack range. Since the Taihe Reform in the Northern Wei Dynasty, the upper echelons of Hu and Han have made peace and become an alliance. They have an intricate and intricate relationship with each other. If one of them is uprooted, the result will be a huge gap in the entire world. .

As the prime minister and a representative of the family, Yang Min naturally knew the stakes involved. Knowing that the emperor wanted to do this, he hurriedly entered the palace and remonstrated: "The gate of declining virtue has given birth to evil. Li Boshan is unrighteous and unfit for the world." People died for it! Although the families in Guandong are unworthy, they are also virtuous. If the concubine of the Cui family is related to her, she is also a daughter of the Li family, but how can she be regarded as a sin by giving birth to the mother of the country? …”

Cui Taiji was the wife of Li Xizong of Zhao County. She was named Taiji because she was the mother of Queen Li. Her mother was the sister of Li Yu, the Li family in Longxi, and Li Yu was Li Boshan's cousin before he was born in the fifth service. If this was really pursued all the way, even the emperor would be restless.

However, after Gao Yang heard this, he glared and said angrily: "This old man actually has such an evil relationship? How can I forgive him!"

After saying this, he directly ordered the Baibao Xianbei soldiers to arrange their manners and escort him directly to his mother-in-law's house in Fangli to interrogate his guilt.

Yang Min wanted to persuade the emperor to give up pursuing this investigation, but he didn't want to arouse the emperor's anger. He was at his wits' end for a while. He went into the palace to inform the queen of the matter, and then returned to the official office to arrange for the envoy to rush to Jinyang. Go and inform the Queen Mother of this situation, hoping that the Queen Mother can quickly come to Yecheng to restrain the emperor.

When Gao Yang entered the Li family's house, the officials captured his mother-in-law into the hall and asked loudly why Cui was the daughter of the Li family in Longxi. It was naturally difficult for Cui to answer this question, so she could only lower her head and cry, begging for forgiveness.

At this time, Cui's other daughter Li and her husband-in-law Yuan Ang, a former member of the Wei clan, came to visit her. Seeing that her mother was treated so rudely, Li hurriedly kowtowed and begged for mercy.

Gao Yang had already coveted Li's beauty, but now seeing her pity and pity, his lust became unbearable, and he took Li into the room and forced him to have sex with her. When he wanted to go out, he felt that his husband Yuan Ang was very disgusting, so he ordered him to be captured under the corridor, drew his bow and shot at him with a hammer. Every sharp sound of the hammer was accompanied by Yuan Ang's screams. .

Gao Yang got excited when he heard this voice and shot hundreds of arrows before stopping. Although Mingdi didn't have any edge, the force hit him really hard. After Gao Yang stopped, Yuan Ang's sternum and ribs were all broken, he vomited blood for several strokes, and he was already dead.

After Queen Li entered the house and saw this scene, her face turned pale with shock, she screamed and fell straight to the ground. When Gao Yang saw the Queen here, the look on his face calmed down a little. He hurriedly asked people to send the Queen to the inner house, and also asked people to clean the place, and captured the armored soldiers guarding the door. While slashing with his sword, he cursed angrily: "Queen He came here and didn't come to retaliate. He should be killed for shocking my beloved wife!"

Even the queen's relatives were not immune to the humiliation, and other prominent families in Yecheng could not help but tremble at the emperor's increasingly cruel behavior.

After Empress Dowager Lou entered the capital, she was equally helpless. She just cried softly and said, "Although my son is crazy, he has never been in this state. To be like this now, could it be that a villain really took away his luck?"

After hearing the Empress Dowager's words, it seemed that some alchemists had suggested that excavating the tombs of the ancestors of the Li family in Longxi within the territory was disgusting. It might be possible to restore the emperor's Qingming Dynasty and ensure the prosperity of the country.

If this involves cutting off one's own flesh and blood, Lou might still have to hesitate, but if it involves robbing the ancestral graves of enemies, then of course there is nothing to hesitate about. Even if it doesn't work, at least it can vent your anger.

As a result, the graves of Li family members, Li Yu, and other deceased persons in Longxi around Yecheng were all demolished, and the monks, Buddhists, and alchemists performed rituals and threw their bodies into the wilderness. But the real ancestral tomb of the Li family in Longxi is still in Luoyang. In particular, Li Boshan's grandfather Li Qian, great-grandfather Li Cheng, and Li Chong all died in Luoyang and were buried in Yanshi. When the Yecheng Imperial Army went to Heluo to continue the destruction , only to find that these old tombs have been moved.