Northern Dynasties Imperial Industry

When the army of the Western Wei Dynasty was charging eastward from Tongguan, the Northern Qi Dynasty in the east was also extremely lively.

This time, Northern Qi did not miss the change in Nanliang. Although Liyang's defenders agreed to Chen Ba's request for an advance envoy to seek an alliance, it was only to temporarily stabilize his people. Soon, Northern Qi's own troops headed south under Duan Shao's command. , with lightning speed, they regained Guangling, which had been taken away before.

After recapturing Guangling, Duan Shao left his troops to guard Murong Yan, Liu Bodhidharma and others in Guangling, and assisted Xu Sihui of Nanliang who had defected to the Northern Qi Dynasty, while he himself led his troops back to the court. The Northern Qi court also sent Qinghe King Gao Yue, who had led troops to and from Huainan several times, to lead the army south again to take charge of the situation in Huainan.

Originally, when things had developed to this point, the pace was considered normal. This year can also be called a fruitful year for Qizhu Gaoyang.

Foreign operations still yielded numerous results, severely damaging the remnants of Rouran. In the middle of the year, Gao Yang personally led an army to pursue the remnants of Rouran until they reached Monan Woye Town, and gained numerous lives, cattle and sheep.

After the construction of the Great Wall stretching to the north is completed, the Northern Qi's offensive and defensive control over the entire Monan region will once again reach a higher level, and all the old and new forces on the grassland will be effectively controlled.

Although there were some mistakes in the strategy towards the south, as they did not realize in advance the sinister intentions of the Western Wei Dynasty in plotting Jiangling and curb it. The loss of Guangling and Hefei also caused the previous advantageous situation in Huainan to be lost.

However, the subsequent rescue was quite timely, and the action of supporting the puppet Xiao Yuanming made Nanliang completely succumb to Northern Qi. Despite changes such as Chen Baxian's rebellion, Chen Baxian still surrendered to the Northern Qi Dynasty and did not dare to betray the alliance. On the contrary, the interior of Nanliang became even more divided, and he took the opportunity to take back the important town of Guangling. It can be said that there were gains and losses, but the overall situation was improving. .

Within the country, Gaoyang's imperial authority was further strengthened, and the military and political power that was originally scattered in the hands of Jinyang nobles was gradually centralized and handed over to the clan kings for the time being, and the kings did not compete with him. The qualifications and confidence of the king’s authority.

While the personnel structure at the upper levels is becoming increasingly stable and perfect, Gao Yang's dominance over the country is also gradually penetrating to the lower levels. The just-completed destruction of Taoism and prosperity of Buddhism also means that his control over the country has been greatly strengthened from top to bottom.

In just a few years, Gao Yang has achieved many achievements that would be difficult for mediocre kings to achieve in their lifetimes. Naturally, he is extremely proud of himself, and his words and deeds have become more and more unrestrained.

Because Gao Yang was disgusted that Jinyang Palace had been disrupted and destroyed by military riots in the past years, and the layout of the palace garden was not majestic enough, he ordered the original palace garden to be demolished and a new one built.

After the new Jinyang Palace was built, its scale was more than several times larger than before. Gorgeous palaces and pavilions were lined up in rows. The entire palace was extremely luxurious and majestic. Therefore, it won Gao Yang's love. When he came to Jinyang, he spent all day in it. Here, there is banquet, entertainment and entertainment all night long.

Gao Guiyan, King of Ping Qin, won Gao Yang's trust and was awarded the post of Chief of the Guards. He was a powerful and prestigious person.

But among the Gao clan kings, Gao Guiyan is still not the most powerful one. Gao Yue, the king of Qinghe, has followed Emperor Shenwu from a very early age. He is highly qualified and has repeatedly led the army to achieve great feats. His disciples have many stories. There are many officials, and they can be said to be the most powerful in the clan in terms of prestige and power.

As a rising star of the clan, Gao Guiyan still resented being despised and treated poorly by Gao Yue when he was young, so he naturally hoped to retaliate against Gao Yue.

When the new Jinyang Palace was completed, Gao Yang happily led a group of close friends to visit the palace and proudly showed off: "You and other elders who have experienced the scenery of Luoxia, this palace may be better than Luoyi." The old garden?”

Seeing that His Majesty the Emperor was in high spirits, the crowd naturally did not dare to let down the mood and kept complimenting him.

But Gao Guiyan laughed from behind and said: "Although I have never lived in Luoxia, when I passed the royal residence in Qinghe, I often heard from his disciples that the royal residence was gorgeous and far superior to other houses of the Yuan family. There is a Yongxiang behind the hall, which can be accessed directly. The only thing left behind is the gate."

After hearing this, Gao Yang's face suddenly became gloomy. His mind is sensitive and delicate, and he will naturally not lack attention to a clan elder like Qinghe King Gao Yue. However, in the past, it was necessary to use the clan kings to check and balance the nobles of Jinyang, so they were tolerant of some of Gao Yue's indiscretions.

Although he has become more and more complacent in recent years, and his endurance is not as good as when his brother was still alive, but when he thought that Gao Yue had just been ordered to lead the army to Huainan not long ago, he heard Gao Guiyan's words. After the accusation, he just sneered twice and made no further statements.

But Gao Guiyan finally seized this opportunity. Seeing the change in the emperor's expression, he said: "I lived under King Qinghe in the past year. When the Western bandits came to disturb Jinyang, I once advised King Qinghe to be on guard against Jinyang Palace." They were attacked, but King Qinghe said that my family lives in the south of the city, why should I worry about the loss of Beigong, and he didn't go to rescue me?"

"enough!"

After hearing this, Gao Yang's expression became even more ugly, he stamped his feet and roared, and then loudly ordered: "Where the army going south is stationed, summon the King of Qinghe to return home quickly, and the above party king will lead the Governor Xiao Gui to annex the southerners. Xiao retreated to the south and took his place!"

After such a thing happened, Gao Yang was naturally not in the mood to visit the garden and enjoy the scenery anymore, so he went back to the palace, set up a banquet, drank freely, and entertained with female musicians.

However, the female singers in the palace were more than elegant in their sexual skills, but after all, they were not as debauched as the prostitutes in the palace. It happened that the concubine Xue in the palace was a private prostitute, and was included in the harem because of her charming sexual skills.

Seeing that Gao Yang was unhappy, Xue Concubine felt quite uneasy in her heart, so she whispered: "I have a sister, whose sexual skills are better than mine. If your majesty leaves the palace, I will be lucky to stay at home, and my sisters will enjoy themselves together on the couch. You will be happy in the palace."

When Gao Yang heard this, he couldn't help but be very moved. He had a perverse temperament and was not an ordinary emperor who lived in seclusion. He had an interest in his heart and immediately made arrangements for the ceremony and took his beloved concubine to the palace.

The Xue family was originally from a family that promoted excellence and was famous among the princes for their women's eroticism. Unexpectedly, His Majesty the Emperor came to their house today. The whole family was flattered and trembled for fear of being disrespectful.

Gao Yang came into the house just to look for sex, and naturally he didn't care whether the family was polite or not. When he saw that Xue Bin's sister was indeed a beautiful and plump woman, he was quite satisfied and immediately drove away the rest of the people. After leaving the house, I was in the hall, where the two sisters played and had fun.

The Xue family's sister had been in the business for a longer time, and she was delighted that her sister had brought such great wealth to the family, so she was naturally very flattering to His Majesty the Emperor.

Gao Yang was surprised when he saw that although this woman only worked in a small area, she was good at dealing with things and was smart and decent. He smiled and said, "Where did my sister learn such dexterity and talent?"

"Your Majesty, I once served King Qinghe..."

When Sister Xue heard this question, she answered carefully.

After Gao Yang heard this, his brows suddenly furrowed, but now that he was very interested, he did not show any anger, but only became more aggressive.

After a night of fun, the Xue family's living room was filled with a charming atmosphere. Gao Yang hugged the Xue family sisters from left to right and said with a smile: "It's a great night and a rare good time. What reward does your sister want?" "

The Xue family sister Cheng Huan spent the night and felt that she was already familiar with this supreme king. After hearing this, she smiled sweetly and said: "My family is originally a family, and I have always been coldly looked down upon by my family. Now that I have been favored by the king, all the disciples in the house are... I don’t know if I have such honor and favor, no one will dare to deceive me!”

After hearing this, Gao Yang's eyes suddenly became colder, but he still said with the same tone: "What position do you want?"

Sister Xue was just teasing and asking for favors, but she didn't expect that His Majesty the Emperor would actually respond. She was so surprised that she said that you had no joke and that there was a plan, so she quickly turned over and bowed: "I am concubine. I don't know how to be a prostitute, so I don't know whether official positions are valuable, but when I heard that there was an official named Situ, everyone praised him. If I could ask for the position for my father..."

"How dare you be so cowardly as a humble slave, how dare you look down on me like this! How could Situ Chao's drama be played by a prostitute!"

When Gao Yang heard this, he jumped up from the couch naked, grabbed the woman's long hair and threw her into the hall with all his strength.

While he ordered the waiters pouring in from outside the door to drag out Concubine Xue, he also had the stupid and greedy woman hanged in the hall. Regardless of her wailing and begging for mercy, he sawed her to death with his own hands, and then Ignoring the blood all over him, he just walked out of the hall naked and walked into the street with a long smile.

Soon after, Gao Yue was recalled from the expedition to Yecheng. Gao Yang did not ask anyone to recruit him to Jinyang. He only ordered Gao Guiyan to go to his home in Yecheng to question him. Soon after, Gao Yue committed suicide by drinking poison.

With the death of King Gao Yue of Qinghe, none of the four nobles of the Eastern Wei Dynasty in Yedu died of natural causes, were ostracized and suppressed, or even executed, and none of them survived. This incident not only eliminated the influence left by the previous dynasty's personnel affairs, but also allowed Gao Yang to establish absolute authority in the clan. No close family member dared to claim to be the elder of the clan in front of him.

Soon, the news of the invaders from the Western Wei Dynasty also reached Jinyang. Gao Yang ordered Gao Guiyan, King of Ping Qin, to lead the forward troops to Heluo to patrol and set up defenses in anticipation of the enemy. At the same time, he summoned Jinyang elites and planned to come south to fight in person. Resist the enemy.