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He was well-versed in the art of war and had great martial arts skills. He was gradually valued and became a great general of the Northern Qi Dynasty.

In 563 AD, the Northern Zhou and the Turks joined forces and attacked the Northern Qi from Hengzhou. They captured more than cities in a row and marched straight to Luoyang.

The situation was critical. Northern Qi sent General Duan Shao to resist the coalition forces. Duan Shao ordered the army to stay put and ignore the provocation of the Northern Zhou coalition forces. Gao Changgong was as calm as Duan Shao. The weather was getting colder and colder, and the situation took a turn for the better.

The Northern Zhou coalition forces could not bear the severe cold weather and were ready to retreat. At this time, the Northern Qi army, which had been suppressed for a long time, rushed out to attack the Northern Zhou coalition forces. The army led by Gao Changgong rushed into the enemy camp, charging back and forth, and was unstoppable.

No one would have thought that Gao Changgong, who looked gentle, could fight so bravely. In this battle, all the soldiers fought hard and the Northern Zhou coalition was defeated. Gao Changgong also became famous in one battle.

Afterwards, Gao Changgong ordered craftsmen to make a hideous mask, which he would wear to cover his face whenever he went into battle, turning himself into a demon. In 564 AD, Yuwen Hu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty recruited 10 elite soldiers to attack Qi, and Luoyang was besieged.

Gao Changgong led 500 cavalrymen to break through the encirclement of the Northern Zhou army and rushed to the foot of Jinyong City, asking the defenders in the city to help. However, Gao Changgong and his 500 cavalrymen were heavily armored, with only their eyes exposed, and their identities were unknown. How could the defenders easily believe them?

Gao Changgong had no choice but to take off his heavy armor. When the soldiers in the city saw Lanling King taking off his mask and revealing his beautiful face, they knew that rescue had arrived and their morale was boosted. Tens of thousands of arrows were fired at once and the siege was successfully lifted. The Northern Zhou army in Jinyong City abandoned their armor and fled. The 30-li river and marshland from Mangshan to Gushui were all weapons and baggage abandoned by the Northern Zhou.

Gao Changgong became famous in the Battle of Mangshan. To praise his heroic performance, the soldiers composed "Lanling King's Battle Song", imitating Lanling King wearing a mask and charging into battle.

"Prince Lanling's March into Battle" was once a cultural treasure that was popular in the history of Chinese drama and the source of Peking Opera masks, but it was lost in my country during the Tang Dynasty.

The story of a person who is too successful to be a threat to his ruler has been around since ancient times. The greater the achievements of a person, the more dangerous the situation he is in. The emperors of Northern Qi were all suspicious by nature.

When talking with his cousin, Gao Wei, the last emperor of Northern Qi, the emperor suspected Lanling Wang of rebellion just because Gao Changgong said "state affairs are family affairs". Gao Changgong also noticed this and in order to avoid suspicion, he even did not hesitate to corrupt himself for the sake of greed.

His friends knew Gao Changgong's intentions and advised him to pretend to be ill. However, Gao Changgong could not escape suspicion or the emperor's butcher knife even if he pretended to be ill.

In 573 AD, Gao Wei, the last emperor of the Northern Qi Dynasty, sent poisoned wine to Lanling King, who drank it and committed suicide at the age of 33. After losing Lanling King Gao Changgong, the Northern Qi Dynasty was conquered by the Northern Zhou Dynasty four years later. The Northern Qi Empire, which existed for only 4 years, was submerged in the mist of history.

His life was not tolerated in the dark era of Northern Qi. His uncle and brothers were extremely licentious, but Lanling Wang was chaste and did not covet women. Emperor Wucheng Gao Zhan rewarded Lanling Wang for his contribution in the Battle of Mangshan, and he only took one away symbolically.

He was devoted to his wife and stayed with her all his life. He was not greedy for money and exempted all taxes on Lanling in his early years, freeing the common people from paying the imperial grain.

He was generous and magnanimous. Yang Shishen, a military officer whom he had met in the local area in his early years, had falsely accused Lanling King of corruption, which led to his dismissal. Later, when he led troops to fight, Yang Shishen was under Gao Changgong, but he did not seek revenge. Yang Shishen did not even believe that he would be let off so easily. Looking at the panicked Yang Shishen, Gao Changgong had to beat him with 20 military sticks to calm him down, and the matter was dropped.

He loved his soldiers like his own sons, and shared the joys and sorrows with them. Even if he only got some flowers and fruits, he would share them with his soldiers. Such a nearly perfect person slipped away from the night sky like a meteor, and was exposed like an orchid in its short flowering period.

——"Being too beautiful can be a problem. One of my best friends is troubled by being too beautiful. It's true."

——"It's outrageous. When they say that state affairs are family affairs, it means that he should devote himself to the country. Can this be considered his fault? Northern Qi deserved to be punished for more than 20 years. He deserved it!"

[The dynasty with the shortest emperor life - Northern Wei History Northern Wei]

You certainly can't imagine that being an emperor with supreme power is actually a high-risk job. In the dynasties of China, whether it is a large dynasty that unified the country or a small court in a corner, the abnormal death rate of emperors is much higher than that of other social groups.

Among them, there is such a dynasty, from the founder to the last emperor, most of them were short-lived. Eleven of the 14 emperors did not have a good end, so it is also called the bloodiest dynasty in history - Northern Wei.

The Northern Wei Dynasty was a regime established by the Tuoba clan of the Xianbei people, and was also the first dynasty of the Northern Dynasties during the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties period.

Tuoba Gui, the founding emperor of the Northern Wei Dynasty, was a brave and powerful man. He was an orphan of the Dai Kingdom. After the Dai Kingdom was destroyed by the Former Qin Dynasty, the Former Qin Emperor Fu Jian was very kind. Not only did he not kill Tuoba Gui, but he kept him in the former territory of the Dai Kingdom.

When the Former Qin Dynasty collapsed after the Battle of Feishui, Murong Chui established the Later Yan regime, and Tuoba Gui also relied on Murong Chui's powerful force to complete the unification of the tribes and restore the foundation of the Dai Kingdom.

After that, Tuoba Gui's ambition grew. He defeated Murong's Later Yan group and seized a large area of ​​land in the Beihe region.

It's a pity that Tuoba Gui spent his later years hiding in the harem and taking drugs, which made him a little mentally unstable. In addition to killing ministers for a disagreement, Tuoba Gui was also ruthless to his own women.

At that time, Madam He, the mother of the crown prince Tuoba Shao, made a mistake, and Tuoba Gui flew into a rage and planned to kill her. This matter accidentally reached Tuoba Shao's ears.

Originally, Tuoba Shao had no right of inheritance, so he simply climbed over the wall with assassins into the courtyard, killed his father Tuoba Gui and saved his mother. The great leader Tuoba Gui was only 39 years old when he was killed.

After Tuoba Gui died, his eldest son Tuoba Si avenged him by killing his younger brother Tuoba Shao and his gang, and successfully succeeded to the throne.

Tuoba Si was pretty good, barely stabilizing the situation. But the real hero was Tuoba Si's son Tuoba Tao. Emperor Taiwu Tuoba Tao succeeded to the throne at the age of 16, fought many battles throughout his life, and was a master of military tactics.

He successively destroyed Daxia, Northern Yan, Northern Liang and other countries, conquered the countries in the Western Regions, defeated the Rouran, and finally eliminated the local separatist forces in the north in 439 AD and unified northern China.

However, Emperor Taiwu was so overwhelmed by victory that he wanted to conquer Liu Song in one fell swoop and unify China. Unfortunately, the Northern Wei Dynasty did not have the strength to unify China at that time, and Emperor Taiwu's army failed in many attempts to cross the river.

Although Emperor Taiwu had made great achievements in both civil and military affairs, he became violent and suspicious in his later years, killing innocent people at will, and even forced his eldest son Tuoba Huang to death at the instigation of his personal eunuch Zong Ai. The Northern Wei government was in chaos for a time.

In 452 AD, Zong Ai was afraid of being executed by Emperor Taiwu, so he took the initiative to assassinate Emperor Taiwu.

A great ruler died at the hands of a eunuch at the age of 44. The fight for the throne after Tuoba Tao's death was also bloody. After his son, Tuoba Yu, King of Nan'an, was supported by Zong Ai to ascend the throne, he began to plan to deprive Zong Ai of power.

Unexpectedly, the eunuch Zong Ai found out and took advantage of the time when the Prince of Nan'an went to the ancestral temple to offer sacrifices to assassinate him. After the death of Prince of Nan'an Tuoba Yu, the eldest grandson of Emperor Taiwu Tuoba Tao, Tuoba Jun, ascended the throne. After ascending the throne, Tuoba Jun immediately mobilized a large army to capture Zong Ai and his followers and executed them.

After Tuoba Jun succeeded to the throne, he governed the Northern Wei Dynasty in a stable manner, but he died young. Then came Tuoba Hong, who was only 24 years old, and Empress Dowager Feng, who was considered a relatively young emperor and empress dowager combination in history. But Tuoba Hong did not want to be a puppet emperor blindly. Once he got angry and planned to abdicate the throne to his uncle Tuoba Zitui and go out to be an idle prince, but he was stopped by the ministers.

Later, in order to show his attitude, Tuoba Hong abdicated the throne to his 18-year-old son at the age of 5 and became the emperor emeritus. He can be said to be the youngest emperor emeritus in Chinese history.

At the age of 23, Tuoba Hong had just returned victorious from his personal expedition against the Rouran, but he suddenly died of unknown causes. This is also an unsolved case in history, but people at the time suspected that Empress Dowager Feng had killed him.

However, Empress Dowager Feng was very fond of Han culture and during her reign she strongly advocated the sinicization reform of the Xianbei.

When Emperor Xiaowen Tuoba Hong grew up, he was deeply influenced by his grandmother and started the Sinicization reform. During his reign, he did a lot of Sinicization work, among which there were two iconic things: one was to change the national surname Tuoba to Yuan, so the emperors of the Northern Wei Dynasty all took Yuan as their surname, and he himself changed his name to Yuan Hong.

The second was to move the capital to Luoyang in the south. This reform not only greatly changed the conservative and backward appearance of the Northern Wei Dynasty, but also accelerated the integration of the Xianbei and Han peoples, making a positive contribution to the process of ethnic integration in the feudal era of China.

After Yuan Hong died, his son Yuan Ke succeeded him. During his reign, Yuan Ke took advantage of the dividends brought by his father's reforms and frequently attacked the Rouran in the south, making the state prosperous for a time.

Although Emperor Xuanwu made great achievements in expanding the territory, he was terrible at domestic politics. It was under his rule that corruption became extremely serious in the Northern Wei officialdom, which led to endless peasant uprisings.

Not only that, because he was a devout Buddhist, he abolished the system of "the son is noble and the mother is dead", which led to the survival of Prince Yuanxu's biological mother, Hu Chonghua, and ultimately laid the seeds for the empire's demise.

After Yuan Xu ascended the throne, the aging Emperor Xiaoming was very dissatisfied with the improper behavior of his mother, Empress Dowager Hu, and was worried about the policies he was pursuing that were disastrous for the country.

In order to avoid the collapse of the empire, Emperor Xiaoming secretly summoned General Erzhu Rong to lead troops into the capital to force the empress dowager to surrender. Unexpectedly, the news leaked. Empress Dowager Hu was shocked and furious. She conspired with her lover Zheng Yan and Li Shengui to poison Emperor Xiaoming to death and enthrone the 3-year-old Prince Yuan Zhao of Lintao as emperor.

Empress Dowager Hu's act of poisoning Emperor Xiaoming undoubtedly opened the Pandora's box of war. Erzhu Rong, the general stationed in Jinyang, decisively led his troops south and easily captured Luoyang, arrested Empress Dowager Hu and the young emperor, and then threw them into the Yellow River to drown.

Afterwards, Erzhu Rong supported Emperor Xiaowen's grandson Yuan Ziyou as emperor, and took charge of the government as the General of Taiyuan King.

Erzhu Rong had an ambition to become emperor. In order to remove the princes and ministers who were loyal to the court, he tricked more than 2000 officials including Prime Minister Yuan Yong, Minister of Works Yuan Qin, and Minister of State Yuan Lue to Taozhu in Heyin in the name of offering sacrifices to heaven, and then killed them all. This is known as the Heyin Incident. After killing the royal family and officials, Erzhu Rong became more arrogant and domineering, and his intention to usurp the throne became more obvious.

Emperor Xiaozhuang Yuan Ziyou was unwilling to see his ancestors' foundation destroyed in his hands, so he took a risk and lured Erzhu Rong into the palace and killed him.

Although Erzhu Rong died, the huge clan behind him was still there, and they held the imperial military power. Not long after that, Erzhu Rong's cousin Erzhu Zhao launched a rebellion and captured Luoyang, and strangled Emperor Xiaozhuang Yuan Ziyou to death in Jinyang. It was only three months since Erzhu Rong was killed.

The tyranny of the Zhu family triggered collective condemnation from warlords everywhere. Under such circumstances, Gao Huan and Yuwen Tai rose one after another, and their power grew rapidly under the banner of fighting against the Erzhu family.

At the same time, garrison troops and peasants in the Northern Wei Dynasty revolted one after another. The Southern Liang Dynasty also took the opportunity to launch a northern expedition, making the situation in the entire Central Plains a mess. At this time, the Northern Wei Dynasty was actually in name only, and emperors were born and fell like water.

Whether it was Yuan Ye and Yuan Gong established by Erzhu, Yuan Lang and Yuan Xiu established by Gao Huan, or Yuan Qinghe established by Southern Liang, they were all puppets in the hands of major forces. Not only were they unable to restore order, but they all ended up being killed in the end. In addition, there was the previously murdered Emperor Xiaoming and the young ruler Yuan Zhao.

Emperor Xiaowu Yuan Xiu is a person worth mentioning. In 534, Yuan Xiu, who wanted to get rid of Gao Huan's control, defected to Yuwen Tai in Chang'an. Gao Huan was furious and appointed Yuan Shanjian as emperor, and moved the capital to Ye, which was known as the Eastern Wei in history.

Unexpectedly, Yuwen Tai was not a good person. One year later, in 535, Yuwen Tai poisoned Yuan Xiu and established Yuan Baoju as emperor. The country was still named Wei, known in history as the Western Wei. From then on, the Northern Wei disappeared, replaced by the Eastern Wei and Western Wei.

Although the emperors of the Eastern and Western Wei dynasties were still members of the Northern Wei royal family and were still members of the Tuoba clan, the real ruler of the Eastern Wei was Gao Huan, while that of the Western Wei was Yuwen Tai. The Eastern and Western Wei dynasties were just transitional dynasties and were soon replaced by the Northern Qi and Northern Zhou dynasties.

——"What kind of high-risk job is an emperor? Lv Bu's clothes are the real high-risk job, okay?"

——"If I remember correctly, is Tuoba Tao a big troll?"

——"That's right, Emperor Taiwu and Emperor Song Wen are evenly matched. The two can be called the twin pillars of Zuan."

——"I thought of The Princess Weiyoung. I hope you won't save me alone to watch it. The character Li Weiyoung in the play seems to be the prototype of Empress Dowager Feng."

——"An 18-year-old emperor, this is too outrageous."

——"In ancient times, no emperor abdicated voluntarily. They were all forced to abdicate, except for Qianlong. After he abdicated, the power was not transferred and was still in his hands. So it made no difference whether he abdicated or not."

——"Erzhu Rong, Gao Huan, and Yuwen Tai, they all work for Yuwen Tai's henchman Yang Zhong."

——"Hahahaha, Li Yuan and his son laughed secretly. Yang Zhong is also working for our family. The mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind."

——"Why do father and son have the same name? Tuoba Hong, Tuoba Hong."

——"In ancient times, people didn't speak Mandarin, so one-eyed people were certainly different."