In the palace of Yedu in Northern Qi, the hall was in chaos. The Qi Lord Gao Yang seemed to be an angry beast, with his hair scattered and naked, roaring in the hall while waving his sword and chopping the pillars and objects in the hall.
All the slaves in the hall were pale and trembling. Some servants couldn’t stand this fright and cried and ran out of the hall. However, this move immediately attracted Gao Yang’s attention.
He chased after him, threw a knife and chopped the slave to the ground, and then dragged him back to the hall, ignoring the slave’s wail and begging for mercy, and directly dismembered the slave in the hall.
This scene made the disciples in the hall even more creepy, and the ministers waiting outside the hall who were waiting to meet were pale for a moment after hearing the shrill howling from the hall that was not as loud as a human voice.
After a long time, the voices of the people in the hall disappeared, and the eunuchs walked out tremblingly and shouted to the people outside the corridor: “Your Majesty, Your Majesty summoned King Changshan, Xianggong Yang and others to the palace to see you.”
Since the Huainan War Report entered the capital, several people have known that something is not good. They have been waiting for this for more than an hour. Both mentally and physically have been under a lot of pressure. Although they have to be summoned at this time, they are in a heavy mood and know that there is no way to avoid it, so they can only grit their teeth and climb the steps into the hall.
As soon as these people entered the hall, a strong and disgusting smell of blood came to their faces. Yang Yan felt his feet slip and when he lowered his head, he saw a bloody intestine bag wrapped in front of his shoes. In shock, he almost fell into a pool of blood in the hall. Seeing that the emperor in the hall was looking at the eagle, he did not dare to make too much moves, so he could only rub his feet and throw away the intestine bag on his shoes.
“You are wronged me, you are wronged me!”
Seeing a few people climbing to the hall, Gao Yang stood up from the imperial bed, pointed at them and cursed: “The Qiang thieves have committed an appointment to bully me, which has caused my army to be defeated. I have made such a disaster because I have made a hard remark a few days ago, so how could this be the disaster!”
Everyone knew that they were in the wrong way. They really didn’t expect that Li Boshan would be so untrustful and unrighteous. Before the ink in the letter was dry, they stabbed Qi Jun fiercely in Huainan. At this moment, the emperor pointed at him and scolded him, and he bowed his head and dared not refute him, allowing the emperor to vent his anger.
However, Gao Yang was extremely angry at this moment, and it was far from being able to eliminate it by torture and killing a few servants or insulting ministers.
He often prides himself on his achievements, but now he is incomparable in his most proud field.
Although the previous peace talks on Luoshui were beneficial to the situation in the Northern Qi Dynasty at that time, avoiding the embarrassment of fighting on both sides, and being able to quickly mobilize forces to counterattack the Turks and drive them away, it was also the correct decision at that time.
However, the development of the situation later made the biggest beneficiary of this decision become the enemy of the Western Wei Dynasty. Li Boshan quickly withdrew from Heluo, first quelling the internal rebellion, and then directly intercepted and killed the Turkic Khan in the rear of the Turkic Khan. And now it’s even more straightHe treated the peace agreement as a bullshit, and joined forces with Nanliang to stab the Qi army in Huainan.
Gao Yang’s two greatest pioneering achievements in the foreign countries since he was at the height of the world were the first to sweep away a number of Hu forces such as Rouran and Turks in the south of the desert, and the second was to take advantage of the fall of Jiangdong into the Hou Jing Rebellion and occupy a large area of territory in Huainan, making Qi’s country far surpass his father and brother’s period in both its momentum and its actual territory.
But now, only half a year has passed, and these two achievements Gao Yang is most proud of have been destroyed to varying degrees, and they have been damaged by the same person!
Gao Yang’s mood has been very unstable and moody recently. Now he is greatly stimulated by the defeat report sent by Huainan, and he is completely in a state of madness.
After cursing the people who had persuaded the peace talks with the Western Wei before, Gao Yang shouted angrily: “So quickly summon Wei to the palace to write an essay for me, and send an edict to summon troops to attack the thieves and Qiang!”
When the people in the hall heard this, their faces changed. However, when they saw the emperor’s crazy and angry look, they did not dare to dissuade them for a while. Only Yang Yan saw that everyone refused to speak, he went in front of him and said, “Your Majesty, please calm down. Now the army and brigade have been severely damaged. There is no such thing as a long-term plan!”
Before Yang Yan finished speaking, Gao Yang looked at him again. Before he could get angry, Liu Taozhi, the general of the guards in the hall, shouted: “Your Majesty Yang’s words are wrong. The three towers in Yebei use 300,000 troops. Even if they use ten troops as one armor, they can still be used for tens of thousands of soldiers. What does it mean to have no soldiers to fight against the thieves? The lord is so humiliated that the Qiang thieves are so righteous that the Qiang thieves are bullied so righteously. The last generals want to kill them to vent their anger. The soldiers are very capable!”
“Taozhi is really a loyal and brave man!”
After hearing this, Gao Yang smiled with an angry face. He walked straight down from the palace, grabbed Gao Yan’s hat and Yang Yan’s belt, threw them into Liu Taozhi’s arms, and said: “I hate that you have a weak life and a high position is hard to be granted! But if you can take the Qiang thieves for me, why would you be awarded the title of the king!”