高洋 / Northern Qi Emperor Wenxuan
高洋 / Northern Qi Emperor Wenxuan is the darkest case in Qinji 131-2. The source says he had once been a capable ruler, but alcohol addiction and private excess later made his rule violently unstable.
The episode presents Gao Yang’s drunken conduct as emperor-level impunity rather than ordinary loss of manners. It includes public nakedness, cross-dressing, violence toward his mother and in-laws, sexual violence against women around ministers and relatives, killings, and grotesque banquet scenes. The point is not only that Gao Yang drank; it is that drunkenness combined with unchecked power made everyone around him vulnerable.
In the source’s interpretive frame, Gao Yang shows 酒作为权力催化剂 at maximum damage radius. Alcohol does not create all evil by itself, but it releases and intensifies cruelty, revenge, desire, and theatrical violence when no institution can stop the ruler.