釋氏稽古略 2.209

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魏二月。廣陵王恭好學有志度。關西大行臺薛孝通。說爾朱世隆立之。是時世隆鎮洛陽。乃以長廣王之命禪位于廣陵王恭。獻文帝之孫。是曰節閔帝。改元普泰。封長廣王曄為東海王。高歡起兵討爾朱兆。以兆弑孝莊也。孫騰說歡曰。今朝廷隔絕。號令無所稟。不權有所立。則眾將沮散。歡乃立渤海太守安定王元朗為帝。即位於信都（今真定路冀州也。高歡所生之地也）。改元中興。以歡為侍中丞相。都督中外諸軍事。歡以安定王元朗疎遠。乃使僕射魏蘭根慰諭洛陽。觀節閔帝之為人。欲復奉之。蘭根以節閔神采高明於後恐難制。因而與高乾兄弟乃崔陵共歡廢之。歡遂幽節閔帝於崇訓佛寺。更立孝莊孫廣平王之子平陽王脩。是為孝武帝。使安定王元朗作詔策而禪位。歡酖節閔於門下省。葬用殊禮。並害元朗。高歡信都（冀州郡名）人也。初自魏孝明帝孝昌三年劉賁薦之於討虜大都督爾朱榮。榮擢用之。初葛榮部眾流入并頴者二十餘萬。為契胡陵暴。皆不聊生謀亂不止。爾朱兆患之。問計於高歡。歡曰宜選王腹心使統之。兆遂以其眾委歡。歡以兆醉言恐醒而悔之。遂出宣言受委統鎮兵。可集汾東受號令。乃建牙陽四川軍士素惡兆而樂屬歡莫不皆至。及歡之討兆也。永熙二年。兆奔彰德路韓陵山投林中。殺所乘白馬自縊於樹。高歡親臨而厚葬之（魏書）。

In Wei, in the second month, King Gong of Guangling was fond of learning and had high aspirations and broad capacity. Xue Xiaotong, Grand Branch Secretariat of Guanxi, persuaded Erzhu Shilong to enthrone him. At that time, Shilong was garrisoning Luoyang; he then abdicated in the name of the King of Changguang in favor of King Gong of Guangling, who was the grandson of Emperor Xianwen. He was called Emperor Jiemin and changed the reign era to Putai. The King of Changguang, Ye, was enfeoffed as the King of Donghai. Gao Huan raised troops to chastise Erzhu Zhao, because Zhao had murdered Xiaozhuang. Sun Teng persuaded Huan, saying: "Now the imperial court is cut off and orders have nowhere to be received. Unless someone is provisionally enthroned, the multitude will waver and disperse." Huan then enthroned the Grand Administrator of Bohai, King of Anding, Yuan Lang, as emperor, who ascended the throne at Xindu (present-day Jizhou of Zhending Circuit, the birthplace of Gao Huan). He changed the reign era to Zhongxing, and appointed Huan as Palace Attendant, Chancellor, and Commander-in-Chief of All Military Affairs Inside and Outside the Capital. Considering that King Lang of Anding was a distant relation, Huan sent Vice Director Wei Langen to comfort Luoyang and observe the character of Emperor Jiemin, intending to support him again. Langen, considering that Jiemin's spirit and discernment were loftily brilliant and fearing he would be difficult to control later on, conspired with the brothers of Gao Qian and Cui Ling to depose him alongside Huan. Huan then confined Emperor Jiemin in Congxun Buddhist Monastery and instead enthroned the son of the King of Guangping and grandson of Emperor Xiaozhuang, King Xiu of Pingyang; he was Emperor Xiaowu. He had King Lang of Anding compose an edict of abdication. Huan poisoned Jiemin in the Chancellery (Menxia Sheng), buried him with extraordinary rites, and murdered Yuan Lang as well. Gao Huan was a native of Xindu (the commandery name for Jizhou). Initially, in the third year of Xiaochang under Emperor Xiaoming of Wei, Liu Ben recommended him to Erzhu Rong, the Grand Commander-in-Chief for Chastising the Barbarians, and Rong promoted and employed him. Earlier, more than two hundred thousand members of Ge Rong's followers had drifted into Bingzhou and Yingzhou; bullied and oppressed by the Qihu, they were unable to make a living and constantly plotted rebellion. Erzhu Zhao, troubled by this, asked Gao Huan for a plan. Huan said: "You should choose a trusted confidant of Your Highness to command them." Zhao then entrusted the multitude to Huan. Huan, thinking that Zhao had spoken while drunk and fearing he would regret it upon sobering up, immediately went out and publicly declared that he had been entrusted to command the garrison troops, instructing them to gather east of the Fen River to receive orders. He then erected his standard at the Yangchuan River; the soldiers, who had always hated Zhao and were glad to follow Huan, all arrived without exception. When Huan chastised Zhao in the second year of Yongxi, Zhao fled to Mount Hanling in Zhangde Circuit, cast himself into a forest, killed the white horse he rode, and hanged himself from a tree. Gao Huan personally attended and gave him a lavish burial (Weishu).