Gao Cheng abandoned the ship and landed on the shore, and the first thing he saw in front of him was Xiao Gang, the prince of Liang. Not to mention that he had seen Xiao Gang before and knew his identity, just his appearance alone could actually make people judge. Princess Xiao Qiongju of Liyang has at least seven or eight similarities with her father, Prince Xiao Gang.

Gao Cheng looked at the prince Xiao Gang coming over with a slight smile on his face and a calm gait. This deep and steady bearing immediately made Xiao Gang feel good. When Gao Cheng walked over, he also saw Hou Jing and Xiao Zhengde standing beside the crown prince Xiao Gang.

"Your Highness allows your officials to lose their manners." Hou Jing stepped forward and whispered to Xiao Gang, seeing him smile and nod, he walked up to greet Gao Cheng. Hou Jing's eyes are poisonous, and he knows what kind of person Xiao Gang is, so he naturally wants to take the opportunity to show that he is a loyal minister of the Great Wei Dynasty, so as to favor the prince of Boliang Kingdom.

Hou Jing walked up to Gao Cheng and saluted respectfully, "Xiaguan Hou Jing is here to wait for the arrival of the prince." ”

"The county prince is hard." Gao Cheng's face was full of smiles, and he strode up and picked Hou Jing up from the ground.

Hou Jing was surprised, he didn't expect Gao Cheng to work so hard.

Gao Cheng held his arm and said with a smile, "The county prince is waiting for me here, which really worries me." So very good, very good. ”

"The general has worked hard, hard, hard all the way." Hou Jing also looked delighted. He always felt that this child was different from before, and he couldn't tell where it was. took a peek at Cui Jishu and Chen Yuankang, who were following Gao Cheng, and the two of them were coming over to greet him, both of them were calm and smiling, and they couldn't see any flaws.

The officials of the Wei State met here, and the sheep and birds also went to meet the prince and the king of Linhe.

Hou Jing walked over with Gao Cheng and said with a smile, "General, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has come to greet him in person, this is to give the general a big face, the general is coming to meet His Royal Highness the Prince." These words praised Xiao Gang, but they invisibly depreciated Gao Cheng. And he is quite suspected of relying on the old and selling the old, as if he is the right man, and Gao Cheng has to be assigned by him.

Xiao Zhengde originally looked at Gao Cheng with disdain, but when he heard Hou Jing say this, he suddenly smiled and said, "General, I haven't seen each other for a long time, I miss it very much." In particular, the word "missing" is very important.

Xiao Gang didn't know if he understood the open and secret battles of these people, and they had their own thoughts, so they just kept looking at Gao Cheng. Gao Cheng also had to admire the benevolence of this prince of Liang. He ignored Hou Jing, broke away from the hand he was carrying, stepped forward and saluted beautifully, and said, "The envoy of the Great Wei, the prince of Bohai, the secretary of the central secretary, the secretary of the ministry, the governor of Gyeonggi, the general, and the subordinate Gao Cheng pay a visit to His Royal Highness the Prince. ”

Prince Xiao Gang is older, probably older, elegant and heavy, and because of his pivotal position, there is another reason that is not a reason, after all, he is the father of Xiao Qiongju, the princess of Liyang, and Gao Cheng is convinced.

Such an attitude can be contagious to others. Xiao Gang really lowered his identity, came up with a smile on his face and personally helped Gao Cheng up, and said with a smile, "The general came from afar, his sincerity can be felt, and there is no need to be so formal." The car has been prepared, and the pavilion is parked, just waiting for the general to enter the city and stay. ”

Xiao Gang said as he walked towards the car with Gao Cheng. Xiao Gang has a straightforward personality and does not hide, and everyone present can see it clearly. Cui Jishu, who was following behind, looked at Xiao Gang's back and sighed deeply in his heart. I always feel that this prince of Liang is a literati, and I really don't know if he is suitable to be the prince of a country.

Hou Jing, who was parallel to Xiao Zhengde, also looked at Xiao Gang's back meaningfully.

"His Majesty Emperor Liang and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince have treated him so kindly, and his subordinate Gao Cheng is inexplicably impressed." Gao Cheng and Xiao Gang went hand in hand and later made a polite manner, and their words were also measured, both polite and without losing the national body. It seems that this is a good sign.

"Since the general is here for the alliance between Wei and Liang, what he does must be beneficial to both Liang and Wei, how dare he treat it lightly?" Xiao Gang said with a smile.

Everyone heard it, and in fact, of course, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince would not not understand nothing.

The pavilion where the Wei envoy stayed, Liang Guo took a lot of effort, and he was in line with his identity without losing his respect.

The name of the Duting Station has not changed. The name is still the name of a few years ago, and the lintel is still the lintel of a few years ago. Outwardly, there is no difference. But the inside is already unrecognizable, and there are no traces of that year anymore.

Gao Cheng and Hou Jing have both been to this place before, and now they come again, the memories are vague, and they both feel that the past no longer exists, and even wonder if they have really lived here and really come to Jiankang.

From yesterday to today, from Guangling to Jiankang, it has not been a long time, but for Gao Cheng, it has reached a point in time, and the game between him and Emperor Liang is really about to start from here.

"Drunken Liuzhen" is undoubtedly the most gorgeous and extravagant pavilion in the current capital pavilion. From the inside, the Duting Station looks like it is already a separate garden of the emperor's family, and it is naturally no longer an ordinary pavilion station. The grandeur of the drunken stream is not inferior to any of the palaces and pavilions in the Forbidden Garden.

After all, the etiquette is complicated, and when it is settled, it is already twilight, and it is just the time when day is not day, and night is not night. Gao Cheng was tired for a few days in a row, and then he looked at the top of the building with the railing, dismissed the slave maid, and felt a lot quieter.

This pavilion is full of apricot beams and mountain knots, and it is extremely luxurious. I heard that Emperor Liang was a good Buddha and simple, but I don't know how to build such a gorgeous garden. I heard that Xiao Yan still likes to live in the Buddhist temple, and even political affairs are gradually abandoned, so such a beautiful garden may not come often, right?

The Jiankang street scene is faintly visible, full of prosperity, but it doesn't seem to be real. This kind of prosperity is both enviable and worrying.

Cui Jishu walked up silently and saw the prince contemplating on the railing. As the sun fell, the afterglow spilled over his body. Gao Cheng heard footsteps and turned his head and looked at Cui Jishu.

"Lord Lang, someone asks to see you." Cui Jishu walked to Gao Cheng's side, lowered his voice, and his expression was very solemn.

"Who?" Gao Cheng didn't move, feeling that this matter was unusual.

"The king of Hedong County, the history of the assassin of Southern Xuzhou, and the reputation of Xiao in the service." Cui Jishu did not hand over this person's name thorn.

Gao Cheng didn't speak, he didn't know this person, but his surname Xiao was the emperor of Liang. He is an envoy of Wei, and he has just arrived in Jiankang to stay, and this person is too anxious to come to visit in private so soon.

"Nope." Decisive commands. He added, "Say that I am tired from the journey and have already slept." ”

Cui Jishu looked at the sunset on the horizon and felt that this reason was a bit reluctant. But this kind of rejection is also better than a direct rejection.

"This Xiao Yu is the eldest son of the late prince Xiao Tong. Because the late prince died before, Emperor Liang did not choose to set up a grandson but set up the current prince, Xiao Yu has a lot of subtleties. Later, Emperor Liang tried everything to appease him, and he finally quieted down. And this man is no longer in advance. Cui Jishu told Gao Cheng what he knew.

Such a person can't be easily seen at this time, Gao Cheng didn't say anything, and asked Cui Jishu to reply quickly.

"Introducing business and carving feathers, mixed with flow signs", Hou Jing didn't understand the rhythm of music, let alone such allusions, and he didn't know what it meant to be high and low. The name of the place where he lived in the Duting Station was "Shengkeyu", which made him particularly puzzled, and of course he did not have the patience to think about it.

However, Xiao Zhengde, the king of Linhe County, was very proud of this title. Emperor Xiao Yan has a good rhythm, and this title is exactly what he likes. Xiao Zhengde was assigned by Emperor Liang to manage the affairs of the Wei envoys, which just gave him a convenience, so that he could enter and leave the Duting Station at will, and he could see Hou Jing at any time.

Xiao Yu, the king of Hedong County, ate the closed door and soon left Dutingyi. At the same time as this happened, Xiao Zhengde and Hou Jing already knew. The sound carving feather is also a splendid and painted pavilion, with curled eaves and several floors, which is very much in line with its name, as if it visualizes the flowing sound rhythm.

The person who came to report the news was sent out, and the door was closed tightly, and Xiao Zhengde laughed so much that he almost couldn't breathe. In fact, even Hou Jing sometimes looked down on this so-called "big prince" King Linhe County so uncontrollably, and he had to show it impatiently immediately when he was happy or angry. However, Hou Jing still doesn't understand the relationship a little bit.

"This big man, I really can't bear it, I'm in a hurry to find someone, why do you want to win over everyone?" Xiao Zhengde explained Xiao Yu's identity to Hou Jing. "The father did not choose the son of the late prince as the grandson, and the biggest loss was Da Lang, who was the eldest son of the late prince. Holding a grudge, he is naturally dissatisfied with the current prince, who has the greatest benefit, except for his father and the crown prince who are in the dark, almost everyone knows it. I didn't expect him to be so scheming, he actually took a fancy to Wei Envoy and wanted to make friends with Xianbei Xiao'er. Xiao Zhengde sighed.

Hou Jing heard that Xiao Yu turned out to be the son of the late prince, and this identity was not yet in his eyes. His father was originally the prince, but as soon as his father died, he would no longer be able to win over the throne of Liang, and I am afraid it would be useless to win people over. But if he dares to make a strange move, it proves that this person is not small. It seems that Liang's internal affairs are still really a pool of muddy water, and I don't know how many turbulent undercurrents there are.

"Does the eldest brother have any friends with him?" Hou Jing vaguely felt that this person was available, and he was still a little interested in him. Gao Cheng pushed it out, and he just pulled it over to give it a try, but it was really useless and it was easy to get rid of it.

Xiao Zhengde smiled and thought for a while, "No matter how kind my father treats them, it's just for the sake of the late prince, so naturally I haven't made friends with them?" ”

Hou Jing didn't speak, and secretly scolded Xiao Zhengde for being short-sighted.

"However, it seems that the seventh brother still has some dealings with him." Xiao Zhengde muttered to himself.

The "seventh brother" he said refers to Xiao Yi, the seventh son of Emperor Liang.

Jiankang, the capital of Liang Guoguo, deserves to be the capital of poetry, books and articles. When you enter the Suzaku Gate, you will see Chinese culture, and Chinese culture is grand. After the Guoxue Left Sect and the Right Society, and then went north into the Xuanyang Gate and entered the palace of Jiankang.

On this day, the weather in Jiankang was clear, the sky was blue, and there was not a trace of clouds. Under the vast canopy, Jiankang Palace is particularly magnificent. Although the palace is tall, but each place is far apart, and it is enough to look at each other from afar.

Before entering the Xuanyang Gate, the music was faintly heard, and after passing the Nanye Gate, the music was deafening from clear to high. The Qing Shang song is different from the beam drum horn horizontal blowing song of the Northern Dynasty, without the rough and cool of the golden cymbal, solemn and elegant, but also majestic and susceptible.

The Qing Shang song sounded around the beam in the Jiankang Palace, and Gao Cheng wore the official uniform of the Great Wei Dynasty as a Wei envoy and walked all the way to the Taiji Hall under the guidance of the Liang Rite Official. The ceremonial guard outside the Taiji Hall is displayed solemnly and solemnly. The costumes of the hundred officials are solemn and thoughtful, and the hooves stand on both sides. Countless people, all of them set their eyes on Gao Cheng, the most conspicuous of Wei Envoy's party.

Hou Jing followed behind Gao Cheng as a deputy envoy and walked slowly, the same as an official uniform. He was very sensitive to the fact that many of the officials of the Liang State were staring at him in surprise and then showed a hint of ridicule. He must have read that right, it made him extremely embarrassed.

It wasn't his fault that he was lame, and in Wei he almost ignored it. Because no one in Dawei dared to openly laugh at him, even if it was the real ruler of a country, Gao Huan, the prime minister, would not and would not dare to joke with him. Even the humble boy who was walking in front of him at this moment didn't dare.

In the Jiankang Palace, these officials with very low rank actually dared to openly ridicule him. Hou Jing's heart was furious. There was no other way to do it, but he tried to hold back, and then tried to slow down and relax his walking posture, hoping to make his gait look normal.

However, it was precisely because it was too pretentious, but it was more eye-catching, and some of the Liang officials actually laughed out loud. Those low-level civil officials, standing outside the hall, are holding the mentality of watching the excitement at the moment. They did not understand the situation between the two countries, nor did they understand the prestige of Hou Jing as a general of the Northern Dynasty in the ranks of the Southern Dynasties in the past wars between the two countries. They value their family and appearance, and Hou Jing has none of them. He is a great Wei minister who relied on himself to rise from the bottom of the town in the cracks, climbed to the powerful all his life, and even forgot his righteousness when he saw profit and forgot his righteousness. And these Liang officials, who can easily sit and wait by relying on their background and poetry, and get the official title, dare to laugh at him?

What made Hou Jing even more resentful was that he found that these Southern Dynasty people, even if they laughed, would not pay attention to him for a long time. Their attention was on the envoy in front of him, the humble child. You can even hear them in amazement. The young Zaifu, the minister in charge of the country, is uniquely beautiful, and he is moving forward with graceful gait, calm spirit, and composure. The appearance of no one on his side and the steps of the Yingying Mansion compared Hou Jing to almost self-esteem.

The Taiji Hall is built on a high platform of dozens of zhang, and the long stone steps are delayed and stretched, extending to the front of Gao Cheng. Looking up, the palace looks like it was built on the clouds in the sky. The intense colors of the five colors are particularly eye-catching in the sun.

Gao Cheng walked up the stone steps step by step. Although it was the first time he went to Jiankang as a Wei envoy and entered the Jiankang Palace of Liang State, he did not have a trace of panic in his heart at this moment, and only felt that his shoulders were heavy. He is the envoy of Wei, and the entire Great Wei is on his shoulders. At this time, there is no life-and-death battle array, no intertwined borders, no internal affairs that you fight for, it seems that none of these matters anymore. His Great Wei should have a world of Taihe and Lizhen, and the people are the foundation of the society, and if he does not think of the people, there will never be the world harmony he thinks.

Standing high on the top, standing in front of the Taiji Palace, Gao Cheng suddenly stopped and looked back, looking out of the palace gate in the distance, and faintly saw the old road of the Yangtze River. The hundred officials of the Liang State did not know the state of mind of this powerful minister of the Northern Dynasty at this time, and looked up at him with a lot of speculation.