If you want to govern these people who are living in troubled times, you have to control them spiritually, for example, to establish a belief in them and to make them the existence of truth, such as eating fasting and worshipping Buddha. When the royal power wants to promote a belief, it is actually the easiest to get, and the people will easily accept this belief, such as the Confucianism of the Han Dynasty to replace Lao Tzu's Taoism, which was realized because of the vigorous promotion of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.

Gao Huan also wants the people under his rule to have faith, instead of being like a group of walking corpses, who only know how to eat, drink and have fun, like a shell without spirit, he wants to inject something different into these people, what spiritual belief is the most suitable for his own statecraft? Then worshipping the Buddha is undoubtedly the best choice, especially after watching the Taicheng Big Buddha Temple built by Xiao Yan, he is even more convinced in his heart that when he returns to Yecheng, he will also build a temple that is ancient and modern, and he even thought of the name, it is called: Dongda Temple.

Yuan Shanjian, Emperor of the Eastern Wei Dynasty. Although this person looks very cowardly and has no ability on the outside, all this is his disguise, this person is actually very capable and ambitious. He has always wanted to regain power from Gao Huan's hands, and has repeatedly conspired with ministers to unite to overthrow Gao Huan's regime. Helplessly, because Gao Huan himself was righteous and squandered money, coupled with political clarity, the most important thing was that he had brilliant results in martial arts, conquered the entire Southern Liang in the south, and negotiated peace alliances with powerful nomads such as Rouran and Turkic in the north, so that the people were rarely bullied by foreigners.

So it can only be said that Gao Huan is still very popular in the Eastern Wei Dynasty, plus he is also as good as a stream, he has not done anything ridiculous, and there is no excuse and handle to be caught by Yuan Shanjian, the only truth may be that Gao Huan took the three concubines of the first emperor: Erzhu, Xu, and Li all home. But since ancient times, there has never been an emperor who has fallen out with his courtiers because of a woman, isn't this a joke!

Therefore, Yuan Shanjian can only hide his ambitions many times and pretend to be a good person, but he always pays attention to those courtiers who are on the fringes of Gao Huan's group, as well as people who have grievances against Gao Huan, this evil is the object of his efforts to win over the unity, although there may not be many such people, and they are not in power.

Xu Mingzhi had known about Yuan Shanjian's small actions for a long time, but he had not reported to Gao Huan, Yang Xiuzhi had heard about these things since he entered the core of Gao Huan's regime, but there was no conclusive evidence, and he could only secretly remind Gao Huan to beware of the emperor's every move. Gao Huan was named Gao Ming, a member of the Gao family, and sent him to be a waiter in the Yellow Gate, this official position everyone understands, which is the meaning of eunuchs.

But why was this man named Gao Ming chosen by him to be the Yellow Gate Squire, in fact, there is an episode in this. The Gao family has become prominent since Gao Huan took power, and for a while, those distant relatives, descendants and grandchildren of the clan have come to Yecheng to find Gao Huan and ask to be ranked in the clan ranks. Gao Huan didn't understand these things, so he let his cheap father Gao Shu be responsible. So Gao Shu pulled these poor relatives who couldn't even beat the eight poles into a genealogy ancestral hall one by one according to the genealogy, and originally he wanted to be the patriarch himself, but he thought it was too troublesome, so he simply asked his uncle to be the patriarch instead of him.

Gao Ming is an illegitimate son of Gao Huan's distant uncle, Gao Ming's father is doing salt trading in Leling, Qingzhou, and his family background is very solid, and he usually likes women, so he bought two concubines when he had money, which could not satisfy him, and raised a famous prostitute in the famous music workshop in Qingzhou City. Lesheng has been like a good person since he followed him, but his father has never wanted to redeem her, and it didn't take long for Lezhu to become pregnant. But Gao Ming's father didn't want to recognize the child, and the prostitute was very angry and left the child at his door after giving birth, and this child was Gao Ming.

So since he was a child, Gao Ming can be said to be a grandmother who doesn't love his uncle and doesn't love him, and people see people who bully him, just like his subordinates in his own home, he eats and lives with his subordinates, and he dresses up like subordinates. Gao Ming was very angry after knowing his background and wanted to take revenge on his father, but his father had already died of illness. Gao Ming felt that he had no hope in this family at all, his two elder brothers had occupied all the property in the family, and his three sisters were also indifferent to him, so when he learned from his brother's small talk that he was related to Gao Huan, the king of Eastern Wei Qi, he simply took the gift baggage and went to Yecheng.

When he arrived in Yecheng, Gao Ming found Gao Shu, Gao Shu sent someone to Qingzhou to find out, but his family didn't recognize him at all, Gao Shu, seeing that he was pitiful, found him a job in the ancestral hall to sweep the floor, wipe the table, clean the incense burner, and also include food and accommodation. But it didn't take long for Gao Ming to feel more and more that he had no chance to get ahead, so he waited for Gao Huan at the gate of the Qi Wangfu as soon as he had time, waiting every day, waiting every month, don't you really let him wait once.

Gao Huan felt very helpless about this young man who held his feet and didn't let go, so he took him into the house to ask the reason. Gao Ming told him what happened to him, and Gao Huan said that he was also his relative, so he could just arrange a position for him to eat. So he put him in the military grain depot as the head of the warehouse, but Gao Mingdou didn't know a few characters, and he didn't know how much military food was in the grain depot, and a few soldiers under his hands often secretly moved out the grain to sell, and laughed at him in private. Gao Longzhi knew about this, so he participated in Gao Ming's book.

Gao Huan called Gao Ming to ask him if he could join the army, Gao Ming said in tears that he didn't even marry a wife and didn't want to die without a queen. Gao Huan understood in his heart when he heard this, this person was greedy for life and afraid of death, so he asked him to be the assistant to the housekeeper, and he was usually very idle, and he didn't have to do anything. Who knew that when this kid arrived in King Qi, he saw that the little maids in red and green were all very beautiful, and his heart was itchy, and he wanted to talk about these girls every day. The housekeeper couldn't get used to him for a long time, so he told Gao Huan about the matter, Gao Huan was afraid that this kid would be Gao Chen's second.

At this time, Yang Xiuzhi discussed state affairs with him, saying that it was best for Yuan Shanjian to send a henchman to insert it, first, to monitor the emperor's movements, and secondly, to have his own person who could control the gate of the imperial city, and in case something happened, he could advance and retreat in time. Gao Huan then thought of Gao Ming, although this person is greedy for life and afraid of death, he admires Gao Huan very much, and has always taken him as a model. So at a banquet, Gao Huan invited Gao Ming, this kid was flattered, when Gao Huan asked him if he was willing to be a eunuch by the emperor's side, although he was unwilling, but Gao Huan said that he could have a lot of wealth, and even have rights.

Gao Ming thought of what happened to him in his hometown in Qingzhou, and he wanted to get ahead and mix up to have a look at those brothers and sisters, so he agreed to Gao Huan's request and entered the palace to be a waiter at the Yellow Gate. But Gao Huan told him that he would let the eunuchs who carried out the palace punishment and inspection let him go, and said that he had been purified. When Gao Ming heard that he could still keep his bloodline, he was even more grateful to Gao Huan, and Gao Huan's cultivation of himself was as thick as a reborn parent recreating his grandmother.

In fact, Gao Huan thought highly of Gao Ming, and when the eunuch from the Jingshifang came to report to Gao Huan, he said that Gao Ming's kid's things didn't need to be cut off at all, because he was born a deformity, short and small, and it was hard to say whether he could make a woman pregnant, which made Gao Huan smile bitterly for a long time. But fortunately, Gao Ming was very loyal to his duties after becoming this Huangmen squire, and every time Yang Xiuzhi sent people to his streets, he could get some news about Emperor Yuan Shanjian.

Gao Huan planned to lead the army to retreat after pacifying Nanliang, but it was close to the end of the year, and he promised the soldiers that they could go home for the New Year. But Yang Xiuzhi asked him to take Xiao Daoquan back to Yecheng together. This is convenient to control Nanliang, in fact, at this time, Nanliang basically exists in name only, everyone knows it very well in their hearts, but the people of Nanliang at the lower level don't want to admit this cruel reality, they hope that the Xiao clan can continue to rule Nanliang, so for a while, Gao Huan didn't know how to deal with Xiao Daoquan.

Gao Longzhi came up with a plan for him, and all the princes and grandsons of the Xiao family moved to Luoyang He Batsheng, without these people in Jiankang, and the courtiers were basically his henchmen, so even if Xiao Daoquan had any trouble in Taicheng, he couldn't make any waves. So Gao Huan used the New Year as a reason to send troops to Luoyang to "escort" all the princes and nobles of the Xiao clan in Southern Liang to Luoyang.

It just so happened that Luoyang had experienced the siege of Yuwentai before, and many people were killed and wounded, and these people from the Xiao clan of Southern Liang were all placed in the north of the city. Gao Huan wanted Yang Kan and Chen Ba to go to Yecheng with the economy, but Chen Baxian was unwilling to go to the north as a prisoner, Gao Yue confronted him on the spot, saying that the world was already in the Eastern Wei Dynasty, where were there any prisoners, Chen Baxian cried in front of Gao Huan and said that his father and grandfather were buried here, how could he leave his homeland, Gao Longzhi laughed at him and said that the ancestral home of the Chen family was originally in the Eastern Wei Dynasty, but he later took refuge and fled to Southern Liang.

Compared with Chen Baxian's stubbornness and stubbornness, Yang Kan is very open-minded, he and his three sons are willing to follow Gao Huan to Yecheng, he also wants to see how far this man can go, it stands to reason that a man like Gao Huan who is powerful in the world should be very ambitious, but it seems that he has no idea about being the emperor at all, and he is very easy-going with the staff around him, every time he enters the city, he meets the people and is also very close to the people, dismounts and walks to talk to them, understand their life hardships, and help them solve some practical difficulties in life.

Gao Huan's popularity in the Sanwu region is no less than that of the emperor, but the common people in other parts of Southern Liang have not felt his charm, and they are always scandalized by the local bureaucrats with false rumors, saying that when he is angry, he breathes fire in his mouth and burns people to death, and also says that he likes to eat human flesh raw, what is this, in order to rule the people, even such an ignorant lie can be made up, the key is that some people believe it, and I am also drunk.

Looking at the Eastern Wei troops leaving one after another in Taicheng, escorting the families of the Xiao royal family to the north together, Gao Huan rode on the frog treasure horse and was full of spirit, and he moved one step closer to the goal in his heart. Then his legs clamped the horse's belly, and his mouth shouted: "Drive! He also followed the flow of people and walked forward slowly, behind him was the car of Yaoqin, which was guarded by Gao Zhongming, and of course, there was a small carriage for Cui'er at the back. Because she is pregnant, this is true, Gao Huan actually let her have it twice. Even he thought it was a little incredible.

Gao Huan returned to Yecheng on December 26 of that year, and there were four days left for the New Year. In order to show his outstanding achievements in Nanliang this time, he even brought Xiao Lun's entire family to Yecheng. Gao Huan pointed to the center of the hall and said to them: "I have only been fighting outside for a few months, and these impeachment chapters have not been broken, and the Manchu officials have all shared." Don't laugh at Hugh, there are also twists and turns to impeach you. ”

Yang Xiuzhi was stunned when he heard this, and he was also impeached? What did he do was to make people impeached, looking at a few officials behind him who were snickering, his face was red and white, and he wanted to ask Gao Huan on the spot why he was impeached, but Gao Huan ignored him and continued: "The upper and lower beams are crooked, the unhealthy trend begins in the court, it seems that I really want to set up rules for you, you don't have to worry about these twists and turns, I won't go to see it, but what I want to say is that those who are clever, speculative and make a fortune, and those who form gangs and gangs, I will remove them from this temple and send them all to the frontier to work as coolies. ”

At this time, Gao Huan wanted to reorganize the internal political institutions of the Eastern Wei Dynasty and reorganize the power structure, otherwise what use could he do alone, the entire court was corrupt, and the people still had no way to live, and only by pushing it back to establish a new mechanism on the ruins could replace the old mechanism. (To be continued.) )