Gao Cheng was pushed out by Gao Huan to be a villain, but he still held Cui Xian's shield in his hand.

Let him rain arrows all over the sky, all shooting at Cui Xianam, and King Xiao Gao will not move.

Knowing Gao Cheng's intentions, when Cui Jishu left the Bohai Palace, the whole person was floating.

The dissatisfaction of the old nephew Cui Xian Yueju in the examination of Cao Lang has long since disappeared.

The words of the prince are still in my ears: Zaifu is not a party, but he can't be unexpected.

Of course, he can't let Cui Jishu do things that offend people.

And Cui Xian was not the first to offend the high party honors, but the meritorious officials.

At the beginning of the establishment of the Gong Cao Cao, the purpose was to evaluate political performance in order to promote or degrade.

But with the implementation of the suspension of the year, why do you need to be so troublesome, just open the list of officials, and promote according to seniority.

It is also for this reason that the most important test Cao in the original six Cao of the Ministry of Officials is the most idle, and because of the relationship between power and power, the oil and water are enough.

After so many years of pampering, it has long been a state of superficiality.

And Cui Xian served in Cao Lang, the first order was to let the officials sort out the past achievements of the officials, and everyone who was used to the comfort zone suddenly suffered, and there were many discussions about him behind his back.

If it's just a discussion, Gao Cheng has never been afraid of people's words, but there are still people who are passive and slack off.

Seeing the subtleties, Gao Cheng was deeply worried about the lazy political atmosphere that had formed in the Yuan and Wei official places for many years due to the suspension of the annual qualification.

immediately instructed Cui Xian to pay close attention to the typical in the examination of merit, and there was no need to worry about the lack of manpower.

Gao Cheng went to Yecheng and his party, and there were countless young talents given to him by wealthy families of all sizes in Hebei, and there was no shortage of people around him who could be used.

Cui Xian was instructed by Gao Cheng to vigorously rectify the Cao style of the examination, arrested a few people and dismissed them, and there were Hebei scholars sent by Gao Cheng to fill the vacancy.

Under the danger of being replaced at will, Cao changed his lazy style in the past, and all of them were full of enthusiasm and burned their own light for Dawei.

Through the sorting out of the officials' political achievements, there is not only a basis for the promotion and promotion of officials in the future, but also a serious internal style of the meritorious examination.

Gao Cheng is very satisfied with Cui Xian's actions, but this is destined to be just an appetizer, and the real test is still in the official introduction of new official promotion standards.

Just when Gao Cheng was deliberating with his staff all day to specify new promotion criteria, instructions from Jinyang made him temporarily put aside his subordinates and turn to diplomacy.

Gao Huan instructed Gao Cheng to form a mission, send envoys to Xiao Liang and Rouran, and negotiate peace with them respectively.

He successively eradicated the forces of Yili and Liu Lisheng, who were blocked between Shanxi and Kanto, and ensured the safety of the grain route, and Gao Huan also began to start his process of unifying the north.

How can there be two imperial courts in one Wei State.

Great Wei Zhongliang He Liuhun will never allow careerists to vainly attempt to split their motherland.

And before that, it is natural to solve the worries of Liang Ren and Rouran.

In fact, in Gao Cheng's view, it is not of much use to send envoys to unite and negotiate peace.

Rouran has no faith, comes in search of profit, and goes away with profit.

For Nan Liang, Xiao Yan is too old, he is obsessed with Buddhism in the twilight, and he has long lost the enterprising spirit of his early years.

No matter what happens in the north, for him, it is best to send a small force to win the prize and reproduce the miracle of Chen Qingzhi, even if he fails, it will not hurt his muscles and bones.

In Cao Cao's words, it is the dry bones in the mound.

What's more, since witnessing Gao Huan's rise, at least Gao Cheng doesn't believe in such a thing as a covenant.

Even if the Eastern Wei and Southern Liang successfully negotiated peace, once Gao Huan was like a bamboo, Xiao Yan had the heart to prevent the Gao clan from unifying the north, and he could easily break the covenant and break the alliance.

Of course, not everyone's political credibility is on par with Gao Huan, although Gao Cheng doesn't have much hope, but he will give it a try.

Regarding the candidate to send the Southern Liang Mission, the first thing he thought of was his staff member Wen Zisheng.

Wen Zisheng has an advantage, Xiao Yan admires his literary talent very much, and even compares him to Cao Zhi and Lu Ji.

Come to think of it, with him, the mission can be much smoother in Nanliang, and the key is that Gao Cheng doesn't believe that Xiao Yan can do such a shameless thing as detaining envoys.

In fact, Gao Cheng also wanted to see the people and things in the south of the Yangtze River, but his identity was destined to either drink on the south bank of the Yangtze River, or after he was defeated, he was either imprisoned or fled before he could enter Jiankang City.

Summoning Wen Zisheng, Gao Cheng informed:

"Father intends to send a delegation south to negotiate peace with the Liang people, Lord Liang loves your literary talents, Peng Ju is willing to go to Jiankang for me?"

As soon as the words came out, Gao Cheng felt all kinds of weirdness, six hundred years later, there was a Yue Pengju, who opposed the peace negotiation and advocated against Jin.

And now Wen Zisheng is going to negotiate peace with Pengju's words, which inevitably insults the two words Pengju.

"A servant is not a man of good speech, lest he miss the great affairs of the king and the prince."

Wen Zisheng excused himself.

Gao Cheng did not allow him to refuse:

"Xiangyang piece of stone, spread all over the south of the Yangtze River, up to the high-ranking celebrities, down to the peddlers and pawns, all look forward to seeing the style of Pengju, this trip must be yours."

The so-called Xiangyang piece of stone is when Gao Cheng first saw Wen Zisheng and ordered him to write the article "Remembering Xiangyang Breaking Chen Qingzhi", carving a stele and standing stone in Xiangyang to record his cultural and martial arts.

The article was transmitted to the south of the Yangtze River, and was praised by the Jiangnan scribes, and was praised as Xiangyang Piece of Stone, Kunshan Piece of Jade.

Even if it is just a stone, because of the articles it records, it can be compared to beautiful jade.

After Gao Huan knew about this matter, he specially sent a messenger from Jinyang to order Wen Zisheng to commemorate his great achievements in Hanling with the weak defeating the strong and breaking the Erzhu clan, and also carved a stele and standing stone under Hanling Mountain, and also called it: Hanling Piece Stone.

This shameless appearance, the two fathers and sons got together.

Seeing Gao Cheng's resolute attitude, Wen Zisheng could only passively accept his order.

Gao Cheng asked again:

"Lord Liang asked about the characters in Jiangbei, how should Pengju speak?"

Wen Zisheng immediately flattered:

"There are many heroes in Jiangbei, and the first to recommend King Gao and the son."

To Wen Zisheng's surprise, Gao Cheng actually shook his head and denied:

"Father and son are two generations of heroes, and they are afraid that the Liang people are suspicious and unwilling to reconcile with me."

At this time, Wen Zisheng didn't dare to answer rashly by being clever, but asked Gao Chengdao:

"The servant is stupid, and I ask the prince to make it clear."

After Gao Cheng groaned, he said:

"You remember, whenever the Liang people ask about the Jiangbei characters, they have to praise their father, and when others ask about Cheng, you need to look a little contemptuous, but you can't answer.

"During this period, he pretended to be drunk and whispered to others: 'Xianbei child, relying on his father to be in a high position, can only make a little meritorious service with the assistance of a wise man.

"'Leading the army to conquer, military affairs are presided over by Murong Shaozong, the place is stabilized, and the political affairs are handled by the staff, but Gao Zihui steals it for his own credit.

"'His people are meritorious and arrogant, arrogant and rude, rude but virtuous, rewarded at will, and have many fortunate ministers on his side.'

"'For example, Duan Shao, Hu Luguang and other generations, they are all wine bags and rice bags, to flatter people, but they have to lead the army.'

"'I only advised him to be a virtuous minister and a distant villain, but he was disgusted by him, and became more and more estranged, and was ordered to be a messenger, and sent him to Jiangnan from afar, only hating mishearing and misbelief, and voting for non-people.'" ”

Hearing this, Wen Zisheng trembled, and bowed down and said:

"How dare a servant slander the son of the world like this, and ask the son of the world to think twice, the servant would rather die than insult the reputation of the son."

Gao Cheng raised Wen Zisheng and said with a smile:

"Since ancient times, when envoys go to enemy countries, they must preach the power of the monarch, Pengju praises the father, and then secretly belittles Yu Cheng, and the Liang people will inevitably despise me."

In the past, he was too dazzling, and he didn't know if it was too late to pretend to be a pig and eat a tiger now.

But whether Gao Huan's heir is a hero or a pus, for the Southern Liang monarchs, there is a big difference.

If he is a hero, Xiao Yan himself is old, so he must guard against the north and the south in the future.

If it is a pustule, then everyone sings and dances together, and happiness is worse than rotten.

Zhang Shiqi, who joined the army in the secretary room who was accompanying him, also truthfully recorded Gao Cheng's behavior for the country regardless of his reputation.

This time it was really well documented.

Wen Zisheng took the order and retreated, since the chief envoy to Nanliang had decided, the rest of the personnel would casually pick some people from Honglu Temple and Kecao.

Gao Cheng also turned to find the mastermind who made Rouran.

Unlike Nan Liang, Gao Cheng didn't dare to use his staff as the main envoy this time, Nan Liang wanted face, it didn't mean that Hu Ren wanted it.

If the matter of detaining the envoy really happened, Su Wu's integrity was certainly worthy of admiration, but Gao Cheng didn't want his cronies to experience the suffering that Su Wu had suffered, and of course, they couldn't stand it.

Just when Gao Cheng was struggling with the candidate, Li Yuanzhong recommended Anle Wang Yuanang as the main envoy and sent Rouran.

When Yuan Ang heard the news, he was very frightened, because his wife Li Zuyi was a descendant of the Li family of Zhao County, so he took his wife to visit Li Yuanzhong and wanted to ask the reason.

Li Yuanzhong said with a smile:

"Rouran tastes as a minister of the Great Wei, and has always surrendered to this dynasty, so what is the king afraid of going north."

After some reassurance, careful analysis that this trip is just a sightseeing, and it can be reused when it comes back, Yuan Ang gladly accepted.

It doesn't matter to him whether he is heavy or not, so that he can become a member of the Gao clan and escape the fate of the clan being slaughtered in the future is the driving force for him to go north.

Gao Cheng heard that Yuan Ang was willing to go, and met him in person.

Although he is not optimistic about the alliance with Rouran, he can't play with it.

In order to attract Gao Cheng's attention, Yuan Ang had already prepared, behaved appropriately in front of him, and spoke in a measured manner.

Gao Cheng saw that the identity of King Yuan Angzong was also valuable enough, so he appointed him as the main envoy, Wen Zisheng had a humble position, but he could accept heavy responsibilities, of course, because of his literary name.

As for the reason why Gao Cheng did not have hope for the alliance with Rouran, it was naturally that he understood the style of Rouran Khan Anapu: interests first, and faith and righteousness were completely disregarded.

Now that the east is strong and the west is weak, even if Anapu asks people to reply that he wants to help Kanto attack the west, Gao Cheng will not believe it with a toe.

Rouran and the Northern Wei Dynasty can be regarded as a feud, for the monarch of the Northern Wei Dynasty, the south can negotiate peace, and Rouran cannot help but fight.

After successive monarchs, especially Emperor Taiwu Tuoba Tao's personal conquest and attack, Rouran turned from prosperity to decline.

In the first year of Zhengguang (520), civil strife broke out in Rouran, the Khan Chou slave was killed by his mother and ministers, and his younger brother Anapu succeeded to the throne of Khan.

The so-called worm is a contemptuous name given by the Wei people to the Rouran people, describing them as brainless worms.

Soon after Shefa obtained the throne of Khan, in the second year of Zhengguang, he was defeated by his brother Brahmin and died at the hands of his subordinates.

In July of the same year, the new khan brahmin was attacked by the Gaoche people, and he led ten tribes to Liangzhou in embarrassment, surrendered to the Northern Wei Dynasty, and canonized the king of Xihai County.

At this point, Rouran was completely reduced to a vassal of the Northern Wei Dynasty.

In order to balance the rising Gaoche people, the Northern Wei Dynasty decided to vigorously support the century-old enemy Rouran, and sent Anapu to the north to lead the Rouran tribes, giving various weapons, clothing, horses, camels, cattle, sheep and 200,000 stone corn.

It's also a bloody investment.

In the third year of Zhengguang, the Brahmin defected, was captured by the Northern Wei army, and sent to Luoyang, and at the same time gave Anapu 10,000 stone seeds.

Originally, everything was well planned, but in the fourth year of Zhengguang, there was a great drought in northern Xinjiang, and Anapu led his people south to beg for food from his generous old father of the Northern Wei Dynasty.

The Northern Wei Dynasty also responded, sending envoys to provide disaster relief, and then as more and more Rouran tribesmen gathered between the six towns, eventually reaching 300,000, Anapu decided to take it from his father's pocket in the Northern Wei Dynasty and plundered the northern frontier on a large scale.

The old Shangshu Li Chong led his troops north at the age of seventy, expelling or sending Anapu out of the country.

It was also in this year that Xianbei, who suffered from enslavement and oppression, was plundered by the Rouran people, and at the same time saw the reality of the Northern Wei Dynasty, Xianbei of the Six Towns could no longer suppress his anger, and the Six Towns Uprising broke out.

The Northern Wei Dynasty was unable to suppress it, and ordered the Rouran Khan Anapu to lead his troops to quell the rebellion.

Anapu led 100,000 people to suppress the Six Towns Uprising, and by the way, he plundered the northern Xinjiang again, and burned down the six towns of Woye Town, Huaishuo Town, Wuchuan Town, Fuming Town, Rouxuan Town, and Huaihuang Town, which the Northern Wei Dynasty used to defend Rouran.

This is also the reason why the Northern Wei Dynasty had to move the people of the six towns to Hebei for food.

Not only do people have bad luck, but they also stuff their teeth when they drink cold water, and the same is true for a country.

As soon as the people of the six towns arrived in Hebei, Hebei suffered from floods and droughts, which led to the Hebei uprising in the six towns.

The Northern Wei Dynasty was able to fall to the end of being torn apart today, and the great filial son Anapu made great contributions.

Speaking of Rouran, through two raids on the northern frontier, especially the second time, Rouran returned a large wave of blood, and Gaoche was also defeated by Rouran due to civil strife, and then went into decline.

The reunification of the generous old father could not be what the great filial son Anapu hoped to see.

Gao Cheng understood this, and just sent a sect king to the north to do his best.

Gao Huan also knew this, so he only thought about it in case of luck, give it a try, and there was not much loss if it didn't work.

Yu Wentai, who is in Chang'an, is also aware of this, unlike the perfunctory attitude of the Gao family's father and son, he is actively planning to win over Rouran as a helper.

For this reason, he did not hesitate to let his henchmen go north.

Yu Jin followed Erzhu Tianguang to the east, defeated in Hanling, although Erzhu Tianguang died, he escaped into Guanzhong by luck, Yuwentai served as the assassin of Xiazhou, and Ren Yujin was the governor of Xia.

This is much better than Gao Cheng not daring to take risks with his cronies, and of course it is also related to the fact that the two of them know Anapu's attitude.

Luoyang City is one south and one north, and the two missions go in opposite directions.

Wen Zisheng is naturally proud of the spring breeze, and he goes to Jiangnan to listen to the wind and rain.

Yuan Ang also looked relaxed, and he deliberately sent his wife back to his mother's house in Hebei to solve his worries.

At the same time, Chang'an also had an embassy heading north.

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Today's change.,The first subject to be tested tomorrow is in the morning.,Go to bed early at night.,The first change you owe is still the previous 3,000 words.,Make up for it after the exam on the 27th.。

There is a lot of space in this chapter to introduce Rouran, because Rouran is about to appear, relative to the Southern Liang, in history, Rouran is the-stirring stick between the Eastern and Western Wei, considering that many readers do not understand the Northern and Southern Dynasties, so I made a certain background introduction, I really want water, I can't write about the separation of the Eastern and Western Wei in 300,000 words.

In September, while ensuring quality, the update will be 10,000.

Thanks to book friend Deng Binyi for his reward.