After Gao Huan was ill, he consciously began to transfer power to Gao Cheng, and Gao Cheng's friendship with the civil and military forces in Jinyang was a concrete manifestation of this behavior.

After Duan Rong's death, Gao Huan returned to Jinyang, and immediately began to send Xungui's children to Luoyang, nominally to assist Gao Cheng, but his actual intention was to appease his cronies:

You don't have to worry that after my death, the relationship between the two families will fade away, and the friendship between our older generation will be maintained by our children and grandchildren. ’

Gao Cheng personally greeted the sons of Jinyang Xungui outside the Jianchun Gate, and the person who was the leader was his sister-in-law Liu Honghui.

There are a total of four sisters married by King Gao, two concubines and two concubines, the fourteen-year-old third sister Gao Zheng is called by Gao Huan, and she is married to Liu Honghui, the sister-in-law of Liu Gui of the Huns, and the fourth sister is proposed by Gao Cheng to marry Gao Deshu, the son of Gao Long, the left servant of Shangshu.

Liu Gui is the first contributor to the rise of the Gao family, and it was he who recommended Er Zhurong twice in a row to make Gao Huan's career.

When Gao Huan was suspicious, it was Liu Gui who used his identity as a Xiurong person to speak well for him in front of Er Zhurong and Er Zhuzhao, so that he did not end up idlely in Luoyang like He Batsheng.

Gao's generals such as Peng Le, Pan Le, Xue Guyan and others, Liu Gui was entrusted by Gao Huan, who was the assassin of Jinzhou at the time, to operate on his behalf and transfer to Jinzhou.

After Er Zhurong's death, Liu Gui, as a confidant of the Er Zhu clan, played a role in the process of Gao Huandong's Jianyi, and there is no need to repeat it.

Gao Cheng was very cordial to Liu Honghui and his sister Gao Zheng who went south with him, but in fact he didn't have much contact with this sister, let alone how much affection he had.

Introduced by Liu Honghui, the sons and daughters of the honorable people greeted Gao Cheng one by one, and when Gao Cheng heard the name Wei Xingqing, his expression was ordinary and did not change.

Wei Xingqing is a native of Tai'an Dina, a fellow villager with Dou Tai and others, only in his twenties, with a slightly dark complexion, lap legs, and calluses on his palms.

He came from Jiangmen, his grandfather Wei Xian, once served as the general of Zhenyuan in the Northern Wei Dynasty, the Taishou of the county, and his father Wei Chang ordered to follow Gao Huan in Xindu Jianyi, and now he is ordered to supervise the military administration of Liping and Yingerzhou, and govern the Liaodong region.

Gao Cheng is interested in Wei Xingqing, not just for the authority of his father Wei Changsheng.

As a general in the army, Gao Jishi has his own subordinates in the Gyeonggi army, but he is also the governor of Gao Cheng's cronies, and he often needs to accompany him, and after a long time, he will always be negligent.

In this regard, Gao Cheng can't do anything, his cronies are related to his own life and safety, and his candidates must be cautious.

Now that Wei Xingqing has arrived, this problem has finally been solved for Gao Cheng.

When Wang Sizheng stepped down from the post of Governor of his cronies, Gao Cheng went to Jinyang to seek talents, and the first goal was Wei Xingqing, the second son of the captain, but because of the captain's order to supervise Liping and Yingerzhou, and guard the northeast, in order to prevent Gao Huan from becoming suspicious, he only asked for Wang Shiliang and Lonely Yongye.

The reason why Wei Xingqing was able to win Gao Cheng's favor was also his performance in the Battle of Bishan in history.

During the battle of Bishan, He Batsheng led the army to Gao Huan's army formation, Gao Huan was defeated, abandoned the army and fled, behind him He Batsheng chased closer and closer, and Gao Huan only rode seven people on his side.

When life and death were at stake, his cronies were all governor Xingqing and asked for a break.

Gao Huan promised to award his son with the history of Huaizhou Thorn, but Wei Xingqing asked Gao Huan to award his brother Wei Xingjing on the grounds that his son was young.

After Gao Huan escaped, Wei Xingqing fought with the pursuers alone, shot a hundred arrows from his waist, and died in battle, but it was his delay that made Gao Huan finally rescued by his nephew Duan Shao, son-in-law Liu Honghui and others.

Gao Cheng loved the loyalty and courage of Wei Xingqing's one-sided army, of course, the commander abandoned the army and left, and the Eastern Wei Dynasty was able to win a great victory in Pishan, capturing 400 generals under the Western Wei Governor and capturing more than 60,000 people, which is outrageous.

What's even more outrageous is that the Western Wei Dynasty suffered this defeat and had to absorb Han people into the army on a large scale, and in terms of military composition, it completed the transformation from Xianbei people to Han people, thus promoting the Sinicization process of Western Wei.

Outside the Jianchun Gate, Gao Chengqiang pressed his affection for Wei Xingqing, and he shook hands with every noble son, encouraging them with the merits of his father.

Everyone was also grateful to Gao Cheng for the courtesy of personally going out of the city to greet him.

For them, the interests of the family are deeply tied to the Gao family, and there is no lack of loyalty to the Gao family, and Gao Cheng's attitude has strengthened their determination to serve the Gao family.

In September, autumn is strong.

Under the sun, in the fields, the peasants were shirtless, sweat was flowing down their backs, and their faces were full of the joy of the harvest after being tired.

Yanzhou is another bumper year, but the assassin Strei Jishu can't be idle, and collecting taxes and organizing the Yanzhou state test at the end of the month are top priorities.

After passing the state examination, you can obtain the status of a lifter, devote yourself to the government as an official, and eat public meals, so Gao Cheng attaches much more importance to the state examination than the county examination.

The prefectural test is self-produced by the local prefectural order, but the state test is uniformly issued by the Takasumi shogunate.

The state test questions have been sent to Dongyang City, the Qingzhou Governance Office, and there are ten Gao Cheng's personal guards to take care of each other and monitor each other.

In the eighty states of Kanto, Gao Cheng sent a total of 800 guards to each state.

However, the review was still handed over to the state assassins, such as Gao Aocao and other military attachés who guarded the local border assassins, and they were their assistants.

After all, there are many unsatisfactory places in the creation of the imperial examination, which need to be slowly improved by Gao Cheng in the future.

Since September of the fourth year of Taichang (535), Gao Cheng used Hou Yuan, then the assassin of Qingzhou, to easily trap Fan Zihu of Yanzhou and Daye of Southern Qingzhou, Cui Jishu has been serving as Yanzhou assassin for three years.

The history of Yizhou Assassin cannot be said to be powerless, but after all, it is far from the center of power, looking at the newcomers emerging one after another around Gao Cheng, it is difficult for Cui Jishu not to have a sense of crisis.

The guards not only sent the test papers, but also brought Gao Cheng's private message to Cui Jishu.

After serving for three years, after the state test ended, Cui Jishu will be recalled to Luoyang to serve as one of the six departments of Shangshu Province.

In the letter, Gao Cheng told him to stand on the last shift in Yanzhou and not to be negligent.

One radish and one pit, there are only three chief officials in the three provinces, how can Cui Jishu, who is aiming for Zaifu, want to stay in the place for a long time.

And Gao Cheng's promise of the book of the household department also made Cui Jishu moved.

The six departments of Shangshu Province are officials, households, rites, criminals, workers, and soldiers, with the officials being the most noble, but in terms of importance, the household department is the first of the six departments.

The household department is in charge of the land, household registration, money and grain administration, and tribute difference in the Kanto region, and its functions and powers are equivalent to the combination of the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Civil Affairs.

In the case that Gao Cheng himself is also the secretary of the ministry, the secretary of the household department is the most powerful court official that Cui Jishu can obtain.

This also made Cui Jishu burst out with infinite motivation when dealing with government affairs.

After Cui Jishu returned to Luo, Gao Cheng instructed the person who succeeded him as the assassin of Yanzhou, who was one of his sisters-in-law, Liu Gui's son-in-law Liu Honghui.

10,000 arrangement: 3,000 before 9 p.m., 3,000 before 12 p.m., 2,000 each at 2 a.m. and 4 a.m., I'll have dinner first.

(End of chapter)