Chapter 248: Southern Patrol Frontier Defense

Xing Shao left Luoyang and returned home.

Zeng Gui is the head of the general's mansion, according to the convention, the release is also the beginning of the history of assassination, but in the end it ended up like this, which is enough to warn the masses: the word loyalty, the focus is not only on the word loyalty, but also on sincerity.

Luoyang people are very forgetful, and no one cares about a lost person in the officialdom anymore, but they are very curious about Cui Zhen.

They even thought that Gao Cheng would deliberately release the water to complete a beautiful conversation about saving his father in Beijing.

You see, it is clearly in vain for the law of the country, lenient for criminals, and falls into their eyes, but the focus is on filial piety to save the father, which can also be called a beautiful talk.

This is the difference between ancient and modern, everything is related to filial piety, and most of them can be blurred about the primary and secondary issues.

Since the beginning of winter, the climate has become colder and colder, Gao Huan was tormented by a head disease in Jinyang, Gao Cheng learned the news, and began to pay attention to his behavior, and even stopped playing games with Er Zhu Ying'e.

It is too filial to have a father lingering on the sickbed and a son singing and feasting.

Since Gao Cheng became a father, he has become more and more eager to set up a filial son, not only for Gao Huan, but also for his children.

There is an endless stream of messengers between Luoyang and Jinyang, all of whom send Xiao Gaowang's thoughts and care for his father.

And this winter, Yuwentai once again raised troops to the north to attack Yubi.

After all, as long as the jade bi is still in the hands of the Gao family, it can be used as a foundation in the spring of the next year, and troops can be sent to attack and disturb, and the entire east of Luoshui and north of Weishui will be a wasteland.

However, Yubi has been continuously strengthened in the past year, the city is strong, the garrison and grain and grass are sufficient, and there is a tower defense master Wang Sizheng in charge, Yuwentai attacked for several days without results, and the soldiers were miserable, so they had to lead the army to retreat again.

In the past two years, the Eastern Wei Dynasty allowed Yuwentai to come and go freely, and it was really difficult for the main force of Jinyang to look west.

The dispatch of troops from Chang'an is not the same as that of Jinyang.

In 536, Kansai was hit by a great drought, but the natural disasters were relentless, and it did not stop at the border between the Eastern and Western Wei.

It was also in this year that the prefectures of Hedong, Shi, Fen, Jian, Jin, Jiang, Qin and other prefectures in the east of the Eastern Wei River suffered from drought, and the drought lasted for a whole year.

If it weren't for Gao Huan and Gao Cheng's father and son to call Henan and Hebei for grain relief, the situation in Hedong would not be much better than that in Guanzhong.

The drought in Hedong was only alleviated in the summer of 537, but the cultivation was already mistaken.

Since the autumn harvest in 536, until this year, that is, the autumn harvest in 538, Gao Cheng has fully supplied the grain of Hedong for two years, and there was a fiasco of Gao Huan leading an army of 200,000 to the west.

This is also the reason why after the defeat of the Western Expedition in 537, the Eastern Wei had to recuperate.

Since the coinage was returned to the central government, and after the looting of Buddhism and Taoism, the Eastern Wei government was not short of money.

But the problem is that money cannot directly produce grain, and with the relationship between the Eastern Wei Dynasty and neighboring countries, money cannot buy grain.

In the past two years, in order to help Hedong, the official warehouse storage has been exhausted, but Gao Cheng still has not started to deal with the private grain stockpile, he is worried that the price of grain will be difficult to suppress.

Gao Huan had planned to go west again, in addition to raising taxes, he was fighting the idea of forcibly requisitioning private grain storage, but he was dissuaded by Gao Cheng.

King Xiao Gao had coins in his hands, but there was no rice grain, so he reformed the form of distribution of military salaries and official salaries, changing the past in the form of rice grain and other forms to direct distribution of coins.

Fortunately, the general's five-baht money is of sufficient quality and quantity, and the people's recognition is high, otherwise it really can't appease the soldiers and officials.

However, a large number of coins circulated among the people, which inevitably caused serious inflation and depreciation.

This is also one of the reasons why Gao Cheng carried out fiscal and tax reforms, changing the original cloth as a household adjustment to paying the poll tax with money, in order to collect the excess coins to the central government, stabilize prices, and at the same time reduce the burden on the people in the case of currency depreciation.

After the autumn harvest this year, Hedong no longer needs to rely on the supply of Henan and Hebei, and the Eastern Wei Dynasty can finally operate normally.

But because Gao Huan had a head attack in winter, he had no intention of looking west.

In 538, Gao Cheng did not make much action, he even went to Jinyang only once at the beginning of the year, and spent the rest of the year in Luoyang, without drastic reforms.

Last year, there were many years of accumulated support, and before this year's autumn harvest, it was a real hard time, but fortunately, all difficulties were solved with the autumn harvest in Hedong.

This year, Gao Huan's concubine Youniang gave birth to a son, that is, the tenth son, Gao Huan named him Gao Xiang, and the historical Gao Lao Shi, but because his biological mother Xiao Erzhu entered Gao Cheng's house, he no longer existed.

On the New Year's Day of the eighth year of Taichang (539), as scheduled, Gao Cheng asked for the honor of his younger brothers, and Yuan Shanjian issued an edict to canonize Gao Huan's seven-year-old third son Gao Jun as the Duke of Yong'an County, the fourth son of the seven-year-old Gao Yan as the Duke of Pingyang County, the fifth son of the six-year-old Gao Xun as the Duke of Changle County, the sixth son of the four-year-old Gao Yan as the Duke of Changshan County, the seventh son of the four-year-old Gao Jian Pingyuan County, the eighth-year-old eighth son Gao Shu as the Duke of Zhangwu County, and the ninth son Gao Zhan, who will be two years old, as the Duke of Changguang County.

In addition, when he was sent to Luoyang many years ago, Gao Yang, who was awarded the prince of Taiyuan County, only Gao Cheng and the newborn Gao Xiang of the Gao family have not yet received the title.

That night, the Bohai Royal Mansion set up a banquet, and Gao Cheng feasted the guests to celebrate the enthronement of the younger brothers.

A few days later, Gao Huan sent a messenger ordering him to inspect the Liang-Wei border, and Gao Huan himself would return to Yecheng, Hebei Province to live temporarily.

On the tenth day of the first month, everything was ready, Gao Cheng was still led by the general Wang Shiliang of the guard, and Zhu Hunyuan of Sizhou Muke led the troops to garrison the Gyeonggi region, and Gao Longzhi and Sun Teng, the left servant of Shangshu, presided over Shangshu Province, and Zhongshu Province was handed over to Sima Ziru, the new Zhongshu Ling.

In order to transfer his father-in-law Lu Daoqian out of Youzhou, Gao Cheng and Gao Huan discussed and decided to exchange for the post of Assassin of Bingzhou, and Sima Ziru, the former Assassin of Bingzhou, was sent to Luoyang after Duan Rong's death of illness to succeed him as Zhongshu Ling and assist Gao Cheng, the supervisor of Zhongshu, in handling affairs.

After Gao Cheng arranged all the affairs in Luoyang, he took his family and a group of brothers, escorted by the Jinggi army and personal guards stationed in Luoyang, and set off for the south.

He didn't think about leaving Gao Yang in Luoyang as a test to see if the other party would make friends with the minister privately.

Because this approach is meaningless at all, no matter how Gao Yang behaves, Gao Cheng will not rest assured, so why bother to give Gao Yang a chance to make a mistake.

Now that Gao Yang is getting older, Gao Cheng provides him with a rich material life, but also strictly disciplines him.

After the showdown between the two brothers in Jinyang last year, Gao Yang no longer pretended to be stupid, but he still left a cautious and did not want to let Gao Cheng have a chance to make trouble.

The two are insulated from their brothers, friends, and brothers, but they can also get along well.

For the rest of the brothers, Gao Cheng was also very attentive, he specially hired famous teachers and asked them to teach in the East Hall of the Bohai Palace, teaching the younger brothers.

There are 4000 more, I will think about it, and everyone will look at it in the morning.

(End of chapter)