Marrying a wife is different from taking a concubine, and the marriage between Gao Cheng and Princess Worm needs to wait for Gao Huan to return to Luoyang from Hebei and preside over it in person.

Gao Cheng placed the Rouran delegation behind the Yanran Pavilion, and except for occasional visits, he devoted himself to government affairs.

At this time, the autumn harvest was still far away, but Gao Cheng had already begun to prepare for the western expedition.

He first swapped the Shaanzhou Thorn Shi Gao Ji style with the Guangzhou Thorn Shi Gao Shen.

Gao Shen sat in Hengnong, and the Tongguan guarded Dugu Yongye, and then Gao Ji guarded the Nanyang Basin to prevent Jingzhou from assassinating Hou Jing against the water.

Even if Gao Cheng clearly knew that Gao Huan would not die, Hou Jing would not dare to rebel, but he would be prepared, if Hou Jing really rebelled, let go of the road and go north with Jiangling General Chen Qingyi, Gao Jishi would at least be more trustworthy than his second brother Gao Shen in terms of ability and loyalty.

Of course, this does not mean that Gao Shen will rebel, after all, although Gao Huan still hates Gao Shen in this life, Gao Cheng did not flirt with his wife.

Secondly, Gao Cheng sent a messenger to Liaoxi and ordered the salt soldiers to temporarily go south.

Zhang Liang seems to have achieved quite a lot of results outside the plug, and he can actually make Anapu angry, which really made Gao Cheng unexpected.

But just like treating the family gatekeeper, he didn't want to overstimulate his father-in-law at this stage, so he had an order to transfer 20,000 salt soldiers to the south.

Gao Cheng planned to station them in Luoyang, mainly to prevent Hou Jingsheng from being in turmoil and to support Gao Jishi.

In the end, Gao Cheng sent Wen Zisheng as an envoy to Jiankang.

In any case, I have to give it a try to see if I can convince Nanliang to watch from the wall, it is very difficult, but the cost of trial and error is also low, it is nothing more than a hard time to run in vain.

With his literary brilliance, Xiao Yan, who is not a barbarian, will never detain the envoy, and it is even more impossible to kill the envoy.

When the news of Gao Jishi's replacement with Gao Shen reached Xiangyang, Hou Jing frowned.

made such an arrangement, and anyone with a discerning eye knew that Gao Cheng was wary of him, which also made Hou Jing regret that his attitude towards Gao Cheng was too arrogant.

"I am guarding southern Xinjiang, but I am suspicious of the general, what should I do for today's plan?"

Hou Jing summoned the mastermind Wang Wei and asked.

Wang Wei pondered for a moment and replied:

"The king seems to have the intention of the western expedition, the previous general asked for orders to accompany the army, not allowed, and then suffered a big defeat, the servant thought that for this expedition, the general must accompany him, with a high season style town in Guangzhou, nothing more than to have little contact with the envoy, not very close, not deliberately guarded, otherwise how to respect the envoy as the lord of the three jings."

Hou Jing nodded when he heard this, and also felt that what Wang Wei said was reasonable, they didn't know that in Gao Cheng's previous plan, he only wanted to merge Southern Jingzhou and Eastern Jingzhou, which was a modification made by Gao Huan when he asked Gao Huan for instructions.

But in his heart, Hou Jing really didn't think about rebelling for the time being, the two Wei and Southern Liang, among the three kingdoms, the Eastern Wei was the most powerful, and most of the magnates were their own township party.

If he is a Huaishuo man, if he is forced to do so, how can he go to Jiangnan.

Wang Wei returned home, dismissed a group of slaves, and took out a secret letter from the secret folder, looking at the ugly handwriting, it was undoubtedly Gao Cheng's handwriting.

Gao Cheng said in the letter that as long as Wang Wei appeased Hou Jing and did not make him feel twice, he promised to teach him the history of Jianzhou.

Wang Wei did not resist this temptation, he knew that three years earlier, that is, in 537, Yuwentai failed to take advantage of the victory to go east, and the situation was already clear, and the people of Kansai were scarce, and it was difficult to do anything.

Gao Cheng made no secret of his vigilance against Hou Jing in the letter, once Gao Huan passed away and Gao Cheng took power, Hou Jing had no way out except to rebel or be idle.

Wang Wei is known for his resourcefulness, as a smart man, he received an olive branch from Gao Cheng and took it without hesitation.

The reason why he followed Hou Jing to the dark in the original time and space, and finally shined in the rebellion of Hou Jing in Southern Liang, was just that Hou Jing's staff on his body was too strong, and he was worried about being liquidated.

When Gao Ji passed through Luoyang, met Gao Cheng, had a drink, and then went south to Luyang, and officially took office as the assassin of Guangzhou.

After arriving at the place in the high season, he rarely drank alcohol, but concentrated on rectifying the city defense.

Unlike in the past, due to the implementation of exemption money in the Eastern Wei Dynasty, it could not arbitrarily show off and conscription, so it had to take exemption money from the treasury and recruit people.

The system of exempt money has been implemented for a long time, and it has become more and more supported by the people.

In the past, some local government showdowns did not distinguish between time, if the agricultural slack time was fine, it would be over if you were a little tired.

But if you catch up with the farming, it will really make the people miserable.

After the introduction of the exemption money, the local government no longer had free labor, and had to use the salary to recruit workers.

Naturally, the wages of farming are different from those in farming, after all, this is recruitment, not conscription.

In the face of the high wages during the busy agricultural period, many local governments had to concentrate the construction of projects in the spare time in order to save expenses.

The high-season repair of Luyang's city defense was chosen in the summer, and he was worried about the heat of the summer, so he also ordered a large amount of tea to be made and sent to the people.

Following Gao Cheng for nearly ten years, Gao Jishi was more or less influenced by him, and no longer regarded the people at the bottom as livestock.

On May 18 of the ninth year of Taichang (540), it was the height of summer.

At noon, even Liaoxi could feel the rolling heatwave.

Zhang Liang finally received Gao Cheng's order to gather all the soldiers in Dragon City and prepare to go south.

"Bird has trained an elite army for the general."

Han Xian looked at the 20,000 salt soldiers under the stage, and said with a smile to Zhang Liang.

"Fuxian praised it falsely, most of the sergeants were trained by Lou Jizhou, how dare Liang take credit."

Zhang Liang said with a smile.

He knew the purpose of Han Xian's visit, and Gao Cheng formed 20,000 salt soldiers in the name of taking care of the salt works.

Obviously, the salt field was sent to Liaoxi to garrison in You, Cang, Hebei, and Qing Prefectures, and it could not be completed no matter what.

So Gao Huan sent Han Xian to take a look, but he didn't mean to blame, he just wanted to see what kind of character Gao Cheng's newly formed descendants were.

Han Xian and Zhang Liang are the same, both from Erzhu's old department, the difference is that Zhang Liang did not belong to the Gao family until Erzhu Zhaoqiu died.

And Han Xian had been eye-to-eye with Gao Huan before the uprising, and there was an important person who matched them, and that person was Cai Jun, who followed Gao Huan to plot against Du Luo Zhou and Ge Rong, and defected to Er Zhurong with him in a panic.

Han Xian and Cai Jun are both from Shimen County, Guangning County (Shouyang, Shanxi), in fact, when Gao Huan was appointed as the assassin of Jinzhou, most of the heroes under his command had three origins except for the relatives and township party.

One of them is naturally Liu Gui's substitution.

The second is Dou Tai's fellow townsman in Tai'an County.

The third is Cai Jun's fellow villager in Quang Ninh County.

At the time of the demise of the Erzhu clan, Han Xian, who had already secretly communicated with Gao Huan, came to surrender according to Jianzhou.

Therefore, as a member of the Guangning faction, even if he took refuge late, he was still his own person in Gao Huan's heart.