Gao Cheng's expression was calm, and he didn't show any jealousy, he was not intolerant.

The so-called quick knife to cut through the mess is just a young man's cleverness, and how can he keep up with his achievements over the years.

Gao Huan knew this, and after thinking about it for a while, he only rewarded Gao Yang silk cloth without granting him any position.

However, Gao Yang didn't hope to be used because of this, he knew too well the weight of himself and his eldest brother in his father's heart, and the reason why he showed wisdom could only be said to be because of a despised son, hoping that his father could understand that he was not mediocre, that's all.

As for whether it will arouse Gao Cheng's suspicion, he pretended to be stupid and stupid a few years ago, but he was still broken by the good big brother, Gao Cheng made it clear to him back then, his suspicion has nothing to do with Gao Yang's ability, but because of his identity as the second son.

Gao Yang is not afraid of Gao Cheng, he has seen his brother's personality clearly over the years, this person's suspicion is a little heavier, but he has a good reputation, and he will not do fratricidal things until he has no way to retreat.

As for the credit to Gao Cheng, he said that he taught him well, as a show of goodwill, but it was just for his son Gao Yin, he didn't want Gao Yin and himself to be raised as pigs in the future, so he hoped to ease the relationship with Gao Cheng.

The sons of the Gao family retired one after another, Gao Yang deliberately slowed down, waited for Gao Cheng to come out, leaned over and whispered to him about his worries about Gao Yin's future.

Gao Cheng stared at Gao Yang for a long time, and suddenly smiled:

"You did a good job, I didn't say that you blamed me today, but truthfully told me what you thought, you can rest assured, Yin'er is my nephew, how can I treat him badly, in the future, you can often let Yin'er go to the Bohai Palace."

After Gao Huan's death, Gao Yang, who was the most legal threat to his status, was promoted to the high position of Shangshuling, Zhongshu Supervisor, and Gyeonggi Metropolitan Governor, and became a veritable second-in-command of the Eastern Wei Dynasty.

As long as Gao Yang can't take the position, Gao Yin is not a threat, and Gao Cheng doesn't mind showing his uncle's warmth appropriately.

After Gao Yang heard this, he breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, his eldest brother was mysterious and unpredictable, but he was still a trustworthy person in the end, so the 15-year-old Gao Yang sincerely bowed to Gao Cheng for the first time in his life before leaving the Bohai Palace.

Under Gao Cheng's arrangement, he now lives in Taiyuan Mansion, which is on the same street as the palace, but even if it is close to Chi Qi, without Gao Cheng's permission, Gao Yang can't even enter the door of his former home.

Gao Cheng has no other intentions, just to prevent a fire in the backyard, after all, Gao Yang is also a lover of father, brother, wife and concubine.

The time entered June, and Gao Cheng, who had been busy with Jinyang Wenwu and deepened his feelings, finally ushered in his marriage.

On the third day of the sixth month of the ninth year of Taichang (540), it was appropriate to marry, and under the auspices of Gao Huan, Gao Cheng welcomed back the worm princess Yu Jiulu from the Yanran Pavilion.

The two were married under the witness of a group of relatives, friends, high-ranking officials and dignitaries.

However, Yu Jiulu was only ten years old, and Gao Cheng was worried that he would get drunk one day and do bestial things, and after marriage, he would arrange for Princess Worm to continue to live in Yanran Pavilion, which was also agreed by his brother-in-law Bald Tujia.

No matter how anxious Bald Tujia is to return to Rouran, she will not let her ten-year-old niece risk giving birth, which is no different from sending her to death.

The Bohai Palace, full of friends, pushing cups and changing lamps is staggered.

Gao Cheng and Jinyang cavalry Cao and foreign soldier Cao Ercao officials frequently drank and talked happily.

Gao Cheng hopes to win over these wingmen and take over the military power of Jinyang more smoothly in the future, such as Zhang Qi, Xu Yuan and others, why don't they want to have a close relationship with Gao Cheng, in order to continue to be used by Gao Cheng in the future.

Xiao Gao Wang did have the idea of continuing to reuse Xu Yuan, Zhang Qi, Bai Jian and others, one of which was naturally that they were loyal to Gao, even if it was Tang Yong, who was not loved by Gao Cheng, he also did his best for Gao and served for a lifetime, and later when the Northern Qi Dynasty was dying, he participated in supporting Gao Cheng's fifth son Gao Yanzong to claim the emperor in Jinyang, Jinyang was broken by the Zhou army, and then he surrendered to the Northern Zhou Dynasty, and there was no flattery in the city.

And Zhao Qi even after the fall of Jinyang and Yecheng one after another, he still supported Gao Shaoyi in western Liaoning to continue the national ancestry.

Of course, there is no loyalty for no reason in the world, which is also related to Gao's kindness to these people, take Tang Yong as an example, he not only received the title of King of Jinchang County, after Gao Zhan succeeded to the throne, this Gao Yang wife and concubine lover, but also Gao Yang's concubine Duan Zhaoyi, that is, Duan Shao's sister, gave him as a wife.

His favorite minister married his own widow, and I don't know how Gao Yangquan would feel.

Running in both directions can always make the relationship between each other warm up quickly, and after a few cups, Gao Cheng has already called Xu Yuan, Zhao Qi, Bai Jian, Tang Yong and others brothers.

There can be no newcomers and forget the old, this wedding banquet Gao Cheng is really drunk.

When he woke up the next day, he heard that he drank his head last night, hugged Gao Huan's neck to worship, and the key Gao Huan was also drunk, if he hadn't been dragged by Chen Yuankang, the father and son might really want to burn yellow paper and burn incense to worship.

Gao Cheng was afraid of this, not because he messed up the fathers and sons, but because he took a turn outside the ghost gate.

To be a brother to He Liuhun, who is not afraid.

Gao Huan lived in Luoyang for more than half a month, the Bohai Mansion had banquets almost every day, and the two major factions of Jinyang and Luoyang in the Eastern Wei Dynasty also took this opportunity to enhance their feelings with each other, after all, this is the most direct way to get acquainted with each other.

On June 16, Gao Huan said goodbye to the sons and Luoyang Wenwu in the ten-mile pavilion outside the Jianchun Gate, and led his wife and concubine and two grandchildren, Jinyang Wenwu and 200,000 troops to set off north and return to Jinyang.

The Gao family has been recuperating for many years, and has never sent troops to fight abroad, but Gao Huan, Gao Cheng, father and son have gone out to patrol one after another, and the most important thing is that there is a big difference between the cost of patrolling the place and leading the troops to go out.

Leading troops to fight must carry a large number of civilians for logistics, which is a huge expense, not to mention the tax exemption for the following year, which reduces financial revenue.

Whether it is the Gyeonggi army that followed Gao Cheng, or the 200,000 Bingzhou Hu under Gao Huan, they all belonged to the full-time soldiers, and there was no such thing as taxes.

However, the cost actually exists, but the cost is negligible compared to the huge cost of the army's westward expedition.

During this time, in order to prepare the military funds for the Gao family father and son after the autumn, Cui Jishu, the secretary of the household department, and Feng Zihua, the new secretary of the military department, were so busy that they only drank two glasses of wine for Gao Cheng's wedding, and then hurriedly left.

Cui Jishu was responsible for raising grain and grass, and was dismissed from the post of Sima of the General's Mansion, and Feng Zihui, who was reappointed as the secretary of the Ministry of War, was responsible for liaising with the Ministry of Industry and hoarding weapons.

The three armies did not move not only the grain and grass first, but also the swords, guns and arrows also needed to be prepared in advance, and the broadsword alone had millions of handles, and Gao Cheng even asked the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Industry to jointly prepare tens of millions of arrows.

Although the number of weapons sounds bluffing, compared to the number of 200,000 Bingzhou Hu and 35,000 Gyeonggi troops, the number of broadswords per capita is less than five, and the number of arrows lost is only 50.

The weapons of this year are very easy to wear and tear, in the battle of Shayuan in history, after Xue Guyan broke off for Gao Huan, he walked while fighting, and within one day, he changed fifteen steel knives, or cut the blade, or broke, which is also related to the fierce battle.

And the wear and tear of weapons is also a major part of the cost of war.

In any case, there is nothing wrong with preparing more weapons, and you can't let the soldiers roll up their blades, break their weapons, and fight the enemy with their bare hands.

This is also one of the reasons why the militia is needed to do logistics, not to mention the transportation of grain and grass, the preparation of meals, and the pulp and laundry for the soldiers, just when these weapons are marching in the army, a large number of civilians need to be transferred.

The Ministry of Industry Shangshu was concurrently served by Gao Longzhi, and his energy was limited, and correspondingly, he also gave up the errand of the camp supervisor, and only retained the left servant of Shangshu and the servant.

In view of the phenomenon that weapons are easy to be damaged today, Gao Cheng ordered Gao Longzhi to supervise the construction of iron smelting furnaces on the banks of the Huanshui and Luoshui rivers to see if he could further extract impurities, but Xiao Gao Wang is a liberal arts student, and he passed the examination in the second year of high school by relying on the invigilator's mercy to get lucky.

Gao Longzhi has the honorific title of smelting ancestor in later generations, and he is much more reliable than himself in any case.

As Gao Cheng's royal tool, Gao Longzhi can be regarded as hard-working, the printing house is the team he set up, and the mint is also supervised by him, not to mention the hard work, but also have to bear the infamy of bullying the Son of Heaven, and if he does not give a prince in the future, King Xiao Gao himself feels that the rewards and punishments are unfair.

The princes of the Northern Qi Dynasty in history were indiscriminately feuded, but correspondingly, based on such a favor, they could win the loyalty of the courtiers.

Fame and fortune, you have to give someone one, otherwise people will work hard to find something.

Don't be too corrupt, and you can't even give up your name, who is willing to die for you.

Gao Cheng will not abuse the title of prince, but when the credit reaches a certain level, he will not be stingy.

After Gao Huan arrived in Jinyang, he disbanded the 200,000 troops on the spot and reunited them with his family, and when the soldiers returned again, they would face the most severe training.

In the third year of Chengping, the Jinyang army had never been in battle, and it still needed to re-master the killing skills on the battlefield through drill training.

Similarly, the same is true of the Gyeonggi Army, after Zhang Liang led the salt soldiers to Luoyang, Gao Cheng was overjoyed, but also found that even if he just fought horse bandits in the grassland, it was considered to bully the weak, but in the end, he had seen blood, and it was far superior to the Gyeonggi Army in momentum.

The Gyeonggi army has experienced wars, and although Gao Cheng often wins by strategy, there have been fierce battles in the end, such as rescuing Dou Tai.

Although there have been many new additions, they are all veterans, and Hou Yuan's department is the oldest, and he followed him to participate in the Duluo Zhou Uprising as early as fifteen years ago.

Under Liu Feng's command, there are also people who have followed him sixteen years ago, desperately resisting the Six Towns Righteous Army led by the Six Han Baling to attack Lingzhou, and most of them have experienced the tragic battle of Li Hu, Zhao Gui, and Li Bi besieging Lingzhou.

It can be seen from this that the decline in the combat effectiveness of the Gyeonggi Army has little to do with the reorganization.

It's just that there has been no blood for three years, and in the Huahua world of Luoyang, it is inevitable that both the decline of the will to fight and the rustiness of the fighting skills are inevitable.

Sweating more in peacetime and bleeding less in wartime, Gao Cheng thought this sentence was true, and seeing that autumn was about to begin, Gao Cheng stepped up the drill training of the Gyeonggi Army, except for the drills in the temples and schools in the city where the Gyeonggi Army was stationed.

Every three days, Gao Cheng would organize a real combat drill between the Gyeonggi army and the salt soldiers, but the weapons were replaced with cloth-headed wooden sticks, and even the arrows were wrapped in cloth.

The soldiers were constantly injured lightly and seriously, but they did not kill anyone, and they were greatly improved compared to the previous situation.

The time entered July, autumn was quietly coming, the crops in Kanto were growing gratifying, Gao Cheng also mobilized grain and grass from various places and transported them to Jinyang one after another, Feng Zihua and Gao Longzhi finally completed the amount of weapons required by Gao Cheng, and then sent them to Jinyang.

Gao Longzhi was instructed to study how to extract impurities from steel, although there have been certain results, but it is too late to put into the production of this batch, Gao Cheng also encouraged him to continue research, do not need to be in a hurry.

Now the grain, grass, and weapons have been prepared, and they are only waiting for the autumn harvest to recruit people to Jinyang to obey orders.

Generally speaking, 1 soldier needs to be paired with 3 civilian husbands to assist the left, and the 200,000 Jinyang and Zhou Hujia plus Luoyang's 35,000 Gyeonggi troops all went to the battle, with a total of 235,000 soldiers out of production, and the number of people who need to be recruited is about 700,000.

Not to mention the food expenses of the more than 700,000 people, according to the regulations that those who serve the army can be exempted from taxes, more than 700,000 households are exempted from taxes, which is undoubtedly a big slash to the fiscal revenue in the coming year.

The risk taken by the husband is worth the return of the whole family's tax exemption.

Not only did they transport supplies on the march and fill the moat in the rain of arrows during the siege, but what was even more terrifying was the expedition of the army, and in the extreme case of lack of food, they had to be used as military food for the soldiers to feed their hunger.

After all, the Eastern Wei Dynasty recuperated for three years, and the people lived a solid life in the context of the Juntian system, and as a people's husband who went out with the army, not to mention fatigue, there was a threat to their lives, who would want to take this trip to Kansai.

Therefore, it is still necessary to rely on forced requisition, and the local government will draw it on the list, and after the autumn harvest, it will be forced to go to Jinyang.

This has also caused many officials to make a profit from it, and the money given will not appear in the selection list, and those who have not paid it will rely purely on luck.

Gao Cheng did not deal with this chaos, for the local government to have an autumn harvest in the future, which is very important, and for the central government, Gao Cheng did not want to delay the follow-up recruitment of the people because of the punishment of the local governor.

But he still kept this matter in mind, and after the war, he naturally had to settle accounts with these officials and let them hand over the proceeds of bribery.

This wave, this wave has a good reputation for punishing corrupt officials, and he has earned official bribes for nothing, and it is truly a win-win situation.

Time passed quietly in waiting, and during the autumn harvest, not only the farmers harvested grain in the fields, Gao Cheng worked hard, and Yuan Zhonghua's stomach also had good news.

However, from that day on, Yuan Zhonghua's mood also declined, and Gao Cheng felt strange at first, isn't postpartum depression waiting for the birth of a child, why did he become depressed just after she was pregnant.

Later, after thinking about it, I realized that Yuan Zhonghua had nothing to do before, so he naturally didn't care much, but now that he is pregnant, if he gives birth to an heir, if he is according to his original identity, he will be the eldest son.

According to the patriarchal system, this child will be the third-generation heir of the Gao regime, even if there is Gao Huan's instructions from the next generation, as the eldest son, it is not without a chance to fight.

Now because of the worm princess and relatives, Yuan Zhonghua has been demoted from a wife to a side room, and the child in her belly has also changed from a concubine to a concubine, Yuan Zhonghua doesn't care about her name, as long as she can be with Gao Cheng, but she feels indebted to the child in her belly.

Gao Cheng wanted to pretend not to know, but seeing Yuan Zhonghua becoming more and more depressed, he had to find the other party and said with relief:

"Whether it is a concubine or a concubine, they are all my dearest flesh and blood, and I treat them together."

Gao Cheng can't promise Yuan Zhonghua the right to inherit now, compared to the primogeniture system, he is actually more inclined to choose the best son or grandson, but the primogeniture inheritance system does play an important role in maintaining the social inheritance, and how to choose depends on the future.

Fortunately, now the wife is a worm princess, no matter her age, or identity, it is only an expedient measure to become a wife, and in the future, the most outstanding child's biological mother can be promoted as a wife, in order to establish the identity of the son-in-law.

Even if King Xiao Gao prefers to go on a blind date with his sons in the future, his identity is destined to be just a luxury, and in the face of power, no one can not be moved.

And Princess Worm's status as a wife also gives the rest of the people the opportunity to covet it, such as Erzhu Ying'e.

She used to be intoxicated with all kinds of role-playing with Gao Cheng, but now she really blows some pillow wind with Gao Cheng, always mentioning Gao Xiaozhang's cleverness, well-behaved and sensible, and even said that he is a filial child.

The Song family is not exempt from vulgarity, and boasts of Gao Xiaoyu vigorously.

made Gao Cheng angry and funny, those two little bastards stayed in Luoyang for more than half a month, and they cooperated with Gao Huan in front of them to perform many scenes of father and son filial piety, and they didn't see them wash their feet once.

Gao Cheng understood the thoughts of Er Zhu Ying'e and the Song family, and he could also understand the thoughts of the pillow person.

Unlike himself, Gao Cheng has two sons and four daughters, and it is no surprise that more children will be born in the future.

And Gao Xiaozhang and Gao Xiaoyu are all of the current Erzhu Ying'e and Song families, and the two daughters who can't grow up with them are already guilty about them, and the mother is secretly fighting for her son, blowing some pillow wind, how can she blame them.

It can only be said that Gao Xiaozhang and Gao Xiaoyu were raised by Gao Huan's side, which gave the two brothers another meaning, and also made many people think, not only Erzhu Ying'e and the Song family, but also Gao Cheng's cronies and favored ministers, who had been watching for a long time, seemed to be interested in marrying Gao Xiaozhang and Gao Xiaoyu.

And Gao Cheng's daughters are even more sought-after, benefiting from the good genes of their parents, the daughters are beautiful and cute, coupled with their identity, even the fourth daughter who is less than one year old is worried.

Chen Yuankang wanted to order a baby kiss for his newborn son, and even Duan Shao wrote to Gao Cheng from time to time, in which he always mentioned his son Duan Yi intentionally or unintentionally, and pretended to inadvertently express his love for Gao Cheng's eldest daughter Gao Mi.

Gao Cheng did not respond to these blatant cabbage acts, and he and Chen Yuankang, Duan Shao and other cronies did not need to use their daughter's marriage to further enhance it.

Gao Cheng personally replied to the letters one by one, mentioning that in the future, the daughters would be considered after they were sixteen years old, and they would make their own choices.

Of course, he said so, but as a parent, who really has the confidence to let her daughter choose by herself, lest she is not deeply involved in the world and will be deceived by people's rhetoric.

On August 20 of the ninth year of Taichang (540), the autumn harvest was in full swing, and Gao Cheng was also in such a busy season, leaving the family in Luoyang, and commanding 35,000 Gyeonggi troops to the north to join Gao Huan, and after preparing for war, they sent troops from Jinyang together, crossed the Yellow River through Puban and entered the customs, and Yubi will once again become a front-line material distribution center.

Before leaving Luoyang, Gao Cheng sent an order to his uncle Lou Zhao, as previously planned, that after the autumn harvest, he would recruit a total of 100,000 soldiers and horses from the five prefectures of Xiang, Hebei, Cang, Ding, and Ji to descend south, and Duan Shao would each lead 50,000 men to respond to the southern line.

He also ordered Sun Teng, Gao Longzhi, and Sima Ziru to stay in Luoyang, and the three of them performed their duties, and Gao Longzhi and Sun Teng governed Shangshu Province, and were in charge of three of the six departments, Sima Ziru was in charge of Zhongshu Province, and all major resolutions needed to be negotiated by the three of them and unanimously agreed to pass, but if anyone expressed objections and was unwilling to back down, he must immediately send someone to ask Gao Cheng for instructions, and he would ruling.

The defense of Luoyang is mainly composed of the forbidden army led by Wang Shiliang, the salt soldiers led by Zhang Liang, and the troops of Ke Zhu Hunyuan and the soldiers of Sizhou Prefecture, and the external Gao Ji style who was transferred to the history of Guangzhou Assassin to sit in the Nanyang Basin to guard Hou Jing, and Dugu Yongye Town to guard Tongguan, which was supported by Gao Shen, the assassin of Shaanzhou.

Gao Cheng also attaches great importance to family affairs, he warned Yun Niang that when he was not in the house, he would never allow Gao Yang to come to the door, and he also asked her to take care of his wife and concubine for him, after all, he didn't want to be like Gao Huan and return victorious, but found that something happened in the backyard.

Gao Rui, who was in the crowd of people seeing off, looked at the back of his cousin leaving, and also breathed a sigh of relief.

Every time his mother and Gao Cheng met, Gao Rui's affectionate eyes made Gao Rui feel tormented, he knew that the two were innocent, but because of this, he was even more helpless, especially when he saw his father Gao Chen's spiritual position again, which made him feel guilty and dare not look directly.

Even if Gao Cheng was gone, Yuan Jiyan didn't want to look away, and when he said goodbye, Gao Cheng lifted his shirt and revealed the peace charm that was given to him, and that shallow smile lingered in Yuan Jiyan's mind for a long time, lingering.

Er Zhu Ying'e and the Song family wanted to accompany them, anyway, Gao Cheng was going to live in Jinyang for a while, and they could take the opportunity to accompany their son, but Gao Cheng avoided the pillow wind of the two of them, lest they avoid it, so how could they take the two of them with them, but they just comforted that when they returned to Luoyang, they would definitely bring Gao Xiaozhang and Gao Xiaoyu, so they let the two stop.

Gao Cheng didn't mind them blowing the wind on the pillow, but if he talked too much, he would feel bored.

Back then, a queen mother and a princess of Yingchuan were so intimate that they still couldn't escape the seven-year itch.