In the fifteenth year of Taichang (546), the eleventh day of the first month, in early spring, the cold has not disappeared.

Luoshui has long since melted the ice, but even in winter, there are soldiers who dig ice for water supply drills.

On the riverside, a five-year-old boy applauded his uncle when he hit the target.

This young child was born with a soft face, and if he didn't know his identity, most of them would have treated him as a girl.

Gao Jun rode over and said:

"Filial piety, let's go back today, you stand still like this, it's easy to get cold."

Gao Jun, who once mistook his eldest brother for his father, has now become a fourteen-year-old boy, and if he divides the field at the age of fifteen, he will be an adult by next year.

"Third uncle, when will you teach me to ride and shoot?"

The five-year-old child is Gao Cheng's fourth son, Gao Xiaojun, his three brothers are tired of martial arts, especially the second brother Gao Xiaoyu, who reads quickly and quickly, can see ten lines at a glance, and is often praised by his father.

Gao Xiaojun's hobby of riding and archery was brought out by Gao Jun, the third uncle, perhaps because his biological father was suspicious and had been looked down upon.

It's just an incident that happened in the early winter of last year, so Gao Jun didn't dare to easily agree to the professor's request to ride and shoot, and always shirked it, and today is the same:

"In a few years, when you grow up, your uncle will teach you."

After that, he bent down and hugged Gao Xiaoqian on the horse, surrounded by guards and slaves, and rode the horse slowly.

There is still some distance from the Qi Palace, but from a distance, I can see that the front of the mansion is full of people, three floors inside, three layers outside, and there are miserable howls.

Gao Jun took Gao Xiaoqian off the horse, and the guards pushed away the crowd, it turned out that someone was scolded with a cane in front of the house, and took his nephew's hand and took a closer look, Gao Xiaojun shouted:

"It's the little guy next to the sixth and seventh uncles."

Gao Xiaojun's shouts attracted the attention of the tortured servants, and they did not ask Gao Jun to intercede for themselves, but pleaded:

"Yong'an Gong (Gao Jun), you have been most loved by the king since you were a child, go back and persuade the king, he wants to kill Changshan Gong (Gao Yan) and Pingyuan Gong (Gao Lian)."

When Gao Jun heard this, his face changed greatly, and he quickly picked up Gao Xiaoqian and ran to the house, he has had strength since he was a child, and it is effortless to run with a five-year-old child.

Gao Xiaojun didn't know why his father was so good that he wanted to kill, the sixth uncle and the seventh uncle, but Gao Jun knew very well that Gao Yan and Gao Lian often gathered light teenagers and bullied the surrounding counties of Luoyang.

was still running on the corridor, and before entering the courtyard of the lobby, Gao Xiaoqian heard his grandmother crying:

"Gao Ah Hui! It's not enough for you to assassinate Bu Luoji (Gao Zhan), do you want to kill your two younger brothers again today, if you want to kill them, even the old body will be killed, and let the old body go and tell your father about your sin of mutilating your siblings."

And the voice of the father's indignation:

"The ninth brother fell from his horse and died of injuries, everyone saw with their own eyes, my mother just because I didn't want to execute the manu and the guards, so I said that I was secretly assigned, Cheng Haosheng was wronged, the sixth brother and the seventh brother committed a crime, and was impeached by Song Zuocheng, Cheng never transferred the two to prison, it was already in vain for justice, Cheng is the eldest brother, and even disciplining the brothers at home has to be stopped by the mother!" ….

Song Zuocheng is Shangshu Zuocheng Song Youdao, the first thug under Gao Cheng to punish officials for lawlessness.

It turned out that the reason why Gao Jun was perfunctory and unwilling to teach Gao Xiaoqian to ride and shoot in a hurry was because he was affected by Gao Zhan's death from a horse in the early winter of last year.

At that time, Gao Cheng took the whole family to the south side of Luoyang Bears Ears Mountain to hunt, hunting, rushed out of a Menghu on the side of the road, startled Gao Zhan's horse, Gao Zhan fell from the horse under the bump, it happened that Quan Yuanqi took the little apprentice Sun Simiao to travel around the field, and finally Gao Zhan died of serious injuries.

Lou Zhaojun's favorite is Lao Jiu Gao Zhan, and when he learns that his beloved son is dead, he wants to execute the horse slave and the guards who guard him, but Gao Cheng stops him on the grounds that the horse was frightened and was just an accident.

But it also made her suspicious, since she was hunting with so many underage brothers and heirs, she must have cleared it in advance

At most, let them shoot rabbits, elks or something, the hunting ground is surrounded, how can there be tigers and other beasts in the forest.

Quan Yuanqi, who happened to be able to rejuvenate himself, traveled again, combined with Gao Cheng's loss of his brother-in-law, but he could still protect the horse slaves and guards sensibly, Lou Zhaojun also concluded that it must be Gao Cheng who secretly hated Gao Zhan for being favored by himself, so he sent someone to kill him.

Since Gao Zhan's death, although they live in the Qi Palace, they have rarely interacted, even if it was Lou Zhaojun's birthday last year, Gao Cheng also used the excuse of leading people to Pishan to worship Gao Huan, and hid the past, only letting a group of concubines take their children to Lou Zhaojun's birthday.

Gao Jun hugged Gao Xiaoqian and walked into the courtyard of the lobby, and saw Gao Yan and Gao Lian lying in the courtyard, and Lou Zhaojun pounced on Gao Yan to prevent the execution.

Gao Lian's biological mother Han Zhihui sat on the ground holding Gao Cheng's thighs and wept and begged, being dragged away by the maidservants, and the rest such as Gao Xiaozhang, Gao Xiaoyu and six-year-old Gao Xiaowan were also crying and begging Gao Cheng to spare the two uncles, not to mention the rest of the brothers.

Gao Jun put down Gao Xiaojun again, and was about to persuade everyone to persuade him, but he heard Lou Zhaojun say again:

"Yan'er and Lian'er did something wrong, and you only cared about punishing them, but you ever thought that you, as a brother, were also responsible!"

Gao Cheng didn't clear himself either, he said frankly:

"On weekdays, I was busy with political affairs and neglected to discipline them, so I let the sixth and seventh brothers be evil, and it is not too late to discipline today, and my mother still has to protect them at this time, which is to harm them!"

How do you know that Lou Zhaojun looked at his eldest son and sneered:

"Is it just negligence! Who doesn't know that Your Royal Highness King Qi beware of your brother, Hou Niyu (Gao Yang) is twenty-one years old, and he is still idle at home, Yan'er and Zhuan'er are not defiling themselves in front of your brother in order to protect themselves!"

As soon as these words came out, the whole court was shocked, there are some things that everyone knows, but they can't say it, Gao Yang is 21 years old, and he hasn't made an official position yet, Gao Cheng's attitude of beware of his brothers is known to the world.

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, Hou Niyu is already an adult, how can he not arrange a real position for him, and only give him the vacant position of hussar general.

"Hou Niyu is the second son of the grandson, Cheng only guarded against him, and did not harm his life, although Bu Luoji is favored, but he is only the fifth son, why does Cheng have to kill him!

"Cheng has been wise since he was a child, he has been running for his father since he was ten years old, he is young and fashionable and does not compete with his brother for favor, and now as a father, how can he kill his brother for this!"

After that, he took out two letters from his arms, choked up, and said:

"This is Cheng for the third brother to invite the feudal state to assassinate the history, the fourth brother to ask the Jiaozhou to assassinate the history, why does the mother say that Cheng does not use brothers, not in the past, it is just that the father has a difficult business, and the younger brothers are young and dare not entrust it to big things."

The words were reasonable, and Lou Zhaojun was speechless, she took the song and looked at it, and its content was to invite officials for Gao Jun and Gao Yan.

"Jun is only willing to serve the eldest brother, not to be a stabbing historian."

After watching for a while, the lively Gao Jun broke the silence in the courtyard, and Gao Yan also echoed.

Gao Cheng took the song back and reprimanded the two:

"Idle Hou Niyu is the result of the joint discussion between my father and my brother, and it is also to protect him thoroughly, so that he will not be slandered and do things, but for you, I have high hopes for my brother, and now my uncle (Wei Jing) and Yue Weng (Li Huibo) are newly mourned, and it is the time to employ people, and you two are the heirs of your father and prince, and you are lonely siblings, and you should take on heavy responsibilities."

Gao Jun and Gao Yan had to accept this errand, and the biological mothers Wang and Mu on the side were not only reluctant, but also happy that their sons could be appointed by Gao Cheng, after all, mothers also hope that their sons can have the opportunity to show what they have learned, instead of being kept in captivity.

Wei Jing died, a year earlier than in history, the old man in his sixties suffered from a serious illness last year, and finally survived the winter, but died in the beginning of spring. ….

After so many years, Gao Cheng's enmity with him has long since dissipated, but compared with Lou Zhao's posthumous gift of fake Huang Yue, Dudu Yong, Xia, Ling, Hua, Jing, Wei Six Prefectures, and Yongzhou Thorn History.

Wei Jing was only posthumously awarded the post of Shang Shuling, which was slightly shabby.

A few years ago, after a drink, Lou Zhao suffered from eccentricity, and although he recovered, he could not handle government affairs, so he entrusted state affairs to his staff to deal with them, and continued to support Gao Cheng to sit in Chang'an.

But it still failed to survive the midsummer of last year, and the post of Yongzhou Assassin was taken over by Sizhou Mu Chen Yuankang, and the post of Sizhou Mu was personally led by Gao Cheng himself, but all the general affairs were handed over to the staff of the Xiangguo Mansion.

In fact, Lou Zhaojun's statement that there is no one in his mother's family is not true, his brother-in-law Dou Tai and nephew Duan Shao are both reused, but the relationship between these two and Gao Cheng is more intimate.

The farce of the Qi Palace, because of the news from the north, Gao Cheng was anxious to convene his cronies to discuss the matter, so he only hastily beat Gao Yan and Gao Lian with thirty canes, and sent the two of them to Liaozhou on the grounds of instigation.

Everyone dispersed, and Lou Zhaojun, who was in a loss, glanced at Gao Cheng, and when he saw him striding away, he had to sigh in his heart, and asked people to call the doctor to medicine Gao Yan and Gao Lian.

In fact, the injuries of the two were not serious, they were only beaten with thirty strokes, and in this situation, the domestic servants in charge of the execution did not dare to beat them strictly.

In the past four years, Gao Cheng has added many new people around him, and there are also many old and old people, in addition to Lou Zhao, the most important one is Yuzhou Thorn Shi Yaoxiong.

Yaoxiong died of illness in Taichang eleven years (542), he in the battle of Guang'a, in Hebei according to the state to surrender to Gao, had participated in the battle of Hanling, after which he has been following Gao Cheng, for ten years, at the beginning of the Gyeonggi army general, quite a military exploit, and then out of the town of Yuzhou, repeatedly defeated Chen Qingzhi, for the government to govern the people with integrity, widely respected, after the death of Yaoxiong, the people of Yuzhou wept bitterly, Gao Cheng also broke the liver and intestines.

In addition to grief, he treated this confidant without being stingy with mourning, and posthumously presented the envoys, generals, and governors of Yu, Yan, Guang, Xu, Jing, and Qing six states, and the history of Yuzhou's assassination.

His son Yaoshi followed Gao Cheng for many years as a Kuzhi, inherited the title of Duke of Chengping County, and was promoted to the governor of his cronies.

The post of assassin of Yuzhou was held by Duan Shao, the general of Liangzhou military training, who also served as the governor of Yuzhou and was in charge of the military and politics of the state.

And the Liangzhou training general was taken over by Xingqing, the former confidant of the governor.

Gao Cheng waited in the discussion room for a long time, such as Gao Longzhi and Sun Teng

, Sima Ziru, Dou Tai, Yang Yu and other important ministers all arrived, and Gao Cheng revealed the news to them:

"I heard news from Si Beiya, when the caravan passed through the rest of the high chariot, I saw Turkic nobles entering and leaving it."

The Listening and Wangsi Division is now divided into two offices, the north and the south, with Wei Xiaokuan presiding over the south and Li Yuan presiding over the north, and this news was sent back by the spies sent by Li Yuan disguised as a caravan.

"If the Turks have the rest of the chariot, I am afraid that Mobei will have another incident."

Sun Teng said sadly when he heard this.

Five years ago, Rouran broke through the capital of the Gaoche country, Zhangbala City, and destroyed the country and returned, but there were still the remnants of the Gaoche in various places to resist stubbornly.

Gaoche was originally founded by the Eile tribe, and the Turks were originally just a small wrought iron tribe of hundreds of households, and it was only by integrating the surrounding Eile tribes that they were able to grow, and the two sides could even be called the same tribe. ….

The Turks came into contact with the remnants of the high chariot, and it was inevitable that they would have the intention of converging, and it was common for the weak to huddle together on the steppe.

Now there are more than 60,000 households left in the remnants of the high cart, and the nomadic civilization of the grassland is different from the agricultural civilization.

If the Turks annexed the rest of this high chariot and got 60,000 adult Ding Zhuang, their troops would inevitably rise in Mobei and compete with Rouran.

Others didn't know that Gao Cheng was interested in Mobei, and they only thought that he was bent on encompassing Jiangnan, and compared to Rouran, he was unwilling to be a companion with the Turks.

In these years, where to find a good neighbor like Rouran, since the war and kiss, in the past six years, there has been no war on the border.

Four years ago, even a group of high-car women were sold, and there was also a big and white man with a Western style in the mansion of King Qi, named Maidservant, which was really forbidden, but His Royal Highness the King of Qi was tired.

Everyone was gossiping and proposing to reveal the news to Rouran Khan Anapu, one was to show his sincerity as an ally and deepen his friendship with Rouran, and the other was to make Rouran target the Turks, so that when the Gao clan went south in the future, there was no need to worry about an ally stabbing him in the back.

Gao Cheng thought about it for a while, then agreed with what everyone said, and said:

"In this case, Gu personally informed Yu Bald Jiajia of this matter, but even if Anapu knew about it, I am afraid it would be difficult to stop it, but even if the Turks swallowed the rest of the high chariot, 60,000 households would be enough for it to digest for several years, and as soon as the tax reduction period passed, the princes would start to prepare for the material deployment of the southern expedition, and we must pacify Jiangnan before the chaos in Mobei, and then wait for the opportunity to intervene in Mobei."

When everyone heard this, they all bowed their heads and said yes.

Then the cronies said goodbye one after another, and Gao Cheng sent people to Yanran Pavilion to summon Bald Tujia, and asked people to invite Princess Worm to the inner house.

At the beginning of spring this year, under the urging of Bald Tujia three times and twice, Princess Worm finally entered the gate of the Qi Palace's mansion as his wife.

However, she lived in Luoyang for six years, she still couldn't speak a word of Chinese, let alone learn, she was very withdrawn, and she didn't smile on weekdays, only when Gao Cheng took her out of the city to hunt, she would smile.

There was such a big farce in the Qi Palace, and the whole family came out, only she was stuffy in her own yard, and she didn't communicate with outsiders.

As soon as Princess Worm entered the door, Gao Cheng held her in his arms and laughed softly:

"You should have heard about today's events, I told you earlier that you can't take a break, it's not perfunctory, when you have time, I'll accompany you out of the city to play, okay?"

It turned out that Gao Cheng was resting today, and Princess Worm was looking for him to go out of the city and ride a horse to step on spring, but Gao Cheng got Song Youdao's report and hurriedly sent someone to arrest Gao Yan and Gao Lian back, so he refused, which made her sulk.

However, the sulkiness had already dissipated after learning the maid's message.

Princess Worm nodded, quietly snuggling into Gao Cheng's arms.

The two snuggled up for a long time, and it wasn't until the announcement of Bald Tujia's arrival sounded outside the door that Gao Cheng let go of Princess Worm.

"What is the matter with Brother Xian looking for me today?"

As soon as Bald Tujia entered the door, she smiled heartily.

In Luoyang for six years, the once sturdy Mobei man is now also full of fat.

Gao Cheng didn't beat around the bush, and directly informed the Turks of the news of the contact with the rest of Gao Che, and Bald Tujia immediately changed his face,

After confirming it again and again, he didn't care about talking to his niece, and immediately went back to Yanran Pavilion, obviously to send someone to interrogate him quickly.

As soon as Bald Tujia left, the Worm Princess straddled Gao Cheng's legs without warning, kissed him on the lips, and the two kissed passionately, and the fragrance of the sixteen-year-old girl filled the lips and tongue of Xiao Gao Wang.

She's so withdrawn and unrestrained.

How could I be a Cao thief