Gao Xiaoyu brought the fruit back to the Lin Toe Pavilion, which was the place where the princes studied, Gao Xiaowan only tasted one, and after thanking the two brothers, he stopped eating more.

Gao Xiaoqian nibbled on the fruit brought back by his second brother, and the sweet taste overflowed his mouth.

didn't have time to reminisce, seeing the four-year-old Gao Xiaocong on the side gobbling up, and there was not much fruit left in the basin, Gao Xiaocong grabbed one and asked:

"Second brother, can I save one for later?"

Of course Gao Xiaoyu will not refuse this kind of small request, he and Gao Xiaozhang and Gao Xiaowan secretly fought hard, but he will not harm the fourth child, a little transparent, at least on the surface, he is also willing to show a tolerant and friendly brother in front of Gao Xiaojun.

Everyone knows that Gao Xiaojun's biological mother is unknown and there is no threat, if even he can't tolerate him, in the eyes of outsiders, what is the difference between him and Hu Hai.

Gao Cheng, who reviewed the recital, had long known the humility of his two sons in front of Lou Zhaojun, although the play was a bit fake, but combined with their age, it was not surprising that he deceived Lou Zhaojun.

A son can act, it is better than a straight temperament, Daqi Wenwu has been influenced by him for many years, and under the influence of his ears and eyes, almost all of them have become drama spirits, and the group scene that boasted about Xiao Yuanming is enough to prove it.

If you don't be smart, you can be fooled around by this group of people.

After the class of Lintoe Pavilion, the eunuchs were clear, and the fourth son of the emperor asked to see him.

Gao Cheng had long heard that Gao Xiaoqian had left a fruit to eat, and at this moment, he couldn't help but feel relieved to see him running into the door with the fruit:

'I didn't expect my Gao Zihui to have such a filial son, and when he met something delicious, he didn't forget to leave a copy for his father. ’

Without waiting for Gao Xiaoqian to speak, Gao Cheng smiled and said:

"Walk slowly, don't fall, wait for you to leave the palace with your father, and stay in Yaoguang Temple tonight."

When Gao Xiaoqian heard this, he immediately took the fruit into his arms.

Seeing this, the corners of Gao Cheng's eyes twitched, suggesting:

"Is the fruit your second brother gave delicious?"

Gao Xiaojun, who is not yet seven years old, said:

"It tastes so good that if the father wants to eat it, the child will go to his grandmother and ask for some."

Gao Cheng, who was tired, waved his hand and said helplessly:

"That's it, let's go out of the palace with my father."

It's still early today, and the reason why I left the palace early is to go to Sun's Mansion to pay respects.

Sun Teng died of illness during Gao Cheng's southern expedition at the age of sixty-eight.

As Gao Huan's old friend at the end of his life, the long history of Ren Jinzhou's assassination, and Gao Cheng's matchmaker four times, Sun Teng's friendship with the Gao family's father and son does not need to be repeated.

Gao Cheng learned the news on the front line, and issued an order to posthumously present the envoys, Taishi, Kaifu, Lu Shangshushi, and Jizhou Thorn History, nicknamed Wen, for the King of Xianyang Wen, and his descendant Fengzhen was demoted to the first rank according to the regulations, and was the prince of Xianyang County.

On this trip, Gao Cheng also brought Sun Teng's daughter, Yuan Yuyi, one of the nine concubines.

When he came out of Sun Teng's mansion, it was already dark, Gao Cheng ordered someone to send Yuan Yuyi back to the palace, and he took Gao Xiaoqian to Yaoguang Temple.

"Mother, taste it, this fruit is delicious."

Gao Xiaoqian raised the fruit to his mother's mouth, fed her a bite, and hurriedly asked:

"Is it delicious?"

Seeing her son's expectant eyes, the sweetness in Queen Yuen Long's heart was stronger than between her lips and tongue:

"It's delicious, you have a heart."

Gao Xiaojun invited pets:

"Hehe, I didn't even give it to my father."

When Queen Yuen Long heard this, Dai's eyebrows furrowed, and Gao Xiaojun hurriedly explained:

"What good things can't my father get? If he wants to eat it himself, he will send someone to get it, and there is no need for the child to offer the fruit, but there is only one fruit, and of course he must leave it for his mother. ”

The words made Gao Cheng, who was squatting outside the window and listening to the corner, angry and funny, and the Queen of Yuen Long warned Gao Xiaojun in the house to be filial to his father, but Gao Cheng did not listen to it anymore and quietly left.

didn't let the guards show the way, walked around in the Yaoguang Temple, walked to a remote courtyard, and heard the melodious sound of the piano inside, which was provocative.

Gao Cheng sat on the wall with the help of his personal guards, and saw a plain-clothed woman in the courtyard playing the piano, it was the middle of winter, although there was a fire in the courtyard, but Gao Cheng saw that her clothes were thin and difficult to hide, and she felt cold for her.

As the son of the Great Qi Emperor, he couldn't bear to see Baixin under his rule in the winter, Gao Cheng then ordered someone to call out the woman in the courtyard, and carefully inquired to find out that she was the favorite concubine of the former abolished emperor Yuangong, who entered the Yaoguang Temple at the age of sixteen, and has been seventeen years so far.

Gao Cheng is a warm-hearted person, listening to her talk about loneliness, I can't bear it, and seeing that although she is thirty-three years old, her skin is silky, she can be favored by Yuan Gong, and her appearance is natural and good, so she talked with her at night.

Unexpectedly, the next time I came to Yaoguang Temple, there was the sound of pianos, pipas, and hoops everywhere, and there was a mess.

Of course, that's an afterthought.

Before dawn, Gao Cheng took Gao Xiaoqian out of Yaoguang Temple and returned to the palace, and was about to drive Gao Xiaoqian to Lintoe Pavilion to study, but saw Gao Xiaoqian take out half of the fruit from his arms and put it in Gao Cheng's hand.

By the time Gao Cheng reacted, the kid had already run away without a trace.

"Bastard boy, I don't know any etiquette, and I don't know how to say goodbye to my father."

Gao Cheng complained, but after a few bites, he ate half of the fruit to the core.

I don't know if his son left him fruit, or if he was comforted by Yuan Gong's favorite concubine, Gao Cheng's mood was indeed much better, and he didn't even belittle Zu Ting, but the good mood didn't last long, and in the afternoon of the same day, a battle report came from Xiangyang, and Hou Jing was defeated again.

Over the years, Hou Jing sat in Xiangyang, facing Jiangling, and the two sides clashed many times, but Hou Jing lost more and won less, although there was a reason for the lack of troops, and the troops allocated to him by Gao Cheng would have only been enough to defend.

But Xiao Yi, the king of Xiangdong who guarded Jiangling City, was not a figure to be messed with.

It's not that Xiao Yi's ability is outstanding, the key is that there are many capable people gathered around him.

For example, Wang Seng argued, Yan Zhenqing suggested to Tang Dezong that one of the sixty-four ancient famous generals posthumously sealed, the Song family set up a temple for the seventy-two generals in accordance with the practice of the Tang Dynasty, and it also has its name.

Gao Cheng doesn't need to be envious, his family Hu Luguang, Murong Shaozong, and Wei Xiaokuan are also among them, but Duan Shao is the only one who is incomprehensible.

In addition to Wang Sengbi, a famous general in true history, Xiao Yi also had Du Gong and Wang Lin, who were tied for the first place in military merit in the process of quelling the Hou Jing Rebellion in the original time and space.

Although Du Gong is the son-in-law of Wang Shengbian, he follows Xiao Yi with his uncles, and his uncles such as Du Xuan, Du Song, Du Qi, Du Ji, Du Wei, Du Wei, Du An, and Du Youan are either generals or ministers, and they are famous in the world.

Hou Jing has Song Zixian, Ren Yue and other generals, but compared with the lineup under Xiao Yi, it is still much worse.

Gao Cheng was able to understand Hou Jing's difficulties, so although he was angry this time, he did not reprimand, and still issued a message to appease, but in the face of Hou Jing's request for additional troops, he still refused on the grounds that the war was resting and the army and civilians needed to recuperate.

Hou Jing made trouble on the border of Qiliang three times and twice, isn't it just for a prince, seeing that people such as Duan Shao, Murong Shaozong and others were crowned kings because of the merits of the southern expedition, how could Hou Jing not be in a hurry.

Although he is a duke, but after the Hanling War, he changed his banner and changed his banner, naturally he does not belong to Xindu Yuancong, if he wants to be crowned king, he points to the battlefield and makes meritorious contributions.

Of course, if Jiangling was easy to gnaw, Gao Cheng would have divided his troops when he was in Huainan.

Gao Cheng hinted to Hou Jing in the letter that now that Huainan has been swallowed up, the next step is to go straight to Jiangling, and when Hou Jing makes meritorious contributions, let him wait patiently for the time being.

Hou Jingde believed that he would no longer provoke without permission, he had already recognized the facts, if Gao Cheng didn't lead the army south, he really couldn't do anything about Jiangling.

At the same time, since Gao Cheng vented his anger at the court meeting, no one dared to mention the matter of the future, and the Northern Qi court returned to calm again.

With the passage of time, the materials purchased in Jiangnan with Huainan Zumo money continued to be smuggled from Danyang to Guangling, and then transported from Guangling to Luoyang, and the empty treasury of the Northern Qi Dynasty due to the reward of soldiers was once again enriched.

And the one-percent concession also made Xiao Yuanming and his three thousand river patrol sailors earn a lot of money, so they never leaked the news.

Thirty-five dollars can be used as one hundred dollars, which is the difference of sixty-five dollars, and it is the volume of the entire Huainan Zumo money, such a huge profit, if he is reluctant to feed Xiao Yuanming and his sailors, even if Xiao Yuanming thinks of Gao Cheng's kindness and doesn't say anything, it is difficult to guarantee that his subordinates will not be blushing.

There is a give-and-take, this Gao Cheng knows best, now there is no more comfortable army in the world than Xiao Yuanming's sailors, on the one hand, he accepts bribes from Qi people, and on the other hand, he takes the Northern Qi Navy Division to brush up on the achievements, and the good news is passed on to Jiankang at two ends in three days, and Xiao Yan has to give them a reward.

If you win a battle, you can't afford not to give out a reward! It can be said that it won hemp.

Time came to the second year of Zhaode, in the first month, Hu Luguang of Guanlong led 30,000 soldiers to return to Luo, Gao Cheng with his deterrence of Tugu Hun meritorious, named him the champion county duke, grace can be seen.

In the south, Huainan Zumo money was used in a short period of time, and the Jiangnan market finally reacted, and Zumo money depreciated all the way.

Obviously, there was no disaster year, and last year's autumn harvest could even be called a bumper harvest, but ordinary people just couldn't afford to buy rice, and the people in Jiangnan complained.

Gao Cheng knew that he smashed Huainan's coins to the south of the Yangtze River and bought a large amount of cloth and rice, causing a surge in Zumo money in the market, and a sharp decrease in the amount of cloth and rice, which would inevitably lead to inflation and rising prices.

The sharp depreciation of Zumo's money and the high prices of goods have bankrupted countless civilian homes, and the poor families are even more hungry, and people everywhere are starving to death.

In this regard, Xiao Yuanming and his sailors were naturally indifferent, but Gao Cheng still stopped continuing to plunder Jiangnan materials, and there may be a possibility of pity for the people of Jiangnan.

But more because the remaining small part of the money continues to be shipped to the south of the Yangtze River, there is no longer a profit, the price of goods in the south has reached a shocking level, it is said that a bucket of salt costs almost 500 yuan, converted into a later generation of pricing units, almost 175 yuan per catty, the price of salt directly chased Wu Zetian during the reign.

And the price of grain is not far behind, and a bucket of rice has risen to 300 yuan.

Correspondingly, a bucket of rice in Northern Qi is only 5 yuan, and a bucket of salt is only 20 yuan.

It can be said that the two countries of Qi and Liang are separated by a river, but the prices of one side are under the rule of Zhenguan, and the prices of the other side are under the rule of Wu Zetian.

Gao Cheng transported the little remaining Zumo money back to Luoyang and cast it into Zhaode Tongbao, and the high prices in the south also made Gao Cheng see business opportunities.

He still used Xiao Yuanming and his river patrol sailor to transport the salt from Jiangbei to Jiangnan to earn the difference, the same bucket of salt, only sold for 20 Wen in Jiangbei, but sold for 500 Wen in Jiangnan, and the Zumo money in exchange for it could also be transported back to Luoyang for casting, for the ruler who held the right to mint coinage, the stock of copper was never too much.

According to the old rules, a profit of one percent is still allowed, of course, salt can be sold, but grain Gao Cheng will never sell it, even if Jiangnan is hungry everywhere, it should be something that Xiao Yan is worried about.

Let's try it soon, everyone. 】

Besides, now that Nanliang is inflationary, he Xiaogaowang transported salt and looted a large amount of currency, although he made three melons and two dates, but he also objectively contributed to the stabilization of prices in Nanliang, as a grandson-in-law, it is interesting enough.

In the first year of Zhaode, Gao Cheng launched two wars against Southern Liang, one was a territorial war to swallow the land of southern Huai, and the other was an economic war to plunder the wealth of Jiangnan.

No matter how dire the people in Jiangnan were, the Northern Qi Dynasty had a good year, and not only was the treasury not exhausted due to the southern expedition, but the finances were more abundant than before.

This also made Gao Cheng start planning the next big battle, and the target was naturally Gangneung.

In the past, when a big war was fought, it was necessary to rest for two or three years, not to rest the soldiers, but to give the treasury a respite, no matter how tired a person was, he could always recover after a month's rest, but once the treasury was depleted because of the war, it would not be able to slow down for two or three years.

Now the treasury is full, the soldiers have been rewarded for the southern expedition, the morale is high, the fighting spirit is strong, on the other hand, the south of the Yangtze River, the people's grievances are boiling, and it is a good time for the southern expedition.

Gao Cheng still set the time after the spring ploughing, but the scale was much smaller than last time, and he had previously focused on the entire Huainan, and even before knowing that the water division was useless, he had the heart to destroy the Southern Liang, but this time the goal was only to capture Jiangling and the surrounding cities.

Of course, before that, you have to find an excuse, you can't sign a peace agreement like a fart, there is no reason, turn around and tear it up.

Gao Cheng pondered for a long time, and also thought of using Xiao Miaochun, the princess of Liyang, to raise troops to fight Liang on the grounds that she had assassinated herself, but once this was used as an excuse, Xiao Miaochun would definitely not be able to live.

Although Xiao Gao Wang was not a person, he was not shameless enough to kill a girl under the age of thirteen, so he gave up this idea and continued to ponder it.

It is not difficult to find an excuse to raise the army, but the difficult thing is to convince the world that he has nothing to gain for a while, so he simply handed over the matter to Chen Yuankang, Wang Hong, and Wang Jun, and they racked their brains.

Do everything yourself, and raise these freeriders to do a lot of work.

On the thirteenth day of the first month of the second year of Zhaode (549), the lord of Qi Gao Cheng once again had a good night in Yaoguang Temple.