Unlike other dynasties that levied and sent people to build mausoleums, the Northern Qi Dynasty changed to recruitment, and many people in Henan signed up.

The reason for this lies in the existence of the exemption money, the people paid the exemption money, and the imperial court really gave money when they used the people's power.

Both the Taichang Law and the Qi Law, which is currently being revised, stipulate that people who have reached the age of 15, regardless of gender, must serve a full month of forced labor in a year, and can be exempted from compulsory labor by paying exemption money.

The imperial court recruited the people, and the monthly salary was the amount of money levied for exemption from military service.

Although all dynasties and dynasties have stipulated the time of conscription service, they basically did not really abide by it, and they were caught with free labor, but they were not allowed to use it to death, and the extension was commonplace, and as for whether there was additional compensation for the delay, it was purely too much thinking.

For example, in the southern expedition last year, Gao Cheng recruited 600,000 people to accompany the army, which took five months, and the people were paid on a monthly basis, and the income was five times the amount of exemption money paid that year.

The cost of the war is too high, and it is also the reason why Gao Cheng took eight years of recuperation before he went on a large-scale expedition to the south, but the rules he set, especially those related to the people at the bottom, he will stick to it with gritted teeth.

If it weren't for the economic plundering in Nanliang this time, he would have had to plot against Jiangling again in a year or two.

Let's try it soon, everyone. 】

Now that the spring ploughing has passed, it is the time of agricultural slack, the imperial court recruited 200,000 people to repair the mausoleum, with Gao Cheng's image of loving the people and being lenient to the people in the past 19 years, and there is no need to worry about him killing the people after the mausoleum is repaired.

During the slack period, they were able to sell their labor to get a salary, and some people were willing to apply for recruitment from the government.

Under the auspices of Cui Jishu, the household department also provided grain and grass for Gao Cheng's southern tour and the people of Xiuling, and wantonly transferred materials from the local government to the central government.

Since Gao Cheng issued an edict on March 26, he would inspect Henan and Huainan regions, and during this period, he sent a secret order to Huainan Yangzhou to assassinate Shi Di Gan, and transferred 20,000 sailors to the north to listen to Yuzhou.

After more than half a month of preparation, on April 16 of the second year of Zhaode (549), Gao Cheng still left Dou Tai as Luoyang, led 10,000 Gyeonggi troops to garrison, and 90,000 soldiers in the surrounding Liang, Shaanxi, and Guangzhou prefectures were all stationary, and the Zhongbing Mansion was responsible for the jurisdiction.

He personally led 50,000 cavalry and 50,000 infantry soldiers of the Gyeonggi Army and 50,000 soldiers of Henan Prefecture to Luoyang to inspect Henan and Huainan.

As for the so-called 200,000 people who built the mausoleum, they continued to assemble in Luoyang, and the strange thing is that Gao Longzhi, the new general of the battalion, never saw the local requisition of stones.

It's not that Gao Cheng and others don't want to play the trick to perfection, it's just that the local government has to recruit people to mine in the mountains, and then transport, the cost is really not small, Gao Cheng weighed it again and again, and still felt that it could be exempted, so he let Gao Longzhi let out the wind, saying that the mausoleum was not far from the stone mining place, and there was no need for a place to sacrifice.

On April 17, Gao Cheng's 150,000 troops went south out of Yinque Pass and continued to Guangzhou.

Under the Northern Qi system, many state and county soldiers desperately wanted to squeeze into the ranks of the soldiers, and the previous naval division recruitment, the battle was not trivial.

The state and county soldiers had to do dangerous work, such as the ants attacking the city, and the rewards and salaries were less than the soldiers, and now they had to do logistics.

The soldiers are nominally used to deal with field battles, but in recent years, they have really not fought a few vicious battles, whether it is the second western expedition or the capture of Huainan, it is more similar to flat pushing, in the eyes of the state and county soldiers, life is really leisurely.

It's just that the soldiers didn't see the hard work of the soldiers, and the soldiers didn't see it, because the soldiers didn't do anything to produce, there were five exercises every seven days, and two of the five exercises were physical exercises, which tortured these soldiers enough.

However, Gao Cheng had noticed the dissatisfaction within the state and county soldiers for a long time, and he also opened the upward channel for the state and county soldiers, if they made meritorious deeds or beheaded the enemy, they could apply to be added to the ranks of the soldiers.

It has been nearly 19 years since the rise of the Gao family, and 26 years since the Six Towns Uprising, due to the rule that soldiers should be discharged from the army at the age of 50, there are not a few soldiers who have left the army due to old age.

The Xianbei children of the six towns are not adults who can enter the ranks of soldiers, they need to go through the assessment, and if they can't pass the skills, they will be sent to be state and county soldiers.

Gao Cheng and everyone made it very clear that now that the four seas are not at peace, the imperial court pays so much money for the soldiers, and it is not used to raise the children of the anointed sorghum, at least now is not the time for the main army to fall.

Over the years, he has been selecting the children of the six towns who are full of martial virtue to enlist in the army, and the shortage of vacancies, Gao Cheng is recruiting brave people from the state and county soldiers, so that he can maintain the combat effectiveness of the soldiers, and correspondingly, the proportion of the Han army has also increased slightly.

If he really pointed to the batch of six towns Xianbei left by his father Gao Huan, he was afraid that in this era when he could call his husband in his thirties, the average age of the Northern Qi soldiers could be forty or fifty years old.

On April 23, the army marched to Luyang County, Guangzhou Prefecture, at this time Luoyang had gathered 200,000 people to repair the tomb, Gao Cheng heard the news, sympathized with the hard work of the county soldiers, immediately sent a message, ordered 200,000 people to go south, for the soldiers to escort grain and grass, armor stomach, pulp washing clothes, prepare food.

The soldiers of 50,000 states and counties shouted long live, and the sound shook the sky.

It was only at this time that more and more officials in the DPRK and China reacted, fearing that there would be a war.

Otherwise, it's just an inspection, 150,000 troops, it's enough to have 50,000 people, but Gao Cheng transferred all 200,000 people, so what should I do to repair the tomb, it is clear that it is a trick.

Sure enough, on the second day of the fifth month, the Northern Qi army crossed the Han River and arrived in Xiangyang, Gao Cheng ordered the army to be stationed outside the city, and under the welcome of Hou Jing, led his cronies and guards into the city, but when they entered the city, they were attacked by assassins, but fortunately the defense was tight, the Son of Heaven was not damaged, and the five assassins were all captured.

After the interrogation, it turned out that Xiao Yi, the king of Xiangdong, was ashamed of the Southern Dynasty to lose the land of Huainan, thinking that ceding Huainan was like the six countries cutting the land to flatter Qin, and the ambition of the wolf son of the Northern Qi Dynasty must have the day when the south of the Yangtze River will be swallowed up.

Now that the prince of Northern Qi has not been established, if Gao Cheng dies, the north will definitely fall into civil strife and have no time to look south, and the Southern Liang can be regained by Jiankang with an army, and he himself will lead an army to recapture Xiangyang, and may even take the opportunity to recover the Central Plains.

Well, the motive is there, the assassin's confession is also there, and the official in charge of the interrogation reports the matter to Gao Cheng.

When Gao Cheng heard this, he was furious, but he did not rejuvenate the teacher because of anger, after all, Xiao Gao Wang was reasonable, he sent a messenger south to Jiangling to ask for the guilt, asking Xiao Yi to come to Xiangyang to explain the matter clearly, and confront the assassin face to face to see if the matter was really from his mastermind.