Gao Cheng issued an edict for the four princes to be crowned princes, and Xu Kaifu had the right to build a government, which undoubtedly ushered in a turn of fate for talented people who were depressed.

With the right person, it is the old ministers of the Qiandi in the future, such as Yang Su, Cui Jishu, Cui Xian and others, who can be reused in Gao Cheng, Cui Jishu even took it upon himself to force Xue Yuan's family, tarnishing Gao Cheng's reputation, and in the end he was only reprimanded and punished, but he was not born as a staff member of the Gyeonggi Metropolitan Governor's Office.

Now that the battle for the storage position has not been decided, it seems to be risky, but it also gives everyone the opportunity to bet.

From the perspective of future generations, it is the difference between the buyer's market and the seller's market, learning to become a literary and martial arts, the goods and the emperor's family, and the sons to seize the heirs, that is the seller's market, I don't sell you Gao Xiaozhang, I can also sell to Gao Xiaoyu, Gao Xiaowan, and Gao Xiaojun.

If Gao Cheng established the status of the prince of Bohai as the eldest son early, and because of the existence of the dual system of military and political in Luoyang-Jinyang, the power is so great that he can almost compete with his father, and the position of the heir is unshakable, then it is a buyer's market.

Either go to Jinyang to join Gao Huan, or come to Luoyang to serve Gao Cheng, with these two choices, you can't go to Gao Yang, who has not obtained the right to open the mansion until now, and you can't even get a position in the past.

Of course, if you are willing to be a hermit and have no intention of pursuing a career, then it is a different matter.

As for Gao Huan, Gao Cheng's father and son, how can it be their turn to hold their feet and elbows, a radish and a pit, and they are already full of people squatting.

It is only in this way that the princes compete for each other, and the lord chooses the minister, and the minister also chooses the lord, so that there is room for choice and the possibility of betting.

Otherwise, if you are left in Gao Cheng's world, you don't need to judge who will be the final winner of the storage position, but you can't squeeze into Yang Su, Cui Jishu, Chen Yuankang and others, and there is no chance to bet at all.

Now the Northern Qi Dynasty seems to have opened a gambling game, and the people in the bet are just around the corner, and those who look away are destined to be knocked to the dirt, and being a cold bench for a lifetime is a good ending, Zu Ting is the person who has chips and tries to participate in this gambling game.

Zu Ting's resume is peculiar after all, he was once Gao Huan's staff, and he was appreciated for his erudition and strong memory, Gao Huan once dictated thirty-six things, Zu Ting only listened to it once, and then went out to write, without any mistakes or omissions.

He has a good relationship with Chen Yuankang, and he is a friend who can be entrusted with future affairs in Chen Yuankang's eyes, even if he has no merit and no fault, he can also be reused in Gao Cheng's dynasty, after all, Xiao Gao Wang treats his father's old bureaucrats and treats them as his own people.

It's just that Zu Ting was caught red-handed for stealing wine vessels at a banquet, and Gao Huan was disgusted with it, so he was expelled.

It is true that Zu Ting has the habit of petty theft, but it is true that he is full of talent, his civil and military skills, talented, dying years, being demoted to Xuzhou, can also skillfully set up an empty city plan, the blind husband scared back the enemy army, and defended and fought for more than ten days, in the case of the imperial court deliberately not to save, Xuzhou can still be preserved.

Unwillingly, he asked his friend Chen Yuankang for a letter of recommendation, so he went south to Gao Cheng.

But that year was a buyer's market, and Xiao Gao Wang didn't like him as a person, even if he was recommended by Chen Yuankang, he was never cited as a staff member.

If it was in previous years, Zu Ting was hated by the Gao family's father and son, and he was basically a eunuch, but fortunately, the road to heaven and earth coincided with the opening of the imperial examination, and Zu Ting took the classic examination, even if he was disgusted with it, for the sake of fairness, Gao Cheng only divided Zu Ting, who was originally the third in the classic science test, to the tenth.

Since the top ten of each department could be appointed as Beijing officials, in 539 A.D. Zu Ting was able to go to the six ministries as an alternate official, and officially served in the Ministry of Rites the following year.

Over the years, Zu Ting has worked diligently, and I don't know if the habit of stealing has been changed, at least he has not been caught again.

Gao Cheng has already let go of the knot in his heart for Zu Ting over the years, thinking about it, the party is with Lu Lingxuan, slandering Hu Luguang, it is all a matter of bluntly speaking bitterly and failing to succeed, and being blinded by Gao Zhan, it is normal to be blackened by this kind of blow, so he has never targeted Zu Ting again.

The officials of the Northern Qi Dynasty were examined every three years, and in the past three assessments, Zu Ting was excellent, and his official position was also smooth sailing, and he was one of the four divisions of the Ministry of Rites, and the priest of the ancestral department.

I thought that one step further would be the Rite Servant, but he was just the head of the four divisions of the Rite Department who was airborne, but Gao Rui gave him a heavy blow.

The so-called princely generals, rather have a kind, in the troubled times and the world have two different answers, from the chaos into the rule, it should be born noble, Zu Ting worked hard for ten years as an official, before sitting in the position of the ancestral department, the sixteen-year-old Gao Rui airborne in the Ministry of Rites, but it still makes people feel that they are mistreating him.

Thinking that in two years, Gao Cheng's fifth son, Gao Xiaocong, will be eight years old, and he will come to the Ministry of Rites to do things, and it is impossible to hand over the military department to Gao Lao Wu, Zu Ting was enlightened.

There are so many high positions in the court, he can't look at the backs of Gao Longzhi and other old ministers, let alone compete with Yang Su, Cui Jishu and other old ministers of the palace, and Gao Cheng's close sons and nephews also want to get a piece of the pie.

Relying on oneself alone, the future is limited, and in this world, you should find a master, so that you can have the opportunity to hold the authority and show what you have learned.

The opening of the four kings also provided him with an opportunity to find his master.

The candle flame flickered, and Zu Ting wrote four names on a blank piece of paper early: Gao Xiaozhang, Gao Xiaoyu, Gao Xiaowan, and Gao Xiaojun.

He was silent, the food his wife had brought in had already been cold, but his eyes were always fixed on the white paper.

After a long time, Zu Ting brought up the name of Gao Xiaozhang with a stroke.

On the bright side, Gao Xiaozhang seems to be the most popular, after all, the Gao family was born from the Erzhu family, and it was strengthened by annexing the Erzhu family, Gao Xiaozhang, as the grandson of Erzhu Rong, has a background in the military that the rest of the brothers are beyond reach, at least the Qihu people will be brainless inclined to him, and he has the identity of the eldest son, no matter how you look at the storage position, he is the only one.

After all, when Gao Huan was alive, he always preached that he was against Er Zhuzhao, who killed the king, not the benefactor Er Zhurong.

But in Zu Ting's opinion, this eldest son is affected by the identity of Er Zhurong's grandson, and it is difficult to become a big treasure.

Erzhu Rong in the Heyin Change, slaughtered the Manchu Dynasty ministers, and his hands were full of blood debts, and the Erzhu clan formed a mortal enmity with the Sinicized Xianbei and the Han people, otherwise it was just a Yuan Ziyou who was killed, how could the Hebei Shi clan rebel one after another.

Gao Xiaozhang relied on his grandson's identity and was favored by the Qihu people, so he had to bear the consequences of the Heyin Change, and his mother family was the Erzhu clan, which was destined by birth and could not be changed.

Zu Ting knew that Gao Xiaozhang had a master behind him to support him, and he went to worship the graves of the victims of the Heyin Revolution almost every year, and also kept a slight distance from his only surviving uncle Er Zhu Wen, and rarely had contacts, but the past grudges could be resolved so easily.

The matter of seizing the heir is not about how many supporters there are, after all, no matter how many supporters there are, the weight cannot compare to the preferences of his father Gao Cheng, but how many opponents have a firm position.

Don't say anything else, you ask Yang Su, Hongnong Yang clan was almost wiped out by the Erzhu clan, although this blood debt is not on Gao Xiaozhang's head, but if Gao Xiaozhang becomes the prince, his mother Erzhu clan will be prosperous, seeing that the Erzhu clan is infinitely beautiful, this is not more uncomfortable than letting him die.

There are more than one or two people who have a blood feud with the Erzhu clan like Yang Su, and more than 2,000 ministers were killed in the change of Heyin, including both Sinicized Xianbei and Han people.

Of course, Gao Xiaozhang naturally has no shortage of supporters, after all, the saying that there is a grandson and no grandson is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and not all civil officials have a blood feud with the Erzhu clan.

His eyes fell on the remaining three names, and Zu Ting crossed out Gao Xiaoyu and Gao Xiaowan in one go, leaving only Gao Cheng's fourth son, Gao Xiaojun, who was newly crowned King Lu.

It is normal for the Han people who can't urinate in a pot with Gao Xiaozhang and the Sinicized Xianbei to tend to Gao Xiaoyu and Gao Xiaowan respectively, after all, one was born to a Han girl, and the other has Xianbei blood, and in terms of momentum, he can compete with Gao Xiaozhang.

Zu Ting felt that he still didn't want to go to the Qin Palace, Zhao Wangfu to join in the fun, compared to the three brothers, the Lu Wangfu was the place he should go.

Outsiders think that King Lu is a little transparent, and the history of entering the ministry is just his father Gao Cheng in order to show fairness, after all, the three brothers have their own forces because of their maternal background, as for Gao Xiaojun, his mother is just a maid in the Qi Palace, and she doesn't even have a name, you don't even know if he was born to the Han people, or Xianbei and Qihu, how can there be maternal forces to rely on.

But in Zu Ting's opinion, this is precisely Gao Xiaojun's advantage, and if he is ignored, he will not be jealous.

As mentioned earlier, the key to the battle for the position lies in how many opponents there are, and no one knows what kind of blood Gao Xiaoqian is bleeding in the other half of his body, so there is no need to worry about his tendency after taking the throne.

The other three parties fight for each other and form grudges, perhaps in the end, the fourth son whose biological mother is unknown, but is a candidate acceptable to the Han, Xianbei, and Qihu tribes, after all, ethnic integration is not an overnight thing.

The more Zu Ting thought about it, the more tempted he became, and he felt that he was like Lu Buwei who discovered Qin Yiren, and the allusion of strange goods always lingered in his mind.

Gao Xiaojun is now uncared for, everyone's eyes are on Gao Xiaozhang, Gao Xiaoyu, Gao Xiaowan, he goes to vote at this time, with his full of talent, he will definitely be cited as a confidant and entrusted with reuse.

As for Lü Buwei's bleak end, and finally drank alcohol and committed suicide, he didn't care much, it was Qin Yiren's early death, and it was Qin Yiren who had a deep friendship with Lü Buwei, not Yingzheng.

He is nearly thirty years old when he is older, and he thinks that Gao Xiaojun will not be ahead of him.

Of course, if this kind of thing really happens, he can't tolerate Xinjun, it's a big deal to resign and return to his hometown, the Gao family is not easy to say, at least they still care about their kindness, and they don't see that Wei Jing can die well.

After having a plan, Zu Ting laughed heartily, his eyes fell on the edge of the table, and he found the meal sent by his wife.

At this time, the night outside the house was dark, he was already hungry, and he was too lazy to let the back kitchen heat it again.