As expected by Gao Yang and Gao Yan, there were indeed two people on the entourage list, but what was surprising was that the four ladies of the harem accompanied the southern tour.

Er Zhu Ying'e, Song family, and Yuan Zhonghua have never left the palace since the founding of the People's Republic of China.

Gao Cheng's most important task on this southern tour is to appease the hearts of the people in Jiangnan, so bringing Xiao Miaochun with him has some effect.

But Xiao Gao Wang is not a person who likes the new and hates the old, so he let the four women go along, so that the outside world can be less suspicious of the rear position.

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The discussion about the ownership of the queen's throne has never been stopped since the death of Princess Worm.

After all, the canonization of the queen is related to the national capital and directly affects the competition for the storage position.

In addition to the four ladies of the harem, Gao Cheng also added the name of his cousin Gao Rui's family, and he also intended to take the opportunity of this southern tour to have more contact with Yuan Jiyan to see if he could reunite.

Because Gao Longzhi was sent to Yecheng to build a palace, Gao Cheng left Yang Su, Cui Jishu, Cui Xian, and Zhao Yanshen to preside over state affairs, and Chen Yuankang supervised Luoyang.

King Gao Xiaozhang of Jin, King Gao Xiaoyu of Qin, King Gao Xiaowan of Zhao, King Gao Xiaojun of Lu, and Gao Xiaocong, King of Yan, stayed in the six ministries and performed their duties, even the sixth son Gao Xiaojun, who had not yet been appointed, did not take it with him.

In the sixth year of Zhaode (553), on September 12, Gao Cheng led 80,000 people out of Luoyang, planning to cross the river through Huainan, go down to Jiangdong, and then go west, cross from Jingbei to return to Jiangbei.

Along the way, Gao Cheng sent people to hint many times, Yuan Jiyan knew what he meant, but he finally strengthened his determination, and he would not change again.

After being rejected several times, Gao Cheng finally determined that she was unwilling to continue her relationship, nor did she force her, but completely left her past feelings behind.

The car arrived in Hezhou in late October, and Liu Zhongli, the assassin of Hezhou, led a group of officials out of the city for 20 miles to meet them.

After entering the city, Liu Zhongli asked to be transferred to a civilian post and handed over tens of thousands of Jiangdong soldiers and horses under his command.

was moved to Jiangbei, like duckweed, and Gao Cheng came with 80,000 horses, and Liu Zhongli, who had always held the Jiangdong soldiers and horses, finally let go.

Gao Cheng praised this, made him a marquis, and cut soldiers in Liu Zhongli's army.

Among them, the old and infirm were kicked out of the barracks, and a sum of money was given to them to return to their hometowns to work as farmers and accept the distribution of fields.

The strong men were sent to Jiangzhou and assigned to Wu Mingche's command, while the rest were sent to various parts of Jiangdong as state and county soldiers.

The military rectification of Hezhou, when Gao Cheng's car drove to Jiangzhou, will also be staged among Wu Mingche's subordinates.

After recruiting 100,000 new cavalry soldiers in Luoyang, Gao Cheng took the initiative to streamline Xiao Liang's original army.

Since the Xiao Civil War, Xiao Gang, Xiao Lun, and Xiao Yi have expanded their armies, so that the good and bad officers in the army are uneven, and this time the old and weak are abolished, which is also one of Gao Cheng's purposes.

As for distributing money and dividing land for the eliminated soldiers, it is also necessary, and the responsibility will definitely cause a stir.

In the years of war in Jiangnan, there are many borderless lands, and Gao Cheng encouraged the scholars to buy handicrafts, and they also made a lot of money, and they were able to get severance expenses.

After solving the reorganization of the troops in Hezhou, Gao Cheng crossed the river again from Quarry Rock, but now there is no Nanliang Naval Division to harass the construction of the pontoon bridge.

Xiao Yuanming defected to the Northern Qi Dynasty after Xiao Yi's self-immolation, Gao Cheng was still a nostalgic person, and arranged a place for him in Luoyang as a shelter, but no official position was arranged.

And Xiao Yuanming's wives and concubines who were placed in Yaoguang Temple, whether it was Zhang, Yu, Wang, and Ruan who were captured in Shouzhou, or Xiao Zhengde's wives and concubines who were captured in Jingkou were under Xiao Yuanming's possession, it was impossible to return them.

After all, many of them gave birth to daughters to Gao Cheng.

Before crossing the river in Quarshiji, Gao Cheng issued an edict to change the history of the four states in the south of the Yangtze River to the governor, namely Duan Shao, the governor of Wuzhou, Wu Mingche, the governor of Jiangzhou, Gao Jishi, the governor of Hengzhou, and Hu Luguang, the governor of Xiangzhou, in addition to the Liangzhou governor Xi Digan, and the governor of Liaozhou Zhang Liang.

The establishment of the post of chief also marked the complete transformation of the post of assassin into a civilian position, and he was no longer in charge of the military.

At the beginning of November, Gao Cheng crossed the Yangtze River and came to Jiankang again, the demolished houses on the south bank of the Qinhuai River had already been rebuilt, and the army crossed the Qinhuai River and entered the city through the Vermilion Bird Voyage.

Gao Cheng let the four ladies ride with him, and because Duan Shao sent people to control the houses along the street early, Gao Cheng also rarely took an open-air carriage into the city, so that the people of Jiankang could see the face of heaven.

Master Yao, who was responsible for the escort work, did not dare to be careless for a moment, and always maintained a high degree of mental tension, and his neck twisted from side to side never stopped.

But fortunately, there was no imaginary assassin, after all, Gao Cheng had not been in an open-air carriage for more than ten years, and now he had an improvised idea, even if he really wanted to assassinate, it was too late to arrange it.

After Xiao Gangjin surrendered the table, Gao Cheng implemented the five-capital system, with Jiankang as Nanjing and Jiankang Taicheng as the palace, and this time he naturally lived in Taicheng as the master.

Duan Shaoxin, the governor of Wuzhou, recently accepted another Jiangnan woman as a concubine, whose appearance is beautiful, not inferior to Yuan Jingyi and Yuan Yuyi sisters, showing off to Gao Cheng, but hiding it tightly and refusing to show it.

Xiao Gao Wang is naturally disdainful of this, the frog at the bottom of the well is just a frog, if he really wants to see the grand occasion of Yaoguang Temple, how can he be complacent because of a woman.

Over the years, the lineup of Yaoguang Temple has been expanded again and again.

At first, it was the concubines of Yuan Wei, and then the enemy generals and the wives of the vassal kings who were captured in the war, and later even the criminal files of the officials, among which the beautiful ones were no longer filled into the court, but were sent directly to the Yaoguang Temple.

Of course, discussing women is just a joke about the reunion of the two cousins after a long absence, and after the banquet, Gao Cheng left Duan Shao behind, and discussed with him the plan to kill Chen.

Gao Cheng intends to start a three-way army to attack Chen from next year, the first route is Duan Shao to lead the army out of Fujian, the second route is to lead Wu Mingche out of Jiangzhou, and the third route is to lead Gao Ji to go to Nanling.

It is precisely because he intends to go south next year that he will transfer the elite men under Liu Zhongli to Wu Mingche.

Duan Shao had no objection to the three-way plan to send troops, and the disagreement with Gao Cheng was mainly on the arrangement of Hu Luguang and whether Wu Mingche was suitable to be the commander of the second route.

In Duan Shao's view, whether Wu Mingche, a southern Han man, can take on a big responsibility still needs to be considered.

Gao Cheng did not listen to this, Wu Mingche was loyal or capable, in his opinion, he was capable of being the main general.

As for Hu Luguang's arrangement, Gao Cheng intended that Hu Luguang would stay in Jingnan to guard against Yuwentai, but Duan Shao suggested that if Yuwentai led the army to Lingnan to rescue, Hu Luguang would seize Chuzhou, that is, the Chongqing region in the later generations, and open the door to Shu.

In Duan Shao's view, whether or not the door to Shu can be opened is even more important than that of Sanlu Chen.

Gao Cheng thought about it again and again, and agreed with his opinion, and decided to gather the troops of Guanzhong to Liangzhou at that time, and let Wei Digan make a big noise in the north, forcing Yuwentai to divide his troops to defend the Shu Road, and then start a three-way attack on Chen, if he went out from Yungui to the east and interfered in the war, he would seize Chuzhou with Hu Luguang.