Towards the end of the year, Gao Cheng finally arrived at the last stop of his trip to Jiangnan, Xiangzhou.

Outside the city of Changsha, King Xiao Gao looked at the towering city wall and had mixed feelings.

This land, for Gao Cheng's identity, is a newcomer, but in another time and space, it is his second hometown for studying and struggling.

Seeing that he was in a reverie, Hu Luguang didn't understand the melancholy in Gao Cheng's heart at this time, but he still stood aside and didn't interrupt his thoughts.

After a long time, Gao Cheng regained his mind and sighed:

"Let's go into town."

The carriage traveled slowly, the road was smooth and not bumpy.

Gao Cheng sat in the carriage, closing his eyes and recalling people and events in another time and space.

Crossbows were fired at the carriages on both sides of the roadside, and many people were shouting;

"Kill the thief! Punish the Dufu!"

The carriage had stopped, and Gao Cheng frowned, he didn't understand how he had become a single husband.

But it was just a doubt, the disturbance outside the carriage could not affect him, as the screams rang out, the shouts of killing became weaker and weaker, and in the end it was just another failed assassination.

Master Yao rode to the front of the car and told the thieves that they were all ambushed, and they did not have time to stay alive because some people saw that the assassination failed, so they killed themselves with short knives.

"Then keep walking."

Gao Cheng said excitedly.

has been in power for more than 20 years, how can there be fewer enemies, those warriors who were suppressed by him, those remnants who tried to restore the country in vain, and even his siblings of the same father and mother, too many people have a reason to kill him.

Afterwards, he had to listen to the Wangsi to investigate, and there was no need for King Xiao Gao to personally examine the body.

The place where Gao Cheng settled was the Beiliang Palace, that is, Xiao Lun's former Shaoling Palace, and after being called emperor, he expanded a circle.

Before getting out of the carriage, Hu Luguang knelt down to plead guilty, and Gao Cheng helped him up and comforted him with kind words.

Xiangzhou is the last stop of the trip to the south of the Yangtze River, if it is the Liang people who have the intention to restore the country, they will definitely make a desperate bet here, and the rest of the people who have a grudge against Gao Cheng may also pretend to be Liang people, in the name of recovering the country, and assassinate the king.

Gao Cheng took Hu Luguang's hand and entered the house with him.

He believes in Hu Luguang's loyalty 100%, not to mention the friendship between the two since childhood, if Gao Cheng has an accident, it will do Hu Luguang all kinds of harm and no benefit.

entered the main hall and let the rest of the people settle on their own, Gao Cheng discussed with Hu Luguang about attacking Chuzhou.

The road from Hanzhong to Shu is difficult to walk, and it is not much better to go west from Jianghan.

However, Hu Luguang was in high spirits at this time, and learned that Gao Cheng would allocate 50,000 soldiers to him, and also promised that if Yuwentai went east along the Yangtze River, he would break his main force, and if Yuwentai was supported by Yungui to support Nanchen, that is, Chu Prefecture would be pulled out to offer Gao Cheng.

"The courage of the bright moon, I know it, next year's battle, of course, is important, but you can't go to risk in a hurry, Yuwentai and others go against the trend, it won't last long, although Chuzhou is gratifying, but it is not as safe as Mingyue."

Gao Cheng and Hu Luguang held hands and sighed.

In fact, most of his words came from the bottom of his heart, these days, it is not difficult to find capable generals, but only Duan Shao and Gao Jishi can get his full trust like Hu Luguang, if there is a mistake, it is also a problem in the deployment of military forces.

After sending Hu Luguang away, Gao Cheng ordered someone to bring Gao Yang and Gao Yan, and asked in a deep voice:

"Could this matter have anything to do with the two of you?"

Gao Yang and Gao Yan denied that they were involved, after all, the two had been driving together for many years, and they also knew that Gao Cheng's caution could not give him the slightest chance.

After getting the reply from the two, Gao Cheng was undoubtedly relieved, and he didn't look into it, as long as they weren't stupid, he really didn't want to bear the name of fratricide.

Out of the main hall, Gao Yang and Gao Yan's faces were as usual, they knew in their hearts that this matter had nothing to do with them, and they were not afraid to track it down.

Gao Cheng, who is the eldest brother, is not fake to defend them, but he will not do anything to splash dirty water and kill him, if he is such a person, the two of them will not be able to live now.

During the period when King Xiao Gao was in Changsha, he only appeased the scholars, feasted with the officials, and

The public sentiment was not examined.

Mainly when he entered the city, he was assassinated, and he was not sure if there were other assassins in the city, Hu Luguang has been searching for people of unknown origin in Dasuo these days, but Gao Cheng is not sure if there will be any fish that have slipped through the net.

The scholars of Xiangzhou and Hengzhou, in general, had great opinions about the former garrison of Jingnan.

At the beginning, Xiao Lun forced the people of Jingnan to rebel, and Di Gan led the army to rescue and quell the rebellion on behalf of him, the process was very bloody, many of them were not thieves and heroes, but only encroached on a huge amount of acres of land, or hid a large number of hidden households, and he was crowned with the hat of rebellion, and often raided the house, classified the hidden households as tax households, and turned private land into public land.

Now that Gao Cheng has come to Changsha, many orphans have shown up and asked for the return of the property.

In this regard, Gao Cheng only asked Bo, the head of the Xiangzhou Governor's Mansion, whether he had allocated public land for them according to the uniform land system, and when he received a positive answer, he expelled the people.

What he Gao Cheng swallowed, when did he spit it out, he really wanted to return the industry, and everyone would follow suit, how to maintain such a big stall in the Qi Dynasty.

During this period, Hu Luguang searched for many people of suspicious origin, and found out that it was indeed the group of people who wanted to restore the country who presided over the previous assassination.

The Xiao family themselves have given up Jiangshan Sheji, and this group of Southern Liang remnants still wants to restore the country, Gao Cheng did not laugh at their foolish loyalty, but he did not show mercy, and all of them sank the Xiangjiang River to feed the fish.

Xiao Miaochun, who was driving, had the heart to persuade Gao Cheng not to implicate too widely, but he also knew that the existence of these people would harm the lives of the Xiao family in Luoyang, so he also gave up and chose to stand by and watch.

Gao Cheng spent six years of Zhaode in Changsha, and finally went to the outskirts of the city to worship the sky under heavy protection in the first day.

On the ninth day of the first month of the seventh year of Zhaode (554), Gao Cheng finally set off to the north and crossed the Yangtze River to Jiangling, Yingzhou Prefecture.

It happened that Xue Xiuyi, the assassin of Yingzhou, fell ill and was carried out of the city to meet him.

Xue Xiuyi was Gao Aocao's cellmate, and was imprisoned by Er Zhurong together, and Gao Huan had contact with him when he was the assassin of Jinzhou, and now he is seventy-eight years old.

At the beginning, Gao Cheng seized Jiangling and looked for the town general, Xue Xiuyi took the initiative to ask Ying, Hu Lujin was worried that this Han veteran would have his heart towards the Southern Dynasty, and Zeng Jin said that Gao Cheng would not let him soldiers and horses, and only let him form state and county soldiers in Jiangling for defense.

King Xiao Gao also listened to Hu Lujin's advice, because at that time he was not aware of the centripetal force of the Southern Dynasty towards the Han generals.

Such as Yang Kan, Yang Yaren, and even Hu people such as Wang Shengbi and his father Wang Shennian, did not hesitate to give up the officials and clans of the Northern Dynasty, and ran south wholeheartedly, working for the Xiao family.

Fortunately, Xue Xiuyi guarded Jiangling for several years and worked diligently, and Gao Cheng settled in Jiangling to promote Xue Xiuyi to the county magistrate on the grounds of hard work, and Xue Xiuyi also resigned.