Reborn in the late Northern Wei Dynasty

Chapter 354 The Fourth Prince of King Qi (5000)

Civil strife in the Southern Dynasties was not big news, it was an old tradition, but in the Southern Liang Dynasty, civil strife was a rare occurrence. After all, Bodhisattva Xiao, you said he was not aggressive, and he was indeed keen on practicing Buddhism.

But if you say that he doesn't know how to govern, then you will look down on him.

Yu Xin once mentioned in his famous poem "Mourning Jiangnan Fu" mourning his homeland: "Jiang Biao has been fine for 50 years." '

That is to say, during Xiao Yan's rule, there was no civil strife in the south of the Yangtze River, and it was a scene of peace.

These remarks are too exaggerated, but before Hou Jingzhi's rebellion, Jiangnan had indeed been at peace for many years, and there were few large-scale civil strife.

Even the turmoil that erupted this time did not occur in the Jiangnan area, but in the distant Jiaozhou, which is now northern Vietnam.

Xiao Zi, the governor of Jiaozhou, was the son of Xiao Hui, Xiao Yan's half-brother. Although he was not the eldest son and had no hope of becoming a prince, he was granted the title of Marquis of the Founding of Wulin County, with [-] households in Shiyi.

But this little money is not enough for Lord Xiao Hou to spend, so during his tenure, he wantonly extorted the people's wealth, which can be said to be too much, and the people in Jiaozhou can be said to be in dire straits.

Why, Lord Xiao Hou gave up the gentle hometown of Jiankang and came to this plague-ridden Jiaozhou, so it's not too much to make two bucks.

The people at the bottom dared not speak out, but Li Ben, a powerful Jiaozhou tycoon who was then the Dezhou supervisor, had something to say. (Dezhou Government is located in Rong City, Nghe An Province, Vietnam today)
In 541, that is, at the end of last year, Linyi State in southern Vietnam attacked Jiaozhou. Li Ben took this opportunity to raise troops in December and expelled Xiao Zi, the governor of Jiaozhou, thus controlling Jiaozhou, Dezhou and other northern Vietnam.

Xiao Zi was expelled and fled to Guangzhou. He sent someone to deliver the news to Jiankang. Xiao Yan was furious when he learned that, and immediately ordered Lu Zixiong, the governor of Xinzhou (Xinxing County, Guangdong) and Sun Jiong, the governor of Gaozhou (Yangxi County, Guangdong) The conquest of Li Ben was controlled by Xiao Ying, the governor of Guangzhou.

At that time, it was already spring, and the miasma in the south of the Five Ridges was already on the rise. Lu Zixiong asked Guangzhou governor Xiao Ying if he could send troops after autumn, but he was rejected, and Xiao Zi urged him, so he reluctantly went west to quell the rebellion.

However, the army had only reached Hepu County (Pubei, Guangxi), and as many as sixty-seven out of ten soldiers died of miasma. No one dared to continue walking, and the troops collapsed. Seeing this, Sun Jiong had to lead the rest of the troops back.

Xiao Zi then falsely accused Lu Zixiong and Sun Jiong to Xiao Yan of colluding with Li Ben secretly, so Xiao Yan ordered them to die in Guangzhou.

As for Xiao Zi, who was not benevolent in politics and caused the riot by excessive expropriation, he took up the post of Wei Weiqing after returning to Jiankang.

Of course, this is also in line with Xiao Yan's usual practice. He has always treated the clan with a bodhisattva heart, so why not call him Bodhisattva Xiao.

Xiao Zi was frightened so badly, so he had to give him an important position to comfort him.

It's just that Lu Zixiong and Sun Jiong's old department have different views. When they learned that the two governors were killed, everyone was filled with righteous indignation.

In 544, Xiao Ying, who presided over the suppression of the rebellion, once again summoned the army of various states to Guangzhou. Lu Zixiong's generals Du Tianhe, Du Sengming and others took the opportunity to launch a mutiny and besieged the city of Guangzhou. Respondents gathered.

After all, Lu Zixiong had just arrived in Hepu County, and [-]% to [-]% of the soldiers died of illness, everyone was afraid.

It is said that Du Tianhe asked everyone: If you go, you will die, if you don't go, you will die. Waiting for death, is it possible to die?
Everyone replied: すごいThe country is dead!
Chen Ba, the governor of Xijiang under Xiao Ying's command and governor of Gaoyao County, heard the news first, led three thousand elite soldiers, and traveled day and night to capture rebel generals Du Tianhe, Du Sengming and others in the first battle.

Xiao Yan was overjoyed when he learned that there was such a strong general. He appointed him General Zhige, made him Viscount Xin'an, and had three hundred households in the town.

Of course, this is all a later story. Back in the 11th year of Taichang (542), Qi Wang Gaocheng, who was freely switching between lewdness and diligence, knew about the Jiaozhou rebellion, and knew that those people were just stepping stones for Chen Baxian to come to power.

But he wasn't too distracted by Lingnan, he just ordered people to continue collecting information.

With Chen Baxian's current status, he is not qualified to sing in the drama of the Three Kingdoms. He has only stepped on the first step of the high platform.

Gao Cheng is different. He not only went on stage, but also set up a table on the stage. Standing on the table, everyone needs to look up and cannot ignore his existence.

Perhaps it was too dazzling, even the secret matter of King Qi's night visit to Yaoguang Temple was leaked, and it was widely spread in the streets and alleys of Luoyang.

Yaoguang Temple is not an ordinary nun temple. It not only supports the concubines of the past dynasties. The reason why it is called the past dynasties is mainly because of the chaos in the past few years. In Luoyang, five emperors died within five years.

Moreover, there are Gao Huan's childless concubine, such as Zheng Dache, Li Shi, Ma Shi and others,
The people of Luoyang are very interested in such breaking news.

The reason why the news leaked was not because the guards were not strict with their mouths, but because they really couldn't hide it. The empress of the deposed emperor Yuen Long was about to give birth.

Counting the time, isn't it the seed that Gao Cheng left in Yaoguang Temple before he went on tour.

Unavoidable incidents such as Gao Jun's father's unknown, but all the women in Yaoguang Temple who were favored by King Qi had Gao Cheng's trustworthy maidservants in the temple to serve them personally, and at the same time they were also monitoring. Although Yaoguang Temple does not allow men to enter and leave, But also just in case.

Of course, Gao Cheng would never admit to the rumors that the King of Qi visited Yaoguang Temple at night, and senior officials such as Shang Shu Ling Gao Longzhi and Zhong Shu Ling Sima Ziru also came forward to clarify the rumors, and for Qi Wang's people. product endorsement.

On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month in the 11th year of Taichang, during the Lantern Festival, a newborn baby boy was smuggled by Yun Niang from Yaoguang Temple to Prince Qi's Mansion.

The next day, King Qi's mansion released news that a maid in the mansion gave birth to King Qi's fourth son, but the maid died due to dystocia. King Qi pursued her as a concubine, but outsiders did not know her name.

Not only is the birth mother unknown, but the fourth son did not even have a name. Compared with his three elder brothers, he seems to be extremely unloved. Although there are rumors from the Yaoguang Temple that the birth mother of this son is the queen of the deposed emperor Yuen Long , but not many people believed it, because at the same time, spies from the Ministry of Public Security muddied the water.

Under Gao Cheng's order, Wang Si released all kinds of rumors to confuse the audience. It can be said that the fourth son's birth mother was changed every day. Hu Zhi was born.

Even the specific details of Hu Zhi and King Qi's upside-down were described in a clear and precise manner, as if they had witnessed it with their own eyes.

Some people even said that Hu Zhi and Cui Youfei, the mother of Li Zue and Li Zuyi, served the King of Qi together. The rumors spread more and more outrageous, and no one believed them anymore. Rumors, also seldom mentioned, eventually disappeared in the annals of history, not even a word of unofficial history.

Poor Hu Zhi and Concubine Cui were rumored and spent the whole day wiping tears at home. It was Gao Cheng who led Yuan Zhonghua and the Li family sisters to come to the door to comfort them in person, and finally came out of the haze.

Afterwards, Gao Cheng did not hold the head of the hearing department accountable, and even promoted him to an official position, and let him go to the county guard to train him well, saying that he would be of great use in the future.

This ups and downs actually revealed Gao Cheng's dissatisfaction. I told you to confuse the public and not let you bring Hu Zhi and Concubine Cui into it. Fortunately, King Gao has a clear conscience. She whipped the fair and delicate concubine Cui Youfei a few times, but she never really whipped her mother-in-law like Gao Yang.

After hearing the vacancy of the head of the department, everyone thought that Gao Cheng would choose from the staff according to the usual practice, and Gao Huan would be Gao Huan's old staff, but when the candidate was selected, everyone was surprised.

After Gao Cheng, Wei Xiaokuan served as the chief envoy, and Li Yuan served as the deputy envoy, and the two presided over the affairs of the hearing department.

At the same time, Wei Xiaokuan was in charge of the fine works in the south, that is, Shu and Jiangnan, and Li Yuan was in charge of the fine works in the north, that is, Rouran, Tuyuhun, and Goguryeo.

Li Yuan can still understand, in order to win over the Li family in Longxi, why would Wei Xiaokuan overwhelm Li Yuan as an envoy.

Just when everyone was puzzled, the Son of Heaven bestowed a marriage for King Qi and Jingzhao Webster. The name of Webster's daughter was Wei Changying, the eldest daughter of Wei Xiaokuan. age.

Huangfudao died in the battle against the Eastern Wei and Western Expeditions, and Wei Changying became a widow because of this.

Seeing the identity of this widow, the civil and military forces of Manchu Dynasty also figured it out, and secretly lamented that King Gao did not change his original intentions. Although he has taken in a lot of prostitutes over the years, this is the best (hào) one.

Well, Wei Xiaokuan only relied on nepotism to get to the top.

However, everyone else was wrong, it wasn't that Gao Cheng wanted to marry Wei Changying, so he reused Wei Xiaokuan, but Gao Cheng wanted to use Wei Xiaokuan, so he married Wei Changying.

Besides, Xiao Gaowang is really not a womanizer, and the slander against him is just rumors from the outside world.

As for why the emperor has to give marriages to concubines, it is also mentioned above. Even the king has a limit on the number of concubines. Gao Cheng's harem has long exceeded the stipulated size of eight people.

Don't ask the emperor to bestow a marriage, see, King Qi really didn't want to take a concubine, but was forced by the emperor and had to marry into the door.

Gao Cheng's joy of having a son has not yet passed, but the doubts about the fourth son's biological mother have dissipated. On the 26th of the first lunar month, the Qi Palace held a grand wedding banquet. Aunt Yuwen, Princess Huarong, and Wei Changying entered the door together.

At the wedding banquet, Gao Cheng took advantage of the strength of the wine and said to the guests:
"Duke Jingzhao Wei, the father-in-law of the solitary. Although his reputation is not obvious, he knows his abilities alone. He is definitely not a lucky minister who is superior to his in-laws. You should not despise him."

Wei Xiaokuan was moved on the spot, these days people always say that he is prostitution for glory, poking him in the back.

That's all, after all, it's just human words, Wei Xiaokuan doesn't really care about it.

But as a general, he was airborne to take the position of envoy by relying on his nepotism, even if the subordinates did not dare to contradict him on the surface, but in the dark things would definitely happen.

Wei Xiaokuan was planning to severely punish a group of assassins to establish his prestige after taking office, but before he took office, Gao Cheng had already stood up and stood up to support himself in front of the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty who came to congratulate him.

With Gao Cheng's prestige, naturally no one would dare to speak up again.

Why, do you think King Qi is not good at seeing people?Cui Jishu is sure to hold his iron fist to gesticulate with you, so that you can enjoy the emperor's treatment. After all, Cui Jishu belongs to the former Luoyang faction member who was favored and promoted by Gao Cheng, and held a high position.

That night, Gao Cheng went to Wei Changying's house first. After all, Aunt Yuwen was an old friend. On the way back to Luoyang, he walked a lot on Huarong Road. Naturally, he put Aunt Yuwen and Princess Huarong in the middle of the night and let them serve together.

It is said that the young Princess Zhuzhu broke many utensils in the Yanran Pavilion that day, but Gao Cheng couldn't help it. He was only 12 years old, and he really couldn't talk about it.

On the second day of the wedding, when Gao Cheng heard the news, he immediately went to the Yanran Pavilion to appease Princess Zhuzhu, coaxing her well just like coaxing her daughter.

There is no way, this is how to ask for help from others. For the big and white style of the Western Regions. In order for Anahu to share with his group of tall women, so that some bachelors can start families, Xiao Gaowang does not care about personal honor or disgrace.

Due to Gao Cheng's decentralization of government affairs to a certain extent, the three provinces and six government offices each performed their duties, and spring farming and other matters were handled by the Shangshu Province and the local government. In addition, Nanliang suffered civil strife, and Yuwentai was busy integrating Shu, and the frontier was calm.

Gao Cheng really spent a period of comfortable time, occasionally going outside the city during the day, or inspecting the naval rehearsal, or having fun with Xianbei soldiers, and often waiting for people from the tunnel at night, or going to Yaoguang Temple Take a trip here, of course, more time or stay at home.

At the end of March in the 11th year of Taichang (542), the facial features of Gao Cheng's fourth son finally appeared. Eyelids, nose, and mouth were initially outlined, and eyebrows and hair began to grow.

It's just that at first glance, other people thought it was a girl. This fourth son who was still in his infancy was beautiful, but people were always worried that he would look like a man and a woman when he was an adult.

Other people's male body and female appearance are fine, but the appearance of his father Gao Cheng and his own facial features are here, and I am afraid that in the future it will be even better than Fenghuang.

Fenghuang is Murong Chong, the emperor of Xiyan. His appearance is delicate and handsome, with the posture of Longyang.

Male body and female appearance are too handsome, which is a disaster for ordinary people, let alone a subjugated clan.

After the demise of Qianyan, the 12-year-old Murong Chong and his sister, the 14-year-old Princess Qinghe, were brought into the harem by Fu Jian, the former king of Qin Dynasty, and the siblings exclusively loved them.

Sometimes there are nursery rhymes singing: "One female and one male, both fly into the purple palace." '

Because of Wang Meng's persuasion, Fu Jian reluctantly sent Murong Chong out of the palace, and because of a nursery rhyme: "Feng Huang, Feng Huang Zhi Efang." '

So the infatuated Fu Jian planted hundreds of thousands of phoenix trees and bamboos in Afang City for his Feng Huang.

Of course, the fourth son in his infancy doesn't need to worry about this, after all his father, King Qi, is extremely powerful, unless the Gao family is defeated one day, this fourth son may end up like Murong Chong being toyed with by others.

And Qi Wang Gaocheng seemed to have finally remembered that he still had such a son who did not have a name, so he wrote the word Xiaoguan in his poor calligraphy and named the fourth son Gao Xiaoguan.

Gao Cheng didn't know whether it was God's will or not, but since he was the fourth son and his appearance was on the way to softness, he really couldn't make up his mind whether this was King Lanling, one of the four most beautiful men.

But it's not a problem not to choose a name, so I still gave him the word Xiaoguan. When he grows up, if he is really a good boy with a soft appearance and a strong heart, Gao Cheng will give him the word Changgong, but if he doesn't If he wants to make progress, he will naturally change his name, so as not to spoil the name.

Compared with the three elder brothers who were ranked high as county princes, Gao Xiaoguan only got one Leling county prince, which also seemed to show that King Qi didn't like the fourth son whose birth mother was suspected.

Therefore, even the biological mothers of the three elder brothers, the former Empress Er Zhu Ying'e of the Great Wei Dynasty, the former Princess Song Shi of Yingchuan, and the princess Yuan Zhonghua of Feng Yi, would not waste their energy on Gao Xiaoguan who was raised by a wet nurse and was not valued by his father.

Gao Cheng often went to Yaoguang Temple to have fun, probably because he was fed up with the trivial matters in the inner house.

There is nothing wrong with the mother thinking about her son, and it cannot be stopped.

As long as the three women fight secretly, Gao Cheng will not intervene as long as they don't show it to the public.

It's not that he didn't think about having a son, but now of the four concubines, the oldest Gao Xiaozhang and Gao Xiaoyu are only six years old, the third Gao Xiaowan is under one year old, and the youngest Gao Xiaoguan is still in his infancy.

At this time, he was in a hurry to establish a son, in case Gao Cheng didn't like him in the future, the deposed son's fate would not be so good, even if Gao Cheng could protect him while he was alive, there was no guarantee that his brothers would not attack him after death.

Even if a son is established, it is impossible to stop thinking about it completely, not to mention that the current wife is temporarily 12-year-old Princess Zhuzhu. It is unknown whether she can enter the house as a wife. Yuan Zhonghua is just entering the house She was previously replaced as the first wife.

In a blink of an eye, it was the last day of March, when the Beijing Examination started.

This time, Gao Cheng was still nominally the chief examiner for the Beijing Examination, but it was the aides of the General's Mansion and the Prime Minister's Mansion who actually checked the papers.

The topic was also discussed and drafted by You Pushe Yang Min, Hubu Shangshu Cui Jishu, and Sizhou Mu Chen Yuankang.

Gao Cheng just walked around the exam room on the day of the exam and didn't show up.

You asked King Qi what he was doing during this period, he was busy enjoying the silk with Yuan Jiyan who came from the tunnel.

After making reasonable arrangements for power, it turns out that not only the emperor, but even the powerful officials can rule.

Gao Cheng also figured it out. When he traveled here, he didn't just do government affairs every day. He should enjoy the blessings when he deserved them.

Can't Xiao Gao Wang run around for his father at the age of ten, can't he enjoy it?

In fact, the main thing is that the world is peaceful and the country is fine. Gao Cheng spent ten years enlisting a group of trustworthy confidants who can delegate power a little, so naturally he doesn't need to worry about everything.

Didn't Sima Yi make a judgment before, saying that Zhuge Liang's food is less troublesome, and his life will not be long.

As a modern person, Gao Cheng naturally wouldn't seek immortality and medicine, but apart from rebooting, Little Gao Wang really cherishes his body.

The results of the Beijing Examination were released on the third day of April. Compared with the first imperial examination, the proportion of students from poor families has slightly increased this time, but they are still mainly from the gentry.

Gao Cheng has nothing to regret, as long as he has real talent and practice, he will succeed.

What's more, the imperial examination system was originally the result of grabbing food from the gentry's mouths, and things shouldn't be done too much, to forcibly recruit students from poorer families who are less able.

For Gao Cheng, it was his purpose to open the imperial examination to change the gentry, no matter how foolish or virtuous they are, so that talented people from poor families can get promoted. Don't worry, the sons of the gentry are still working for him.

What's more, as long as the opening of the imperial examination is opened, the rise of poor families will be the general trend of history after all, so there is no need for Gao Cheng to worry about it.

　5000 words to bring, the next chapter is before twelve o'clock in the evening.

　　Thanks to the book friends who are brisk and smooth, go far without traces, and deer without boundaries for their rewards.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)