Reborn in the late Northern Wei Dynasty

Chapter 293 Liaozhou
It was the middle of winter, the cold was bitter, and the wind was blowing snow.

Longcheng (Chaoyang, Liaoning), the prefecture of Yingzhou in western Liaoning, is the coldest time of the year.

Yingzhou has jurisdiction over six counties and fourteen counties. In such a vast area, there are only 1021 households with 4664 people under its rule.

Among them, Changli County, where Longcheng is located, has three counties under its jurisdiction, with a total of 210 households and 918 people, which shows the desolation of western Liaoning.

But Dragon City is famous in history.

Longcheng is also known as Helongcheng, Longdu, and Huanglongcheng. During the Sixteen Kingdoms period of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, after the defeat of King Murong Hao of Yan, Zhao's 20 army was established as the capital of Longcheng.

After that, he defeated Yuwen Xianbei and monopolized the land of western Liaoning. From then on, Murong Xianbei used Dragon City as the foundation to enter the Central Plains and compete in the world.

After seizing Youzhou, the capital was moved to Ji (southwest of Beijing), and as the territory expanded to the south, the capital was moved to Yecheng.

As the land of dragon prosperity, Longcheng has always occupied a special position in the Murong Xianbei regime.

However, time flies, Murong Xianbei was defeated by Tuoba Xianbei, and withdrew from the Central Plains, Murong's adopted son Gao Yun rebuilt the Northern Yan in Longcheng, and was destroyed by the Northern Wei Dynasty.

Tuoba Tao, Emperor Taiwu of the Northern Wei Dynasty, moved more than [-] households, and Feng Ba of the Northern Yan Dynasty led the people to flee to Goguryeo.

The Dragon City of Liaoxi, which was once very prosperous in the past, has been desolate since then, leaving only a magnificent city.

Zhang Liang, who was ordered to lead [-] salt soldiers stationed in western Liaoning, walked in the city.

It has been nearly half a year since he came here, and every time he passes by the former site of Dongxiang, a school built by Murong Hao and capable of accommodating thousands of students, he always sighs and sighs:
And when he was dispatched, there were less than a thousand people in Changli County, not even the number of students in a school in the past.

But because Gao Cheng transferred [-] salt soldiers to Yingzhou, he also moved their families here.

Dragon City and even Yingzhou have regained their vitality again.

The expenses involved really cost a lot of money, after all, no one is willing to be moved to a place of bitter cold, so Gao Cheng specially distributed the settling allowance for this.

Since it was too late for spring plowing, he had to be responsible for the food of the [-] soldiers and civilians who came with the army.

Fortunately, Hedong has completely escaped the impact of the famine. Gao Cheng, who used to support the whole of Hedong for two years with Henan and Hebei, has relieved the burden. Compared with the cost of [-] households, it is just a drop in the bucket.

The reason why he acted in this way was to develop Western Liaoning and prepare for the future attack on Goguryeo.

The ancestors warned us not to be so ambitious, but we did not forget to tell us to plan ahead.

Anyway, they took all the reason.

Today, due to the heavy snowstorm, the practice was canceled. Zhang Liang, who rarely had time to visit the historical sites, had not enjoyed himself to the fullest, but he had to personally report that an envoy from Luoyang had come.

Gao Cheng didn't have any other instructions, he just told Zhang Liang that Liaoxi Ying and Ping Erzhou would be merged into Liaozhou, and he was given the post of governor, and ordered him to handle civil affairs in addition to military affairs.

At the same time, Zhang Liang was warned not to send troops outside the Great Wall if the weather is bad, lest people and horses get lost and freeze to death.

Zhang Liang was not surprised by this.

Wei Changming, the governor of the Liying Camp and the military administration of Pingerzhou, resigned due to illness, and was taken to Luoyang by his son Wei Xingqing to recuperate. Someone should fill in for him.

The trust in the benefactor is nothing more than heart-wrenching.

However, Zhang Liang was very interested in the adjustment of the other regions. At the beginning of the year, all parts of Henan were merged into Si, Shan, Guang, Jing, Yu, Xu, Jiao, Qing, Ji, Yan, and Liang.

I don't know what the other states in Hebei are planning.

So I asked the messenger for a while before I figured it out.

Gao Cheng adjusted Hebei into seven prefectures: Xiang, Ji, Ding, Cang, You, Liao, and Ying.

Small prefectures such as Nanying Prefecture were merged with large prefectures one by one, and Yinzhou was even shared by Xiang and Ding prefectures.

Dingzhou Inspector She Digan ruled Zhongshan Lunu (Dingzhou, Hebei).

Du Bi, governor of Xiangzhou, ruled Yecheng.

Lou Zhao, the governor of Jizhou, ruled Xindu.

Zhang Yao, the governor of Cangzhou, ruled Rao'an (Yanshan, Hebei).

The governor of Youzhou was high-ranking, and he ruled Jixian County.

Yuan Xiaoyou, the governor of Yingzhou, ruled the military city of Zhaodu (Hejian, Hebei).

And Zhang Liang, the last governor of Liaozhou, ruled Longcheng.

Since then, in the eighteen prefectures of Henan and Hebei, except for Hou Jing, the governor of Jingzhou, all the relatives or confidantes of Gao Cheng have been appointed.

In the entire Eastern Wei Dynasty, only the six states of Hedong and Beijiang Heng, Yun, Yan, Shuo, Xian, and Wei remained without adjustment.

Gao Cheng's control over Henan and Hebei is not limited to the governors of various places. He sent a large number of staff from the General's Mansion to various places to serve as county guards. The bloated General's Mansion in the past is now quite deserted.

Chief Shi Zhang Shiqi was only responsible for recording Gao Cheng's words and deeds, and all other affairs were handled by Sima Feng Zihui of the General's Mansion.

Fortunately, Gao Cheng's cronies such as Yang Min, Cui Jishu, and Cui Xian have joined the central government in recent years. The General's Mansion is no longer involved in government affairs, but only handles the military affairs of the Gyeonggi Army. Feng Zihui can support a group of civil servants.

On December 539, the eighth year of Taichang (23), Wei Xingqing's father, Wei Changming, died of illness in Luoyang.

Gao Cheng went to offer his condolences in person, and Shangshu presented him with a chariot and cavalry general, the governor of the four prefectures of Liao, You, Cang, and Ying, and the governor of Youzhou.

After consulting Wei Xingqing's opinion, Gao Cheng handed over the title of Wei Changming to his eldest son Wei Xingjing to inherit.

Wei Xingqing and his brother Wei Xingjing have been close since childhood. In the Battle of Mangshan, Gao Huan was hunted down by He Basheng, and Wei Xingqing asked himself to end his heir.

Gao Huan promised that if Wei Xingqing survived, he would be awarded the governor of Huaizhou, and if he died in battle, the governor of Huaizhou would also be handed over to Wei Xingqing's son.

Wei Xingqing, on the grounds that his son was still young, requested that his brother be given the post of governor of Huaizhou.

Unexpectedly, Wei Xingqing died after fighting hard, and his brother Wei Xingjing also died in the battle of Mangshan.

People are most afraid of comparison, Gao Cheng feels helpless when he looks at the respectful Wei brothers and friends, and then at his own big family.

As the saying goes, every family has a scripture that is difficult to recite, but this scripture of his family is too obscure, and the whole text is full of rare words.

After dealing with the funeral of Wei Changming, just as everyone in the Bohai Palace was preparing to bid farewell to the old and usher in the new, news came from the palace that Yuan Shanjian's beloved concubine Li Shi was diagnosed with a happy pulse.

Gao Cheng did not lead the army to forcibly break into the palace city, forcing Concubine Li to drink Luozi soup.

Although he has fully integrated into this era, the remaining modern people's concept of good and evil prevents him from doing this kind of thing.

However, Gao Cheng still deliberately sent someone into the palace to meet Yuan Shanjian, telling him not to neglect Empress Gao.

Of course it was not Gao Longzhi who entered the palace to face the saint, and letting him go would only scare Yuan Shanjian to force Concubine Li to have an abortion.

It was Sun Teng, an old matchmaker who had just gotten the post of waiter.

Sun Teng is a sympathetic person. He lost a daughter in the early years, and he guessed that he was made a slave for others. Therefore, as long as there are slaves who ask him to pardon him, Sun Teng will agree.

He watched Concubine Li catch Yuan Shan and saw the trembling appearance of the corners of his clothes, so it was impossible for him to say serious words, but he just told Yuan Shan to take good care of Concubine Li, and at the same time, don't neglect the queen.

　Thank you book friend Daoyou Changqing for your reward.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)