Reborn in the late Northern Wei Dynasty

Chapter 302

At the end of September last year, Gao Cheng took his whole family to hunt in Mangshan Mountain. The eighth brother Gao Yu caught a litter of white rabbits for his two nieces, Gao Mi and Gao Wan, and asked them to keep them and play.

The two sisters are the same age as the ninth uncle Gao Zhan, and they often bring rabbits to play with him, but some time ago, for unknown reasons, the rabbits they raised were lost one after another.

The Bohai Prince's family has a great business, and no one cares about the rabbits. However, the two little girls developed a relationship, crying and refusing to give up.

It was Yuan Mingyue who came up with a way to get someone to buy a litter outside that was about the same size as before, and lied to Gao Mi and Gao Wan that they had found it for them.

But it didn't last long, and another rabbit was lost. Originally, I just needed to buy it outside to make up for it. However, when Gao Mi was chasing the rabbit to play, he found a knife wound all over his body in the depths of the garden, and his blood had already dried up. dead rabbit.

Although her father Gao Cheng waved his hand, countless heads fell to the ground, but Gao Mi, who was not yet four years old, had never seen such a terrifying scene. After being frightened by this, he actually developed a fever. In Cheng's ears.

No matter how busy Gao Cheng was with his official duties, he heard that his precious daughter was sick from fright, so he couldn't sit still. He immediately ordered Yunniang to organize a search of the entire Bohai Palace, and even brought a lot of dogs into the house to assist in the search.

As a result, they pulled out a lot of rabbit carcasses from the soil, all of them were tortured and killed.

The places where the rabbits were buried were basically distributed around the yard of the ninth younger brother Gao Zhan.

Gao Cheng didn't interrogate the servants in Gao Zhan's courtyard, even he just called Gao Zhan to ask him a question.

Although Gao Zhan came from a family of performers, he was not yet four years old, so he couldn't hide the panic on his face.

With just one glance, Gao Cheng was sure that this kid did the thing, but he only reprimanded him a few times, and didn't punish him further.

After all, Gao Zhan is also Gao Huan's first son, so killing people may not necessarily mean paying for their lives, let alone a few rabbits.

Gao Cheng can't tell Gao Huan that cruel means of killing small animals in childhood is a manifestation of psychopathy.

But this also made him sure that his ninth brother was the perverted ninth in history.

On the surface, this matter was lightly exposed, but Gao Cheng actually had no hope for himself as the ninth younger brother.

Gao Yang doesn't touch alcohol and still looks like a man, but Gao Zhan is bad to the bone.

If we say that Gao Yang's evil is due to being neglected by Lou Zhaojun when he was a child, being suspected by the original owner, being despised by his younger brothers, and drinking as an adult.

So Gao Zhan's evil is completely out of his nature.

Whether he instigated Gao Yang to burn his two concubine brothers Gao Jun and Gao Huan to death, or tortured his nephew Gao Bainian to death, Gao Zhan did not have an unfortunate childhood, but his perverted behavior was not much worse than the drunk Gao Yang.

There was no need for Gao Cheng to prohibit his daughter from interacting with Gao Zhan. Gao Mi, who had finally recovered from such a fright, had to walk around when he saw Uncle Jiu who was the same age. It was indeed a psychological shadow.

But Gao Cheng also secretly rejoiced that Lou Zhaojun wanted to raise Gao Zhan in Jinyang to accompany his grandson, but fortunately he persevered, otherwise he really let his two sons follow Gao Zhan, who knows what temperament he would develop.

Although Gao Xiaozhang and Gao Xiaoyu were raised in Jinyang, Gao Cheng really cared about the two brothers, and news about them would often be sent to Luoyang.

This can be regarded as another way to accompany the son's growth.

When Li Zue arrived in Luoyang, it was already February [-]th, accompanied by her mother Cui Youniang.

Gao Cheng and Li Zuyi hugged their third daughter, Gao Rong, who was born less than half a year ago, and greeted them outside Jianchun Gate.

Looking at my mother-in-law who is over [-] years old, I can't help but secretly stunned: how the skin is still so smooth.

I can only sigh that there must be her reason for being able to give birth to the sisters Li Zuyi and Li Zue.

During the three visits to Hebei that year, after Gao Cheng and Li Zu'e explained, she had already let go of the knot of serving her husband with her sister. After all, Li Zuyi was the victim of the whole incident.

Now looking at the niece who was born less than half a year ago, she is full of maternal instincts. She only cares about coaxing Gao Rong who was snatched by her, but Gao Cheng feels that he is an outsider.

Presumably, he learned that Gao Cheng had married another Princess Rouran on the way, so he overturned the jealous jar.

After all, in history, when Gao Yang wanted to accept Li Zuyi, he cried in front of Lou Zhaojun to give up the position of queen.

Gao Cheng was not in a hurry to organize his marriage with Li Zu'e, he always had to pick an auspicious day.

After the officials of the Qin Tianjian calculated, the date was set on the seventeenth of March, and it would be more than a month later.

The mother and daughter of the Li family lived in Li Yuanzhong's mansion temporarily. Since Li Yuanzhong took his family to Jinyang, this mansion has been empty.

Gao Cheng sent someone to Shangdang County again, planning to inform his father-in-law of the time of Li Xizong's wedding, so that he could come back before Li Zu'e got married.

Regarding the rest of the preparations for the marriage, Gao Cheng handed it over to Yunniang and Cui Youniang to discuss.

I refocused my energy on government affairs.

It's another year of spring plowing, and it's related to the harvest of the year, so don't dare to be careless anyway.

In April last year, although the candidates for the agricultural affairs department who were sent to the prefectures and counties to watch the government were still in the government-watching period, farming was no different than others. They had to go to the countryside to persuade farmers and guide farming.

Jia Sixie's "Essentials for the People of the People's Republic of China" was widely promoted by Gao Cheng and introduced into the examination content, which also made this agricultural book widely circulated.

But the main reason is the excellent quality of the book itself.

The difficulty of woodblock printing technology is not high. However, since its inception under the auspices of Gao Longzhi, the Eastern Wei Dynasty has not established a private printing factory. It is also because of Gao Cheng's political power to achieve a monopoly in the printing industry.

The purpose of doing this is not just to seek profit, but to recuperate for more than three years. With the advancement of various reform measures, the Eastern Wei Dynasty has turned from chaos to rule, the people are prosperous, and the country's finances have also improved. up.

Nowadays, the restrictions on printing have not been opened for a long time, but it is because they are worried that some people will use this moment to print anti-high school books and other printed materials.

Therefore, it is still a felony in the Eastern Wei Dynasty to engrave engraving blocks privately.

However, as the finances were no longer in short supply, Gao Cheng also released restrictions on the sale of scientific research books, allowing private booksellers to sell them, so booksellers from all over the world gathered in Luoyang to buy all kinds of books.

Mou Zujin, a printing factory around Luoyang, produces day and night, but it is difficult to meet the needs of various places, especially "Qi Min Yao Shu".

Gao Cheng then ordered Du Bi, governor of Xiangzhou, to set up several printing factories around Yecheng to increase production.

As Gao Cheng expected before, the publication of "Qi Min Yao Shu" caused a lot of complaints from candidates preparing for the agricultural department. It is not easy to understand a 11-word masterpiece.

However, he had to concentrate on studying it. After all, Gao Cheng promoted Jia Sixie to be the servant of the household department, in charge of agriculture and animal husbandry, etc. It can be seen that he attaches great importance to this book. The next agricultural department will most likely have to choose questions from it.

(End of this chapter)