Reborn in the late Northern Wei Dynasty

Chapter 401 Mobei
On the first day of the third year of Zhaode (550), Gao Cheng led his brothers, sons and nephews to Mangshan to worship Gaohuan Temple.

To a certain extent, the emperor Gao Cheng could be called stingy, no matter when he was enthroned or on such a happy day as Yuan Ri, he had never pardoned the world.

In his opinion, if criminals who have violated the criminal law and have been sentenced in strict accordance with the "Taichang Law" and the newly released "Qi Law" are easily pardoned, it will be unfair to the victim.

Therefore, although there are heinous regulations in the law, at least under Gao Cheng’s rule, they are just empty words.

Of course, during this period, Gao Cheng appointed Lu Cao, the new regular servant of Sanqi, to concurrently serve as the servant of the Ministry of Punishment, responsible for reviewing files and checking unjust, false and wrong cases.

Lu Cao did not disappoint Gao Cheng's trust. He really let him search out many cases where the evidence in the files was not clear. For officials who judged wrong cases, they should be punished and demoted. If they are returned to their homes, they can also receive a sum of state compensation, and the officials will be fined and paid for compensation.

Gao Cheng strikes hard at criminals, but he is considerate to good people.

The tortoise once said that leaving the peasants half dead is the secret of politics.

Gao Cheng disagrees with this point. As a modern person, he has been educated to yearn for and pursue a better life, which is the right that every human being has.

Traveling through the sons of powerful ministers, but using tormenting the people and making them half-dead is a political secret, it is too cheap.

'Father, let's take a look, I will definitely create a great cause, not only to spread the world, but also to make the hard-working people rich in life. '

Looking at the portrait of Gao Huan copied by the painter in the temple courtyard, Gao Cheng secretly made up his mind.

Gao Xiaoguan didn't know the grand ambitions in Gao Cheng's heart. He was still thinking that he would be eight years old now. According to the previous agreement with his father, he could start practicing riding and shooting. When he thought of the future, he would immediately draw his bow and cross the battlefield, and he was excited .

When he was driving down the mountain, Gao Xiaoguan couldn't wait to come up to Gao Cheng and mentioned his learning to ride and shoot.

Gao Cheng didn't deny it either, but asked him to ask Dou Tai for advice.

Gao Cheng had already considered this candidate. Although Dou Tai was influential in the army, he gradually faded out ten years ago.

Although there is a position of servant, but during Gao Cheng's stay in Luo, the servant is destined to be a display, and can't really play a role in reviewing government orders, and has time to teach.

Of course, Dou Taizhi is more than enough to teach an eight-year-old child.

While Gao Xiaoguan was elated about this, Gao Cheng arranged for him to observe politics and study with his three elder brothers.

Gao Xiaoguan immediately suffered a bitter face. He had to learn to deal with government affairs, and practice riding and archery. He couldn't relax his studies. He was destined to have a particularly fulfilling childhood.

Gao Xiaozhang and the others couldn't help laughing. Speaking of this fourth brother, the three of them really have a bit of brotherhood.

After all, a brother who is not a threat is a good brother.

At the same time, in the land of Mobei, the situation for the Turks has reached the most critical time.

Earlier, Ashina Tumen proposed to Yu Rouran, but was humiliated by Ana Huan's envoy, and angrily killed Rouran's envoy, breaking with him openly.

Later, he sent his daughter south to marry Gao Cheng, and because he proposed to Gao Cheng's daughter, Gao Cheng used the excuse to break off the relationship.

For Ashina Tumen, if the war with Rouran was delayed for a long time, the Northern Qi would definitely send troops to intervene, so they waited for the opportunity to kill Rouran with one blow.

However, it is not so easy to find a fighter. Ashina Tumen sent an envoy, Rouran, who bluntly said that he would go east to the Rouran royal court to plead guilty for the previous act of killing the envoy.

However, Anahu refused. He knew very well that once the Turks were allowed to travel eastward, it would not be the Ashina Tumen alone, but the soldiers of the whole family.

Nine years ago, I lost my troops and would perish Gaoche, but the Turks who annexed more than [-] tents in Gaoche Kingdom made the biggest profit, allowing Ashina Tumen to rise in Jinshan. Before that, he became angry and sent envoys to reprimand Ashina Tumen for the reason.

Gao Che's subjugation, for Rouran and Turkic, the strength dropped and rose, which also objectively prevented Anayu from using troops against the emerging Turkic regime, but fortunately, he had a good son-in-law, and now he was going to be called grandson-in-law.

When Anahu heard that Gao Cheng regretted his marriage with Turkic and expelled the Turkic envoy, he was even more delighted from ear to ear.

Ashina Tumen waited for the opportunity to send troops for a long time, and Anahu was also looking forward to Gao Cheng's retreat from the southern war and join him in attacking the Turks.

Gao Cheng returned to Luoyang on October 27th last year, but Luoyang was far away from the royal court of Rouran. Anahu didn't know the specific news until today, and immediately sent envoys to the south to discuss with Northern Qi about attacking the Turks.

Ashina Tumen heard the news, and knew that the time left for him was not long. The envoys went back and forth, about four or five months. He had to fight Anahu before the Northern Qi formally dispatched troops, and the winner would take possession of the For the entire Mobei hegemony, the loser is doomed to die.

Even the grassland nomads have to make sufficient preparations before the war. The Ashina Tumen even secretly issued an order for the mobilization of the whole family. When things have developed to this point, there is no need to preserve their strength, success or failure, but It's a one-shot deal.

Correspondingly, Anahu thinks that he has the Northern Qi to rely on, and in terms of mentality, he wants to go far away from Ashina Tumen, who is desperate, let alone prepare for the war.

Hey!Rouran joined forces with Beiqi to fight against a small Turk, how could they lose.

When the envoy of Rouran came to Luoyang and proposed to Gao Cheng to attack the Turks together, Gao Cheng, the good in-law in Anahu's eyes, hesitated.

In Gao Cheng's wishful thinking, Rouran and Turkic had to lose both sides in the fight, so that he could sit in the fisherman's land and reap huge rewards at a very small price.

As for the mobilization of troops to mobilize Mobei to fight a fierce battle with the Turks, Gao Cheng was 1 unwilling. Perhaps in his opinion, if the advantage is less, it is a disadvantage.

On March 550th in the third year of Zhaode ([-]), when the envoy of Rouran was still struggling with Gao Cheng in Luoyang, the Turkic mobilized more than [-] young men of the whole clan and went straight to the royal court of Rouran.

The reason why Gao Cheng had the leisurely mind to practice Tai Chi with the envoy of Rouran was because his memory told him that the Turks sent troops in the first month of 551 AD, but he never thought that his series of operations would stimulate Ashina Tumen, making him unwilling to wait for the Northern Qi Slow down from the Southern Expedition.

Two big battles have been fought in two consecutive years. Even if the capture of Huainan was rewarding, there is obviously no such good thing in capturing the Jianghan Plain. Whether it is rewarding soldiers or paying wages to civilians, the treasury of the Northern Qi Dynasty must be paying more and receiving less , and the previous wars also affected the grain harvest in the Jianghan Plain, and many people were waiting for the country's relief.

(End of this chapter)