Chapter 2 Time comes and turns

Author: He Tiantian from Lotus Picking

Chapter 2 Time comes and turns

After Yu Wenyong defeated Jinyang on December 17, he led his troops to Yecheng without stopping.

On the 20th, Emperor Gao Weichan of the Northern Qi Dynasty, who abandoned the Jinyang troops and fled back to Yecheng, located himself in the presence of Prince Gao Heng.

On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month of the following year, the Zhou army arrived at Zimo Bridge, five miles northwest of Ye City. Forty-five years ago, Gao Huan led 30,000 troops out of Tun Zimo Bridge to fight against the 200,000-strong coalition of the Erzhu family, and fought in Han Dynasty.

Defeat the enemy and establish the Gao family's hegemony.

Now the Zhou army is stationed at Zimo Bridge, but it is ringing the death knell for the Gao family.

Gao Wei, who had already sent his family to the south to cross the Yellow River, burned the west city gate on the 19th and fled with a hundred cavalry. Yu Wenyong was able to occupy the capital of Northern Qi.

"If Hu Luguang was still alive, how could I enter Yecheng?"

In addition to feeling emotional, Yu Wenyong issued an edict to give gifts to six people including Hu Luguang and Cui Jishu. Pei Xiu's grandfather Pei Ze was also among the posthumous gifts.

Cui Che and Pei Xiu also had their fortunes changed. Yuwen Yong extended his favor and released Hu Luguang. Cui Jishu and others were punished as slaves, their confiscated assets were returned, and their descendants were filled with official positions in accordance with regulations.

If the Northern Qi rule states that one reaches adulthood at the age of fifteen, Pei Xiu, who will turn thirteen this year, will be able to become an official with the grace of his father and ancestors in two years. But now, if he wants to be an official in the Northern Zhou Dynasty, he must be eighteen years old according to the Northern Zhou Dynasty.

Calculate the rules of adulthood.

Cui Che, who is under seven years old, will have to wait for another eleven years. Eleven years later, if the Northern Zhou Dynasty still exists, Brother Che's starting point for becoming an official will not be low.

His grandfather, Cui Jishu, held a high position in the Northern Qi Dynasty and was treated like a prime minister. In the Northern Zhou Dynasty, he was posthumously awarded by Yu Wenyong as the general of Kaifu Yitong and the governor of Dingzhou, with a rank of nine orders.

In the Northern Zhou Dynasty, the official ranks were not called grades, but called fates, which was the opposite of the nine grades. One grade was the lowest and nine grades were the most noble.

Although Cui Jishu beat the emperor in the early years and engaged in the business of pimping Gao Cheng, his reputation is very good. History records that he "recommended people, praised literature, was praised by the public, and praised him from far and near."

Otherwise, how could Yu Wenyong include him in the list of gifts to appease the people of Hebei.

Of course, even if the message was sent to northern Hebei, it would still take a long time for the clemency edict to be sent to northern Xinjiang. Cui Che was destined to be a sheepherder for a while longer.

On the twenty-first day of the first lunar month, Gao Wei crossed the Yellow River to the south. On the same day, Gao Heng returned to his throne as prime minister and appointed Gao Mi, the king of the city.

Soon, Gao Wei's family, who was about to defect to Nanchen, was captured by the pursuing Zhou army in Qingzhou and sent to Yecheng.

In February, Gao Mi and Emperor Wenxiang Gao Cheng's second son Gao Xiaoheng, the governor of Cangzhou and King Guangning, recruited more than 40,000 people in Jizhou to defend the capital. However, they were unable to save their lives and were defeated and captured.

Yu Wenyong then dispatched troops everywhere to put down the remaining resistance forces one after another. The Northern Qi Dynasty was destroyed and the country lasted for twenty-eight years.

There is a saying that the shepherd boy did not know the hatred of the subjugation of his country, and happily ate the roasted whole lamb in the noble's house.

Yuwen Yongyou's edict to Cui Jishu, Pei Ze and others reached northern Xinjiang. The nobleman immediately called the two shepherd boys to his house and entertained them with delicious food and drinks.

Today is different from the past. The two people who have washed away their sinful status are now extremely valuable.

In the past, the status of the Cui family in Boling was lower than that of the Cui family in Qinghe. After all, the Cui family in Qinghe was one of the four Han surnames designated by Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty, alongside the Wang family in Taiyuan, the Lu family in Fanyang, and the Zheng family in Xingyang.

As emperor and courtiers, the Zheng family of Xingyang and the Wang family of Taiyuan were not deeply involved in Gao Huanxin's founding of the capital, so when the Gao family came to power, their status declined rapidly. Cui Yi, a native of Qinghe in the Eastern Wei Dynasty, once said to Fan Yang and Lu Yuanming:

"You and I are the only two great families in the world. What's going on with the Cui family of Guan Boling and the Li family of Zhaojun?"

It can also be seen from this that the Cui family of Boling and the Li family of Zhaojun rose rapidly during the Gao family's reign, which aroused Cui Zhi's dissatisfaction.

In fact, because the three Boling Cuisi, namely Cui Jishu, Cui Xian, and Cui Ang, were favored by Gao Huan, Gao Cheng and his son, and the emperors of the Northern Qi Dynasty, the Boling Cui family, who was originally only slightly inferior, was the county commander in the Eastern Wei and Northern Qi Dynasties.

Being able to equal the Cui family of Qinghe and become the top noble family, although the Wenxi Pei family is also considered a famous family, it is still far behind.

In the later Tang Dynasty, the second member of the Boling Cui family was even considered to have the highest family status, and was called the "Crown of the Gentlemen" in the world.

Of course, the third family member of the Bolingcui family is most famous now.

The Cui family in Boling has a total of seven houses. Among them, the big house, the second house, the third house, the fourth house, the fifth house and the sixth house are all descendants of Cui Yi, the former secretary of Yan Dynasty. The sixth house is Cui Yi's sixth and seventh sons.

, the descendants of the eighth son merged.

Only after Anpingfang was not Cui Yi, his ancestor Cui Lie spent 5 million to buy the post of Situ during the period of Emperor Ling of the Eastern Han Dynasty and was ridiculed by others. Therefore, the reputation of Anpingfang is worse than that of large, two-bedroom and three-bedroom houses.

A lot.

In the process of Boling Cui becoming the first-class family, the third family contributed the most. Among the three Boling Cuisi, Cui Jishu and Cui Xian, who have the highest position and are the most favored, are both from the third family. They are uncles and nephews.

Cui Jishu is young but has seniority.

Cui Ang, the remaining member of the three Cui families, is a disciple of the second family.

How favored was Cui Jishu in the Gao family? Gao Cheng conspired to usurp the throne and found three people to discuss it. One was his brother-in-law Yang Min, the other was Chen Yuankang who was predicted by Gao Huan to embrace him and die, and the last person was Cui Jishu.

Everyone knows the later story. Six assassins broke in with knives. Yang Min was the first to escape and didn't care if his shoes fell off. Cui Jishu was the second to run and slipped into the toilet. Only Chen Yuankang was left to protect him.

The two masters and ministers hugged each other and died.

Regardless of the fact that Cui Che's father was only the eldest son of a concubine, he was the only male member of Cui Jishu's family, and the legacy was destined to fall on Cui Che alone.

Clan embezzling the assets of orphans is something a small family does. As the first-class family member, Boling Cui's most important thing is reputation. Moreover, Cui Jishu died less than four years ago, and no one who was promoted by him is still alive.

Not a few.

In the past, Cui Che was a traitor and no one dared to contaminate him. Now that his identity has been cleared, the clan and old friends have to remember Cui Jishu's kindness back then and take more care of Cui Che.

The nobles in Northern Xinjiang understood this clearly. When entertaining Cui Che and Pei Xiu, they even called out their young beloved daughter to meet the guests. In their words, they only made it clear that they wanted to recruit Brother Che as their son-in-law.

Cui Che is not as well-informed as the noble, but he can also guess that the noble must have known about Yu Wenyong's edict, and that's why he acted out of character today.

Although it was true that the noble man gave him a job as a sheep herder so that he could have food to eat, Cui Che felt that he had also contributed to the sheep herding, and it did not mean that he had to pay for it with a marriage.

Cui Che politely declined and said:

"Grandma is still here, so Che doesn't dare to act on his own. He should ask his grandmother for instructions before making any further calculations."

The biological mother of Cui Che's father, Cui Changjun, had died of illness long ago, but Cui Jishu's legitimate wife still survived. After Yu Wenyong entered Ye, the old man was freed. In addition to sending people to northern Xinjiang to pick up Cui Che, he also got his family property back from the government.

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