 Nothing is known about Gao Shaoyi's activities in the following years.In 577, with rival Northern Zhou having launched a major attack on Northern Qi, then-emperor Gao Wei (Emperor Wucheng's son) fled from the secondary capital Jinyang (晉陽, in modern Taiyuan, Shanxi) back to Yecheng, and he made Gao Shaoyi the governor of Ding Province (定州, roughly modern Baoding, Hebei).Subsequently, after Gao Wei was captured by Northern Zhou forces, most Northern Qi provinces surrendered.