 She then worked with Han, who also despised Zu, to have Zu expelled from government.At one point, however, both Mu Tipo and Han were removed from office over their diversion of imperial construction personnel from their project of repairing the palace at the secondary capital Jinyang (晉陽, in modern Taiyuan, Shanxi) to repairing their own homes, although Mu appeared to soon return to power.Also in 573, rival Chen Dynasty launched a major attack on Northern Qi, capturing the territory between the Yangtze River and the Huai River.