During the Ming Dynasty, the post of governor was not a fixed official position.

Originally, the governor was only a temporary appointment of the imperial court to picket the local official position, although after the middle and late Ming Dynasty, this appointment gradually had a trend of normalization, and the local governor yamen also began to have, but it was never formalized.

It is precisely for this reason that Liu Ximing was appointed governor of the Central Plains, and at the same time, he had to add the official titles of the left squire of the military department and the right deputy imperial envoy of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, otherwise he would be just an empty shell.

But even so, the extent of the governor's power still depends on the governor's own power and ability to control the locality.

In order to ensure the operation of government affairs, the newly appointed governors often need to recruit their own staff, which is why Liu Ximing dared to advertise recruitment.

In fact, Chinese scholars have always been influenced by the dualistic monarchy of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, which is most evident in the Han and Han dynasties.

Assassin Shi, Taishou and other feudal officials often recruited their own subordinates, and these subordinates were loyal to their own masters while being loyal to the imperial court.

Although it is no longer like the Han Dynasty in the Ming Dynasty, this unspoken rule still exists, and even spreads on occasions such as the imperial examination.

It was for this reason that seeing Gu Yanwu, Huang Chunyao and other people in the restored society coming to the door, Liu Ximing's heart was already happy at this time.

The talents of the resumption society have entered my hub.

However, in front of Gu Yanwu and others, Liu Ximing still expressed his attitude in righteous words.

"Everyone came to help, Liu naturally raised his hand to welcome, but now the test has not yet been released, and I can't delay everyone's future, so let's do it, those who are interested can register in my house first, if it is high school, everyone still goes to the court to run a business, if it is frustrated, let's go to the Central Plains together, how about it?"

"I don't care what others do, I, Gu Jiang, in this Central Plains, have decided with you, even if I win the list, I have to apply to the imperial court", Gu Yanwu is familiar with Liu Ximing, and he is not as restrained as Huang Chunyao and others when he speaks.

"Hahaha, sure enough, I am a fellow believer", Liu Ximing laughed happily.

All kinds of preparations in the capital are still in progress, and Liu Ximing's instructions have been rapidly conveyed to all parts of the Central Plains.

In the past month, as the Liu family's fleet transported newspapers and other materials everywhere, Jining, Baoding, Kaifeng, Nanyang, Xiangyang, Wuchang and other places have appeared in the Central Plains newspaper.

For a while, the topic of epidemic prevention became very hot.

The people of the Ming Dynasty have never seen such a detailed and straightforward introduction to epidemic prevention, and Liu Ximing's prestige and reputation in the government and the opposition are growing day by day.

In Gaoyang County, Baoding Prefecture, Beizhili, Sun Chengzong, who is nearly 77 years old, is recuperating at home.

Putting down the Central Plains Newspaper brought back by his children and grandchildren, Sun Chengzong's wrinkled face showed a look of relief.

"There are still capable ministers in the court, and this new Amber is very good."

He glanced at the second son Sun Jiao who was standing in front of the desk, and thought for a while: "Jiao'er is also forty-five this year, and he has been serving as a father at home all these years, and he has really wronged you. ”

Sun Ji was tall, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, but at this time he lowered his eyebrows and smiled pleasantly: "Where is the father, he can be filial piety at home, but the son can't ask for it, and the eldest brother can't think of this blessing." ”

"Hahaha, that's true, but the boy is the first life, how can he leave his parents before he collapses."

Sun Chengzong pointed to the Central Plains newspaper on the desk, "This Xin'anbo is really a capable minister who governs the world, and his father's view is that there are really not many good ministers like him in the court today, since you are talented and learned, are you willing to go to the Central Plains with Xin'anbo to help the epidemic?" In this way, you will not live in vain. ”

Sun Ji hesitated for a moment, but after a long time, the scholar's mind of virtue and meritorious service still prevailed.

He bowed to the end, "Since the father agrees, the son will go and submit the letter." ”

"Eh, there is a father, why don't you go and submit a book, I will repair a book, and when the new Amber passes by Gaoyang, you will visit yourself."

A smile appeared on Sun Jie's face.

Sun Chengzong didn't know that his family had actually formed a fate with Liu Ximing a long time ago.

In the eleventh year of Chongzhen, Dolgon and Yue Tuo led a large army into the pass, Yue Tuo had already defeated Lu Xiangsheng, if there was no Liu Xi's life, the next step would be to attack Gaoyang, and then move to Shandong to join Dolgon.

Sun Chengzong's family will all be martyred in the Battle of Gaoyang.

However, Liu Ximing's appearance prevented all this, and Yue Tuo defeated Lu Xiangsheng, so he took Cao Bianjiao and others to take advantage of it, and naturally there was no chance to attack Gaoyang.

If Liu Ximing knew that such a famous minister at home and abroad had actually sent his son to vote, I am afraid that he would wake up laughing after dreaming too much.

However, at this time, Liu Ximing was also very busy with epidemic prevention, and I am afraid that he couldn't take care of anything else.

At the beginning of March, with the trial release of the list of Chongzhen's thirteenth annual meeting, Gu Yanwu, Ren Yuanjia, Huang Chunyao and others all failed to make the list, and the group no longer had any burden, and they officially joined Liu Ximing's staff of the governor's yamen.

On 20 March, Liu Ximing coordinated everything, and under the escort of 3,000 soldiers of the Beijing battalion, he walked out of the capital with more than 60 people who had come to enlist.

It's just that what Gu Yanwu and the others don't know is that Dong Fuyu and several other Taoist leaders from Wudang Mountain also quietly mixed into the team.

In the past few years, although he has not done anything with Chai Yuanming, Dong Fuyu and others, in recent years, there have been frequent anomalies in the sky, and with Chai Yuanming, a Qin Tianjian being, Liu Ximing has quietly avoided a lot of trouble.

Over the years, the relationship between the two families has become closer and closer.

This time he went south, Dong Fuyu under the guise that he also knew a little about medical skills and wanted to help with epidemic prevention, but according to Liu Xi's villain's heart, I am afraid that Wudang Xuanyuanguan wants to investigate himself more.

It's just that Liu Ximing is determined to prevent the epidemic, so he is naturally completely fearless about it.

He knew very well in his heart that the officials felt that it was not beneficial to do things in recent years, so they were reluctant to do more, but the Liu family is now at the most critical moment of development, and everyone must be united by doing things.

Due to time, Jingshi, Beizhili and other places were cut off in time by various orders issued by Liu Ximing before they had developed to the most violent stage of the epidemic.

From Beijing to Jining, most cities began to quarantine traffic, and the ancient economy was not as much involved as in modern times, and local officials had no taboos about locking down the city.

Of course, according to Liu Ximing's estimate, even if the local economy will be affected, these officials of the Ming Dynasty will not be worried, after all, I Dameng did not have the word to develop the economy.

Rao is like this, Liu Ximing and others are still starving all over the place, and people who are hungry because of epidemics or starvation abound.

In order to avoid further spread of the epidemic, the soldiers of the Beijing camp led by Liu Ximing had to walk all the way to collect and burn the corpses.

Fortunately, after more than a month of preparation, Liu Ximing's team carried a large amount of quicklime, alcohol, herbs and other epidemic prevention materials.

Although there are no medical supplies available to avoid infection, the Liu family urgently purchased a batch of leather products in the capital to make gloves.

As long as they are disinfected with alcohol at a later stage, these can barely be reused as medical gloves.

At the same time, Han Yuan firm and other shops made a batch of masks out of cotton cloth, and the soldiers of Beijing could spray alcohol on the masks when handling corpses.

When Liu Ximing came to this position, he no longer needed to think about how to do things specifically, but was more concerned about how to formulate the system and supervise the implementation and implementation of the system.

The officer corps of the pro-guard battalion could have been used as officials, not to mention that now it has recruited a large number of scholars such as Gu Yanwu who are interested in Datong to participate in it.

However, due to confidentiality reasons, Liu Ximing did not dare to directly include all of them in the Datong Society, but called it a beautiful name to inspect their conduct, and then select the best ones to join the society.

What Liu Ximing thought was that no matter how much Gu Yanwu and others understood the people in the past, they were only superficial, and this time the epidemic relief in Henan should be able to stimulate their conscience at a deep level, and it would be much easier to fool these young people in one go.

Moreover, even if Gu Yanwu and others join the company, Liu Ximing's core layout will still not be disclosed to them.

On March 23, the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, Liu Ximing and others came to Gaoyang County with people.

At the Changting Pavilion outside Gaoyang County, officials who came to greet him were already gathered at this time.

The two people at the head of the crowd were all wearing the red official uniforms of high-ranking civil officials in the Ming Dynasty, and one of the gray-haired old men was still wearing a red python robe, but it was not Sun Chengzong and Sun Chuanting.