On the tenth day of the first month of June, Liu Ximing returned to the village two days later.

During this time, hundreds of people in the Liu family worked at least six hours a day, and everyone worked together to finally build a brick kiln.

"The captains of the Longxiang team will follow me to investigate the terrain in the village, and you will arrange for others to take over the work in your hands."

There is basically no plan to repair houses in Dameng's countryside, most of the villages are chaotic, anyway, in these places that Liu Ximing has been to, except for big cities such as Shunqing Fucheng, the others are all raccoon dogs, after all, he is a modern person, where can he stand this messy and disorderly state.

It is estimated that the construction of houses in the village will start in a few days, and he plans to take advantage of this time to investigate the terrain of the village and make plans for the construction of the village.

A group of people walked a few miles to the west, came to the highest Laojun Mountain in the west, and found a high place to overlook the entire Zhangjiawan Village.

I saw that the Jialing River came from the north like a white line, drawing a few words around Zhangjiawan Village to flow south, the land in the shape of a few characters presents the middle high, both sides of the low terrain, at this time it is summer, the river is rushing under the village on three sides along the river are flooded most of the place.

"Soon we are going to build a village, this construction, first of all, we must consider military defense, you have all experienced last month's war, such as today is full of thieves, maybe one day another thief will come to plunder, what do you think about this defense?"

With the rapid increase in personnel, Liu Ximing felt more and more that there were not enough management talents, and in order to exercise the thinking ability of his subordinates, he pointed to the entire village to test them.

"This, what do you say, I haven't learned this thing before." Li Biao picked his head on the side.

Hahaha, Liu Ximing looked back and saw that most people were as embarrassed as Li Biao, so he had to remind with a smile: "The defense of the city is just for you to attack and defend me, what you are thinking about is how to disperse the enemy's offensive force, or enhance the defensive strength of our army in some key places, you try to think about it according to the offensive and defensive training of the past." ”

Everyone in the Longxiang team frowned, Yu Yongkai pondered for a while and said: "For example, these cities are usually built with high walls inside, and moats and other defenses are built outside. Although we can't build such a wall because of the imperial court's law, can we build a fence and dig a ditch outside to divert water? ”

"Hahaha, that's a good idea."

Liu Ximing was last cheated by the Zhang family after colluding with the government servants, he has been studying books such as Da Meng Law, and knows that as Yu Yongkai said, the Meng Dynasty has very detailed regulations on the construction of cities and housing regulations, for example, all official and private houses, vehicles, clothing, utensils, etc., each has its own rank. If it is violated and usurped, there will be a hundred officials, and the subordinate positions will not be used. The unofficial will be punished with fifty, the sin will sit with the parents, and the craftsman will be flogged fifty.

Although by the end of the Ming Dynasty, there were many cases of people's clothing and residences encroaching upon, but if the city wall was really built, the meaning would be different, now it is only seven years of Chongzhen, and the control of the imperial court over the place has not been completely lost, even if Liu Ximing and Xie Chengzhou have a close relationship, I am afraid that he will not be able to protect him.

Moreover, in order to resist the thieves in Shaanxi, the governor of Sichuan is now stationed in Baoning Mansion in the upper reaches of Shunqing, and if something happens, he will have to go into exile, so if he wants to build a city wall, he may only be considered when he is not afraid of local military power, and now he should be able to deal with it by building a wooden wall first.

Xu Wei and Zhang Yuanlong came to help during the day and went home to live at night, so it was the first time to participate in this kind of discussion of the Long Xiang team, and they both felt a little novel.

Xu Wei smiled and said: "Why bother so much, it's better to connect the houses together, and then set up exits in them, so that you can build houses and repair the city together, which saves time and effort, isn't it beautiful?" ”

Liu Ximing nodded with satisfaction, Xu Wei still has some knowledge, isn't this the kind of dock fort usually built by the Hakka people, there are many such buildings in Guangdong and Fujian.

However, after thinking about it, he shook his head and said, "What Xu Wei said is indeed a good way, but in this way, the size of the village will be greatly limited, and it is quite inconvenient for the villagers to live in it, which is not suitable for us." ”

Xu Wei asked strangely: "Second brother, now there are more than 500 people in the family, which is already a big village, do you still want to expand?" ”

Liu Ximing listened to Xu Wei call himself the second brother, and couldn't help but be happy, he and Zhang Yuanlong were his former classmates after all, although they are now his tenants, but Xu Wei is also a reading seed, Liu Ximing has the idea to support him, and there will be someone to help him in the official face at that time, but in this way, how to deal with the relationship between the two has become a problem, and now Xu Wei takes the initiative to call him the second brother, obviously with him as the main one.

Seeing that he was surrounded by his own people, he confided in public for the first time: "Since the first year of Chongzhen, the world has been in turmoil, with thieves and rebels rising from the heart, and Jurchen barbarians attacking and disturbing the border, and China gradually showing signs of overturning. Recently, Emperor Ziwei often dreams of me, and he sings in his dreams, "The sun does not rise, the moon does not appear, and the stars rise in the sky of Kyushu." Three hundred years later, the pig and deer are divided, and the year is engraved with a knife. Although I don't understand the gist of it, combined with the general trend of the world, I guess that it seems that Zhu Ming lost the country. ”

Liu Ximing took a breath, saw that everyone around him was shocked and couldn't close his mouth, and continued: "If this is the case, there will be eggs under the nest." Moreover, the world is not chaotic in Shu first, the world has been governed by Shu but not governed, and the country of Sichuan Tianfu is innumerable. At that time, under the connection of war and disaster, will we and other small people not be slaughtered by others, rather than relying on others, it is better for us to be self-reliant and self-reliant. In this way, the princes thought that there were more than 500 people, but it was not much. ”

Here Liu Ximing quoted the words of Ouyang Zhi, the author of the Shu police record in the late Ming Dynasty, and reminded him of Zhang Xianzhong and the Qing army's Tuchuan, and shocked himself into a cold sweat.

Except for Liu Xixian and Liu Xi'an, the two little guys who often listen to their elder brother's indoctrination and have some immunity, everyone else was flustered by Liu Ximing's description.

Xu Wei touched his forehead, I don't know if it was hot or frightened sweat, and said astringently: "I used to think that the weather was impermanent, but now that I think about it, the weather is indeed getting colder and colder." It's just that the destiny of heaven has changed, unless there is an atmospheric carrier, what can mortals like us do? ”

As soon as he finished saying this, Xu Wei saw the others looking at Liu Ximing in unison, with an inexplicable look in their eyes.

Xu Wei patted his head, by the way, his classmate seems to be able to be psychic?

Yu Yongkai grabbed Liu Ximing's hands excitedly, and said excitedly: "In the poem sung by the Emperor Ziwei that the second brother said, there are words and phrases in the year of holding a knife to compete for the crown. ”

"No, not only that, the tripod, the thing of the Son of Heaven, Dayu to do Jiuding to correspond to the world Kyushu, is to China to symbolize the world. The engraver, the one who engraves it, the one who engraves it on the top of the tripod, the law of the first king is also ......", Xu Wei was led by Yu Yongkai and said subconsciously, but when he saw that everyone was looking at him, the words behind him became quieter and quieter, until he could barely hear clearly.

Others can't hear clearly, but Liu Ximing has clear ears and eyes but can hear clearly, he can't help but feel a little funny in his heart, see if you can't fall into the pit.

Of course, this is also because Liu Ximing's own limerick poem originally had this meaning, the words sun and moon, together are bright, and the sun and moon do not appear, isn't it just that Meng is bright and bleak. Pig, that is, pig, and the surname of the Zhu family is the same as the surname, the deer also symbolizes the world, the so-called Qin lost its deer, the world chased it, and the words are the Zhu family is going to die.

Ahem, Liu Xi settled down, and said to everyone with a serious face: "Don't talk nonsense, if someone listens to it, none of us will be able to escape." Besides, at the moment, we are poor and white, and pies will not fall from the sky, or only by relying on our brothers to work together can we do a good job. ”

"Why am I so strict with everyone, in addition to training and working every day, I also have to study and study, I don't expect everyone to be my helper one day, otherwise I can accomplish anything alone."

"Second brother, don't worry, we know."

A group of teenagers didn't know what they had in mind, and they all looked excited, and patted their chests one after another.

I'll it, what do you all know, why do you feel weird, Liu Ximing was speechless in his heart for a while.