By the time Liu Ximing arrived in the capital again in July of the 11th year of Chongzhen, the documents of Lei Hong and others on the annexation of prefectures and counties had also been delivered to the capital.

Since Chongzhen has been ten years old, more than 164,000 people have been harvested, 1.1 million acres of fertile land have been reclaimed, and 27 villages have been built ......."

In the Xinanbo Mansion, Liu Ximing, Huang Zonghui and Du Liangji, the core bosses, gathered together again.

Huang Zonghui read the letters of Dou Yuquan, Lei Hong and others in turn, and couldn't help but look up to the sky and laugh, "President, your method is really useful, so my Datong Society can be regarded as having a base." ”

Du Liangji smiled and said: "But that's not all, in February this year, Li Zicheng led his troops into Sichuan, the chief soldier Hou Liangzhu was killed in battle, and the governor Wang Weizhang was dismissed, but it was Yu Yongkai of our Datong Society who stood out among them." ”

"Oh, what's going on?"

Liu Ximing hadn't received the battle report about Yu Yongkai yet, so he asked with some concern.

"It's still a good foundation laid by you", Du Liangji was arranged by Liu Ximing to the Ministry of War, and he is very familiar with this information.

"In February this year, Li Zicheng, Potianxing and other rogue soldiers led 80,000 thieves to Kouchuan, and Hou Liangzhu only had 10,000 horses, and they were tired of running in Lizhou and Baoning, and finally broke through the Sword Pavilion by the rogue and died in Mianzhou."

"As for Wang Weizhang, the governor of Sichuan, he was like a turtle with a shrunken head, he only dared to retreat in Baoning Mansion to guard, and Yu Yongkai was also requisitioned to Baoning by him, until the news of Hou Liangzhu's death came out, he hurriedly sent Yu Yongkai to gather the defeated troops to intercept it."

"Li Zicheng surrounded Chengdu Mansion with tens of thousands of troops for more than 20 days, but fortunately, Shao Jiechun, the deputy envoy of Sichuan, and others forcibly recruited the people in the city to defend the city, so they could hold on."

Du Liangji said and gave Liu Ximing a thumbs up, "That is, the president of the company, the soldiers you brought are so courageous, Yu Yongkai and Zhang Ling, the deputy chief soldier of Sichuan, and other six soldiers and horses are stationed near Chengdu, but only he dares to fight with Liukou in the field." ”

"What's more critical is that Yu Yongkai is brave and strategic, taking advantage of the weakness of the rogues who are not good at night fighting, he has attacked his camp several times at night, and directly destroyed the Broken Sky Star and other departments, and Li Zicheng and others retreated in panic."

"When this matter was reported to the Ministry of War in May, I managed it from it, and Yu Yongkai was the first in the Ministry of Merit, and he was already promoted to general."

"Hahaha", Liu Ximing laughed, he didn't expect such a good thing.

Judging from this matter alone, having Huang Zonghui and Du Liangji helping in Beijing has indeed played a very big role in the development of the Liu family.

Not to mention anything else, at least the military department and the official department have their own people, and it is much easier to do things.

However, Liu Ximing was still happy from the bottom of his heart that Yu Yongkai dared to attack at night, which shows that several of his generals have really grown up.

Because of the lack of nutrition, the troops of the Long Xiang Division and the Tiger Brigade have many advantages compared with the people of this era, and Yu Yongkai can learn and use them lively, obviously he already has his own opinions on the war.

Liu Ximing smiled and picked up the teacup and took over, "This situation is indeed gratifying, but our major events are more than that, do you know what I have done in this year?" ”

"Oh, don't sell it", Du Liangji was a little itchy by Liu Ximing's mysterious appearance.

"Hahaha, it's not a secret, my trip to the South China Sea has already laid a solid foundation for my Datong Society."

"Two thousand miles south of Canton there is an island named Luzon, which is vast and abundant, and was previously occupied by the Spanish Tésir, which we call the Great Francis."

"When we arrived in the South China Sea, we heard that the Spaniards had done all kinds of evil on the island, and since the beginning of the Wanli year, they had slaughtered the Han people on our island several times, so I raised volunteers to crusade against them, and in March this year, we set up the Luzon General's Mansion on the island, and placed an army of officials, under the jurisdiction of 70,000 Han people and more than 400,000 natives."

"Hiss"

Huang Zonghui suddenly heard the news that Liu Xi ordered the opening of the mansion to establish the Luzon General's Mansion, and his heart was suddenly greatly shocked.

"We're here, the founding of the country?"

Huang Zonghui looked at Liu Ximing in a trance.

"It can't be regarded as the founding of the country", Liu Ximing shook his head.

He knew that although these scholars had already boarded their own boats, they were still a little awkward when it came to overthrowing the Ming Dynasty and rebuilding a country.

Therefore, he just smiled at this time: "What we have to do is very important, you are fearless, but I can't help but think about my members of the Datong Society." ”

"Now that we have a base in Luzon, even if we don't succeed in big things in the future, we can have a way out, right?"

Du Liangji and Huang Zonghui took a deep breath and digested this shocking news, but their faces were still in a trance.

Liu Ximing smiled and diverted the topic, "Okay, let's not talk about these things first, what has been the trend of the imperial court in the past year?" I don't know how Yang Shangshu's great cause of suppressing bandits is going? ”

Du Liangji shook his head and paid attention to the topic of Liu Ximing.

Since the beginning of this year, Hong Chengchou, Xiong Wencan, Sun Chuanting and other senior officials have defeated Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and other rogues in their respective jurisdictions several times, plus Yu Yongkai has broken Li Zicheng in Chengdu, and now Li thieves have escaped into the Qinling Mountains."

"And Zhang Xianzhong, Luo Rucai and other thieves were trapped by the official army in the Xunyang territory and could not escape, and in the end, Xiong Wencan came forward to appease these two people and placed them in Fangxian and other places."

"But because of this incident, there is some dirt between Xiong Wencan and Yang Sichang, Yang Sichang advocates the extermination of the Liukou, but Xiong Wencan advocates appeasement, what do you think of this matter, president?"

Liu Ximing shook his head, "If you tell the truth, it is naturally better to suppress bandits than to appease them, but I am worried that the imperial court will soon run out of time to exterminate them." ”

"Why is that?" , Even Huang Zonghui leaned over and asked with a puzzled expression.

Liu Ximing sighed and pointed to the northeast.

"Yang Sichang's strategic thinking is very clear to me, as the so-called outside must first be at home, his idea is to go all out to deal with the rogues, and to appease the Jianyu through peace negotiations, I don't know how this matter is going?"

"It's not going well," Du Liangji replied with a shake of his head.

Huang Zonghui laughed, "Not only is it not going well, there are many opponents in the DPRK and China, especially the people in Donglin, I have heard them say several times that they must stop seeking peace with the east, which is simply insulting the national prestige." ”

"You see, this is where the differences are", Liu Ximing spread his hands, "In fact, it is correct to negotiate peace at this time, but it is unlikely according to the current situation." ”

"In this way, once Jianyu sees the reality of our dynasty and takes this opportunity to send troops into the customs, Yang Sichang's strategy of four positive and six corners will be broken without attacking."

There was a sudden silence in the study, and Huang Zonghui said with some difficulty: "Then should we support peace?" ”

"I can't say that I support peace, but I can support the extermination of the rogues."

Seeing that the two were a little puzzled, Liu Ximing explained: "Yihe is easy to be attacked by everyone, our strength is too weak at the moment, and we can't have a hard time with them, but Zhaofu will definitely make a big basket, and we can at least fight for the reputation of a soldier in the future." ”

"By the way, what is the result of Brother Zewang's development of members in the Restoration Society?"

Huang Zonghui's face turned from heavy to happy, "I was about to tell you about this, last year, the officials were elected, and most of the people in the Fushe were deposed to Zhou County. ”

"Nowadays, there are more than 20 people, including Bao Ergeng, the governor of Luoding, Guangdong, and Wang Xingjian, the head of the household department in Nanjing, who often write to me to discuss the theory of Datong, and many of them want to talk to you personally."

Liu Ximing was overjoyed in his heart, "I don't want Brother Zewang to be so capable, don't worry, I will reply to these people one by one." ”

"Knock Knock"

A knock on the door interrupted the chat of several people, "Please come in", Liu Ximing whispered to the door.

Li Biao pushed the door in, "Second brother, there are two Taoist priests outside the mansion who want to see you, and they don't know what they want to do." ”

Taoist?

Liu Ximing, Huang Zonghui and the others glanced at each other, and they were a little inexplicable.

"I don't want this fate to come to the New Amber Mansion, Brother Wujiang, it seems that your name is getting bigger and bigger", Du Liangji couldn't help but joke.

"Hahaha"

Liu Ximing waved his hand at Li Biao, "Send two taels of silver, and I'll be gone." ”

Li Biao's face was even more weird, "They said they didn't want money, just to see you, saying that they had an old relationship with our people in Hanchuan Village." ”

Well?

Liu Ximing was shocked, Hanchuan Village was the most important fulcrum of the Liu family in the Central Plains, how could this Taoist priest have anything to do with here.

"Invite him to sit in the side room for a while, and I will come after chatting with Brother Zewang."

Li Biao left in response.

Liu Ximing suppressed the uneasiness in his heart, and continued to discuss with Huang Zonghui and others for a while about the major affairs of the imperial court and the social affairs of the iron-blooded Datong Society in the past year.