"How long can I stay when I come back this time?"

After finishing the process of worshiping the ancestors, he sat down in the Liu family's mansion, and Liu Chen couldn't wait to ask.

Glancing at Xie Chunxi and other wives and concubines who also looked longing, Liu Ximing replied with a smile: "Mother, don't worry, now that the epidemic in the Central Plains has subsided, I think I should be able to stay for a while longer." ”

After speaking, he looked at Zhou Liangcai, Liu Xihe and others in the room, and then explained, "Besides, now that the Liukou are raging in the Central Plains, when I left Henan, the Liukou had already surrounded Wuchang City, and the Governor Yang Sichang, the Governor Fu Zonglong and others were all trapped in the city, and I don't know what happened now." ”

"I don't know where Erlang left, so I don't know", Liu Xihe, who was becoming more and more red, answered: "A few days ago, the news just came that the thieves and Zhang Yi and other thieves have invaded Wuchang City, and the supervisor Yang Sichang and others committed suicide, and the King of Chu has been completely cut off, and the entire Wuchang has been slaughtered by the rogues. ”

"Hiss"

Although he had been prepared in his heart, Liu Ximing was still a little thrilled when he heard the news.

The atmosphere in the main hall suddenly became silent, and Liu Ximing closed his eyes and pondered for a while before sighing.

"It's a pity, Yang Wenweak has the ambition to help the world, but he doesn't know the destiny of heaven, the Ming Dynasty has rotted into the bone marrow, how can he save the sky with his own strength, it's a pity."

After speaking, Liu Ximing immediately pursed his lips and said: "If you say this, I'm afraid that I won't be able to stay at home for long, and there is no one available in the court right now, and Your Majesty will not let me go back at home." ”

"Do you want to go to the Central Plains to lead the troops?"

Liu Chen suddenly became a little nervous, and she looked at Liu Ximing with a worried face:

"It's been a lot of years, but now it's getting bigger and bigger, what's the use of you going, the whole family is counting on you, don't put yourself in danger."

"Hahaha, don't worry, mother, the child will naturally know."

Liu Ximing smiled and realized the concern of his family, "But speaking of which, the Central Plains will go sooner or later, but not now." ”

Everyone in the Liu family was a little puzzled.

"Now that the governor is newly mourned, the Liukou has broken through the capital of a province like Wuchang for the first time, and he must be bold, thinking that in the next year, the Liukou's courage and actions will only get bigger and bigger, and who will take over now is just a special black pot."

"Now my family has mastered many prefectures and counties in Henan and Huguang, and if it is really to suppress bandits, although it is not said that it is nine out of ten, it is also quite sure. It's just that you have to find a good opportunity for this matter, otherwise it will be easy to set yourself on fire. ”

Hearing that Liu Ximing's heart was clear, Liu Chen finally put his mind at ease.

She looked at Xie Chunxi and the others with blank faces, and hurriedly gave Liu Xihe, Zhou Liangcai and others a look, and hurriedly ended today's reception.

"You haven't been at home for so long, and the family affairs are all supported by Xi'er and the others, so you have to accompany them well when you come back this time."

"Hehe, the kid got it."

Needless to say, how did Liu Ximing appease the back house, he finally came back after being away from home for so long, so he naturally could only use all his strength to linger in the boudoir.

I have to say that he came back at this time ingeniously, several children were in need of father's love, and Liu Ximing's timely appearance made several children more lively.

Many affairs in Liujia Village have also been straightened out by him one by one, in fact, it is not a big deal, the management system of the Liu family has now been perfected, administration, supervision, public security, and the army are all performing their duties, and Liu Ximing only needs to control it as a whole.

However, when he came back this time, Liu Ximing made a few special requirements for the management of the house and the police room, asking them to vigorously train their respective subordinates, and if necessary, they could be sent to Luzon for internship and training.

In particular, in the police house, even if there is a military stationed in each village of the Liu family, a police force has been set up in a unified manner, on the one hand, to maintain the separation of military and political affairs, and on the other hand, to vigorously cultivate police talents in the future.

According to Zhang Yuanlong's report, there are currently about 50,000 police quarters in the mainland part, far exceeding the actual demand.

In order not to let these people be idle, so as to develop the mentality of old fritters, Zhang Yuanlong had thoroughly implemented Liu Ximing's instructions before, and turned the police house into a department down to the grassroots level, and many trivial things in various villages had to be looked for them.

Most people in the village now think it's funny when they talk about it, but because of this, the relationship between the police house and the people under its rule is rapidly improving.

This made Liu Ximing feel deeply gratified, what he was most afraid of before was the set of things inherited from the police room to help the officials, in which case he would have to rectify the situation again.

It's just that such days didn't last long, although the road was blocked because of the ravages of the Liukou in Huguang and other places, but at the end of April, Chongzhen's urgent will to recruit Liu Xi's life to return to the dynasty still came to Shunqing.

In the eagerness of Chongzhen's edict, Liu Ximing had to put aside the Wen with his family, and hurriedly said goodbye and embarked on the journey to Beijing.

This time, for the sake of fairness, he could only leave Cao Wanyi at home and take Li Xiangjun and Yu Qiaoman to Beijing with him.

As usual, the group avoided the most chaotic Huguang and other places, and once again walked from Shaanxi to Henan.

In the fourteenth year of Chongzhen, there was another great drought in the world, and Liu Ximing and others traveled all the way, quite a feeling of being bare and desolate.

However, this does not exist in the prefectures and counties under the rule of the Liu family, there are sufficient manpower and stone slurry steel bars and other materials, Xu Wei, Xie Wenle and others have already organized people to build small water conservancy projects, which has played a great role at this time.

In mid-June, when Liu Ximing and his entourage arrived in Shaanxi, there was another report from the Shaanxi governor's yamen.

The thief Li Zicheng led his troops to the north, first besieged Nanyang Fucheng, and then killed the Tang Wang's lineage, and then marched north, besieging Kaifeng for ten days.

Because Zhu Gongfang, the king of Zhou, opened the treasury and took out 500,000 taels of silver to mobilize the people of the city to defend the city, Kaifeng was greatly boosted and successfully repelled Li Zicheng's troops.

The bad news is not only these, in the southern direction, Zhang Xianzhong led his troops to leave Wuchang and go straight to Changsha, besieging Changsha for more than a month and not breaking the city, and then turning to attack the prefectures and counties in the south of Huguang, breaking the two prefectures and three states.

As for the east, there were five battalions of the left of the Revolution to attack and harass Jiangxi and Nanzhili, and successively broke Ji'an, Yuanzhou, Jianchun and other places.

Luo Rucai led his troops to break into Shandong, once surrounded Jinan City, and once again blocked Cao Yun.

Liu Ximing watched it thrillingly, judging from such a momentum, the Ming Dynasty didn't know how long it could last.

Fortunately, at this time, there were more than 200,000 soldiers of Cao Bianjiao and others in the hinterland of the Central Plains, and under the vigorous reprimand of the imperial court, these chief military officers also used enough strength to attack the thieves, otherwise the Ming Dynasty may really be destroyed directly.

However, Liu Ximing knew that at the moment, Jianzhen was vigorously attacking the Songjin defense line, compared to the constraints of the Central Plains, Jianyu was under the nose of the Beijing Division, and when the time came, Chongzhen would not dispatch troops from the Central Plains, but would have to be dispatched from the Nine Sides.

No matter what kind of arrangement, at that time, it was already weak.

However, there is also a lot of bad news that can be called good news for Liu Ximing.

Liu Xi's previous excerpt on asking for merit for everyone was approved, and Sun Chuanting was promoted to the governor of the three sides of Shaanxi, and continued to eliminate the Liukou.

Dou Yuquan was originally promoted to the governor of Nanyang Mansion and the governor of Dengzhou, but now because the city of Nanyang Mansion was broken, he was promoted to the governor of Nanyang.

Lei Hong was promoted to the governor of Dengzhou, Zhao Xiangyang was promoted to the governor of Xiangyang Prefecture, Xie Wenle was transferred to the Tongzhi of Hanzhong Prefecture, and Xu Wei was transferred to the Tongzhi of Fengxiang Prefecture.

As for their previous positions, they were transferred by Du Liangji to Chen Zilong, Huang Zongxi, Xia Yunyi and others.

Don't look at the layout of Liu Ximing and others, it seems to be easy, but in practice, it is more relaxed.

You must know that most of the second-class and third-class jinshi who have been sent abroad in these years want to be an official in Beijing, and everyone generally does a three-year county governor, so they want to make Yinzi find an official position in the middle or the head of the sixth department.

Only those who fail in their attempts will consider continuing to go around the local area and slowly rise to the post through the path of prefect, tongzhi, and prefect.

In addition, now that the place is ruined and thieves are raging, in addition to the local officials in Henan who know about it, who else is willing to take up posts in these places, Du Liangji must also be embarrassed to speak in the name of personal vendetta when doing these errands.

But for the members of the Datong Society, it is most cost-effective to take up a local position now.

With the help of the Liu family to control the localities, these prefectures and counties are not only impregnable, but even the taxes can be pretended to be normal.

For example, Dou Yuquan was in office before, and his performance appraisal was on the top every year, and with Liu Ximing's credit to him, he could sit in the position of Nanyang prefect as he wished.

As for Huang Zongxi, Xia Yunyi and others, they were finally freed from the sea of suffering.

As soon as these members of the Restoration Society joined the Datong Society, they felt the strong strength of the Datong Society, and although Huang Zongxi's previous county was not far from Dengzhou, he was also familiar with everything in Dengzhou.

But it wasn't until he went to the inner countryside to take over Lei Hong's position that he realized how outrageous his previous estimate was.