In the fifth month of summer, rain pattered down.
Liu Cheng had put in a rare night of exhausting work before finally going to rest. A She had long since fallen asleep with her newborn third child-Liu Cheng's fourth child and second son, Shousheng. Liu Acheng did not disturb them, merely finding a thin quilt to cover himself on the outer couch in the adjoining room so he would not catch cold.
Such occasions had actually become very rare.
For over the preceding year, from the first year of Shengping through the first half of its second year, whether because the emperor had chosen an auspicious era name or not, the whole realm-or at least Great Jin-had truly enjoyed rising peace. Since Later Zhao's collapse, the very year Liu Cheng had transmigrated here, nearly ten years had passed, and stability had been a rare thing.
That was right: it was now the fifth month of the second year of Shengping, and Liu Cheng had actually enjoyed over a year of peaceful days.
Throughout that year and more, the political situation had been quite stable.
First, apart from Xie Shang, no important figures had died. After Xie Shang finally passed away, his younger paternal cousin Xie Yi naturally took over the Western Command, becoming General Who Pacifies the West and inspector of Southern Yuzhou, and even receiving the staff of authority to oversee all military affairs in Southern Yuzhou and Huaibei.
The Xie Family's first act of assistance to Huan Wen many years earlier now played an important role. Even Huan Wen remained silent and cooperative when faced with this friend from his days in plain clothes, while Yuan Zhen and Liu Cheng both bowed their heads and maintained the status quo.
Beyond that, there were no major political changes.
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