Two days later, Li Yanqing led 20,000 troops to Qiantang County, and the other troops were deployed to Jiangning, Runzhou, Suzhou and Yangzhou.

After passing the North Pass, the army stationed in the open space where Wang Xiao was assassinated, and began to build camp tents, build panel walls, and build a viewing tower. The soldiers were busy and almost everyone mobilized.

Li Yanqing went to Qiantang County two miles away under the escort of 300 personal soldiers. The county has not yet built a new city wall, but there is a tax office next to the official road. After passing the tax office, street shops began to appear on both sides of the official road, and there were more residential houses in the distance.

There were dozens of people standing next to the official road. Li Yanqing couldn't help but smile bitterly. The person in charge was Cao Yun's uncle Cao Yan, his father-in-law Cao Xuan, several elders of the Gao family and representatives of other meritorious families. The real local officials were not qualified to step forward and stood in a corner like grandsons.

At this time, Cao Yan greeted everyone with a smile. Li Yanqing quickly turned over and dismounted, clasped his fists and said, "Uncle comes to greet him in person, Yanqing really can't afford it!"

He is a junior, so it is necessary to be humble, but he is the status of a prince and a grand lieutenant. Cao Yan and others cannot really accept his humility, otherwise they will be ungrateful.

Cao Yan quickly held his arm and whispered to him: "You are the Grand Marshal now, let's talk about family affection when you go home!"

Li Yanqing nodded, stood up straight, and Cao Yan led everyone to bow and salute, "See Grandmaster Li!"

Li Yanqing smiled and waved his hand, "Please exempt all colleagues! Yanqing is entrusted by the officials to Xuanfu Liangzhe Road and Jiangnan Road, mainly to appease the people's hearts, stabilize the officialdom, and lay a solid foundation for the next relocation of the capital. All colleagues come from Tokyo, which is considered to be a foreshadowing for the relocation of the capital. On behalf of the officials, I sincerely thank everyone. Soon, the official fleet will arrive, and we will definitely hold a banquet to celebrate the commemoration!"

Li Yanqing's words made everyone excited. They finally heard the letter of moving the capital. Everyone asked in a verbal question: "Master Li, when will the capital be moved?"

"Master Li, the government is sure when will it come?"

"I want to go back to Tokyo to get something, is it convenient?"

The last question Li Yanqing was startled. He quickly raised his hand to calm everyone down, and then said to everyone: "There is something I want to make it clear to everyone. There is a very serious plague in Tokyo and the surrounding areas. It is summer now, and the plague spreads very quickly. If you want to go back, it is best to wait for a while and go back when the plague subsides."

The topic of the plague attracted a lot of discussion. At this time, Cao Yan pulled an official to Li Yanqing and smiled: "This is the real master today, Wei Magistrate Wei and Yanqing, thanks to Wei Magistrate Wei's care this time, Cao Mansion and Baoyanzhai were safe and sound."

Li Yanqing smiled and nodded, "Thank you, Magistrate Wei!"

Magistrate Wei was about 30 years old and from an Imperial College. He was a little fat. He was so swollen that his face was flushed. He quickly said modestly: "I dare not! I dare not! This is what the officials should do, and it is my duty!"

"Why didn't Hangzhou magistrate and the magistrate come?" Li Yanqing asked with some surprise.

"These two people ran away with their seals last night. They were both lackeys from Xiang's family. I don't know where they went?"

After Cao Yan finished speaking, he gave Li Yanqing a wink. Li Yanqing understood and smiled and said, "If County Magistrate Wei doesn't bother, just serve as the magistrate of Hangzhou for the time being! I will officially appoint him after I report to the official."

County Magistrate Wei was extremely excited. After moving the capital, Hangzhou was promoted to the capital. The magistrate was Shao Yin, which was promoted to three levels in a row! Of course, he knew that he was not qualified to be promoted to Shao Yin, but as long as he performed well, he could be released as Shangzhou Tongzong.

"Thank you for the promotion of Taiwei Li!"

Li Yanqing served as the head commander of the rebellion army. He had certain powers of appointment and removal for the officials of the prefectures involved in the rebellion, mainly targeting Jiangning Prefecture, Yangzhou, Runzhou, Changzhou, Suzhou, Hangzhou, Yuezhou, Xiuzhou, Xuanzhou and other eight prefectures. He could be removed from the prefectures but had no right to appoint them. The Tongzong had temporary appointment power, but generally speaking, as long as he served as Tongzong, Zhao Gou would give him face and become a regular person directly.

So far, Li Yanqing appointed Cao Sheng as the General Judge of Yangzhou, Lu Zhiyuan as the General Judge of Changzhou, and Mo Jun as the General Judge of Suzhou. Since his uncle personally made contributions to Wei County Magistrate, Li Yanqing was not stingy with his power and was directly promoted to him as the General Judge of Hangzhou.

Everyone exchanged a few more greetings and then dispersed. Next, the new agent Wei Tongzong accompanied Li Yanqing to the city to visit.

It was Li Yanqing's first time to come to Qiantang County. Qiantang County was beyond his imagination. Then he remembered that Qiantang County was originally the capital of Wuyue Kingdom. The foundation of the capital was laid solidly, so the streets were generally wide, with green trees and mostly well-built houses, but they looked very dense, with pedestrians everywhere on the streets, and the business was very prosperous, and they could not feel the atmosphere of war at all.

However, by chance, a team of cavalry would walk past the streets to maintain order in the city.

"Taiwei, there is the original old city wall over there, which has been demolished!" Wei Tongzong pointed to a pile of remaining city walls in the distance and introduced.

"Where is going to be built in the new city wall?" Li Yanqing asked with a smile.

"The city wall on the east side remains unchanged, close to Qiantang River, but needs to be extended. The west side is close to West Lake and will not be built for the time being. Now it is mainly the north and south city walls. The south city wall is south of the foot of Phoenix Mountain. This has been confirmed, and the north city wall has not been determined yet, but everyone generally agrees that it is to build it to the edge of the Huantang River, so that the area of ​​the city will be similar to that of Tokyo City."

"There are still many open spaces over there!"

"That's true. There are many vacant lands in the north, and they are currently all official lands. The government will build a large number of public housing for renting, which will greatly reduce the pressure on civilians to rent a house. Now the housing prices in Qiantang County are similar to those in Quansheng, Tokyo. It costs 800 cents a month to rent a house. It's really outrageous. You should know that the highest time in the capital was only 500 cents, which caused complaints from civilians."

Li Yanqing nodded, "This matter cannot be waited for. We must start building a house immediately. A large number of people from the capital will go south soon. Qiantang County will add hundreds of thousands more people. It is not possible to live in without a house."

"I understand that the court still needs to allocate money and materials for building the house."

This time, Li Yanqing wiped out the rebels in Jiangnan and seized more than 200,000 taels of silver and 500,000 guan. This money is intended to be used to resettle immigrants from the north. Li Yanqing immediately said: "I will allocate 500,000 guan to the Hangzhou government tomorrow. This money will be used to build public housing. No other place shall be misappropriated. Thirty thousand public housing must be built within three months, and the monthly rent of public housing shall not exceed 500 cents."

When Wei Tongzong heard that hundreds of thousands of immigrants were coming, he felt a little nervous. Li Yanqing saw his concern and smiled and comforted him, "Hundreds of thousands of immigrants will come, and there will be a large number of imperial officials responsible for making arrangements. The immigrants will live in a tent first and then slowly move into the city. I will recommend another chief officer in the next two days. If the two share the burden together, the pressure will be less."

After a pause, Li Yanqing said again: "But as a local secondary official, you need to do your own thing well, like the public rental housing I just mentioned, as well as epidemic prevention, public security, etc. Only by doing your own thing well can your agent be promoted to a regular court. Wei Tong, this is an opportunity. Do you understand what I mean?"

Punishment Wei Tong nodded, "I understand, thank you for the reminder!"

At this time, Li Yanqing saw a mansion full of soldiers standing in front of him, and asked strangely: "Whose mansion is that?"

"Report to the Grand Marshal, the Zhu family had three houses in Qiantang County. General Wang drove them all to one house and sent troops to guard them."

"Where are the Zheng family and the Xiang family?"

"The same is true for the Zheng family. The three families are all in one place, with soldiers guarding them, and Xiang's mansion also guarding them. It's just an empty house. There are only some maids and servants in the mansion. The elders and young men of Xiang's mansion have already run away."
Chapter completed!