"What's the epidemic in Tokyo now?"

While waiting for the official family, Li Yanqing changed the topic. Although everyone was thinking about Cai Jing, he didn't want to talk about Cai Jing too much.

"The epidemic has been controlled!"

Fan Zhixu smiled and said, "Last month, there was a heavy rain in Tokyo. It took two consecutive days. Seeing that the Wuzhang River was about to break the dam, everyone didn't care about the plague. They organized tens of thousands of civilians to strengthen the dam in the north of the city. After returning, none of the plague was caught. In fact, except for the children who caught crows at the beginning, no plague was found in Tokyo. After a heavy rain, the plague was gone."

Li Yanqing nodded. This is also true. Rain can dilute the virus. In addition, Bianliang City is well prepared, so the plague did not spread in the end. But as far as he knows, Zhongmu County was unfortunate. Nearly half of the 100,000 people in the city died, as well as Weishi County and Xianping County. Almost 30% of the people died of death due to Zhongmu County. The entire western part of Kaifeng Prefecture was silent. Almost all the people who died of illness in these three counties escaped.

"This time the capital is moving south, how many people are there in Tokyo?"

"There are still about 100,000 people, and they are all unwilling to move south. The outer city of Bianliang no longer needs to be rebuilt, and the inner city is enough. When we transport all the documents and archives and seal the palace, we probably won't be able to go back for many years." Speaking of this, Fan Zhixu was a little sad.

Gao Shen next to him smiled and added in time: "Now the housing prices in Bianliang are astonishingly cheap. You can buy the shops next to Yu Street for a few thousand guan. In the past, it cost more than 100,000 guan and hundreds of thousands of guan. Stores in other areas are even less valuable. Most people now change their houses, and they didn't dare to think about it before, so many people are willing to stay in Bianliang."

At this time, a burst of rapid footsteps came from the door. The monarch Zhao Gou walked in quickly. Everyone quickly stood up. Zhao Gou waved his hand and apologized: "I just went to visit Mr. Cai. I'm a little late to come back. Please forgive me!"

Fan Zhixu hurriedly said, "We just waited for a while. Your Majesty, I wonder what the situation of Xianggong Cai is like?"

Zhao Gou shook his head, "The situation is not good. He has been unconscious last night and has not woken up. I asked their family, it must have been these two days."

Zhao Gou sat down in his seat. Of course, he could not sit on an equal footing with his husband, but his seat was slightly higher and wider, with an ivory-inlaid dragon throne. At this time, everyone stopped doing it casually and sat back to their seats.

Zhao Gou said slowly: "Today is the third day, but as far as I know, normal court affairs have not yet recovered. I hope this chaotic situation will end as soon as possible. Everyone will tell me what difficulties there are now, let's find a way to solve them."

He glanced at everyone and said, "I hope you can speak freely. Mr. Fan, you are the left prime minister, you can talk first!"

Fan Zhixu nodded and said, "I have just moved the capital here. There are so many things. Many things are actually trivial matters, but they have affected the operation of the court. I gave an example. Yesterday, I wanted to write a memorial, but I found that there was no ink, so I quickly sent someone to buy it outside. However, the ink I bought was not the ink we usually use in court, which made people unable to write. Thousands of people and thousands of ink seemed a bit unconventional. This is actually a habit problem. The court has developed many habits or rules for more than a hundred years. Now everything is disrupted and we have to start from scratch. Many people who are used to the old life don't know what to do. At present, a lot of our chaos comes from this."

"What about the country between Prime Minister Fan?" Zhao Gou asked again.

"According to the opinions of the meritorious ministers, the court will first establish an institution that sets various rules and sets down various court rules one by one. Your Majesty will issue an edict. Everyone has rules to follow. If they are not used to it, they will be used to it. The court affairs will be operated naturally."

Zhao Gou nodded, "Xiam Kwok Fan makes sense, so please ask Xianggong Fan to take the lead and form an institution, which is specifically responsible for formulating various court rules."

"I understand, let's start forming today!"

Zhao Gou asked Li Gang with a smile again, "Next, please let Mr. Li talk too!"

Li Gang stood up and bowed, and sat down and said, "Your Majesty, a big problem now is that there are insufficient officials in the court. In the past, there were tens of thousands of servants and craftsmen in the court, but now there are only more than one thousand servants, and there are less than two thousand craftsmen in military weapon supervision. There are only a few craftsmen in other bureaus, and there are also Jinzouyuan, which is basically blank, which seriously affects the normal operation of the court."

Zhao Gou pondered for a moment: "How to solve this problem?"

Li Gang already has a preliminary plan, "If the officials are insufficient, they can be drawn from the prefectures and counties in the world, or select students from the prefectures and Imperial Colleges. As for the school, it is actually a decree. The key is where they live?"

Li Gang's last sentence resonated with everyone, and the housing issue became the focus of complaints among all officials of the court. In recent days, many officials have been renting houses everywhere, or have to temporarily live in friends' homes to live in peace to work. Now that we are uneasy, how can the court run smoothly?

All the prime ministers and states started to discuss it, and Zhao Gou said to Li Yanqing: "Li Taibao, you have the most say in the residence issue. Can you tell me, is there any solution?"

Li Yanqing stood up and apologized to everyone and said, "I'm sorry, I can't solve everyone's life difficulties in time. Regarding living, I do have a solution."

Everyone was excited. This was the biggest problem that made them feel troubled. All subordinates were staring at them!

Li Yanqing smiled at Zhao Gou and said, "Your Majesty, is the Qiantang map I gave to You a few days ago still there?"

"It's on my imperial case!"

Zhao Gou quickly ordered the little eunuch, and soon took the map from the imperial case in the inner room and hung it up with a shelf. Li Yanqing walked to the map and pointed to a large area of ​​land between the county and the imperial city and said: "This land is about 22,000 acres, which is a spare land left for the imperial court. I suggest that the official house can be built near the imperial city, just like the dormitory of the Imperial Academy. The bottom two officials live in one room, and then gradually upgrade to the seventh-rank official can live in a separate courtyard and five houses. These dormitories are provided by the official. There is no need for rent for the time being. As for the housing in the Jinzhaoyuan, we provide the land, they build it themselves. Of course, there must be rules for how big the construction is, just like what Fan Xianggong said just now, set rules first."

"What about the officials above the seventh rank?" Zheng Wangzhi asked.

Li Yanqing pointed to the north of the map, and there was a wider open space on the north side. "Your Majesty, my grandfather, the local government in Lin'an is currently building public rental housing, and at the same time, it is also preparing to auction land in Huantang Henan, the northernmost part of Huantang. The money for auction land is used to build city walls. However, whether it is public rental housing or auction land, it is on the east side of Qiantang Street. There is no use for about 20,000 acres of land on the west side of Qiantang Street. I think the court can build official houses here, ranging from one acre to ten acres. Officials above seventh rank can get official houses to live in, but if they want to live better and bigger, or want to pass it on to their descendants, they have to buy land and houses by themselves. As far as I know, many senior officials in the court have bought land and built houses."

Li Gang asked: "Building an official house is of course good, but the court is in financial difficulties! I'm afraid I won't be able to afford that much money for the moment."

Li Yanqing looked at Zhao Gou with a smile. All the silver sold by Xiang’s family were put into the inner treasury. In order to escape from the crime, the Zheng family and the Zhu family took out a huge amount of silver, which was also in Zhao Gou’s hands to build an official house and a house. Of course, Zhao Gou had no choice but to do so.

Zhao Gou didn't understand what Li Yanqing meant. He could only smile bitterly and said, "The inner warehouse has some income recently, so let's do it! The money for building the official house and the official house will be kept by the inner warehouse first. When the imperial court will be rich, then return the money to the inner warehouse."

"Your Majesty's wise!"

Li Yanqing smiled and praised, and said, "In addition, regarding the two plans of Li Xianggong to enrich the officials, the Wei ministers also recommend selecting new people from the provinces and state schools and the Imperial College. First, the students are young and energetic, and there is no such thing as clerks. Second, most of them have not started a family, and the burden on the court is easier. First, let them live in the official residence between the two, and then slowly improve their living conditions after promotion. At that time, the court's financial resources were much more abundant. Now they can set up a tent and live there for two months, and then move into a new residence."

Fan Zhixu also smiled happily and said: "Young students are good. Weichen fully agrees with Li Taibao's suggestion. This time, thanks to the full assistance of the three thousand students, they can be given priority to joining the job."
Chapter completed!