"Lord, lord...... King Yong, King Yong......"

"What are you shouting, I'm here!"

"The prince punishes the crime, the prince punishes the crime......" Ma Jiu muttered in his mouth, and came to the Yongshui with more than a dozen cavalrymen, five or six zhang away, turned over and dismounted and ran towards Guo Qi, knelt down on one knee in front of Guo Qi and said: "The prince is punished, and the lowly duty is not good to protect the prince, please punish the prince." ”

Guo Qi walked up to Ma Jiu's side and said, "Okay!" Pick up the king's sword and helmet. ”

Ma Jiu trotted over Guo Qi's helmet and sword, and presented it with respectful hands; Guo Qi first took the helmet and put it on his head, then took the war knife and inserted it into the scabbard on his waist, then turned over and said, "Take those mules back to Yongcheng." ”

The Yonghe River is more than three miles away from Yongcheng, and the difference from the south is that the west of Yongcheng is not all wasteland, there are some fertile fields but the scale is not large, and it seems that it has just been harvested, and there are straws piled up in the ground; When Guo Qi came to the west gate of Yongcheng not far from the west gate surrounded by more than a dozen cavalry, he saw that the rest of the cavalry were in front of the gate, and a group of ragged people on the city wall were holding dung forks, sickles and other farm tools in their hands.

"Listen, the people in the city, His Royal Highness King Yong is here, and he hasn't opened the city gate quickly." Ma Jiu came to the city gate and shouted loudly.

"Where is the prince you are talking about? What are the tokens to prove it? A young man with the appearance of a literati asked.

After Ma Jiu came back, he said to Guo Qi: "Lord Wang, they don't believe in us and want our tokens. ”

Guo Qi took out his royal seal from his arms and handed it to Ma Jiudao: "Give this to them." ”

"No!" Ma Jiu got off the horse and walked to the city with Wang Yin in both hands, and came down with a basket from the city, Ma Jiu carefully put Wang Yin in the basket, and the basket was swaying and was pulled to the city.

A sturdy young man took Wang Yin out of the basket and walked to the young man and asked, "Brother Song, what do you look at here?" How does it look like the big seal of the county master! ”

Song Yiming took the Wang seal over, opened the outer wrapper, and saw a piece of turtle button platform presented in front of him, this gold seal letter square three inches and five minutes, one inch thick, on the bottom of the seal engraved with the words 'Prince of Qi Yong'.

After all, Song Yiming has read books and knows what Wang Yin should look like; So he hurriedly said: "Li Wu quickly open the city gate to welcome the prince into the city." ”

Under the leadership of Song Yiming, a group of people guarding the city wall embraced the city wall, opened the closed city gate, and when the city gate was not fully opened, Song Yiming took Li Wu to hold the Wang Yin, ran all the way out of the city, stopped at a distance of one zhang from Guo Qi, knelt down and said: "On behalf of Song Yiming of Yongcheng County, I don't know that His Royal Highness King Yongwang is coming, please punish the prince." ”

Guo Qi turned over and dismounted, walked up to Song Yiming, and helped Song Yiming with both hands and said, "Song County is exempt from courtesy." ”

"Thank you, Lord Wang."

After Guo Qi took back the king's seal, he asked: "You are the Cheng of Yongcheng County, what about your assassination history and county order?" ”

"Lord Yu, since the establishment of Yongzhou, the history of Yongzhou has been represented by the general who guarded Yongzhou, and since the army withdrew from Yongzhou, there has been no history of assassination in Yongzhou; Three years ago, the army withdrew to Qizhou, and the county order and most of the remaining people in the city left. Song Yiming reported.

Guo Qi nodded and asked, "How many people are there in Yongcheng now?" ”

"Lord Wang, Yongcheng County has 621 households, a population of 1,857 people, and 5,674 acres ......of land," Song Yiming reported.

"Hey! Unexpectedly, there were less than 2,000 people left in this dignified Yongcheng and the capital of this king. Guo Qi sighed.

Song Yiming didn't say anything when he heard Guo Qi's words, he just lowered his head.

"Song Yiming obeyed the order, and this king appointed you as the Yongcheng Commander to take charge of Yongcheng government affairs." Guo Qi suddenly appointed.

"The lower officials are terrified......" Song Yiming knelt on the ground and said.

Guo Qi smiled and helped Song Yiming up and said: "From now on, you are not a lower official, but a minister, a minister of this king, and you will enter the city with this king." ”

"The prince is a thousand years old, a thousand years old, a thousand years old ......"

Looking at the people kneeling on both sides of the street, Guo Qi said loudly: "Folks, get up!" ”

Although these people live in the city and have some fields outside the city, they are still yellow-skinned and skinny, and they look like they have been malnourished for a long time, and their clothes are all in tatters, which is not much better than those homeless people.

Although Yongcheng is also dilapidated, it is much better than Yu County, a huge city with less than 2,000 people seems very deserted, and many places in the city, because no one has taken care of it for a long time, they are also panicked, and the houses have collapsed partly, fortunately, although most of the houses are dilapidated, but the foundation is still there, as long as it is repaired and lived, it is not a problem.

Under the leadership of Song Yiming and the embrace of the people of Yongcheng, Guo Qi came to the Yongcheng County Ya located in the west of the inner city of Yongcheng, which is also the first institution in operation in Yongcheng, and Song Yiming lives here; Although it is a county office, it has lost its majesty as before, and because there is little time to take care of it, some yards have been overgrown with wild grass.

Guo Qi stood at the gate of the county government, looked at the eager eyes of all the people thrown at him, and said: "Fellow villagers, this king came to manage Yongzhou on the order of his father, just to tell all the people in Yongzhou that the court has not given up on you; From today on, this king will stay in Yongzhou to live and die with you, advance and retreat together, and this king will lead you to get rid of hunger and poverty, so that all the people of Yongzhou will be 'old and useful, young and old, widows, widows, lonely and sick people will be supported'. ”

"The prince is a thousand years old, the prince is a thousand years old...... Chichitose ......"

Guo Qi's words immediately resonated with the people of Yongcheng, and Guo Qi led the army to defeat the bandits outside the city just now, so that Guo Qi immediately gained the hearts of the people of Yongzhou.

After all the people dispersed, Guo Qi entered the yamen.

"Is what the prince just said sincere?" After entering the wing, Song Yiming questioned Guo Qi.

"Of course, what this king said is true, but there is no basis for it; Time will tell. Guo Qi said confidently: "By the way, there is one more thing to trouble Lord Song, please invite some respected people in Chengli, this king has something to discuss with you." ”

"No! This is arranged. After Song Yiming finished speaking, he took Li Wu and left.

After the two of them left, Guo Qi was the only one left in the room, although the foundation of Yongcheng was better than that of Yu County, but it was not much better, Guo Qi needed to think about his next plan, after all, this place would be his lair in the future, and it would not be possible if he didn't care!

Yongcheng is divided into the inner city and the outer city, and most of the residents of Yongcheng now live in the inner city, and only a small part live in the outer city; Yongcheng is a square city, there are 32 miles in the circumference, the area is 16 square kilometers, as far as a state city is concerned, this scale can only be regarded as the upper middle, the largest population when the city lives 1230,000 people, such a foundation is not bad.