Xu Churen's heart suddenly became hot, he didn't expect that Li Yanqing would set up a temporary council hall now, without Geng Nanzhong, Wu Min, Li Bangyan, Bai Shizhong, Sun Fu, Li Yanqing obviously excluded these people, isn't this his chance?

Xu Churen secretly scolded himself for being stupid, he actually shouted for Geng Nanzhong and others, once a son of heaven and a courtier, if he didn't fight for it at this time, when would he wait? Even the eighty-year-old Cai Jingjing came here, and he was still ignorant, but he only reacted now, and his decades of political experience have been lived on dogs.

In addition to the fact that he suddenly figured it out, he hurriedly smiled and said: "What Li Shaobao said is reasonable, the epidemic is like a mountain, we must act immediately, and we can't tolerate it for a moment, I suggest that the candidates for the temporary council hall be voted by hundreds of officials now." ”

Several other important ministers, including He Jiao, a scholar, Li Yan, a servant of the ministry, and Xu Han, a member of the imperial history, all understood the opportunity in front of them and expressed their support for the establishment of a temporary council.

Nearly two hundred officials voted in the Ziwei Temple,

The voting rules are that each person can choose two people, the implementation of secret ballot, by the imperial history of Cheng Xu Han scrutiny, the result is really a bit unexpected, one is Li Yanqing was elected with a high vote of 180 votes, the second ranked Cai Jing also only got 63 votes, followed by Xuanzan Sheren Wu Ge, he is only a seven-rank petty official, actually ranked third, with 60 votes, only three votes less than Cai Jing, and the university scholar Xu Churen only got 13 votes, barely ranked sixth, squeezed into the temporary political hall.

In the end, according to the number of votes received, the crown prince Shaobao Li Yanqing, the husband Cai Jing, the Xuanzan Sheren Wu Ge, and the same knowledge of the privy council Zheng Wangzhi, the university scholar He Jiao, the university scholar Xu Churen and other six people were elected to form a temporary council hall, which was reported to the queen mother for approval and exercised the power of the governor's hall.

Since there is no restriction on official rank in the election-only rules, the election of Wu Ge, a Xuanzan Sheren, can be regarded as a dark horse, but this is only an informal temporary council, so no one particularly opposes it.

The establishment of the Provisional Council marked the beginning of the long-dormant imperial court, and they faced three major events: first, to submit documents to all the states of the world, announcing the victory of the defense of the capital, and at the same time announcing the decree of the empress dowager; The second major event was to welcome King Kang back to the throne as soon as possible; The third major task is the fight against the plague.

In the Zhongshu Provincial Hall, Cai Jing presided over the first discussion of the Council as an old Xiangguo, Cai Jing said with emotion: "Yesterday the Jin soldiers withdrew north, and today the temporary Council Hall was established, first of all, thank Li Shaobao for the great efforts made by the court for the society in the past few months, without Li Shaobao leading the army to fight against the Jin soldiers, I am afraid that everyone here has now become the prisoners of the Jin soldiers." ”

Li Yanqing said with a smile: "This is the merit of the soldiers of the whole army, and it is also the result of the unanimity of hundreds of officials in the imperial court, not the merit of me Li Yanqing alone, it is not too early now, it is better for us to discuss the prevention and control of the plague first, to be honest, I am very worried!" ”

"Li Shaobao, is there anything unusual?" Zheng Wangzhi heard that Li Yanqing had something to say.

Li Yanqing nodded, "At noon today, a suspected patient was found in Wuhuai Lane north of Daxiangguo Temple, a nine-year-old boy who vomited and diarrhea, and the condition was very similar to the condition in the early days of the plague. ”

Everyone was taken aback, and Xu Churen asked urgently, "Have you taken measures?" ”

Li Yanqing nodded, "The three children have been found, their families are all isolated, everyone knows that Wuhuai Lane is all official rental houses, and the family is crowded in one room, living very densely, I am very worried that the crows will come into contact with the Jin Bing who died of illness outside the city?" ”

Everyone's hearts hung in the air, the crow eats the flesh of the dead, and it is difficult to guarantee that it will not touch the sick and dead.

Cai Jing asked: "How is the plague situation of the Jin soldiers outside the city, does Li Shaobao understand?" ”

Li Yanqing nodded, "Yesterday, the army went out to clean up the battlefield and had a general understanding of the plague situation of the Jin soldiers, the Jin soldiers have been infected with the plague by more than 10,000 people, and more than 3,000 people have died of disease..... The Jin soldiers retreated north and did not take the sick with them. ”

Everyone looked at each other, and Wu Ge was surprised: "Isn't that just letting these sick Jin soldiers wait for death?" ”

"It is indeed waiting for death, the Jin soldiers have no effective means to prevent and control the plague, there is only a way to isolate, they built an isolation camp, so the sick soldiers are driven in to fend for themselves, when our army passed, some seriously ill soldiers were climbing over the fence, trying to escape from the isolation camp, there were about 7,000 people inside, I heard that half of them had died, and it was very terrifying inside."

Everyone felt a chill in their backs when they heard this, and He Jiao asked anxiously: "Then what does Li Shaobao plan to do with this isolation camp?" ”

Li Yanqing sighed, "This isolation camp and the large camp of the Jin soldiers were burned by the soldiers of the Song Army, and they have been burned to the ground, and all the Jin soldiers in the camp are dead, the problem now is that there has been an interval of two hours between the withdrawal of the Jin soldiers from our army, and I don't know how many sick Jin soldiers have escaped from the isolation camp during these two hours, and the nearby Guoqiao Town, Chenqiao Town, Qicheng Town, Pan Town, Fengqiu County, Changyuan County, Dongming County, Yangwu County, and Suozao County, I have sent troops and medical officers to search these places, At the same time, all residents were notified to move eastward. ”

"So what do we need to do?" Cai Jing asked.

Li Yanqing sighed and said: "I have already received a quick report, the Jin soldiers who retreated north will start to cross the Yellow River at noon today, in a short time, the Jin soldiers should not go south again, I want to take this opportunity to evacuate most of the people of Tokyo to the south, and reduce the number of people in the capital to about 200,000, this is not for me to decide personally, I hope everyone will unanimously approve it." ”

"Where to evacuate?"

"We can set up evacuation points in Caizhou, Chenzhou, and Yingzhou, and if the people want to go to Jiangnan, we will not stop them, but the imperial court must do a good job of relief and medical treatment along the way, and we must not let the plague spread to the south."

Cai Jing nodded, "Let's raise your hands to vote!" If an evacuation resolution is passed, then a plan is made immediately. ”

Everyone raised their hands one after another, and all six of them agreed to Li Yanqing's evacuation proposal, and then decided to be led by Xu Churen, assisted by Zheng Wangzhi and Wu Ge, and the three of them formulated an evacuation plan, and selected 50 officials and 1,000 Tai students to be responsible for evacuating the people of the capital to evacuate to the south, and Li Yanqing allocated 5,000 troops to assist, and the time for retreating south was set on the third day.

Cai Jing and He Jiao were in charge of the prevention and control of the epidemic in the city, and they organized 30 officials to participate in monitoring the changes in the epidemic situation in the city.

Li Yanqing was responsible for the prevention of epidemics on the periphery and the return of King Kang to the throne.

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Since the battlefield of Zhongmu County was the source of the outbreak of the plague, Zhao Gou had to make a detour eastward from Guancheng County in Zhengzhou to Bianjing, Tokyo, first south to Changge County north of Yingchang Prefecture, and then along the Huimin River to Bianliang in Tokyo.

Originally, it was only two days away, but now it takes four days to arrive, Zhao Gou is of course accompanied by more than dozens of people, he is in the name of King Qin led 20,000 western troops from Jingzhao Mansion to Bianliang, and in Guancheng County, Zhengzhou, and Liu Jian, Wang Gui led 30,000 Jingzhao army converged, a total of 50,000 troops marched to Bianliang.

The officials who entered Beijing with Zhao Gou this time also included Fan Zhixu, the envoy of the Shaanxi Five-Way Economic Strategy, Li Gang, the prefect of Jingzhao, and Wang Boyan, the governor of Tongzhou, Fan Zhixu and Li Gang were recommended by Li Yanqing to Zhao Gou, and the two have entered Zhao Gou's circle of trust.

Zhang Hu led 500 cavalry to meet Zhao Gou in Changge County, and everyone learned that the Jin soldiers had retreated north, so they couldn't help but speed up and march towards the capital.

In the afternoon of the next day, the army arrived at Weichi County, which was still about a hundred miles away from the capital, and when everyone was resting in the county seat, they saw dust in the distance, and a cavalry was galloping from a distance.

Zhao Gou was taken aback, and urgently ordered Wang Yuan, the commander of the Western Army, and Liu Kuan, the commander of the Jingzhao Army, to prepare for battle, at this time, Wang Gui pointed to the distance and shouted: "It's not the Jin soldiers, it's the Song Army battle flag!" ”

Not long after, a messenger rushed to the city and said in a loud voice under the city: "His Royal Highness King Qiqikang, the defense envoy of Tokyo, the crown prince Shaobao Li Dutong led three thousand cavalry to welcome His Highness back to Beijing!" ”

Zhao Gou was overjoyed, ordered to open the gate of the county seat, and led everyone to welcome out of the city, not long after, three thousand cavalry stopped a mile away, Li Yanqing urged the horse to step forward, turned over and dismounted, stepped forward and knelt down on one knee and hugged his fist and said: "Weichen Li Yanqing see His Royal Highness King Kang!" ”

Zhao Gou hurriedly stepped forward to help Li Yanqing and comforted: "Li Shaobao led the army to resist Jin and kept the capital, and his merit lies in Sheji, and he is the first hero of my Great Song Dynasty!" ”

"Your Highness has won the prize, please follow Weichen to Beijing!"

Zhao Gou gave Li Yanqing a look, and asked in a low voice, "How is the situation in the capital?" ”

Li Yanqing smiled slightly, "The Queen Mother has issued a decree that Her Royal Highness will inherit the unification!" ”

Zhao Gou's heart suddenly fell a big stone, and he breathed a long sigh of relief, he was most worried that the emperor's concubine, the king of Daning County, would ascend the throne as the emperor, then he had no hope, but he didn't expect Li Yanqing to pave the way for himself in the end.

Li Yanqing simply told him that he had placed Wu Min and others under house arrest, asked Cai Jing to go out of the mountain to stabilize the situation, and then entered the palace to ask the Queen Mother to give an order.

Zhao Gou nodded again and again, he was extremely moved in his heart, and whispered to Li Yanqing: "I, Zhao Gou, can have today, all thanks to Shaobao!" ”

Li Yanqing smiled slightly, "This is also the situation of the Great Song Dynasty that needs His Royal Highness, please rest in the county seat for a night, and we will leave for Beijing early tomorrow morning!" ”