Prime Minister Bizen

Chapter 555
Jianxingyuan came from Suruga Xingguo Temple, 2 to 3 days behind Xiujia, and Xiujia had already asked Ujihime and Kaifeiji to be responsible for the structural renovation project of the Iwatsu Castle Hall.

The construction period is very short, only more than half a month's work, and must be completed before Fujihime and others arrive.

Fortunately, the construction of Iwafu Castle will also start soon. These are only temporary buildings. When the new inner hall of Iwafu Castle is completed, these buildings will come to an end.

In the early morning of the next day, the first project that the Xiu family and the family elders worked on was the plan for the construction of Yanfu City, and its drawings had been submitted to the Xiu family yesterday for review.

Togawa Tatsuya, who was the chief executive of the fortification, introduced his design ideas to Xiujia after unfolding the general picture scroll in front of everyone. Established in the middle of Honmaru.

Hideka was not very satisfied after listening to his narration. Judging from this design, Hideka still overestimated Tatsuan Togawa's ability.

Iwafu Castle will be the face of Toyotomi's family in Kanto for the next 30 years, how can they be so picky?Xiujia immediately took out his modified version, which has been greatly changed.

Hideya merged Honmaru and Jujukuwa, breaking the link between Jujukuwa and Sannomaru, making it a part of Honmaru.

Hideka divided the Honmaru into east and west. The east area came to Honmaru from Erzhimaru Irimon. The side that directly catches the eye is a five-story six-level tower set up in the southeast corner of the Honmaru. This tower refers to Osaka Castle. The cast is a tower-shaped keep.

The castle built by the Xiu family in Okayama City was limited by the edge of the mountain, so it could only adopt an irregular watchtower shape, which was not what the Xiu family liked. Now that the castle is built on a plain, this problem must naturally be made up.

The reason why the castle was built here is because there is only a water hole between Sannomaru and Ninomaru, and the samurai townhouses and castle towns outside.

Due to the restrictions of Arakawa, it is difficult to plan large-scale buildings on the north side of Hideka. In other words, the main planning area of ​​Hideka Iwafu Castle is on the south side of Arakawa. The castle tower is placed here to facilitate the viewing during peacetime. the people under their feet.

When it comes to war, it is adjacent to Sannomaru and Ninomaru, which is also convenient for the Patriarch to ascend to command the battle, but this function should be difficult to use.

On the west and north sides, Xiujia set up a set of P-shaped corridor-style palaces. The outermost entrance is the "Yuanshi Room" on the north side of the castle tower. There are semi-independent rooms here. , Er Jian, San Jian, and Lu Jian, these four rooms will be the places where the ministers and ministers wait when they come to see the Xiu family.

Since the internal and external officials are arranged to wait for use, the strokes here will be painted with a tiger pattern to deter foreign officials so that they dare not despise the family.

Because of the tigers in its murals, "The Room of the Envoys" is also called "The Room of the Tigers" in the Kanto Toyotomi family.

The reason why there are no four rooms or five rooms is that the Xiu family taboos the number, so they took the name "Lu Jian".

From the "Yuanshijianjian" to the west through a wall corridor, you will come to the "Imperial Envoy Room". This is actually the most important room in the front hall, which is used to welcome the imperial envoys. Therefore, there will be paintings with water as the background. Early Xia Qingfeng's mural.

On both sides of the "Emperor Room" are "Furong Room" and "Liu Room". These are the places where imperial envoys and daimyo wait to rest, so the more elegant paintings will be the strokes of hibiscus flowers and weeping willows.

Pass through the "Imperial Envoy Room" and come out of the wall corridor, turn to the south along the base of the castle tower, and connect to the "Shitai Room" and "Jialao Room"

The so-called "Shidai no Ma" will be a place where other daimyos, non-family masters above ten thousand stones in the main domain, and the Hide family will meet, talk, present gifts and report. The pine tree on the wall painting is a symbol of luck that represents eternal prosperity.

Immediately next to the "Shidai no Ma" is the "Karao no Ma", which has the same area as the "Shidai no Ma", but it is divided into 3 compartments, and this is the place to wait for interviews. .

Because it is a place to wait for interviews, the number of people is generally not too large, so it does not matter if the area of ​​each compartment is smaller. When necessary, the doors can be opened and merged into one.

The reason why it is specially divided into three compartments is to facilitate the elders of different factions to meet the Xiu family, otherwise it would be embarrassing to meet.

To the west of "Shitaijia Laojian" is a very large place. This is where Xiujia's Daguangjian is located. Its area is almost the sum of the area of ​​the previous 4 rooms, and it can easily accommodate hundreds of people attending the meeting at the same time. .

The entire Daguangjian is mainly divided into two parts, east and west, which are distributed according to the ratio of east to west and west to three. between three.

The function of the Daguang Room is the place where the Xiu family will receive guests and hold evaluation meetings in the future. The room between the two will be the reception room, which will be the room where the Xiu family will meet other daimyos, foreign ministers, internal ministers and elders who are waiting in front.

And for a while, Xiujia holds monthly assessments, and temporary assessments on special occasions. Just this bay can accommodate hundreds of people.

The imperial steps between the two rooms are connected to the first room, so that the door between the east and west rooms can be opened when necessary. After the two sides are connected, hundreds of people can be accommodated for the grand court meeting.

Ohiroma is the westernmost side of Hideka Honmaru, and further to the west is an open space, which will be beautified by Hideka with dry mountains and rivers.

At the same time, this is also a safe area, preventing the ninjas from the outside from jumping over the wall and entering directly after the palace itself.

The "Xiao Hiro Room" is connected to the north at the corner of the Da Hiro Room, which is the official office space second only to the Da Hiro Room.

It is the place where the Xiu family meets with the close daimyo and high-ranking retainers for small meetings.Therefore, it is a space full of friendly atmosphere.

Also in order to prevent people who are difficult to meet here from meeting again, this place is set in the shape of a back, and the left and right are the "Sakura Room" painted with cherry blossoms and the "Bamboo Room" with bamboo flowers. The bamboo forest is used to partition the two sides to prevent the two sides from seeing each other.

The wall corridor turns back to the east again here, and to the east of the "Xiaoguangma" is the "Imperial Throne Room", which is considered to be the general's living room and bedroom, and this is where the Hide family will work in the future.

After finishing Xiu's house at night, if you are too tired from work and don't plan to go to the inner hall to rest, or you are a little tired at noon, you can directly rest here.

Also in order to prevent this moment, the distance between this place and other courtyards is slightly larger, and a courtyard is set on the open space, and no tall trees can appear in the courtyard.

The reason why Hideka’s royal palace is designed to return to the east is because in this way, the “gozano” returns to the position in the Honmaru, facing Hideka’s Kanto daimyo’s central status.

The courtyard between the thrones actually faces the southward corridors of the “Room of Imperial Envoys” and the “Room of the Shidai Family”, and Hideo can also go directly through the courtyard to the castle tower. However, this courtyard is usually separated, sometimes It is separated by a special courtyard wall, and the courtyard gate facing south is always closed.

There is a "wrapped door" on the north side of "between the thrones", passing through this is the inner hall of the Xiu family, in order to show the distinction.

Like the Honmaru Outer Hall, it is also widening to the west. Hideka used to think that the area of ​​the water swamp around Iwasuke Castle was too large. The widest part was 100 meters wide, which was really unnecessary.

The width of Arakawa is 40-50 meters. It is mainly on the north side of Iwasuke Castle. Hideka plans to set the width of Iwasuke Castle Water Hori to 20 meters, and the outermost periphery can be wider to 35 meters. Filled up.

The scope of the inner hall is called Ouchi, because the buildings of the Hideo Outer Hall, such as "Gozama", "Shitaima" and "Xiaoguangma", have replaced the history of the Tokugawa shogunate's general meeting with foreign ministers The "outside" of the "outside" and the "Central Austria" of the general's office and living, so the Hideo's Ou Nei will become a pure living place for the harem women.

Right in the middle, right next to the "Yumen" is "Goden Xiang", which will be the bedroom "Gokozashiki" of Hideka's favored women in the future, and when the Hideka or Kikuhime and Ujihime need to call the female relatives It is the "goto opposite place" when discussing matters, and it is also the only place where Onai's female relatives meet with their relatives.

Along with it, it is in the middle, and behind it is Changju Xiang, which will be the living place of Ju Ji, the main wife of the Xiu family in the future. This is also the courtyard with the largest area here, with a two-storey building and a special place for worshiping Buddha Buddhist halls, side houses where personal maids live, and other buildings.

The garden, courtyard, and pool in the middle of the entire courtyard are all exclusive to Ju Ji.

On both sides of the "Long Bureau" are "One Side", "Two Sides", "Three Sides", "Four Sides" and a total of 24 houses. There is only one house here. The adjacent part of "Long Office Direction" and "East-West Long Office".

This will be the place where many concubines of the Xiu family live. A total of 24 rooms have been reserved. From now on, the concubines will be directly under the direct management of the wife of the main wife, so the Xiu family will set them up on both sides of the "Long Bureau".

On the west side of "Goden Xiang" are the various places set up to serve the living and living of Hideo, Godaisho, and side rooms, such as "Wu Fu no Room" (responsible for sewing the clothes of each person in Ooku), "Imperial Restaurant" (responsible for arranging Food and drug testing) and warehouses and other buildings.

On the east side of "Goden Xiang" is the "Nanchang Bureau". This is the place where the mother of the Hide family, Tongfangyuan, and other concubines of the Zhi family lived.

On both sides of the "Long Juxiang", the east and west sides of the entire Aoney are "East Changju" and "West Changju". Because Xiu's family married two flat wives, they correspond to the "Long Juxiang". , but the area and specifications are smaller.

The shrunken part is the area of ​​the Imperial Palace and the courtyard. The Imperial Palace itself is still in the style of a two-story building. There are also independent Buddhist halls dedicated to worshiping Buddha, side houses where personal maids live, and gardens, courtyards, and pools.

This will be the residence of Ashikaga Jihime and Maeda Yomon, who has not yet married.

To the south of the "East and West Changju", and to the north of "Xiyudian Xiang" and "South Changju" are the places where the higher-level side rooms of the Xiu family live. Each has a small courtyard and a main hall on the first floor. Each courtyard is a uniform square, and the empty space in the southeast or southwest is its own small courtyard.

It’s just that the yard is much smaller. There is only a courtyard, and there will be a small garden in the middle. You can design what you want to grow. There will be no pool, it’s more like a small villa.

这样的小院子将会有8间，要知道秀家现在也只有3个侧室5个妾室，8个小院和24个“长局向”的侧屋秀家都觉得有些多余了。

Should be enough, right?

The collective residences of the maids and maids behind the three "long bureaus" in the west, middle and east are much simpler here, almost like row houses, and the high-ranking female officials will be the same as the concubine of the Xiu family. A separate room, other people can only squeeze a room with 10 people.

The difference is that there is a relatively independent courtyard at the back of the Dongchang Bureau, which is the residence of women who have not been given a title by the Xiu family, or who have not been favored by the Olympic Games.

Their status is a bit higher than that of the maids, but they still belong to the bottom of Oni. They usually do some lighter jobs, such as sewing clothes for the Xiu family, singing, etc., and they are closer to the Xiu family, and the chances of being favored higher.

Also because of their higher status, they can live in a room with 4 people, with a shared pool and a small courtyard in the middle.

Judging from Xiujia’s design for Ao Nei, it is obvious that the Ming Dynasty culture was interviewed for the design, and the general distribution of the Forbidden City was referred to. Therefore, the area of ​​the Au Nei has expanded by more than two times than before, and the original irregular deformation for polygonal square

However, the Ninomaru designed by Hideka is much more regular than the original Ninomaru built according to the situation. Hideka designed a neat release, which means that part of the water hole needs to be filled.

Of course, if there is no name here, it will still be Takezawa Qulun. This will be the office of Hideka's elders and the main priests in the future. There will be buildings such as the headquarters of various temples, and the Hall of Elders' Appraisal.

In other words, this place will be an important place for the internal affairs of the Xiu family in the future. After receiving the order of the Xiu family, Deng Honmaru, the elders or retainers, came here to supplement it, and then arranged it according to the order, which is equivalent to a certain place in China. ocean.

The general shape of Sannomaru on the outside remains unchanged, and the southwest part will expand outwards to fill up some of the marshes. This will be the dwelling house where the attendants of the Hide family and the bannermen gather.

Of course they also have a house in the Nanmaru samurai machiya, but the samurai machiya below is the location of the machiya where Hideka taught senior samurai, which is somewhat similar to Sannomaru in Osaka Castle.

However, low-level samurai could only build samurai houses in Uwaimaru outside Nanmaru. This is equivalent to the part of Odawara Castle, and it is also the location where low-level samurai built their own houses.

Many attendants and bannermen are not from very good backgrounds. The family does not necessarily have a house in Nanmaru, so they will choose to live in the waiter's house in Sannomaru, or meet someone who needs to be on duty, even if they have a house in Nanmaru. You also need to live in Sannomaru.

At the same time, the Hide family also set up a school in Sannomaru, called the Military Equipment School, which specializes in military courses for the children of the samurai family.

In the expanded area at the southwest corner of Sannomaru, there is still the Joyomizo, which will be the storage place for the grain in the castle.

(End of this chapter)