Warring States Eagle

Chapter 121 The Lord's Mansion

After the evaluation was over, all the retainers went down to prepare according to Zhengliang's order.Zheng Liang inspected the snow salt workshop in Cangshan City. The workshop has been completely built according to Zheng Liang's requirements. Many local residents are busy cooking snow salt. After listening to the report from the temporary person in charge of the workshop, Masuke Finally, Zheng Liang was quite satisfied with the construction progress of the workshop. According to this progress, the production of snow salt will double next month.

That night, Zheng Liang spent the night in Cangshan City.

In the early morning of July 24th, under the escort of 40 cloaked people and 30 low-level warriors (samurai who were slightly injured in the battle out of Songhu Lake have recovered from their injuries), Zhengliang and his party marched to the lord's mansion in Ye Gaoshan .Along the way, Zhengliang inspected the construction of the territory, and saw that there were rice fields full of ears of rice everywhere. In another month, the rice would mature.

After careful inspection, it was found that the road had also been leveled, and it appeared wider than before. In some places, Zheng Liang even saw a road paved with a mixture of cement and mud. Dirt-dominated roads are much better.In terms of water conservancy, due to the large-scale repairs organized before the rainy season, although there have been heavy rains and even typhoons recently, the people and crops in the territory have not suffered much loss.

In the afternoon, the team came to the newly built Tongshan Avenue on the east side of Yegao Mountain.This road was paved by slave teams in the territory. As the scope of the territory continued to expand, the tyrants that originally belonged to the hostile forces were destroyed, and some slaves from these hostile forces were also released, but some new captives were added ( Such as the pirates who surrendered in the recent naval battle), the number of slaves in the territory was kept at around 100.This army of slaves became the main labor force for laying roads throughout the territory.In order to prevent these slaves from escaping or even rioting, the territory only provides food that is only enough to satisfy their hunger, so that they can work hard without being too energetic. Even so, most of them are very happy, although their personal freedom is restricted. , and have to do physical work, but the food is guaranteed, which is much better than their previous life.

After walking for less than a quarter of an hour along the avenue paved with cement and mud and gravel, the team finally came to the front of the canyon where the territorial mansion was located.Now the entrance of the canyon has been built with bricks and cement, and even the gate has been replaced with a wooden door with iron sheets. The appearance of the fence shows that there are several standing ashigaru on patrol.When these ashigaru saw the lord coming back, they immediately saluted respectfully.

Through the widened slit, Zheng Liang and others finally entered the canyon.The first thing that catches the eye is the new lord's mansion built in the distance.The entire lord's mansion is divided into two pills, inside and outside. In fact, if you count the wall at the entrance of the canyon, it can be called three pills.Between the Sanwan and Erwan walls is a vast canyon area, where there are mainly a large number of fields, residences of retainers and people, various workshops, military accommodation camps, and school grounds; the Erwan wall is along the original high mountain It was built on the former site of the bandit village wall, which is more than 5 meters high, enclosing the entire hill where the original bandit village was located. The width of the city wall is two meters, enough for people to patrol and fight on it.Between Nimaru and Ichimaru, there are meeting halls, administrative offices, and warehouses of various materials.The meeting hall is mainly used by the lord to gather his retainers for evaluation, while the enforcing office is the place where the retainers do their daily work and store various documents, and the warehouse is used to store various daily materials of the territory.The entire Nimaru and Ichimaru form a ring-shaped building along the hill.Behind the lord's mansion is the lord's private large garden that is still under construction.

After letting the samurai team behind him return to the camp to recuperate, Zheng Liang walked to the gate of the lord's mansion Nimaru under the guard of two cloaked men.The city gate is more than four meters wide and three meters high. On the side of the entrance to the city gate, the word "Seoul" is prominently engraved in stone. This is a simplified Chinese character, although Zhengliang is now a Japanese The lord, but he couldn't change the hearts of the Han people, so he named the lord's mansion "Seoul City", implying the meaning of the city of the Han people.The two ashigaru guards at the gate curtsied immediately when they saw Masara's arrival.Zheng Liang waved his hand to indicate that there is no need to be polite, and then walked in.

Facing the entrance of Nimaru is the meeting hall, which adopts a typical Japanese architectural style, mainly made of bamboo and wood. From a distance, it can accommodate dozens of people at the same time.On the right side of the meeting hall are several enforcement offices, basically all the retainers in the territory can find their own office there, these departments even include the unique intelligence department, these enforcement offices also adopt the typical Japanese style .Considering safety issues, there are now two standing ashigaru standing guard there.

On the left side of the meeting hall is the entrance of Ichimaru.The entrance adopts the same style as Erwan, the difference is that the stone here is engraved with the two simplified Chinese characters "Luo Shi".After entering from here, it is the lord's private residence.At this moment, at the gate of Ichimaru, there are two standing ashigaru standing guard.Masara walked into Ichimaru after leaving the cloaked guards with two guards on standby at the rest center outside the gate of Ichimaru.

The first thing that catches the eye is a small garden. In the middle of the garden is a road paved with cement and stones.On the left side of the yard is a corridor with bamboo and wood structure, which is obviously convenient for daily access.On the right side of the yard is a row of houses, which should be the servants' residences, kitchens, warehouses, etc. Since Zhengliang was not notified to everyone in the yard to come back today, there is no one in the yard now.Walking along the corridor, you will soon come to an arch with strong Chinese characteristics.Pass through the arch and walk into another courtyard, where the lord and his wives lived.

This courtyard is exactly the one where Zhengliang used to live, but after reconstruction, the area has been enlarged by even more.The central yang of the yard is an enlarged artificial pond surrounded by burnt bricks, and brick and wood structure guardrails are even used on the bank.The middle yang of the pond is a pavilion with bamboo and wood structure, and a path made of stone blocks leads directly to the pavilion in the center.At the same time, on both sides of the pond, there is a pavilion of bamboo and wood structure, one of which is built next to the mountain spring where Zhengliang usually enjoys the cool air. Withered vines, old pine, mountain spring, and pavilion form a simple landscape painting.Around the pond, there are more than a dozen brick-and-timber houses scattered in an orderly manner. The houses are surrounded by grasslands full of flowers, and the houses are connected by stone-paved paths.

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