In mid-September, in the busy autumn harvest season, the village city, which had been transformed for three years, was finally completed. Since the Luo Family Academy outside the city was located, the city was officially renamed Xuefu City by Zhengliang.

On this day, Zhengliang, accompanied by his retainers, began to inspect the newly completed residence city. He first came to the Tianshou Pavilion, the highest point in the city.

Below are more than twelve stone crypts, with seven-story towers standing above them, which are majestic and spectacular. One floor, twenty rooms long from north to south and seventeen rooms wide from east to west, and are supported by two hundred and four thick columns. The main columns are eight, one foot and five inches, six inches, and one foot and three inches thick. All the columns are covered with cloth and painted on them.

In the twelve-story hall to the west, the doors and windows are made of gold, with some famous paintings from the Ming Dynasty hanging inside, the study room is a picture of the night bell of the far temple, the bookshelf of the room next to it is a picture of the pigeon, and the hall in the middle is also a size of a twelve-story, with pheasants hanging in the next eight and four-story rooms. The picture of the twelve-story hall is decorated with portraits of Chinese Confucian scholars.

From then on, this place was not only the office site of the Luo family's institution (usually retainers work here), but also the meeting hall of the Luo family (also known as the Da Guangjian).

"Yes, it's not bad. Go to the other floors to see it." After visiting the first floor, Zhengliang nodded and said.

The second floor is similar to the first floor, but there is a little less space. This is the place for various important retainers. When they reach the third floor, their vision suddenly becomes wider. At the other end of the north hall, a four-sized platform is built in the middle, with twelve-sized stacks of large sizes, and the room is full of gorgeous pictures of flowers and birds. The hall on the south side is eighty-sized stacks. It is called "Sages of Man" with pictures of eagles and horses. Usually this is a place to receive guests. The entire third floor is a place where Zhengliang handles government affairs.

Then Zhengliang and others continued to climb to the fourth floor, the fifth floor and the sixth floor. The fourth floor was the banquet hall, and the fifth and sixth floors were the storage of information of the territory institutions.

The last seventh floor is the highest point of the Tianshou Pavilion. This floor is covered with gold foil. Not only that, even the corridors surrounding all sides are covered with gold foil. The pillars are carved with flying dragons, the roofs are painted with flying eagles, and the hall is painted with Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, Confucius Men Ten Sages, Shang Mountain Four Owns, Seven Sages of the Bamboo Forest, etc. Such pavilions reflect the brilliance of the sun in the morning and night. Looking down from the mountain, it must be full of light and magnificent.

When Zhengliang saw this design, he planned to modify it because it was too luxurious and dazzling. However, the retainers believed that only in this way could the majesty of the Luo family be reflected, and in the end, Zhengliang had to follow the intentions of the retainers (in fact, the transformation of this city was also one of the reasons for the lack of food for the Luo family during this period. During the transformation, a lot of money and food were consumed. However, as a place where Zhengliang would live for a long time in the future, and it was a place that represented the face of the Luo family, almost all retainers unanimously requested to continue the transformation of this fort).

Standing on the balcony on the seventh floor, looking out, Masayoshi was instantly attracted by the scenery below.

Although the entire fort was renovated on the basis of the original village city, it was obviously expanded. The area was more than twice as large as the previous village city, no wonder it had been renovated for three years. Of course, these three years also included the construction and renovation time of the Luo Family Academy outside the city and the town town.

The entire city uses solid earth and stone foundations, and the outer periphery is built with huge stones to prevent the enemy from climbing. On the stone is a stone city wall. The city wall also has a fire port for muskets and a turret specially designed for large cylinders (eight turrets in the southeast, west and north, a total of thirty-two large cylinders can be erected. It is estimated that after firing at the same time, it will be very scary).

There are three levels of such a city wall, and there are extremely deep trenches under the outermost wall. The water in the trenches is brought in from the tributaries of the Chuohou River. Moreover, there are several such tributaries, which are even more connected to the Chuohou River, and it is almost impossible to be cut off. The part surrounded in the city wall is called "Maru", so the outermost circle is called Sannomaru, the second floor is called Ninomaru, and the innermost wall is called Motomaru. Now Xuefucheng is a Sanmaru wall.

Many small walls were built before these Sanwan. Even if the enemy broke through the outermost gate, they had to face a tortuous path separated by these small walls. Here the enemy could not spread their troops at all, so they could only line up to advance in columns. In this way, the defenders on both sides could attack the enemy. Even if they luckily rushed through these small bends, there was another headache-inducing city gate and city wall in front. And the ones surrounded by walls and small bends in the center of the city were Tianshou Pavilion and other buildings in the city.

Looking into the distance from Zhengliang's building, the Minghai in the distance looks sparkling in the sun, which is particularly beautiful. The various buildings of the Luo Family Academy, which are combined with the city below, also appear staggered. A large number of brick-shaped retainers' residences are located near the Xuefu City, while some houses are scattered further away, and a little further away is a fertile land. From a distance, there is a scene of living and working in peace and prosperity everywhere.

Ten years ago, the little lord who had a straw rope tied around his waist and chewing grains in his mouth and struggling in the mountains and forests has now transformed into a Warring States famous name with a power that almost extends to the entire Jiuzhou. He can stand here and look at the distance on the building as he pleases. In order to achieve this goal, he has fought with many people, and he has taken the lives of many people. If you think about it, how cruel it would be! But this is the Warring States era when big fish eat small fish!

While Masayoshi was standing in front of the fence and feeling a lot of emotion, whether it was the retainers behind him or several Masayoshi's personal bodyguards, in order not to hinder Masayoshi's imagination, they held their breath and were cautious. But they didn't know what they remembered, Masayoshi suddenly turned around and quietly walked down the stairs on the east side. Everyone immediately followed closely.

The stone walls are about twelve rooms high, and above are seventeen and a half high seven-story pavilions, so there are about thirty rooms from top to bottom. Zhengliang walked down in one breath, left Tianshou Pavilion, and walked towards the center of the west. In fact, that was the most central area of ​​Xuefu City, and the location of Tianshou Pavilion was slightly east of the center.

As he walked along the roads paved with cement and bricks and wooden corridors, Zhengliang saw many beautiful houses. These houses were provided for the retainers, guards and servants in the city. Between these houses, several small ponds connected to a small spring in the city were staggered. Around the ponds were planted with various plants and even vegetables and other crops. Finally, behind these houses was a large number of warehouses, where a large amount of materials such as grain and weapons were stored.

There are four military camps in the southeast, west and north of the city, each of which is stationed in the Luo Family Family, who are responsible for guarding Xuefu City, various institutions and warehouses in Xuefu City. In addition, since Xuefu City is a Daming residence city, in order to ensure safety, the Military Pavilion will establish a temporary military camp in the town outside the city, and temporarily recruit 500 retired soldiers to maintain the public order around Xuefu City. Although these soldiers have retired for various reasons, their loyalty and combat capabilities meet the requirements of being a public security team.

He walked along the path and finally arrived at the gate of a large and majestic courtyard. So Zhengliang turned to the officials following behind and said, "Everyone, you should go back too. I believe your family members are also relocating to the residence at this time." Everyone immediately took the order and left only a few cloaks guarding outside the gate of the courtyard. Zhengliang walked in directly.

This courtyard is the residence in Zhengliang City. It is still a method of layout of the southern Ming Dynasty gardens.

The yard is divided into two entrances. The first entrance is a small garden. In the middle of the garden is a road paved with cement and stone. On the left side of the yard is a bamboo-wood corridor, which is obviously convenient for daily entry and exit. On the right side of the yard is a row of houses, where the servants live and kitchen warehouses are located.

Continue to walk along the corridor and soon arrive at an arch with strong Chinese characteristics. Through the arch, you walk into the second courtyard, where Zhengliang and his ladies live.

In the center of this yard is an expanded artificial pond. The pond is surrounded by burnt bricks, and even brick-wood guardrails are used on the shore. In the center of the pond is a bamboo-wood pavilion, a path made of stones that leads to the center. At the same time, on both sides of the pond are pavilions with bamboo-wood structures, one of which is built next to the mountain springs where Zhengliang usually enjoys the cool air. With a quaint landscape painting, there are dozens of brick-wood houses arranged around the pond, and flowers are covered with grasslands. The paths made of stones are connected with wooden corridors.

"Mr. Husband." At this time, Juji and others were directing their servants to arrange the houses in the yard. After seeing Zhengliang come in, they immediately saluted.

"Okay, no need to be polite, especially you." Masara waved his hand and asked everyone to avoid the gift, then quickly walked to Yui Hatano to help her up and said. Since Masara spent most of the time at home for more than half a year, the girls in the family naturally got more nourished. At this time, Yui Hatano was pregnant and her belly gradually grew bigger. This is the fourth child that Masara will soon get after coming here. In the past, Kikumi gave birth to Masara's legitimate son Tang Wangmaru, Tsuruji gave birth to his second son Song Wangmaru, and Dieji gave birth to his daughter Chunji.

For the child of Hatano Yui, if he is a male child after birth, Masara would prepare him to inherit the Heido Matsuura family's business, and his name is Matsuura Takanobu.

When the Luo family started, the Hirado Matsuura family where Hatano Yui was located was attacked by the joint attack of powerful men such as the Omura family and the Uematsuura family. Hatano Yui's father committed suicide. The younger brother Takanobu Matsuura was killed in battle, leaving only an old mother and two widowed sisters. At that time, her mother lost hope of survival because of the loss of her husband and beloved son, and the two sisters were betrayed the Hirado Matsuura family because of their husbands secretly joined forces with their enemies. Although the betrayed two families returned the two to the Hirado Matsuura family to avoid their death, they were also discouraged because of this.

Now Hatano Yui's old mother and two widowed sisters have settled down under Kishiyuki City, and the two sisters have even married again and lived a stable life. When Masayoro married Hatano Yui, he also promised to the retainers of the Harahira Matsuura family who joined the Luo family that if Hatano Yui gave birth to a male child in the future, the child would be allowed to inherit the Matsuura family's family business.

Several years have passed since the promise. At this time, many of the retainers of the Matsuura family have become important combat forces in the Luo family's regular store, and some of them have also become officials in the Luo family's institutions. In order to further win over these people, Masayoshi naturally would not break his promise.

Anyway, in order to avoid civil strife in the family due to the problems of the family governor's successor, Zhengliang had long stated that the position of the family governor would be inherited by the legitimate son. However, other sons do not need to choose to become a monk or leave the territory to wander outside in order to make way for the legitimate son, but they can still stay at home.
Chapter completed!