The first time I saw the territory, Lao Tieqian fell in love with it. . The fastest update

Green mountains, green waters, and land beside rivers.

"This is the Duke of Shangluo County, and you are your fiefdom a hundred miles along the Xuanhe River."

Li Chao also liked the clear Xuanshui River in front of him very much.

There are high mountains and dense forests here, but there are many rivers and streams. Although there are less land than the plains in Hebei, there are still many lands that can be cultivated in the valleys and rivers, and this place is even an undeveloped land - a land of women.

Xuanhe is a large tributary of the Luanhe River, but the section in front of him is not deep.

The river beach is very wide, but the water is very shallow, the river is hundreds of feet wide, but there is only water on the river surface about ten feet in the middle, and the water is not deep. At this time, the river surface has begun to melt, that is, to the knees.

A herb collector who is familiar with this terrain acted as a guide and introduced to Li Chao that when the rain is heavy here, there will be a brief rise in water, and the river will be deeper at that time, and most of the time, the water will not be deep.

“Can you sail?”

Li Chao asked.

Along the way, although the mountains and rivers are beautiful, Li Chao also discovered a problem, that is, the transportation here is really not good.

After all, this is the Yanshan Mountains, and there is also the second highest peak of Yanshan Mountain nearby. The mountains are high and densely forested, and sparsely populated. Outside the Great Wall, it means that the transportation here is inconvenient.

In ancient times, mountain roads were difficult to walk, and more importantly, it was necessary to use rivers to transport them.

However, Li Chao looked at the river and could see the stones at the bottom of the river when he stood far away.

"From the upstream, you can go along the water, or you can directly discharge it. You can go down the river to the Ru River, and there will be only a lot of dangerous shoals. But if you go up from the downstream, it will be more difficult. Those dangerous shoals must be pulled."

Because this place is outside the pass, there were few people living here before, and there was no guarantee and were easily attacked by Hu people. Only those herb collectors and hunters would come. They usually row boats and face dangerous shoals, they would carry the boat ashore and go around.

When you go back, you carry goods and go downstream, which is convenient.

After hearing the guide's confirmation, Li Chao was a little disappointed.

It seems that the river has limited transportation capacity, and small boats and rows are equivalent to a carriage. Don’t expect larger boats, but it’s not bad. Although you can only pass small boats, small boats still have many advantages over carriages.

When I arrived by the river, there were boats waiting there.

"Mr. Wang asked me to wait here, saying that the Prime Minister and Lao Linggong were coming."

The one who got off the boat was a friend of the Li family, or a lieutenant from the Shangluo County Public Representative.

"Where is the castle built? Lead the way for us."

Li Chao and his group were crowded, and they came with an army of 20,000. The first stop was to go to the territory castle first.

It has been several months since the Shangluo County officials started planning last year and recruited craftsmen and people.

With a friend leading the way, Li Chao led the team up the river.

The craftsman chose the lord castle residence not in Qinglong Town in later generations, but in Shuangshanzi. Qinglong Town is not on the edge of Qinglong River, but dozens of miles away from Qinglong River.

Shuangshanzi is just by the Qinglong River, which is a large river valley.

The craftsmen directly selected the location in the center of this territory, surrounded by mountains and rivers.

The city is built according to the water, which is a habit of building a city in China. It is really good to choose this location to build a city. But it is not called Shuangshanzi now.

The Qinglong River has been circling several times here, like a winding dragon, and the green river water looks like a green dragon.

Water is the source of life, and rivers are human mothers.

Only with good water can one produce excellent people.

"arrive!"

The guy shouted, pointing at the front.

The front suddenly became much clearer, surrounded by mountains, a very open river valley. The two rivers meet here to form a y-shaped shape.

The castle is located on the north shore of the right tributary that flows into Xuanhe River.

Surround the mountain and beside the water.

"This address is good. Look at the land, the north is surrounded by mountains and the south is surrounded by rivers, especially the river is an arc, which makes this land a month and a half."

The manager responsible for the construction of the territory rushed to the scene.

"The widest from east to west, the longest from north to south, the longest from north to south, and the overall shape is half a moon."

The castle is still under construction, a large construction site with sheds everywhere.

There are many people, thousands of people. These people are not only city builders, but also recruited people from the territory. When the lord castle is built, then the village of Tunzhuang will be built and the fields will be reclaimed.

According to Manager Wang, they finally chose the location here, and they also valued the terrain here. They were surrounded by mountains and rivers, and there was a huge flat land. It was good to build a castle, and the land here was just right to be cultivated and planted.

In addition, the river in front is a tributary of Xuanshui. It is not wide, but also shallower than Xuanshui, making it easier to cross the river.

Li Chao was very satisfied with this.

My father was also very satisfied. This place is beautiful and beautiful. I fell in love with it at first sight.

"What's the name of this river?" Li Chao asked. In later generations, this river should be a river.

"In the past, people called Xuanshui Qinglong River and this tributary Huanglong River. Legend has it that there were two dragons in the past. Huanglong was violent and often caused floods, which harmed people quite a lot. Later, Qinglong asked Huanglong to argue, and Huanglong attacked Qinglong instead. The two dragons fought and both ended up losing both. Qinglong killed Huanglong, but later Huanglong was seriously injured. After the two dragons died, they turned into two rivers, so later generations called Qinglong River and Huanglong River."

Li Chao smiled and said that this story is full of mythology, but if you study it carefully, you can see something. The Qinglong River water is green, and the Huanglong River is muddy, which may be due to frequent mountain torrents. When the two rivers converge, you can see that the Qinglong River water is greener. So someone created such a mythology.

But this name is indeed good, Qinglong River and Huanglong River.

"Well, then continue to call this from now on."

The two rivers meet here, and the valley here is much wider, the river surface is wider, and the water is deeper.

"There are many fish and shrimps in this river. We build cities here and fish from the river, which saves a lot of food and avoids the hardships of transporting it from Hebei."

"This is a good thing."

There are good water here and many fish, which greatly reduces the pressure on food. In addition, looking at the Sancha River, it also makes transportation here convenient.

The castle has been laid, and the next step is to build a wall and build a house.

The castle was designed by Li Chao himself. It is a stone castle that is not too big but has absolutely strong defense functions. It is still a prism castle, and the castle is built with a foundation, making the entire castle on a one-meter-high soil platform.

This kind of Taicheng actually has some architectural characteristics from the Han Dynasty, such as Cao Cao's Tongquetai, which is such a Taicheng.

Many European castles were built on the mountains, and later the castles would deliberately build a foundation, which would form a slope with the castle and the edges, greatly increasing defensive performance.

"Building this foundation took a lot of work hours. Without this foundation, the castle will progress faster now." said the manager.

The project is quite large to raise the foundation of the entire castle by one meter.

"I won't do it in vain."

Adding a base will enhance defense performance on the one hand, and also prevent castle waterlogging and effectively drainage. After all, it is surrounded by mountains and rivers and is close to rivers.

“Is there any difficulty in building a castle?”

"Fortunately, it's just difficult to get the stone."

Li Chao thought for a while, "Build a brick cellar, and I'll let someone transport cement over and use bricks directly. As for the stones to be used for the wall base, I will give you some gunpowder and directly use gunpowder to blow it up. It will be much more convenient to get the stones through the mountains."

Ordinary stone picking is quite backward, and even the original method of boiling water to pour water is used. Now that there is gunpowder, it must be much simpler and more effective.

Of course, it is faster to build bricks and burn bricks. Burning bricks is more technical than quarrying, but Li Ji's Li family's Li Ji construction technology is very advanced in burning bricks and cement and lime. With technology, burning bricks and burning bricks is faster and more labor-saving than direct quarrying.

However, it is still very expensive to build a castle privately, and the most important thing is the lack of labor. Therefore, Li Chao could not build a large castle, he could only build a small castle.

It is actually not a city, but a fort. It can accommodate two or three thousand people in wartime. In normal times, it only lives in a castle and with the craftsmen. At most, it has a crossroads and opens dozens of shops.

Most of the consuls still have to live outside the castle.

By then, the castle will be repaired and some houses will be built outside.

This is also cost-effective.

"It will definitely be repaired in winter." Manager Wang whispered.

"It's too long. Let's hurry up and repair the castle, build the exterior wall first, then repair the main body of the castle, and then the barracks, warehouses, shops, etc. in the castle."

"But it's already spring, we have to prepare for spring plowing."

Li Chao said, "You can measure and grant land to the people recruited first, but you don't rush to cultivate this year. You can build the castle first. Hire the people to help build the city, pay them salaries and provide rations. I believe they will be willing. By the way, they will be exempted from their three-year land rent."

"But, the court also wants to collect this tax."

"Then the third we paid to the court on their behalf, we won't accept the share."

The Li family is not short of money. The territory is not built well now, and there is no business or anything else. The tax on the land is only three melons and two dates. Li Chao still attaches great importance to the defense of the castle. If the territory is gone, it will be completely gone.

But my father thought that the castle designed by Li Chao was a bit too big.

"It's better to build a few houses, no use for this." In his opinion, it's better to build a larger village, build streets and shops in the city, and live together.

"Dad, this is the northern border, outside the Great Wall Pass, and the north is the Hu people, so I have to be careful."

Even if the Khitan and the Xi people were weak, the chiefs might not dare to do anything randomly, but they could not protect the Hu people below them. If the Hu people nearby encountered disaster or became greedy, who could guarantee that they would not come and rob?

"Then listen to you."

My father thought about it, but in the end he followed Li Chao's opinion.
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