Li Chao picked up the big wooden hammer, shook off his arms, and smashed a thick wooden stake into the frozen soil covered with ice and snow.
The thick wooden stake was still wrapped in red paper, and a red cloth was tied to it, and the four characters of good luck were written on it.
Hey, hey, hey hey With a little bit of a stake, the stake was driven in, and finally it sank into the ground, standing firmly there.
The red cloth strip on the head of the pile is particularly conspicuous in the white ice and snow, hunting with the wind.
"This is the center of the city of Zhongzhuo."
Li Chao held a sledgehammer, pointed to the stake and said to everyone with a smile.
Zhang Zhongjian stood aside and stroked his big tendrils, and said with a smile, "I have carefully looked at the feng shui of this place, which is surrounded by mountains and rivers and leans against mountain passes, which is the most suitable for building a city.
And this place is the center, and it will definitely dig a clear spring after a while. ” "Borrow your auspicious words" Li Chao also believes that a clear spring can be dug out here, there is a river on this side, although the river is not very big, but the riverbed is also about 100 meters wide, the depth of the river can reach the chest, and the shallow place can also be painted.
By the end of the winter, the river has already frozen over, with most of the riverbed bare, and the rest covered in thick ice.
In winter, the river can be used as an ice channel, which can be easily transported with ice climbing plows.
Close to such a river, next to the mountain, the mountain is full of forests, towering trees, such a place, how can there be a shortage of water, it can be said that you can dig water wherever you want.
Wang Xuance, Liu Renliang, Gao Kan, Shangguanyi, and Cheng Chu, Mo Niu, Li Ganwei, Chi Baolin, Cui Yan, and Su Lie, these ten Li Chao's students of the art of war, respectively held pickaxes, shovels, shovels and other tools.
"Let's dig it."
Li Chao took a shovel and shoveled it first, and then the ten protégés started one after another, and the pickaxes and shovels were all down.
After digging for a while, a large pit has been dug.
"Come along."
The cow was sweating all over his body, his coat was taken off, and his head was steaming white.
He gasped and beckoned to the soldiers next to him.
The soldiers took the pickaxes and shovels and continued digging.
There are many people with great strength, and everyone takes turns to dig, and after only digging for an hour, there is water below.
Cheng Chumo directly took a handful of water still mixed with mud into his mouth and drank two sips.
"Sweet and sweet, good water" Seeing the water, everyone was more excited, digging more fiercely, and soon there was more and more water below, Li Chao asked people to take a few buckets, put down and carry a few buckets of water up, put them aside to clarify, and when the water was clear, he made a pot to boil, made a pot of tea, and it tasted really good.
"Well, that's it, go back and dig deeper, lay bricks, this is the first well in the city of Zhongshou."
"Xiangye, please give this well a name."
A guard said.
What a name?
"Let's call it the Receiving Well."
Li Chao took a name very easily.
The location of the surrendered city has been chosen, and the first well has been dug with water, and now all that is needed is to write a letter to the family, asking them to arrange for the craftsmen of Li Ji to come over, and then recruit some workers to come and build the city, and also need to recruit people who are willing to emigrate to relocate.
Xiangyang.
Crape Myrtle Palace.
In the imperial study, Li Shimin was discussing the matter of dividing the seal with a group of prime ministers.
"All fiefdoms are called territories, not countries.
For example, Li Chao's fief can be called the Duke of Zhao, and Li Chao's father's fief is the Duke of Shangluo County.
Fang Xuanling spoke first.
The fief is not called a country, but a leader, and the details of this title reflect the great importance that the prime ministers of the imperial court attach to the matter of dividing the fief.
It is okay to divide the seal, but it must be strictly controlled, and it must not be indiscriminately sealed.
Li Shimin was very satisfied with this article.
If Li Chao's fief is called Zhao Guo, then this is not good.
Now it's just called Zhao Guogongling, and the abbreviation is Zhao Ling, which is acceptable and more in line with him.
"Your Majesty, as for the size of the seal, we think it should not be indiscriminately sealed.
Now there are many meritorious nobles in the imperial court, but not every nobleman can be given a fief.
The imperial court had to conduct a comprehensive and strict evaluation, and only those with high merit could be granted fiefs. ” "The area of the fief should not be too large."
"Li Chao's Zhao State Princess, which His Majesty has added before, is three hundred miles from east, west, north and south, we think this fief is a bit too big, and it should be reduced."
The eldest grandson Wuji spoke out, he was the most opposed to the separation, and now that the division has become a foregone conclusion, he will make some fuss about the details of the separation.
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"Li Chao's fief was given to him earlier to reward him for his merits, and now he has made great contributions, how can I not add but subtract my plan to give Li Chao another 200 li fief, and the first 500 li fief."
"Your Majesty, no.
Five hundred miles of fiefdom, that's very big.
The minister thought that even if he was rewarded for meritorious service, there was no such reward.
The eldest grandson Wuji resolutely opposed.
Li Shimin insisted on being sealed, Li Chao made great contributions this time, he did not seal it and reduced it, what did it look like, not only could he not reduce it, but he also had to add it, and if he did not seal it, he could not thank Li Chao for his work.
The eldest grandson Wuji resolutely disagreed, Li Chao was originally the largest feudal in the court, and he was the first to be feuded, and his fiefdom was large or small, which represented the upper limit of the imperial court's feudal standard.
Li Chaofeng is more, it's not a thing, but in this way, everyone else has to come according to this standard, so it's different.
No matter how big the world is, it won't work to be sealed like this.
Fang Xuanling saw that the emperor and the eldest grandson Wuji were arguing, so at this time he stood up and put forward a middle plan.
Give Li Chao a seal and give a 500-mile real territory.
But this five hundred miles can be divided into several people in the Li family, Li Chao is three hundred miles, and Li Chao's father and sons are each dozens of miles, making up five hundred miles.
But at the same time, in order to prevent Li Chao's territory from being too large, then Li Chao's three hundred miles away, the other two hundred miles of new territories are not sealed around Li Chao's original territory, but are divided in different places, and it is best to divide them farther.
For example, Li Chao is outside the Yin Mountain in the northwest, then Li Chao's father can be divided into the southwest Longnan, and Li Chao's son's territory can be divided into Nanban overseas and so on.
In this way, Li Chao's family got five hundred li of fiefdom alone, but they were not together, so as not to make the court worry that the fief was too large.
Moreover, in this way, five hundred li is not a one-person fief, and the highest standard of the imperial court's feud is still only three hundred li, and this upper limit has not changed, and it has little impact on the entire sub-feud.
Li Shimin thought about it, this is also a good plan.
If you take it, others can't say that he treats the heroes badly.
The eldest grandson Wuji has no other reason to oppose it, so he can only agree with it, and this article can be regarded as an agreement.
"Okay, let's discuss the size of the marquis' guards, how much do you think is appropriate?"
As soon as Li Shimin's voice fell, the eldest grandson Wuji was the first to stand up.
"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that the scale of the princes' guards must be cautious, I think that the largest princes like Li Chao have an upper limit of 100 guards." t1706231537: