"Zhensheng, have you chosen the address to build the manor?" After sending the peasants away, I asked Murai Sadakatsu.

"It's my lord! I've seen a few places, but I think the best spot is there! As he spoke, he pointed to a small hill half a mile away. It's a good size, you can build a rock barricade, you can build a small city. The terrain is high enough to defend, and there is a spring that is not afraid of being cut off from the waterway. ”

"There......" I looked back. Keiji Maeda looked indifferent, and Nagano nodded slightly at me. "Okay, there it is! Zhensheng, you did a good job! I patted him on the shoulder.

"Thank you, Lord for compliment!" He owes a salute.

"Zhensheng! Don't be so outside! I pretended to frown. Although you just came over to help me, we are old acquaintances after all! You've worked for me before, and we've sold chestnuts together, so you know my temper very well! Besides, in the camp of Imagawa Yoshimoto in the barrel saga, without you and Yamauchi helping me, it is difficult to say whether I could stand here today! ”

"Yes! Then I'm not going to be polite anymore! The smile on his face finally changed from restraint to kindness.

"That's right!" After that, I happened to catch a glimpse of Keiji on the side. Ay! If only he could be more restrained! "People say, what the hell should we build?" Retract my thoughts, it's important for me to get down to business.

"This ......," Murai Sadakatsu was about to speak, but he thought about it and stopped.

"If you want me to say that you can build a rock bar, you can do it!" Keiji Maeda doesn't know what modesty is. "If you build a city in such a small place, you can't open it from front to back!"

"What do you say?" I asked Nagano again, who was smiling and silent.

Maeda ...... Keiji is right! He raised his hand and brushed the heavy beard on his upper lip. Although it is between Inuyama Castle and Sumamata Castle, it is not a junction, and the strategic significance is not very large! No one has to compete here, the place is too small, and the advantages of the compound city wall are difficult to play! We might as well build the rock barricade stronger and add some defensive facilities, so that we can make the most of the limited conditions! ”

"Zhensheng, just do what the teacher says!" I thought about it for a moment and made a decision. "Build a rock barricade with a double wall, and have a ditch in front and back. Especially remember! Don't want wood, but earth and stone! ”

"Yes, sir!" Murai Sadakatsu lowered his head and silently calculated, "It's just ...... I am afraid that such a rock will only require 5,000 yuan of funds to build it! ”

"You don't have to worry about money, you just need to build it according to my requirements!" I've just gotten 50,000 yuan now, but I'm getting richer. "It's not just about building rocks! I'm afraid that I won't spend a lot of time here in the future, and the management of the territory will be entrusted to you! ”

"Thank you for your trust!" He was very impressed by my arrangement.

"Okay, that's it!" I let go of one thing. "Tell me what else you have to suggest!"

"Your Excellency!" Sadakatsu Murai took out a few drawings from his arms. "This is the entire map of the territory of Yudan Valley, and if all the land in the territory is developed, it will be about 3,300 stones! The good land is basically concentrated on the riverside of the plain, near the village of Xiahe. It shouldn't be a problem to develop it, it's just that we don't have enough labor! ”

"Hmm!" I took the drawings and looked at them carefully. "What is this place?" I asked, pointing to what looked like a large area.

"Here?" He looked at the drawings and said, "It's a meadow!" The area is large, right on the border between the mountains and the plains, between the Kiso River and a forest. Although it can also be cultivated, it can only be dry land because the terrain is too high. ”

"Hmm," I snorted meaninglessly and continued to look down. I don't think this land is very interesting to bloom, and it is a good pasture in itself. However, in ancient Japan, apart from the horses of the Eastern Kingdom and the deer park of the Imperial Family in peacetime, there were no other livestock pastures. "And what is this?"

"Where?" Murai lowered his head and looked carefully where I was fingering.

"Here!" I was pointing with my hand somewhere on the map.

"Ahh Here...... "He finally found where I was talking about. "This is a valley on both sides of the Kiso River in the mountains! There was a lot of humidity, and there was a big difference between morning and evening, and there was a lot of sand and small grave......l in the soil," he shook his head. "In my opinion, it's useless!"

"Okay, I see!" Basically I've learned all I need to know. "Keiji, it's time for your job!"

"That's it! At your command! Keiji Maeda staggered over.

"Listen up!" I said to him, "You go and recruit 200 ashigaru!" I remember that you have a lot of fox friends who don't do anything to produce, and if you want to be a soldier, you can find them! ”

"But with such a palm-sized territory, it can't support 200 people?" He asked incomprehensibly.

"You don't have to worry about this, it's so close to Mino, you can't help but prepare!" I mentally calculated my income and expenses. "Tell them that I take care of the rations, and I pay 5 taels a year! What kind of people to look for, I think you know! ”

"I didn't know, you were so rich!" He took a sip of his wine and said, "Shouldn't you consider adding some money to me?" I don't always have enough money to spend! ”

"You won't be able to spend enough money on whatever you are given!" It's been 200 years since he earns money now, and he always advances to me, I really don't know what he's doing. I also explained to Murai Sadakatsu: "After the rock is built, you will prepare 300 spears, 300 knives, 500 wooden maru bows, and enough feather arrows, and put them in the warehouse!" Once the enemy army is coming, all the people must hide in the rock barricade, and it is better to be prepared than to use it and be unprepared! "Then I suddenly saw Masuda Nagamori walking back." Nagamori, as soon as you return to Sakai Town, send fifty iron cannons! (I'm afraid that if there are too many iron cannons, I will become a target) and ......" I remembered the plan just now. "You go to Mr. Ernst and ask him to import some cows and vines!"

"Cows? Grape? What is this? Masuda Nagamori asked with a roll of his eyes.

"Cows are cows that specialize in milk, (I remember when the pastures in Switzerland were full of goats, there were big herds of black and white cows in the Netherlands.) ......"I don't know how to describe it." "Forget it! I'll draw you a picture later! ”

"Lord! You seem to have forgotten something, right? Keiji Maeda said suddenly

"What?" I asked rhetorically.

"Name!" He said it as a matter of course.

"Yes! Name...... What's it called? "That's a problem.

"Look at !!" Just as I was thinking about it, Masuda Nagamori suddenly screamed. I saw that on the surface of the river not far away, a large golden carp more than two feet long jumped out of the water and fell back into the water with a "plop". "Good sign!" Masuda Nagamori shouted excitedly: "When King Wu was fighting, there was a white fish to offer Rui, and the Kiyomori Gong also ......" Maeda Keiji, who was standing next to him, covered his mouth, and the others seemed to have not heard him at all.

"Carp...... Golden Carp ...... It's called 'Koikan'! ”

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Two months later, a white-walled, gray-tiled manor appeared on that hillside. I returned here with Xianzhi and all the retainers......