"The Senhui-in Temple, built in the 6th year of Kanji, is indeed the first building in Japan that took 9 million kan to build over five years, and I don't think even the Imperial Palace of Heiankyo can compare to it. There are at least 300 buildings in this area, all of which are luxurious courtyards made of brick and stone walls and timber building materials, which are only places for teachers and students to enter and leave for entertaining and living. The eastern slope of the hill is a place of study and learning, and with the martial arts arena at the bottom of the mountain and the many pavilions and annexes on the mountain for the nobles to escape the summer, all the construction costs in this area are at least three times the annual revenue of the whole of Japan. Fujiwara Ryomitsu, the son of Ōzo Qing, told Fujiwara Xiangshi, the second son of the Secretary of the Criminal Department, who also came to study, the results of his calculations.

"When I first came here, it was a barren mountain. Although it is close to the coast of Aki Country, it is not a densely populated and prosperous place after all. In just a few years, a large city of tens of thousands of people was built out of thin air, which shows how rich the city lord Ping Zhengsheng is. Such a prosperous place should attract countless thieves and robbers.

It is easy to attack and difficult to defend, and it is surrounded by neighboring countries in all directions, and it can be easily captured on land and sea. How can this city be defended without building walls? ”

"It is said that this place was given to the Isehira clan by His Majesty the Emperor Shirakawa, and together with the land that was sold by many wealthy families and retainers who took the initiative to contribute, the Heike already had one-fifth of the land in the entire Aki Province, and most of it was the most dangerous passes and transportation arteries, and the land around the Coastal Plain was also encircled by the Heike as a wharf land and a planned town. In this way, there shouldn't be anyone who doesn't open their eyes to attack, right? ”

"Yes! There are rich and powerful people, and a large number of samurai retainers serve their lives, and they occupy the key points of the mountains and rivers. It is no problem to set up a kingdom on its own and call it king, and it is no problem to tear the earth. They don't have to fear the danger of their neighbors, the danger comes from within. I think the Hei family still took refuge in the Great Song Empire to get all these eye-popping things, isn't it? As long as you swear to become a retainer, you can get the same benefits and treatment that other ministers and samurai families do not get, and their children are given priority to enter the Qianhuiyuan School to study, with free room and board, and the teachers are all first-class monks and celebrities in China and Japan. ”

"It's a well-known thing. However, this Qianhui Temple is really good, in addition to Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism and other knowledge of the kingdom, even the art of harmony and dance has been specially taught. After one of my distant relatives entered, in less than two years, he earned hundreds of Song dollars, which can be worth a year's income from my fiefdom. If it weren't for the fact that my territory was planted with the good seeds imported from the kingdom and a large amount of timber and ore was sold, how could I afford to buy these 'expensive yarns' for tens of Song dollars? Fujiwara shook the tulle from the coat he was wearing. (The most crazy thing about the top luxury goods exported in exchange for Japanese resources and manpower is the transparent chemical fiber gauze, which has a smooth surface and is extremely light and lightweight, and can also refract colorful streamers in the sun.) A plain yarn Zen robe on the coat can be called a national treasure, but the production of chemical fiber is rotten on the street, and Wang Neng, who is hungry for the sales method, naturally makes a lot of money. If you don't have money to buy Song goods, then let Chen Guan, who plays finance, first lend money to the magnates for consumption, and then use a lot of technology and equipment to export the resources and manpower in the magnates' territory into money to pay off debts. ）

On the New Year's Day of 1192, in his mansion in Heiankyo, Taira Masamori discussed with several of his brothers and cousins how to carry out the task of establishing Edogawa Castle on the Kanto Plain.

"Zhenheng, are the drawings of Edogawa Castle that you designed in Senhuiin ready?" Ping Masasheng asked the fourth brother in charge of the literary academy.

"It's ready, it's all three views drawn according to the new law of the previous country, each building and area is numbered and classified, and as long as the builders and materials are in place, the construction can begin."

"Very good, Ji Heng, is the recruitment task you are responsible for going well?"

"It didn't go well, we raised the wages to 50 catties of white rice and 400 Wen Song money, and we couldn't find enough manpower to build the city for a month. The number of people who can operate manpower cranes and cement mixers can still be mobilized in Qianhuiyuan, but there are too few porters and masons who are in demand the most, and now the ministers and wealthy families all over the country are making money to build buildings and castles, and the labor agency we set up in Kyoto does not have a single homeless and coolie every day, and all the peasants who were idle in their own fiefdoms are recruited to projects and workshops that need to be built by manpower in various parts of the territory. Even some children under the age of thirteen were rented to several well-connected ministers as servants. I really can't spare the manpower to build the city. ”

"Yaga, what did I say when I had the first meeting in Qianhui Academy, everything should be prioritized by the tasks of Sado Temple, you all fell into the eyes of money, did you ignore the overall situation in order to make a little money? The construction of the family could be postponed later, and the labor that could be mobilized in all the territories of Higashiyamado and Tokaido was transferred to Edogawa to build the castle. The lost time must be reclaimed. If it is done well this time, all meritorious personnel can be rewarded with Song goods, and if they fail to do so, they will be removed from the Ping family. ”

In order to ease the atmosphere, Ping Zhengsheng was angry, and said in order to ease the atmosphere, "Zhenji, you transfer an extra part of the cement quota imported from the Song Kingdom to Edogawa, and the building materials and goods hoarded at the wharf of Kushi Port in Aki Province are transported to Edogawa by ship for construction, and in the future, you will be in charge of things in this area of Kanto, whether it is reclamation, grain trading, sea fishing, or the distribution of population labor, you will use more snacks, and the fief of 100,000 stone is your reward."

Ji Heng always can't distinguish the priorities, so he can only lead the troops to fight, and in the future, Ji Heng will be responsible for the affairs of the martial arts academy, and the recruited ashigaru and his family children must be trained and armed well, and the crusade against the island and the escort at sea will be specially handled by Ji Heng. ”

Ping Zhengsheng's second brother and fourth brother said in unison: "I will swear to do it well and never make a mistake." ”

"Big brother, you have to worry more about Hakata, and the officials of Dazaifu have to make more friends and give gifts. The Emperor did not want to hear complaints and complaints, and if any more people said that we had a monopoly on trade with the upper kingdom and that we were unsightly, we might be forced to cede some of our goods to the Fujiwara family or some other minister.

Only 30 of the hundreds of secret texts from the Kingdom have been translated, most of them are books on architecture and agriculture, and the monks in the translation hall have all translated Buddhist scriptures. The lack of time spent on translating technical books is pitiful, and it still needs to be urged by the eldest brother. Recently, Qianhuiyuan successfully built a big boat with 100 people, why didn't anyone tell me? Ping Zhengsheng asked after a while.

"There was a little problem with the design of Qianhuiyuan, although the big ship was built, but it was always leaking, and it almost sank in the sea when it went to sea for sea trials, if it weren't for the hand-cranked pumping machine imported from Shangguo, the big ship that cost thousands of times would have sunk in the inland sea before entering the port. We would have liked to report back after the renovation was done and after there were no problems. ”

"That's right! In the past, when the envoys came to the country, I heard them talk about how the hull of a big ship must be strong enough to withstand wind and waves, and if the hull is too thin, it will cause cracks due to the lapping of the waves. ”

"It turns out that this is the case, probably because the wood we choose is not teak, willow eucalyptus, cypress, fir wood, red pine, coconut wood and other wood, which are sold to Shangguo. We are using camphor wood that cannot be sold, maybe the waterproofness of this wood is not good? ”

"Why can't camphor wood be sold? Camphor wood is a good building and furniture talent, not deformed, insect resistant. This kind of timber is very much needed in the kingdom! Aren't the camphor boxes and furniture we processed sell well in the first few months? ”

"It's because it's so easy to sell, the wealthy families around the country see that it's profitable, and there are too many camphor trees that can't be transported away for a while, so it's used to build ships."