There are many hard hilltop buildings in Shule City, all of which are built in a grand manner, and the kind of domed flat-roofed houses are in a low terrain. The terrain in the city is high in the north and low in the south, the Shule town guards the embassy's mansion, the Shule military office, and the Shule governor's mansion are all in the north of the city, almost side by side, but the architectural style is very different, and the spire dome rests on the top of the mountain.

Si Lu drilled into the crowd and came to the door of the town guard envoy's mansion, and was patiently waiting for a group of people to talk to General Li to greet him, when Feng Changqing, the ugly attendant in the queue, suddenly beckoned to him.

He led the horse suspiciously, and muttered with his two heads together.

"We entered through the back door, and General Li at the front door estimated that he would have to talk to these people for a long time."

"It's just that I've listened to it for a long time, and there's no useful word."

Feng Changqing said beside him: "These words are useless to you, but they are useful to them, these polite words in the official palace can quickly close the distance, don't say it, go."

They walked around the two alleys of the house wall and moved to the back door, which was an inverted hallway, with a small dome and a small arch, which was now wide open. Entering is the backyard of Fuchu, facing northwest is two rows of stables, and there are more than a dozen troughs for feeding the horses alone.

Si Lu is not surprised by this, when he was in Chang'an, Shi Xin Khan's mansion was much larger than this, but unfortunately now it is empty, or it will be dilapidated in two years, and he weeps sadly when he thinks of this.

Feng Changqing led the horse into the stable, and then stood in the courtyard with his chest in his arms and said: "It's a pity that such a big yard is a pity, a place should be opened up to erect grass targets and practice martial arts."

Si Lu nodded approvingly.

At this moment, in the front yard, Li Siye had just sent away a group of Shule Town officials, but Zhao Chongyu was the only one left, and the two entered the hall and sat in front of the desk.

"When I first came to take office, I didn't know much about the situation in the Shule army, General Zhao often served here, and I would like to ask for more advice."

Zhao Chongxuan hurriedly crossed his hands and said: "Don't dare, the general is sent, Chongxuan doesn't dare to resign."

"That being the case, in a few days, I will patrol with General Zhao to inspect the cities, forts, and posts under the jurisdiction of the Shule Army."

Zhao Chongyu hesitated for a moment, thinking that this road is not close, Shule Town has the widest jurisdiction area among the four towns in Anxi, with fifteen prefectures under its jurisdiction, and there are five or six state cities guarded by the garrison.

Li Siye seemed to have guessed what Zhao Chongxuan was thinking, and said with a smile: "You don't have to go to Green Ridge, except for Green Ridge, you should take a look at all the places where the troops are stationed, and you have a good bottom in your heart."

"It's okay," Zhao Chongyu's face was slightly red, and he said with his crossed hands: "I'll go down and prepare."

"What else are you going to prepare," Li Siye said, "You and I have one horse each, only a few days of dry food and fresh water, and at most a few more entourages are enough."

"Okay, my subordinates will do it."

Zhao Chongyu got up and said goodbye, Li Siye got up to see him off, and stayed at the stone lamp in the courtyard, Zhao Junenvoy turned around and saluted again, before taking two steps back and turning around the willow tree at the door to leave.

Li Siye turned around and paced back to the main hall, lowered his head and thought slowly, and suddenly looked up to see that the screen placed behind the hall was a shelf made of poplar wood. In the middle of the frame is a plain white silk cloth, and you can look at the opposite side vaguely against the light.

He untied the short knife from the belt around his waist, pried open the wooden frame of the tenon, and tore off the white silk cloth. Twelve Nianglian stepped into the hall, and saw that Li Siye was about to attack the furniture, so she hurriedly stepped forward to stop her: "Li Lang, good screen, what are you doing destroying it?" ”

"I want to use this white silk."

Twelve Niang said with slight anger: "If you want white silk, I can go to the market to buy you a horse, and I also want to ask a painter to paint a picture of Chang'an spring on this screen." ”

He said while tearing the silk cloth: "This screen is not grand enough, it is not worthy of the beauty of Twelve Niang, and I will hire a carpenter to make a big one for you again in the future, and draw the Taizhen View of Chang'an Xiude Fang on it." ”

The corners of Twelve Niang's mouth curled up and snorted, and she took the initiative to go up to help Li Siye put away the silk cloth, and asked, "What do you want this silk cloth for?" ”

"Of course, it is necessary to draw an accurate and detailed map, at least to draw the city of Shule and the surrounding area." All the maps of the Anxi Protectorate are drawn by human groping, not to mention fine, and in some places even the donkey's lips are not in the horse's mouth, he wants to take advantage of this time to inspect the cities with Zhao Chongxuan, and completely draw the defense and geographical situation of the Shule area.

However, Twelve Niang's concern was not here, and she closed her eyelashes slightly and asked faintly, "Are you going to leave the house and go out of the city again?" Is there anything important that hasn't been done before leaving the city? ”

Li Siye took a deep breath and answered this question seriously: "There is indeed a big event that has not been done, and it is a lifelong event for me and Twelve Niang." However, as soon as I arrived, I was in a hurry to get married and make a double happiness, which would make people think that I was hurting the public because of my personal interests, which made the reputation bad. ”

He pinched his thumb and little thumb to comfort Twelve Niang: "Wait until I will do this trivial matter in Shule Town first, and then come back to do our big things with peace of mind." ”

Li Siye has already said this, and Twelve Niang is ashamed to mention it again. Recently, she was reciting Ban Zhao's "Female Commandments" to learn to be a good wife and mother in advance. Just like the housekeeper in the house, Aunt Wu, said, a woman who is not suppressed by her mother-in-law on the top of her head should put a scale in her heart and make her position and responsibilities clear.

Of course, this is not created by a vulgar woman like Aunt Wu, who once served as a maid in the side branch of the Cui family in Qinghe when she was young, and once heard the old grandmother surnamed Zheng reprimand the granddaughter-in-law in the family, and said these words full of aura, so that Aunt Wu remembered the words of a sage for a lifetime. Decades later, Aunt Wu forgot a lot of things, but she couldn't forget these words, and she never forgot to show off that she had done things in Qinghe Cui's mansion.

Li Siye rolled up the white silk with four bamboos as a scroll, and instructed his subordinates to call Feng Changqing over, stand in front of the hall and ask him: "You boast that you are quite talented and can draw maps?" ”

"Of course I can paint, in the past, I used to paint a map of Hucheng with my grandfather on the tower of Hucheng, and I used stone coal as a pen to draw a map of Hucheng, which naturally did not bother me."

Li Siye waved his hand: "Little Hucheng is nothing, what I want you to draw is a map of the entire Shule Town jurisdiction, which requires a fine map and accurate location, every mountain, every river, every beacon, and even every post station, and the location of every well must be drawn, and the error is not less than five zhang." ”

Feng Changqing solemnly crossed his hands and said: "The general can't teach me, Changqing has seen the fragment of Pei Xiu, the prime minister of the Wei and Jin dynasties, "Yugong Territory Map", and also knows a little about the six bodies of cartography, one is called the fraction, so the degree of distinguishing the wide wheel is also. The two are said to be in the right direction, so they are each other's bodies. The three are said to be in the road, so the number of reasons is also determined. The four are superior, the fifth is evil, and the sixth is straightforward, and the three are adapted to local conditions, so the school is also dangerous. ”

"If this is the case, I will be relieved, and I will travel with me in three or five days, and at the same time be responsible for redrawing the Shule defense map." After Li Siye finished speaking, he threw the scroll in his hand into Feng Changqing's hand, "This is the silk cloth of the map, you can bring it to your body tomorrow and prepare a horse to travel with me." ”

Feng Changqing held the silk cloth with both hands, and said hesitantly: "If it is only to survey and draw a map within the jurisdiction of Shule Town, the subordinates can use the method of drawing the square in the memory, but this measurement mileage needs to use the Jili drum car, and the entire Tang Dynasty is only available in the Chenghuang Department of Taifu Temple." If you don't remember the car, you can use the method of walking and visualizing, but the accuracy is much worse. ”

This is actually the scale commonly used in modern maps, the map is drawn with lines to form a grid, with ten miles or a hundred miles to fold an inch of the method to draw the map, the original proposal of the method of drawing in the memory is Pei Xiu of the Jin Dynasty, but it is not easy to pass it down, in this Confucianism prevails, practical learning is on the high shelf of the Tang Dynasty, one person in a million people can know this mapping method is already very remarkable, I have to say that this Changqing knowledge is really profound, so that Li Siye wants to pretend to be × can not find a chance.