Chapter 274 (1/2)

Lijiazhuang garden is called manor, but it is actually a fortress. Although Zhang county is located in Longxi, it is still close to the border. To the west, across Lanzhou and Hezhou, is the border between Datang and Tubo. The old land of Tuyuhun, that is, Qinghai Province in the world.

Tubo often invaded and looted. Even when Wei Ran was eight years old, he allied with Huihe and captured the whole Longyou road. Naturally, Wei Ran's hometown did not escape this robbery.

After that, Li Chengye led the army to fight with the enemy for five years and defeated the Tubo Huihe coalition army. Returning to his hometown, Li Chengye saw his ancestral home burned to ashes by the Tubo people and his family property destroyed wantonly.

At that time, they organized manpower to repair the ancestral house. He was not an honest man, but also had great power. He easily annexed a large number of ownerless land nearby after the war, and mobilized civilian men to build the huge fortress in front of him.

The overall layout of the fortress refers to the snowflake six battle of Wei Gong's art of war. The whole large fortress is composed of seven small fortresses. The central fortress is not only the residence of the owner, but also the core of the whole fortress. Ancestral halls, granaries, weapon depots and other important places are here.

It is surrounded by six smaller docks, just like the hexagonal shape of snowflakes. On the periphery of the seven fortresses, two circular fortress walls were built to surround and wrap the interior. It can defend, hide soldiers and counterattack.

Had it not been for the deaths of many civilian men who built the fort, which almost led to riots, and Li Chengye dared not embezzle too much military funds, otherwise he even wanted to build horse faces around the circular wall to increase the counterattack ability of the fort.

The whole fortress has a daily resident population of up to 3000. Its internal economy is self-contained. Even if it is blocked, it can be self-sufficient in food, clothing, housing and transportation. This is a typical feudal manor economy, which is essentially the same as the local gentry in the Eastern Han Dynasty. It has little dependence on the external world economy, which is conducive to the multi generation accumulation of wealth, but also affects the operation and circulation of the folk economy in the Tang Dynasty.

Wei Ran looked at this behemoth. Even if tens of thousands of Tubo troops attacked, it would be difficult to capture this place in a few months by their means of attacking the city. In wartime, they can even hide troops here. If the Tibetans attack the mainland, they can send troops to break their way back at any time.

Although his adoptive father set up the fort with selfish intentions, he could not deny that he had a profound military intention to hide it.

Now Wei Ran is in disguise and wanted again. Naturally, it's difficult to enter here. The internal personnel of the fortress are familiar with each other. Strangers are usually not allowed to enter.

Besides, his uncle doesn't know himself and even dislikes him. Wei Ran doesn't want to ask for trouble in front of that guy when his parents are not around. It is convenient to live in a dilapidated temple in the countryside.

Four days later, Li Chengye came back a little later than Wei Ran expected.

With a Li's help, Wei Ran waited for the lichengye family on the road and met them with a sigh.

But his home was in front of the road, and some local gentry and old friends came to meet him. Wei Ran didn't want to reveal his identity, so he entered lijiawu castle with his family as a monk.

In the fortress, Wei Ran was naturally a guest, and he was given a temporary residence in a side house. In the daytime, Li Chengye had a big dinner at home with his hometown gentry and old friends. It was not until evening that he had time for the family to get together quietly.

In the yard of this side house, Wei Ran's uncle is not here. Only the original family and ah Li, who has become a fox again, are reunited here.

Unexpectedly, Li Chengye didn't ask about Wei Ran's escape, but a very heavy news.

”I received a message on the road the day before yesterday. Your majesty... Died...”

Wei Ran's heart jumped and his eyes widened, but he didn't ask the authenticity of the news. He believed that his father's intelligence resources would not make mistakes.