Li Chao swung the big wooden hammer, shook his arms, and smashed a thick wooden stake into the frozen soil covered with ice and snow. The thick wooden stake was wrapped in red paper, with a red cloth tied on it, with the words "Good luck and good luck".

Hey yo hey!

Hey!

Once again, the wooden stakes were pushed in bit by bit, and finally reached more than a foot of the ground, standing firmly there. The red cloth strips on the stake head were flew in the white ice and snow, especially conspicuous.

"This is the center of Zhongshoujiang City."

Li Chao leaned on a sledgehammer and pointed at the wooden stake and said to everyone with a smile.

Zhang Zhongjian stood aside and stroked his big tendrils on his face, and said with a smile, "I have carefully looked at the Feng Shui of this place. It is best to build a city by the mountains and waters, and the mountain passes behind it. This place is the center. It will definitely be digging one accurately at a time, and it will definitely be able to dig a clear spring."

"I'll give you a good word!" Li Chao also believed that clear springs could be dug here, and there was a river on it. Although the river was not very big, the riverbed was about 100 meters wide. The river water could reach the chest deep and the shallow areas could be painted. In winter, the river had already frozen and frozen, most of the riverbed was exposed, and the rest were thick ice. In winter, this river could become an ice passage, and it could be convenient for transportation with ice sleds.

It is close to such a river, and there are mountains next to it. There are still trees and towering trees on the mountain. How can such a place be short of water? It can be said that you can dig out water wherever you dig.

Wang Xuance and Liu Rengui talked about Shangguan Yi, Cheng Chumo Niu, Li Gan, Yuchi Baolin, Cui Yan, Su Lie, these ten Li Chao's military students, held pickaxes and shovels and other tools.

"Dig it."

Li Chao took a shovel and shoveled it first, then ten disciples took action one after another, and the picks and shovels were used together. After digging for a while, a big hole had been dug.

"Come together."

Niu saw that Hu was sweating all over, his coat was taken off, and his head was covered with white breath. He gasped and waved to the soldiers beside him.

The soldiers took the pickaxe shovel and continued to dig.

There were many people and great power. Everyone took turns to dig. After only a few hours, water was seen below.

Cheng Chumo directly took the water mixed with mud and brought it into his mouth, and took two sips.

"Sweet! Sweet, good water!"

When everyone saw the water, they became more excited and digged harder. Soon, more and more water was added. Li Chao asked someone to take a few buckets, put them down and carry a few buckets of water to come up, and put them aside to clarify. When the water became clear, he made a pot of boiling and brewed a pot of tea. It tasted really good.

"Well, that's it here. Go back and dig deeper and build bricks. This is the first well in Zhongshoujiang City."

"Prince, please give this well a name," said a guard.

What name is good to give?

"Just call it surrendering to the well." Li Chao named it very easy.

The location of Sujiang City has been selected, and the first well has been dug out. What is needed now is to write a letter to the family and ask them to arrange the craftsmen built by Li Ji, and then recruit some workers to build the city. They also need to recruit people who are willing to immigrate to move.

Xiangyang.

Ziwei Palace.

In the imperial study room, Li Shimin was discussing the matter of ceasing with the prime ministers.

"All fiefs are called leaders, not countries. For example, Li Chao's fiefs can be called Duke of Zhao, and Li Chao's father's fiefs are the Duke of Shangluo County." Fang Xuanling spoke first.

The fiefdom is not called a country, but a leader. The details of this title reflect the great importance that the prime ministers attached to the matter of ceasing. The fief can be, but it must be strictly controlled and must not be a random seal.

Li Shimin was very satisfied with this.

If Li Chao's fief is called Zhao State, then that would be bad. Now it is just called Zhao State Duke, and the abbreviation is called Zhao State. This is acceptable and more suitable for him.

"Your Majesty, we think that the great seal should not be banned. Now there are many meritorious nobles in the court, but every noble cannot give a fief. The court must conduct a comprehensive and strict evaluation. Only those who have achieved great merits can be granted fiefs."

"The area of ​​the fiefdom should not be too large."

"Li Chao's Duke of Zhao was a conferred by His Majesty before, with a conferred title of 300 miles each from east, west, south and north. We think this fiefdom is a bit too large and should be reduced." Changsun Wuji spoke out. He was the one who opposed the conferred title the most. Now that the conferred title has become a conclusion, he will do some work on the details of the conferred title.

"I gave Li Chao's fiefdom to him earlier to repay him for his contributions. Now that he has made great contributions, how can I not reduce it? I plan to give Li Chao another fiefdom of 200 miles and a fiefdom of 500 miles in the first half."

"Your Majesty, no. The fief of five hundred miles is extremely great. I think that even if you reward me, there is no such reward." Changsun Wuji firmly opposed it.

Li Shimin insisted on banning, but Li Chao made great contributions this time. He did not ban the title and reduced it. What would it be like? Not only could he not ban the title, he also had to add the title. Without banning, he could not repay Li Chao's achievements.

Changsun Wuji firmly disagreed. Li Chao was originally the one with the largest title in the court and the first to be granted territory. His fiefdom represents the upper limit for the imperial court to divide the feudal status. It is not a matter of Li Chao's title for more titles, but in this way, others will have to follow this standard, which is different.

No matter how big the world is, it is impossible to divide the feudal like this.

Seeing that the emperor and Changsun Wuji were arguing, Fang Xuanling stood up and mixed up, and he proposed an intermediate plan.

Give Li Chao an additional title and give him a real territory of 500 miles. But this 500 miles can be divided among the Li family members, Li Chao 300 miles, and Li Chao's father and son each dozens of miles, and gather a 500 miles. But at the same time, in order to prevent Li Chao from being too large, Li Chao's territory from 300 miles away, the other 200 miles of newly enfeoffed territory are not enfeoffed around Li Chao's original territory, but are divided into different places, preferably farther away.

For example, if Li Chao is outside Yinshan Mountain in the northwest, Li Chao's father can be divided into Longnan in the southwest, Li Chao's son's territory can be divided into overseas Nanman, etc.

In this way, Li Chao's family won a fiefdom of 500 miles alone, but they were not together, avoiding the court's concerns that the fiefdom was too large.

Furthermore, in this way, 500 miles is not a fief of one person. The highest standard for the imperial court to divide the feudal is still only 300 miles. This upper limit has not changed and has little impact on the entire feudal.

Li Shimin thought about it and it was also a good plan.

If you take action, others cannot say that he treats the heroes unfairly.

Changsun Wuji had no other reason to object, so he could only agree, and this was an agreement.

"Okay, let's discuss the size of the guards of the marquis. How many do you think are appropriate?"

As soon as Li Shimin finished speaking, Changsun Wuji was the first to stand up again.
Chapter completed!