There was no hurry about selling the warhorses. In any case, Yinghe Fortress still had silver on hand, and the early investment for the expansion was no problem at all.
The twenty-fifth year of Chengping, the twenty-third day of the fourth month: favorable for breaking ground, praying for blessings, burials, and sacrifices.
Under Yang Zhengshan's orders, Yinghe Fortress began breaking ground for its expansion.
This expansion of Yinghe Fortress was not a matter of widening the walls outward in a full ring. Instead, they were tearing down the northern wall and expanding directly north by one hundred and fifty zhang, almost all the way to the riverbank of the Yinghe River.
At the same time as the expansion, the interior of the tun fortress would also be replanned.
The beacon tower had to be rebuilt, the walls had to be raised and thickened, most of the newly built area would be designated as residential quarters, and the pigpens, sheepfolds, and chicken coops in front of the official office would all be converted into stables. Part of the original residential area would be turned into chicken coops, pigpens, and sheepfolds.
At the same time, water from the Yinghe River would be diverted into the trench to form a moat two zhang wide, with one city gate opened on each of the eastern and western sides.
According to Yang Zhengshan's plan, the future Yinghe Fortress could not quite be counted as a city, but its scale would be larger than most towns, only about one circle smaller than Anning County's county seat.
Anning County's county seat was over three li long from east to west and two li wide from north to south, and going once around the city was only just over ten li.
As for the future Yinghe Fortress, it