Building a Mansion in the Northern City After Military Order, the Tiger's Abode Shows the Lord's Authority

All of Wu'an City was immersed in prosperity and peace.

Whether they were Old Qin People or natives of Wu'an, none had ever imagined they could live like this. Every day, they still felt uneasy, afraid it was all a beautiful dream.

Whenever they recalled Zhao Cheng's apprehension when he first arrived in Wu'an, the people of Wu'an would laugh at their own former ignorance.

At such times, they would look up toward the northern city wall, where Lord Wuwei Mansion lay crouched like a tiger. Then they would kneel reverently and pay their respects. Doing so settled their uneasy hearts.

Yes, as Wu'an City grew ever more prosperous, Zhao Cheng's lordly residence was also rising from the ground at an astonishing pace under the Mohist Pavilion's overall direction.

When Ying Zheng had enfeoffed him as Lord Wuwei, he had already specially approved the scale of the mansion.

Following the ceremonial regulations of "one rank below the Son of Heaven, several ranks above the Senior Ministers and great officers," it covered tens of thousands of square meters, with walls sixteen feet high and a circumference of five li.

As a lord with extensive autonomy, Zhao Cheng could reside permanently in his fief and establish an administrative seat there. But in recent days, he had been busy advancing the Mohist Pavilion's research and promoting steam machinery, leaving him no time to oversee construction of his mansion.

Now that the apprentices at Mohist Pavilion Academy had learned Mechanism Arts, they needed a place to put their skills into practice. The surplus craftsmen and talents were all assigned to build the mansion, solving the labor shortage while putting their newly learned skills to use.

The mansion's foundations were laid on a rammed-earth platform inside the northern city wall.

This had once been the