Fierce Consort

Chapter 141

The Yun Prince Estate was large, almost like a miniature version of the palace.

For the sake of its construction, Yun City was extended almost ten kilometers as it added an inner city. The previous Yun City was now known as the outer city.

The Yun Prince Estate's layout was similar to the palace and of the highest quality. The official residence was at the center with gates in all four directions. It was completely enclosed by walls with a fifteen zhang wide moat surrounding it. This sort of layout made it suitable to call this estate an imperial city, but to avoid the taboo they were usually called estates.

The Yun Prince Estate's main doors were known as the Gates of Ceremony. The eastern doors were the Gates of Benevolence, the western doors the Gates of Righteousness and the northern doors the Gate of Wisdom. Through the Gates of Ceremony were the Gates of Ascension, as well as the three forward palace halls known as the Hall of Ascension, the Hall of Origin and the Hall of Deliberation. This was where the Yun Prince would conduct his daily affairs. Behind the Hall of Deliberation was the hall where the Yun Prince slept. Apart from the palace halls in the center, the "imperial city" still had three pavilions to the east and west, a library, a retirement hall, a treasury, a place in charge of meals, a place to offer tribute, the six departments, and the employees' sleeping quarters. The space the estate occupied was enormous.

The Yun Prince Estate's front and back section was divided by the Hall of Deliberation's passageways. The front section was where the current prince would handle official business and the back was called the rear court, where he lived with his wife.
Before the Yun Prince Estate was done, Yan Yan had come to take a look.

She had thought the "estate" would be like those buildings in the capital, for example the Weiyuan Marquis Estate and the Zhenguo Duke Estate.

Unexpectedly, it turned out to be no less than a miniature city. Luo Huai Yuan told her some of the general information and regulations. Every vassal prince's estate was this way and their layouts were identical. Of course, some minor changes could be made based on individual preferences.

How many people would it take to fill up such a large estate?

Yan Yan finally understood why a vassal prince's personal guards weren't counted in the tens or hundreds, but rather thousands. They were allowed three thousand to ten thousand according to regulations. To guard such a large estate, there truly couldn't be too few people.

They started getting ready to move once again. This time they were moving from the outer city's courtyard into the inner city's prince's estate.
Everything was packed into boxes and transported to the Yun Prince Estate carriage by carriage. By the time Luo Huai Yuan and Yan Yan moved in, it was already ten days later.

They settled down and rested for two days before starting to familiarize themselves with their surroundings. Actually the Yun Prince Estate was still rather empty. Only the area surrounding the Xianyun Hall was a little livelier. The Xianyun Hall was where Luo Huai Yuan and Yan Yan would live in the future. Luo Huai Yuan had stubbornly insisted on using the words "Xianyun".

Afterwards, the two of them started getting busy.
Luo Huai Yuan was busy with the vassal state's affairs and establishing the adjutant's office's organization and assigning roles for the vassal state's officials. Yan Yan was busy organizing the internal affairs, doing her best to make sure everything within the estate was neat and organized.

The Yun Prince Estate started getting on the right track one step at a time.

The internal affairs were handled by the palace maids and eunuchs. The place was too big and there were too many things to handle so they couldn't lead by example as before. With the help of Matron Zou and a few managing aunties, Yan Yan set up a series of regulations for the estate that included reward and punishment. Everything would proceed according to these rules.