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Lu Gongbo's mansion covers a large area, about a thousand acres, including gardens, rockeries, forests, lakes, etc., and there are many of them.

Qi Yun had crammed in some ancient knowledge at the base a while ago, and now she is no longer a novice who knows nothing about ancient times.

Just by taking a look at the size of the house, I knew that the structure of Uncle Lu Gong's Mansion was illegal.

The ancients had strict standards and requirements for the food, clothing, housing and transportation corresponding to people of different status.

For example, in ancient times, agriculture was emphasized and business was suppressed, and merchants could not wear silk to ride in cars. No matter how rich you were, as long as you were a merchant, you had to change into coarse clothes when you went out, and you had to walk everywhere. Otherwise, if people want to sue you and punish you, One report is accurate.

There is also the fact that businessmen’s children are not allowed to study for imperial examinations, let alone become officials.

Those families where someone in the family was an official would instruct their trusted servants to go out to do business, or they would accept the filial piety of businessmen who had no backers and protect them.

On the surface, these people will never be tainted with business, including family members, and they will not be allowed to do business, otherwise they will be easily impeached.

In fact, all profitable shops in ancient times had a backend when tracing back to their origins.

Businessmen in ancient times had a very low status. Anyone who wanted to mess with you could kill you.

If a businessman does not have the protection of a wealthy and powerful family after his death, it is just a dream to get rich.

Even small businesses with small profits will still be charged protection fees. If you make a little more money, you will be jealous.

Similarly, if someone in the family of a farming household is an official, the tax on a certain amount of land can be reduced or exempted. If his family does not have that much land, each family member of the clan will take the initiative to transfer the land to his name to reduce the tax.

So, even though these officials only have a small monthly salary, even if they don't take bribes, they still have a lot of benefits.

The ancients wanted to be an official even if they wanted to be officials. It is not unreasonable for a family to have a scholar who is able to study, and a large family to support him frugally.

Because this is really a matter of one person achieving enlightenment, chickens and dogs ascending to heaven!

After understanding these situations, Qi Yun, who had been brainwashed by various modern time-travel novels, was shocked.

Fortunately, when she first came here, she was still thinking about getting rich by doing business. She didn't expect that the status of businessmen was so low!

These are just civilians. As for civil and military officials, there are even more particularities. Emperors, princes, lords, clans, officials, squires, etc. all have strict hierarchical requirements in terms of clothing, residence, ceremonials, weddings, etc.

During the Warring States Period, "Wei Liao Zi" written by Wei Liao, a native of Wei, once recorded: "The emperor's house has a thousand acres, the princes have a hundred acres, and the officials below have nine acres."

This is talking about the difference in the building area of ​​the mansion for people with different status.

Later emperors added other restrictions on the size of residences for people of various statuses, which were different in each dynasty and each generation.

If the area of ​​an uncle's residence exceeds the maximum area stipulated by law, and the number of ponds and rockeries, the size of gardens and lakes, the height of the tallest building, etc. exceed the scale allowed by the government, then this is an excess of the regulations. , is illegal.

It's okay if no one impeaches you, but if someone does impeach you, you will be fined, demoted, demolished, and rebuilt, or your family will be confiscated, your title will be confiscated, and you will be exiled. If there are political enemies in the government but no backers, and you are labeled as a rebel, it will be the direct execution of the nine tribes.

The structure of Uncle Lu Gong's Mansion is seriously beyond the standard. The original owner of this place, Uncle Lu Gong, was not a law-abiding person before the end of the world.

I remember Zhao Yun once said that her cheap father had been suppressed for more than ten years before he eradicated the traitors around him.

It's been more than ten years. I'm afraid there are many people below who want to replace him, right?

It's a pity that no matter how many plans they have, when the plague comes, they will all be in vain!

Just like the Uncle Lu Gong's Mansion in front of you, it used to be glorious and noble with gold tiles and green bricks, but now it is dilapidated and decayed, with dead ponds and long grass, making it a desolate scene.

In some remote places, houses have collapsed, and corpse monsters can be seen everywhere.

The streets nearby are the residences of powerful people. Logically speaking, the number of zombie monsters should not be so large, but the number of zombie monsters here is denser than at Caishikou.

Qi Yun's mental power will be affected when encountering obstacles such as mud, and the detection range will be greatly reduced.

At present, her mental power can only detect a distance of about seven or eight meters underground, and she cannot see it any deeper.

However, looking at this scene, even without exploring the underground, one can guess that there are surviving humans underground here.

It was those people who made noise underground that attracted a large number of corpse monsters to gather here.

Qi Yun came to a courtyard with the most corpses and monsters, concentrated and listened, and sure enough she heard a subtle noise coming from the ground.

The ground here should be relatively thin, so the sound insulation effect is not that good, and there happens to be a large group of survivors gathering underground, so the sound cannot be covered.

Qi Yun looked down from the air and found that with this courtyard as the center, layer after layer of corpse monsters were crowded together.

Those living underground probably don’t know yet, but the corpse monsters have been attracted by their voices!

In a corner of the courtyard garden, a zombie monster has already dug out a large pit of six or seven meters in the soil. At the bottom of the pit, you can vaguely see the blue bricks below. It won't take long before the place will be dug through.

The zombie monsters outside the house seem to have been guided, and they are all gathering here one after another. The entire uncle's house is tightly packed inside and outside. It is visually estimated that there are at least tens of thousands of zombie monsters.

Qi Yun's scalp felt numb when she looked at him in the sky.

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There are three large pits in the underground space of the courtyard below Qi Yun.

In the largest pit were adult men and women. There were so many of them that they seemed very crowded. These people could only take turns to sit and rest.

In another pit, there are some pregnant women with big bellies. These pregnant women have a slightly wider range of activities and can at least lie down flat.

There were men and women in the third pit. They seemed to be with their families, gathered together in twos and threes, and there were more than a dozen of them half-grown children.

Although they were both in the pit, the place they stayed in was much better than the area full of adult men and women. At least it was not as crowded.

There are no people over fifty here.

On the edge above these three large pits, there are also patrols holding torches patrolling around the edges of the three large pits.

The entire underground space is provided with light source by the weak torches in their hands, and behind them there are guards with bows, arrows and spears.

At this time, in the pit full of pregnant women, a woman was about to give birth, and the person who delivered her was another pregnant woman with a big belly.

There was no hot water or clean cloth, so the mother had to do it by herself.

The pregnant woman seemed to be having a difficult labor. The expression on her face was extremely painful, but she had neither enough food nor water to drink. She didn't even have the strength to scream. She could only make a hoarse neigh from her throat, as if someone had strangled her throat. , very shocking.

Not long after, the woman howled miserably and died.

The child was not born after all, and one body and two lives were lost.

Someone quickly jumped down from outside the pit and carried the pregnant woman's body away.

Other pregnant women watched as the guards carried the body of the pregnant woman away and disappeared into a passage leading inside. A flash of fear flashed in their eyes, and their hands couldn't help but protect their bulging bellies.