The afternoon sunlight poured over the rammed-earth road as Xia Huai'an and Main Bookkeeper Zhou rode their horses at a leisurely pace toward the agricultural workers' community in the fields. This residential area, converted from the storehouses of Prince Fu's secondary estate, appeared remarkably orderly in the warm autumn sun. Looking out from a distance, hundreds of grey-tiled houses with green bricks stood in neat rows, their rooflines sharply outlined against the light, while wisps of kitchen smoke rose lazily into the air, lending a vibrant touch to the scene.
"Master, this place is called Tianfu Homeland Community Number Five," Main Bookkeeper Zhou said, pointing to a newly erected stone monument at the entrance, its vermilion characters gleaming brightly in the sun. "The very road beneath our feet will soon be paved with cement and named Tianfu Avenue."
Unfolding the blueprint in his hands, he pointed and explained, "Tianfu Avenue runs north-to-south straight through the Jin City Plain. The farms and communities on both sides are all named after it, distinguished by numerical order. This Tianfu Homeland Community Number Five houses ten thousand and eighty agricultural workers and their dependents, totaling over twenty thousand people, all built strictly according to the standard of 'one ward per hundred households'."
Chapter 186