Wild North America 1846

Chapter 216

There are five main uses of the huge wealth earned by the royal family of the Tang Dynasty. The first item is naturally various royal gardens, castles, manors, and palaces under construction, with an average annual cost of about 1 to 2500 million yuan.

Among them, the Daming Palace occupies an absolute dominant position and is the top priority of all palace construction.

Besides
Because His Majesty the King often visits all over the country, he needs to repair the palaces in various places. Near Chang'an City, there are no less than four royal palaces;

A royal palace under construction is located high in the bay area, near the former Spanish fort fort, and is no more than 1 km away from the newly built coastal fort. It is called the "Gulf Palace".

The Overseas Palace is located among the towering mountains, from here you can overlook the beautiful San Francisco Bay Area and face the misty Pacific Ocean. The scenery is invincible.

Item 2 is applied to educational support and research.

Datang Kingdom successively established a series of higher and junior high schools headed by the University of California, Los Angeles Institute of Technology, Chang'an Lecture Hall, Taoyuan School of Administration, and Chang'an Normal University. The education system is gradually improving. The royal family is the main sponsor of educational charity , with an annual expenditure of around RMB 200 to 220 million, supporting dozens of middle and high-level schools.

In addition, cutting-edge scientific and technological research funded by royal grants, such as iron and steel research laboratories, internal combustion engine research laboratories, agricultural machinery research laboratories, chemical industry research laboratories, etc., are gradually playing an increasingly important role in economic development.

The third item is industrial investment.

The royal family’s industrial investment is about 800 million to 1000 million per year, and has supported a series of large-scale mining, heavy industry, banking, railway and shipping companies, especially in steel manufacturing and shipbuilding. The capital investment is large, the effect is slow, and the return period is long. In terms of key industries, royal industry funds played an important leading role.

The fourth item is the military strategic reserve.

In order to cope with the possible North American hegemony war in the future, the royal family has chosen to build strategic reserve warehouses in mountainous areas and frontier cities many years ago.

Today
There are as many as 17 strategic reserve warehouses, and the storage materials include a wide range of categories, such as leather armed belts, leather shoes, saddles, tents, long guns and short guns, field artillery of various calibers, ammunition, knives, etc., at an annual cost of 300 to 350 million yuan Large-scale purchase and storage not only stabilized the production of hundreds of military products, but also enhanced the ability to deal with risks.

Cooperating with the Tang Kingdom's reserve military service system, it will form a strong ability to resist risks.

will

In a short period of time, an army of more than 15 people can be formed, and according to the development of the situation, it will continue to go to the first-line positions.

in the field
The government of the Tang Kingdom also invests a certain amount of money every year to establish a strategic reserve.

However, due to tight government expenditures, the amount of funds that can be invested each year is limited, only about 30 in some years, and no more than 60 in many years, so the scale of the reserve is far from being comparable to that of the royal family.

This is also in line with the always tough attitude of the royal family of the Tang Dynasty. King Li Cha is a powerful monarch with arbitrariness.

Therefore, it is very important that the royal family has a sufficient internal treasury independent of the government and is not restricted in terms of money.

The fifth item is investment in urban construction.

The urban construction investment company controlled by the royal family is the main force in domestic urban construction. The urban sewer network, roads, street lights, public toilets, greening, bridge construction and key buildings, commercial buildings, apartment buildings, etc. are all owned by urban construction companies. investment scope.

in some sense

Urban construction companies undertake a large part of the construction and maintenance of public health facilities, replacing government functions, so they can also collect health fees from businesses to maintain the balance of employees' salaries.

After years of development
The urban construction company has become a behemoth lurking underwater. In the ever-changing urban construction of the kingdom, the commercial buildings, rental apartments, street shops and property properties under the urban construction company can collect a lot of rent every year and generate stable income.

With the development of the kingdom, the urban construction company will inevitably grow bigger and bigger like a snowball, becoming a very influential pillar enterprise.

On the construction site of Daming Palace

King Richard inspected with great interest. He talked frequently with a group of accompanying officials and the person in charge of the construction site to understand the progress of the project, the construction situation, and the corresponding difficulties.

Due to the huge construction project of Daming Palace and the numerous palaces and pavilions, it was built in stages in the construction plan.

The first phase of construction is the East Palace Palace complex, which is expected to be completed in one and a half years, that is, at the end of 1. The complex has palaces of various sizes and more than 1855 pavilions. It is a magnificent palace complex.

The second phase is the Nishinomiya palace complex, which is expected to be completed in June 2.The palace complex is subdivided into sixteen halls, each of which is a separate house.

In the third phase, the three main halls and side halls, side halls, cabinet meeting offices and other super-large main buildings will be completed. It is expected to be completed by the end of 3.

In the fourth phase, the gates and walls around the Daming Palace, including the most important Danfeng Gate, were built, and the project volume was quite huge.

Danfeng Gate belongs to the highest level of five-door system among ancient city gates. It consists of piers, doorways, partition walls, horse paths, and city walls, all of which are reinforced concrete structures.

This city gate is a super-large building. A three-story cornice-style pavilion is built on the city gate. The royal family's personal guards are on duty and the command organization is set up here.

In the Daming Palace, there are 9 such gates, and the Danfeng Gate in the south direction has the highest regulations and the largest amount of work, so it was also the last to be completed.

The construction period of the entire Daming Palace is about 8 to 9 years, and this is only the completion time of the main palace building.

As for the subsequent
There is no time to build some pavilions, curved bridges and stone boats. It may be decades, or it may be hundreds of years. Anyway, there is plenty of time.

In ancient and modern China and abroad, it is easy to do things with money.

The royal family has strong financial resources, and a large number of building resources are constantly pouring into the construction site. Some of them use reinforced concrete structures, piled with rocks, and tens of thousands of craftsmen are working day and night to build the palace. The construction progress of the palace is quite fast.

After looking around, Li Cha was quite satisfied with the construction progress of Daming Palace. He would come to inspect here every month, so the people below did not dare to slack off, and the construction schedule was very tight.

The three main halls, side halls and auxiliary halls in the first half of Daming Palace, as well as the East Palace complex are all pure Tang-style palace buildings. More than 6000 Chinese craftsmen are mainly working on these construction sites.

In the Sixteenth Palace of the West Palace, there are many Baroque, French Neo-Romantic and British Victorian palace complexes, which are unique.

This is because in Li Cha's harem, there are not a few golden cats of various ethnicities in Europe and America. These concubines have no chance of inheriting the throne, but it is no problem to enjoy the palace with unique ethnic characteristics in the deep palace.

This also reflects that Richard is very caring. In order to make his concubines live more comfortably, he not only built Spanish-style and Baroque palaces, but also built chapels, both Catholic and Protestant. needed.

Just after returning to Maple Leaf Palace, the queen sent someone to invite her.

When Li Cha came to the Queen's palace, he saw Queen Lin Zhen'er and four concubines Chun Lan, Xia He, Qiu Ju, and Dong Mei were all there. Among the women, a little baby carved in pink and jade was "clucking" "Running all over the ground with a smile.

The baby who just learned to walk is born of the queen. The third prince, Li Chengrui, will be the first heir to the throne in the future.

Seeing King Li Cha approaching, Queen Lin Zhener and all the concubines and maids saluted respectfully, only the little boy Li Chengrui standing in the middle looked back, his big black eyes looked at Li Cha in surprise, and then shook his small arms Get up and shout "babble".

"The queen is free." Li Cha said with a smile, and then stepped forward to lightly stretch the ape's arms and hold the little baby in his arms.

He looked at this pink and tender little baby, and unceremoniously stretched out his little hand to grab Li Cha's mouth, a kind of blood-linked joy arose spontaneously.

(End of this chapter)