On November 7, 139 years of the new calendar, the main hall of the bluestone palace. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

"You can always make a big news without even noticing."

Gray sat in the chair across from Meier's desk, his hands folded over his chest.

"I should have complimented you, but now is not the time to compliment you. I know there's been a lot going on lately and you're busy and might have overlooked some things. But in any case, you can't ignore the marriage with the Alt royal family, right? ”

After Maier issued a series of building instructions, Yu Changnian immediately took action and began to expand the Bluestone Palace. This is not a big deal in normal times, it is nothing more than noisy, which slightly affects the overall work efficiency of the Qingshi Palace. But the problem is that the Elt Kingdom sent a letter of communication in early October, saying that Princess Leah would come to the Bluestone Palace to hold an engagement ceremony with Maier in mid-January next year, and Maier also gave an affirmative answer.

The Bluestone Palace is currently undergoing a large-scale expansion, and it is unlikely that the expansion will be completed before mid-January next year. That is to say, after Princess Leah comes to the Bluestone Palace, most of them will see various dormitory buildings under construction, and everyone tells you in advance that they are coming, but you are building in the Bluestone Palace at this time, which will obviously give people the feeling that the Kingdom of Byron does not pay attention to Princess Leia at all.

"Ah...... Sorry Dad...... Let me be quiet...... Let me be quiet......"

Mel covered his face with his hands and leaned back in his chair like a puddle of mud.

Because of the pressure caused by the population problem, he is still anxious about these things. When he finally had a good idea, he was naturally very excited, leaving behind those things that had nothing to do with the good idea.

If it weren't for Gray coming to him, he wouldn't even remember that there was a princess Leah waiting to be engaged with him. Yu Changnian's work efficiency is too fast, just two days of effort, the expansion of the Qingshi Palace has been in full swing, at such a time to ask for a stoppage, will definitely hit the morale of the administrative department.

However, if the work is not stopped, it is likely to damage the international reputation of the Kingdom of Byrons. Is it the morale of the administration that matters, or is the international reputation of the Kingdom of Byron important? The morale of the administration department can be improved, but it takes a lot of effort to improve the international reputation. It's a simple multiple-choice question, and Mel is sure to choose the latter.

If Maier had had a choice, he wouldn't have become what he is now. The news that the Bluestone Palace is being expanded has spread in Byron City, but that is not the point of the matter. After all, the expansion work has not officially begun, and even the building materials have only just been purchased, and they have not yet been transported to the Qingshi Palace.

The problem is that the princess of the Elt Kingdom does not play according to the routine, and the foreign communication letter clearly says that she will only get engaged in January next year, but she will arrive in Byron City on November 5 this year.

If Princess Leah had come to Byron in the open, there would have been no way for Mel to give that series of orders. The Kingdom of Alt will definitely send news to Mel in advance, telling him that his princess is coming, and let him prepare, and then he will definitely suppress the order for the time being, and wait until after the engagement ceremony is over.

But Princess Leah came to Byron City secretly, and she only took a few personal maids out, saying that she was going out for an outing, and then went straight to the direction of the border. The Elt Kingdom still doesn't know that its princess has run to the Kingdom of Byrons, and she also participated in the group blind date in Byron City over there, and she got carried away at the blind date.

Princess Leah left home for fifteen days and went abroad, but her family didn't know it. This is not because the royal family of Elt is unresponsive, but because Princess Leah often goes out like this with only a few personal maids, sometimes for a month or two as soon as she goes out. Princess Leah has liked to dance with knives and guns since she was a child, she has a strong single combat power and a flexible mind, and her personal maids are not fuel-efficient lamps, they will greet each other before going out, so the Alt royal family is not worried about their safety.

At present, the city of Byron is not open to the public, and a pass is required to enter and exit. After several years of development, the Ximen Trading Post, which served as a material transfer station and entrance, has almost become a small town. Two years ago, the West Gate Trading Post had built a stone wall in a narrow valley north of the trading area, with three doors made of solid wood and covered with iron sheets more than five millimeters thick.

The three gates are two large and one small, the left and right doors are the gates, the left exit and the right entrance, and the small door in the middle is for the defenders. This is also a special passage, and high-ranking officials and holders of special passes can also walk through the small door. This stone wall was guarded by a patrol force, and the personnel rotated monthly, with a brigade per shift. The brigade has eight squadrons under its command, with more than 600 personnel.

Behind the stone wall there was a barracks with a brigade of garrisons, which were still rotated monthly. The total number of garrison brigades is also six hundred, which means that the permanent strength of the stone wall of the West Gate Trading Post is more than 1,200 people. This was the key point of the defense of the city of Byrons, and the high-ranking officials of the city defense army came to inspect it every week. Inspections are irregular, sometimes once a week, sometimes twice a week, sometimes three times a week, and sometimes even every day.

The timing of the visits was uncertain, whether it was morning, noon, evening, or even late at night. It can be seen from this that the city defense army attaches great importance to the stone wall of the West Gate Trading Station.

The inner and outer sides of the stone wall are completely two worlds. Inside the West Gate Trading Post, police officers patrolling can be seen everywhere. The officers were not equipped like ordinary officers, they did not have iron clubs, arrest ropes or anything like that, they wore leather armor, short swords around their waists, and some were equipped with round shields. Rather than being police officers, they are city guards in the police station sequence.

After Yu Mingli personally took action, the crime rate at the Ximen Trading Post was much lower, but it was still much higher than in other areas. Everyone in the city could be the eye of foreign spies or outlaws, and the flow of goods and money smelled like blood, excites the hungry wolves lurking in the kingdom.

There are also many criminals who infiltrate the West Gate Trading Post. Thieves, liars, robbers, these three types of criminals are a headache for the Byron City Police Department, but it is the thugs who give them the most headaches. Since the establishment of the Ximen Trading Post, there have been no less than 50 cases of violent robbery. The rioters started directly in the city or trading area, burned and looted, and then fled, and the security department had no choice but to ask the military to pursue the perpetrators.

Later, Yu Mingli came up with a countermeasure, and she asked Maier for a batch of equipment for the city defense army, and asked the police officers at the Ximen Trading Post to change their clothes and receive formal military training. In other cities, the patrol police are basically on duty in groups of two, at most in groups of four, and the patrol officers at the Ximen Trading Post must be on duty in groups of at least ten people, and they cannot be separated when on duty.

The law enforcement at the Simon Trading Post is much harsher than in other cities, and if the offender is willing to be caught, he can stay alive for a while, and if he escapes, he will be shot dead on the spot. When people hear the siren, they must lean to the sides of the road and crouch with their heads in their hands, while vendors do not have to crouch with their heads in their hands, but they must raise their hands high. If you don't do it after hearing the siren, you'll be arrested as an accomplice to the criminals.

At the same time, there are measures such as curfew, day and day curfews at the West Gate Trading Post, and a nationwide lockdown if necessary. The people who live at the Ximen Trading Post are constantly on their nerves, and if they are not careful, they may be arrested and sent to the local police station.

On the other side of the stone wall, the situation is completely reversed. The crime rate in the main urban area of Byron City can be said to be the lowest in the country, and counting the united Tairong Kingdom, only Chunshan City has a lower crime rate than Byron City. Since the Simon Trading Post has been directly managed by the Byron Kingdom Police Chief, the work of the Byron City Police Department is very small, and Barton, as the chief of the police department, is even idle enough to go out for a walk in two or three days, and can go around to attend public gatherings on weekdays.

The city area of Byrons City is much larger than the Simon Exchange Post, and the area of the police precinct is even larger, but the number of police officers in Byron City is about the same as the number of police officers at the West Gate Exchange Post. Police officers spend at least half of their time idle, the remaining half of their time responding to requests for help from civilians, and only a very small amount of time handling cases. It's not that the police in Byron City are negligent in their duties, it's because there are so few cases here that they really don't have any cases to investigate. Even if there were, most of them were civil cases such as fights, and it didn't take much time to deal with.

As the capital of the Kingdom of Byrons, the residents of Byron City are not generally treated well. With the exception of Simon Marketplace, you won't see a single beggar in the administrative confines of Byrons, not even a decent poor person. The average income here is the highest in the country, and the prices are average, although not the lowest in the country, and everyone has money to spare. Residents put their surplus money into the Kingdom Bank, and after a few months they were able to receive dividends. Because there is a limit on the amount of investment, even if the dividend profit is 300%, everyone's profit is limited, but this is also an additional income, isn't it?

With money to spare, and now with extra income and a stable source of extra income, the lives of the people of Byron City can be described as extremely nourishing. Wine and juice are common on the tables of ordinary families in Byrons City, and fresh vegetables and meat are available every day. The fabrics in Byron City are basically imported, so the price of clothes in Byron City is slightly higher, but it is also affordable for ordinary people.

The city of Byron had no nobility other than the royal family. The influence of the bureaucracy in the city was not very great, because the common people would obey the orders of the officials only for the sake of the royal family. The bureaucracy has some rights, but this privilege is nothing more than more vacations, higher salaries, and will not be affected by certain laws.

The commerce of the city of Byron was completely controlled by the Kingdom Chamber of Commerce, and before that it was controlled by the Heyan family. If the Simon Trading Post is excluded, there is no such thing as a merchant class in the strict sense of the word, because the commerce of the city of Bairon is entirely for the royal family and the common people.

The shrine maidens of the new shrine and the teachers of the theological research society have a higher status, but both the new shrine and the theological research society are controlled by the king, so the influence of both can be counted as the king's.

And the commoner class is inherently influenced by other classes, and the influence of other classes in Byron City is very low except for the royal family, so that the commoner class is only affected by the royal family. The family style of the Byrons family is there, and it is impossible for them to suffer losses when they are in power, so the overall environment of Byrons City is always harmonious and positive.

Outsiders who have been lucky enough to visit the city of Byron call it a paradise on earth, and when the envoys of the Kingdom of Elt first came to the city of Byrons, they could not believe that it was the capital of a small country with a population of only one hundred million. The inhabitants are so wealthy that as long as the royal family is excluded, the gap between the rich and the poor in the city is very small, and every household has a lot of purchasing power. Since Byron City is not open to the public and locals are reluctant to leave the city, new gadgets from out of town are always selling well locally. Because of this, the economy of Byron City is very prosperous, and at first glance it is even livelier than Loton City.

Except for the stone wall of the West Gate Trading Station, only the Bluestone Palace is a fortified area in the whole city. Outside of the fact that a part of the officials' offices was off-limits and inaccessible to outsiders, the civilians of Byron City were free to enter and leave the officials' offices. However, free access does not mean that you can go there to mischief, and those who obstruct official business will be arrested.

Princess Leah and her valet were arrested because they drank too much alcohol at the blind date and went to the officials' office to get drunk. There were no Elts in the city of Byrons, except for the permanent envoys of the Kingdom of Elt and their retinue. Everyone knows that the Elt Kingdom is an ally of the Byron Kingdom, and in order not to affect the relationship between the two countries, the police department arrested people and casually educated them a few words, and sent them back to the residence of the envoy of the Elt Kingdom.

Among the resident envoys, two recognized Princess Leia. Princess Leah is well-known in the aristocratic circles of the Elt Kingdom, the future heir to the throne once overturned twenty-five professional samurai in a row in jousting tournaments, and she wears a mask all the time during the competition, and no one knows her true identity. It wasn't until she was defeated by the twenty-sixth professional samurai due to physical exhaustion, and the other party took off her mask directly because they were too curious about her identity, and the nobles who watched the game with great interest realized that the person who killed all sides on the field was actually the princess of the kingdom.

Her arrival surprised the resident envoys, and according to diplomatic etiquette, Princess Leah must inform the Kingdom of Byron before coming to Byron City, otherwise it would be rude. The stone wall of the Simon Trading Post was so strict that no one could get in without a pass, and just when the envoys were amazed at how the princess had managed to get into the city, Princess Leah, who had not yet sobered up, took the initiative to boast of her and her personal maids for their "great achievement" in trying to get a special pass.