Chapter 67 Formation of the Cabinet
The construction of the bluestone palace, the official residence area and the new administrative office area is the only major project in the second half of the 135th year of the new calendar. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoWhen the construction of the affiliated village is complete and the labor force is extremely abundant, Yu Changnian can complete all these projects within half a year.
The second half of the 135th year of the new calendar is full of happy events. From mid-October to mid-November, Mayr's remaining wives and concubines gave birth one after another. October 13 is Yulis, October 22 is Xiaoye, October 25 is Alice, November 2 is Xiaoxiao, and November 17 is Yishan.
Ulis wanted sons very much, but instead she gave birth to twin daughters. The half-breed pair were born with two rabbit ears on their heads, although their rabbit ears were shorter than those on the top of the Tugu babies' heads. They also have ears on both sides of their heads, and the witch who conducts a physical examination for the little princesses says that the ears on both sides of the little princesses' heads are the real ears, and the ears on the top of their heads only have the shape of an ear and have no actual function.
Uris was in a bad mood because she gave birth to her daughters, and she refused to even name her daughters. Later, it was Alice who named the little princesses for her, the sister was named "Dela" and the younger sister was named "Raella".
Although Ulis was in a bad mood because she gave birth to her daughter, she was the child's mother after all, and quickly accepted the reality and began to breastfeed the child. Within a few days, Ulis forgot about wanting a son and concentrated on taking care of the two little princesses.
Xiao Ye also gave birth to a daughter. The name of this little princess was also taken by Alice, and it was called "Al". When Xiao Ye gave birth, Xiaoxiao suddenly realized that Xiao Ye was also an Iraa witch, and she was still a person with the talent of a Leyting magician, and the possibility of pregnancy should have been the lowest among wives and concubines. As a result, Maier still won the lottery with one shot, and he didn't care what the other party's identity was, which made Xiaoxiao a little scared. If Mel is also accurate in the future, how many children will the Byron family have?
Alice gave birth to a daughter, and Alice named her "Willy". Although Maier doesn't care about having a boy or a girl, and he likes it as long as it's a child, the members of the decision-making committee are very worried about it. Mel's strong sowing ability is undoubted, but in case he can only have daughters, the heirs to the kingdoms of Byron and Tairong are very problematic.
However, the fears of the commissioners were quickly dispelled, because on November 2, Xiaoxiao gave birth to a son to Meier. Since the previous few people were daughters, Xiaoxiao was ready to give birth to a daughter, and even thought of a name, but she gave birth to a son. When the maiden told her the good news, Xiaoxiao thought she was joking with herself. Zhu Xiaoxiao didn't believe her words, so she could only point out the obvious gender characteristics on the child's body to her, and Xiaoxiao believed her words.
The name of Myer's eldest son was still taken by Alice as "Hart". Hart's birth gave Yishan confidence that she should be able to have a son, but when it came to the day of childbirth, she also gave birth to a daughter.
As the saying goes, the greater the expectation, the greater the disappointment. Yishan and Ulis behaved almost identically after giving birth to their daughter, and were in an extremely bad mood, even not wanting to name the child. In desperation, Alice could only take over the responsibility of choosing a name and named the little princess "Wayne".
In this way, all of Mel's "first" children were born, and all of them were named Alice.
In addition to the birth of the prince and princess, the residents of Bairensburg received two other good news in early October. The first is that the castle of Byron was officially renamed the city of Byrons, and the second is that the city of Byrons was officially designated as the capital of the Kingdom of Byrons.
The most populous city in the Kingdom of Byron is Hope City, and the most developed city is Shangjin County, but neither of them can compete with Byrons City, which was established by Maier himself. The city has only been born for more than two years, and it is still located deep in the mountains, which is not suitable to be the capital, but because the bluestone palace and armory have been built, and the leadership of the Byron Kingdom has become accustomed to working here, everyone finally settled here.
Of course, the leadership did not make the capital of Byrons City for their own convenience. The situation of the Kingdom of Byron is very special, on September 22, Liang Yuecheng took the initiative to ask to break away from the Kingdom of Tairong and join the Kingdom of Byrons, and was approved by Mel. In this way, the ethnic situation in the kingdom of Byron is even more complicated.
The Tairongs became the third largest race in the kingdom of Byrons, and the Ilibians were relegated to fourth. This situation created an inexplicable sense of crisis among the Ilibians in the Kingdom of Byrons, and many of them set off to return to their own countries in order to persuade more of their fellow people to settle in the Kingdom of Byrons.
The actions of the Ilibi made Mair realize that there was still a sense of competition between the various races in the kingdom, and that if he decided to go to the county seat or the city of Hope, it would cause discontent among the other races. The Ira and Leting have the largest proportion of the country's population, and any dissatisfaction with either side would be a headache for Maier.
At present, the only multi-racial city in the country is Byron City, where there are Leitin, Ira people, Taiyong people, Ilibi people, Dugu people, and even an unknown number of Tairong goblins. The city of Byron is where Mel made his birth, and the races are at their most harmonious, so it will not cause any racial resentment here.
Some people may ask, why did Liang Yuecheng take the initiative to ask to join the Kingdom of Byrons?
The reason is simple. As early as August 30, Mel issued an announcement that the Kingdom of Byron would withdraw from the war and remain neutral. Since the Kingdom of Byron is a legitimate force and Mel has a strong reason for a truce, this announcement is not a unilateral declaration of a ceasefire, and the nobles of Tairong must also cease fire with the Kingdom of Byrons. If the Tayjon nobles insist on attacking the Byronic Kingdom, then they are invading other countries for no reason, which will seriously damage the international credibility of the Tayjon forces.
Now that the Tayyong nobles are engaged in an all-out racial war with the Ilibi Alliance, they will lose their international credibility at this time, and it is easy for other races to take advantage of the opportunity to besiege them. Once the Taeyong nobles fall into a disadvantage, the forces of other races will definitely not let go of this opportunity to maintain international order, beat the water dogs and grab territory - of course, maintaining international order and beating the water dogs are secondary, and grabbing territory is their real goal.
Liang Yuecheng wanted to get out of the quagmire of war, so he and the Yan family expressed to Mel that they wanted to break away from the Tairong Kingdom and join the Byronic Kingdom. At first, Maier disagreed, but the decision-making committee said that it would be better to let Liang Yuecheng join the Kingdom of Byrons. They believed that the border between Byronsburg (which had not yet been renamed Byrons City) and Hope City was just one of the borders, and that the development of Byronsburg and Hope City was fledgling and very weak in terms of defense.
However, Liangyue City has been in operation for a long time, has perfect city defense facilities, and has a moderate distance from Byronsburg and Hope City, which is very suitable to become a barrier between Byronsburg and Hope City. Although even if Liangyue City does not join the Kingdom of Byrons, it is still the territory of Myr, but it belongs to the unstable Tairong Kingdom after all. Even if Mel can win this war, it still belongs to the Kingdom of Tairong in terms of defense system, and does not belong to the Kingdom of Byrons.
From a long-term perspective, the decision-making committee believes that it is in the best interests of the Kingdom of Byron to include Liang Yuecheng in the territory of the Kingdom of Byrons. Considering that the Byron Kingdom was his "own son", Maier accepted the proposal of the decision-making committee and let Liang Yuecheng join the Byronic Kingdom.
In mid-October, Mayer formed a formal cabinet.
Because of the establishment of the state, Mair could no longer divide the settlements as before. After the founding of the country, the city of Byrons will become the administrative center of the Byrons Kingdom and govern the affairs of the whole country.
The cabinet is divided into four major departments: administration, finance, scientific research, and national defense, and the minister of administration is still Yu Changnian, the minister of finance is still Pershing, the minister of scientific research is Liu Xiu, and the minister of defense is Salin. By the way, the names "Ministry of Defense" and "Ministry of Scientific Research" were provided by Liu Xiu, and since then, the Kingdom of Byron no longer has the position of "Chief of Military Affairs", and the Minister of Defense commands the army.
On top of these four ministries, the Prime Minister is established. Under the Prime Minister is the General Directorate of National Development Planning and the General Directorate of Foreign Affairs, the Prime Minister is Nami Jushi, who is also the Director General of the National Development Planning Bureau, and the Director of the General Foreign Affairs Bureau is Bolton. The New Shrine, the Theological Society, and the newly formed Ilibi Civic Association were independent of the Cabinet and were directly accountable to Meier. The official appraisal committee was renamed the Supervisory Committee, and the chairman of the Supervisory Committee was still Changrong, which was also a direct department of Maier.
The "General Directorate" is set up under the ministry. It is worth mentioning that the former Ministry of Public Security was split into the General Directorate of Police and the General Directorate of Defense, which were under the Ministry of Administration and the Ministry of National Defense, respectively. The personnel under the jurisdiction of the General Directorate of Police are no longer counted as "army" and are uniformly referred to as "police officers" or "police officers", and their equipment has also been changed, reducing the allocation of lethal equipment. The General Directorate of National Defense is responsible for the country's defense planning and urban defense construction, and its personnel are not part of the regular army, and are called "garrison forces" or "militias".
Yu Mingli, the former Minister of Public Security of Byrensburg, was reappointed as the head of the General Police Department. Barton, the former Minister of Peace of Hope City, was reappointed as the chief of the Byron City Police Department. The former deputy director of the Hope City Public Security Department, Hai Yin, was reappointed as the director of the Hope City Police Bureau.
The bureau is a city-level administrative unit and is directly responsible to the "mayor", and the director can be appointed and dismissed by the mayor or directly appointed or dismissed by the general administration, and the mayor must obey the arrangements of the general administration. The administration, finance, and security departments of Byrons City and Hope City were all dissolved, and Yan Zhiliang became the mayor of Byrons City, and Lalzi served as the mayor of Hope City. The mayor may be appointed or dismissed by the administration or by the king, and the administration department shall obey the king's arrangement.
It is worth mentioning that Wei Xu's confidant Dai Yong has given up his allegiance to Wei Xu and switched to the Kingdom of Byrons. Maier appointed him mayor of the county seat, and the mayor of Rimi City was replaced.
It is worth mentioning that Twenty-Nine Village is also recognized as a city-level settlement, and its mayor is named Zhou Gu, who is the young man selected by Wei Xu from among many beautiful men and asked him to use the beautiful man trick on Man Yun. After this person's successful retirement, his experience is quite legendary. He originally wanted to settle in Twenty-Nine Village with his wife Ruying, because the land in Twenty-Nine Village was very cheap at that time, and he wanted to buy a field and become a farmer again. However, Ruying wanted him to use the money Wei Xu gave him to do business, so Zhou Gu followed his wife's advice and changed his career to become a businessman.
As soon as Zhou Gu entered the industry, he picked up a big bargain. At that time, Byrensburg was in a big construction campaign, and you could make money by pulling in some novelties or necessities and selling them there. Zhou Gu originally bought coarse cloth from the twenty-ninth village and went to Liang Yuecheng to sell, but found that the merchants in Liangyue City were frantically receiving the goods. He instinctively sensed that something was wrong, so he didn't sell the goods, but waited and watched the market.
After watching for a few days, Zhou Gu found that many merchants received the goods and went directly to the east gate, so they followed with Ruying and the goods. Zhou Gu thought that these merchants were going to Limi City to sell their goods, but found that they quickly changed their route and walked towards a large mountain. Zhou Gu patiently followed them and came to the West Gate Trading Post.
The price of goods at the Ximen Trading Station was very high, and Zhou Gu felt that he was a newcomer, and he was not familiar with the place, so he didn't dare to ask for too high a price. But even so, he still made a profit of 200 percent on this trip.
Due to the relatively low asking price of Zhou Gu and the fact that he was still handsome, he was remembered by the official traders of Byronsburg. The next time he came, the trader gave priority to buying goods from him, and Zhou Gu still didn't ask for too high a price. After coming and going, he became acquainted with the trader, and every time he came to the Ximen trading station, he would go directly to the trader and get rid of the goods directly.
Later, the volume of goods at the Ximen trading post increased, and the price gradually declined, but Zhougu's goods had a stable market. Every time he came, the trader would tell him what Byronsburg lacked and tell him to bring it back next time. After the availability of specialty commodities in Bairensburg, traders will also give priority to selling specialty commodities at a fair price. Over time, the merchants discovered the relationship between Zhou Gu and the Ximen Trading Post.
As the saying goes, people have relationships and are easy to do, and businessmen came to Zhou Gutau to get information about the goods of Bairensburg from him. Zhou Gu was very realistic, and the trader told him in every possible way not to talk about these things, so he didn't leak the information. Later, Ruying found the Ira shrine maiden who was trying to preach to the merchants at the Ximen Trading Post, so she went up to inquire. After learning that these shrine maidens originally belonged to Rimi Shrine, they are now a new shrine belonging to Byronsburg.
Although Ruying betrayed Rimi Shrine, she still has feelings for the shrine. She said that she was the chief shrine maiden of the shrine, and also said the names of several long shrine maidens. Most of these long shrine maidens are dead, but there are still two who are alive and known to the shrine maidens who preach at the Simon Trading Post.
Ruying said that although she wanted to go back to the shrine, she was now married and could no longer be a shrine maiden, and she wanted to ask the new shrine to hold a resignation ceremony for her. However, the shrine maidens said that the new shrine allowed shrine maidens to get married, and if Ruying wanted to come back, they would immediately report to Lingyu.
In this way, Ruying joined the new shrine. She stayed in Byronsburg to study for two months, and then as a missionary at the Simon Trading Post as an ordinary shrine maiden, where she settled. After that, the relationship between Zhou Gu and Byronsburg became even closer.
After Maier took over the 29th Village, because of the shortage of officials, he wanted to promote some suitable people to be officials. Zhou Gu was recommended to Meier, and Zhou Gu became an official in the 29th Village, and a few months later he was promoted to the mayor of the 29th Village. But now is not the peak of Zhou Gu's life, he will have greater achievements in the future, but that's a story for later.