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Emperor Yang held the dragon chair and made a majestic gesture.

"The king of Brunei is loyal to the country, and I am very comforted, and I give him the Marquis of Pingyuan to encourage him."

The attendant in front of him read the decree in his hand.

The prince of Brunei, who was studying at Ying Heavenly Academy, immediately lay down on the marble floor excitedly and shouted long live.

This is the return of his father's donation of five million dragon yuan for the construction of Xijing, although his father was originally the king of the county, adding an extra marquis does not seem to be a big deal, but the nature of this marquis is completely different, his father's county king is a foreign lord, even if it is a county king, it is also a foreign domain, and he cannot enter the imperial noble house. According to the rules just set by Emperor Yang, in the future, the prime minister will no longer be troubled by himself, which is too wasteful of his time for practice, of course, it can also be said to be enjoyable, but the three candidates will be selected by the House of Nobles, and then determined by him through interviews. So when he entered the House of Nobles, he had the power to elect the prime minister, but this Marquis of Pingyuan was a knight, and with this title, the King of Brunei was no longer an indigenous chieftain, but truly integrated into the top of the empire.

After thanksgiving, the prince of Brunei excitedly withdrew from the Mukden Temple.

Then another person came in.

Just after he bowed, the attendant took out a holy decree and read: "There is a Yangzhou righteous citizen Cheng Ting, loyal for many generations, helping the needy, good and famous in the township, righteous voice in the sea, specially given to the lord Gai Pingnan to praise his line." ”

Then the next generation of the head of the Cheng family in Yangzhou excitedly lay on the ground and thanked the emperor.

This is a return of three million dragon dollars.

Although this is suspected of betraying the title, Emperor Yang doesn't care about this, in fact, he is now trying to seal a few more titles.

According to the Ming knighthood system, military merit first, literary merit second, special contribution third, military merit is definitely needless to say, all dynasties and dynasties are military merit for the first class, literary merit is the credit of the officials of the administrative system to govern the country, but the credit of science and education is also counted in the merit. Needless to say, education includes two aspects: education and education, education is the dissemination of Chinese culture, of course, it also includes the dissemination of holy religion, and education refers to the number of students who have contributed to the country, and the teacher may also be knighted. As for the third special contribution, it was very extensive, or it could be said that Emperor Yang was happy to see it, and Cheng Ting's donation of three million dragon yuan must have made him happy.

In the future, Emperor Yang wants to use the House of Lords as the House of Lords, so he naturally doesn't care about a few more titles.

Even he is ready to seal more than 100,000 of them.

Anyway, a baron is nothing more than a reward of a few hundred acres of land, he only has tens of millions of acres of land for 100,000 barons, and he doesn't say that he has to seal arable land, for example, Cheng Ting, a Gaiping man, is actually a barren mountain near the sea on the Liaodong Peninsula, and the only use he has after getting it is to build a seaside villa there, anyway, what he wants is a title, as for the fiefdom......

His family's annual income can buy half a country if he goes to those poor subject countries!

Who cares about those hundreds of acres of land!

Give him that barren mountain, and he has to build it beautifully, otherwise people will laugh at him.

And the king of Brunei added the Marquis of Pingyuan is in the mountains of Guangdong, which is also a small mountainous area, in other words, with the identity of the king of Brunei plus the degree of money, how can he not build a railway to Meizhou for the local first, otherwise with his status as the prince of the county, can he inspect his fiefdom with the nine crowns on the mountain road bumpy for nearly 100 miles? Wouldn't that make the newspaper interviewers laugh to death!

This is to take what they need, they want political status, Emperor Yang wants Long Yuan, and they want to invest in the construction of poor places, which is a very reasonable exchange.

And he conferred a large number of knighthoods, including all social strata, and even those who showed outstanding deeds in righteousness and courage, he was ready to knight, and these knights elected members formed the House of Lords to act as the House of Lords, and the Inspectorate elected by the common people served as the House of Commons, and the Prime Minister was selected by the House of Lords and then interviewed by him to determine, but the House of Commons has the right of impeachment and the right to interrogate, in short, there are various restrictive forces, so it is barely a bit of a constitutional monarchy. After all, whether it is the prime minister or the local governor, it is ultimately determined by the emperor, and the military power and secret services are also in the hands of the emperor, but the interests of the powerful and the common people are also taken care of.

Anyway, with his godhead, why haven't the descendants passed on ten or eight generations.

As for the thousands of generations, he really didn't think that the empire would always perish, without exception, he now has more blood on his hands, annexed a few more countries, and slaughtered a few more alien races, and in the end, even if his empire is gone, it will still be the world of the Han people, so why should he go at that time! The British Empire is abolished, and the world's bosses still speak English and believe in God? In the future, even if the Ming Empire is abolished, the world boss will still say that believing in Chinese and holy religion is his greatest pursuit!

"Your Majesty, this is the blueprint of Dragon City."

Shao Tingcai spread out a drawing in front of Emperor Yang and said.

Prime Minister Shao was also in a very happy mood at this time, although Emperor Yang gave him a big problem this time, but this big problem brought him a large amount of financial income at once, as the prime minister was in a happy mood at this time, it was normal, this time the donations of the monarchs and the rich of the subject countries alone exceeded 50 million, and they were still donating, and they had begun to form a movement.

How could he be short of money.

War reparations plus plunder, these two items alone are already very terrifying, the Mughals have lost hundreds of millions at once, and the British and Dutch are still continuing to pay reparations, although Bangladesh joined the Ming Dynasty, but the reparations are inevitable, this is not counting the looting of the Ming army in India a while ago, the looting of the Delhi Palace alone is already a very considerable number, and the Ming Ministry of Finance is really not short of money.

However, the construction of this dragon city does require a huge amount of money.

It's a city like no other.

"The whole outer city of the dragon city is ring-shaped, but the city wall is designed as a fortress, so that looking down from the sky is like the sun that radiates light, symbolizing the brilliance of His Majesty's grace and all things, there are thirty-six ridges designed to conform to the number of Tiangang, the middle of the city is the imperial city, the imperial city is the imperial palace, all in accordance with the Yingtian Emperor's Palace, the two sides of the imperial city are opened up as commercial areas, the main road passes around the imperial city in the shape of a well, the roads are hardened with asphalt, the city wall is equipped with twelve gates, eight are land gates, four are water gates......"

Shao Tingcai gave Yang Feng a detailed introduction to the future design of Xijing Dragon City.

"Yes, let's build it according to this!"

Yang Feng said with satisfaction.

"But there's one more thing, you've got to build a dam for me here!"

Then he pointed to a point on the Ili River in the north of the city and added one, which was actually the location of the Kapchagai Reservoir dam in the original history.

"This is just the formation of the Imperial Garden, the ministers and others were originally designed in the south of the city, but the terrain there is high in the south and low in the north, even if this Imperial Garden is built, it will not be too big, it is enough to have this one here, if the height of the dam is enough, it is enough to form a lake that stretches for dozens of miles, and the trees planted on both sides can form a large forest, and then put some rare birds and beasts, it is also a grand scene."

Shao Tingcai said.

"Well, I just want to build a hydroelectric power station there."

Yang Feng said.

Obviously, he didn't think as much as his prime minister, he just wanted to build the hydropower station as well, at this time electricity has entered the experimental stage in Daming, but as in the original history, the development at this time is also direct current, in addition to being used for communication facilities, the only place that can be used at present is lighting. The first electric lights were installed in his palace, and they were tungsten bulbs, and the next step was to study electric motors to develop urban rail transit, so that his Xijing Dragon City would definitely have to use electricity as well, and a hydroelectric power plant was indispensable.

"It's the minister's negligence."

Shao Tingcai said hurriedly.

At this time, the electricity was only in the experimental stage, except for the imperial palace, that is, the wireless telegraph station in Yingtian had just begun to be installed, and only a few palaces in the imperial palace were connected to electric lights, and he did neglect this problem.

"In addition, when the railway to Dragon City is built, another branch line must be drawn here."

Immediately afterwards, Yang Feng pointed to the position of Semipalatinsk and said.

"Your Honor."

Prime Minister Shao didn't say much and agreed directly.

Saying what Emperor Yang wants to do, the prime minister naturally understands, and must be that His Majesty's expansion addiction has been committed again, in fact, the Ming political circles are not very interested in expanding to this kind of barren land, and at this time the Ming Dynasty has seized too many such places, far beyond the scope of need. Needless to say, the population of such a vast land is not as large as that of a county in the interior, and 99 percent of it is a wilderness that no one has set foot in, so it can be said that it is no problem to feed tens of millions of people. And Beihai Province is even worse, Jinzhou has at least gold and silver mines to attract immigrants, but Beihai Province is almost unattended, no matter what resources there are few people will immigrate over, the severe cold of minus 40 degrees in winter has blocked the footsteps of almost everyone, until now the population of the entire Beihai Province is less than 20,000.

And that's millions of square miles of vast land!

There were only a few military stations stationed there, and supplies were sent by boat in the spring, and in the winter the doors were closed, and all of them stayed in their houses and lived by the fireplace, and did not even go out for months, that is, in the good days of spring and summer, when some merchants and hunters ran to hunt wild beasts for some precious skins, and to gather some medicinal herbs, and so on, and the lower reaches of the Takigawa River were all such lands, at least in the eyes of the cabinet.

But since the emperor likes it, let him go.

Anyway, at this time, in addition to the war in the heavens, the battles in other places have completely ended, and now there is enough energy to serve the emperor's desire for expansion. (To be continued.) )