1952, June.

The weather is getting hotter, Hanjing is located in the south of the Yangtze River, and the heat wave is gradually rising.

Han Jingshan, the emperor's official residence, Zhou Guolai was walking with Zhang Shusheng.

"Your Majesty, I agree with the construction of the palace."

Zhou Guolai was in a good mood, and the emperor's accession to the throne was accompanied by the promulgation of a series of major policies, as well as the advancement of the aristocratic system, especially the treatment of the royal family, which was even more imminent.

"When it comes to building a palace, some people may first think that it is a waste of money. In fact, with the territory and national strength of our current empire, even the construction of a Forbidden City will not cost much.

If the dignified imperial family doesn't even have a palace, I'm afraid it will make people look down on three points. ”

Zhou Guolai said earnestly that according to the design of the Imperial Preparatory Committee of the Government Council, if a new palace of the Forbidden City or even twice the size of the Forbidden City was built, the cost would not be large, and in today's highly mechanized world, the original massive project would be much smaller.

For example, in the past, the construction of the Forbidden City took a long time just because of the foundation, but now? Not to mention the Shusheng Company, even a few large state-owned enterprises can pull out a large number of modern machinery, and the Shusheng Company has even installed a kind of engineering spaceship.

This engineering spacecraft was used in the construction of the Earth Energy Processing Center around Jeju Island, and it only took a week to level the area of the two Forbidden Cities.

The slightly more troublesome things are the carved beams and paintings, antique decorations, and garden design, but whether it is the previous national system or the current 'ball lifting system', these things do not cost the people and money, and those florists and artists will be very willing to participate.

At that time, a piece of Taihu Lake stone can exhaust a car and a boat of people, and now, a spaceship of Taihu Lake stone can be loaded within an hour, after all, it is transported to the place, and the rest is only the manual decoration and process shaping part.

Zhang Shusheng felt the warm sunlight shining through the gaps in the leaves, and said with a chuckle, "The country is coming, I have no objection to the construction of the palace in principle, and it should indeed be repaired."

As for the funding, it will be up to the royal family themselves. ”

"How can this be, Your Majesty, the palace is the dignity of a country, how can you let the royal family pay for it yourself, there is no such statement, on this point, the minister does not dare to agree."

Zhou Guolai shook his head vigorously, although he knew that Zhang Shusheng's Shusheng Company was rich and rivaled the country, but he also knew that the current Shusheng Company was still in its infancy, and it would join the interstellar commercial sea in the future, although the empire was actually Zhang Shusheng's, but it could not set this precedent.

This is like in ancient times, the country had a treasury, the emperor had internal funds, and the rules could not be messed up.

"Well, then do as you say, but in the design to consider the long-term, such as palace traffic, etc., don't make it from the east to the west to walk for an hour out, you can consider setting up more high-speed horizontal walking elevators, or horizontal suspension elevators.

It is better to build the palace into three parts, one part is open to the outside world for the people to visit; One part was the office area, where the military and political heads of the empire were all working together. Part of it is the royal inner palace, which is used for the royal family's daily life.

This is staggered and orderly, which is not only ancient, but also conforms to the high rhythm of modern civilization.

In addition, there is another point, the palace must be repaired at one time, and it will never be expanded in the future, and the annual repair cost must also be set at a low amount, and it must not rise to the top, and be expanded from generation to generation, making it more and more luxurious. ”

Zhang Shusheng has no resistance to the construction of the imperial palace, looking at the universe, any empire has its own luxurious palace.

When the country is poor, building a large number of buildings is a waste of money for the people. But once the country is rich and strong, building buildings such as imperial palaces is to inspire the people.

The people need faith, they need an emperor who is high above, not just a person in power like a workwear and an otaku after work.

In these things, Zhang Shusheng still followed the trend, in his imagination, these things are just moderate, don't act like some empires, the palace covers an area of tens of thousands of square kilometers, not to mention entering the palace to visit, even the palace is a forbidden area within a radius of 100 miles.

That kind of empire has been detached from the hearts of the people.

"Yes, Your Majesty. You set the rules yourself, and even after countless years, future generations will definitely not dare to disobey them. ”

Zhou Guolai said with a smile, the emperor still thinks about the problem so thoroughly, at least, he can take the initiative to mention things that are inconvenient for others to mention.

The two walked for a while, and after discussing some government affairs, Zhang Shusheng turned the topic to the royal family again.

"Guolai, I am going to start this year, take out 10% of the annual profits of Shusheng Company and set up a royal fund. This royal fund is mainly used for rewards, charity, relief, and social welfare.

The two imperial concubines are no longer suitable to serve as any political axes in the political axe department, so they are responsible for the operation of the royal family foundation. ”

Zhang Shusheng stopped and said seriously.

"Yes, Your Majesty."

Zhou Guolai was slightly stunned, he didn't expect Zhang Shusheng to be so decisive, and he was going to transfer the two imperial concubines from the political axe department as soon as he ascended the throne, but in his opinion, it was a good decision for the two imperial concubines to manage the royal foundation.

Zhang Shusheng: "Hehe, the country comes, and the success or failure of the imperial system lies in whether the system is perfect. In the future, you have to worry more about state affairs, the position of prime minister is very important, my mind will be more focused on more far-reaching strategic issues and major projects, as well as the next major issues of Shusheng Company going to the galaxy, domestic affairs, it depends on you, prime minister. ”

"Yes, the minister must be exhausted, loyal to the monarch and patriotic."

If someone else said this, Zhang Shusheng might think it was a bit fake, but for Zhou Guo, he believed it very much. Originally, in history, the prime minister also had great talents, but he was too restricted and difficult to show his ambitions, and now he is in the position of prime minister, and he has delegated power to let him do it, and he will definitely manage the entire empire in an orderly manner.

After that, the government affairs of the empire basically depended on him.

Military matters are handled by the emperor himself, and the reorganized Imperial Affairs Yuan is in charge, compared with Zhou Guolai's position as the left minister, the right minister is served by Jiang Baili.

After the implementation of the imperial system, although the overall situation did not change significantly, the changes in the high-level institutions of the empire were still relatively large.

At the highest level, there are the Government Affairs Yuan and the Military Affairs Yuan, which are respectively responsible for Zhou Guolai, the left minister, and Jiang Baili, the right minister.

Zhang Shusheng originally considered Cai Ye as the right minister, but in the end he himself decided to give up and suggested that Jiang Baili, who had a more strategic vision, take the position.

In the end, Cai Ye served as the vice minister of the Imperial Academy and the executive vice president of the Imperial Academy, and was fully responsible for the package of education of the reserve talents of the Imperial Academy.

This is not an easy job, but it is very important.

In Zhang Shusheng's plan, the army is the next largest employment unit, and it is also the most urgent work, conservatively estimated that hundreds of millions of soldiers are needed, that is, there will be 1 soldier for every 30 people on the earth.

At present, the total size of the emperor [***] team is less than 20 million, and the gap is very large.

In Zhang Shusheng's plan, in addition to the regular garrison of the earth and the ground troops responsible for planetary defense, such as the planet fortress artillery group, the moon will be transformed in the direction of military fortress satellites in the future, and the planets of the solar system will be developed and garrisoned.

The Trident galaxy at the exit of the Lost Star Field, Avatar Star, and Changqing Star all have to be garrisoned, and the gap is too big.

That's not all, the Space Force is also a big eater.

A battleship may have combat effectiveness with thousands of people and tens of thousands of robots, but in order to make a battleship have 100% combat effectiveness, in addition to robots, at least tens of thousands of battleship soldiers are needed.

In the future, all the warships, and even all the spaceships, will need a very terrifying number of qualified soldiers, and the shortage of these soldiers will be even more terrifying, all of them are high-tech talents, and they will not be able to board the ship at all if they are not qualified.

This is just a gap in peacetime, once the war comes, Zhang Shusheng can't believe it.

Therefore, the Space Force and the Interstellar Ground Forces, which are about to be expanded on a large scale, are too short of people. Cai Ye is in charge of this work, not depreciatingly, but attaching great importance to it.

Cai himself is also very satisfied.

……

"I have good news and bad news, which one do you listen to first."

At lunch, Zhang Shusheng's family sat together, although they ascended the throne and became the emperor, but the usual customs did not change greatly, and those feudal customs were not brought into the Zhang family.

"Good news!"

Three women and a girl all said in unison.

"You guys, you just can't hear bad news, so let's talk about the good news first." Zhang Shusheng laughed, and then said, "In the morning, I talked to Zuo Xiang about building the palace, and there is still half a year to go before we move into a new home." ”

"Wow!!"

Several people couldn't help but cheer, no one didn't like the palace, especially when she could live in the palace, and this palace didn't have so many feudal rules, so it was completely left to enjoy.

"Be careful, if we live in the palace, do we have to live separately, how lonely it is."

He Ning said worriedly.

Zhang Shusheng said with a smile: "You don't have to worry about this, our family still lives in a big house in the inner palace." The entire palace is divided into three parts, one part is open to the public, one part is the office space of the government affairs yuan and the military affairs yuan, and the other part is where we and the imperial relatives live, collectively referred to as the inner palace, mainly including residences, practice centers, science and technology centers, inner palace airports, etc.

There are not many people now, but it will be lively in the future. ”

He never thought of living alone in the palace, where the royal relatives lived together, which was not only convenient for management, but also guaranteed to retain the royal affection in a small circle.

Of course, in the face of the extremely strict regulations he formulated, it is impossible for such a thing as Gong Dou, Gong Dou is only a rule, who will fight without interests?

In short, in his consideration, this palace, this emperor, and this empire have traditional Chinese characteristics, but they will never become a joke in the eyes of future generations and a feast venue for film and television dramas.

"And what about the bad news?"

Tantai asked curiously.

Zhang Shusheng smiled helplessly and said, "The good news is said first, and the bad news will not be lethal." Because, the bad news is that we're about to move......"

(To be continued)