There are five main uses for the huge wealth earned by the Tang royal family, the first is naturally a variety of royal gardens, castles, manors, and palaces under construction, with an average annual cost of about 2500~2600 yuan.

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

Besides

Because His Majesty the King often inspects all parts of the country, there are palaces that need to be repaired in various places, and near the left side of 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 abandoned Fort Fortress of the Spaniards, no more than 1 km from the newly built coastal fort, and is known as the "Bay Palace".

Nestled in a towering mountainous terrain, the Palace overlooks the beautiful San Francisco Bay Area and the Pacific Ocean.

The second item is to be applied to educational support and research.

The Tang Kingdom has successively built a series of higher and lower intermediate schools led by the University of California, Los Angeles Institute of Technology, Chang'an Lecture Wutang, Taoyuan School of Administration, and Chang'an Normal University, gradually improving the education system, and the royal family is the main sponsor of education charity, with an annual expenditure of about 200~2.2 million, and has supported dozens of middle and high-level schools.

In addition, cutting-edge scientific and technological research funded by the royal family, such as the steel laboratory, the internal combustion engine laboratory, the agricultural machinery laboratory, the chemical research laboratory, etc., is gradually playing an increasingly important role in economic development.

The third item is industrial investment.

The annual scale of royal industrial investment is about 8 million to 10 million, and a series of large-scale mineral, heavy industry, banking, railway and shipping enterprises have been supported, especially in key industries such as steel manufacturing and shipbuilding, which have large capital investment, slow results and long return periods, and the royal industrial funds have played an important leading role.

Fourth, military strategic reserves.

In order to cope with the possible future war for hegemony in North America, the royal family has been building strategic reserve warehouses in mountainous areas and frontier cities since 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., with an annual scale of 300~3.5 million yuan, which not only stabilizes the production of hundreds of military products, but also enhances the ability to deal with risks.

With the reserve military service system of the Tang Kingdom, a strong ability to resist risks will be formed.

Critical moments

In a short period of time, an army of more than 150,000 men can be formed, and according to the development of the situation, a steady stream of troops will be sent to the first line of 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 the tight government spending, the funds that can be invested each year are limited, only more than 300,000 in few years, and no more than 600,000 in many years, so the scale of reserves is far from being comparable with the royal family.

This is also in line with the hard-line attitude of the royal family of the Tang Kingdom, King Richard is a monarch with exclusive power, the cadres are arbitrary, and the military and political power of the kingdom are all in one.

Therefore, it is important that the royal family has a rich treasury independent of the government and is not constrained in terms of money.

Fifth, investment in urban construction.

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

In a 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 sanitation fees from businesses to maintain the salary balance of employees.

After years of development

The urban construction company has become a lurking behemoth under the water, and in the rapid urban construction of the kingdom, the commercial buildings, rental apartments, shops along the street and property rights can collect a large amount of rent every year, generating stable income.

With the development of the kingdom, the urban construction company will inevitably snowball bigger and bigger, and become a highly influential pillar enterprise.

On the construction site of Daming Palace

King Richard inspected with great interest, and he had frequent conversations with a group of accompanying officials and the person in charge of the construction site to learn about the progress of the project and the construction situation, and the corresponding difficulties.

Due to the vastness of the construction project of Daming Palace, there are many palaces and pavilions, and they are built in phases in the building plan.

The first phase was completed in the East Palace Palace Complex, which was expected to be completed in a year and a half, that is, at the end of 1855, and the complex has more than 360 palaces and pavilions, which is a splendid and magnificent palace complex.

The second phase was completed in June 1857. The palace complex is further subdivided into sixteen halls, each of which is a separate residence.

The third phase was completed with the three main halls, the side halls, the side halls, and the cabinet office, and was expected to be completed by the end of 1857.

The fourth phase was built around the gates and city walls of Daming Palace, including the most important Danfeng Gate, and the amount of work was quite huge.

Danfeng Gate belongs to the highest level of the ancient city gate of the five-door road system, by the pier, the doorway, the partition wall, the horse road, the city wall and other parts, are reinforced concrete structure, set up the military camp and the war preparation and grain warehouse.

This gate is a very large building, and a three-story cornice-style palace is built on the city gate, and the royal guard and command structure are located here.

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

The construction period of the entire Daming Palace is about 8~9 years, and this is only the time when the main palace building was completed.

As for the aftermath

Build some pavilions, pavilions, curved bridges, stone boats and other things, that time is not counted, it may be decades, it may be hundreds of years, anyway, there is time toss.

Ancient and modern, Chinese and foreign, are rich and easy to do.

The royal family has abundant financial resources, and a large number of building resources continue to pour into the construction site, some of which use reinforced concrete structures, rock piles, and tens of thousands of craftsmen work day and night to build them, and the construction of the palace is progressing quite quickly.

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

The first half of the Daming Palace, the three main halls, the side halls and the side halls, as well as the East Palace complex, are all pure Tang style palace buildings, and more than 6,000 Chinese craftsmen mainly work on these construction sites.

In the sixteen halls of the West Palace, there are many Baroque, French neo-Romanticism and English Victorian palace complexes, which are unique.

This is because in Richard's harem, there are not a few golden cats of various ethnic groups in Europe and the United States, and the children of these concubines have no chance to inherit the throne, but it is no problem to enjoy the palace with unique national characteristics in the deep palace.

This also reflects Richard's thoughtfulness, in order to make his concubines more comfortable, not only built Spanish and Baroque palaces, but also has chapels, Catholic churches and Protestant churches, each according to their needs.

As soon as she returned to the Maple Leaf Palace, the queen sent someone to invite her.

When Richard came to the queen's palace, he saw that Queen Lin Zhen'er and Chunlan, Xia He, Qiu Ju, and Dongmei were all there.

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

Seeing King Richard arrive, Queen Lin Zhen'er and all the concubines and palace maids all saluted respectfully, but the little baby Li Chengrui, who was standing in the middle, looked back, looked at Richard in surprise with big black and bright eyes, and then threw up his little arms and shouted, "Yi Ya Yi Ya".

"The queen is exempt." Richard said with a smile, and then stepped forward and gently stretched his ape arm to 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 Richard's mouth, and a kind of joy connected by blood arose.

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