Chapter 488 New Government Building and Royal Palace

How difficult is it to build a capital from scratch? Arthur did not have a definite answer before, but after seeing the construction process of Fort Saint-Asser with his own eyes, he had a preliminary and clear answer.

Not to mention the capital of a country, even if it is just an ordinary city, building from scratch must go through strict site selection, planning, and design before construction can begin.

Even if construction begins, the city's drainage and other infrastructure must be designed first, and then the city's high-rise buildings can be built.

The construction period of Fort Saint-Asser takes at least five years, and the relocation of the capital may even have to wait until seven or eight years or even ten years later.

After all, Fort Saint-Asser must at least have complete administrative facilities to be the capital of a country.

At present, various construction projects have just started for more than a month, and most of the construction projects do not even have a prototype.

Arthur first visited the construction of the new State Council.

To be precise, this is a large building that integrates the State Council, the House of Representatives and the National Court.

If you look at the design drawings alone, this building is a bit similar to the Chinese character six, but the square in the middle is more like a square.

The three directly affiliated institutions, the State Council, the House of Representatives and the National Court, are deployed at three points of the six.

The square building in the middle is where the large conference room, reception room, open area, etc. are located.

This six-shaped building composed of four buildings, plus its attached building area and garden area, together constitutes the new national government.

Compared with the State Council in the suburbs of Sydney, the area of ​​this new national government building is several times that of the previous State Council, and it is more magnificent and gorgeous.

Of course, this is just the effect of the design drawing. The actual effect can only be seen after the completion of this complete building, but it is definitely a huge building and one of the symbols of the country in the future.

The government's budget for this national government building is as high as 12 million Australian dollars, which is considered to be quite important.

However, the national government will move with Arthur, which also means that if Fort St. Arthur wants to become the capital of Australasia, it needs to wait until the construction of the new palace is completed.

In addition to this large-scale national government building, Arthur's second visit is the location of his own palace.

Like the layout in Sydney, the site of the palace is not far from that of the national government building, but the national building is closer to the urban planning, while the palace is close to the nearby hills.

The new palace is larger than the Sydney Palace, and the budget is about four times higher than the previous Sydney Palace's 5 million pounds.

The new palace is expected to cover an area of ​​1.18 million square meters, more than twice that of the Sydney Palace.

Among them, the planned building area is about 250,000 square meters, the road area is 50,000 square meters, the hill covers an area of ​​200,000 square meters, the artificial lake and stream cover an area of ​​150,000 square meters, and there is a huge royal garden, covering an area of ​​an astonishing 250,000 square meters.

In addition, there is a huge Royal Square of 280,000 square meters, which can accommodate up to 600,000 people.

From the area of ​​this square alone, we can see the biggest change in the new palace.

The Sydney Palace Square can only accommodate more than 100,000 people at most, which greatly limits the number of people participating in National Day activities and other important festivals.

You know, the total population of Sydney has already exceeded 2 million, and it is already heading towards 3 million.

This also means that on every important festival, Sydney's population of more than 2 million has to compete for more than 100,000 places, and it also faces competition from people in other cities.

Apart from anything else, this has caused serious congestion on the roads near the Sydney Palace. Some people from outside Sydney couldn't get a place after coming to Sydney, so they had to gather on the nearby roads, causing serious congestion in the nearby traffic.

Although it is a good thing for more people to participate in important national events, if it causes serious traffic congestion and even causes casualties, it would be a bit of a loss.

The new square can accommodate 600,000 people, which is completely enough for the current Australasia.

After all, if the square is larger, it is difficult to ensure that all people can participate in the event more comfortably.

Imagine that the front row and the last row are separated by several kilometers. Is this to participate in the event or to exercise your eyesight?

The building area has been expanded by more than two times, so that the new palace can have more than 800 rooms, more than 30 meeting rooms of different sizes, more than 30 private restaurants and 15 medium-sized and large public restaurants for royal family members.

There are also up to 70 offices, 5 reception rooms, 40 watchtowers and hundreds of resting points for guards. There are so many rooms that people can even get lost.

The private rooms of royal family members cover an area of ​​more than 1,000 square meters, and there are even super-large suites of nearly 3,000 square meters to choose from.

Each room not only has an independent private reception room, office, wine cabinet and bathroom, but also a cloakroom of more than 200 square meters, which can be used to place the clothes that the royal family has more.

Like the previous Sydney Palace, the new palace has a large royal hospital, a large church with complete facilities, a mausoleum area prepared for royal family members, and several super-large private viewing spots for royal family members to watch the movies they want to watch.

The back mountain is specially used for exercise. Not only can you practice horse riding, but there is also a special shooting range to practice shooting.

Unlike the previous Sydney Palace, the new palace not only has a super large artificial lake, but also relies on the Murray River to artificially build a river running through the entire palace, providing it with various water areas for the future Palace of Nations area.

Because it is connected to the Murray River, there will be running water here, the water quality is relatively clean, and there is no need to worry about odor.

Of course, the safety of the water source connected to the outside world is a problem, so the new palace will also have more guards.

The number of guards in the new palace will just rise to 3,000, and three shifts will be used to protect the safety of the palace.

At the same time, the First Guard Division and the Second Guard Division will be stationed near the new palace, which is also the greatest guarantee for the safety of the palace and Arthur.

In addition to the 3,000 guards and two guard divisions, Arthur also has a thousand-man royal guards to protect all royal family members.

A considerable number of these people are orphans Arthur rescued before, and some are selected from the Australasian army, and their loyalty is absolutely reliable.

With these three defense forces, the defense of the new palace in the future will be absolutely reliable, and there is no need to worry about any external threats.

In the future, the National Heroes Monument on the Sydney Palace Square will also be made in proportion to the square of the new palace.

The new monument will be larger, and there will be more names of heroes that can be written.

Even according to the estimate of the chief designer of the palace, after the palace is completely built in the future, the National Heroes Monument can be seen on the hill of the palace, and it will be more obvious on the square.

Queen Mary has also seen the design drawings of the new palace, and even the area of ​​the royal garden in the new palace was increased after Queen Mary's strong request.

How exaggerated is the 250,000 square meters of royal garden? It is equivalent to 0.25 square meters, 25 hectares, and a full 375 acres of land.

Standing on a high place and looking around, the future royal garden is like a sea of ​​flowers, beautiful and magnificent, and it is definitely the most attractive place for girls.

It is precisely because of the water source from the Murray River that the royal garden will have a complete irrigation system, which can be irrigated for the entire sea of ​​flowers with only human control.

Of course, the care of the sea of ​​flowers still needs to be controlled by people.

For this reason, the new palace will also prepare at least 500 maids and thousands of servants to take care of the entire palace, clean the rooms and do some other things.

Although it seems that such a large number of servants is a bit exaggerated and luxurious, it also has a sense of decadent feudal system.

If you really understand the treatment of these servants, you can see that they are not at a disadvantage compared to ordinary citizens, and their lives are even much better.

First of all, the annual salary of servants in Australasia is at least 60 Australian dollars. If various welfare policies are included, it has even exceeded 70 Australian dollars.

This salary level is equivalent to the soldier class, far exceeding the current per capita income in Australasia.

Secondly, although servants are the profession of serving people, they can also follow Arthur to enjoy all kinds of delicious food. Food, clothing, housing and transportation are basically in the palace, and the palace guarantees the lives of these people.

Although Arthur also needs these servants to serve, Arthur's attitude towards servants is friendly.

After all, these servants who can often get close to the royal family members can easily do something that is not conducive to the royal family members.

Moreover, it is not so easy to become a servant and maid in the palace.

The recruitment rules for servants in the palace are even stricter than those for soldiers. First of all, they must have lived in Australasia for 20 years. This is a hard rule.

Secondly, there is no illegal behavior within the three generations of relatives, and no one has died because of government punishment.

In addition, the Security Intelligence Agency will also conduct a very strict review of these servant applicants. In addition to reviewing the background and previous words and deeds, they will also check whether they have diseases, whether they are dignified, whether they are efficient, whether they love the country, are positive and cheerful, etc.

Servants and maids who pass all the conditions will be handed over to Kent Butler for two months of training before they will be assigned to various positions in the palace.

Previously, the number of servants in Sydney was about 500, and the number of maids was only about 200.

This made these two jobs very popular in Australasia. Every time there was a recruitment information, they would basically be snapped up by a large number of people.

But it is obvious that the recruitment requirements for both jobs are very strict and the working years are very long.

Generally speaking, the longer people have been in the palace, the more loyal they will be and the more reliable they will be to use.

Except for exceptions such as the construction of a new palace, the palace rarely conducts large-scale public recruitment.

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