How hard is it to build a capital city from scratch? Arthur didn’t have a definite answer before. After witnessing the construction process of Saint Arthur Castle, he had a preliminary and clear answer.
Not to ntion the capital city of a country, even building a simple city from scratch requires careful site selection, planning, and design before construction can begin.
Even after construction begins, the city’s basic infrastructure such as drainage must first be designed before building the city’s skyscrapers.
The construction of Saint Arthur Castle will take at least five years, and the relocation of the capital may not happen until seven or eight or even ten years later.
After all, Saint Arthur Castle must possess adequate administrative facilities to serve as a country’s capital.
Currently, the construction projects have only just begun one month ago. Most of them don’t even have a preliminary shape yet.
The first thing Arthur visited was the construction of the new Administrative Court.
More precisely, this is a large building that integrates the Administrative Court, the House of Representatives, and the National Court.
If you look at the design drawing, this building looks a bit like the Chinese character "six," but the square in the middle is more like a rectangle.
The Administrative Court, the House of Representatives, and the National Court, three different institutions, are deployed at three points of the "six."
The rectangular building in the middle is the venue for large eting rooms, reception rooms, and open areas.
This building, in the shape of "six" combined with other auxiliary building areas and garden area, comprises the new national governnt headquarters.
Compared to the Administrative Court in the suburbs of Sydney, this new governnt building is several tis larger and more grand and splendid.
Of course, this is only the effect of the design drawing. The actual effect can be seen only after the entire building is completed, but it must be a huge building and one of the future national symbols.
The governnt’s budget for this national governnt building is as high as 12 million Australian dollars, which shows its importance.
However, the national governnt will move with Arthur. This ans that Saint Arthur Castle will not beco the capital of Australasia until the completion of the construction of the new royal palace.
Apart from the grand national governnt building, the second place Arthur visited was the location of his royal palace.
Similar to the layout in Sydney, the site selection of the royal palace and the national governnt building is not far apart. The national building is closer to the urban planning area, while the palace is closer to a nearby hill.
The new palace is much larger than Sydney Palace. The budget is about four tis higher than the 5 million Pounds budget for Sydney Palace.
The new palace is expected to cover an area of up to 1.18 million square ters, which is more than twice the size of Sydney Palace.
The planned building area is about 250,000 square ters, the road area is 50,000 square ters, the hill occupies 200,000 square ters, the artificial lake and stream cover an area of 150,000 square ters, and a huge royal garden occupies an astonishing 250,000 square ters.
Additionally, there is a massive royal square covering up to 280,000 square ters, which can accommodate up to 600,000 people.
Just from the area of this square, one can see the most significant change in the new palace.
The Sydney Palace Square can only accommodate about a hundred thousand people, which significantly limits the number of people involved in national day activities and other important holidays.
Rember, the total population of Sydney has already exceeded 2 million and is on track to reach 3 million.
This ans that during important holidays, over 2 million people in Sydney are fighting for about a hundred thousand spots, not to ntion the competition from people in other cities.
Moreover, the sheer number of people has caused severe congestion on the roads near Sydney Palace. So people from outside Sydney co to Sydney but cannot find a spot. They can only gather on the nearby roads, causing serious traffic jams.
While more public participation in national activities is good, if it leads to severe traffic congestion and even accidents, it would be a case of the cure being worse than the disease.
The new square can accommodate 600,000 people, which is quite sufficient for Australasia at present.
After all, if the square were any larger, it would be hard to ensure that all citizens could comfortably participate in activities.
Imagine the front row and the last row being several kiloters apart. Are they there to participate in the activity or to exercise their eyesight?
The building area, which has been expanded by more than two tis, allows the new palace to have over 800 rooms, more than 30 small and large eting rooms, and provides over 30 private dining rooms and 15 dium to large public dining rooms for royal family mbers.
There are also as many as 70 offices, 5 reception halls, up to 40 watchtowers, and hundreds of royal guard rest points. The sheer number of rooms could cause one to get lost.
The private rooms for royal family mbers even exceed a thousand square ters, and there’s even a super suite close to 3,000 square ters for selection.
Each room not only has its private reception room, office, wine cabinet, and bathroom, but also a cloakroom over 200 square ters to accommodate the abundant wardrobes of royal family mbers.
Like the previous Sydney Palace, the new palace has a large royal hospital located within, a vast and fully equipped church, ceteries prepared for royal family mbers, several large private theaters for royal family mbers to watch their favorite movies.
The back hill is specifically for training, not only for horse-riding but also for practicing marksmanship at a special shooting range.
Unlike the forr Sydney Palace, the new royal residence not only has a huge artificial lake but also relies on the Mure River to create a water network that runs through the entire palace, allowing for the future construction of various bodies of water in the Palace of Nations area.
Since it’s connected to the Mure River, the water here will be fresh and clean, eliminating the concern of any odd sll.
Of course, the security of the water source connected to the outside world is a major concern, so the new Royal Palace will have even more manpower for protection.
The new palace will have a security staff of up to 3,000 people who will work round the clock to ensure the safety of the palace.
At the sa ti, the First Guard Division and the Second Guard Division will be deployed near the new palace, providing the best security for the palace and Arthur.
In addition to a staff of 3,000 security personnel and two guard divisions, Arthur also has a royal guard force of thousands of people, protecting all mbers of the royal family closely.
A considerable portion of these people are orphans who previously benefited from Arthur’s relief efforts and the rest are chosen from the Australasian Army, ensuring absolute loyalty.
With these three forces for defense, the security of the future new palace will be beyond doubt. No external threat needs to be worried about.
The National Heroes Monunt in the Sydney Palace Square will also be proportionally reproduced in the Square of the new Palace.
The new monunt will be bigger, and the nas of more heroes can be inscribed on it.
According to the chief designer of the palace, once the palace is fully built in the future, the National Heroes Monunt can be seen from the hills of the palace. It will be even more conspicuous when viewed from the square.
Queen Mary also reviewed the design of the new palace. In fact, the size of the royal garden in the new palace was increased per her strong request.
A royal garden spanning 2.5 million square ters is absurdly large—it’s equivalent to 25 hectares, or 375 acres of land.
Looking down from a high place, the future Royal Garden will be like a sea of flowers, incredibly beautiful, definitely a place that will attract won.
Owing to the water source from the Mure River, the royal garden will have a complete irrigation system. It only needs manual operation to irrigate the entire flower sea.
Of course, the upkeep of the flower sea still requires human managent.
For this, the new palace plans to employ at least 500 maids and a thousand other servants to manage the entire palace, clean rooms and carry out other tasks.
Although it seems exaggerated and extravagant to have such a large number of servants, and it does hint at the decay of the feudal system.
But if you truly understand the treatnt of these servants, you’ll realize that their condition is actually not bad compared to ordinary citizens, and is perhaps even much better.
Firstly, the minimum yearly salary of a servant in Australasia is at least 60 Australian dollars, and with various welfare policies considered, this amount can even exceed 70 Australian dollars.
This salary level is equivalent to that of soldiers and far exceeds the current average inco in Australasia.
Secondly, although servants serve people, they also enjoy various delicious foods with Arthur. Their food, clothing, housing, and transportation are basically all in the palace, which takes care of their livelihood.
Although Arthur also needs these servants to provide service, he always treats the servants kindly.
After all, these servants who can often approach the royal family mbers could easily do things that are detrintal to them.
Moreover, it’s not that easy to beco a servant or maid of the palace.
The palace’s requirents for recruiting servants are even strict than those for soldiers. First of all, you must have lived in Australasia for at least 20 years—that’s a hard rule.
Secondly, no one in your three generations of relatives has committed any illegal activities or died due to governnt penalties.
Besides that, the Security Intelligence Bureau will conduct a very strict review of these servant candidates. In addition to checking their backgrounds and previous behaviors, they also evaluate whether they have any diseases, if they have a decent appearance, if they are efficient at work, whether they love the country, have a positive attitude, are cheerful, and so on.
The servants and maids who et all the conditions will be handed over to Butler Kent and, after two months of training, will be assigned to various positions in the palace.
The previous Sydney Palace employed approximately 500 servants and about 200 maids.
Because of this, these two jobs are very popular in Australasia. Each ti recruitnt information is released, there’s basically a rush of people desperate for a chance.
But it’s clear that both these jobs require strict qualifications and demand a long-term commitnt.
Generally speaking, the longer soone works at the palace, the more loyal they tend to be, making them even more trustworthy.
Except under special circumstances like the construction of a new palace, the palace usually doesn’t do massive open recruitnt.
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