Chapter 169 Sydney Palace

Soon after the cabinet meeting, under Arthur's order, Butler Hunter began to invite various European architectural experts and look for a suitable place to build a new palace in the suburbs of Sydney.

The new palace will serve as the permanent residence and palace of the Australian royal family, and it also represents the dignity and face of the royal family to the outside world.

Since a new palace is to be built, Arthur will naturally not be stingy. The total budget for this construction is as high as 5 million pounds, and unlimited indigenous people are allowed to be used.

The construction of this palace has only one goal, that is, to be as low-key as possible on the basis of luxury, to be as novel as possible on the basis of solemnity, to be absolutely strict on the basis of hugeness, to use a large number of indigenous people to speed up the construction cycle as much as possible on the basis of quality and quantity, and at the same time not to burden various construction plans in Australia.

These requirements are actually quite high, but the construction of this palace has hired a large number of architectural experts from Europe, and some of them even built palaces and palaces for European royal families, and they are also the most competent candidates.

After more than half a month of site selection, the construction team almost ran all over the suburbs of Sydney, and finally found a very suitable construction site in the suburbs of the southwest of Sydney.

This is a vast plain, at the junction of mountains and lakes. To the east is a large plain area, to the west is a small hill of more than 200 meters, and on the edge of the plain is a large lake.

According to this special geographical environment, after a long period of research, the construction team finally determined the Australian Royal Palace, that is, the Sydney Palace officially determined the design plan.

The entire Australian Royal Palace is in the shape of a mouth without a horizontal line on the top. The core area of ​​the palace is the horizontal line below the mouth shape. The two vertical bars are the restaurant, conference room, entertainment room and servants' residence.

There is a convex part at the bottom of the two vertical bars. The left one is connected to the vertical building, which is a place for royal medical treatment, education and entertainment. Of course, a royal private hospital with complete functions will be built inside.

On the right is a circular church, which will also be the place where Australian royal family members hold baptisms, weddings, funerals and other important festivals in the future.

The building on the right extends outward to a building, which will be a place for guests to stay. It also contains small restaurants, conference rooms, offices and other facilities.

In the middle of the palace building, that is, in the middle of the mouth shape, there is a large circular flower bed.

Statues of successive Australian rulers will be placed in the middle of the flower bed. Currently, there are plans to place statues of Queen Victoria and Arthur.

Queen Victoria was the ruler of Australia during the colonial period and a key figure in the establishment of the Principality of Australia.

Queen Victoria has a high reputation in the hearts of the people of both the British Empire and Australia. The establishment of a statue of Queen Victoria can not only declare that the Australian royal family comes from the noble bloodline of the British royal family, but also win the hearts of the British people and the goodwill of the British government.

Australia can have all this now, and its origin in the British Empire has contributed greatly. Australia may be separated from the British Empire in the future and become a completely independent and powerful country, but it will not do so now.

At least in terms of bloodline, Australia will not refuse to admit that it comes from the British Empire, because this can not only bring Australia the glory of noble blood, but also allow Australia to gain a lot of goodwill from the British and British immigrants.

This special blood relationship is definitely not comparable to allies united by interests.

In other words, if one day in the future, the British Empire's ally island country and Australia have a conflict, if the British government does not support Australia, it will face the dissatisfaction of the domestic people and the opposition party.

But the same is true for Australia. If Australia openly stands on the other side of the British Empire and has no reason, the British and Australians will also be disappointed with the government.

The outer periphery of the mouth-shaped palace, or the place above the mouth-shaped, is a huge semicircular fountain.

Outside the fountain is a vast garden outside the palace, where a large number of flowers and plants will be planted, becoming the largest garden of the palace.

On the right side of this garden is a huge natural lake. The water in the fountain and the small lake in the palace are connected to this huge natural lake.

Outside the lake and the garden is an even larger square. The area of ​​this square is very large, and it is definitely not comparable to the square opposite the government building before.

On the side of the square closest to the palace, a parade stand more than six meters high was built, which is specially prepared for Australia's future parades.

Below the parade stand, located in front of the entire square, this will be the place where the national flag is raised daily. The Australian royal emblem flag and the Australian Principality flag will be raised here.

In front of the national flag, that is, at the back of the square, there will be a stone monument with a sword out of its sheath, called the Australian Heroes Monument.

This will be a place where any hero who has made contributions to Australia will leave his name for eternity, for all Australians and foreign tourists to see.

The last side of the square is connected to the Australian Heroes Monument to the national flag, the emblem flag and then to the parade stand, with a very wide road with flower fences on both sides.

And below the parade stand, there is an equally wide road but perpendicular to this road connected to this road, dividing the road on the square into a T shape.

This horizontal road is the parade road. In the future, the troops will pass through here and be seen by the people in the square.

The huge square is divided into two parts by the road connecting the Heroes Monument and the national flag. These two parts are the best places for people to enjoy the parade during the parade. This square can accommodate at least 60,000 people and will be the largest square in Australia.

Finally, there is the hill behind the palace. This hill, which is only two or three hundred meters high, will be a place for royal family members to practice shooting and play.

All buildings including the hill, the main building of the palace, fountains, lakes, gardens and squares constitute Australia's new huge palace.

The palace covers an area of ​​more than 400,000 square meters, which is a full 40 hectares, 0.4 square kilometers.

Among them, the garden lake and the hill behind cover an area of ​​150,000 square meters, and the real main building area is only less than 100,000 square meters.

If this palace is built, it will have up to 600 rooms, a complete private hospital, a church, a learning area on the first floor for teaching knowledge to royal family members, up to 20 meeting rooms of different sizes, six restaurants, 50 offices, more than ten sentry towers and guard stations on the top floor, etc. It can be regarded as luxurious, extravagant and heavily guarded.

What is more worth mentioning is that from the main entrance of the palace, there is a corridor of more than 100 meters on the left and right.

This corridor will hang literary works and precious treasures from all over the world, and it is the cultural corridor of the Australian royal family.

It’s a pity that the main entrance is in the core area of ​​the royal palace. Not many people can enter and exit from this door. In Australia, even currently only royal family members and the cabinet.

It is basically impossible for others to enter and visit this cultural corridor from the main entrance without Arthur’s summons.

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