1228 TWO Chapter 1228-Imperial capital (1/2)

Chapter 1228 – Imperial Capital

1st month, 8th day, all the Provincial Governors returned to their respective areas.

Even Bing'er went back to Qiongzhou to learn once more. Since she did not dislike such a life, Ouyang Shuo was prepared to let her have a few years of training in Qiongzhou Prefecture.

Thinking about how the Provincial Governors all asked carefully about when they would be able to upgrade to imperial dynasty, Ouyang Shuo smiled bitterly. On the night of the ceremony, Ouyang Shuo had taken a look at the requirements to upgrade.

Compared to the nine for the Emperor dynasty, the imperial dynasty required only three things.

Requirement 1. Unify China.

This requirement was not anything special. Unifying China was originally Great Xia's set goal, and if everything went well, they could unify China in the 7th year.

Requirement 2: Obtain the Overlord position in Asia.

This was a little tougher.

Thinking about how Great Xia managed to obtain the position of Overlord in China, one would not know hard this was going to be.

Asia was also the strongest region in the world. Apart from Great Xia, there was the Romanov Dynasty, Ashoka Dynasty, Peacock Dynasty, Gupta Dynasty, Persia Dynasty, and Arab Dynasty.

Even Caesar Dynasty occupied a corner of Asia.

If Great Xia wanted to obtain the position while being surrounded by so many enemies, they would have to destroy many dynasties. The biggest challenge would be from the three in India.

Requirement 3: Obtain the recognition of all the dynasties in the world.

This was even tougher. Thinking about the situation that Great Xia was in, if it wanted to do so, they would need to basically smash the cake of Azure Badge and Silver Hand.

If not, it would be hard to reach this requirement.

Apart from the above three conditions, there were no title, reputation, territory size, or fate requirements. After all, if one completed the above three requirements, the other requirements were basically included within.

Ouyang Shuo was thinking that Gaia set such strict requirements because it did not expect any dynasty to upgrade to Emperor dynasty. After all, considering that it was the 7th year of Gaia, there were only four years of game time left.

”No matter what, I have to give it a try.”

The moment Ouyang Shuo checked the requirements to upgrade to imperial dynasty, he made up his mind to make upgrading Great Xia to an imperial dynasty as his final goal.

Only then would he be left with no regrets.

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Just as Ouyang Shuo was dealing with the debriefs of the Provincial Governors, Shanhai City's expansion had started, and this slowly became the most exciting thing in the entire Emperor dynasty.

The interest in this had even exceeded the interest in the upgrading ceremony.

Everyone could see that compared to the already crowded old city region, the new one was an unopened virgin land filled with numerous opportunities and riches.

All of a sudden, be it the normal civilians, the nobles, or the officials, they either met in the open or in secret to discuss this.

Everyone wished to obtain some land in the new city.

However, the Shanhai City office hid the planning of the new region. No matter how the nobles and merchants searched and asked, from the Shanhai magistrate to the normal officials, none of them said a word.

The Shanhai City office was in a tough spot. A few days ago, the overall planning power was taken from them by the Imperial Court and controlled by the Administration Court, Financial Court, industrialization department, Civil Affairs Department, imperial colleges, and the like to participate in. Then the Cabinet would vet the plans.

The scale and importance of this had exceeded everyone's expectations.

Before deciding on the overall plan of Shanhai City, the first thing the Cabinet did was adjust the administrative region of the Lianzhou Prefecture.

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1st month, 9th day, morning, imperial city, emperor palace.

Along with the imperial university, army military university as well as the Guards Legion Corps moving out, the imperial city instantly became spacious. Looking out, everywhere was filled with busy artisans.

Regardless of whether Ouyang Shuo was willing or not, to fit the position of the Emperor dynasty, the palace had to be expanded.

Based on the planning, the imperial city would be split into three parts, with north-south as the intersection. The entire north part would be the palace region, while the south would be split into two. The west would be the office region and the east would be the temple of heaven and the ancestral temple.

The camp of the 1st legion corps was not gathered in one area. Instead, it was split into five large drill fields that took up every crucial region of the city. They would patrol day and night to ensure the safety of the imperial city.

Based on the system, the 1st legion would not participate in conquests and wars.

The outer halls of the palace would be guarded by the Divine Martial Guards while the back palace would be led by the Hua Mulan headed court lady guards.