I want to be emperor

Jinling City Eastern Suburb Railway Station is the earliest large-scale commercial railway station in the Chu Empire and one of the three railway stations in Jinling City.

The huge Jinling City has three railway stations, namely Jinling West Suburb Railway Station, Dongjiao Railway Station and Bei'an Railway Station on the north bank of the Yangtze River.

Among them, Dongjiao Railway Station is the earliest railway station. It was built in the 21st year of Chengshun and the construction of the first long-distance trunk line commercial railway in the Chu Empire, that is, the Jiangnan Railway.

However, because it was built relatively early and the initial planning was not sufficient, reconstruction began in the 39th year of Chengshun.

The rebuilt Jinling Eastern Suburb Railway Station has also become the largest and most famous comprehensive railway station in the Dachu Empire. It has a very large terminal building and two smaller terminal buildings.

The main building is made of reinforced concrete and a large-area steel structure. It has an extremely large and ultra-high single-story area that is rare in contemporary times!

The waiting hall is more than two hundred meters long and dozens of meters wide. It is supported by a large number of reinforced concrete pillars and thick steel beams on the top serve as the frame. Such a building structure also gives the waiting hall an extremely exaggerated floor height. , a full thirty-two meters high!

At the same time, the floor of the entire waiting hall is made of smooth, mirror-like warm yellow tiles, and the beads and the overall decoration of the walls are also mostly made of warm yellow as the main color.

At the same time, yellow is also used on the top of the train station, so that the entire train station uses warm yellow as the main tone.

The meaning of yellow in the Great Chu Empire is different, because it is a traditional feudal imperial country, and yellow is a royal color.

Until now, ordinary people do not wear yellow clothes, and many buildings generally do not use this color... Although under normal circumstances, the officials will not come to trouble you. In the thirty-sixth year of Chengshun, Luo Zhixue personally gave instructions to allow the people to freely use various colors, including yellow, a color traditionally used by the royal family.

Therefore, in the current Dachu Empire, it is not illegal for you to go out wearing yellow clothes. You will not be caught by the patrol police and fined and imprisoned for a few days like they were thirty years ago.

But...even so, no one would commit such a taboo!

Even major textile manufacturers do not produce yellow fabric at all... Therefore, yellow fabric cannot be purchased in some regular retail channels. Only some special industries have their own channels to purchase some yellow fabric.

Although it is no longer illegal to wear yellow and use yellow... but the power of tradition is strong, people still think that this thing is exclusive to the royal family, and ordinary people do not have the courage or confidence to wear this thing.

This is, it is still limited to some new clothes, if it is traditional Hanfu... Well, if you dare to wear it, people will dare to look at you like a potential criminal and see if there is a dragon pattern embroidered on your yellow Hanfu... If so, congratulations, welcome to the rebellion and genocide package!

So, how much courage does an ordinary person have to be able to wear the traditional yellow Hanfu that the emperor does not wear on weekdays, but only wears on formal occasions?

Therefore, in order to avoid trouble, yellow clothes and yellow buildings are still relatively rare things in the contemporary Dachu Empire.

Even when the Jinling Eastern Suburb Railway Station was being designed, because it planned to use a large amount of warm yellow, it was actually reported to the Imperial Household Agency in advance. The design drawings were submitted to the Imperial Palace and approved before construction started.

This is also the first or the only building in the Great Chu Empire that is so high-profile and public. Some good people also call this railway station the Royal Railway Station.

Because the color tone and the decoration style highlight the solemnity and royal majesty... Standing in the square outside the train station and looking at this building will give people the feeling of standing in front of the palace.

This also gave this train station a nickname: Royal Railway Station!

Because the newly built main station building of Dongjiao Railway Station is very large, and the floor height of the train hall is more than 30 meters, this makes the lighting problem a troublesome problem.

It is definitely not possible to use gas lamps. It is too dangerous. The empire has long issued a document prohibiting the use of gas lamps indoors. Kerosene lamps are naturally allowed, but kerosene lamps are essentially no different from candles... If you want to light up such a large building Railway stations consume big and small things, the key is trouble.

At the same time, early electric lighting technology was not yet available, and there was no way to use light bulbs.

In order to solve the internal lighting problem of such a huge building, the designers boldly used a large amount of light-transmitting glass and reflective mirrors during the design.

During the day, a large amount of natural light from the outside is introduced, and the light is reflected and transmitted to the interior of the building through mirrors.

At night, the large gas lamp in the main light room outside the building is lit, and the light is transmitted through the condenser and plane mirror to reflect the light, and the light from the large gas lamp in the main light room is transmitted to the interior of the building.

Therefore, in the waiting hall of this huge building, you can't see any lamp holders...only mirrors can be seen on the top or in other corners.

It is worth noting that this lighting method is not unique to this train station. In fact, this lighting method first appeared in the skyscrapers in Songjiang City.

High-rise buildings have long appeared in the Songjiang Building where land is precious. As these buildings get bigger and taller, lighting becomes a problem... let alone lighting at night, even during the day. It's not easy... You can't light kerosene lamps in all the internal corridors and rooms in the building.

In the end, the designers immediately adopted the lighting method of reflected light from mirrors, which reflects natural light during the day and reflects the light of large gas lamps at night.

Using various mirrors to illuminate the building by using light reflection away from the building was a design method favored by many buildings in the 1930s.

But it is rare now, because with the maturity of electric lights, many new buildings are designed with electric lighting when they are designed, and some old buildings are also preparing to be retrofitted to use electric lights.

Even the famous Dongjiao Railway Station is no exception. It is already undergoing renovation of its power facilities. It will not take long for the renovation to be completed, and the power supply network of the power grid company will be used for lighting.

As a result, the mirror-reflected light lighting model that was once brilliant in the 1930s will most likely no longer appear, except for some existing buildings.

In a few more decades, it is estimated that no one will know that such a thing has appeared in human history.

However, this kind of thing is originally a product of the times. It is a very large building that needs lighting, but electric lighting is not yet mature, and using gas lamps is extremely dangerous. The imperial government directly prohibits its indoor use, and kerosene lamps/candles are very troublesome and expensive. In the case of high lighting, designers use a trick lighting method.

When electric lighting matures, this product of the times will naturally disappear quickly.

Of course, this is a matter for the future. Until now, the lighting at Jinling Eastern Suburban Railway Station, well, mainly the lighting in the huge waiting hall, still uses this mirror-reflected light mode.

Then when the train that Andre and others took arrived at the Eastern Suburb Railway Station at noon that day, and then got off the train, they underwent a security review by staff sent by the empire.

For these more than 100 vassal country missions, a joint review team sent by the three major security and intelligence agencies of the Hanlin Academy Internal Affairs Section, the Guards Security Division, and the Imperial Household Agency Guards Division will conduct a preliminary security check on each individual. Review... The level of review is actually very simple, that is, to determine whether they are hostile or threatening.

Hostility... See if the envoys of these vassal countries show any hostility towards the empire. The Internal Affairs Department of the Hanlin Academy has professional psychology experts who can skillfully ask questions and observe their micro-expressions, heart rate changes, etc. make a judgment.

If a native who is hostile to the empire has not received special training, it will be difficult for him to survive this kind of review... Even if you have good acting skills, when you hear certain news, your body will Make natural reactions, such as an increased heart rate and a slight change in expression.

As for these things, the interrogators in the Internal Affairs Section of the Hanlin Academy are top experts.

When it comes to interrogation methods, the agents of the Internal Affairs Department of the Hanlin Academy can beat the criminal investigation policemen in the patrol department... For example, the ten tortures of Dachu that are very evil are rumored by the outside world... This thing came from the Internal Affairs Department, a More exaggerated and cruel than one.

According to rumors, which are not public and have never been acknowledged by anyone, the Internal Affairs Department still retains the ancient tradition of torture to extract confessions!

In fact, everyone in the Internal Affairs Department would laugh out loud and show disdain: Torture to extract confessions is nothing!

The Internal Affairs Division has been established for decades and has always kept a very low profile. It has never handled any major cases. Even many ordinary people do not know that such an agency exists.

But people who really know them, such as Luo Zhixue, know very well that the Internal Affairs Department reports the death of hundreds to thousands of suspects almost every year!

These were all dealt with in private using various means, such as car accidents, slipping, jumping off buildings, jumping into rivers, death from illness and other causes of death, and were not suitable for potential public trials.

Why has the Internal Affairs Division never handled any major cases? Because they often kill people directly without resorting to prosecution or trial.

This is the working principle of the Internal Affairs Department: I don’t care what conspiracy you have, or what big noise you can make, I will directly destroy your body. You can go to the underworld to play conspiracy with the Lord of Hell...

In the past forty years or so, there were not no conspirators in the Great Chu Empire. On the contrary, there were actually quite a lot of them... There were always some people who were dissatisfied with the status quo and wanted to change something, and then these people were basically planning some huge conspiracy. He died inexplicably.

For example, there once was a minister who went home from the Yamen one day. When the carriage passed a small bridge, the horse went crazy, and then the carriage and the minister fell directly into the river... Although the minister did not die on the spot, he was in the middle of winter. He fell into the water and was cold for a long time and was seriously injured. He died after more than ten days of treatment... Until the time of his death, he didn't even know that the Internal Affairs Department had done it!

This kind of person has great influence, so Luo Zhixue will not judge him at all, or even ask more questions. He will simply destroy his body and kill the conspiracy at the source.

After the minister died, Luo Zhixue generously gave him a good posthumous title...

Nothing eliminates a potential threat like physical elimination!

The internal affairs department of Hanlin Academy is still very good at handling affairs, and its business ability is strong enough.

The Internal Affairs Department of the Hanlin Academy is also the third line of defense for Luo Zhixue's personal security!

Luo Zhixue's personal security has several lines of defense, both light and dark.

The public peripheral defense line is the Guards. The Guards are responsible for public and mainly military defense... they are not guarding against assassins, but rebels... the Guards that protect the palace and even the entire Jinling City. The more than 40,000 troops can actually be regarded as Luo Zhixue's personal security force.

In addition, there are more than 30,000 people outside Jinling City.

The two parts of the Guards, which total about 80,000 people, can actually be regarded as Luo Zhixue's personal guard.

Even if the entire army and navy in Jiangnan and Jiangbei rebelled, Luo Zhixue could persist for a period of time with these 80,000 Guardsmen alone. He also urgently recruited reserve soldiers in Yingtianfu and used the sealed reserves in the Jinling Guards Strategic Reserve Warehouse. With weapons and ammunition, he can expand the Guards to more than 200,000 people to counter the rebellion in just one or two months!

In addition to the Guards, the Security Division of the Patrol Department is also responsible for public peripheral security affairs. This department is mainly responsible for daily investigation and prevention of assassinations. It is also responsible for peripheral traffic control, peripheral traffic patrols, etc. when His Majesty leaves the palace for inspections.

In addition to these two public security forces on the outside, there is also a public Imperial Guard Office inside, and the security personnel there are actually imperial guards in the traditional sense.

These imperial guards are mainly elites selected from military agencies such as the army, navy, guards, armed patrols, and armed tax police.

And regardless of their abilities or origins, they all must pass extremely strict review... Every selection must be personally reviewed and approved by Luo Zhixue.

There are actually not many of these imperial guards. For example, there are only more than 200 men. They are divided into three shifts and are responsible for Luo Zhixue's personal close-up security in the front hall of the palace and when he goes out for inspections.

In addition, there are more than a hundred female imperial guards, who are mainly responsible for the personal close-range security of the palace within the palace.

These imperial guards are also the only ones who can carry guns and weapons around Luo Zhixue. When they are on duty with Luo Zhixue, they are all armed with live ammunition.

Precisely because they are so important, the selection and review of these royal guards are very strict.

At the same time, once selected, the treatment will be extremely generous... As long as one person is selected, the whole family can enjoy a wealthy and privileged life. Luo Zhixue will never treat his personal security personnel poorly.

For example, those female guards... Luo Zhixue's treatment for them is also extremely generous. Maybe many people immediately think of all kinds of pornographic things when they hear about female guards, but Luo Zhixue never does this, even I have never regarded these female guards as women...

Well, actually, it’s hard for you to treat a group of strong female guards who can break a man’s neck with one hand as delicate women...

What kind of beautiful agents, beautiful bodyguards, etc... This is not some porn, idol drama or Japanese and Korean bodyguard reality show

Luo Zhixue's female guards... How should I put it? They can pick up two of them with one hand and then throw them out...

The above are all clear security forces, they are directly displayed and can be seen by everyone.

But there are also secret security forces, which are mainly responsible for the Internal Affairs Department of the Hanlin Academy.

They will not appear in people's sight openly. Although their people have always existed around Luo Zhixue, they mostly appear in other identities, and in most cases they are still inconspicuous identities.

At the same time, various investigations were conducted outside, both overt and covert, to resolve and eliminate various threats in advance.

For example, this time the envoys from the vassal country come to Jinling City to pay tribute, the people from the Internal Affairs Department will strictly examine all of them, and will also conduct strict surveillance in the future!

If any of these people show hostility, they will be arrested in a matter of seconds.

Not to mention, during the review at the train station, they actually found a dozen people who were hostile to the Empire... They may not have planned to do anything, but since they were all hostile to the Empire, the Internal Affairs Department must It is to prevent them from staying in Jinling City any longer, lest they cause trouble.

Deal with the relevant personnel directly, and then notify the vassal agencies to launch a new round of purge operations in the vassal countries behind these personnel.

After all this trouble, Andre and the others struggled in the train station for several hours before they were done.

Naturally, Andre and his four followers did not find any problems in the review... Andre's feelings towards the Chu Empire were very complicated, but more of them were envy and fear. There was some dissatisfaction, but when it came to hostility or other things There is definitely no destruction.

After all the fuss, they entered the waiting hall under the arrangements of the staff of the Domain Affairs Department, and went through the waiting hall to the carriage parking lot outside to prepare for boarding.

When passing by the waiting hall, it was already dark, but the entire waiting hall was bright... The most important thing is that Andre didn't see even a candle or anything. oil lamp.

This amazed him!

Even he couldn't understand... After all, no one told him that the lighting method in the waiting hall uses a special mirror-reflective lighting.

With shock and confusion, Andre and others walked out of the waiting hall and saw a huge square. Although it was already dark, there were still people coming and going in the square.

There are many pillars in the square, and the gas lamps on the pillars emit light. The gas lamps on the many pillars together illuminate this huge square.

They did not go directly across the square, but followed a side road to a huge parking lot where many carriages were parked.

Under the arrangement of the staff of the Domain Affairs Department, Andre took four entourages and got into a large two-horse four-wheel carriage with envoys from several other countries.

There are also several large characters printed on the outside of the carriage: Jinling Public Carriage.

The Domain Affairs Department negotiated with the Jinling Public Carriage Company and arranged dozens of public carriages to transport the missions here in advance.

After all, there are more than 100 countries. Although each country only has one ambassador and four attachés, a total of five people, the total of more than 100 countries adds up to 500 to 600 people.

Using a small four-wheeled carriage would require more than a hundred vehicles. The Domain Affairs Bureau would not do this, and the Domain Affairs Bureau itself did not have so many official cars, so it directly called the public carriage over the Jinling Public Carriage as a means of transportation.

One car can carry twenty or thirty people, so dozens of public carriages are enough.

After getting on the carriage, the convoy began to move slowly in the night, accompanied by guards on horseback on both sides... It was not to protect the envoys of these vassal countries, but mainly to prevent the envoys of these vassal countries from running around and causing trouble. Something happened.

These envoys must conscientiously follow the regulations of the vassal affairs department, travel together and settle in the embassy area that has been finalized in advance, and then wait for people from the Department of Etiquette to come to the door to teach and learn the etiquette of face-to-face greetings in preparation for the great court meeting on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. Prepare.

In fact, during their journey to the Chu Empire and floating on the sea for many months, these people had already studied etiquette specifically with the officials of the Ministry of Ethical Education.

Basically, all the etiquette that should be learned has been learned in advance. Now the officials from the Etiquette Department of the Ministry of Etiquette and Education have come to teach again. They say it is to teach, but more importantly, they are checking for omissions and filling in the gaps to avoid any breach of etiquette before the emperor.