The Empress’s Gigolo

After sending off the experts, Ren Baqian stood at the top of the city wall and watched as they disappeared into the horizon. He could finally relax a little. After all, such a major event had successfully been completed.

As he descended from the wall, Lin Yue, who had been pensive, suddenly made a big fuss.

“Hey, that box of yours can actually speak!”

Ren Baqian winced as he turned to look at her and felt an urge to give her a knock on the head.

Regardless, Lin Yue had still been a famous old freak for more than 20 years… Although she wasn’t very smart, he still had to give her the proper respect.

“It would be good if you were an aboriginal,” he said after thinking for a while.

“Oh!” She looked at Ren Baqian before falling deep into thought again.

He reckoned that Lin Yue would probably only ask him tomorrow about what he had said just now.

“If you were an aboriginal… you probably wouldn’t seem so dumb,” he muttered.

The aboriginals… Being brainless or having brawn for brains was a common sight. Although she would be considered “outstanding” if she were one of them, at least it would be justifiable!

“Oh!” Lin Yue continued looking pensive.

Ren Baqian ignored her and sighed to himself.

For a pretty good looking woman, where had her brains gone?

He checked her background privately, and it was said that Jade Ripple Lin Yue was quite normal at first.

At least, it wasn’t as bad as it was now.

Otherwise, it would be impossible for no one to know about it.

In the following days, Li Yuanzhu and Blood River Demon returned to Great Xia. Ren Baqian got busy with various matters, including the reconstruction plan of an entire old city and preparations for a new city.

The reconstruction plan for the old city included the water towers and pipes that were under construction, which could supply water to the taps in all the households.

In fact, this was a very risky move.

If someone were to poison the water tower…

In this world, where the strongest prevailed, nothing was impossible.

As such, security of the water supply tower was essential.

In addition, the planning of public toilets and the construction of sewers also required tremendous work for a city that was built hundreds of years ago.

At present, although there were still instances of people urinating on the streets, the situation was much better than when Ren Baqian had first arrived. Sometimes, a heavy punishment was a powerful means to improve the inner quality of people.

The implementation of public toilets being placed every 200 meters and the guards having to explain the laws of the nation outside the city to arriving visitors provided some guidelines for the incoming aboriginals to follow.

As for the supply of electric lights to every household in the near future, it was something that Ren Baqian could only wish for.

Coal and rubber were all shipped from the south, and Dayao’s current transportation conditions barely met his expectations. The implementation of electric lights, something that the officials felt was unneeded at the moment, was out of the question.

From time to time, he could see Lin Yue carrying various things on the street.

Ren Baqian wondered why this person hadn’t left yet.

After thinking about her intellect… he decided to let her be.

In the evening, Ren Baqian and the empress lay on the couch as he plunged into the world in his sea of knowledge.

During this period of time, two planets had formed in his sea of knowledge. As for the dust generated by the other explosions, which were not enough to form planets, several clusters of nebulae had been formed.

A huge city stood somewhere on one of the planets that was half blue and half green.

In the center of the city was the empress’s imperial palace. It was located on a hill which had been raised up several meters with soil. After entering the palace gate, which was located at the foot of the hill, there was a straight road served by two shuttle buses that transported the officials to and from the palace.

As for the palace halls, Ren Baqian combined the designs of palaces from this world with the ancient Forbidden City on Earth. Each palace hall was more magnificent and larger than the original.

In addition, the various gardens took up the most space, occupying more than half the area in the palace.

To him, even magnificent palace halls didn’t interest him as much as gardens and greenery.

People who grew up in an urban jungle probably had such preferences.

Surrounding the palace in all four directions were public squares that were 200 meters wide. They were built so that the guards standing atop the walls could see the situation in the distance at any time.

The palace was also isolated from the city.

Beyond the public squares was the second ring. This was where most of the ministers’ residences and government offices were located. This was the heart of all of Lan City.

The third ring included the residential area for the middle and low level officials as well as the wealthy. There were also two commercial areas in the third ring. This region was mainly a place for large-scale and high-end transactions to take place.

The fourth ring was where ordinary people lived.

Buildings taller than six stories weren’t allowed in the second ring. The height limit became lower the closer it was to the center.

Although the buildings outside the second ring were also only six stories tall at the moment, Ren Baqian believed that this place would be a city full of reinforced concrete in time to come.

There were two-way concrete roads with eight lanes, sidewalks that were five meters wide, sewers, power supply facilities, subway lines, commercial areas, parks, and landscapes. Almost everything was designed according to modern cities.

After all, Ren Baqian had experienced modern society before and knew how much this city could achieve.

His consciousness floated over the city as he overlooked the things that he had achieved over this period to see if he had missed anything.

It was very beneficial to have this world in his sea of knowledge. He could simply realize his ideas and immediately see the results.

This greatly reduced the cost of trial and error.

Ren Baqian planned this city based on a population of three million. The city might be empty for a brief period of time.

However, in just 10 years, he believed that the city would fill up and then expand toward the periphery until the population grew to be over tens of millions of people, becoming the only super city in the world.

There were two main problems that limited the size of a city in this era: productivity and transportation capacity. However, those weren’t big problems to Ren Baqian.

He was slightly tired when he exited his sea of knowledge. He turned to look at the empress and discovered that her eyes were still wide open.

In the middle of the night, it was pretty scary to see someone staring at him instead of sleeping.

However, she required very little sleep. Two hours at a time or a good sleep once every few days was sufficient for her.

However, what was the empress doing and why was she smiling in the middle of the night?

“Your Majesty, what are you thinking about?” Ren Baqian turned over and hugged her, moving one hand over her body mischievously.

“The ball in my belly talked to me.” She looked a little excited. If he hadn’t entered his sea of knowledge earlier, she would have shared this with him already.

However, after hearing this, he wasn’t the slightest bit excited at all. In fact, it was extremely shocking to him.

The empress had only been pregnant for seven months…

Had the Nezha inside her belly become a monster?

Ren Baqian suppressed his confused thoughts and asked unhurriedly, “What did he say?”

“He said… that he wants to drink alcohol…” The empress sat up in the bed.

“Is it you or him who wants to drink?” His face twitched.

“Both of us! He really told me this!” She turned and gave Ren Baqian a serious look.

He knitted his eyebrows and pondered over the baby in the empress’s belly!