I want to be emperor

Chapter 778
In June of the 30th year of Chengshun, in the Songjiang Naval Shipyard.

The huge shipbuilding area is busy, and there are more than 20 shipyards of different sizes that are building various ships.

More than half of them are various warships, and some are civilian merchant ships.

On one of the large dry docks, there is a huge ship under construction. The ship is a large ocean-going passenger and cargo ship ordered by Jiangnan Shipping Company: Jiangnan!
More than a dozen people stood on the balcony on the third floor of the top floor of the Songjiang Naval Shipyard headquarters, looking at the Jiangnan in front of them.

This ship is also the ship with the largest tonnage built by the shipbuilding industry of the Great Chu Empire: its full load displacement has reached [-] tons.

This is also the first [-]-ton giant ship in the Great Chu Empire.

Although this is only a civilian ship, and the technical standards are far less stringent than warships, Wusong Naval Shipyard still carried out a series of technical breakthroughs in order to build the ship, and paid a considerable price for it.

However, such a ship with a full load displacement of tens of thousands of tons can carry thousands of passengers for ocean voyages, and while ensuring the comfort of passengers, it can also run at [-] knots. The impact is huge for industry as well as for the shipping industry.

Although this is just a civilian ship, the power system on this ship is not much worse than that of a battleship. At the same time, because it is a high-speed passenger ship, the decoration is also extremely luxurious, which also leads to an extremely high overall cost.

This ship is a major investment project of Jiangnan Shipping Company in order to compete for the ocean, especially the Nanyang Shipping market. For this reason, Jiangnan Shipping Company also paid a lot of money. The cost of the entire Jiangnan Shipping Company has reached a huge amount of more than 80 Chu Yuan. .

This is the cost of the latest battleship in the Great Chu Empire.

This also shows the ambition of Jiangnan Shipping Company!

They want more ocean passenger market share, especially in the South Seas shipping market to compete with Liuhe Shipping Company.

Liuhe Shipping Company, a small company that started as an ordinary civil shipping company, after the advent of the steamship era, continued to give priority to monopolizing orders for steamships, served a large number of various types of steamships, and seized a large number of Shipping market share.

During this process, Liuhe Shipping Company has also carried out multiple financings. The financing includes a number of investment funds under the control of government-run capital, as well as large-scale industry-related enterprises such as Guangzhou Shipyard, Wuhu Iron and Steel Company, and Luohua Shipyard. The financing not only allowed Liuhe Shipping Company to obtain a large amount of cash, but also broke the ceiling and gained a huge space for continuous improvement.

As a result, Liuhe Shipping Company was out of control. First, it almost monopolized the shipping business in the Pearl River Basin, and then got involved in the Yangtze River shipping business and local offshore shipping business.

And with the capital advantages accumulated in domestic inland waterway shipping and offshore shipping, more than a dozen ocean liners of three to four thousand tons have been continuously built and put into various routes in the East and South Seas.

This thousand-ton steam passenger ship has won unanimous praise from passengers for its fast speed, comfortable and safe sailing experience, and then squeezed out the ocean-going passenger business of other shipping companies.

With the largest source of tourists and the largest profit from the local route to Singapore, Liuhe Trading Company has accounted for 28% of the route's passenger source during the 50.00 years of its peak Chengshun.

I dare not say that one company dominates, but it also occupies more than half of the market share.

The rapid rise of Liuhe Trading Company also made other shipping companies feel threatened, and also saw the benefits of large-tonnage steam ships.

In the past few years, major shipping companies have invested heavily in the construction of a number of thousands of tons of merchant ships, among which high-speed steam passenger ships are the investment focus of major shipping companies.

Safety, speed, and comfort have become key words in contemporary shipping passenger business.

What is security?In these years, people's concept is very simple: the larger the tonnage of the ship, the safer it is.

This is actually the case. If you take a small boat with a few hundred tons on an ocean voyage, the probability of dying on the road is not small... It is actually more dangerous to take a boat of one or two thousand tons if it encounters strong winds and waves, but after the tonnage reaches three or four thousand tons , then the ability to resist wind and waves is much stronger.

This is why major shipping companies like to use large-tonnage ships to perform ocean-going missions.

Fast, of course, the faster you run, the better. For general cargo business, the cost of sailing should be considered comprehensively. Therefore, except for tea and other special goods that require timeliness, ordinary bulk cargo transportation should be done slowly. , the sail power is generally used as the main power, that is to say, the sail is still used as the power during daily sailing, and the steam engine is only for emergencies.

But passenger transportation is not like this, the sooner you get to your destination, the better.

Not to mention the comfort, no one likes to be cramped in a small cabin, can't take a shower, and even have a troublesome journey to eat!

Especially for some business travelers who travel by boat, they don’t have money in their pockets. You let them be transported overseas like pigs and sheep, just like those official immigrants who don’t have a lot of money in their pockets. no.

Therefore, the requirements for comfort during the voyage are also relatively high.

And sailing comfort also requires cost... Larger living space requires larger ship volume and more tonnage.

A better diet requires more fresh water and fresh food.

There is also a certain space for entertainment and leisure.

The three major needs of safety, speed and comfort have led to major shipping companies investing in the construction of passenger ships with larger tonnages.

This eventually led to the emergence of this [-]-ton passenger ship of Jiangnan Shipping Company: Jiangnan!

Today, the personnel from the Jiangnan Shipping Company came to inspect the construction of this [-]-ton giant ship. This ship is related to their company's future strategic layout in the ocean shipping market, so they are very concerned about it, not only sending personnel to the Songjiang Navy The shipyard and its company executives also ran over every three days to check on the construction progress.

"According to the current progress, it is estimated that the construction of the hull and outfitting will be completed in another three months. If everything goes well, all construction work and sea trials will be completed in the spring of next year. Hurry up and we will start in June next year. To be able to put this giant ship into commercial operation!"

The one who spoke was a middle-aged man among the crowd, Jiangnan Shipping Company will handle Cheng Tongxing.

Although he also has an official status, he didn't wear the loose Confucian official uniform like many officials. Instead, he wore a new light lapel work uniform.

It is a bit similar to the traditional 裋 Brown, but it is very different.

In the past, the traditional kimono was basically the dress of the poor and working people. The style was a top and bottom pants.

There is a huge difference from the large and elegant Hanfu that has influenced many people in later generations!

Aside from economics, it's because working people have to work... baggy, flowing clothes don't work.

In fact, the brown coats worn by ordinary people at the bottom in ancient times are similar to the military uniforms worn by soldiers of the same era, and it can even be said to be the same style.

The Great Chu Empire was no exception. The military uniforms of the early years of the Great Chu Empire, and the military uniforms that continued in the early Ming Dynasty, were all right-handed tops and pants, but they were more slim, and the hem of the tops was shorter.

Therefore, for a long time, the overall style of the military uniforms of the Chu army was similar to that of the Ming army, and it was also similar to the coat brown worn by ordinary people.

But then something changed.

For example, the officer's winter coat was originally a double-breasted style with long lapels and right lapels.

Later, from the long double-breasted jacket, a middle lapel right lapel single-breasted jacket was developed, which was used as ordinary clothes.

In the end, it gradually evolved into the military uniforms of ordinary soldiers, and then the military uniforms of the entire army were turned into lapels for more convenient and practical combat.

This is very different from the folk dress style.

For example, the military uniform of the Imperial Guards of the Great Chu Empire is mainly dark blue. The autumn and winter styles are slim-fitting cotton-padded jacket trousers. Wear a black hard top cloth hat and thick cotton shoes with rubber soles.

In addition, they also have dress styles. The dresses are mainly made of woolen materials. They are equipped with slim-fitting woolen trousers, double-breasted middle-style woolen jackets with lapels and right lapels, long leather shoes, and black hard tops with small brims.

Then when they personally attend some formal occasions, they will also wear black leather shoes or something.

These are the uniforms of ordinary soldiers in the Guards Army, and the styles of officers are actually similar, but the materials are better. At the same time, officers' military uniforms are often sewn by their own tailors, so they are more self-cultivating.

On the whole, the clothes of the soldiers of the Imperial Guards of the Great Chu Empire are actually similar to those of later modern generations at the end of the nineteenth century.

And this style of dressing was originally inspired by Luo Zhixue.

Because Luo Zhixue likes to run around in the woolen military uniform of the warlord leader in the original time and space!

Double-breasted long-width woolen jacket with lapels and right lapels... Luo Zhixue started this thing, and Luo Zhixue also likes to wear all kinds of woolen coats.

Especially in autumn and winter, the Luo Zhixue you see is actually no different from the clothes of modern people. You can't even recognize that he lived in the seventeenth century...

But it will be different in summer. Luo Zhixue likes to wear loose and elegant Confucian clothes in summer, not the traditional black-edged white clothes... but blue, and sometimes bright yellow, etc., so If you see him at this time, you will feel that he is no different from the ancients.

This is how Luo Zhixue switched back and forth between modern times and ancient times...

Not only him, but also other people in the Great Chu Empire, especially the upper class.

After all, there is something good at the top, and there is something to vote for at the bottom.

Even the modern style of polished black leather shoes was the first thing that Luo Zhi let the artisans wear, and then a bunch of people followed suit.

Well, the black leather shoes in the Great Chu Empire are not the same as those noble high-heeled leather shoes in the Europeans at the same time, but the modern leather shoes directly created by Luo Zhixue.

Luo Zhixue's change in clothing in the upper class was first changed in the military, then in the civilian class, and then in the middle and upper classes of society.

And now, it has even affected the clothes of ordinary people to a certain extent.

In the clothes of ordinary people, if it is a ceremonial occasion, if it is a formal occasion, it is said that the traditional Hanfu is necessary, spacious and elegant... But the daily work clothes, especially the daily work clothes of the middle and upper class, are not small. Variety.

They are decent gentry, it is impossible for you to let them wear the clothes of ordinary people... But if you continue to wear loose and elegant Hanfu, if you do some clerical work, then there is no problem, but many people are engaged in It is some technical work, such as an engineer or something.

Even managers need to go to the workshop to inspect or something.

It's very dangerous to wear a large and elegant Hanfu... If you accidentally get caught in your clothes by various mechanical equipment, you will lose your life in minutes.

This kind of thing happens a lot. The middle and upper classes naturally don't wear loose and elegant Hanfu when they are working, especially when they go to the workshop. It is irresponsible for their own lives, but what do they wear?

Wearing clothes similar to military uniforms.

Specifically, it is slim-fit trousers, a round-neck inner jacket, a double-breasted jacket with a lapel right lapel, or a single-breasted jacket with a lapel collar.

In the winter, I also imitated the officers to wear a long and wide woolen coat.

Basically, I brought over the military uniform, but there are definitely not so many details. For example, the trousers of other military uniforms have vertical lines of different colors according to the different types of military, and ordinary people's clothes will naturally not have these Variegated vertical lines are generally solid colors.

There are also a variety of colors. It will not only be black as in the later generations. Except for yellow, no one wears other colors. There are more blacks, and there are many dark colors such as gray. There are even many people wearing them. Red.

These days, red is not a color exclusively for women, it has nothing to do with sissy, it is the color of formal dresses for officials from the fourth rank and above!

Red clothes are very serious in traditional Chinese society. Like yellow and purple, they have special political significance.

In the early Ming Dynasty, a man whose official position was less than the fourth grade, you had no chance to wear red clothes except on the day of marriage. Later, the official system was gradually relaxed, but few ordinary men would wear bright red clothes, after all, it was a taboo.

In the Ming Dynasty, it was the dream of countless scholars to wear a scarlet official robe dignifiedly. Well, even today's Great Chu Empire is no exception.

Of course, the Great Chu Empire has very loose control over clothing and clothing colors. Even in terms of official uniforms, the Great Chu Empire has never formulated the so-called regular official uniforms, only the ceremonial official robes that continue the tradition of thousands of years. Officials, you can wear whatever you like...but I don't know why, you just wear Confucian uniforms just like Luo Zhixue... This also makes Luo Zhixue very painful.

As for ordinary people, it doesn't matter, you can wear whatever you like!

Well, there is an exception for formal official dresses...such as red official robes, which ordinary people can't wear.

In terms of color matching, bright yellow is the emperor's special color, and no one else can use it. Those who are eligible to wear some yellow decorations are all clothes specially rewarded by Luo Zhixue.

Except for these two points, the others basically don't matter.

Generally speaking, there are very few taboos in clothing culture in the Great Chu Empire. As long as you don't play the royal family and the official face openly, basically no one will take care of you.

Even if you hide at home and wear yellow clothes, no one cares about you. Of course, it is rumored that you are wandering around the street, or you have been reported to say otherwise... But it will not be said that you are trying to rebel, at most it is up to you A few days, a fine or something.

As for the dragon robe... ahem, that's a big problem.

Based on the situation of the Great Chu Empire in terms of dress and etiquette, coupled with the deep-rooted traditional concepts, for most ordinary people, even low-level officials, it is impossible to wear red official robes in this life. Wearing a red Hanfu in the clothes is also embarrassing, and even violates the taboo of Shangguan...

For example, the magistrate, the magistrate, spent half his life trying to put on a scarlet official gown...even in ceremonial occasions, he could only wear it to show off. On weekdays, he could only wear an ordinary blue Confucian uniform and a badge.

Then you dangle in front of him in a red Hanfu that is similar to the scarlet official gown... Does the magistrate feel happy after seeing it?

Be careful that the magistrate will slap you to death!
So many people are aiming at the new style of work clothes... Wearing a red woolen jacket is not the same thing as traditional Hanfu, so there is nothing wrong with wearing a red one.And the top really doesn't care.

Ever since... many people like to wear red woolen jackets.

This situation made Luo Zhixue find it strange!

But people like this, and he doesn't bother to care!

The contemporary Great Chu Empire is a very special and complicated era. It is not only a highly centralized central imperial dynasty, but also an industrialized country.

At the same time, the Great Chu Empire started from agriculturalization to industrialization, and the whole process took only 30 years. If we talk about the large-scale application of steam engines, it will take less than 20 years to add up, and it will only take a mere ten years to enter the era of trains and ships.

In such a short period of time, Luo Zhixue led a group of ancient people to rush from the agricultural age to the industrial age, which also brought about countless violent collisions or fusions of tradition and modernity.

In the end, it became the current state of the Great Chu Empire...

If you say it is an industrialized country, it is still a feudal dynasty at heart. From education to imperial examinations to the official system, etc., it is actually the same as the feudal dynasty.

You say he is a feudal dynasty, but he really travels all over the world with ships and trains!

This is especially true when it comes to civilian employment, living customs, and cultural etiquette. Up to the current position, in the orthodox education of the Great Chu Empire, students still learn classical Chinese.

But, change the subject, people can talk about astronomy and geography with you, and discuss mathematics, physics and chemistry seriously.

This may seem weird to future generations, but it is normal in the contemporary Great Chu Empire.

Learning the words of the sages is to become an official, and learning mathematics, physics and chemistry is also for the purpose of becoming an official. To the countless scholars of the Great Chu Empire, learning both at the same time does not conflict...it is even a matter of course.

If you don't study, how can you take the imperial examination and become an official?

With a sage's words in one hand and mathematics, physics and chemistry in the other, this is the contemporary student of the Great Chu Empire!
(End of this chapter)