Daming 1805

Chapter 156 The Future Project of the Great Food Country
Zhu Jingyuan sat in the lobby of his palace, holding a telegram from the capital of the Ming Dynasty, and fell into sorrow.

The Taishan Fengchan Grand Ceremony was ready, and my grandfather and father asked my opinion if I should go back to participate.

If Zhu Jingyuan doesn't go back to participate, they will hold it at the end of this month.

If Zhu Jingyuan wants to go back to participate, he will postpone the ceremony until the end of next month.

Looking at this question, Zhu Jingyuan's mood became a little confused.

Zhu Jingyuan already knew about the fact that the old emperor was going to Mount Tai to enshrine Zen.

But there is always a lack of realism.

After 800 years since Song Zhenzong, the emperor of the Central Plains Dynasty held this special ceremony again.

This ceremony must be very different from the model before the Song Dynasty.

After all, it has been broken for 800 years.

But the difference in specific etiquette is secondary.

The difference in context and connotation and impact is what matters.

Because the current Central Plains dynasty is no longer a classical agricultural dynasty, but an industrialized and modernized world empire.

The news related to the Fengchan Grand Ceremony has spread wildly in the past month or so, with various comments emerging one after another.

From court to folk, from teahouses to restaurants, there are people talking about it everywhere.

This must be the most influential Zen ceremony in history.

For the first time, a large number of civilized common people really had a certain sense of participation in this ancient ceremony.

This is the biggest difference.

Zhu Jingyuan subconsciously thought, will relevant officials and businessmen turn the ceremony into a commercial activity?
At least engage in commercial activities?
Turn a waste of time and money into a profitable business?
In fact, the theoretical scale of this time is far greater than that of the ancient Zen ceremony, and the impact on the lives of relevant personnel is actually much smaller than that of ancient times.

The Ministry of Rites and relevant local officials only spent more than a month preparing for the ceremony, and most of them were thinking about the process.

Counting the emperor's travel time, the relevant officials were busy for at most ten days.

As for the officials along the way, there is no need to prepare to meet the emperor, just improve the local law and order.

The emperor didn't look around halfway, and took the train directly to the foot of Mount Tai.

From the capital to Mount Tai, the distance is more than 600 kilometers, even if it is a train traveling at a speed of [-] kilometers per hour, it will take one day and one night.

Counting the time spent traveling back and forth by the emperor, the whole event would be over in less than ten days.

There is no such thing as a few months of tossing in ancient times.

Zhu Jingyuan watched his father and grandfather's analysis and reminders, and finally decided not to go back.

On the way back, I had to visit my own food country.

For more than three months, the oil field has been able to produce stably, and I have to arrange new tasks for them.

Can't keep drilling.

The amount of fuel that the entire world needs now is very limited.

If the oil depot of Dashiguo releases its supply, the market will soon be saturated, and the price of crude oil will drop to the cost price.

Then the consortium's oil fields in Nanyang will be squeezed out of bankruptcy.

That is not conducive to the healthy and stable development of the market, and you may be in big trouble at that time.

It is impossible for an oil exploration company to take advantage of a loophole to bankrupt a regular oil company.

Therefore, the big food country has to collect some production, and can turn to the research and development of oil-related technologies, and deliver production capacity and products to other industries.

For example, the new catalytic cracking oil refining technology, such as starting to prepare for the petrochemical industry.

Petroleum is the blood of industry, a very important industrial raw material, and it can even be considered a waste to burn it.

All kinds of wire insulation materials, pipes and sealing materials, all kinds of modern plastic and rubber products, and all kinds of synthetic fibers.

Specific to people's life, if the clothes of modern people are not specifically made of pure cotton, hemp, wool, silk and other materials, they are basically made of synthetic fibers.

From sportswear to underwear, from overalls to swimwear, from organza to stockings, almost all of them are refined from petroleum.

When thinking came here, Zhu Jingyuan suddenly realized a problem.

In the traditional Thai and Western clothing, the clothing style before the Napoleonic era, both men and women still wear silk stockings.

But natural silk has no elasticity, men can only fix it on the trouser legs of tight shorts, women will use it in skirts and hang it with suspenders.

If you make your own elastic spandex and nylon stockings, they can definitely be sold as luxury goods in Western countries.

Turning oil, which is cheaper than water, into a luxury...

In addition, the trouser legs and arms of the later generations are relatively loose, and the three-dimensional cut and straight suits have not yet fully formed.

Prototype clothes and trousers may have already existed, and both East and West originally had loose clothes and trousers.

But those are work or casual clothes, which are "unrefined".

Thai and Western nobles also wear tight shorts and stockings.

During the French Revolution in history, the revolutionaries actually had a special self-proclaimed name:
"The Man Who Doesn't Wear Leggings".

They always wore loose trousers, which expressed a break with the traditional aristocracy.

After the French Revolution, the bourgeoisie began to replace the old aristocracy as the master of the times.

Baggy trousers and tuxedos, as well as top hats that are like symbols of the times, have all become popular.

The typical modern "capitalist" image in later generations of film and television dramas and comics has finally taken shape, and the Victorian era has arrived.

The impact of the French Revolution is far-reaching.

In this era of this world, the ruling ability of the old nobles is still strong.

Not only did the emerging bourgeoisie not break with the old aristocracy, but they made deep peace with each other.

Therefore, the clothing style of the bourgeoisie also followed the old aristocrats, and they were proud of wearing tight shorts and silk stockings.

These days when Zhu Jingyuan was negotiating, seeing that Taixi man's thick legs in stockings all day made Zhu Jingyuan feel uncomfortable for a long time.

When Zhu Jingyuan recalled these things, he instinctively diverted his thinking.

Can I "design" the complete "capitalist" suit and sell it in the markets of Western countries?

It is very easy for Daming to change the popular style of Taixi people now.

Find a prince or something to wear it publicly, and then take a photo to promote it a little bit.

It may be better to demonstrate the effect yourself.

However, will this kind of simple clothing, which completely removes the decorations of Thai and Western aristocrats, be regarded as Ming-style fashion?
And then in turn make people from all over the world stick to their national costumes?
Men continue to wear stockings for 1 years without wavering?
Uh……

That would make me visually uncomfortable, but I can make money selling stockings!
Left and right should be fine.

perhaps……

With mixed feelings, Zhu Jingyuan first recorded these thoughts, waiting for an opportunity to try them out.

Then he wrote a simple reply to his father and grandfather, telling them that he was planning to go to the Great Food Country to take a good look, and that he would not return to the capital years ago.

Ask the aide Niu Jian to send a telegram back to the capital.

Zhu Jingyuan left the lobby and the palace by himself, and under the guard of soldiers led by Guan Tianpei, he went to the courtyard where the craftsmen lived not far away.

Since I will not return to the capital for the time being, some issues must be decided in the past few days.

Zhu Jingyuan came to Xiyang Cape with two design teams.

It is necessary to simultaneously complete the design of "radical target exploration" battleships, aircraft carriers, cruisers, and destroyers.

Now most of the designs have been completed, but the design plans have also diverged, and the craftsmen have new ideas.

Zhu Jingyuan walked through the outer courtyard and came to the courtyard where the craftsmen's daily meeting hall was located. As soon as he entered the door, he heard the sound of arguments inside.

"The new 360mm fifty times caliber naval gun uses a heavy-duty hardened hood armor-piercing projectile, and its power far exceeds our expectations."

"If our new warship design does not increase the overall tonnage, we can only use the core protection design."

"Abandon unnecessary positions and focus on strengthening the protection level of the core area to ensure combat effectiveness in the decisive battle."

"Our Ming's sea area is too vast. The daily task of high-speed warships is to maintain Ming's dominance in all sea areas."

"The core protection design is too extreme. After the bow and stern are damaged, the navigation performance will decline precipitously. It is only suitable for short-term fleet decisive battles."

"That kind of deformed weapon that can only be used in decisive battles cannot maintain our rule on the ocean!"

"Only warships designed with graded protection can maintain combat effectiveness in continuous low-level battles."

"His Royal Highness is coming—"

When Zhu Jingyuan walked into the lobby, Wang Lai, the head of the ship department, immediately reacted, shouted quickly, and then led the craftsmen to salute together.

Zhu Jingyuan smiled and bowed his hands in return. After entering the lobby, he found a place to sit down very casually, looked at Wang Lai and said:

"Or no one can convince anyone?"

Wang Lai suddenly smiled bitterly and said:
"Yeah, I've been arguing for the past few days, but there is no result at all.

"The data of the new naval gun given by the Armament Department is so strong that we once thought it was fake, but now everyone feels a lot of pressure.

"Even if the armor is thickened to [-] millimeters, it cannot guarantee the safety at a distance of ten kilometers.

"So the current situation is, either adopt the most extreme core protection, or continue to enlarge the tonnage to [-] tons.

"The construction cost of a [-]-ton battleship is too exaggerated..."

Zhu Jingyuan just smiled.

Daming's new 360mm [-]-caliber naval gun, coupled with his own request for a new design of heavy-duty hooded armor-piercing shells, already has the power of the cutting-edge naval guns of World War II.

The combat range of the cutting-edge warships of World War II was [-] kilometers.

The World War II was already an era when the spear was slightly larger than the shield. The battleships of World War II all pierced each other randomly at a distance of ten kilometers.

There is no absolute defense anymore.

Now the Ming craftsmen's understanding of naval combat methods has just been raised from a five-kilometer bayonet fight to a ten-kilometer battle line.

As a result, it was immediately discovered that the defense of ten kilometers was about to be completely ineffective.

Whether it is a craftsman or an admiral, it takes time to accept these realities and then conceive a new stage of combat theory.

But Zhu Jingyuan had already prepared weapons for them.

The warships they designed under the guidance of Zhu Jingyuan themselves have no problems.

It's just a matter of trade-offs.

(End of this chapter)