Daming 1805

Chapter 253 Military Conference
The next morning, the early court was changed to Wuyingdian.

After the routine work summary and report, a special meeting on military and political affairs began.

All main personnel from the Military Aircraft Department, the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, and the Ministry of War participated.

Dai Quheng first presented the new map of the division of the five military commanders' mansions.

After the end of the World War, the scope of Ming's direct control increased significantly, and the key world situation changed drastically.

The original area in charge of the Five Armed Forces Governor's Mansion is already somewhat inappropriate.

Originally, it should have been reassigned after the end of the war, but the old emperor Zhu Zhongliang deliberately left this job.

After Zhu Jianyan ascended the throne, the adjustment work officially started.

Zhu Jianyan looked at the map in front of him, and Dai Quheng next to him was responsible for explaining:

"Your Majesty, based on the opinions of all parties, it is basically agreed that the jurisdiction of the Five Armed Forces Governor's Mansion should not be limited to the mainland of the Ming Dynasty and the vassal states, but should be strategically deployed throughout the world.

"The Commander's Mansion of the Chinese Army is in charge of the mainland of the Ming Dynasty, Tianzhu, Nanyang, Tiannan and the islands of the Ming Ocean.

"The Rear Army Commander's Mansion is in charge of Xianbei, Anxi, Lucia, and the northwestern part of Taixi.

"The Governor's Mansion of the Right Army is responsible for the surrounding areas of the Great Qinhai Sea, the western and southern parts of the Taixi Continent, the Sahara region, Dashi, Persia, and Ottoman.

"The former military governor's office is in charge of the Mozhou area south of the Sahara.

"The Governor's Mansion of the Left Army is in charge of Yinzhou, but actually it is only in charge of Yinzhou north of Panama, and the Central Yinzhou Islands.

"The new Tianfu Huangzhuang troops are actually responsible for the strategy of Southern Yinzhou."

Zhu Jianyan has been watching the adjustment process throughout, and has a basic understanding of these situations, and now it is officially finalized.

After confirming that there was nothing beyond the plan, Zhu Jianyan looked at the map and nodded slightly:

"Okay, let's make it so, what about the situation of the new warship?"

Dai Quheng immediately reported:

"After completing the last round of tests, the two new cruisers and two destroyers entered the Dinghai Shipyard of the Zhoushan Naval Base for the first modification since they entered service.

"The main thing is to install the whole ship's public address system, and at the same time make adjustments to the problems found in the recent use.

"The battleship Intrepid and the aircraft carrier Dinghai, which are not yet officially in service, will make similar adjustments at the dock of the shipyard."

For warships, it is not a special thing to rebuild them just after they are completed, and it is even more normal if they are test ships.

It is not uncommon to change the drawings after construction, to change the design before completion, and to add functions before service.

Except for some warships that participated in the exhibition immediately after entering service, and sank directly when they went out, the life of most warships is spent in repeated refitting.

The warship itself is a huge integrated weaponry system.

It is normal to adjust the subsystems on the ship during use.

It's just that the size of the adjustment varies from ship to ship.

According to the agreement between the Daming Navy and the shipyard, the large-scale transformation and mid-term overhaul of the capital ship will be completed by the shipyard.

Small-scale transformation of capital ships after service, transformation of cruisers and ships below service, and routine maintenance and overhaul of all ships are all completed by the Navy's own shipyards.

At the same time, the three most important main naval bases in the Ming Dynasty, Zhoushan, Jiulong, and Lushun, were actually selected around the three complete shipbuilding bases.

The supporting facilities available to the shipyards of naval bases are actually exactly the same as those used by specialized shipyards.

It's just that the overall scale of the naval shipyard is smaller, mainly responsible for the repair and maintenance of ships, and occasionally build some small boats.

After hearing this, Zhu Jianyan asked casually:
"The Governor's Mansion, the Military Aircraft Department, and the Ministry of War, what do you think of these new cruisers and destroyers?
"The main reason is that compared to previous warships, do they have enough obvious advantages?"

Or Dai Quheng reported as a representative:
"Overall, I am satisfied. The speed, battery life, and weapon projection are far superior to old ships of the same level.

"Although the failure rate is relatively high, it is foreseeable that it will gradually decrease with continuous construction and repair."

Zhu Jianyan asked the Ministry of War and the Governor's Mansion for their opinions, and finally made a decision and said:

"Then start building in batches and replace the old ships with new ones one by one.

"Old ships that are relatively old and in poor condition are decommissioned and dismantled.

"The hulls are in good condition and relatively new, and they are sold to Thai and Western countries.

"Either send it to a vassal state, or serve as a defensive fleet."

The relevant personnel immediately wrote down Zhu Jianyan's meaning, and then Dai Quheng continued to ask:
"Your Majesty, what about the capital ships? Are you starting to build the second batch? Are you also replacing the old ships one by one?

Zhu Jianyan obviously hesitated this time:
"The new capital ship of [-] tons has double the tonnage of the original capital ship, and the cost has more than tripled.

"The cost of replacing the old ship one-to-one is too high, the key is that the two demonstration ships have just been built and have not yet been extensively tested.

"Really the same type, the same level of fearlessness, Zhenhai has just begun to build tentatively.

"It's better to be a little conservative, and make a decision after Dinghai and Intrepid complete the basic verification test."

Zhu Jianyan directly made up his mind, and the matter was basically settled.

The meeting continued to discuss some other issues and determined more details, and it didn't end until noon.

All important matters that need to be made public that day were sent to the vassal states around the world when the government was released that day, in accordance with the central court's important affairs reporting practice.

Zhu Jingyuan of the Quicksand City of the Great Food Kingdom has also received the notifications for the past two days.

Finding out that Daming's first official video and film was made by the Minister of Rites to teach the Analects, Zhu Jingyuan was really speechless.

The literati of Ming Dynasty attached great importance to enlightenment, but in many cases it was only on the surface.

In fact, there is still no universal primary education in Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Jingyuan's talk about the self-moving habits left by the old literati is not very good.

But after thinking about it, even paying attention to it on the surface is much better than not paying attention at all, so I was relieved.

The thing that made Zhu Jingyuan more emotional was the adjustment of the jurisdiction of the Fifth Army Commander's Mansion.

This time, the Ming army really stated bluntly that they were going to "global deployment".

All the land and sea areas in the entire region were directly divided into six parts.

It is under the responsibility of the five Dudufu and one Huangzhuang Army.

When the report was almost finished, Chunxiang came in from the outside and reported:

"Your Highness, Mr. Zheng came to report that the polyethylene material you requested has been successfully made, would you like to have a look?"

"it is good!"

Zhu Jingyuan immediately stood up:

"I'm going over here!"

Polyethylene is a plastic, the earliest petrochemical plastic.

For Daming, which has mastered coal chemical industry and synthetic plastics from natural organic materials, polyethylene may have little impact before it matures.

But it is very important to the big food country.

With polyethylene plastic, Dashi Country also has a relatively convenient industrial base.

In this era, most industrial industries are highly dependent on raw materials.

The first industrial revolution can only be born in places with coal and steel. Coal and steel meet the mining area is the best industrial area.

The second industrial revolution requires mastery of crude oil sources and refining technologies.

If the Great Food Country wants to build coal-fired factories and iron and steel factories, then coal and iron ore must be imported, and there is no competitive advantage in the Great Ming system.

But if the industry is replaced by petrochemical industry, then the Great Food Country will have an absolute advantage in resources.

Raw materials and energy can basically be self-produced, and catalysts are mainly imported.

The big food country can have its own advantageous industry.

(End of this chapter)