Daming 1805

Chapter 501 Let's be crowned as soon as possible

One day after the Ming mission arrived in London, the funeral of King George III of England was officially held.

Representatives from Daming, Thailand and Western countries went to the funeral of King George III together.

George III is the official king, and he is closely related to all countries in Thailand and Western countries, so the kings and couples of the Thai and Western countries all came to funeral George III in person.

In the original history, since George III built a special royal cemetery in St. George's Chapel in Windsor Castle, starting from George III, the British king and his wife were all buried in St. George's Chapel.

The British royal family in this life may not be as rich as the British in the previous life, and did not specifically build a royal cemetery.

Instead, he continued to be buried in the Westminster Church in London, like the previous kings.

On this day, both sides of the road where George III was sent to the church were full of ordinary British people who came to watch the ceremony.

George III is not considered unpopular, but as the king who has ruled the country for 60 years, his authority is very strong.

Many Britons have grown up knowing that their king is George III.

Until I reached the age of retirement, my king was George III.

These people are by now accustomed to living in this past country.

The death of George III also means that an era has officially ended, and a new era with an uncertain future is coming.

The coffin of George III was sent to the crypt inside the cathedral.

The descendants and kings who came to the funeral said goodbye again in front of George III's coffin.

The actual burial method of the Taixi people is very simple, just find a place to put the sealed coffin.

However, the etiquette link is complicated, and it took almost a whole day to toss back and forth.

During the whole day, when the guests had a lot of rest and waiting, the kings and representatives of the Thai and Western countries had another opportunity to communicate.

The funerals of high-level celebrities are informal diplomatic events.

King William III of Prussia and Emperor Nicholas of Lucia found an opportunity to get together.

William III lowered his voice slightly and asked Nicholas:
"Is Lucia ready?"

Nicholas's expression was somewhat resentful:

"It's not a question of whether we have done well, but a question of whether we can sustain it.

"I still don't understand why a country that was unprecedentedly prosperous suddenly fell into a pool of stagnant water.

"What I don't understand is why Daming doesn't seem to have the same problem.

"The situation in France, which is more closely connected with Ming Dynasty, is much better than ours.

"Even Britain, which was forced by the royal family to cooperate with Daming reluctantly, seems to be better than us.

"Is it just because the manufacturers of Ming Dynasty usually pay workers more wages?"

William III shook his head directly:

"I don't have the energy to analyze the situation in your country, I just ask are you ready?"

Nicholas said at once:

"The preparations have been made, but before we act, we need to say hello to Emperor Ming.

"It's best to get the support of the Ming Emperor, at least if he acquiesces and does not object.

"At the same time, Lucia also needs to re-discuss the distribution of the Vol-Ural oilfield's income with Daming.

"In short, everything will be discussed after the enthronement ceremony of Emperor Ming."

William III asked with some uncertainty:

"Are you going to attend the enthronement ceremony of Emperor Ming in person?"

Nicholas nodded slightly:
"I'm really, really ready to go in person.

"It is rare for Ming to invite us to participate in their emperor's enthronement ceremony, and we must pay enough attention to it.

"We, you and I, have all had friendship with Emperor Ming, so we should go there in person.

"More importantly, personally confirm the attitude of the Ming Emperor.

"Get the emperor of Ming Dynasty not to oppose our actions."

William III let out a long breath:
"We really should go in person."

After the day's funeral, George IV presided over a low-key small-scale banquet.

Of course there is no singing or dancing, just having dinner together.

After the banquet, the representatives of various countries returned to their residences to rest for one night, and went home one after another the next day.

Charlotte found her father again the next day and asked about his coronation.

George IV was a little surprised, and answered casually:
"Wait until next year..."

Charlotte said at once:
"Father, I think you should attend the enthronement ceremony of the Ming Emperor as an official king."

George IV was obviously taken aback:
"Should I personally attend the enthronement ceremony of Emperor Ming?"

Charlotte rightly said:

"That's right, this is the first time Daming has done this, and besides, the current Emperor of Ming has already had friendship with you.

"Especially, the current situation in Europa Continent, I always feel that it is not stable enough.

"I think you should go and say hello to Emperor Ming in person."

George IV hesitated a little:

"In that case, I really should go, the enthronement hall of Emperor Ming, no Taixi nobles have participated in it before.

"Just, according to what you mean, you want me to be crowned before the end of the year, and then go to Daming?"

Charlotte nodded again:
"I hope you can be crowned as soon as possible, and the time can be placed on Christmas in the Western calendar.

"The time for the enthronement ceremony of the Ming emperor has been confirmed to be in the beginning of spring next year.

"According to the Western calendar, it was February 1821, 2, nearly forty days before Christmas.

"You were crowned on Christmas and then rushed to Daming by boat, and it was still too late."

George IV was still a bit hesitant:

"According to the Western calendar, it is already the end of August, and there are only four months left until Christmas.

"This time is used to prepare for the coronation ceremony, it is too tense, and many things can't be done..."

Charlotte is also familiar with Dad:
"Father, look at the domestic situation now, do you still want to prepare a very grand and extravagant coronation ceremony?
"According to the tradition of Ming Dynasty, when the state of the country is not good, everything should be kept simple."

George IV is indeed pursuing luxury. If he completely follows his own meaning, he really wants to make his coronation ceremony as grand as possible.

After all, he has been the actual king for more than ten years, and now he can finally become the official king, and he is finally going to become the legitimate ruler of the United Kingdom.

How can this not be a good celebration...

But George IV was also softer.

In particular, Charlotte became more and more powerful. After repeated persuasion and even a run, George IV finally made a decision.

Complete the coronation ceremony as soon as possible, and then go to Ming Dynasty as the official king.

Then, under the urging of Charlotte, he directly convened the Prime Minister and other personnel from all aspects, and publicly announced his decision.

However, although he accepted the suggestion of coronation as soon as possible, George IV still wanted his coronation ceremony to be as grand as possible.

The British are used to the coronation parade, and of course George IV cannot be left behind.

I heard that Ming Dynasty will hold a military parade for the army and air force, and George IV is also planning to hold a military parade in advance.

Charlotte did not continue to argue in such a place.

Charlotte has achieved her goal, let her father be crowned as soon as possible, and then go to Daming with him.

Therefore, he directly urged the relevant personnel to start preparations immediately, and at the same time notified the royal families of the various countries.

Let the early coronation become an established fact.

The British are busy preparing for the king's coronation ceremony, and the Ming people are also preparing for the emperor's enthronement ceremony.

The ministers appointed by Zhu Jingyuan arrived one after another, and a new round of semiconductor technology research was launched simultaneously.

The exploration of candidate sites for the space launch center under the auspices of Qin Tianjian is also continuing.

Time flies and more than two months have passed.

On the first day of October in the 15th year of Ankang, after the Ming Dynasty's daily morning routine, Qi Yanhuai of the Qin Tianjian stayed here and presented a report to the emperor.

Formal proposals for the location of the rocket launch center.

While Zhu Jingyuan was sitting on the imperial case and flipping through the report, Qi Yanhuai also made a verbal report and explained the situation below.

Mainly to mark Zhu Jingyuan's key points.

The content of this plan is much richer and more detailed than what was discussed in Qin Tianjian.

After all, it took more than two months to prepare.

The first is to actually calculate the fuel and load gaps of the same rocket at different locations according to the current theory.

Of course, this is still a theoretical calculation result, and no actual experiment has been carried out.

However, it should be more accurate than the original estimate.

According to Qin Tianjian's calculations, if a geosynchronous satellite is launched, the load launched by the rocket in the equatorial region can be increased by more than 30.00% compared with the load launched in the latitude of about [-] degrees.

In the Lion City area near the equator, compared with the Ningbo area near 15.00 degrees north latitude, the rocket load can be increased by [-]%.

This is basically consistent with Zhu Jingyuan's rough estimate at the beginning.

Then Qin Tianjian also carefully evaluated the geological conditions of the several pre-selected sites selected at the beginning.

The geology of this era is not very perfect.

In the original history, it was at least 40 years before the plate theory was put forward.

"Fortunately," Emperor Shizu Guangwu put forward this hypothesis in advance, and in conjunction with the very detailed local chronicles of the Ming Dynasty, the geological research of the Ming Dynasty is unique in the world.

The geographers of the Ming Dynasty, on the one hand, sorted out and consulted the original detailed historical records of various places, and on the other hand, explored and observed more data in the territory of the Ming Dynasty and even the whole world.

But even so, due to the limitations of the times, they lack the necessary equipment, and many things in geology are still mostly hypotheses and conjectures.

Qin Tianjian is now analyzing that the southern islands of Laga (Alaska) and the South Thousand Islands are likely to be located at the junction of the Daming Ocean plate and the Yinzhou or Shenzhou plate.

If this judgment is correct, then the local geological conditions must not be very unstable.

Qin Tianjian consulted the documents recorded after notifying the local area, and found that earthquakes in southern Alaska are indeed relatively frequent.

In areas such as the Japanese archipelago south of the Thousand Islands, the Luzon Islands (Philippines), and Dongning Island (WW) Island, these more civilized areas and closer to Ming Dynasty have also found more records of "earth dragon turning over".

When Zhu Jingyuan saw this, he realized that these places were indeed the edge of the Pacific plate in his previous life, the so-called circum-Pacific seismic belt...

From this, Zhu Jingyuan thought of the United States in his previous life. He did not go to Alaska to build a large space base, probably because there were more earthquakes in southern Alaska.

Zhu Jingyuan vaguely remembered that it was reported in the news in his previous life that a huge earthquake occurred in Alaska.

If you think about it this way, it is really impossible to build a large space base locally.

However, the Vandenberg Air Force Base in the western part of the United States seems to be on the Pacific Rim earthquake belt?

The west coast of the United States and Alaska are both on the earthquake zone, so did you choose a place that is relatively closer to the mainland and far away from Lucia?
It can only be this reason.

Then, if you think about it this way, is the Lion City also on the earthquake zone?

Zhu Jingyuan continued to read the report, Qin Tianjian indeed suspected that Lion City was also on the earthquake zone.

But they went to check the local records of the Lion City and found that there seems to have never been a record of large-scale earth dragon turning over in the Lion City area.

Just separated from the old port in the Strait of Malacca, which is the later Sumatra Island, Dilong turned around very frequently.

Therefore, Qi Yanhuai judged that the Strait of Malacca is a plate boundary, and the Lion City happens not to be on the earthquake zone.

Therefore, the Lion City can indeed be used as a space launch base.

The peninsula where Lion City itself is located, as well as several nearby small islands, have relatively stable geological conditions.

Around the small islands opposite the Lion City, the water depth in most areas is between 20 and [-] meters, which is very convenient for the construction of ports for ships with a capacity of less than [-] tons.

In the sea area of ​​Daming's local fortress, the transport ship that transfers rockets from the north to the local area does not need to be too large, [-] tons is enough for use.

These relatively independent islands in the south of the Lion City can build completely enclosed military bases to avoid interference and prying by the surrounding idlers.

The climate in the Lion City area is indeed hot, but after all, it is a place deep into the ocean, and the climate will be affected by the ocean.

On the small islands in the south of the Lion City, the absolute temperature in most areas does not exceed 31 degrees, which is not particularly hot compared to the summer in Daming.

There are usually more than half a month of sunny days every month, which can be regarded as barely acceptable.

Therefore, Qin Tianjian's final suggestion is to choose a small island in the south of Lion City as the core aerospace base of the greatest civilization.

At the same time, a base dedicated to launching sun-synchronous orbit satellites will be built in Nuer Gandusi.

A place like Nuer Gandusi is not a place with a good environment.

But you can choose to launch as much as possible in summer, where the summer temperature is in the early twenties at most, and it just doesn't feel hot.

However, this is a plan for the emperor to decide, and it is impossible to choose only one option. Otherwise, is this the emperor's decision or the person in charge's decision?

So behind these two suggestions, there are several other options of different types.

Some of these options are beyond the scope of the original plan.

The first is the northeast of Xintianfu, which is where the northeast of the Brazilian plateau protrudes outward.

The plateau here is also close to the equator, but far away from the boundary of the plate. The geological conditions are also very stable, and there has never been a record of earth dragon turning over.

There are places with cooler climates on the plateau, and the vast Atlantic Ocean in the east.

On the other side of the Atlantic Ocean is the southwestern Mexican colony belonging to Ming Dynasty.

Then there is Zhu Jingyuan's planned pension place, the northwest shore of Daming Lake (Lake Victoria) in the east of Mozhou.

According to the information consulted by Qi Yanhuai and the analysis of the local geological environment, it was found that if the problem of the rocket falling was not considered, this place turned out to be the best launch point.

Although Daming Lake is in the Great Rift Valley of East Mozhou, the reason why the Great Rift Valley has become two branches here is because of the special and hard geological structure of this area.

Earthquakes are possible in the surrounding rift valleys, but this place happens to be very stable.

The point is, it's right on the equator, and at the same time it's on a flat, low plateau.

The temperatures on the shores of the Great Lakes are very stable and comfortable.

In some places, the temperature is always maintained between 26 and [-] degrees every day of the year, just like a natural thermostat.

Qi Yanhuai even suggested that aerospace research related institutions can be directly moved there.

Although this is not the local area, it is Zhu Jingyuan's Huangzhuang.

If the emperor continues to pay attention, continue to invest, and continue to build for 30 years, it will be no different from the local.

Finally, there is another option for launch sites in high latitudes.

Still in the Alaska area, but not the southern coastline of Alaska.

Rather, it is on the western coast of Alaska, north of the Alaska Islands.

According to Qin Tianjian's review and analysis, the edge of the plate surrounding the Daming Ocean is the dividing line here, the Aleutian Islands.

The geological environment in the northern part of the Aleutian Islands tends to stabilize.

In some places here, the lowest temperature in winter is about ten degrees below zero, and the lowest temperature is above zero for more than half a year.

Compared with Nuer Gandusi, it is more tolerable.

(End of this chapter)