Western suburbs of Paris.
Sa Zhenbing, as a naval admiral and a military attache of the mission, is heading to Paris.
The huge team of envoys had colorful flags flying.
In order to prevent unnecessary vicious diplomatic incidents, both Britain and France sent cavalry teams to escort, and even the Spanish cavalry came.
The British cavalry escort was to prevent the French army from harming the mission.
The French cavalry escort was to prevent the British troops from harming the mission.
The Spanish cavalry escort was to prevent the "British and French coalition forces" from being detrimental to the mission.
In short, everyone has their own worries and their own hidden agendas.
The huge delegation crossed the wilderness, and many farmers stopped to watch curiously.
Sa Zhenbing held up his telescope to observe the skyline. The city walls of Paris came into view, and the outer bastion defense zone gradually became clearer.
In the mission, everyone pointed at Paris in the distance and commented.
In this era, Paris was not yet synonymous with romance.
There is no Arc de Triomphe, no Eiffel Tower, the buildings are so low...and dirty.
Like other cities in Europe, Paris follows the fine traditions of medieval cities.
The dirty sewers, the streets full of feces and urine, the sloppy lives of ordinary people...
As expected, before the mission entered Paris, they saw mountains of feces outside the city.
European farmers do not have the tradition of retting. These grains are piled up in a mess outside the city, hoping that nature will degrade them.
But in Paris, it was a different scene.
Everyone in the mission couldn't move at all.
Sa Zhenbing walked on the dirty streets and observed them carefully for a while before he found a few open spaces where he could see the original appearance of the road.
The French officials who acted as guides looked embarrassed, especially the York people who had been to the East. They wanted to find a crack in the ground and crawl into it.
There was no other way, so York sent people to find a large number of European specialties, including high heels, high hats, crutches, waistcoats, black umbrellas...
Only then did the Ming Dynasty envoy endure the nausea and enter Paris.
In the envoy, Kelebella Rothschild's face was red, her hands were firmly holding Yang Cheng's arm, and her head was lowered.
What a shame!
Kelebella knew that the etiquette and integrity of nobles in Europe were indeed inferior to those in the East. After seeing this scene, her inferiority complex became stronger.
"Someone threw shit!"
"Hurry and protect the Ming Dynasty mission!"
Suddenly, on the second floor of a house on one side of the street, a fat lady came out with a urinal.
The whole street was in chaos.
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"I don't know what happened to the mission..."
Zhu Zaiming stood at the window on the 6th floor of Bagua Building, looking at the busy construction site in the distance, and finished a piece of meat bun in two mouthfuls.
This is what the Ming Emperor had for lunch today.
Or rather, lunch for officials from various ministries in the Bagua Building.
I have been so busy recently that the department canteen simply made meat buns and delivered them directly to various offices.
It saves officials time to walk, allowing officials more time to devote to their work.
In this regard, officials from various ministries not only have no complaints, but are even very motivated.
Because Zhu Zaiming was so kind to officials, he received high salaries and various benefits according to his official position.
More importantly, the publicity team of the Ministry of Rites comes from time to time to film the working scenes of the Bagua Building.
What's this?
This is the name.
For these officials, their families had no worries about food and clothing and were quite wealthy.
Full, warm and lustful, fame is the most attractive to them.
Being able to appear in the "Da Ming Pao" and be praised by people on the street in the future makes them feel that their life is worth it.
What's the point of being tired?
If Bagua Building didn't have hygiene image requirements, they could move the bed to the office!
Therefore, there is a scene of a group of officials working in the office while eating meat buns, and the emperor is not exempt from this custom.
After Zhu Zaiming finished eating the meat buns, he poured some warm water from an enamel vat to moisten his throat.
Then return to the office area and get back to work.
First up are action items for Solomon Islands and New Zealand.
Although these two places are close to Australia, they are still in the hands of colonists from the British Empire and other countries, such as France, the Netherlands, and Spain.
After Shen Lian was busy with the peaceful takeover of Guangdong and Guangxi, he arrived in Australia on the navy cruiser Pingyuan, and secretly went to Solomon to investigate the colonists.
Through investigation, Shen Lian discovered that the colonists in the Solomon Islands were mainly the British Empire.
And there are rumors that the British Solomon Islands have lost contact with the British Empire for a long time.
The cabinet gathered together and simply published the fake news in the "Da Ming Pao" that Governor Solomon said that the United States of America had become independent and that he was disloyal to the British.
And Zhu Zaiming wanted to bring the Solomon Islands under the rule of the Ming Dynasty under the banner of "helping George III to clear the emperor's side".
Just fight fast enough and blockade the Solomon Islands.
George III, who was far away in Europe, would never know the truth!
As a result, Zhu Zaiming approved the cabinet's proposal and instructed the General's Office to formulate a plan and take action.
After deciding the fate of the Luomen Islands, the next government issue made Zhu Zaiming raise his eyebrows.
Officials from the Ministry of Industry at the Tianjin Port Shipyard inspected the dry dock and the only keel of the Daqing...
He said that the foundation of the dry dock was not laid well. After the Daqing was built, the tracks at the bottom of the ship would be pressed into the soft sand, and the Daqing would not be able to launch the ship at all.
At the same time, the drawings of the Daqing were quite broken. The wooden keel could not withstand the massive weight of the main gun. The old steam engine could not even drive the tail rotor, and there was not even a sealing design for the tail rotor...
In summary, the Qinghao has no construction value at all.
But officials from the Ministry of Rites had different opinions.
For some reasons and purposes, officials from the Ministry of Rites believed that the Qing Dynasty must be built.
Not only must it be built, but it must be built with great fanfare.
Jiaqing likes multiple turrets, so design a multi-turret battleship for him.
Zhu Zaiming sat on the chair and saw the "clang" sound of the abacus made by the officials of the Ministry of Rites from between the lines of the request document.
According to the information coming back from Europe, it is almost time for the wooden-ribbed iron-clad ships from various countries to be launched.
The new batch of battleships are also under intense design and demonstration, and they consciously began to imitate the Dingyuan-class battleships.
The steam engine is almost there, the artillery is almost there, the armored steel is almost there, the tail rotor design is almost there... they are all close.
But isn’t it impossible to make it~
If you don’t build one and try it out, how do you know if you can do it?
When the news came back to Jinling, the officials of the Ministry of Rites had one more thing on their minds, thinking all day long about how to deviate from the European warship design.
It wasn't until they saw Jiaqing's multi-turret design that their eyes lit up and their ideas opened up in their minds.
Multiple turrets looked nice, with lots of pipes, and the admirals liked them very much.
But Ming, who had rich technical information, knew in his heart that the multi-turret religion would do more harm than good.
More turrets, plus a transmission structure and ammunition supply device under the turret, occupy the displacement resources of the battleship.
We need to know that the entire turret ranges from a few hundred tons to thousands of tons. How much displacement resources will so many turrets take up?
This means that the caliber of the main gun is limited, which means that the armor is weakened.
When it comes to naval battles, the range of the artillery is not as good as that of a serious main gun, and the armor is also a mess.
The skin is thin and the filling is big.
After carefully considering the document's recommendations, Zhu Zaiming approved the construction of the Daqing.
The construction of the Shen Yulong Admiral-class battleship cannot be completed in one or two years.
Before that, let's use the Qing Dynasty to fool the European powers.
Feng Haizhou, who was far away in Chongming Military Shipyard, danced with excitement after receiving the telegram from Jinling.
Even some naval generals were alarmed, and when they had time, they went to the shipyard to observe the design process of the new generation of Qing.
At Tianjin Port, the keel of the Daqing was loaded onto a ship and shipped to Chongming.
When building the Qing Dynasty, although it was not a wooden-ribbed iron-clad ship, the wooden keel was not useless.
For example, cut out a piece of wood and build two models.
One is the Qing Dynasty version model.
One is the Ming Dynasty version model.
In the future, it will be placed on the captain's podium in the command tower of the Daqing, which is of great commemorative significance.
