With the approval of the old emperor, Zhu Jingyuan determined the names of the eight new ships, and the design target presentation meeting finally ended.
Zhu Jingyuan bowed in front of all the audience and returned to his seat in the audience, which was next to where the old emperor was sitting.
The old emperor happily stood up and came on stage, and made a general allocation of the specific design and construction work.
The Ship Department of the Ministry of Industry is responsible for the design and construction of two battleships and two cruisers.
The Royal Dockyard is responsible for the design and construction of two aircraft carriers and two destroyers.
But in addition, both parties are required to cooperate at all times during the initial program discussion and exchange each other's ideas and experiences at any time for the other party to use as a design reference.
Zhu Jingyuan is responsible for the final evaluation of all design plans.
After the matters related to the ship design were finally basically finalized, the old emperor asked Zhu Jingyuan to pay attention to the progress of aircraft development before getting up and returning to the palace.
All the officials, craftsmen, and shopkeepers at the scene stood up and bowed to watch the old emperor leave the scene.
Watching the old emperor disappear, he continued to stand quietly for a few minutes.
After confirming that the old emperor had left the lecture hall building, everyone heaved a sigh of relief.
The scene quickly became noisy. Craftsmen and officials gathered with friends, chatted and went to the canteen of the Ministry of Industry to eat together.
In the afternoon of that day, most of the staff from the government offices and manufacturers left one after another, but the craftsmen from the Royal Dockyard Design Department stayed.
Zhu Jingyuan took the design craftsmen from the Shipbuilding Department and the Royal Shipyard to guide them on-site to draw more accurate sketches.
He explained in detail the design details of bulbous bow, square stern, cruise stern, etc., and went to the site of the engineering department to conduct several simple pool experiments.
The "Ship Model Experimental Pool" is the most important experimental and research site of the shipbuilding department. Its status is somewhat similar to the wind tunnel in aviation engineering.
Drag the ship model to sail in the pool to simulate and test the ship's resistance, stability and other performance.
It is a specially built long pool in a long closed room, surrounded by trailers and various testing tools.
Wang Lai, the director of the Ship Department of the Ministry of Works, led the craftsmen of the Ministry of Works and the Royal Shipyard, and worked in the pool for more than two hours.
Multiple paraffin models were continuously measured to observe the impact of adding bulbous bow, square stern, cruising stern and other designs on the sailing resistance of the ship model.
In the end, they came to a result that was beyond their expectations, but they also vaguely felt that it should be reasonable.
Zhu Jingyuan's ideas were indeed all right.
Whether it is a bulbous bow or a square stern, it can indeed reduce sailing resistance, which means that the same power can be used to obtain greater sailing speed.
However, the pool test of the ship model does not end with confirming that the direction is correct. The correct direction is only the beginning of testing and design.
Next, more careful and comprehensive research and testing are needed to re-stabilize the changed hull shape.
However, these tasks are done step by step. Once you have the right direction, you will not worry about messing around, and your work efficiency will be greatly improved.
As the proposer of the idea, Zhu Jingyuan once again received heartfelt praise from the craftsmen.
He always puts forward unexpected ideas, but he always succeeds and can verify his correctness.
Now the young craftsmen at the Ministry of Industry have obvious respect for Zhu Jingyuan.
Nowadays, the craftsmen basically no longer have to deal with Zhu Jingyuan's requests, and they basically respond to his requests.
This will also improve design efficiency again, but it also makes Zhu Jingyuan a little worried, worried that these craftsmen will form a profound blind obedience mentality.
So Zhu Jingyuan was thinking about how to change the way of communication and transform direct requests into guided thinking...
However, this kind of change obviously cannot be completed in a short time, and the method is not so easy to master. We can only take it one step at a time.
Zhu Jingyuan continued to explain his impression of several typical bulbous bow shapes on different ships.
Let them test and explore themselves to find designs suitable for use on warships and civilian ships of different sizes, and prepare to install and test them on existing warships.
Zhu Jingyuan spoke at the Ministry of Industry all day long, and by the time he left office in the afternoon, his voice was almost hoarse.
Waiting for his father's car to arrive at the yard of the Ministry of Industry, Zhu Jingyuan climbed into the car and sat down, then he lay paralyzed on his back:
"I'm so tired, I feel like my body has been drained..."
Zhu Jianyan motioned to the driver to drive, and at the same time he laughed sarcastically at his son:
"Is this still tiring? I have already done the work you should do for you, otherwise you will have to shoulder the burden of Honglu Temple again?"
Zhu Jingyuan suddenly became a little more energetic after hearing this:
"Father, I think government affairs are much easier than design. Government affairs can be guided by feelings, while design must be every bit more serious..."
Zhu Jianyan was suddenly speechless:
"Government affairs are not as simple as you think. After the negotiations are over, you will start political training and become a people-friendly official at the grassroots level, and you will know how difficult it is.
"As for design, according to my father's understanding, there is right and wrong, good and bad, after all, but in government affairs, there is often no right or wrong at all."
Zhu Jingyuan immediately began to quibble:
"That's right, it's because there's no right or wrong, so you can just follow your feelings. If there's right or wrong, you can't be free..."
Zhu Jianyan was stunned for three seconds, and then asked with some uncertainty:
"Could it be that when you participated in all government affairs before, when you put forward suggestions and ideas, you always followed your feelings?"
Zhu Jingyuan nodded casually:
"Yes, I always come here just by opening my mouth..."
Zhu Jianyan was completely speechless, it was really easy to open his mouth.
You just opened your mouth to talk about this. It's best not to let your uncle Jiu know about it. You're almost going to make him depressed.
Zhu Jianyan shook his head feebly, and then asked Zhu Jingyuan a question about the current topic:
"Right now, Honglu Temple is arguing with Xiyi to discuss the location for formal peace talks.
"It's too far west, we can't accept it. We don't want to go to negotiate in the Xiyi homeland, and the Xiyi people don't think it's good either, as if they were occupied by us.
"It goes too far to the east and the Western barbarians don't accept it. We don't think it's good to negotiate in our homeland. We don't want a group of Western barbarians to come to our homeland.
“Between us, there is a large food area, and there are no big cities that are stable enough.
“Furthermore, although the Sinai Peninsula belongs to us, it is completely surrounded by Westerners, and we feel that it is not safe enough.
“Although Tianzhu Peninsula belongs to Xiyi, it is completely surrounded by us, and Xiyi does not feel safe enough.
"You can come here now and choose the most suitable place for us to negotiate."
Zhu Jingyuan really opened his mouth:
"Since the work unit thinks it's not good to be close, let's find a place far enough away, so let's go to Xiyang Cape Huangzhuang in Nanmozhou to talk.
The Western Cape was the Cape of Good Hope in Zhu Jingyuan's previous life, and the land in Cape Town, South Africa, is now one of the royal estates of the Zhu Ming royal family.
Zhu Jianyan was stunned for a moment. Apparently he had not thought about it and deliberately took a long way:
"Nanmozhou? Cape Imperial Village? That place is indeed quite far away, but...it's not particularly far.
“It’s more than 12,000 kilometers away from Guangdong, and more than 11,000 kilometers away from London, but it’s also more than 10,000 kilometers away from Guangdong to the West China Sea.
“It seems quite far away from both sides, and the conditions of Huangzhuang are indeed suitable for negotiation.
“But in the final analysis, it is still our territory, and the history of that place can be said to be very complicated.
“It was originally discovered by the Portuguese, and later became a colony of the Dutch. Both the Spanish and the British wanted it at first, but it ended up being ours.
"Xiyi and the others dare to go to this kind of place. Are they willing to go?"
Zhu Jingyuan said angrily:
"If they are completely unwilling to go, then let's not talk about it. Now we are not particularly afraid of war. If it doesn't work, we will continue to fight.
"Father, you can adopt the strategy of lifting the roof and first propose to go to Huangzhuang in the Baiyun Islands (New Zealand) in southern Tiannan to talk.
"For the Taixi people, that place is truly the end of the world. Going there is more difficult for them than it is for us to go to Nanyinzhou. They will definitely not accept it.
"Then let's make a compromise and go to Nanmozhou. It's about the same distance from both sides of the mainland, so they should be able to accept it."
Zhu Jingyuan thought for a while:
"Then I'll try it tomorrow..."
