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 Conferment Ceremony was ready, and my grandfather and father asked me if I wanted to go back and participate.
If Zhu Jingyuan does not go back to participate, they will hold it at the end of this month.
If Zhu Jingyuan wants to go back to attend, he will postpone the ceremony to the end of next month.
Looking at this question, Zhu Jingyuan felt a little confused.
Zhu Jingyuan had already known that the old emperor was going to Mount Tai to be enshrined.
But there's always a lack of realism.
After eight hundred years since Song Zhenzong, the emperor of the Central Plains Dynasty once again held this special ceremony.
This ceremony is definitely very different from the model before the Song Dynasty.
After all, it has been broken for eight hundred years.
But the differences in specific etiquette are secondary.
The difference in environment, connotation and impact is the main thing.
Because the current Central Plains dynasty is no longer a classical agricultural dynasty, but an industrialized and modern world empire.
News related to the Zen Ceremony have spread wildly in the past month or so, and various comments have emerged one after another.
From the court to the private sector, from teahouses to restaurants, people are 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 sense of participation in this ancient ceremony.
This is the biggest difference.
Zhu Jingyuan subconsciously thought, would the relevant officials and businessmen turn the ceremony into a commercial event?
At least do some commercial activities on the side?
Turn a waste of time and money into a profitable business?
In fact, the theoretical scale of this Zen ceremony is far greater than that of ancient times, and its impact on the lives of relevant people is actually much smaller than in ancient times.
It only took the Ministry of Rites and relevant local officials more than a month to prepare for the ceremony, and most of them were figuring out the process.
Counting the emperor's travel time, the relevant officials would be busy for at least ten days.
As for the officials along the way, there is no need to prepare to meet the emperor, they just need to improve the local public order.
The emperor would not look around on the way, but would take the train directly to the foot of Mount Tai.
The distance from the capital to Mount Tai is more than 600 kilometers, and even with a train traveling at a speed of 30 kilometers per hour, it only takes one day and one night.
Including the time spent by the emperor on his way back and forth, the entire event could be over in less than ten days.
There is no such thing as months of hard work in ancient times.
Zhu Jingyuan looked at his father and grandfather's analysis and reminders, and finally decided not to go back.
On the way back, I have to visit my own food country.
After more than three months, the oil field has been able to stabilize production, and I have to arrange new tasks for them.
Drilling cannot continue.
The entire world now requires a very limited amount of fuel.
If the fuel warehouse in Big Food Country releases its supply, the market will soon be saturated, and the price of crude oil will fall to the cost price.
Then the consortium's oil fields in Nanyang will be squeezed into bankruptcy.
That is not conducive to the healthy and stable development of the market, and you may be in big trouble by then.
Oil exploration companies that take advantage of loopholes cannot bankrupt regular oil companies.
Therefore, the big food country has to reduce its production, and can turn to the research and development of petroleum-related technologies and transfer production capacity and products to other industries.
For example, new catalytic cracking refining technology, such as starting to prepare for the petrochemical industry.
Oil is the blood of industry and a very important industrial raw material. Burning it can even be considered a waste.
Various wire insulation materials, pipe and sealing materials, various modern plastic and rubber products, and various synthetic fibers.
Specific to people's lives, if modern people's clothes are not specifically made of pure cotton, linen, wool, silk and other materials, they are basically made of synthetic fibers.
From sportswear to underwear, from work clothes to swimwear, from organza to stockings, almost all are made from petroleum.
When his thoughts came here, Zhu Jingyuan suddenly realized a problem.
In traditional Thai and Western clothing, both men and women still wear silk stockings in the style of clothing before the Napoleonic era.
However, natural silk has no elasticity, so men can only fix it on the legs of tight shorts, and women can hang it with suspenders inside their skirts.
If you make your own elastic spandex and nylon stockings, you can definitely sell them as luxury goods in European and Western countries.
Turn oil, which is cheaper than water, into a luxury product...
In addition, the suits of later generations, with relatively loose trouser legs and arms, three-dimensional tailoring and stiff suits, have not yet been fully formed.
The prototype clothes and trousers may have already existed. There were originally loose clothes and trousers in the East and the West.
But those are work or casual clothes, which are "unrefined".
Thai and Western nobles still wear tight shorts and stockings.
During the French Revolution in history, the revolutionaries actually had a special name for themselves:
"People who don't wear tight shorts."
They always wore baggy trousers to express a break with the traditional nobility.
After the French Revolution, the bourgeoisie began to replace the old aristocracy as the masters of the times.
Loose trousers and tuxedos, as well as top hats, which are symbols of the times, have become popular.
The typical modern "capitalist" image in later movies, TV dramas and comics finally took shape, and the Victorian era arrived.
The far-reaching influence of the French Revolution can be seen.
In this era of the world, the ruling ability of the old aristocracy is still strong.
The emerging bourgeoisie not only did not break with the old aristocracy, but also made deep peace with each other.
Therefore, the clothing style of the bourgeoisie has also followed the old aristocracy, and they are proud to wear tight shorts and stockings.
During the days of Zhu Jingyuan's negotiations, looking at the Thai and Western man's stockings and thick legs all day long made Zhu Jingyuan uncomfortable for a long time.
When Zhu Jingyuan recalled these things, he instinctively started thinking.
Can I "design" a complete "Capitalist" suit and sell it in the markets of various countries in Europe and America?
Now it is very simple for Ming Dynasty to change the popular style of Thai and Western people.
Just find a prince or something to wear it publicly once, and then take photos to promote it a little bit.
It may be better to demonstrate it yourself.
However, would this kind of simple clothing, which completely excludes the decoration of Thai and Western aristocrats, be regarded as Ming-style fashion?
And then, in turn, will it make people from various countries in Thailand and Spain insist on their national costumes more?
Will a man continue to wear stockings for ten thousand years?
Well……
That would make you visually uncomfortable, but you can make money selling stockings!
There should be no loss on either side.
perhaps……
With complicated emotions, Zhu Jingyuan wrote down these thoughts and waited for an opportunity to try them out.
Then he wrote a simple reply to his father and grandfather, telling them that he was going to visit the Dashi Country and would not return to the capital until the end of the year.
Ask his staff Niu Jian to send a telegram back to the capital.
Zhu Jingyuan left the lobby and the palace on his own, and under the escort of the soldiers led by Guan Tianpei, 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 these few days.
Zhu Jingyuan came to Xiyang Cape with two design teams.
It is necessary to simultaneously complete the design of "radical target exploration type" battleships, aircraft carriers, cruisers, and destroyers.
Now most of the design has been completed, but the design plans have also differentiated, and the craftsmen have new ideas.
Zhu Jingyuan walked through the outer courtyard and came to the courtyard where the craftsmen held daily meetings. As soon as he entered the door, he heard the arguing inside.
"The new 360mm fifty-fold naval gun uses heavy-duty hardened capped armor-piercing projectiles, and its power far exceeds our expectations."
"If our new warship design does not increase the overall tonnage, we can only adopt a 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 Dynasty's sea area is too vast, and the daily mission of high-speed warships is to maintain Ming Dynasty's dominance in all sea areas."
"The core protection design is too extreme. After the bow and stern are damaged, the navigation performance declines 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 using graded protection designs can maintain combat effectiveness in continuous low-level battles."
"Your Highness is here——"
Zhu Jingyuan walked into the lobby, and Wang Lai, the head of the Ship Department, immediately reacted, shouted quickly, and then saluted with the craftsmen.
Zhu Jingyuan returned the greeting with a smile. After walking into the lobby, he casually found a place to sit down, looked at Wang and said:
"Still no one can convince anyone?"
Wang Lai immediately smiled bitterly and said:
"Yes, we have been arguing for the past few days, but there is no result at all.
“The new naval gun data given by the Ordnance Department was too powerful, which made us think it was fake. Now everyone feels great pressure.
“Even if the armor is thickened to 400 millimeters, it cannot ensure safety at a distance of ten kilometers.
“So the current situation is that we must either adopt the most extreme core protection, or continue to increase the tonnage to 50,000 tons.
"The construction cost of a 50,000-ton warship is too exaggerated..."
Zhu Jingyuan just smiled.
Ming Dynasty's new 360 mm 50 times diameter new naval gun, coupled with its own request to design a new heavy-duty hard-capped hood armor-piercing projectile, is already as powerful as the cutting-edge naval guns of World War II.
The combat range of the cutting-edge battleships of World War II was twenty kilometers.
World War II was already an era in which spears were slightly greater than shields. The battleships in World War II pierced each other randomly at a distance of ten kilometers.
There is no absolute defense anymore.
Now the craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty have just upgraded their understanding of naval combat methods from five kilometers of bayonets to ten kilometers of battle lines.
As a result, it was immediately discovered that the ten-kilometer defense was about to be completely ineffective.
Whether a craftsman or a naval general, it takes time to accept these realities and then conceive of 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 had no problems.
It's just a matter of making a choice.
