After the sales plan was almost discussed, Zhu Jingyuan and his two staff took a break and digested it.
After each drank some water to moisten their throats, Zhu Jingyuan asked about the situation of the two staff:
"What did you two gentlemen think?
"Continue to be my staff and follow me to Yinzhou.
“Still stay in Dashi Country and continue to be responsible for managing the affairs of Meng County.
"Or maybe it's transferred to the mainland of Ming Dynasty. Now there are real shortages everywhere."
When the two staff heard this question, they suddenly seemed a little confused.
Zhu Jingyuan's first phase of practical training is about to end, and the official careers of two staff members, Lin Zexu and Niu Jian, have also reached a critical node.
The two men's status in the Ming Dynasty official system was that they were aides to the prince Zhu Jingyuan.
In the Dashi Kingdom, according to the appointment of King Zhu Jingyuan, he served as a supervisor similar to Wangzhuang in Meng County.
The nature of the staff is that of secretaries, and their level and treatment follow the Hanlin system. The end point of promotion within the system is the cabinet bachelor.
After the Renwu Dynasty, the Hanlin system was greatly transformed and became a staff or secretarial system.
The key is that he is completely isolated from the official system of foreign dynasties and cannot be directly transferred to officials of foreign dynasties above the county magistrate level.
No matter how high one is in the Hanlin system, even if one has become the most senior bachelor, one can only become a county magistrate if he transfers to another court.
Therefore, a unique rule was derived, and the staff could train with the prince.
The promotion cycle of other foreign officials was diverged from the prince's training cycle, and there was no way to be promoted simultaneously.
Even if the cycles are exactly synchronized, they are not allowed to be promoted to the same place with the prince.
But the staff can, not only follow the promotion, but also follow him to Beijing.
Because they are staff secretaries rather than actual officials.
If you are lucky, the staff can follow the prince until the prince ascends the throne, and then be promoted to grand maester.
If unfortunately, the accompanying prince does not ascend the throne, this staff member will either remain a staff member to the prince for life, or transfer to another court and start over from scratch.
Under normal circumstances, the probability of misfortune is far greater than the probability of luck...
After all, there are many princes and grandsons, but only one person can ascend the throne.
Most of the staff stayed with the chief officer for one or two cycles, and after accumulating administrative experience, they moved to serve in foreign dynasties.
Of course, there are also people who don't like being chief officials, so they plan to be a staff member for life.
If Lin Zexu and Niu Jian want to transfer to foreign countries, now is the most appropriate time.
With Zhu Jingyuan's recommendation and the fact that there is a shortage of people everywhere, they have the opportunity to directly serve as county magistrates.
If the two of them were following other princes, they would basically transfer to other dynasties to serve as officials without any hesitation.
In fact, the average prince will not get top potential staff directly arranged by the emperor during training.
But Zhu Jingyuan is different.
As aides, Lin Zexu and Niu Jian knew Zhu Jingyuan's status better than anyone else.
Both of them were former emperors and the current emperor, Zhu Zhongliang personally arranged it.
The power Zhu Jingyuan can use now, the trust he actually gets now, and the things he actually does on a daily basis, even Zhu Biao, the prince Yiwen of the early Ming Dynasty, can't match.
At the time, Emperor Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang supervised the work of Prince Zhu Biao.
The current Emperor and Emperor feel as if they are watching what Zhu Jingyuan wants to do.
Not to mention the other princes.
Now he is basically the crown prince who has acquiesced but not made it public.
At the same time, the prince Zhu Jingyuan's personality was completely different from the other princes.
Not easy to get along with, but extremely easy to get along with.
There is absolutely no innate aloofness that is common among the children of close relatives of the royal family.
There is no need to worry about anything when discussing things, making suggestions and requests, you can just say whatever you want.
When you work with him, you just work. You don't have to think about scheming or trying to figure out your intentions. In short, you feel very at ease and at ease.
The key is that both of them can feel that Zhu Jingyuan has a very high degree of trust in them.
The high ones are a little hard to understand.
He seemed to think he could do anything well.
It is conceivable that if the two of them continue to work with him as his aides, as long as they don't make big mistakes, their default future is to be a bachelor.
The two of them were Zhu Jingyuan's earliest aides, and even if new comers joined him in the future, they would have to take a back seat based on their seniority.
The number of bachelor's degrees is not one or two. After the Renwu Dynasty, there was no limit on the number.
As long as the two of them perform normally, they will definitely have a place.
By then, both of them will be exactly thirty-five years old, and they will directly receive minister-level treatment.
After the Renwu Dynasty, the status of academicians declined, and their real power was lower than that of ministers, but they enjoyed the same status and treatment.
At the age of thirty-five, you can immediately become a minister of the highest rank, and after another thirty years of service, you will retire as a bachelor.
The future is really bright.
Instead, he transferred to the outer court. After leaving Zhu Jingyuan's side, his future became full of uncertainty.
In the following ten years of training, will Zhu Jingyuan recruit more staff and ministers that he can trust more?
At the same time, the two of them had a more special choice that other prince's staff did not have, which was to officially serve as officials of the Dashi Kingdom.
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During the training, he was already the prince of the feudal lord, and Zhu Jingyuan was the only one since the Renwu Dynasty.
The two of them can follow Zhu Jingyuan's orders and be promoted within the system of the Dashi Kingdom.
If the Dashi Kingdom withdraws from its vassal in the future, they will most likely be able to transfer into the Ming Dynasty's official system.
Nowadays, the speed of promotion of great powers is greatly affected by Zhu Jingyuan.
The key is that if Zhu Jingyuan ascends the throne as emperor in the future, there is a high probability that the Dashi Kingdom will withdraw from its vassals simultaneously.
Working in the Big Food Country is equivalent to a fast track to promotion.
However, no matter how you take the fast track, it is not faster than becoming a bachelor.
Even if you really want to be a minister, you can choose to become a bachelor first and then become an official in a foreign court.
After all, he was only thirty-five at that time, so it was not too late to be promoted from county magistrate.
As a trusted member of the emperor's staff, he will definitely be promoted quickly.
After another ten years or so, I estimate that I might actually become a minister in my early fifties, which is still not too late.
Because of this, will directly choosing this path make Zhu Jingyuan feel unmotivated...
To be honest, Zhu Jingyuan himself was a little worried that the two of them had run away.
Zhu Jingyuan knew what was happening in the Ming Dynasty's officialdom. There was a huge shortage of people everywhere.
It is not easy to find a few reliable officials.
Especially these two people who have been proven to be useful by history.
In the past two years, I have personally confirmed that both of them are indeed capable people.
Lin Zexu was now twenty-two years old, and he had clearly managed the simultaneous immigration from multiple vassal states and the construction of large industrial parks.
Niu Jian took care of all the messy things in his logistics and never made any major mistakes.
Seeing that the two of them seemed a little entangled, Zhu Jingyuan directly asked to stay:
"If you two gentlemen haven't made a decision yet, you might as well follow me and continue to Yinzhou.
"Honestly, there's a shortage of people everywhere right now, and I hope these two gentlemen can continue to help me."
Since Zhu Jingyuan said this, the two people who were already familiar with Zhu Jingyuan's character no longer hesitated.
The two stood up together and saluted:
"Dare to disobey orders."
Zhu Jingyuan also smiled and handed over his hands:
"Then notify Mr. Pan and ask him to come over as soon as possible and take over the affairs of Meng County."
The two staff members agreed again.
Then the three of them sat down again and continued to discuss every detail, any detail that might come to mind.
Early the next morning, Zhu Jingyuan got up as usual, put on the training uniform he invented, and joined his grandfather to go to the shooting range.
When he arrived at the place, Zhu Zhongliang first picked up a magazine, pressed bullets into it, and said to Zhu Jingyuan:
"Write a proposal to your father... Well, I'm done with it, so there's no need to write it to him. I'll take care of the internal affairs of the royal family.
"I will make a decree later. From now on, the royal family's children will use the assault rifles and submachine guns you invented in their daily training and assessment.
“Bullet pressing is listed as a must-practice and test item.
“At the same time, we can start building a production line for this so-called reduced-power bullet.
"In Xintianfu, we will also directly start construction of sufficient firearms and bullet production lines to gradually replace firearms for the Xintianfu troops."
Zhu Jingyuan had no objection to this.
Assault rifles replacing bolt-action rifles can be regarded as the future trend, so I just nodded in agreement:
"Then let's build it. It's also necessary to replace the firearms, but we must also comprehensively improve our logistics capabilities.
"This requires building roads, airports, trucks, and airplanes. This cannot be accomplished overnight..."
Zhu Jingyuan asked the Ministry of Industry to design a corresponding bullet-pressing tool, but it was for rear and logistics use.
When a soldier goes to the front line, it is impossible to carry a bullet-pressing tool that takes up space with him.
The magazines that I carry with me are all empty. If the battle is not over yet, I can only manually insert bullets.
Zhu Jingyuan himself also started to press the bullet, and at the same time asked Zhu Zhongliang's opinion on the things he had recently considered:
"Grandpa, can you give me some advice on what things and facilities I should bring with me when I go to Yinzhou..."
Zhu Zhongliang said without hesitation:
"Take everything you can, especially those labs you have. You won't be able to come back before you retire anyway."
Zhu Jingyuan was originally going to discuss it with his grandfather and ask him to give him some detailed suggestions to help him decide what to choose.
It turned out that this old man was lucky. This idea was really too simple and crude.
After leaving the Big Food Country this time, I may not be able to come back before I retire.
This seems to be the case:
"What you said makes sense and I can't refute it..."
Zhu Zhongliang had already loaded a magazine with bullets and immediately loaded it into the assault rifle next to him:
“To establish a complete industrial system in Xintianfu, of course it must also include these new industries you have created.
“Rather, the focus is on your new industries.
“For example, in the petrochemical industry, doesn’t Nanyinzhou also have oil?
“The key is that the environment around the oil producing areas there is much better than in the bay of your current big food country.
“The petrochemical base and petrochemical product textile base over there can be built directly next to the oil fields, and they can all be put together.
"Several of your laboratories can be moved to Xintianfu as a whole, and the environment will be much better than that of Liusha City.
“The great craftsmen engaged in research must have a comfortable environment in order to perform their functions better.
"In Liusha City, most of the energy is used to fight against the harsh environment.
“Aviation and automobile industry industrial chains will be built in Xintianfu around these laboratories.
“There’s also massive shipbuilding, plus the atomic energy industry.
"Together, these industries can complete the final construction of the most powerful aircraft carrier."
Zhu Jingyuan was a little surprised and said:
"You are thinking about nuclear-powered aircraft carriers. The direction can indeed be this direction.
“But I’m afraid this large warship shipyard cannot be located in New Tianfu City.
"A ship with a few thousand tons is fine, but a ship with tens of thousands of tons probably won't be."
After Zhu Jingyuan said these words, Zhu Zhongliang nodded with a little regret:
“Everything around New Tianfu City is good, but there is no natural harbor.
“Although Xintianfu City is considered a coastal city, the water in the surrounding bays is relatively shallow.
“It is at least two hundred kilometers away from the ten-meter-deep sea, and almost three hundred kilometers away from the twenty-meter-deep sea.
“Sanqing City is slightly better, more than 20 kilometers away from the ten-meter sea area, and more than 70 kilometers away from the 20-meter water depth.
“Now Xintianfu’s naval base is in Sanqing City, and subsequent large-scale shipyards can only be located in Sanqing City.
"Dredging a fifteen-meter-deep channel out..."
The three words "Xintianfu", before the World War, generally referred to all the imperial palaces of the Ming Dynasty in Nanyinzhou.
After the World War, it now generally refers to the entire Nanyinzhou Islands, sometimes including the Zhongyinzhou Islands.
New Tianfu City is the historical capital of Argentina, Buenos Aires.
Sanqing City is Montevideo, the capital of Uruguay.
Sanqing City was originally planned to be named New Chongqing, but some people realized that "Chongqing" means Zaiqing or Erqing.
So New Chongqing became "Three Qings".
Xintianfu City and Sanqing City are the two largest cities in Xintianfu.
They are located on the north and south sides of the Milky Way Estuary Bay.
The Milky Way is the Rio de la Plata, and the original meaning of "River La Plata" is the "river of silver."
There is a Milky Way in Tianfu, and the painting style is completely consistent with it.
The mouth of the Milky Way River is very wide, and its discharge ranks fourth in the world, second only to the Amazon River, Congo River, and Yangtze River.
Simply counting the land and climate, the plain area around the river mouth is basically the best place in the entire Nanyin Continent.
Especially for the Ming people, an agricultural people, it is the best place in the world.
It's like turning Jiangnan into a plain.
But the shortcomings of the impact plain also appeared at the same time. The coast here is similar to the southeastern part of Beiyinzhou, lacking a natural harbor.
The water depth in most areas of the Baiyinhe River Estuary is only about five meters deep.
After continuous dredging and management, there is now an eight-meter-deep channel.
However, it is still completely insufficient to carry 40,000-ton or even 80,000-ton ships in the future.
If you want to find a natural port, you can only go north along the coast. Under the Brazilian plateau, between the plateau and the Atlantic Ocean, there are ports with better environment, such as Rio de Janeiro.
However, the terrain of Nanyinzhou is high in the surroundings and low in the middle. Most of the rivers on the Brazilian plateau flow from the outside inward.
There are few large rivers on the narrow coastal plain between the Brazilian plateau and the Atlantic Ocean.
A port like Rio de Janeiro has almost no hinterland at all.
The key is that these places have been occupied by Portuguese immigrants for a long time and have not yet been completely cleared out by Thai-Spanish immigrants.
The local Yin people have been brainwashed by the Portuguese for two hundred years, and it will take many years for them to be transformed into Ming culture.
These places are still not familiar to Ming Dynasty, and it is impossible to directly plan key industries in such places.
Continuing north along the coastline, after crossing the Yajiang River (Amazon River), there are also some natural harbors with relatively good conditions around the Caribbean Sea in the north of Nanyinzhou.
But the situation there is similar to that of Rio de Janeiro, which was originally Spanish territory.
The immigration from Thailand to Western countries has also not been completely eliminated. A large number of Yin people and mixed-race Yin people are Catholics.
These territories are also not considered familiar to Ming Dynasty.
As for the west coast of Nanyinzhou and the eastern and eastern coastal areas of Daming Yang, the narrow area separated by the Andes Mountains is also considered a place without any hinterland.
Therefore, after a comprehensive evaluation, the most suitable place for building large shipyards and military ports is near Sanqing City.
