After this meeting, Zhu Jingyuan's work in Japan and North Korea, including Edo, officially began.
Promote the implementation of the general education examination certificate system, supervise and guide the construction of government-owned manufacturers.
Residential areas, schools, hospitals and other facilities will be built based on administrative districts at all levels.
Build small government-run factories in prefectures and counties, such as flour mills, food factories, clothing factories, furniture factories, daily necessities factories, bicycle factories, small household machinery and electrical appliance factories, etc.
Establish large and medium-sized government-run factories at the Chief Minister level, such as moped factories, automobile factories, civilian small aircraft factories, civilian diesel and gasoline and electric engine factories, agricultural and civil machinery factories, civilian shipyards, etc.
Arrange and contact relevant manufacturers of Daming Airlines, Dashi Trading Company, and the Royal Family Consortium to provide technical support, and even directly transfer some of the royal family's midstream, downstream and edge businesses to the government-owned consortium.
This was originally discussed by Zhu Jingyuan, Zhu Jianyan, and Zhu Zhongliang, and the decision and direction had been made.
The scale of the Ming royal family consortium was extremely large.
The royal consortium basically covered all the industries before the Industrial Revolution and during the First Industrial Revolution era.
When the industrialization of the Ming Dynasty was completed, the royal family directly became the largest capitalist.
During the first industrial revolution, large-scale monopoly groups were created, which were a product of the second industrial revolution.
Starting seven years ago, when the world war ceased, at the suggestion of Zhu Jingyuan, the royal consortium also began to reform.
In recent years, we have been making every effort to "move up" and "move forward".
The main focus will be on the development of high-tech high-end industries and industries with sufficient scale effects.
For example, petrochemical industry, steel industry, aviation industry, high-tech materials, electric power industry, roads and railways, shipping business, large machinery and large military and civilian ships, etc.
The original low-end industries, such as small trading houses, clothing factories, furniture factories, food factories, etc., have basically been included in the list to be cleared, except for a few high-end boutique industries.
Initially, Zhu Zhongliang was planning to transfer marginal industries to private capital at a low price, but was dissuaded by Zhu Jingyuan.
Then the cleanup of these industries was delayed, but business expansion has been completely stopped. Most of them are just maintaining operating conditions, and are even continuing to downsize.
In fact, in this era of great industrial and commercial development, stopping expansion means relative contraction.
Now that they are gradually handed over to government-run consortiums, these industries will continue to expand again.
With these industries as the foundation, government-run consortiums will develop rapidly.
At the same time, and in this process of transfer and construction, try to combine these reforms and construction with the ticket system.
The ticket system will first be applied to three aspects: houses, vehicles, and new electrical appliances.
There is no end to the daily work, but Zhu Jingyuan's practical training has reached this stage, and he no longer needs to be directly responsible for specific affairs. Most of the time he is making decisions and giving guidance.
Government offices at the level of Chief Envoys rarely deal with matters directly facing the people. Instead, they guide and respond to requests and decisions from lower-level government offices at prefectures and counties.
Zhu Jingyuan goes to get off work on time every day and handles various old and new problems according to the yamen's procedures.
Summer has arrived before we know it.
After the naval treaty between the Thai and Western countries was officially signed, a copy of the treaty text was specially forwarded by Honglu Temple.
Consultation and suggestions on external affairs are also one of Zhu Jingyuan's jobs.
Zhu Jingyuan is much busier than ordinary princes.
Zhu Jingyuan put down the documents in his hands, took the naval treaty and read it over.
Then I couldn’t help but say:
"Can this naval treaty be signed like this? All countries have the same tonnage limit? The navy actually talks about fairness?
"From large light cruisers to aircraft carriers, from armored cruisers to high-speed battleships, everything is included in the tonnage of the capital ship. This is too easy...
"Ten thousand tons or more is considered a battleship, and two thousand tons or more is considered a cruiser. These standards are really low enough...
"In the future... I'm afraid there will be no destroyers in this world, only battleships and cruisers..."
However, Zhu Jingyuan's comments about this treaty can only be regarded as complaints, and he has no actual feelings or pressure.
In Zhu Jingyuan's view, this treaty clearly means that many countries want to make do with it.
Some countries signed the contract in the name of not being weaker than other countries, and some countries signed the contract in order not to be isolated and targeted.
To what extent it will actually be implemented in the end is still completely unpredictable.
Then, after the morning meeting the next morning, the General Affairs Department sent Zhu Jingyuan a routine administrative briefing.
Zhu Jingyuan has a special status and can receive government affairs notifications that are more detailed and comprehensive than those received by ordinary administrative agencies.
Zhu Jingyuan can also get special explanations and interpretations for many news that are not included in public bulletins.
The official notification only mentioned the Ming Emperor Zhu Jianyan's request to double the annual shipbuilding speed.
Zhu Jingyuan's own report mentioned the division of labor for the construction of the newly added ships.
The shipbuilding industry centers in Liaodong and Jiangnan will build two aircraft carriers every year in the future.
The shipbuilding industry center in Guangzhou will build two high-speed battleships every year.
Military shipyards in Edo and Shicheng will build one high-speed battleship every year starting next year.
The construction arrangement of secondary cruisers and destroyers is also simply pre-allocated according to similar proportions.
At the same time, it was also mentioned that the target total tonnage of the naval fleet was actually doubled from 300 to 4 million tons to 700 to 8 million tons.
The total number of aircraft carriers and battleships has also doubled from thirty to forty to about eighty.
Finally, Zhu Jingyuan was asked to supervise and coordinate the Edo Shipyard to prepare to start construction of battleships of more than 40,000 class next year.
Zhu Jingyuan felt a little worried after reading it.
Of course, the worry is not whether the work can be completed, nor how much pressure the construction of eight 40,000-ton warships every year, and a total naval tonnage of seven to eight million tons, will put on the Ming Dynasty.
Rather, I feel that doing so will put the shipyard out of business in more than ten years.
Zhu Jingyuan took out a piece of white paper, drew a few lines on it with a pen, and cut out scattered dots on the lines:
"Eight ships per year, 80 ships in ten years, we can directly complete the shipbuilding plan, of course there is no problem.
“The problem is that the theoretical lifespan of the capital ship I designed is at least thirty years.
"In ten years' time, all the target eighty capital ships will be built, and at the same time, they will all be far away from the time they need to be replaced.
"In the next twenty years, did Ming Dynasty completely stop building battleships?
"A mix of 40,000-ton and 60,000-ton ships were built, totaling about 80 battleships. Does the Ming Dynasty really need so many?
"Even if all are replaced by 100,000-ton battleships, with a total tonnage of four million tons, forty battleships can be built..."
When he was talking about this, Zhu Jingyuan suddenly realized something and frowned and thought:
"It seems that we will not stop building capital ships. After the 60,000-ton aircraft carrier, we will also design a larger and larger aircraft carrier.
“Eighty thousand tons or even 100,000 tons.
"The early 40,000-ton aircraft carriers will be eliminated and decommissioned, used as training ships or anti-submarine ships, or even directly dismantled.
“At the same time, battleships will also be gradually phased out, their number will become smaller and smaller, and construction will even stop completely.
“In the end, all battleships will become aircraft carriers…
“In other words, if we speed up shipbuilding now, we will create a large number of warships that will be obsolete in ten or twenty years…
“This is so uncomfortable, this is a waste of resources...
"Why don't you ask yourself, dad?
"Or did he not take this matter to heart at all?"
After Zhu Jingyuan realized this, he compared Ming's current GDP and fiscal revenue and expenditure.
Then he sighed with some dejection and said:
"This ratio... really won't make him take it too seriously..."
Zhu Jingyuan slumped in his chair and thought about it for a while, and finally cheered up again:
"Dad, you don't care about this money, I can't watch you waste it...
"In this current situation, we have to build new warships, but we can't build them in this way..."
Zhu Jingyuan picked up the pen again, took out a new piece of paper, and began to plan his plan.
First list the long-term goals in a few decades, and then make an overall construction plan based on the service life and purpose of the ship.
In the era of heavy-duty carrier-based aircraft of more than thirty tons, considering the size of the Ming Dynasty itself and the Ming Dynasty Navy, it should be a very reasonable figure to have sixteen to twenty-four large aircraft carriers of one hundred thousand tons.
It is also feasible to retain eight 60,000-ton high-speed battleships and convert them into dedicated command ships for the Grand Fleet.
Finally, in the future naval system, amphibious assault ships will also occupy a high position and should also be included in the battleship system.
With the size of the Ming Navy, it is reasonable to have sixteen large amphibious assault ships of 40,000 to 60,000 classes.
Together, these ships can weigh up to 3.68 million tons.
Coupled with some amphibious ships of about 20,000 tons, the theoretical tonnage of the capital ship exceeds 4 million tons.
This is almost the long-term goal of Ming Dynasty in the future.
The construction and maintenance of these ships in the Ming Dynasty was no more difficult than that of the US Navy in Zhu Jingyuan's previous life.
Perhaps contrary to what many people think, the American shipbuilding industry has always been very weak.
It’s not just the de-industrialization of the new century that has stretched the crotch, even the American shipbuilding industry during World War II, which exploded with troops, also stretched the crotch.
Especially when compared with the UK, American boats are more expensive and of poor quality.
This is not only because the United States is a latecomer compared to the United Kingdom, but more importantly because the United States engages in trade protection.
The Jones Act promulgated by the United States in 1920 stipulates that ships providing shipping services in the United States must be completely assembled in the United States, and the main body of the ship must be manufactured in the United States.
And the ship must be at least 75% owned by U.S. citizens, and at least 75% of the crew must be U.S. citizens.
Of course, trade protection is beneficial in the early stage. It can promote the development and growth of corresponding local industries and prevent corresponding industries from facing the impact of mature foreign products when they are immature.
However, after the corresponding industries are basically mature, if trade protection is not lifted and related industries are not allowed to participate in international competition, the related industries will most likely be ruined again...
Such is the case with American shipbuilding.
The speed of shipbuilding in the United States during World War II was unprecedented, but it was basically based on money.
At that time, although the American Liberty ships were indeed large in quantity and sufficient in quantity, their quality was far inferior to that of British cargo ships, and their prices were much more expensive.
It's just that Britain is on the front line of the war and has no way to liberalize production. It can only import large quantities of American goods.
Regardless of whether the United States has de-industrialized or not, the domestic shipbuilding industry nurtured under trade protection will never be able to build high-quality and low-cost warships.
Therefore, whether it is a warship or a civilian ship, the United States has never been cheap since the outbreak of World War II.
Ming Dynasty can also be said to have trade protection now.
But Daming's scale has exceeded specifications. There is no need for external manufacturers to compete with Daming's manufacturers. If Daming's own manufacturers compete, they can bring down the price.
Not to mention that the Ming Dynasty also had official shipyards and royal shipyards. The Ming Navy’s own procurement scale was also higher than that of the US military. The navy’s own orders could produce scale effects, thereby lowering actual production costs.
Therefore, the goal planned by Zhu Jingyuan is actually not ambitious.
But more important is how to transition from the current state to the target state before reaching this target scale.
First is the battleship.
Battleships are destined to be eliminated, so they cannot be built without restrictions.
We should start to control the quantity at the appropriate node and reduce the proportion of aircraft carrier construction.
At the same time, the battleships currently and subsequently constructed should be designed directly with the command ship as the target.
Then there are aircraft carriers.
Before all aircraft carriers are upgraded to super aircraft carriers of 100,000 tons or more, aircraft carriers of different levels can be used in combination.
Therefore, the design and construction of the aircraft carrier and the upgrade itself can be carried out step by step.
But the number of aircraft carriers of different tonnages must be controlled.
Especially after the construction of a 60,000-ton aircraft carrier begins, we should not continue to build a 40,000-ton conventional aircraft carrier.
But an amphibious assault ship can be designed based on a 40,000-ton aircraft carrier hull.
The deck and hangar of a new-generation amphibious assault ship can mobilize and use World War II-era propeller aircraft.
The dock required by the amphibious assault ship can also be temporarily used as a lower hangar or spare parts warehouse.
These amphibious assault ships can still be used as aircraft carriers in this era.
The early design can focus on aircraft carriers in terms of function, and after the mid-term overhaul, it will begin to focus on amphibious operations.
Finally, there is the application of new technologies such as electromagnetic detection equipment, guided weapons, and turbine engines.
Subsequent warship designs should make provisions for these weapons and equipment.
The turrets of cruisers and destroyers should be easily retrofitted with missile launchers and ammunition magazines.
New warships should be equipped with more generators to meet the use of electromagnetic detection equipment.
At the research and design level of helicopters, the application of turbine engines should be considered.
Zhu Jingyuan sorted out these ideas, clearly described the purpose of the amphibious ships headed by the amphibious assault ship, and clearly wrote down the design plan of the amphibious ship that he knew.
He wrote a relatively formal report and suggestions and sent them directly to his father.
