Zhu Jingyuan stayed at the Ministry of Industry all afternoon.
A semiconductor technology development plan for the next ten years was formulated.
At the end of the meeting, Zhu Jingyuan specifically ordered the establishment of a "Semiconductor Department" under the Ministry of Industry.
Specially responsible for the research and development of computers and related equipment, and the research progress is reported directly to himself on a regular basis.
It was already evening when the meeting ended, and Zhu Jingyuan went back to the harem directly.
The next morning, Zhu Jingyuan came to the Wenhua Hall and presided over the first daily morning dynasty.
Yesterday's morning court had a certain ceremonial nature.
It was Zhu Jingyuan's first morning court as emperor, so it was held in the most formal Fengtian Hall.
From now on, morning meetings will become a daily routine.
Affairs that have nothing to do with the military are usually held in the Wenhua Hall, while those related to the military are held in the Wuying Hall.
The first morning pilgrimage in Wenhua Palace and the first morning pilgrimage in Wuying Palace both have a certain ritual nature.
So today's etiquette is relatively complete, and the things to deal with are simple.
Before the enthronement ceremony, Zhu Jingyuan was not prepared to make a big move against the government.
It is true that Zhu Jingyuan did not arrange any new major events today.
He accepted the worship of several foreign officials who had just arrived in the capital, and then issued the confirmed appointment edict.
I gave simple instructions and requirements on the spot for things that needed to be determined by myself.
The morning court session at Wenhua Hall ended in less than half an hour.
Then Zhu Jingyuan took Lin Zexu, Niu Jian, and Li Rui, the Minister of Ordnance, and drove them to Wuying Hall.
The military ministers from Wuying Palace, the governors and military governors from the Chinese Army Governor's Mansion, the governors and governors from Jinyiwei, and the governors and governors from the East and West Factory are all waiting here.
Zhu Jingyuan was the first to take a seat in the main hall.
The generals and military aircraft present stood in the middle of the hall, saluting together and shouting "Long Live the Mountain".
Zhu Jingyuan raised his hand and asked them all to sit down.
Next, Zhu Jianxun, the governor-general of the Chinese Army Dudu Mansion, came out and presented an overview report of the Ming Dynasty's armed forces to Zhu Jingyuan.
Lin Zexu took Zhu Jianxun's report and placed it on the imperial case in front of Zhu Jingyuan.
Zhu Jingyuan opened the document and looked at a few main points.
The current total number of armed forces in the Ming Dynasty is approximately 15 million.
However, armed force is not the same as the army.
The Ming Dynasty's regular army, including the Fifth Army Governor's Office and Huangzhuang, has a combined total of about 10 million people in the army, navy, and air force.
The proportions of the three military branches are very even, with more than three million people in each, which is more in line with the situation of the Ming Dynasty.
The Ming Dynasty's sea area is very vast, so the navy must be strong enough.
Especially in the past few years, Ming Dynasty has actually been building a navy on a large scale.
The territory controlled by the Ming Dynasty was equally vast, and the army was certainly indispensable.
Moreover, the Army is the traditional military branch of the Ming Dynasty and is the natural big brother military branch.
The Air Force is a newly emerging service in the past decade, and most of its early personnel were transferred from the Army.
However, the size of the Air Force is growing very fast, and it is now one of the three major military services.
In addition to the regular navy, army, and air force, the Ming Dynasty's Jinyiwei and Dongxi factories also had a total of five million people.
Most of these five million people are members of the Jinyiwei system.
The Jinyiwei of the Ming Dynasty included the functions of public security, police, prison guards, traffic police, maritime police, tax police, special police, etc. in later generations.
More than half of them are not professional armed personnel.
Nominally everyone belonged to Jinyiwei, but in fact more than half of the staff belonged to various local yamen.
In fact, there are about two million people under the direct jurisdiction of the Jinyiwei headquarters.
These two million people are the police who maintain law and order in various places and the special service personnel who are responsible for handling security emergencies.
According to Zhu Jianxun's report, the Ming Dynasty's armed forces completed a comprehensive round of equipment updates in the past fifteen years.
Assault rifles and submachine guns have completely replaced traditional rifles and mounted rifles.
The army has completely replaced vicuñas with motor vehicles, and only a few areas with inaccessible areas still have cavalry patrols.
It also has more than 80,000 mechanized combat vehicles such as armored fighting vehicles, motorized infantry vehicles, and self-propelled artillery.
The total tonnage of the navy's capital ships already in service has reached three million tons.
Except for a few traditional battleships that patrol and defend special areas, and a small number of battleships that are of a testing nature, the vast majority of the battleships are cutting-edge high-speed battleships and aircraft carriers.
Among the new high-speed battleships, there are sixteen 40,000-ton class ships, eight 60,000-ton class ships, and two 80,000-ton class ships.
The total tonnage is 1.33 million tons.
Among the aircraft carriers, there are twenty-four in the 40,000-ton class, eight in the 60,000-ton class, and two in the 80,000-ton class.
The total tonnage is approximately 1.66 million tons.
Among the twenty-four 40,000-ton aircraft carriers, eight are actually amphibious assault ships, and the other sixteen are equipped with steam catapults.
There are also more than 200 cruisers of various types, with a total tonnage of more than 2 million tons.
There are more than 800 destroyers of various types, with a total tonnage of about two million tons.
Finally, there are more than 300 submarines with a total tonnage of more than 400,000 tons.
The total tonnage of all combat ships is approximately 7.4 million tons.
Including supply ships and other auxiliary ships, the total tonnage has exceeded 10 million tons.
At the same time, there are six 80,000-ton aircraft carriers in the shipyard.
The Air Force has more than 100,000 aircraft of various types.
Among them, there are more than 60,000 combat aircraft, including more than 20,000 fighter jets and more than 40,000 bombers.
There are more than 40,000 auxiliary aircraft including transport aircraft and reconnaissance aircraft.
Zhu Jingyuan looked at these data and couldn't help feeling a little emotional:
This Ming Dynasty is really too powerful.
Even compared to all the superpowers in previous history, it is still a level above.
It's probably the same level as the United States, Lucia, and the United Kingdom.
In terms of the number of armed forces alone, there are 10 million pure regular troops.
This is still a pure standing army.
This number is certainly terrifying, but when compared to the population, it is actually just over one percent.
After the end of the world war, the total population of Ming Dynasty increased by 100 million on average in five years.
The total population is now approaching the billion mark.
The Ming Dynasty controlled the best agricultural and animal husbandry areas in the world, and agriculture and animal husbandry were highly developed.
Comprehensive mechanization has also been achieved over the past few years.
There is no pressure on the imperial village and the imperial court to supply 10 million fully-off-the-job standing armies respectively.
At the same time, the Ming Dynasty still implemented a compulsory military service system, and the most basic-level soldiers were served every three years.
A large number of people are recruited and retired every year.
All persons who have served in the military are in the reserves until the age of thirty-five.
All overseas immigrants over the age of fifteen and under the age of sixty have received basic military training.
Most of the young and middle-aged people are members of the militia.
If there is a need for war, the reserves can quickly go to the battlefield, and the militiamen can carry guns to take over the occupied areas and maintain order.
At the same time, the equipment of the army, navy, and air force had reached the level of early World War II.
The amount of equipment has also reached the level of the end of the world war.
In the Second World War in history, both parties involved in the war tried their best.
At the end of World War II, the United States exploded with 10 million troops and 10 million tons of various ships.
More than 100,000 aircraft participated in the war on the European battlefield.
After the war, these troops and equipment immediately began to be cut down and cleared on a large scale.
Because they cannot sustain a force of this magnitude.
But Ming Dynasty now maintains a military force of this scale normally in a peaceful state.
Because the population of the Ming Dynasty was twice as large as the combined population of the United States, Lucia, the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom, the major participating countries in World War II.
The actual effective resources under their control can also be more than double that of them, and their technical level is also higher than theirs.
The Ming Dynasty had the ability to maintain an army of this size.
Of course, being able to do it doesn’t mean you really have to do it.
The mainland, Xintianfu, and Tiannan areas of the Ming Dynasty are basically absolute safe zones, and there is basically no need for a standing army.
Even if the number of troops is cut in half, it is still enough to use, and it can still suppress the European and Western countries as a whole.
However, the former emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Jingyuan's father, Zhu Jianyan, actually intended to use military competition to bring down the countries in Europe and the West.
The Thai and Western countries signed another naval treaty, leading to a de facto wave of naval expansion.
In addition, countries such as Lucia and Prussia already have their own war goals and tend to expand their armies.
In order to deal with and deter them, Ming Dynasty also reciprocally expanded the scale of its armed forces.
This has led to the current result.
The current scale of military power is still relatively easy for Ming Dynasty to bear.
But in Zhu Jingyuan's opinion, it was somewhat wasteful.
Zhu Jingyuan has the experience of later generations. At the technical level of the World War II era, most weapons and equipment still need to be large enough to form an advantage.
The most typical equipment is the aircraft that can easily cost five or even six figures at this time.
After missiles, guided bombs, and high-performance radio detection equipment mature, the number of combat aircraft will be directly reduced by an order of magnitude.
The navy's large number of battleships, as well as more than 10,000 tons of artillery cruisers and destroyers, also have a similar situation.
After the guided weapons are mass-produced and put into service, the Navy's demand for quantity will also be reduced by an order of magnitude.
The tens of millions of tons of warships and hundreds of thousands of aircraft that have exploded in this era will be quickly eliminated after this era.
But we can't really stop making these equipment. At most, we can reduce the quantity and scale.
Otherwise, those Taixi people might suspect that Ming Dynasty was weak...
Zhu Jingyuan sighed helplessly, closed the reports in front of him, and began to talk about today's business.
Determine which weapons will be used in parades and ship reviews.
This military parade is not only for Ming Dynasty to display internally, but also for representatives from other countries in the world to watch.
Therefore, the military parade must have sufficient deterrence, but it cannot show everything to outsiders.
Some things are not suitable for public display yet.
After briefly asking about various aspects of the situation, Zhu Jingyuan gave a general guideline based on his previous life experience.
Unless Zhu Jingyuan specifically requires it, the equipment for the parade should be widely installed and have combat effectiveness.
That is, as long as something is taken out for people to see, it must be used in the Ming army.
If a war breaks out between the two sides, the other side will directly encounter things on the battlefield.
Equipment and warships under debugging cannot be shown off.
Unless specifically requested by Zhu Jingyuan, warships that have been in service for less than one year will also not participate in the ship review.
If there are special requirements, equipment that has been widely installed will not be displayed.
For example, jet fighters and bombers were developed four years ago.
There are many models in service now.
But all the jets were kicked out of the reference team by Zhu Jingyuan.
The 80,000-ton aircraft carrier was put into service years ago.
By the time Zhu Jingyuan ascended the throne, he had already served for one year.
By then, the crew on the ship should be proficient in operating it.
However, Zhu Jingyuan was also kicked out of the ship review.
The largest aircraft carrier participating in the ship review is the 60,000-ton class. ,
When Charles succeeded to the throne, Ming Dynasty's 40,000-ton aircraft carrier had already visited and displayed in Western Europe.
Now the 60,000-ton aircraft carrier can be officially displayed publicly.
Among the countries in Thailand and Spain, Britain, France and Spain have been studying aircraft carriers for more than thirteen years.
Other countries were slower to react. After the naval treaty was signed in the seventh year of Ankang, they also began to vigorously develop research and development.
Countries in Europe and the West have explored and accumulated a lot of experience on their own.
Some useful information was also obtained from the people of the Ming Dynasty through various channels.
For something as big as an aircraft carrier, the Ming Dynasty built more than 30 aircraft carriers in one go.
There are countless craftsmen, workers and merchants involved.
It's impossible to keep every secret secret.
In other words, the countries in Europe and the West now have a relatively mature understanding of aircraft carriers.
Therefore, there is no need for Ming Dynasty to hide its aircraft carrier so tightly.
But the biggest one is still not shown to them.
They may not have imagined for the time being how big the Ming Dynasty will build its aircraft carrier.
There are also ship-borne anti-ship missiles, which are now in small-scale service, but they are also not displayed.
The first batch of missile-modified cruisers and battleships will not participate in the ship review.
Currently, missiles and jet aircraft are Ming Dynasty’s unique technologies.
Some scientific research and military personnel from various countries in Europe and the West have also put forward relevant ideas.
But most of them are still in a state of theoretical exploration.
The courts and militaries of various countries in Europe and the West have not paid enough attention to related technologies.
There is no need for Daming to take the initiative to show it to them now.
Zhu Jingyuan gradually determined the direction of this military parade and ship review through direct explanations and examples.
Before there were turbine engines and guided weapons, it was the most powerful equipment in active service in the Ming Dynasty.
These include two 80,000-ton battleships commissioned last year.
One of them will serve as Zhu Jingyuan's ship, and the other will serve as the leader of the reference fleet.
Although the scale of this super battleship is unprecedented, it is essentially an enlargement of previous battleships.
Of course there are innovations and upgrades at the technical level, but they are mainly internal things.
Automatic ballistic computers, firing directors, radio detection equipment, and the systems that allow them to interact with each other are all things that cannot be seen from the outside.
The special steel produced in an electroslag furnace is meaningless even if you touch it with your own hands.
Therefore, the actual display effect is probably the most powerful armed force that can be achieved under the technical level at the end of World War II.
More importantly, it seems that there is no absolute generational difference in technology between these things and those in the European and American countries for the time being.
In the years just after the World War, under the leadership of Zhu Jingyuan, Ming Dynasty's military and technological level advanced by leaps and bounds.
It quickly opened up a quite obvious gap with the European and American countries.
The purely mechanized force built around flying machines and armored combat vehicles and based on internal combustion engine vehicles, as well as the tactics extended from it, can be said to be unprecedented.
But in the past decade or so, countries in Europe and the West have been trying their best to learn, imitate, and catch up.
They also directly learned a lot of technology through cooperation with Daming.
Now they are basically able to build high-speed battleships on their own.
They all have mechanized troops built with armored fighting vehicles, aircraft and internal combustion engine vehicles.
Their military equipment seems to belong to the same era as the Ming Dynasty's military equipment.
It's just that things are something they can understand, but the scale and size of Ming Dynasty will make them despair.
Many times, things that are too advanced, or even leading across generations, may not be able to form a good deterrent in the absence of direct confrontation.
Because the lagging party may not be able to understand the extent of the opponent's lead.
On the contrary, when the technical level of both parties is close, the threat of pure scale and level gap is easier to understand.
Just like ancient people before they experienced it, they might not understand the threat of a gun simply by looking at its appearance.
But if the steel factory is allowed to mass-produce a large number of steel knives and put them out, the opponent will definitely be able to intuitively realize the gap in strength.
Theoretically speaking, as long as the Taixi people have the most basic judgment, they can see through this military parade, or they can see more clearly how big the power gap is between them and the Ming Dynasty.
But Zhu Jingyuan was also a little bit expecting the Westerners to be crazy.
