I want to be emperor

Chapter 1178 Documentary

September of the 54th year of Chengshun, Qinzheng Hall in the West Garden of the Imperial Palace in Jinling City.

Xiyuan is where Luo Zhixue has always lived and worked. Although it is called a palace, it is actually more like a huge imperial garden with large expanses of green grass, numerous ornamental flowers and plants, and a small lake.

Although the Great Chu Empire had a proper imperial palace, it was a traditional ancient building that emphasized tradition and was solemn. But if it was too solemn, it would make people feel depressed.

So in the past few decades, Luo Zhixue actually rarely lived in the palace, and generally only went to the palace on some formal occasions.

He lived in the Western Garden on a daily basis, and his office was in the Qinzheng Hall in the front half of the Western Garden. Next to it were the Hanlin Building, the Imperial Study, the Military Affairs Building and other administrative buildings, which were mainly used by officials and generals who came to the palace to work.

However, in the past two years, Luo Zhixue seldom came to the Qinzheng Hall to handle work, because he handed over the daily military and political affairs to the prince. He himself cultivated himself in the palace, fiddling with some flowers and plants, and when he was interested, he would go out of the palace to inspect nearby places, but he tended to relax and did not make a big fuss.

After putting down his busy work, Luo Zhixue felt that his life was much easier!

I was so tired before, dealing with various affairs all day long without a moment to rest.

Since the affairs were gradually handed over to the crown prince, his courage had gradually decreased. In the beginning, Luo Zhixue was actually a little uncomfortable with it. After all, he was used to working every day and it was a little uncomfortable to have some free time.

At the same time, I am also worried that the prince is not doing well.

So during that period, although he nominally handed over many things to the prince, he actually still spent a lot of time every day handling affairs, reviewing some of the prince's opinions on handling affairs, meeting with some officials, and so on.

During that period, the top leaders of the empire, including the crown prince, were actually quite conflicted... one could even say they were extremely cautious.

Because no one knows whether Luo Zhixue will suddenly be unwilling to give up power ahead of time and then return to his previous state of being in charge of everything.

During those years, the ministers lived in fear and the prince was also uncomfortable.

  As for Luo Zhixue, after getting over the initial period of discomfort, he found that the prince was doing a good job, so he gradually felt relieved. In addition, laziness is something... once you start, it is difficult to stop, and you will become more and more lazier!

At the beginning, Luo Zhixue would spend seven or eight hours a day handling various affairs, then four or five hours, and finally one or two hours a day.

In the past two years, he simply stopped handling affairs every day, not even for an hour or two. Unless there were important matters, he would not take care of ordinary government affairs.

No matter whether the prince did good or bad, as long as it was not too outrageous, Luo Zhixue no longer cared.

And this is actually not easy... After all, not everyone will give up power so easily and then enjoy life leisurely. Power is something that can easily make people obsessed and then hold on to it tightly.

Luo Zhixue also spent many years gradually transitioning and finally completed this process.

If you ask him to change from being in charge of everything at the beginning to not being in charge of anything at once... to be honest, Luo Zhixue would not be happy about it. In extreme cases, he might even suspect that someone was planning a rebellion.

But gradually, I got used to it. It's pretty good to be an emperor who doesn't care about anything.

In this way, Crown Prince Luo Jun, who had been assisting the Senate and the Military Affairs Council for many years, finally gained the right to handle almost all affairs in a real sense two years ago. Although many reports and memorials still needed to be submitted to Luo Zhixue, Luo Zhixue generally did not even look at them and directly followed the Crown Prince's opinion.

He was unwilling to continue working so hard. Anyway, the empire had such a strong foundation and the prince was not someone who liked to make trouble, so there would not be any major problems in the empire.

As for some minor issues, they would naturally be handled by the crown prince and many cabinet ministers, so he didn't have to worry about them anymore.

So in the past two years, Luo Zhixue has lived a very leisurely life and he hasn't been to the Qinzheng Hall for more than a month.

I didn't come here today to deal with any urgent matters, but because the Ministry of Rites sent me a lot of films, many of which were shot by photographers they sent to overseas territories and even vassal states.

On the one hand, these films are preserved as historical materials to allow future generations to understand the situation of this era.

On the other hand, it is actually also for the imperial high-ranking officials to watch!

No matter whether it is the emperor, the crown prince, or those ministers...even though they are all high-ranking officials of the empire, they control the operation of the entire empire.

But in fact, they don't know much about many places in the empire, and they haven't even been there...

Places like the South Seas and the Americas are not bad as they are close. Although the west coast of America seems to be separated by the Pacific Ocean, there are high-speed passenger ships and it does not take too much time to travel back and forth. Therefore, the top leaders of the empire are quite familiar with these places.

But everywhere else it was unfamiliar.

For example, North Africa Province, which has the Suez Canal and is a strategic location, has not been visited by many ministers of state...

Not even the prince has been there.

This is just talking about important places like the Suez Canal, not to mention other places, such as Europe. Most of the ministers have never been there, whether it is the scattered direct territories and administrative territories managed by the Chu State, or the vassal states.

The few who have been there have only been to Cadiz, and they were just passing through there, and they were there when they were mid- or high-level officials.

However, there is currently no one among these ministers who has been to Cádiz while serving as minister of council.

The Great Chu Empire was so huge and its transportation was relatively backward that it would take several months to travel across states. The time and energy of the empire's top leaders were also limited, so it was impossible for them to travel everywhere.

This also leads to the fact that most of the empire's top leaders actually lack an intuitive understanding of the empire's vast territory.

We can only understand it through some data reports and limited photos... and more through our own imagination.

In order to solve this problem, at least the top officials of the empire had to have a more intuitive understanding of the areas ruled by the empire. Therefore, the Ministry of Rites sent a large number of photographers carrying cameras, video cameras, wire recorders and other equipment to all parts of the country, including those vassal states, to collect a large amount of image and sound materials.

These photos, videos and sounds were preserved and stored in archives as historical records, and were also sent to the emperor, the crown prince and senior imperial officials for viewing.

So that the top leaders of the empire can have a more intuitive understanding of the situations in various regions and vassal states of the empire.

After all, words are never as good as photos, and photos are not like videos.

Looking at photos and videos from around the world has become Luo Zhixue's new hobby in the past one or two years...Through photos and videos, Luo Zhixue knows what the empire he rules is like. Otherwise, he could only imagine it from the map...It's impossible to go there and see it in person, so photos and videos have become the best carriers.

In fact, these things are not just for the imperial high-ranking officials to watch. Some less sensitive content will be sorted out, copied and sent to various places. The local etiquette departments will organize officials and corporate managers from all over the country to watch them. The main purpose is to increase these people's knowledge and prevent them from sitting in the sky all day long.

Until recently, after these documentaries have been shown to the officials, they will be broadcast publicly through the channels of local newspapers. Although there is a fee, it is very cheap and you can go in and take a look for just a few cents.

After all, this is a public welfare, large-scale popular science documentary, and it was not expected to make money, nor even to recover the filming costs through public broadcasting... These filming costs are very expensive, but these filming costs have long been included in the funds of the Ministry of Ethics and Education, and there is no need to recover any costs.

The reason we charge a fee is just to pay for the venue fee and staff expenses during the screening...the projectionist also needs a salary.

In fact, these things are all documentaries, very boring... There is no plot, no story, and even many scenes don’t have people. They are just some realistic recording scenes, so they look very boring.

But even so, people watched it with great interest... because it was the first time people saw this kind of video footage, seeing footage of many overseas territories and many vassal states, and it was a novelty to watch.

However, for the top officials of the empire, what they saw was not the novelty, but the many things contained in the picture.

Today, Luo Zhixue came to the Qinzheng Hall to watch this documentary. This time, the Ministry of Rites sent him a documentary about the Suez Canal.

Luo Zhixue had been to the Suez Canal before, but the canal had not been opened when he went there, so all he saw was a huge construction site!

Now that the canal has been opened for operation, and he has seen some photos, but they are not that intuitive after all. So Luo Zhixue is still looking forward to watching a comprehensive documentary film.

In the large conference room of the Qinzheng Hall, curtains were drawn on all the windows to block out the light. In addition to the Emperor Luo Zhixue, there was also the Crown Prince and a group of ministers and co-organizers in the conference room.

After Luo Zhixue arrived, officials from the Ministry of Rites began to operate the projector and started the screening.

A black and white picture suddenly lit up on the canvas in front of the dim conference room. The first thing that appeared was a lot of text introduction on the subtitle card, which briefly introduced that the main content of the documentary was about the situation and date of the Suez Canal in the North African province.

Then the screen continued to turn and entered the actual scene.

When shooting, the photographer should have used a fixed-angle shooting method, so the lens did not shake, but the ship in the picture was actually moving.

At this time, a 10,000-ton cargo ship was slowly entering the canal from the Red Sea under the guidance of a guide ship.

The video then showed towns, ports, train stations on both sides of the canal and many ships navigating the canal.

Then we continued forward and finally filmed the scene of the ship leaving the canal and entering the Mediterranean Sea. We also filmed the situation at Port Said on the Mediterranean coast. This port mainly provides various services for ships passing through the canal.

The camera then moved to the port of Alexandria in the west, which is the largest port city in the West African Province and the home port of the Mediterranean Fleet, with a large number of warships anchored.

The picture also showed a second-class battleship, the South Africa class, setting sail for sea training and duty.

This documentary records not only the canal, but also the cities, ports and the governor's residence in Cairo that are adjacent to the canal.

The photographer even went to the Kingdom of Egypt to take pictures of the Egyptian pyramids.

After editing many images, this documentary is formed, which is about 40 minutes long. It is interspersed with many subtitles presented on subtitle cards, which simply describe the content of the video.

Through this documentary, Luo Zhixue truly saw for the first time the Suez Canal and many cities in the North African Province of this era, as well as some simple information about the Egyptian Kingdom and the pyramids.

It's a gain.

Judging from the images presented in the documentary, the Suez Canal is now quite busy. In the image, when a 10,000-ton ship enters the canal, there are still more than a dozen ships waiting in line in the bay behind it to pass through.

  These images, together with some previous text and photo reports, can present the situation and importance of the Suez Canal more intuitively in our minds!

This place is very important for the Great Chu Empire to control Europe and even the east coast of America!

Through this canal, the empire's ships can easily travel between the Mediterranean region and the entire European region. They can also continue to sail westward through this canal and finally reach the east coast of America... In this way, they can avoid the dangerous waters of the Cape of Good Hope and effectively shorten the voyage.

Although the Panama Canal has now been opened and the empire's ships can directly cross the Pacific Ocean and then pass through the Panama Canal to the east coast of America, not all ships take the Pacific route.

Many ships do not only travel between East Asia and America, but sometimes they also stop by India, West Asia, Europe and other places to transport goods and passengers to achieve the best cost-effectiveness of operations.

Whether it is the Suez Canal or the Panama Canal, both have extremely high strategic value to the empire.

Whereas in the past, this strategic value could only be seen on paper, now it can be seen through video footage, allowing a group of high-ranking officials in the empire to have a more intuitive understanding.

After watching this documentary, everyone took a short break and then continued to watch a documentary about the newly emerged Kingdom of Greece after the collapse and division of the Ottoman Empire. The documentary showed the cities, life and even customs of the indigenous people of the Kingdom of Greece.

Of course, there are also some unique landscapes, such as the Temple of Poseidon and the Parthenon in the Kingdom of Greece. By the way, the subtitles on the subtitle cards also briefly introduce some myths of the local indigenous people of Greece.

This was a novel experience for a group of high-ranking officials of the Chu State.

However, they are not very concerned about these ancient buildings or myths. They are more concerned with the daily life of the native Greeks shown in the video.

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