Daming 1805

Chapter 24 Why didn't you use all your strength?
Wuying Hall is located in the southwest corner of the Forbidden City, opposite the Wenhua Hall in the southeast corner.

The cabinet works in the Wenhua Hall, the military aircraft works in the Wuying Hall, and the court and military-related meetings are usually held in the Wuying Hall.

The emperor asked Zhu Jingyuan and others to go to the Wuying Palace, obviously to let the military ministers be the staff.

Zhu Jianyan, Zhu Jingyuan and his son, Zou Bingtai and Wang Lai, two officials from the Ministry of Industry, plus the driver, a total of five people, Zhu Jianyan's car can fit.

However, the space in the rear would be relatively narrow, and it would not be suitable for Prince Zhu Jianyan to be crowded with everyone, and Zou Bingtai, an old scholar, would not be able to adapt to the car either.

So everyone called a four-wheeled carriage to the palace together. The carriage of the carriage was relatively spacious, and there was no sound, vibration or smell of the engine.

However, ordinary carriages could not enter the palace, so everyone got off the carriage at the palace gate and walked to the Wuying Hall, which was not too far away.

The layout of Wuying Hall is basically the same as that of Wenhua Hall, except that the platform in the middle of the hall has been replaced by a sand table, which usually displays the distribution of the main garrison in Daming.

Cao Zhenyong from the Military Aircraft Office once again waited at the door as a representative, took Zhu Jingyuan and his party in, and placed them in the small conference room on the side of Wuying Hall.

Ten minutes later, the emperor took the car in the palace and came to the gate of Wuying Hall.

When Zhu Jingyuan and the others and the Minister of Military Aircraft heard the news, they came out ahead of time to greet them under the stairs of the main hall.

Zhu Jingyuan looked at the old emperor who got out of the car, vaguely feeling that he was in better condition than yesterday, and his health seemed to be recovering rapidly.

Could it be that the truce and reform have cured his long-standing heart disease?
With doubts in his heart, Zhu Jingyuan bowed to the emperor with everyone, and then followed the emperor into the main hall of Wuying Hall.

After the emperor and ministers took their seats, Zou Bingtai, as a representative, explained the situation to the emperor and the minister of military aircraft.

After listening with a stern face, the old emperor did not immediately show any tendency to choose, but directly came to Zhu Jingyuan's thoughts:
"Jingyuan, the fully equipped main gun battleship you envisaged, no matter what the actual combat effect is, it cannot be built before the end of the peace talks.

"So the construction of this kind of warship cannot affect this peace negotiation. Why do you insist on starting construction immediately?"

Zhu Jingyuan got up and explained:

"Sun Chen's plan has always been thinking about the next war, never just preparing for negotiations.

"I think this kind of full main gun battleship should become the trend of the future.

"The sooner you start construction and confirm its combat effectiveness, the earlier you can reshape the fleet, and the earlier you start exploring how to fight in a new environment.

"At the same time, it can also avoid the continued waste of time and resources on the old warships."

The old emperor nodded slightly, acknowledging that what Zhu Jingyuan said made sense, but then spit out a sentence that was not above and below:
"Construction of existing ships will cease before the armistice."

When Zhu Jingyuan heard the old emperor say to stop building old ships, he subconsciously showed joy, thinking that the old emperor was in favor of building new ships by himself.

As a result, the old emperor's words were just like this, and he didn't mention anything here, and he didn't mention his battleship.

After waiting for three seconds, Zhu Jingyuan was sure that the old emperor had finished speaking, so he couldn't help but ask:
"Grandpa... and then what?"

The old emperor asked back:
"What then?"

Zhu Jingyuan said speechlessly:
"After the construction of the existing warships stopped, wouldn't a new warship be built to test?"

The old emperor lacked interest and didn't even ask for details, he just waved his hand and said:

"We'll talk about the new ship later. The focus now is on reform."

Zhu Jingyuan couldn't understand why the old emperor had this attitude, and why didn't he care about the new warships?

Could it be that my grandfather is all about the army, so he doesn't care about the navy?
Once the idea came up, it got out of hand.

Zhu Jingyuan immediately realized that in the ten years or so he could remember, Daming's speed and quantity of shipbuilding seemed to be conservative.

Daming's industrial production capacity and technological level are world-class today.

He completed the first industrial revolution by himself, and basically completed the second industrial revolution independently, leading the world to complete the second industrial revolution 100 years ahead of schedule.

Britain, France, Pruo and other countries are almost all following Daming's ass, and they will immediately follow what Daming does.

During the first industrial revolution, they were obviously a big step slower than Daming.

Daming seized the opportunity to drive the Netherlands, Spain and Portugal out of the East, and seized Nanyinzhou (South America), Nanmo (South Africa), Dongmo (East Africa), Dashi (West Asia), Tiannan (Australia, New Zealand) and other overseas colonies.

During the second industrial revolution, several major countries in Taixi (Europe) seized the opportunity and accelerated the catch-up speed, barely catching up with Daming in important technological nodes.

In the history of Zhu Jingyuan's previous life, industrial countries such as the United States and Germany were during the Second Industrial Revolution, and their industrial capabilities equaled or even gradually surpassed that of the British Empire.

But the Ming Empire in this world is stronger than the Great Britain and the United States in history. It is an unprecedented land and sea power empire.

The land is rich in resources, with vast overseas colonies, developed imperial industries, and the largest consumer market, with very strong internal and external driving forces.

In this world, Britain, France and other countries did not have the advantages that Germany and the United States had over the British Empire in the face of the industrial Ming Dynasty.

Although the Taixi countries have barely caught up with the Ming Dynasty in major key technology nodes, there is still a clear gap in the real forefront of technology.

The Western countries still need time to accumulate and settle, but Daming, who has completed industrialization, will not stop and wait for them to catch up.

Now that the Western countries are tied together, they can touch Daming. They did exactly that, and in the end they were basically tied.

However, now the Ming Navy's warships are not much more than the British Empire, giving people a feeling that enough is enough, it seems that there is no full-strength shipbuilding.

Even under the siege of the whole world, Daming's shipbuilding industry still did not use its full strength, which is very incredible.

I don't know if it's because I can't use all my strength, or because the emperor is not interested in the navy.

Thinking of this, Zhu Jingyuan became even more worried, and then he could only continue to persuade:

"Grandpa Huang, this... can't let the shipyard just sit idle like this.

"We have now opened up the construction of private large ships, and then stopped the construction of royal warships.

"Isn't this waiting for shipbuilding workers and technicians to jump ship?

"Sun Chen believes that the shipyard of the royal consortium should at least keep the construction task not completely interrupted.

"Otherwise, it will not be so easy to find workers and technical teams again when construction is needed.

"This may directly reduce Daming's shipbuilding ability, which in turn reduces the naval combat ability..."

(End of this chapter)