Daming 1805

Chapter 71
With the approval of the old emperor, Zhu Jingyuan confirmed the names of the eight new ships, and the design goal briefing session finally ended.

Zhu Jingyuan bowed his hands to all the audience, and returned to his own position under the stage, which was next to the place where the old emperor sat.

The old emperor happily got up and took the stage, and made a general assignment for the specific design and construction work.

The Ship Division of the Ministry of Industry is responsible for the design and construction of two battleships and two cruisers.

The Royal Dockyard is responsible for the design and construction of two aircraft carriers and two destroyers.

However, it is also required that the two parties should cooperate and cooperate at all times in the initial plan discussion, and exchange ideas and experiences with each other at any time for the other party as a design reference.

Zhu Jingyuan is responsible for the final evaluation of all design proposals.

After the ship design-related matters were finally finalized, the old emperor instructed Zhu Jingyuan to pay attention to the progress of aircraft research and development, and then got up and returned to the palace.

All the officials, craftsmen and shopkeepers at the scene got up and bowed to watch the old emperor leave the scene.

Watching the figure of the old emperor disappear, he continued to stand quietly for a few minutes.

After confirming that the old emperor had left the lecture hall building, all the talents breathed a sigh of relief one after another.

The scene quickly became noisy. The craftsmen and officials called friends and chatted together to eat in the canteen of the Ministry of Industry.

In the afternoon, most of the staff of the government office and the manufacturer left one after another, but the craftsmen of the Design Department of the Royal Dockyard stayed.

Zhu Jingyuan took the design craftsmen of the ship division and the design craftsmen of the Royal Dockyard to guide them to draw more accurate sketches on the spot.

Explain in detail the design details of bulbous bow, square stern, cruise stern, etc., and go to the site of the Ministry of Engineering to do several simple pool experiments.

The "Ship Model Experiment Pool" is the most important experimental and research site for the ship company, and its status is somewhat similar to a wind tunnel in aeronautical engineering.

Drag the hull model to sail in the pool to simulate and test the resistance, stability and other performance of the ship.

It is in a slender closed room, a specially built slender pool, surrounded by trailers and various testing tools.

Wang Lai, the head of the Ship Division of the Ministry of Works, brought the craftsmen from the Ministry of Industry and the Royal Shipyard to toss in the pool for more than two hours.

Several paraffin models were continuously measured to observe the effect of adding bulbous bow, square stern, cruiser stern and other designs on the sailing resistance of the ship model.

In the end, they came to a result that was beyond their expectations, but vaguely felt that it should also be reasonable.

Zhu Jingyuan's ideas were all right.

Whether it is a bulbous bow or a square stern, it can indeed reduce the sailing resistance, that is, the same power can be used to obtain a greater sailing speed.

However, the pool test of the ship model does not end when the direction is correct. The correct direction is only the beginning of testing and design.

Next, more careful and comprehensive research and testing are required, and the hull that has changed its alignment must be re-stabilized.

However, these tasks are done step by step. With the right direction, there will be no worries about messing around, and work efficiency will be greatly improved.

Zhu Jingyuan, who proposed the idea, was once again praised by the craftsmen from the bottom of his heart.

Always come up with unexpected ideas, but always succeed and verify his correctness.

Now the young craftsmen of the Ministry of Industry have a clear reverence for Zhu Jingyuan.

Now the craftsmen's requests for Zhu Jingyuan are basically not perfunctory, and they are basically responsive.

This will also improve the design efficiency again, but it also makes Zhu Jingyuan a little worried, worried that these craftsmen will form a profound blind obedience.

So Zhu Jingyuan was thinking about how to change the way of communication and turn direct requests into guided thinking...

But this kind of change is obviously not something that can be accomplished in a short time, and the method is not so easy to grasp. It can only be seen one step at a time.

Zhu Jingyuan went on to explain his impression of several typical bulbous bow shapes on different ships.

Let them test and explore themselves, looking for designs suitable for use on warships and civilian ships of different sizes, and prepare to install and test on existing warships.

Zhu Jingyuan spoke at the Ministry of Industry for a whole day, and by the time the office was released in the afternoon, his voice was almost hoarse.

Waiting for his father's car to come to the yard of the Ministry of Engineering, after Zhu Jingyuan climbed into the car and sat down, he was paralyzed on his back:
"I'm so tired, I'm really dizzy today..."

Zhu Jianyan motioned for the driver to drive, while laughing and mocking his son:

"Is this still too tired? I have already done your official errand for you, why don't you take the burden of Honglu Temple again?"

When Zhu Jingyuan heard this, he suddenly became a little more energetic:

"Father, I think government affairs are much easier than design. You can follow your feelings in government affairs, and design needs to be more realistic..."

Zhu Jianyan was suddenly speechless:

"Government affairs are not as simple as you think. After the negotiation is over, you will start training on governance, and you will know how difficult it is when you become an official at the grassroots level.

"As for design, according to my father's understanding, after all, there is a distinction between right and wrong, but in many cases there is no right or wrong in government affairs."

Zhu Jingyuan immediately began to quibble:
"Yes, it's because there is no right or wrong, so you can follow your feelings. If there is a right or a wrong, you can't do it at will..."

Zhu Jianyan was stunned for three seconds, and then asked uncertainly:
"Don't tell me, when you were involved in all government affairs before, when you put forward suggestions and ideas, you completely followed your feelings?"

Zhu Jingyuan didn't have so many rules when talking to his father, so he nodded casually:

"Yes, I always come here with my mouth open, but my feelings are often right..."

Zhu Jianyan immediately asked for leave and was speechless.

You just opened your mouth to come here, it's best not to let your ninth uncle know, you are about to be depressed by you.

Zhu Jianyan shook his head feebly, and then simply asked Zhu Jingyuan a question on this topic:
"Now Honglu Temple is wrangling with Xiyi to discuss a place to hold formal peace talks.

"We can't accept it's too far west. We don't want to negotiate in the Xiyi mainland, and the Xiyi people don't think it's very good, as if they were occupied by us.

"It's too far to the east, the Western barbarians don't accept it, and we don't think it's very good to negotiate in our homeland, and we don't want a group of Western barbarians to come to our homeland.

"Between the two of us is the big food, there is no rich, stable and comfortable place, and the key is too close to the Ottoman mainland.

"Although the Sinai Peninsula belongs to us, but it is completely surrounded by Westerners, we don't feel safe enough.

"Although Tianzhu Peninsula belongs to Xiyi, it is completely surrounded by us, and Xiyi also feels that it is not safe enough.

"Just open one now and choose the most suitable place for us to negotiate."

Zhu Jingyuan really opened his mouth and came:

"Since we all think it's not good to be close, let's find a place that is far enough away, so let's talk to Huangzhuang, Xiyang Cape, in South Mozhou."

The Cape of the West Ocean is the Cape of Good Hope in Zhu Jingyuan's previous life. The piece of land in Cape Town, South Africa, is now one of the royal residences of the Zhu Ming royal family.

Zhu Jianyan was stunned for a moment, obviously not thinking of it, and deliberately detouring:
"Nan Mozhou? Cape Huangzhuang? That place is indeed quite far.

"It is more than 1 kilometers from Guangdong to go there, and it is more than 1000 kilometers from London.

"It is quite far from our homeland, but the difference is not too big. That sea area is also the junction of the two forces, and the conditions of the key Huangzhuang are indeed suitable for negotiation.

"But in the end it's our territory, and the history can be said to be very complicated.

"It was first discovered by the Portuguese, then it became a Dutch colony, the Spaniards and the British wanted it, but it ended up being ours.

"A place like this, Xiyi dare to go, are you willing to go?"

Zhu Jingyuan said angrily:

"If they don't want to go at all, then don't talk about it. Now we are not particularly afraid of war, so we will continue to fight.

"And Father, you can adopt the roof-lifting strategy proposed by Emperor Shizu, and first propose to go to Huangzhuang in the Baiyun Islands (New Zealand) in the south of Tiannan to talk.

"That place is truly the end of the world for the Taixi people. It takes more effort for them to go there than we go to South Yinzhou. They will definitely not accept it.

"Then let's make a compromise and go to South Mozhou, which is about the same distance from the mainland of the two sides. They should be able to accept the intersection of the spheres of influence of the two sides."

Zhu Jingyuan thought for a while:

"Then I'll try it tomorrow..."

(End of this chapter)