Daming 1805

Chapter 72 Find the location of the pot first
Although Zhu Jianyan felt that his son would come when he opened his mouth, he still decided to try it according to his son's suggestion, and finally gave his son a notice:

"Your grandfather asked me to tell you that in the future, if there is no particularly important matter, go to the morning court every day."

Now it was Zhu Jingyuan's turn to be stunned:
"Why?"

Zhu Jianyan looked at his son with a complicated expression:

"In the early morning, it means spending ten minutes to an hour every day, knowing what is going on in the world, and the efficiency is much higher and faster than reading newspapers.

"What's more, newspapers only let you know after the fact that something happened, and you can only see most things on the outside.

"But participating in the early morning allows you to participate in the decision-making of most things, and allows you to see the inner reason and purpose of things."

Zhu Jingyuan listened to this explanation, and the illusion in his heart came again.

A prince who is preparing to go to a remote desert to be a vassal king obviously does not need to understand these things:
"Grandpa means... I need to know this?"

Zhu Jianyan hesitated, but finally spoke up:

"...Otherwise, why did I specially remind you to go to the morning?"

Zhu Jingyuan was speechless.

The next day, on the morning of January 34th, [-]th year of Taiping, Ming Dynasty, Zhu Jingyuan followed his father to the morning court again.

Today's morning court location was changed from Wenhua Hall to Wuying Hall.

This happened from time to time before, indicating that today the emperor has extra things to say, and it is related to military affairs.

The princes and ministers who participated in the court meeting summed up the tasks of their departments in advance in their hearts, and at the same time guessed and analyzed the extra things that the emperor wanted to mention.

Seeing that Zhu Jingyuan followed Zhu Jianyan in, although everyone was a little concerned, they didn't show any emotion.

Everyone is basically used to it, and you may have to work together often in the future, but it’s not enough if you are not used to it.

And after these days of understanding, mainly yesterday's lecture at the Ministry of Industry, most of the old gentlemen understood.

This kid didn't deliberately target anyone, he was originally such a character, always in a state of clear thinking.

Aside from the constant surprises, this kid isn't really annoying, and he can give new ideas about his own affairs.

Therefore, another minister came to say hello to Zhu Jianyan, and another person said hello to Zhu Jingyuan himself.

The atmosphere outside the hall today was quite harmonious until several shopkeepers from the Royal Consortium arrived.

The previous dynasty was a matter of the imperial court, and people in the consortium would not usually participate.

The people of the consortium went to the early court and explained that the matters to be discussed today are not only related to the military, but also related to Huangzhuang and manufacturers.

This may directly affect the interests of many people, so everyone suddenly becomes serious.

The morning of the new day started in such an atmosphere.

First of all, each department reported the daily work progress, and the old emperor simply listened to or made reminders and requests.

After the normal process was over, the old emperor took the initiative to speak:

"Okay, now we're going to discuss a military logistical matter, the switch from coal to fuel oil for naval ships.

"Although this is a military issue, it involves a wide range of departments and industries, so everyone from the court is left to participate.

"The things that have been established now is that there is definitely a gradual full replacement of fuel, there is no need to argue on this point.

"Increasing the scale of crude oil extraction and refining and building more fuel storage warehouses are also certain things.

"The key question is how to deal with the original coal-fired supply station as smoothly as possible."

When the old emperor asked this question, the atmosphere at the scene suddenly became a little cold.

Daming's navy is very large, and its activities cover more than half of the world beyond the North Atlantic.

In order to cooperate with the activities of the navy, Daming built a large number of fuel supply stations in the colonies and vassal states around the world.

In the past, the fuel for warships was coal, and in the future, it will be gradually replaced by fuel oil.

So the question arises, how should the original coal stations all over the world be disposed of smoothly.

If it is just to discuss whether to change the fuel, there will definitely be objections at the scene.

That involves the interests of too many people and the jobs of too many people.

Even for officials with unrelated interests, these matters add to the workload in vain.

If it is to give these military coal supplies to the private sector, and at the same time continue to use coal as fuel for warships, there must be many people who provide detailed transfer plans.

Because everyone knows that there is a huge profit margin.

If the private sector is to be involved in oil extraction, refining, oil sales, and construction of oil depots, there must be a variety of schemes quickly proposed.

Oil will surely develop rapidly due to military use and become a promising industry in the future.

The key is that the military supply itself is synonymous with high profits and stability, and too many people want to participate in it.

But now it is purely for everyone to discuss how to smoothly cut down the original military coal station, which is purely thankless work.

It's not just a matter of tearing down the divisional military coal station itself.

The business of civilian shipping and coal refueling stations will also be affected, as will coal mining and transportation-related industries.

To put it bluntly, this is a matter of "the food and clothing of millions of water workers", and it is a social problem of the entire industry.

So this is not a purely military matter, nor a purely financial matter, but more of a civil affairs matter.

Everyone didn't know how to speak, but people looked at Zhu Jingyuan from time to time.

This time, instead of looking forward to suggestions, I was looking for the location of the pot.

There may be various reasons for the navy to change fuel and fuel, but now this incident itself is caused by Zhu Jingyuan.

It was Zhu Jingyuan's request yesterday that all new warships will use fuel oil in the future, which directly led to this incident.

Zhu Jingyuan didn't have a good solution, and the same thing happened in history.

Since the advent of steam sailing ships, large and small coal refueling stations, including military and civilian ones, have appeared one after another on routes around the world. A large number of small ports have prospered because of their suitable locations and because of storage and coal refueling.

But by the beginning of the twentieth century, due to the increasing range of ships and the beginning of the fuel revolution, a large number of small coal bunkering stations on the route were gradually eliminated.

Those small ports developed because of coal addition have also gradually been abandoned.

Over time, if it wasn't for the locals, they wouldn't even know there was a busy port there.

So this is not even just a matter of the coal industry itself, but also includes the industry and personnel of a large number of small offshore ports.

Of course, it is not impossible for the government to not deal with it, and the laws of the market can balance these problems and people on their own.

As long as the replacement cycle is extended long enough, those people and things will not be able to make any waves.

A small port in a remote place has declined, a group of local people have lost their jobs, or some people can't survive, or because some people are suddenly impoverished, it has caused some human tragedy.

For the parties involved, the sky may be falling.

For the nobles and grandchildren who are far away, this cannot be said to be a trivial matter, it can only be said that it cannot reach their eyes at all, and it may not even be news.

This is basically the result in history, and time will smooth out most injustices.

It was just that the Ming court, which was theoretically people-oriented, instinctively wanted to deal with and resettle relevant personnel in advance, so as to avoid the recurrence of large and small civil uprisings.

(End of this chapter)