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Zhu Juan's actions were naturally sent to Zhu Jishi's desk in the form of a report through Bai Siwen and Jin Yiwei's intelligence network - Lao Tzu actually used a spy organization to spy on his son, and the father-son relationship of this emperor's family is really terrible!

However, Zhu Jishi didn't want to disturb his son's conspiracy. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info;.Someone has to start a world war! Starting with Jujuan's Donghua is nothing that can't be done. And there is another advantage to the war between Donghua and the American Empire, it will be a proxy war. Both the Ming and the British could temporarily refrain from declaring war on each other, so that the transportation and trade between the Ming and France would not be affected for a while.

As for the war preparations and mobilization of the Ming Empire, it is still advancing step by step according to its own plan, and it has not changed because of the conspiracy of the Juan and Bush brothers. The Constituent Assembly has just passed the "Bill on the Additional National Defense Budget," the "Bill on the Supplementary Budget for Emergency Ship Construction," and the "Bill on the Additional Issuance of Public Bonds for National Defense." After nearly 30 years of development, the economy and finance of the Ming Empire are completely incomparable with those of the former Qing Dynasty. In the 28 years since the liberation, the fiscal revenue of the central government alone has been as high as 1.6 billion yuan, and the fiscal expenditure has been controlled at 1.58 billion yuan, with a surplus of 20 million yuan. However, it is unrealistic to rely only on these billions of dollars to support a world war. Therefore, in the "Bill on the Additional Issuance of National Defense Public Bonds," the parliament authorized the Ministry of Finance to issue 500 million Chinese yuan of public bonds for military spending in the 29th year of the liberation, and with the original military budget of 400 million Chinese yuan, the military expenditure in the 29th year of the liberation suddenly swelled to an astronomical figure of 900 million Chinese yuan. And 280 million of the 900 million Chinese dollars is the so-called "shipbuilding budget". It is the cost of the navy to build warships. Calculated at the exchange rate at the beginning of 1875. This amount is equivalent to £70 million. Ironclad ships such as the historical Dingyuan ship can build as many as 200 ships......

The wealth created by the industrialization of 750 million people is indeed astronomical. Moreover, during the Daoguang period of the Manchu Qing Dynasty before Zhu Jishi came to power, China's economic scale was not under the British Empire, the most powerful in the world at that time, let alone today, 30 years later? If there is a concept of GDP statistics in the world now, the GDP of the Ming Empire must be the first in the world, perhaps comparable to the sum of Western Europe! If war is more than throwing money, there is no suspense about the outcome of this world war.

The confrontation exercises of ironclad and cruisers organized by the Pacific Fleet of the Navy also gave results at the end of February 1875. This is an exercise of 10 ironclad ships against 10 armored cruisers and 10 fast cruisers. The final result did not surprise Zhu Jishi. All 10 ironclads were "hit" with holes, while 1 of the 10 fast cruisers was judged to have been sunk, 1 was judged to have been severely damaged, and the rest were all intact. In addition, in the previous live-fire exercise of the "Emperor" class capital ships, the "Guangfu" capital ship finally fired more than 200 rounds of 320mm caliber solid armor-piercing shells, of which only 8 hits, and only 2 shells hit the waterline armor belt, and it has not yet penetrated the 600mm steel-faced iron-clad composite sandwich armor. That is, the target ship is still intact! The power of the 320mm solid bullet has been proven to pose no threat to the 10,000-ton ironclad ship. And the subsequent test firing of the 410mm shore defense gun was not much better. The cannon was incredibly slow to fire, but it was more accurate than a naval gun. But it wasn't much better, and it didn't hit a few shots for hours, although it sank the ship. But that is when there is no damage and the speed is less than 10 knots, if it is really in actual combat, there may not be such results. The power of solid armor-piercing shells is no longer sufficient, and it has been undoubtedly revealed after this exercise. The role of the giant cannon is not great, and the fast cannon is the key to victory.

Dr. Feng Ziming, the director and chief engineer of the Jiangnan Shipyard, a shipbuilding expert who graduated from Jishi University and an academician of the Ming Royal Academy of Sciences, are now braving the spring rain to watch the magnificent scene of industrial shipbuilding on the dock slipways along the Huangpu River in Shanghai. Countless laborers are busy working in the world's largest shipyard. Shipbuilding in this era felt like a labor-intensive industry, and the entire Jiangnan factory employed nearly 50,000 workers! Railroad tracks are laid in the factory area, and trains rumble past from time to time. The wharf provided by the shipyard is piled up like a hill of wood and steel -- the steel used in shipbuilding is the product of the Lanfanghang Ma'anshan Iron and Steel Plant, which has just been put into operation, and this steel plant is the third large-scale iron and steel complex of one million tons in Daming after the Nanfen Iron and Steel Plant and the Qiongzhou Shilu Iron and Steel Plant, with an output of 1 million tons of iron and 520,000 tons of steel last year. The main products are supplied to shipbuilding, military industry, machinery, hardware and other industries in Yingtian and Shanghai.

Looking at the hot labor construction scene, Zhu Jishi couldn't help but nod and smile. Feng Ziming also pointed at him with the drawings: "This is the 'Tianjin', the hull has been completed, it can be launched next week, and then outfitting will begin, and the sea trial will be possible in September at the earliest." In addition, there are four more 'Tianjin' class ships that can be completed before the end of this year......" Zhu Jishi smiled and patted him on the shoulder: "Dr. Feng, you are already in your fifties in the blink of an eye, can you remember the scene when you just entered Hong Kong Jishi University?" Didn't expect our country to change so dramatically in just 30 years? In another 30 years, I don't know what a magnificent country it will be. ”

Feng Ziming looked at his old principal Zhu Jishi, he was the earliest student of Jishi University, so he had listened to Zhu Jishi's lectures, at that time, Jishi University had neither a few professors nor a few students, and it was probably the smallest university in the world. Today, this university is the world's number one university, and almost all the high-end new talents in the Ming Dynasty, a large industrialized country, are related to this university, either its students or its students are taught in other universities or colleges. The cause of this university is almost as great as the creation of the Ming Empire, nay, even greater. Because millions of new talents are the real foundation of this empire. He said with some emotion: "Your Majesty, it is a great blessing for students to be able to catch up with this good era and follow in the footsteps of the emperor, if you can see the Ming Dynasty 30 years later, there will be no regrets in this life!" ”

Zhu Jishi nodded and said with a smile: "Then take good care of your body, don't work too hard, we have to live for another 30 years, and take a good look at what the 20th century is like!" Having said this, a regretful expression suddenly appeared on Emperor Zhu's face, he was born in another time and space in the 20th century. I can't see the era of my birth in any way, but I can only look at the beginning of the 20th century......

A group of workers who were working suddenly saw the emperor in dragon robes surrounded by everyone, and they all put down their tools and cheered here, and Zhu Jishi waved to them and smiled - most of the workers here were born in the last 20 years, almost all of them went to school, could read and write, and could know about the world's major events through the newspaper. The thinking is also different from their parents, although they also know that they must be loyal to the monarch and patriotism, but their legs and stomachs are very hard, and they will not kneel and kowtow if they have nothing to do.

Zhu Jishi's inspection has been successfully concluded so far, and he explained a few words to Feng Ziming, so that he does not have to rush to meet the construction deadline, and must focus on quality. Surrounded by the guards, they boarded the carriage and galloped toward the military dock at Wusongkou, where a brand-new white cruise ship with sails and steam hybrid was moored, with the sun and moon on the side of the ship marked with gold on a white background, the symbol of the Kingdom of Japan. Zhu Jishi's other king's son, Zhu Xingyi, was visiting on this cruise ship, accompanied by her mother, Genic Mingzi. The world war is already on the way, and the Kingdom of Japan, which has always occupied an important position in the Ming Empire's system, and the new Japan on the other side of the Pacific Ocean, will naturally play an important role in the upcoming war. (To be continued.) )