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What you want to say, Zhu Jishi has already finished speaking, these truths are actually told to Zhu Guoxiong! It is best if he can listen to it, and if he can't listen to it, he can't stop the growth of the king under the law and a powerful dynasty. After all, Emperor Zhu gave birth to so many children, and he was not prepared to fine the Family Planning Commission, nor was he prepared to let Zhu Guoxiong raise them as pigs. It's about making them successful, or combining them with successful people. More than 40 years later, if there were still thirteen heroes meeting in Shanghai and Jiading Nanhu, they would be confronted with hundreds or thousands of descendants of the Ming royal family who had great power in all aspects and were themselves outstanding, as well as a powerful monopoly bourgeois group united with the Ming imperial family......

Gao Zi received the instruction and respectfully retreated, and then brought Pan Zuyin, Li Hongzhang and Wu Chunqiu in.

"All three of you can sit down." Zhu Jishi saw that Zheng Lao Fox stood up and wanted to retreat, so he beckoned to him again, "King Yanping, don't leave yet, let's listen together." ”

"The old minister obeys." King Yanping smiled, sat down again, and looked like I was rough and I didn't understand anything - this is the consequence of the 2000 ** rule deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Not only did the royal family have to be raised as pigs, but even the heroes had to pretend to be stupid and stupid...... A bunch of pigs plus a bunch of fake fools, the country, of course, is getting weaker and weaker.

"Pan Qing, Li Qing, the British have already known the ultimatum to Donghua. What is the opinion of the Cabinet? ”

Pan Zuyin said: "The cabinet proposes to submit an ultimatum to the British, if the British do not withdraw the ultimatum to Donghua, we must declare war!" ”

"War now?" Zhu Jishi looked at Zhu Guoxiong. "Xiong'er. What do you think? ”

Zhu Guoxiong twisted his eyebrows and thought about it: "Father." Erchen agreed with the Cabinet, now that everyone knew that the world war had begun, it was no longer interesting to hide it. ”

"The disruption of trade will have a lot of impact on the economy, right?" Zhu Jishi was worried that foreign trade would be interrupted by the war. Daming's rubber, silk, palm oil, spices, tea and Coptis chinensis and other bulk export products are actually still very marketable in Europe and the United States.

"France and Mexico are still neutral." Wu Chunqiu said, "The minister estimates that they will be neutral for a long time until the future of the war is clear. ”

This time the French actually made a war fortune! Zhu Jishi said in his heart that Mathilde and Eugenie, two timid women, had made the French lucky.

"Your Majesty, the cabinet has already calculated. Now the declaration of war will have little impact on the economy. Even if overseas markets for major export products such as rubber, silk and palm oil are completely lost, it will not pose a huge threat to these industries, after all, the largest market is still domestic. Li Hongzhang, the right minister of the cabinet, added.

The population of 7.5 and the world's first GDP (if there are statistics, it is certainly the world's first) have long created more demand than the whole of Europe combined, even without an external market. Relying on the internal demand of the Greater China Economic Circle can also maintain economic prosperity. Moreover, a world war itself consumes a lot of supplies.

Zhu Jishi nodded, he had already contacted Shi Dakai, the secretary of the Ministry of War, and Wang Dehu, the secretary of the Ministry of the Navy, by phone before. Neither of them was opposed to joining the war immediately, especially Wang Dehu, the secretary of the Admiralty, told Zhu Jishi that the Navy's 10 capital ships and 10 armored cruisers had completed the conversion of their secondary guns, and all of them had been upgraded to the newly developed 140mm rapid-fire guns.

Meantime. The development of the 210mm rapid-fire gun is also in the final stages, and it will be the end of this year at the latest. The Navy will be able to replace the main guns of all capital ships and armored cruisers with 210mm rapid-fire guns...... Although the caliber is smaller, the rate of fire will be greatly increased, and the range will be increased because the new rapid-fire guns have a larger multiplier. The only problem is that the armor-piercing ability of the 210mm rapid-fire gun is insufficient, and it can only go through the "deck washing" stream, which is easy to damage the enemy ship hard, and it is still very difficult to sink it. After several other live-fire exercises, the top brass of the Ming Navy had almost given up the illusion of smashing and sinking the enemy's capital ship with large-caliber naval guns -- at least until the invention of armor-piercing blasting shells, this goal was simply impossible to achieve!

In fact, the caliber of naval guns of this era became so large because of the absence of armor-piercing blasting shells. The same maneuvers, the British Navy did it many times, and they even shot old wooden-hulled battleships with solid armor-piercing shells, which were equally difficult to sink.

However, the British did not give up the "illusion" of sinking enemy ships, since now the British Navy had two potential opponents, the Chinese Navy and the French Navy. The strength of the British Royal Navy is far weaker than that of the Chinese and French navies combined. For them, a decisive battle of the naval fleet, which could cause a large number of enemy ships to be sunk, was the key to maintaining the hegemony of the British Empire. If it was always damaged and not sunk, the British Navy would probably be exhausted from multiple battlefields.

Therefore, the British Navy envisioned a tactic of heavy damage to enemy ships with large-caliber guns, slowing them down and then ramming and sinking. And also with success in several near-real combat exercises! Although the rate of fire and accuracy of their 15-inch guns are a tragedy, once they hit an enemy ship, the destructive power is still considerable, and it is very likely that the battleship will be flooded or the power plant will fail. When the time comes, as long as you touch it lightly with the main force equipped with ramming angles, where is there any reason why you can't turn over?

In addition, Wang Dehu also told Zhu Jishi. The design of the latest Tianjin-class fast-fire cruiser has undergone another round of modifications, replacing the 155mm caliber main gun with a 140mm rapid-fire gun, and at the same time, all the secondary guns have also been replaced with this 140mm caliber rapid-fire gun, making up a "full gun" cruiser concept.

"Well, in that case, then give Britain an ultimatum!" Zhu Jishi was stunned, "I will leave for North America in a few days." If it is fast, it can be a year, and if it is slow, you may have to live in North America for two or three years. Ying Tian is here by the crown prince to supervise the country. The Cabinet and the Parliament need to do their part and support each other to the best of their ability. In addition, before I set out, I was preparing to amend the constitution and the royal canon, and transfer some of the legislative power to the parliament. ”

"Transfer of some legislative powers?" Pan Zuyin's brows suddenly became solemn.

"What's wrong?" Zhu Jishi immediately noticed the change in Pan Zuyin's expression, and said with a smile, "You want to say that the matter of constitutional reform is too early, and it can be started after the end of the war?" ”

Pan Zuyin bowed respectfully, "Your Majesty is clear." With all due respect, it is true that it is too early to propose reform now, as Your Majesty said. ”

It's not that he doesn't want to expand the powers of the parliament and the cabinet, but that he has the attitude that he is finally royal and has no intention of getting involved in more power. As soon as he finished speaking, Li Hongzhang and Wu Chunqiu also agreed.

"I ......," Zhu Jishi explained, "I am almost in the age of the sixtieth year, although my body is still passable, how many days can I still be healthy?" Constitutional reform should be carried out as soon as possible. He looked at his son, "Xiong'er, I plan to wait until the war is won to give you the throne." ”

Crown Prince Zhu Guoxiong's eyes widened, "Son, son, son, still ......"

"Still young? Hehe, I'm already an emperor at your age. ”

"How can the sons compare with their fathers?"

"It's hard to start a business, and it's not easy to keep it. Xiong'er, you don't have to shirk it, and you will take over the throne when the war is over...... Let me watch you sit firmly on the country, and watch me the Ming Dynasty prosper day by day. ”

"The retainers obey." Zhu Guoxiong knew that his father was not testing himself. Zhu Jishi doesn't like this kind of hypocritical style, if Zhu Guoxiong is more polite to his father for a long time, it will annoy him. So after a little resignation, I agreed. Of course, he also knew that even if he became the emperor, he didn't have much power, not only under the law, but also under the emperor. The prestige of a generation of founding saints is incomparable to that of his second ancestor.

Zhu Jishi sighed and said, "Let's deal with state affairs here, it's not too early, you all stay and have lunch with me." I'm about to set off on this expedition, so why not have a drink before that? (To be continued.) )u