The Wuying Hall is in the southwest corner of the Forbidden City, opposite the Wenhua Hall in the southeast corner.

The cabinet is located in the Wenhua Palace, the military aircraft office is in the Wuying Palace, and the military-related meetings of the imperial court are usually held in the Wuying Palace.

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

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

But then the rear space will be relatively narrow, so it is not suitable for Zhu Jianyan, the prince, to be crowded with everyone, and Zou Bingtai, the old Shangshu, will not be able to adapt to the car.

So everyone called a four-wheeled carriage to go to the palace, the carriage of which 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 at the palace gate and walked to the Wuying Palace, which was not far away.

The pattern of the Wuying Hall is basically the same as that of the Wenhua Palace, but the platform in the middle of the hall has been replaced with a sand table, which usually shows the distribution of the main garrisons of the Ming Dynasty.

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

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

When Zhu Jingyuan and the others and the Minister of Military Aircraft heard the news, they came out in advance to greet them at the bottom of the stairs of the main hall.

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

Could it be that the armistice and reform cured his heart disease for a long time?

With doubts in his heart, Zhu Jingyuan bowed to the emperor with everyone, and then followed the emperor into the main hall of Wuying Palace.

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

After listening to it with a straight face, the old emperor did not immediately show any tendency to choose, but came directly to Zhu Jingyuan's thoughts:

"Jingyuan, the capital ship you envisioned with full main guns, no matter what the actual combat effect is, it is impossible to build it before the conclusion of the peace talks.

"Therefore, 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 to think about the next war, and it has never been just to prepare for negotiations.

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

"The sooner we start building and the sooner we can confirm its combat effectiveness, the sooner we can reshape the fleet and the sooner we can start exploring ways to fight in new environments.

"At the same time, it will also avoid continuing to waste time and resources on older warships."

The old emperor nodded slightly, acknowledging that what Zhu Jingyuan said made sense, and then spit out a sentence that was not up or down:

"The construction of existing warships would have stopped before the armistice."

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

As a result, the old emperor's words were like this, and there was no follow-up here, and he didn't mention his own warship.

After Zhu Jingyuan waited for three seconds, he was sure that the old emperor's words were finished, so he couldn't help but ask:

"Grandpa Huang...... And then what? ”

The old emperor asked rhetorically:

"What, then?"

Zhu Jingyuan was a little speechless and said:

"After the construction of existing warships is stopped, won't a new warship be built to test?"

The old emperor was not interested, and he didn't even ask for details, so he waved his hand directly and said:

"Let's talk about the new ships later, the focus now is on reform."

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

Could it be that his grandfather is all about the army, so he doesn't care about the navy?

As soon as the idea popped up, it was out of control.

Zhu Jingyuan immediately realized that in the past ten years or so that he can remember, the speed and number of ships built by the Ming Dynasty seem to have always tended to be conservative.

Daming's industrial production capacity, as well as the level of process technology, are today's world-class.

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

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

During the first industrial revolution, they were all significantly slower than the Ming Dynasty.

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

During the second industrial revolution, several major countries in Taixi (Europe) seized the opportunity to speed up their catch-up, and barely caught up with the Ming Dynasty in important technological nodes.

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

But the Ming Empire in this world is stronger than Britain and the United States in history, and it is an unprecedented empire on land and sea.

The land is vast, it has a vast overseas colony, the empire has a developed industry, and at the same time occupies the largest consumer market, and the internal and external drivers are very strong.

Britain, France and other countries in this world did not have the advantages of Germany and the United States over the British Empire in history when facing the industrial Ming Dynasty.

Although the Taixi countries have barely caught up with the Ming Dynasty in the major key technology nodes, there is still an obvious gap at the forefront of real science and technology.

The Taixi countries still need time to accumulate and precipitate, but the Ming Dynasty, which has completed industrialization, will not stop and wait for them to catch up.

Now that the Taixi countries are tied together, they can touch Da Ming, and they did so, and in the end it was basically a tie.

However, now the warships of the Ming Navy are not much more than those of the British Empire, giving people a feeling that they are enough, and it seems that they are not going all out to build ships.

Even in the case of being besieged by the whole world, the shipbuilding industry of the Ming Dynasty still did not use all its 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 was even more worried, and then he could only continue to work hard to persuade:

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

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

"Isn't this waiting for shipbuilders 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, when it needs to be built, it will not be so easy to find new workers and technical teams.

"This may directly reduce the shipbuilding capacity of the Ming Dynasty, and then reduce the combat capability of the navy......"