"You can't see who's swimming naked until the tide goes out."

The old emperor repeated Zhu Jingyuan's last sentence, which was also what Emperor Shizu had said, and nodded lightly with satisfaction:

"Yes, this war is a large-scale ebb tide, which allows us to see clearly how many catties and taels each country in Xiyi has.

"It also reveals what reefs are hidden under the water of our Daming.

"Therefore, the next direction of the imperial court's governance is to carefully clean up these reefs.

"Instead of waiting for the tide to come up again and cover it up!"

In the last sentence of the old emperor, the ministers were all weak-hearted, and Zhu Jianfeng bore the brunt of it.

Zhu Jianfeng's previous viewpoint was originally to summarize the objective facts and discover some of the laws, and there was no possibility of error.

Even, Zhu Jianfeng vaguely felt in his heart that the matter that the old emperor was concerned about was not the matter of the coal station itself.

It was impossible for him not to know that this matter did not have a big impact.

Bringing people from all walks of life with great fanfare is actually more like a specially designed somewhat stressful environment to observe and judge certain things.

It's like when I first returned to Jingshi a few years ago.

At that time, it was not a win to propose a solution, but it was already a win when you found the essence of the matter.

I did the same at the beginning, and now my judgment should have been correct, so there should have been no accidents.

However, Zhu Jingyuan, the emperor's grandson, suddenly jumped out and said something to take the initiative to promote the development of power transfer.

The key is the so-called theory of reefs and tides, coupled with the holy words of Emperor Shizu, the contrast seems to be covering his ears and stealing the bell.

This made Zhu Jianfeng a little frizzy, and instinctively wanted to take the initiative to explain, but he didn't think so.

But the other party didn't say himself directly at the time, and now he took the initiative to stand up and explain himself, so he directly became a self-confessor.

I didn't do anything wrong in the first place, but now it's wrong no matter how I choose?

Why is this happening?

This guy doesn't distinguish specific points of view with himself at all, and always stands on a certain vantage point and points fingers.

And why are you memorizing so many ancestral holy sayings, isn't it good to have that time to read more!

Standing on a certain commanding heights and pointing out the country was originally Zhu Jingyuan's typical line of thought.

I just graduated this year, and I haven't been directly involved in specific government affairs, so I'm definitely going to lose if I talk to experienced you about the details.

I can only rely on my own two lifetimes of experience to suppress you in a farther direction and a wider vision.

Anyway, now I am just looking for the direction of decision-making, not to implement specific policies, as long as I find the right direction, the specific operation will be completed by the court officials.

Electricity is at the heart of the second industrial revolution, and demand and supply will continue to skyrocket for decades to come.

Historically, the United States generated 4.8 billion kWh of electricity in 1902, which increased to 10.6 billion kWh in 1907 and 24.8 billion kWh in 1912.

That's a fivefold increase in ten years.

Except for the years of the economic crisis, the rate of increase continued by at least 50% every five years, and remained until after World War II.

Ship coal fuel will eventually be phased out, and the most important use of modern coal is power generation, accounting for one-third of total coal consumption.

This is followed by industrial boilers, including heating, coal for daily life, which is used for cooking, and coking coal, which is used to make steel after coking.

In the current era, there is also coal for industrial steam engines, as well as coal for steam locomotives.

The current domestic coal market can be regarded as basically stable, and the marine coal market will not decline significantly in the short term.

However, the previous ban on the six major industries, industrial boilers, coking, and steam locomotives will definitely develop rapidly, and the amount of coal will definitely increase rapidly.

Therefore, Zhu Jianfeng said that he didn't need to worry about it, and he could indeed leave it alone.

Workers at coal stations who are laid off will be the first to lose their jobs, but they will soon find work in these industries.

It's just a matter of getting the workers to work in a different place.

However, this simple change of place may be an unbearable price for many ordinary people.

Because the vast majority of workers at this time did not have savings!

Coal stations in the mainland and large colonies are good enough to say that people can find work nearby.

But many coal stations are in the open sea, and on many islands where there is no living foundation, many coal stations themselves are driven by shipping.

When the workers lost their jobs, they had no one to take care of them, so they had to take on a "debt" and go to the homeland and the large colonies to find work.

Maybe these people will have to pay off their debts for the rest of their lives, but after all, they are not a large group, and they will eventually be erased by time and become the price of the Navy's fuel reform.

Zhu Jingyuan's suggestion, for these people, is to let the royal consortium directly pick up these people and help them pay the freight.

This may be a big deal for these workers, but it is a very small matter for the royal consortium and the imperial court.

Scatter the Daming Navy in coal filling stations around the world, gradually concentrate in densely populated areas, and transfer the corresponding supply chain to power generation.

If the imperial court and the consortium take the initiative to promote the power industry, the development of power-related industries can be accelerated again, and at the same time, it can also become an important direction for the industrial adjustment of the royal consortium.

Zhu Jingyuan believes that other ministers may not see how broad the future of the power industry is, but the old emperor should know something.

So Zhu Jingyuan specifically mentioned power generation, but only mentioned heating by the way.

It's almost an open-book exam.

As for the so-called Sacred Words of Emperor Shizu, most of the content on it doesn't need to be memorized by myself at all, I already have it in my head.

What I have to do is to confirm a little before quoting it, whether Emperor Shizu has said this sentence or not.

But it's actually nothing wrong to say, and now many easy-to-understand, inexplicable, and seemingly reasonable words will be subconsciously put on Emperor Shizu.

The folk Sacred Sayings have long been indisputable from the truth, and even the editions published by the Royal Press may not all be true, but can only be said to be the most credible.

Because the initial record was very confusing, Emperor Shizu had said so many things in his life, and there was no clear standard for which ones were holy words and which ones were not.

The old emperor in the court has also been observing the changes on the scene, mainly Zhu Jianfeng and Zhu Jingyuan's uncle and nephew.

The old emperor didn't blame Zhu Jianfeng, and felt that his performance was actually not bad.

It is also able to see through the superficial phenomenon and find that I am raising this issue with great fanfare, but it is not as serious as it seems.

If it was before, I would have been able to satisfy myself.

But now, compared to Emperor Shizu's talent, this kid is a little worse after all.

After a moment of silence, the old emperor gave his own order:

"The Royal Power Company is ready to undertake the industrial chain of military coal stations that have been dismantled, and expand the power supply of major cities.

"The Ministry of Industry and the Royal Electric Company have increased investment in the research and development of electrical equipment, both civil and industrial.

"The Ministry of Rites coordinates the news media and cooperates with the publicity and guidance of related affairs."

"Your Ministers obey—"

The relevant officials and shopkeepers immediately came out to bow down and receive the order, and the matter of the coal station's reduction and conversion of production was decided.