Zhu Jingyuan sat in the hall of his palace, holding a telegram from the Ming Jingshi, and fell into sorrow.

The Taishan Zen Ceremony was ready, and his grandfather and father asked their opinions if they wanted to go back to participate.

If Zhu Jingyuan doesn't go back to participate, they will hold it at the end of this month.

If Zhu Jingyuan wants to go back to attend, he will postpone the ceremony until the end of next month.

Looking at this question, Zhu Jingyuan's mood was a little confused.

The old emperor was going to Mount Tai to seal Zen, and Zhu Jingyuan already knew about it.

But there was always a lack of realism.

Since Song Zhenzong, after a lapse of 800 years, the emperor of the Central Plains Dynasty once again held this special ceremony.

This ceremony must be very different from the model before the Song Dynasty.

After all, it's been 800 years since it was broken.

But the differences in specific etiquette are secondary.

The difference in environment and connotation and impact is the main thing.

Because the current Central Plains Dynasty is no longer a classical agricultural dynasty, but an industrialized and modern world empire.

In the past month or so, news related to the Zen Ceremony has spread wildly, and all kinds of comments have emerged one after another.

From the court to the people, from the teahouse to the restaurant, there are people everywhere.

This is certainly the most influential canon of Zen in history.

For the first time, a large number of civilized, civilized, ordinary people really had a certain sense of participation in this ancient ceremony.

That's the big difference.

Zhu Jingyuan subconsciously thought that the relevant officials and businessmen would turn the ceremony into a commercial activity?

At least do some business activities incidentally?

Turn the work of the people and the money into a profitable business?

In fact, this time is theoretically much larger than the ancient Zen Ceremony, and the impact on the lives of the people involved is actually much smaller than that of ancient times.

The Ministry of Rites and relevant local officials only took more than a month to prepare for the ceremony, and most of them were pondering the process.

Counting the time of the emperor's travel, the relevant officials were busy for more than ten days at most.

As for the officials along the way, they don't need to prepare to meet the emperor, just clean up the local security.

The emperor would not look around on the way, and took the train directly to the foot of Mount Tai.

From Jingshi to Mount Tai, the distance of more than 600 kilometers, even if it is a train with a speed of 30 kilometers per hour, it will arrive in one day and one night.

Counting the time on the emperor's way back and forth, the whole event was over in less than ten days.

There is no such thing as tossing for months in ancient times.

Zhu Jingyuan looked at his father and grandfather's analysis and reminders, and finally decided not to go back.

On the way back, you have to go to your own big food country.

After more than three months, the oil field has been able to stabilize production, and I have to assign them new tasks.

You can't keep drilling.

The amount of fuel the world needs right now is very limited.

If the fuel depot of the Great Food Country is released from supply, the market will soon be saturated, and the price of crude oil will fall to the cost price.

Then it will squeeze the consortium's oil fields in the South Seas out of bankruptcy.

That is not conducive to the healthy and stable development of the market, and you may also have big trouble at that time.

It is not possible for an oil extraction company that has taken advantage of loopholes to bankrupt a regular oil company.

Therefore, the big food country has to collect some production, and can turn to the research and development of oil-related technologies to deliver production capacity and products to other industries.

For example, new catalytic cracking refining technologies, such as starting to prepare for the petrochemical industry.

Petroleum is the blood of industry, a very important industrial raw material, and it can even be regarded as a waste when burned.

All kinds of wire insulation, pipes and sealing materials, modern all kinds of plastic and rubber products, as well as all kinds of synthetic fibers.

Specific to people's lives, modern people's clothes are basically synthetic fibers if they are not specifically said to be pure cotton, hemp, wool, silk and other materials.

From sportswear to underwear, from workwear to swimwear, from organza to stockings, almost all of them are made from petroleum.

When the mind came here, Zhu Jingyuan suddenly realized a problem.

In the traditional costume of Tessie, the style of clothing before the Napoleonic era, both men and women still wear silk stockings.

However, natural silk is not elastic, and men can only be fastened to the trouser legs of tight shorts, and women will use it to hang it with suspenders under their skirts.

If you make your own elastic spandex and nylon stockings, they can definitely be sold as luxury goods in the Taixi countries.

Turning oil, which is cheaper than water, into a luxury......

In addition, the kind of trouser legs and arms in later generations, which were relatively loose, three-dimensional cut and straight, have not yet been fully formed.

Archetypal clothes and trousers may have already existed, and there were originally loose-fitting clothes and pants in both the East and the West.

But it's all work or casual clothing, which is "not elegant".

The Tessie nobles also wore tight shorts and stockings.

During the French Revolution in history, the revolutionaries actually had a special name:

"People who don't wear tight shorts".

They always wore loose trousers as a sign of a break with the traditional aristocracy.

After the French Revolution, the bourgeoisie began to replace the old aristocracy as the ruler of the times.

Baggy trousers and tuxedos, as well as top hats that resemble the symbols of the times, are starting to become popular.

The typical modern "capitalist" image on the comics of later film and television dramas has finally taken shape, and the Victorian era has arrived.

The far-reaching impact of the French Revolution can be seen.

In this era of this world, the old aristocracy is still strong in its ability to rule.

Far from breaking with the old aristocracy, the new bourgeoisie made a deep peace with each other.

So the style of clothing of the bourgeoisie also followed the old aristocracy, and they took pride in wearing tight shorts and stockings.

In the past few days of Zhu Jingyuan's negotiations, looking at the Taixi man's stockings and thick legs all day long has made Zhu Jingyuan uncomfortable for a long time.

When Zhu Jingyuan recalled these things, he instinctively diverged his thinking.

Is it possible to "design" the complete "capitalist" suit and sell it in the markets of Taixi countries?

Now it's simple for Daming to change the popular style of the Tessie people.

Find a prince or something to wear it in public, and then take a photo to promote it a little.

It may be better to demonstrate the results yourself.

However, will this kind of simple clothing, which completely removes the decoration of the Tessie aristocratic style, be regarded as Ming-style fashion?

And then, in turn, to make the people of the Tessie countries stick to their national costumes even more?

Men continue to wear stockings for 10,000 years without wavering?

Belch......

That will make you visually uncomfortable, but you can make money selling stockings!

The left and right should not be at a loss.

Probably......

With mixed feelings, Zhu Jingyuan recorded these thoughts first, waiting for an opportunity to try them.

Then he wrote a simple reply to his father and grandfather, telling them that he was going to go to the Great Food Country to have a good look, and he would not return to Beijing before the year.

Let the staff Niu Jian send a telegram back to Beijing.

Zhu Jingyuan left the lobby and the palace by himself, and under the escort of the soldiers led by Guan Tianpei, he went to the courtyard where the craftsmen lived not far away.

Since he will not return to Beijing for the time being, there are some issues that must be decided in the next few days.

Zhu Jingyuan came to the Western Cape with two design teams.

It is necessary to simultaneously complete the design of battleships, aircraft carriers, cruisers, and destroyers of the "radical target exploration type".

Most of the designs have now been completed, but the designs have diverged and the craftsmen have new ideas.

Zhu Jingyuan walked through the outer courtyard to the courtyard where the craftsmen held their daily meetings, and as soon as he entered the door, he heard the arguments inside.

"The new 360 mm 50 times diameter naval gun, using heavy hardened hood hood armor-piercing shells, is far more powerful than we expected."

"If our new warship design does not increase the overall tonnage, we can only adopt the core protection design."

"Give up unnecessary positions, focus on strengthening the protection level of the core area, and ensure that the combat effectiveness is exerted in the decisive battle."

"The sea area of our Daming is too vast, and the daily task of high-speed warships is to maintain the dominance of Daming in all sea areas."

"The core protection design is too extreme, and the sailing performance is degraded off a cliff after the bow and stern are damaged, and it is only suitable for a short period of fleet decisive battles."

"That kind of deformed weapon that can only be used in a decisive battle will not be able to maintain our rule on the ocean!"

"Only warships with a hierarchical protection design can always maintain combat effectiveness in sustained inferior combat."

"Your Highness has come—"

Zhu Jingyuan walked into the lobby, and Wang Lai, the director of the Ship Division, immediately reacted, hurriedly shouted, and then took the craftsmen to salute together.

Zhu Jingyuan smiled and returned the salute, and after entering the lobby, he found a place to sit down very casually, looked at Wang and said:

"Still can't convince anyone?"

Wang Lai suddenly smiled bitterly and said:

"Yes, I've been arguing for the past few days, and there is no result at all.

"The data on the new naval guns given by the Ordnance Department was too strong for us to think it was fake, but now everyone feels the pressure.

"Even if the armor is thickened to 400 millimeters, it will not ensure the safety of the distance of ten kilometers.

"So the situation now is that either the most extreme core protection is adopted, or the tonnage continues to be scaled up to 50,000 tons.

"The cost of building a 50,000-ton battleship is too exaggerated again......"

Zhu Jingyuan just smiled.

Daming's new 360 mm and 50 times the diameter of the new naval gun, coupled with his own requirements for a new design of heavy hard quilt hat hood armor-piercing shells, already has the power of a new naval gun similar to that of World War II.

The combat distance of the cutting-edge warships of World War II is 20 kilometers.

World War II was already an era when the spear was slightly larger than the shield, and the battleships of World War II pierced each other at a distance of ten kilometers.

There is no such thing as an absolute defense.

Now the craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty have just improved their understanding of the naval combat method from a five-kilometer bayonet to a ten-kilometer battle line.

It turned out right away that the defense of ten kilometers was about to be completely ineffective.

Whether it is a craftsman or an admiral, it takes time to accept these realities and then conceive a new stage of operational theory.

However, Zhu Jingyuan had already prepared weapons for them.

The battleship itself designed by them under the guidance of Zhu Jingyuan was not a problem.

It's just a matter of trade-offs.