Zhu Jingyuan stayed in the Ministry of Industry for an afternoon.

The semiconductor technology development plan for the next ten years has been formulated.

At the end of the meeting, Zhu Jingyuan specially ordered the establishment of a "semiconductor department" under the Ministry of Industry.

Specializing in the research and development of computers and related equipment, the research progress is regularly reported directly to himself.

It was already evening when the meeting ended, and Zhu Jingyuan went back to the harem directly.

The next morning, Zhu Jingyuan came to the Wenhua Hall and presided over the first daily state of the morning dynasty.

Yesterday's early dynasty had a certain ceremonial nature.

It was the first early dynasty convened by Zhu Jingyuan as the emperor himself, so it was held in the most formal Fengtian Palace.

The early dynasty after that is a daily affair.

Matters not related to military affairs are usually held in the Wenhua Hall, and those related to military affairs are placed in the Wuying Hall.

The first time in the early dynasty of the Wenhua Hall and the first time in the early dynasty of the Wuying Palace, they also have a certain ceremonial nature.

So today's etiquette is also relatively complete, and then the things to deal with are simple.

Before the enthronement ceremony, Zhu Jingyuan was not ready to make a big move against the government.

Today, Zhu Jingyuan really did not arrange any new major events.

He received the worship of several foreign officials who had just arrived in Beijing, and then issued a decree of appointment that had already been confirmed.

I made a simple instruction and request on the spot for things that need to be determined by myself.

The early dynasty of the Wenhua Hall ended in less than half an hour.

Then Zhu Jingyuan took Lin Zexu and Niu Jian, as well as Li Rui, the secretary of the Ordnance Department, and drove to the Wuying Palace.

The military ministers of Wuyingdian, the governors and overseers of the Governor's Mansion of the Chinese Army, the governors and overseers of Jinyiwei, and the governors and overseers of the East and West Factories are already waiting here.

Zhu Jingyuan first sat down in the main hall.

The generals and military planes at the scene stood in the middle of the main hall and saluted the mountain and shouted long live.

Zhu Jingyuan raised his hand and gave them all seats to sit down.

Next, Zhu Jianyan of the Governor's Office of the Chinese Army came out of the ranks and presented a report to Zhu Jingyuan on the general situation of the Ming armed forces.

Lin Zexu took Zhu Jianyan's report and put it on the imperial case in front of Zhu Jingyuan.

Zhu Jingyuan flipped through the documents and looked at several major places.

The total number of the Ming Dynasty's armed forces is about 15 million.

However, armed forces are not equal to armies.

The regular army of the Ming Dynasty, including the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies and Huangzhuang, all the army, navy, and air force added up to about 10 million people.

The proportion of the three branches of the military is very even, and they all appear to be in the early three million, which is also more in line with the situation of the Ming Dynasty.

The sea area of Daming is very vast, so the navy must be strong enough.

Especially in the past few years, Daming has actually been building a navy on a large scale.

The territory controlled by the Ming Dynasty is equally vast, and the army is of course also indispensable.

Moreover, the army is the traditional military branch of the Ming Dynasty, and it is the natural big brother service.

The Air Force is an emerging branch of the armed forces in the last decade or so, and most of its personnel were transferred from the Army in the early days.

But the size of the Air Force has grown very fast, and it is now one of the three major branches of the armed forces.

In addition to the regular navy, land and air forces, there are also a total of 5 million personnel in the Jinyi Guard and the East and West Factories of the Ming Dynasty.

The vast majority of these five million people are members of the Jinyi Guard system.

The brocade guards of the Ming Dynasty include the functions of public security, police, prison guards, traffic police, coast guards, tax police, special police and so on.

More than half of them are not professional armed men.

Nominally, all of them belong to the Jinyi Guard, but in fact, more than half of the personnel belong to the local yamen.

In fact, there are about two million people under the direct jurisdiction of the Jinyiwei headquarters.

These two million are the police officers who maintain law and order in various places, and the special services who are responsible for dealing with security emergencies.

According to Zhu Jianyan's report, the Ming armed forces have completed a round of comprehensive equipment renewal in the past 15 years.

Assault rifles and submachine guns have completely replaced traditional rifles and cavalry guns.

The army has completely replaced the vicuña with motor vehicles, and only a few inaccessible areas still have patrol cavalry.

It also has more than 80,000 mechanized combat vehicles such as armored fighting vehicles, motorized infantry vehicles, and self-propelled artillery.

The total tonnage of capital ships already in service on the naval side has reached three million tons.

Except for a small number of traditional capital ships that patrol and defend in special areas, and a small number of capital ships that are of a test nature, most of the capital ships are cutting-edge high-speed capital ships and aircraft carriers.

Among the cutting-edge high-speed battleships, there are 16 ships of the 40,000-ton class, eight ships of the 60,000-ton class, and two ships of the 80,000-ton class.

The total tonnage is 1.33 million tons.

Among the aircraft carriers, there are 24 aircraft carriers of the 40,000-ton class, eight aircraft carriers of the 60,000-ton class, and two aircraft carriers of the 80,000-ton class.

The total tonnage is about 1.66 million tons.

Of the 24 40,000-ton aircraft carriers, eight are actually amphibious assault ships, and the other 16 are equipped with steam catapults.

There are also more than 200 cruisers of various types, with a total tonnage of more than 2 million tons.

There are more than 800 destroyers of various types, with a total tonnage of about 2 million tons.

Finally, there are more than 300 submarines, with a total tonnage of more than 400,000 tons.

The total tonnage of all combat ships is about 7.4 million tons.

Counting all kinds of auxiliary ships such as supply ships, the total tonnage has exceeded 10 million tons.

At the same time, there are six 80,000-ton aircraft carriers in the shipyard.

The Air Force has more than 100,000 aircraft of various types.

Among them, there are more than 60,000 combat aircraft, including more than 20,000 fighters and more than 40,000 bombers.

There are more than 40,000 auxiliary aircraft, including transport planes and reconnaissance planes.

Zhu Jingyuan looked at these data, and couldn't help but feel some emotion in his heart:

This Da Ming is really too powerful.

Even compared to all the superpowers in the history of previous lives, it is still more than a level.

It's probably the level of the United States, Lucia, and the United Kingdom stacked up.

In terms of the number of armed forces alone, there are 10 million pure regular troops.

This is still a pure standing army.

Of course, this number is terrifying, but in terms of the proportion of the population, it is actually just over one percent.

After the end of the World War, the total population of the Ming Dynasty increased by an average of 100 million in five years.

The total population is now approaching the billion mark.

The Ming Dynasty controls the best agricultural and pastoral areas in the world, and agriculture and animal husbandry are highly developed.

Full mechanization has also been achieved over the past few years.

There was no pressure on the imperial palace and the imperial court to supply 10 million standing troops that were completely out of production.

At the same time, the Ming Dynasty still implemented a compulsory military service system, and the most basic level of the head soldiers was a three-year period.

A large number of people are recruited and retired every year.

All those who have served in the military belong to the reserve until the age of thirty-five.

All immigrants over the age of fifteen and under the age of sixty overseas have received basic military training.

Most of them are young and middle-aged, and they have militia formations.

If there is a need for war, the reservists can quickly go to the battlefield, and the militia can carry guns to receive the occupied areas and maintain order.

At the same time, the equipment of the army, navy, and air force has been pulled to the level of the early stage of World War II.

The amount of equipment has also reached the level of the end of the world war.

In the Second World War in history, both sides of the war have done their best.

At the end of World War II, the United States exploded with 10 million troops and 10 million tons of ships.

More than 100,000 aircraft were involved in the war on the European theater.

Immediately after the end of the war, these troops and equipment began to be mass-cut and demobilized.

Because they can't sustain power on this scale.

But the Ming Dynasty is now maintaining a military force of this size normally in a state of peace.

Because the population of the Ming Dynasty is more than twice the total population of the major participating countries in World War II, such as the United States, Lucia, the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, and the foot basin chicken.

The actual effective resources in their control can also be more than twice as much, and the technical level is also higher than theirs.

The Ming Dynasty has the ability to sustain an army of this size.

Of course, having the ability to do it does not mean that you actually have to do it.

The mainland of the Ming Dynasty, the Xintianfu, and Tiannan regions are basically absolute security zones, and there is basically no need for many standing troops.

Even if the number of troops is cut in half, it is completely enough to use, and it can still suppress the Taixi countries as a whole.

However, the previous emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Jingyuan's father, Zhu Jianyan, actually intended to use military competition to drag down the Taixi countries.

The Tessie states signed a naval treaty, leading to a de facto wave of naval expansion.

In addition, Lucia, Prussia and other countries already had their own war goals and were inclined to expand their armies.

In order to deal with and deter them, the Ming Dynasty is also expanding the scale of its armed forces on an equal footing.

This led to the current result.

The current scale of military strength is still relatively easy for the Ming Dynasty to bear.

But in Zhu Jingyuan's view, it is somewhat wasteful.

Zhu Jingyuan has the experience of later generations, and in terms of the technological level of the World War II era, most of the weapons and equipment still need to be large enough to form an advantage.

The most typical equipment is the aircraft that can easily reach five figures, or even as high as six figures.

After the maturity of missiles, guided bombs, and high-performance radio detection equipment, the number of combat aircraft will be directly reduced by an order of magnitude.

A similar situation existed with a large number of battleships on the naval side, as well as artillery cruisers and destroyers of more than ten thousand tons.

After the mass production and service of guided weapons, the Navy's demand for quantity will also be reduced by an order of magnitude.

The 10 million ton warships and 100,000 planes that exploded in this era will be quickly eliminated after this era.

But these equipment can't really not be built, at most it is a reduction in the number of scales.

Otherwise, those Taixi people may suspect that Da Ming is weak......

Zhu Jingyuan sighed helplessly in his heart, closed the report in front of him, and began to talk about today's business.

Determine which weapons to use in military parades and ship parades.

This military parade is not only for the Ming Dynasty to display itself, but also for the remaining representatives of other countries in the world to watch.

Therefore, the parade must have enough deterrent power, but it is also not possible to show everything to outsiders.

There are some things that are not yet suitable for public display.

After briefly inquiring about the situation in all aspects, Zhu Jingyuan gave a general guiding standard based on the experience of his previous life.

Unless specifically requested by Zhu Jingyuan, the equipment for the exhibition should have been extensively installed and formed into combat effectiveness.

As long as you take it out and show it to others, it has to be used in the Ming army.

If war breaks out between the two sides, what the other side will encounter directly on the battlefield.

Neither the equipment nor the battleship in the process of debugging can be taken out for display.

Unless specifically requested by Zhu Jingyuan, warships that have been in service for less than a year will also not participate in the parade.

If there is a special request, equipment that has been widely installed will also not be displayed.

Jet fighters and bombers, for example, were developed four years ago.

Several models are already in service.

But all the jets were kicked out of the reference line by Zhu Jingyuan.

The 80,000-ton aircraft carrier was commissioned a year ago.

By the time Zhu Jingyuan ascended the throne, he had already served for a year.

By then, the ship's personnel should have been proficient in operation.

But he was also kicked out of the parade by Zhu Jingyuan.

The largest aircraft carrier participating in the parade is 60,000 tons. 、

When Charles succeeded to the throne, Daming's 40,000-ton aircraft carrier had already visited and displayed it in Taixi.

Now the 60,000-ton aircraft carrier can also be officially displayed to the public.

Among the countries of Thailand and Spain, Britain, France, and Spain have been studying aircraft carriers for more than 13 years.

Other countries were a little slower to respond, and after the signing of the naval treaty in Ankang seven years, they also began to develop it vigorously.

The Tessie countries have explored and accumulated a lot of experience on their own.

Also through various channels, from the Ming folk to get some useful information.

For something as big as an aircraft carrier, Daming has built more than 30 of them in one go.

The artisans and workers involved, as well as the merchants, are innumerable.

It is impossible to be completely secretive and not leaked.

In other words, the current Taixi countries have a relatively mature understanding of aircraft carriers.

So there is no need for the Ming to hide the aircraft carrier so tightly.

It's just that the biggest ones still don't show them.

They should not be able to imagine for the time being how big the Ming will build the aircraft carrier.

In addition, there are shipborne anti-ship missiles, which are now also in service on a small scale, but are also not shown.

The first batch of cruisers and battleships converted by missiles will also not participate in the parade.

At present, missiles and jets are unique technologies to the Ming Dynasty.

Some of the scientific and military personnel of the Tessian countries have also put forward relevant ideas.

However, most of them are still in a state of theoretical exploration.

The imperial courts and militaries of the Western countries did not pay enough attention to the relevant technology.

There is no need for Da Ming to take the initiative to show them now.

Through direct explanations and examples, Zhu Jingyuan gradually determined the direction of the military parade and the ship parade.

Before the turbine engine and guided weapons, the most powerful active equipment of the Ming Dynasty.

Among them were two 80,000-ton battleships commissioned last year.

One of them will serve as Zhu Jingyuan's seat ship, and the other will serve as the lead ship of the reference fleet.

The scale of this super battleship, although unprecedented, is essentially an enlargement of the previous battleship.

On the technical level, of course, there are innovations and upgrades, but the main thing is internal.

Automated ballistic computers, firing commanders, radio detection equipment, and systems that link them to each other are all things that are simply not visible from the outside.

The special special steel smelted by the electroslag furnace is also something that makes no sense to touch with your own hands.

Therefore, the actual demonstration effect is probably the most powerful armed force that can be achieved at the end of World War II at the level of technology.

What's more, these things seem to have no absolute generation difference between them and the countries of Taixi in terms of technology.

In the years just after the end of the world war, under the leadership of Zhu Jingyuan, the military and technical level of the Ming Dynasty advanced by leaps and bounds.

quickly opened a rather obvious gap with the Taixi countries.

The establishment of purely mechanized troops, centered on flying machines and armored combat vehicles, and based on internal combustion engine vehicles, and the tactics derived from them, can be said to be unprecedented.

But in the past ten years, the countries of Taixi have been trying their best to learn, imitate, and catch up.

They also learned a lot of techniques directly through their cooperation with Daming.

Now they are basically able to build high-speed battleships on their own.

There are mechanized units built up of armored combat vehicles and airplanes, as well as internal combustion engine vehicles.

Their military equipment, and the military equipment of the Ming Dynasty, seem to belong to the same era.

It's just that things are something they can understand, but the scale and volume of Daming will make them desperate.

In many cases, things that are too leading, or even leading across generations, may not be able to form a good deterrent without direct confrontation.

Because the lagging side may not be able to understand the degree of the opponent's lead.

On the contrary, when the technical level of the two sides is close, the threat of pure scale and grade gap is more understandable.

Just like the ancients did not experience it before, they may not understand the threat of guns just by looking at their appearance.

However, if the steel mill is allowed to mass-produce a large number of steel knives, it will definitely make the other party intuitively realize the gap in strength.

Theoretically speaking, as long as the Taixi people have the most basic judgment, they can all see through this military parade, or they can see more clearly, how big the power gap between them and the Ming is.

But Zhu Jingyuan was also a little looking forward to the Tessie people's brain pumping.