With the approval of the old emperor, Zhu Jingyuan determined the names of the eight new ships, and the design goal presentation meeting finally came to an end.

Zhu Jingyuan bowed in front of all the audience and returned to his seat in the audience, which was next to where the old emperor was sitting.

The old emperor happily stood up and came on stage, and made a general allocation of the specific design and construction work.

The Ship Department of the Ministry of Industry is responsible for the design and construction of two battleships and two cruisers.

The Royal Dockyard is responsible for the design and construction of two aircraft carriers and two destroyers.

But in addition, both parties are required to cooperate at all times during the initial program discussions and exchange each other's ideas and experiences at any time for the other party to use as a design reference.

Zhu Jingyuan is responsible for the final evaluation of all design proposals.

After the matters related to the ship design were finally finalized, the old emperor asked Zhu Jingyuan to pay attention to the progress of aircraft development before getting up and returning to the palace.

All the officials, craftsmen, and shopkeepers at the scene stood up and bowed to watch the old emperor leave the scene.

Watching the old emperor disappear, he continued to stand quietly for a few minutes.

After confirming that the old emperor had left the lecture hall building, everyone heaved a sigh of relief.

The scene quickly became noisy, as craftsmen and officials gathered with friends, chatted and went to the canteen of the Ministry of Works to eat together.

In the afternoon of that day, most of the staff from the government offices and manufacturers left one after another, but the craftsmen from the Royal Dockyard Design Department stayed.

Zhu Jingyuan took the design craftsmen from the Shipbuilding Department and the Royal Shipyard to guide them on site to draw more accurate sketches.

He explained in detail the design details of bulbous bow, square stern, cruising stern, etc., and went to the site of the engineering department to conduct several simple pool experiments.

The "Ship Model Experimental Pool" is the most important experimental and research site of the shipbuilding department. Its status is somewhat similar to the wind tunnel in aviation engineering.

Drag the ship model to sail in the pool to simulate and test the ship's resistance, stability and other performance.

It is a slender closed room with a specially built slender pool, surrounded by trailers and various testing tools.

Wang Lai, the director of the Ship Department of the Ministry of Works, led the craftsmen of the Ministry of Works and the Royal Dockyard to work in the pool for more than two hours.

Multiple paraffin models were continuously tested to observe the impact of adding bulbous bow, square stern, cruising stern and other designs on the sailing resistance of the ship model.

In the end, they came to a result that was beyond their expectations, but they also vaguely felt that it should be reasonable.

Zhu Jingyuan's ideas were indeed all right.

Whether it is a bulbous bow or a square stern, it can indeed reduce sailing resistance, which means that the same power can be used to obtain greater sailing speed.

However, the pool test of the ship model does not end with confirming that the direction is correct. The correct direction is only the beginning of testing and design.

Next, more careful and comprehensive research and testing are needed to "stabilize" the changed hull shape.

However, these tasks are done step by step. Once you have the right direction, you will not worry about messing around, and your work efficiency will be greatly improved.

As the proposer of the idea, Zhu Jingyuan once again received heartfelt praise from the craftsmen.

He always puts forward unexpected ideas, but he always succeeds and can verify his correctness.

Now the young craftsmen at the Ministry of Industry have obvious respect for Zhu Jingyuan.

Nowadays, the craftsmen basically no longer have to deal with Zhu Jingyuan's requests, and they basically respond to every request.

This will also improve design efficiency again, but it also makes Zhu Jingyuan a little worried, worried that these craftsmen will develop a profound blind obedience mentality.

So Zhu Jingyuan was thinking about how to change the way of communication and transform direct requests into guided thinking...

However, this kind of change obviously cannot be completed in a short time, and the method is not easy to master. We can only take it one step at a time.

Zhu Jingyuan continued to explain his impression of several typical bulbous bow shapes on different ships.

Let them test and explore themselves to find designs suitable for use on warships and civilian ships of different sizes, and prepare to install and test them on existing warships.

Zhu Jingyuan spoke at the Ministry of Industry all day long, and by the time he left office in the afternoon, his voice was almost hoarse.

Waiting for his father's car to arrive at the yard of the Ministry of Industry, Zhu Jingyuan climbed into the car and sat down, then he lay paralyzed on his back:

"I'm so tired, I feel like my body has been drained..."

Zhu Jianyan motioned to the driver to drive, and at the same time he laughed sarcastically at his son:

"Is this still tiring? I have already done your official errands for you, how about you take on the burden of Honglu Temple again?"

When Zhu Jingyuan heard this, he immediately became a little more energetic:

"Father, I think government affairs are much easier than design. Government affairs can be guided by feelings, while design must be every bit more serious..."

Zhu Jianyan was suddenly speechless:

"Government affairs are not as simple as you think. After the negotiations are over and the practical training of governance begins, and you go to the grassroots to become a people-friendly official, you will know how difficult it is.

"As for design, according to my father's understanding, there is right and wrong, good and bad, after all, but in government affairs, there is often no right or wrong at all."

Zhu Jingyuan immediately began to quibble:

"That's right, it's because there's no right or wrong, so you can just follow your feelings. If there's right or wrong, you can't be free..."

Zhu Jianyan was stunned for three seconds, and then asked with some uncertainty:

"Could it be that when you participated in all government affairs before, when you put forward suggestions and ideas, you always followed your feelings?"

Zhu Jingyuan nodded casually:

"Yes, I always come here just by opening my mouth..."

Zhu Jianyan was completely speechless, it was so easy to open his mouth.

You just opened your mouth to talk about this. It's best not to let your uncle Jiu know about it. You are almost going to make him depressed.

Zhu Jianyan shook his head feebly, and then asked Zhu Jingyuan a question about the current topic:

"Right now, Honglu Temple is arguing with Xiyi to discuss the location for formal peace talks.

"We can't accept it because it goes too far to the west. We don't want to go to negotiate in the Western Yi mainland. The Western Yi people don't think it's good either, as if they were occupied by us.

"It goes too far to the east and the Western barbarians won't accept it. We don't think it's good to negotiate in our homeland. We don't want a group of Western barbarians to come to our homeland.

"There is a big food area between us. There is no rich, stable and comfortable place. The key is that it is too close to the Ottoman mainland.

“Although the Sinai Peninsula belongs to us, it is completely surrounded by Westerners and we feel it is not safe enough.

"Although Tianzhu Peninsula belongs to Xiyi, it is completely surrounded by us, and Xiyi does not feel safe enough.

"You can come here now and choose the most suitable place for us to negotiate."

Zhu Jingyuan really opened his mouth and said:

"Since we all feel that being close is not good, let's just find a place far enough away, so let's go to Xiyang Cape Huangzhuang in Nanmozhou to talk."

The Western Cape was the Cape of Good Hope in Zhu Jingyuan's previous life, and the land in Cape Town, South Africa, is now one of the royal estates of the Zhu Ming royal family.

Zhu Jianyan was stunned for a moment, obviously he didn't expect that he would deliberately take a long way around:

"Nanmozhou? Haijiaohuangzhuang? That place is indeed quite far away.

"It's more than 12,000 kilometers away from Guangdong, and it's also more than 11,000 kilometers away from London.

"It's quite far away from our homeland, but the difference is not that big. That sea area is also the junction of forces between the two sides, and the conditions of the key imperial village are indeed suitable for negotiation.

“But in the final analysis it is still our territory, and the history can be said to be very complicated.

“It was originally discovered by the Portuguese, and later became a colony of the Dutch. Both the Spanish and the British wanted it at first, but it ended up being ours.

"Xiyi and the others dare to go to this kind of place. Are they willing to go?"

Zhu Jingyuan said angrily:

"If they are completely unwilling to go, then let's not talk about it. Now we are not particularly afraid of war. If it doesn't work, we will continue to fight.

"Furthermore, father, you can adopt the strategy of lifting the roof proposed by Emperor Shizu, and first propose to go to Huangzhuang in the Baiyun Islands (New Zealand) in southern Tiannan to talk.

"That place is truly the end of the world for the Thai people. Going there is more difficult for them than it is for us to go to Nanyinzhou. They will definitely not accept it.

"Then let's make a compromise and go to Nanmozhou. It's about the same distance from both sides' homelands and is at the intersection of both sides' spheres of influence. They should be able to accept it."

Zhu Jingyuan thought for a while:
Chapter completed!