Prince Su Shu was extremely happy to see the battleship Qin Shi Huang returning to the dock.
He could already imagine the mighty appearance of the Qin Shihuang battleship after it was equipped with artillery.
The battleship Qin Shihuang will be the empire's sharpest knife in the future, killing all enemies of the empire.
He immediately ordered his guards to send the news of the successful launch of the battleship Qin Shihuang to the capital.
Prince Su Shu is ready to take a special train back to the capital.
As the prince of the empire, it was okay for him to stay away from the political center of the capital for a short period of time, but it could easily cause problems if he stayed away for a long time.
The consequences of doing so would easily arouse the suspicion of the father.
His seniors did not leave any room for retreat, so they, the younger generation, must be cautious.
A son like Li Shimin who takes advantage of his own father can be regarded as a moral model.
More people, once they gain power, will directly chop their own father into pieces.
Especially those morally corrupt people in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, many things that have no limit have happened.
The lessons of history tell the emperor that once his sons have power beyond his control, his end will be very dangerous.
The emperor was worried that if he could not train an outstanding prince, the country would be ruined, and he was also worried that the prince would be too outstanding and gain power to overthrow him.
It is this complicated mentality that leads to discord between father and son in the royal family. Even wise and powerful monarchs cannot escape from this phenomenon.
The eldest sons of Qin Shihuang, Emperor Wu of Han, and Emperor Taizong of Tang all ended badly.
The most important reason is that the eldest son is already in his prime and the emperor is not yet old.
Prince Su Shu sighed in his heart that his father wanted to create a new era, and hoped that he and his father could set a good example for the inheritance of imperial power after the empire.
Li Jia, director of Mawei Shipyard, saw Prince Su Shu dazed on the shore. He quickly walked over and said excitedly: "Your Highness, the launch of the Emperor-class battleship was a complete success.
Mawei Shipyard will hold a celebration banquet in the evening, and I hope His Highness can attend."
When Prince Su Shu heard Li Jia's plea, he nodded in agreement and said, "I will be there in person at the celebration banquet to commend you on behalf of the court."
One of the characteristics of my father's governance is that rewards and punishments are clear and quick.
His telegram has been sent to the capital, and the emperor will send a telegram soon, which must contain some kind of commendation for Mawei Shipyard.
Prince Su Shu returned to his residence, and with his portable telegraph machine, he received a telegram from the capital.
He saw that the telegraph operator had translated the telegram and immediately read the contents of the telegram.
This is a telegram sent by my father. It explains two things in total.
The first thing was that Prince Su Shu, on behalf of the court, commended Mawei Shipyard.
Those with official titles in Mawei Shipyard were all promoted to one level and achieved great achievements.
This is equivalent to their level being promoted by one level, and they can get a real job immediately.
There is a total reward of 200,000 taels of silver, and even the lowest-level worker can get 10 taels of silver coins.
Mawei Shipyard was upgraded, and it was no longer under the management of the Fujian Governor's Yamen, but directly managed by the Shaofu.
This reward is extremely important to Mawei Shipyard.
Not only has the degree of freedom been improved, but the most important point is that the head of the company managed by the Shaofu can serve as a deputy in the local government.
This transformed him from a government-run businessman into a real official.
This method of selecting officials selected many talents suitable for management for the empire.
The second thing his father asked him to do surprised Prince Su Shu.
The special train that went to Fuzhou to pick him up had cameras and a filming team on it.
These people are going to make something called a documentary.
He assisted the filming team to finish filming the documentary about the battleship Qin Shihuang, and went north with them back to Beijing.
Prince Su Shu knew about the existence of video cameras. He had seen the finished film from his mother, Queen Wang Wenjun.
The things captured by the machine are the same as black and white photos. They are basically equivalent to moving black and white photos.
Prince Su Shu remembered that film was very expensive, and one meter of film cost as much as six thousand taels of silver coins.
With his worth, he is reluctant to use this kind of machine.
For the same price, you can take tens of thousands of photos with a camera.
This thing is an extremely luxurious plaything.
My father has now sent a documentary shooting team. Film must have solved the cost problem.
One meter of film must cost at least ten taels of silver coins to withstand the extravagance of shooting a long documentary.
In the evening, Prince Su Shu attended the celebration banquet held at Mawei Shipyard on time.
At the happiest moment for everyone, he walked onto the stage with a telegram in hand and loudly announced the emperor's reward to everyone at Mawei Shipyard.
As soon as Prince Su Shu finished speaking, the scene fell into silence.
It took a while for everyone to react and immediately bowed in the direction of the capital.
They shouted: "Long live my emperor, long live, long live the emperor."
The people attending the celebration banquet at Mawei Shipyard ranged from the factory director Li Jia to the technical backbone of the production workshop.
They were all very satisfied with the emperor's reward.
This is completely an exceptional reward. Whether it is the reward of being promoted to one level or the improvement of the status of Mawei Shipyard, it is closely related to them.
Especially the officials of Mawei Shipyard, as long as they work conscientiously in the future and make no mistakes.
After a few years of experience, they can go to the local area to assist the prefect. No matter how well they perform in the local area, they will have no problem becoming a prefect.
They will become an official businessman, directly crossing the hierarchy and becoming an official.
This is an important opportunity for the family to take off.
As the dinner was about to end, Prince Su Shu approached Li Jia, the director of Mawei Shipyard.
"Director Li, my father sent a filming team to shoot a documentary about the Emperor-class battleship.
Please cooperate with Mawei Shipyard."
Li Jia smiled and bowed slightly and replied: "Your Highness, please rest assured that our Mawei Shipyard will cooperate seriously with the tasks assigned by the imperial court."
He doesn't know how to shoot documentaries. What are these people doing?
As long as these people don't delay the construction of battleships at Mawei Shipyard, they will definitely help with ordinary things.
The imperial court had just distributed the rewards, and Mawei Shipyard did not even cooperate with this small matter. This is very bad.
Li Jia is a bit impatient, but he is not a fool.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Many people in the officialdom are dissatisfied with him. He is still a member of the Ministry of Industry. This is because he knows what can be insisted on and what must be compromised.
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Prince Su Shu saw a middle-aged woman with a bold face and a slim figure at the Mawei Shipyard.
Changes in the imperial examination system, coupled with the requirements for female workers in textile and other industries in recent years.
Women do not make much less money than men, and both the private sector and the officialdom are accustomed to the existence of female officials and workers.
But these people are not very old. They are mainly the first batch of primary school students entering the society, which has caused drastic changes in society.
Whenever you see middle-aged female officials in official circles, their identities are definitely not simple.
They all fought their way out of thousands of troops and obtained the qualifications to be officials.
They have experienced brutal elimination from the officialdom, and those who can persevere to the end are undoubtedly simple people.
Behind this female official were many people like technicians, carrying various equipment.
There was one piece of equipment that Prince Su Shu was familiar with. This was the projector that Queen Mother Wang Wenjun often used.
The female official immediately walked up to Prince Su Shu. She bowed respectfully and said, "Your Highness, I am Zhao Hongyue, a doctor in the Propaganda Department of the Ministry of Rites.
I was ordered to bring a camera crew here to film a documentary about the Emperor-class battleship."
Prince Su Shu nodded. He had some impression of this female official. She was previously the editor-in-chief of Yanhuang Daily.
For her to sit in this position, she must be deeply satisfied with her father.
Prince Su Shu remembered that his father told him that propaganda is the process of shaping social consensus.
Whether it is nationality or belief, it needs to be realized through propaganda.
Only when the common people and officials recognize the royal family will the royal family's status be stable, and this is inseparable from publicity.
Propaganda must be in the hands of the emperor, not the ministers.
The reason for this is that propaganda is in the hands of the Donglin Party.
Any officials who conflicted with the Donglin Party were slandered as traitors.
The members of the Donglin Party are all capable officials in governing the world.
The emperor of Ming Dynasty could not even hear a word of truth.
Prince Su Shu looked at Zhao Hongyue, a doctor in the Propaganda Department of the Ministry of Rites, and said politely: "I know nothing about filming documentaries, but I will provide you with the necessary help.
I also learned what documentary is from here.”
After he said this, he immediately pointed to Li Jia and Wang Qijiang who were standing nearby and introduced: "This is the director of Mawei Shipyard and the deputy chief of staff of the General Staff Department.
If you want to take pictures of anything, you must say hello to these two in advance.
I have also seen cameras and know that documentaries are shot for the public to watch.
Many things on the Qin Shihuang battleship involve secrets.
You can shoot documentaries, but you must not shoot confidential things."
Zhao Hongyue breathed a sigh of relief when she heard His Royal Highness the Crown Prince finished speaking.
His Royal Highness, as rumored, has almost no airs.
As long as His Royal Highness the Crown Prince doesn't mix things up, the documentary filming should go smoothly.
Zhao Hongyue nodded and said: "Your Highness, please rest assured that we will not take pictures of things that should not be taken.
The final film still needs to be reviewed by His Royal Highness, Mr. Li and Mr. Zhao."
Zhao Hongyue arranged for her film crew to be divided into different groups. Under the leadership of Li Jia's arranger, they went to various places in the Mawei Shipyard.
They needed to use film to record some of the evocative processes the Emperor-class battleship went through, from design to construction.
His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and Zhao Hongyue followed the camera crew and watched the process of filming the documentary.
This process is to reverse the process of film projection. Its principle is similar to that of a camera, except that there is a disc behind the camera that is constantly rotating.
Pieces of film were quickly spit out from the camera.
Prince Su Shu saw that in just one minute, the machine spit out nearly a thousand pieces of film.
He asked curiously: "Mr. Zhao, the cost of film should have come down. I see you are still collecting sound. Could it be that cameras can also record sound now?"
Why do you still use guiding words when filming? Aren’t documentaries meant to record the truth?”
Zhao Hongyue heard His Royal Highness the Crown Prince ask several questions in succession, and she patiently answered her objections.
"Your Highness, the cost of film has indeed come down.
This is thanks to the group of scholars at the Academy of Sciences. They are tinkering with the process of oil and have come up with some weird things.
Materials before film were hard to find and extremely expensive.
Now it can be produced in large quantities using reactors.
The price of one meter of film has dropped to one or two silver coins.
Even if you squander some film, the court will not feel bad.
Today's cameras can indeed record sound.
The new film material allows you to glue a sound track next to it.
In this way, images and sounds can be recorded at the same time, giving people an immersive feeling and enhancing the power of publicity.
Documentaries record the truth that the court wants the people to know, and its main function is propaganda.
Some truths that are not conducive to publicity, let them be buried in the long river of history."
Prince Su Shu saw that after the set-up team had finished shooting the content and it was shown through the projector, someone directly picked up the scissors and cut the film from the middle.
Zhao Hongyue said: "This is a very important editing job. The order and content of the documentary need to be completed by editing."
They spent several days and asked many people from Mawei Shipyard to perform the previous process of building Emperor-class battleships in the factory.
The documentary's content on the design and construction process of the Emperor-class battleship is basically completed.
After Prince Su Shu watched this film, he immediately realized why his father wanted to make a documentary?
After reading it, he was very excited and admired everyone at Mawei Shipyard.
In extremely difficult times and without trusting anyone, they relied on their own abilities to design and build the empire's most advanced battleships.
This vividly demonstrates the character of the Han people who are hard-working, perseverant, and capable of conquering nature.
Prince Su Shu said with some pity: "You came a few days late and did not record the launch of the battleship Qin Shihuang. This is the most exciting moment.
The battleship Qin Shihuang is installing test weapons. At the same time, for the safety of the warship, it cannot go through the launching process again.
It will take at least ten months for you to wait for the second Emperor-class battleship to be launched."
Zhao Hongyue said confidently: "Your Highness, we have finished filming the launching ceremony of the battleship Qin Shihuang.
All it takes is His Highness and others to add a few shots, and this part will be perfectly filmed."
Prince Su Shu asked in surprise: "The battleship Qin Shihuang is installing weapons at the dock. How can you film the launching ceremony? Chief of Staff Wang will never agree."
Zhao Hongyue pointed to the northeast and deliberately said: "Your Highness, please come with me. The truth will be revealed soon."
They soon arrived at the open space next to the dock.
Prince Su Shu saw that what was once a flat land had now been built with a mini-building.
The lifelike shipyard looks very exquisite. This is a replica of some of the buildings of Mawei Shipyard.
In particular, there is a one-meter-long Emperor-class battleship in the water. Except that it is too small, the rest of its appearance is exactly the same as the Emperor-class battleship.
Even the position of the rivets and the reflective degree of the paint are exactly the same.
Prince Su Shu said in shock: "It's so similar, this is so similar."
Zhao Hongyue said confidently: "This is a craftsman specially invited by our Propaganda Department. I was shocked after seeing this kind of ingenious carving.
As long as you control the lens when taking pictures, the warship and the characters will no longer be in the same picture, and there will never be any confusion."
Prince Su Shu immediately watched the finished documentary, which was even more shocking than the actual launch of the warship that day.
He immediately contacted the Mawei Shipyard and the military to reshoot part of the footage of the warship being launched into the water.
The first part of the documentary has been completely filmed.
In the second half of the documentary, we will film the battleship Qin Shihuang galloping on the sea and opening fire to attack the enemy.
Only when real giant ships and cannons appear in the documentary will it shock people.
