In the battleship and artillery competition between the Beiyang Naval Division and the Huaxia Army, it was indeed the Beiyang Naval Division that won comprehensively.

After returning to the dock, the officers and men of Huaxia looked blank, as if everything that happened on the sea had nothing to do with them, and the officers and men of the Beiyang Naval Division did not look particularly happy.

"It's really not interesting to fight and kill, why don't we have a more interesting game? We'll pay for the big prizes for the winners! Hu Zhen also looked indifferent about this, and had a new proposal.

"What kind of competition are you going to do?" Fang Boqian got Hu Zhen's agent bicycle and some industrially made kitchen utensils and furniture, and his heart was full of excitement, and now Hu Zhen's suggestion is in the same direction.

Hu Zhen looked at a large circle of officers and soldiers of the Beiyang Navy Division who were very interested in the words "pay money and reward the winners", so he smiled and said: "Don't everyone have a bicycle, we can hold a bicycle race?" Compete to see who runs the fastest, and what's even more interesting is who rides slower but doesn't fall! ”

The bicycle race was a lively race, and the race personnel were very happy in the field, and many officers and soldiers of the Beiyang Navy Division opened casinos under the field, betting that the player would get a better ranking.

In the casino, the officers and men of the Beiyang Naval Division are also indomitable, and the young people of the Huaxia Army are even more rustic than the officers and men of the Beiyang Naval Division in this regard.

Either way, though, the bike race was a fun one, and everyone was very happy.

In the close contact between the officers and men of the two sides, under Ding Ruchang's arrangement, some people inquired about the number of warships and training of the Huaxia Army, but Hu Zhen had long been prepared for this, and the sailors of the Huaxia Army had already accepted the unified arrangement and clearly conveyed the message to the investigators of the Beiyang Naval Division: The strength of the Huaxia Navy is not enough to challenge the Beiyang Naval Division!

At this point, Ding Ruchang didn't know whether to rest assured or had any other thoughts, so he didn't care about this matter anymore.

After the competition, Hu Zhen and Ding Ruchang presented prizes to the winners.

It is completely different from the officers and men of the Beiyang Naval Division, and the officers and men of the Chinese Academy pay great attention to seeing if their own personnel have won awards. Hu Zhen didn't care at all that he won the competition, and generously awarded the six winners with prizes of 100 silver coins each.

For those who failed, Hu Zhen also comfortingly awarded each person a small model of a delicate bicycle as a souvenir of the competition.

After this competition. Among the foreigners in the Beiyang Naval Division, there were English Margelu, Taylor, Mi Haowei, Wheaton, German Renel, Hannagan and others, who found Hu Zhen and said that they would sell bicycles as agents in their countries or in the Qing Dynasty.

But Hu Zhen said that he had already signed an agreement with an exclusive agent to sell bicycles in his country or locality. According to the agreement, there will be no second seller.

However, what the United States Wheaton and the English Taylor's are indomitable is to entangle Hu Zhen.

In the end, Hu Zhen pretended to be very helpless, and finally agreed to sign an agreement with them, saying that he would compensate the original agent and choose a region in their country as their exclusive agent to sell their own area, but in the contract, the sales quantity should be limited, and if the specified quantity is reached, a certain rebate will be given according to the specified sales quantity.

Under Hu Zhen's hunger marketing method, Wheaton, a native of the United States, and Taylor, a native of England, immediately proposed to Ding Ruchang. He was going to resign from his position as a Beiyang sailor and go back to their country to be an agent of Nanyang products.

The status of these two foreigners in the Beiyang Naval Division was not very important in the first place, and Ding Ruchang did not hesitate to agree to their request.

However, this foreigner was so interested in selling bicycles that it attracted Ding Ruchang's attention.

In response to Ding Ruchang's inquiry, Hu Zhen immediately said that he could send 100 bicycles and rubber-soled shoes to Ding Junmen and sell them to the dignitaries of the Qing Dynasty, make a little money for entertainment first, and if the sales are good, then continue to pick up the goods. Nanyang will supply to Ding Junmen at the best price.

Ding Ruchang couldn't imagine that Hu Zhen was such a person with such a face, but he didn't have any ill feelings about it, because he himself had a gambling hall and a big smoke house near the naval base in Weihaiwei, and of course the products sent by Hu Zhen would be accepted immediately. And it was transported back by warship for test marketing.

This time, the Beiyang Fleet came to Nanyang with the intention of deterring Nanyang, but it was made a grand event by Hu Zhen to promote products, and Nanyang's rubber soles, bicycles, rubber tires for horse-drawn carriages, aluminum kitchen utensils, wooden furniture, coffee and other industrialized products were continuously sold to the territory controlled by the Qing Dynasty through the recommendation of the officers and soldiers who were easy to accept new things by the Beiyang Naval Division. Many people have made a fortune as a result.

And the original intention of the Empress Dowager Cixi to send the Beiyang Fleet to the South Seas was ignored by everyone in a daze.

After going back, because all the officers and men of the Beiyang Fleet who came to Nanyang this time have benefited, they all insist that Nanyang is a place where birds don't, but because of the climate, there is a little bit of rubber and other specialties, and the combat effectiveness of the army is even worse, but the climate in Nanyang is too hot, and the Dutch can't stand it because of the epidemic, so they are defeated by those rotten Nanyang Chinese who have no way out.

After receiving the report of the Beiyang Naval Division, Li Hongzhang reported to Cixi word for word.

After Cixi listened to Li Hongzhang's report, she no longer took this matter to heart, after all, the plague-ridden place in Nanyang was too far away from the imperial capital of the Qing Dynasty, and there were too many headaches in the Qing Dynasty.

What Cixi didn't know was that her gravediggers were the Chinese people of Nanyang, who were growing stronger day by day, and when the time came, they would return to the mainland and take back the Chinese heritage that had been lost for more than 200 years.

After sending the Beiyang Fleet away, Hu Zhen ordered the Intelligence Department to strengthen the intelligence work of the Qing court, and to grasp every decision and movement in the court in a timely manner, so as to prepare for a large-scale return to the homeland of China in the future.

Hu Zhen also threw himself into the planning of another thing, that is: to seize Hawaii!

After the outbreak of the large-scale anti-Chinese movement in the United States, the Chinese workers suffered cruel persecution in this country known as the most free and respectful country in the future, after Hu Zhen intervened through Chen Yixi, more than 600,000 Chinese workers who built railways and worked in factories in the United States continued to turn from the United States to Nanyang, and Hawaii was an important transit station on the way back to Nanyang for the transfer of Chinese laborers. This Hawaii has become a battleground for the Chinese army.

The Kingdom of Hawaii is a kingdom founded by indigenous peoples, but by the 1880s, its actual control had fallen into the hands of whites, especially in 1887, when the nominally elected royal government was nominally elected, and it seemed that the free electoral system of the country was completely realized, but in fact, it was very ridiculous that only those who had reached a certain amount of property had the right to vote, and the local poor natives and Asian immigrants did not have the right to vote, and all local affairs were controlled by rich whites who accounted for a very small proportion of the population.

Hu Zhen said to the people who rushed to the conference room to attend the planning meeting: "With our existing naval and army forces, it is not difficult for us to seize Hawaii, but the difficult thing is how to withstand the pressure of the intervention of the European and American powers!" But we are not trying to seize Hawaii, but to bring Hawaii under the banner of our Huaxia Guild. ”

"The intervention of European and American powers?" The generals didn't care much about the way Hawaii was forcibly seized or the way the Huaxia Guild merged Hawaii, but they couldn't figure out which other powerful countries would interfere here.

Hu Zhen's finger moved up the map, pointed to the location of Mi Guo and said, "Mi Guo!" The United States has a navy and army stationed in Hawaii, although the number and weapons are not very many, and its marines are stationed on the island of Hawaii but a few hundred people, as long as we move, the United States will definitely intervene, and even send the warships of the United States to threaten the country, everyone must know that this United States is the first country in the world in terms of industrial strength! ”

"The United States is the world's largest industrial strength today?"

Everyone was shocked, in everyone's minds, the British Empire is the world's first power, how did they never think that the industrial strength of the United States is the world's first, and the Huaxia Army is about to challenge the world's most powerful industrial country. (To be continued.) )