"That's what Lord Yang said. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 Info" Bei Jinquan, who was standing next to the steering gear, also said, "There are many shallow reefs here, and the team can take a sampan to go ashore, if a large group of people and horses land here, if there is a slight wind and waves, the ship will be washed up on the reef and crashed, and there are many cliffs on the shore, and it is not easy to climb, so it is not a good place to land." ”

At this time, the "Weiyuan" ship was slowly moving along the coastline, and Pei Jinquan had been guarding the helm, and he did not let the sailors take the helm because he was worried about the shoals and reefs. The first mate, Shen Renfa, stood beside Pei Jinquan to help take care of it.

Lin Yizhe listened to Pei Jinquan's words, nodded, and did not say anything more, but continued to observe the coast. And Wu Dating and Yang Zaiyuan heard what Pei Jinquan said just now, "the big team landed", and then they understood the intention of Lin Yizhe's question, and the two remembered that they went to greet Lin Yizhe when he first arrived at Jilong Port, and then they were invited into the secret room by Lin Yizhe for some "enlightenment", and they couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat.

The two of them, who are still thinking about the "view of the world", never thought that the previous reports about the "people outside the world" would lead to such a big trouble.

Wu Dating, as a Western-style official, did not know much about the difference between the "world view" and the "world view", not to mention Yang Zaiyuan, Lin Yizhe reprimanded the two, and gave the example of Russia's forcible occupation of a large area of China's territory before.

Lin Yizhe, who is familiar with history, knows that in the First Opium War, the British army spent 3 years and only got more than 80 square kilometers of Hong Kong; The Second Opium War, which lasted four years, Britain only got 11 square kilometers of Tsim Sha Tsui in Kowloon, and France did not get an inch of land. The Qing court was humiliated by the two defeats. From 1858 to 1860, there was no war between China and Russia, and the Russians did not lose a single soldier, but they defrauded more than 1 million square kilometers of land from China, and the Qing Dynasty was unaware of the whole country.

This is because just as Japan deliberately created the argument that "there is no owner of the land", the Russian Muravyov also created the concept of "empty land" back then, claiming that "empty land" is ownerless land and does not belong to China. Heilongjiang General Yishan had no concept of territorial sovereignty, and even reported to Emperor Xianfeng, saying that the land ceded to Russia by the "Aihui Treaty" was "originally an empty ground, and there are no inhabitants now", and Xianfeng also had no concept of territorial sovereignty, and what appeared in his mind was completely a means of Fuyi under the concept of "Tianxia View": "The empty space that the chief of the Yi invited to live in on the left bank of the Heilongjiang River outside the former residence of the tun is given to the ...... of quiet living in the left bank of the river"

In Lin Yizhe's view, the loss of territory and the reversal of right and wrong are still secondary, and the biggest hidden danger of the Qing Empire still comes from the isolation between the traditional "world view" and the modern "world view"!

What he has to do now is to do his best to "educate" a few!

At the very least, this beautiful treasure island must be preserved, so that it and the people who live in this land will not be ravaged by invaders!

"All the ships of the Sailor Division have been dispatched?" Lin Yizhe put down the binoculars and asked again.

"Lord Hui, the ships stationed in the seaports of the island have been dispatched to inspect the coast, and the sailors stationed in Penghu have also been dispatched to strictly check the sea surface and be vigilant against the entry and exit of Japanese ships." Wu Dating hurriedly replied.

"Have you sent a ship to this area?" Lin Yizhe asked.

"Sent." Yang Zaiyuan replied, "It's just that the division ships are all lucky ships, and the speed is slower, so it is not as convenient as the steamer." It was because he thought that the Japanese were getting away and only patrolled back and forth along the coast. Let's think we'll meet in a while. ”

As soon as Yang Zaiyuan's voice fell, the lookout whistle reported loudly: "Ahead!" Discover a ship! ”

The air on the flybridge suddenly became tense, and all those who had telescopes were raised and looked ahead.

In the distance, a sailing ship appeared.

The sailboat must have also seen the "Weiyuan" ship, and then changed course and sailed over.

Lin Yizhe recognized that this was a gunboat belonging to Taiwan's Green Camp Naval Division.

It was an old-fashioned Fu ship, which was considered large among the old Chinese sailors, with multiple gun doors on both sides, and was still equipped with an old-style breech iron cannon. Hanging from the mast is still a triangular red background gold dragon tooth flag.

Seeing that such a gunboat had come out to carry out the task of capturing the Japanese, Lin Yizhe couldn't help but sigh secretly while laughing.

The sailor's gunboat slowed down and fired a salute with a roar towards "Weiyuan," and a cloud of gunpowder smoke wrapped in a fireball quickly pierced through the sea and air, drifting away one by one on the still water.

Seeing that the pipe belt of this division ship actually set off the salute smartly, Yang Zaiyuan, who was startled, was annoyed in his heart.

Bei Jinquan couldn't hold back his laughter, he nodded at the first mate Shen Renfa, Shen Renfa turned to leave, and soon, the "Weiyuan" ship also fired a salute as a salute.

"If the Japanese take a steamer, they will find out, but I'm afraid they won't be able to catch up, right?" Lin Yizhe watched the old-fashioned division ship slowly sail by and said.

"The subordinates have given death orders to the ships of each division, and if there are those who escape without stopping the ship, they will be fired." Yang Jae-won hurriedly replied.

"Even if they run fast, they can't outrun the shells." Wu Dating also said on the side.

"I guess the Japanese are probably riding on sailboats rather than ships." Pei Jinquan Road.

"How so?" Lin Yizhe asked.

"The ship is too ostentatious, and the owners are mostly outsiders, so it is difficult to avoid people's eyes. The Japanese want to conduct in-depth investigations, and in order to protect themselves, they will certainly carry military weapons, and if they encounter a foreign warship for inspection, they will leak the stuffing. "If it's a wooden sailing boat, such as a fishing boat or a cargo ship, it's much more secretive. ”

"You have a point." Lin Yizhe nodded, looked at the old division ship that was gradually moving away, and frowned.

"Your Excellency, rest assured, your subordinates have ordered that all ships that come across and want to sail and anchor on the coast of Fandi, no matter what kind of boat, must be stopped and inspected." Yang Zaiyuan noticed the change in Lin Yizhe's expression, and hurriedly said, "Even if the Japanese take a sailboat, they can't escape." ”

"That's very good." Lin Yizhe's brows relaxed slightly, and his gaze turned to the shore again.

At this time, none of the people on the "Weiyuan" ship expected that, as Pei Jinquan said, the Japanese were indeed riding on a sailing ship this time.

"How long do you have to get to the coast?!"

Shiki Kayama yelled at the helmsman in Japanese, and the Chinese helmsman just looked at him blankly, not understanding why he was angry.

Shiki Kayama dragged a Chinese translator past him and yelled at him, "You! You tell him! Ask him, how long will we have to drift on this sea? ”

The interpreter rolled his eyes at him, and came to the helmsman a little angrily, and asked him a few words in Chinese, while the helmsman replied in a series of Hokkien dialects, listening to the dialogue between the two like chickens and ducks, and a deep sense of powerlessness filled his body.

Ever since he got on the Chinese wooden sailing ship they had hired, Shiki Kayama had not felt anything smooth.

After Yanagihara Maemitsu personally went to the governor's yamen to ask Xu Run to cover his passport and purchase all the supplies, they were very worried about the ship.

Because the Chinese side strictly controls the entry and exit from Taiwan, strictly prohibiting smuggling, except for large merchant ships and cargo ships, few steamboats enter and leave Taiwan, after trying to hire steamboats into Taiwan to no avail, Yanagihara Maemitsu can only turn his attention to the Chinese fishing boats as a means of transportation for their small "sightseeing tour group" to cross the sea to Taiwan.

After all kinds of twists and turns, Yanagihara Maemitsu finally hired a wooden sailing ship "Tongjie" that was specially used to smuggle between Taiwan and Fujian. But since they got on the boat, Yanagihara Maemitsu and others found that they were neither "passable" nor "short" along the way!

The Japanese sailed out to sea in a series of bad luck, first in a storm, when a Chinese crew member and a Japanese expedition member fell to their deaths. The owner of this ship, Wang Yongan, was an experienced old sea owl, and under his command, the "Tongjie" finally escaped. It was easy to turn back from the hands of the Sea Dragon King, and I didn't want to run into the anti-smuggling ship of the Fujian Customs again when the wind was calm.

Seeing the appearance of the anti-smuggling boat, Yanagihara Maemitsu and others were all shocked, because they brought a lot of guns and ammunition with them to Taiwan for "sightseeing" this time in order to protect their own safety. However, the "Sino-Japanese Treaty of Reconciliation" clearly stipulates that the Japanese are not allowed to carry weapons in China, and once they are caught, the consequences will be unimaginable.

When the "Tongjie" saw the anti-smuggling ship appear, it desperately fled, but the wooden sailing ship could not outrun the steamer at all, and it was about to catch up with the anti-smuggling ship, but the anti-smuggling ship suddenly suffered a mechanical failure and was forced to stop the ship.

Just when the Japanese secretly rejoiced, they found that the "Tongjie" had deviated from the original route taken by Li Xiande when he went to Taiwan, and the Chinese wanted to save trouble and did not plan to return to the original route, but were ready to throw them on a coast and leave, and after the American guide Jackman and the Chinese owner of the Japanese expedition exchanged words and promised to pay additional rent, these Chinese who saw the money returned to the original route and sailed all the way forward.

"He said it, it's definitely noon!" The Chinese translator, who had been seasick these days, hurriedly said a word to Shiki Kayama, and ran into his cabin without looking back.

Shikiki Kayama suppressed the anger in his heart and came to the bow of the ship, just in time to see Yanagihara Maemitsu and the American guide Jackman looking at the topographic map there.

"Have you found a landing site? My friend? Shiki Kayama paced up to their side and asked Jackman in his less proficient English.

"It's relatively flat, and there's no reef, and that's where we landed last time." Jackman said, pointing to a place on the topographic map.