Chapter 470: Ding Richang

Lin Yizhe noticed that when the children looked up at the high flagpole, some of the Han children unconsciously showed fear on their faces, while the children of the Paiwan tribe looked like they didn't care. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Soon, the French instructor pointed to a tall Han boy and asked him to climb the flagpole to get his hat, the Han boy showed hesitation on his face, but he still stepped forward and climbed up with both hands and feet, but unfortunately, he climbed less than a third of the height of the flagpole with great difficulty, and then slid down.

Next, two more Han boys climbed the flagpole, but they climbed to two-thirds of the height at the highest level, and then they couldn't hold on and slid down.

The French instructor seemed to laugh at the Han boys when he saw that they didn't dare to try again, and the faces of the Han boys showed shame and indignation, but no one came out to climb up again.

At this time, a small Paiwan boy stood up, he took a few steps to the flagpole, jumped upward, and unlike the Han boy's hand and foot climbing, he wrapped his hands around the flagpole, arched his body, and stepped on the flagpole with both feet, like a monkey walking on a tree.

Seeing the Paiwan boy deftly climbing up the flagpole, the French instructor's face showed surprise.

Soon, the Paiwan boy climbed to the top of the flagpole with ease, took off the French instructor's hat, waved it downward, put it on his head, and then climbed down the flagpole with the same agility as he had climbed up.

The Paiwan boy came to the French instructor, according to the standards of the French Navy, he gave a military salute, and then presented the military hat to the French instructor with both hands, and the instructor's face was full of approval, he raised his hand to return a military salute to the Paiwan boy, and the general hat took it.

In the small team of students, bursts of applause rang out at this time.

Lin Yizhe looked at this scene from afar, and his heart was full of relief.

Due to the influence of the traditional concept of contempt and dislike for "foreign studies", the Ship Master School has been faced with the problem of a serious shortage of students since its establishment, and in order to make the Ship Master School grow stronger and truly become the cradle of the Chinese Navy, Lin Yizhe on the one hand went to the imperial court to ask the court to give policy support, and on the other hand, tried to give more favorable treatment to the ship master students to attract students to come, and another important measure was to absorb orphans adopted by the nursery as a source of students.

Due to historical and economic reasons, orphans exist in large numbers in China, but there are very few corresponding adoption agencies. After the Opium War, a large number of Westerners poured into China, and many Western orders entered China to preach, but with little success, they learned that there were a large number of orphans in China, and in order to absorb orphans as believers, they opened a lot of nurseries to adopt Chinese orphans into the church, and because the missionaries liked to baptize seriously ill children, it was very easy to cause misunderstanding among the Chinese people, resulting in a large number of lesson plans. The most striking example of this is the Tianjin Lesson Plan.

After Lin Yizhe helped Zeng Guofan successfully solve the crisis brought about by the "Tianjin Teaching Plan", at the initiative of Lin Yizhe, Li Hongzhang first followed the example of the shipmaster in Zhili and opened the Tianjin Sailor School and the Western School to recruit orphans into school. Later, after the imperial court issued an edict calling on all localities to open schools, recruit students to enroll, and give financial and policy support, the coastal provinces followed suit, and the problem of the source of students for the shipping administration was finally solved.

After the end of the war against the Japanese in Taiwan, due to the brutal killing of the Japanese army, a large number of orphans appeared in both Han and Fan places in Taiwan, and these orphans, without exception, were all accepted by Lin Yizhe to the Ship Master School.

Watching these children receive a good education and grow up vigorously in the Harbour Master Academy, Lin Yizhe's sense of accomplishment seemed to be greater than that of defeating the Japanese invasion.

In the distance, a group of cadets lined up in a neat line, running and training.

So far, the Ship Master and Sailor Academy has been established for nearly eight years, and the student duration is 5-4 years of study in the school plus a one-year internship at sea, and the courses it has set up are in addition to the common professional courses in military academies such as guns, marine engineering, driving, and telegraphy, as well as compulsory courses such as English, mathematics, chemistry, physics, geography, and astronomy. It is also the first Chinese school in China to introduce Western-style physical education into daily teaching, and students are required to learn fencing, barbs, sticks, sticks, dumbbells, hurdles, race walking, long jump, high jump, mast climbing and other sports training in addition to fully militarized daily life management from the day of enrollment. What is cultivated here is definitely a group of young people who are closest to the times in China at this time! Like Lin Yizhe's classmates who were admitted to military schools, they are young, studious, enthusiastic, and at the same time have a strong physique. The most rare thing is that they have a strong intellectual curiosity that the vast majority of their peers in this era cannot have - compared with those who are still indulged in the Four Books and Five Classics, the modern education and the convenient conditions of Fujian, which is on the front line of Western affairs, allow them to have more opportunities to contact the outside world, and more contact means more unknowns, and more unknowns stimulate a stronger desire to learn!

After wandering around the campus for a long time, Lin Yizhe reluctantly left.

"I said I couldn't find you anywhere, so it turned out to be here." A quiet voice with a bit of laziness sounded abruptly when Lin Yizhe walked out of the door of the school, with a hint of secret joy.

Lin Yizhe's heart was slightly hot - it was noon at this time, and the warm sun was overwhelmingly sprinkled on the beautiful side face of the woman in front of him, making him slightly distracted for a moment.

"Why did you go for so long? Giving temporary lectures to students again? Chen Wan smiled and walked in front of him, "I've been here for a long time, why haven't I seen you?" ”

"I just walked around the campus and didn't go into the classroom. What are you doing here? Bringing food to the students? Lin Yizhe happily stepped forward and hugged her waist, and gave her a long kiss in front of several maids.

"It's medicine...... she sensed the warmth of his kiss, and gently squeezed his hand, motioning for him to let go of her.

Lin Yizhe understood, and with some reluctance left her lips and held her hand.

The maids seemed to be surprised by this intimacy between their husband and wife, and at this time they moved away with great interest, pretending to talk or look at the flowers in the garden, so as to make it convenient for them to be together and keep themselves together.

But Lin Yizhe just kissed Chen Wan's face softly, and didn't make too many moves.

"Suffocated again, aren't you?" Chen Wan asked softly with a blushing face.

"Hmm......" Lin Yizhe nodded helplessly.

He already knew that Chen Wan was pregnant again.

"See how many of them?" Chen Wan couldn't help but be a little amused when she saw Lin Yizhe's demeanor like a hungry tiger that couldn't find food, she tilted her head and pointed to the few maids who accompanied her, "Which one is optimistic, let's round the house today, don't suffocate you." ”

"How can they compare to my Wan'er." Lin Yizhe smiled, took a deep breath, and tried to calm himself down.

He was telling the truth, although it was true that he liked beautiful women, he was not as obscene as Bao Ting, and his family didn't have much money and married a bunch of them. Although his conditions are much better than those of Bao Ting, and there is no shortage of beautiful maids in the family, he pays more attention to the integration of hearts and minds, and is not the kind of person he wants to fall in love with beautiful women when he sees them.

Otherwise, the deaths of Caiyue and Eya would not have left a shadow in his heart.

Although he is already an important minister of the imperial court, and the official is not small, he still respects the maids in the family very much, and does not easily scold, let alone play with them at will.

After listening to Lin Yizhe's answer, Chen Wan knew that he had always loved him deeply, and he couldn't help but feel sweet in his heart.

"Or, the one from England, you...... Write to her and ask her to come back......" Chen Wan said softly.

"Hehe, forget it, for Wan'er's sake, I'll bear with it." Lin Yizhe said with a smile.

"Okay, okay, then you can bear with it! I know that ordinary women can't get into the eyes of their husbands now! Chen Wan smiled, "What kind of sister can my husband bring back to me in the future, Wan'er will wait and see!" ”

Lin Yizhe raised his eyebrows and said with a smile: "Wait!" I won't let my wife down! It's just that Wan'er shouldn't be jealous when the time comes. ”

Chen Wan feigned anger and glanced at Lin Yizhe: "Virtue-"

The husband and wife went out of the campus gate and got into the carriage, Lin Yizhe asked her about the recent situation of the children of the Paiwan tribe, whether anyone was sick, Chen Wan said that they were all fine, but a few of the Han children from Taiwan were not in good health, probably suffering from miasma, and fell ill.

"By the way, Master Ding is still sick, has Kunyu been to see him in the past two days?" Chen Wan asked.

Hearing Chen Wan ask about the new Prime Minister and Minister of Shipping, Ding Richang, Lin Yizhe nodded, "I went there two days ago, Lord Ding was anxious, his blood was excessive, and he suffered from miasma, and he refused to recuperate with peace of mind. I'll take it with you. ”

Chen Wan agreed, the two returned home first, Lin Yizhe changed his clothes, prepared medicines, and went straight to Ding Richang's home.

When Lin Yizhe appeared at Ding Richang's house, Ding Richang, who was already sick and recuperating at home, was quietly sitting on a recliner and reading the book "Sea Expansion Strategy" signed by him.

"Kunyu is here, hehe, hurry up, please take a seat." Ding Richang was very happy to see Lin Yizhe coming, and pointed to a chair opposite him and said to Lin Yizhe.

"Brother Yusheng, how are you feeling these days?" Lin Yizhe sat down and asked with concern.

"I haven't been in good health since I was a child, and this time I was infected with miasma not long after I arrived in Fuzhou, and I thought that my life would be short, but who knew that I met Kunyu's wonderful hand to rejuvenate, and I picked up a life back, hehe." Ding Richang said with a smile.

"Brother Yusheng cares about the people of Limin, is diligent in the king's affairs, is too tired, and suffers from illness, the younger brother hates to help Brother Yusheng share, just medicines, meager things, Brother Yusheng wants to mention." Lin Yizhe said with a smile and waved his hand.

Lin Yizhe was telling the truth, since Ding Richang arrived, the affairs of the shipping administration have been running well, and the efficiency has even been improved, Lin Yizhe was originally worried that Ding Richang would have to be familiar with it for a period of time after taking over, which may have an impact on the work of the shipping administration, but he did not expect that Ding Richang was an expert in management, and after taking over the shipping administration, not only did not affect the work of the shipping master at all, but further improved the work efficiency of the shipping administration. For example, the newly built cruisers "Yuankai" and "Dengyingzhou" stationed abroad are almost completed in just a few months.

"It's been a lot better these days, it's fine, but I'm a little lazy and don't love it, so I'm lying here, otherwise, if you want to find me now, you'll have to go to the shipyard." Ding Richang said with a smile.

"Your book is very well written, I was deeply inspired by it, today I know the importance of the navy, what I saw before, it is really a frog at the bottom of the well!" Ding Richang pointed to the book of "Sea Expansion Strategy" in his hand, and said happily, "Coupled with the preface you wrote, no wonder those naval officers and students like you so much, come here!" Pour tea for Lord Lin! ”

After listening to Ding Richang's beautiful words, Lin Yizhe smiled and did not answer - the book "Sea Expansion Strategy" in Ding Richang's hand actually has a more formal name - "The Influence of Sea Power on History: 1660-1783"......

He taught naval officers, and Mahan's "Treatise on Sea Power" praised the navy as a key force in determining the future of a country! As for the preface he wrote, Lin Yizhe himself felt his blood boiling when he read this article, not to mention the officials and students in the Sailor School who had received a comprehensive modernization education and were almost the most visionary and responsible among the Chinese youth of his time.

Young people are always easier to fool, and a talented and knowledgeable Westerner like Ding Richang naturally can't help but be amazed when he sees it......

"Didn't you say you were going to write a few more books?" Ding Richang's fingers gently rubbed the cover of "Sea Expansion Strategy", "You write a few more books like this, so that more people in the world know you, appreciate you, and support you, so that this foreign affairs will be easy to do!" ”

"Hehe, it's not like Guo Gongzhi's "Making the West Chronicles" was almost destroyed and banned." Lin Yizhe's gaze quietly drifted to an unknown distance.

"Oh?" Ding Richang raised his eyebrows in some surprise.

Lin Yizhe poured himself a cup of hot tea, and he put his finger on the steaming cup - it hurt a little! The pain is not terrible, the terrible thing is that you are beaten and you don't know that it hurts, and what is even more terrible is that you don't even understand why you are being beaten after the pain, how can it hurt?!

"Before Guo Gong went to the UK, the imperial court asked Guo Gong to consult the General Administration for the diaries and other diaries he kept along the way, and he did so." Lin Yizhe suddenly felt a colic in his heart - if Guo Songtao and Ding Richang were not so conscientious, how could they bear the name of the "ghost slave" who was scolded by tens of thousands of people!

"I have read that book, it is very well written, Guo Gong said that the study of Western personality, so the cage of heaven and earth, the enslavement of all things, are realistic and the effect is also ...... 'Song Tao wants to make Danya carry out the official study of coal and iron and smelting in the world, and build railways and electricity, in order to be practical.' Ding Richang said, "It's all true." ”

Lin Yizhe nodded, he was able to call Western science and technology "practical learning", and believed that Western science and technology were completely in line with the requirements of China's practical learning, and even advocated the establishment of large schools and the widespread dispatch of foreign students to introduce Western learning, which was no different from his own.

Guo Gong's diary also said: The West takes commerce as the foundation of the country, and its managers are neat and orderly. Stealing the West is based on businessmen, and there is no leisure in the whole country; China values people and despises agriculture, industry and commerce, and even among each family and one town, there are professionals who do not exceed one percent. Ding Richang added, "Guo Gongneng saw that the wealth and strength of the West were first in valuing business, and advocated that China should also be based on industry and commerce to make the country rich and strong." This is exactly the same as the 'Four People's Pillar Stone Theory' played by Kunyu. ”

"Exactly." Lin Yizhe said, "These are all easy to say, Guo Gong's words are the most taboo in Shilin, what is it, Brother Yusheng must know, right?" ”

"Hehe, of course I remember!" Ding Richang smiled and said loudly, "'The entry of the West into China is a great change in heaven and earth, and its qi is far away, and it is enough for China to benefit if it is used in its way. ’”

"'Song Tao steals that the Western country has its own end, its origin is in the imperial court's politics and religion, and its end is in the merchants, shipbuilding, and utensils, complementing each other to be stronger, and the end is also a section. Therefore, if you want to trade with Jia first, you can establish the foundation of Western law, and the so-called one who is not at the end of the world is the one who is at the end of the matter. ’”

"'Since the Han Dynasty, China's indoctrination has been declining day by day, and the European countries have excelled in political and religious customs, and they have regarded China as much as they have seen Yi Di in the heyday of the three generations.'" ”

"'Three generations ago, all of them were based on China's Taoism...... Since more than 30 years of trade with the West, it seems that there is no way to attack China with its way, so it can be dangerous. ’”

Ding Richang recited the words in Guo Songtao's "Chronicles of the West" while looking at the expression on Lin Yizhe's face.

"There is a way in the West but there is no way in China, the political and religious civilization of the West has surpassed the old system of my ancestors, and my China wants to improve itself, and it is ...... to change the law compared to the West" Ding Richang laughed and said, "Sending such a rebellious remark, he Guo Yunxian is not a traitor?" So who is still a traitor? ”

"What does Brother Yusheng think of this?" Lin Yizhe asked with a smile.

"Guo Yunxian is a 'traitor', why am I not a 'ghost slave'?" Ding Richang's laughter was full of deep sadness.

"It's not that you can't do what you can't do, it's just that you have to see who it's written to." Lin Yizhe responded with a sigh.

These books written by myself, such as the "Chart of Foreign Divisional Ships" given to Hongzhang, will make people like Li Hongzhang who are devoted to foreign affairs like a treasure, but if it is written to all the readers in the world......

In the original historical time and space, those Qingliu scholars who were full of "**** Shangguo", just with a fan Tianyin of "I heard that Xia changed to Yi, but I did not hear of the change in Yi", I don't know how many foreign talents have been overturned!

"If you really want to blame, you can only blame our ancestors in China, they really left us too many good things!" A wry smile appeared on the corner of Lin Yizhe's mouth.

"It was Kun Yucai who concocted a "Western Filial Piety Test" to come out, so that the starter Qingliu couldn't swallow?" Ding Richang laughed.

Lin Yizhe smiled slightly and nodded, "If the generation is hateful, it is not enough to frustrate its sharpness unless it has the spear of the other and the shield of the other." ”