Chapter 469: My Harbour Master's School
"Dementors", an idol of power that was originally imagined by the people, made everyone in this society indulge in the carnival of power, and fear of becoming a sacrifice to this carnival. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 A certain gentleman once said that Chinese history is an endless feast of human flesh. The public is not only the guest of honor at this feast, but also everyone will be the delicacies on the table. In such a deformed society, people can only use this way of drinking to quench their thirst to protect themselves and attack others – even if this protection seems absurd and fragile.
Without the "dementors", this demand hidden in the depths of the people's psyche would not have erupted so strongly, but it would have quietly manifested itself in a different form – when the society was not yet able to make individuals adequately capable of defending their rights.
Only when this society gives everyone this kind of power, then the nightmare of "dementors" may not happen......
Lin Yizhe realized that he was thinking a little far, and immediately withdrew his thoughts.
"If this kind of thing doesn't happen again, what can you teach me?" Lin Yizhe asked Xu Run.
"Hehe, the old decay is going to be given to adults, but I'm afraid it's a bad idea." Xu Run replied with a smile, "But since ancient times, people who have become big things are not informal, and adults don't have to care." ”
"Sir, are you planning to let me learn to be a gentleman?" Lin Yizhe seemed to understand what Xu Run meant, and said with a smile.
"The adults are really powerful, the old man raised his head, and the adults can guess the following." Xu Run smiled, "Exactly. The experience of being an official in the early years of the gentry is quite similar to that of adults. And the gentry has the talent, but also willing to do things solidly, in the folk also have the name of 'and Qingtian', but the evening is not guaranteed, adults want to learn and the gentry, its early years are just, as for its later years of disobedience and greed, only to Qianlong Lord as a backer, Jiaqing Ye is not in the eyes, then there is a disaster of killing, it is the place where adults need to be vigilant, do big things must find a replacement first, you must know that the adults are now because of the relationship of this foreign affairs, offended people are not a few, must not learn and the gentry, until the funeral of Qianlong Ye, there is no one to rely on, then the disaster is coming. ”
Listening to Xu Run's words, Lin Yizhe remembered the past with the gentry, and couldn't help sighing.
When he was in prison, He Shen wrote such a poem: "The past is hurt by the scene, and Huai is wrong in this life." "It was his talent who mistook his life, he was cunning, he was greedy, he was flattering, he was spurned by thousands of people, but after washing all the lead, he was a tragedy, sad that he was born in that era, sad in being in the unspoken rules of feudal officialdom, sad in meeting Qianlong.
Some people say that it was because of this that the evil intentions were planted in the heart of the gentry, which led to his unbridled greed after his rise to prominence. In fact, in the youth of the gentry, he was definitely better than the "three good students" when he studied at the official school of Xian'an Palace, with good study, good sports, good morality, good labor, in short, he was an excellent young man who was good at everything, and at that time he also had a great revenge of being a good official for the people. The knowledge and talents of the gentry made him the most important condition to become an important minister of the court, that is, a pillar of the state. Later, after he became an official, he really did a lot of good things, and was called "He Qingtian" by the people, and even the British envoy Magorny also recorded in the "Record of the Interview of the Qianlong British Envoy" that the gentry "looks fair and handsome, behaves chicly, talks and laughs freely, and between the bottles, the handover is calm and calm, no matter how big or small, and does it in a word, it really has the demeanor of the prime minister of a big country." When the gentry presided over diplomacy, he was praised by foreigners as a "mature politician". At that time, the gentry had administrative power, financial power, military power, and personnel power, and it was not an exaggeration to award him a model worker award.
The gentleman's demeanor, good manners, and exquisiteness, coupled with his appearance as "the first handsome man in the Manchu Dynasty", is talented but not excess, can such a talented and handsome person not be admired? Although he is in a group with the gentry's wives and concubines, his deep affection for his wife Feng is enough to move people. After the death of the gentry, there were many wives and concubines who committed suicide and were buried behind him, which is enough to show his personal charm.
Wives and sons are filial, brothers stay together, wives and concubines get along harmoniously, self-cultivation, family harmony, governing the country, and leveling the world, and the gentry can be said to have done it, like "Dream of Red Mansions" can be handed down, and there is also the credit of the gentry. Most people know that "Siku Quanshu" was compiled by Ji Xiaolan, but in fact, He Shen also made a lot of efforts. In fact, Lin Yizhe felt that the gentleman was the most likely person to become the second Zhang Juzheng, but there was no Zhang Juzheng in the world, and he met not Wanli, but Qianlong.
The most fatal mistake of the gentry was that he did not have a substitute, and as soon as Qianlong died, he was taken down by Jiaqing.
Xu Run used the gentleman to remind himself that he wanted to tell himself that he didn't want to learn the gentleman's flattering methods, but to learn the gentleman's graceful demeanor, doing things in a good way, and being exquisite, compared to the gentleman's talent and edge, his current limelight seems to be too strong, and there are inevitably more people who offend.
And the same problem that he is facing now and the gentleman back then is that there is no substitute!
To do great things, you must find a replacement first!
Once the Empress Dowager Cixi, the Empress Dowager Ci'an, and Prince Gong Wenxiang and other important backers in the court are gone, it is likely that they will not be able to escape the end of the gentry!
And how do you find your own replacement?
And now Qingliu has almost become his mortal enemy!
During the reign of the gentry, the political achievements were remarkable, and it was painted into the Ziguang Pavilion (in the fifty-second year of Qianlong, the Heshen became one of the twenty meritorious heroes of the King James and was painted into the Ziguang Pavilion, and Qianlong personally inscribed: "Undertake the training of the book, and pass the Qing and Han Dynasty. The military book of the side of the noon, only Ming cut off. Ping Salal, who also supervised the war. Bestow the knight and encourage loyalty, and become a national cadre. After his death, his reputation was discredited, no one remembered how good he was back then, and the root cause was that he offended a lot of gossip officials, and these people buried him in the future, making him a negative example of corrupt officials in later generations!
In Xu Run's words, there is also a faint meaning that he should pay attention to differentiating the clear stream!
And judging from the current situation, he can still do it if he divides and disintegrates the clear stream, but this replacement is really hard to find!
At this time, Lin Yizhe would not know that his future replacement would be someone he could never dream of now!
"What the gentleman said, I should take to heart." Lin Yizhe said.
"This time, the Baoting poison plan will not succeed, but it will be heavily blamed by the queen mother of the two palaces, those clear streams will stop a little, adults don't have to worry too much for the time being, always be vigilant in the future, and deal with it carefully." Xu Run saw that Lin Yizhe's face was solemn, his brows were tightly locked, and he knew that he was comfortable and deeply reflecting on the gains and losses of his actions during this time, and he was afraid that he would think too much, so he smiled and persuaded him.
It may be that Xu Run's words of "looking for a substitute" deeply touched Lin Yizhe, and after talking for a while, Lin Yizhe quietly came to the Ship Master School.
Perhaps, these children who study in the Harbour Master Academy are the real hope of the country, and his substitutes!
Today's Harbour Master School, because of the abundant funds (of course, mainly Lin Yizhe's subsidy), has been expanded on the original basis, from the original Chinese-style school, and added European-style teaching buildings and laboratory buildings.
When the guards at the gate saw that it was Lin Yizhe, they saluted and let him go. The reason why it is guarded is that not everyone has the opportunity to visit the teaching building and the laboratory building where students take classes. Because the teaching area is a military exclusion zone, permission must be obtained to enter.
On both sides of the high steps of the teaching building, two cute stone lions are still placed in accordance with traditional Chinese customs, and on the grass next to it, there are two "Congreve" rockets, and there are launch frames next to them, forming a complete rocket launch platform. Not far from the rocket launcher, there stood a French flying platoon gun.
Entering the interior of the teaching building, I came to the hall, which was furnished with a huge inscription written by Shen Baozhen, Li Henian, Wen Yu and other feudal officials for the ship administration. On the walls of the school building hang pictures of many naval ships, among these ships, there are treasure ships of the Zheng He era, as well as British-style fast sail warships and old Spanish sail battleships; There are paddle steamer gunboats and inland river ironclads during the American Civil War, as well as the main ironclad ships of the British and French navies and newly built armored cruisers of the shipyard.
In addition to the huge pictures, there are also portraits of navigators, paintings of world-famous naval battles, ancient knots, steering wheels and various nautical instruments...... These objects related to the Navy create an atmosphere that inspires these future naval officers to study hard.
They are a silent reminder to those who come here that the sea is not far away, and the naval battle is not far away!
Lin Yizhe listened to the sound of the students reading aloud in the classroom, and the depression he had just now had because of the news of Baoting's poisonous words and failed impeachment was swept away.
Lin Yizhe closed his eyes slightly, and let his body and mind gradually calm down with the sound of the students reading - no matter what others do, since I have come to this era, since I have decided to change this era, there is naturally no reason to retreat!
Even if you save the fortunes of the country with the power of one person and have no substitute? In the original history, Li Hongzhang dared to take a corner of the Beiyang, the enemy and the Japanese to raise the country's army, as spicy as Liang Rengong, but also to praise the sentence "Hefei Hefei, although defeated, but also proud!" I, Lin Yizhe, am just a death row prisoner who picked up another part of my life by luck, even if I lose, it is just another death!
What's more, I'm not necessarily alone! Those who study here, but also the young students who have received the most modern military education in China at this time, will be his comrades-in-arms!
They are the spark of this country!
Even if he is in his lifetime, he will end up like Li Hongzhang back then, but the fire has been sown, as long as the fire is not extinguished, there is still hope!
Thinking of this, Lin Yizhe was excited again.
Out of the teaching building, Lin Yizhe came to the front of the experimental building.
The laboratory building is one of the buildings that has not been completed for a long time. Different from the stone lion at the entrance of the teaching building, on both sides of the gate of the laboratory building, there are two ancient cannons of the Ming Dynasty.
Thinking of the origin of these ancient cannons, the corners of Lin Yizhe's mouth couldn't help but smile.
These ancient cannons were not bought from antique dealers, but from the coastal forts of Fuzhou!
After Lin Yizhe led the shipmaster and the Huai army to defeat the Japanese invasion of Taiwan, the imperial court once again realized the weakness of China's coastal defense forces, and at the same time determined to "control the water", it strictly ordered the provinces to rectify their defenses, and the ancient artillery on the Fuzhou coastal forts that had long lost their function as weapons were all removed. The two ancient cannons cast in the Ming Dynasty in front of Lin Yizhe are derived from this.
On both sides of these two ancient cannons, there are also a number of cannons, which are also removed from the forts, among them are the artillery of the Ming Dynasty, there are also the artillery cast in the early Qing Dynasty, and the artillery purchased by China from foreign countries is now included in the obsolescence. These guns are of different sizes and shapes, but at a glance, you can still clearly distinguish which ones are "domestic products" and which ones are "foreign".
Because most of the guns cast in China are extremely corroded, and many of the guns and barrels have large sand holes and pits, while foreign-made guns, although they are also corroded, are obviously much lighter, and show that the material is more sophisticated.
Thinking that foreign metallurgical technology is changing with each passing day and is still developing, and China now does not have a real blast furnace that can smelt the steel used to make guns, Lin Yizhe couldn't help but sigh again.
At present, the steel and iron materials used in the shipbuilding and gun manufacturing of the Harbour Master Bureau are still all imported!
And in the "Coastal Defense Planning", he put forward the proposal of "revitalizing the mining industry to enrich the people's food and open up the source of wages", and as soon as it was written, it was besieged by stubborn conservatives!
Although the "mining opening" has been approved by the Empress Dowager Cixi and Prince Gong and written into the "National Edict", I don't know how much resistance we have to face to really implement it!
Unconsciously, Lin Yizhe paced into the corridor.
In the corridor and at the corner of the staircase, there are many models of warships and weapons of various periods and navies, such as old Chinese sailors and steam sailors. These models are like warships anchored in military ports, always waiting for the order to sail; It is like a condensed history of naval development, telling the past and future of the sea.
Looking at these vivid, clean and spotless warship models placed in glass covers, Lin Yizhe's heart sighed with emotion.
According to the system of the French Naval Academy, before class each morning, designated students take turns wiping the floating ash from the glass cover. The French believe that the students wipe away the dust, but what they leave behind is a deep responsibility to the motherland and the navy. If you encounter a major festival or receive an important guest, you can also see the "full flag" that can only be seen on the ship.
For running a school, I am actually a layman, thanks to the experience of the French, we have today's scale. He was now able to understand why the French Navy was so powerful.
It is from this little thing that the hearts of the students are imperceptibly integrated with the navy!
Lin Yizhe walked out of the laboratory building and came to the campus.
In the garden of the campus not far away, a strangely shaped and old steam dinghy was moored as a gift from the French Far East Fleet.
Lin Yizhe walked to the dinghy and looked at the dinghy carefully.
The size of this dinghy is very small, the whole hull adopts a closed structure, there is no mast, there is only a chimney on the deck, and each hatch has an iron cover, and the whole shape is very similar to the pocket submarine of later generations.
But Lin Yizhe knew that this was not a submarine, and certainly not a torpedo boat.
And there is no pole in front of it, which also means that it is not a pole mineboat.
Lin Yizhe looked at the hatches covered with thick iron covers on the hull of the boat and the square boxes with anchor-like iron hooks hanging on the side of the boat, and knew its combat method - in battle, it would withstand the rain of bullets fired by the enemy ship, with fast and solid protection, rush to the enemy ship, and the sailors inside leaned out, hung the mine with the iron hook on the enemy ship and ignited it, and then retreated at high speed to blow up the enemy ship.
From the current point of view, this method of warfare is not only dangerous, but also not easy to succeed, and it is often destroyed before it can get close to the enemy ship.
However, if it is placed in the naval battle more than ten years ago, it is undoubtedly a very effective combat method when the rate of fire and power of artillery are not as good as now!
It's a pity that history hasn't given it much of an appearance! In Lin Yizhe's impression, similar examples of war seem to have only appeared during the American Civil War.
The French Navy donated the useless dinghy to the Harbour Master's School, probably disposing of it as waste, but its presence here was a great inspiration to the students of the Harbour Master's School.
In fact, the French Navy was able to equip such boats because the French dared to innovate and accept new things.
This kind of boat, in fact, represents the development direction of lightning weapons in the future!
As a person with a modern soul, Lin Yizhe has already keenly seen the shadow of torpedo boats and submarines from this small boat.
And thinking of the submarine, Lin Yizhe couldn't help but feel excited.
It's just that in this era, due to technical limitations, it is difficult to appear submarines that can be used for actual combat.
And now China has not yet fallen to the point of playing "flying fast". However, Japan, which is bound by economic treaties in the future, is likely to have such considerations......
A sonorous slogan in the distance interrupted Lin Yizhe's thoughts, and Lin Yizhe turned his head to look and saw a team of elementary school students, running in line.
After a few laps, the small team came to a stop in the playground, where a French instructor pointed to the flagpole as if to say something, and the children all raised their heads and looked up at the flagpole.
Lin Yizhe noticed that there were several teenagers wearing Paiwan costumes with knives stuck in their waists standing in this team, and he couldn't help but smile.
The French instructor pointed to the flagpole for a moment, then took off his coat, laid it on the lawn, turned around, and jumped up the flagpole as fast as he could.
The French instructor climbed all the way to the top of the flagpole, put his French naval cap on the top of the pole, and then quickly climbed down, came to the children, pointed to the top of the flagpole, and kept saying something, as if to ask the students to climb up and take off the hat for him.