Xie Baozhang is known as the father of his grandmother Bingxin, the word Jingru, born in Fuzhou on January 3, 1865, is the third son of Xie Luanen.

When he was 4 years old, his mother passed away and he was raised by his father and sister. After Xie Luanen's wife died, he did not renew the strings, and only married his stepfamily in his later years to help with his life. The two elder brothers inherited their father's business and became teachers, while Xie Baozhang joined the navy with many Fuzhou children.

In the seventh year of Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty (1881), Xi Yanfu, a friend of Xie Baozhang's father and the chief teacher of the Tianjin Naval Academy, made a special trip back to Fuzhou to recruit naval students. When Yan Fu saw Xie Baozhang, he felt that this young man was a good material for the navy. So, two questions were given to Xie Baozhang to do, which was considered an exam. One is a poem title, the title is "The Moon to the Mid-Autumn Equinox", and the other is the eight strands of the problem. After Xie Baozhang finished doing it, Yan Fu was very satisfied and decided to accept the student. Since then, he followed Yan Fu to Tianjin, entered the Sailor School, and became the first driving class student of the school.

Xie Baozhang and others only took 3 years to learn all the courses. On the eve of graduation, Li Hongzhang invited British and Russian naval officers to take the entrance examination. They believe that some courses that students of the European Naval School can only learn until the stage of ship training have already been completed by the students of the Tianjin Naval Academy in advance. Domestic officials also believe that the Tianjin Sailor School "teaches many difficult and difficult courses, which were not taught by foreign teachers in the driving school of the former Fujian Factory (Fuzhou Shipbuilding School)." Li Hongzhang is very satisfied with this.

In the twentieth year of Guangxu (1894), the Sino-Japanese War broke out. As soon as the battle of the Yellow Sea began, the Beiyang Fleet was in an extremely unfavorable situation. After several hours of fierce fighting, the heroic "Zhiyuan" and "Jingyuan" ships were sunk one after another, and the "Guangjia" and "Jiyuan" ships withdrew from the battle one after another. It is said that the six ships of the main fleet of the Navy's combined fleet surrounded the two ironclad ships of the Beiyang Fleet, "Dingyuan" and "Zhenyuan." The "Yoshino" and other four fast cruisers, known as the "elite of the empire," bit Xie Baozhang's "Laiyuan" and "Jingyuan" ships to the death, and the situation was very grim. Under the frantic siege of enemy ships, the "Laiyuan" ship was hit by more than 200 bullets, its tail gun failed, the ammunition compartment exploded, and the whole ship burst into flames. In the midst of the crisis, Xie Baozhang bravely braved the fire of the enemy ship, led the soldiers to fight the fire, and finally extinguished the fire and saved the warship

The "Laiyuan" ship continued to fight with wounds until the ship fled the battlefield first. The "Laiyuan" was the most seriously injured surviving warship of the Beiyang Fleet. After the war, the ship "Laiyuan" sailed back to Lushun.

Xie Baozhang worked closely with the crew of the steward to safely return the seriously injured "Laiyuan" to the Lushun base, and when he returned to the Lushun port, it was not surprising that the Chinese and Western people saw that he was seriously injured and returned safely.

On the fifth day of the first month of the twenty-first year (1895), the army attacked the Beiyang Fleet in Weihaiwei Port by land and water. In the early morning of the 12th day of the first lunar month, the torpedo boat sneaked into the harbor to make a sneak attack, and due to the heroic resistance of the Beiyang Fleet, the frontal attack on Weihai by the Beiyang Navy was delayed. Therefore, the army sent a team of torpedo boats to sneak into the harbor to carry out a sneak attack under the cover of night. On 5 February, a torpedo fired by a torpedo boat hit the wounded "Laiyuan" ship. With a loud bang, the huge body of the "Laiyuan" ship quickly flipped over, revealing the red bottom of the ship, and soon sank to the bottom of the sea, killing more than 30 officers and men on board.

At the moment when the warship exploded, Xie Baozhang jumped into the icy sea, and with a good water surname, he desperately swam to Liugong Island and escaped death. A few days later, the Beiyang Fleet was completely annihilated on Liugong Island.

After the First Sino-Japanese War, the Qing Dynasty abolished the establishment of the Beiyang Fleet, and thousands of naval officers and men who survived the catastrophe were dismissed and returned to their hometowns. Xie Baozhang returned to Fuzhou to reunite with his family and spend a peaceful life with his wife and family.

In 1903, Xie Baozhang returned to his post and served as the first principal of Yantai Naval Academy, due to Xie Baozhang's outstanding leadership, Yantai Naval Academy developed rapidly, and in just a few years it caught up with and surpassed some old naval schools, ranking first among the four major naval schools in the late Qing Dynasty.

Xie Baozhang is a progressive lover [***] person, Bingxin's uncle Yang Ziyu is a member of the League, and often writes poems and essays with Xie Baozhang to express his feelings.

The students of the Yantai Naval Academy, influenced by progressive ideas, were dissatisfied with the rotten rule of the Qing Dynasty and the decay of the Chinese navy. They subscribed to many newspapers and periodicals of the League, which were expressly forbidden by the Qing government, and began to gradually sympathize with and support the bourgeois revolution, and some students even established secret contacts with the League.

In the first year of Xuantong of the Qing Dynasty (1909), Zaixun, the Minister of the Preparatory Navy, inspected the Yantai Naval Academy and believed that the school was successful and of high quality. Therefore, the Qing government decided to send 20 Manchu noble students to study at the school and graduate early to strengthen the Manchu control over the navy.

The arrival of the Manchu noble students aroused strong resistance among the Han students, and friction broke out between the two sides. In the spring games of the second year of Xuantong (1910), fierce conflicts broke out between Manchu and Han students who hated each other for a championship. In the aftermath of the incident, local officials adhered to the imperial court's decree and demanded that the school severely punish the Han students. Xie Baozhang refused to favor the Manchu noble students, and argued with reason. Soon after, Qing Zheng ordered Zheng Rucheng, an official of the Navy Department, to come to the school to investigate the matter.

Zheng Rucheng is Xie Baozhang's classmate at the Tianjin Water Master School. He told Xie Baozhang that the various progressive activities in the Yantai Naval Academy had attracted the attention of the Qing government, and some officials in the capital even accused Xie Baozhang of being a "chaotic party." Zheng Rucheng persuaded Xie Baozhang to resign as soon as possible and retreat away from trouble, so as not to end up in a dismissal investigation.

Xie Baozhang had no illusions about the corrupt rule of the Qing political axe, resolutely resigned from his supervisory position, and left the naval academy where he had devoted eight years of hard work with his family to return to his hometown in Fuzhou. At home, he disagreed with his daughter Xie Wanying (Bingxin) piercing her ears and eyes, and she didn't let her daughter wear tight shoes.

After the Xinhai Revolution, Xie Baozhang made a comeback to train naval talents for the Republic of China, and 80% of the naval officers in the Republic of China were his students.

Xia Jun was shocked when he checked the information on the exchange platform, what a talent! What's even better is that Xie Baozhang is in Fuzhou at this time.

If he had known that Xie Baozhang was this person, Xia Jun would have to be tied up.

If you can invite Xie Baozhang, not only can the naval school be run, but this is also a flag! can use his connections to pull a large number of students from the Yantai Naval Academy.

As for Xie Baozhang's connection with the Alliance, Xia Jun is not worried at all, at this time the Baath Party has been formalized, and the assimilation ability has been greatly enhanced, and the reason why Xia Jun rejected the Alliance before was mainly because he was afraid of being assimilated, but now he can assimilate the Alliance in turn.

So he immediately wrote a letter, and the person immediately sent it to Fuzhou.

In the letter, Xia Jun spoke cordially, putting on a posture of eagerness for talent, hoping that Xie Baozhang could return to serve as the dean of the Naval Academy of the Southeast Military Academy, and pay a monthly salary of 1,000 silver dollars.

This is the highest salary offered by Xia Jun, a thousand silver dollars a month! Such a high salary simply overrides all personnel.

At the same time, it also shows Xia Jun's attitude towards naval construction - at any cost!

Shortly after the letter was delivered, a voice came from the radio in the naval headquarters, "Report to the headquarters, report to the headquarters, our ship has discovered the ...... of this fleet group in the open sea."

"Please report the quantity."

"Seven battleships, eight destroyers, and ten torpedo boats......"

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