Just enjoying the feeling of "flying", Yang Yonglin immediately remembered that his beloved wooden accordion had been sent to the boiler room at this moment, and his heart couldn't help but feel a little painful. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

That's an accordion given by a French girl!

In the boiler room, the sailors continued to chop wood. Soon, the sailors saw the wooden accordion that Yang Yonglin had contributed, and one of the sailors picked it up and tried to use it twice, and after feeling that the sound it made was extremely unpleasant (in fact, the old man couldn't play the accordion at all), he threw it on the floor, and then took the axe, unceremoniously split it into pieces, and threw it into the already burning hearth.

Finally, after five days of extremely fast sailing, the "Flying Thunder" sailed to the sea off Fuzhou, and Lin Guoxiang, who was standing on the flybridge, was very excited to see this sea area that he was very familiar with.

"My lord, there is no more wood!" A sailor working in the bilge came to report.

"Keep looking! I've burned all the wood I can burn! Lin Guoxiang opened his eyes and roared.

"My lord! Plugging wood, tables, chairs, trellises, cabin walls...... Everything that can be dismantled has been demolished! It's all burned down! The sailor replied with some reluctance.

Lin Guoxiang stared at him for a while, turned his head to look around the boat, stretched out his hand and pointed to a lifeboat and said, "That!" Hack it! Send it down as firewood! ”

Hearing that Lin Guoxiang was going to dismantle the boat, Yang Yonglin was stunned, and before he could speak, Lin Guoxiang pointed to the wooden ship with 75 mm guns and roared, "Split it for me!" ”

Hearing Lin Guoxiang's order, the sailors did not dare to slack off, and immediately dismantled the ship's gun mounts for the dinghy and 75-mm guns, as well as the two gun wheels of the land gun truck, split them directly on the deck with axes, transported them to the boiler room in batches, and threw them into the hearth.

However, these little Zongmu guys are still a drop in the bucket after all, and Lin Guoxiang made a heart: "Tear down the mast!" ”

"Tear down the mast? Are you sure, my lord? ”

"Demolition!"

"Yes! Dismantle the mast! ”

Hearing that Lin Guoxiang had confirmed the order, the sail cable leader immediately organized the sailors to start the mast dismantling operation, first the sails, then the transverse mast, and finally sawed the main mast in sections, and the carpenters split it into small sections and sent them to the boiler room, which was already in full swing, and threw them into the blazing hearth.

The "Flying Thunder" was speeding forward at full speed, Yang Yonglin felt the strong tremor under his feet, and he knew that at this moment, the speed of the "Flying Thunder" was likely to exceed 20 knots!

If you run at this speed for a long time, I am afraid that the boiler of the "Flying Thunder" will be unbearable!

Fortunately, Yang Yonglin's fear did not last long, and not long after, Mawei Port appeared in front of him. At this time, in order to seize time, the "Flying Thunder" still passed between the passing fishing ships, merchant ships and foreign ships at a high speed, and its speed and the captain's steering skills were excellent, but also because the whole ship was almost swept away above the deck except for a lonely chimney and four shocking large wind ducts, which attracted the surprised eyes of countless people.

After entering the port channel, the "Thunder" slowed down and entered the port.

When the "Flying Thunder", which had almost been dismantled into a "shirtless ship", sailed into Mawei Harbor in a wave of surprise, Lin Guoxiang, who was standing on the flybridge, saw the battleships with dragon flags fluttering neatly moored at anchors, ready to go, and finally let go of his hanging heart.

Someone had already reported the news of the "Flying Thunder" entering the port to Lin Yizhe, and after Lin Yizhe heard the report, he immediately changed into formal court clothes and went to the dock to receive orders.

When Lin Yizhe appeared at the dock, Lin Guoxiang, who was the envoy of the decree (in order to save time, the imperial court specially instructed that everything was simple) saw that although Lin Yizhe, who was a civil minister, was wearing court clothes, he actually had a bright revolver pinned to his waist, and his heart was full of blood for a while, and he had an urge to go to the battlefield with him to kill the enemy.

Lin Guoxiang announced the decree at the dock, and after listening to the content of the will, Lin Yizhe's heart was secretly surprised.

This decree issued in the name of Emperor Tongzhi clearly told Lin Yizhe that he was not only "reinstated", but also removed from the title of acting governor of Fujian, and the lack of official governor of Fujian, and the title of "Minister of Taiwan Affairs"!

The decree clearly stated, "Although Fandi lives in a deserted area, it is under the territory of China, and it harms Japanese refugees. If it is said that the country is only seeking revenge with Shengfan, and does not disturb the hinterland, and then it is allowed to fight with each other, it will be despised by foreign countries, and even more coveted. The provocation is indispensable, and the system cannot be lost. The minister should only lead a fleet of warships into Taiwan to inspect it, make preparations for the camera, and according to the theory of the contract, prevent the return of the troops, and make peace with the army, and not let it act arbitrarily and recklessly because it is different from the hinterland. That is, he ordered Lin Yizhe to lead the shipmaster and sailor to enter Taiwan to negotiate with the Japanese and stop their aggression.

Lin Yizhe completed the ceremony of receiving the decree, and immediately ordered the will to be sent to the Harbour Administration, and informed Shen Baozhen, Li Henian, Wenyu and Wang Kaitai. After learning that the "Flying Thunder" had burned almost all the wooden products on board in order to speed up the speed, Lin Yizhe immediately ordered someone to arrange for the "Flying Thunder" to be repaired.

"My lord, what are you ......" Lin Guoxiang saw Lin Yizhe's outfit, and one of the Fubiao guards behind him was carrying a long rucksack covered with a cloth pocket - Lin Guoxiang recognized this as one of Lin Yizhe's signature weapons: a large shotgun (sniper rifle) with a clairvoyant, and immediately understood what was going on.

"After the decoration of 'Feiting' is completed, we will quickly go to the Langqiao coast and meet the brigade." Lin Yizhe nodded at him, reached out and patted him on the shoulder, "It's hard this time." ”

Although Lin Yizhe didn't say much, Lin Guoxiang's heart was surging with heat.

"Mark and obey!" Lin Guoxiang said loudly, stood upright, and raised his hand to give Lin Yizhe a Western-style military salute.

Lin Yizhe returned the salute with his hand, and then boarded the armored cruiser "Fujing" with his entourage.

As soon as Lin Yizhefu boarded the ship, a series of flags were quickly raised on the mast of the ship.

Lin Guoxiang read the meaning of the flag, and the blood around him instantly boiled.

The meaning of that string of flags is "to be loyal and dutiful, to protect the family and defend the country"!

At this time, the rest of the ships also raised the same flag one after another!

After a while, all the sailors on the ship shouted loudly: "Loyal and dutiful! Defend the country! For a while, the roar resounded through the heavens and the earth. The onlookers on the shore also applauded and cheered.

Amid the cheers of the people and the sound of the whistle, the ships of the naval division, headed by the flagship armored cruiser "Fujing," lifted anchor one after another, left the dock, and sailed out of the harbor. Watching the warships with dragon flags fluttering off the port, some foreign reporters took out their paintbrushes one after another and began to sketch. These sketches would become copper engravings and soon appear in foreign newspapers.

Lin Guoxiang noticed that there were many Chinese painters in the crowd, and they were also painting this exciting scene, and Lin Guoxiang saw that their painting style was very familiar, and immediately knew their identities.

These Chinese who painted were the painters of the "Dian Shi Zhai Pictorial".

"Dianshizhai Pictorial" is the earliest and most influential news pictorial in China in this era, which is very popular among the people because of its reports close to life and timely reporting of social hot spots. Published every 10 days, each issue is eight pages long, with the content of "selecting commendable and surprising things in the news, drawing them into pictures, and attaching them", which is attached to the South China Times to subscribers. Because of the exquisite printing, the combination of Chinese and Western painting methods, the vivid and real background of the characters, the content close to life, timely reporting of social hot spots, folk anecdotes, strong viewability, timeliness, and smooth distribution channels, it soon became all the rage.

After the end of the Opium War, Western civilization, science and technology poured into China's coastal cities, and Western newspapers also entered China. As a traverser, Lin Yizhe's understanding of the role of newspapers is certainly far better than that of the Chinese of this era, because he had the idea of starting a newspaper very early, but due to financial constraints and a lot of things to handle, this idea has been shelved. But since becoming the main target of Qingliu's impeachment, Lin Yizhe realized the great harm caused by Qingliu's control of the right to speak, and he consciously and quietly began to fight with Qingliu for the right to speak, and one of the important means of struggle is to run a newspaper!

In order to hide people's eyes, Lin Yizhe secretly funded and entrusted Mei Hong to open the "Shiwu Printing House" near the Fuzhou Shipbuilding School, where he opened the largest flatbed lithograph institution in China at that time, used lithographic technology to reprint foreign books and ancient Chinese books, and founded the "South China Times" and "Dianshizhai Pictorial". Since Western painting techniques had entered China at this time, a large number of Chinese painters who were accustomed to using brushes and rice paper had a strong interest in Western painting techniques, but they suffered from the lack of use. Lin Yizhe's "Dianshizhai Pictorial" has become an ideal platform for them to effectively display their talents. In the "Dian Shi Zhai Pictorial", Chinese painters who have absorbed the Western painting style have absorbed and integrated the Western painting techniques such as perspective, anatomy, and image realism into their own paintings, forming a unique "Shanghai School" figure painting style.

Techniques and drawing techniques that accurately portray images are the basis for publishing pictorials. On August 8, 1873, the current affairs pictorial named after the "Dian Shi Zhai Pictorial" was born in Fuzhou. "Dianshizhai Pictorial" uses Lianshi paper (also called "Liansi paper", "Liansi paper", originated in Shaowu, Fujian. The use of tender bamboo as raw materials, alkali cooking, bleaching pulping, handmade bamboo curtain copying, paper white as jade, uniform thickness, never change color, insect proof and heat resistance, bright ink, water absorption and easy drying, writing, pictures are suitable) lithograph, its content values the record of current affairs, and depicts the Chinese people like to see the female characters. It opened up the "pictorial" style of "pictorial", which combines "news" and "art", which not only pursues verisimilitude, but also contains a sense of beauty, which is not only a good way to disseminate new knowledge, but also a wonderful place to reflect the interests of the common people.

Of course, not many people know who is the real owner behind this first pictorial in China, which has been widely popular since its birth.

And now, the Chinese painters of "Dianshizhai Pictorial" are using their brushes to record an extremely important moment in China's modern history!

Because this day can be seen as the beginning of China's navy in the true sense!

Soon, the shipmaster fleet came to the open sea to line up, and with the flagship "Fujing" issuing a flag order, the 10 warships soon formed a single longitudinal array on the sea. The first two ships were the flagship "Fujing" (with Pei Jinquan) and the sister ship "Jianjing" (with Lu Wenjing) of the same class, followed by the cruiser "Princess Heshuo" (with Deng Shichang) and the cruiser "Chaowu" (with Ye Fu), followed by the cruiser "Chengqing" (with Bei Shanquan), followed by the gunboats "Fusheng" (with Li He) and "Jiansheng" (with Xu Shoushan), the gunboat "Fuxing" (with Yang Yongnian) and the gunboat "Jianxing" (with Lu Han).

After the formation was completed, the high-speed notification ship "Feihong" took the lead in leaving the fleet under the command of Huang Jianxun. The destination of this notification ship was Penghu, and Lin Yizhe gave Huang Jianxun the task of asking him to transfer the Penghu naval division to rendezvous with the warrant of Li Henian, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, to jointly prevent the Japanese army from attacking.

Seeing the figure of the "Feihong" disappear into the sea antenna, Lin Yizhe stood on the flying bridge, looking at the nine battleships marching in formation, and his heart was full of heroic feelings.

In the original historical time and space, when he was a student, he always dreamed of becoming a glorious people's navy soldier and defending the maritime frontier of the motherland, but unfortunately because of his physique, he failed to be admitted to the naval academy. Although he later chose another more hobby discipline - psychology and eventually became a psychological counselor, the dream of galloping the sea in his heart at the beginning has not disappeared.

The advent of the Internet era has brought him into contact with more like-minded people and has become a military fan who is keen on naval history, but that cannot replace the naval dream in his heart.

And now, he has personally integrated into history, and has truly become the commander of the first steam fleet in Chinese history!

Soon, he will take command of this fleet and meet the real challenge of blood and fire!

Lin Yizhe stood on the flybridge, took a deep breath of the slightly salty sea breeze, and ordered the ships to speed up and sail towards Taiwan.

At the same time that Lin Yizhe led the fleet out of Fuzhou for Taiwan, a small boat also hurriedly sailed out of Mawei Harbor and headed straight for Hong Kong. The boat was hired by a staff member of the Japanese consulate in Fuzhou, whose purpose was to send the news of the departure of the shipmaster's fleet back to Japan via a telegram from Hong Kong.

Japan, Kagoshima Prefecture, Military Academy.

In the reception room, several men dressed in traditional Japanese kimonos with samurai swords pinned to their waists sit together, chatting and drinking.

Although in the third year of the Meiji era (1870), the Meiji government explicitly forbade common people to carry knives; In the fifth year of the Meiji era (1872), the "Knife Removal Order" was implemented, and the abolition of knives was enforced; However, it attracted the resistance of many scholars, and not only did there revolt in some places, but in Kagoshima Prefecture (i.e., Satsuma Domain), where the Meiji government could not penetrate, the "distribution of sword orders" was openly despised by the scholars.

"Mr. Nanzhou, it is said that Xixiang-jun has sent a note to the local government of Fujian in the Qing Kingdom, but it has been severely refuted by the Qing side, and it seems that the Qingguo government has realized the purpose of Xixiang-kun's actions." Toshiaki Kirino said to Takamori Saigo, who was sitting in the first seat.

After receiving a report from the local officials in Fujian, headed by Li Henian, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, the Qing court gained insight into Japan's true intentions. Therefore, when the Japanese army asked Saigo Congdao, the commander of the "fan", to instruct the Japanese consulate in Fuzhou to send a note to Li Henian, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, he was unexpectedly met with a tough counterattack by Li Henian. Li Henian sent a series of notes to the Japanese Consulate, saying: "The headquarters has investigated the whole of Taiwan and has been subordinate to China's territory for a long time. Although its aborigines have the difference between raw and cooked, they have been eating wool and trampling soil for more than 200 years. …… Check the public law of all countries: All plants, animals, and inhabitants in the territory, whether they are born in the soil or from outside, should be governed by local laws. …… According to these articles, Taiwan is China's territory, and it must be subject to Chinese law, and it is not allowed to let other countries act as conspirators. The Japanese lieutenant general hereby sent a note stating that he had killed the refugees in Taiwan and was ordered to lead his troops deep into Fandi and kill the murderers as punishment. However, since the whole of Taiwan belongs to China, the Japanese government did not consult with Prime Minister Yamen on what to do, and ordered the troops to go forward, which not only violated the public law of all countries, but also did not agree with the first and second articles of the peace treaty exchanged in the 10th year of Tongzhi. ”

Li Henian's attitude was so tough because of the strict orders of the Qing court, and the reason why the Qing court was like this, in addition to being reminded by Lin Yizhe, was also due to the Western countries' reminders to the Prime Minister's Yamen.

First of all, on April 18, 1874, the French minister to China, Gerfoley, sent a letter to Prime Minister Yamen (it must be said that Hong Jun's public relations campaign in France was extremely successful), informing the Qing court that Japan had sent troops to Taiwan, and asked in the letter whether "the place where Shengfan lived was attached to the Chinese territory"; Later, the US minister and the Briton Hurd, the chief tax officer, also went to the Prime Minister's Yamen to ask whether the place where Taiwan was living was Chinese territory. Of particular importance was the fact that the French government, through its ******, informed China of the information received by the French ambassador to Japan: "The internal statement is based on the opinion of the Orient. The island of Taiwan is from a certain place in Dinan, and it is not part of China's territory."

Refuli stressed to Prime Minister Yamen that the Qing court's determination of Taiwan's sovereignty was closely related to France's diplomatic attitude toward the matter. If China believes that Fandi does not belong to China's territory, the French government will not impose any restrictions on the French people to assist Japan in sending troops to Taiwan; If the Qing court determined that Taiwan belonged to China's territory, the French government would explicitly prohibit the French people from participating in the Japanese army's dispatch of troops to Taiwan. The views of the United States, Austria, Italy and other countries are broadly similar to those of France (Britain and Russia are more than warm on the matter).