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At this time, Empress Dowager Cixi, who was thirty-four years old at the time Chinese New Year's Eve, was watching Zeng Guofan's recital. And beside her, the thirteen-year-old Tongzhi Emperor was meditating and writing poems there. The two emperors carefully accompanied them.

“…… On the day he received the order, he immediately took the ship "Tianji" to Shanghai Yesong Shipyard for inspection, and the No. 1 steamship of the Shipyard had been docked for maintenance, and the hull had been repaired, and it would be ready to go to sea in a few days. The minister was surprised by his speed, so he and the shipmaster promoted Wu Dating and Lin Yizhe, a deputy member of the shipyard, to inspect the dock in person, and learned that the steamer had suffered a slight injury, and that the shipmaster had no large dock to accommodate. …… The hull of the ship was sturdy, and the boilers of the machine were neatly and new, with no defects in various parts. After the maintenance is completed, the sea trial is carried out again, the speed is fast, agile and agile, and the Huayi viewers are blocked, and they are surprised by the unprecedented. The minister also took the exhibition to sail to the ocean, back and forth between Nanjing and Shanghai, without the slightest obstruction, not Zuo Zongtang said one of the storms, all the industry is sick. …… According to Lin Yizhe, a member of the assistant shipmaster's office, the ship was indeed not perfect, but it was not because the shipmaster did not use his life, but because Zuo Zongtang insisted on building a ship for both military and commercial purposes when the shipmaster was first established. Zuo Zongtang did not understand the Western ship to learn the cannon, and made a vain plan for the ship, and did not allow others to comment. They think that a ship for both military and commercial purposes can save money and increase efficiency, but in fact, it is a mistake for both soldiers and merchants, and if it is a military ship, its combat effectiveness will be low, and if it is a merchant ship, there will be not much cargo. …… Tracing back to the source, Zuo Zongtang is arrogant and dedicated......"

The Empress Dowager Cixi looked at the fold several times, nodded, and put it aside. Then I took the clip inside the fold and looked at it.

“…… Zuo Zongtang regarded the shipmaster as his private opinion, disregarded the facts, insisted on going his own way, and was arrogant, and the shipmaster members were forced by his prestige, and they did not dare to speak out. The minister's family is favored by the country, and the teachings of the ancestor Lin Wenzhong are still in his ears, and the minister can't bear to throw the national money in vain, and he is powerless to resist Zuo Zongtang, so he is seeking the law of future transformation, in order to make up for the ...... of the dead."

“…… Today's plan, when Zuo Zongtang's fallacy of 'dual-use military and business', change the steamship into a real warship, the minister and foreign technicians repeatedly deliberated, and determined the method of transformation, one is to remove the cargo hold, change the engine, that is, to remove the useless cargo hold, increase the engine room, and replace the vertical engine used by the original merchant ship with the horizontal engine used by the warship, this method can increase the power, reduce the center of gravity, and reduce the draft. Second, in order to lower the deck, change the gun position, remove the original ten small cannons, and replace them with four rotatable cannons, which are arranged along the center line of the ship's surface, and the gun doors on each side are expanded, so that they can shoot from front to back, left and right, so that although the number of guns is reduced, the firepower is stronger, and the weight of the ship is also reduced, and the draft is reduced. Because the reduction of draft is particularly important, most of the coastal ports in China have not been dredged by machines, and the draft is a little deeper, so it is not easy to pass. So you can travel unhindered......"

The Empress Dowager Cixi read this clip with great interest, and then noticed that the author on it turned out to be an unfamiliar name named "Lin Yizhe".

The Empress Dowager Cixi remembered that Zuo Zongtang's fold seemed to mention this name, and she took a look at Zeng Guofan's fold, and found this name on it, and she noticed that his title was "Deputy Ship Master Commissioner".

The Empress Dowager Cixi immediately turned out the fold of Shen Baozhen's defense of the shipmaster, and saw the words written on it: "Lin Yizhe, the grandson of Lin Wenzhong, the assistant to the ship's nephew, once mentioned the defects of the ship, and said that it was called 'military and merchant dual-use', but it was actually 'military and commercial dual-use', but the dual-use of military and commercial was determined by Zuo Zongtang, and the minister did not dare to change it, so he did not accept his words".

The Empress Dowager Cixi glanced at the clip again, and her eyes fell on the words "The minister's family is favored by the country, and the religion of the ancestor Lin Wenzhong is still in her ears", and she instantly understood that the person who wrote this clip turned out to be Lin Zexu's grandson!

Empress Dowager Cixi pinched her fingers and roughly calculated Lin Yizhe's age, and found that he should be the age of her son Aixin Jueluo Zaichun, that is, Emperor Tongzhi, she looked at the clip carefully from beginning to end, and found that his writing was simple and clear without losing his literary brilliance, and he could even easily imagine the appearance of the steamship after transformation through his description.

The Empress Dowager Cixi looked at Emperor Tongzhi, who was thinking hard about poetry, and couldn't help but let out a heavy sigh in her heart.

The Empress Dowager Cixi picked up the pen and wrote a reply on Zeng Guofan's fold: "The officer seems to have real talent and real learning, and he is required to carefully supervise and transform the steamship into a warlike ship, and all artificial raw materials can be deployed." Make sure that the transformation is successful, otherwise only the officer is asking. Chin this. ”

After writing this reply, the Empress Dowager Cixi saw that Emperor Tongzhi had been there for so long but did not write a word, and she couldn't help but be angry, she stood up suddenly, and Emperor Tongzhi noticed her movements, and hurriedly shook her head and pretended to chant there.

The Empress Dowager Cixi stepped forward with a pale face and took a look at the poems that Emperor Tongzhi had just made, and then slammed them to the ground.

These poems, every sentence is a preface that does not match the afterword, and it is impossible to read a sentence at all.

The Empress Dowager Cixi remembered the extremely literary and easy-to-read clip written by Lin Yizhe, the grandson of Lin Zexu, who was similar in age to her son, just now, and couldn't help but feel bitter in her heart.

In fact, Cixi's cultural level is not high, and even the poems that she can't read can be imagined.

"Emperor! We have high hopes for you, and invite famous teachers for you, but the emperor repays me with these? ”

Seeing his mother angry, Emperor Tongzhi hurriedly got up and knelt down in fear. Beside him, the two emperors also knelt down.

"E-Niang is angry! The son's incompetence makes E-Niang sad! ”

"Emperor! You're so inadequate! How can I rest assured that the Qing Dynasty will be handed over to you in the future?! Empress Dowager Cixi said sharply.

The roar of the Empress Dowager Cixi resounded in the pavilion, startling one of the emperors, Weng Tongyi.

Finally ended this drudgery of teaching the emperor like a punishment, Weng Tongyi returned home and wrote down the following words in his diary:

“…… Today's topic is 'Heavy Agriculture and Precious Millet', and the poem title is 'The East Wind Has Green Yingzhou Grass', and the word "Continent". The writing is extremely astringent, there is hardly a word left in the first draft, and the imaginary words are not smooth, and the words are dismantled and talked about word by word, and they are still made up into several paragraphs, and they have not been completed. Re-enter at noon, sit for four moments without forming a word. So he wrote poetry, and the poetry was not good. The Queen Mother was furious and reprimanded, and the rest were confused, such a situation, what could I do! (Voiceover: With such a wasteful emperor, it is no wonder that Cixi has been unable to return to power for a long time...... ）

In the line of the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, Zuo Zongtang was reading the official documents at the table at this time, and at this time, a personal person walked in with a wooden box containing the official documents.

"My lord, the court has arrived."

"Let it go."

After putting the court on the table, he bowed and withdrew, Zuo Zongtang put down the brush in his hand, took the court and opened it, and looked at it.

And when he saw the edict given to him by the imperial court, he stayed there all at once.

"The Minister of Military Aircraft sent an edict on September 16, the eighth year of Tongzhi: Zuo Zongtang's prelude to the shipmaster is arbitrarily delayed, and the shipmaster intends to embellish the matter, and he is aware of the performance. Zeng Guofan, the governor of Liangjiang, found out the performance nearby, and Zeng Guofan replied that the steamship built by the shipmaster was indeed a new-style Jianli ship, and the imperfection was due to Zuo Zongtang's mistake of 'dual-use military and business', and it was not a shipbuilding that was not strong and deliberately decorated. Now the ship has been overhauled in Shanghai, and it will come north in the near future, and after the Minister of Commerce and Trade of the three ports is completed, the governor of Zhili will review the matter and then return to the Fujian factory for transformation. Lin Yizhe, the assistant to the shipmaster, was specially ordered to supervise the renovation matters. This is known by the decrees of the six hundred li. ”

After reading this edict, Zuo Zongtang felt like he had been splashed with a basin of cold water for a while, and he was cold from his head to the soles of his feet.

Zuo Zongtang put down the edict, he felt depressed at the moment, his face was flushed, he gasped for breath, and it took him a long time to recover.

"Unexpectedly, it has achieved the name of this erection child!" Zuo Zongtang slammed his fist on the table, and scolded hatefully, "Zeng Guofan's old man! You bastard! ”

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On October 25, 1869, a special steamer sailed into the mouth of Dagu, Tianjin, where merchant ships gathered, which attracted the attention of ships from all over the world moored here, the sky-blue hull, fluttering the red background of the golden dragon triangular tooth flag, like a heavenly horse born out of thin air, China's own steam warship "Wannian Qing" slowly entered Haikou in this exclamation, stationed in front of the Zizhu Linjin Customs.

The Minister of International Trade of the Three Mouths, the Governor of Naoli, was ordered to board the ship and inspect the "No. 1 Steamship". Wu Dating led Lin Yizhe, Wu Shizhong and others to greet him, and Chonghou first recognized the naming of the warship, and officially ordered the "No. 1 Steamship" to use the name of "Wannian Qing". He also told Wu Dating and others that the drawings of the warship submitted by Shen Baozhen, the Minister of Shipping, had aroused the interest of the Tongzhi Emperor and the Empress Dowager Cixi, and they "stayed in China for future reference."

Seeing that it was Chonghou who came to accept the "Wannian Qing", Lin Yizhe relieved himself. He knew that Zuo Zongtang's attack on the shipmaster and himself this time had been completely disintegrated.

Chonghou word mountain, is Manchuria inlaid with yellow flag people, and those who rely on blood, family background into the officialdom of the Eight Banners is different, Chonghou has experienced ten years of cold window examination in the examination, and open-minded, is a famous Western-style figure in the late Qing Dynasty officialdom, the famous Tianjin Machinery Bureau is he founded in Tianjin, the imperial court chose such an enlightened person to accept the "Wannian Qing", undoubtedly the best situation that the shipmaster can look forward to.

What Lin Yizhe didn't expect was that Chonghou got on the boat this time, just to announce the decree, and after greeting Wu Dating and others, he left.

On November 5, Chonghou boarded the "Wannian Qing" together with Chen Jiqing, the chief soldier of Tianjin Town, and the foreign personnel and foreign engineering and technical personnel of Zhili, and prepared to take the sea trial. Due to the strong northwest winds in the past few days, the shallow inland waters of Tianjin, and the "Wannianqing" warship, which had a relatively deep draft, had extremely difficult sailing, and it could be said that it was "hindered one after another." It was not until the tide on 7 November that the "Wannianqing" rode the tide, arrived at Dagu in the evening, and sailed out of Dagu in the early morning of the next day. Although this voyage on the Tianjin River was extremely difficult, the "Wannian Qing" after entering the sea was like a fish in water, which made Chonghou happy. Chonghou then reported: "The ship is in the middle of the sea to break the wind and waves, the hull is firm, the engine is firm, the helmsman and gunner are driving, the performance is extremely appropriate, and the action is skillful", "Shen Baozhen of Fujian Province carefully emphasizes all the wheels and equipment, teaches and learns to drive, can really gather the strengths of foreign countries, get its know-how, and from then on strive for perfection, continue to build all kinds of ships of all sizes, and will be more perfect, with the universe and the grand and far-reaching model, Xun is a boundless advantage." ”

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