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These ingots come in a variety of shapes, horseshoe-shaped, round, square-shaped, boat-shaped, and girded (not official silver), but they seem to be the same in weight and fineness, and they are all neatly arranged on a sturdy wooden shelf with round holes, which glows silver in the sun, which is very attractive.

Although Kayama Shikiri was an official to a vice admiral (transferred from a vice admiral in the army), and his family was quite wealthy, he still felt dizzy when he saw so much silver at once.

Shiki Kayama stretched out his hand to get a square silver ingot, but this silver ingot was obviously very heavy, he took it, but he didn't pick it up, he stretched out his hands, and then he picked up the silver ingot.

The weight of this silver ingot is so heavy that Shiki Kayama holds it in his hand, and he can still feel the feeling of heavy pressure on his hand.

Shiki Kayama carefully looked at the stamps on the ingots, which were printed with the place and date of minting of the ingots, as well as the names of the foundry craftsmen, as well as the weight of the ingots.

And the silver ingot in his hand, with the weight stamp on it, is impressively marked "Wu Shiliang".

This ingot of silver turned out to be 50 taels!

And the fine ripples around the stamp on that corner show that it is a full-colored "tattoo silver"!

Shikiki Kayama, who had never suffered a loss of "counterfeit money" in Japan back then, looked at such a silver ingot full of color, and his heart jumped wildly inexplicably.

Kayama Shikiki suppressed the ecstasy in his heart, put the silver ingot back in its place, and picked up a horseshoe-shaped silver ingot and looked at it, in addition to the difference in the name of the place, the date of minting and the name of the craftsman, the stamp of weight was also marked with the words "Wu Shi Liang".

Kayama Shiki picked up a few more silver ingots and looked at them, and found that they were also stamped with "Wu Shiliang".

In other words, the silver ingots in this box are all 50 taels of ingots!

Shiki Kayama took a deep breath, looked at several of the same boxes on the deck, and asked, "How many such boxes are there on that boat?" ”

"I don't know yet, but there must be quite a few, because they are all hidden under the coal pile." An officer replied.

"Transfer all the boxes to the warship!" Shiki Kayama suppressed the excitement in his heart and ordered in a deep voice.

"General! Such...... Isn't it too risky? When Fukushima Keino heard Shikinori Kayama's order, he was taken aback and immediately stepped forward and said.

"Adventure? I don't understand what you mean, Fukushima-kun. Shikiki Kayama turned his head to look at Keinori Fukushima, and although he was a little annoyed in his heart, his face didn't show it.

"These boxes are very heavy, and if all the coal on that ship is loaded onto the warship, it will greatly reduce the speed of the warship. And our speed is already very slow compared to the Qing warships. "Moreover, it will take a lot of time to transport them all to the warship, and if the Kiyokuni fleet has already received the news and sets out to chase us, the fleet will be in danger." ”

"It won't be that coincidental." Shiki Kayama understood what Keisenori Fukushima was worried about, and immediately said, "These riches are very important to the empire, and we must not throw them away!" ”

Seeing that Fukushima Keisei was still arguing, Shiki Kayama waved his hand impatiently and said, "Call all the people to participate in the transportation!" Hurry! ”

Fukushima Keino sighed in his heart, did not say anything more, but gave the order, and soon, the "Ryuxiang" and three other Japanese warships all lowered their small boats, carrying more Japanese sailors into the work of carrying silver boxes and coal.

On the deck of the "Funing," Lu Qingyun, who had already woken up, watched the last silver box carried by six Japanese sailors being transported out of the coal bunker, looking like he wanted to cry without tears.

Now he can say that he has the heart to jump into the sea.

That's a full 500,000 taels of silver!

He didn't dare to imagine what Hu Xueyan would be like after hearing such news.

Looking at the Japanese officer who was directing the transportation of silver and coal, Lu Qingyun suddenly rushed over desperately.

The Japanese naval officer noticed that this Chinese who was a head taller than himself (in fact, it was not Lu Qingyun's height, but that the Japanese of this era were too short, like a silver box needed four Chinese to carry, and if the Japanese came to do it, it would take six people) rushed straight towards him, and couldn't help but be startled, and immediately pulled out the saber at his waist, and the two Japanese sailors beside him immediately pointed their guns at him.

Captain Cullen and the sailors were all taken aback when they saw Lu Qingyun's movements, thinking that Lu Qingyun was going to fight with the Japanese, Lu Qingyun's entourage was also startled, Lei Wang and others wanted to step forward, but they were all screened out of the circle by the Japanese sailors with bayonet rifles, and they were bare-handed, they could only watch and couldn't think about it.

Everyone looked at Lu Qingyun with nervous eyes, not knowing what kind of thing he was going to do.

In front of everyone's eyes, Lu Qingyun rushed to the Japanese officer who had already drawn his knife, but he knelt down with a "plop" and said something that made all Chinese dumbfounded.

"My lord, please leave me a note!" Lu Qingyun said with a crying voice.

The Japanese officer, who obviously understood Chinese, sneered when he heard Lu Qingyun's request, put his knife back into its sheath, and waved his hand to signal the guards to put down their rifles.

"Why notes?" The Japanese officer asked in a stiff official voice. Hearing that this Japanese officer actually understood Chinese official language, both foreigners and Chinese on board were amazed.

Unbeknownst to them, the officer's name was Fukatsujiro and he was from Nagasaki.

Most of the officers and sailors of the ironclad ship "Ryuchamp" came from Nagasaki, Nagasaki was the only open port during the period of Japan's lockdown, and the people of Nagasaki were famous for being good at doing business in Japan, because there were also many Chinese merchants in Nagasaki Port, and many of the people of Nagasaki knew Chinese.

"You just took so much silver, you have to give a note of receipt, right? I'm going to tell our host! Lu Qingyun said with a sad face.

"These silver are our booty, and the booty has no receipt." Fukatsu Jiro unceremoniously rejected Lu Qingyun's request.

"My lord! Please! Okay, give me a note! I've got to give our host an account......"

Lu Qingyun took a few steps on his knees, stepped forward and grabbed Fukatsu Erlang's hand, crying and begging him to write a receipt, Fukatsu Erlang sneered, and shook off Lu Qingyun's hand hard, Lu Qingyun was about to pounce again, a Japanese sailor stepped forward, and suddenly faced his head with a rifle butt, Lu Qingyun was sturdy again, and suddenly fainted on the deck.

Lei Wang was shocked when he saw this, and violently pushed away the Japanese soldier who was blocking him, rushed over and helped Lu Qingyun up, the Japanese soldier chased after him, raised the butt of the gun and shot at Lei Wang, but was caught by Lei Wang's hand steadily.

The Japanese sailor had a force on his hand, but the butt of the rifle did not move, and he glared at Lei Wang viciously, and Lei Wang also glared at him angrily.

Seeing this, another Japanese sailor was about to raise his gun to shoot at Lei Wang, but Captain Karen, who was caught up in the rush, pushed his rifle away.

"I protest! I protest! You can't do this to my passengers! By doing so, you are violating public international law! Going to court! Cullen said loudly in English.

Probably with a natural fear of Westerners, seeing the angry American speak a long list in English, the two Japanese sailors withdrew despite not knowing English. Lei Wang let go angrily, picked up Lu Qingyun, and walked towards the entrance of the cabin.

At this time, the last silver box had been loaded onto the dinghy, and Fukatsujiro glanced at Cullen, and suddenly remembered the explanation of the commander and the captain before his departure, so he made a look and motioned for the Japanese sailors to stand back.

"We'll be leaving soon, Captain." He told Cullen in English, "When we get all the loot safely gone." ”

"You have taken all our goods, coal, and food as trophies! Do you want us all to starve to death at sea? Karen glared at the Japanese and said loudly.

"It's not far from the port of Fuzhou." Fukatsujiro was not angry, but smiled, and said quite sarcastically, "And there are many ships passing by, you can be rescued." ”

"Well, I hope you can make it all the way back to Japan safely! If God Almighty doesn't punish you! Cullen replied in a distinctly cursed tone.

"You are wrong, our destination is not Japan, but Taiwan." Fukatsujiro shook his head with a smile and said.

"Taiwan?" Cullen was stunned.

Fukatsu Jiro seemed to know that he was speechless, he waved his hand, stopped talking, and continued to watch the porterage.

After a long while, after making sure that all the coal and food on the "Funing" had been emptied, Fukatsu Jiro politely said goodbye to Captain Cullen and disembarked from the boat.

Seeing the Japanese leave proudly, both the foreigners and Chinese on the "Funing" were indignant, and at this time Lei Wang led several people out of the cabin, holding rifles in his hands and wanting to shoot at the Japanese boat, but was stopped by the captain.

"Don't shoot! Angering them, the warship on the opposite side can send us all to the bottom of the sea with a single shot! Cullen said in Chinese to Lei Wan and the others.

"What then? Can you still let these robbers just grab things and run away? Lei Wan put down the gun hatefully and said.

"Of course you can't just leave it at that!" Cullen smiled confidently.

"So what do you think we should do?" Rewan noticed the expression on Cullen's face and asked with hope.

"What we should do now is to return to Fuzhou as soon as possible and report what just happened to your navy! Get your navy out and go after these hateful Japanese! The stupid Japanese just now said that they didn't want to go back to Japan, but to Taiwan! We just need to report the news back and we can take back our robbed goods! Karen said as he looked at the Japanese warships that had restarted.

Thinking of the warships that they had seen in Mawei Harbor, Lei Wang and the others suddenly realized, and their faces also showed joy.

"Now, gentlemen! Although the Japanese have taken our coal, we still have some wood products on our ship, please all help us all and get them into the hearth, and we can go back! Captain Cullen said loudly.

Lei Wang and the others agreed repeatedly, and under the guidance of the captain and sailors, they began to get busy. Not long after, after the Japanese warships had gone away, the "Funing" also restarted and headed for the port of Fuzhou.

Armored cruiser "Fujing", officers' quarters.

"I didn't expect that the group of people in Nanyang would be folded in the hands of the Japanese." Pei Jinquan said hatefully.

Listening to Pei Jinquan's words, Lin Yizhe just frowned and did not speak.

Just now, through the "Flying Eagle" notification ship, the main fleet of the shipmaster had already received the news that the four ships in the Nanyang had suffered a defeat in the battle of the Japanese fleet.

"Lao He and Lao Jiang, they fought well, after all, they ran into the main ironclad ship of the Japanese, which is bigger than the one we encountered." Lu Wenjing seemed to feel a little unhappy about the criticism received by He Xinchuan and Jiang Chaoying, and said on the side, "What is the combat power of the Japanese ironclad ships, we have not seen it. The largest of the four ships in the South Seas is 'Ten Thousand Years Qing', which is a wooden ship, and it is strange that it can fight against an ironclad ship. ”

"Also, the other party is an iron ship, and the cannons of 'Wannian Qing' cannons can't chisel through their iron turtle shells." Pei Jinquan remembered the battle scene with the Japanese Navy's "Higashi" ironclad ship, and couldn't help but fight a cold war.

For him, that battle was the fiercest naval battle he had ever experienced.

Despite the fact that its own "Fujing" had a 190-mm large-caliber breech-loading gun and was equipped with large armor-piercing shells, it was still extremely difficult to gnaw at the iron armor of the "East".

"Yes! This big ironclad ship of the Japanese, even if we run into it, will be very difficult. Deng Shichang said.

"This time, to clean up this guy, it has to fall on our boats." Bei Jinquan looked at everyone and said, "Is there any good way for everyone?" ”

"Hit the gun door, and the deck." Lu Wenjing replied immediately.

"Oh? Lao Lu has been thinking about this these days! Seeing that Lu Wenjing gave an answer so quickly, Pei Jinquan asked with a smile, "Please explain in detail." ”

Lu Wenjing got up, took out the diagram of the "Longxiang" ironclad ship from the "Appendix to the Chart of Foreign Divisional Ships" on the table, and said to everyone: "The enemy's ironclad is thick, and if you want to penetrate it, you must get close to the front, and hit it with a large armor-piercing bullet to release it to work. In this way, our ship was exposed to the heavy artillery fire of the enemy ship, and although our ship also had iron armor, it was not as thick as the enemy ship. The strength of the enemy ship is thick in iron armor, short in strength, and inferior to me in firepower and speed; However, the strength of our ships is in the speed of firepower, the shortness of the ship, the armor is thin or no armor, and the protection is inferior to that of the enemy ship. For the way of war, we are promoting our strengths and avoiding our weaknesses. With my strengths and the shortcomings of the other, I can fight and win. ”

"What Lao Lu said is reasonable." Ye Fu nodded and said, "Then what should I do?" ”

"Our ship is better than the ship, the cannon is many, and the speed is fast, so we will take the initiative on the battlefield and control our hands." Lu Wenjing said eloquently, "If you encounter an enemy ironclad ship, you can quickly step forward, concentrate artillery fire, specialize in its gun doors and decks, and kill and injure its gunners and sailors as soon as possible, then its artillery will be lost and controlled, and its combat power will be useless. ”

"Good way!" After listening to Lu Wenjing's explanation, Deng Shichang and several other pipe bands all stroked their palms and praised it.

"In this way, it is not even necessary to destroy the enemy ship, but to kill and wound its crew!" Inspired by Lu Wenjing, Deng Shichang looked at everyone and said in a deep voice, "Our ships are equipped with machine guns and bead guns, which are sharp weapons for killing the enemy, unique to our army, and not available to the Japanese. ”

"That's right!" Listening to Deng Shichang's further play, Pei Jinquan slapped his thigh excitedly and said loudly, "Kill all the enemy ship sailors, isn't the enemy ship ours!" ”

"If there is a real fight, the Japanese will not necessarily be so kind, and if they insist on fighting on the deck, they may hide in the cabin." Ye Fu thought for a while, and added, "At that time, we have to let the foreign gun team jump up and go into the cabin to destroy it, otherwise, they will find out that our army wants to capture its ship and sink the ship in the cabin, and it will be troublesome." ”

"Lao Ye is right! That's it! Pei Jinquan nodded repeatedly.

"It's a lot of fun, but you have to wait until you find an enemy ship!" Deng Shichang smiled, looked at Lin Yizhe, who was speechless, and said, "Did the adults say it?" ”

"Exactly." Lin Yizhe nodded, his eyes fell on the chart on the table, "I have to find them......

Hearing Lin Yizhe's words, the tubes who were excited just now gradually calmed down.

"What I'm afraid of now is that if we leave Tainan on the front foot, the Japanese will pass again." Pei Jinquan whispered, "This vast sea, the enemy is hard to find, don't slip past us......

"They won't go to Tainan." Lin Yizhe said, his eyes still did not leave the chart, "Although they defeated the Nanyang Division ships, they also suffered damage themselves, and they consumed a lot of ammunition and coal, so they will not risk going to Tainan, they should turn back and look for ships to transport ammunition supplies." ”

"Also, without ammunition and coal, it would be death if we ran into us." Pei Jinquan is still a little worried, "I'm afraid that they will go to our port to grab coal, or shell the port ......."

At this time, because the fleet had already set off, Lin Yizhe, Pei Jinquan and others did not know that the port of Xiamen had already been shelled by Japanese ships.

After listening to Pei Jinquan's words, all the ship's pipe belts also looked worried.

Of course, they understood what kind of shock it would bring to the imperial court in the event of an artillery shelling of a coastal port.

Even if they can annihilate the Japanese ships in the future, the impeachment of the officials will crush them!

"To put it bluntly, our ships are still not enough!" Ye Fu said, "The shipkeeper has worked hard to build so many ships, and he has to patrol Haikou on weekdays. ”

"Yes! If there were two more 'Fujing' in the South Sea, this time they would encounter enemy ships, and they would not have been fought like this. Lin Yizhe sighed and said, "It's a pity that all the money for shipbuilding was given to the ...... of the Northwest."