"This is Deng Junmen. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info" A guard replied for Deng Shichang, "It was Deng Junmen who heard the sound of people on the island, so he came up to look for you." ”

"Thank you, Lord Deng, for saving your life!" Li Xiangtian hurriedly bowed to Deng Shichang, Deng Shichang smiled kindly, and stretched out his hand to help him.

"What do you do on a daily basis?" Deng Shichang looked at him again and asked.

Although it was a casual question, Li Xiangtian still chuckled in his heart.

"Back to the adult's words, the villain was originally in the horse gang business, and later because of the bandits on the road, the capital was reduced, so he had to change to the business of running the sea, just a little better, but this time it was ...... Alas! It's hard to put into words! Li Xiangtian said with a painful look on his face.

"No wonder, I see that your body is very strong, and your daughter seems to have been weathered for a long time, so I think she has suffered a lot." Deng Shichang sighed, and his eyes looking at Huang Zhengrong were full of love.

"Come, Sizhu, thank Lord Deng for saving your life." Li Xiangtian greeted Huang Zhengrong.

Huang Zhengrong came to Deng Shichang, knelt on his knees, and bowed respectfully, and when she wanted to worship again, Deng Shichang stretched out his hand to help her up.

Deng Shichang looked at the girl again, and the girl hung her head shyly, not daring to look at him.

Somehow, the feeling this girl gives him is always a little weird.

"The adult just heard the little girl's name, and seemed to be surprised, somehow? But among the adult relatives, there are those who have the same name as the little girl? Although Li Xiangtian knew that asking such a question might arouse the suspicion of Deng Junmen, who had the great power in front of him, he was anxious to know Li Sizhu's whereabouts, so he still dared to take the risk to ask.

"Not really." Deng Shichang stood up and casually asked a red-clothed naval commander beside him, "I remember Lord Lin's righteous sister, that's her name, right?" ”

"What the adults are talking about is that Lord Lin's righteous sister is named Li Sizhu, I have seen it in Lord Lin's house, and she is a big beauty." Wu Chang replied with a smile, "It is said that she is the adopted daughter of Lord Lin's aunt, and she has been pointed out to Lord Lin to be Mrs. Ru." ”

Hearing Wu Chang's answer, Li Xiangtian's heart was shocked, he knew that he couldn't ask anymore, so he carefully imprinted this information firmly in his mind.

"You come with me, wait for the shore, I will subsidize you to have some entanglements, and take your daughter back to the hometown as soon as possible!" Deng Shichang said to Li Xiangtian.

"Thank you so much!" Li Xiangtian cried and worshiped on the ground in a grateful manner, and his heart was also a big stone on the ground.

He knew that his life had been saved so far.

And what made him even more happy was to know Li Sizhu's whereabouts!

From the information he got just now, he could already tell that that Li Sizhu was the person he was looking for! And she is not only alive and well now, but also about to marry a noble man and rely on her for life!

Thinking of this, Li Xiangtian couldn't help but feel sad and happy, he revealed his true feelings for a while, and tears fell down in big drops, which surprised the "little Li Sizhu" opposite.

After a short time, the Chinese and British officers and soldiers had searched the whole island and found no one else, so Deng Shichang ordered the team to be collected and returned to the warship with Luang Weili.

When the Chinese and British fleets returned to Dagukou Port, there was a crowd of people on the shore, and in the midst of the crowd stood the British Minister to China, Wittoma.

At this time, Wei Tuoma, looking at the warships entering the port one by one, somehow, the uneasiness in his heart became heavier and heavier.

His intuition told him that this time the demonstration exercise of the British fleet did not achieve the effect he expected.

Sure enough, he found a strange phenomenon, that is, when the British fleet was moored, all of them were parked on one side, and none of the warships were willing to berth with the "Odisha", which was originally the flagship of the fleet!

Soon, the two British fleet commanders, Field and Lambert, all went ashore, and saw that the faces of the two fleet commanders were ugly, and Wittoma was even more frightened.

"What happened?" Wittoma asked impatiently.

Field and Lambert looked at each other, but neither spoke.

Wittoma's gaze fell on the ironclad ship "Odisha" moored alone at anchor, and asked, "What happened to the 'Odisha'?" ”

Field and Lambert said in unison, "There are deserters on the 'Odisha'!" ”

Not long after, in the government of the Tianjin Zhili Governor's Office, a person walked in and handed over a piece of paper, Xue Fucheng took it and glanced at it, then hurried to the back hall and handed the telegram to Li Hongzhang.

"Hehe, the British face this time is a big loss!" Li Hongzhang finished reading the telegram and laughed happily.

"Then Wittoma comes to negotiate again, I'm afraid that he won't be as angry as before." Xue Fucheng also laughed.

"Maybe he will come to the door today, first send this news to the General Administration by telegram, and then send a telegram to Fuzhou to inform Lin Kunyu." Li Hongzhang thought for a while and said, "Send one to Guo Yunxian too." ”

"Yes, I'll do it." Xue Fucheng nodded in response.

Xue Fucheng took the letter paper and went to the telegraph room in the house, handed the letter to the telegraph operator, and whispered a few words, the telegraph man nodded and agreed, first translated the contents of the letter into code, and then sent it out by telegraph.

Watching the skillful movements of the telegraph operator and listening to the brisk clicking sound of the telegraph, Xue Fucheng's heart was full of joy.

Now if you want to deliver important news, the Chinese can already use telegraphs as a quick means!

Remembering that this telegraph line was only held thanks to the blessing of the Japanese invasion of Taiwan, Xue Fucheng couldn't help but sigh deeply.

China had learned the lessons of the two Opium Wars, and the recent warning of Japan's invasion of the Ryukyus and invasion of Taiwan, forced the Qing court to plan for coastal defense from a strategic height. Li Hongzhang, the governor of Naoli and minister of Beiyang in the capital of Gyeonggi, began the telegraph revolution while preparing for the construction of the navy, the purchase of ships, the construction of bases, and the training of naval talents.

The initial telegraph, like the initial encounter with trains in China, was thwarted by all sorts of troubles. Of course, there is a commendable aspect of safeguarding national rights, but it also shows the ignorant attitude of blindly rejecting modern Western civilization that prevails among the Chinese people. In the eyes of ordinary people, the telegraph line will also shake the gods of the mountains and rivers like a train, and destroy the feng shui of the tomb, which is intolerable.

Li Hongzhang, who is well versed in the national conditions and folk customs, "at the beginning of the establishment of the electric wire, he was quite worried that the scholars were not familiar with what he had seen and heard, or he was nourishing his tongue, so he temporarily set up it in Tianjin and gradually opened up the atmosphere." Tianjin is covered by the power of the governor of Zhili, and the resistance to holding it is small, and the success is very large. Even so, he asked for an order that the wires "should be duly advised by the magistrates, and that they should be kept under constant care and protection, so that they may be obstructed in the slightest, so that they may be accomplished." After the trial was first completed, Li Hongzhang reported on the first erection of telegraph lines, and "all the tombs, forests, and private houses were all vacated, and public opinion along the way was not disturbed." In fact, it is not necessarily, the reason why the tombs, woods, private houses, and wiring lines are far away, and the funds are increased, is really a last resort, because there has been an uproar in public opinion, the people are disturbed, and the people and even local officials obstruct the erection of wires, cut wires, and cut down poles. Li Hongzhang avoided this section in order to block the tongue of the opposing diehards, gain the approval of the imperial court, and open the way for the large-scale holding of telegraphs. China's self-run telegraph not only needed to gradually open up the atmosphere, but also because of its lack of operational experience, it was necessary to gradually try it out and seek victory while maintaining stability, which was also in line with the intention of the Qing court. As early as the second half of 1874, Li Hongzhang set up a telegraph line in Jingutang on an experimental basis, starting from Dagu and reaching Tianjin through Beitang, with a length of nearly 100 li, connecting the Haikou forts and barracks. Although the line is short, it is of great significance, and the success of the trial has doubled the confidence of the parties concerned, and they can strike while the iron is hot and make great progress.

In the first year of Guangxu (1875), Li Hongzhang asked for the erection of the Nanbeiyang telegraph, the line from Tianjin by land, along the canal to Jiangbei, across the Yangtze River, from Zhenhai to Shanghai, the bus branch line is more than 3,000 miles long. The project started in February and was completed in May, which is a rare speed. The Tianjin-Shanghai line is China's first long-distance land telegraph line, after the completion and opening of the line, it will be "the north and the south inside and outside the news can be communicated instantly", coupled with the subsequent erection of the Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian and Guangdong lines, opened up the political center of Beijing, the center of the North Ocean Tianjin and the foreign economic center of Shanghai, the South China Sea important place between Guangzhou, so that the north and south oceans are connected, echo the flexibility, has extremely important national defense military value. Although these two long-distance telegraph lines were not among the Beiyang bureaucrats, they were one of the most important undertakings organized by Li Hongzhang and had a significant impact on China's future. The successful erection of these two lines has explored and formed a relatively complete and mature engineering model of employing foreign telegraph companies for construction, and established a modulus of project capital estimates, which has accumulated experience and laid the foundation for the popularization of telegraphs in China, and has a decisive position and role.

The main reason for the success of the telegraph this time was the stimulus of Japan's invasion of Taiwan. It was almost a month after the Japanese invasion of Taiwan that the Qing Dynasty in Beijing learned the details, and if it weren't for Lin Yizhe, who anticipated the enemy first, and led the shipmaster and sailors to stop it in time, when the news reached Beijing, it was only afraid that Taiwan had been occupied by the Japanese army.

After learning that the news was transmitted so slowly, the Empress Dowager of the Two Palaces was furious and ordered the establishment of China's telegraph business, Li Hongzhang seized the opportunity to request the erection of the telegraph, and the Empress Dowager of the Two Palaces immediately approved it, and Prince Gong, Wenxiang, Prince Alcohol and other important officials of the imperial court also gave full support, mobilized a large number of manpower and material resources to set up the telegraph, and the telegram was completed in just a few months.

Of course, after learning the news of the establishment of the telegram, some officials who were clear rumors expressed their opposition as usual, but due to the tremendous stimulus given to the government and the opposition by the battle in Taiwan, the Shilin Qing Discussion also split this time, and it was no longer a one-sided voice of opposition. Some agreed, and many more remained silent, thanks to the rapid development of China's telegraph industry.