Shortly after the end of the Beiyang parade, the fleet of venture capital companies sent the last and most important batch of cargo to the Weihaiwei base, and the modification of the Beiyang six ships to replace the gun carriages also began.

However, at this time, the facilities and conditions of the Lushun ship repair base have been exposed to great deficiencies, although it has the largest and most advanced ship repair dock in China, but it can only accommodate a giant ship of the Dingzhen level, so the replacement of the Dingyuan and the Zhenyuan ship gun mounts is also divided into two batches, if the war has not been replaced when the war breaks out, it will be troublesome.

However, Li Hui is not particularly worried about this, on the one hand, according to the report of the biochemical agents he sent to Japan, the mobilization in Japan has not yet begun, and it is unlikely that the war will start in a hurry, on the other hand, he is also full of confidence in his efforts for more than a year, even if the Japanese start the war in advance, the First Sino-Japanese War in this time and space will at least not be fought into an almost one-sided situation like in history

Thanks to Yan Fu's full help, the translation of naval terminology has already been completed, and even the recently concluded Beiyang Grand Parade has fully adopted the new Chinese password for the first time, which has little impact on the veterans of the Beiyang Naval Division, but for the hundreds of recruits who have joined the navy in the past two years, it has undoubtedly greatly accelerated the formation of combat effectiveness.

The popularization of Chinese passwords also led to another result, those foreigners who did not have a good Chinese level were fired one after another, and only a few with excellent Chinese proficiency remained, which greatly reduced the pressure of secrecy work, and also eliminated the hidden dangers within the Beiyang Naval Division to a large extent.

You must know that in history, it was these foreign adults who always had the mentality of mercenaries and the scum who were bought by them who forced Ding Ruchang to death and falsely used his name to order the remnants of the Beiyang Naval Division to surrender to the Japanese

Suddenly losing the well-paid position of the Beiyang Naval Division, those foreigners were naturally very dissatisfied, and they threatened that without their help, the Beiyang Naval Division would definitely be defeated in the war.

But these words are just the sorrow of a defeated dog, the Beiyang Naval Division has been in the army for a long time, and the establishment of the domestic Naval Academy is much earlier, in fact, it is no longer lacking in general level (there are very few real technical experts among the Westerners who come to China to take risks, otherwise they can mix well in their own country, so why bother to venture to the East?). After vacating so many seats, we can arrange a few more graduates of the Sailor Academy who are still unemployed.

Although he had resigned from the post of head office of Tianjin Water Master School at this time, he was still very concerned about his former disciples.

Because he has not been reused by Li Hongzhang, Yan Fu has long had the idea of resigning, but because he has never thought about what he should do after resigning, Yan Fu has not been able to make this decision for a long time in history.

And in this time and space, Yan Fu met Li Hui, with more than a year of getting along, Yan Fu, who has always been arrogant, was finally completely impressed by Li Hui's foresight and whimsy, and Li Hui also admired Yan Fu's extensive and profound knowledge and studious attitude of not shamelessly asking questions, and the same heart of worrying about the country and the people resonated, and the two became friends for the year.

After having such a relationship, Li Hui and Yan Fu talked about everything, and even he no longer hid his dissatisfaction with Li Hongzhang, among which his views on education issues immediately resonated with Yan Fu

Although Li Hui knew that the discussion behind his back was not good, he couldn't bear Li Hongzhang's utilitarian short-sightedness and prudence in the past year, and he couldn't stand it if he didn't find someone to say it, "The Westernization Movement has been carried out for so many years, but the gap between China and the West has not narrowed, but increased, especially after Li Zhongtang presided over Westernization, what is the reason for this?" I think the problem lies in the attitude towards education, because the Western powers are only powerful because they rely on advanced weapons, developed industries, and excellent systems and the quality of their people, and no matter which one of them, they are inseparable from modern education. The reason why the Prussian army won a complete victory in the Franco-Prussian War was largely because Prussia had a more superior national education system at that time, and the quality of the officers and soldiers at the grassroots level was obviously higher than that of the French. The first thing the Japanese learned from Germany was to attach importance to education, especially basic education, and great results have been achieved over the past 20 years. If nothing else, the mere fact that the tax collection efficiency is more than twice that of ours and the modern standing army with a total strength of more than 100,000 troops is enough to show that a new great power is on the rise. And the so-called "foreign affairs" engaged in by the 'Great Qing Dynasty', in recent years, only 100 people (including spontaneous) have been sent to stay in the United States, and at the same time a few, at most, a dozen schools have been set up in China, and the vast majority of the elites still continue to read the Four Books and Five Classics, which are meaningless for the rich country and the army, and there are only a few thousand people who have received modern education in China, among which there are only a few hundred qualified modern talents, and even a large factory is not satisfied with such a small force, and they still want to change the face of the whole of China? That's a fool's dream! And even such a faltering modern Chinese education has obviously been neglected after our eager Li Zhongtang presided over foreign affairs. Take the Navy as an example, the Machine Bureau has built a lot and bought a lot of warships, but what about the Academy? It used to be one, now it's two, and a few you are the general manager of Tianjin Sailor School, you should have the most right to speak, you can talk about it, this Tianjin Sailor School, in terms of cultivating talents, can it be compared with the Fuzhou Shipmaster School back then? ”

"In fact, in terms of teachers and facilities, Tianjin is still stronger than Fuzhou, but the source of students is much worse, there are too many related households, you can't beat, scold, and expel from school, don't think, there are so many problem students, good seedlings are easy to be damaged, and the final success rate is naturally completely incomparable with the Fuzhou Shipbuilding School of the year", Yan Fu sighed and said the bitterness in his heart, he is not an irresponsible person, the reason why he has always wanted to resign from the position of the general office of the school, is not purely disgusted with the official and lowly position, Too many constraints and not being able to show their strengths is the key, "And Tianjin is near the left side of the capital, there are countless eyes staring, even a little reform may lead to the impeachment of the officials of the DPRK and the Central People's Republic of China, and the government-run school is easy to get involved in the officialdom, if it weren't for the fact that there are a few good seedlings in each session, I am afraid that they will be delayed after I leave, the position of the head office of the Water Master School, hum, how rare do you think I really am, brother?" ”