Chapter 447: The Launching Ceremony of the New Ship

"Actually, to put it bluntly, there is no contradiction." Prince Jing seemed to have anticipated this layer and said, "Our dynasty regards the Japanese government as the right and respects the Japanese lord as orthodox, but it does not mean that our dynasty approves of what the Japanese government has done. The Japanese government's oppression and persecution of the anti-Shi clan is unjust, and Lin Hanpeng entered Japan alone to help the Shi clan appeal to the lord of the country, which is the righteousness of the Shen Tian Dynasty, and there is no reason to punish the crime. If the Japanese government sends someone to interrogate them, they can answer them and make their deeds public to the world, but I want to see which one they can choose, because those people have always regarded themselves as orthodox and righteous, and I want to see which one they can choose! ”

Hearing Prince Jing's words, Prince Chun couldn't help but laugh.

"Yes! With this 'righteousness' and 'righteousness' alone, it is enough for this child to pinch each other for a while! ”

"So, Seventh, we can't be too real to deal with this group of people." Prince Jing said, "This kind of trick should be used conveniently, and there is no need to scruple." ”

"Yes, Sixth Brother, what you said just now really gave me a wake-up call." Prince Chun smiled, "The trouble on the shipmaster's side can also be solved in the same way." I wanted to ask the sixth brother for advice on this, but now I don't need to, haha. ”

"Old Seven, have you come up with any ideas?" Prince Jing couldn't help but be surprised when he heard Prince Chun say this.

"For the time being, the secret of heaven must not be leaked, and the sixth brother will naturally know when the time comes." Prince Chun sold it and said with a smile.

Prince Jing saw that Prince Chun was confident, he was amused in his heart, and he didn't ask much at the moment, and the two sat down and drank tea, chatting with small snacks. A full hour passed. Prince Chun just took his leave and left.

He returned to his palace. Although it was already the third watch, Prince Chun did not feel sleepy, he was completely fascinated by the idea that had just popped up in his head, and after thinking carefully for a while, he went into the study and drafted two telegrams, one for Li Shaoquan, the governor of Zhili, and one for Ding Yusheng, the minister of shipping.

Two months later. July 20, 9080 (the 6th year of Daqian Guangxu, the 13th year of the Meiji era of Japan), Fuzhou, Mawei Port.

Yoko Shimazu had just gotten up from bed in a groggy state, and looking out the window at the dim sunlight, she suddenly forced herself to get up and go out for a walk. At this moment, her mood was depressed and tired, and the sun shone on her trance, feeling the warmth of the hot neck, and her mood became slightly more relaxed. She was walking down the stairs step by step, holding the new shotgun she had just bought. At this time, she had only one thought: to go to the woods. A man sniffs the coolness of the woods. Now she just wants to walk to that forest by herself. Lying quietly alone for a while, only in the open space of the verdant forest came into contact with the long-lost cool sunshine, and her flustered and drowsy state of mind would calm down.

Dusk was approaching, and the air could already smell the peculiar smell of cow dung burning in the wilderness. She was walking up the mountain, but there were people on the mountain who got off work and walked down the mountain in twos and threes. At this moment, she was much more sober, and seeing the crowd coming, she had to quietly avoid hiding herself behind the bamboo forest. After a while, there were fewer and fewer pedestrians on the road, and she blindly struggled up the slope alone. By this time the sky was fading, and only the dark forest belt above quietly sheltered her. Walking in the forest, but there is no sound around, the large areas of evergreen grass have long been cut by the farmers, under the blue sky, showing the kind of beautiful scenery that can only be seen in the countryside. In the distance, a snow-white flower called a wild rose blooms in a wild thorny bush all year round, blowing in the light wind. Yoko Shimazu watched all this in the wilderness in solitude, and finally slowly walked into the depths of the forest. At this time, the peach blossoms have long been full of green shade and disappeared into the vast forest sea in the middle of summer. The boots were stained with broken blades of grass, and in the quiet forest, large clumps of green bushes entangled with hops swayed gently in the wind on the low slopes. The open green shrubs in the golden sunlight were faintly reflected in the deep forests of the high forest, and Yoko Shimazu leaned back against a large tree, looking up at the peaceful green shrubs opposite, imagining them in a quiet conversation. When you are lonely, probably only these green lives will always be with you! She lifted her face and began to quietly enjoy the warm pre-dusk sun.

Since escaping Japan alone, how many times has she felt the loneliness and sadness of life alone in the wild, and felt the coldness of the wind in the loneliness, just like these plants. And the wind doesn't speak, they just blow these snow-white flowers in front of them silently, and let them fall to the ground freely but lonely, quietly. Yoko Shimazu walked over without a word, picked a white flower and put it in her ear. A stream flowed quietly in the small ditch full of small willow branches beside the boots, and the still water was flowing silently in the shadow of the willow branches, and occasionally a little gray fish wagged its tail and skimmed briskly, and the flowers fell, and they flowed deep into the distant depths with the still water. She watched quietly for a moment, and the warm air filled the air with the smell of wild fields that only wild mint can have. After a long time, she let out a long sigh. The forest was silent at this time, except for snow-white flowers falling slowly from the green shrubs, hitting her black hair, silently, like snowflakes. She silently closed her lonely eyes, feeling and bathing in the warmth and scorching smell of the grass in the sun. In the warm yellow sunshine, at that moment, the lonely heart felt that she was beautiful, pure, and lonely, just like the beautiful wild red fruit tree that stretched alone not far in front of her, alone, but she was not stingy at all stretching her bewitching and beautiful posture. In the sunlight, she slowly stretched out her arms, like the lonely red fruit tree in the wilderness, stretching out her complete self.

Suddenly a whisper came from the woods, unfamiliar words. She was startled, the forest was empty, and the voice of a person could often be heard from a long distance. Yoko Shimazu didn't want to see anyone else, so she quietly walked behind the tree and hidden, and after a while, a very clear dry language approached, and several horses were wading in the water and flicking their tails. The voice rang in my ears very clearly through the emptiness: "Miss, today is the day when the new ship of the ship is launched, Lord Ding sent an invitation to Mrs., do you want to go over and have a look?" A gentle voice replied, "I don't want to go." ”

"Miss, this boat was built according to the design of Lord Lin back then, and Lord Ding was to fulfill Lord Lin's last wish. Miss should still take a look. Even if it's to accompany Madame. You know. Since the death of Lord Lin, Madame has been ......"

"Don't say it, I'll go over it."

As the sound of the horses' hooves faded away, they could even hear the wheels of their carriage walking in the woods.

Although it was only a few short sentences, Yoko Shimazu heard it and immediately judged the identities of these people.

The girl called Miss should be the late Lin Yizhe's sister-in-law Li Sizhu, who is said to be the adopted daughter of Lin Yizhe's aunt Lin Puqing. Lin Puqing pointed out Lin Yizhe as a concubine before he died, but Lin Yizhe died of illness in Beijing before he could marry her, and she was always with Lin Yizhe's wife Chen Wan. It should have been Li Sizhu who came out to go out just now, and it happened that the Minister of Shipping, Ding Yusheng, sent an invitation to Chen Wan to participate in the launching ceremony of the new ship.

Lin Yizhe's corpse is now placed in the shipyard cemetery. Whenever a new ship is launched on the bank of the Ma River, he is under the nine springs. You'll know, right?

Yoko Shimazu suddenly thought of Lin Yiqing by Yoshizhe Hayashi, somehow. My mind became a little agitated again.

For Lin Yiqing, she was full of entanglements when she thought about it.

If it weren't for Lin Yiqing's killing of Okubo Ritsu, the Shimazu family might not have been killed by the Japanese government, and in order to avenge the extermination of the clan and fight the Meiji government, the best choice was Lin Yiqing!

Yoko Shimazu's heart became troubled again, she wanted to calm herself down, and was about to find something to divert her attention, suddenly she remembered the news she had just heard, today was the day when the new ship of the ship was launched, so she got up again and walked down the mountain, planning to also go to see the excitement of the launch of the new ship.

When Yoko Shimazu arrived at the ceremony, it was already crowded with cars and horses, and she didn't want to squeeze in the crowd, so she came to a restaurant by the sea, paid to charter an Accord on the second floor, sat in it, and watched it with a telescope that had been prepared.

At this time, the atmosphere was warm, in accordance with the tradition of the launching ceremony of the warships of China and Turkey, the Fuzhou Ship Administration Bureau of the launching ceremony of the new armored cruiser "Yangwu" was carefully arranged, in addition to building a ceremonial platform, the hull of the "Yangwu" ship also made interesting decorations, and the previous ships of the ship were completely different from the dresses when they were launched, and the "Yangwu" adopted the pure Chinese and Turkish engineer launching costumes.

On the day of the launch, the bridge, mast, and cabin on the main deck of the ship were already taking shape, and the whole ship was full of flags, and the top of the foremast fluttered a large national flag with a golden dragon on a red ground, and the rear mast fluttered a large flag with black characters on a red ground (the queen of heaven is the traditional sea god Mazu in China), and the bow of the ship was hung with a blue ground and a blue dragon flag -- this flag pattern is the same as the national flag, but the color is different, with blue as the ground, symbolizing the sea, and it is the flag of the Great Qianhai Navy. Outside the bow of the ship, a temporary mast is decorated, and large strips of colored satin and colored balls hang below. Along the side of the warship, there is also a wavy decoration made of pine and cypress branches.

In Western ship launching ceremonies, a female guest usually serves as a godmother to baptize the warship in the form of champagne on the bow, and then the workers remove the struts on the left and right sides of the hull to make the warship slide into the water. What is completely different from this is that, due to the traditional culture, the people of Middle-earth are very uninterested in the launching activities of the warship presided over by women, so that they have gradually developed a set of launching methods with strong Middle-earth characteristics, that is, the fixed rope that implicates the warship is left to the last one, and symbolically leads to the launching protocol, when the launch, the officiant cuts it together with a sharp weapon and the color satin of the ship, commonly known as "cutting the ribbon", and then the workers loosen the pulley that really fixes the warship, and then the warship slides to the water. At the same time, colored balls hanging under the decorative mast in the bow of the ship open, in which pre-filled multicolored paper and doves are scattered to set the mood.

Due to the fact that the cutting and fixing cable together with the "ribbon cutting" actually has the same ritual significance as the Western champagne, in order to show solemnity, the Fuzhou Shipbuilding Bureau reported to the Ministry of Rites to develop a fixed cutting tool, and the Ministry of Rites finally selected the shape of the "Yue" in the ancient legend of Middle-earth after repeated consideration. There are three blood grooves on the left side, representing the legendary "Three Emperors", and there are five blood grooves on the right side, which represent the legendary "Five Emperors".

At 9:16 a.m., Prince Chun and Prince Yixuan, who had made a special trip from Beijing to attend the ceremony, were the heads of the Prime Minister, the Minister of the Navy, the Yamen Wang. The Governor of Zhili, the Governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, the Governor of Fujian, the Governor of Taiwan, the General of Fuzhou, the Minister of Shipping and other important officials of the Qianguo and more than 800 officials and celebrities of the Qianguo gathered at the Fuzhou Shipbuilding Bureau. The shipyard staff and people from all walks of life at home and abroad who came to watch the ceremony after hearing the sound. A total of more than 5,000 people were at the launching ceremony.

At 10 o'clock in the morning, at the meeting place in front of the construction slipway of the "Yangwu" ship of the Fuzhou Shipbuilding Bureau, the national anthem of the Daqian Empire "Jinou Yonggu Song" sounded "Jinou Yonggu" with "Jinou Forever Solid, the mountains and rivers are magnificent, the products are abundant, the four seas are Ningqing, and the world is blessed." Then all the people present bowed three times to the golden dragon flag, the national flag of the Daqian Empire, and at 10:08 a.m., an envoy from Beijing recited on the protocol platform the edict of Emperor Ziguangxu on the name of today.

At this time, Shimazu Yoko noticed that although Li Shaoquan, the governor of Naoli, and Ding Yusheng, the minister of shipping, who were sitting next to each other on the protocol desk, they were not talking to each other with a low smile like several ministers of the Qianguo next to them. Instead, he looked at the warship in front of him without squinting at the lawsuit, and no one looked at the other.

Yoko Shimazu wondered in her heart, according to what she knew, the personal relationship between these two ministers of the Qianguo has always been very good, after Lin Yizhe left the post of Minister of Shipping before his death and was promoted to Minister of Planning, the reason why Ding Yusheng was able to replace Lin Yizhe as Minister of Shipping was the result of Li Shaoquan's strong recommendation to the two princes who presided over government affairs, but now the two are like strangers to each other, what is going on?

Yoko Shimazu was curious. She wanted to figure out what was going on, but her eyes never left the two ministers. I didn't even pay much attention to the ceremony that was about to begin.

After the envoy read out the edict of the Son of Heaven and officially named the majestic warship on the slipway in front of him as "Yangwu", Shimazu Yoko saw Li Shaoquan and Ding Yusheng slowly get up to the singing of the master of ceremonies, came to the sacrificial table, and each picked up a small golden axe and carried it in his hand.

Until this time, Li Shaoquan and Ding Yusheng were facing each other, but there was no expression on their faces, they all looked at each other indifferently, and their eyes were full of hostility.

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Mt. Fuji, Raiden Maru, Yansei Maru, Yoharu Maru, Electric Power Maru, Chaoyang Maru, Kanko Maru, First Ding Mao, Second Ding Mao, Chiyoda Shape

On May 14, 9079 (the 5th year of the Great Dry Mitsuahi and the 12th year of the Meiji era of Japan),

Hiei, Kongo, Fuso, Kiyoki, Asama, Tokiwa, Izumi, Kawachi, Settsu, Huiten, Xianghe, Kaiyang, Fengan, Toyorui, Morrowind, Yukikaze, Nobun, Shiyu, Amagi, Iwaki, Flying Dragon, Soryu, Flying Falcon, Kuaifeng, Long Whale, Tsukuba, Fengxiang,

9080 (6th year of the Great Dry Mitsui, 13th year of the Meiji era)

The two ironclad ships ordered by Japan are ships of the same class and belong to second-class ironclad ships. Iron waki, wooden shell, external armor. The normal displacement is 2,250 tons, the length of the ship is 67.1 meters, the width is 12.5 meters, the draft is 5.3 meters, the thickness of the waterline armor is 88 to 137 mm, the standard coal carrying is 330 tons (340 tons for the "Hiei"), the main engine is 1 horizontal 2-cylinder reciprocating steam engine, 6 coal-fired boilers, the power is 2035 hp (2270 hp for the "Hiei"), single-shaft propulsion, the speed is 13.7 knots (13 knots for the "Hiei"), and the establishment is 286 people.

The main armament of this class of Japanese ironclad ships is 3 170-mm Krupp guns, 6 150-mm Krupp guns, 2 80-mm Krupp guns, 2 75-mm Krupp guns, 4 25-mm 4-barreled Nordenfeld guns, 2 11-mm Nordenfeld guns, and 2 360-mm torpedo tubes (1 for the "Hiei" ship). One of the ships "Hiei" was built by the British Milford? Built at the Hervin Shipyard, started on September 24, 9075, launched on June 12, 9077, and completed in March 9078, the ship "King Kong" of the same class was started by the British Earl Shipyard in September 9075, launched in April 9077, and completed in January 9078.

This time, Lin Yiqing brought only two gunboats, the "Mt. Fuji" and the "Electric Maru," to patrol the coastline. Among them, the "Mount Fuji" has a displacement of 1,000 tons, and after refitting, it has been replaced with 2 120-mm Krupp breech-loading guns and 4 75-mm Krupp breech guns, and the new boiler can barely reach a speed of 11 knots, while the "Electric Shot" is a small gunboat with a displacement of 780 tons converted from a merchant ship, and the main armament is 1 120-mm Krupp breech-loading gun and a 75-mm Krupp breech gun, because the engine is newer, the speed of this modified gunboat can reach 12 knots, which is slightly faster than the "Mount Fuji".

"Blasting" is a new ship launched two years ago, this warship has a displacement of 469 tons, the hull is long and narrow, using a vertical composite steam engine, twin propeller drive, the fastest speed can reach 13 knots, its most unique place, is its armament, it is equipped with a torpedo tube unique to the Russian Navy, is the first real lightning ship of the Russian Navy.

Chen Li is far and near

Shunzhi, Ning Xu, Rong Fang, Quanlong, Jiaqing, Shaoguang, Xianfeng, Tongzhi

Shinobu Nomura, the captain of Team Odds

Kenhiko Nakajima, captain of the Zhenwu team

Captain of the Justice Team, Kono Juichiro (later transferred to Team Breaking Bamboo), Nanajo Takashiro (taken over)

The captain of the marching team, Sagara Gozaemon

Sogoro Ado, captain of the Kanjo team

The captain of the electric shock team is Tokuro Ta Sidemi

Shosuke Hirano, captain of the Toneyama team

Captain of the Pengyi team, Gunpei Fuchibe, Kiyoichiro Shinna (taking over)

Beppu Shinsuke, captain of the Bamboo Breaker Team (later transferred to the main camp), Kono Joichiro (transferred)

Staff of the camp: Toshiaki Kirino, Shinhachi Murata, Shiro Ikegami, Shinsuke Beppu

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