Prussian students who have returned to China after completing their studies will become the backbone of Lin Haijiang's subordinates, and at the same time, Lin Haijiang is also paying attention to the relationship between the so-called new generation of study abroad and the old school.

But only by instilling this batch of fresh blood can Lin Haijiang's grasp of the old port be more thorough and firm, and Lin Haijiang's personality cult can be said to be completely forced, because in this era of national weakness, a hero is needed too much!

However, there are exceptions to everything, and there is a special case among the international students I sent, that is, Wei Haiwei, who asked him to study mechanical manufacturing, and as a result, he went to study world art for a few years?

At the cocktail party, Lin Haijiang deliberately walked up to Wei Haiwei and smiled: "How is it?" Accustomed to it in the Old Port? ”

The students present immediately stood up and called the president, because Lin Haijiang was the honorary president of the Imperial Naval Academy in the old port, and he himself had spoken publicly many times, including the first batch of international students, and all the subsequent students, including the first batch of international students, directly called him the president to salute.

Wei Haiwei's face turned red and he didn't speak, Lin Haijiang smiled and patted him on the shoulder and said: "It doesn't matter what you learn, the most important thing is that you study seriously, because our country is now ravaged by the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and building a country requires all kinds of talents from all walks of life!" ”

As soon as Wei Haiwei heard what Lin Haijiang said, his eyes immediately lit up and said: "I am just thinking about studying the very valuable cultural relics of the world, and when our navy is strong, we will borrow the cannon on their heads, and when we have had enough, let them redeem it at a high price, and let us use the ransom to build warships in the future, and we are blackmailing more countries!" ”

"Ah?!?h Wei Haiwei's excited and simple answer made Lin Haijiang stunned, Wei Haiwei, a little fat man, has still become a talent in Lin Haijiang's eyes, although the idea of this talent is really a bit unbelievable, but the most important thing is to have a creation surname and a breakthrough surname.

Lin Haijiang raised his wine glass high, looked around with a burning gaze and said aloud to his students: "Some people may say that we are rebelling and being disloyal, but I want to ask, how many dynasties have changed in the five thousand years of China?" How many thousand years has China existed? Dynasty that? Which dynasty has existed for thousands of years? Which emperor reigned for more than a hundred years? No! They are not the masters of this land, they are only passing by, who is the real master of this land of China? ”

Lin Haijiang paused and continued: "Whoever can defend this land, who can let the people of this land live and work in peace and contentment, who is the master of this land!" ”

Lin Haijiang waved his hand and said, "You guys! You are the masters of the future! Be kind to the land that raised you, be kind to the people of this land, and don't let them be bullied, this is the purpose of your existence today, the future is in your hands, the future is under your feet, I want you to create a new world where everyone is equal! Our guns will be invincible, and we will be magnificent! ”

Banzai! Long live the Metropolitan Governor of Lin Haijiang! Long live the principal! In the bursts of cheers, Lin Haijiang pressed the handle of the command knife with his hand, and his high-spirited appearance was depicted with a charcoal pen by an invited French oil painter, although he didn't know what the general was talking about, but he could feel the surging passion! It was a feeling of almost rebirth.

The next day, Lin Haijiang issued the first official appointment stamped with the seal of the General Administration of the Chinese Emperor's [***] Order, for this appointment that seems a little ridiculous to outsiders, Lin Haijiang does not care too much about the attitude of some people, but the captains who received the appointment are excited, it is nine ironclad warships representing extreme force!

Emperor Zhonghua [***] ordered the General Administration to gather the Admiralty:

Lieutenant Commander Tang Zhiqiang was appointed as the captain of the Fuyuan ship!

Lieutenant Colonel Qin Shuige was appointed as the captain of the Pingyuan ship!

Lieutenant Commander Guan Chao was appointed as the captain of the Jiyuan ship!

Lieutenant Commander Ma Tao was appointed as the captain of the Jingyuan ship!

Lieutenant Commander Ma Jiang was appointed as the captain of the Zhiyuan ship!

Lieutenant Commander Du Haipeng was appointed as the captain of the Laiyuan ship!

Lieutenant Commander Xu Muchen was appointed as the captain of the Weiyuan ship!

Lieutenant Commander Yang Tianhua was appointed as the captain of the Dingyuan ship!

Lieutenant Commander Feng Guohua was appointed as the deputy captain of the Zhenyuan ship, acting as the captain, and after the new ship was purchased, the Zhenyuan ship was renamed the Hope as a training ship of the Old Port Naval Academy.

Lin Haijiang began to assign a group of academies to the Marine Corps branch of the Naval Academy, and tried to form a staff department under the organization of Prussian staff officers, and Lin Haijiang placed high expectations on this staff system that played a huge role.

It can be said that the war was a catalyst for scientific progress, and the Armstrong 12-inch guns produced by the British could only be used as naval guns or fortress guns.

Forged from wrought iron, the Armstrong gun adopts the most popular multi-layer composite gun body structure, and the whole gun is composed of large and small double barrels composed of composite multi-layer gun body, in which the small tube is engraved with rifling, and the shells are made of cast iron.

The old shells used spherical shells, which were coated with soft lead like a Mine-like bullet to devour rifling, and the new guns that now leave the factory have been replaced with modern shell-style conical warheads.

What is extremely surprising is that the British actually left a groove in the place of the shell head? The Armstrong cannon fires shells on a very similar principle to the Minne, with a layer of soft lead coating on the shell. This allowed the shell to effectively envelop the rifling and rotate.

Since this batch of guns is a rear-loading gun, there is no need to lower the gun body and then ask someone to run to the front to reload, and the ammunition reloading time is greatly shortened, because the standard reloading procedure is prescribed, so it can be fired continuously. The gun is made of cast iron, and its multi-layered composite body is significantly lighter than a monolithic cast gun. As a result, the cannon was far superior to other types of artillery of its time.

The gun can use solid bullets and scattered grenades, history in 1858 the British army finally decided to list the gun as a standard artillery, but the expensive cost and complex process of the gun has always been the biggest obstacle to the gun, Lin Haijiang commissioned the Dutch side to buy on behalf of the purpose is to let the Krupp technicians know more, hoping to inspire them.

The Old Port Manufacturing Bureau and the Mawei Manufacturing Bureau are still in a kind of competition, and both sides are scrambling to come up with results, but where are the results? The achievement is in the cannon, although the horsetail started slowly, but most of its materials and technical reserves came from the old port, and the Krupp Research Branch was in charge, and after the guidance of Padino and Alem, there was still a latecomer posture.

The so-called commerce of the Old Port was almost entirely dominated by Chinese merchants from Southeast Asia, and the potential economic power of these Chinese Nanyang families could be so powerful? It is no wonder that the colonial political axes of various countries regard the Chinese as a thorn in the flesh and want to get rid of them quickly, because these Chinese are too rich.

If properly organized, the economic power in the hands of these Chinese can even shake the world colonial economic model that has just entered the standard economic model, and can even carry out disguised economic plundering and aggression against a certain country.

It is precisely the economic strength of such a huge group that has brought bad luck to these Chinese several times, and now they finally realize that their wealth needs to be defended by arming, and whether they are strong or not also means that their wealth can safely increase and accumulate value.

What surprised Lin Haijiang the most was the strategic investment vision of these Chinese families, and the Li family and the Zhou family even took the initiative to build five large shipyards in the old port and a shipyard for building 10,000-ton giant ships.

The specific implementation of these things Lin Haijiang was handed over to his father and Cluna to negotiate, after all, the expansion of the old port shipyard is his foothold, the high-quality iron ore produced by the open-pit mine in Sumatra has turned Lin Haijiang's original plan of two 15-ton small blast furnaces into four, and the large number of laborers used in the mine has significantly improved the living standards of the indigenous people on Sumatra Island.

However, most of them were Indonesian indigenous slaves sold from all over the world, and at first Lin Haijiang fed and sheltered these slaves well, so that they had the physical strength to complete the task, but the results always disappointed him.

Later, Lin Haijiang selected a part of the overseers from these slaves and used Indonesians to manage the Indonesians, and the effect was remarkable, and Lin Haijiang also found that his previous impression of Indonesians was lazy and changed greatly.

It's really a lowly people, hopelessly cheap! And the process of Lin Haijiang's development of the old port also made Mark Lin. Count Bertto made a pot full of pounds, Macklin. Count Botto often took Lady Ilhiss to the Old Port to see if there were any bargains, as it was home to the largest pirate market in all of Southeast Asia.

For the existence of the Old Port, Macklin. The Earl of Botto was also a cover for himself, Macklin. Lieutenant Colonel Withuk, the military lieutenant of Count Botto, was a frequent visitor to the Old Port, and he was often entrusted by the merchants who had lost their goods to come to the Old Port to buy back the lost property cheaply in order to reduce the losses.

The only sad thing is the Indonesian natives near the port of Batavia, who are now like frightened birds, often people disappear inexplicably, and there have even been strange incidents where entire fishing villages have disappeared en masse?

What shocked Lin Haijiang the most was that Lawrence was actually building a railway line around the island? When Lin Haijiang praised Lawrence for his vision of economic strategic development, Lawrence was surprised: "This is the proposal of those Prussian Krupp artillery technicians, we bought some of their latest breech cannons, and they suggested that we build a railway around the island, and then use a steam locomotive to pull the cannon to defend the island." ”

"Train cannons? Roundabout defense? Lin Haijiang immediately rewarded the Prussian artillery technician who made this suggestion, and the main reason why Lin Haijiang vigorously built the old port was to leave a way back for himself, but now his support point has an extra ponytail.

Mawei still became an integrated military fortress under the deliberate construction of Lin Haijiang, and 89 Krupp cannons formed a complete coastal artillery fire defense system, Lin Haijiang learned the historical experience of the Lushun fortress, and focused on strengthening the construction of permanent fortifications behind the fortress, in addition to the secret garrison of 2,000 marines in the old port, the mountain infantry of the ten battalions of the Nanyang Naval Division was also divided into two groups to take turns stationed on the island for training.

Lin Haijiang's purpose is very simple, using political training and high salaries and full welfare, with a big stick in one hand and a carrot in the other, to turn the so-called imperial army into his own Lin family army.

The prosaic days were spent in the rapid development of the old port and Mawei, the Taiping army and the Qing army fought back and forth without any new ideas, and the Mongolian iron cavalry of Monk Gelinqin was also transferred back to Gyeonggi Zhili, because the Ganxi drought broke out and the Twist Army uprising became a sharp blade inserted in the back of the Qing Dynasty.

(To be continued)