Farewell to Feng, who left with deep friendship and satisfaction. Earl Dewes, Lin Haijiang ordered the Taishan and Huashan to undergo a thorough purge and rest.

The Zhenyuan and Dingyuan were left to Lawrence for sea raids, and Lawrence, who had always been very interested in the two new ironclad ships, could not let go of this good opportunity, but Lawrence also proposed whether to expand the existing Marine Corps to 5,000 men.

When Lin Haijiang asked whether our financial resources could support it, everyone here was dumbfounded, because no one including Lawrence was a so-called financial expert, and Lawrence's concept of money was so bad that it was a mess, if the amount exceeded 1,000, then Lawrence's concept would still stay in a box of gold coins? A box of silver coins on the stage.

How much money does Lin Haijiang have? How much did the construction of the fortress of the Old Port and the laying of the semi-roundabout railway, the mining of mines and the construction of the future small industrial city cost, and how much has already been spent? No one knows?

Meng Tao, who has been in charge of the construction of the fortress, suddenly asked, didn't Lawrence's daughter Cluna do asset accounting? Let her clean it up?

With the mentality of trying, Lin Haijiang asked Clouna to try it, and two days later, Clouna gave Lin Haijiang a detailed financial summary, and listed the so-called non-performing assets, as well as the improvement of the financial budget system and tax system of the old port, and suggested that Lin Haijiang use part of the remaining seven million taels of silver for commercial investment, and also made a certain degree of analysis of the investment projects, risks, and the relationship between European countries.

Lin Haijiang was embarrassed for a while, originally thinking that he was already penniless, but as soon as he cleaned up the accounts, there were more than 7 million taels left......

Lin Haijiang directly deprived Lawrence of financial power and handed it over to his daughter Cluna, to which Lawrence raised his hands to welcome, but on the day of the transfer of power, Clouna froze Lawrence's financial rights, salary, dividends, etc., claiming that if Lawrence did not want to beg for the rest of his life, the money would be handed over to her.

Lawrence's old whisky has become a miscellaneous brand, and the high-end cigars he smokes have become the popular shisha in Sumatra? Cluna's explanation was that thrift was a virtue, and that Lawrence, as Governor of Old Port, should lead by example.

Lawrence can only helplessly enjoy his painful and happy family affection!

In this regard, Lin Haijiang's feeling is that even his father does not give private money to his wife must not be married, and there are still limitations to the sentence "Brainless", such as Clona, which is a special case.

For the appearance of Cluna, Lin Haijiang can also be regarded as a solution to a heart disease, after all, a strict accounting system is the fundamental way to eliminate corruption, during the period of the construction and development of the old port, Lin Haijiang himself is not in the old port, he does not dare to guarantee that the people he selected are not corrupt, but the use of people is not suspicious, Lin Haijiang will slowly improve the system to put an end to such behavior, and finally the big waves can show the real gold.

At the same time, Lin Haijiang is even more convinced that excellent subordinates can only be selected after rigorous tests.

On January 22, 1854, when the Spring Festival was approaching, Lin Haijiang commanded the battleships Taishan and Huashan to pick up Prince Yi Zaiyuan and his daughter at the dock in Guangzhou, and prepared to return to Beijing along the coastal road.

To Lin Haijiang's surprise, the people on the dock to see him off can be described as a sea of people, Lin Haijiang even saw his father, but separated by a group of officials, can only look at each other from a distance, Zhang Zheng, Gao Qi led a battalion of veterans to follow the Taishan escort, and the Huashan is loaded with all kinds of local products of Prince Yi Zaiyuan?

Lin Haijiang told Liu Quansi and Xu Dawei on the wharf to make up the original battalion, the 2,000 sons of the Lin family and some martial artists and executioners who volunteered to stay after the rebellion were mixed into the five battalions, and Wang Faren's 1,000 marines also stayed in Dapeng City to assist in training.

After Lin Haijiang boarded the Taishan ship, the two behemoths left the dock one after another, and the dock was still noisy with gongs and drums, and the sound of salutes continued to echo in the sky.

Looking at the Huashan with a draft on the flanks that was comparable to the Taishan, Lin Haijiang was a little depressed, it seems that Prince Yi Zaiyuan's errand is really a fat trip! No wonder he had to escort with him, Lin Haijiang estimated that if he took the land route, these things would never be able to be transported without three hundred carts.

It took more than two hours to load the ship at the dock, and Lin Haijiang was very curious about what good things Prince Yi had received all the way south?

If it weren't for the bandit riot in Guangzhou, Prince Yi Zaiyuan would definitely use the warships of the Guangzhou Navy Division to transport things, so could he take the opportunity to get a ticket? Come on, 'black eats gray?' 'Swallowed Prince Yi's gray income for him, so that his old boy wanted to cry without tears, so that he was still uncomfortable to look at now.

Lin Haijiang, who did not have the captain's room, stood desperately in the bow of the ship in the bridge, and was triumphant, and Prince Yi, who had a great command of the country.

Maybe it's Lin Haijiang's prayers? A big wave surged on the bow of the ship, startling Prince Yi Zaiyuan, and Lin Haijiang, who witnessed all this, quietly said to the helmsman beside him: "Raise the main sail, and half the left rudder, and move forward with the wind!" ”

Wang Dongxu, the adjutant behind the helmsman, was just about to shout loudly through the microphone, but Lin Haijiang hurriedly said, "Shhh Be quiet! You stupid pig's head! ”

"Raise the mainsail, turn sideways thirty degrees, advance at a fast pace, left rudder left!" Wang Dongxu whispered and repeated it several times, and the engine room could hear it clearly.

The mainsails of the one-masted and two-masted slowly rose, and the side sails turned corners, and the strange behavior of the Taishan attracted the attention of the Huashan, and hurriedly waved the flag and flashed the signal to ask.

Lin Haijiang didn't reply: "Tell them to keep up at full speed!" ”

The speed of the Taishan began to increase slowly, and after a while, Prince Yi Zaiyuan, who felt that it was very inappropriate to stand at the bow of the ship, was just about to leave with the support of several staff, but a big wave slapped over, giving a big heel to several people, and they were as wet as chickens in soup.

When Lin Haijiang went to visit Prince Yi Zaiyuan in the inner cabin, Prince Yi Zaiyuan was trembling with a bowl of ginger soup, and his white lips were on the gums, and he couldn't even speak.

Aiyena on the side was also angry enough, and Prince Luoyi was a vassal of Zaiyuan, knowing that the danger was still running to the wind and waves, okay! You've been slapped with a fart, right?

I got cold, and I was counted down by my daughter, but I was so cold that I couldn't even talk back, and Prince Yi Zaiyuan, who couldn't even talk back, got the so-called wind chill the next day, and the military doctor on the ship and several doctors accompanying the palace had a good time, and they were okay, and they suffered more or less crimes.

The staff members who teased Prince Yi to go to the wind and waves were each beaten with ten boards, and they were beaten to the point of crying and peeing.

The rest of the trip seemed to be smooth, but what shocked Lin Haijiang was that there were more than 200 pirates rowing more than a dozen clippers at night trying to chase the raid?

"It seems that someone really wants to go with me!" Lin Haijiang was very helpless, he didn't know what kind of stimulus such a poor pirate had received? With only 200 people intending to hijack two fully manned third-class battleships?

For the brave pirates, Lin Haijiang naturally would not be polite, a burst of artillery bombardment wiped out the pirate scum, and scooped up two so-called pirates for interrogation, it turned out that the target of this group of pirates was not Taishan and Huashan, but two cargo ships that Lin Haijiang overtook on the way.

Prince Yi Zaiyuan, who had just recovered from typhoid fever, was shaken by the recoil of the artillery fire and vomited violently, almost vomiting out all the bitter gall, and several captured pirates were beaten by the palace guards and put in the bilge, ready to be handed over to the government after arriving in Tianjin.

The reason why Lin Haijiang did not deal with it directly according to the usual practice was that he didn't want to give Prince Yi Zaiyuan an arrogant and domineering impression, pretending to be a grandson, being a good baby, secretly making good profits, and developing in a low-key curve, which is in line with Lin Haijiang's development plan.

In the early morning of February 26th, the snow was still drifting in Tianjin Port, and the north wind was whizzing by, even if Lin Haijiang, who was wearing three layers of court clothes inside and three layers outside, he still felt cold, looking at Prince Yi who seemed to feel nothing while standing in the cold wind? Lin Haijiang was curious, and then he found out that the clothes of the prince and Aigege were lined with lynx skin?

Even the guards of the palace are in leather robes under their robes, Lin Haijiang will be too late even if he wants to scold his mother, he actually ignored the huge temperature difference between the north and the south? Even Zhang Zheng's first battalion of soldiers is a little out of spirit at the moment!

Lin Haijiang instructed Zhang Zheng to give each brother a bowl, raise the fire in the cabin, get off the ship, and wait for the so-called welcome ceremony to end and return to the ship, waiting for the change of winter clothes.

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