Lin Haijiang, who was almost dizzy, remembered that at the end of April, Miles seemed to have a secret meeting with the envoys of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in Guangzhou, and the two sides reached an agreement on the purchase of cannons.

At that time, he was busy cleaning up the so-called patriotic project of the muddy pond, and he didn't bother to ask, so he found a gap this time and met with Miles secretly, but the news that Miles gave Lin Haijiang scared Lin Haijiang a lot, and ten Krupp 100mm coastal defense guns have completed the transaction together with a thousand ammunition, and the technicians in the old port may have completed the debugging this time.

The stunned Lin Haijiang remembered that he seemed to have given Miles a so-called guide price? After that, let him take full responsibility.

Myers replied very cautiously: "Because there is still 20% of the balance payment that has not been paid off by the other party, it has not been reported for the time being." ”

When Lin Haijiang learned that the Krupp cannon with 7,000 taels of 300 shells was sold for 150,000 taels of silver for each shell, and each shell was 260 taels of silver, he was immediately petrified.

However, Myers specifically reminded Lin Haijiang that it seemed a little unwise to sell such a new and powerful artillery to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

Lin Haijiang smiled and said, "Miles, you are too worried, do you think that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom can still make cannonballs by itself?" We can completely control their cannons with shells and accessories. ”

Miles smiled helplessly, using the vulnerable parts of the artillery and ammunition to jam the opponent's neck, it seems to be a steady stream of ways to make money!

Lin Haijiang pushed the paperweight on the table and said with a serious expression: "The Krupp cannon we purchased can be said to be the first generation of Krupp's products, as a new weapon, it is not yet perfect and mature, and the specific problems of the artillery can often only be exposed in specific applications, so we can use a small amount of it ourselves, but also resell it at a high price for profit, and wait for mature models to be finalized, and we are equipped in large quantities." ”

Myers understood what Lin Haijiang meant, that is, to find an unlucky guy to act as an experimental feedback for new weapons, but what puzzled Myers was why Lin Haijiang didn't choose British and French artillery manufacturers with a long history, reputation, quality, and excellent reputation?

Instead, he chose the little-known Krupp Brothers? However, this is not the first thing that Lin Haijiang is puzzling, and now the people around Lin Haijiang have unconsciously formed a habit, that is, whatever Lin Haijiang insists on must have a reason.

After sending Miles away, Lin Haijiang laboriously read the newspaper in the study!

During this time, Lin Haijiang paid the most attention to the Di Bao every ten days, the so-called Di Bao surname is somewhat similar to the red-headed documents of later generations, with a strong policy to the surname, and the scope of circulation is very small, in Beijing is generally more than six servants, and the provinces are governors or designated officials.

The Longwei and Longsheng shelled Tianjing City many times, and echoed that the camps in Jiangnan and Jiangbei cut off the north-south connection of the Taiping Army, and Lin Haijiang sent people from the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom to Guangzhou to buy artillery with huge sums of money, indicating that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom may have been really in a hurry, and millions of taels of silver were released, so they had to sink the Longwei and Longsheng ships.

However, Lin Haijiang also heard that because the officers and men of the Fujian Navy Division were not familiar with the improper use of the ship, the Longsheng ran aground not long ago, and the Longwei was bombarded.

But these are trivial things, the Fujian Navy Division can be said to have good news for a while, Long Keer was promoted to the rank of squire of the military department, and he still led the army to fight, but the most talked about is that Lin Haijiang, a big idiot, gave the merits in hand to others.

According to the Treaty of Nanjing signed in the First Opium War in 1840, the original forts of Kowloon, Lantau Island, Vaughan Island, Fumen, Humen, Shantou, Shanwei and Chaozhou have been dismantled or handed over to the British.

And the anti-smuggling on the sea was also because most of the smuggling ships were flying the British flag, so they were openly transporting and buying opium, and the Guangzhou sailors of the Qing Dynasty could only stare dryly and have no other way to fight the British Far East Fleet with fast rowing, gunboats, and sand boats?

Lin Haijiang is not so impulsive, at least not so impulsive now, in the face of the swaggering smuggling boats, Lin Haijiang hates those two devils who play for the tiger, these scum are even worse than their masters.

Since some of the officers and men in his battalion were quite good, especially the group of professional trainers recruited later, Lin Haijiang decided to set up a special secret detective team, and selected officers and men with flexible skills, simple identities and clean backgrounds, and loyal and reliable officers and men to enter.

Lin Haijiang's special detective team had just taken shape, and the Fujian Navy Division came with earth-shattering news, the two ships Longwei and Longsheng were besieged by bandits at Yanziji, and due to the turbulence of the waterway, the Longsheng unfortunately ran aground and became a cannon target, and the powder magazine of the Longwei was hit and exploded after the main mast was broken.

The Fujian Navy Division was the deputy general of the third grade, and 1,890 officers and soldiers below the rank of Longke in the leading army department died with the ship.

The sinking of Long Wei and Long Sheng made the entire Yanjing suddenly feel as if a ten-magnitude earthquake had occurred, how could Xianfeng not believe that the two giant ships he saw in Tianjin would be sunk? In a rage, he punished the three clans of the Manchurian warrior Longkor who had just been repeatedly praised by him a few days ago!

This Longkorna is a vein of the Jiaerdong clan that was a smash hit in the Kang, Yong, and Qian dynasties, and the Jiaerdong clan has also completely declined.

After infinite remorse and chagrin, Xianfeng inadvertently turned out Lin Haijiang's recital, everything that Lin Haijiang predicted at that time turned out to be a cruel reality, Long Wei and Long Sheng became the targets of bandits, and millions of taels of silver were lost, so that the morale of the front line was unprecedentedly low, is he really not an emperor? Why do good things fail when you make a decision?

Xianfeng locked himself alone in the Heart Cultivation Palace, and Su Shun and the others, who had failed to see him, stood outside the hall and sighed, Su Shun just hoped that the emperor with the surname could learn a lesson, but the expensive learning price was too great, and it was so big that the Qing Dynasty could not afford it.

And according to Xiang Rong's report, the bandits have salvaged most of the guns on the two sunken ships out of the water, this news undoubtedly makes Xianfeng even more restless, the power of the two giant ships he has seen with his own eyes, how should so many foreign cannons fall into the hands of the bandits now?

Xianfeng looked depressed and played with a little lion of mutton fat and white jade, this was Emperor Kangxi's favorite thing for ten thousand years, thinking back to the prosperous era of Kangqian, Xianfeng's first burst of pain? How will future generations evaluate themselves? Xianfeng mess?

The sinking of Long Wei and Long Sheng made Lin Haijiang feel very happy, and he bowed his hand to Ye Mingchen early in the morning to say hello to each other, Ye Mingchen said meaningfully: "Lin Daren is very popular!" ”

Lin Haijiang smiled silently, and Ye Mingchen sighed helplessly: "In the Qing Dynasty, no matter what you want to do, there are always so many masters who pull their backs, and now they finally realize that they are wrong, but it's a pity that there are two giant ships!" ”

Lin Haijiang also pretended to be helpless and sighed: "So what can it be? Originally, he was the overlord of the sea, and he had to put it in the bathtub and fight hard! ”

Ye Mingchen and Lin Haijiang both have a consensus of schadenfreude, the Fujian Navy Division has suffered heavy losses after this battle, and the soldiers who can recruit good soldiers can be regarded as all involved, but this escort is still a little thin compared to the two giant ships of Longwei and Longsheng.

After chatting for a while, Lin Haijiang got up to say goodbye, Ye Mingchen sent him off, it can be said that the current situation between the two Guangxi makes Ye Mingchen very comfortable, although Bai Gui often points out that he is not, but secretly still wears a pair of pants with him, the imperial court has not appointed a new Guangzhou general, and Lin Haijiang, the commander of the naval division, is his own person, and everyone helps each other to maintain, this is the most comfortable thing since he became an official.

The sinking of the Longwei and the Longsheng gave Lin Haijiang a feeling of settled dust, and through this incident, he deeply felt what it means to be a companion like a tiger, and Xianfeng, who seemed to be smiling and kind, cared for himself at all, didn't want to let himself control the battleship at all.

In other words, Xianfeng does not believe in the so-called Hanchen at all, the generals who are really in charge of the army around the governor who see the world are all Manchurian, Zeng Guofan can be said to be a special case, but recently it is said that the Hunan army is very sad, the flag camps and green camps in various places have long been defeated, and the brave and warlike Hunan army has naturally become the main target of the Taiping army.

Lin Haijiang has been quietly paying attention to another pivotal figure in history, Li Hongzhang!

However, at this time, Li Hongzhang was just a deputy to the Anhui General Regiment to train the anti-suppression battalion of the Ministry of Works, and later joined the Zeng Guofan shogunate assistant camp finance step by step, until 1862 Huaiyong became an army of his own, Li Hongzhang was recommended by Zeng Guofan as the governor of Jiangsu, and then embarked on the road to development.

At present, Li Hongzhang is just a nobody, and for Li Hongzhang, a loyal minister of the Qing Dynasty who has great potential, Lin Haijiang believes that he should deal with it as soon as possible and decisively, otherwise it is likely to become a stumbling block for himself in the future.

Based on these thoughts, Lin Haijiang trained his special secret detective team more seriously, and after Lin Haijiang's repeated investigations, the cautious Wang Faren became the captain of the special detective team, and all the members of the team went to the old port for three months for intensive training, so it can be said that the special detective team was the prelude and source of Lin Haijiang's secret intelligence system.

Lin Haijiang has long been aware of the importance of the intelligence system, but he knows that although the intelligence work is urgent, he can't be cautious, after all, what he wants to do in the future is to pull the flag and rebel, and it is necessary to be hasty and timid, only be careful, after all, the Qing Empire is still hard at the moment.

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