After reaching a peace agreement with Song Xiaofei, he said that he released the Ryukyu King Shotai and the Ukirin Prince Asasaki and others according to the agreement, Song Xiaofei commanded the "Dingyuan" and personally sent them back to the royal palace of Shuri Castle in the Ryukyus, and the Ryukyu King Shotai stood on the deck, looking at the beautiful island where he had lived for forty-three years, and was so excited that he burst into tears: "Finally home!" ”

On the day Shang Tai returned to the Ryukyus, he decided to lead the royal family to hold a grand bonfire party and wine banquet in the evening to reward Song Xiaofei and more than 1,000 officers and soldiers of the Beiyang Naval Division.

In September, the Ryukyu Island was basically windless, very hot and rainy, and it was still a blue sky, and after a while, dark clouds covered the sky, and it rained heavily. However, the rain came and went quickly, and it did not affect the mood of the Ryukyuan people to celebrate the return of the king. In the evening, the people of the Ryukyus welcomed the king's distinguished guests, and the bitter waves of the sea seemed to have moved away from this charming island with the sea and sky.

Song Xiaofei and British Navy Lieutenant Lang Weili sat beside King Shang Tai, watching a dozen brown-skinned Ryukyu native girls, interspersed with traditional costumes of peacock feathers, singing and dancing, enthusiastic and unrestrained. Ryukyu women generally work in the fields for a long time, and there is no fat on their waists, and these wild girls have large sagging breasts, strong arms and thighs, and exude a wild beauty.

At the banquet, there was a lot of singing and laughter, and the people who could drink the Beiyang sailors drank a large bowl of wine. The wine of the Ryukyus is very similar to the rice wine of the Hakka people in southern Fujian, the taste is sweet, although it is not strong, but it is full of stamina, Lang Weili drank two large bowls of wine, and his eyes were already drunk and hazy, and his eyes fell on the buttocks of the Ryukyu dancer.

Seeing this, the king of the Ryukyus, Shang Tai, clapped his hands and stopped singing and dancing, and ordered the two most beautiful girls to sit over to accompany Lang Weili and Song Xiaofei.

Song Xiaofei is not good at this kind of girl with a wild surname, and he remembered Rong Rong who was far away in the United States, so he hurriedly stopped. The two big-eyed girls sat on Luang Weili's lap with one butt, and Lang Weili's hands began to be dishonest, touching their thick wild buttocks.

After three rounds of drinking, the forty-three-year-old king of the Ryukyus, Shotai, suddenly became happy and sad and sobbed. His facial features were a little small, and his face was gloomy, like a prisoner about to be sentenced to death.

Song Xiaofei hurriedly asked what was going on, and Shang Tai said: "The Ryukyu world is subordinate to the Celestial Empire, and the tributes are endless, and there is no sense of failure to do things. Ever since I inherited the throne at the age of four, I have been loyal to China, and for the past 10 years, I have been living in fear every day at gunpoint with no guarantee for the safety of my family. After we were taken captive, he said that he didn't treat us as human beings, deliberately didn't give us enough food, and humiliated us! This time, I didn't dare to offend the majesty of the Celestial Empire and let us come back, but I don't think I would let us go easily, and I would come back to take revenge and continue to enslave and slaughter the people on the island, and I was worried about their fate in the future. ”

Song Xiaofei listened to Shang Tai's words, and obviously had a sense of self-knowledge that he was about to lose the country, but he could still think of the people of Ryukyu at this time, proving that he was still competent as a king, so he comforted him and said: "Please rest assured, the king has already declared the scope of China's sea power to himself, and the Beiyang Navy Division will go to the waters of the Ryukyus for routine patrols in the future, and the navy will not dare to act rashly." ”

Shang Tai said: "With the Admiral here, of course there is no problem, I am afraid that as soon as the Lord leaves, there will be no Chinese officials willing to protect us anymore." Ten years ago, Lin Shigong, the special envoy of our country, who was supposed to swallow our Ryukyus, committed heroic suicide and martyrdom in Yanjing, and the Celestial Empire did not send a single soldier to take care of us. Yesterday, I consulted with Prince Nakihito and begged your lord to ask the Imperial Court to transform Ryukyu into a Chinese county, so that there will be no future troubles, so that the royal family of Ryukyu and the people of Dawn can be saved from the bloody disaster! ”

Song Xiaofei thought that this Shangtai said that it was reasonable, this time to recover Ryukyu, the islanders killed a lot of Yuben military police, to this day, the Ryukyu aborigines can only escape the doom of being massacre by themselves by becoming Chinese, so he promised to return to China, and conveyed the meaning of King Shangtai to Li Hongzhang.

Returning to the wharf of Tianjin Port again, Song Xiaofei felt very cordial, the autumn breeze passed briskly through thousands of mountains and rivers, and the fragrance of meat buns wafted in the air. After Song Xiaofei disembarked, he rushed to Li Hongzhang's mansion non-stop and reported the request of the Ryukyu king.

Li Hongzhang agreed to change the Ryukyus into Ryukyu County and put it under the jurisdiction of Taiwan, and let Shangtai serve as the first Taoist of the Ryukyus, and his family was hereditary. Li Hongzhang sent a note to the ministers of Britain, the United States, and other countries, announcing the decision of China's political axe, and from then on, Ryukyu became an administrative region of Taiwan, but the administrative power that can read is equivalent to the current "special region."

Li Hongzhang was also very satisfied with the results of the handling of the "Nagasaki incident," and showed Song Xiaofei the "Declaration" a few days ago, and the "Declaration" published a report, saying that this incident was a major victory in the history of Sino-Japanese diplomacy and that the Chinese people were full of ambition!

Song Xiaofei disagreed, and said to Li Hongzhang: "If this is also a victory, then this victory is also the brother of the Beiyang Navy Division in exchange for blood and life, and the students dare not live up to them." This time the students were more aware of the importance of coastal defense, and the students had some specific suggestions to improve China's sea and land defense system, and asked their teachers to support them. ”

Li Hongzhang said: "Prince Alcohol has lingering palpitations about the old incident of the British and French troops driving from Tianjin Port to Yanjing during the Xianfeng period, and now he also attaches great importance to the construction of coastal defense, you might as well draw up a plan for the entire coastal defense for the old man, and the old man will ask Prince Alcohol, with his support, many things will be much easier." ”

Therefore, Song Xiaofei discussed with Lang Weili, Ma Jifen, Lin Taizeng, Liu Buchan, Deng Shichang and others, and worked out a complete set of plans for building the "Great Wall of the Sea", suggesting that eight Krupp heavy guns should be purchased from Germany and installed in the forts in Dagu and Beitang, and at the same time a dock, armory, and artillery factory should be built in Tianjin, mines should be laid at the mouth of the sea, and "mosquito boats" should be arranged to cruise. In this way, the Beiyang Naval Division built a three-dimensional coastal defense network based on cruisers, "mosquito boats", torpedo boats, transport ships, land batteries, and Weihaiwei Military Port, and formed an iron triangle with Dagu Port, Lushun Port, and Weihaiwei to build a great wall of steel on the sea to defend the capital.

It happened that Li Fengbao, who was in charge of the Beiyang Naval Academy at that time, was dismissed by the imperial court for accepting bribes of 600,000 taels of silver in the purchase of warships in Germany in 1884. Song Xiaofei's burden and responsibility were heavier, and he changed the school system of the Sailor Academy to 5 years, mainly learning steamship driving and engine management, ship maintenance, etc., as well as gun drills, torpedoes, and the use of mechanical instruments, etc., to train spare naval talents for the Beiyang Naval Division. Then, Song Xiaofei merged the Beiyang Navy Academy and the Beiyang Army Academy, renamed the Beiyang Military Academy, and still invited Li Hongzhang to be the honorary principal, he became the first principal, and the enrollment scale was expanded to 2,000 army officers and 1,000 naval officers per period.

Soon after, the other two ironclad ships ordered by Li Hongzhang also arrived, and Song Xiaofei set up the Beiyang Naval Division in advance, and referred to the "British Navy Regulations" provided by British Navy Major Lang Weili, combined with the actual cruising of the Beiyang Naval Division, promulgated and implemented the "Beiyang Naval Division Regulations", starting with the construction of the ship system, warships, ship guarding, ship training, and cabin transportation systems, to ensure the combat effectiveness of the Beiyang Naval Division, and also stipulated that all students of the Beiyang Military Academy must go on board the ship to practice and study for three years after the completion of the two-year study period, so as to strengthen the students' ability to practice and work.

At this time, the Beiyang Naval Division had enough warships for the trainees to practice, and Song Xiaofei checked the "family background"; the Beiyang Naval Division's fleet had two world-advanced ironclad battleships, the "Dingyuan" and "Zhenyuan," with a displacement of more than 7,000 tons, as well as two 3,000-ton armored cruisers of "Jingyuan" and "Laiyuan," three 3,000-ton protective cruisers of the "Jiyuan," "Zhiyuan," and "Jingyuan," two ramming cruisers "Yangwei" and "Chaoyong," and two torpedo cruisers "Guangyi" and "Guangbing." There are four "mosquito boats," including the "Longji," "Huwei," "Feiting," and "Cedian," and 15 torpedo boats, including the "First Left Boat," the "Second Left Boat," the "Third Left Boat," the "Right One," the "Right Second," the "Right Second," the "Fulong," the "Dingyi," the "Ding," the "Ding," the "Zhen," the "Zhongjia," the "Zhongyi," and the "Qianyi," and "Qiandian," with a total tonnage of more than 42,000 tons and more than 4,000 officers and men. The navies of the United States, Britain, France, and other countries have all been impressed by the Chinese Navy.

Since the dawn of human beings, we have always had two major dreams, one is immortality, and the other is the ability to predict the future. Although Song Xiaofei can't live forever, he can predict the future, so he knows very well what to do next.

Song Xiaofei ordered that in the next ten years, the Beiyang Navy Division regarded the navy as a matter of concern, strengthened the monitoring of his own purchase of warships, and he raised money to buy them if he could. During the patrol of the Tsushima Strait, the Taiwan Strait, the East China Sea, and the South China Sea, once the Beiyang Naval Division discovered the warship, it did not need to ask for instructions and report it, and immediately and unconditionally sank it!

Song Xiaofei also sent a telegram to Rong Hong, who lived in the United States, asking him to recommend talents in telegraph ciphers who had previously studied in the United States to create new military codes.

In the telegram, Song Xiaofei also sincerely invited Rong Hong to return to China and teach at the Beiyang Military Academy. Rong Hong has always advocated education to save the country, "through Western scholarship" to make China, the old empire into a young new China, after the Qing court ordered the withdrawal of all the children in the United States, he was very disappointed and painful, after sending the children back to the United States, he returned to the United States to live.

Song Xiaofei wanted the Beiyang Military Academy to achieve a leap from "Shiyi Technique" to "Shiyi Wisdom", but Song Xiaofei knew that changing people's minds was the most difficult thing in the world, this road was destined to be not smooth, and the next struggle would be more tragic than ever, not only the old school in the court would attack him, but even his mentor Li Hongzhang might come forward to interfere with him! But Song Xiaofei knows that he has stood at a critical juncture in history, and there is absolutely no way to stand idly by, and there is no way back, but to continue to move forward bravely!;