In the so-called former Ming Dynasty, Yanjing was also called Jingshi, to the Qing Dynasty, in order to show the difference, Yanjing quietly disappeared, and people slowly got used to calling its Jingshi Shuntianfu.

As soon as he entered Yanjing City, Lin Haijiang was shocked by its brilliant momentum, Lin Haijiang of later generations has been to Yanjing many times, the Summer Palace, the Forbidden City, [***] Square, and the Yanjing of later generations is more than the hustle and bustle of the modern city.

The old Yanjing City in front of you is the crystallization of the Ming and Qing dynasties, many buildings were forcibly demolished by the construction of the so-called new Yanjing in a few years after the founding of the People's Republic of China, and today Lin Haijiang finally has the opportunity to re-see the majesty of Yanjing City.

History may not be deeply touching for a person who is in it, but for a latecomer who has never experienced it, it is more of an accumulation of precipitation, an inexplicable vicissitudes.

After all, as early as the Western Zhou Dynasty, Yanjing became the capital of Yanguo, one of the vassal states of the Zhou Dynasty, and Yanjing has a history of more than 3,000 years of city building and more than 857 years of capital history. Since the Qin and Han dynasties, the Yanjing area has been an important military and commercial town in northern China, and its names have been called Jicheng, Yandu, Yanjing, Zhuojun, Youzhou, Nanjing, Zhongdu, Dadu, Jingshi, Shuntianfu, Beiping, Yanjing, etc., and Yanjing has become the largest city in the world at that time in the late Qing Dynasty.

However, due to the destruction that later generations believed, the old Yanjing was gone, looking at the towering towers and the stretching city walls, Lin Haijiang suddenly felt an irrepressible sadness? He knew that if nothing changed, then in a few years, the artillery of the British and French invaders would blast open the strong gates of the largest city in human history at that time, and plunder the most brilliant pearl in the history of human civilization, the Old Summer Palace, the Garden of Ten Thousand Gardens.

The distant bell of the bell and drum tower made Lin Haijiang feel a little relaxed, and his battalion of soldiers were all left on the ship at the Tianjin wharf, if it weren't for him to follow Prince Yi to carry the wall, even these dozen guards would not be able to enter the square of Sijiu City.

Prince Yi Zaiyuan told Lin Haijiang that the post station had long been overcrowded, and the conditions were not good, so he let Lin Haijiang live in his palace, whether it was out of wooing or apology, Prince Yi Zaiyuan's kindness Lin Haijiang still accepted, after all, this is the so-called foot of the Son of Heaven, and it is of course the best to have less trouble if you can have less trouble.

Coming to Prince Yi's Mansion located in the north of Chaoyangmen Inner Street, Lin Haijiang learned that Prince Yi's Mansion was divided into two places, the old Mansion of Prince Yi was located in the east of Wangfujing Street, and Prince Yi's new Mansion was located in the north of Chaoyangmen Inner Street. The old palace was Yinxiang, the thirteenth son of Emperor Kangxi, Prince Fengyi, and in addition to the Iron Hat King, another "hereditary replacement" prince lived.

And the new mansion of Prince Yi Zaiyuan was built during the Qianlong period, located in the north of Chaoyangmen Inner Street, the first king Hongxiao is the seventh son of Prince Yixian Yunxiang, because the mansion was rebuilt Xianliang Temple in the Qianlong period to move here.

Prince Yi's palace starts from today's Xiaowei Hutong in the east, Wangfujing Street in the west, Jinyu Hutong in the north, and Shuaifuyuan Hutong in the south. The main gate building of the middle road has a gate with five rooms, a hall with seven rooms, a main hall with five rooms, a back bedroom and a cover building with seven rooms.

Along the left and right of the main hall there are three acres of garden bridges, rockeries, fountains, flowing water, suites, wing rooms along the main line of the main hall to line around, carved beams and painted buildings, gold pastel maps, all make Lin Haijiang sigh and marvel, everything in the palace of Prince Yi makes Lin Haijiang can be described as dazzling, it can be said that the old Yanjing City is the culmination of thousands of years of crystallization of the Chinese working people, the accumulation and inheritance of this national culture, is the world in any country and nation has never had.

But it is a pity that these precious cultural wealth was destroyed after the liberation of the people, leaving future generations can only be infinite reverie, becoming Yanjing's bent on becoming an international metropolis of the victim and stepping stone, maybe another hundred years, when people look back again, maybe they will be surprised to find that what they abandoned is what they are looking for and constantly exploring and pursuing.

Lin Haijiang and his guards were arranged in a small courtyard in the back garden, although the third housekeeper who led the way gave Lin Haijiang a disdainful face before, but when he found out that this little military attache seemed to have an unusual relationship with the prince, he immediately became nodding and bowed.

Lin Haijiang is very worried that the waist of the three housekeepers will not suddenly break off? This kind of snob Lin Haijiang has seen a lot, so naturally he didn't take it to heart.

Early the next morning, after breakfast, Prince Yi Zaiyuan personally asked Lin Haijiang how he planned to buy ships from foreigners and how it was appropriate.

Lin Haijiang could only deal with it back: "I have already sent someone back to contact him, and I will notify this side as soon as there is a result." ”

Hearing that Lin Haijiang was prepared, Prince Yi Zaiyuan was really relieved, and then hinted to Lin Haijiang that the emperor was very concerned about the purchase of foreign ships, and this morning Huang Weiguang, the head of the household department, was taken to reflect at home.

For Huang Weiguang, the household servant, Lin Haijiang is still somewhat impressed, and the third-grade official who cried poor with a bitter face on the Taishan is pitiful enough, just because he has no money to buy a warship for the whim Xianfeng, he was picked up and put on the top that he has fought for all his life to reflect at home.

But Lin Haijiang is also very curious? The Qing Dynasty is actually not poor, right? He remembered that at the end of the Qing Dynasty, the national tax revenue had reached 120 million taels of silver.

The Qing Dynasty had to compensate as much as 1,293,400,000 taels of silver in all unequal treaties, and the actual compensation for silver in the end was close to 653,200,000 taels, which was only the loss of silver.

The Beiyang Fleet is the only opportunity in the history of the Chinese Navy to get closest to the blue water navy, but history has ruthlessly erased it, and the Chinese navy of later generations is still painfully dreaming of the blue water navy in the encirclement of the heavy chain islands.

Lin Haijiang remembered that the amount of money lost in the 'two-house delisting crisis' in later generations had exceeded 100 times the reparations paid in the First Sino-Japanese Naval War, and if the Chinese Navy could have a powerful surface hull formation, whether it was the Diaoyu Islands or the South China Sea, those clowns would not dare to come out easily.

75% of the earth's surface is the ocean, which determines that the existence of the navy is not only a deterrent force, but an offensive force.

But in Lin Haijiang's consciousness, deterrence alone cannot solve the problem, the essence of war is bloody conquest and plunder, using ethnic integration to annex the other party, and time to consume the other party, instead of always trying to solve the problem with lips whenever there is a problem? Then what do you need soldiers, what do you want the armed forces for? For some nationalities and countries whose inferior surnames are difficult to change, it is necessary to first fight him so that even his mother does not know him, and then theorize with him.

In the morning, Prince Yi Zaiyuan led Lin Haijiang into the palace, but didn't he want to meet Xianfeng? For Lin Haijiang, who looked puzzled, Prince Yi Zaiyuan smiled slightly and said, "Do you think it's so easy to see the emperor?" ”

After Prince Yi left, a eunuch with a sharp beak and monkey cheeks took Lin Haijiang and several prefects and county orders who were waiting here before into the side room.

The eunuch said in a sharp voice: "The surname of the miscellaneous family is Sun, and he is the deputy head of the Zongren Mansion, you all have to prick up your ears and listen carefully today, tomorrow the emperor will summon you in the morning, all the rules and miscellaneous families only say it once, and remember it, otherwise if there is a mess, beware of your head." ”

When Deputy Chief Manager Sun was speaking, everyone else was vivi yes, but Lin Haijiang was distracted, because Lin Haijiang was looking at the beams and pillars on the roof, and he found that there was not a single nail on the pillars and beams?

Deputy Chief Sun didn't have a good attack because he saw that it was Prince Yi Zaiyuan who personally sent it, and before that, he had already received filial piety ranging from two hundred or three hundred taels from others, because when he entered the palace, the little eunuch had mentioned it, and when he understood the road, he would choose a brick in front of him that kowtowed to him, and if he didn't understand something, he would choose a solid one for you.

The officials below the eunuchs' trick knew that this money could not be saved, so they all waited to see the joke of Lin Haijiang, a junior official of the fifth grade.

Then a few square boards on the side marked with the painting of the Qing Dynasty officials' grades and hats, after looking at the officials' descriptions and robes and accessories, Lin Haijiang was very depressed, he always thought that he was a five-grade official, but he still belonged to the lower middle position among the officials of the Qing Dynasty, and he was a military attache in the donation class, so even the Qipin Zhixian County, who was preparing to face the saint together, did not care about his own Qiu Ba.

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