In the melodious sound of the organ, the bell of the small town of Southampton began to ring slowly, and the distant bell rang throughout the port, which means that today's high tide time is coming to an end for Southampton, the center of the trade and transshipment of goods on the south coast of the British Empire, and the natural excellent deep-water port!

Not far away, the cargo ships that are still waiting have dropped anchor, waiting for tomorrow's tide.

A few miles from Southampton, in a small, two-story Vider-style building in the small town of Dartmouth, a group of people are anxiously surrounding a doctor.

"Young Master! Master! Are you finally awake? Hu Xu opened his heavy eyes, and what greeted him was a fat man with a red face, who looked around the people in the room in a trance, and then closed his eyes again, and he could hear someone on the side saying anxiously: "Xiao Zizhong, Dr. Smithsonian, double the consultation fee!" ”

When Hu Xu opened his eyes again, he found a very tired girl lying on his bedside, and the furnishings in the room can be described as a strange combination of Chinese and Western. It's like a drama of the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China? Hu Xu struggled to get up, but unexpectedly woke up the girl lying at the head of his bed, and the girl hurriedly supported Hu Xu in surprise and said, "Young master, what are you going to do?" Slaves are waiting for you! ”

The pain in his head made Hu Xu feel the so-called reality, touched his face, and suddenly Hu Xu was slightly stunned!

"Mirror, give me a mirror!" Hu Xu shouted anxiously with red eyes!

Hu Xu's request made the little maid stunned for a moment? But still with an incredible face muttering and brought a palm-sized mirror, Hu Xu calmed down his mood, picked up the mirror and looked at it, a strange white face appeared in the mirror, Hu Xu was stunned for a while, and then slowly put down the mirror, he knew that he was likely to encounter something extremely incredible.

This kind of thing generally exists in the imaginary framework of fictional novels, and the immortal rebirth of the soul is too weird for Hu Xu, a modern person, to be weird, even to the point of being unacceptable! It is also thanks to Hu Xuping's habit of being rough and leafy.

But in front of Hu Xu, apart from accepting the reality, Hu Xu had no way to speak of, Hu Xu helplessly touched his scattered hair, and there was still a strong smell of burning on it?

"My head hurts a little now, tell me about me! Also What year is it? The little maid fell to her knees in a panic, crying: "The young master is to save the injuries suffered by Lily and Sister Zijuan, all of them are not good for slaves and maids, and they will not shout to trouble you on the street in the future!" ”

Hu Xu hesitated for a moment, and decided to follow Lily's words, otherwise it would be easy to arouse the suspicion of the little girl, so he shook his head slightly and said: "I don't blame you, my head is a little messy now, and many things in the past are very blurry!" ”

Lily was surprised: "Oh my God! Dr. Nayang said that you will have some shocks, and you can't remember anything, it's really a god! ”

Hu Xu glanced at the little girl helplessly, and then said, "Come and sit on my side and tell me a good story." ”

"Ahh Lily's little face suddenly turned red, and Lily grabbed the placket of her clothes and twisted it for a while before whispering: "Sister Zijuan is your big girl, slave and maid, I am the top of the order, I must not break the rules, and young master, you are not healed now, I am afraid that sex will have an impact on the condition!" ”

Hu Xu just didn't understand anymore, he still understood the two words of this line, so he also blushed and said embarrassedly: "Then where is your chair, tell me about it!" ”

Lily bowed slightly, squatted down, and then said: "Sister Lily, Steward Zhao, Lin San, and Lin Si came to Dartmouth in the English Empire with the young master last year, and the old lady arranged for you to come to the sailor school to study, and said that after you finish your studies, you will follow your eldest cousin in Guangdong Sailor to make up for your crown." ”

With Lily's reminder, Hu Xu also suddenly remembered some things, including the very familiar name of Lin Haijiang, and some memories from the past began to gradually emerge in front of him.

I'm afraid I've already become this Lin Haijiang, right? I am afraid that the name Hu Xu can only be buried deep in his own memory in the future.

Hu Xu prefers history, but this is only limited to the navy, he clearly remembers the historical Lin Haijiang word Xiaoren, and his three cousins can be said to be authentic Han Jian, among which Lin Haijiang joined the Far East Fleet of the Great Britain Empire after graduating from the Dartmouth Naval School.

Later, he participated in the Second Opium War in 1860 and participated in the burning of the Old Summer Palace, so that he was directly removed from the Lin family tree.

In Hu Xu's memory, the Royal Naval College of the United Kingdom is the main academy for training junior officers of the British Navy, and is known as the "cradle" of British naval officers.

The college was founded in 1863 and is also known as the "Royal Naval College Dartmouth". Historically, the president of the academy has been the commander of the Royal Navy's Home Fleet.

Before the establishment of the Royal Naval College at Dartmouth, the Dartmouth Naval School was only a British school for training deck professional officers and non-commissioned officers at that time, and it can be said that 80% of the junior officers and non-commissioned officers of the British Royal Navy came from the Dartmouth Naval School, and Oriental students were indeed a novelty for this era.

Hu Xu had an impulse to meet the ancestors of the Lin family, who were still in the era of the 'sea ban' in terms of policy, and how could they have such a far-sighted sense of the sea? It's not easy.

As a naval officer, Hu Xu knew very well that the Qing Dynasty had no navy, and even if the official title of the Beiyang Fleet, which dominated Asia for a while, was still the Beiyang Naval Division.

Since Dartmouth Naval School has not yet become the Royal Naval College, it means that the time point he is now in must be before 1863.

The year 1860 was an incomparably dark era for the entire Chinese nation, and the cultural inheritance and crystallization of the Chinese nation for thousands of years were shamelessly plundered by bandits.

Outside, the Second Opium War of the British and French forces burned the Old Summer Palace, and inside there were the tyranny of the Qing court, the Taiping Rebellion, and so on, and a series of major events occurred during the critical period from 1851 to 1860.

Hu Xu's blood had begun to boil unconsciously, and he was eager to do something for this suffering nation, but he didn't know how to start?

"What year is it?" Facing the young master's inquiry, Lily thought for a moment and said: "When we left, Lord Xianfeng ascended the throne and granted amnesty, this year is naturally the second year of Xianfeng, and you are also sixteen years old!" ”

"Two years of Xianfeng? That's 1852? Hu Xu breathed a long sigh of relief and muttered to himself: "There are still eight years, and there are still eight years!" ”

The sooner the decadent Qing Dynasty is overthrown, the sooner China will seize the opportunity for redevelopment, regain the opportunity to let the Chinese nation stand again among the nations of the world!

Hu Xu's ambitions are undoubtedly incomparably ambitious, and his ideals are also magnificent, but he is also like most utopians! Lack of an opportunity and strength to cut into the times!

At least in 1853, the Qing Empire was still very strong, and the final fall of the Qing Dynasty was not the result of external pressure or armed struggle, but the Qing Dynasty's own innovation finally changed itself through repeated changes.

Hu Xu clenched his fists tightly and fell asleep unconsciously, Lily smiled helplessly, covered the quilt for the young master, and was just about to turn around, when he found Zijuan who was walking in lightly to replace him, so the two little girls smiled and secretly ran to the outer hall to whisper.

Early the next morning, Hu Xu got up early, and the residual memory in his mind made him remember that the early roll call of the Dartmouth Naval School was at seven o'clock, because most of his hair was burned off, so he asked for the surname to shave his head directly, and in Hu Xu's opinion, the shaving of his head was a trivial matter, and the result was that Steward Zhao took a group of people to kneel in front of him and cry.

It is difficult for Hu Xu to imagine why the knees of a dignified seven-foot man are so soft? And tears can come down when they are said? Judging by Hu Xu's standards, if Steward Zhao is placed in the next generation, at least he will be the three-material acting actor of Golden Rooster, Hundred Flowers, and Golden Horse!

In the end, it wasn't until Hu Xu promised that he was only doing it temporarily and renewing it, that the matter came to an end.

Steward Zhao also knew that the young master was often teased as a 'barbarian of the East' at school because of his braids, especially this time because of the local students' insulting remarks about Zijuan and Lily, and as a result, the two sides knocked over the foreign lamp in a scuffle and burned a big braid with oil.

In addition to harshly reprimanding the two disobedient little girls who relied on the young master! Steward Zhao stood aside respectfully and commanded Lily and Zijuan to change Hu Xu's clothes.

Hu Xu changed into a 'school uniform' and stood in front of the mirror, the dark blue stand-up collar double-breasted tweed military uniform looked very thick, except for a finger-wide white border on the cuffs and the red line on the pants, the whole military uniform was not decorated, and compared with the military uniforms of both the East and the West in this era, it looked particularly neat and capable.

It seems that he also has his favorite military uniform, Hu Xu put the European-style big plate hat on his head, Hu Xu knows that from today when he takes the first step out of this door, the name Hu Xu will be buried in his heart forever, and it will be Lin Haijiang instead, Lin Haijiang is him, and he is also Lin Haijiang.

Sitting in the carriage driven by Lin San, Lin Haijiang looked at the scenery outside the car, the narrow and irregular streets, the potholes and uneven roads, and a smell everywhere. The gutters on the street have long been clogged with garbage sludge.

If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, it would have been hard for Lin Haijiang to believe the historical records, and it is said that Queen Victoria often did not bathe?

In 1852, Britain had completed a major industrial transformation relatively as a whole, but the development of cities was a slip of the tongue, and his destination was the Dartmouth Naval School in Meyertown, a suburb of Dartmouth.

When the carriage crossed a small hill, Lin Haijiang's eyes suddenly opened up, the endless sea reflected the blue sky and white clouds, and several seagulls were flying freely. A straight wheat straw road, at the end of which is a complex of three small two-story buildings, and a little past is a pier on which two brigs with ramming horns are moored.

"Lin! Has your body recovered? Just as Lin Haijiang got out of the carriage and was stunned, a typical Western beauty with a hot body and blond hair and blue eyes stood in front of Lin Haijiang, with a concerned expression that did not seem to be fake.

In Lin Haijiang's memory, this is the principal Misterang. George's daughter, Anna. George is also a physics teacher at the school.

Lin Haijiang gave Anna a hat salute from memory, but the shiny top of his head caused Anna to exclaim, and the melodious sound of the bell interrupted Anna's desire to continue asking.

"Come with me, we're going to be late! Robert is notoriously selfless. Anna smiled at Lin Haijiang and lifted the corner of her skirt and suddenly became like a fly, Lin Haijiang looked at Anna's fluffy round princess dress and was slightly stunned, and then remembered a previous joke, but it was definitely not the time to tell jokes in front of him, so he strode to catch up with Anna and went straight to the school gate.

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