Regarding Lin Haijiang's mysterious establishment of such a special detective team that is not even on the roster of the big camp, the people around Lin Haijiang consciously ignore this matter and don't ask about it, Lin Haijiang in Guangzhou is also a simple house, except for training in the big camp, Lin Haijiang rarely shows up in Guangzhou City.

However, the managers of the foreign firm, who were shaved to pieces by Lin Haijiang when the Hong troops gathered to attack Guangzhou last time, could hardly forget that this Qing general who made them remember deeply, had Lin Haijiang's study experience in Britain and his standard English.

Although the diplomatic language of the upper class is French, can a Qing military attaché who speaks fluent English ask for anything more than those translators who often make mistakes?

In the evening, an old family member came to the camp and said that he was looking for Lin Haijiang to go home, and the battalion soldiers at the gate naturally did not dare to slack off, during this time Lin Haijiang rarely went home, and if you think about it, it is indeed a last resort, and there are now 15,000 officers and soldiers in the battalion, Lin Haijiang does not dare to openly advocate the equality of officers and soldiers, but he can make ordinary soldiers feel it from practical actions.

His green sedan chair has never been lifted out once, except for horseback riding, in the camp is more on foot, the equality of officers and soldiers is very simple to say, but the implementation is an incomparably long process, the army itself is a strict class society, there is no such thing as equality.

If the real officers and soldiers are equal, I am afraid that this army will really be scattered, what Lin Haijiang can do is to make the officers and soldiers close to each other in ordinary life, and military discipline is like an iron-clad fact as existing.

Lin Haijiang, who hurried home in a hurry, found that the atmosphere at home was not right as soon as he entered the house? Mother and father are not seen in the inner hall? Zijuan led Lin Haijiang to the backyard with an anxious face, and Lin Haijiang stepped into the courtyard and smelled a strong smell of medicine? Lin Haijiang, who had a bad premonition in his heart, walked a few steps quickly.

As soon as he entered the house, he found several Lang Zhong surrounding his father, who was wrapped in several bandages and his head was wrapped up.

Seeing this, Lin Haijiang said sharply: "What's going on? ”

Lin Haijiang's mother immediately waved everyone away: "Your father is fine, he just fell asleep, you come with me." ”

After changing rooms, Lin Mu straightened up and said: "I said that your father let the boat go to sea, and he had to follow him to collect the accounts, but when he came back, he met a bandit, the silver was robbed, and people were injured!" Your father told me that I should never tell you this news, you are now an official, no more than when Bai Ding was in charge, everything should be considered in the long run, my son, do you understand? ”

Lin Haijiang nodded, his family can be said to be his final bottom line, you have the ability to move me, but if you move my family, it is equivalent to igniting the battle situation until death.

However, Lin Haijiang understands very well that this is a warning given to him by the other party, the so-called pirates are simply nonsense in Lin Haijiang's opinion, and the merchant ships in the house of his dignified Guangdong Navy Admiral can still be robbed? Isn't that a lot of fun to say?

Lin Haijiang understood the reason why his father kept secret, but who was it? And for what purpose? Mr. Lin is still unclear, but the attack has been a wake-up call.

When he returned to the camp, it was already midnight, and Lin Haijiang suddenly saw a woman in white standing on the archway at the end, and disappeared in a blink of an eye? Could it be that I can't be dazzled?

After returning to the camp, Lin Haijiang began to gradually analyze his existing or potential enemies, and the analysis did not come up with a result, but Lin Haijiang noticed that his position as the commander of the Guangdong Navy Division did not seem to be as simple as he thought before.

There are 18,000 soldiers in the battalion of the Guangzhou Navy Division, and a total of 489 officers at all levels, such as adjutant generals, guerrillas, staff generals, and pipe bands.

However, since Lin Haijiang took over, the trade of opium smuggling has been completely eliminated, and Li Xiaodong, who was the most arrogant and active in smuggling opium, has also entered the city of death, will it be because of this? Could it be that he unknowingly blocked the way of other people's wealth?

Lin Haijiang immediately instructed Wang Dongxu to find a few insiders to find out the scale and approximate income of the opium smuggling business of the Guangzhou sailors.

Early the next morning, Wang Dongxu brought back a not very certain number to Lin Haijiang, that is, almost all the pipe belts were involved in smuggling and trafficking, and the specific number is difficult to estimate accurately, but according to several insiders, it is at least more than 2 million taels, and I also heard that seventy percent of these silver will be transported to Yanjing.

After listening to Wang Dongxu's return, Lin Haijiang waved his hand, it seems that his previous estimate was correct, is it really blocking the financial path of some bigwigs in Beijing, giving way or colluding with the gang? Lin Haijiang didn't want to choose, and the only solution now was to strengthen the personal safety of his family.

Lin Haijiang is going to send his parents, Zijuan, Lily and others to the old port, which is his real one-third of an acre, and the construction of the old port has also started with the support of Prussia, and the father who is proficient in commerce and trade is also a help to Cruna.

At the same time, the old port also needed to develop commerce, and the aborigines of Sumatra, a large number of old port residents, and pirates who often docked were potential customers, and Lin Haijiang almost did not make much effort to convince his father that Lin Hanlin knew that staying in Guangzhou would only add trouble to his son.

It's not a complete uproot, and it's not common for a maritime merchant to wander outside for ten months a year? Therefore, it is not resistant to going to the old port, and you can also transfer business by the way, after all, you can't put all your eggs in one basket, which is the basic business rule of businessmen.

As for who is the black hand, Lin Haijiang believes that it is not difficult to find this person at all, the problem is that he really has no time now, because the first ironclad ship serial number HD01 on the Prussian side began to lay the keel, and Miller's telegram was sent two months ago, saying that the design of the ship has changed several times before and after, and finally selected the 6,200-ton HD01 as the first of the five ironclad ships to start laying the keel, and HD02, 03, 04, and 05 will also be postponed for one month each.

Lin Haijiang was dumbfounded by the Prussian side's largesse, didn't he lay one first to try to improve it and then build the other four? How did it become five ships built in sequence? And the tonnage is also larger than before? Lin Haijiang's mind is now full of question marks, but he is too far away from Prussia, and communication has almost become a fatal malaise.

Wait until 1904 for the radio application of practical surnames? Lin Haijiang was very helpless, because almost every time he promoted the vigorous development of science and technology was a large-scale war, could it be that he would start a world war in advance?

Lin Haijiang has seen many photos of old ships between 1860 and 1890, in which he found a very ridiculous pattern, the armored capital ships of all countries in the world are often strange shapes, tall, short, fat and thin.

The cruisers of the same period, whether they were armored cruisers or protective cruisers, basically maintained a streamlined ship type, unlike the capital ships, where soapboxes, discs, butter tanks, and long bathtubs were unbelievably nocturnal.

In Lin Haijiang's view, he did not need the so-called armored capital ship, because the armored capital ship with short range and slow speed could not carry out ocean-going missions.

The basic tasks of the new cruisers are patrolling, reconnaissance, escorting, reporting and showing force, and they often need to sail to foreign countries and overseas colonies to carry out tasks for a long time, requiring high speed, strong endurance and good navigational ability, so the ship type generally adopts a streamlined ship type with a relatively large aspect ratio.

This determines Lin Haijiang's possible potential opponent in the future, that is, heavy armored cruisers!

Moreover, in the seventies and eighties of the 19th century, many cruisers were still equipped with sails to achieve a good economic surname, you must know that the coal production of the nineteenth world is still very low, especially high-carbon anthracite is not a lot of sources, and even the British Royal Navy, which was once rich in the eyes of outsiders, has taken strict measures to save coal.

In the twenty years from 1860 to 1880, Britain was controlled by a very stingy political axe, and a large number of parliamentarians represented by Mevis and Kenfat controlled the House of Parliament, and they were even stingy to the point that even the British Empire's proud navy could be ignored, but unfortunately the Admiralty only had a group of pus-filled generals who were basically politically equal to idiots at this time, such as Admiral Fislow, etc., There is little to no say in the Navy's military budget.

During this period, the Royal Navy invested in only six ocean-going ironclads, while during the same period, France, which lost to Prussia on land, built as many as 15 ships, and Prussia, which had always relied on the army, also built seven.

In terms of artillery, the British Royal Navy took a big detour, so much so that some people in later generations even cited the chronology of the renewal of British ship artillery as a ridiculous artillery yearbook?

Lin Haijiang only now figured out that because the problem of breech gun technology in the early stage of equipment has not been effectively solved, the British Parliament has returned to the era of breech guns from 1855 to 1869 due to economic and other considerations.

However, during this period, breech guns from other countries in the world emerged in an endless stream, and due to the continuous improvement of gun steel, the Royal Navy, which had suffered from the use of breech guns, once again began to consider equipping with new breech guns, and at the same time, the new closed turrets invented by the French also gained favor in Britain.

As we all know that breech guns cannot make relatively long barrels, according to Lin Haijiang's memories and the results of field investigations, even in 1870, 25 times the caliber was already the limit of the breech gun barrel ratio, and in 1855, in order to ensure the penetration of the Russian armor, the British decided to equip the cruiser with a larger caliber main gun.

The Shannon, the world's most advanced ironclad at the time, was later touted by the British Navy and was equipped with a 1868 version of the www.xstxt.orgkii breech gun, weighing as much as 18 tons, and the Shannon was armed with seven other 9-inch (228mm) 14-diameter MKIV front-loading rifled guns.

The Shannon can indeed be said to be the representative work of the British armored protection cruiser at that time, but it is a pity that with such armament, Shannon still cannot compete with the ironclad ships of the same era, and at the same time, due to the drag of heavy artillery and ironclad, its speed is also very low compared to the cruiser, and even if it encounters an advantageous ironclad ship, it is even a problem whether it can successfully disengage.

But in any case, around 1860, the British Empire had fallen behind as a whole in terms of ships and artillery, and the French Republic, as another major imaginary enemy of Lin Haijiang! Lin Haijiang did not dare to despise it at all.

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