Spring of 1855 seems to have come very early? Just after the Spring Festival, there is no chill, the winter in Guangzhou is the most comfortable and comfortable moment for Lin Haijiang, because the summer is too difficult, the steamer-like heat makes people want to peel off a layer of skin, Lin Haijiang misses the air conditioner very much!

Lin Haijiang himself was really surprised by the early establishment of the Nanyang Naval Division, and the wings of his butterfly and the obvious flapping were up, in what direction did the result develop? Lin Haijiang is afraid that this will not have time to think about it carefully.

In Lin Haijiang's memory, the Nanyang Naval Division, or the Nanyang Fleet and the Nanyang Navy, was one of the modern naval fleets established during the Qing Dynasty's Westernization Movement. It was officially established in 1875 by Shen Baozhen, then Governor of Liangjiang and Minister of Commerce and Commerce of Nanyang. By the time of the Sino-French War in 1884, it had been quite large-scale, with 17 cruisers and gunboats, about 20,000 tons.

In the Sino-French War of 1884, the Nanyang Fleet lost two ships and sank one ship due to an accident. Most of the warships of the Nanyang Naval Division were manufactured by the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau and the Fuzhou Shipbuilding Bureau, and only a small number were purchased from Britain and Germany. Since the policy of the Qing court at that time was to concentrate on the development of the Beiyang Naval Division first, the Nanyang Naval Division was far from it in terms of tonnage, equipment, personnel and strength. The Nanyang Naval Division is responsible for the sea area of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and the anchorage places are mainly Shanghai and Nanjing.

Lin Haijiang, the commander of the Nanyang Naval Division, was far inferior to the Nanyang Minister of Commerce who was able to collect taxes and take care of himself in 1875.

As the commander of the Nanyang Naval Division, Lin Haijiang has taken over the Fujian Naval Division, and the takeover of the Fujian Naval Division can be described as extremely easy, and the Fujian Naval Division, which has fought a big defeat, can be said to have lost its elite, and the remaining pipe bands and guerrillas, generals, and even deputy generals are afraid of carrying the black pot for defeat, so they abandoned the official early and scattered, and the original few soldiers under the bottom also ran almost out of the camp, and the barracks were so barren that the grass was one person high, and the rats went up to the beams of the house.

Lin Haijiang, who came to take over, was very kind to dismiss the remaining personnel, and did not pursue those who abandoned their positions.

Fujian is mountainous, the people are fierce, Lin Haijiang used his method of recruiting troops in Guangzhou, in Fujian to recruit ten battalions of mountain infantry, for the new Nanyang naval commander Lin Haijiang's practice of not recruiting fishermen and recruiting mountain people, from the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang Wang Yide to the officials of the province are silent, one is to take the benefits of Lin Haijiang, embarrassed to ask for the play, and the other is that Lin Haijiang himself is also as fierce as the legend of the two-pole admiral.

Wang Yide, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, also became the governor because of the extermination of the bandits, so he was not very repulsive to Lin Haijiang, who also started with the bandits, and his qualifications were far from being comparable to Lin Haijiang's, and he did not want to be a villain, so the two sides were safe.

The only thing that excited Lin Haijiang was the shipyard in Mawei, the shipyard mentioned in history was on August 19, 1866, when Zuo Zongtang, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, who was obsessed with foreign affairs and wanted to build his own warships to strengthen coastal defense, set out from Fuzhou City to Mawei Town, 40 miles away, to investigate the site of the Shipyard Bureau, which was being planned, he saw a natural harbor with prominent terrain.

A few months later, Zuo Zongtang was selected by the imperial court to be transferred to Shaanxi and Gansu to suppress the popular rebellion, and this powerful foreign minister in modern history chose Lin Zexu's son-in-law Shen Baozhen to replace him in the affairs of the ship. A few months later, when Shen Baozhen came to Mawei Town alone to discuss land requisition compensation with the villagers, he did not expect that the imperial court's plan would be fiercely opposed by the villagers, and even though the imperial court offered generous compensation, the villagers were not willing to sell the nearly 600 acres of land that had been zoned within the shipyard at all.

Shen Baozhen, who was driven out of the village by rocks and debris, was furious, and mobilized several gunboats, stopped in the middle of the Ma River, and threatened the villagers to hand over the perpetrators, otherwise they would open fire on the village. Eventually, after slashing and killing the two villagers who had taken the lead in causing the incident, the peasants accepted the conditions offered by the imperial court, and the land for construction was acquired.

In the following 30 years, Mawei Shipyard built 40 ships for the Qing Dynasty, accounting for 70% of the total domestic at that time, formed the first naval fleet, the Fujian Navy, and equipped a large number of ships and generals for the two naval divisions of Beiyang and Nanyang. During this period, the three naval divisions of the Qing Dynasty experienced the Sino-French Majiang Naval Battle and the Sino-Japanese Naval Battle respectively, and it is understandable that the Nanyang Naval Division was defeated by the French teacher who taught them to build ships and build the army under the Beiyang Throne, but the defeat of the powerful Beiyang Fleet to the Yueben Navy, which was also just in its infancy, made the Chinese people feel ashamed. In 1907, the Qing Dynasty ordered the dismal Harbour Bureau to stop shipbuilding.

However, the location of the Mawei Shipyard taken over by Lin Haijiang is not the location of the famous Mawei Shipyard in history, but more than ten kilometers away, all of them are merchant ships, the scale is acceptable, there are more than 300 shipbuilders and craftsmen, and more than 2,000 apprentices, and they are busy with the furnace to make iron, nail, press plate, and break wood every day, and it is said that the orders received by merchant ships are enough to do it for three or five years.

Everything is from small to large, from scratch, shipbuilding is no exception, Lin Haijiang has been in the shipyard for a few days, and after being familiar with the upper and lower faces, he finally figured out the structure of the shipyard and the craftsmanship of the craftsmen, and the most important thing is that Lin Haijiang knows where he should start to make changes.

Lin Haijiang first started from the treatment and status of craftsmen, and greatly increased the salary of craftsmen and apprentices, which made the apprentice's positive surname suddenly doubled several times, you must know that apprentices have no wages to get in these years, and often have to pay for food, now Lin Haijiang not only provides three meals for free, but also gives each apprentice an unprecedented salary of two taels of silver per month, and the apprentice's positive surname is suddenly mobilized.

After that, Lin Haijiang sent Xu Bin to the location of the historical Mawei Shipyard to negotiate land acquisition, but the elated Xu Bin ran back with a blue nose and swollen face in half a day, and the two soldiers who went with him were also embarrassed.

However, history has undergone major changes, and I am afraid that Shen Baozhen will not be able to participate in the Ship Administration Bureau and the later Governor of Liangjiang and the Minister of Nanyang.

For the shipyard, Lin Haijiang has a comprehensive plan in his heart, but the cannon foundry also gives Lin Haijiang a real glimpse, and the cannon and bird gun craftsmen who cast themselves dare not open it? When asked about the reason, he said that he was afraid of exploding? Lin Haijiang almost couldn't control the craftsman who ordered to cut the reply.

After inquiry, I learned that in the past, craftsmen did not pay monthly money, so in order to support their families, they had to find a way to work on the craft.

However, what reassures Lin Haijiang is that the craftsmanship of these craftsmen is very good, a mighty general's bronze cannon cutting corners for a third of the night is considered to be the peak, and the muzzle of the cannon has been made extremely thick, if it is not weighed as a whole, no one will see the clues.

Relying on the machinery and mechanics brought from the old port, and the mountain infantry at the head of the ten battalions of the Nanyang Naval Division, the Mawei Shipyard was built at a much faster rate than the Mawei Shipyard more than 20 years later in history, except for a few minor disputes over land acquisition.

Lin Haijiang also knew that these villagers were just too heavy on the local complex, and they were unwilling to leave their hometowns, and they had nothing to do with how much money they were compensated, so Lin Haijiang did the first recorded forced demolition in Chinese history, and was jointly participated by Wang Fen and others, and Xianfeng simply came to stay in China.

Later, Lin Haijiang built a new village more than ten miles away from the shipyard and resettled the villagers, and promised that the villagers could be given priority to enter the shipyard for apprenticeship, so as to completely calm down the incident.

Zhao Fuming is the so-called cadre selected by Lin Haijiang from the old port shipping department, Zhao Fuming has been running the shipyard for several generations from his great-grandfather, but the business has been bleak, and when Zhao Fuming's generation sold the shipyard and followed Lin Haijiang's gold rush team to work in the old port, as a result, because he was familiar with the shipping business, he was pulled out, and Lin Haijiang entrusted the entire Mawei shipyard to Zhao Fuming and others.

"Start with a small steamer of five or six hundred tons!" Lin Haijiang's words made Zhao Fuming's face white, and Zhao Fuming hesitated for a moment and whispered: "My lord, I think it's better to start with a patrol ship of two or three hundred tons!" ”

"Hmm!" Lin Haijiang realized that his steps were a little too big! So he said, "Okay! You arrange, step by step, step by step! ”

In order to prevent the future wars of the great powers from trying to stifle their emerging shipping industry, Lin Haijiang began to lay a railway around the island in Mawei to build a fortress, and the fortress could be started immediately, but the railway made Lin Haijiang very difficult.

Mawei is different from the old port, you can do whatever you want, the railway has always been a taboo in the Qing Dynasty, so Lin Haijiang decided to build the roadbed in the name of building the road to lay sleeper rails, in the name of transporting accessories to the shipyard, on the one hand, Xianfeng stated the needs of shipbuilding, hoping to lay a small section of railroad tracks on the island to facilitate shipbuilding.

Where does Xianfeng understand the construction process of foreign ships? However, he had heard that the boats were built on the shore and then put into the boat pool for inspection, and only after passing the inspection could they sail out of the shipyard.

Xianfeng was more generous than Lin Haijiang imagined, or lazy, and directly gave Lin Haijiang a will, which means that Mawei Island is at your disposal, but if you can't build a ship, you can ask, Xianfeng also urged Lin Haijiang to buy foreign ships, as always, he didn't mention the silver at all.

For the "four no" and "three regardless" emperors in history, Lin Haijiang is also in no way, and now he uses the excuse of strict inspection by the imperial court to control the Taiping army's gun and ammunition replenishment, and sure enough, the Taiping army's offensive in Hunan suddenly came to a standstill, Fu Shanxiang visited several times, and Lin Haijiang was in the tail of the horse and failed to meet the schedule.

What made Lin Haijiang speechless was that as soon as the Taiping army's offensive stopped, Xianfeng didn't seem to be so anxious? Only then did Lin Haijiang understand that the master of his feelings was not in a hurry if he didn't hit the door.

However, the development of artillery is not so smooth, the main research and development personnel are foreigners, because of the lack of systematic learning, many things are half-understood, Lin Haijiang can only hope for the return of students after studying.

The main reason why Lin Haijiang chose Prussia instead of Britain and France is that Prussia has a very high nationalism, and the soldiers and students trained by the Prussian army and schools have a burning heart to pursue honor, pay attention to loyalty and honor, and regard honor as life.

Such soldiers and students were perfect except for the lack of flexible political acumen, and Lin Haijiang, who had formed a team in the early form of a warlord, needed Prussian-style talents.

After returning to Guangzhou, Lin Haijiang immediately came to Hongfa Foreign Company, and on the second floor of the foreign company, Lin Haijiang signed a large deal with Davis, who was open-minded, for boiler parts, but Lin Haijiang found that almost all the British seemed to be very depressed?

Upon inquiry, it was learned that the British and French troops had suffered heavy losses in front of the fortress of Sevastopol, which was held by the elite guards of Tsarist Russia, and even the British fleet, which had gone to reinforce the flanks, had sunk more than a dozen warships, which was obviously a huge defeat.

Most of the British in the British Concession in Guangzhou were family members or friends of the officers and men of the Far East Fleet, and they were more concerned about the safety of their relatives.

For the battle that took place in the Crimea, Lin Haijiang naturally knew very well that the Sevastopol fortress was not a simple military fortress system, but a joint body composed of seven fortresses, surrounded by the sea on three sides and facing the slope of the mountain with a maximum slope of 39 degrees.

The entire fortress of Sevastopol sank into the mountain, which had a complete defense system and stored grain, and Lin Haijiang remembered that the German army conquered here in World War II and even used 420 mm fixed mortars 'Gonma equipment', 610 mm self-propelled mortar guns 'Karl equipment', and 800 mm train cannons Gustav equipment', the German commander Manstein tried to open a gap in the strongest defensive line, using 500 large-caliber guns, including three giant cannons, to gnaw down the Soviet army's outer fortress fortress group little by little with heavy casualties, and finally under the threat of giant artillery, the Soviet army was forced to surrender.

This is also the only time in the history of the Sevastopol fortress has been conquered by a frontal attack, the Anglo-French-Turkish forces began an intensive attack on the Sevastopol fortress in February 1854, until this fiasco, Britain, France, Turkey and other countries did not understand what the Sevastopol fortress really is!

Lin Haijiang clearly remembered that the Sevastopol fortress fell because it was besieged and cut off food, and it can be said that Russia made a very big mistake, that is, to hoard the Sevastopol fortress with heavy troops, and as a result, the grain stock that could have been held for five years was exhausted and had to surrender.

If it were Lin Haijiang, he would definitely use a small force to defend the fortress of Sevastopol, which was not open by a man, and roamed around with mobile troops, biting the British and French from time to time.

However, the British frown at this moment is undoubtedly good news for Lin Haijiang, the British and French two hooligans in the barren land of Crimea to stop the ambitions of Tsarist Russia to expand, and when they turn around and look for the East to pay for that large military spending, the second Opium War seems to be getting closer and closer.

In the quotation hall on the first floor of the foreign bank, Lin Haijiang saw Bao Ling and his secretary Steven, Steven's mouth is still wrapped, the doctor has cut off one-third of his tongue, but the condition is not good, these days Steven trembles as long as he sees Lin Haijiang, in his eyes Lin Haijiang is an unscrupulous demon, but unfortunately the more Steven doesn't want to see Lin Haijiang, the more he sees it, which he describes as a painful helplessness.

Lin Haijiang's rectification of Steven has still become a joke among Qing officials in Guangzhou, if you don't know, you will definitely be despised for a long time, and the officials who have been angry with the foreigners have also used this matter to relieve their anger.

The reason for the incident was a week ago, Bao Ling invited Ye Mingchen to have dinner at Pinxiangju in Guangyun Building, and Bao Ling had the intention to show off the fruit-flavored ice cream, but the secretary Steven had just come from China and had the intention of playing tricks on the chubby Qing official, so he pretended to be hot when he was on the ice cream.

Ye Mingchen, who saw this thing smoking, blew it carefully a few times, and it melted away? So it became the laughing stock of the British!

Lin Haijiang, who was sitting on the side, instructed Gao Qi to personally bring a pot of black sesame paste sealed with lard to Steven, Steven also knew that Lin Haijiang was not easy to mess with, but he saw Gao Qi holding the soup pot with a expressionless face, how did he know that Gao Qi was a master who always touched the knife and played with cannons, and he had a layer of calluses on his hands, even daring to grab the coals.

Steven was also very careful, and first lightly came a small spoonful, not hot!

However, the spoon given by Lin Haijiang was too big, and then a big spoon came, Lin Haijiang's contemptuous gaze made him extremely annoyed, and he swallowed it in one gulp, but his tongue was burned and had to be cut off.

Later, Steven learned from the insiders that if he hadn't burned himself that day, Lin Haijiang had arranged for a few people to prepare to pour himself down, Steven really couldn't believe that barbarian would dare to hurt the diplomats of the British Empire?

However, Bao Ling reminded him afterwards that he would stay away from Lin Haijiang in the future, and unless the empire decided to declare war on the Qing State, there would be no chance of revenge, because he didn't want his secretary to become a piece to feed the fish.

It can be described as an incomparable headache for Lin Haijiang's Bao Ling, and the general Qing officials are afraid of playing their imperial court, and they all advocate turning big things into small things and small things into nothing, but Lin Haijiang is an outlier, always afraid that the world will not be chaotic?

Bao Ling can only endure now, because he knows that the existence of people like Lin Haijiang is a good thing for the Empire, because once the Empire decides to implement the established policies, he needs people like Lin Haijiang to help him create enough excuses for the Congress to invest more troops and give more support.

(To be continued)