Lin Haijiang circled in Hainan for a few more days, until the training ship Loyalty and Rigor sailed to Hainan, as the transport ship of Executive Officer Hu Weimin, to facilitate his travel between Indonesia and Hainan, and the logistics supply fleet, a force capable of fighting and transporting, was also retained, and the Marine Brigade prepared for the capture of Hainan this time was also temporarily stationed in various parts of Hainan as a deterrent and defense force.

In order to welcome the Empress Dowager of the West Palace, Lin Haijiang still had a lot of things to prepare, such as the fleet going to the old port to board the next batch of marines, and then arriving in Taiwan, returning to Guangzhou to pick up ten battalion soldiers with uncut braids to deal with the scene, and then the fleet went to Tianjin to pick up Cixi to inspect Guangzhou.

As soon as the overall timetable was listed, Lin Haijiang immediately instructed Li Anmin and Zhang Yunji to go to Guangzhou in advance to arrange the reception, so that he could come happily and leave happily, so as to gain time for the follow-up development, Lin Haijiang naturally knew that Cixi was not a fool, so he decided to let her contact the most reliable person within the smallest range.

On March 15, 1859, when Lin Haijiang's fleet appeared on the Penghu Islands with two Marine Corps brigades totaling more than 10,000 people, the punt of Lin Qingsen, the prefect of Taiwan, gave Lin Haijiang a rejection.

This is the first time someone has told Lin Haijiang that you don't come over, I'm not responsible for you coming to be beaten, be careful to beat you and wipe out the whole army, Lin Haijiang naturally didn't pay attention to the warning of a small four-grade prefect, he was still a big man in the Qing court, right? A little prefect dares to resist himself? Ma Ren, the chief soldier patrolling Taiwan and Xiamen, didn't even dare to let out a fart, and dragged the ship to the shore for fear of causing misunderstanding.

Lin Haijiang knew that when the Qing court expanded the Nanyang control, it must have been out of consideration for letting Nanyang divide troops and garrison, and then gave Qiongya, Taiwan and other prefects and general soldiers a separate secret order to deal with Nanyang and tried their best to deal with Nanyang.

Today, the army is pressing, and Taiwan's prefect Lin Qingsen has asked Ma Ren for help many times before, but Ma Ren, who has a few soldiers and few generals, has been fooling Lin Qingsen, and when he saw Lin Haijiang's ironclad fleet, he didn't wait for the artillery to be fired here, and even the yamen in Xiamen gave up, where can he still take care of Lin Qingsen?

In the war room of the Zhenyuan ship, Lin Haijiang gathered a group of officers of the Marine Corps, Gao Qi, Xu Dawei, Liu Quansi and others participated in the core combat meeting, because Lin Haijiang knew very well that since Lin Qingsen dared to speak wildly, he must have some goods in his heart, and it was likely that this guy would incite the indigenous Gaoshan tribe and other aborigines to resist, so the main battle would not take place on the beachhead, but inland after the landing.

As chief of staff, Zhang Wei began to read out the details of the expedition to Taiwan, as well as to accept the situation to Gao Qi, Liu Quansi, Xu Dawei, and others, who had never been to Taiwan.

Zhang Wei cleared his throat and said: "Taiwan is located on the mainland extension of the southeast coast of the mainland, and the island of Taiwan is mountainous, with mountains and hills accounting for more than two-thirds of the total area. The Taiwan mountain system is parallel to the northeast and southwest of Taiwan Island, and lies vertically in the east-east position of the central part of Taiwan Island, forming the topographic characteristics of many mountains in the east, hills in the middle, and plains in the west. Taiwan Island has five major mountain ranges, four major plains, and three major basins, namely the Central Mountains, the Snow Mountain Range, the Yushan Mountains, the Alishan Mountains and the Taitung Mountains, the Yilan Plain, the Jianan Plain, the Pingtung Plain and the Taitung Rift Valley Plain, the Taipei Basin, the Taichung Basin and the Puli Basin. The main point of our army's operations lies in the mountainous areas, which are the weak point of our Marine Corps, and the mountains and forests have limited the power of our artillery and greatly reduced the role of support. ”

Zhang Wei looked at Lin Haijiang, who nodded his head to express satisfaction, and was slightly complacent, because the next few words were added by him on his temporary behalf, Zhang Wei looked around and took a serious attitude, and the officers at all levels immediately said: "After the troops land, our fleet should immediately control the Taiwan Strait, which runs northeast to southwest, connects the East China Sea in the north and the South China Sea in the south, with a length of about 200 nautical miles, a width of about 70 to 220 nautical miles, and an average width of about 108 nautical miles. It is bordered by the Pacific Ocean in the east, the Ryukyu Islands in the northeast, about 600 kilometers apart, the Bass Strait in the south, about 300 kilometers from the Philippines, and Fujian in the west across the Taiwan Strait, with only 130 kilometers at its narrowest point. ”

Zhang Wei tapped the chart with the baton in his hand and said: "Because Taiwan is the center of the western Pacific shipping lane, it is an important transportation hub for maritime connections between countries in the Pacific region. Not only ships traveling between the East China Sea and the South China Sea pass through here, but also ships from Europe, Africa, South Asia, and Oceania to the eastern coast of our country pass through here. Ships from the Atlantic, Mediterranean, Persian Gulf, and Indian Ocean to the Sea generally pass through here, which is a strategic hub that our military must control in the future. ”

Lin Haijiang glanced at Zhang Wei and said: "The chief of staff just introduced the actual situation in Taiwan, which is somewhat general, this is the negligence of our intelligence work, since 1683, after the Qing court unified Taiwan, the Taiwan government was formally established in Taiwan, under the jurisdiction of Taiwan, Fengshan, Zhuluo three counties, the Taiwan government is under the jurisdiction of the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, the Qing court set up a sub-patrol Taiwan, military preparation and Taiwan government, by 1857, Taiwan's population has reached 2.9 million, most of which are immigrants from Fujian and Guangdong. The immigrants reclaimed a large amount of wasteland, making Taiwan a new agricultural region, and providing the mainland with a large amount of rice and sugar, as well as consumer goods and building materials imported from the mainland, so that Taiwan's economy developed to a considerable extent. ”

Lin Haijiang's words made the generals present stunned, and Lin Haijiang continued to take care of himself: "The first expedition to Taiwan in history took place in 230 AD. During the Three Kingdoms period, Sun Quan, the monarch of Wu State, sent the generals Wei Wen and Zhuge Zhi to lead 10,000 sailors to Taiwan which they called Yizhou, which was the first contact between the Chinese Dynasty and Taiwan as evidenced by the history of the book, and their trip to Taiwan lasted a year, and finally because of the epidemic of disease, the water and soil were not adapted, and the officers and soldiers were killed and wounded ten times, and finally returned to the mainland with thousands of Taiwan residents, in history, Taiwan was occupied by Spain and the Netherlands. ”

Lin Haijiang put his hands on the table and said: "The purpose of saying so much is to let you understand that we are going to recover Taiwan, not to engage in massacres, we must pay attention to marching and fighting, do not compete with the people for profit, strictly enforce military discipline and military discipline, pay cash for buying and selling, do not lose less and forcibly occupy, and resolutely compensate for damage at double the price, absolutely not tolerated and connived! ”

Tang Zhiqiang and several captains below said with a smile: "Don't worry, we will cooperate with the marines, and we will bombard them with a cannon so that there are no bones left, let our Prussian allies build us larger tonnage warships, and completely expel the British, French, and Yee back home, and Southeast Asia will become our big backyard!" ”

Lin Haijiang took a sip of tea and said in a deep voice to the Marine Corps officers in the front row and the captain, second officer, and political training officer in the rear row: "I need to remind you that Prussia is our ally, but there are no permanent friends in international politics, only eternal interests, and the warships and guns you command now are all produced in Prussia, is it glorious?" Sooner or later, I will let you sail across the ocean on a warship of our own making, and everywhere my warship goes, you will be able to bow your eyebrows and bow very closely, and then you will be able to proudly claim that the truth is within the range of my cannons! The place where our warships went was extremely the territorial waters of the Chinese Empire! ”

Lin Haijiang paused and said: "After the end of the Taiwan Campaign, all fleets, marines, and mountain troops took turns to carry out training and strengthen political and ideological education, we learn the West because we are backward, and Western science and technology are worthy of our study, but we must also pay attention to the concept of our own nation, we have a splendid civilization of 5,000 years, these are what they do not have, and they cannot learn, and when we surpass them, we can naturally develop the characteristic culture of our Chinese nation. Deter them by force, invade them economically, erode them with cultural zones, assimilate them with immigrants! ”

Lin Haijiang stroked the globe and said slowly: "The territory of China is in your heart, grasp the scale, learning is to transcend, not simply worship the foreign, if it reaches the point of worshipping the foreign world, it will lose the meaning and value of the original learning!" You are all soldiers, different from ordinary people, so I can't ask you with the requirements of ordinary people, you must always remember that we are not fighting for a certain person, we are fighting for a nation, for a brand new country, today's reading is for tomorrow's cooking and freedom! ”

Crash! All the generals and officers present stood up, put their right hands into fists on their chests, and said in unison: "Serve the people wholeheartedly, unswervingly!" Long live the Chinese Empire! Long live the Führer! ”

After the meeting was dismissed, Lin Haijiang summoned Wang Faren to the captain's room for a secret talk, and Wang Faren's honest reaction to the reactions of the officers and men in the political training work who had been changed was relatively peaceful, but there were also some radical officers and soldiers, that is, members of the iron-blooded young officer corps, who demanded the establishment of a Führer Guard, and publicized to the outside world that no matter whether they were boiled or not, they would only accept the leadership of the Führer alone. ”

Lin Haijiang nodded with satisfaction, this iron-blooded young officer corps was established with his acquiescence and support, and he instructed Wang Faren to give the necessary support to this organization, standardize the content and program of the organization, absorb the elites in the military academy, and so on.

Lin Haijiang also knows that simple reading cannot last long, once the situation stabilizes, the influx of a large number of Western ideas and the sound industrial system means that the society is enlightened to a certain extent, and extreme reading will definitely be resisted, and even used by some people with ulterior motives.

Therefore, Lin Haijiang tampered with the definition of a part of the open boiling, dividing the open cooking into two parts: open cooking and centralization, and encouraged representatives of all parties to participate in politics and discuss politics under certain conditions, but the decision-making party was to read the power of governance, that is, to read the talent in disguise, and changed the reading to centralization, so as to avoid many excuses and reasons for attacking the system in the future.

Lin Haijiang was also aware that his Chinese empire was gradually improving the system, and when the system was finally completed, it was the beginning of his unification war.

At the same time, Lin Qingsen, the governor of Taiwan, joined forces with 26 ethnic groups, large and small, including the Taroko, Bunun, Atayal, Paiwan, Makadao, Kakabu, Saqilaiya, Ami, Kamalan, and Pingpu in Alishan.

Lin Qingsen knew very well what loyalty, courtiers, and filial piety were tantamount to playing the piano to the cow with these leaders, so he said directly: "Now outsiders want to invade Taiwan, they are a hundred times more vicious than the previous red-haired people, this official was ordered to protect the Jing side, and he can't bear to be bullied and ruined, but there are only 800 strong men in his hands, and he can't resist the enemy. ”

Lin Qingsen's words made the leaders below murmur to themselves, more than a dozen languages were mixed together, together with gestures and some leaders with obviously opposite attitudes spitting on each other, Lin Qingsen frowned slightly, as he expected, this group of leaders did not have any concept of the overall situation at all, they only valued the little interests in front of them.

Lin Qingsen's eyes turned to the Taroko tribe, the Bunun tribe, the Atayal tribe, and the Paiwan tribe, the four leaders seemed to be waiting to see the meaning of the head of the Ami tribe, A Caiwang, who was concentrating on repeatedly fiddling with his silver cigarette case, the white and neat cigarette rolls in it made him enjoy the fragrance of tobacco burning in the air, and the dry and cracked smoke of hookah, this kind of cigarettes produced in the old port is very convenient, but there are not many of them.

Ah Caiwang lit a cigarette for himself, took a deep breath under the envious gaze of many leaders, and spit out white smoke, Lin Qingsen was watching Ah Caiwang's every move, he knew very well where the cigarettes in Ah Caiwang's hands came from, and he would come to a few in peacetime, but the price of export in the old port was very expensive, and he, the prefect who had little oil and water, could not afford it, but Lin Qingsen heard that in the old port, this kind of white-box fort cigarettes were distributed to the big-headed soldiers to smoke, and people with doppelgangers would smoke Longteng and China. But so far, he has never seen the legendary Longteng and Zhonghua with any filters.

After half a cup of tea, Ah Caiwang threw away the cigarette butt that could no longer be pinched, stretched his waist and said: "Lord Lin Qing Forest usually only supervises the early tax, flower tax, poll tax, field tax, and livestock tax. Isn't Lord Lin saying tax exemption for us? A few years free? A year? Three years? Or five years? Change to a new adult and have a new charter, let's not talk about whether we can win or not, even if we win the battle, Lord Lin, how can you cash in after you are promoted? ”

A Caiwang's words made Lin Qingsen stunned, and A Caiwang immediately said disdainfully: "The mountains and waters of Taiwan are all our Taiwanese, Hongfan is an outsider, Lin Haijiang is an outsider, when did you Lord Lin become our own person?" ”

Ah Caiwang's aggressiveness made beads of sweat appear on Lin Qingsen's head, Lin Qingsen didn't expect that Ah Caiwang, who was taciturn in the past, would have such sharp words? And his biggest hole card has been turned over, and it has lost its meaning in staying.

So Lin Qingsen waved his sleeves violently and said: "The shaft is not for a plan!" ”

After Lin Qingsen left, Ah Caiwang looked around at the leaders present and said in a deep voice: "Now there are more and more Han people, these Han people's minds are smarter than us, they have seen the world outside, there are trade routes, I can only sell my cane sugar, spices, and rice to them cheaply, and then buy them at a high price, just like this kind of fort I smoked, the old port is only seven dollars of silver a bag, and as a result, the countless Han people shipped it to us and sold it to us for five taels of silver a bag, they are not making money, they are sucking blood!" What else would those officials of the imperial court do besides scraping money and collecting taxes? ”

Ah Caiwang's resonated with the people present, Ah Caiwang saw that the opportunity was in a good atmosphere, so he continued: "This time the Manchus and the Han people eat dogs, we don't want to mix in it, otherwise in the end it will be us who will suffer, we will stay in this mountain, and the Han people will not be able to enter, if the Han people win, we will negotiate with them on the conditions, pay fixed taxes, and ask them to add a fixed market venue, we don't want to be exploited by the Han people, Taiwan is our own Taiwan, and we Taiwanese govern Taiwan by ourselves." ”

Good! Listen to the big heads! Listen to the head! In the chaotic voice, Ah Caiwang nodded with satisfaction, and inadvertently turned around to look at a bamboo sedan chair with a thick gauze curtain not far behind him.

If Lin Haijiang is here, Lin Haijiang will be extremely surprised, Ah Caiwang is the ancestor of [***]!

After passing through the Penghu Islands, the fleet turned 23 degrees and headed straight for the location of Kaohsiung, Lin Haijiang knew that although Kaohsiung was a deep-water port at this moment, but under the deliberate suppression and suppression of the Qing court, the social model of farming and planting basically existed on the island of Taiwan in an absolute sense, and Kaohsiung's natural deep-water port was greatly wasted.

The Qing court's emphasis on Taiwan also originated from the confrontation between China and China, and the vigorous development of the navy caused people of insight in Beiyang to call for strengthening Taiwan's defense, and strategically the Qing court was indeed commendable in many aspects, but it was not satisfactory in terms of implementation, and even Beiyang, which had no money to replace ship boilers and fast guns, still had the money to build Taiwan's naval facilities and bases, not to mention the huge forts attached to the project, and finally the First Sino-Japanese fiasco led to Taiwan being ceded over.

(To be continued)