Lin Haijiang immediately pointed at Dalhousie and said angrily: "My officers and soldiers were shot to death for preventing the British army from insulting the people, which in itself is tantamount to a declaration of war, and you also illegally and innocently detained five of my sailors, whose whereabouts are still unknown, what is this not a declaration of war?" ”

Dalhousie, who does not have a comprehensive understanding of the time, knows that according to the memorandum reached between Lin Haijiang and himself, there are regulations on the sailors of the old port in the process of stopping in Hong Kong for replenishment, and judging from today's incident, the sailors of the old port undoubtedly complied with the regulations and did not carry weapons and suffered heavy casualties.

Dalhousie knew very well what the British troops stationed in Hong Kong were, and the forcible annihilation and robbery were not news at all, and if one day a guy got drunk and killed a pig, it could barely attract some attention, and maybe the drunken British army regarded the sailors in the old port as the officers and soldiers of the Qing Navy in Dagukou or Quanzhou, and as a result, a major incident was triggered.

Seeing that the development of the situation seemed to have entered a dead end, Dalhousie immediately forced himself to calm down and said: "I have no right to declare war, I will abide by my duties and wait for the arrival of Mr. Bao Ling, the Governor of Hong Kong!" ”

Soon, the Governor of Hong Kong, the Commander of the British Army in Hong Kong, Vice Admiral, and the plenipotentiary representative to China and the commercial superintendent, appeared in the meeting room of the Zhenyuan ship. Naturally, Rousseff retreated.

Bao Ling pushed his glasses and looked at the helpless Dalhousie, Bao Ling knew far more about Lin Haijiang than Dalhousie, and it can be said that the painful memory was even more than Dalhousie, Bao Ling knew that as soon as the cannon went off tonight, there must be a reasonable explanation, and this explanation must be beneficial to both parties.

Before coming here, Bao Ling learned that the ships at anchor and the Old Port Fleet were surrounded, and the Victoria Barracks was also surrounded by the Old Port Marines, and the cannons were pressed up to the desk of Army Commander Howell, and the Old Port Marines were searching for several British soldiers who had caused the accident.

Maybe Dalhousie won't believe it, but Bao Ling is very convinced that Lin Haijiang, who is the best at making a fuss, will not mind a cannon slaughter, and the British Empire is not Lin Haijiang's opponent in the Far East for the time being, and this balance reversal will take at least 3-5 years to complete.

What's more important is that Bao Ling is the governor of Hong Kong, but he doesn't want to carry this big black pot at the moment, and it is obvious that Dalhousie is not willing to carry this black cauldron, so Bao Ling has reason to believe that Dalhousie will cooperate with him, but the premise of all this is that Lin Haijiang is still rational and willing to settle things.

Bao Ling took a deep breath and said: "Your Excellency Lin Haijiang, I have enough reason to believe that this is definitely a misunderstanding, there must be bandits who attacked your sailors and blew up the Hong Kong Island Police Headquarters, this gang of rampant bandits and many attacks on Hong Kong Island!" ”

At this time, Wang Faren walked into the conference room and saluted Lin Haijiang with a straight salute: "Report to the Führer, all the seven British soldiers who caused the incident have been captured, please instruct!" Lin Haijiang glanced at Bao Ling and said solemnly: "I am very sorry for this, and decided to send troops to cooperate with the British troops stationed in Hong Kong to suppress bandits and protect the safety of the British garrison, but seven British officers and soldiers were killed in the fierce battle with the bandits, and we will return their bodies tomorrow." ”

After Lin Haijiang finished speaking, he glanced meaningfully at Dalhousie and Bao Ling and continued: "This time, with the assistance of the Hong Kong Governor's Palace, the garrison, and Mr. Dalhousie, I will take 50,000 taels of silver in my personal name as relief funds after the bandits, Mr. Dalhousie and Mr. Bao Ling will each have 20,000 taels, and the other 10,000 taels will be given to the enthusiastic Dumont. Mr. Rousseff, I am sorry for my previous rudeness. ”

Du Meng, who was still cursing Lin Haijiang in a circle before. Rousseff became Lin Haijiang's closest friend in an instant under the influence of 10,000 taels of silver?

A huge international political crisis was completely changed under the deliberate suppression of the two sides, that is, a group of giant gangsters entrenched in the South China Sea attacked the Hong Kong Police Headquarters, the Victoria Barracks, the British Empire's Far East Fleet, and the Old Port Fleet in order to rescue the comrades arrested by the Hong Kong side.

Subsequently, under the joint attack of the British army and the old port, the pirates were annihilated, and the results were brilliant, quelling the bandit trouble in the South China Sea in one fell swoop.

Although Dalhousie, Bao Ling, and Lin Haijiang all showed good demeanor, people with a little common sense know that the current bandits in the South China Sea are even rarer than the mellow Huazhu, and what kind of bandits dare to brazenly attack Hong Kong Island, which is garrisoned by the Far East Fleet of the British Empire?

Not to mention the attack on the Old Port Fleet, which is known as the First Fleet in the Far East, which is anchored here to refuel water and coal? Even a madman may not be able to do such a thing, but according to the evidence and seizures of the British side, it is true that a group of no less than 3,000 pirates attacked Hong Kong.

Lin Haijiang thought that he had seen the darkness and the sun, but such a shameless cover-up was the first time he had seen it, and the most important thing was that there were still people who were convinced, and the next day the British expatriates in Hong Kong spontaneously went to Bao Ling's Governor's Palace to congratulate him, and expressed great satisfaction with what Bao Ling had done during his term of office, and also carried a vertical plaque with a picture of Hong Kong Island inlaid with pure gold as a memorial before the last Governor Plenipotentiary Bao Ling left office, because after Bao Ling left office, According to the 27th resolution of the National Assembly, the Sixth Redraft Amendment Decree, the Governor of Hong Kong was officially renamed the Governor of Hong Kong Overseas of the Empire of Great Britain.

As a friendly person, Lin Haijiang brought five sailors who had been kidnapped and wounded by the pirates to attend the funeral of Police Inspector Stanley, who had died in the line of duty while rescuing sailors from the Old Port who had been attacked by pirates.

Lin Haijiang originally thought that he was already very shameless, he was simply a cat who attended the funeral of a mouse, but when he saw Dalhousie, Bao Ling, and even Dumont. Rosseff and the others can pretend to squeeze out a tear, especially when Dalhousie hugged Stanley's plump daughter and refused to let go, Lin Haijiang was very emotional, it turned out that he was too kind, and he even had a slightly uneasy conscience?

The shelling incident was able to end in such a way, which was absolutely unexpected, Lin Haijiang, who was originally ready to give it a go, got a very incredible step, and if there is a step, he is stupid.

Lin Haijiang also realized that he really lacked consideration at that time in this matter, and now he calms down and sees that there are at least several ways to deal with the incident satisfactorily and maximize his own interests, but Lin Haijiang has never regretted what he has done, and he does not regret these two words in his dictionary.

However, Lin Haijiang's harvest was also greatly beyond his expectations, that is, the worship of his personality by all the officers and men of the fleet was like launching a rocket, and to a height that he had never dared to think of before, Lin Haijiang also realized that this is a military collective after all, and soldiers are a group tied together by a sense of honor, mission and trust, and it is the easiest way to use iron-blooded means to motivate and infect this group.

Lin Haijiang was a soldier in his previous life, and he has been preparing for reading and building, if you look at it dialectically, it can be said that the soldier is the most greedy person in the world, because the glory of the soldier comes from war, the invasion and plundering of other nations and countries, and the expansion of territory is the greatest ideal and achievement of the soldier, behind their honor will be countless blood and bones, and it is precisely because of this that countless soldiers in later generations sighed because they were born at the wrong time.

Therefore, gathering the loyalty of the group of young officers and soldiers beside him who have been ignited by himself is the real sense of Lin Haijiang's urgency.

On February 12, 1959, Lin Haijiang prepared to organize a grand funeral at sea on the foredeck of the Zhenyuan for the officers and soldiers who died in this incident.

However, the ceremony of sea burial was unexpectedly resisted by a large number of officers and soldiers, and the traditional concept of the Chinese is that death is great, and it is necessary to enter the soil for peace, what is the matter with sea burial?

Lin Haijiang could only gather the captain, second officer and other main officers of each ship, in the conference room of the Zhenyuan ship, Lin Haijiang looked at his subordinates, because everyone knew very well that this matter involved almost all people, the generals died in battle, the soldiers died in chaos, in case they died in battle, should they be buried at sea?

Lin Haijiang, as the commander-in-chief, naturally knew that this sea burial must be promoted, once the Chinese Imperial Navy stepped out of the coastal sea to fight, then how to deal with the remains of the fallen soldiers? If he keeps it, I am afraid that the whole ship will be destroyed by the plague in less than a week, and if he is casually abandoned in the sea, it will affect the morale of the fleet, and it will be a blasphemy and disrespect to the officers and men who have died, so he must establish in the fleet the belief and will that burial at sea is a glorious one.

After thinking for a while, Lin Haijiang said leisurely: "Today I will tell you what the sea burial is all about, the history of the sea burial is very long, it first originated from the Viking Sea, and has become the oldest and most mournful ritual at sea. The original ritual of sea burial was very simple, it carried the corpse in a small boat, hung the sails, and rode the afterglow of the setting to drive it westward and let it drift in the sea. In the early years, when the ship's personnel died, the corpses could not be transported back to land for burial during the long voyage, and they would hold a sea burial ceremony at sea. ”

Lin Haijiang paused for a moment and continued: "Sea burial is a noble tribute in the navy, only those brave warriors who fought and died deserve to enjoy the honor, you captains and second officers are basically returned from studying in Prussia, you all understand, I want to say that my Chinese Imperial Navy cannot always operate in the coastal seas, the vast Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean are your stage, and we want to make the whole of Southeast Asia become a swimming pool in the courtyard of the future empire, You Cadres of my Imperial Navy don't want to soak in the pool anymore, do you? ”

Lin Haijiang looked around at the captains with warm expressions and suddenly said: "But you must know that naval warfare is different from land warfare, the battleship was sunk, and most of the officers and soldiers even said that most of the officers and soldiers would rest with the ship, and we had no way to wave their remains. We must establish the belief that the sea burial is extremely glorious, and if I die, please bury me at sea, as a navyman, I want my home to be the sea! Burial at sea is the highest honor for a member of the Navy. ”

As soon as Lin Haijiang's voice fell, the captain, second officer, and senior officers of the Marine Corps below stood up and swore an oath to emulate the Führer's behavior, and almost everyone present was already moved by Lin Haijiang's behavior.

Lin Haijiang has announced the way and process of the sea burial ceremony, according to the materials compiled by Lin Haijiang, the sea burial ceremony is usually held before the day or the fall, but according to the special conditions of the battlefield, it can also be held at night, when the sea burial ceremony is held, all the crew line up on the back deck, the body is wrapped and tied to a heavy object and placed on the wooden board, when the farewell ceremony is completed, the wooden board is slightly tilted, and the body slides into the sea and sinks. At this time, the ship's whistle sounded, the warship lowered its flag at half-mast, and the ship's military band played mournful music, and loaded the date, time, longitude and latitude into the navigation chronicle! Every year on the first day of April, all the heads of state and all senior generals, local executives, students enrolled in military academies, representatives of schools and people from all walks of life pay homage to the Valhalla.

As for the soldiers buried at sea, regardless of the officers and soldiers, they can enter the Valhalla, the entire Old Port fleet is boiling, and the Valhalla located on the top of the peak of Luohe Mountain in the Old Port is known to everyone in the whole Old Port.

After the continuous propaganda of the political trainers and the news that the captains could reveal, the Führer himself chose the noble honor of sea burial as his own belonging a hundred years later! Moreover, there is also gossip that whether the Marine Corps enjoys this kind of glory is still being studied, but it is very certain that the army that is being formed does not enjoy the treatment of sea burial, and except for those who have made outstanding contributions, they will not enter the British Consulate and be listed, and will only be engraved at the monument at the main entrance of the museum.

It is undeniable that Chinese have a great deal of blind obedience to surnames in many cases, and Lin Haijiang's example has played a very big role and can be said to be an extremely successful demonstration.

On February 15, 1959, on the deck of the Zhenyuan, under the drizzle, Lin Haijiang solemnly raised his right hand and saluted, the Zhenyuan slowly lowered the flag at half-mast, and the warships such as Dingyuan, Zhiyuan and other ships and the warships of the cooperative logistics fleet slowly sailed past the Zhenyuan ship in a parade formation, honked the whistle, lowered the flag, and all the officers and men of the ship stood on the side to salute.

After the main gun in front of the Zhenyuan ship fired 24 highest-caliber salutes, and the Marine Corps military police fired three rounds of gunfire, the bodies of the nine martyrs who died in the incident and in the follow-up operation entered the water.

There was silence on the ships, this was the first sea burial carried out by the Old Port Fleet, and it was also the first time that the Old Port forces appeared as a political entity with reading power and resolved the disputes caused by the incident, so that the shelling of the Hong Kong Island Police Headquarters, almost all the grassroots officers and soldiers knew the cause of the incident, and they were greatly encouraged by the presence of a head like Lin Haijiang, and dared to shoot at the Great Powers for the benefit of a few small soldiers? How much courage and courage does it take?

In the early morning of February 16, 1959, Lin Haijiang commanded the fleet to anchor against the rising sun, and Lin Haijiang's departure can be said to have made Dalhousie and Bao Ling really relieved. The same cannon spoke to beat his foreign grandson, and for a time Lin Haijiang became famous among the people.

For this point, Dalhousie and Bao Ling can only do their best, after all, paper can't contain the fire, but before that, they can hide it for a day, after all, Bao Ling is about to leave, and Dalhousie has also reached a secret agreement with Lin Haijiang, so the two dare to join forces in Hong Kong to deceive and conceal the sky with one hand.

The Far East is indeed far away from the British mainland, even if Hong Kong Island and Guangzhou are so monstrous, they will definitely not be able to return to the mainland, unless someone deliberately does it, but at this moment the British people on Hong Kong Island are extremely united, they know better than anything that once the impact of the incident deteriorates and expands, it will be them who will suffer losses in the end, after all, the military strength of the empire in the Far East is far inferior to that of the old port power, and the Far East Fleet, which gave the British great confidence and satisfaction in the past, behaved in the incident like a schoolboy bullied by bullies. Clutching the coin in his hand and not knowing what to do.

Lin Haijiang's fleet went straight to Qiongya in the Qing Dynasty, when he went to Hainan Island, the news of Lin Haijiang's bombardment of the Hong Kong Island Police Headquarters had already reached the ears of Zeng Guofan in Tianjin, and the second palace of the imperial court almost wiped out the eight ministers, Su Shun was the first to be killed, and when he was beheaded, Zeng Guofan sent someone to see him off, how many years have not killed such a big official, and there was a sea of people outside the noon gate at that time.

And the two princes of Zaiyuan and Duanhua, who were originally killed together, gave an order to commit suicide, Duanhua drank poisoned wine early in the morning, but Zaiyuan is still imprisoned in the Zongren Mansion, according to the grapevine, Zaiyuan's daughter Aiyena made a big fuss in the Zongren Mansion, and threatened to let Nanyang Admiral Lin Haijiang enter Beijing to correct the name of Prince Yi Zaiyuan.

If ordinary people say this, they must be regarded as crazy, but Jaewon's daughter Ai Ye Na has to make a lot of people sum up, after the Guangzhou Rebellion that year, there are rumors in Gyeonggi that Ai Ye Na fell in love with Dapeng to guard Lin Haijiang, Xianfeng wants to give him a nationality, etc., and then Lin Haijiang fell out of favor, and over time no one is mentioning it, but it is obvious that the girl who loves Ye Na is not married, and it is also obvious that Lin Haijiang only accepted concubines, Such an abnormal behavior had to make Prince Gong Yixin, who had just had the opportunity to emerge, think about it more.

At present, the Qing Dynasty is in turmoil, and the internal stability of the government is the most important thing, Su Shun lost his head, but Zeng Guofan was rewarded, and the court used Hanchen is also the general trend.

(To be continued)