Fangcheng, Jiangshan Township, Liangtoulong Village.

This is one of the large and small fishing villages in Fangcheng, poor, backward, and the three words of fish can simply summarize this village. On this day, after sending Yang Shuzhuang and the others away, Chen Liqing, Huo Yuanjia and Yuan Baoyi came to such a village where there was nothing except for some distinctive names.

It was the depths of winter, and the sea breeze was blowing on the face like an ice blade, which made people feel painful. In this weather, most fishermen stay at home and no one wants to come out. When Chen Liqing and his group arrived, it could be said that there was no one in sight in the small fishing village.

"Ahead, Lord Yuan, go a little longer, and your boat will stop in the bay in front." However, on this cold day, the voice of the head of the two-headed dragon village came from the village on the road leading to the sea.

The village chief of Liangtou Dragon Village shrank his head from the cold wind, and endured the cold, dutifully carrying out a simple task of leading the way. As he spoke, he couldn't help but sneak a glimpse of the boiling Qingtian army commander who had recently been rumored by the people of Fangcheng, Yuan Baoyi. Seeing that on such a cold day, Yuan Baoyi's face was red by the cold wind, but he still did not blink and did not frown, the village chief couldn't help but praise in his heart, sure enough, he was a soldier and killed people, and he was not afraid of the cold.

Similarly, he also saw that Chen Liqing and Huo Yuanjia, who were following Yuan Baoyi, did not change their faces under the cold wind.

"Is that our ship?"

Without being reminded by the village chief, Chen Liqing's good eyesight has allowed him to see the ships moored on the sea in advance.

"Yes, back to the little young master, this is the ship that Lord Yang left here, and he usually takes the young men from the village to practice on it. I heard that those boats were brought by Lord Yang from the homes of those foreign devils in Germany, and at the beginning, even the boatmen in the village who had been driving the boats for many years could not drive it, and the old man had never seen an iron boat floating on the water for so many years. Hearing Chen Liqing's words, the village immediately proudly flaunted his knowledge.

Chen Liqing couldn't help but smile, and said in his heart, you can also drive Germany's high-tech? Without bothering with the village chief, Chen Liqing immediately sped up.

After all, this is the ship he bought with money, and most of the reason why he came to Fangcheng is because of it, if it weren't for Yangshuzhuang to leave, there was really no one to take over the ship in his hand, and Chen Liqing didn't have the time to take a look at the boat he bought with money.

In order to buy a ship, he gave Zhang Xianmo and Yang Shuzhuang almost 800,000 silver dollars. 800,000 silver dollars were brought to Chen Liqing by Zhang Xianmo and Yang Shuzhuang, and a total of five large and small boats were brought to Chen Liqing. Of course, most of the five ships are old ships used in Germany, but two more are still under construction in German shipyards and are expected to be completed in two years, with the final payment after completion.

Chen Liqing didn't understand the naval strength of the Qing State at the end of the Qing Dynasty, but he still learned from Yang Shuzhuang that the total number of large and small ships in the entire Qing Dynasty at this time did not exceed 100. And now, he has five, how to say that he also has one-twentieth of the naval power.

With a quickened pace, Chen Liqing soon saw his boat in a close distance. The first thing that caught his eye was the largest of the five ships, the two large chimneys on the ship were very conspicuous, a cruiser of this period could be regarded as a small aircraft carrier for the Qing Kingdom.

This cruiser Chen Liqing heard from Yang Shuzhuang that he was comparable to the Haiqi that was still in service.

He also learned from Yangshuzhuang that this cruiser had a displacement of 4,000 tons and a speed of 24 knots. The length of the ship is 129.3m, the width is 14.2m, and the draft is 6.1m. Equipped with 2 203mm main guns, 10 119mm secondary guns, 12 47mm secondary guns, and 4 37mm machine guns. It can accommodate a crew of almost five hundred.

Five hundred navy, compared to the boats of other fishermen, this one ship is indeed equivalent to a behemoth.

Chen Liqing also saw the real thing for the first time, and at first glance, Chen Liqing was almost immediately attracted by the ship.

Of course, Yuan Baoyi, who saw the sea for the first time and saw the cruiser, also stared at the cruiser moored on the sea with wide eyes. The navy was an unfamiliar territory for him, but that didn't stop him from developing a love for the cruiser he met for the first time.

When the naval battle broke out in the First Sino-Japanese War, Yuan Baoyi was still a student, and he was also worried about the naval battle in the Yellow Sea and the Bohai Sea. When he learned that such a huge Beiyang fleet of the Qing Kingdom was actually defeated by Yuben's unsuccessful fleet, Yuan Baoyi also scolded Li Hongzhang, and at that time he also secretly swore that if he mastered the fleet, he would never learn from Liu Buto, and he would never let Yuben show off his might in front of the Chinese again.

"Xie Haiyang, the commander of the First Regiment of the Fangcheng Navy, led all two hundred and twenty-three members to report and met Commander Yuan! I've seen the little master! ”

And when Yuan Baoyi and Chen Liqing were staring blankly at their own cruisers, a team came neatly on the side of the beach in the face of the cold wind. The first man with a dark face, thick arms, and coarse cloth clothes ran over and immediately gave a military salute to Yuan Baoyi and Chen Liqing.

Xie Haiyang, he is not a person from Fangcheng, he is a person from Pingyue Fengshan. When Chen Lijun took a special force into Guangxi to kill bandits and rob robbers, Xie Haiyang was one of the members of the special forces.

After coming to Fangcheng, according to Chen Liqing's order, after they received Yang Shuzhuang and Zhang Xianmo, who had returned from purchasing ships from Germany, some of them stayed behind to secretly train the navy, while the other part went back to Guizhou with Chen Lijun and Zhang Xianmo to prepare for a secret incident.

Xie Haiyang and his entourage were some of the people who stayed behind to train the navy, and after more than half a year of development, they managed to train more than 200 barely improvisable navy. It is precisely because Xie Haiyang is a person trained by Chen Liqing that it is difficult for Yang Shuzhuang to command Xie Haiyang on the issue of principle surname, so he cannot command this army on key issues, and he needs to wait for the order of Zhang Xianmo of Pingyue before he can drive this fleet to support the revolution.

"Xie Haiyang?"

Listening to Xie Haiyang's somewhat familiar accent, Yuan Baoyi couldn't help but look curiously at the head of the regiment who suddenly appeared. Yuan Baoyi naturally saw Xie Haiyang for the first time, but this time, in addition to feeling a little kind, he couldn't help but let out a slightly surprised voice.

He hadn't paid attention just now, but at this time, he obviously noticed that under the cold sea breeze, Xie Haiyang and the others were all thinly dressed. This discovery immediately surprised him, and what surprised him was not only, Xie Haiyang and the others stood straight and neatly after the report, and none of the young men trembled under the tempering of the cold wind, and they were full of spirit, not at all like an ordinary army.

"Liqing, what is this?" Yuan Baoyi immediately turned his surprised gaze to Chen Liqing, such a magical team was cultivated by Chen Liqing? He had an answer almost instantly.

"This is our own navy." Chen Liqing nodded, looking at the performance of Xie Haiyang and the others, he was also very satisfied, at least on the whole, Xie Haiyang still trained this navy well.

Of course, Xie Haiyang's ability to train this group of 200 people to be like calves is naturally Chen Liqing's credit. It didn't cost much to build this army, but Mrs. Zhang gave this army a pair of traditional Chinese medicine prescriptions that could eliminate fatigue. Combined with some remaining vermilion leaves, this potion can strengthen the physique of ordinary people. Coupled with Chen Liqing, Chen Lijun's special training plan sorted out through practice and theory, the appearance of such a unit is quite acceptable.

It's just that if you want to train this kind of special forces on a large scale, it's still a waste of money and energy. Xie Haiyang was able to make this team in less than a few months, and he could be regarded as a talent.

"Our own navy." Yuan Baoyi couldn't help but take a deep breath, and then looked up at the cruiser in the distance, looking at it, he didn't feel a feeling of swelling in his eyes.

The navy, their own navy, and the Qing people who had not experienced the First Sino-Japanese Naval War would not have understood what kind of impact the First Sino-Japanese Naval War had on the minds of the young people of the Qing Dynasty.

Yuan Baoyi dreamed that the Qing Kingdom would be clear, no, that the Han people could have a real navy of their own. It's just that as the years go by, as the Manchu political axe continues to be incompetent, and as youth becomes the prime of life, the dream in his heart has long been buried in his heart.

However, he didn't expect that fate was so magical, and just when he was about to spend his life like this as an officer, Shenzhou underwent earth-shaking changes. Subsequently, his surname was almost lost in this upheaval. However, who would have thought that the saying that if you don't die in a catastrophe, there will be a blessing in the future.

Since he met Chen Liqing, his ideas have been subverted every day, and everything Chen Liqing has done in Guiyang has been witnessed by Chen Liqing under Chen Liqing's arrangement. The surprise at first turned into shock, and then the shock turned into confusion.

In that period, he didn't know what the significance of Chen Liqing's arrangement was, and he didn't know why Chen Liqing obviously controlled the military power of Guiyang, but didn't let him go back and take the position of Yang Xincheng's governor?

Very confused, very surprised.

However, just when he was trying his best to think about the purpose of Chen Liqing's doing this every day, suddenly one day, Chen Liqing came to him and told him that if he wanted to make greater achievements, he could follow him.

At that moment, Yuan Baoyi agreed to Chen Liqing's request without thinking, although he knew that listening to the words of a twelve-year-old boy seemed a little strange, but he knew that maybe with this magical boy, his fate might take a turn.

However, he never thought that the turning point of his Yuan Baoyi's fate was in Guangdong, in Fangcheng, and now, after seeing this navy that was beginning to take shape, Yuan Baoyi seemed to suddenly understand where the turning point of his life was.

Navy, that's right, Chen Liqing's eyes clearly told him that maybe he could control this navy, or maybe the shame originally imposed on the Chinese would be in his hands and reversed by him.

The dream of youth that had been silent for many years was finally coming true, and Yuan Baoyi's mood was a little heavy.

"Xie Haiyang, can you take us on that ship now?" Chen Liqing on the side did not give Yuan Baoyi a moment of excitement, and after looking at the other two torpedo boats and the two merchant ships with sails, he naturally wanted to get closer to his cruiser.

"It's been prepared for a long time, little master, Commander Yuan, let's get on the boat here." On the beach, a wooden boat has long been parked. Because a military port has not yet been built in Liangtoulong Village, the ships at this time naturally stay in the deep sea in the distance.

"Let's get on the boat and have a look." Chen Liqing took the lead in getting on the boat, and Yuan Baoyi and Huo Yuanjia immediately followed. Under the arrangement of Xie Haiyang and others, Chen Liqing and the others quickly approached the cruiser.

"By the way, Xie Haiyang, does our ship have a name?" When they were very close to this cruiser, when Chen Liqing and Xie Haiyang were chatting, they suddenly thought of a key question.

"Huaxia, Mr. Zhang's original name was Huaxia." Xie Haiyang replied: "He said that this ship has the potential to open up a new history of our China, and in the name of Xia, it can be regarded as inheriting the ancient Xia Dynasty." ”

"Uh, inheriting the Ancient Xia Dynasty?" Chen Liqing was stunned for a moment, and then couldn't help but say: "I want to ask, did our ship have a foreign name before this?" This is an old ship, Chen Liqing naturally wants to know his specific name, maybe he can see the name of this ship on his e-book materials.

"I don't know about this, but young master, when you get to the ship, you can ask what Wacker died, he is a German ship repairman, he must know the foreign name of this ship." Liu Haiyang said.

"Wacker dead?" Chen Liqing couldn't help frowning: "What is this name?" ”

"Who's coming? Like, how come the gentleman hasn't come for a few days, what's the matter, I'm looking for a sample, there is a serious problem with our ship! Just when Xie Haiyang wanted to speak, a strange tone suddenly came.

Following this voice, Chen Liqing and the others saw that there was actually a red-bearded, rosacea-nosed, and a foreigner with a rusty blue overalls on the deck of the Huaxia who was shouting something on the deck at this time.

"Little master, this is the German guy who died at Wacker." Xie Haiyang immediately added.

"Wacker is dead...... Uh, Vax? Chen Liqing glanced at Xie Haiyang in surprise, then stood up and prepared to get on the boat.

"Who are you? Xie Haixiang, what kind of people are you bringing with you, let them go down, little ghosts are not welcome on my boat, let this little ghost go down! However, just as Chen Liqing and the others were about to get on the boat, Navax actually ran over and stopped in front of Chen Liqing at once, and looked at Chen Liqing's eyes without hiding his disgust and disgust.

"Presumptuous!" Xie Haiyang, who was next to him, was startled, and immediately stepped forward to stop Vax, and shouted: "Wacker is dead, what are you doing, this is the young master of our family, and he is the master of this ship!" ”

"Young Master? Master? When Vax heard this, he stopped struggling, and after glancing at Chen Liqing curiously, he almost jumped over and wanted to grab Chen Liqing: "Great, you are the owner of the ship-"

"Uh......" It's just that he was blocked by Huo Yuanjia before he touched Chen Liqing, and his huge body of more than one meter and eight meters hit Huo Yuanjia and even bounced back.

"Who are you, how did you stop me, I want to see your young master, this ship has a serious problem and needs to be repaired immediately." Vax didn't mind that he almost fell, and when he got up, he said something loudly.

This time, Chen Liqing heard some words from his yin and yang weird tone.

"What's the serious problem with our ship?" The person in front of him was a ship repairer after all, so his advice should naturally be taken seriously.

"Young master, don't pay attention to this Wacker death, he has to say that our ship has a serious problem almost every day, but our ship can still start and sail normally, there is no problem, he just wants to get opium from us." Xie Haiyang knew very well the surname of this Vax, and without waiting for Vax to continue speaking, he stepped forward and said.

"You idiot, what do you know, I said that if the ship is broken, it will be broken, if you don't listen to me, just wait for the Butterfly to sink!" Vax seemed to be very sensitive to this, and as soon as Xie Haiyang's words fell, he argued.

Chen Liqing's brows couldn't help frowning, and he glanced at Yuan Baoyi.

"What's the matter with us going on the boat and talking slowly, and, this Wax, you said our ship is called the Butterfly, what's wrong with it? How could it sink? "I'd rather believe it than not, after all, this ship was finally bought across the ocean, and Chen Liqing didn't want to make any mistakes.

Regarding Chen Liqing's series of logical and calm questions, Wax glanced at Chen Liqing in surprise.

"I said little ghost, if you want to solve the problem of the butterfly, give me ten catties of opium first." This Wax seemed to be able to see that Chen Liqing was the person who could talk here, and when he heard Chen Liqing's words, he didn't immediately explain Chen Liqing's problem, but spread his hands and asked Chen Liqing for opium first.

I didn't think he was really a smoker!

"Wacker die, don't be too shameless!" Xie Haiyang, who was on the side, saw that Wax really came again, and couldn't help but shout loudly again.

"Ocean, don't talk about it yet." Chen Liqing couldn't help frowning, and turned to look at Wax who was bamboo-chested, and said in his heart, how could there be a German like Wax, he had never seen such a German in his past life and in his life.

"Vax, I don't have opium, but if you can honestly tell us about the problem of our ship, I will give you something a hundred times better than opium." Although his heart was strange, Chen Liqing did not show a trace of displeasure.

After all, the question of the ship is obviously more important.

"Something a hundred times better than opium, what's that?" Wax didn't care at all about what Chen Liqing said, and seemed to only care about opium.

"It's this." Chen Liqing didn't bother to talk nonsense with this smoker, so he took out a box of cigarettes directly from his pocket and took out one: "This is something better than opium, you smoke it first, and take me to see the problem with the Butterfly first." As he spoke, Chen Liqing walked in front.

"Isn't this a cigarette?" And Wax took Chen Liqing's cigarette and sniffed it, and couldn't help but show strangeness. (To be continued.) )