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The two steamers bought by Fuzhou and Zhang Renjie are still good, and they are also considered advanced ships in Asia. However, these two ships are still flying the British flag, no way, China's territorial waters, not by the Chinese, foreign merchant ships have always been unimpeded.

From Shanghai to Fuzhou, it was only three and a half days of drifting in the sea, the speed can not be said to be fast but not slow, compared to the ordinary sailing ship that is much faster.

"Oops, finally ashore!" Not only Hua Liangfu, except for Zhang Renjie himself, the other soldiers of the Renzi Battalion were all shaking on the soles of their feet at the moment, weak, and unstable. The wind and waves of the maritime merchants are far from being comparable to the rivers, and above the sea, it is still low to describe the windless three-foot waves, and there are five feet of waves without wind.

Although these two merchant ships are not small, they have suffered enough for the soldiers of the Renzi Battalion, who have never been out to sea by ship. But this is the same as practicing boxing and marksmanship, practice makes perfect, just practice more, to die like he himself trained in the army back then, small ships are speeding on the sea, people sit on it like a roller coaster, constantly deflecting and ups and downs, only a few days, Zhang Renjie is completely adapted.

Although it is not required that all the soldiers of the Renzi Battalion can reach Zhang Renjie's mark, it is still possible to adapt to it in half a month. These boys are good at water, after all, most of them grew up on the edge of Hongze Lake, and compared to people who grew up by the sea, the convenience of water is not bad. Even if there is the rest of the house, there are many rivers around the house, and you really can't find it if you don't know how to do it. Besides, when the Renzi Camp recruited people, one of the requirements was that they must know water.

"My lord, today is only the sixth day of the first month, according to your plan, you can arrive in Taiwan in ten days, there is plenty of time, let's rest in Fuzhou City for a few days, I don't have the strength to continue walking forward anyway." If I die on the ship for two more days, my thin skeleton will be completely scattered. Hua Liangfu said with a sad face, these days of continuous boat riding has made him suffer enough. To say that in the Renzi Battalion, except for the soldiers recruited in advance, he is the only one who doesn't know how to water and hasn't been on a boat much.

He is a scholar, and he has never gone out with his friends to play when he was a child. Although there was water around the house, I never went down to learn how to swim. Moreover, when I grew up, I took a boat on the Qingjiangpu River, which was also a very slow boat, and there was no wind and waves, so it was very stable, so I never suffered like this.

"Originally, we were going to stay in Fuzhou City for two more days, I want to go into the city to meet Liu Dashuai first, and you will take someone to the dock to charter a few inns to live in first. I'm done, I'll come back to you right away! Seeing everyone's appearance, Zhang Renjie said with a smile.

"It's okay, I'll let a few brothers wait for the adults on the dock, and the adults can find us after they finish their errands!"

Leaving separately, Zhang Renjie went straight to the yamen of the Fujian Governor's Mansion.

When he came, he had already received a telegram from Liu Mingchuan, asking him to look for him at the yamen of the governor's mansion of Fuzhou City. For the time being, Liu Mingchuan is still preparing supplies in Fujian to prepare for landing in Taiwan. Speaking of telegrams, this thing is a good thing.

Three years earlier, in April 1881, construction began at both ends of Shanghai and Tianjin, and the construction of the Tianjin-Shanghai telegraph line, with a total length of more than 3,000 miles, began. The whole project took only eight months, and on December 24 of that year, the entire line of the Tianjin-Shanghai telegraph line was completed. Four days later, it was officially opened for business, sending and receiving public and private telegrams. The Tianjin-Shanghai telegraph line has set up telegraph sub-stations in Zizhulin, Dagukou, Qingjiangpu, Jining, Zhenjiang, Suzhou, and Shanghai, which is also the first long-distance public telegraph line independently built in China. [

With the unique geographical location of Qingjiang Puna, it is inevitable that a telegraph office will be set up. In this way, although Zhang Renjie and Liu Mingchuan were separated by more than 2,000 miles, he only received Liu Mingchuan's order within half a day.

Liu Mingchuan took the lead in Tianjin, but Zhang Renjie was only two days behind him. It was in these two days that Liu Mingchuan really saw the warmth and coldness of people. It's very difficult to ask for help, to get some supplies. Every time I see someone, I try to pass the buck.

And it was only after arriving in Fuzhou that he realized how grim his current situation was. The old master Li Hongzhang simply put him in a well-connected Jedi, and none of the four sides were his own people, that's all, but these people are still his political enemies.

At the moment, the highest official who is organizing Taiwan's internal affairs and war defense is Liu Xuan, Taiwan's military defense department, who at this time belongs to the important personnel of rectifying local military affairs. Liu Mingchuan knew that he had the rank of governor, and if he wanted to do a good job in Taiwan's defense, he must reach a tacit cooperation with the military preparation. Liu Zhang, who is from Linxiang, Hunan, does not have the slightest personal holiday with Liu Mingchuan, but the difficulty is that Liu Xuan belongs to the Chu army faction and is a close confidant of Zuo Zongtang, the commander of the Chu army, but Zuo Zongtang is Liu Mingchuan's mortal enemy.

Originally, what Liu Mingchuan asked for was not the fictitious title of governor of Taiwan, but he is now sitting in this position. Thinking that Zuo Zongtang might be one of the ministers of the Military Aircraft Department who made the decision to transfer himself to Taiwan, Liu Mingchuan shuddered at the appointment of his governor to supervise Taiwan's military affairs.

There are now 40 battalions of the defense army in Taiwan, of which the three battalions of the Shengsheng Army commanded by Sun Kaihua, the commander of Fujian's land route, and the Qingxiang battalion of the Chu army, commanded by Cao Zhizhong, the commander-in-chief of Funing Town, are all deployed on the front line in northern Taiwan. Seeing the names of Sun Kaihua and Cao Zhizhong, Liu Mingchuan was speechless again. He is familiar with both of them, they have the same background, that is, they are both the Thunder Army of the Hunan Army, and the Thunder Army also has a common enmity with Liu Mingchuan.

Liu Mingchuan suddenly regretted that he had gone out of the mountain this time, and the position of governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, or the governor of Liangguang, who presided over the entire southern war, was not achieved, but he was given the false title of governor of Taiwan. However, since things have come to this point, it is impossible to retreat, and the most important thing is to conscientiously do a good job in Taiwan's defense. But since he wants to do this well, he can't do it without his own people.

Zhang Renjie's Renzi Camp was the first to jump into Liu Mingchuan's mind, and he was also very glad that he had recruited a cadre, maybe he would be able to surprise himself in the future. At this moment, the ten guards beside him are Zhang Renjie's guard platoon soldiers. Zhang Renjie took Zhang Qishi and other twenty guard platoon soldiers to Liu Laowei, but when he went back, he added himself to six people, and the other fifteen people were temporarily left behind by Liu Mingchuan. Five of them helped continue to train the Liu family's escorts, and ten others escorted him to the capital, and now followed him to Fuzhou.

However, in this complicated situation, Liu Mingchuan also found that he still had a little help. In 1874, when the Japanese army invaded Taiwan, Li Hongzhang dispatched 13 battalions of the Ming Army, Tang Dingkui's Wu Yi Army, to aid Taiwan. Although most of Wu Yi's army had already withdrawn to Jiangsu at this time, there were still two battalions under the command of Zhang Gaoyuan to fortify Tainan.

This is his old subordinate, he belongs to the Huaijun lineage, and he has the warrant of his old master Li Hongzhang, and it is absolutely impossible for Zhang Gaoyuan not to listen to his orders. So in this way, Zhang Gaoyuan's two battalions plus Zhang Renjie's Renzi battalion together have three battalions of soldiers who can be mobilized at will. In this way, it is already a good result.

"Dashuai, the lowly Zhang Renjie came to report!"

Liu Mingchuan had already instructed the guards in front of the door, and Zhang Renjie was introduced into the courtyard as soon as he arrived.

"What else do our uncles and nephews have to be polite, come in and sit!"