It was near noon on the 24th day of the first month of the 16th year of Guangxu.

Drinking tea Tang Haoran in the tea stall at the mouth of the East Tangzi Hutong, squinting his eyes and thinking about his class in his heart, this morning he finally saw Wang Zhenxiong promoted by the Tongwen Museum, his words were extremely polite, no wonder, more than a dozen teachers in the Tongwen Museum, except for the two teachers in the English Museum are Chinese, the other one is a foreigner, and most of them are missionaries, and the courses he assigned to himself are also very simple The history of various countries and the policy of enriching the country.

This is in line with their own intentions anyway, it is to talk to them, just like today, Tang Haoran and they "Kan" in the classroom is the history of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, but other than that, it can't say anything, the reason is very simple, there are a lot of Eight Banners children in the classroom, Tongwen Hall at the beginning, is to accept the children of the Eight Banners under the age of 15, on the surface, the establishment of the Tongwen Museum is to cultivate translators and proficient in Western talents, but it has become a place for the children of the Eight Banners to seek official positions, after all, after three years of the big exam, the outstanding will be awarded seventh, eightth, and ninth grade officials, Then he took the silver every year. Although it is also necessary to recruit people under the age of 30 who are on the right path to the imperial examination, such as Xiucai, Juren, Jinshi and officials below the fifth grade, unless there is no way, in this era, there are a few people who are willing to stay in the Tongwen Museum.

Of the 120 students in the entire Tongwen Pavilion and more than 80 children of the Eight Banners who were mixed with official positions, there were less than 40 students who were either for official positions or for the sake of studying in the future.

Despite this, Tang Haoran knew that this kind of Western-style class teaching, the introduction of mathematics, physics and chemistry and other Western and Western teaching, was still an innovation and breakthrough in the teaching of traditional Chinese Confucianism, so although he was "messing around" with those "birds" of the Eight Banners, and even using foreign customs to tempt their interest in the West, Tang Hao also noticed that there were a few students in the class who seemed to disdain them, but they also seemed to be very serious in listening to the class.

There is still some meaning in this lesson.

Recalling the scene in today's class, Tang Haoran couldn't help but feel interesting about the life of this Tongwen Museum.

After drinking a bowl of tea at the tea stall and dropping a big penny, Tang Haoran walked towards the Tongwen Pavilion, as a school, maybe the Tongwen Pavilion is not very suitable, but in a certain way, the Tongwen Pavilion is closer to a garden, and the scenery is excellent. After all, this was originally the residence of the university scholar Sai Shanga, the residence of the university scholar, so the scenery can be bad.

"If it is left for a hundred years, it may cost at least 150 yuan to enter this garden......

Muttering like this in his heart, Tang Haoran walked towards the back garden, in the landscape garden in the backyard, you can see a few students who are reading, and you can also see students who are either playing chess or chatting, but more often, I am afraid that they are still in the dormitory.

"I've seen Tang Jiaoxi!"

When passing through the corridor, in the greetings of the students, Tang Haoran was a little complacent, these children of the Eight Banners who were usually unattractive were now not allowed to bow to themselves in a proper manner.

Walking through the corridor and coming to the back garden, Tang Haoran saw a student lying on the railing in the corner of the corridor asleep, the wooden railing was less than three inches wide, but he was sleeping there steadily, as if he was basking in the sun, he wanted to pretend not to see Tang Haoran who walked by, but after approaching, he was attracted by the book on the student's face.

“SeaPowerTheory”

Although English is only level six, Tang Haoran still couldn't help but be stunned when he looked at the title of the book, even after a hundred years, this "Theory of Sea Power" can be said to be famous! This book has guided the United States, Japan, Germany, and Soviet Russia as the direction of national development strategy.

Can the influence of that military treatise be compared?

If I'm not mistaken, but it was just published last year, could it be that this is the first English version of "The Theory of Sea Power"? So soon it reached China? And also in the Tongwen Museum, which does not carry out military education?

Looking at that book, Tang Haoran, who had no intention of disturbing the student's rest, finally couldn't help but stretch out his hand to this "Theory of Sea Power", after a hundred years, this first edition of "Theory of Sea Power" can at least be photographed for hundreds of thousands!

As soon as the book was opened, Tang Haoran saw the person under the book, he seemed to be a student in the class, he had already opened his eyes, and there was no trace of brilliance in his narrowed eyes, but after seeing the person holding the book, he quickly stood up.

"I also hope that Tang Jiaoxi will forgive me, the student is too Meng Lang and has lost ......"

When Han Che was a little nervous and deeply reproached himself, he heard Tang Jiaoxi say.

"Can you understand "The Theory of Sea Power"?"

"Sea power? Is the sir talking about this SeaPowerTheory? ”

Raising his head, Han Che saw that Tang Jiaoxi was looking at the "SeaPower Theory" that had been idle in the library.

"Students can understand some of it,"

"Oh? Then you sue me ......"

Closing the "SeaPowerTheory" in his hand, Tang Haoran looked at the thin and dark-faced student in front of him.

"There's a core purpose in this book, well, what is that core?"

The reason why I asked this question is because when I read this book before, Tang Haoran noticed that there were many traces of reading in the book, and even in some words, you can see some words outlined with a pencil, maybe he couldn't understand these words and deliberately crossed them out.

"Mr. Hui, in this book, Mahan cites the fact that Britain gained maritime supremacy in the wars of the Napoleonic era to prove that in order to develop sea power, it is necessary to control the sea with a strong navy in order to master sea supremacy, if you guess correctly, this should be one of the cores of this book!"

Han Che's answer made Tang Haoran slightly stunned, looking at this student with a dark complexion and who was not even fluent in official language, he felt even more curious about him.

"This book is from the Tongwen Museum?"

"Mr. Hui, foreign teachers often bring some books, but most of them are idle in the library, right ......"

Originally, Han Che wanted to say that those teaching drawings were only "three times the price of the book", but he still took it back when the words came to his lips.

"How can you read this book?"

"It's just a moment of curiosity, at first I just flipped through it casually, and I felt that the book was quite true, so I read it a few more times!"

Not only did he read it several times, since he came into contact with this book of sea power a few years ago, Han Che was fascinated by this book as if he was obsessed, and he wrote down tens of thousands of words in his notes alone, and even because some of the words could not be understood, he also asked someone to find a dictionary from the Naval Academy to fully comprehend what the book said.

"Oh?"

Nodding his head and returning the book in his hand to the student in front of him, Tang Haoran asked again.

"Since you have read this book, then I have a question, in your opinion, how is the Beiyang Navy?"

How about the Beiyang Navy!

Tang Jiaoxi's rhetorical question, made Han Che stunned, he looked at the teaching in front of him in surprise, as early as a year ago, after reading the book "Tai Xice", he was not only surprised, but also knew Tang Ziran's name, naturally admired him very much, originally he was still full of expectations for Tang Jiaoxi's class, but this morning's class, but he was disappointed, is that the reputation is just a false name, but this rhetorical question, but let him be cautious, what does Tang Jiaoxi mean?

How about the Beiyang Navy?

What's the problem? Or what's the problem behind the problem? When he hesitated how to answer, he looked at the book handed by Tang Jiaoxi, as if he had suddenly realized.

"In the "Theory of Sea Power", the development of sea power is an external business, and its mission is to attack, and land power is to make it defensive."

Although he did not directly answer Tang Haoran's question, his answer made Tang Haoran look at him seriously, sea power is mainly attack, land power is mainly defense, this answer is very clear, from the day when the Beiyang Navy was created, the purpose was to defend the Bohai Bay and protect Gyeonggi, the fate of the Beiyang Navy has been decided.

The Beiyang Navy has never sought sea power!

What kind of future can a navy that has never sought sea power, and has never aspired to control the sea, have?

"The rise and fall of a country depends on the gain or loss of sea dominance!"

Smiling and handing the "SeaPowerTheory" in his hand back to his hand, Tang Haoran looked at him as if he had understood, and was about to speak, but he heard a voice behind him.

"Your Excellency is Tang Ziran, Mr. Tang!"

(Hey, I originally wanted to dig up a few talents in the Tongwen Museum, but this Tongwen Museum ...... Hey, after a long time, it is actually a place to seek success, just like the military academy in the late Qing Dynasty, full of all kinds of shortcuts, where are the real talents? The rising sun of the Zhaoxian Empire is looking forward to your joining, hehe, please collect, ask for recommendations! ）