Chapter 104

At Pier 3 of Incheon Port, a white three-masted sailing ship with an elegant and beautiful appearance is quietly moored on the berth, and unlike other merchant ships, this white three-masted sailing ship stands on a young man wearing a Western-style naval uniform, and there are even a few people standing with guns, and the beanie clearly reads "Coast Guard Department of the Police Department of the Korean Unified Supervision Office". This three-masted schooner is the "Tonghai" training ship of the Coast Guard, which is said to be a training ship, but in fact it is converted from an ordinary sail cargo ship, and there are even a few Krupp sampan guns on the side of the ship.

"Ah......h

A dozen sailors on the deck bent over to scrub the deck with a grinding stone, and an officer in a white coast guard uniform on the bridge looked at the sailors with a solemn expression.

Captain!

For Ma Jifen, this may be the maritime career he dreamed of, but there is always some regret in his heart, this regret is not that the coast guard school is still "preparing", and his "preparatory director" is still only famous, but because of another news - in the next four years, the Beiyang Naval Division will purchase as many as more than ten warships, including two combat ships alone, if he does not leave Beiyang, maybe at this time he can become a foreigner on a warship, with the ship out on the sea, not like now......

This is just a training ship converted from a small-tonnage sailing ship, and its steam engine is even less than 150 horsepower, and in this regard, it is even inferior to the seafarers' school of the shipping company - the seafarers' school, which was set up by Beiyang Shipping last year, at least that school recruited the first batch of 250 seafarers last year, and has been studying for more than eight months, and it has gone to sea many times for sailing training.

In contrast, preparations for the Coast Guard School are still in the works.

"I don't know. When will this be the real navy! ”

An exclamation. Majifen's eyes couldn't help but look towards the seamen's school a kilometre away near the sea. Now he was even a little jealous of the few instructors from England, at least they were training Chinese captains, but what about himself?

Compared with the Coast Guard School, the preparation of the Seamen's School is extremely smooth, but it is because young people along the coast, especially in treaty ports, know that the salaries of seafarers, especially senior seafarers, are much higher than ordinary people. However, the Beiyang Seafarers School is the only school in China that trains officers, and its recruitment advertisements in Shanghai, Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Tianjin and even Hankou have attracted a group of young people, and if it were not for the requirement to have a certain foundation in English and mathematics, I am afraid that more people can be recruited.

This sentence explains the reality of education in the Special Administrative Region -- the seamen's school in the prefecture, which has not paid any attention to it, is now the school with the highest number of students and the most abundant students. Even the East Asian Academy is incomparable, where senior seafarers' monthly wages of more than $100 attract young people who have no prospect of a career or who have graduated from a church school.

The reality is always that only profit can make people join an industry. Just like the "popular major" of later generations.

"Teacher, if you want to start a naval academy, I'm afraid you need to find another way!"

Following the teacher's side, Han Che said in a calm tone, looking at those seafarers, he clearly knew that these people were not admitted to this school because they longed for college, they were because of their generous monthly salary after graduation.

"The young people here are too philistine, they are just admitted to schools for high salaries, just like people who rely on connections to find a way to enter Beiyang as sailors......"

Han Che's words were full of disdain, and what he said was also the truth, when the Beiyang Navy was established, Li Hongzhang was still more worried about the source of troops, afraid that no one would want to be a navy. Why? Because China is still in the period of traditional agricultural society, farming is the most important thing for Chinese. Even if you are a soldier, you must be an army, stand on the ground, and have a solid heart. Li Hongzhang said: "Worried that Zuo Shuai is in Gan, the generals' reluctance to go west can be seen in Beiyang. "I am worried that when Zuo Zongtang led the army to the northwest, the officers and soldiers were afraid of hardship and were unwilling to go west, which happened in the Beiyang Navy.

However, not long after the establishment of the Beiyang Navy, not only did the situation that Li Hongzhang was worried about not happen, but it was also troublesome, and many Green Battalion soldiers and even the children of the Eight Banners also asked to serve as soldiers in Beiyang, and even did not hesitate to give gifts to guests. It's weird! When Li Hongzhang heard the report, he was overjoyed and surprised. Why are there so many people vying to become a navy? In fact, the answer to this question mark lies in Li Hongzhang himself -- the salary of the Beiyang Navy is high!

And now, these people are admitted to seafarers' schools, which is also based on this consideration. This kind of philistine pursuit of profit naturally made Han Che look down on their people.

"Oh? I remember that the police of the police department also paid 4.75 yuan a month, and the food and military uniforms were provided free of charge every day. ”

Tang Haoran said with a smile in his words, he didn't despise these students because of Han Che's words, the key to raising soldiers with a generous salary depends on how to raise them and how to raise them. But this does not affect their combat effectiveness.

Even if it is the current police department, Tang Haoran has no doubt that even if it is a 10,000-strong Huai army, it will be difficult to stop the attack of the Fuzhong police force. In these years, talking about ideals and beliefs is empty talk, and for Chinese, who have not even formed a national outlook, what beliefs do they talk about?

"We trained to fight at sea, on warships......"

Tang Haoran's words paused slightly, and he pointed to the students on the playground and said.

"They are here to make a living, and we give them a better livelihood, and this livelihood requires them to give all their ......"

With a deep groan, Tang Haoran looked at Han Che and said.

"After several consultations, an agreement has been reached with the U.S. consul that the U.S. Annapolis Military Academy will accept twenty-four of our cadets......"

To say that he was able to send cadets to the Annapolis Military Academy to study the Navy, in the final analysis, he should also "thank" the Americans for their ambitions for the DPRK -- as early as a few years ago, the US minister to the DPRK invited the DPRK to send students to study in the United States, and it was on this premise that the Unified Supervision Office was able to send students to the Annapolis Military Academy in the name of "North Korea," and the most fundamental reason why the Annapolis Military Academy was chosen was that its study period was four years. The British naval school is 7 years, 7 years, which is almost enough to train a captain.

"What! The Americans agreed! ”

Han Che looked at the teacher in surprise, he simply couldn't believe his ears, the Americans agreed, agreed to accept Chinese students?

"I agreed, but they accepted "North Korean" students, so they ......"

Looking at Han Che with an excited expression, Tang Haoran asked with a smile.

"Mahan is there, how about it, do you want to go there to meet Mahan and listen to him explain the "Theory of Sea Power"?"

As for Tang Haoran, he was not willing to let his army be filled with a large number of old soldiers, and as for the group of officers in Beiyang who were full of Manchu officialdom habits, he had no intention of introducing them into the fleet, in contrast, he was more inclined to retrain a group of officers who were not affected by Manchu officialdom, a group of real professional soldiers.

Is it to accept or to reject?

For Han Che, this is undoubtedly the simplest question. Although the problem was simple, on the other hand, he had to think about another problem, if he left the teacher......

"Teacher, I'm ......"

While Han Che hesitated, Tang Haoran continued:

"Although Fuzhong is still the same as in the past, and the talent is in dire straits, it is much better than it was at the beginning, Handa, you must understand that our future is not just North Korea......"

The teacher's words made Han Che silent for a while, wasn't this a very simple decision? To study the Navy, also for that cause.

"Teacher, what about Su Yueyang?"

Han Che mentioned another friend, compared to himself, he is the one who really learns the navy, and Li Han and Su Zimin followed their teacher to North Korea in the first place, isn't it for that naval dream?

"They......"

After a slight pause, Tang Haoran said with a smile.

"They're already naval officers...... They love the sea more...... Now, they're going to stay here and help me get these seafarers ......."

Pointing to the seafarers in front of him, the corners of Tang Haoran's lips raised slightly, these seafarers with dreams of making a fortune may not know at all that now their fate has been decided, not to go to a merchant ship as a senior officer, but to be sent to a warship,

"Training into the navy, you know, the navy needs to learn navigation, marine engineering, they have learned, compared to the navy, just less learned gunnery, tactics, we want to run the navy now, can only find a way on this group of people, more than two hundred cadets...... It's almost the foundation of a cruiser......"

After a pause, Tang Haoran's tone revealed a hint of helplessness.

"To tell you the truth, if I could, I would have liked that all the officers in the fleet had come from our own naval school, but right now, we don't have that time......"

With those tired and red eyes, looking at the students in the playground one by one, the students of the Beiyang Seafarers School have invested far more energy in physical fitness than the Sailor Academy, and even compared to those students in the Tianjin Sailor Academy who take the academy as a "transition" and seek opportunities to apply for fame, their purpose is more simple, just for the sake of rich remuneration, the shipping company can give it, the fleet can also give it, and the honor that the fleet can give is also something they can't give, Tang Haoran said slowly.

"Handa, after you arrived in the United States, you still have a task, which is to make them understand who they are, what they should do, and understand what I say?"

(Ten years of the Army, a hundred years of the Navy, the Navy is not easy, cultivating the people's maritime awareness, training naval officers and other such construction can be said to be a long way to go, but a qiē always needs to start, after all, it is an era of the ocean!) (To be continued......)