"Outside, outside, the Northeast Navy is an army!"

"Outside the ship, the West Ocean was shocked, and our Qing Navy has added a new cutting-edge, and it is chasing Russia and ranking fifth in the world!"

"Outside the ship, the huge cannon of the Zhenhai ship sounded, and the foreigners were shocked......"

"Outside, the Northeast Navy is determined to challenge, how can I deal with myself in Beiyang?"

From early in the morning, on the boundary of Tianjin, the newsboys are running there, and today's important news is undoubtedly related to the Northeast Navy, this Tianjin, but the base camp of the Beiyang, not to mention anything else, the officers and dependents of the Beiyang Army and Navy alone do not have 10,000 people, there are 8,000, and now this fierce sound, the Northeast Navy came out, which is really startling. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

If it is a place to be aside, maybe this news is just news, but this Tianjin is different, this is the foundation of Beiyang, that Anhui Huaiyin has changed the dialect of Tianjin, the big guy used to talk in the teahouse, but it is all related to Beiyang, and now it suddenly hit such a thunderbolt, can they not be surprised, and were taken aback.

The addition of the Northeast Navy has forcefully raised the naval strength of the "Great Qing Kingdom" by two places -- not only surpassing the United States, which is strengthening its naval armaments, but also surpassing the Ottoman Empire, which has moved to the top five powers by tonnage, and moving to the fifth place in the world, and even the gap between it and Russia, the fourth power, is less than 30,000 tons.

Okay!

It's really frightening, people looking at the newspaper, looking at what the newspaper says. Year-end and New Year's holidays. The navy of the Great Qing Dynasty is about to become the fourth in the world. The chest suddenly rose high, and he had to get up when he looked at the foreigner--why is the foreign devil? Isn't it just with their strong ships and cannons, now they have it, and we also have it in the Qing Dynasty, as for what Beiyang, what Northeast, and what Nanyang and Guangdong, that. But it's not in the minds of the Chinese people.

After all, it's all from our Great Qing Kingdom, isn't it?

Yes, for the vast majority of ordinary people, whether it is Beiyang or the Northeast, it is all the Qing Dynasty after all, even if the Northeast outside the customs cut off the braids and put on Han dresses, but the bones are always the people of the Qing Dynasty, no, there are always the descendants of Yan and Huang in their bones!

That being said. But for the Beiyang Yamen, it will never be because of this. For the Beiyang Yamen, the Northeast Navy is not only not a "friendly force", but even a threat far greater than that of Russia's Pacific Fleet. It can be said that it is an enemy army at all, at least an imaginary enemy.

Unlike the Northeast, Beiyang has never regarded the Russians as an imaginary enemy, at least not as an imaginary enemy in the first place, and for Beiyang, they have no substantive conflict of interest with the Russians, which is different from the Northeast, which is full of conflicts of interest with Russia on the Korean issue, and even on the Northeast issue, and even on the Japanese issue, and it is this conflict of interest that makes the Northeast regard Russia as the first imaginary enemy. Of course, this is also fundamentally related to the expansion of the Northeast Governor's Palace**.

Beiyang, on the other hand, was a traditional Qing yamen, and they had no intention of expanding at all, and as for overseas affairs, they had nothing to do with them, and no matter what the "Nicholas Satrapy" under Russian control was, it would not have a substantial impact on them -- at least to some extent, they had never considered Russia to be an enemy, and compared to Russia, the Northeast, which was actually strong, was the enemy, at least one of the enemies.

In the past few years, the Northeast has relied on the policy of "Taoguang and Raising Obscurity", which has made the whole of China ignore their existence, if it were not for the fact that there are more and more foreign goods made in the Northeast in the market in the Guannai, and occasionally people will talk about the "Five Platforms and Five Constants" and always talk about Tang Dashuai as a "chaotic minister and thief", I am afraid that people will forget the Northeast.

But now, everything has changed, to be more precise, no one can ignore the progress of the Northeast in recent years, although they have been buried in the window, but the surge in the strength of the Northeast is far beyond their imagination.

"This is Tang Ziran......"

What is pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger? Just look at the Northeast, has the Northeast really been silent in recent years?

If anyone says it now, the Northeast is self-contained, I'm afraid that Li Hongzhang will only immediately smack a mouthful, and the Northeast has not been silent in the past few years, but has quietly practiced internal skills.

Compared with the Northeast Navy in Beiyang back then, how could it be trained overnight? Now that I think about it, this sign has been there for a long time, even before the northeast -- Tang Ziran sent people to study the navy and the training fleet in the name of the DPRK as early as when he was in Korea.

Didn't anyone laugh at what "just get an iron-hulled ship, put it on two guns, and think it became a navy"? Now, who can laugh out there? At least, Li Hongzhang couldn't laugh. He has been engaged in foreign affairs for several decades, not to mention a combat ship like "Zhenhai" with two "Dingzhen" battles, or a cruiser like the "Dinghai" class, and how can he ever build one, or even a Chinese-made warship at all, not to mention its price, even its quality cannot be compared with that of warships purchased from foreign countries.

No matter how he said it, he couldn't create a large warship in the northeast and train a fleet that was not inferior to the old Beiyang, and in the future, this fleet would only become stronger and stronger, and it might surpass Beiyang in the future, suppressing the momentum of the Beiyang Navy, which Li Hongzhang regarded as a pillar.

The Navy is like this, so the Army's Mixed Association, didn't they also train twenty-three, what is the training now? Although there is no definite information, Li Hongzhang knows that in the past three years, nearly 100,000 people have been retired from the Northeast Army, what does this mean to survive? In the countryside of the Northeast, there are 100,000 elite reserve troops that can be called up at any time.

Northeast Navy, 200,000 Army......

It's only been three years!

If Tang Ziran is given another three years, what kind of big things can he achieve? If he is given six years, when the time comes, who else can crush such a big China?

With his eyes half-closed, facing the people in the big signing hall, Li Hongzhang just silently held the teacup. What you think. It's all Tang Ziran. It's all his bare-handed inheritance.

But it only took six years!

To be precise, it only took five years, and it only took five years of hard work, and its strength was faintly overshadowed, at least not inferior to Beiyang, which is really an outlier.

This directly determines that the Northeast is and will inevitably remain the backbone of Beiyang and the trouble of the henchmen. In contrast, in the past few years, Zhang Zhidong, who has contacted others with his vertical and horizontal skills in the pass. On the contrary, it has become a "problem of elbows and armpits", no matter how he Zhang Zhidong tries to challenge Beiyang, but it is just a mouthful of words, there is not much substantive threat to Beiyang, with the wealth of Huguang, so far it is only organized into four towns of the self-strengthening army, even if it is two rivers......

Thinking of Liu Kunyi, Li Hongzhang naturally thought of the "trouble of the people and bandits" that gave Liangjiang a headache, although those people and bandits were far away in the hinterland of Jiangxi, but they were tied to the power of Liangjiang. made it impossible for him to fully assist Zhang Nanpi, even if he had his help. Whether it is the two rivers or the lake, they are all along the riverside, as long as he Li Hongzhang is willing, the sailor can go straight into the Yangtze River, and then go straight to the Yellow Dragon.

But now, this self-confidence has been challenged like never before -- from the Northeast Navy. In the past, it was precisely by virtue of Beiyang's advantage of "dominating the China Sea" that Li Hongzhang was able to ignore many external threats, and even not put Zhang Zhidong in his eyes, but now?

Now, Zhang Zhidong, who has always been in the limelight, is obviously not a confidant, even if he has a foundation and can contact others to oppose him, but after all, his strength is limited, but the Northeast is different, if he is given a few more years......

Looking at the warships it built, except for the "Dinghai" and "Jinghai" built by France or under its guidance, others such as Zhenhai and Pingbo are all self-made, and the ship-building skills of this world are based on Britain and Germany, and the two countries have each other's strengths and weaknesses, while the United States and France are really second-rate, and third-rate ones such as Italy and Russia, as for the Northeast, I am afraid that they are outside the fourth-rate, and the same warships made by Britain and Russia are naturally different, and the quality of the latter is difficult to match the former, and at sea, it is not as good as the former...... ”

It was Yan Fu who spoke, the chief teacher of the Tianjin Naval Academy, although he had the reputation of "the person who knew the navy best in the Qing Dynasty", but he still served in the Naval Academy for more than ten years, but compared to the past, his fame has faded, and he will not go to the capital to take the exam every time Enke is like in the past.

In fact, in addition to those foolish wood, who will go to the capital to take the exam, now for the scholars, the way to promote can be said to be far more than in the past, in addition to the governor's "exceptional selection", you can also apply for the Western-style university hall, after graduation has its own appointment, in addition to this yamen has decided to open a "Zhili special test", according to the yamen in the rhetoric is "because of the current situation, eager to break the exception to seek talent, to govern", but in fact, it is because of the "exceptional selection" There are too many drawbacks, although the "exceptional selection" is the grace of the governor, However, in the past three years, there have been many malpractices in the implementation process, so that the yamen has to make countermeasures, in order to be able to truly select and appoint talents. It has become a natural choice to set up a "special test" on the basis of the hospital examination, but because it has not yet been implemented, it is not known to the outside world.

However, as one of the promoters of the "special test", Yan Fu naturally knew about it, so how could he be as in the past, bent on the imperial examination, or even unwilling to teach?

In troubled times, everyone has a choice, Yan Fu naturally understands that when this troubled era is coming, it is also his opportunity, as long as the big tree of Beiyang develops smoothly, more than ten years later, who will remember that Yan Fu is not from Jinshi?

Yan Fu's words immediately caused the people around to echo for a while, but isn't this the reason, why Beiyang doesn't look down on domestic guns, isn't it because the quality is far inferior to foreign goods, although now "made in Tianjin" is of good quality, and Shenyang is not inferior to foreign guns, but after all, it is still slightly worse, and the guns are still so, not to mention the 10,000-ton warships.

"The truth is so, but ......"

Putting down the teacup and glancing at Yan Fu, Li Hongzhang said slowly.

"Is it only the navy that I am worried about?"

Shaking his head, Li Hongzhang sighed in his heart, the navy is only secondary, and he is worried about the current situation.

"Those who want to come to Quan Shuai are nothing more than "the trouble of the henchmen of the Northeast" and "the trouble of Huguang's elbows and armpits", plus a "trouble of the limbs of the court" ......

A simple sentence, after coming out of Zhang Peilun's mouth, everyone immediately understood why Quan Shuai was like this, just a northeast is not a problem, but now Beiyang, which is ostensibly "the first in the country", is a "strong neighbor and a tiger", and is completely harmed by this "first".

Thinking about it so carefully, I can't help but admire Tang Haoran - how strong the Tang clan was at the beginning, but as soon as he got to the northeast, he immediately retreated thousands of miles, where there was a trace of the "Renchen Rebellion", he wanted to take the prestige of the country, and then fell silent for several years, if it were not for the occasional move related to the mainland, I am afraid that people would forget that there is such a "Tang Dashuai" in the northeast.

The reason why people don't compete for the first place is not because this first place is too eye-catching.

But then again, even if Beiyang doesn't fight for this first, who can afford this first except Beiyang?

"Tsuen Shuai ......"

If in the past, this Quan Shuai was just a title of "body", then now, compared to adults and governors, this "certain handsome" is a justifiable title, and even now, together with the official uniform, everyone is wearing less and less, as for the so-called "governor", it is just an old name and an old example.

"I heard that the imperial court feels that the bandits in Jiangxi are getting tighter, and they plan to transfer another town of Praetorian Guards to Fujian to prevent the chaos and bandits from causing trouble in Fujian......"

In a whisper, Zhang Peilun said another thing, which seemed to have nothing to do with Beiyang, but how could he be a fool in what he did, but it was just a mention, and someone immediately said.

"Hmph, he loves the wishful thinking of the Xinjue Luo family, thinking that if he transferred a town of Praetorian Guards, we can let go and tear up the Northeast? Isn't this like sitting on the mountain and watching the tiger fight......"

"No, I just want to reap the benefits of the fisherman. In my opinion, let's get them back and let them die of this heart,"

"I can't say that, but if it is, if we really transfer a new army from one town, then we ...... here."

It can be said that this is a game that is so simple that it doesn't even have any strategy, and it is so simple that people can see the intentions of the court at a glance, but even if Li Hongzhang faced this bait, he was also greatly moved by the benefits. Sometimes, as it always is, the simplest strategy is the most effective one.

"Well, let me think about it again......"

And Li Hongzhang, who was thoughtful about the bait thrown by the imperial court, just stroked his beard and said nothing, of course he knew what it meant to swallow this bait...... (To be continued.) )