Shang Tai was puzzled, and Han Mingguang said with a smile: "Since the captain said so, you can do it." ”

So Shotai declared, "The Ryukyu Kingdom is officially independent!" Shotai was the first emperor of the Ryukyu Kingdom, and the Ryukyu Kingdom adopted the Common Era year to abolish all treaties signed with foreign countries! Since Ryukyu had always been a vassal state of China before, the supreme ruler of Ryukyu had to be canonized by the central government, so the supreme ruler could only be called "king" and not "emperor".

Thousands of Japanese were killed in this riot in the Ryukyus, most of them Japanese officials and merchants. This riot was later called the "Okinawa Massacre" by later historians, and the Ryukyu Kingdom has since denied the existence of this massacre, and has repeatedly revised its history textbooks to say that it was just an ordinary riot. China has been evasive about the matter.

When Ryukyu declared independence, Hayashi Yuan had just signed an armistice agreement with Ito Hirobumi, the main content of which was that Japan recognized China as the suzerainty of Korea and that both sides withdrew their troops within a specified time limit. Ito Hirobumi smiled excitedly, thinking that he had taken a big advantage, at this moment, the attendant sent an urgent telegram, when Ito Hirobumi saw the telegram, his smile suddenly froze, but he couldn't bring out the slightest unhappiness, so he still smiled and talked to Lin Yuan, he knew that Ryukyu independence must have something to do with the Lin Yuan in front of him, but what it was, he couldn't figure it out.

Lin Yuan guessed the content of the telegram and deliberately said: "Lord Ito, Okinawa Prefecture should still be under the rule of the Great Japanese Empire, and the Great Japanese Empire will definitely bring happiness to the people of Okinawa." Saying that, he also smiled, Ito Hirobumi had to break his teeth and swallow in his stomach, and said fiercely in his heart: "Lin Yuan, don't be too complacent!" Sooner or later, this revenge will have to be avenged! ”

After the negotiations, Lin Yuan and his entourage returned to Tianjin by boat, Li Hongzhang saw Lin Yuan's performance in Japan, he valued him very much, and wanted to promote him as an official in the court, Lin Yuan thought: "The future of our aircraft carrier has not yet been determined, and we still have to develop our own industry, where is the time to mess around in the corrupt officialdom of the Qing court?" ”

So Lin Yuan smiled and said: "Lord Zhongtang, Li Bai has a poem: 'Anshi is in Dongshan, and he has no intention of helping the world. Together, we will be able to reinvigorate and be chic. 'I am a man of the mountains and wilderness, and now that the national calamity is gone, I should return to the mountains and wilderness. ”

An Shi in this poem refers to Xie An, a famous minister of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, who commanded a Jin army of 80,000 men to defeat the former Qin army of one million in the Battle of Weishui. Retirement has always been the ideal realm pursued by Chinese scholars, and Xie An is a model worshiped by countless scholars. Although Li Hongzhang is distinguished by military achievements, he was born as a jinshi and was selected as a scholar of the Hanlin Academy, which is the value of traditional Chinese literati in his bones, so Lin Yuan chose such a way to decline his invitation.

When Li Hongzhang heard this, he thought: "It's really rare for young people not to be proud of their achievements, but now it's so difficult, hey, ......" He no longer forced Lin Yuan.

The Chinese have always been hospitable, Li Jingfang learned from his words that Lin Yuan's men had not been to the capital, so he invited them to visit the capital, everyone agreed, but Lin Yuan did not go, he got off the ship in Tianjin, directly boarded the ship to Weihai, and went to the Beiyang Fleet station.

Lin Yuan stood on the boat to Weihai, facing the clear sea breeze, suddenly he was patted on the shoulder, and when he turned around, he saw Shen Wanqing standing behind him with a smile, Lin Yuan smiled and said, "When did you come with you?" ”

Shen Wanqing said proudly: "If I am found out when I follow others again, how can I be an agent, why don't you go to the capital to play with everyone?" ”

Lin Yuan smiled: "To be honest, you completely subverted the image of the agent in my mind, and you agents can still play?" ”

Shen Wanqing said: "Your question is like, let me give you an example, when I was in the first grade of primary school, I once met our teacher when I was eating in the cafeteria, and my thought at the time was, why does the teacher still eat?" ”

Shen Wanqing asked Lin Yuan: "Why do you want to make Ryukyu independent?" ”

Lin Yuan smiled mysteriously and said, "This is of great use, and you will know the Tao in the future." ”

Shen Wanqing didn't ask anymore.

Soon the two of them arrived at Weihaiwei, Lin Yuan had Li Hongzhang's instructions, so it didn't take much effort to enter the Beiyang Fleet station, and after asking the people inside, he learned that many of the ship's pipe bands and senior officers had already returned to their homes in the city, and only Deng Shichang was still on the Zhiyuan ship.

"On this day, the world is full of tears, and there is a strong navy." Deng Shichang occupies a very important position in the hearts of Chinese who pay attention to the navy, and I believe that no one does not know about his deeds.

Boarding the Zhiyuan ship, drying clothes on the deck, there are a lot of criticisms about the behavior of drying clothes in later generations, Lin Yuanzhi said that these must be said by some laymen, people who know a little about the navy can't say anything wrong, there was no special drying equipment on the ship at that time, in order not to let the moisture affect the living environment, the clothes can only be dried outside, which is the common practice of the navies of various countries in the world.

What is even more outrageous is a rumor about the Dingyuan ship, after the Japanese officer Heihachiro Togo boarded the Dingyuan ship, he said: "The Chinese fleet is not terrible, because they actually dry their clothes on the barrels." This remark was later widely quoted to demonstrate the low quality of the Beiyang Fleet's soldiers, but as long as you go to the Dingyuan ship to take a look, you will know how ridiculous this statement is, the main gun barrel of the Dingyuan ship is several meters above the ground, and the position of each secondary gun cannot easily travel to the direction of the gun.

It is a pity that the Chinese have never hesitated to quote these slanderous and slanderous remarks against the Chinese!

There were also crew members on the ship cleaning the hull and maintaining the equipment, and when they saw Lin Yuan and Shen Wanqing, they didn't stop them, they inquired and came to Deng Shichang's cabin, and someone at the door had already reported inside. Before the two of them could enter the door, a big wolfdog rushed up and barked at them, this big wolfdog had black hair and strong limbs.

I only heard a loud voice in the cabin say, "Sun, don't be rude." ”

"Sun" turned out to be the name of the big dog, and like a wronged child, the sun whined and ran to the side and got out of the way.

Deng Shichang pet this matter actually became a later generation to accuse the Beiyang Fleet of loose military discipline, they do not know the way, on the ship to keep pets, there is a tradition, as early as the ancient Egyptian era, there is a tradition of raising cats and mice on ships, to modern times, the navies of all countries in the world are raising pets on warships, not only cats, dogs, and even bears, tigers and leopards and other beasts.

When will we replace these assumptions with careful research when we comment on history?

Lin Yuan walked into the cabin alone, Deng Shichang was writing at the desk, and Lin Yuan saw him writing a poem repeatedly: The building boat crosses the snow melon island at night! Deng Shichang didn't put down his pen, didn't raise his head, and sneered: "The ship is bitter, there is no tea to serve guests, and I hope the two distinguished guests will forgive me." ”

Lin Yuan heard that his words were full of hostility, he knew that Deng Shichang was upright, but he didn't provoke him, so he wouldn't treat himself like this? He saw Deng Shichang's pen turn again and wrote: The secluded habitat is rarely passed, and the old patients help them to worship again. How can there be an article that shocks the sea, and the long-working cars and horses are stationed in the river. This is Du Fu's poem, entitled "Guest", but the whole poem is full of arrogance, which shows that this "guest" is not welcome. Deng Shichang wrote these few lines of poetry, obviously saying that he was the person who was not persona non grata.

It turned out that Deng Shichang knew that the Korean war situation was greatly beneficial to the Qing army, and he thought that the peace treaty would have content that was beneficial to China, but he did not expect that as soon as the peace treaty came out, only Japan recognized China's suzerainty status, and there was no mention of asking Japan to compensate for military expenses. He also heard that Lin Yuan was in charge of negotiations, so he had already equated Lin Yuan with a traitor in his heart, so he was very cold to him. But where can these Lin Yuan know the Dao?

Lin Yuan stayed for a while, Deng Shichang didn't speak, and with a turn of the pen, Lin Yuan had no choice but to excuse himself.

Lin Yuan came out and saw Shen Wanqing feeding the big dog, and the sun lost its previous scary energy, like a well-behaved child, snuggled up to her lap, whining and eating what she was doing.

Shen Wanqing saw Lin Yuan coming out, stood up, and said with a smile: "You guys finished talking so soon?" ”

Lin Yuan said helplessly: "I don't know where I provoked him, he didn't pay attention to me at all." ”

Shen Wanqing said with a smile: "Okay, don't worry about him, we still have our own affairs, don't we want to develop industry and dominate the world?" ”

The two left the Zhiyuan ship with a smile and took the ship to Keelung, the location of the Beijing ship.

The butterflies in the Amazon forest flapped their wings, the rain fell over New York, the return of the Beijing ship, like an insignificant stone falling into the sea of history, the ripples stirred up were boundless, and the progress of history turned like a storm, no one knows what will happen tomorrow, nevertheless, a new era will be accompanied by the morning light of tomorrow, majestic sky!