"How is our warship maintenance progress?" Zhang Yunfei asked.

"When you go back to the young master, most of the warships are currently undergoing maintenance. They are in Pearl Harbor, Manila, Hong Kong and Singapore. If all the maintenance is completed, it will take half a month. The two 2,000-ton protective cruisers and two 800-ton gunboats of the seized Spanish fleet are being installed in Manila. After simple maintenance in Singapore, the seized Japanese armored cruisers have been driven back to Pearl Harbor and are currently undergoing modernization modifications. It is expected to take about half a month." Zhang Si reported.

Zhang Yunfei asked: "In other words, all our warships have to wait for at least one month to gather together?"

"Yes! Young Master." Zhang Si answered with certainty.

Zhang Yunfei thought: Although one month is not long, it is enough for Germany to complete the occupation of Jiaozhou Bay. Maybe Russia also joined the robbery ranks. In that case, the Beiyang Navy will always have a special feeling for the Beiyang Navy. Although the Beiyang Navy's performance has always been very bad, Zhang Yunfei still does not want it to fall. Because the Beiyang Navy is almost all Han people, representing not the Qing court, but the backbone of China.

Since he came to this world, Zhang Yunfei would definitely not allow Beiyang to fall, and he had to take action. If the Qing court still did not allow Zhang Yunfei to return to the country, the underworld would occupy the territory of the Qing court.

So, Zhang Yunfei called the Chief of Guards and asked him to notify the General Staff Department to immediately order the progress of warship maintenance.

"Young Master, what are you going to do?" Zhang Si asked.

"What else can I do? Of course I have to go back to China to help! I can't watch all Beiyang destroyed," said Zhang Yunfei.

Zhang Si didn't understand why the young master wanted to protect the Beiyang Navy. In his mind, he just knew that once the Beiyang was destroyed and the Qing court had no more sea defense, it would be a foregone conclusion that Zhang Yunfei returned to China.

So he asked, "Young Master, it's not that I'm talking too much. Once the Beiyang Navy is destroyed, the court will order you to return to China to preside over the overall situation of coastal defense."

Zhang Yunfei waved his hand to stop Zhang Sidi's words and said, "Some things are something you can't understand; some things are something I have to do; some things are something I have to take responsibility."

Zhang Yunfei said the words. Zhang Si obviously couldn't understand. So he changed the topic and said: "You immediately collect detailed information on the German Far East Fleet and the Russian Far East Fleet and send it to the General Staff. By the way, you can do something for me immediately. Tell Adel and ask him to put down his work. Make sure to build me a plane that can be taken on a two-person plane within a month. There is no need to have a weapon system. But it is best to be farther away from the enclave, higher the enclave, and longer the enclave."

"Yes, Young Master!" Zhang Si turned around and left.

After receiving Zhang Sidi's advice, Adel asked the reason quietly. After knowing that it was to make the future boss lady happy, he just shouted God. Give me a girl! Then he immediately devoted himself to the construction of a new two-person plane. In order to complete the task within a month, he simply doubled the cockpit of the plane. Thinking that the boss should hold the boss lady and put it in the cabin. Therefore, he increased the seat and extended the case to maintain balance. In order to allow them to have fun, Adel deliberately used the most expensive aluminum alloy instead of the steel frame to reduce the weight and load more fuel.

After doing all the designs, Adel began to put into the construction of the plane. He thought of pleasing the future boss lady in exchange for greater research funds. Adel put out 120 points to build this new couple aircraft.

For this reason, Dicel specifically asked Tras about the issue and improvement of how to increase the power of the aviation gasoline engine. Tras did not abandon the Dicel area very much. However, when he saw the new Adel plane thinking about the new aircraft, he became very interested. So he happily joined the design and improvement of this new couple plane.

The joining of Telas, with the scientific knowledge and wisdom that was leading several eras, undoubtedly made Adel's aircraft make significant progress. The boldest thing is that Telas rejected almost all of Adel's design on the biplane.

At the beginning, Adel was almost mad and thought that the family of Tras was here to make trouble. However, after seeing the design and explanation of Tras' new aircraft, Adel turned into a crazy worship again.

Tras explained to Adel the true principle of flow dynamics. The shapes of the upper and lower sides of the aircraft's wings are different, the upper side is more convex, while the lower side is more flat. When the aircraft glides, the wings move in the air, which is equivalent to air flowing along the wings.

Because the shapes of the upper and lower sides of the wing are different, in the same time, the air on the upper side of the wing flows more than the air on the lower side (the curve is longer than the straight line), that is, the air on the upper side of the wing flows faster than the air on the lower side. According to the principle of flow dynamics, when the aircraft slides, the air pressure on the upper side of the wing is less than the lower side, which causes the aircraft to generate an upward buoyancy. When the aircraft glides to a certain degree, this buoyancy reaches a force sufficient to make the aircraft fly. So the aircraft goes into the sky.

In addition to changing the biplane wing to a single wing, Tras has also improved the aircraft's tail wing. The aircraft's tail wing controls the pitch and deflection of the aircraft, and ensures that the aircraft can fly smoothly. It uses a fixed vertical tail wing, a fixed vertical stabilizer surface and a movable rudder.

The propeller of the aircraft was improved, and he felt that the traction force obtained by only two blades was too small, so he changed it to three blades.

After the aircraft takes off, it is necessary to minimize flight resistance if it wants to obtain the degree. Therefore, it is proposed to change the landing gear to a landing gear that can be lifted. In this way, when the aircraft is flying, the landing gear will greatly reduce the drag, which will increase the degree of the aircraft.

Finally, Tras and Diesel made improvements to aviation gasoline engines, but the results were not great. Although Tras had a lot of theoretical support, due to the manufacturing industry of this era, many key parts could not be processed, so they could not be modified on a large scale.

In this way, this originally very ancient biplane has become an advanced aircraft with the prototype of a modern aircraft, but only the appearance is relatively modern, and the core motivation problem inside cannot be solved, which limits the degree of the aircraft and indirectly affects the range of the aircraft.

However, they all firmly believe that when this plane is built, it will definitely make Zhang Yunfei and the future boss lady happy. Therefore, they used the most expensive materials when designing it. Of course, Zhang Yunfei has twitched more than once for the waste of these animals.

Ordinary heart! Ordinary heart! Just get used to it! Zhang Yunfei always comforts himself like this.

After the news that the German Far East Fleet occupied Jiaozhou Bay and sent troops to occupy Jiaozhou, it immediately became the focus of attention of the great powers. What do Germany want to do? Countries have speculated about Germany's intentions.

Britain is very clear that Germany is looking for a port in the Far East as a trade and military base, preparing to compete for hegemony with Britain in the Far East. Britain has clearly understood that Germany is about to intend around the world. If the Boer War in Africa is not supported by Germany, it will not be as corrupt as it is now.

So the UK immediately ordered Sir Dou Nale, the full-minded minister in China to put pressure on the Qing government, demanding that the Qing government quickly drive away the German Far East Fleet's occupation of Jiaozhou. At the same time, it demanded that the Qing government not harm the interests of the British Empire in China. If Germany makes any request, the Qing government needs to communicate with the British Embassy.

France and Russia did not show surprise because they were also the culprit for allowing Germany to occupy the Qing Dynasty's port. As early as the coronation ceremony of Russia's Nicholas II, German Emperor William II proposed to Russian Emperor Nicholas II the desire to get a port in the Qing Dynasty.

Similarly, Russia also hopes to get a good port in the Far East. France has long been aiming at the southern Guangzhou Bay (Zhanjiang Military Port) of the Qing Dynasty, but the two old fox countries did not show it, but secretly encouraged Germany.

Once Germany gets the port in the Qing Dynasty, they have an excuse to ask the ports they need from the Qing Dynasty. It would be even better if Germany sent troops to occupy it. Germany and France are the places they like to take advantage of the situation.

The opportunity finally came, and Germany finally couldn't resist the temptation and sent troops to occupy Jiaozhou Bay.

General Alexeyev, commander of the Russian Far East Fleet, who was stationed in the port of Incheon, the Republic of Korea, was surveillance of the Japanese joint fleet, and discussed how to take advantage of the opportunity of the German Far East Fleet holding the ground with the Manchu and Qing Dynasty Beiyang Navy and occupying Lushun.

Since Lushun is the gateway of the Qing Dynasty in Beijing and Tianjin, there are many fortresses and guns. It is also guarded by heavy troops and is known as Constantinople in the East. Therefore, if Lushun is to occupy Lushun, it is necessary to pay a high price and must make a smart appointment. According to the treaty, if the Qing Dynasty is invaded by foreign military forces, Russia needs to support the Qing government.

But Russia did not want to offend Germany, nor did it want to go to war with Germany. So it thought of using the Qing government to mediate the issue of Jiaozhou with Germany, and Tsarist Russia benefited from it.

So on the third day after Germany occupied Jiaozhou Bay, Tsarist Russian Minister to China Kasini urgently met with Beiyang Minister Wang Wenshao and proposed to mediate, hoping that the Qing Dynasty and Germany would not cause any accidents, so as not to cause unnecessary war.

Beiyang minister Wang Wenshao asked Empress Dowager Cixi of the Qing court to ask the emperor to go to war with Germany according to the opinion of the Zongli Yamen. So he sent a telegram to the Beiyang Navy and the Shandong Town Army not to fire the artillery first and wait for Russia's mediation.

So Russian Minister Kasini and German Minister Hai Jing negotiated urgently, hoping to resolve the problem peacefully. But Germany was already crazy about this port, how could it be spit out the meat in its mouth?

However, the current situation is not very beneficial to Germany. So in order to force the Qing government to submit, German Minister Hai Jing lobbied the Russian Minister Kasini.

Hai Jing hopes that Russia can be with the German Beiyang Navy, so that Germany and Russia can each take their needs.

Kasini was very moved by Hai Jing's suggestions, because if you want to get the port, you must get permission from the Qing government. Judging from the current situation, the Qing government obviously refused to give it.

Then only after fighting and hurting the Qing government can we successfully obtain the port. Once the Beiyang Navy is completely destroyed, the Qing government will no longer have the support for maritime defense. If the two countries put pressure at the same time, they may obtain the port without bloodshed.

The reason why Germany proposed to jointly eliminate the Beiyang Navy was because the German Navy was established not long ago and had not participated in a decent naval battle. Once it fought with the Beiyang Navy, the losses would probably be huge.

Although the Beiyang Navy was beaten very embarrassed in the Battle of the Yellow Sea in Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, it was the navy that had experienced the baptism of war and crawled out of the war, which was not comparable to those of Germany's navy that had not experienced the naval war.

Considering that the Russian warships at Incheon Port only have the First Squadron of the Far East Fleet, which is not as powerful as the Beiyang Navy. The powerful Second Squadron is still under maintenance in Vladivostok.

Therefore, it is very difficult to get the Port of Lushun. In the end, Kasini agreed to the suggestion put forward by German Minister Hai Jing and joined forces to deal with the Beiyang Navy.

So, a mediation meeting eventually turned into a major conspiracy against the Beiyang Navy.

After the meeting between Russian Minister Kasini and German Minister Hai Jing, both sides returned the opinions of the emperor from their own land.

On September 15, 1897, after considering it for a long time, the Russian Emperor Nicholas II finally approved the suggestion of Russian Minister Kasini, and sent a telegram to General Alexeyev, the commander of the Russian Far East Fleet, to act cheaply based on the suggestion of Kasini. Considering the revolutionary movement and economic downturn in Russia, Russian Emperor Nicholas II meant that it would be best if it could get Lushun at the lowest cost. If it really didn't work, then the use of force was allowed.

However, General Alexeyev, the commander of the Russian Far East Fleet, did not care about those. He really couldn't think of a better way. The commander of the team General Alexeyev led the first squadron of the Russian Far East Fleet. 17 ships including the armored cruiser Admiral Nasimov, the Russian (Ros Private III), the Admiral Kornilov, the Imperial Guard, the Cruiser Robber, the Manghan. The lightning strike ships Songhuajiang, the Ussuri River, the Yanqihe, the Suchener, the gunboat Manchus, the Beaver, the Sea Dog, the Koryo, the torpedo boats, the seventy-seven, the seventy-nine, and the eighty-six, leaving Incheon Port and heading to Jiaozhou Bay.

On September 12, 1897, German Emperor William II also approved the plan of Minister Hai Jingdi to China to eliminate the Beiyang Navy and his personal telegram to make Major General Delis, the commander of the German Far East Fleet.

At this moment, the Beiyang Navy had no idea that a catastrophe was about to come to the French Minister to China's top counsel, Jule Pat Noetel, Ju1es, and the Far East Fleet had seized Jiaozhou Bay, and immediately telegrammed to France, saying that France should take this opportunity to seize Guangzhou Bay in Guangdong Province of the Qing Dynasty as the foothold of the French Navy in the Qing Dynasty.

The next day, French President François Fili Forre called back to Badno, authorizing him to fully handle the matters of the French Republic in the Far East. He also granted him the right to mobilize the Far East Fleet of French Vietnam.

On September 10, 1897, while the world was focusing on the Beiyang Navy and the German Far East Fleet, French Minister Badno ordered the French Far East Fleet to head towards Guangzhou Bay and occupy Guangzhou Bay.

On the morning of the 11th, the French Far East Fleet, from Wusong Port in Shanghai and Cam Ranh Bay, which originated from French Vietnam, arrived in Guangzhou Bay and met on the coast.

At 3 pm, the French Far East Fleet, which was ready, was almost fully dispatched to forcibly break into Guangzhou Bay under the command of the fleet commander Gao Lirui. It included the ironclad ships Tirena, Baya, the armored cruiser Depuy de Lome, Admiral Charles, Brücks, Latoustwell, General Sansi, Poseo, plus 6 lightning destroyers, 4 gunboats, and 4 torpedo boats.

The French fleet used to avoid typhoons as a borrower, and asked the Qing government to allow the lease of Guangzhou Bay, a bay owned by Wuchuan County, as a port for avoiding typhoons.

When the Wuchuan County Magistrate saw the overwhelming French warships, they did not come for rent, but were clearly for forcing them to occupy. The Wuchuan County Magistrate did not dare to make a decision, so he notified the French fleet commander Gao Lirui to inform his superiors.

Unfortunately, the French were not in the mood to wait for the notice and ignored the pleas of the magistrate of Wuchuan County. The commander of the French Navy Fleet Gao Lirui ordered the 6th team to immediately land in Haitouxun in Suixi County and occupy the Haitou Fort. Then they wanted to expand to the mainland on the east and west sides, causing the patriotic officials and gentry of Suixi and Wuchuan to resolutely resist.

However, the cowardly local officials of the Qing government dared not to disobey the French people's wishes. Tan Zhonglin, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi and the governor of Guangdong, ordered officials in the region to evacuate quickly. So the officials packed up their gold, silver and treasures to escape. At the same time, they also issued a notice to the local government office and the garrison to control the riots and cause trouble and assisted the management of the French team.

More than 500 villagers in Nanliu, Haitou, Lutang, Hongwu and other villagers led by Wu Bangze and other places, and swore blood to attack the French troops in Guangzhou Bay with big swords, spears, wooden sticks, etc. as weapons. Later, a vigorous anti-French struggle was launched. With the support of the acting magistrate Li Zhongjue, the people of Guangzhou Bay established an anti-French corporation training. With the belief of fighting with Yi in an inch of land, they fought with the enemy more than ten times and repelled several attacks from well-equipped enemies.

Finally, they resisted the French invading army and lost to the well-equipped invading army, and fell into a pool of blood in the ground by the joint suppression of the French team and local garrisons.

On September 15, the Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi Tan Zhonglin ordered the Nanyang Navy to dispatch all the way to Guangzhou Bay to investigate the situation. So the Nanyang Navy Admiral Ye Zugui led the flagship protective cruisers Jiyuan, Pingyuan, Jingyuan, lightning destroyers Feiying, Feiting, and four torpedo boats to go to Guangzhou Bay to monitor the French Far East Fleet.

Unexpectedly, the French Far East Fleet had an ambush. As soon as the Nanyang Navy arrived at Guangzhou Bay, it was surrounded by a large number of French fleets. Seeing that something was wrong, the Nanyang Navy Admiral Ye Zugui immediately uttered a flag-and-era notice that the French fleet were just passing by. However, the French Fleet Commander Gao Lirui believed that Ye Zugui was lying, so he ordered Ye Zugui and his Nanyang Navy to be inspected by the French Far East Fleet.

Ye Zugui didn't understand that the French wanted to capture their Nanyang Navy. But he was now surrounded. The French Far East Fleet was even more powerful than the Nanyang Navy. It was impossible to break out. If you resist, it would be annihilated.

Finally, Ye Zugui thought that this time he came not to start a war, but to monitor the movements of the French Far East Fleet. He did not receive the order from the Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi to start a war, and the matter was not yet at the point where he had to fight.

So Ye Zugui gave up the idea of ​​sinking his own warship and obediently accepted the inspection of the French fleet. The newly established Nanyang Navy once again became the French Far East Fleet to capture the entire Nanyang Navy since the Battle of Mawei. He became even more arrogant because there was no navy in the South China Sea that could threaten the French fleet.

After the news that the French Far East Fleet captured the Nanyang Navy reached the Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi Tan Zhonglin. Tan Zhonglin realized that this matter could no longer be suppressed, so he immediately reported to the court for instructions.

The Qing court has been in chaos now, and the matter of Germany's occupation of Jiaozhou Bay has not been resolved, and if it is not done well, war will begin. Now, there is another incident in Guangdong that France's occupation of Guangzhou Bay, and what makes Emperor Guangxu even more angry is that the Nanyang navy was actually captured by the French navy, which is a very shame and humiliation from the Qing Dynasty.

More importantly, at this time, Empress Dowager Cixi opposed Emperor Guangxu's use of force against Germany and France for the landlords and factions, and demanded that the great powers continue to mediate from it, hoping that France would release the detained Nanyang Navy as soon as possible.

The Qing government was afraid of foreign compromise, which made France even more aggressive.

On September 1, 23rd year of the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty (September 26, 1897), under the coercion of France, the imperial envoy Su Yuanchun and the Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi and the Governor of Guangzhou Tan Zhonglin signed the "Treaty on the Concession of the Sino-French Guangzhou Bay" with Gao Lirui, commander of the French Far East Fleet, and designated the six parts of Suixi and Wuchuan counties, islands and the Maxi Bay between the two counties (now Zhanjiang Harbor) as the French Concession, collectively known as Guangzhou Bay, and included the French Indochina Federation, with the Guangzhou Bay Chief Administrative Office, which was under the jurisdiction of the Governor of Annan. The government demanded that the French Far East Fleet release the detained Nanyang Navy ships and officers and soldiers. However, it was rejected by Gao Lirui, commander of the French fleet, on the grounds that the lease is still unstable and it will take effect after both the French President and the Qing Emperor signed it.

In fact, France was reluctant to return the warships of the Nanyang Navy, but was just looking for excuses to delay. Now that there is no Qing naval strength in the Nanyang area, the French navy can undoubtedly be rampant and domineering.

From then on, Guangzhou Bay became an independent administrative area. Its scope: from Tongming Port, formerly belonging to Suixi County, to the north to Xinxu along Guan Road to Zhiman, to turn to the northeast to Chikan, to the south of Fujian Village, to the east to the sea surface, cross the water surface north of the Tiaoshun Island to the Douliwo, belonging to Wuchuan County, to the east to the west Fort River, to the sea surface, to the south, to the sea surface of Qizhou Island, to the south, to the sea surface outside the East Sea Island to the sea surface of Tongming Port, and to the total area of ​​6 places is 518 square kilometers. The palace is located in Maxie City.

In order to resolve France's problems as soon as possible, the Qing government rented Guangzhou Bay to France, originally thinking about concentrating on dealing with the German-occupied Jiaozhou Bay.

In the view of the Qing court, Guangzhou Bay was just a small place and could not threaten the security of the central Zhili area of ​​the Qing court, so it was a perfect France.

Jiaozhou Bay is different. It is an important port in North China. Behind the Beiyang Navy's garrison Weihaiwei Port, it has seriously threatened the security of Beijing in the Qing Dynasty, so the Qing government attached great importance to it. However, what the Qing government never expected was that France obtained excellent harbors through forced rent and was borrowing from Germany.

In fact, changing the title from occupation to loan is nothing in essence, it is just occupation, but diplomatically makes sense and avoids the danger of large-scale wars.

So Germany proposed to rent Jiaozhou Bay like France's request to rent Jiaozhou Bay. As a result, the Qing government knew that Germany was forcibly occupying Jiaozhou Bay in disguise, but had signed a similar loan leasing treaty with France, which made the Qing court at a loss.

Emperor Guangxu kept on fire and demanded the expulsion of German troops in Jiaoao by force. However, no matter how he roared everywhere, the officials below still waited for the great empire to mediate according to Empress Dowager Cixi's decision.

Shandong Governor Li Bingheng wrote to the Qing court several times, demanding a war against Germany. In the end, Cixi ordered the removal of military power. Li Bingheng, who lost the command of the army, could only be
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