Hearing what was said from the side, Li Ningyu was stunned for a moment. The history about Mr. Zhang was revealed in the history. But when he saw Li Ningyu stunned, several arrogant young masters became even more provocative.
Said: "The boy from there dares to act wild in front of your young master! Zhang San, Zhang Si come to me!".
Mr. Zhang gave an order, and several sturdy servants rushed towards Li Ningyu. At this moment, the soldiers who were originally disguised as civilians immediately stepped forward to meet the two servants, and then three rounds
Before long, the two servants of the Zhang Mansion were knocked to the ground and could no longer stand up.
However, the young masters in front of them did not seem to be ready to give up. Instead, with a greeting, the remaining 10 or so servants rushed towards the three soldiers who were led out by Li Ningyu. However, at this time, Li Ningyu had no idea at all.
His mind was still entangled with these Yamen, and then Li Ningyu also shouted loudly, stepped forward and swept his legs, followed by a series of straight uppercuts with swinging arms. In less than 1 minute, all the servants present were knocked down.
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At this time, the white-faced boy who went out with Li Ningyu also cheered excitedly. A series of changes made several young men no longer dare to make mistakes. Then they immediately fled the scene without caring about the life and death of their servants. Then Li Ningyu faced the white-faced boy.
He said to two soldiers: "Send Gege back to the palace!".
"Yes!" The two soldiers nodded immediately, but after hearing Li Ningyu's words, Li Tong Gege, who was secretly taken out of the palace to play by Li Ningyu, disagreed. However, after Li Ningyu's explanation, Li Tong Gege
After hooking up with Li Ningyu again, he slowly walked towards Prince Gong's Mansion. Then Li Ningyu led a soldier towards his old house.
After returning to the old house, Li Ningyu immediately locked himself in the room, and then pieces of white paper were densely written. Not only were there names on them, but there were also a lot of various information. Several people who were writing quickly wrote
After an hour, Li Ningyu twisted his stiff neck and slowly looked at the things he had written down that he suddenly remembered.
Zhang Zhidong, one of the representatives of the Westernization Movement, made great contributions to promoting the industrial development of the Chinese nation. Zhang Zhidong, Zeng Guofan, Li Hongzhang, and Zuo Zongtang were known as the four famous ministers of the late Qing Dynasty. Now he is also the governor of Shanxi.
After the outbreak of the French War, he was appointed governor of Guangdong and Guangxi because of his strong advocacy of resistance.
In the current political struggle, there are two main factions in the late Qing Dynasty, one is the Westernization faction and the other is the Qing faction. When Japan wanted to steal Ryukyu in 1874, the late Qing Dynasty used Nanyang naval warships to scare the Japanese away. Later, Japan
During the Meiji Restoration, the navy was vigorously developed, and then the late Qing government also began to vigorously develop the navy.
As the founder of the Huai Army and the Governor-General of Zhili, Li Hongzhang not only had military and political power, but also had the power to prepare the Beiyang Navy. He used 4 million taels of tax money from the customs to build the navy a year. At that time, the British Hurd made his life
The shrewd Lord Li Hongzhang made a huge loss-making deal, that is, gunboats.
After Li Hongzhang lost his wife and lost his troops in a loss-making transaction, Li Hongzhang not only failed to deal with Hart, but instead covered up his fault, which directly led to the governors along the coast in the late Qing Dynasty also purchasing large quantities of Hart's gunboats. Later, Li Hongzhang experienced this incident
Later, when he purchased Western ships, he had to be even more careful, and the only one he could turn to was Hurd.
Many years ago, the British man Hurd recommended the mosquito cannon ship as a high-quality and low-cost weapon for maritime attack and defense. Li Hongzhang carefully ignored the fact that Hurd, who was promoting the mosquito cannon ship, actually
Having never been in the navy for a day, Hurd was actually not proficient in what ship guns should be used in maritime operations.
Li Hongzhang decided to follow Hurd's suggestion and purchase the second mosquito cannon ship first. Being suspicious was Li Hongzhang's character and a skill he had honed in years of political competition. Hurd strongly recommended the coastal defense weapon to Li Hongzhang. The two ships arrived in Shanghai.
, Li Hongzhang personally inspected and accepted it.
However, the two small gunboats, with a load capacity of 320 tons, have too tall masts and too thick backward-sloping black chimneys. In comparison, their hulls appear too low, and their deck lines are close to the cold river water, and the only thing on the front deck is
The huge gun has a short and thick barrel, and the gun body is too large. The entire gunboat looks a bit like a tall and bulky man riding on the back of a small donkey.
Li Hongzhang was confused, but Hurd said: "Look how exquisite it is! How agile it is! This is the advantage of defending the seaport! The forts on land cannot move, but this kind of gunboat can maneuver. With them and land
The forts cooperate with each other to ensure the safety of the seaport."
Li Hongzhang did agree with Hart's words, and subsequently customized seven more ships. During two years of running-in with the sailors, Li Hongzhang discovered the disadvantages of the gunboats. First, the gun barrels were too large and heavy, which directly led to a larger draft.
When encountering windy and turbulent weather, he could not go to sea. Secondly, during the battle, because the cannon body could not rotate, he had to attack the enemy head-on. However, when he discovered this, it was already too late. Then Li Hongzhang had to knock out his teeth and feed them to himself.
swallow.
Because once the Qing faction knew about this news, he would be impeached. For his own rights and not to offend the British, Li Hongzhang had no choice but to vigorously promote the benefits of gunboats. This was followed by the purchase of gunboats by the coastal governors in various places, which ultimately directly led to the gunboats.
There are more than 30 ships.
Later, Li Hongzhang himself stopped buying British warships, and instead went to buy German ships. Then he changed his mind. He believed that the approach should be to focus on land and supplemented by sea, and then advocated using
Lu Shou is the leader, but he doesn't know that the 19th century is the age of the ocean. Without control of the ocean, his door will be open.
In 1897, Japan annexed Ryukyu and renamed it Okinawa Prefecture, which once again aroused unanimous attention from the late Qing Dynasty to coastal defense. At this time, China only had dozens of mosquito cannon ships, which could only keep their mouths shut, and it was difficult to go to sea to meet the enemy.
This finally made Li Hongzhang realize the necessity of strengthening overseas combat capabilities.
Subsequently, Li Hongzhang repeatedly requested to purchase iron-clad ships, because after Japan annexed Ryukyu, he had further realized that Japan would always be a great danger to China, and China's coastal defense must be rectified to prevent Japan's main target, so the Qing government began to
Two armored ships were ordered, but Li Hongzhang felt that he could not be satisfied with this.
During this stage, Li Hongzhang advocated the purchase of more iron-clad ships, the establishment of a naval fleet capable of mobile operations in the open sea, and based on war, and basically established a positive naval strategic thinking. This was a very significant progress.
It made his coastal defense thought leap to the pinnacle of its development.
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