While the fighting was going on in the north, Lin Youde's side was peaceful.
In the spring of 1900, according to the order of Navy Minister Lin Youde, all the teachers and students of the original Beiyang Naval School and Fuzhou Shipbuilding School were relocated to Helangyabo. Then Lin Youde spent his own money to buy the American ship in the name of a training ship.
Most of the ships in the Asia Fleet also employ all the American officers on board as instructors. Together with the remaining warships of the Beiyang Navy and the Fujian Navy, China once again has a navy in the true sense.
The ranks of the navy follow the system of the legendary mythical beasts of the Nanyang Army. The navy flag is based on the army flag with a sea pattern added at the bottom. There is a white banner on the side of the flagpole with the four characters "Don't forget the Sino-Japanese War" written inside.
Beginning in February 1900, the naval shooting ranges opened on several small islands near Subic Bay were filled with constant gunfire. Lin Youde personally gave instructions to limit the number of cannonballs and practice them until they hit the target 100 times.
At the same time, Lin Youde started building the world's largest dry dock in Subic Bay. When the construction of this huge dock started, the British Sing Tao Daily wrote: This behemoth shows the ambition of the new Lord of the Navy.
When his fleet takes shape, it can be foreseen that there will be another bloody storm in the Far East.
On March 1, 1900, Lin Youde issued an order declaring this day to be Navy Day. At noon that day, he gathered 10,000 officers and soldiers of the new naval fleet on the school field in front of the giant dry dock under construction, and then went on stage to commemorate it in person.
sky.
In Lin Youde's view, superstition is not useless. The awe and dependence on gods and demons is actually a kind of spiritual sustenance. Psychologically speaking, people with this sustenance will be more confident and more likely to exert their strength.
Many veterans who have been on the battlefield are a little superstitious. Comrades of the famous Red Baron Manfred Richthofen believed that his nightcap was an amulet given by God, and then he wore it when he went to heaven.
At that time, he walked through the gate of hell countless times without any harm. Later, he forgot to put on his nightcap and went to heaven. As a result, that flight became his last flight. Psychologically speaking, the nightcap has a suggestive effect, stimulating this
The potential of a pilot allowed him to face various dangers. Similarly, forgetting to wear a nightcap was also a hint. When he went up to the sky, he felt that he was going to die, so he died.
Therefore, superstition is not useless, not to mention that this kind of superstition is still a part of traditional culture. In the last time and space, Lin Youde envied Japan for being able to preserve the custom of sacrificial rituals so completely. In contrast, in China, Lin Youde's hometown still retains a lot of them.
Traditionally, every household in urban villages has a Shigandang town house at the door. Most shops will worship the God of Wealth. Some star-rated hotels opened by locals will set up an altar to Guan Erye in the lobby. Every year during the Ghost Festival, locals will look up to it.
The children kept them away from all kinds of water bodies and hung things like carrots and red peppers at the door of their homes to ward off evil spirits.
But it is still far behind Japan.
When Lin Youde was in college, he often caught a classmate from the north and asked them if there were still old customs there, such as asking the Kitchen God to give gifts to the Kitchen God, etc. The answers he received were surprisingly consistent.
Feeling the loss of traditions in the previous time and space, in this time and space, Lin Youde is determined to preserve these traditions, so his naval base must have a Mazu temple, the army must pay homage to the Second Master Guan, and the army must take the stage when swearing an oath.
Sacrifice to heaven.
After the sacrifice to heaven was completed, Lin Youde gave a lecture to all the naval officers, enumerating the pros and cons of controlling the sea, and explaining it with emotion and reason. At the end of the lecture, the entire army raised their arms and shouted loudly, and the slogans were loud.
Lin Youde got off the altar with satisfaction, and was greeted by his fiancée's smile: "Although I only understood less than one-fifth of it, the emotions you showed also affected me."…
"It's an honor for you to recognize me." Lin Youdebeier responded in a gentlemanly manner.
So Josephine smiled even more happily, gave Lin Youde a gentle push, and said softly: "Stop teasing, you clearly know how highly I think of you."
The girl Josephine always said very straightforward words without changing her face. Although Lin Youde was a lively character, he did not have the same shame as Josephine, so in the face of the girl's very direct praise, Feng Liu
The suave shopkeeper Lin actually seemed a little embarrassed. He originally wanted to reply, "I know, it's as high as my opinion of you," but he didn't say it after all.
I can only sigh that the mixture of French and Spanish is really powerful.
Lin Youde thought like this, and couldn't help but look at his fiancée with eyes full of love and affection. Josephine was keenly aware of this and responded with a warm smile.
After just looking at each other for a few seconds, the girl cleared her throat, pretended to cough twice, and said in unfamiliar Chinese: "It's cold and wet outside. Please ask Shopkeeper Lin to go back home as soon as possible."
"Ah," Lin Youde woke up suddenly, "Oh, yes, let's go back."
After saying that, he turned around and walked towards the electric car parked not far away, with Josephine following closely behind him. At this time, Tomoe had already taken office as the chairman of the Japanese Expatriates National Salvation Committee, and was fully responsible for the management of the Japanese expatriates living in Lin Youde's area of influence, so
Lin Youde's security work was naturally taken over by his fiancée Josephine. Of course, since Josephine had not yet passed the door, according to Christian rules, she could not stay with Lin Youde at night, so Balai was still responsible for the night guard.
The two girls would meet each other after dinner every evening, so the dinner the three of them had together became quite...
Lin Youde had to capture Sophie to have dinner with him every night to share his mental pressure. At first Sophie always wanted to escape the dinner, but suddenly one day the little girl came to the dinner on her own initiative, which made Lin Youde
He was pleasantly surprised, but he didn't expect that the little girl would become restless halfway through the meal.
That day Sophie pointed at Ba across the dining table and said, "I like Ba's hair and butt."
Then he pointed at Josephine: "I like Josephine's eyes and breasts, and I like the faces of the other two equally."
"Huh?" Lin Youde looked at his daughter with a puzzled expression, and the two girls were also dumbfounded. They looked at each other, wondering what the madness of this talented little girl was.
While Sophie stuffed a large piece of chicken into her mouth, she muttered: "Having a beautiful mother is the capital to show off, and the prettier the mother is, the prettier her daughter will be in the future, but I like both Ba and Josephine. I can't
Do you want both?"
Lin Youde decisively touched his daughter's head and took this opportunity to once again clarify his determination to have a harem: "Okay, I want both."
"But I also want a wet nurse."
…
Lin Youde choked up because of his daughter's weird thinking circuit, with an embarrassed look on his face. The two mothers at the same table burst into laughter upon seeing this.
That night, when Lin Youde was about to go to bed, someone knocked on his bedroom door.
Then Sophie burst in holding a pillow.
Lin Youde had adopted Sophie for some years, but this was the first time the little girl had done such a thing as a night attack.
"Lan said that we need to sleep together at night to deepen the relationship between parents and children." Sophie said this, and put the pillows on the bed as if nothing had happened, then climbed up and stood on the bed and looked at Lin Youde, "She also said that she would wait for such an opportunity to make an appointment.
Not much after Sephine got married."
Although Lin Youde didn't like Lan teaching Sophie some strange things all day long, this time he really loved her.
"Well, Lan is right." Lin Youde reached out and took his daughter into his arms, "Let us, father and daughter, deepen our relationship tonight."…
"Yes," Sophie nodded, "but don't prick me with your beard."
"well."
This was the first time that Lin Youde and his daughter fell asleep hugging each other after becoming a father. The silly father who always doted on his daughter was so moved that he couldn't find his way to the point where his dreams throughout the night were about Sophie getting married in the future.
Lin Youde sent an army to wipe out the man, his family and the country.
**
In early March, Lin Youde's divine calculation was completed. On the day of completion, Lin Youde received a very vague special effect: You have built a world wonder, and all the scientists under your command have become more inspired.
I'm sorry that Lin Youde's golden finger still has the same settings as "Civilization", but the big book does not record what effects can be obtained by building something. Lin Youde estimates that his golden finger will only be judged after the construction project is completed.
Whether this thing is a spectacle will determine the reward.
So Lin Youde added one item to his political policy: build more super projects.
After everything was built, Lin Youde publicized it with great fanfare according to the established plan. The results of the publicity came faster than Lin Youde expected: two German mathematicians sent Lin Youde an extremely complex equation via telegram, asking for help in calculating it.
At this time, the divine arithmetic was built and there was nothing to do. Lin Youde approved the request to use the divine arithmetic without saying a word. Two days later, the calculation results were sent to the two mathematicians in the form of telegrams, along with the hiring of two highly paid mathematicians.
Appointment letter for appointment at National Academy of Sciences, Langgabo.
Soon, the two mathematicians called Lin Youde back and said that they had packed their bags and hit the road.
These two mathematicians were just the beginning. Between March and May 1900, a large number of scientists and engineers engaged in research in mathematics, basic physics, electromagnetism and other subjects showed great interest in Helang Yabo's machine.
The machine was of great interest, and messages and letters requesting calculation support were sent one after another to the Horanga Bolingji base camp. Of course, many scientists expressed doubts about the capabilities of this machine, and they all proposed tricky calculations to defeat this machine.
This machine proved to be nothing more than "Oriental lies and boasting."
In addition, a group of people began to chant, "After machines have replaced our hands and feet, they will begin to replace our brains." They strongly demanded that Lin Ji immediately shut down this machine that "offended the realm of God" and "offended human dignity."
"Machine. Of course, Lin Youde would not care about these idiots, so they instead asked the British Empire government to "launch a modern version of the Crusades" and "burn the heretics in the East." Unfortunately, Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom is putting
All attention was focused on the new German Empire and their demands were ignored.
In June 1900, Helang Yabo welcomed the first batch of scientists who traveled across the ocean and came all the way from the Western world to this small island in the Far East to visit this magical machine. This included science fiction scientists who were already in their twilight years.
Jules Verne, the dean.
Lin Youde personally received Verne. After the old man visited the computer room accompanied by "the most prestigious Chinese in the Western world", he was as moved as a Christian who had finally seen God's grace. He pulled him
Lin Youde said with trembling hands: "This is the future! On this machine, I see the future! If there is anything that can show that we have entered a new century, it is this machine!"
Soon, the report written by Jules Verne was sent back to Paris, France via submarine cable.
As a result, the war in northern China involving the interests of various countries in China became eclipsed, and the world's attention once again focused on the Philippines, on the Navy Minister, Acting Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, Lin Youde, and his new gadget.
Especially the French government, they are just like finding a treasure. You must know that Lin Youde and Josephine will be engaged for a year soon. The two will be officially married in August 1900 at the latest. As the motherland of "Mrs. Lin", France has already
They couldn't wait to share the powerful computing power of the Divine Calculation - they even wanted to encourage Josephine to steal the design of the Divine Calculation and copy it in China. Unfortunately, this plan was rejected by Josephine...
Since the influence of the divine calculation was greater than expected, Lin Youde strengthened the strength of the technical experimental unit and specially deployed a group of Shenji guards responsible for the divine calculation.
By July 1900, the number of foreign scholars who had come to join the National Research Institute in Helanggabo exceeded 100. Lin Youde took them in regardless of whether they were famous or not, skilled or not. Anyway, he still had enough money to support a few scientists.
, the important thing is to establish his reputation as a virtuous supporter of scientific research, so that those great masters who are not very proud now will come to him.
**
On a hot afternoon in early July 1900, Lin Youde and Josephine were studying the war situation in the north when the phone in his room suddenly rang.
Lin Youde picked up the phone: "I'm Lin Youde, what's going on?"
"Sir, there is a foreigner who claims to be a scientist in front of the main entrance of the base camp, asking to see him."
Lin Youde couldn't help but frown when he heard this. Because he has shown support for scientific research, more and more foreign "scientists" have come to see him recently. If these people were all scientists, Lin Youde would have laughed so hard. It's a pity.
Most of them reminded Lin Youde of the "civilian scientists" from the previous time and space, who didn't understand anything but were self-righteous. Originally, Lin Youde planned to make a list of scientific giants who needed attention, or simply let the European and European Intelligence Bureau who were putting up a fight
The North American branch has direct contact with those future giants, but if he does so, his motives cannot be explained. He can't fool his staff and say that he has received the apocalypse?
So Lin Youde had to endure all kinds of weird harassment, which was extremely annoying.
No wonder he frowned at this time.
To say that Josephine is indeed a good wife, when she saw Lin Youde frowning, the girl reached out and gently pressed Lin Youde's right hand, showed him a healing smile, and silently conveyed her support to him.
With the support of his wife, Lin Youde put aside his intention of leaving the gate to see off the guests, and asked in a calm tone: "Really? Has he registered his own number?"
The clerk on the other end of the phone pondered for a while before making up his mind: "His English accent is very heavy, and I can't hear his name very clearly. It should be a Russian name, like Consontane Qiaoshaike..."
Lin Youde's heart skipped a beat.
"Konstantin Tsiolkovsky!"
"Report, it seems to be this name."
Lin Youde immediately beamed with joy. Hey, the father of human aerospace science, a strong man who worked as a rural teacher in a remote place while doing research and published a paper that Mendeleev himself wrote a letter praising! Lin Youde began to search for the things he had brought with him from the last time and space.
memory.
Tsiolkovsky was once obsessed with atmospheric spacecraft such as airplanes, but at that time he was still a rural teacher, and his research on these things could only stay on paper and could not be practiced, so he turned to pure theoretical research. This
The progress of science and technology in the world around us is generally slower than that of the previous time and space, so the father of aerospace should be in the stage of researching aircraft now. Then he came to join Lin Youde after seeing reports of supporting scientific exploration.
"Tell the gatekeeper," Lin Youde said as he stood up. "Don't be rude. I will go out to greet you in person."
After saying that, Lin Youde hung up the phone, dragged Josephine and ran out the door.
"Wait a minute, dear, what's going on?" Josephine looked confused, but she still followed Lin Youde as she trotted all the way - she was Lin Youde's bodyguard, so it was okay not to follow.
After running out of the main building of the base camp, Lin Youde panted and looked toward the gate of the outer courtyard of the base camp.
He only saw a tall girl standing in the middle of the door. The girl had silver hair, and her waist-long hair was braided into a thick braid. The gorgeous silver color and simplicity could be considered old-fashioned.
The hairstyle is blended with a subtle balance. The girl has a slender figure, but she is wearing a coarse cloth dress that is reminiscent of a female textile worker in a factory. The large, easy-to-work clothes form a sharp contrast with the girl's fragile figure.
The disharmony was extreme.
The only thing about the girl that matches her temperament is probably the gold-rimmed glasses on the bridge of her nose.
The only luggage the girl carried was a small suitcase, which was lying quietly at her feet.
Lin Youde stared at the girl for three seconds, then he turned his head and looked to the left of the door.
It was empty there.
He turned his head and looked to the right again.
It was equally empty there.
"Uh," Lin Youde's eyes were directed at the girl again, "You are Constantine..."
"Victoria Konstantin Tsiolkova, specializes in aerodynamics and rocketry. As far as I know, there is only one Chinese in Helangyabo who has a blonde escort. You must be Lin Youdelin
Sir." With that said, Victoria took off the glasses on the bridge of her nose. The lenses of the glasses must have been specially treated, so it wasn't until the girl took off her glasses that Lin Youde suddenly discovered that she had a pair of red eyes, "I heard
, you will take in people like me.”
After saying that, the girl showed Lin Youde a smile that seemed to have seen through the harshness of the world.
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The chapter I posted before was censored... After checking it, I found that it turned out to be a banned place name...