Open an aircraft carrier to fight against Japan

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

So Shang Tai announced: "The Ryukyu Kingdom is officially independent! Shang Tai is the first emperor of the Ryukyu Kingdom, and the Ryukyu Kingdom adopts the AD calendar and abolishes all treaties signed with foreign countries!" Since Ryukyu has always been a vassal state of China, the supreme ruler of Ryukyu must It must be canonized by the central government, so the supreme ruler can only be called "king" and not "emperor". Now Shangtai is called emperor, which means that Ryukyu has officially become an independent country.

Thousands of Japanese were killed in this riot in Ryukyu, most of them were Japanese officials and businessmen.This riot was called the "Okinawa Massacre" by later historians. The Ryukyu Kingdom has since denied the existence of this massacre, and has revised history textbooks many times, saying that it was just an ordinary riot.China has been evasive on the matter.

When Ryukyu declared independence, Lin Yuan had just signed an armistice agreement with Ito Hirobumi. The main content of this agreement was: Japan recognized China as the suzerain of North Korea, and the two sides withdrew their troops within the specified time limit.Ito Hirobumi smiled excitedly, thinking that he had taken advantage of it. At this moment, the attendant sent an urgent telegram. When Ito Hirobumi saw the telegram, his smile froze immediately, but he couldn't bring out the slightest emotion. Unhappy, so he still smiled and talked to Lin Yuan. He knew that Ryukyu's independence must have something to do with Lin Yuan in front of him, but he was not sure what it was.

Lin Yuan guessed the content of the telegram, and deliberately said: "Master Ito, it is better for Okinawa County to be under the rule of the Empire of Japan. The Empire of Japan will definitely bring happiness to the people of Okinawa." He also laughed. Laughing, Ito Hirobumi had no choice but to smash his teeth and swallow in his stomach, and said fiercely in his heart: "Lin Yuan, don't get complacent too early! This revenge will be avenged sooner or later!"

After the negotiation was over, Lin Yuan and his party returned to Tianjin by boat. Seeing Lin Yuan's performance in Japan, Li Hongzhang valued him very much and wanted to recommend him as an official in the court. Lin Yuan thought to himself: "The future of our aircraft carrier has not yet been settled. We still need to develop our own industry, so how can we have time to hang out in the officialdom of the Qing government?"

So Lin Yuan smiled and said: "Master Zhongtang, Li Bai has a poem that says: 'Anshi is in Dongshan, and he has no intention of helping the world. Together, we will be successful and unrestrained.' I am a man in the mountains. Now that the national calamity is gone, I should return it. Mountains."

An Shi in this poem refers to Xie An, a famous minister of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. In the Battle of Feishui, he commanded a Jin army of 8 people to defeat the former Qin army, which was known as a million people. Live in Dongshan.Retiring after success has always been the ideal state pursued by Chinese civil servants, and Xie An is a model admired by countless civil servants.Although Li Hongzhang was famous for his military achievements, he was born as a Jinshi, and he was selected as a scholar in the Imperial Academy. In his bones, he had the values ​​of traditional Chinese literati, so Lin Yuan chose such a way to decline his invitation.

Hearing this, Li Hongzhang thought to himself: "It's really rare for young people not to take credit for their pride, but it's such a difficult time these days, hey..." He stopped pressing Lin Yuan.

The Chinese are always hospitable. Li Jingfang learned from the conversation that Lin Yuan’s subordinates had never been to the capital, so he invited them to visit the capital. Everyone agreed, but Lin Yuan didn’t go. He got off the boat in Tianjin and went directly to Weihai. The ship headed for the station of the Beiyang Fleet.

Standing on the boat to Weihai, Lin Yuan was facing the clear sea breeze. Suddenly, someone patted his shoulder, and when he turned around, he saw Shen Wanqing standing behind him with a smile. Lin Yuan smiled and said, "When did you follow?"

Shen Wanqing said proudly: "If I am caught while stalking others, how can I be a spy? Why don't you go to the capital to play with everyone?"

Lin Yuan smiled and said: "To be honest, you have completely subverted the image of an agent in my mind. Are you agents still playing?"

Shen Wanqing said: "Your question is like, let me give you an example. When I was in the first grade of elementary school, I once met our teacher while eating in the cafeteria. My thought at the time was, why is the teacher still eat?"

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

Lin Yuan smiled mysteriously and said, "This is very useful, and you will know it in the future."

Shen Wanqing didn't ask any more questions.

Soon the two arrived in Weihaiwei. Lin Yuan had Li Hongzhang's letter, so he entered the Beiyang Fleet station without much effort. After asking the people inside, he found out that many of the ship's officers and senior officers had already returned. At home in the urban area, only Deng Shichang is still on the Zhiyuan ship.

"This day shed tears all over the world, and there is a man with a strong navy." Deng Shichang occupies a very important position in the hearts of Chinese who pay attention to the navy. I believe no one does not know about his deeds.

Boarding the Zhiyuan ship, there were clothes drying on the deck. There were many criticisms about the behavior of drying clothes in later generations. Lin Yuan knew that these must be said by laymen. There is no special drying equipment in the world. In order to prevent water vapor from affecting the living environment, the clothes can only be dried outside. This is the common practice of navies all over the world.

What is even more outrageous is a rumor about the Dingyuan ship. After boarding the Dingyuan ship, the Japanese officer Togo Heihachiro said: "The Chinese fleet is not terrible, because they actually hang their clothes on the barrels to dry." This statement was widely quoted later. To demonstrate the low quality of the soldiers of the Beiyang Fleet, 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 high from the ground, and the positions of the secondary guns cannot be easily Walking on the ground to the direction of the muzzle, who would spend so much effort to climb the barrel of the gun in order to dry some clothes?

It is a pity that the Chinese have always quoted these remarks that slander and slander the Chinese without thinking!

There were still crew members on the ship cleaning the hull and maintaining the equipment. When they saw Lin Yuan and Shen Wanqing, they did not stop them. They inquired and came to Deng Shichang's cabin. Someone had already informed the inside of the door.Before the two of them entered the door, a big wolf dog rushed up and barked at them. This big wolf dog had shiny black hair and strong limbs.

Only to hear a loud voice in the cabin say: "Sun, don't be rude."

"Sun" turned out to be the name of the big dog. Like a wronged child, Sun whimpered and ran aside to get out of the way.

Deng Shichang's keeping of pets has become the basis for future generations to accuse the Beiyang Fleet of lax military discipline. They don't know that keeping pets on ships has existed since ancient times. As early as the ancient Egyptian era, cats and mice were kept on ships. Traditionally, in modern times, navies all over the world keep pets on their warships, not only cats, dogs, but also beasts like bears, tigers and leopards.

When commenting on history, when can we replace these out-of-the-box assumptions with rigorous textual research?

Lin Yuan walked into the cabin alone, and Deng Shichang was writing at his desk. From a distance, Lin Yuan saw him writing a line of poem repeatedly: Building boat night snow Guazhou crossing!Deng Shichang didn't put his pen down, didn't raise his head, and said with a sneer: "The ship is poor, and there is no tea to serve the guests. I hope the two distinguished guests will forgive me."

Lin Yuan could hear 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 writing changed again, and wrote: the secluded habitat has few passages, and the old patients are difficult to help.How can there be articles that shock the sea, and the laborious vehicles and horses are stationed in the river.This is Du Fu's poem, titled "Bin Zhi", but the whole poem is full of arrogance, which shows that this "Bin" is not welcome.When Deng Shichang wrote these lines, he was clearly saying that he was the unwelcome person.

It turned out that Deng Shichang knew that the Korean War would benefit the Qing army, and he thought that the peace treaty would have something beneficial to China. Unexpectedly, as soon as the peace treaty came out, only Japan recognized China as the suzerain. .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 indifferent to him.But how could Lin Yuan know these things?

Lin Yuan stayed for a while, Deng Shichang didn't speak, and when he changed his pen, Lin Yuan had to excuse himself to leave.

Lin Yuan came out and saw Shen Wanqing feeding the big dog, and the sun was no longer as scary as before. Like a well-behaved child, he snuggled up to her lap, whining and eating her hands. s things.

Seeing Lin Yuan coming out, Shen Wanqing stood up and said with a smile, "You guys finished chatting so soon?"

Lin Yuan said helplessly: "I don't know where I offended him, he just ignored me."

Shen Wanqing smiled and said, "Okay, leave him alone, we still have our own business, don't we want to develop industry and dominate the world?"

The two left the Zhiyuan ship with a smile, and took a boat to Keelung, where the Beijing ship is located.

The butterflies in the Amazon forest flapped their wings, and there was a heavy rain over New York. The return of the Beijing ship, like an insignificant stone falling into the sea of ​​history, caused endless ripples. Since then, the progress of history has turned like a storm, and no one knows. What will happen tomorrow, despite this, a brand new era will be accompanied by tomorrow's dawn, majestic soaring into the sky!