Chapter 59: The Yellow Sea Spy
The Chinese fleet of the British Empire Navy arrived at Weihaiwei as promised the next day. The navy's sea welcome pattern opened its welcoming arms. At this moment, Liugong Island was gathering the largest maritime power in Asia.
In fact, the strength of the Chinese fleet is much worse than that of the Royal Navy of the Qing Dynasty, and is even less than that of the Far East Fleet of Russia and France. However, the alliance between China and Britain represents the unity of the will of more than half of the population on the earth, and no one can underestimate it.
With the roar of twenty-one salutes, the Chinese fleet, led by the flagship Audacious ironclad ship, ten warships slowly sailed into the military port. The Zhiyuan, which was used as the pilot, was the Zhiyuan, which was led by Deng Shichang. This was also the result of my discussion with Li Hongzhang, Ding Ruchang, Liu Buchan and Lang Weili. If the two Zhenyuan Dingyuan were used to pilot, it was a German-built ship, which was respect for the British, and the firepower of these two ships was much stronger than that of any Chinese fleet, and it gave the guests a bad feeling. If it was too bad, it would be compared by the British, and would be against my emperor.
The majesty of the family was damaged. So after choosing, the British-made dome cruiser was selected to serve as water diversion. (Dimension of water is piloting, which is also a right to fight for when Prince Gong negotiated with the British. After the Opium War, China did not have its own right to divert water on the coast, and it was basically all in the hands of the British. Some people want to say, what is this? Well, if there is no concept, you can refer to the father of Prince Zheng in the late Ming Dynasty. His father earned no less money every year than the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty by diverting water to foreigners. This right is also a symbol of national sovereignty and must be fought back.)
After the grand maritime parade, I saw a small black dot hanging from behind the British fleet from afar. I couldn't see clearly from afar and didn't care. Until I met with the fleet commander Sharman, the black dot was still there, stopping there from afar.
"On behalf of the Royal Navy of the British Empire, I would like to extend my most sincere greetings and highest respect to His Majesty the Emperor of the Qing Dynasty! Salute!" With Lieutenant General Sharman's order, the proud British Empire Navy officers raised their hands to salute like me. I also raised my right hand and saluted them.
Since Beijing started training in the new army, the army across the country has received a request for new etiquette to cut braids. At this time, thousands of officers and soldiers of the Royal Navy of the Qing Dynasty also followed me with my right hands to salute the guests coming from afar.
The soldiers who had their braids naturally had a fresh and upward feeling, which was completely different from the lazy and slutty image given by those braided soldiers in their past. However, compared with the British Navy, it always felt something was wrong. Then they realized that it was because of the military uniforms. They decided in their hearts to change the navy and do the skills on the storefront, which was also a reward for the navy.
"The Emperor of the Qing Dynasty welcomes your visit, and at the same time wishes your queen good health. I remember when I was married, the queen of your country gave me a self-ringing bell. I still remember the couplets above: the sun and the moon are bright, and the twelve hours of good luck and good fortune; the heaven and earth are in harmony, and celebrate billions of wealth and prosperity. This is a good wish, and I am very grateful." He smiled and joked: "But the queen of your country may not know that in our Chinese dialect, it is very unlucky to have a homophone. However, this will not damage the friendship between China and Britain. Please greet the queen on my behalf."
Lieutenant General Sharman was also a humorous person. He smiled and said, "It is my wish to be able to meet Your Majesty. It is my honor to meet two leaders of half of the world's population in my lifetime. I sincerely wish you to witness the friendship between the two countries with the Queen and witness our navy realize the will of the two leaders."
I nodded, called in, and told him the black spot. He smiled and didn't care. He casually talked about the black spot since he entered Shandong. He thought it was a fishing boat and ignored it. He disappeared for a while when he arrived near Jeju Island, but unexpectedly he found it again. After introducing the situation, he smiled mysteriously and said, "Your Majesty, why not guess which fishing boat from a friendly neighboring country would be?" When he spoke, Shahmann bit the word "FishBoat" very seriously.
I laughed and pointed at Dongfang and said, "Maybe it was Dongfang's restless neighbor." As I said, I looked at Li Hongzhang and Liu Buchan. Although I was joking, I had a question mark in my heart. Could it be that they are really Japanese? What are they doing? The navies of China and Britain gathered here. Can he come up with some tricks?
So he smiled and asked Schalman, "What do Lieutenant General thinks his neighbor wants to do?"
"Your Majesty, maybe your neighbor knows that you will have a fight with your guests. I want to see your Majesty's strength." Schalman smiled, bowed and made a call, and let me in front of him.
I shook my head. The Japanese didn't know that I was going to hold a confrontation drill with the British, so why did they send a spy ship? It doesn't make sense. Could it be... Russian?
Ignore him, and now I entered the reception room with Chinese generals such as Li Hongzhang and the captains of the British ships of Schalman. I was preparing to discuss the plan for the next day's live-fire exercise. Of course, I didn't have to worry about these things. Naturally, Lang Weili, Liu Buchan and others negotiated with the British side. I couldn't worry about the so-called fishing boat. I walked out of the house and came to the top of the slope with the relaxed Ding Ruchang. Looking at the black spot, it seemed that it was getting closer. I couldn't help but get angry and my face turned red. Zaifeng on the side quickly scolded Ding Ruchang and said, "Ding Junmen, who is responsible for this maritime security defense?"
"Reply to the prince, I asked Fang Boqian to take charge of the matter before. I don't know if Admiral Liu has changed." Ding Ruchang bowed and replied.
I shook my hand to stop Zaifeng and said, "Don't worry, Ding Ruchang, can this fort be able to hit that boat? I'm upset."
"Reply to the emperor." Ding Ruchang hesitated for a moment and said, "It may not be possible to hit. If you have more than one hundred yards, you can hit it."
"Nonsense!" I said angrily: "I asked someone to beat him and see who it belongs to!"
"Yes! I received the order! I asked for my retreat!" Ding Ruchang was also excited and hurried back to make arrangements. After a while, a warship emerged from the line and rushed towards the black dot. Zaifeng had already become so sophisticated in the past few days that he introduced: "This is the Zhiyuan, Deng Shichang went there in person."
Hu Nao, this is driving a headquarters exercise. Why did this guy run out? How did this guy Liu Buchan arrange it?
Just as he was thinking, he saw the black dot slowly retreating, as if provoking. Deng Shichang stopped, and he stopped. Zhiyuan was just approaching. The strangest thing was that this guy's ship was not slow at all, and the maneuverage power seemed to be no worse than Zhiyuan. He retreated a little further, which made people angry but helpless.
After watching for a while, the Zhiyuan still had no choice but to deal with him. Both sides were just so exhausted, which was extremely embarrassing. I was so angry that this would be a loss of face to happen to such a thing in front of the British fleet.
At this time, the people inside came out in groups of three or three, standing behind me and watching. The wind blew by, and no one spoke, and the atmosphere was extremely depressing.
I thought this was not a solution, so I forced myself to smile and turned my head and said, "Forget it, General Sharman, you have worked hard from afar, so why not take a break first and please attend the dinner held in my palace in the evening. At that time, we must have a drink for the friendship between China and Britain."
Sharman also smiled and comforted me, "Your Majesty, don't be angry. In fact, we were also unable to do anything about it on the way. I am very interested in this guy." As he said that, he stroked his beard with his hands and smiled, but suddenly he heard a cannon sound. Then the smile on Sharman's face gradually solidified, and he suddenly pointed to the sea excitedly and shouted: "I hit it! Oh my God! He hit it!"
I turned around and saw a wisp of black smoke rising from the rugged sea in the distance, and our Zhiyuan ship was sailing forward at full speed. At the same time, the ships behind also started to chase forward. I shouted excitedly: "Catch the live ones! Catch the live ones!"
The signal soldiers on the shore quickly blew the flag.
Chapter completed!