Ito Hensuke received a report from Oriental intelligence officers that the Qing Dynasty had recently imported two 280mm caliber Krupp tube-retractable rapid-fire guns from Germany, which were being installed at Huli Mountain on Xiamen Island.

According to the data sent by the Oriental envoy in Germany, these two guns were purchased for nearly 200,000 taels of silver in the Qing Dynasty, with an effective range of up to 16,000 meters (the longest range of 19,760 meters), and can fire 1-2 shells per minute.

There is no doubt that once these two cannons are successfully completed, it will be extremely difficult for the imperial army to enter Zhangzhou Bay again.

- Of course, the most important thing is that Ito Hyungwoo wants to fight Xiamen Island and Fuzhou Port, and then bully and bully the Qing Dynasty.

Senior General Shikiki Kayama called today, agreeing to defeat the Hulishan Fort, but not allowing the combined fleet to carry out artillery bombardment on Xiamen, Fuzhou, and other mainland seaports and cities, for fear of annoying the foreigners and causing unnecessary disputes.

Although it is a little regrettable, I think that the cannon fire of the Combined Fleet followed the Ming Dynasty of China, three hundred years after the ships and cannons of the Oriental Ronin bombarded the southeast coast of China, the artillery fire of the Oriental Empire once again descended on the southeast coast of the Qing Dynasty.

Ito couldn't help but be happy from the bottom of his heart.

Daqing, Dagukou.

When the sun was already setting in the East, it was still sunny in the afternoon at Dagukou in the Qing Dynasty.

Li Hongzhang got off the carriage at the Dagu Fort General Soldier's Mansion, and Xiong Kaiyu's adjutant Liu Gangyi, as a representative of the Luo family, greeted Li Hongzhang's visit in front of the Governor's Mansion.

After the Japanese bombardment of Dagukou and the collapse of half of the General Military Mansion, Luo Rongguang's wife did not move back to Jinmen, but still lived in this dilapidated General Military Mansion.

Luo Huafei, who was far away in Tangshan, still found nothing after searching Qiaoshan Town several times.

The fire caused by the Japanese artillery bombardment on that day ignited a large number of thatched huts, as well as a large amount of dry firewood piled up in the town for the winter.

Burned too much stuff.

Luo Huafei, who was full of grief and indignation, had already taken his sentry artillery and a Green cannon on the way to Langfang.

The mother and daughter of the Liu family, who got the news, cried again, and they were desperate to build a well-dressed mound as a memorial.

When Li Hongzhang entered the General Military Mansion, the rest of the mission members were scattered to various inns in Tanggu.

Bian Changsheng led his battalion of men and horses, placing wide planks on the thinning ice, cautiously crossing the Haihe River, to the south bank to receive the southern artillery group and two battalions of garrisoning the Qing army.

And Li Jingfang entered the Dagu military station, where there was also a house that belonged to him, and he was lucky not to be hit by artillery fire.

The Dagu soldiers stood in the north of the recruits, and after the 2nd Regiment of the Jinmen Brigade and the artillery battalion rushed to Jinmen, they suddenly became empty.

In addition to the wounded soldiers and nearly 100 station staff, only one infantry company was left to guard them.

Xiong Kaiyu considered that the troops were insufficient, so he handed over the rest of the small forts to the remaining Dagu artillery guards.

And when Cao Yitao went north to Jinmen, he directly pulled away the 75 Krupp camp guns on all the small forts, and at this time, there was basically nothing else on those forts except for a bronze old cannon.

Knowing that Li Jingfang was coming, Xiong Kaiyu hurriedly went to meet, although the two were not very familiar, but they had been familiar since they went to North Korea last year, and they couldn't help but sigh when they met at this time.

That night, Li Hongzhang had a vegetarian meal at the General Military Mansion, and did not go to the inn prepared for him to rest, but walked out of the gate of the General Military Mansion and walked into the Dagu Military Station.

At this time, the sun is setting and the sky is slightly dark.

Xiong Kaiyu, Li Jingfang, Liu Gangyi, and the three of them first accompanied Li Hongzhang to the hospital at the military station.

At this time, there were more than 800 anti-Japanese army, Hongzi army, Jiangnan soldiers, Ludong army, Lu Yong, Ting army, soldiers and officers recuperating and treating their injuries here.

The military hospital at the military station was built at the back of Kitayama.

When the Oriental Fleet shelled Dagukou that day, although all the wounded were safely evacuated in time, because they were in a dead end behind the mountain, only one shell came in and knocked down half of the brick houses.

Xiong Kaiyu has hired a large number of masons at a high price these days, and when he and the soldiers are repairing the military station and fort, he left this room alone, intending to serve as a testimony of encouragement.

"Doot-doo-"

When the three of them accompanied Li Hongzhang to the military hospital, the sky was already dark, and the sound of a machine starting suddenly sounded in the power generation room of the military station, and then the lights of Beijia, Beiyi, the military station, and the general military palace were all lit up.

"Your generator is so powerful?"

Li Hongzhang looked curious.

"It's three units working in series, I don't know the specifics, it's the technicians of the science and technology department who made it; Later—"

Xiong Kaiyu said with a proud look on his face: "One day we will use our own generators and steam engines to transmit electricity to thousands of households across the country!" ”

Li Hongzhang glanced at Xiong Kaiyu's slightly immature face in slight surprise, and saw that Xiong Kaiyu was wearing a Western-style military uniform, only knowing that he was the person in charge of the Dagu Military Station, and did not know what official position he was.

He originally thought that He Changying left this person here, but he just had some small abilities.

Now just listening to the undoubted pride and affirmation in these words, as well as the calmness that is neither humble nor arrogant in the face of himself, makes Li Hongzhang look at it with a slightly moved face.

A young man with passion, ideals, knowledge, and strong self-confidence is not too easy to see in the land of the Qing Dynasty.

In Li Hongzhang's impression, whenever he sees him, the young people are either extraordinarily restrained, or in order to attract his attention and hide the anxiety in his heart, so he is a big talk, or even more deliberately uninhibited.

A young man who is not famous, being able to face him so calmly at this time is a good ability in itself.

Li Hongzhang couldn't help but think that last summer, two interesting young people visited him.

One is named Sun Deming.

One is named He Changying.

Sun Deming was recommended by Zheng Guanying, the deputy director of China Merchants Bureau, and when they met, they were full of big words: "People can make the best use of their talents, land can make the best use of their benefits, things can make the best use of them, and goods can flow smoothly." ’

Can Li Hongzhang understand this truth? And it will only be more profound than he knows!

He Changying, this kid was pulled back from Wu Yuren's knife by his eldest son Li Jingfang, and the first time I met this kid in the gag, he was a good iron bone.

It turns out that this kid is not only good, but also against the sky!

The word 'against the sky' popped up in his heart, Li Hongzhang's heart couldn't help but tremble slightly, and then he thought that what this kid said just now was 'thousands of households in the country', not 'thousands of households in the Qing Dynasty'.

Li Hongzhang's heart was slightly displeased.

Then I sighed to myself.

The imperial court also wants young Junjie, but as long as Junjie looks at the world, how many people are willing to be driven as slaves by the Qing Dynasty?

This in itself is a paradoxical question!

From 1872 to 1875, the Qing Dynasty began to send 120 government-funded students to study abroad in four batches of teenagers aged 10 to 15.

As a result, only 4 batches were sent, and further dispatch was stopped.

In 1881, he directly forcibly stopped his studies and ordered him to return to China.

Isn't it still that the royal family found that these schoolchildren were rapidly 'Westernizing', afraid of shaking the foolish rule of the Qing Dynasty?

Zhan Tianyou, Liang Dunyan, Tang Shaoyi, Cai Shaoji, Ouyang Geng, Wu Yangzeng, Liang Ruhao, Fang Boliang——

These halfway schoolchildren are now making their mark in various positions.

What if this study abroad can continue forever?

With the savings of these twenty-three years, I think that the Qing Dynasty will not be as vulnerable as it is today!