Chapter 1066: Bo Lan Riding the Wind

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Li Shaoquan understood that Lin Yiqing's idea for himself was to take advantage of the opportunity of the imperial court to take over the power of the imperial court and throw all the hot potatoes to the imperial court - the Huai army has no national establishment, and assumes the responsibility of the national defense force in the capacity of Lian Yong, and the problem of salary sources has always been difficult to solve. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。ｉｎｆｏ

As for the Beiyang Naval Division, it will inevitably belong to the national navy, he has never had the luxury of becoming the commander of the navy of the Great Qian Empire, and the imperial court will not hand over the new naval fleet that has been built at great cost to him Li Shaoquan, a Xia minister--take a step back, even if the imperial court wants to hand over the fleet to him, he will not be able to take it, because then it will really give people the reputation of "feudal town". This big basin, his head of Scholar Li is still a little unbearable.

Li Shaoquan didn't know that this secret conversation with Lin Yiqing had already made a fundamental change in his fate.

On April 30, 9089 (the 15th year of Daqian Guangxu, the 22nd year of the Meiji era of Japan), Li Shaoquan officially wrote to the imperial court, requesting that the Huai Army be changed to the "coastal defense battalion" and handed over to the Ministry of Maritime Control.

On 6 May, Prince Yixuan, Prime Minister of the Navy, accompanied by Li Jintai, the chief eunuch, took the ship "Haiyan" to Tianjin Dagukou to review the navy.

The warships participating in the exercise included the ironclad ships "Dingyuan", "Zhenyuan" (belonging to the "Dingyuan" class), "Jingyuan" and "Laiyuan" (belonging to the "Jingyuan" class, France's new high-speed ironclad ship, the excellent performance of the ship was favored by the Chilean Navy, and the third ship of this class was ordered from France, "Captain Brad"), "Ningyuan" (the German "Siegfried" class coastal defense ironclad), the cruisers "Jiyuan" and "Fuyuan" (the American "Chicago" class cruisers), "Zhiyuan" and "Jingyuan" (the British "Blake") class protection cruisers), "Hairong", "Haichen", "Haichou", "Haixu" (British "Medea"-class protection cruisers), "Jianjing", "Jianyi" (Austrian torpedo cruisers "Tiger"), "Jianji", "Jianxun", "Jianye", "Jianzhong" (British "reconnaissance"-class torpedo cruisers), "Jianhong", "Jianhu" (French "Eagle"-class torpedo cruisers), gunboats "Jianwei", "Jian'an" (Italian torpedo gunboats "Tripoli"), "Haikun", "Haipeng" (France) Bomb "class torpedo gunboats), minehunters (destroyers) "Sea Dragon", "Haihua", "Sea Jing", "Sea Rhino" (German-made "Sea Dragon" class destroyers), a total of 29 warships. In addition, there are the main battleships "Longwei", "Pingyuan", "Longwu", "Qingyuan" ("Longwei" class coastal defense ironclad ships), "Yangwei", "Yangwu", "Chaoyong" ("Chaoyong" class armored cruisers), "Kaiji", "Jingqing", "Huantai", "Baomin" ("Kaiji" class armored cruisers), torpedo gunboats "Jianning", "Jianping" ("Jianning" class torpedo gunboats, an improved and enhanced version of the French "Bomb" class torpedo gunboats), Ding Yuting, the commander of the Beiyang Naval Division, and Zhang Cheng, the commander of the Ship Administration and Naval Division, came to visit, and a total of 42 warships were reviewed, which was unprecedented.

At the beginning of the big parade, all the reference ships were in a unified formation, commanded by Rear Admiral Trayne of the British Navy, and the formation was drilled, "the spirit became skillful, and the speed was unstoppable", followed by the sea target shooting, "all ships fired 10,000 guns at once, the momentum was like thunder, the beginning and end were the same, and the spirit was very accurate", and the night joint exercise, by the torpedo gunboats and minehunters to exercise the night sneak attack, "the night battle attacked the camp, the thunder ships galloped into the heavy ground in the dark, thundered and bombarded, and the iron ships and clippers quickly opened guns to resist the enemy", "attack and defend in many ways, and prepare for the extremely strange". The next day, the ships conducted a trial landing operation and gun formation at the Dagukou Fort, and "fired artillery bombardment and firing torpedoes, all of which were extremely accurate, and were called a spectacle at home and abroad." In addition, Prince Chun also inspected the Dagukou Fort, watched the test release of the ground well cannon bombardment target, and inspected the torpedo school, the driving school, the pipe wheel school, the mine school, the gun school, and the sailor school in Tianjin. It can be said that the reading was a complete success. After the end of the big reading, Prince Chun specially ordered someone to engrave a jade seal "Bo Lan Chengfeng" to commemorate.

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