"Is this... the foreign devil being killed?"

"Okay, it seems......"

Dabao was in shock with his father, but after a while, his head slid and retracted into the quilt.

Zhang Ge and Dabao are worthy of being two fathers and sons, and they are not behind at this time. He lay down, got into the quilt again, hugged his wife and children, and just shook his head and didn't dare to say anything.

That night, the screams were endless, so shrill that they could scare Zhong Kui away. In addition to Zhang Ge, many people living near the Governor's Mansion heard the screams of birds and smelled the strong smell of blood.

The second half of the night on the 29th is a bloody night!

However, the morning is coming. When the first ray of sunshine on the thirty days fell in Nanjing, some people who got up early and boldly saw that at the gate of the Governor's Mansion, there was a piece of blood on the ground, and the whole ground had not been wiped clean.

Even the rain water washed away the blood that was not clean!

Oh my God, can anyone tell me what happened last night? Is it a bloody massacre?

These questions plague the early urban residents. Of course, what they are more concerned about is how the gunboats outside the city are like?

Did the British attack?

...At this moment, in the Governor's Office, Liu Kunyi looked at the smiling boy in front of him with a heart of terror, cursing in his heart: Laugh, you still laugh! Oh my God, these are all made by you! I,

Governor General of Liangjiang is about to be killed by you!

Liu Kun shook his head and glanced at the outside courtyard of the hall. He had seen a bunch of dead bodies that had been seen countless times. His eyes were dull and murmured dumbly: "Die, all are dead! Your Majesty Hao. These are all countries.

You killed the envoys sent. This is the way of breaking the way of retreat and there is no room for maneuver! After that, how should we finish and how to recover from it?"

The young man was Long Hao. He glanced at the pile of foreign corpses with less than thirty pieces, shrugged indifferently, and smiled: "Go to the aftermath? Tsk tsk, the Governor is really naive. If you think you don't kill them, the British fleet will release it.

Will you let the Nanyang Navy go after passing through Nanjing? Yesterday’s sea battle is proof! Last night’s bombardment revealed the British’s ambition to capture Nanjing! Lord Liu, do you still have to cover up your ears and steal the bell?”

Liu Kunyi was speechless. He looked at Long Hao and lowered his head. He sighed in his heart: These must have been planned by him. Yes, since the British shipwreck incident ten days ago, everything was planned by him carefully.

Yes! This lunatic actually wanted to go to war with Britain. And he also pulled my Nanyang Navy into it... Damn, oh, I understand, since he gave the money to expand the navy, he had already planned

Today! Good, good. This Majesty Hao, such a cruel scheming, such a poisonous heart, and such a spicy method!

In extreme despair, Liu Kunyi finally got enlightened. His two meridians were connected. After thinking through the whole world, he couldn't help but feel like he fell into an ice cellar, and his teeth began to fight uncontrollably.

The matter starts with Long Hao returning to Nanjing with Emperor Guangxu’s secret decree a month ago...

Long Hao brought the imperial edict, and when he arrived in Nanjing, he naturally had a green light all the way. When he acted, he would go all the way.

Freighters from the United States arrived at ports such as Shanghai day after day, not only had goods, but also delivered Long Hao's citizens one by one.

Some of them work locally in Shanghai, and some of them just treat Shanghai as a distribution center. After a while, they gather in Nanjing, Suzhou, Hangzhou and other rich people, and economically developed places continue to be dispersed...

Liu Kunyi was not unhappy with this situation where Long Hao's power blatantly penetrated into the Jiangsu and Zhejiang basins, because he had seen Long Hao's alchemy citizens. Those people did not leave braids or wear long gowns and jackets. They walked along the way, and the scenery beside them and

People and affairs are all filled with disdain and arrogant. As the governor of Liangjiang, he clearly feels uncomfortable being despised.

Besides, most of Liu Kunyi's own family and the gentry and local tyrants who were vassalized by him were doing business in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. A huge commercial force suddenly surged in outside. It would be impossible for these people to complain to Liu Kun.

However, Liu Kunyi forced this anger to suppress.

There are two reasons. First, it is naturally the imperial edict given by Guangxu to "let everything be given, and provide cheaper".

And the second is the growth rate of warships visible to the naked eye in the Nanyang Navy!

Long Hao was very kind. Not only did he allocate funds through the Beihai Bank's branch in Shanghai, but he also contacted the European gunboat manufacturer for Liu Kunyi. In just one month, he transported ten destroyers, six cruisers and two.

A 4,000-ton armored battleship!

According to Long Hao's suggestion, he wanted to buy all the iron armored battleships. Long Hao's original words were: "Buy a battleship, and then pull the Nanyang Navy's base to the Ryukyu Islands. Then, we will open the formation and see

Who dares to mess with me? My demeanor and vision are narrow first, and my development prospects are not optimistic!"

However, Liu Kunyi still has the word "stable". His first consideration is how to stabilize the base camp in the Yangtze River. As for moving the navy to a sandwich area between Taiwan and Japan, his courage and courage are not enough.

Besides, the Ryukyu Islands are actually occupied by the Japanese, and the issue of sovereignty has been infinitely shelved due to the weakness of the Qing court. As an old official, Liu Kunyi will not easily touch this sensitive issue.

If he unfortunately provoked a naval battle between China and Japan, Li Hongzhang in the north could not only take advantage of the situation to demand military expenses and expand his military self-reliance, but also would definitely participate in his own book and try to incorporate the Nanyang Navy, which he had coveted for a long time.

Liu Kunyi would never go to this evil deception.

What's more, the most core problem is... the battleship is too expensive!

One battleship can be exchanged for eight destroyers or four cruisers. On the Yangtze River, destroyers are enough. Cruisers are giants, and battleships are simply luxury. When you drive in, you won’t talk about whether you can fight or not.

The enemy, if you can't say it will be stranded when you reach a complex area of ​​water!

Based on this consideration, Liu Kunyi politely rejected Long Hao's kindness and cut down the battleship budget. If Long Hao hadn't strongly asked him to buy a pair of battleships in the end, otherwise he would have lost the transaction, Liu Kunyi would have purchased all of them.

Destroyer!

In his opinion, if the Yangtze River is full of its own destroyers, they will be able to suppress people with a lot of face. Perhaps... they might be able to recover some tax rights!

Half a month ago, when two iron armored battleships arrived in Nanjing with ribbons, Liu Kunyi's previous resentment disappeared a lot. The reason was that it was simple: the battleship was too majestic and domineering, with a thick gun barrel and a strong one.

The hull, the towering bridge... everywhere demonstrates the invincible aura of the number one overlord of the ocean in this era!

These are just the two cheapest ships in the catalogue of His Majesty Hao. If it were a little more expensive, would it be comparable to Zhenyuan and Dingyuan? Liu Kunyi was stunned at the ceremony of accepting the warship, and suddenly, he was very

I longed to see Li Zhongtang's inexplicable and envious expression...

The purchased warships were in place one after another, and the expansion of the Nanyang Navy was carried out at a highway of thousands of miles a day. Liu Kunyi almost gave up the government affairs at hand in mid-to-early November and devoted himself to the training of the Navy.

The original Nanyang Navy had about forty ships, but the number of ironclad ships was extremely limited. Now, 18 advanced ironclad ships have been added, from pipes to sailors, and the morale is high and shocking.

It's also very exciting to train!

Who doesn't want to be selected to board a new warship?

And the performance of training is the only criterion for judgment!

Therefore, everyone practices themselves to death and exploits their potential to death.

Seeing the prosperous scene of the navy under his command, Liu Kunyi was very pleased. From the bottom of his heart, he felt that the emperor chose to cooperate with Long Hao. It was such a wise choice!

Not to mention anything else, I just want to give money neatly, which is better than anyone else, and I am a little willing to serve under him!

Of course, as soon as this idea popped up, our first-rank official, Lord Liu, even shouted ashamed and guilty, and then fought with her concubine for thirty rounds, and was so tired that she finally forgiven herself for her "heart-killing"

Sin.

As the navy's training became more popular day by day, Liu Kunyi also had the idea of ​​pulling the Nanyang Navy to the Bohai Bay to promote Wu Yaowei before the port was frozen before the New Year.

Bohai is close to the capital. If he can defeat Li Hongzhang in the exercise sent by the court to watch, then the emperor's voice will definitely be greatly enhanced!

In addition, Liu Kunyi also wanted to humiliate Li Hongzhang and ran to show off. He thought that the Beiyang Navy had not changed its clothes for several years. If he drove over with advanced gunboats, under the strong contrast, he must have been so

A master from the Zhongtang would be so angry that he vomited blood three times!

Unfortunately, Lord Liu's dream of YY did not last long. When he learned that a British ship was sunk by his own naval army, it was like the sky collapsed, and he couldn't believe his ears.

Although he immediately sent someone to find out that all this was wrong with the British. If the other party had not fired the fire first, the soldiers of the navy would not have fought back.

Liu Kunyi sighed at that time: It seems that they are so masculine in their training! The British guy, don’t come early or late, do you have to pick them up and hit the gun at this time?

The British ships' domineering in the Yangtze River Basin have been going on for decades. This is a small matter that would probably be a minor matter of the South Ocean Navy to calm down. However, due to the expansion of the navy, the soldiers' confidence has expanded, which has become uncontrollable.

A big disaster!

After this disaster, the British authorities and some other representatives of the great powers who smelled the fishy smell flocked to Nanjing with a grim smile.

I heard that the British Chief Taxation Director Hurd was also on the way from Beijing. When the British envoy, who had always been accustomed to being strong and domineering, pointed at Liu Kunyi's nose and cursed, and then issued a order.

Unacceptable terms of peace talks.

First, the murderer will be handed over and will be tried by the British court;

Second, the Nanyang Navy must reduce its scale from more than 60 ships to less than ten;

Third, the scope of activities of the Nanyang Navy will be limited to the surrounding areas of Nanjing. The navy's original resident in Shanghai will be revoked. Ships are not allowed to enter the East China Sea without permission from the UK;

Fourth, Liu Kunyi must go to the capital to apologize to Guangxu and take off the flower feather on his head;

Fifth, the Qing court must compensate Britain for all losses, and initially estimated that the value is around 10 million taels of silver.

...

Of course, Liu Kunyi would not agree to such harsh conditions without any room for room, but in line with the principle of diplomaticism that the Qing court has always been friendly to the outside world, he still held back his anger and laughed, and settled the group of foreigners who came to take advantage of it first.

.

In the next few days, Liu Kunyi, with Long Hao's help and his confidant's efforts, finally figured out that the sunken British ship was an old ship that was about to be scrapped. The cause of the incident was also the British.

Responsible, an ordinary ship actually asked to enter the Nanyang Navy camp to investigate. After being intercepted, the artillery fire on the British ship was the first to fire.

After understanding the whole story, Liu Kunyi's staff also analyzed for him that it must be that the Nanyang Navy's recent expansion was too big, which caused dissatisfaction among the British overlord of the Yangtze River. This scrapped ship drove out and was completely

It's just a conspiracy.

If the Nanyang Navy swallowed his anger, the British could just investigate the Nanyang Navy inside and outside.

If the Nanyang Navy fought back, the British ship would be even happier because it had the handle of China's exchange of fire with its own side. After returning to Shanghai, the British would have enough reason to force the Nanyang Navy to control the scale.

Stop expansion!

However, what made both Liu Kunyi and the British miscalculated was that the ship that was originally planning to withdraw as soon as it caught the handle was actually sunk!

All the hundreds of crew members above were spared!
To be continued...