Chapter 121 King Dun takes office as an envoy (7)

Rest in Guanyi for a night, Yi Qiong got up early the next morning - he couldn't use tatami. Although he was covered with thick quilts and covered with extremely smooth wrinkles of tentacles, he couldn't sleep well in a foreign country. He tossed and turned overnight. I don't know how many times he woke up, but it was dawn immediately.

Compared to him, Shen Baozhen and others were awake until dawn. When they finished washing up and greeted him in his room, they found that his eyes were red and swollen. They were shocked, "Prince, are you feeling uncomfortable?"

"It's nothing, I'm not as good as you, I'll choose chuáng when I sleep."

"Ah" Shen Baozhen remembered that when he was in Shandong, when the Naval Academy and the Yamen were founded, Yi Qiong suffered a lot because he was not accustomed to the local environment. After finally getting used to the climate and local environment in Shandong, the emperor gave his order and asked him to return to Beijing. "This is a negligence in his post. Please forgive me."

"Forget it." Yi Qiong shook his head and waved his hand, "Where should I go today?"

"According to the agreement between Japan and our side, today is to go to the Kobe Navy Centre. In the afternoon, the naval generals of China and Japan went to visit each other's warships."

"What kind of training center is this? What is the origin of?"

Shen Baozhen explained—.

After the Black Ship Incident, Japan felt that it was on an island but had no water force that could protect the sea front. Some people began to plan and write to the first Masahiro Abe, the first Masahiro of the Shogunate (the first Masahiro was an official name, and the first Masahiro was equivalent to the chief minister of the Military Affairs Office of China), and requested to open up the wisdom of the people, and enhance the strength of the country. In the same year (the third year of Xianfeng, 1853), the Shogun was signed by Bi. He felt that Japan was not as good as others, so he abolished the ban on building large ships in various places and allowed Daming of the various vassals to build large warships in their own places.

After the appointment and promotion of Masahiro Abe, Ekawa Taro Zuowei, Katsukai, Okubo Tadahiro, Nagaoi Nagai, Akihiro Takashima and others began to work hard to strengthen coastal defense, founded the Martial Arts Institute and the Western Academy. In the fifth year of Xianfeng, the Navy Centre was established in Nagasaki. It was the same as the basic teaching system of the Naval Academy in the Qing Dynasty. Both were hired, Dutch teachers were hired, and Japanese navy generals were educated to assist in the maritime formation.

On the other hand, the shogunate ordered Nagasaki to pursue the pursuit of the Fukuo Tadatoshi Mizuno to propose the purchase of warships to the Dutchman Tunkar Karcius, who was the director of the Dutch merchant in Nagasaki. However, due to the Crimean War, the Dutch rejected the Japanese request.

The Japanese did not give up and instead consulted the Dutch about the issue and feasibility of starting a naval. This time the Dutch agreed to help - so in the fourth year of Xianfeng, the Dutch king sent the steamboat of the Dutch East India Company fleet, the Dutch king sent the Dutch East India Company's steamboat, Senbin, to Japan, to start the road to establishing a naval. The Dutch sent Captain Lincoln, the captain of the fleet, as the commander of the fleet, and also served as the squad leader of the naval training and education class, and presented the Senbin to the Japanese and renamed it as the tourist. This name comes from the "Light of the Country" in the "Book of Changes", which is not what people now understand.

"When we entered Kobe, we saw the sightseeing number." Yi Qi shouted softly, "Is it this ship?"

Shen Baozhen nodded with a smile, "It's this ship."

"Well, you continue, and then."

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Yi Qi was stunned again. Just as he was about to ask questions, he saw Shen Baozhen nodding with a smile, obviously guessing what he was going to ask. He smiled embarrassedly, "Aren't you in Nagasaki? Why did you come to Kobe?"

"In the ninth year of Xianfeng, the Cào Training Institute was renamed the Cào Training Institute of the Imperial Navy, and Katsukaihou was the supervisor. Later, due to a fire, he moved to the Hamago Temple in Kobe in the 17th year of Xianfeng. The second year was closed. After the Meiji Restoration, it became a naval military school, and it became the naval military school you see today.

"Now Katsuki, who is the Japanese Navy minister, Junyi Kawamura, Vice-Chance of the Navy, Takeo Hiromoto, Navy Vice President, Navy Takeo, Navy Kurato Nosusuke, etc. are all educated at the Nagasaki Navy Training Institute. They can also be said to be full of talents."

"What about the warships? How many warships do the Japanese have? So what about the Qing Dynasty?"

With Shen Baozhen's calmness and sophistication, he couldn't help but laugh at the composition of the Japanese naval warship, "Japan has only one ironclad ship called 'East'. The origin of this warship is still very interesting."

"oh?"

The experience of the "East" is indeed a bit complicated. At first, the French made the Southern Army for the Southern Civil War. It was named Stonewell. Later, because the French wanted to strictly maintain neutrality in the American Civil War, they refused to pay and wanted to sell it to the Danes. However, the price could not be negotiated, so they had to sell it to the Southern Army again. However, the Southern Army was defeated again. Captain Peppa drove the ship to Havana, Cuba, and sold it to the governor of Cuba for $16,000.

Later, the Americans redeemed the ship and sold it to the Japanese shogunate for 40,000 US dollars. As a result, Japan started fighting while the ship was still walking in the Pacific Ocean. When Stonewell, who was carrying the star-striped banner, entered Yokohama Port, the shogunate and Meiji started a battle, competing to raise the price to take it for themselves. However, the US consulate had received instructions from the domestic authorities to remain neutral and impartial, and did not sell it. In fact, it was observing the wind direction and selling it to the victorious side. Later, in February 1869, it finally gave Meiji Masahiro to the "Tong". A large part of the failure of the shogunate navy led by Takeo Komoto was attributed to the Meiji Masahiro's possession of this iron-clad ship.

Yi Qiong was overjoyed, "It's such a sea fleet that dares to invite my Qing Navy Beiyang Fleet to visit? Are you not afraid of being embarrassed?"

Shen Baozhen had no choice but to answer, "This can only be said to be the hearts of the barbarians, and you can't catch them."

Yi Qi laughed again, "Let's go today to let the Japanese board our ironclad ship Dingyuan, so that the little Japanese can open their eyes."

The predecessor of the Hamagote Naval Military School in Kobe was the Nagasaki Naval Education Class, which was located in the Exit Island of Nagasaki. The Japanese had the habit and tradition of building fields in the sea. During the Shogunate era, in order to do business with the Dutch, they specially filled out an artificial island in Nagasaki with an area of ​​less than 2 hectares, called Fa Island. One is to do business with the Dutch, and the other is to isolate them.

There are simple schools and school buildings on the island, which allow Captain Lincoln and his deputy, military doctors, sailors and others to teach Japanese students sailing and applications; shipbuilding and artillery techniques; ship rigs and measurements; Dutch language, arithmetic, geography, common affairs; engine technology; artillery, drummer and other courses.

In addition to such text learning, there are also ship internships. The warship used for internships is the Tourist ship, which has its own ship-based boats, but this boat is a special jiāo boat for the Dutch instructor group. The Japanese, especially these Japanese interns, have no right to ride. Therefore, under the guidance of the Dutch, Japanese shipmakers practiced the manufacturing of European sloops. Later, at Lincoln's suggestion, a short boat shipyard was established near the coast. Until the training institute moved to Kobe, the sailing factory and forging factory attached to the school also moved here.

The director of the Naval Military Academy is Féi Tahama Goro. He is a student of the first session of the Navy Naval Education Class and Katsuki Katsushima. The school has 103 students, divided into three classes, and is taking the last year of the two-year school system. The teaching is no longer Dutch, but the Japanese are themselves, but at the same time, the plan to send students to the Netherlands and the UK to further study - the plan to study in the West, but the Japanese are ahead of the Chinese.

Accompanied by Sanjo Shimi, Katsuhiba, Saigo Congdao and others, Yi Qiong and his group passed by the city in a carriage and arrived at the foot of Mount Rokka in the northwest of the city; the Naval Military Academy is located at the foot of the mountain.

The school covers a very wide area, which is no less than that of the Weihai Naval Academy. Standing at the entrance of the school, it was the handwritten book of Masahiro Abe, the chief of the shogunate, and looking into the school, it was a row of wooden buildings. Under the bright sunlight, the shade of trees from far and near casts sparse shadows on the corridors of pure Japanese-style buildings.

The school's Mén is filled with Japanese students wearing the same snow-white clothes. Beside them, near the school's Mén, there is a row of older Japanese men. Yi Qi can guess that this is probably the school's teaching.

Seeing a guest coming to the school, a man led a man shouting in Japanese a few times, and came out a long knife from his waist, waving it back and forth in the air several times. The students turned in a row and lined up to meet the big one, "Prince, the leader is the principal of the school, Féi Hamagoro-kun."

Yi Qi was silent. Seeing that féi Tamahama Goro led the team to the front, standing aside, the long sword in his hand was flying in the air, and roaring a few times, the students behind him bowed and saluted at the same time, "Prince, they are saying, welcome and thank the soldiers of the Beiyang Navy of the Qing Dynasty in China for coming to the Naval School to guide their teaching."

Yi Qi was stunned. Although he didn't study much, he was very smart. He was very dissatisfied with the Japanese's practice of forcing him to force himself with a fait accompli. If he hadn't been worried that he would come to him, he would almost turn around and leave. "Aren't we just doing a visit? Why did we talk about guidance?"

Sanzhao smiled as if nothing had happened, "Your Excellency is too worried. The guidance statement is just a rumor. I think it is a misunderstanding among the young people in the school."

"Mr., please tell me the main and secondary of this. When I visit your country this time, the emperor's decree is also to enhance the naval exchanges between the two countries. There is absolutely no guidance for each other - I will never do anything that goes against the will."

"Please rest assured, Your Excellency Prince. We Japanese will never use intentional malicious behavior to put Your Excellency Prince in danger."

No matter how Yi Qi looked at it, he felt that he was lying. He couldn't help but sarcastically said, "It would be better as you said, otherwise, the scene that happened is something you and I don't want to see."

Although I was very dissatisfied with the practice of taking action first and then reporting. But I came on behalf of the Qing Dynasty and the etiquette between the two countries should continue to be maintained. Yi Qi nodded to Féi Hamagoro and said warmly, "Because of the arrival of our waiting period, I am sorry for disturbing the whole school."

"On the contrary, it is the honor of our school and our subordinates to be able to receive the Prince of China from the same Asian power." After the salute, Féi Hamagoro Tada talked happily, "Prince, please go here."
Chapter completed!