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    "If Guanchen studies hard, he will definitely get the top prize!" When the young Lin Guanchen heard Mrs. Chen's words, he nodded vigorously and said loudly.  "Hey! Guanchen has such a spirit, good! Good!" Mrs. Chen seemed to be very happy when she heard Lin Guanchen's words. She turned to Chen Wan and said, "Sure enough, he is just like Kunyu!" Chen Wan looked at it  The mother looked happy, knowing that she no longer had the slightest resentment towards her husband Lin Yizhe, and felt extremely relieved for a moment.  Ever since she married Lin Yizhe, her mother had been dissatisfied with Lin Yizhe because of the bad relationship between Lin Yizhe and Zuo Zongtang, which caused her father to be impeached by Zuo Zongtang and almost exiled to Xinjiang. Although she did not say it, she said it in the letter to her daughter.  , but often revealed a little bit, and thought that Lin Yizhe was frivolous and Meng Lang would probably get into big trouble in the future, which would harm his wife and children.  As a daughter, Chen Wan certainly understood that her mother was worried about her, but she firmly believed that her vision was correct and that Lin Yizhe was definitely not that kind of person.  Now, Lin Yizhe has proved his mother's view wrong with practical actions. As a daughter, her happiness can be imagined.  "Kun Yu often said that children should follow their nature and develop according to their preferences when they are young, so that they can achieve great success in the future." Chen Wan said with a smile, "He also said that Guan Chen likes to study now and will be the number one scholar in the future.  " "Guan Chen likes reading the best, but Yu Xi" Mrs. Chen heard the "gunshot" coming from the yard again, and couldn't help but frowned, "You are a mother, you can't let her go.  "My daughter remembers that when she was young, she couldn't practice martial arts, but she still taught her how to do it. How come she doesn't want her granddaughter to practice martial arts now?" Chen Wan teased her mother with a smile.  One sentence.  "Hey! Little girl, have you grown up? You even taught mother a lesson!" Mrs. Chen glared again, "Let me tell you, you are the first grade emperor and you are still my daughter! Don't you dare not listen to mother's words?  "Oh! Mom - look at what you said, doesn't my daughter have half the fate of you! How can I have a daughter without a mother?" Chen Wan smiled and looked coquettishly at her mother. She knew that her mother was not angry.  , but express the happiness in my heart in this way.     after all.  His son-in-law became a second-rank official at a young age, and his husband, who had been idle at home selling incense sticks, was also resurrected. Moreover, after he was resurrected, his husband's rank was equal to that of his daughter. According to court regulations, even his own  When a husband meets his daughter, he has to be polite!  After Chen Shiqi was ordered to visit his Majesty in Beijing, Mrs. Chen came to Fuzhou at the invitation of her daughter.  Helping her daughter take care of the three young children, Mrs. Chen felt that the maids in the Lin Mansion were careless and did many things by themselves.  On the one hand, she is used to being careful, and on the other hand, she is enjoying the happiness of her family.  In this era, not every family can enjoy the joy of having their children around their knees and playing with their grandchildren.  Mother and daughter are talking.  Lin Yuxi jumped in carrying a slender small pistol with a smoking muzzle.  Seeing Mrs. Chen, Lin Yuxi put the gun on the table, ran over like a gust of wind, and bowed respectfully in front of Mrs. Chen.  "Hello, grandma." Seeing Lin Yuxi suddenly transform into a lady in front of her, the worries in Mrs. Chen's heart disappeared instantly.  He happily pulled Lin Yuxi to his side and looked at her carefully.  The girl stood there.  It feels like there is a fresh fragrance spreading quietly throughout the room, slowly spreading in everyone's heart.  She is like a snowy plum, standing in a quiet valley, blooming quietly and elegantly. No matter how many people around her are watching her, she is as if she is alone in an empty wilderness.  Permeated with the atmosphere of freedom and romance.  Compared with the eyes of ordinary beauties, her eyes are big and lively, as if there are rippling water in them, as if she is silently confiding something all the time; her strong and straight nose bridge is both girlish and masculine.  The heroic spirit that only children can have.  "Oh, even Liang Hongyu and Hua Mulan were not as good-looking as Yu Xi when they were young!" Mrs. Chen held Lin Yuxi's hand, her affection beyond words.  Mrs. Chen did not know that many years later, what she said about Lin Yuxi and Lin Guanchen would actually become reality.  "Grandma, will daddy come back with grandpa?" Lin Yuxi asked crisply.  "Yes, yes!" Mrs. Chen smiled and nodded.  Hearing her daughter¡¯s question, Chen Wan¡¯s heart instantly filled with deep longing for her husband.  At this moment, she would not have imagined how her father and husband would meet in Beijing.  The first time Lin Yizhe and Chen Shi met was at Wenxiang's mansion.  At this time, Chen Shi, listeningYi Zhe and Wen Xiang talked about the navy and coastal defense, their eyes filled with admiration.  Wenxiang was eager to strengthen the Beiyang coastal defense and protect Beijing and Tianjin, so he planned to purchase a "small iron ship" (a Rendall-type gunboat, also known as a "mosquito ship" in China because of its small boat and large cannon) from the United Kingdom.  After reading the "Summary of Illustrations of Western Ships and Guns" and "Illustrations of Foreign Marines" submitted by Lin Yizhe, I felt a little undecided, so I called Lin Yizhe several times for discussion.  Therefore, in the past few days, Wen Xiang and Lin Yizhe had been talking about the navy and warships.  Since the Three Kingdoms era, Japan has been called a Japanese country by China, and the scholar-bureaucrats often sneered at it and disapproved of it.  At that time, in the eyes of Chinese society, which sang triumphant songs of a "prosperous age" all day long, dreamed of a "heavenly kingdom", and was filled with an air of arrogance, Japan was nothing more than a barbarian.  However, this small country to the east, which has always been looked down upon by China, after learning some advanced Western technologies, unscrupulously challenged China and planned to invade China's territory. The shock it caused in Chinese society was nothing less than a thunderbolt from the blue.  The importance and urgency of coastal defense construction have been highlighted.  Although the Chinese navy defeated the Japanese navy this time, the shortcomings of China's coastal defense were also exposed.  Afterwards, Prince Gong Yixin wrote sadly in the memorial: "If we start to make preparations today, we will be late; if we don't make preparations today, it will be even more unthinkable!" and recalled that since the Opium War, although China has carried out some of its policies  In the cause of self-improvement, such as building shipyards and warships, "everyone has the intention of self-improvement, and everyone talks about self-improvement, but so far there is still no reality of self-improvement, and the past has almost been forgotten for a long time."  It is believed that we should immediately put aside past prejudices and take decisive measures to strengthen the country's coastal defense capabilities as soon as possible.  There are growing calls between the government and the public to strengthen coastal defense, and the deficiencies in coastal defense in the Beijing-Tianjin area have been highlighted.  On the day the peace treaty was reached with Japan, Lin Yizhe ordered the three cruisers "Weiyuan", "Henghai" and "Kangji" and the high-speed reporting ship "Flying Eagle" to be transferred to Beiyang in accordance with the previous agreement with Li Hongzhang. In addition,  The Japanese battleship "Ryujo", which will also become a naval training ship, will also be seconded to Beiyang to enrich Beiyang's defense.  The addition of these four warships has greatly strengthened Beiyang's maritime combat power. However, the land defense situation in the Beiyang region is still not optimistic. Therefore, at the Customs and Excise Department, Hurd enthusiastically recommended the British-made warships to the Prime Minister's Yamen.  When the new Rendall-type gunboat arrived, it immediately attracted the attention of Wen Xiang and others.  As early as October 23, 1874, during the tense negotiations between China and Japan, Hurd, who replaced Li Taitai as the General Taxation Department of China Customs, sent a telegram via Shanghai to his loyal subordinate Jin Dengqian in London, saying that China planned to outsource.  warship.  This is indeed the case. Under the strong stimulation of Japan, China's second outsourcing of warships in modern times gradually began, following the aborted Aspen fleet.  Unlike the first ship purchase activity, which was used to suppress domestic uprisings, the purpose of this ship purchase is quite clear, which is to consolidate coastal defense and resist foreign aggression.  In fact, during the days when Japan invaded Taiwan and the Chinese government and the public were shocked and indignant, the figure of this Westerner began to appear frequently in the Prime Minister's Office.  As an important spokesman for British interests in China, Hurd was keenly aware of the signs that China was about to expand its navy with Japan as its imaginary enemy.  This British man who has lived in China for a long time and is well versed in the ways of Chinese officialdom understands that this will be an important opportunity to influence and control the future direction of the Chinese navy.  The opportunity was too good to miss, so by virtue of his special status, he began to have close contact with Prince Gong Yixin, who was in charge of the Prime Minister's Yamen, and started a business of promoting British warships.  Since the Aspen fleet incident, although China has spent huge sums of money in Shanghai, Fujian and other places and experienced nearly ten years of attempts to build its own warships, China's coastal defense capabilities have improved greatly and a Western-style steam fleet has been established.  , but the number of China's self-made warships is still too small, so the proposal to directly purchase advanced Western warships quietly began to gain the upper hand at this time.  After the naval battle between China and Japan ended, the three types of ships, ironclads, cruisers, and gunboats, came into the Chinese view.  Hurd, who likes to talk a lot, actually has only a superficial knowledge of the naval field. After arousing the Chinese people's interest in outsourcing warships, Hurd hurriedly discussed with his subordinate Jin Dengqian in London how to promote the warships.  warship.  Based on their own naval knowledge, Chinese officials such as Lin Yizhe, Shen Baozhen, Li Hongzhang, and Ding Richang were eager to acquire powerful first-class ironclads.  However, the cost of building such warships was too high. After experiencing the heavy blows of the Second Opium War and the Taiping War, the Qing government's treasury was almost empty and could not afford it for a while. Moreover, large warships also had extremely high requirements for the professional and technical knowledge of the ship's operators, making it difficult to handle them.  .  Soon, both Hurd and Jin Denggan noticed one of the newest warships in the world at that time, a small warship that was cheap and said to be the "disaster" and "nemesis" of large ironclads.  (To be continued. 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