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Text Chapter 457 The Shame of Deserter

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    "This is Deng Junmen." A guard replied for Deng Shichang, "Deng Junmen heard the sound of someone on the island, so he came to find you." "Thank you, Master Deng, for saving your life!" Li Xiangtian hurriedly said to him  Deng Shichang bowed down. Deng Shichang smiled kindly and stretched out his hand to help him up.  "What do you do for a living on weekdays?" Deng Shichang looked at him again and asked.  Although it was a casual question, Li Xiangtian's heart still skipped a beat.  "Returning to your Majesty, I was originally in the caravan business. Later, I suffered from banditry on the road and lost my capital, so I had to switch to the sea business. It had just improved slightly, but this time Oh! It's really hard to describe!  Li Xiangtian said with a look of pain on his face.  "No wonder, I see that your body and bones are very strong, and your daughter seems to have weathered the weather for a long time. She must have suffered a lot." Deng Shichang sighed, looking at Huang Zhengrong with eyes full of love.  "Come, Sizhu, thank Master Deng for saving your life." Li Xiangtian greeted Huang Zhengrong.  Huang Zhengrong came to Deng Shichang, knelt on her knees, and bowed down respectfully. When she was about to bow again, Deng Shichang reached out and helped her up.  Deng Shichang looked at the girl again. The girl lowered her head shyly, not daring to look at him.  ¡°Somehow, this girl always gave him a weird feeling.  "My lord just heard my little girl's name, and you seem to be surprised. Why? But among your relatives, is there anyone with the same name as my little girl?" Although Li Xiangtian knew that asking this question might arouse the suspicion of the powerful Deng Junmen in front of him, but  He was anxious to know Li Sizhu's whereabouts, so he took the risk and asked.  "That's not true." Deng Shichang stood up.  He casually asked a red-clad navy captain next to him: "I remember Mr. Lin's adopted sister is called this name, right?" "My lord, what you are talking about is Mr. Lin's adopted sister. Her name is Li Sizhu. I  I met her at Mr. Lin's house. She is a big beauty." Wu Zhang replied with a smile, "It is said that she is the adopted daughter of Mr. Lin's aunt." Li Xiangtian was heartbroken when he heard Mr. Lin's answer.  Shocked, he knew he couldn't ask any more questions, so he carefully imprinted the information firmly in his mind.  "You come with me, and when we get ashore, I will help you with some expenses and take your daughter back to your hometown as soon as possible!" Deng Shichang said to Li Xiangtian.  "Thank you so much, my benefactor!" Li Xiangtian burst into tears of gratitude and cried to the ground, a big stone falling to the ground in his heart.  He knows this is his life.  So far it has been saved.  And what made him feel even more delighted.  You know the whereabouts of Li Sizhu!  From the information just obtained.  He could already tell that Li Sizhu was the person he was looking for!  And she is not only alive and well now.  She is about to marry a noble man and be depended on for life!  Thinking of this.  Li Xiangtian couldn't help but feel sad and happy at the same time. He showed his true feelings for a moment, and tears fell in big drops, which surprised the "little Li Sizhu" opposite.  Soon after, the Chinese and British officers and soldiers completed the search of the entire island and found no one else. Deng Shichang ordered the team to withdraw and returned to the warships with Lang Weili.  When the Chinese and British fleets returned to Dagukou Port, the shore was crowded with people and crowds of onlookers. Among the crowd, stood the British Minister to China, William Wytoma.  At this time, Weitoma looked at the warships entering the harbor one after another. For some reason, he felt more and more uneasy in his heart.  Intuition told him that this time the demonstration exercise of the British fleet did not achieve the effect he expected.  Sure enough, he discovered a strange phenomenon. When the British fleet was berthed, they all parked on one side. No warship was willing to berth with the "Odisha", which was originally the flagship of the fleet!  Soon, the two British fleet commanders Field and Lambert all came ashore. Seeing that the faces of the two fleet commanders were ugly, Wytoma was even more frightened.  "What happened?" Witoma asked impatiently.  Field and Lambert looked at each other, but neither spoke.  Witoma's eyes fell on the ironclad "Odisha" moored alone at the anchor, and asked: "What happened to the 'Odisha'?" Field and Lambert said in unison:  "There are deserters on the 'Odisha'!" Not long after, a man walked in quickly from the office of the Governor-General's Office in Zhili, Tianjin, and handed over a piece of paper. Xue Fucheng took it and glanced at it.  He hurried to the back hall and handed the telegram into Li Hongzhang's hands.  "Haha, the British are so embarrassed this time!" Li Hongzhang laughed happily after reading the telegram.    "Then when Wade comes to negotiate again, I'm afraid he won't be as arrogant as before." Xue Fucheng also laughed.  "Perhaps he will come to your door today. He will first send the news to the General Administration by telegram, and then send a message to Fuzhou to inform Lin Kunyu." Li Hongzhang thought for a while and said, "Give it to Guo Yunxian  Send one too.¡± ¡°Yes, I¡¯ll do it right away,¡± Xue Fucheng nodded.  Xue Fucheng took the letter and went to the telegraph room located in the mansion. He handed the letter to the telegraph operator and whispered a few instructions.  The machine was sent out.  Seeing the skillful movements of the telegraph operator and listening to the brisk clicking sound of the telegraph machine, Xue Fucheng's heart was filled with joy.  Now if you want to send important news, you can use telegram as a quick method!  Recalling that this telegraph line was only possible thanks to the Japanese invasion of Taiwan, Xue Fucheng couldn't help but let out a deep sigh.  China has learned lessons from the two Opium Wars in the past, and has recently received warnings about Japan's invasion of Taiwan and Ryukyu's invasion of Taiwan, which forced the Qing government to plan coastal defense from a strategic perspective.  Li Hongzhang, the governor-general of Zhili and the Minister of Beiyang, who was located in the most important and most prosperous area of ????Gyeonggi Province, was preparing to build a navy, purchase and build ships, build bases, and train naval talents. At the same time, he started a communication revolution by establishing telegraphs.  The initial establishment of the telegraph was hindered by various difficulties, just like the initial encounter of trains in China.  Although this has a commendable aspect of safeguarding national rights, it also reveals the common ignorant attitude among Chinese people that blindly rejects modern Western civilization.  In the eyes of ordinary people, telegraph wires, like trains, can shake the gods of mountains and rivers and destroy the feng shui of tombs, which is unacceptable.  Li Hongzhang, who was well versed in the national conditions and people's customs, "when he founded Electrical Wire, he was worried that the scholar-bureaucrats were not familiar with the industry and might be too dissatisfied, so he temporarily set it up in Tianjin and gradually became popular."  Tianjin is a place covered by the power of the governor-general of Zhili, so there is little resistance to the establishment and great certainty of success.  Even so, he still requested that the wires be "properly advised by various local officials and be taken care of and protected at all times to ensure that there is no obstruction or damage, so that everything will be done."  After the trial was completed, Li Hongzhang reported on the first telegraph line in his memorial. "All the tombs, woods, and houses have been given away, and there was no disturbance to the public sentiment along the way."  In fact, this is not necessarily the case. The reason why tombs, woods, private houses, and lines are detoured and the funds are increased is because there have been incidents of public outcry, public disturbance, and even local officials obstructing the installation of wires, cutting wires, and cutting poles.  .  Li Hongzhang avoided this section in order to silence the die-hard opponents, gain recognition from the court, and pave the way for large-scale telegraphy.  China's own telegraph not only needs to gradually become popular, but also needs to be gradually trialled due to lack of operational experience and to win steadily. This is also in line with the Qing court's intention.  As early as the second half of 1874, Li Hongzhang experimentally set up a telegraph line in Gutang, Jin. It started from Dagu and passed through Beitang to Tianjin. It was nearly a hundred miles long and connected various Haikou forts and barracks. This was a pure experiment.  A military telegraph line of a special nature, "order all battalions to respond immediately."  Although the line is short, it is of great significance. The successful trial operation has doubled the confidence of those involved, and they can strike while the iron is hot and develop their ambitions.  In the first year of Guangxu (1875), Li Hongzhang petitioned for the establishment of the North-South Ocean Telegraph. The line ran from Tianjin overland, followed the canal to Jiangbei, crossed the Yangtze River, and reached Shanghai from Zhenhai. The total length of the main branch line was more than 3,000 miles.  The project started in February and was completed in May, which is extremely fast.  The Tianjin-Shanghai Line is China's first long-distance land telegraph line. After its completion and opening, "news from the north and south can be communicated instantly". Together with the subsequent establishment of the Jiangsu-Zhejiang-Fujian-Guangdong Line, it has opened up the political center Beijing, the Beiyang hub Tianjin and the foreign economic center.  The communication barrier between Shanghai and Guangzhou, the important place in the South China Sea, makes the northern and southern oceans connected and flexible, and has extremely important national defense and military value.  The operation and management model of these two long-distance telegraph lines was government-supervised commercial affairs. Although they were not included in the Beiyang official bureau, they were run by Li Hongzhang, so they will be discussed briefly.  The successful erection of these two lines has explored and formed a relatively complete and mature engineering model for hiring foreign telegraph companies for construction, established the project fund estimate module, etc., accumulated experience and laid a foundation for the promotion of telegraph in China.  It has an important status and role.  The main reason why the telegraph was successfully established this time was the stimulation of Japan's invasion of Taiwan.  It was almost a month after Japan invaded Taiwan that the Qing court in Beijing learned the details. If Lin Yizhe hadn't known about the enemy beforehand and led the navy in time to stop it, Taiwan would have been occupied by the Japanese by the time the news reached Beijing.  After learning that the news was being delivered so slowly, the empress dowagers of the two palaces were furious and ordered the establishment of China's telegraph industry. Li Hongzhang seized the opportunity to request the establishment of a telegraph. The empress dowagers of the two palaces immediately approved it. Prince Gong, Wen Xiang, Prince Chun and other important court officials  They also gave their full support and mobilized a large amount of manpower and material resources to build the telegraph. Therefore, within just a few months, the telegraph was completed.  When??, after learning the news of the establishment of the telegraph, some Qing officials expressed their opposition as usual. However, due to the huge stimulus to the government and the opposition due to the Battle of Taiwan, the Shihlin Qing discussion also became divided this time, and it was no longer one-sided opposition.  Voices.  Some people agreed, and more people remained silent, so China's telegraph industry was quickly established.  PS: Please collect it!  Please recommend!  Please subscribe!  Please click!  Asking for a monthly ticket!
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