When Yinreng arrived at Weihaiwei, Yinzhi was not in the military camp.
Because of what happened last time, Yinzhi was almost furious, so he divided the ten warships into two waves and took turns patrolling the sea.
Each team patrolled the sea for ten days. When Yinreng arrived, Yinzhi had just set out to sea.
In the military camp, when the lieutenant general of Weihaiwei learned that Yinreng had arrived, his expression went blank for a moment.
Why did the prince come to Weihaiwei?
Although the lieutenant general didn't know the reason, he quickly came to the gate of the military camp to greet them.
From a distance, the lieutenant general saw the young man surrounded by guards and riding a tall horse. Looking at the fair complexion on his face, the lieutenant general suddenly felt a little repulsive.
What is this frail pretty boy doing in the military camp?
This is just causing more trouble!
"General Zhou Hai pays homage to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."
Although he was unwilling in his heart, Zhou Hai did not show it on his face. He knelt on one knee and saluted Yinreng.
Yinreng took a look at the simple military camp gate in front of him, and got off his horse.
"General Zhou, please get up."
Zhou Hai got up from the ground and asked,
"Your Highness, what is the important matter that has brought you here?"
"The Emperor sent me here to help Big Brother suppress the bandits."
Zhou Hai's face twitched slightly when he heard that.
Could it be that this gentleman in front of me is here to share the credit with the prince?
He hadn't been in contact with Prince Zhi for long, but he had developed some favorable impressions of him. In his opinion, Prince Zhi was a natural-born military talent, generous and open-minded, and not particular about trivial matters. But the man in front of him...
Just looking at this appearance, he couldn't feel any good about it.
Fortunately, after Yinreng arrived, he did not use his status to interfere in the military camp.
This is a good thing for him.
Zhou Hai asked people to clean up a few tents and let Yinreng and the guards live in them.
Yinreng had his own tent, but the two hundred guards were not treated so well. Dozens of people were assigned to each tent.
That is to say, the tents in the base are large, otherwise it might not be possible to live in them.
Yinreng wandered around the military camp for two days and gained a preliminary understanding of the place.
The weather is hot now, so the navy training time is before 10 am and after 3 pm.
In the military camp, except for the governor and his personal guards, all other soldiers and generals were Han Chinese.
The total number of soldiers in the entire Weihaiwei military camp was no more than 3,000, and Yinzhi brought only 2,000 of them.
The tents in the military camp were also built recently, and the place where he lived was adjacent to Yinzhi's tent.
At first, Yinreng was a little confused. Since Weihaiwei had 3,000 soldiers, why didn't Yinzhi let these people join the patrol team? However, after understanding the situation, he was speechless.
Weihaiwei was established in the previous dynasty to guard against the invasion of Japanese pirates. However, after the Qing army entered the pass, the navy only retained the Fujian Navy and the Jilin Navy.
Although Weihaiwei was preserved, the imperial court only issued weapons and equipment to the army, and the authority to manufacture warships was taken back. After decades of idleness, Weihaiwei was almost dead in name only.
However, this place is near the sea, and the recruited soldiers can all swim. Even so, the soldiers of Weihaiwei have not fought a naval battle for a long time.
Apart from occasionally sending troops to suppress bandits, Weihaiwei's only role was deterrence.
Even the warships have decayed to pieces.
Even if Yinzhi wanted to take the Weihaiwei on sea patrol, he did not have the conditions.
After learning all this, Yinreng immediately submitted a memorial asking Kangxi to return the authority to build warships to Weihaiwei.
Afterwards, without waiting for Kangxi's consent, he began to summon shipbuilders and wrote a letter to Yinzhen, asking him to send the information on building warships to Weihaiwei.
When Zhou Hai saw that Yinreng was going to build warships for Weihaiwei, his eyes turned red with excitement.
God knows what kind of life these thousands of soldiers under his command live. Not only do they have no warships, but they also have only a few dozen war horses. Every time they go out to suppress bandits, they have to plan carefully.
If we had a warship, even if we couldn't suppress the bandits, we could occasionally go out and catch some seafood to supplement our brothers' meals.
Those small boats in their military camp could not catch any big fish, and even if they went a little further out to sea, they might be capsized by a wave.
After this incident, Zhou Hai's rejection disappeared completely. Instead, he followed Yinreng around every day, fearing that he would not serve him well enough and let this gentleman slip away.
When the warlord Guwalja Alin knew that Yinreng wanted to build a ship, he tried to persuade Yinreng several times with a reluctant look on his face. However, seeing that Yinreng was determined and did not listen to his advice at all, the warlord even began to threaten Yinreng openly and secretly.
He always insisted that the Han people should not be given any chance to take power. Otherwise, if a rebellion broke out, even if Yinreng was the crown prince, he would not be able to take the responsibility.
Yinreng had no intention of paying any attention to him.
Not to mention that he was just a small lieutenant general, even if Kangxi did not agree, he had to build the warships of Weihaiwei.
This place is too close to the Japanese pirates. Once the war breaks out, Jilin and Weihai will be the best places to station.
Only that fool Yinzhi was so honest that he wandered around the sea for half a month in vain. If it were him, since he suspected that the pirates were Japanese pirates, he would not care whether he could catch them in the act or not. He would just send troops to attack his homeland!
When the Japanese invaders launched a full-scale war against China in later generations, they were able to find such a bad excuse.
He can now also frame the Japanese with false charges.
Now the Qing Dynasty is the father, and they can fight whenever they want. Do they want to complain to their American father?
What a joke!
Seeing that Yinreng ignored him, Guwalja Alin frantically submitted a memorial requesting Kangxi to punish Yinreng.
But he did not wait for the imperial edict from Kangxi, and Prince Zhi returned to Weihaiwei first.
When Yinzhi saw Yinreng at the dock, his eyes widened in surprise.
——Why doesn’t this kid stay in the capital instead of running to this remote place?
He jumped off the warship and walked to Yinreng in a few steps.
"What are you doing here?"
After drifting on the sea for more than ten days, his tone became stiff and his words were extremely sharp.
When Alin saw that Prince Zhi didn't even bow to the Crown Prince, he narrowed his eyes. The relationship between these two people seemed average.
Yinreng rolled his eyes.
"What? Are you worried that I'll steal your credit?"
"You have to be able to grab it too!"
Yinzhi curled his lips in disdain. Fighting at sea is completely different from fighting on land. It would be useless even if Yinreng could swim.
"Okay, if you have anything to say, let's talk about it when we get back!"
Yinreng took a look at his face, which was sunburned and peeling, and felt a little admiration for Yinzhi.
In terms of the ability to endure hardship, Yinzhi is far superior to other princes.
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