Mei Qizhao was a Manchu official who came into contact with foreigners earlier when he accompanied Hua Shana, who was an editor at the Imperial Academy in Jinshi Point in 152, the second year of Xianfeng, a Qing official, during the negotiations between the British and French allied forces in Tianjin.

During the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Mei Qizhao negotiated with Hua Shana in Suzhou and Shanghai, and then went back to his hometown of Jiangxi to run the Yong Tuan, leading the Yong Tuan in Jiangxi to make contributions in the process of fighting against the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Later, he was greatly promoted by Jiangxi and resigned from his post to return home.
Due to the occupation of half of South China, there were a lot of vocational college officials in the Qing Dynasty. Although some of them stayed and showed strong opposition to show their loyalty to the Manchu master, some of them, such as Mei Qizhao, chose to avoid suspicion and resign.
Because Mei Qizhao had contact with foreigners in his early years, this origin made him more familiar with foreigners than others, and his personality was more receptive to western things. Before he resigned, he studied foreign personnel’s mastery of arithmetic and equipment, and paid special attention to the methods of building roads, ships and machinery in the West.
He thought that the history of Manchu-Qing foreign school was consistent, and he was a member of the foreign school. Li Hongzhang expressed his support for building Beiyang Navy and preparing for China Merchants.
Mei Qizhao’s thought made him very sympathetic to the growing acceptance of the western big officialdom atmosphere. After being recommended by talented people, Lin Zexu, Luo Bingzhang, Zhou Tianjue, Zeng Guofan, Woren, Zheng Dunjin, Yuan Jiasan, Wu Tingdong, Yao Yingshi, Wu Changshou and other famous ministers Luo Yan were promoted to be the assistant minister of the Ministry of War to be in charge of naval affairs many times.
Mei Qizhao attaches importance to coastal defense, which is also an echo of Zhu Jinglun’s idea of expanding the navy. I didn’t expect Hurd to recommend this person
Because Mei Qizhao is Luo Yan’s rise, and Luo Yan just resigned because of his dissatisfaction with Hurd, but Hurd paid attention to Luo Yan. The old man had to make Zhu Jinglun sit up and sigh that Hurd had won the three flavors of China politics
Old people like Mei Qizhao can greatly stabilize people’s hearts, especially the important Ministry of War.
Then, although no one resigned from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Hurd took the initiative to talk to Long Yuanxi, saying that Long Yuanxi resigned and changed to big officialdom political giant Wu Chongyao, assistant minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Xu Rongcun took over the post of principal of the Foreign Affairs Department. Although Wu Chongyao was a businessman, he organized the Foreign Affairs Department and first set up a professional school in the Foreign Affairs Department to train diplomatic officials. Later, after training, he went abroad to practice, and many officials were transferred to other departments after returning home. Therefore, Wu Chongyao can be said to have a group of one’s intimate disciples and followers in officialdom, and Wu Chongyao is an old man
Therefore, Hedba Wu Chongyao can stabilize the hearts of middle and senior officials to a greater extent
Hurd also suggested that Zhang Jingxiu, the assistant of the Ministry of Education, should take his place in the past. Zhang Jingxiu was born in Dongguan and was also a representative of local literati. Such a well-known garden is obviously very elegant and good with Hurd. He is a close friend and often sings poetry together.
But pulling Zhang Jingxiu’s eyes is not to take care of his intimate friends, but to make room for Zhang Jingxiu’s assistant minister to be pulled by Zhang Liang, a native of Kowloon, who was born in four major families in Kowloon. Zhang Liang can obviously balance Chen Zhiting’s influence on the Xin ‘an faction, and the Kowloon faction bureaucrats are separated from the Xin ‘an faction.
Because Zhu Jinglun was the first group of officials who started from Xin ‘an, a large part of them were from Xin ‘an County, and Kowloon also belonged to Xin ‘an County. However, with the development of Jiulong Port Area, it gradually became self-contained, and Chen Jiashou’s Xin ‘an School in Shajing was divided into old and new schools, and Kowloon School obviously belonged to the new school.
The Kowloon School is a new school, and the development of Kowloon Port has made them closer to the West. Another reason is that the Kowloon Port was founded by Hurd, so the Kowloon School bureaucrats obviously recognize Hurd more, because quite a few Kowloon School bureaucrats have moved from Hurd to other positions. One is that Zhang Liang entered the Ministry from the position of Kowloon Tax Department. It can be said that Zhang Liang is Hurd’s office.
It is obvious that Hurd has been able to do a lot of things, and once the diplomatic and financial constraints are enlarged, Hurd will get twice the result with half the effort.
For other departments, the foundation has not moved. Obviously, Hurd Pavilion is designed in the direction of wartime pavilion.
There is no need to worry about whether the civil servants of the Ministry of War will restrain him, because once the war breaks out, the emperor has enough reason to take charge of the army himself, regardless of Chinese and western practices!
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In particular, the Ministry is the responsibility of Hurd’s cronies, and it will not be funded by the card army to continue to advance the shipbuilding industry.
The general contractor of shipbuilding is a privatized arsenal.
After the privatization of the arsenal, Hao Kejiu continued to control the enterprise through shares, so the production and operation of the arsenal changed little, but Hao Kejiu’s style of doing things changed greatly.
It is mainly a matter of mentality. He used to be an official in the general office of the government-ordered arsenal, but now he is a joint-stock company, and the prime minister of the arsenal is a businessman, so he becomes low-key and can’t offend people easily.
However, for the shipbuilding order, he is determined to privatize the arsenal, but his contacts in the arsenal are still there. This time, he moved all the people from the army to the Ministry of War to the Ministry of Industry and got the contract for shipbuilding.
Hao Kejiu formally signed an order agreement on behalf of the Arsenal Ministry of War, which guaranteed the delivery of all warships on time with good quality and quantity.
However, the scale of the shipbuilding order is too large, and the production scale of the arsenal is guaranteed by the law.
The arsenal that produces armored ships can produce up to ten ships at the same time, and five of them are 10,000-ton warships, and the others can reach up to 6,000 tons, which are second-class armored ships.
Hao Kejiu was able to take the order because he made a feasible plan, and the arsenal was responsible for the quality. Subcontracting the order to other large shipyards was enough to build 30 armored ships at one time, and the arsenal was responsible for supervising the construction, which could ensure the quality.
The biggest reason for the Ministry of War to hand over the order department to the Arsenal is that all the weapons and equipment of these warships can be built by the Arsenal, so other shipyards can build hull weapons, and the hull weapons must be manufactured by the Arsenal, and then sent to the Arsenal for final assembly, or the Arsenal will send people to install weapons on these warships.
Because this kind of arsenal has enough reason to be responsible for general contracting, it can ensure that all warships can meet the requirements of arsenal’s weapons and equipment standards during construction.
Another most important reason is that Zhu Jinglun had to make private orders without the support of the civilian government at that time. The lower the profile, the better, and it was the most convenient and feasible for the arsenal to make orders for other shipyards.
So the arsenal got the general contract order for 30 armored ships.
Among them, except for ten ships produced in the arsenal, Baoshun Shipyard expanded its foundation to manufacture ocean-going vessels, and the main tongwen Shipyard got ten armored ships. Guangzhou Chenliantai Machine Shipyard got five ships, and Hong Kong Huangpu Shipyard Co., Ltd. was established after Yihe Foreign Company merged all the foreign shipyards such as Huangpu Kebai Shipyard, Changzhou Qiji Shipyard and Yuren Aberdeen Shipyard in Hong Kong, and four ships were obtained. The last one was built by Fuzhou Mawei Shipyard, a joint venture between Fujian Guild and Arsenal.
Mawei Shipyard was built by Hao Kejiu to win over the shareholders of Fujian Guild and win their support in the board of directors of the Arsenal. The technical strength of the Arsenal helped the Fujian Guild to build the shipyard. However, due to the small scale of the main Fujian Shipyard’s coastal port ship maintenance and construction workshop, it was barely able to build five or six thousand tons of ships.
He was able to get this ship because of the way that the Arsenal wooed the Fujian Guild Hall. Otherwise, there are other shipyards that are more suitable, such as the Arsenal’s own construction and maintenance of ships in the sea, and it is also possible to build ships of 5,000 to 6,000 tons.