December 7, 1883, the eighth day of the first month of November in the Old Calendar. Jin Denggan, director of the China Customs Office in London, wrote a letter reporting to his boss, the General Taxation Division, saying that Lang Weili, in his capacity as deputy admiral of the Chinese Beiyang Marine Division, had proposed to the British Admiralty that the British government send two artillery instructors to teach in China.
Kimdengan
However, the British Admiralty, in view of the current state of war in Sino-French relations, is neutral and said that it is not prepared to consider this matter at all.
Langwilli
It is also said that once the war breaks out, Lang Weili will be summoned back to China. He also mentioned that he raised the issue of Langwillie's promotion to Admiralty Officer Kaiguber, who said that he regretted that Langwilli had not been promoted at the end of August, but if Langweili had been serving in the British Navy, he would not have been promoted.
December 7, 1884, October 20, old calendar. The General Tax Division, Hede, wrote to Kim Teng-gan, director of the China Customs office in London, saying that he wanted to put the Chinese navy under British management, but the British government was not active in this.
December 7, 1888, the fifth day of the first month of November in the old calendar. Yushi Turen Shoushou, please stop the operation of the Navy Yamen, and indicate that the deputy governor of the Navy Yamen, Eun You, has done the most useless work. Empress Dowager Cixi ordered the ministers of the imperial court to investigate the shortcomings of Tu Renshou's naval duties.
Who is Tu Renshou? He can be called a man with a backbone as Lu Xun said, he is the famous iron-faced imperial history that moved the country at the end of the Qing Dynasty, and he is also an educational master who opened up the atmosphere of the times.
Goshi Tu Renshou
In 1874, he was a scholar and a good scholar, and in 1874, he was a counselor for 15 years, Tu Renshou was an official with an iron face and integrity, not afraid of the powerful, and was a rare loyal and honest man, who once proposed six measures to improve the government and pointed out five kinds of shortcomings in the construction of coastal defense (not counting the capital, abusing famous instruments, persuading and punishing them, seeking profits and losses, and turning money into losses, and invading friends).
He was not afraid of the powerful and dared to directly advise Li Hongzhang, the Prince of Alcohol, and even the Western Empress. Kang Youwei once commented that his suggestions were all about the major policies of the country, and he was a person who did not dare to speak out by others, which fully reflected his upright nature.
Tu Renshou later went to Shanxi to give lectures, and trained a large number of talents with modern knowledge for Shanxi, and his protégés were Yu Youren, Yan Xishan, Shang Zhen, Jia Jingde, etc.
December 7, 1890, October 26 in the old calendar. Li Hongzhang relayed a telegram from Ding Ruchang to the Navy's Yamen, saying that the five warships "Dingyuan", "Zhenyuan", "Jiyuan", "Jingyuan", and "Laiyuan" had set sailed to patrol the Nanyang on the 28th, and the remaining ships remained in Weihaiwei, so that Deng Shichang could lead the exercises.