December 15, 1884, October 28 of the Old Calendar.
Li Hongzhang sent a telegram to Shangshu Libu, viceroy of Liangjiang, and minister of trade and commerce, Zeng Guoquan, about sending the two warships of the Nanyang Marine Divisions "Chengqing" and "Yiyuan" to the DPRK, telling him that he had ordered the two cruisers "Chao Yong" and "Yang Wei" to return to the north to aid korea, and asked Zeng Guoquan if he could send the nanyang marine divisions "Chengqing" and "Yuyuan" to Lushun.
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On the same day, Li Hongzhang relayed to the General Administration a telegram from The Japanese Minister, Li Shuchang, saying that Japan had dispatched 700 officers and men to inCheon, Korea, aboard the two ships "Fuso" and "Hiei," and that our warships could not advance slowly, and immediately ordered Ding Ruchang to lead the "Weiyuan," "Chao Yong," and "Yang Wei" troops to carry Fang Zhengxiang's troops to Korea urgently.
On the same day, the Qing court secretly ordered Li Hongzhang to still transfer the two fast ships of the Beiyang "Chao Yong" and "Yang Wei" back, and after the arrival of the two fast ships of "Chao Yong" and "Yang Wei," Ding Ruchang was ordered to take troops to the DPRK at his discretion, while the five ships of the Nanyang Marine Division to aid Taiwan were still handled in accordance with the previous instructions, that is, they were thrown to support Taiwan.
December 15, 1888, November 13 of the Old Calendar.
Zhang Zhidong, the governor of Liangguang, called Li Hongzhang and said that he had raised 1 million taels of funds, which were intended to be used as a backup fund for the navy's yamen to supply the Summer Palace project.
December 15, 1894, November 19, 19, Old Calendar.
Zhang Zhidong, the governor of Liangjiang, called Zheng Shaozhong, the admiral of the Guangdong Marine Division, saying that the 5 ships of the Nanyang Marine Division were ineffective, the quality of the gunners was inferior, and it was difficult to cope with the war.
Guangdong Water and Land School
Zheng Shaozhong, admiral of Guangdong, was a native of Guangdong.
Guangdong Admiral Zheng Shaozhong
Zheng Shaozhong formed the modernIzed Guangdong Navy, because he led the army to pacify the Taiping Army and the Guangdong passenger bandits, had outstanding achievements, and later participated in the Sino-French War, tried to avoid the blockade of French ships, and transported hundreds of thousands of taels of silver and a large number of foreign guns and cannons to Taiwan.
The imperial court posthumously honored Zheng Shaozhong as a zhenwei general
Because of his bravery and good fighting, he was deeply used by the Qing government, and posthumously named him a zhenwei general for three generations.
In 1889, Zheng Shaozhong's mother died. When Empress Dowager Cixi learned that his family was poor and that when he returned to his hometown to keep filial piety, he could only live in a low mud house, and was greatly moved, and immediately gave more than 60,000 silver taels, and Yi aimed to build a house in his hometown.
Since then, a group of large-scale Guo'er houses have been completed, becoming the only ancient village in Lingnan built by Cixi. This is also the origin of the first batch of historical and cultural villages in the country - Sanshui Daqitou Ancient Village.