Time flies, and in the blink of an eye it was April 1893. More than 40,000 students at the Naval Academy had been training for more than three months.
The machinery and technicians from Jardine Matheson & Co. of the UK have arrived in Weihaiwei. The workers recruited by Lin Daxin are now installing the equipment and conducting trial runs under the guidance of the British technicians.
The German firm, Lihe & Co., also transported the munitions purchased by Lin Daxin and equipment from a large arsenal to Weihaiwei. Technicians who helped install the equipment at the arsenal also came to Weihaiwei.
In January, the general manager of Lihe Trading Company personally came to Weihaiwei and talked with Lin Daxin for a morning. In the end, Lin Daxin purchased two old ironclad warships from the G
