Listening to Zhou Bing's words, Ding Ruchang and his generals finally realized that dying with the ship would be irresponsible to the country, and they also realized that Fang Boqian's words were not a sign of cowardice.
“I can understand your thoughts, but you haven’t considered the state of the Qing Navy. Qualified officers are hard to train, and qualified sailors are even harder to train. That’s why you are the Qing Navy’s treasure. As for warships, if they sink, they sink; if they’re gone, we can buy them or build them. As long as you exist, and you pilot brand-new warships to defeat the enemy, we can obtain more war reparations, and then we can buy or build even more and better warships,” Zhou Bing said.
"Now we finally realize the danger of dying with our ships, and I will no longe
