The new navy founded by Westernization School is Beiyang Navy, or beiyang fleet and Beiyang Navy. It is a modern naval fleet established in the late Qing Dynasty, and it is also the strongest and largest of the four modern navies established by the Qing government.
At that time, the Qing government allocated 4 million taels of silver for naval construction every year. Beiyang fleet has 25 main warships, 50 auxiliary warships, 30 transport ships and more than 4,000 officers and men. At that time, its strength ranked first in Asia and ninth in the world. The top eight were Britain, France, Russia, Prussia, Spain, Ottoman, Italy and the United States.
18881888 On February 7, 2007/KLOC-0, Beiyang Navy was formally established in Liu Gongdao, Ahava. In the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, the whole army was wiped out, which marked the complete failure of the Westernization Movement, and the Qing government was forced to sign the treaty of shimonoseki, which humiliated the country.
Beiyang Navy is just an old navy established by the Westernization School with a new naval title and new naval equipment. Its personnel promotion structure is completely old-fashioned bureaucracy, and its overall policy is backward. It is entirely the old-fashioned army that commands the old-fashioned navy to formulate various policies, the logistics supply is completely old-fashioned, and the naval thinking is completely old-fashioned. Only the old navy like the new navy is trained, and the foreign instructors embedded in the troops have basically become furnishings.
Therefore, although Beiyang Navy was completely defeated by equipment inferior to its own, it has abandoned the old style, and its personnel structure, overall policy and logistics supply have all become new navy, and its naval thinking is full of vitality.