北洋水师招募的水兵,大多为山东半岛的渔户,会游泳自不成问题。将领多为船政学堂毕业。本来招收学生时,设想是福建省本地生源。但当时科举考试仍是读书人和贫家子弟的进身之阶,船政学堂这种新式军校闻所未闻,一般读书人报名稀稀。福建报名者多为贫寒出身的少年,但名额差之甚远,不得已学堂扩大招生地域,转向广东、香港招生,因粤港之地多商人子弟和洋学堂学生,受西洋风气影响,易接受新鲜事物。邓世昌隶粤籍,时在香港,学 Marine recruits recruited by the Northern Marines, mostly fishermen in the Shandong Peninsula, will not be able to swim. The generals are mostly graduated from the shipping school. Originally enrolled students, the idea is the local students in Fujian Province. However, the imperial examinations were still the order of entry for the scholar and the poor, while the new military academy of the School of Shipping and Politics was unheard of. Most applicants in Fujian are poor teenagers, but their quotas are far behind. They have to resort to expanding enrollment areas in their schools and switching to Guangdong and Hong Kong to enroll students. Due to the fact that many businessmen and foreign students in Hong Kong and Guangdong Province are affected by Western culture, they are receptive to new things . Deng Shichang under the Guangdong, when in Hong Kong, learning