纵观晚清创建海军的种种努力,不管是买船还是造船,所买之船或者是所造之船放在当时均不算落后。可以说,大清国那些靠读“四书五经”混迹官场的大人们,在挑选军舰的时候,思想一点也不陈腐,就像小孩子冲进玩具店的时候净拣新潮的好东西挑,恨不得把好玩具都买下来。可是,他们忽略了一个重要的制约因素:兜里的钱不够。大清国的公使们,几乎个个在与各国船厂交涉的过程中,练成了让买菜大妈们自愧不如的砍价高手;各国的船厂为了招揽清政府这个绝不赊欠的“优质客 Throughout the late Qing efforts to create a navy, whether it is to buy a boat or shipbuilding, the ship bought or ship built at that time are not considered backward. It can be said that in the Qing dynasty, those who read ”Four Books and Five Class Scriptures" have been removed from the officialdom. When selecting warships, their ideas are not obsolete. They are like picking up trendy goodies when children burst into the toy store, Can not wait to buy good toys. However, they overlook an important constraint: the pocket money is not enough. Nearly all the envoys of the Qing Dynasty practiced the bargain-hunting masters who made the gamblers of the groceries in negotiations with shipyards in various countries. In order to attract the Qing government,