Tracing the Beiyang marble-warship story through Chinese sources

Is there a readily available source for the story about Beiyang Fleet funds being spent on a marble warship?

A Chinese document title or translated copy is offered, but neither is provided in the exchange; independently verifying the translation would require further work.

Drachinifel says he has Chinese documents translated into English by a native Chinese speaker and offers to look for either the document title or his translated copy. He recalls taking two and a half years to obtain the original material. Someone seeking an independent check would need access to the Chinese document and a translator of their own. Receiving his English translation would still require trust in that translation. No document title or text is supplied during the exchange, so the offer identifies a route for checking the marble-warship account without establishing that the audience has already seen its evidence.