After all, battleships are used for deterrence and decisive battles of the main force, and in the face of more and more maritime territories, the Chinese territory needs cruisers the most.

Due to the fact that the maritime territory of the Chinese territory is now too scattered, and the twelve 'Tongjiang' class cruisers are insufficient, Fang Xiaoyu decided to design another class of heavy cruisers to replenish the number.

This time, Fang Xiaoyu still used the dome armor design, and in order to maximize the endurance, Fang Xiaoyu set the displacement at 6,150 tons. This type of cruiser is one hundred and three meters long, twenty meters wide, and has a draft of seven meters.

The power system can provide 13,000 horsepower, in order to get a high speed, Fang Xiaoyu tried to thin the armor of the warship, and restored the secondary gun to the pier gun again to reduce the weight, so this cruiser can reach a high speed of 25 knots.

Its armament consisted of four 203-mm 40-diameter main guns, 10 152-mm secondary guns, and six 76-mm rapid-fire guns.

In addition, Fang Xiaoyu also decided to develop a destroyer with only four 130-millimeter guns and a displacement of 1,200 tons on the basis of the ocean-going torpedo boat as a supplement to the cruiser, which would have a high speed of 27 knots and four torpedo tubes.

Destroyers are still a new type of ship in this world, and destroyers on Earth were first designed to deal with small and extremely high-speed torpedo boats.

And in this world, the torpedo has just been invented, and there is no clear understanding of the use of torpedoes, even the torpedo boat has just appeared in the hands of Fang Xiaoyu, not to mention its natural enemy destroyer.

Fang Xiaoyu designed the destroyer this time mainly because it was easy to manufacture, easy to maintain, and low in cost, and its sea trial performance was also good, which was enough to meet the needs of ocean-going operations.

Fang Xiaoyu's drawings were drawn in a lively manner, and the top brass of the navy were also cheering, but after Xu Shouchang calculated the cost of this series of shipbuilding plans, everyone was dumbfounded, and the total cost was as high as 50 million Lanfang coins.

Such a high construction cost made Huadongxing feel a pain in his flesh, but he also understood that these were the money that had to be spent, and if there were not enough warships, he would not be able to compete for hegemony in the Eastern Ocean, let alone defend against pressure from Sar and other Western Continent powers.

Fang Xiaoyu also understood that such a huge shipbuilding plan could easily overwhelm the finances of the Chinese government, so he decided to let his Zhonghua Group Company donate 20 million Lanfang coins to these warships as the first batch of funds, which somewhat comforted Huadong Xing's heart.

If such a huge ship-building plan is known to the outside world, it will definitely make the powers of the Western Continent wary of the Chinese Territory, so these three warships are all top secret before they are built, and they must not be built in shipyards outside the Chinese Territory.

Fortunately, the shipyards in Vladivostok and the Ryukyus have already been built and are very large, but there are not many mechanics and engineers, so Fang Xiaoyu secretly poached many people from the twelve shipyards entrusted by the empire with high salaries as bait.

These twelve shipyards are now under the jurisdiction of Fang Xiaoyu, as long as they do a little tricking, no one will know about it, at most, when others ask, they will be mixed up under the pretext of traveling or transferring between shipyards and carrying out technical exchanges.

The territory of the Chinese Territory increased again this time, allowing Fang Xiaoyu to divide the land of several more counties, among which the three major islands cut from the Kingdom of New Guinea were named Nanhai County by Fang Xiaoyu, and the Ryukyu Islands and several islands ceded from the Japanese Kingdom became Ryukyu County.

In addition, whether it is the developed northern or undeveloped central and southern parts of the Wild Continent, Fang Xiaoyu is divided into administrative units one by one, they include the eight counties of Wasteland, Moore, Highland, Wasteland, Plains, Linhai, Southern Xinjiang, and Hongling, although there are many administrative units, in fact, only two counties of Moore and Wasteland are currently in a state of development, and the other six counties are rarely populated, and they are not much different from wasteland.

Although the opening speed is not satisfactory, Fang Xiaoyu does not plan to open this place to others for development. In Fang Xiaoyu's plan, this will be the base he built for his homecoming, and those technologies that completely surpass modern times are arranged here, and they must not be known to the outside world.

Only by completely controlling the Wild Continent in Fang Xiaoyu's own hands can absolute secrecy be achieved, although this place is still relatively desolate, Fang Xiaoyu also believes that with the existence of the train, the entire Wild Continent will definitely prosper soon.

At present, the most lacking thing in the Chinese Territory is the population, so Fang Xiaoyu not only increased the intensity of domestic immigration, but also issued a call to the overseas Chinese people to develop the Chinese Territory, and at the same time, the Chinese Territory also promised that in the future, the Chinese Territory will provide protection for overseas Chinese people, and any persecution of the Chinese will be regarded as a declaration of war against the Chinese Territory.

In the past, the Lanfang Empire had treated overseas Chinese people as 'outcasts of the Celestial Empire', ignoring them, and even if they were persecuted by locals overseas, there was no justice for them, so they have always been relatively united.

Without the support of the state power, no matter how united the civil society is, it is impossible to stand up to the government, so the life of the Chinese overseas is not good, and they live a life of fear all the time.

Therefore, after the Chinese Collar Government issued a call for 'developing the Chinese Collar', a large number of overseas Chinese decided to abandon their industries and come to the Chinese Collar to contribute to the construction of the Chinese Collar.

Of course, these developments were limited to the territory of the Chinese Territory in the Eastern Continent, and since the Wild Continent was purchased by Fang Xiaoyu in his private name, he only planned to use his own industry to develop it alone.

Seeing the actions of overseas Chinese, Fang Xiaoyu was inexplicably moved, and he immediately ordered the opening of the official commercial hall of the Chinese Consulate in the place where overseas Chinese lived, not only to solve problems for the local Chinese, but also to negotiate with the local government on their behalf.

More importantly, the merchant office of the Chinese Consulate will issue Chinese Consulate passports to overseas Chinese and recognize their Chinese Consulate nationals. Fang Xiaoyu even personally mentioned a sentence on the first page of the expatriate passport designed by the Chinese Consulate: "No matter where you are, the Chinese Consulate will be your strong backing." ”

Due to the enthusiastic participation of overseas Chinese, the construction speed of the Chinese collar has once again reached a new level. Even Fang Dingguo saw the opportunity to set up a new garment factory and cotton spinning factory in Beidi County to use the local high-quality cotton resources for production and reduce freight costs in the transportation link.