Hearing that the ironclad ship was going to be built, Xu Shouchang asked: "Master, how to solve the problem of the power system and the twin naval guns?" Fang Xiaoyu said: "Don't worry about the power system, I asked Benz before I came, and he said that it can be completed within half a year at most." The twin guns have been built, but the tube retreat technique has encountered a bottleneck, only the spring brake can be used, and the hydraulic one will take a while, so you can only equip your secondary main gun with a tube retreat device, and the main gun will have to wait for a while. ”

Xu Shouchang nodded and said: "It's nothing, after all, we don't need to build that kind of full-caliber naval gun, no matter how big the recoil of the main gun is, there are only four, which is very easy to solve." Xu Shouchang paused and said: "But once this kind of warship appears, it will definitely be imitated by other countries, once there are more such warships, won't those cruisers we build have no power to fight back." ”

Fang Xiaoyu wanted to say not necessarily, the cruiser could still sink the ironclad ship, but when the words came to his mouth, he suddenly remembered that the reason why the cruiser had no power to fight back was because it still lacked a vital weapon, that is, a torpedo, Fang Xiaoyu secretly decided to tell Feng Jingru everything he knew about torpedoes after he went back, and let him study torpedoes.

Fang Xiaoyu still has some experience in the study of torpedoes, the simplest is to use air to compress the engine, but the oldest torpedo has a range of only 600 meters, and the speed is only 11 knots, so the practical value is not great, Fang Xiaoyu thinks that this kind of torpedo can be equipped for emergency response first, and then develop a thermodynamic torpedo at the same time, so Fang Xiaoyu asked Xu Shouchang to notify the shipyards first, and set aside a place on the cruiser to prepare for the installation of torpedo launchers.

With Fang Xiaoyu, the development of torpedoes will naturally not take the detour of using point-tipped torpedoes, but directly use round-headed torpedoes, and I believe that in the near future, Fang Xiaoyu's cruiser will surprise the enemy.

On the way back, Fang Xiaoyu decided to stop at the Goblin Boli City to see the progress of the construction, and when he heard that Fang Xiaoyu had arrived, Anglo immediately went to greet him. Coming to the Anglo City Lord's Mansion, Fang Xiaoyu sat on the main seat with a golden sword, while Anglo stood aside with a flattering look on his face and said, "How can the young master have time to come to me?" ”

Fang Xiaoyu is now accustomed to these Anglo expressions: "I went to the harbor to have a look, and I came here by the way." Anglo said: "By the way, the harbor doesn't have a name yet, can you ask the young master to give me a name?" Fang Xiaoyu thought for a while and said: "The harbor there is shaped like an unsealed lake, and it is rich in sea cucumbers, so let's call it Vladivostok." Anglo said: "Good name, really good name." ”

Fang Xiaoyu rolled his eyes, he just thought that the terrain there was very similar to the port of Vladivostok on the earth, so he gave this name, and he didn't think this name was very good. Fang Xiaoyu looked at Anglo, who still had a disgusted expression, and asked, "How is the construction in your territory?" ”

Anglo said: "Thanks to the young master, we have built a large number of villages and towns, and built a Chita castle near the border of the Cossack Empire to defend the Cossack Empire, and we are also preparing to form a force for defense. ”

Speaking of this, Anglo peeked at Fang Xiaoyu, he knew that it was very taboo to build an army privately, and this was to ask him for instructions. Fang Xiaoyu glanced at him and said: "The army doesn't need to be formed, I can allocate 20,000 rear-loading guns for you to set up some militia organizations, and after a while, I am ready to incorporate the territories of goblins, dwarves and elves into my Chinese territory, and then I will garrison troops in Chita City, you just need to build a good city and secretly build a fortress group in the border area." ”

Anglo nodded and said, "I will definitely follow the instructions of the young master and do it immediately." Fang Xiaoyu said: "The main body of the Cossack Empire is in the Western Continent, and the transportation on the Eastern Continent is very underdeveloped, and the population is small, so it cannot pose a threat to us for a while, we can build it slowly, but the railway must be hurried, as long as our railway is connected, you will immediately join the Chinese Territory, and I will start to engage in industrial construction here." Anglo nodded and said, "Young master, please rest assured, I will definitely build the railway as soon as possible." Fang Xiaoyu nodded, the meal had to be eaten bite by bite, and the construction had to come little by little, and some things could not be rushed.

Taking the opportunity of visiting the shipyard in Vladivostok, Fang Xiaoyu roughly inspected the northern subcontinent, this inspection gave him some understanding of the actual situation in the subcontinent, he did not delay any longer, but returned directly to Tongjiangfu City.

The first thing Fang Xiaoyu did when he returned to Fucheng was to send the torpedo development plan to Feng Jingru, and instructed him to step up research and development, and at the same time build a torpedo manufacturing plant in Songjiang Industrial Zone, first produce the most primitive cold-powered compressed air torpedo, although this kind of torpedo is not practical, but it is easy to manufacture, and can be put into large-scale production without development, which is a very good emergency product.

Spring is blooming, the sowing season has arrived again, this time the cultivated land of the Chinese Collar is fully prepared, and Fang Xiaoyu asked Xiaofeng to produce a large number of new crop seeds in advance. After several years of development, Xiaofeng's agricultural products have been raised by several levels, and even without chemical fertilizers, the average yield per mu of rice has reached 700 kilograms, wheat has 500 kilograms, corn has 900 kilograms, and potatoes have reached 1,500 kilograms.

With the large-scale cultivation of these crops, Fang Xiaoyu believes that as long as the crops are ripe this season, even if the population is increased by another 10 million, it will be enough to feed. In terms of animal husbandry, in addition to continuing to expand the scale of pig and chicken raising, Fang Xiaoyu began to raise cattle and sheep, and with a large amount of corn and other coarse grains as feed, large-scale breeding is not a problem.

The spring sowing has not yet been completed, and Deng Jiaxiang brought another good news that made Fang Xiaoyu excited. Smokeless gunpowder and solidified nitroglycerin explosives were finally manufactured after a long period of development and could be put into large-scale industrial production. It turned out that Deng Jiaxiang had gone through countless tests and finally obtained granular smokeless gunpowder that could be put into practical use by using the method of co-heating nitrocellulose, nitroglycerin and alcohol under high pressure.

The success of curing nitroglycerin was somewhat dramatic, as Deng Jiaxiang had previously created a new substance called celluloid, and once his assistant mistakenly added liquid nitroglycerin to it while making celluloid, resulting in a colloidal object, which was later discovered by Deng Jiaxiang as a solid explosive that was more stable than liquid nitroglycerin. Deng Jiaxiang was overjoyed by this discovery, and after intensive research, Deng Jiaxiang eliminated the camphor in the formula, making the colloidal explosion more powerful, and he later named the colloidal explosive.