Just when the whole country was celebrating the complete success of the first election, Fang Xiaoyu issued an abdication statement, which made the excitement of the people across the country suddenly cold. Fang Xiaoyu has always led the people to one glory after another with absolutely wise leadership, he started from a mountain villa, and spent twenty years leading the original declining old empire to the peak of the world, such an achievement is a little incredible even if it is imagined, in the minds of the people of the whole country, Fang Xiaoyu is a god-like existence.

Soon after Fang Xiaoyu issued the edict of abdication, there were petitions and marches across the country, and they demanded that Fang Xiaoyu withdraw his order and continue to serve as the emperor of the Chinese Empire.

This spontaneous action of the people became more and more vigorous, and at its climax, almost every inhabited city and village appeared to march and petition, and the scale was quite terrifying, and more than ninety percent of the people in the country joined in.

The huge petition caused a shock to the government and the public, and poured cold water on those legislators who had just entered the parliaments at all levels, and who were still a little complacent, and they realized at this moment that it was not a matter of celebration and glory to ascend to a high position. If you don't work hard for the general public, they can push you down at any time, and only when you decide to withdraw from the circle of power, but you are retained by the general public, it is your greatest honor.

After this incident, many parliamentarians were much more restrained, until later every newly appointed parliamentarian would be taught by their predecessors with this story, telling them how to work diligently for the people, which also became a tradition of the Chinese Imperial Parliament.

After the nation's efforts to retain him, Fang Xiaoyu made a public speech on television, in which he declared that his abdication was not due to parliamentary constraints, but simply to return to the island to continue his scientific research. In his speech, he promised that even if he was on Zhonghua Island, he would always pay attention to the situation at home, and once the country was in danger, he would definitely return here as soon as possible to eliminate difficulties for the people of the whole country and help the country tide over the difficulties.

People all over the world know that Fang Xiaoyu is not only a successful ruler, but also a successful businessman and a great scientist, so after Fang Xiaoyu said such an excuse, the people of the whole country chose to acquiesce, since Fang Xiaoyu promised that once the country has problems, he will return here, and the people will feel at ease, after this TV speech, the crowd of demonstrators gradually dispersed, and the country returned to normal order.

After Fang Xiaoyu's speech was released, he announced the official abdication edict, and Hua Dongxing, Zhao Quan and others also said that they were old and hoped to abdicate and make way for Xian, and Fang Xiaoyu also played them one by one.

Lin Feng won the election and replaced Hua Dongxing as the new cabinet premier, while Liu Yu replaced Zhao Quan as the number one person in the imperial intelligence system, but he still served as the director of the Military Intelligence Agency, and the director of the National Security Bureau was Huang Weihua, while the director of the Imperial Intelligence Agency was suspended.

The military also made great personnel changes, a group of veterans decided to retire and go home to retire after Fang Xiaoyu's abdication, and a large number of Mesozoic generals began to take on more important roles.

After the abdication, Fang Xiaoyu invited a group of retired ministers and veterans to Zhonghua Island, Zhonghua Island has always been a place that everyone yearns for, and the old ministers are naturally quite willing to hear that the Emperor Taishang invited them to settle on Zhonghua Island. As a result, except for a few people's relatives who did not leave the empire's business, they brought their entire family and all their possessions to Zhonghua Island, and let the shipping company use fourteen 50,000-ton luxury passenger ships to transport them.

Fang Xiaoyu abdicated in the prime of life, which surprised the governments of various countries, and they couldn't understand how Fang Xiaoyu, whose career was in full swing and was worshiped by the people of the whole country as a god, could suddenly retreat bravely. A large number of veteran ministers retired along with Fang Xiaoyu, which also made governments concerned about the new policy direction of the Chinese Empire.

The new emperor is still young, and the senior officials who have just taken power are only thirty or forty years old, and these young and vigorous people hold the power of the country, which inevitably gives people the impression that they are not stable enough, and now the Chinese Empire can be the largest country in the world, and if there is any turmoil in its country, or if it changes its style of diplomacy, the whole world will tremble.

Fang Xiaoyu is not worried about the worries of politicians from various countries, the orphans who grew up with Fang Xiaoyu since childhood, the so-called pro-guard faction, have mastered the state apparatus. They are Fang Xiaoyu's absolute descendants, Fang Xiaoyu is very reassuring to them, and the targeted training that began since childhood has also made these people leaders in their respective fields, and they are also reassuring in terms of ability.

In order to pave the way for his son to take power, in addition to the most loyal generals back then, Fang Xiaoyu also brought a large number of old ministers and many veterans to Zhonghua Island, so as not to rely on the old and sell the old, Fang Xiaoyu paved the way for his son so meticulously, which made Fang Ruijun's ascension to the throne quite easy.

In order to prevent brothers from killing each other, Fang Xiaoyu also brought other children to Zhonghua Island, and he also stipulated that once the new emperor ascends the throne in the future, or a new heir to the throne is determined, other princes must enter Zhonghua Island, which also relieves a hidden worry to the harem.

Fang Xiaoyu has considered all aspects for his son, and Fang Ruijun's ascension to the throne did not disappoint Fang Xiaoyu, this son who inherited all the excellent genes of Fang Xiaoyu and Xia Tingwei, showed his governing talent as soon as he ascended the throne, he quickly proposed a series of tax reduction policies for the border areas in the Congress, and shifted the focus of national development from the Central Continent to the territory of the Southern Subcontinent.

In addition, Fang Ruijun is also very concerned about the military aspect, a large number of new naval and air bases on the islands of the Eastern Ocean have begun a new round of expansion, the Marine Corps has also been expanded to the size of 30 corps, in addition to the new cruiser has been approved to start construction.

The Chinese Empire has always been trying to build an aircraft carrier formation with three general-class aircraft carriers as the core and a large number of destroyers escorting, but the cruisers that the Chinese Empire refused to restrict have never had a shadow, which makes everyone very strange, in fact, this situation has always been because of Fang Xiaoyu's expectations for missile miniaturization and precision, and he has been unable to make up his mind to build a new cruiser.

The new investment of 10 billion yuan in the navy was passed by the parliament very smoothly. Over the years, the strength of the Chinese Imperial Navy has ensured the rapid development of national interests and the economy, and most of the overseas interests obtained by the Chinese Empire are also related to the navy, so there is a consensus throughout the country that in order to protect the country's security and maintain long-term stability and prosperity, national defense is the top priority, and this money must not be saved, so Fang Ruijun's proposal was unanimously approved.

The plan for the construction of a new cruiser was approved by Congress, so naturally there is no secret to speak of. However, their construction was kept secret, and nothing was known about the cruiser except for its tonnage and the caliber of its main guns, because the new cruiser was equipped with a missile system that was unique in the world.

The new cruiser was named after the first ship of the Meishan Prefecture in East Sichuan County, so according to the convention, this class of cruisers became the 'Meishan' class. The "Meishan" class cruiser was redesigned because after the emergence of the missile system, the original design of the "Hongyuan" class cruiser could not adapt to the loading of missiles, and it was smaller than the previous "Wanghai" class and "Hongyuan" class, with a full load displacement of only 8,200 tons, two steam turbines, and a cruising range of 8,000 nautical miles. On this cruiser, the Chinese Empire applied the square stern technique for the first time.

In the past, all warships used an elliptical tail, and the characteristic of the elliptical tail is that the tail waterline near the full load waterline is appropriately extended backwards, which is conducive to reducing the wave resistance and viscous pressure resistance.

This increases the aft deck area, which is conducive to the overall arrangement, which is conducive to increasing initial stability, and at the same time protects the propeller and rudder and improves the propulsion efficiency. However, the disadvantages of such a stern are also obvious, due to the complex structure and the greater stress of the hull near the stern perpendicular, which will reduce the stability of the ship in motion, especially in high-speed turns.

The main advantage of using the square stern is that the slope of the longitudinal section line of the tail of the hull is gentle and nearly straight, so that the water flow can flow roughly in the direction of the longitudinal section, reducing the torsion and bending of the high-speed water flow, thereby reducing the loss of capacity and improving the resistance performance.

What's more, the high-velocity current, which runs along the edge of the square stern to a considerable distance behind the stern, also increases the effective length of the hull, and also helps to reduce residual drag due to the shortening of the hull.

In addition, due to the large tail displacement volume of the square stern, the tail roll phenomenon can be reduced during navigation, so that the wave situation of 'chicken tail flow' in the tail can be improved. It can be seen from this that the use of square stern for warships can get less resistance, which is more conducive to increasing speed, while civilian ships can continue to use the traditional elliptical stern because they do not need to seek the highest speed.

Due to the small hull and strong power of the new cruiser, coupled with the newly applied square stern technique, this class of cruisers can reach a high speed of 33 knots. And with the increasing miniaturization of the electronic equipment of the Chinese consortium, the new radar system is much more complex and smaller than the previous warships, and can be installed on the hull of a cruiser with less than 10,000 tons.

In addition to a satellite navigation system and an electronic warfare system, a satellite navigation system and an electronic warfare system have also been installed on a warship for the first time, and a high-power sonar is also installed in the spherical bow at the front of the hull.