The "Sino-New Treaty" with the Kingdom of New Guinea was quickly signed, and the handover of the islands that needed to be ceded was quite fast, but in fact, there was nothing to be handed over, because most of the ceded islands had already been occupied by the Chinese territory, and this treaty was just a formality and a legal basis.

After the signing of the treaty between the Chinese Consulate and the New Guinea States, the Japanese Mission, which had been in the air for nearly a month, was finally notified of the start of negotiations, and Okuma Shigeasa and his attaché were brought into the same chamber as the last negotiation.

This room was deliberately arranged by the East China Tour, in order to let the Wa Kingdom have a psychological shadow from the beginning. As soon as he sat down, he was aggressive: "You should have no objection to your invasion of our territory for no reason." ”

Hearing Huadongxing's question, Okuma Shigemasa cleared his throat and quibbled: "Our country has evidence that our people first discovered Diaoyu Shrimp Island, so according to international practice, it should be our territory." "Okuma Shigecho attempted to use international practice to circumvent the undeclared war of the Japanese state in order to get rid of the reparations for the cession of land.

He smiled and said: "It's such a coincidence, I have also prepared a certificate about the first discovery of Shrimp Island by our people, so it is better for us to take it out." ”

"This ......" Okuma Shigechao didn't expect the other party to come prepared, so he didn't dare to show his own evidence, because he also knew in his heart that this shrimp fishing island should have been owned by the Lanfang Empire.

Okuma Shigeasa said: "Even if Diaoyu Shrimp Island is your country's territory, there should be an explanation for your country's navy attacking our warships for no reason." ”

Hua Dongxing said with a smile: "Your navy not only invaded our territorial waters unreasonably, but also sent a message to our navy: 'This is the territory of the Japanese country, you must leave immediately, otherwise we will severely punish you.'" I would like to ask Your Excellency what is the explanation for this? ”

Okuma Shigemasa was still a little unwilling to say: "This ......, my country has evidence that its own citizens have lived in Shrimp Island, and it should be regarded as our territory." ”

Hua Dongxing said with a smile: "It turns out that as long as you have lived there, it is your territory, it seems that I have also lived in the Eastern Capital for a period of time, so according to Your Excellency's thinking, the Eastern Capital should be the territory of my Chinese territory, I really don't know the way, tomorrow I must play the Ming Lord, and fight for the mattress to receive the Eastern Capital." ”

Okuma's face flushed, and he couldn't speak anymore, he didn't expect that this time he didn't meet Fang Xiaoyu who didn't play his cards normally, and before he had time to rejoice, he found that he had met a more cunning Huadong Xing.

Seeing that Okuma Shige was no longer quibbling, Huadong Xing said with a smile on his face: "In view of the fact that the Japanese country has seriously violated international justice by declaring war without declaring war, we will severely punish your country, you will cede all the territory except this island, and at the same time, you must disband your army, accept the supervision of the Chinese territory, and at the same time compensate us for our economic losses during the war, a total of 100 million Lanfang coins." ”

Okuma Shigechao was taken aback when he heard it, the Chinese leader is really used to it, every time he opens his mouth, it is 100 million, this East China trip is a lion's big mouth, and he has no scruples about himself. If you sign such a contract, not only will your own government not recognize it, but I am afraid that you will be killed by the Taisho King of the Japanese Kingdom as soon as you return to China.

Now Okuma Shigemasa had no choice but to find a scapegoat: "The attack on your country was decided by the navy privately, and it was not reported to the Japanese government. "Okuma Shigetsu really has no choice but to let the dead be blackened.

Hua Dongxing said: "Your navy is subordinate to your government, if your government is unable to exercise effective control over the army, it is better to let us be responsible, your country has saved defense spending, and our country has protected your country's security, so why not." ”

Okuma Shigechao found that no matter how he quibbled, he suffered a loss, so he had to go soft. "Mr. Hua, our two countries are separated by a strip of water, and they have been good-neighborly and friendly countries for generations, so we should love each other."

East China wanted to laugh a little. He said: "Why didn't you think that when your country attacked our country twice, you would have a strip of water and good neighborliness? If your country does not agree to our conditions, we will let the artillery talk to you. "Huadong didn't want to revisit the ink with Okuma, so he directly sacrificed the magic weapon of the threat of force.

Hearing the threat of force from the East China Trip, Okuma Shigetomo directly softened, and now the Japanese state no longer has the capital to continue the war, Liu Junguo relied on sufficient supplies, almost destroyed the most economically developed coastal areas of the Japanese country, and the current industrial level of the Japanese state is not even able to catch up with the scale before the Restoration.

It is not only a matter of the destruction of coastal industrial areas, but also the blockade of the Chinese Territorial Navy, which has forced the cessation of all trade activities, and in the long run, even the factories on the mainland that have not been destroyed will be forced to stop work due to the lack of raw materials and sales channels.

This is the helplessness of the island country, once the navy fails, it means that the country is not far away. In the end, Okuma had to succumb, and of course the East China trip was not pressed too hard.

The treaty stipulated that in addition to ceding all the overseas islands, the Japanese would still retain the four major islands, and the indemnity would be reduced to 30 million, but the contract stipulated that the Japanese would not have a navy for three years, and the size of the navy should not exceed 50,000 tons within ten years.

Now that the Wa Kingdom no longer has the economic strength to develop its navy, such a request no longer matters to the Wa State, so Okuma Shigetomo easily agreed.

In this two-front battle, the Chinese Territory did not receive much compensation, but the acquisition of a large number of islands gave the Chinese Territory enough support points in the western part of the Eastern Ocean.

Fang Xiaoyu's tentacles have the foundation to extend to the entire Eastern Ocean, especially the acquisition of Kaidao occupied by the Japanese State, which allowed the Chinese Territory to obtain a naval base two thousand nautical miles away from the Eastern Continent for the first time, and with this base as a support point, Fang Xiaoyu can finally show his strength on the sea surface of the Eastern Ocean.

After the end of the war, Fang Xiaoyu decided to increase his investment in Siam and the Kingdom of Oahu, paving the way for the entry of Chinese power.

After receiving the news sent back by Zhao Quan that many countries in the Western Continent had begun to build large battleships of the same class as the 'Lanting' class, Fang Xiaoyu decided to take another step and design a new warship for the Chinese Consulate Navy, this time his goal was to build dreadnoughts.

The dreadnought is the most outstanding creation of the era of cannon giant ships, it proposed for the first time to cancel the two-stage main gun, unify the caliber of the main gun, and is known for its high fire density, high speed and heavy armor, it made the battleship an invincible overlord on the vast ocean for the first time.

When Fang Xiaoyu excitedly drew the most classic drawings of the 'Dreadnought' battleship, he suddenly found that he had forgotten one thing, he did not have a steam turbine yet.

Steam turbines are the basis for providing dreadnoughts with high speeds, and without steam turbines, a dreadnought with numerous main guns and heavy armor would be as fast as a snail, and it would become a live target at sea.

Fang Xiaoyu would never build such an expensive and inefficient warship, and this blueprint that came out of the moment had to be shelved by Fang Xiaoyu. The dreadnought could not be built, so Fang Xiaoyu decided to settle for the next best thing that Britain had built before the age of dreadnoughts, the 'Nelson' class battleship.

There are two types of battleships in British history called the 'Nelson' class, the first is the last class dreadnought built in 1906, and the other is a treaty-type battleship built in 1925, and Fang Xiaoyu wants to build the first type.

This battleship, which Fang Xiaoyu decided to name after the newly established Northland County, built a total of four battleships, named after the four counties occupied from the Cossack Empire, in order to demonstrate his sovereignty over the Far East.

Although the 'Northland' class battleship was Fang Xiaoyu's helpless choice, it was already a great masterpiece in the eyes of others. This type of battleship has a standard displacement of 16,000 tons, a full load displacement of more than 17,800 tons, a length of 135.2 meters, a width of 24.2 meters, and a draft of 7.9 meters.

The power adopts 15 small water-tube coal-fired boilers and vertical three-expansion engines, twin shafts and double propellers, with a maximum power of 17,200 horsepower, a maximum speed of 18 knots, and a cruising range of up to 9,180 nautical miles at 10 knots.

In terms of weapons, Fang Xiaoyu did not use 330 mm 45 times the diameter artillery, but used four 305 mm 50 times diameter guns.

The main purpose of reactivating the 305 mm artillery system was to increase the speed and reduce the weight, and in addition, Fang Xiaoyu found that the 305 mm guns were enough to deal with the warships of various countries for a long time, and the large-caliber guns were used as technical reserves.

In fact, the guns on the new battleships were not bad at using 305 mm guns, because of the use of 50 times the diameter of the barrel, the initial velocity of the shells was faster, the penetration was stronger, and its actual power was only slightly inferior to the 45 times diameter 330 mm main guns on the Lanting-class battleships, but the weight was greatly reduced.

Fang Xiaoyu, the second-level main gun of this type of warship, chose 10 203 mm and 50 times the diameter guns, which were divided into four twin turrets and two single turrets, evenly divided on both sides of the battleship.

In addition, in order to defend against the torpedoes and those high-speed small warships that had appeared, twenty-four 76-mm rapid-fire guns and ten 12.7-mm heavy machine guns were installed on the secondary guns.

This warship made the admirals close their mouths happily, but Xu Shouchang was startled, because after his calculations, he found that the cost of each of the 'Northland' class battleships was as high as eight million Lan Fang coins, as long as this class of battleships was completed, plus the two follow-up warships of the 'Lanting' class that were about to be completed, the Chinese generals would have ten battleships, and the Eastern Ocean would have no opponents.