Located in the 18th place in the city rankings, Fuzhou's urban population has risen from 462,000 in 1900 to 654,900 today, and has star enterprises such as Foton Automobile Factory, Dacheng Rubber Group, Fuzhou Plastic Company, and Fuguangchang Machinery Company. The city is most famous for its rubber processing industry, with the world's No. 1 Dacheng Rubber Group, its Dacheng brand, Luluda brand, Foster brand rubber tires, Fuankang brand latex mattresses and daily necessities sell well all over the world, which is the guarantee of quality.

Headed by Dacheng Rubber Group, Fuzhou City has formed a series of rubber daily product matrix, a number of 10 large and small rubber enterprises are distributed, in recent years, and the development of rubber toys, sofas and other products, plus the traditional automobile industry led by Foton Automobile Factory, involving many industrial categories, a wide range.

The momentum of industrial development is quite strong, and it is another strong player in the Queensland urban belt, and the catch-up momentum is very fast.

It can be seen from the city ranking that compared with 10 years ago, Hangzhou has risen from 20th to 16th, promoted 4 places, and Fuzhou has risen from 19th to 18th in the city ranking, all of which have made great progress.

But side-by-side comparison

The development of Balikpapan, Hangzhou is significantly stronger than Fuzhou, Balikpapan is a chemical city, and it is also a very distinctive industrial city in the empire, relying on the advantages of oil resources to develop and create core competitiveness.

Hangzhou firmly focuses on the core areas of machinery manufacturing and automobile industry, and has been working hard in the financial field and government support policies, constantly becoming bigger and stronger, and forming a dislocation competitive advantage.

Fuzhou's industries are scattered, from automobile manufacturing, rubber tires, rubber daily necessities, furniture, toys and other aspects to blossom, which seems messy and unfocused, and it is understandable that economic development has been pulled apart by sister cities.

At No. 19 is Quezon City, the second largest city in the Philippine archipelago just north of Manila, with a population of 634,000 people, after a strong foundation that has recovered rapidly after a dramatic demographic shift.

The city is fully committed to the development of the food processing industry, which is similar to Tianshu, and has a strong offshore shipbuilding industry, mainly small and medium-sized captains, and produces a wide range of offshore passenger ships and cargo ships, which is complementary to Manila's shipbuilding industry, which is mainly engaged in the manufacture of large ocean-going cargo ships.

Ranking 20th in the city list is Moresby, the capital of Dongxiang Prefecture, with a total population of 611,000, it is an ocean transportation hub city, famous for marine fishing and fishery product processing, and famous for its rich product variety.

Moresby is also a sugar processing center, relying on local resources to build more than a dozen large and small sugar factories, known as the "sweet city" and "romantic city of the bay".

Looking at the top 20 large cities in China, it can be clearly seen that the overall population size is growing rapidly, urban construction and industry and agriculture are developing in an all-round way, and the economic level is improving rapidly, and the million-level large cities have grown from two in the Red River Valley and Brisbane 10 years ago to 7 in the Red River Valley today, Songjiang, Brisbane, Beilun, Qingdao, Sanmarinda and Seoul, forming a large number of regional core cities.

In 1910, Moresby, for example, had a population of 611,000 and the top 20 cities were all over 600,000.

, from this point of view

The overall scale of the city has expanded, its strength has increased, the industrial process has deepened, and the living standards of its residents have generally improved, reflecting the dazzling achievements of the overall economic growth of the Ocean Empire in the past 10 years, and it has risen to become the world's leading industrial power.

35 years of struggle, in a flick of a finger.

Think back to the beginning

In 1888, the population under the rule of the Earl of Queensland was 18.5 million, and then in 1890, the unification of the Australian Civil War was completed, the colony of Madagascar was occupied, and the Philippine Islands were conquered in 1898, and by 1900, the citizen population of the Ocean Empire had reached 46.71 million, and the empire's territory had expanded to 11.5 million square kilometers, achieving a leap in strength.

Looking back in 1910

After winning the North American War, the Strait Province was added to the empire's territory, followed by Panama and the Northern Confederacy, and the population further expanded to more than 7,980 (including more than 3.5 million people of the Northern Confederacy), ranking among the top in the world in terms of industrial strength and overall economic scale.

Because the Ocean Empire is located in a remote part of the world map, it is often ignored by European and American public opinion, intentionally or unintentionally, and the "Wool War" seems to be a spring thunder explosion, making the world start to examine this powerful empire "at the end of the world" again.

The Ocean Empire has all the characteristics of the maritime empires that have appeared in history, and the characteristics of Portugal, Spain, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom are aggressive, expansive, culturally strong, and exclusive.

Today, the vast Pacific Ocean has almost become the inner lake of the Ocean Empire, and it also has a strong presence in the Indian Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean, as the world's maritime power with the most ships and trade routes on six continents, the Ocean Empire has a Royal Navy commensurate with its strength to protect global interests.

According to the statistics at the end of the period

The Ocean Empire has 24 battleships in active service, 6 20,000-ton heavy cruisers, 16 battleships and 4 heavy cruisers of the Pacific Fleet, 28 cruisers of various types, and the fleet's home port of Manila.

The Atlantic Fleet has 8 battleships in active service, 2 20,000-ton heavy cruisers, 4 battleships and 2 heavy cruisers of the Northern Detachment, 17 cruisers of various types, and its home port is Norfolk on the east coast of North America.

It has four battleships of the Southern Detachment and eight cruisers of various types, and its home port is Ushuaia on Tierra del Fuego

The Indian Ocean Fleet has 13 cruisers of various types, and its African detachment, the home port of Mozambique Island, Xi'an Port, has 5 old-fashioned cruisers and 21 old-fashioned destroyers of various types.

Its South Asian detachment has 8 cruisers, more than 30 destroyers of various types, and its home port is Sanmarinda.

The Australian home fleet has 6 cruisers and several destroyers, and its home port is Brisbane.

The Royal Navy Navy holds seven new ships of 20,000 tons, all of which were built overtime during the American War, and three of the battleships that have been reloaded have returned to the Australian mainland as training ships of the Royal Navy's White Creek Naval Academy, and are not included in the Royal Navy's first-line warship establishment.

The remaining 4 British and French had no intention of buying them, and the greedy Fuso people could not come up with the money, and the German High Seas Fleet could not be sold because of the British factor, so the Ocean Empire was ready to pick up and reinstall the 280mm triple main ship guns, and leave them in the Royal Navy sequence as heavy cruisers.

The four heavy cruisers, named "Phoenix", "Kunpeng", "Bifang" and "Candle Dragon", will enter service with the home fleet.

In this way, the Royal Navy has formed a lineup of 24 battleships and 10 capital ships of 20,000 tons of heavy cruisers, ranking third in the world, second only to the British Royal Navy's Home Fleet and the German High Seas Fleet.

Due to the strong challenge of the German High Seas Fleet, the British Royal Navy's Home Fleet had to shrink its forces and withdraw its overseas capital ships back to the mainland to maintain sufficient deterrence against the Germans.

So

There was a huge power vacuum in the vast Pacific and Indian Ocean regions, which left the Royal Navy of the Ocean Empire with ample room to maneuver, and out of consideration not to challenge the sensitive nerves of the British Royal Navy, the Indian Ocean Fleet of the Ocean Empire was not equipped with a single battleship and became an out-and-out "old ship concentration camp".

The British Iron Duke-class battleships and the German Bavaria-class battleships both had a displacement of more than 30,000 tons, and the main ship guns further transitioned from 343 mm to 380 mm caliber, showing a trend of larger and larger main ship guns.

In order to cope with the intensifying Anglo-German naval arms race and adapt to the trend of building bigger and bigger warships in the world today, the doctrine of large ships and giant guns was all the rage, and the Royal Navy of the Ocean Empire also came up with its own next-generation battleship design drawings.

The lead ship of this type of battleship is the "Princess Elizabeth", with a design standard displacement of 37,800 tons, a full load displacement of 40,500 tons, equipped with the latest 381 mm triple main gun turret, two in the front and two in the rear, piggyback layout, arranged along the central axis of the ship, a total of 12 50 times the caliber 356 mm main gun.

Each triple 380-mm main ship gun weighs 1,348 tons, is equipped with a total of 4 guns, and the bulletproof armor weighs 11,600 tons.

In addition, it is equipped with 16 155-mm single-barreled rapid-fire guns, 16 95-mm twin rapid-fire guns, 20 twin 40-mm rapid-fire guns, extremely heavy secondary guns, 6 torpedo tubes, and two seaplanes.

The estimated construction cost of this class of ships is 6.35 million gold ocean each, and a total of 6 ships will be built, namely the No. 2 ship "Princess Shirley", the No. 3 ship "Princess Kerr", the No. 4 ship "Princess Meiting", the No. 5 ship "Princess Anne" and the No. 6 ship "Princess Olivia", with a total estimated budget of 44 million gold oceans, which is an important project in the construction blueprint of the Royal Navy.

The construction plan of the first ship "Princess Elizabeth" and the second ship "Princess Shirley" has been approved, and they will be built at the Hongshan Heavy Industry Shipyard and Beilun Shipbuilding Group Shipyard in Beilun City respectively, with an estimated construction period of 21 months.

On August 18, 1911, the first steel plate was cut, and it was expected that by the end of May 1913, the first ship "Princess Elizabeth" would be launched and outfitted, and the second ship "Princess Shirley" would be launched and outfitted in October.

Ships No. 3 and No. 4 will not be seen until 1914.

meanwhile

Because of the patrol needs of the vast sea frontier, the Imperial Navy also developed a 2,100-ton cheap version of the ocean-going destroyer, with a total demand of hundreds of ships.

The ships are equipped with one 155 mm single-barreled gun in front and one in the rear, two twin 40-mm guns, four 20-mm single-barreled rapid-fire guns, a high-horsepower steam engine, a single shaft and a single propeller, a maximum speed of 24 knots, and a range of 4,200 nautical miles.

The destroyers of this class have weak armor, poor firepower, low speed, but very good seaworthiness, and surprisingly large coal-fired yard cabins, relatively comfortable living environment for officers and men, low purchase prices, and low maintenance and operation costs, and are suitable for long-term sea patrol and maintenance and route safety tasks.