While the Ottoman Turkish Empire was negotiating with the East China Government, Siam's mission also arrived in Qingdao. However, Siam was not as entangled as the Ottoman Turkish Empire. Apart from the East China Government, Siam had no choice but to choose from.

There are also 8 warships to be ordered in Siam, namely: 2 8,000-ton armored cruisers, improved and designed based on the Jinan class; 2 large 7,000-ton cruisers, improved and designed based on the Qingzhou class; and 4 4,000-ton cruisers, improved and designed based on the Dongchang class.

In comparison, the warships ordered by Siam are all cruisers, without battleships, and are basically improved and designed based on the existing warships of the East China Government. This is because the surrounding areas of Siam are either naval powers such as the East China Government, Britain and France, or Southeast Asian indigenous people with basically no decent naval. They are useless for the East China Government, Britain, France, 1 or 2 battleships, and they do not use battleships for Southeast Asian indigenous people. Secondly, Siam is a small country after all, and it is not affordable for the battleships. Even if they grit their teeth and make up money, they cannot afford it. After all, every time the battleship goes to sea to train and logistics maintenance is a considerable cost.

In addition, the political significance of buying warships in Siam is greater than the military significance. In fact, Siam's demand for warships is not urgent, but he hopes to make a good relationship with the East China Government to fight against Britain and completely get rid of Britain's control. Of course, this does not mean that Siam King Chulalongkorn I really naively thinks that the East China Government is the savior of justice. On the one hand, the East China Government has shown respect and kindness to Siam for more than a year. On the other hand, Chulalongkorn I has always been paying attention to the trends of the East China Government. Although the East China Government won Kalimantan after the Far East War, its performance in Southeast Asia was still restrained, including no invasion of Java, which only ensured the interests of the Chinese in Java, and also made Siam feel more at ease. Therefore, it also strengthened its determination to make good friends with the East China Government.

Since the warships that Siam wanted to order were below 10,000 tons and could all be built on the ship platform, there was no conflict with the Ottoman Turkish Empire and would not affect the construction period.

The East China government suddenly received foreign trade orders from 16 warships, so the four major shipyards naturally had to pay one point. Now the four major shipyards are not in full operation. Of course, the four major shipyards all know that there are these two foreign trade orders, so they have cleared some of the production capacity and are waiting to take the order.

In the end, Qingdao Shipyard was assigned a battleship, a large armored cruiser, and two medium-sized armored cruisers; Shanghai Jiangnan Shipyard was assigned a battleship, a large armored cruiser, and two large cruisers; Tianjin Shipyard and Dalian Jinzhou Shipyard each assigned two large cruisers and two cruisers. They were very satisfied with each other.

At this moment, a large cargo ship drove into Qingdao Port, loaded with a ship full of iron ore, which was the first resource transported by the East China government from Africa.

According to the land replacement agreement between the East China Government and Germany, the East China Government used the Sabah region in northern Borneo and the Lantao region in southern Germany to exchange for land in southern Tanzania, Germany, and the northern part of Southwest Germany, Namibia, North Germany.

The East China Government took over these two African lands two years ago. Although Germany had acquired these two colonies for more than 20 years, it did not carry out large-scale development. It only built two small ports and several short railways, and developed several small mining areas at the same time. The main reason is that Germany's colonies in Africa are not well located in the central region of Africa. Although the resources are good, they need to be invested in development. In fact, if you want to invest, Germany is not short of money, but to develop in Africa, it not only requires money, but also requires a lot of human resources. Of course, the Germans are unwilling to go to Africa to work, so they can only recruit indigenous people from the local area.

But firstly, the Europeans have a bad reputation in Africa, and not many local indigenous people are willing to work for Germany, so most of them are forced by Germany; secondly, the local indigenous people are scattered and uncivilized, and Germany is unwilling to spend more energy to educate and train the indigenous people, so they have been developed for more than 20 years, and they are still half-dead now. This is also an important reason why Germany is willing to exchange 450,000 square kilometers of land for about 90,000 square kilometers of land in Borneo.

After the East China Government took over these two pieces of African land, it was naturally necessary to strengthen infrastructure. At the beginning, the East China Government did not recruit local indigenous people, but transported 20,000 laborers from the country, both Russian and Japanese soldiers captured in the Far East War, 10,000. With the 20,000 laborers, the East China Government spent more than a year to expand two ports based on the original development and construction of Germany, which could moor 20,000 tons of large cargo ships, and expanded the cities around the port, and each built a railway, which directly connected several inland mining areas from the port.

After these infrastructures were built, the East China Government began to develop the mineral resources of these two colonies and became two simple mineral rough processing plants. Due to the infrastructural infrastructure and the human resources of the East China Government, the development of mineral resources was also reduced a lot. Prisoners who had previously worked in infrastructure and performed well were ordered to be converted into industrial workers and obtained personal freedom, which was considered a reward for their hard work.

So a year later, we finally started to gain something and transported the first ship of iron ore back. This also surprised many Germans who were still here and admired the organization and execution capabilities of the East China Government.

During the construction of infrastructure, the East China Government gradually began to hire local indigenous people. After all, if we want to establish a foothold here for a long time, it is impossible to completely abandon the local indigenous people. We must coexist with the indigenous people. Of course, the first thing we hired was the indigenous people who had been naturalized under German rule. After all, Germany has been operating here for more than 20 years. Although the development was not smooth, it has also naturalized some indigenous people. These indigenous people have learned some modern knowledge and have cultivated certain good working habits. They have a little organizational discipline, and a few smart people have also learned German, so they don’t have to worry too much about using it.

Moreover, the East China Government is different from Germany. It does not exploit or discriminate against the indigenous people. The wages offered are also very reasonable. At the same time, it respects the customs and habits of the indigenous people. Therefore, the indigenous people work in the East China Government, and their income increases and they are respected. Therefore, they gradually changed their attitude towards the East China Government, believing that these yellow people are much better than white people. Many indigenous people have settled in the city.

Seeing that he gradually gained the trust of some indigenous people, the East China Government began to train and educate the indigenous people again, and also opened public facilities such as schools, hospitals, etc. At the same time, some indigenous people brought their relatives and fellow villagers. After all, working for the East China Government can get a higher income and live a good life, which is much better than the original tribe. Now the indigenous people working for the East China Government account for about 20%. Although this proportion is not high, it is a good start.

The arrival of the first ship of iron ore in Qingdao also shows that the East China government's investment in Africa for more than two years has finally come to a return, which is of course a good thing.

After the Ottoman Turkish Empire and Siam completed the establishment of diplomatic relations with the East China Government and signed a shipbuilding contract, they also left behind diplomats who formed the consulate and technicians who supervised the shipbuilding. Then they left Qingdao one after another and returned to their own country. The East China Government will also form two foreign affairs teams to establish consulates in the two countries.

In addition, the Olympic Committee delegation of the East China Government also set off from Qingdao and rushed to France to attend the International Olympic Committee meeting, formally applied to become a member of the International Olympic Committee and participate in the Olympic Games.

At this moment, news came from Japan that Japan announced a three-year shipbuilding plan. During these three years, Japan planned to build two types of battleships, the Satsuma-class two, the Satsuma-class and the Anyi; the Hanoi-class two, the Hanoi-class and the Sezu; the two large armored cruisers, the Tsukuba-class two, the Tsukuba-class two, the Tsukuba-class two, the Tsukuba-class two, the Ibuki-class two.

At the same time, 12 5,000-ton cruisers and 20 1,000-ton destroyers will be built. In this way, in three years, Japan will restore the organization of its main warship "Six Six Fleet", and the naval scale will basically return to the level before the Far East War.

It turned out that Japan forced the Taizhou Prefecture, but Wenzhou Prefecture failed. The East China Government once again sent a fleet to demonstrate along the coast of Japan. Due to its poor strength, the Japanese joint fleet could only hide in the port and dare not fight, which once again caused a frenzy of protesting against the weakness of the government in Japan. The Navy also took advantage of the pressure on the cabinet to demand that Congress allocate funds to rebuild the navy, and launched a major petition to rebuild the navy at home.

Under the huge public pressure, the cabinet had no choice but to pass the Navy's Special Extradition Act to rebuild the Navy. The Japanese Army also knew that if the Navy was not strong, no matter how strong the Japanese Army was, it would only be able to circulate on the island, and it was impossible to leave the island. Moreover, when fighting on the island, the Navy would also need to ensure the logistics supply line. Therefore, this time, it did not interfere, which was considered as acquiesced to the passage of the Navy's Special Extradition Act.
Chapter completed!