The Monfalcone designs especially the small one according to the sources had indeed started with a 15cm armed cruiser but the Chinese quickly saw that 2 twin mounts on such a hull was not a good idea despite the Austrian designers told them otherwise and issued a revised design with 2x2 12cm ones:
Monfalcone type Small Cruiser Design for China by Tzoli on DeviantArt
www.deviantart.comMonfalcone type Small Cruiser Design V2 for China by Tzoli on DeviantArt
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The number of funnels and thus the boiler arrangement too seems to have changed.
Where did you get this page? (Not that aI could read any of it...)
well It is a Chinese book,so written in Chinese········
Historical Materials of the Republic of China Navy