Chapter 232 The Importance of Sea Power

After staying in Wu Qing'er's room for a while, Chen Gu left on the pretext that he smelled bad.

Chen Gu turned around and arrived at Qin Ling's room. Qin Ling's due date was approaching, but she seemed to have no feelings at all. She still lived her life leisurely every day.

When Chen Gu came over, Qin Ling was leaning on the chaise longue on the sofa, humming a tune while making a child's dress, a small skirt.

This is the sofa that Chen Gu specially made for the two of them, hoping that they would be more comfortable during their pregnancy, and it is filled with a lot of cotton.

"You've already worked until the child is three years old. Let's take a break first. What if it's a son? Wouldn't all our efforts be in vain?" Chen Gu said with a smile.

"Then give birth to another daughter. Ling'er will give birth to many children for me, and one of them will be a daughter. How can it be in vain?" Qin Ling said with a smile.

In fact, for women in this era, who doesn’t want to have a son?

After all, only the son is a support, and the daughter will eventually get married. Qin Ling also made clothes for her son at the beginning, but after always feeling Wu Qing'er's hostility inexplicably, Qin Ling changed her mind and started making clothes for her daughter.

Chen Gu sat next to Qin Ling and put his arm around her shoulders with some concern.

After Qin Ling got close to Chen Gu's arms, she said, "Master, let's build our own mansion. I want a yard of my own."

"Okay!" Chen Gu nodded.

When Chen Gu first entered Fobao, the three of them ate and lived together. Before that, Wu Qing'er and Qin Ling depended on each other, so their relationship was naturally very good.

Now, we can never go back to the past, so it’s better for each of us to have our own yard.

There was no need to rebuild it. Chen Jue could just allocate a yard for it. Although the number of officials and wealthy families who fled from Chongqing was not as many as those from Luzhou and Zizhou, they were still not a small number. Their properties were naturally confiscated.

It’s just that Chen Gu didn’t reserve anything for himself before, so now he can only afford the best, but he can make do with the average. Chen Gu has been in the military camp for twenty years, and he is not that complacent about food, clothing, housing and transportation.

There are three of them, a couple, and their child is still young. Even if they hire servants and maids, they don't need much space. A small courtyard is enough for them to live in.

In fact, Chen Gu could also build a mansion for himself. After all, Chongqing was undergoing large-scale construction, and it would be convenient to build a mansion at the same time. However, Chen Gu needed to stay in the government office, and it would be inconvenient to travel back and forth if the mansion was built outside, and it would be too troublesome to build it in the city.

At that time, there were many large construction sites in Chongqing. In addition to the commercial areas around the Great Hall, military camps were also being built.

After all, the main attack direction of the Huaxia Department is Hubei. Although due to the lack of its own foundation, the Huaxia Department is only maintaining an oppressive posture for the time being and has not actively conquered the territory, the main battlefield is still in Hubei.

So now Chongqing has become the logistics base for the front line. All materials and troops will be allocated outward through Chongqing. New recruits training bases, temporary stationing bases for troops dispatched from various places, and material warehouses are all being built on a large scale.

In addition, schools of various departments, including the four major schools of literature, martial arts, mathematics and art of the Huaxia Department, were also being newly built. In addition, the heads of various departments and some other officials all built residences in Chongqing, so the south bank and the north of the river outside the main city became a large construction site. Chen Gu led less than a thousand troops out of the mountains and occupied the entire Sichuan in just half a year. The court was so vulnerable that everyone was full of confidence in the future of the Huaxia Department.

Even if the Huaxia tribe cannot break out for the time being, there will be absolutely no problem in defending the entire Sichuan. In this case, it is very necessary to invest in Chongqing in advance.

And now that Chen Gu has chosen Chongqing as the capital of the Huaxia Department, it is possible that he will continue to choose Chongqing as the capital in the future.

The industries surrounding the capital are exciting to think about, especially since the area of ​​Chongqing’s main city is simply not enough to meet the needs of the capital. If Chongqing becomes the capital, the two rivers and four banks will definitely be included in the urban circle.

The properties purchased now are directly properties in the capital, so even though the property tax has been implemented, people are still enthusiastic about building mansions. Moreover, they occupy a huge area and are very luxurious, so the appraisal price will be high by then.

Chen Gu let them do whatever they wanted. Chen Gu himself was not sure whether Chongqing could become the capital. He could only say that there was a possibility, but the chance was not great.

After all, Chen Gu knew that the Shanghai-power era would last for a long time to come. Although Chongqing had Yangtze River shipping, the shipping volume of the Yangtze River was still a little limited.

Instead of choosing Chongqing, it would be better to choose Nanjing or Shanghai. After all, only the capital has a large enough shipping volume to travel across the world.

However, Chongqing is the birthplace of the Chinese nation after all, and it can serve as a military stronghold. In the future, Sichuan will specialize in training soldiers, manufacturing guns, warships and other military equipment, and then go down the river from Chongqing and reach the sea in three or two days.

It can not only ensure an absolutely stable rear area, but also will not delay the time for dispatching troops and transporting supplies. Moreover, even if the descendants are not good in the future, they can retreat to Sichuan and wait for the right time.

Therefore, even if Chongqing will not become the capital of the Huaxia Department, Chen Gu will definitely invest heavily in Chongqing, and all kinds of resources will be tilted towards Chongqing.

On the tenth day, the Bian family gave Chen Gou a surprise. The Tongan warship that Chen Gou intercepted and captured by Addis appeared intact at the Chaotianmen dock.

The main reason why the Hua Xia Department was hesitant in Yichang was that it developed too fast, which led to the fundamental slowdown in the development of its soft power.

The so-called soft power, in addition to sufficient civil and military officials and other talents, the perfection of laws and political systems, also includes sufficient soldiers and armaments.

After all, it is easy to conquer the whole country, but it is very difficult to defend the whole country, and it is even more difficult to govern such a big country, so Chen Gu chose to temporarily stop the attack and develop internal affairs for a period of time.

Improve the laws and political system, build schools to cultivate officials and other talents, train soldiers, and manufacture and develop armaments.

Among them, warships are of paramount importance. After all, not only are warships needed to unify the country, but they are also indispensable for future hegemony over overseas countries. Let alone hegemony, if there are not enough warships, I am afraid that it will be impossible to guard the vast sea territory.

Facts have proved that closing a country to the outside world is a dead end. Maritime power must be fought for, even at the cost of grabbing as much as possible.

After all, oil is a good thing. After simple distillation and classification, it can be used for a wide range of purposes. However, there is not much oil in the country and it is difficult to mine. If you want more oil, you must pump it out.

(End of this chapter)