Chapter 146: The Question of Choosing the Capital
[It has been confirmed, it will be put on the shelves on January 1st, and there is time to write a testimonial for the author in advance]
The battle ahead is going well, and it is expected that in less than three months, the Han army will be able to liberate the whole country, and Yan Xueyi will become the ruler of the land of China. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
The fierce battle was raging in the front, but the ministers of the Han Kingdom in the rear were arguing over the location of the future national capital, and there was no unanimous opinion in several consecutive meetings.
The ministers are mainly divided into four factions, the first faction believes that the national capital remains unchanged and still regards Yuanhe City as a country; The second faction believes that Yanjing should be designated as a kingdom; The third group believes that Jinling should be designated as the national capital; The fourth faction, on the other hand, is a motley faction, and almost everyone has a different opinion.
"Why change the national capital? Isn't the city of Yuanhe good? It's the most important base for heavy industry."
"Yuanhe City is a good fart, the sky in Yuanhe City is dark, and the air quality is so poor, how can you continue to be the national capital."
"Yuanhe City is not good, then choose Yanjing, Yanjing is the ancient capital of many dynasties."
"Yanjing? Yanjing is even worse, Yanjing is short of water resources, once the population is larger, this is a big trouble, and it is located in the north, and the north is Tsarist Russia, if we choose Yanjing as the national capital, we must deploy more troops in the north. ”
"Since Yanjing is not good, then choose Jinling, there is no shortage of water resources, and the transportation is convenient."
"Jinling, you better forget it, everyone who made Jinling the capital of the country was short-lived, not to mention far away, just say that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom a few decades ago, didn't they just set Jinling as a country, you see, within a few years, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was destroyed."
"Yuanhe City can't work, Yanjing can't work, Jinling can't work, then choose Luoyang."
"What Luoyang to choose, if you want to choose, choose Xi'an."
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The ministers quarreled over the choice of a national capital, and almost staged a full martial arts, Yan Xueyi finally couldn't stand it, and made a final decision, the future national capital was set near Hanyang, and a new city was established as the national capital, and the national capital was named - Hanjing.
The establishment of a state near Hanyang was carefully considered by Yan Xueyi.
The prospective state must meet the following criteria:
1. Convenient transportation
2. The plain area is large
3. Abundant water resources
4. Avoid seismic zones and active address areas
5. The strategic depth is large
Judging from the map of the whole China, Yanjing is not suitable (the lack of water is terrible), and there are too many people in Yanjing, and it will take a lot of time to dispose of such a full person; Jinling is also not suitable, close to the Yangtze River, although the transportation is good and the water resources are abundant, but foreign navies can invade along the river, and the strategic depth is too small; And Yuanhe City is even more inappropriate, deep inland, inconvenient transportation, and as a heavy industry base, the environment is seriously polluted, anyway, Yan Xueyi will not choose Yuanhe City as the national capital. (Quoting a passage from the book review section)
The most suitable for the national capital should be the area from Nanyang in Helan to Hanshui in Hubei, with convenient transportation, abundant water resources, large strategic depth, and stable geological plates.
In the end, Yan Xueyi chose to establish a new city near Nanyang as the national capital.
In fact, no matter what, Yan Xueyi will not use the old city as the national capital, although the old city is temporarily okay as the national capital, but in the future, the old city will definitely be renovated, and the cost is huge.
With this time, energy, and money, it is better to build a new city as the national capital at the beginning, and the Nanyang area is about to be captured by the White Tiger Legion, and now it is possible to start preparing the construction plan of the national capital, and the construction plan of the future national capital, Xiao Yi does not need to take long to make a copy.
As soon as the ministers of the Han Kingdom saw that Yan Xueyi had determined the future capital of the country, no one said that it was good to build the capital anywhere, but they praised it very well in Nanyang, which means that Yan Xueyi is extremely wise.
Subsequently, a group of ministers took the construction plan of Hanjing, the national capital, given by Yan Xueyi, and began to prepare, and the national capital will be built as soon as possible, and they can move away from the environmentally polluted place of Yuanhe City as soon as possible.
As for the construction plan given by Yan Xueyi, the ministers have become accustomed to it, because the construction plan of Yuanhe City and Yongyi City were all taken out by Yan Xueyi, and it will not feel strange if they take out the construction plan of Hanjing now.
After all, there is no road or railway to transport materials, and the construction speed of Hanjing will be very slow.
Putting aside the problem of the national capital, Yan Xueyi's biggest concern now is to explore oil fields and extract oil.
There is oil in Siqi Province, but it is very small, it does not have any extraction value, and if it is extracted, it requires high oil extraction technology, so it is abandoned.
In order to develop diesel engines and gasoline engines, Yan Xueyi could only get a small amount of oil back through various means.
Petroleum is a very important energy source, and in the future, industrial production, automobiles, ships, etc. will need a large amount of oil, and it can also be extracted from petrochemical products to produce synthetic rubber through a series of processes.
In industry, oil is second only to steel.
However, at present, Yan Xueyi's purpose of valuing oil is not the above functions, but the secret weapon of the Han Kingdom, the airship, which needs to use diesel.
Steam-powered airships are much worse than diesel-powered airships, so Yan Xueyi only ordered the production of not many steam-powered airships for experiments, and then began to produce diesel-powered airships, but there was a lack of oil, and these diesel-powered airships that had been produced could only be put in warehouses, waiting for the arrival of diesel, and then soaring into the sky.
Airships were very useful to the Han army.
At present, the Han army has not marched into Xiqiang, because the road to Xiqiang is difficult to travel, and it is difficult to transport materials.
Moreover, in the current situation of scarcity of roads and railways in China, it is also very troublesome to transport supplies for the Han army stationed in the frontier.
More importantly, airships can also be loaded with bombs to carry out bombing missions, especially when the Han army lacks a navy, if Britain, France and other countries send navies to fight, the airship that appears for the first time can drop in height and drop bombs a few hundred meters above the battleship, which can completely reimburse the enemy's fleet.
You must know that the airships in Yan Xueyi's hands are all filled with helium, and the enemy's warships are not equipped with anti-aircraft machine guns and anti-aircraft guns for the time being, and can only be fought with rifles at most.
However, bombing the battleship can only be effective in the first few times, after which the enemy will load anti-aircraft machine guns and anti-aircraft guns on the battleship, and the airship can only float far in the air, so high that throwing bombs basically cannot blow up the enemy's battleship.
Of course, for the enemy's fixed positions on land, the bombing effect of high-altitude airships will still be very good.
In addition, there are many civilian projects of airships, at least the speed of the airship is faster than that of the train, and the comfort is better than that of the train.