463. Protection and development

Neptune said, using the projector installed on his ship, projected a map of the Twin Moon Islands on the wall, and pointed a laser pointer at the description of the area on the map:

"According to the latest estimates, the entire Bimoon Islands are roughly oval-shaped, with a diameter of about 3,000 kilometers from east to west and about 2,000 kilometers from north to south.

"The land area is about 2.4 million square kilometers, which is roughly equivalent to the southern region, and the total area is more than 6 million square kilometers, including the bay in the middle of the archipelago,

"I suggest that the capital be placed on this island at the center of the entire archipelago, and the cruise missiles launched from here can easily cover the entire territory of the Bimoon Islands."

Neptune said, animating a missile launch, centering on the island and drawing a series of ballistic trajectories in the sky.

The ballistics are marked with the approximate parameters of the two cruise missiles, the Changjian 10 and the YJ-18, and the range of the two missiles is capable of covering the entire archipelago.

Then Neptune moved the launch point to the current imperial capital again, and did the launch simulation again, and everyone found that in some places the range was not enough.

Looking at this simple demonstration, the surrounding ship girls all nodded.

Shenzhen looked at this picture and was stunned for a moment, then shook his head vigorously and said:

"No, we can't think like that, we can't just think about weapons.

"It would be nice if we built a military base on that island for the sake of missile coverage, and there was no need to make it a capital.

"The capital of a region, although affected to some extent by its geographical location, is quite limited.

"The capital does not need to be the geographical center of the region, and there are very few national capitals, provincial capitals, which are located at the regional center point.

"The Imperial Capital, as the nominal capital in history, is currently the largest city in the entire archipelago with the largest population and industrial facilities.

"Moreover, the surrounding terrain is flat, the environment is stable, and the resources are abundant, and the scale of the city can continue to expand.

"This is roughly the middle point of Shangyue Island, which occupies one-third of the entire archipelago's land area, and can be used for road and rail transportation with the imperial capital as the center.

"So I think that the Imperial Capital will continue to be the capital of the Twin Moon Islands region."

Listening to Shenzhen's words, many ship girls nodded along with it, and what Shenzhen said also made sense.

At this time, Hulun couldn't help but speak:

"Let me tell you what I think, we have an archipelago here, and the land is full of islands, and the most suitable mode of transportation is obviously a combination of sea and air transportation.

"In the case of rail and road transportation, the speed is not as fast as air transportation, the transportation volume is not as good as water transportation, and we also need to build infrastructure, unless we build it, it is difficult to develop.

"And our technology, for the local population, is seriously ahead of their time.

"After the existing buildings, industries, and facilities are fully upgraded, the city will jump directly from the level of World War I to the 21st century.

"The population of the city will also rise rapidly from hundreds of thousands to millions.

"The daily necessities needed by the entire urban area, the domestic garbage generated, and the basic supporting facilities needed will also increase tenfold and hundredfold.

"The existing transportation network in Beijing is already at the limit of what it can supply to its current population.

"This city of the classical era, whether it continues to open gates or directly open openings in the city walls, cannot meet the huge volume of goods required by the city in the 21st century.

"The old cities on earth have already told us what to do at this time.

"We had to tear down the entire city wall and build wider asphalt roads from outside the city directly into the city to supply the necessities we needed.

"We also need to build a larger underground water supply and drainage system, erect more electricity and communication facilities, and most of the old buildings facing the street will have to be demolished.

"Then since it is going to be demolished and rebuilt, wouldn't it be better for us to find a vacant land with the best location and build a new city directly, as the capital of the entire region?

"Then the entire imperial capital, this city in the classical era, and all the classical buildings and facilities inside, can be preserved relatively intact."

As Hu Lun spoke, the surrounding ship girls were all stunned, and suddenly thought of the history of their respective hometowns.

In ancient times, cities with a slight name had city walls, but now they are basically gone.

Lanzhou was stunned for a while, and suddenly said:

"No, whether we set the capital here or not, the city will eventually develop, the population will eventually increase, and the transportation network will expand sooner or later.

"As long as the development continues, these city walls, city gates, and those ancient buildings that get in the way will have to be demolished sooner or later.

"Unless you plan to treat the entire Imperial Capital City as a large environmental protection area, and prohibit any population from living in it in the future, you will not destroy these facilities.

"In that case, there will be this palace, which will be completely unusable, and can only be idle forever."

Lanzhou Shenzhen, the surrounding ship girls are also a little confused.

If we want to develop, we want to use, we must destroy, and if we want to protect, we cannot develop, and we can only be idle.

What should we do with this ancient city?

At this time, many people subconsciously looked at Mufeng and Liaoning.

The main ones who usually take the idea are the two of them.

Liaoning was listening carefully to other people's thoughts, and Mu Feng was listening and thinking, a little distracted.

Liaoning saw that Mu Feng seemed to have some thoughts, so he coughed and asked:

"Commander, what do you think about the disposition of the palace and the capital?"

Mu Feng groaned for a while, then exhaled and said:

"Classical urban modernization, all face the same problem.

"If the city is to develop, these things of the classical era will inevitably be destroyed, and at the very least, almost all the walls will have to be demolished.

"Or, as Hulun said, give up the entire old city and find another place to build a new city.

"The entire Bimoon Islands, almost every large Admiral's Palace, has an old town, and we can't do that to all of them.

"Even if all the cities do this, we don't have enough energy and material resources to protect all the old cities that have been vacated.

"So, my opinion is to abandon the vast majority of the old city and keep a very small number of representative ones.

"This rare ancient city, surrounded by walls of the inner city, as a whole museum, a living fossil of a classical city.

"Others, facilities of cultural value and historical significance left over from the demolished old town, are transferred to this kind of urban museum for preservation.

"The imperial capital, as the former capital of the empire, even if there is only one left, it must be left behind.

"To keep it is not to mothball it completely, but to keep it running.

"The old city of the entire imperial capital, as a complete large-scale classical cultural scenic spot, has different degrees of protection and development for different levels of cultural relics, buildings and facilities."