Comprehensive Comics KanColle: Building a Dimensional Empire from Scratch.

Lu Chen patted Richelieu's shoulder.

"Mission completed, prepare to return."

"We now have the resources of two worlds. After entering the interstellar age, perhaps we can develop two or more universes."

Chapter 40: Ship Girl Flying Soldiers!

Swah——

As the space-time channel opened.

Lu Chen and his group returned to their own world again.

Blue sky, blue sea, and gentle breeze.

The air quality of the undeveloped Earth alone is several levels better than that of Demon Slayer.

It was in the early industrial age there, with absolutely no awareness of environmental protection, and the PM2.5 level was probably off the charts.

"We've been gone for over a month. I wonder if everyone is doing okay?"

"How is Yixian managing this place? She should be fine, right? No one is going to attack us anyway..."

Lu Chen was thinking this.

"Hey~ Commander, you're back!"

Suddenly, a childish voice greeted me from above.

When I looked up, I saw a small ship girl with silver hair and animal ears floating in the air like a rocket soldier.

She had a large jet pack on her back, and with the help of the plasma jet, she was suspended above the sea surface at a height of several tens of meters.

"Snow Wind?!"

"How did you fly?!"

The five accompanying ship girls looked up in astonishment.

"Commander, didn't you give Akashi and Minato a lot of information about the Gundam world? When we were building the Gundam, we also studied the technology there."

"Some of them aren't very useful, but the Gundam's aerospace boosters and energy weapons are quite interesting."

"While you were in Demon Slayer World, we had nothing to do, so we improved our equipment. It was fun, Nanoda!"

Xuefeng adjusted the jet pack and landed in front of the group.

"..."

Lu Chen remembered that after sending the technology to the port area, the Blue World had been frantically experimenting with weapons and causing trouble for Big Eyes Meng every day.

They installed the Gundam's thrusters on themselves, hoping to achieve aerospace maneuvers like an airplane.

However, the thrusters built for the first time were a bit like performance art, and could only fly a dozen meters. Many ship girls also crashed and fell dizzy on the sea.

This improved version is much more advanced. It is not only smaller in size, but also has greater thrust. It can send a destroyer weighing several thousand tons into the sky with its ship's gear deployed.

"So you can all fly now?"

Richelieu asked incredulously.

"No, only destroyers can do that. You big sisters can't do that. It's too heavy!"

Xuefeng put her hands on her hips, looking proud.

He activated the flying backpack again, and soared into the sky, using the tail flame to draw a cat head in the air.

It was the first time that she was proud of her light tonnage. In the past, destroyers envied the combat capabilities of cruisers and battleships.

Lu Chen looked at the sea in the distance.

There are also many destroyer girls equipped with jet packs, flying around over the sea.

They can also materialize as ship armor in the air and carry out naval gun strikes on the ground. They are extremely flexible and maneuverable, and have amphibious combat capabilities on land, sea, and air.

The battleships and aircraft carriers below cast envious glances.

"..."

It has to be said that a developed military industry does have its advantages. Not long after acquiring the Gundam technology, they have begun to combine the special technologies in it with the ship girls of the Azure World.

It’s just that the direction of development was a little beyond Lu Chen’s expectations.

"Is this the Promax version of Rocket Trooper, the KanColle Trooper?"

"Why does it smell like a spy from Azur Lane stole the Gundam World Operations Lab..."

……

After the little episode.

The ship girls quickly noticed the returning expedition team, and welcomed them and asked about their well-being.

The little ship girls who were unable to go on the expedition together surrounded the few people and talked to them about the Demon Slayer World.

From Richelieu's cannon blasting Douma into ashes, to the air raid on Muzan's army, the founding of the country after the Black Ship Incident, and the conquest of the entire world.

Hearing this made the other ship girls excited.

"Wow, you're showing off without me!! Commander, I want to go too next time!!!"

"That Royal Combined Fleet? I can defeat it alone!!!"

Several small ship girls protested noisily.

Lu Chen comforted them one by one and said that he would definitely take them out to play next time.

"Well, next, let's do a battle summary."

Among the commanders, the vanguard fleet gathered together.

Every combat operation of the ship girl must summarize the materials consumed, the gains, whether the strategic goals were achieved, etc.

Expeditions are certainly no exception.

"The level of technology there isn't very high, and there aren't any valuable magic or supernatural powers."

"A book on breathing techniques and a book on blood demon arts should be the most powerful things there. Oh, there is also a tube of Muzan's blood. Let Akashi take it and study it."

Lu Chen placed two books and a bottle of the ghost ancestor's blood on the table.

Xuefeng curiously flipped through a few pages of breathing techniques.

"Breathing techniques? And swordsmanship?"

"Can I practice too?"

"..."

"You can learn if you want, but I don't think it's necessary."

Lu Chen was happy.

"This thing is for improving human physical fitness. No matter how much you train as a destroyer, you can't turn yourself into a battleship, right?"

"You are under the supervision of Engineering. Instead of practicing martial arts, you should get a larger and stronger hull."

It is clearly written in the illustrated book that ship girls are creations of technology, and improving their combat effectiveness mainly depends on technological advances in engineering and physics.

"Tsk, who wants to replace the battleship's hull? They can't fly."

Xuefeng curled her lips.

"In addition, our greatest achievement is that we have completely conquered the world over there."

"From now on, Demon Slayer World will serve as our raw material production base, providing resources for Minato and here."

Lu Chen placed several diplomatic documents on the table, all of which were signed with the country over there.

"Listening to what you guys said, it felt... a bit violent?"

Ning Hai tilted his head and thought about it.

"I would like to cooperate peacefully with them, but the problem is, there's not even a world government over there. Even if I want to support an agent, I can't go to the Qing Dynasty."

Lu Chen smiled.

"I can't get along with those capitalists. They're all scheming and like to scheme against each other."

"So it's better to cut the Gordian knot and just knock them all down."

He is not a warmonger, but the Earth in the early 20th century was in chaos among all forces.

Conquest by force is the quickest and most effective method, destroying and then rebuilding, and then establishing a new order.

"So all we have to do is wait for them to pay tribute on time? Send people to collect resources every few months?"

Pinghai asked confusedly.

"Yeah, but before that, there are some other things to do."

"We want to fish out the pond sustainably. Sustainability is the first priority, and only then can we fish out the pond."

Chapter 41: On the Sustainable Exhaustion of Fish

Throughout history, there have been roughly two models of management for tributary states or colonies.

One is to carry out predatory development of the local area like the adventurers in the Age of Discovery, taking away all the other party's resources at all costs, and then leaving.

This method is too crude, uncivilized and unsustainable.

After entering the colonial era, industrial countries such as Britain and France became more moderate in their conquest of backward agricultural countries.

While ensuring the survival of the locals, they plundered minerals, spices, food and other resources from the colonies.

This way, the other party's resistance will not be too fierce, and everyone can get by.

Lu Chen's idea went even further.

"Ninghai, Pinghai, from now on, in addition to farming here, you will also be responsible for managing the affairs of Demon Slayer World."

"I'll tell you about the development plan there, and you just have to follow it."

He spread out a world map.

"First, we need to improve their technological level. At the very least, we need to rapidly bring the entire world to the industrial age. This is especially true for several agricultural nations in Asia and Africa, which are lagging far behind."

"Then we can build a batch of tractors, harvesters and other equipment and send them over. We can teach farmers how to use modern production methods. Industrial countries can also make fertilizers themselves, so we can distribute some of them to them."

"Then lay the railways and build a railway network between the industrial centers of each country."

"Electricity needs to keep up as well. If necessary, we can send Bri to help them connect to the power grid. This kind of work is easy for Bri and won't take much effort."

"Also, medical care is very important. Remember to teach them how to boil water, and ask the port district to help make a batch of penicillin and malaria vaccines..."

"???"

Ning Haipinghai was stunned.

"Commander, are you doing charity? I thought you were going to rob?!"

It sounds like they are supporting the infrastructure there, which is completely different from the style of beating up the whole world and forcing everyone to be dogs a few days ago.

"Beating them up makes it easier to manage them, so they don't become disobedient and cause trouble in the future."

Lu Chen replied with a smile.

"You have to give back what you've been given. Managing the world requires more than just force and oppression."

"And I repeat, we must achieve sustainable development in the Demon Slayer world."

At the beginning of the 20th century, advanced countries such as Britain, England, France and others had already completed industrialization first.

The less developed island nations and Tsarist Russia were still struggling between semi-agriculture and semi-industrial development.

In addition, there are a large number of backward agricultural countries and even primitive tribes in Asia, Africa and Latin America.

There is no profit to be gained directly from these countries.

So, it would be better to upgrade them directly to the industrial age.

With the development of productivity, agricultural and industrial outputs are higher, and Lu Chen can extract more resources.

Just like when the cake gets bigger, everyone can get a bigger share.