Comprehensive Comics KanColle: Building a Dimensional Empire from Scratch

Lu Chen was thinking this.

"Hey~ Commander, you're back!"

Suddenly, a childish greeting came from above my head.

When I looked up, I saw a little 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.

"The commander gave Akashi and Minato a lot of information about the Gundam world. When we were building the Gundam, we studied the technology there."

"Some of them don't work well, but the Gundam's aerospace boosters and energy weapons are quite interesting."

"When you guys went to Demon Slayer World, we had nothing to do, so we improved our equipment. It was fun, Nanoda!"

Xuefeng adjusted the jetpack and landed in front of the people.

"..."

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

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

However, the thrusters built for the first time were a bit like performance art. They could only fly a dozen meters or so. Many ship girls even crashed and were knocked unconscious on the sea.

This improved version is much more advanced. Not only is it smaller in size, but it also has more thrust. It can send a destroyer weighing several thousand tons into space with its 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's 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 equipment in the air and carry out naval gun strikes on the ground. They are extremely flexible and maneuverable, and have amphibious combat capabilities by sea, land, and air.

The battleships and aircraft carriers below cast envious glances.

"..."

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

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

"This is the Promax version of Rocket Soldier, the Shipgirl Soldier?"

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

……

After the interlude.

The ship girl soon 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 of them and talked to them about the Demon Slayer World.

From Richelieu's cannon that turned Douma into ashes, to the air raid on Muzan's army, to the founding of the country after the Black Ship Incident, to conquering 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!!!"

"What about the Royal Combined Fleet? I can defeat it by myself!!!"

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 is not very high, and there is no valuable magic or supernatural powers."

"A book on breathing techniques and a book on blood demon arts. These 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 sword techniques?"

"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 used to improve 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 charge of engineering. Instead of practicing martial arts, you should get a bigger and stronger ship."

It is clearly written in the illustrations that KanColle are creations of technology, and improving their combat effectiveness depends mainly 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 site, 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 little violent?"

Ning Hai tilted his head and thought about it.

"I would like to cooperate with them peacefully, but the problem is that there is 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 all have their own ideas and like to scheme against each other."

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

He is not a warmongerer, but the forces on Earth in the early 20th century were in chaos.

Conquering by force is the quickest and most effective method, which is to destroy and then rebuild, and then establish a new order.

"So we just need to 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. First of all, it must be sustainable, and then we can fish out the pond."

Chapter 41: On Sustainable Exhaustion

Throughout history, there have been roughly two models for the management of 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 rough, 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 that the locals could survive, 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 survive.

Lu Chen's idea went a step further.

"Ninghai, Pinghai, from now on, in addition to farming here, you will also take on part-time management of various affairs of Demon Slayer World."

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

He spread out a world map.

"First, we need to improve their technological level. At least the whole world needs to quickly reach the industrial age. This is especially true for several agricultural countries in Asia and Africa, which are so backward."

"Then we can make a batch of tractors, harvesters and other things and send them to them, and teach farmers how to carry out modern production. Fertilizers and other things can be made by industrial countries 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."

"The electricity needs to keep up. If necessary, we can send Bree to help them connect to the power grid. This kind of work is easy for Bree and doesn't take much effort."

"In addition, medical care is also 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 Hai and Ping Hai were stunned.

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

It sounds like it's completely about supporting the infrastructure over 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 is to make management easier, to prevent them from secretly causing trouble in the future if they are not convinced."

Lu Chen replied with a smile.

"You have to give a date after you hit me with a stick. To manage the whole world, you can't just rely on the use of force alone."

“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 countries and Tsarist Russia were still struggling between semi-agriculture and semi-industry.

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 more.

The living standards of ordinary people have been improved. Not only will they not complain about the rule of the suzerain country, but they will be grateful and thank the heavenly soldiers for bringing them electricity, penicillin and fertilizers.

Finally, the Demon Slayer World can be turned into a stable rear base here.

A win-win situation, or even a win-win-win situation.

It is more than one level higher than predatory colonization.

"Wow, that's so complicated..."

"Let's go back and think about it slowly..."

The Ninghai and Pinghai sisters were confused after hearing what Lu Chen gave them and left with the plan he gave them.

……

After arranging the follow-up work.

Lu Chen confirmed the development of the port area and this area over the past month.

Most of the construction work in the capital has been completed, the industrial zone has been put into production, and the buildings in the residential and administrative areas have all been completed.

However, the population is not large now. Even with the newly added Buri and Manju, it does not exceed 600 people.

In this huge city of 5 square kilometers, it seems a bit too empty.

Even the little yellow chickens can get a duplex villa, although they are more accustomed to living in their own shacks.