"How do you know?" Claude was curious.
Bockard whispered into Claude's ear: "My father was very excited when he came home last night and stayed in the study for a long time. When I went to the study in the morning, I saw a map on the table with drawings on it. Three lines.
A black line is the sea route from Bailu Town to Port Nieru, which has been around for a long time. A red line starts from our White Deer Town and goes north, connecting several islands in the Sea of Storms, and then continues straight north to the direct jurisdiction of Tiersim in our kingdom on the mainland of Nubisia."
"So I guess your father and my father want to open up such a route." Bock'ar was also a little excited, and he was very proud to share with Claude the secret of the big plan that his father and the adults were planning.
"My father has analyzed with me before that if White Deer Town wants to upgrade from a town to a city and get rid of the jurisdiction of the county of Palomise, it will not be easy to achieve it just by relying on the increase in population and the prosperity of business. Unless it can be upgraded Its strategic position in the kingdom.
As the gateway to the external transportation of the three southwest counties, Bailu Town did not have a very important strategic position in peacetime. The business travelers who came and went regarded it more as a supply point rather than a place for bulk commodities. The trading place is not a wholesale market where raw materials are concentrated.
Therefore, my father believed that if Bailu Town wanted to be upgraded to a city, it must occupy a pivotal position in the strategic layout of the kingdom. Although it cannot compete with the three southwest counties in terms of markets, workshops, and raw materials, Bailu Town is close to the seaside and has Lake Beringa, a natural deep-water strait lake. It has unique geographical advantages for upgrading to a port city.
I really hope that my father's and your father's plans can be realized. Once this route is successfully opened, the development of Bailu Town will be just around the corner. Even if the Bungis Isthmus plan proposed by Similok County can be successfully implemented, it will not stop the take-off of our White Deer Town."
Claude nodded. What Bockar said is absolutely correct. If this route can be successfully opened, then the strategic position of White Deer Town will skyrocket in the kingdom's territory, and it will be an undoubted fact that it will be upgraded to a city. .
Judging from the map of the Overas Kingdom, the three southwest counties are like a gourd, surrounded by mountains. Even the area facing the sea in the north is full of cliffs and rocks. Bailu Town is located in Hulukou, so it has become an important transportation artery for the three southwest counties.
In addition, judging from the map of Farea Continent, there is a large bay facing the sea in the north of the three southwest counties. It is like a big pancake that has been bitten into a large piece, and a large piece of it is dented. The location of Bailu Town is This is the bottom of the recess. In addition, it not only takes a day to get from the mouth of the bay to Bailu Town, but also passes through a waterway that is more than ten miles long.
Therefore, even the maritime commercial trade route from the Kingdom to the countries in the western part of the continent basically ignores the seaside fishing port of Bailu Town, and instead passes directly through the mouth of the bay in a straight line. Unless they are ships that are hit by storms or in distress at sea, they will think of going to Bailu Town to obtain supplies and ship repairs.
This is also the reason why the kingdom's senior officials ignored the fishing port of Bailu Town when they hoped to expand their maritime armed forces. Compared with Port Nieru, although Bailu Town has a deep-water lake, Lake Beringa, which is large enough to accommodate two or three ocean-going warship formations, and does not worry about being attacked by natural disasters such as storms and tsunamis, it is more than ten years long. However, the access to the waterway restricted the rapid attack of the battleship formation.
In addition, when a naval battle breaks out, the geographical location of Bailu Town Fishing Port is also in extremely unfavorable terrain. The enemy only needs a few warships to prevent our warship formation from leaving the waterway. Even if the enemy fleet cannot blockade our warships in Lake Beringa, a second blockade can be set up at the entrance of the bay. Only one squadron can contain all our warships in the bay, making them unable to attack. Go to the main battlefield.
The last point is that within the territory of the kingdom, the geographical location of the three southwest counties can only be considered too remote. It takes three days to sail from Bailu Town to Port Nieru. And if the kingdom's fearless fleet engages in a sea battle with the combined fleets of the five eastern nations, the battlefield can only be located in the sea to the east or northeast of the kingdom. From the outbreak of the naval battle to the arrival of the battleship formation on Lake Beringa, to borrow an old saying, it means that all the yellow flowers have faded, so you came